totally unjustified act of united states terrorism. i've always understood that my view on the west was i've been extremely critical of it it's also my home it's also where i live where the language i speak i think in this language is the place where my mother is buried my sister's buried and my kids grow up and where i grew up is where i have my memories of childhood and happiness and joy. coming into conflict with the west would also mean coming into conflict with home and that's something i've never ever want to do advocate. i remember distinctly there was a. knock on my door early morning around six o'clock and i opened the door three people two men and a woman and they said mr beck would like to talk to us and a really odd one of them identify themselves as a police officer the other guys didn't really say who they were. they sat down and

we spoke and it was about an individual somebody i knew who'd gone to the emirates and had been detained in the emirates and being beaten and tortured and it written to me asking if i can get him a lawyer because they force him to sign confessions of all sorts of stuff related to terrorism this was the first of at meetings with one particular individual out of the street the two i never saw again but this one person became i don't know if the right word is nemesis for me but he he he was haunting me like a spook for the next several years and this man. introduced himself as as andrew that's i've always known him as andrew and that there is no other name andrew seemed to me. just more aware of what he wants

why he's there he was. to me it was clear to intelligence gathering exercise he said. most of it is anything that you can do to help us don't forget this is your country too i found that interesting that he'd say that. this is your country too i was flying out i think in ninety nine the following year to turkey. and before i took the flight i was stopped at the airport and. taken by airport security to a room and they said we've got somebody who'd like to speak to you. so i was surprised but not completely taken aback because the person who walked in next was andrew he started to speak to me about all of my political views which he hadn't done before in the presence of the police officers now i knew andrew i had

an understanding of what this man is like in terms of his power i mean if he wants to he can have me stopped. and prevented from flying which is what he did the next time i saw andrew was when i was kneeling on the hood of my head my hands shackled behind my back and a gun pointed to my body in bagram and. that was a shock. you're telling me the story is there you go to sit on the beach and like that's not what you're going to do your kind of withholding of the. crucial details you know i'm interested in why i would spin it. i was going to turkey to go and meet some friends to go and possibly go over to chechnya.

chechnya was one of these places where there was a a growing sense i think in the muslim world or some part of the muslim world that here's a another place of resistance i found it inspirational and i wanted to go and see for myself what's happening in chechnya again it's a war zone something i was interested in but didn't know enough about wanted to explore it and study it just like as and as i've gone to bosnia before and seen for myself the atrocities and so forth i went to the border with georgia with a friend. we were not allowed in. and. so we returned and i stayed a couple of weeks in istanbul last night officers from the west midlands police and m i five carried out raids on three premises in birmingham the police of the time told the press that the rates were linked to islamic extremist activities i was of course arrested in two thousand and one under the. terrorism act.

and they raided by home and. the bookstore the author of his really didn't know when to. they couldn't explain to me they really couldn't explain to me what it is that they think i've done yes terrorism in what context according to whom with whom which dates which times which places who's been hurt i don't understand when a crime was committed and cost charges were dropped. but that did shake me up that . i've actually been arrested for terrorism. the u.n. is about to publish a major report condemning the taliban regime in afghanistan for its repression and violence against women since it imposed its brand of islam four years ago. and that's the international claim to the right that afghanistan's taliban militia has

massacred thousands of civilians in the past few weeks victims they say include women children and the elderly taliban officials have strongly denied the accusations. there's a kind of common perception that you went to afghanistan to practically join the taliban. no i didn't join the taliban. but i want to live under them and i lived for several months and i think i got my eleven and i. probably have to stay there for a lot longer. my views on the taliban were not formed by the media that's one thing that i wasn't going to do and that's one reason why i want to see things for myself the talk was all that the afghan taliban are not allowing female education so when my friends told me actually that's not technically true they are allowing schools

for girls as long as they are of an islam and he thought we helped to set up curriculums we helped to buy a playground equipment and computers and all of that from britain to afghanistan. to. tell of my experiences of the taliban of course living in afghanistan. made me question. who they really were about what they were really about. i remember once when i was driving through kabul center and there was a crowd of people gathered at one of the major roundabout so you car couldn't drive through and so i had to get out to walk to see what's going on as i got closer and closer i realised that there are four cranes. at this roundabout and each crane. often hanging a person and a four people been executed ironically for terrorists. and the crowds which is standing around looking at these bodies on the block and. i remember thinking i

wonder what sort of legal process they these guys must have gone through. i can hear you now can you rest i don't want to hear you and if. you are not going. well you're all of us. troops. good. by aiding and

abetting murder the taliban regime is committing murder. and tonight the united states of america makes the following demands on the taliban. delivered to united states authorities all the leaders of al qaeda who hide in your land. the taliban has reiterated that if one time the sama bin laden without evidence of his involvement isis them coming out if unbelievers attack the territory as muslims said the taliban today then she hides how you will becomes an obligation because in other words we'll fight. locos a couple of hours away from cups out of the back later to this place just looking to find ways to get into pakistan we stayed in the air i think for a few weeks until. my family evacuated but i got separated from it can you

tell me the story of how you got separate. i'd gone to kabul to clear out the rest of our house and get some things from there but some friends might left my family in loco. and during the night. there was mayhem and commotion for the taliban had to evacuate to abandon their positions and they're looking at foreigners anybody who's a foreigner for a muslim they regard as al qaeda. it was a very very scary time and i wanted to just get to my family. i couldn't because the roads have been blocked off all the entry exit points into kabul will be blocked. so there's a group of people that i was with pakistanis and others who said they know a route over the hills of mountains to both take me to. they drove all night long and it doesn't take off like to get to mobile and this is what they were going to

local and i kept on telling them i need to get a lot of my families and. they just carried on. i remember telling my father that i've lost my family i don't know where they are. it was. heartbreaking. almost two maybe three weeks had passed and still i did nothing. so i was planning to go back into afghanistan. knowing that it was going be extremely risky for me but i had to i had to go back in. and just as i was about to go back in i got a phone call. from a friend and said don't go away most of your families here right here in pakistan in islamabad. that rushed back all the way thank god thank you. everybody i could. and eventually got to

islamabad where my family was staying at the house of some people who'd took them in. and we decided we're going to stay in pakistan for a while. and just write this through and then eventually go back to the u.k. and the amount you were. with the tora bora i don't know i didn't know the name of those places i've been i've heard the name of it was called as far as i understand. these are the first pictures of al-qaeda fighters who've been captured in all thirty five were caught today. these men gave themselves up in no fit state to fight after days of brutal temperatures and. this is what osama bin laden's force has been reduced to. the night of the thirty first of january two thousand and two. the wife and kids go to sleep

and knock on the door. close midnight and it was strange to see them knock at the door at the time. i open the door. with a group of people studying this large group of people. nobody in uniform nobody identified themselves hardly any would set a target even asked me who i was and they just stormed in. and pushed to the side one of them put a gun to me to my head. pushed me on to the ground on my knees. shackled my hands behind my back to the probation shackled my legs. they would have me and physically picked me up and carried me into the back of one of the because they popped by the side of the house. and. opposite and i was so my family came from that night.

inside the vehicle they lifted the hood off my head from the bottom i saw two cook asian looking men. and they spoke with american accents and they were dressed i'd say very badly as pakistanis. they. one of them said that you can either also questions. in. start or you can ask them in kuantan i'm ok. and then they put me onto this aircraft. transport plane. i was seated on the floor my and was shackled behind my back i don't hit over the head. at the sounds of these dogs barking hugs grauer of the engines the jet engines the screams of other prisoners i was trying my best not to shout

a scream there i was just sitting there like no idea we were called to what's happening but i sense that there was some people next to me so i ended up speaking to this guy. who turned out to be a libyan i think. but i was shocked by his. what was going on in his mind you know we spoke an hour because the salaam aleikum to each other and. it seemed to be like a monday conversation he said brother have you prayed a decompressor. said no i haven't said anything we should. listen here i think the problem now is a better time than any and so. he led the prayer being on the left hand side to recite the print at that point an american soldier a member came over and put a knife to my throat and he said if you speak again i'll cut your throat. when we landed at the airport in kandahar the americans dragged us through the mud

and was freezing cold of a target and. two of them sat on top of me one literally pushed his you know his knee into the small of my back the other one pushed his his knee up to my head and then they started slicing off my clothes with with a knife. and then off into this interrogation tent one by one. where there were two agents of the f.b.i. the f.b.i. caps off. and they were asking each person when was the last time you saw bin laden when's the last time you saw a lot of the taliban. as i was. with this one of my head. only because standing around when they lifted the hood over my head i see andrew. the same andrew had been in my house and met me in the u.k. .

fly qatar airways and experience economy class like never before qatar airways going places together. in syria citizens are collecting evidence again i uploaded there has shot of crimes committed against civilians you've moved us out of syria and there are all six hundred thousand pages of material so that one day they can bring the outside regime to justice it puts a human face on the charges it's a dead human face by the city troops syria witnesses for the prosecution on al jazeera. being located outside that western centrex

fair of influence we're able to bring a different perspective to global events when you peel away all of the political and military in the financial darkening you see the people in those words and his policies are affecting to see the emotional their faces the situation they're living in that's when all the us can identify with the story. i'm richelle carey and these are the top stories on al jazeera and libya fighters loyal to the un recognized government have launched a new campaign against warlord khalifa haftar and the south forces are battling government troops for control of the capital tripoli

a group aligned to the government has taken advantage of hof taras forces being tied up in the north to capture one of his bases in southern libya a special representative of russia's president has met sudan's military rulers protesters have condemned foreign interference as they continue to press for the immediate return of civilian rule following the overthrow of president omar al bashir a high level delegation from saudi arabia and the united arab emirates flew to khartoum for talks on tuesday common in southwest pakistan of ambushed a bush a bus then killed kidnapped and killed fourteen passengers and alliance of a large separatist groups is claiming responsibility for the attack on the main road between kharaj and the port of qatar. has more from. this particular attack. in a remote region in. karachi.

don. and then the passengers were all floated their identity documents were checked afterwards sixteen of those people who were taking. the location where they were short. have claimed responsibility for this that they have been involved in attacks against the security forces and this is of course to keep. their. the country north korea no longer wants u.s. secretary of state might pompei were involved in nuclear talks state media says the government is calling for someone who in their words is more careful and mature and communicating. as well as president says the arrival of international aid is a result of government efforts red cross says more than thirty hospitals and health centers will receive medical supplies water sanitation and training because federer had closed crossings for weeks to block deliveries of u.s. aid the accuses the u.s.

of plotting a coup to replace him with opposition leader. so the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera for all of your news who are turning now to witness the confession. using. those weeks of costly. two thousand to do so i'm a confession. to being a member of. yes i signed two confessions these posts both these confessions were. one was in bagram one was in kuantan a move but it was by the same agents so the same f.b.i. agents who took made me sign some documents i can't remember what they were. then returned again in kuantan and. and they produced some

documents and they'd asked me to sign again in the first instance it brews. she completely out of. the threats they were making about being tortured and some to syria and to egypt in the second instance they said if you don't sign that you will be prosecuted in a summary court where you could face execution and my reason for signing at that time was that at least if i sign up get to go to court. i had learnt from the cia about the case of one particular individual which has been extremely important in my view in the whole war on terror. there was a case of a man called it no shade a libyan the cia agent in. told me that. if you don't cooperate with us we will do to you we did not shake a libyan no sheikh a libby was sent. from bagram in

a coffin. to a ship in the persian gulf called the u.s.s. bataan. a false confession was produced and the confession was that he had not shaken libya as a member of al qaeda senior member of al qaeda which i later learned he wasn't. i was working with saddam hussein on obtain weapons of mass destruction. i can trace the story of a senior terrorist operative telling how rac provided training in these weapons to al qaeda. to british men are among the first al qaeda terrorist suspects who will go on trial

before american military tribunals they are moslem bag from birmingham who was arrested by the cia in pakistan last year and is now being held at guantanamo bay in cuba. the experience of solitary confinement. was so. destructive internally destructive initially so i did have a couple of panic attacks and behave in a way that i was never a custom to screaming and shouting and swearing and current control of the world simply because i couldn't take being in that environment it was. corrosive. eventually when i was moved from the solitary blocks to the main blocks. i was held in come papa with five other prisoners one of them was australian one of those was british or to yemeni and also to louis one of the

yemeni guys was a very charismatic man also very influential and his premise was that everybody in the west is not innocent because they're part of a democratic nation and therefore they all play a part in empowering the government to carry out its aerial strikes not to patients of muslim land but of course my response to him was that actually there's an entire antiwar movement in britain and the rest of the world so would you discriminate or would you simply see the most collateral damage. and of course he had back and say well their bombs don't discriminate they've bombed us and they if you look at what took place in iraq and the sanctions against iraq people that led to the deaths of thousands of people every month or so he had a response for it but i still didn't make sense to me from what i had understood

and what i've always believed that i've always believed that the concept of jihad these guys were using is a noble one is one in which you are taught we are taught it's civilians are not targeted that women children old people are not to be targeted and this was specifically laid down in the rules of engagement by early most and by the prophet and his companions so what you say. is just as bad as america or outcry this behavior is somehow justified why are you not just saying straight up that this is the worst kind of hypocrisy because it's hypocrisy. in the name of islam it's not islamic because i think there are there are various layers to all of this and al qaeda is a muslim organization they're not hindus or jews or christians or muslims so we have to talk about them in islamic terms. that i may

disagree with them in terms of this concept that they're not muslims that's completely false and i'm not going to say something false just to please people the foreign secretary jack straw is expected to announce that the four remaining britons being held without charge of ground telling my ballet are to be released feroz abbasi bag richard belmont lot in bangor have been held at the u.s. naval base for nearly three and could now be home within weeks i think it was on the twenty fifth of general two thousand and five. and eventually soldiers came to my cell. shackled me up once again. and took them to this coach where there were three other british prisoners. we arrived in our f. north halt. and on the plane while i was still on the plane some woman came along and said you're under arrest and the prevention of terrorism out. they drove a police vehicle on to the container place and then put in the back of them to

agree to paddington green police station where i was taken to see i think that the duty sergeant and he offered me something really strange he said would you like to make a phone call. just dawned on me this is going to be the first opportunity i could get to speak to my family three years. i said no i don't remember the number. and eventually we were taken in a police vehicle to the house of my lawyer and. i walked in and there was my father my brothers. standing there were tears and i was crying. and then shortly after that my wife arrived with the children. it was hard enough to see the children but there was an addition to the family i'd never seen before and he was three years older. my other younger

children didn't really remember too much and the kind of sleepy clues late but my daughter well distorter she was very emotional she cried a lot she remembered everything she remember the night i was taken to remembered every detail she got really terribly affected by it. my wife well i leave that between me and us. sixteen year end when they. are returning home to a family. community that i think was still suffering the trauma effects of what i'd gone through so by the end of this experience in bosnia herzegovina. the soul of this conservative bank manager. had been radicalized i'd say to a degree i'm in not radicalized in the sense and of course it's very important to

understand that when we talk about radicalization it wasn't that i believed in the concept of what they claimed or some of bin laden is stating or al qaeda or anything like that at all i just believed in the right of these people to defend themselves i believe in the right that if somebody is getting raped if a child is getting his throat cut just because somebody doesn't want to waste a bullet on him then he has to be protected if the world community is not doing it and it's the people of the of the country have to be helped in the thing themselves did you take up arms that i didn't. want when it's minding your own business banging with i want why it is their whole world you come rethinking me everything dead bodies on the track train blown open. all. time and again over the past few weeks i've been asked to deal firmly with those prepared to engage in such extremism and most particularly those who incite it i started hearing voices from people and people reaching out to me saying muslim we

understand that you just come from a terrible ordeal but there are things happening here that you might not appreciate fully. where laws are beginning to change and affect the muslim community in particular i did speak out against the bombings the july the seventh bombings and i think somebody from m i five heard me. and there was a woman who had visited me in guantanamo. as an m i five agent and she called me and they wanted to know my views about who might be responsible who might have been. behind the july the seventh bombings and this was now the opportunity for me to ask them a few questions do you realize that you were part of a process that involved torture and abuse and you took full advantage of it let's just remember that all the the former guantanamo detainees to you tony of claim that they were completely in a so that any wrongdoing ever and you know we have to take this truth. and

there's. poor always these same people have now managed to maneuver themselves into position where they're making sure as a negotiator i don't serve in officers who are charged with protecting us in very difficult circumstances i have always said that m i five were present at every leg of the journey during my incarceration and that it was in pakistan in kandahar in belgrade and in kuantan him obey and in the last instances of of me being met by an m i five in fact the foreign office were present so there's no denying that m i five were involved in the interrogation not just of not of british residents but in fact of british citizens of whom i am one. of.

the arab spring opened doors into countries and places where i'd never thought i would have the people to go. for want of a prison. places where the americans had threatened to send me if i didn't cooperate. to fight for the next three years to get my passport back to be able to travel and this time around my travel and been directed by my experience. to go. two countries seeking. the role of the british government the american government and in the wrote the role in torture. the first place i went to out of all of these places was egypt and tried to make links with those who'd been imprisoned and try to find out who had come across the case of it now shaikh al libbi. documents had been destroyed it was very difficult to find anybody who could link this to that

but then i went into tunisia. and then into libya crucially and in libya i went to a muslim prison that's where it now shaikh libby turned up dead i walked into his cell where he supposedly committed suicide which was quite evident it's not possible to and yourself there is nothing to attach any a sheet to. and that it would take a look at the political thing to deal with the. serious the what he said is that criteria. has now been mined by law. because of the seventy thousand refugees a over this way a serial killer like. place these might that so that nobody else i was following leads of rendition victims who'd been handed over by the americans to the syrian government and so as a result of that i went into syria stayed a couple of weeks met these individuals and documented what i saw of them and

wanted to pursue further. the reports that some of these people who were held in various prisons and i couldn't get to i wrote about this when i returned and. i will receive a call by m i five i told them i'm ready to speak to you but i have to warn you that my work that includes trying to find out what you've been up to so we did arrange to meet me and my lawyer present and m i five and then we spoke rid of the world the last thing they said to me at the end of that conversation after i said if i get prevented from entering turkey or no it's because you don't want me to go there and then i went again for a longer period this time in two thousand and twelve i met with fighters loads of fighters from all over the world would come and i had. i saw that there was a great deal of zeal from these people. and not a lot of expertise so i got together some former soldiers some doctors. and other people and asked them to make together

a program that can help to make a defense system where people don't have to suffer these basic. mistakes or to die as a result of the. and so that's essentially where the allegations come about me being involved in training the syrian rebels and being supportive of the syrian rebels and but it's terrorism and so forth. having conquered territory and declared his caliphate abu bakar al baghdadi is trying to recruit followers to his cause but it's a course certain full of violent excesses that all over the region many muslims shi'ites and sunnis are recoiling in horror more than beg there is. an old english phrase there's no smoke without fire what is god if it's not terrorism it's not if you are not what is it's about rising above and sometimes it is

a jihad just to be just your enemy the verse in the koran says oh you believe stand up as just witnesses for god and do not allow your animosity of the people to cause you to do them and then just to think you are supportive of jihad as a magnet and many as rising above magnanimous rising above conflict that's the aspiration aspiration is to rise above it isn't the reality the reality is the jihad has now become synonymous with terrorism yes and you're going to find out that you're not and that will never be my belief and eleven the belief of the majority of muslims i'm from the twenty fourth i think it was. two thousand and fourteen. it was dave deja vu all of these police officers coming into my house again they didn't storm in the to do what are they not to do and they turned up. into my room after my wife would open the door i went and hugged my children and my wife my wife was in tears and children were not so much. i said don't worry i'll be

back soon. raced from coventry when i was home the police station with six vehicles as one of the greatest terrorist catches ever sirens blazing going at about ninety miles an hour straight to the court of the russian people media all outside and then denying me bail and then sending me off to double. shortly after that meeting with m i five the police had placed a bug in my card recorded every conversation i've had from that point on the charge really was providing fitness training to the syrian rebels and sending a generator and electricity generator to conifer. was embedded free after seven months in prison the case collapsed on its demerits on how weak it was to feel guilty if its failures in its foreign policy and internal policy. community denies the community we've come to inclusion is the c.p.s. decision there is no longer sufficient evidence to provide

a realistic prospect that there would be a conviction so it is right the earliest opportunity cases which. is innocent i have to say you are an innocent man you know you don't have anything but yet you have been in these places and in two thousand and two you were holding back in afghanistan for a year and then transferred to guantanamo for two years last year you were held in a british prison in south london belmarsh is it perhaps you know justified that maybe some suspicion around you i understood especially after september the eleventh the need to speak to me or to need to speak to people who have an interesting background understood that what i didn't understand still cannot understand the need to torture abuse. use of force in prison kidnap rape in some cases that never did i want to know what happened to and all of those things happened without me going into the detail of it all of those things happened to us

the only conclusion i can come to us to why that all happened and that the whole process whose. at best it's a confused policy of they don't know what they're doing but i can't give them that the benefit of the doubt in fact this was vindictive it was malicious it was designed to come after me because one thing i've been saying continuously is that you guys have been involved in the rendition of victims that caused the war in iraq and now i'm saying something even greater than that which is you guys through your lies and you torture caused the disintegration of iraq the rise of al-qaeda in iraq and its metamorphosis into islamic state in iraq and islamic state in iraq and i know ultimately islamic state and that's what i'm saying object is clear we will degrade and ultimately destroy. another day another propaganda video from one of thought to be british jihad is fighting in the middle east. to be hostages

that were held by us why they dressed in orange suit i thought initially that it's to show solidarity with the court on the prisoners but it's not. the seventeen of the twenty five leaders of isis who are detained and imprisoned in camp bucca under the americans. they themselves were dressed to go in suits the leaders of isis were dressed in orange suits and come pick up and still to this day nobody has come out with the true story of the nature of the torture and abuse that took place in iraq as an example. in two thousand and ten obama prevented the publication of thousands of photographs had been taken by american soldiers of abuse by murder when he didn't understand what. those people trying to defend this position to understand is that the damage is already done. those people already had that experience photographed or not is it little wonder that iraq has become as brutal

it is as it is my argument to what i've been presenting over all of these years. is an uncomfortable one for them to take to accept it will never accept but for an internal policy has been what has been driving people to this point of. desperation because these acts of terrorism often come from desperation i can tell you now the way i feel often at home is that i feel desperate not desperate enough to hollywood i'm not like that but desperate enough to say i've had enough of this country want to get out i hate it here. and you focus a lot on what how the british authorities should deal with this but what about within the muslim community itself when you've got numerous muslim countries being bombed being hit by drone strikes where people are being captured from an rendition to secret detention sites it's hardly the most of our lives are killed by other muslims ninety eight percent of the terrorism in the west is carried out by white non muslim westerners so it's an also i answered your question briefly then is

should there not be a debate about values within the missin community for whatever reason otherwise we're going to get what some people fear that a clash of civilizations i don't think we're going to i don't think we're in a culture clash is already happening but it's not of civilizations it's of nations against we can nations bully nations against weaker people and so for i'll give an example one of the is it bully nation i've just said to you that it's more muslims being killed by other muslims often within muslim countries i understand that but when talking about when we're talking about terrorism as i said to again the statement that ninety eight percent of the terrorism in the west is carried out by non muslims in terms of britain i think i certainly subscribe to the i love the idea of a multicultural burka. i supported completely i love my history here i love the fact that i went to a jewish school here love the fact that i had friends from various background and

experience and understood and value the cultures and the faiths and the religions and all the differences what i don't appreciate is the targeting of on specific community. and that is what i have seen. and i've been caught off being affected by false imprisonment again it's a crime torture can bring plaster and torture is a crime my family have grown up my kids have grown up watching this they have seen the effects of not being of the trouble of being at the constant mercy of the government every time to knock on my door think it's a place. while i was in prison. pigs heads were thrown outside my oh. we're living in a state of terror we are terrified of not just acts of terrorism by not individuals but the responses by the government and. populist media sometimes i feel that the onslaught is so huge that i want to retreat into my own community in what when when

that happens then it becomes another us and them thing and i don't want to see that happen to britain because i do actually love this country. refugees heading for a better life in australia to set it and sent to remote islands indefinite detention in her late condition has got a conscience in order to understand how to do this to turn smuggled out for h. and eyewitness accounts the main thing you're doing for people asking them not on the cells to kill themselves to witness a scene asylum. on al-jazeera. hello

it stopped raining now in iran ria interest true for almost all of sudden and brazil which you must expect because the sun's going north now in a significant rise in folding in the north east of brazil for the last couple of weeks but if he created somewhat flooding then a real circulation is now off shore and the rain that is taken in is part of a zone still goes up through. peru beyond ecuador but the showers and been shown themselves being as being particularly frisky recently notes and they will be in the next day or so are there but in the northeast of brazil that isn't the case they happen substantial there and they will carry on so be of course showers of reached up into colombia and panama venezuela now but he chris contra line make his way in from the pacific to el salvador or guatemala i think that will keep going

for the next twenty four hours than the active weather that's currently in the states he just attended that green in the gulf of mexico head south now but he's certain number of showers probably sundry ones through mexico again dancer guatemala all this time to the east it's occasionally cloudy cave the share of it generally speaking pretty far in the caribbean moment so developing storms the next two days are in southern states just building up here say from texas eastwards expect more trouble. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. for drug users seeking to get clean one rehab option has been raising serious questions work based therapy a so-called treatment that is all work and no pay. full lines investigates how people reeling from drug use are having exploitation added to that was.

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tries to take control of the capital he loses control of a base in the south. this attorney general is due to address the media before an edited version of the report on russian unfair interference is released. and the u.n. voices its concern after a mass trial in bahrain sentences one hundred thirty eight people for terrorism and also strips them of their nationality. and i'm signing with all the sport a dramatic night in the european champions league. champions magic the city to reach the semifinals. and libya fighters loyal to the u.n. recognized government have launched a new campaign in the south against warlord khalifa haftar his forces are battling government troops for control of the capital tripoli a group aligned to the government has taken advantage of hof taras forces being tied up in the north to capture one of his bases and southern libya had houses.

latest from tripoli. military sources with. the government say that they have taken control of the military around seven hundred kilometers from the capital tripoli but he says that they're not staying inside the base could be because. they're worried that have to. might try to target them this. hint military. forces control months ago since have to launch a military offensive to take control of versatility to locations in the south of libya in general the government forces are planning to take control to proceed and take control of more strategic locations controlled by have

to the forces in the south of libya it seems that have to. lots of the challenges in several parts of libya as you know that has opened a front in tripoli two weeks ago and now the question now how can have to manage these. fronts in several parts of all of libya and just a few minutes we will be finding out what is in the report by u.s. special counsel robert muller into alleged russian interference and the two thousand us press two thousand and sixteen that is u.s. presidential election their best occasion is two years in the making and edited version of the four hundred page report is expected to be released let's go now to mike hanna who is live at the department of justice in washington so mike the order of this is there is a bit unusual the attorney general bob barr is going to address the media about his edited version of a report that the journalists in the room would have read by this point the release for his report is actually going to come after so what do we understand is actually

going to happen with this. as conference today. well it's certainly unusual and very very controversial opposition democrats arguing very strongly that it is completely just for the head of the department of justice to be talking about a public report which the public have not yet seen not even members of congress will see it until a few hours time when it is put on floppy disks we are told and delivered to capitol hill there's going to be a scramble on the hill to find equipment that can still play floppy disks but within the next hour we're going to hear the news conference held by the attorney general william barr he's going to be explaining his take on the more than four hundred pages of investigation carried out by robert mueller now we know already that this is going to be heavily edited censored redacted as the department of

justice would say on the basis of four particular points but one is information relating to the grand jury investigations secondly it is any information pertaining to ongoing investigations thirdly it is any information that impinges on anybody's personal privacy and lastly a section will be redacted that relates to relates to classified information now each of these sections these reductions these edits are going to be color coded so you will be able to see exactly why a particular segment of the reports have been censored out so if nothing else this four hundred pages of report is certainly going to be a very colorful read so while this is is the result of two years of work this is still not it in point what do we know about what congress is doing will do to try to get access to the four report mike.

well congress has a number of subpoenas ready and waiting to go from different house committees the judiciary committee is intent on subpoenaing the attorney general to provide a full and uncensored report to congress not necessarily to the public you then have the house affairs or work affairs committee which is threatening to withhold budget from the department of justice should the attorney general not comply with the house subpoena so they are a long number of measures waiting to go to the courts should congress not get the full report or should the report itself be so heavily edited that congress cannot make any sense of this now is a precedent to all of this both in the watergate investigation and in the whitewater investigation involving bill clinton congress didn't succeed in

subpoenas to get the full report each of the special counsel's investigations into those there's one very important difference in both of those cases impeachment proceedings were already underway this is not the case now so very difficult for congress to argue as it's going to need to in the courts that it needs the full information contained in the report to decide whether or not to carry further with its own judicial or criminal investigations into what is contained in the report so what we are looking at should this report be heavily censored as is expected should congress be absolutely infuriated by this fact there's going to be a series of protected court battles in coming weeks and months most likely ending up in the supreme court because what's at issue is congress's right to take any action at once against a sitting president so we are looking at something here that is just the beginning of what is likely to be a long protracted fundamentally constitutional argument within the country scored.

ok it's a big one for sure mike thank you and to stay close mike will be joining us throughout this news hour as we anticipate this conference from the attorney general bill barr the robert hard me the initial announcement was that it would happen at the bottom of the hour it may actually come soon or whenever it does we will get right to it. a special representative russia's president has met sudan's military rulers protestors have kent and foreign interference as they continue to press for the immediate return of civilian role following the over her president omar al bashir a high level delegation from saudi arabia and the united arab emirates quote a cartoon for talks on tuesday now reports that bashir is in sudan's most notorious jail that is not calming the anger of the protesters there demanding proof of his arrest ahmed vall reports from khartoum. sudan's former president of model bashir

is reported to have been moved from house arrest to a maximum security prison there were protesters don't come to mistreat swill come the news. but then the months go much further we all so much happy to hear that the president has been moved to a prison that is still not sure what it will be i don't want to assume that we want the president to be in prison but not only him actually but the whole region what he would have been brought to the. breeze that he would be on a deal now we have no very. information and those people have been brought to the. brazen. wednesday the military council announced a series of measures including beatus to fight the shoes both as a best. along with the number of the high and i can officially of the former regime is difficult but the council's spokesman hasn't confirmed that the when abouts of the disposed president and it's not up arrests are underway of symbols of the eyes

did regime in addition to others here are believed to be linked to corruption cases the most prominent of those who have been placed in custody until nine or the brothers of the former head of this corrupt regime abdullah and. a council welcome to cease fire from one faction of the sudan people's liberation movement the group has been fighting at the shoes government into southern regions. meanwhile the two bodies behind the protest so the professional association and the forces of the declaration of change say if submitted the people with. including the creation of a civilian presidential council with military representation to move the country along with the civilian coppin it mate of independent technocrats but to say they fear what may happen if the fatties parties for you have to agree on a plan that you know without disagreements with me and failure and an opportunity for the military to stay in power. are. plenty more ahead in the news hour

including a standstill and syria or sanctions are being blamed for drivers going nowhere. and yes all this private airline crowns all its flights amid fears of a shutdown one of the stars of the n.b.a. season hits in a match display and playoffs details it's for. the united nations human rights chief says a mass trial in bahrain failed to comply with international standards on fairness and we see international says tuesday's hearing was a mockery of justice one hundred thirty nine people were jailed for what prosecutors described as terrorism offenses all but one of them had their citizenship revoked and an opposition leader was sentenced to a year in jail for and salting the kingdom's ruling system. spokeswoman for the

u.n. high commissioner for human rights she joins us now via skype from geneva we appreciate your time so what do we know about these crimes that they have been convicted of. well you know there and he nine people were. accused of grants is a way to terrorists and the training of terrorists. in critics to her forces. and other charges that this review even says this is that this is a nuts trial using a very broad and very counter-terrorism law that many many mechanisms over the years to governments not to central. and not only illegal convicted and sentenced to somewhere between three years and i think. most or all of their nationality good luck and it's not.