penn says i'm curious risking its partnership with a nato alliance with so called reckless decisions it comes as nato secretary general warned the us congress about a more assertive threat from russia install tim burke says nato does not want to new cold war but he says its partners must not be naive about relations with moscow but diplomatic editor james bay sat down with the install timberg it began by asking him if nato is concerned about tensions within the in arms. i'm not denying that there are tensions on the there are disagreements on a wide range of different issues trade climate change and the g. eight and also other issues but we have seen differences between nato allies before back to the suez crisis in fifty six to the iraq war in two thousand and three which. strongly supported somalia as a strong were against. the war but this spite these differences while there were aren't or from history is that we need to always been able to

overcome them and stand together and unite around the record tosca that is to protect or defend the other and i'm absolutely confident that they'll be the case now and the cotton last was to protect from the threat from moscow originally you talked in your speech to the two houses of congress of a more assertive russia are you concerned that some in your alliance and some of the countries even here in the u.s. even president trump underestimating that you know i think we all see what russia is doing we don't see any imminent threat against any nato ally but we see a more assertive russia ukraine support is supporting also the regime in syria are cyber attacks different activities against nato allies and papa countries but at the same time we work for a better relationship with russia we believe in dialogue with russia russia neighbor for us that is steady and we don't want to isolate russia and we will

actually work for a better relationship with russia so we believe that as long as we are strong and united we can also engage in dialogue is no contradiction between dialogue and turns on the fence still to come around is there malaysia's former prime minister pleads not guilty to corruption charges relating to a scandal of the brought down his government. are to heavy flooding kills more sixty people in iran its government. u.s. sanctions and i'm praying really fast that's. how the weather's slighty fire to dry across much of australia we had some other murky skies into sydney for wednesday going on into thursday but things will clear up here another weather system just making its way into the far south is easing

towards victoria that will to slide through as we go on into stay twenty two celsius for melbourne we're getting up to around twenty seven there in adelaide twenty three for a sydney into the low twenty's two for perth as we go through day friday similar conditions there largely foreign try across much of western australia hot one there into south australia adelaide gets up to thirty degrees celsius on the pleasant twenty sixth for melbourne which pushed further north just notice this circulation spinning away around the top and that's something we've got to keep an eye on as we go on into the weekend we could have yet another tropical side by heading towards port hedland maybe more across the ditch we've got some weather on said weather making its way towards new zealand that area clabber stretches back towards tasmania southeastern parts of australia well bring some unsettled weather into the south olive's friday temperatures struggle to get to around twelve degrees celsius it pushes a little further northwards or clint has a top temperature of eighteen degrees.

a notorious symbol of the u.s. war on terror one said for close guantanamo bay and its detainees are going nowhere we have identified as a priority is the construction of a new high value detention center i'm afraid that we're setting the conditions to return back to proxies of brutality and state sponsored torture as we did have done in the past rendition revisited part two on al jazeera.

and one of the top stories here knowledge is there are libya's u.n. backed government to tripoli has declared a general military alert follows the deployment of a convoy of heavily armored vehicles towards tripoli by the eastern warlord only for have to. ontario did as is but if it has issued a statement asking for forgiveness for any shortcomings after resigning as president on tuesday he is expected to be replaced by the speaker of the upper house until elections can be helped. britain's opposition leader says talks with the prime minister over brics it we useful but inconclusive the two met in an attempt to find a way forward for the country's exit from the e.u. the u.k. is due to leave the bloc in little more than a week. flash floods in iran have killed almost sixty people after some of the worst rains in a decade the iranian red crescent says nearly one hundred sixty thousand people have been affected iran's government has declared a state of emergency and over the evacuation of dozens of villages wary of mohamed

reports. the heaviest rainfall in a decade much of iran's south west and central regions have been hit hard with tens of thousands of people affected in the rest and province in the west survivors trying to recover what they can from muddy streets so tell moment i have lost my whole life house and everything and not only my family but the entire pollard doctor town many are without food and essential services in poison are going on well they we have been hungry and thirsty since this morning our children are hungry and there is no natural gas electricity or water. in the southwest province of kusa stan there is a growing risk of flooding it when you know thirty's have ordered people in seventy villages to evacuate and sent in the military to help in the province of gaullist on the iranian red crescent says is helping provide emergency shelter for fifty

seven thousand people and dozens of military and relief helicopters have been deployed to help those affected iran's foreign minister zarif says the relief efforts are being hampered by the united states he said sanctions imposed by washington were economic terrorism and preventing the country from getting equipment like helicopters u.s. secretary of state mike pompei accuse the iranian government of mismanaging its urban planning and failing to prepare for emergencies president hassan rouhani promised affected areas would be rebuilt gas. in spite of what america wish for all will see that our big nation our officials and our own horses or men or him will reconstruct everything that's been damaged. the heavy rains have also triggered floods in neighboring iraq and with more rains expected the emergency may last for some time yet mohammed al jazeera. syrian man has been shot dead in the

occupied west bank israeli army says the man tried to stab a group of israelis near a minute she checkpoint close to nablus and was shot by one of them are listed in officials say the man who fired the shot was a jewish settler a second palestinian was wounded in the incident a vaccination campaign is underway in mozambique to try to contain an outbreak of cholera health workers are focusing on the port city of beara which was devastated by last month's cyclon die thousands of people are still living in displacement camps and have little access to clean water or sanitation all fourteen hundred cases of cholera have been recorded in the city with at least one death coming to miller has the latest from vera. the line for food is growing longer and longer as the day comes to an end here in barrow we're at the if after camp where at least one thousand eight hundred people are staying temporarily that's after they were

displaced by cycle only die in the flooding that followed after now they've set up temporary tents for shelter people here say they have very little to go back to if anything at all of this is where they can get medical assistance food and fresh water and this is important considering the concern around the cholera outbreak so far they've been about one thousand four hundred cases there is of course concern though that this estimate could be low given the way people have to live the limited access to water and hygiene been compromised the outbreak of disease is a priority for aid agencies here containing that aside from color others also concern around malaria as well as a measles outbreak so far nine hundred thousand doses of cholera vaccines have been sent to para this is one camp where people are able to get that vaccination to try

and contain the spread as far as possible the international criminal court is investigating whether an attack in mali constitutes crimes against humanity hundreds of ethnic fulani herders were killed in this old last month mali's government has blamed the violence on local armed groups their close hack has more from the city of go. these full on the villagers are trying to heal their wounds and make sense of the violence against them. they say they were attacked in their village weeks ago because of their ethnic origin gunmen on motorbikes stormed in and kill anyone they saw. children were beheaded with machetes pregnant women butchered others bled to death in all one hundred sixty people were killed and hundreds injured it was. though we were chased from our homes we came here thinking we were safe never could i have thought that our neighbors

here too would turn against us. and that. mali's government accused dawn tried militia for the attack they deny being involved minutes after it started mullion soldiers just a few kilometers away were alerted it took them twelve hours to arrive despite sixteen thousand un peacekeeping troops in mali there quick reaction force was two hundred kilometers away and arrived too late to protect villagers the international criminal court is investigating what may constitute crimes against humanity against the full on the people we are going to wallace attrition or the clinton and it's not the one of the group going after the one but it's recruiting it was specific in the group going after another segment of the population and especially the french for along these are nomadic cattle herders who sometimes come into conflict with villagers who don't want to share their land for grazing. the phalanges are being

offered protection by a medical fact he's a leader of. the mean an umbrella armed group that includes al qaeda in the islamic magreb he's calling for full monies to join the armed movement and overthrow the government with more than two hundred un soldiers killed in mali since their peacekeeping mission began in two thousand and thirteen it's struggling to maintain stability in the sahara region of western sahara canada and the netherlands are pulling out their troops in a few months. the mandate of these peacekeepers is to protect the population from armed groups but with the recent violence targeting the full on the population they're having to now protect the full armies from their own neighbors that are targeting them other ethnic groups accuse the fulani of attacking them the battle for grazing land is expanding across mollies border. homes are also being attacked in neighboring burkina faso in the. nicholas hawker al jazeera.

malaysia's former prime minister has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges at his trial in kuala lumpur that denies any involvement in the multi-billion dollar or an n.d.b. scandal that brought down his government is the first of several cases against the ex leader he's facing more than forty charges largely reports. a former prime minister accused of being involved in looting billions of dollars from the state not getting support here through prayer that ship is on trial for criminal breach of trust corruption and money laundering involving the alleged transfer of more than ten million dollars into his back if. it's called if you wish him. not just you i'm looking forward to it because you've got a lot to say. prosecutors say the money came from s.r.c. international a former subsidiary of stated best and fund one m d and there are other accusations

he faces forty two charges in total most involving claims he pocketed nearly seven hundred million dollars from one. he's due to stand trial for most of those later this year. says he's the victim of a political vendetta orchestrated by the current government that came into power following elections last me i think with. charges that this is politically motivated but i think then the purpose of time and also public credibility if the evidence against the response draws for it being that one of his on the prosecution in order to bring what the he and prove their wrong green did indeed occur when malaysian police raided properties linked to not ship they seized handbags and cash worth more than two hundred seventy million dollars

investigators say money stolen from one m.t.b. was used to fund lavish lifestyles for not chip his family and his associates including buying high end properties building an art collection and funding a hollywood movie one m.t.v. is being investigated in five other countries including the us the us department of justice alleges four and a half billion dollars was stolen from the fund this trial marks the first time a former prime minister of malaysia has been in the dock it's also significant because it will put on public record details of the fraud that allegedly occurred at one end and the highest offices of government how transactions were made shell companies allegedly set up to cover the money trail the connections between now and others accused of taking part in the financial scandal florence al-jazeera. a record number of families mostly from central america trying to seek asylum in the united states the u.s. government says the country's southern border with mexico is

a breaking point and president trump has threatened to shut it down as a result but as castro reports from el paso texas doing so could harm the u.s. economy. the u.s. southwestern border has not seen numbers like these in more than a decade more than one hundred thousand migrants and asylum seekers crossing in march the border patrol's commissioner says the system is overwhelmed continued inaction by congress is going to continue to put people at risk the vulnerable migrants on the journey in mexico as they cross our border increasingly hot weather and our own personnel and unfortunately children in our custody sixty five percent of the recent arrivals are families or children traveling alone the vast majority are central americans who say they're fleeing violence and poverty last week in el paso hundreds of people were kept under a bridge the u.s. government said its processing centers had run out of space after the resulting

public outcry the asylum seekers were moved many are being released to charities that provide temporary shelter the release says that are coming from border patrol or not as organized there they're coming in and their release is that are happening a different types during the day president donald trump says he's going to close the border this week if the flow of migrants doesn't ease already his administration has moved some officers away from ports of entry to the front lines of the humanitarian crisis but even as those close to the president claim the focus is on saving lives trump accuses the asylum seekers of fraud you have people coming up here you know they're all met by the lawyers the lawyers of and they come out they're all met by the lawyers and they say say the following phrase i am very afraid for my life are i am afraid for my life ok and then i look at the guy he looks like he just got out of the ring is the heavyweight champion of the world is

afraid. it's a big fat con job. if trouble does shut down the border the impact on trade and the us economy would be catastrophic a closure of just a few days would mean billions of dollars lost leaving many to question whether the president threat is serious or simply a political tool in the absence of a real solution heidi to castro al jazeera el paso texas. news now on the story about breaks it let's join paul brennan who's at westminster has been monitoring that vote that's been going on the ceiling what's been happening. well i keep it brief because i know your type of time but it's been an extraordinary day in this whole extraordinary process in the last few minutes

a vote which has been bought by a crossbench grouping of backbench m.p.'s has just passed by one vote now what it basically means is that it's been stampeded through the lower house the commons and will now go to the lords with the view of then becoming law why is it important is because if it becomes law it would compel the prime minister to avoid a no deal bracks it would compel her to go back and seek an extensions article fifty effectively taking no breakfast off the table the ties of the prime minister's hands now that is something the prime minister had been very keen to avoid i think many people had realised it was starting to become inevitable as the amendments to the bill were slowly whittled away but it's been an extraordinary day here because it's part of a two pronged two parallel exercise which have been going on at the meeting of the prime minister with the leader of the opposition to try to comes to some compromise a joint approach towards bracks it before next wednesday's european council meeting

on the backbench m.p.'s who in the last few minutes by the skin of the teeth of it was three hundred thirteen to three hundred twelve just one vote in it have kept hold of the control of the timetable and pushing this bill this is this legit to sit bill through parliament against the wishes of the government and give me free pull how likely is the e.u. to agree to a feather extension well that is subject to the e.u. agreeing to it now if you have said that that depends on what the purpose of it is they they don't want to no deal but yet the still a lot of talking to be done to convince the european union that an extension most likely a long extension as things are standing at the moment is absolutely necessary and is good for the european union is in the european union's interest as well paul brennan thank you very much indeed. and those were the headlines do stay with us people in power continues as it will be up next and don't forget you can catch up anytime with our website address that is out of there dot com and also watch us

live on the back to heal the live i called. teach it strongman is ruling with an eye and faced and the silence from his allies is deafening the u.s. was perfectly happy to trade off the march for sea for security while western leaders turning a blind eye when even the citizens have fallen victim to his repression executions torture or censorship is not acceptable and you won't hear such strong words from let's say berlin or paris or london in cairo a on al-jazeera. could u.s. president donald trump trick or a return to the doctor use. terror and why is it strange. to suppress information about the c.r.u.

spurge daughter never rendition. and the second of two special investigations. service provider to find out. comebacks ray at the u.s. naval base antonymous bang. now deserted bush one tory a symbol of america's global war on terror. prison is began arriving at guantanamo in early two thousand and two very soon other detention camps was

set up on the base. an estimated seven hundred and eighty people have been incarcerated here. former us president barack obama wanted to close it down walked off the course. that one year from now. current president donald trump has different ideas. president obama talking about get right went on a while back 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 that 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 ton a move bay he had 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 fieri based on experiments done on dogs sleep deprivation extreme isolation. a practice called walling. facial slaps 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 want to access to other human beings into 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 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 and 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 wake 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 they way they were used their imaginations are running wild. at the time miller himself said 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. tried to stop and 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 notice the point out of the 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 retirement 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 it 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 won't learn from history and your mistakes you know we have someone in the white house right now who knows nothing about history. 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 of those 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. are approved by the pentagon but that doesn't stop them being deeply critical of the treatment hunted out to their client by interrogate his. 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 this is a death penalty case and as such were entitled to you know all the evidence that's relevant and material to mr arkell interest defense 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 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 got to find a long document agreeing to restrictions on what we can film where accompanied at all times by a military minder that mind our checks all footage so all the pictures you will see from here have been vetted. first light at camp justice kuantan a man every day begins the same way with the star-spangled banner. the media h.q. is based in a partially derelict aircraft hangar where we await a military minder to accompany us to the secret cool.