of building human intelligence information as opposed to just technical information i don't think he had any hesitations about obtaining information by very rough forms that were being carried out by the salvadoran armed forces under the eyes of u.s. military trainers. steele was the chief american country insurgency expert on the ground in el salvador a figure of enormous authority to the door and military of the mill group commander in el salvador nuffin moules with his authority. and it was due eradicate the guerrilla movement it's very well written through history that there were major massacres being conducted. we put these allegations to retired colonel steele and have received no reply.

by the end of the civil war at least seventy five thousand salvadoran civilians have died and one million refugees have fled the country the salvadoran military who are to the advance of the guerrillas leading some in washington to believe the u.s. advisory role was a success. so much so that even david petraeus then an ambitious thirty three year old major visited salvador to study this country insurgency campaign the young portray us even reportedly stayed in steele's house while their. eighteen years later in baghdad but now general petraeus would use steele's expertise to fight the iraqi insurgency. the architects of the iraq war did not expect a violent uprising so they started training a regular police force for what they thought. would be

a mostly peaceful transition to a western style democracy they brought in retired police men like douglas brand and jerry back to teach the basics of good civil policing. we went to may two thousand and three with six policemen six american police officers this small group was unequal to the enormous task they were given. to train frost downs and policeman it was a sort of five to seven year project but they wanted it done in one thousand months . the man seen here in the navy bullet proof vest much cardroom was installed as the iraqi leader of this new civic police force. hovering in the background is the mysterious figure of james steele observing and evaluating the situation sending his justified reports back to u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld.

still had arrived in baghdad in two thousand and three just after the invasion describing himself as an energy consultant. this is the only known video footage of james steele as a civilian he had no place in the military chain of command yet he exercised enormous power in iraq. the man on his left is the special forces colonel james coffman he reported directly to general petraeus. up initially the security situation in iraq was relatively stable and the task of training the police continued but then everything changed. the intensity of the sunni insurgency surprised the americans.

and u.s. soldiers started being killed in increasing numbers. of flag draped coffins were being shipped home with a nominal regularity. the war was becoming unpopular in the united states. george bush. two thousand and four reelection was being threatened by the crisis in iraq. american law so jazz were dying at the hands of sunni muslims who had lost the most from the fall of saddam. decided to the old enemies of saddam and his sunni supporters the shia militias. saddam had killed tens of thousands of shia during his rule and now the shia militias were only too happy to help the americans put down the sunni uprising. it was classic counterinsurgency.

paul wolfowitz and not the policy change before a senate committee. approach to those militias is to try over time to integrate them into new iraqi security forces shia militia from all over the country came in truckloads to baghdad to join the new special police commandos they were enraged by suicide bombings of shia civilians under sas nations and kidnappings by sunni insurgents and militants it was their time and our opportunity to take revenge upon former regime elements that. iraq was on the path towards a sectarian civil war. the u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld confirmed the new policing strategy in may two thousand and four i've been reading about how we're trying to make efforts placing iraqi militia to handle insurgents interacting had

a discussion with general petraeus yesterday i had a briefing today from a man named steele who has been out there working with the security forces and doing a wonderful job civilian as a matter of fact james steele the counterinsurgency ex-pat was now the man of the moment. his job would be to build a police commando force. the police units would increasingly be made up of members of shia militias like the badr brigades. that job was to hunt down sunni insurgents and their sympathizers like out salvador it would be a bloody and brutal business. there was no place in this new regime for a conventional police chief like achmet cardroom. he was offered a new posting at the united nations in new york. james steele was clearing house. golly each employee of the joe. klock oh well.

and why do you work on g c r o o o. it was also the end of the line for douglas brand rumsfeld decided that police training in the future would be dealt with by military people. that was a direct instruction from rumsfeld. that we had a need for some group on the street to restore order and this is where that third force concept came from this paramilitary special police commando unit. they operate under a more under rules of engagement which is a military term. rather than the rule of law. the last time i saw stews when rumsfeld visited and he was.

rumsfeld's choice to take overall command of this new policing strategy with a military star in the making. general david petraeus was much admired by the american media. the commandos would become the cutting edge of this ambitious general's war against the insurgents you know i've spent a little bit of time at the where you were training the police commandos and i got the strong impression that you're putting a lot of priority on the police force today well that helped them develop these special police units some of them or their own initiative initially and great initiatives like the special police commandos which they now have nine battalions of those forces eight of which are in active operations right now. they were taught by the general but that he was just as good to be as been on the bus that must be

in. there was the shot or you mr. talbot seen here that james steele was a sunni iraqi general who had been imprisoned by saddam. he now headed the special police commandos which were financed from a two billion dollars fund controlled by general petraeus. there with. the reports america. are doing or. should. you. call. it was the first time the americans could work with

a significant iraqi force that knew the lay of the land and where to find the insurgents senior advisers studio and kaufman directed the sects for the insurgents . with james keown actually side on top it's commandos grew into a five thousand strong force with a fearful reputation on the streets of iraq. still made a strong impression with the high level even battle hardened iraqis who worked with . us and also to learn the whole. and the mashad and so on. that the whole belief. that we believe took both one kind of. multiple and it was just so the many are what i like. general moon. is a former general in the iraqi army after the invasion he worked with the americans

to rebuild the police force but muntadhar was very disturbed by the abuse and torture he witnessed being committed by the police commandos he tried on a number of occasions to stop each. he has never spoken before about the part the u.s. played in running the special police commandos. is more than was out of the day after the. possible. a lot of damage. done here. but a shot. that i missed. by sadr is that i would but it would start the general montage alleges that jane steele had access to all of these prisons and that he visited one in baghdad with him. all the dentist you. are all found in

the car and then over on the market. on plane and. didn't come into the. normal. in the in the. dark to most fact i was iraq's national security adviser through the west years of the war. he met james taylor's high level security meetings. jim steele for me was a mysterious guy. who sat in the meeting and he came. and sat there. he did not introduce himself to me and you don't get anywhere in these meetings there were only only silences. grama. myself the minister of defense and mr little foot into that and him full stop.

who was very respected by them and then listen to what he has to say. one of the main bases of operation for the commandos was the ancient city of samarra the area was a center for the iraqi insurgency. it was also adnan talbot's hometown and he was determined to inflict a major defeat on the insurgents and their sympathizes. with jane steele advise him but none talbot's commandos fled to the city going door to door taking hundreds of men from their homes to the interrogation center. u.s. army medic neil smith was in somalia during the months long struggle to control the city. we're like in the government. and where the police station was was actually right across from where the commandos were headquartered

so there are always special commandos there in the war and like pretty much every. military unit in the world. there are well equipped. and more commandos all had these brand new dodge ram pick that were painted in camouflage and they all look like they had a new weapon. some new uniforms. some are i was the first place that the connection between james steel and the activities of the police commanders was made known to the outside where. new york times journalist peter maass convinced general petraeus to allow him and photographer to paraphrase to visit the commanders in. their host was james steele . what i heard. screaming all lifelong.

parries stark black and white photographs capture had the commandos worked in samarra. jamie still crops up in these photographs repeatedly. i was staying at the base and some are an american base and i overheard soldiers american soldiers of the space talking about having watched prisoners be kind of strung up like animals after all hunched over a bar having watched prisoners be actually tortured. non-target and the american military made the joint decision to set up the commander headquarters and interrogation center in the city's main library. we spoke to two men from somalia who were imprisoned in the library still fearful they asked us to conceal their identities. so the one

you could go to the water was a watch on the ocean or someone. logging more or you go just in the. wall from which they also know that it is there but you look to. a court that you will. the interrogation center was the only place in the kind of mini green zone in that i was not allowed to visit however one day jim steele said to me hey they just captured a saudi jihadi. would you like to interview him. and paraphrase we're about to get an unprecedented glimpse into this. and. a nation where corruption is endemic now embroiled in

a battle to hold the power it. has this radical transformation. i mean if you want to be shedding light on the romanians pressing for change of the unconventional methods to eliminate corruption. people. on. this is a really fabulous news for one of the best i've ever worked in there is a unique sense of bonding where everybody teams in. something i feel every time i get on the chair every time i interview someone. often working round the clock to make sure that we bring friends as i currently as possible to the view that's what people expect of us and that's what i think we really do well. about fifty thousand people were arrested under a strategy that is stop and frisk the car got

a ball here there was a guy coming behind me and kicking him on the back. gotten caught in this trap i have seven sons and six of them have been arrested for drug charges against the war maybe take. the atmosphere the police was the bad guy exploring the dark side of american justice the system with job on al-jazeera. hello i'm suited and on with the top stories on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump is in the u.k. on a four day working visit and first lady. being welcomed by british prime minister to reason may for a lavish dinner london palace in oxfordshire may is expected to use the event to

press her case for an ambitious new trade deal with the us. but it's not all glitz and glamour thousands of protesters converged on the capital london to show their opposition to some of trump's more controversial policies. this is unacceptable and has the united states what's the intention is to keep awake make noise any way we can to let them know how happy we are about this. big guy is a racist don't like what he's done to the u.s. i just think that the majority of people here in america around the world we don't support him you know a racist bigoted billionaire who represents the economic interests of the billionaires the rich the one percent i think that's a message that we don't support those policies and you know what of syrian government forces and their russian allies have raised the national flag over there as an old city as a hugely symbolic moment in the seven year war they're always the birthplace of the uprising against president bashar al assad rebel factions in the city have now

agreed to a surrender deal and will soon begin handover of heavy weapons. amnesty international says it has evidence to prove prisoners are being killed tortured and disappearing from secret jails operated by soldiers from the u.a.e. in southern yemen the rights group says what is happening there could amount to war crimes the u.a.e. has previously denied similar allegations pakistan's former prime minister now is sharif is set to return to lahore where he's likely to be taken into police custody he was sentenced last week to ten years in prison on corruption charges sharif was ousted by the supreme court in july twenty seventh teen and south sudan's parliament has voted to extend president salva kiir is term in office along with other leading officials despite opposition from rebel groups here will now stay on as president until twenty twenty one after parliament approved the amendment to the

constitution the ruling is likely to undermine peace talks and attending the four and a half year civil war. those are the top stories stay with us continues. the

interrogation center was the only place in the kind of mini green zone in somalia that i was not allowed to visit however one day jim steele said to me hey they just captured a saudi jihadi would you like to interview him and we kind of walk into the entrance area and the first thing that i see is one of the iraqi guards beating up one of the iraqi prisoners and then i'm taken not into the main area kind of the main hall although out of the corner of my eye could see there were a lot of prisoners in there with their hands tied behind their backs i was taken to a side office where the saudi was brought in and there was actually blood dripping down the side of a desk in this office away in a room in the library into ewing. and while this

interview was going on me in the saudi with jim steele also in the room there were these terrible screams there was somebody shouting allah but it wasn't you know kind of religious ecstasy or something like that these were these were screams of pain and terror. we asked general why he thought the prisoners were screaming. go on and. on and. they were so loud and they were so disturbing that steele left the room to go find out you know what was going on because it was breaking up our interview and while he was gone the screaming stopped and then he came back into the room and the interview continued.

for. me and. you know the market were. so quick. in front. i thought of it when just. looked at the lineup if. you like if at melwood it looks a little. list of all the matter there are so i limit the let you know so i met your. general ad man had his own explanation for the bloody desk witnessed during mass and perry's interview with james steele in the library. what is either going to be ensued and you got a new home. i don't malard gotta. go but that is not enough then you can have so little what good happens and i'll quit you know at what i'm up out of and they were fired i've got an update on where my name might have it how do

i still miss what i like about. when are the have you for. although james steele did not respond to our requests for an interview about his activities in somalia he did tell the new york times that he opposes human rights abuses. one american soldier in somalia i was deeply affected by what he saw. at the time i just felt like everybody knew and nobody cared that there is torture going on. medic neil smith remembers just have frightened iraqi civilians in some are aware of the special police commandos what was pretty widely known in our but talian definitely in our pool tune is that they are pretty violent with their interrogations that they would be people shock them with you know electrical shock stab them

i don't know what you know sounds like pretty awful things if you sent a guy there who is going to get tortured and perhaps raped. or whatever humiliated and brutalized by the special commandos in order to get whatever information they wanted to what i don't know about boston to. do with. the let me look to the. city to the very for doing. just that i. thought to give all of them a little bit of a clear priority at that time in iraq was to not have this incredibly shaky provisional government defeated by the insurgency that was

priority number one to which every other priority democracy human rights. and cetera was aboard. the trails defended his record with the police commandos to p.b.s. frontlines martin smith he says he was aware of individual militia members in the commanders but not militia groups. i did not see militia groups in the special police during the time that i was there did you feel. different. to have prevented the development of these militias that were developed by your lie again don't i have not seen you know we heard we kept hearing this all the time martin that this or that to find the absolute evidence of this has actually been quite difficult but jerry buck who is a senior advisor in police affairs to the iraqi interior ministry says that the

trace must have known that organized shia militia were dominant in the police commandos he had to have known these things were discussed openly whether it was staff meetings or you know before or after various staff meetings in general conversation. pretty much the whole world in iraq knew that the police commandos were about a brigade and he must have known about the death squad activities and yet it was common knowledge and across baghdad even betrays his own special adviser in the military chain of command colonel james coffman was according to many witnesses working side by side with james steele in the detention centers where torture was taking place. kaufman declined to be interviewed by us. about general petraeus his relationship with james steele the official speaking for the general said steele was one of thousands of advisors to iraqi units working in the area of the iraqi police. journalist peter mass who interviewed patris at the

time remember. the relationship being a lot closer than the patris statement would indicate. it was very clear. that they were very close to each other in terms of their command relationship and also in terms of their ideas and ideology about what needed to be done to try to explicitly told me that he believed very very strongly in the commandos thought the commandos were successful and wanted them to become bigger stronger and even more prevalent in the fight against insurgency. international humanitarian law imposes obligations on those engaged in armed conflict regarding the treatment of prisoners not only must prisoners not be abused but those detaining prisoners also have an obligation to ensure respect as well it is not acceptable to turn

a blind eye. because absolutely responsibility of every u.s. service member if they see in your main treatment. to intervene to stop it i don't think you mean they have an obligation to physically stop it's to report. if you are physically present when in your main treatment is taking place or they have an obligation to tartus them. but the masses of secret iraq war communiques released by wiki leaks showed that u.s. soldiers were routinely handing prisoners over to the iraqi police force even before the police commandos were officially launched. the top u.s. military knew from the soldiers' daily logs that torture was going on inside detention centers they even issued a new official military order in june two thousand and four it was called frog zero two four two it directed u.s. troops to note but not investigate torture of iraqis by iraqis unless ordered to

take action by. headquarters. but later that month members of the oregon national guard was so disturbed by the abuse they witnessed at a police detention center that they intervened to try and stop it. from our effect things. saw one room that had. seventy five prisoners are crammed into one one small space and they asked for food they asked for help and they asked for medical way we gave them every bit of scrap of food that we had every bit of water and you could see evidence of a torture chamber where they had a broken lamp where they used a logical shot and it was quite evident what they had been doing to these fellows. said the commander approached the man who appeared to be in charge of this.

according to the man immediately got on the telephone to us military headquarters right after he made that phone call the order came that we were to stand down we were ordered to pull away right now. i know that that order came from someplace very high. we went directly back to our compound and the commander called us all in there together and told us that what we saw didn't happen to forget about it but the oregonians didn't forget they went to the american press and blew the whistle a high level u.s. military investigation followed and the top just stopped that. there is no evidence that steel was involved in this incident but a year later the special commandos took over the facility and used it for interrogation and torture.

there's great continuity. and really if you go back to the. to the nature of the regular warfare in the. dark side it's not called dirty war for nothing so it's no surprise to see individuals who are associated in a sort of know the ins and outs of the kind of war reappear at different points in these conflicts. after a few months in the studio and also to i didn't have any contact with them whatsoever so i saw their peter maass article and saw that all he's in iraq it was not surprising that a warrior like james steele would appear again he had been sidelined by the u.s. military after a congressional committee decided that he had lied about his role in all of the north's illegal gun running operation against the leftwing government in nicaragua

. however his work in el salvador had not been forgotten by powerful washington insiders like vice president dick cheney who knew steele cheney was the first senior american politician to draw parallels between el salvador and iraq. because we don't feel like it's a palmer the concept is and will apply in afghanistan and iraq. dick cheney as a congressman made any number of visits to central america did members of the reagan administration who were in the four runners of the neoconservatives come into office and really take the whole approach to its next level in iraq. they opened a cover story in the new york times magazine that and saw that it described the creation of this new police commando unit within the iraqi interior ministry and

mentioned that the the u.s. military adviser in charge of this was jim steele. was probably more alarmed when i started to hear reports a few months later that that particular unit was carrying out death squad activities in iraq the publication by wiki leaks of thousands of diplomatic cables show that by july two thousand and five the u.s. embassy in baghdad was telling washington about the abuse being committed by the commandos. we also learned that adnan was a guest at the american embassy in baghdad he met the u.s. ambassador for counterterrorism and talked about his approach to policing this is an extract from what he's reported to have said summary fight terror with terror major general tab it who created in command special police forces is a sunni officer who served time in prison for attempting to overthrow the saddam regime they expressed the view that it is necessary to fight terror with terror and

that it is critical that their forces be respected and feared as this was what was required in iraqi society to command authority. we asked him back to do crampton if he had been aware that adnan talbot's commandos were engaged in torturing detainees . well i assure you find you there was torture going on. at the time with the people i was talking to me. i would have raised it and then discussed it. here you're employing that i didn't know that and i resent that question the way you phrased it frankly. but there are indications that the u.s. government knew what the commanders were doing. we remain troubled by the indications that the times units commanded by target crossed the line despite these concerns adnan tarbush remained officially in charge until the middle of two thousand and six he told us that the american officials he

dealt with were aware of what his men were doing. are. wrong or removed but. rather to garner more but. retired woman and with him and rather welcome we're going to. the police commandos were growing in numbers and importance they had a national headquarters in a source square in baghdad it could hold around one thousand detainees at any one time and was the nerve center of a national network of interrogation center as. this notorious detention center was situated just outside the fortified green zone and less than a mile from the american and iraqi joint command. major general remembers that james steele and portrays his military advisor james kaufman were a constant presence here. he says they were there to receive the high value

detainees from the so-called intelligence committees that operated at each regional command center. one of them. that i mean you. saw the. just. you know it's a need. for. a leg. and that's. the. years that. got a little. two iraqi generals who worked with steel say that one of steele's responsibilities was to give the commandos lists of people

that the americans wanted picked up. steel would then allegedly arrange to transfer them to a u.s. run interrogation center near baghdad airport. one man who survived the antinous to a square says that the police commandos lied about the fate of some of his fellow detainees . who are local to the home where the. water dog. became very obvious that this was criminal activity by the special commandos they were written eliminating their own opposition and terrorizing citizens from the sunni community we lost the support of a lot of iraqi citizens who became very cynical and very anti-american even the ones who were friendly with us couldn't understand why we were allowing this to happen. good afternoon folks. are you concerned over and in fact is united states looking into growing

reports of uniformed death squads in iraq perhaps assassinating and torturing hundreds of cities and if that's true over there say of all stability on record. hypothetical questions i've not seen reports that hundreds are being killed by roving death squads at all i'm not going to get into this speculation. like there that's not a hypothetical i don't believe some sort of the charging that hundreds of been. people shot in the head found a how to. inflict you're talking about unverified to my knowledge at least on for comments i just don't have any data from the field that i could comment on in a specific way but donald rumsfeld should have known about the death squad activities james steele had written to rumsfeld six weeks earlier warning him that the police commandos armed and financed by the us were effectively

a shia militia engaged in death squad activities. memo to don rumsfeld from jim steele. thought it was like the commander of the wolf brigade who has been involved in death squad activities extortion of detainees and a general pattern of corruption nearly all of the new recruits within the commandos are shia many of them are barred or members. general resigned from the interior ministry he had come to view the commandos as death squads. too close colleagues were killed following a summons to the ministry their bodies were found on a rubbish tip. he got out of iraq and fled for his safety to jordan. despite the risk he decided to speak out about what was happening inside the ministry of the interior. when i was far. out of.

that but. a few days after the broadcast general on one charge i was contacted by james steele. it seemed the former colonel steele had made an unexpected trip to jordan he was very anxious to meet with. james steele was staying at the luxury sheraton hotel in a man. he asked if they could meet about seven pm that night. when todd agreed and went to the hotel. to hubbard and homicidal and jim sister said no i just adore the office and its effect on me here to sit in the ditches on this for the evening was on my door. and the cut that bit harder than the so meant that the. tron i paid. a goodbye for

the money and. no money yeah i mean. it's a long time orbs kind of love it would then if the hut then they get the odd non-target in the heart of gunday if the kid. got the oven is some good for that and lots of time. for sick at my luck one jaw better idea of big data the hell the i.d.f. and she is just a game to still. fed but i'm here so what i did i thought i care that she could have been. shot i know by dint of her father with a sudden njt on and he said out of newark and endure the war good dumble lost seven. and i know and. and was still way out in the. gym still. but the whole peninsula.

but the could be. people should know about what was going on because i was shocked when i came back to the states and found out that. most people didn't even know they were involved in torture over there. there is little chance that james steele will be investigated within months of entering the white house president obama issued a statement saying we've been through a dark and painful chapter in our history nothing will be gained by spending our time and energy lang blame for the past. james steele and david petraeus left iraq in september two thousand and five. the ranks of the police commandos increased to over seventeen thousand and the allegations of abuse against them sought. a year later the country was in the grip of a bloody sectarian civil war. at its height

the civil war was claiming the lives of three thousand people a month some were so badly tortured they could not be identified. many victims found a final resting place in desolate dumps like this one. a rusty ten can mox each grave. on talbot has now retired on an iraqi government pension and lives in jordan. donald rumsfeld resigned as defense secretary at the end of two thousand and six and never replied to any of our questions. rumsfeld had presented james deal with the distinguished public service medal for his extraordinary service in iraq. steele is now living in bryan texas and gives their case no lectures on contra insurgency. he did not respond to our many requests to be interviewed for this documentary.

oh and again we'll start by looking at weather conditions across the strait it's generally looking fine but it's actually quite chilly and you look at the alice springs they're struggling to reach twenty degrees celsius they might get to it but no overnight temperatures we've done that minus one i'm really at melbourne still looking pretty chilly strokin twelve degrees sydney nothing special ed across western australia we've got to just eighteen degrees for perth and also the threat of some showers as this frontal system moves in through the forecast forward into

saturday is not a great deal or change temperatures much the same and weather conditions broadly similar had a across into new zealand the weather remains fine across the both of the country during the course of friday but this low pressure center is going to be moving its way into the course of saturday so on the western side of the south on and the maybe some rain developing later on but north island still looking fine oakland sixteen degrees movie on parts of northeastern parts of asia here obviously we don't anymore rain after all the flooding that we've had certainly for more northern parts of japan as a chance of some right now but for tokyo and across much of honshu down into the southern islands weather conditions are looking draw on fine indeed they'll stay that way in the course of suffolk the fairy woman day thirty seven degrees as my storm but there is light to be some heavy rain moving across parts of north korea northeastern china and russia. with a crackdown on media and political opposition cambodia is getting ready for its national

elections when east investigates how far general is moving party will go to consolidate its power one of many first on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where ever you. zero. other i'm this is a news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes donald trump is in the u.k. for a controversial four day working visit has already been booed by protesters and

there's more to come thousands are expected to come out on friday. it signifies a bit a loss for the opposition in syria government forces raise the national flag over darragh city by the twenty eleven our brian thing first began and more evidence of human rights violations in nicaragua hundreds of protesters have been killed now for a claims of a cover up. and sport seven time champion serena williams is into the wimbledon final the american be chile i guess germany in the semifinal chile going for her twenty fourth grand slam title on saturday. is a visit to separated for months the u.s. president has finally arrived in the u.k. for a four day trip and the red carpets have not been spared for donald trump first lady

maloney and the pair are being hosted by british prime minister trees in my blood and house the birthplace of world war two winston churchill well john the hall is outside by the palace now in oxfordshire jonah we've been as i say waiting for months for him to arrive and he's finally here. well it's a trip so that's been on the cards since the reason may the prime minister began the first world leader to visit donald trump in the white house just after his inauguration last january what was originally an invitation for a full state visit was downgraded to a working visit deported to because donald trump was too concerned about public protests so a series of being gay germans now comfortably away from the capital well away from protesters is under way high on lavish appearance low on public spectacle here's my report. president donald trump and first lady stepping off

one of london's stansted airport it was the start of a much anticipated visit to the u.k. even if any little of it will be spent in london itself. and this is why trump protesters small in number on thursday but expected to grow vastly on friday thank gathered outside winfield house the u.s. ambassador's residence where the trumps would be staying for two nights arriving by helicopter they would leave by helicopter venturing no further into the capital anyone near the protest sign that my man is a big guy he's a racist don't like what he's done to the u.s. i just think that the majority of people here in america around the world we don't support him you know he's a racist bigoted billionaire who represents the economic interests of the billionaires the rich the one percent i think that's a message that we don't support those policies and you know welcome. but here he

comes donald trump aboard the u.s. president's marine one navy helicopter accompanied by u.s. air force spray aircraft making their way into the countryside now towards the first official engagement of this u.k. visit. with prime minister to resign may and business leaders at blenheim palace at the birthplace of winston churchill you know an effort to test the u.k. government played on all the public places. it's not a full state visit trump declined the offer of one reportedly because of public opposition to the idea and the threat of mass protests this then is build a working visit. prime minister may has lost two cabinet ministers this week over tortured breaks of negotiations what she and her

government want most from trump now is indorsement both of the famed special relationship and hopes of a u.k. u.s. trade deal after brags that in recent days he said may's government is in turmoil and question the government's preferred plan for brics it what they will actually get from the u.s. president on this visit therefore is anyone's guess. again i'm guessing you didn't get an invite to the dinner by the stand you know something about what had been discussed. no we've been stuck in a field all day what we're told to resume a said in that banquet at the beginning of it in prepared remarks is that she used the opportunity to pitch both the special relationship and a trade deal to president trump on trade and business she reminded him that the u.k. is the biggest foreign investor in the united states that

a million americans work for british companies she said brics it provides opportunity for an unprecedented agreement to boost jobs and growth and on the special relationship in the birthplace of winston churchill says she said this mr president so wisdom churchill once said that to have the united states at our side was the greatest joy the spirit of friendship and cooperation most special of relationships has a long and proud history well what donald trump made of that what he might have said about it what he might think about it we'll have to wait to find out until the show dual press conference takes place tomorrow at lunch time after the two have had formal meetings at the prime minister's country residence checkers. as live in the failed. palace things famous turner well as he mentioned there were protests outside the ambassador's residence staying and even larger ones are expansion on friday spend the day with demonstrators in central london. well we saw the first

signs of the process ready for trump's visit here to the u.k. a modest protest probably more in the hundreds than thousands but they made a tremendous amount of noise they're angry they're frustrated they're irritated that the government here in the u.k. is prepared to spend all of this money accommodating the u.s. president here in central london this is winfield house as you mentioned there the official residence of the u.s. ambassador here in london and it's basically been turned into a forty five compound trump will overnight here he's already arrived by helicopter as flown at once again by helicopter to the evening's events that joan has been telling you about. but the protesters say that they will continue to hold very noisy demonstrations as long as possible to make trump's stay here as uncomfortable as possible to is what they said to me a little bit earlier on you come armed with a colander. household we are down roots are in the ground our heads are saying this

is an unacceptable this is and has the united states and what's the intention is to keep them awake make noise any way we can to let them know how happy we are about this what does this mean i would just go to the park and i saw the helicopter come down. and i quickly supposed to get out i was faced with a blank piece of. a million one crime committed and i thought where do i start so all of that really is very much a taste of things to come a massive demonstration has been planned to take place here in central london on friday people of mass possibly in the tens of thousands if not many more than that . square in the heart of the capital we all have heard of of course about this eight metre tall inflatable trumpet baby which will float above the demonstration.

people here clearly following a long tradition of political satire and putting the finger and fun at donald trump he though as i say he will come back again to winfield house who overnight here will probably end up hearing some pots and pans banging throughout the night in the background. well joining me now is jacob callus he is the deputy had of the u.s. and american program at the think tank chatham house thanks very much for coming into al-jazeera is then billed as a working visit but sort of judging by the tenor of his the ways approached nato in the ways talking about tariffs you don't get the feeling he's come here ready to talk business with theresa may bring really the feeling that he wants it to look like a state visit and it kind of is in all but name isn't it it is i think the pomp and circumstance the fact that he's meeting the queen i don't think there's a real meaningful distinction between this and a proper state visit except in terms of the nuances of diplomatic protocol but the question is what business can be done the big item on the agenda is the u.s. u.k.

trade deal which of course britain can't begin negotiating until the terms of attacks from the european union are settled and the u.s. isn't going to start negotiating in till there is some sort of sense of where u.s. politics are headed so we're talking about next year next year trump might be dealing with a very different congress if years there are likely to give him the legislative support that he need to actually negotiate something so i think the prime minister is right to try to stress the importance of the special relationship i don't think you're going to see any meaningful progress towards any new aspect of that relationship from this visit and i suppose it is more important for the reason made that the visit goes well does he care though i mean the way it plays out back in the u.s. with his base as you mentioned the congress where the white people see how he's treated here is the sort of statesman if you like i don't think it makes a huge difference in the u.s. frankly i think the news cycle in the u.s. is very different it's still preoccupied by family separation by congressional

hearings over the russia investigation i think there will be some attention paid but i don't think either with his base or with the rest of the population that how he's treated here unless there is some massive blow up. particularly register as a huge amount being put into keeping the protesters away from him and he seems to be going from palace to a state. and the police obviously are spending a lot of money to protect him but also to keep him apart again with with this going on does it matter to him whether he comes into contact with protesters no i mean he seemed very dismissive of protesters he no britain loves me british people love me i think he he has the sense that you know the general population is with him so you can dismiss the protests now of course public opinion polling doesn't actually bear that out he's not popular here there is a small support base but it is a very small support base and you can see that replicated in other parts of western

europe and indeed other traditional american allies but i think he's demonstrated that he can sort of look at a piece of evidence and take a tiny piece of it or just look at a completely separate. sort of universe and decide well no that's fine they all of course have got the meeting with putin coming up that is something something that almost feels like that's the key part of this whole trip because the way he dismissed nato was almost like well we're just going past all these days until that one comes up as i read it the nato summit wasn't good i think it's fair to say the tenor of the conversation the sort of pinball going between is he going to withdraw from nato is he just making a threat to it to the sort of ostensibly positive but still quite veiled threat of the press conference at the end the fact that he turned up late and left early those are all very bad signs now the alliance survived but i think there's any progress that might have been made.