went on my belly with a prosecution that is determined to hide it torture from more than a decade ago and i think is is offensive to and should be answered all their. untruths 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 this camp there is a multimillion dollar legal complex series secret when not allowed to film it all 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 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. 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 can go observe the proceedings under strict conditions journalists n.g.o.s family members of nine eleven victims and see if 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 is assigned to stop the public hearing any classified information in the cool 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 is seen. in the transcripts of the open sessions mention of gina possible donald trump's choice as head of the cia and appointments that cause 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 time in 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 role 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 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 the setup to prevent information about getting out about it was not set up to fifty process justice one of the victims was not well said 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. defense if. you try and handle derek puts heat 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 a 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 little unexpected naina 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 guest 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 of killing these men bring back my father. we are asked colonel wendy kelley 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 nor what you make of that was role in being the mitchell thought arsenal i think that's way beyond my vote. the entrance to come from marrying women and so does the station. a few minutes drive away forty prisoners remain incarcerated mase tell'd income six. elsewhere compass 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 the bill neology a collection of mementos of previous postings which could be destined to grow even knowledge or under the command of

a president who has vowed to keep get to know open and load it up with do. we have new leadership new direction and we have been tasked to prepare for and enduring the taney 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 him obey all of our detention operations are conducted in line with common . 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 in next trump tweeted that there should be new further releases from the 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 push also look into him

a little of who you are in some way you. know if got a little bit of a. look in the last quarter that you look at me 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 a commission that and. 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 a good 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 u.s. war on terror has ended and this fave 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 good about obama but the decree if any of you know it will eventually. instruct became president not a single person has prevailed in a. 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 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 did 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. we live in a time of war and tragedy it's crimes against humanity. activist repression. enforced disappearance arbitrary arrests. extrajudicial executions brutal torture the list goes on. who investigates who judges the criminals. who compensates the victims the international conference on national regional and international mechanisms to

combat impunity and ensure accountability under international law. organized by the national human rights committee. united nations human rights office of the high commissioner. european parliament. and global alliance of national human rights institutions.

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but. it's the. property. well let's look at the main battlefields there's been fierce fighting around tripoli's former international airport which was destroyed in earlier violence in twenty fourteen there's also been fighting reported in the districts a. bit further south the main highway passing through also being contested victoria gate and he has more on all of the developments on the ground. answering a call to defend tripoli soldiers from misrata arrive in the capital to help push back the have to us forces have to ask suffered a setback on friday when at least one hundred forty five of his fighters were

captured during battles near tripoli's old international airport in an audio recording have to had urged his forces to in his words liberate the city. those who lay down arms will be safe those who remain home a safe those who host the white flag are safe. violence is gripped in libya the country has seen kayo since the twenty eleven uprising that deposed leader muammar gaddafi and since twenty fourteen it's had two competing governments forces loyal to libya's internationally recognized government in tripoli they have to is trying to wreck any chance of a political settlement well then. libya will be nothing but a civil state built on institutions of the peaceful rotation of power we condemn the u.n. commission for their silence towards these gross violations. following a meeting with have to are on friday the u.n. secretary general and the terrorists said he was leaving libya with

a heavy heart and deeply concerned the u.n. security council fears the fighting could threaten tools to rebuild libya's practised political system a what and what i think i'd like to emphasize that the u.n. secretary general was surprised at the recent escalation during his first visit to libya by all the parties that the organization stance is clear and the military confrontation. and resume the political process the same message was relayed to all the parties he met with in the opening closed meetings have tell us forces are now advancing on the southern outskirts of tripoli and there are a fears of a major escalation in fighting the un says finding a political agreement is the only way forward but we have to on willing to work with the tripoli based government that looks move remove unlikely victoria gate and be out is there but him for the heart he's an associate professor professor of conflict resolution at the doha institute for graduate studies is joining us here thanks for speaking to us so can have it our sustain his advance towards the

capital tripoli or easy going to be suffering more setbacks like we saw in zawiya well so far he has not been able to sustain it because he started actually before he started with with the capital tripoli he went down to the south and from the south came north and started with the city of the dumbest with. the end that's in the southern part of over tripoli but he was not able to sustain it so he suffered a serious losses as a result of that that we are seeing that even the air force from the from the national government is entering into this battle and he had managed to advance within thirty kilometers of the capital that's according to report well but he was not able to sustain it because he moved now even. with the video on which was the way that he started before and we have seen actually as

a result. the forces from misrata are joining the from zawiyah are also joining and also you know this intervention by the air force despite the warnings that have there was a reason against the war the club declaring that it's a no fly zone in that area we've seen the national accord government forces are. entering of us and participating so this is this is serious questions about you know to what extent he is really in control in that area and specially which is very important in my view is that the lack of international support to his camp in which so far no one not even one country has come up internationally to all police support his campaign against tripoli or hartree right but we do know that he has recently received international support in the past and continues to do so but just on the military side for a moment are all sides here trying to create facts on the ground before that

conference that that's meant to go ahead according to the un envoy later this month well theoretically yes it should be the case that half that is a trying to create facts on the ground before the fourteenth of april reconsideration negotiation conference but actually looking at his history have to showed little attention and little respect to what do these international conferences we know for a fact that have that was not participating in the negotiations of this cannot agreement will you as a part of that so again his history is records does not support his attention or see this attention to what the international community is doing actually if he does he would not be doing what he's doing now because even like close allies like should be russia that he should be receiving from russia supported this camp in actually the position from the foreign minister and his

deputy came very clear they demanded of to take a step back not to proceed this towards tripoli and also emphasize the political solution but as he is caused by the u.n. and you mention russia we've heard from the u.n. we've heard from countries and the g. seven are they strong enough to effect any sort of change. on the ground i think you have a serious point here that is not it's not clear it's not clearly strong enough yet and that's i think what the problem is but at the same time the fact that there is no clear support or public support by anyone including his close allies even that you eat by the way demanded that a political solution and that he steps back which is was very strange that he takes this position and added their voice too to the countries and france as well but what we what he may have advantage to go into the capital if he didn't have support from outside this what this suggests is that this international position

that is not strong enough as you rightly said cantaloupe it this campaign for a few days but it cannot tolerate this for a long time and that is actually what raises future concerns about you know about the future of the of this campaign we know for fact. that it cannot take the capital within a few days or weeks i think a serious baffle in the trouble they would take a very long time i'm not sure that even one party is either either party of the conflict that party will be able to win. this battle and the fear here is that we end up being caught in a very vicious civil war in the capital and without any party is able to to end it so actually this adds a lot of pressure on the international position because again this kind of like not very strong support of you know to the. battle for now come up

with a long time battle in tripoli and these countries will have to take a position or take a position ok but i mean fred had thank you. thousands of protesters ensued done have warrants for the army's headquarters in the capitol hart tomb it's the first time they've reached the building since antigovernment demonstrations began in december there are also reports of demonstrators converging on the residence of president on that invests year the latest marches come in spite of a government crackdown on dissent sudanese have protesting for months it was initially sparked by a hike in the price of bread but quickly escalated into a nationwide anti-government movement in february the government announced a one year state of emergency protests were banned and police were given enhanced powers to crackdown on dissent president ahmed invest here has stepped down as head of the ruling party for protests are demanding he go further and quit as sudan's leader has ruled the country for nearly three decades mum of two of his aides an

activist who was at the demonstrations today he says the protests will continue to escalate it's the good thing is that it was completely peaceful there was no disturbance or david police forces and then people were able to voice their concerns and it was you was it was a small is rarely if you think about it it started in december nineteenth and until now and the longer it takes for a bishop to step down the bigger the protests will get but if you walk down the streets it was ages from five years old up to fifty or sixty years old it all coming out of the same thing in one who just stepped down as well and have been gathering for rival rallies in the capital caracas after president nicolas maduro and opposition leader why dole called on their supporters to take to the streets they remain locked in a bitter standoff but maduro is resisting pressure to step down or latin america at its alysia newman has more from the program in caracas. this is expected to be

mary mary demonstrate that indeed this is a show of strength on the part of the opposition and opposition to don't want why dog is calling on his supporters to prove that they are not afraid that they can go out on to the streets and continue to demand the resignation of president nicolas my little what they call here not allow the streets to get polls and that is very very important because at this at this moment there is increasing pressure from the government it's turning up the heat they are using armed groups on motorcycles heavily armed sometimes called public people still out on the streets and roads here gas to protest fire live rounds into the air in fact that happened here in this neighborhood last night we're told by the residents and in fact we can also report that very very large contingent of riot police have been deployed all around the areas where at this hour opposition supporters are gathering and they're

supposed to converge about two or three hundred meters down the street where we are now where i'm in front of the electricity company which was the original final point.