r.t. sarah firth has this report. these are the names of the t. defendants in the terrorism case until last week they'd been known only by the initials a b. and c d g twenty application from prosecutors to ban the press and public from proceedings on the grounds of protecting national security the whole case was close to being completely in secret well the court of appeal blocks that attempt to hold the first ever completely secret criminal trial in the u.k. the judge is saying that the core of the terrorism trial could be heard in secret but that other parts must be public but campaign is the worried that despite the ruling this case marks yet another step toward secret courts becoming a therm part of the legal system only partial victory large parts of going to be held in secret the important issue here is the very issue of open justice because we have a long tradition that for justice to it's not enough for justice to be done it's got to be seen to be done this case was an extraordinary departure by initially allowing the whole of the case to b

r.t. sarah firth has the story. reports circulating on social media of the death of a potential british jihadist now he was subsequently arrested trying to reenter the country david port and then stood trial now there are concerns that social media reports of his death were an attempt to cover his reentry into the u.k. so it's that kind of thing that british security services are going to be looking extremely closely at indeed now a couple of days ago the former m i six chief warns the burson security services can't afford to track everyone who might be returning to the u.k. after having gone to fight in syria and now potentially iraq of course not everyone who's traveled to syria has gone to fight alike why it's not everyone who will be returning after having been innocent in syria potentially iraq will pose the same level of threat but of course what the british government know what the security services know is that it only takes one and that's what is going to prove the real challenge ensuring that no one slips