the judiciary committee wants evidence and testimony from past white house officials wednesday's vote means it can subpoena that information at any time the question is whether the justice department will comply if the attorney general refuses he could be held in contempt of congress that sets up a lengthy legal confrontation between the justice department and the congressional body that oversees it kimberly helped get al-jazeera washington in the news ahead. and they are not giving up the demand for political change in france still very much alive and scientists say time is ticking to turn vast stretches of the ocean into a sanctuary for saying look. how

i once again welcome to look at the international full cost we've got the usual rush of showers across southeast asia indonesia thailand malaysia sinks in very heavy downpour southern thailand there with one hundred two millimeters of rain twenty four hours in a book keep that trend as we go on through the coming days so pretty much anywhere to see some of those heat of the day showers a seasonal showers developing from time to time got some rather wet weather there into southern parts of malaysia sinking down towards indonesia some pretty wet weather too just pushing up towards the gulf of thailand so expect to see some live shows what humid there for bangkok temperatures around thirty five degrees celsius meanwhile for australia it's largely fine and dry i can't help but draw your eyes this massive cloud which is rolling towards the far northwest of the country is just around the top end of the moment this may well become the i think it will slide. of the season if it does develop into

a tropical sideline as does seem likely it will be cold wallace it will move very close to port hedland as we go on through the weekend but certainly one to watch out for central hours of australia still very helped that i was spring's at thirty two celsius for those numbers down to perth twenty three degrees here and a twenty three meldon. a notorious symbol of the u.s. war on terror one said to close guantanamo bay and its detainees. we have identified as a priority is the construction of a new high value detention center i'm afraid that we're sharing the conditions to return back to practice. in state sponsored torture. rendition revisited part two on al jazeera.

so the top stories for you this hour on al-jazeera ethiopian investigators have found the pilots of the crash last month performed all recommended procedures to regain control of the jet this is part of a preliminary report into this disaster which killed one hundred fifty seven passengers and. the u.n. secretary general is calling for calm in libya where troops loyal to warlord headed towards the capital after. what he calls the remaining terrorist groups. in the u.s. house judiciary committee has begun proceedings to have full report on russia's alleged role in the twenty six election. has only so far released

a four page summary. of narrowly passed a bill forcing the government to avoid a no deal brags that the amendment was passed by a single vote but has yet to be approved by the upper house just eight days now before the british deadline and wednesday's vote means the government will have to the. are you for an extension that in barber has all the details. parliament voting to force the prime minister to seek a brix it delayed to prevent a no deal scenario at the end of next week it came after jeremy corbett and his team held urgent talks with prime minister to resign may the leader of the labor opposition went into the meeting with some of his own party demanding he seek a referendum on any brics it plan emerging afterwards he simply said he'd raise the option of a public vote to prevent no deal or leaving on a bad deal we had a discussion hasn't been as much change as i expected but we are continuing to have

some discussions tomorrow morning explore some of the technical issues surrounding it. and the meeting was useful but inconclusive probably if you like the prime minister's move to consult cauldron after effectively giving up trying to convince her own hardline brigadiers tobacco deal led junior minister nigel adams to quit his post on wednesday. in his resignation letter here queues to resume a of quote trying to do a deal with a marxist but the prime minister suggested it was parliament's failure to pass her withdrawal agreement that forced her into this position and insisted her strategy could work but the purpose of meeting with the leader of the opposition today is indeed to look at those areas that we can we agree and i think there are actually a number of areas that we agree on in relation to that that i think we both want to deliver and leaving the you with the deal i think we both want we both want to protect jobs i think we both want to ensure that we end free movement i think we

both recognize the importance of the withdrawal agreement but for brussels every day makes a no deal breaks it a bit more likely speaking in the european parliament with perhaps the last ever british present the commission president was unequivocal reduce of twelve of april is the final date for possible approval if the house of commons does not adopt a stance before the date no short term extension will be possible after the twelve . april we run the risk of jeopardizing the correct running of the european elections and the correct functioning of the european union. there could be no transition period following an exit the u.k. would immediately become what we call a third country with all the restrictions that brings you may conclude when you're there would indeed be customs checks the legal and political reasons we have to be honest here i prefer rigorous tricks to help process or illegal trafficking even if it means a few truck use for now to resume a still aiming to get

a deal passed so breaks it can happen by the twenty second of may avoiding european parliament elections with next week's summit in brussels fast approaching politicians here know they'll have to make compromises if they're to avoid or no deal breaks it but while the government's reluctant to seek a way out through fresh elections to vist parliament the u.k. could still end up taking part in next month's european elections nadeem barber al-jazeera london israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is in the russian capital to meet president vladimir putin before leaving for moscow matter now who told reporters he would discuss syria and security ties with russia but this visit is just five days before the israeli general election nato secretary general is warned the u.s. congress about what he calls a more assertive threat from russia younes stoltenberg addressed politicians on capitol hill to mark the seventieth anniversary of the security alliance he said that he doesn't want to new cold war but added that its partners must not be naive

about relations with moscow diplomatic editor james face sat down with stoltenberg and asked him if nato is concerned about tensions within the alliance. i am not denying that there are tensions on the there are disagreements on the wide range of different issues trade climate change energy 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 we were on it 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 and defend the child and i'm absolutely confident that that will also be the case now and the cotton ask 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 the nato ally but we see a more assertive russia ukraine in support of the supporting assad regime in syria are cyber attacks different activities against nato allies and partners countries but at the same time we work for a better relationship with russia we believe in dialogue with russia russia so neighbor russia's that is steady and we don't want to isolate russia 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 offense has democrats have launched

a bid to get hold of president on trump's personal and business tax returns but asked c.n.n. revenue service to hand over six years of information democrats say will give them an opportunity to further investigate any wrong. doing in financial history. were under audit and despite what people said they were. working that out as i'm always under audit it seems but i've been under audited for many years because the the numbers are big and yes when you have a name you you're audited but until such time is not under audit i would be interested to do that. the u.s. secretary of homeland security says the mexico border is now at breaking point that is after the number of central american families seeking asylum in the u.s. reached an eleven year high donald trump is now again threatening to shut down the crossing reports now from near the us mexico border in el paso texas. 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 of hearing that a 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 entries 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

u.s. 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 de castro al-jazeera el paso texas. the french president will and his grand citizens debate tour of france in corsica on thursday and i know that campaign back in january in response to weeks of protests as natasha button are pawns since november it's a weekly ritual yellow fest protest in france that at times turned violent the demonstrations began over plans for a fuel tax that spiraled into a movement against social inequality and the political elite up to three hundred thousand people took part in the first marches now it's just a few thousand but opinion polls suggest most french people support them so it's enough to keep up pressure on the government should i can think of another social

movement in recent times that has been so vivid fired by those in power and why only because people have there to us to make more money president emanuel mccall has tried to end the crisis by boosting public spending and in january he launched a national citizens' debate to give people more say in politics it's in shops it was at the launch that we first met retiree robert f. who complained that the government failed to help people in poor rural areas when we meet him again more than two months on he's not changed his mind at his home in normandy he says people like him have lost faith in politics or politicians don't represent our concerns we vote for m.p.'s who make laws but never ask your opinion once elected politicians only care about their careers in the past two decades this village has lost many of the. services many of the shops in this village have closed down jobs and scarce there's no public transport so you have to take

a car if you want to go anywhere and feel is expensive and that's very typical of many villages of small towns like this across from us which is why support for the universe movement is so strong in rural areas mike ross promised some new policies at the end of the national debate he hopes will appeal to yellow vests supporters and end the unrest but some analysts say it won't be easy that's the big danger is that you you have a minority movement that has the support of a small majority so how do you reconcile that that's the biggest challenge because not everybody among the universe want the same thing some people talk about spending power increase in income or less taxes and so on and others talk about. democracy mike ross says that the weekly protests have damage the economy and france's image but grabbers and his fellow yellow vests say they won't give up their battle until the government improves the lives of people in the countryside

like them who feel abandoned natasha butler al jazeera on france. scientists want at least thirty percent of the world's oceans to become marine sanctuaries by the year twenty thirty their goal is to protect them from exploitation like overfishing and deep sea mining that clogs up. the largest and least protected places on our planet are the high seas that is the enormous areas of deep ocean that lie beyond national jurisdictions they cover more space than all the continents combined containing ancient coral reefs and trenches deep enough to hold mt everest these vast blue worlds of the highways for whales for shocks for turtles and for to no travelling fowls and of models it's home to an extraordinary array of biodiversity crucial to the health of our planet this life drives the oceans biological pump capturing carbon at the surface and storing it deep below

without this would contain fifty percent more carbon dioxide and the world would be too hot for life but the global oceans are under threat facing growing exploitation including unregulated fishing and the deep sea mining industry through climate change ocean acidification and plastics well got a toxic mix now in a new report commissioned by greenpeace scientists from oxford and york universities in the u.k. laying out how it's crucial that at least thirty percent of the world's oceans are protected as a chanson trees by twenty thirty this they say would protect habitats and species it would rebuild biodiversity and allow ecosystems to recover and crucially they say it would lead to an increase in fish tanks outside the sanctuaries hoping to underpin global food security we also heard from jim hill on this story he's from

greenpeace usa told us more ocean sanctuaries would help actually reverse some of the damage. the first step that needs to happen is a global treaty that would set up a framework that would allow us to create these ocean sanctuaries right now the sixty percent of the ocean that is called the high seas has no legal framework that would allow such protections to be put in place but as we speak there is a united nations meeting happening that is discussing such a framework and basically all of the countries in the world need to come together and agree on this the idea of a sanctuary is almost as almost like a bank so you you have these areas that are becoming depleted because of overfishing because of plastics because of climate change and you set them aside and that allows the species that live there to recover and to regrow and some of these processes that we're starting to see degrade can start to come back.

to the headlines now and al-jazeera ethiopian investigators have found the pilot solvent and line of the crash last month performed all recommended procedures to regain control of the jet this is part of the preliminary report into the designs to which killed one hundred fifty seven passengers and crew. well you know your object of this investigation is to make sure that there is safety in that. it's not to blame someone it's not to get some sort of there are some things that we are going to do it as something very normal boring the procedures that all of the things that isn't of this report is going to have to assure safety in the nation think that in other news the u.n. secretary general is calling for calm in libya where troops loyal to the warlord after i headed towards the capital says his forces will fight what he calls the

remaining terrorist groups. the us house judiciary committee has begun the legal proceedings to have a full report on russia's alleged role in the twenty sixteen election released president donald trump's attorney general has only released a four page summary so far of that confidential reports british m.p.'s have narrowly passed a bill which would force the government to avoid a no deal brags that the amendment was passed by just a single vote and as yet to be approved by the of the house opposition labor leader jeremy coleman says he is now working with the prime minister to try to find a way out of the break that deadlock and the man accused of to moscow attacks in new zealand's now faces fifty charges of murder police say brenton tarrant will also be charged with thirty nine counts of attempted murder when he appears in court in christchurch on friday fifty people died last month when tarrant opened fire on worshippers journey friday prayers. few in about twenty five minutes time

next on al-jazeera people in power. africa's most populous nation the blah just economy has a youth unemployment problem in a bid to control the internet of the future some say a kind of digital ion co-incidence folding we bring you the stories to the shaping the economic world we live in. counting the cost on ounces era. crude us president donald trump trick a return to the doctor use of america's war on terror and why it's is a strange. to suppress information about the cia's post nine hundred eleven rendition program in the second of two special investigations we sent reporters every spring to find out.

compaq's re at the u.s. naval base and hunnam a bay. now deserted. 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 people have been incarcerated here. former u.s.

president barack obama wanted to close it down walked off. their one year from now. current president donald trump has different ideas. president obama talking about get right 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 may want to load it up. some fear trump's presidency may trigger a return to the dark chapter of america's history which funday the devastating atrocities of nine eleven. in the often lot 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 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 firy based on experiments done on dogs to sleep deprivation extreme isolation. a practice called walling. facial slap slamming your 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. 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 come onto arrived at guantanamo bay here. his name was major general geoffrey miller if you speak to many of the other prisoners who were held at the time in the in camp x.-ray and elsewhere they'll tell you that he was his the regime caught during his period was the harshest they faced you know he's 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 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 devise 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 heated 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 they have. committed criminal acts major general miller insisted the torture and abuse at abu ghraib was the responsibility of roots soldiers notice the put 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 retired our own procedures or 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 won't learn from history and your mistakes you know we have someone in the white house right now who knows nothing about history. of the repute and a mistake has 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 there 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 hundred out to their client by interrogators. 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 abbott's 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 entitled to you know all the evidence that's relevant and material to restaurant which is 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 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 base 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 minder that mind our checks all footage so all the pictures you will see from here have been vetted. thirst lied to come to 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 here we await a military minder to accompany us to the secret court we cannot film. we come observe proceedings under strict conditions journalists n.g.o.s family members of nine eleven victims and see if an especially constructed gallery there's

a thick pane of glass which separates us from the court and we can hear the proceedings on a monitor above with a forty second delay this forty second delay is assigned 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 song 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 is seen. 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 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 ton of the naval base has all 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 that some questions he's not allowed to want such. as director of cia controls the pipeline of information from the cia to the prosecution to us is there any evidence that it 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 answer that question. so are you saying that the u.s. government is the prosecution holds all the cards in their hand is that what 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 if that's not to prevent information about getting out the vote it was not set up that process justice and i knew that it 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 if. you turned colonel derek puts heat is one of the defense lawyers who 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 good 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 neutral on expected. and jessica murphy 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 a plea bargain is 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 up. 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 and killing these men bring back my father to we almost colonel wendy kenney of the military commissions what she made of the relatives 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 you know hospitals role in being the mitchell 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'd income six. elsewhere compass seven houses so-called high value detainees we can't film its location is a state secret. one thing we are allowed to film the bill neology a collection 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 to know open and load it up with. new direction and we have been tasked to prepare for an enduring detainees 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 detainees population your commander in chief. has said. and he would reintroduce waterboarding in a beat how does that. work you do. so i kuantan him obey all of our detention operations are conducted in line with the. 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 or may

not be able to comment on her commander in chief statements but what he says counts in january two thousand and seventeen president annette's 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 my mother. but you know you knew for certain that you push also looking into

a little of who you are in some way you. know if got a little who could be a lawyer. or that you look at me could say 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 court rejected

the date 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 fav said could be a hundred years ago. today abdul latif is still in guantanamo. off to sixteen yes' with no immediate prospect of release. says yes to both of them give you both and we'll get another good about it about. the degree it illegitimate of the willingness from. the instrument became president not a single person has prevailed in a. periodic review process and. it's not a coincidence and anyone who says it is just. so they're not letting anyone go for

purely political reasons these people are just pawns in 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 what admit to what we did and we're destined for this to occur again in the future and 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 their brutality in 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 agent trying to comment on

gina hospitals 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. business. places. to hide behind. the. thank. the.

odd. business. places. to our. odds. this is al jazeera. hello i'm sam is a band this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes also fighting south of the libyan capital as troops loyal to war. closer to

tripoli. this report is going to have posts to ash ur seventeen in that mission saying. investigators need theo to say the pilots of a passenger jet that crashed last month followed the correct procedures. british members of parliament back a plan to delay briggs it guaranteed the u.k. can't leave the e.u. without a deal and by munich survive a big scare in the german cup and a penalty when the quarter final four bottom. line goals that. i didn't. at least one person is reported dead in battles between libyan warlords before half those troops and forces loyal to the un recognized government in tripoli the fighting is happening about one hundred kilometers from the capital the u.n. secretary general is calling for calm as have to find his edge towards the capital

tripoli on wednesday half the fighters posted video online which appears to show a large convoy of heavily armed vehicles on the move after all it is forces to head west towards the capital to fight what he calls the remaining terrorist groups. and libya has had two competing governments since two thousand and fourteen the un backed and internationally recognized government is based in tripoli while the parliament in the eastern city of tobruk is supported by wall khalifa haftar and his backing from saudi arabia the u.a.e. and egypt both governments have their own central banks britain prints money for tripoli russia for top iraq libya's eighty billion dollars of oil reserves are managed by in tripoli or half that has seized all fields in the east and in the south it's got more now from mom or dad that i have from tripoli looks like

a storm brewing there other factions on the ground at all here in the calls the international calls for restraint. well. it seems that the rival factions of the ground dome are responding to the international calls for calm as you know the general secretary of the united nations. is in libya for a two day visit his in tripoli today and he's going to he's expected to visit. to speak with the rival factions he has called for calm but yet have his forces are continuing threatening to advance towards the capital tripoli recently they have taken control of the town of the u.n. around one hundred kilometers to the cells from the libyan capital tripoli it was a kind of hand all of the locations the end premises government premises in the

city of the u.n. two forces loyal to have a young man city up i have to explain here some of that have to us forces have not reach of the very end but there are there were forces in the city of the and pledge of allegiance with that have to recently and they have announced today that they have handed over the premises to forces local forces in the area. affiliated with have to his forces now on the other hand the government of national accord has called on all its forces to be put on high alert and also the interior minister and the government for timashev are now said that he is going to give commands to all the forces to be on high alert to face our have to his forces we understand that is trying to impose himself in the western area as a do facto ruler of the worst of the country before the general national conference

is held which is due to be held on the fifteenth of this month's this conference is . good to have a comprehensive reconciliation and a government to be come to be foreman of all the rival factions would have to having head of security and the government but it seems that have to does not want only that he wants everything for himself and by this move maybe he wants to impose himself as a do flock to the ruler and the worst of the country before this conference is held on the fourteenth of this month sami or out mahmoud up there i had there from tripoli thanks for that if here because government has just releases preliminary report into last month's fatal crash hundred fifty seven passengers and crew died when the theo paean airlines flight went down six minutes after takeoff from madison the report says the pilots of the boeing seven three seven max aircraft

perform all the necessary procedures but were unable to control the jets it's called on boeing to review the models flight control system for reporters to be released within a year or you will be a major object people of this investigation is to make sure that there is safety in the ambition. it's not to blame someone it's not to get some sort of there are some things that we are going to do it as something very normal boring the procedures but of all the things that is out of this report is going to have to assure seventy in that nation say. david lamont is a consulting editor for flight go global he says the report's findings are another setback for boeing's reputation. we had a feeling that something like this might be coming but it is shocking nevertheless . there is one particular the pilots have quite

a few different controls that can influence whether the aircraft tends to point its nose up or point its nose down and they normally have full control over all of these but on this occasion this new system which is unique to the boeing seven three seven max actually force the nose down and we don't know what triggered it this time i mean but it did force the nose down the crew reacted . quite correctly by carrying out a drill that they has been frisk for arrived if this occurs and isolates it this this system which was trying to push the nose down but having done that that they then found that one of the control systems that they have for pulling the nose back up again simply wouldn't perform for them it's a wheel which is the captain's right hand side in the co-pilot's left hand side

they tried to pull the nose up with this but somehow and we don't know how yet they couldn't make it move and so they returned to normal controls and again the aircraft pushed its nose down so if it and surely they lost control. what everybody feels at the moment is is you know if you can't trust boeing who can you trust so boeing really has to work very fast to recover its trust because its brand name is so strong and its products for a long time have been so good it can and recover trust but it will have to work very quickly to do that because this will end up being like a cancer on but knowing if it can't sort it out rapidly. going to. british m.p.'s have narrowly passed the bill forcing the government to avoid

a no deal brags that the amendment was passed by a single vote but has yet to be approved by the our house the house of lords with a days before the break that their lyman's days vote means the government will have to ask the e.u. for an extension. baka has the latest for us now he's outside the british parliament in london and. the meeting between may and coleman it's imminent now isn't it and he signed the either side is going to make a move is going to munch. what we've we've heard very little out of the meeting that took place between coburn and may on wednesday it was held in a tree some a zone chambers it was meant to have been a could can structure of atmosphere the mood before that meeting was very positive the exchange of the house of commons between the two leaders was was pretty good

but there has been a lot of negative noise around the fact the teresa mayes meeting with jeremy corbyn a told particular from hardline reg cities that have repeatedly accused the reason may of rexx it betrayal for trying to seek a way out of this break the impasse by sitting down with their political rivals at the same time jeremy corbyn is acting as something of a bridge between those within his own party that voted to leave the e.u. and those in his front bench people like sakia starmer the shadow breck six secretaries who are edging towards calling for a public vote so on the final deal that we're now hearing from some from french conservative m.p.'s as well that they are not ruling a second referendum out a possible way forward a way out so this situation as for the bill that was now really passed in the house of commons late last night that has now been moved to the house of lords the upper

chamber it's been added to the list of things to be debated in the chamber of the course of the day the hope is that it will be passed very quickly it's very very unusual indeed to see a bill with through both houses of parliament in such a short amount of time it normally takes months but it could if by the end of the day end up being completed just within a matter of forty eight hours all right have that everyone on the edge of the city or yes see what happens next in parliament thanks so much. processors in south africa have held a rally in jana's both townships calling for better government services and improve living conditions alexandra barricaded street. tires are angry about rubbish not being collected piles of garbage build up illegal settlements are expanding. you can see we're overcrowded here in alexandria so there's no land we buy we can stay so if the government can provide any kind of men with by we can be

able to fit all of us. or not but. we are fighting for alexandria and i want the president to come here so we can talk to him face to face there are lots of things happening. we're not fighting just more of a process to come here so we can speak to fighting for our rights. has the latest from johannesburg organizers of the protests nothing so far has been planned for thursday but we are seeing a few people coming onto the streets in alexandria township where they are burning tires charging saying they want change they want to development the issues very some say they want access to better health care some say they want the children to get better education some say they want jobs some say they even want to lead what we saw yesterday were hundreds of people coming on the streets alexander township doing what they normally do here for the when they protest they burn tires they block roads some people were stopping this from going to school others from going

to work saying enough is enough they want the government to intervene this is an election year the elections will happen in may so politician especially those in.