there's been a bomb attack on a police building in iranian port city of child a ha local reports say four people have been killed in nearly twenty injured the city is in the prevent province of baluchistan the border with pakistan no one has claimed responsibility yet for the attack the lawyer for the family of any talian student who was tortured and killed in egypt is urging five egyptian suspects to come forward italian prosecutors say the men are members of the secret service and police and believe they have to have done any in twenty sixteen the twenty eight year old was researching egyptian trade unions at the time. china is demanding the release of the chief financial officer of huawei technologies main ones who was arrested in vancouver on saturday at the request of us police she is facing extradition to the u.s. on suspicion of violating sanctions against iran. those are the headlines on al-jazeera the news continues right after people in power to say this.

al jazeera. where ever you. could u.s. president on one trump trick a return to the dog days of america's war on terror and why is it ministration so cheap to suppress information about the cia's post nine hundred eleven rendition program in the second of two special investigations we sent reporters unserious print to find out.

comeback sree at the u.s. naval base antonymous a bad day. now deserted. tory a symbol of america's global war on terror. prison has begun arriving at one time in early two thousand and two very soon other detention camps was set up on the base. an estimated seven hundred people have been incarcerated here. former u.s. president barack obama wanted to close it down walked off.

the one year from now. current president donald trump has different ideas. president obama talking about get right when donna which by the way which by the way we are keeping open which we are keeping. and we're going to load it up with some bad dude split we're going to load it up. some fear trumps presidency may trigger a return to the dark chapter of america's history which funday the devastating atrocities of nine eleven. in the off to mall of the attacks the us numerous the biggest global manhunt in its history. shortly after this man mark fallon

a senior naval intelligence agent arrived in the new and prison facility in one time to move bay he'd been appointed deputy director of a special task force charged with tracking down al qaeda terrorists. but the more he saw as contaminated the more concerned he grew in. what they were trying to do was create what's called learned helplessness a firy based on experiments done on dogs the sleep deprivation extreme isolation. practice called walling. facial slap slamming your you against the wall it's a debilitating practice it wears you down. i didn't know what it was daylight outside i didn't know the times there was no calendar and being on the subject on almost a year and a half and i wanted access to other human beings and to have meaningful communication with my family a son being born i didn't i didn't even know what his name was so there's all these

sorts of things happening and so once i exploded in myself literally and punched and kicked and cried and screamed and one of those sorts of things. in new vendor two thousand and two computer commander arrived at guantanamo bay. his name was major general geoffrey miller if you speak to many of the other prisoners who were held at that time in the in camp x.-ray and elsewhere they'll tell you that he was his the regime was during his period was the harshest they faced you know he brutalizing these prisoners are given we have this program called the frequent flyer program we wakes them up the middle night just transfer around it sleep deprivation it's isolation they were doing mock executions they wanted to bring people up in helicopters and make it look like they're going to be thrown out they were just making it up as a way they were used their imaginations are running wild. at the time miller himself shed new concern about the regime he ran in guantanamo everything that we

do side care built america can be proud. then in two thousand and three he was sent to iraq to advise about interrogation that. try to stop i went back to the pentagon and said this guy is clueless doesn't know what he's doing you know he's brutalizing these prisoners. in two thousand and four appalling images emerged from abu ghraib prison in iraq we also have deeply disturbing footage starkly illustrating the desperation the regime created in prison is. the images from abu ghraib cool's shock around the world and in the off to martha eleven relatively low ranking u.s. soldiers were convicted with sentences ranging from imprisonment to reprimand. afterwards major general miller he did vised about interrogation addressed

a press conference in the prison yes i would like to personally apologize to the people of iraq for the actions of the small number of leaders and soldiers who violated our policy may have. committed criminal acts major general miller insisted the torture and abuse at abu ghraib was the responsibility of roots soldiers not to the point out of a top down culture we tried unsuccessfully to contact major general miller through the u.s. department of defense they declined to pass on our questions as his not retired our own procedures are internationally recognized for his bay detention of proper interrogation today the us has a new commander in chief during his election campaign and pretty cool for the return of waterboarding a practice condemned by un special rapporteur as torture they said what do you

think of waterboarding i said i think we absolutely need it we should have it and if we can't we should have worse. when the president of the united states most powerful person on earth says these things that just encourages people to behave in the most. paraguay lawyer clive stafford smith organization reprieve has represented eighty prisoners at guantanamo has been released one of the great truisms is if you don't know your history years you wrote learn from history and your mistakes and you know we have someone in the white house right now who knows nothing about history. of repeat any mistake that's been made back to the spanish inquisition and so we need to truth out there. but today some say the american administration seems even more determined than ever to stop the truth about the cia's post nine eleven program getting out and that led

to one of the most disturbing claims we heard during the course of making this film . and it's this that the torture of detainees in the cost is now impeding the quest for justice following the nine eleven attacks over the past years legal hearings have been underway at a secret court on the u.s. naval base in guantanamo. america's justification for holding prisoners at guantanamo is controversial. by declaring that the war on terror is an actual ongoing war the us government has argued it can detain captives of this war without charge for as long as it wants. but if they do then charge any of these detainees with specific crimes for example the five men charged with involvement in the nine eleven atrocity they are to be tried by going ton the most special courts known as military commissions. one of the five is.

accused of helping fund flight training for the nine eleven hijackers. in washington we met his defense team these civilian invalid. the law is approved by the pentagon but that doesn't stop them being deeply critical of the treatment hunted out to their client by interrogate is. in my nineteen years of service the rule we have always been taught is we don't torture there's a thing that has the innocuous name of water dousing and water dowsing is water boarding without a board it's essentially drowning in ice water many of those things and worse occurred to mr obuchi but the u.s. government says certain classified evidence on torture must be kept secret but i'll bet you choose defense team says that prevents them defending him properly so this

is a death penalty case and as such were entitle to you know all the evidence that's relevant material to mr oakley just funds and that would include a lot of evidence from his time in cia custody where he was being tortured three and a half years. the prosecution has consistently dragged their feet on giving us that evidence the defense finds itself in the position of having to make sure that the very values that the prosecution or the u.s. government has claimed for so many decades are actually appealed therefore for me it is a chance as i see it to truly uphold the constitution of those of the united states that sterling has a much more measured response to this but but now it makes me angry that seventeen years post september eleventh almost we are still sitting in a courtroom in an offshore prison at guantanamo bay with a prosecution that is determined to hide it torture from more than a decade ago and that i think is is offensive to and should be offensive to all

americans. andries based near washington d.c. . this is where our journey starts to the u.s. naval base at guantanamo bay. forty five square miles of america on the southeastern corner of cuba. the military commission hearings take place at camp justice inside his camp there is a multimillion dollar legal complex so secret when not allowed to film it or say where it is journalists meanwhile of billeted in these tents. the trip it again tom has only been possible under very strict conditions we've had to sign

a long document agreeing to restrictions on what we can film where accompanied at all times by a military mind that mind checks all footage so all the pictures you will see from here have been vetted. thirst lighted camp justice kuantan a man every day begins the same way with the star-spangled banner. to media h.q. is based in a partially derelict aircraft hangar where we await a military minder to accompany us to the secret court we cannot film. we come to observe the proceedings under strict conditions journalists n.g.o.s family members of nine eleven victims and sit in a specially constructed gallery there's a thick pane of cloth which separates us from the court and we can hear proceedings

on a monitor above with a forty second delay this forty second delay it designed to stop the public hearing any classified information in the court we watched as the five men accused of complicity in the nine eleven attacks were brought in but seventeen years on the trial proper still hasn't started we attended the thirtieth pretrial hearing. in the evening we're told the next day's proceedings will be closed to the media and public in these secret sessions defense lawyers are given access to some classified information but a nice some. other evidence is considered so very secret that even defense lawyers with the highest security clearance can't be trusted with it and who decides what they can see is a hugely contentious. in the transcripts of the open sessions mention of gina possible donald trump's choice as head of the cia an appointment

that caused controversy because she once ran a detention camp in thailand in two thousand and two where torture was used jean a hospital has a key role as god ijn of the cia's secrets. as head of the cia it's within her power to decide what classified information can be provided to the defense in this case. so has gina hospital blocks evidence which could help the defense to find out we settle from the confines of camp justice to ask one of the defense lawyers. away from the count one time in a naval base has the trappings of small town america. even has its own radio station with a souvenir shop and a fun slave looking infidels backyard. we

meet up with defense lawyer james caan al again but when we ask him about jena hospitals roll it turns out there's some questions he's not allowed to wants. as director of cia controls the pipeline of information from the cia to the prosecution to us is there any evidence that is an impediment in the first. i can't answer that question you can't answer that question. is there a suggestion that you might i can't answer that question. so are you saying that the u.s. government is the prosecution holds all the cards in their hand if all of you. in this military commission which was set up for the express purpose of preventing information about torture from getting out to the public the prosecution really believe that the setup to prevent information about getting out about it was not set up for due process justice one of the victims was not well no there's no

question that the reason why we are here in guantanamo bay on an inaccessible military base with strict controls on the media trick controls on the defense attorneys strict controls on the defendants themselves for controls on every other participant in the process is to prevent information from talk about torture from getting out to the public the department of defense told us they strayed to ensure the process is as transparent as possible when balanced with requirements of national security. as the weeks legal proceedings and there's a press conference of sorts the prosecution on coming the attending media number just six including us over the fence here. you turn and colonel derek put seat is one of the defense lawyers for kind of shaikh mohammed the alleged mastermind of the nine eleven attacks he will

a trial could be he is the way the government is trying to hide so very much that you end up with this any terminable delay and it's disturbing i think to everybody involved but most especially to the victim family members the department of defense say there's no time limit on the process which is get towards fairness rather than an arbitrary deadline. the pentagon regularly invites relatives of the victims of nine eleven to attend concessions at the military court heering some of the views this group expresses on the house and little unexpected naina and jessica murphy as the father brian though this week i have thought a lot about my father and i have thought a lot about the deep loss felt by so many people. but at the same time i feel i feel frustrated by the way certain issues are being covered in the courtroom has been a lot of talking about torture and i feel frustrated with the u.s.

government for not sure if using to be accountable for certain actions and measures that were taken post nine eleven that i think are also really important. here a man who lost his wife has spoken out publicly about his frustration at the length of time this is taken and suggests that people can could speed things up i suggested taking the death penalty off the table as part of plea bargains killing people doesn't erase the killing of other people american community who lost her daughter mary ray says she's proud there will be a proper trial i don't think most people have any idea of the links we've gone to to make it a fair trial but like others marion has concerns about the death penalty.

the death penalty makes us like them. i don't have anything and you go through years of years and years of this i wish that the death penalty were removed as an option in this case because i believe well it would go our pastor but also i don't think that our government has the moral authority to kill. and i think especially not in this case. given the actions that were taken post nine eleven of killing these men bring back my father later we asked colonel wendy kelley of the military commissions what she made of the relative's comments. well i think the victims have absolute right. but the government know what they want i mean as a prosecutor you always want to know what the victims are seeking ultimately however that's a decision by the united states of america not mine we were talking about classified information and the cia director is ultimately responsible for what information is

classified and what is nort what do you make of that dina hustles role in being the thought arsenal i think that's way beyond my. the entrance to come from erica women the soldiers the station. a few minutes drive away forty prisoners remain in course aerated mayes tell the income six. elsewhere camps seven houses so-called high value detainees we can't film at its location is a state secret. one thing we are allowed to film. a connection of mementos of previous postings which could be destined to grow even know under the command of a president who has vowed to keep get my open and load it up with do. we have new leadership new direction and we have been tasked to prepare for an

enduring detaining operations mission we have identified as a priority is the construction of a new high value detention center which would be referred to as camp eight because we do see the need in the future to care for that high value detainee population your commander in chief donald trump has said. and he would reintroduce waterboarding in a speech how does that. work you do. so i kuantan away all of our detention operations are conducted in line with. an article three of the geneva conventions and i'm not a spokesperson for the white house so i'm not in a position to comment on anything that the president has said commander leon knows may not be able to comment on her commander in chief statements but what he says counts in january two thousand and seventeen president in next trump tweeted that

there should be new further releases from get. and that was ominous news for detainees who'd been cleared for release under president obama. casablanca morocco the home of mustafa nasser in two thousand and four he and his family received shocking news from the international committee of the red cross most of his brother abdul latif who lived through ward had been imprisoned in guantanamo bay. he only saw one. of our own mother. but you know you look you push also look into a little of who you are in some way you. know you know if got a little bit of a. look in

a. corner that you look at me so i love all over the u.s. claimed he had connections to extremists but no charges have ever been brought against him. then in twenty sixteen abdul-latif case was heard by a guantanamo periodic review board a body containing representatives from six u.s. agencies including the department of defense they'd cleared him for release in casablanca his overjoyed family made preparations for his return. for. that and that. but the wheels of bureaucracy ground slowly and as the day of donald trump's inauguration approached noirs made a last ditch legal bid to have other latif released immediately so the court rejected the bid on procedural grounds. since then the american government

has argued that they can continue to hold one ton of no prisoners without charge until such time as the us war on terror has ended and this they've said could be a hundred years ago. today abdul latif is still in guantanamo. off to sixteen yes' with no immediate prospect of release. as you noted above them get you about and we'll get another get about it about. the decree if any of you know it will eventually. instruct became president not a single person has prevailed in. periodic review process and. that's not a coincidence and anyone who says it is just. so then not letting anyone go for purely political reasons these people are just pawns and that if you try to get any

political advantage. but for insiders we talked to one of their biggest concerns is that it's president donald trump who is now in charge of setting the rules they worry about what that means for the future. if you know admit to what we did and we're destined for this to occur again in the future and of course that's my concern right now president trump who is an armored with torture who has a thirst for work ality i'm afraid that we're setting the conditions to return back to practice or brutality and state sponsored torture as we did have done in the past. the u.s. department of defense to respond to the allegation concerning periodic review boards at one time but they did not address this the cia declined to comment on jena hospital's role classifying material referring us to her public confirmation hearing where she denied any conflict of interest in that role the white house

declined to explain president trump's remarks about.