to foreign prisons and secret cia interrogation camps known as black sites. who feel some sort of them would give off and. report it for. somebody for. the covert operation officially called extraordinary rendition took place in the years between two thousand and two to two thousand and nine. in north carolina locals began calling the flights from their local airports torture taxes this was a planned orchestrated program of kidnapping for torture i found that to be just intolerable we spoke to a woman whose husband was another victim of rendition. to this day the truth about the cia's rendition program and the role of north carolina's airports remains officially shrouded in secrecy. that are realistic to think of where from al-jazeera tell of. when making a programme about cia or indifferent. i and investigations ont welcome. and story well you think. nor of question i mean he's going to start with he's going to call the police yet his officers and they are in the. nine eleven the deadliest attack ever on american soil the mass murder of nearly three thousand people a defining mom

were involved in the iraqi the scam were put on cable news as experts former cia director john brennan he is our senior national security and intelligence analyst for amazon b c john brennan head of the cia and james clapper the director of national intelligence and for two years they took part in promoting the notion that trump was possibly compromised by russia john brennan also predicted that miller was going to hand down indictments for the trump russia conspiracy and he is going to be delivering what i think are going to be his indictments the fact that never came and the lesson we should draw from that which we should have drawn after iraq is that we do not trust intelligence officials or anyone without concrete evidence but we got today is a summary. findings now after years of being told to expect an indictment even a possible impeachment american news audiences have to reassess the entire russia gate story and they lack the evidence they need to do that. the muller investigation a reported three hundred pages long has not been made public all the media have to go on is a four

was the most conventional and most cumbersome approach it was the cia that said money authorities the right people who were going after the taliban and that worked ok less than one hundred special operators cia case officers paramilitary guys in s.f. guys backed by air power. and they smash the taliban and their whole peoples on but that's fine you topple them you have control of the country because more than six thousand people sure wrecked but then the united states repeated the soviet battle plan so it's not i would even battle plan that six thousand people can do what one hundred forty thousand couldn't show i'm not an expert on mouth but that seems we did well here's the thing you have fifteen thousand u.s. troops there now there's about seven thousand nato and another thirty thousand contractors so i'm not advocating a privatization of advocating a rationalization at a significant cost savings the way the us has been deploying there they send a unit for seven or eight months they spend the first two or three months getting to know the area and then a couple of months they're ver

house counsel don mcgowan also put the concerns that the cia and other intelligence agencies have about krishna into writing the white house says it doesn't comment on security clearances following donald trump's former lawyer michael cohen's testimony this week about how trump interacts with his subordinates there are questions as to whether kelli was actually ordered or just felt he was being pressured to grant question about security clearance but. congressional democrats are vowing to pursue this further and demanding answers as to what derogatory information officials had on kirshner that made them reluctant to give them clearance and why the president trump concealed his role in overruling their recommendation they have been multiple reports from various foreign powers including the u.a.e. israel and mexico have been intercepted having private conversations about their hope to exploit cushion his inexperience and business debts to their advantage the crown prince of saudi arabia was once quoted as saying he had krishna quote in his back pocket cushion himself has been in the

arabian government and the cia says the killing was ordered by the saudi crown prince mohammed bin so mun been so money has suffered no legal consequences heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington. now the recent rain in california brought destructive floods but the story is now slightly better thirty eight even rolled very much so that of water and sunshine a new used the word spring and this is what happens. as a super bloom taking place in southern california that means a vast number of flowers suddenly came out on the hillside it's poppies we're talking about really most probably not just confined to some kind of one of these the pictures i have for you remember that is the nice bit of the u.s. is don't but everywhere i have to say not far away in new mexico in particular the weather's been rather more vicious i mean. recently this was spotted new mexico tornadoes you know really common the mystery would come into the season that i mentioned the word spring so we will see them further east as well because this arc of clarity the arc here is a cold front splits into at least two pi

like the cia had about gerard question of security clearance about giving him security clearance were there all these memos going on behind the scenes and now we have this new york times report that says he was ordered i mean they had concerns despite what donald trump was saying even a few months ago he doesn't or you're recording them telling new york times journalists had nothing to do with it according to john kelly he was leaned on to give caution about security clearance right and just to be clear about this in terms of how protocol what state she had the president himself has the legal authority to grant this type of plant study. yeah i mean it is whether there's authority it is very rare that it's used but we're told i mean packed out how often do we get an insight into how the security clearances work anyway so we're not entirely sure whether this is happened before how often it's happened but we know in this case certainly there were concerns raised about coercion or this isn't going to terribly good then for question whose authority i mean he's in the middle east right

come to after it was briefed by the cia director gina housefull there was another briefing that took place on monday where senators had hoped they would finally get the information that they were looking for as a result of the trigger of the act but they were in a word disgusted with what they were told according to not just bob menendez but also senator tim kaine essentially the senators knew more about this case than those that were put forward by the administration european countries are expected to all saudi arabia to cooperate with the u.n. probe into murder a joint statement is scheduled to be released on thursday and in jewels a demand that releases detained activists. an intelligence officer from saudi arabia has tried to hold an anti qatar lecture in switzerland. claimed that four of the speakers at the event in geneva work atari's deprived of their citizenship when journalists asked how they were allowed to travel without pos ports that emerged that they were in fact saudis saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt have all imposed a blockade on qatar since tw

not name the intelligence sources that use the cia itself has declined to comment however it does name some of the individuals involved in this group it says that the group is headed by sadal cult tiny a close associate of the crown prince now president has insisted that the whole affair of the murder of jamal for shoji in his view is over he says that he is intent on continuing to conduct business with saudi arabia and to conduct business with the crown prince himself congress has been increasingly angry about this position demanding that president trump continue to investigate jamal khashoggi is murder and also to impose sanctions against those who are held accountable this president trump has refused to do the latest reports it may well be brushed away by the president but will not be brushed off by congress which is likely to use this as further ammunition to continue to put pressure on the president to take some form of action for the murder of jamal khashoggi which this report indicates was not an isolated incident but part of a widespread campaign. and is executive director

agencies of other countries including the american cia. i went to the third capital ankara to meet a member of parliament. he is known for having a close relationship with turkish president. on. a saudi on a fee that. john was a comin and for so in other. words it done cannot look at the local reel of a month ago. a hundred eleven for. an assault. at the heart. of the earl geneva limited to half of those i heard it as yes what a tough alicia had a lot of. hey i want to be a turkey at an event of. ms there's a to select that. without it all i can the god. spared the village idiot. those who heard of the turkish audio recordings however were convinced that i should be had been horrifically murdered inside the consulate. but the question remained as to what happened to his body. the consulate became a media and was under constant took a surveillance. then on the fifteenth of october fifteen days after the murder investigators were allowed into the saudi consulate for the first time. i visited the forensic security center where then first the gaiters had analyzed the samples that they had colle

years ago the cia was actually involved in training people radio operatives who were dropped back into tibet to kind of stir up trouble so from a chinese perspective they don't look on for they don't see that foreigners are necessarily bringing gifts they get regarded as something that is only means trouble and probably more headaches for beijing. china says it's held sovereignty over tibet for centuries it describes the dalai lama as a separatist supporters of the dalai lama say he doesn't want independence just more autonomy for tibet and what we're seeing now is this a different kind of repression. making short friends can't communicate we have a car protest this sort of suffocating atmosphere on sunday the streets of tibet may stay quiet for demands for tibetan independence are heard around the world rob matheson does either. plenty more ahead on the news hour including north koreans what for members of parliament they want to be any surprises. why efforts to contain the bowl of water in the democratic republic of congo are under threat once again and in sports we'll hear from

former cia officer he says threats from groups will remain a less global instability is addressed. the real problem is less the coherent terrorist organization like isis or al qaida and these are they are real problems but they are really the product of in the exploiters of the social and political unrest incompetence and the suffering of societies that have collapsed largely isis came to exist because syria has imploded and exploded simultaneously and there was the problem with the insurgency in iraq because the united states invaded and bad as saddam was destroyed whatever stability there was since the u.s. policy is largely incoherent now you have someone at the head of the government who is fundamentally incoherent in almost everything that he says or thinks that he believes john bolton is quite coherent himself although his policies are far different than those are other counterterrorism officials and experts would recommend but at least he is coherent the problem is that you can't have go in two directions simultaneously and if you don't know what direction you're going to g

officer with the trans national threats of the cia he joins us live from boston massachusetts how difficult is it going to be to drive this last pockets of i still find says from by dues i mean the u.s. backed s.t.'s s.d.f. a slowdown the offensive in a number of occasions to allow civilians to escape so what's your assessment of the operation on the ground well i'm i'm far away and we should defer to the i think the excellent report from that we just heard on the scene however we know that these are the last of the last and they are i think committed idealists not speaking in praise of their commitment to what they believe and so i expect the fight will be terrible and very hard and i think the s.d.f. is wise to act deliberately and of course try to save the people who are caught in the middle of possible by letting them time to get out but it will i think it is the end of organized geographical coherent isis just across the way will see happening now but it's going to be a nasty last chapter but driving the last remnants of i still out of bugaboos in syria as you say is not goin

ahead. for glenn karl is a former officer in the cia he expects eisel to put up a fierce last stand. we know that these are the last of the last and they are i think committed idealists i'm not speaking of praise but of their commitment to what they believe and so i expect the fight will be terrible and very hard and i think the s.d.f. is wise to act deliberately and of course try to save the people who are caught in the middle if possible by letting them time to to get out but it will i think it is the end of organized geographical coherent isis just across the way will see it not happening now but it's it's going to be nasty last chapter in a terrible way nothing has changed for for more than twenty years. these are the same assessments that my colleagues and i were making a decade and two decades ago the real problem is less the coherent terrorist organization like isis or al qaida and these are they are real problems but they are really the products of in the exploiters of the social and political unrest incompetence and the suffering of societies that have collapsed largely isis ca

despite the cia's conclusion that bin cell monday directed the killing of u.s. based journalist jamal. khashoggi was killed by government hitmen inside the saudi consulate in istanbul nearly six months ago since then the outrage over his murder and dismemberment has been a resurgent topic in congress bringing together members of both parties in a divided government but that has not been enough to convince president donald trump to punish saudi arabia and there's no indication he'll do so now heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington so the head of al-jazeera. the law is having the allies having. britain's parliament rules out the deal breakers the legs they'll decide whether this was the e.u. for i delayed departure and we'll be reporting from solving the floods of killed dozens and made thousands homeless. hello again and welcome back we're here crossing out states wednesday was a severe weather day across much of the united states here across the mississippi river area you can see all the clouds associate with that storm we also had a wintry side up towards the north with about six to

grown and notably despite the killing of u.s. based journalist jamal khashoggi which the cia concluded was a government hit job orchestrated by saudi arabia trump has refused to outwardly condemn it the nation or its crown prince for that killing so them in his resolution anything more than just symbolic really. well certainly it is a rebuke as you said and in fact this is the second time that this strong rebuke has been delivered by this set it because in december this chamber also passed a very similar measure and both in december as well as today that the margin that these resolutions passed was not minimal the today was passed fifty four to forty six which is very similar to the numbers in december which means that a number of republicans defected from their party's leader donald trump the president and joined their democrat allies in rebuking donald trump for the his for his foreign policy which is still standing by saudi arabia and again this is the second time such a rebuke has been delivered all right heidi thank you for that update on some more ahead on the al-jazeera news hou

interrogation sunrise once a day in sets or not if you're in the hands of the cia. you can make the sun shine or not rendition you visited current war on al jazeera. m how he did it in doha the top stories on al-jazeera three female activists something temporarily released in saudi arabia have just spending ten months in prison they've been freed after the second hearing over their trial which is still continuing there among eleven women arrested almost a year ago for their human rights work yes i mean her son is the executive director of equality know an organization that addresses violence and discrimination against women around the world she says the detention of female activists in riyadh's is illegal and immoral but we are delighted that they are not going before the specialist court on terrorism charges but they're still going before a criminal court and this move has been very fast and we don't know quite what to make of it these women have not been given access to lawyers they have not been able to see their families there has been a chilling effect all around saudi arabia o

for example has a very clear position against the integration of the cia james with all the crime that's committed into the arab league framework while other states such as the u.a.e. for example has a very different position on this but there is no agreement and unless there is complete agreement on this nothing can move forward the arab league just looking at the bigger picture now the arab league over the years has been criticized as being ineffective does this organization still matter today especially given the divisions that exist within and the different camps those who support iran those who support the trumpet ministration what is its relevance today i don't think the arab league is in a much different state than it was two three five or ten years ago it is quite ineffective the regimes in the region do not believe in the arab league. as a concept all together we have not seen ever any summit of the arab league to come out with a very real actionable declaration however it is certainly worthwhile mentioning that since at least the arab spring we've seen more division with

point to the saudi crown prince following cia briefings so members of congress are now doubling down on that frustration and anger when it comes to these latest deals reports that there have been secret authorizations by the trumpet ministration to allow for the selling of nuclear power technology to saudi arabia now we did reach out to the department of energy to ask about this they said look at we're not going to confirm or deny that there were these secret approvals that were put forward approved by the energy secretary but if that did happen it would only happen because this is just protect the u.s. companies and their proprietary business information to allow them to stay competitive and this is only to allow them to work ahead on a project but none of this equipment that might be constructed for the construction of a nuclear power plant one of two potentially in the kingdom none of that has actually occurred or would occur but this is not sitting well for members of congress they're not happy with that in fact they're concerned not only because they feel that this is ministration

dollars a month contract with the firm the cia had concluded the crown prince mohammed bin ordered the killing of three of his consulate in istanbul last year well in wallace a senior fellow at the atlantic council she says riyadh believes that time and money can help the public forget all these events. saudi arabia doesn't seem to want to wait there or they're very keen in pressing forward fairly quickly with investment they've had some some high profile setbacks in that area the. future investment initiative conference in october just after the first of two killing those is one that really can be pointed to as having been a particular. point of a bad p.r. there were many many high profile departures from that conference and it really did i think set back the p.i.a.'s investment initiatives perhaps did slow down or me companies you know more wary of taking saudi money and the holy herd you know from some places that people in silicon valley are definitely wary of saudi money more so than before absolutely have slowed down some deals that they were hoping to make on the other hand i've

him that's despite the cia's conclusion that bin salmond directed the killing of u.s. based journalist jamal. khashoggi was killed by government hitmen inside the saudi consulate in istanbul nearly six months ago since then the outrage over his murder and dismemberment has been a resurgent topic in congress bringing together members of both parties in a divided government but that has not been enough to convince president donald trump to punish saudi arabia and there's no indication he'll do so now heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington. to mexico now where the government is trying to find asylum seekers who are thought to have been abducted from a bus in the northern border state of us from mexico city david mercer has this report. it was along this stretch of highway in northern mexico that dozens of migrants went missing last week on tuesday mexican officials said a group of hooded gunmen stopped the bus in the middle of the day a few hours drive from the u.s. border. witnesses said the armed men then read out a list of names and took away a group of men from central amer

government has conquered it and so it's a giant holding ground there are you know by cia estimates over thirty thousand hardened rebels many of them fairly ated with h.p.'s tired it is sham which is a al-qaeda organization or at least had been linked with it the russians had accused the turks of not fulfilling their side of the bargain which is to contain these jihads in fact that conquered the entire province largely and so this is an effort by turkey to have these joint patrols and to mollify russia and to consolidate this agreement because turkey is terrified that if syria and russia attack you'll get the same thing you're seeing in the east bows which is tens of thousands of family members refugees fighters being pushed out into turkey and perhaps into europe so europe turkey are desperately trying to keep this agreement together they do not want an army. meanwhile in eastern syria the u.n. says more than sixty thousand people are now crammed into a camp after evacuating from my sil's last shrinking pockets of territory u.s. backed syrian democratic forces say defeating the vil

day and then sets or not if you're in the hands of the cia you can make the sunshine or not rendition movies that aired part one on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching out time to recap our headlines questions have been raised in the british parliament about the united kingdom's involvement in the war in the atman the opposition labor party pressed the government on allegations british forces may have provided support for child soldiers part of the saudi like coalition. the british prime minister is insisting the braggs it deal she negotiated with the d'you is still the best option available even though it's been rejected twice by m.p.'s parliament will hold a series of votes later it's a test which breaks it option gets a majority of. thailand's main opposition party has formed a coalition with six other parties after sunday's election the leader of poor thais says the coalition will have enough seats to control the lower house but still will not be enough for them to nominate a prime minister. and then again from egypt is trying to enter the gaza strip to mediate a ce

been discredited some aspects of the cia have been called into question but i think it's important to remember although it is very salacious at times it is also rather specific and the dust ca as it's known has not actually been completely discredited so he's trying to conflate the two i think that that's probably not where we need to go with this well if the miller report was meant to end divisions in washington in the u.s. sure it's going to achieve that goal here in with the latest there from washington thank you. now in other news a pro-military party has unexpectedly taken the lead in thailand's first election since a military takeover nearly five years ago with almost ninety percent of votes counted preliminary results given the following package chad at the party more than seven point five million votes votes the pale thai party regarded as loyal to the ousted prime minister thaksin shinawatra is close behind on seven point one million while a new party appealing to young people its called future forward is on five point one million critics though say the gintas new electoral s

against cia awls new government calling it fall from inclusive to syria's nicholas hot joins us live now from dhaka nicholas bring us up to date how big a risk is that to this deal. well this deal was brokered just a few weeks ago by the king notably of the russians who came into the country just a year ago at the call of president. who was annoyed by the fact that the un security council and france the former colonial power weren't giving him the tools in order to regain control of his country fourteen armed groups are battling it out in a country bigger than france belgium luxembourg united it's the size of texas at best and it's a real sure goal for him for this president to to to to regain control so this peace deal that was really backed by russia and sudan back back in february was really supposed to be the success because there's been eight previous attempts but chu of the main factions two factions that control large parts of the country notably the neighboring area with chad and the neighboring area with sudan have have walked away from this deal saying that the government is in

twenty thousand dollar a month contract but the new york based firm the cia has concluded that crown prince mohammed bin salam ordered the killing of khashoggi at the saudi consulate in istanbul last year well the latest call for algeria as president to step down is coming from his own party the national liberation front says it fully supports the ongoing protests calling for political change. the members of the national liberation fully support the popular movement it will defend with all sincerity in order to achieve the objectives according to a clear roadmap. the latest united nations report on gaza suggests that the deaths of one hundred eighty nine palestinian protesters killed by israeli forces could be considered war crimes our diplomatic editor james space sat down with one of the u.n. commission as of that report. there are reasonable grounds to believe that. crimes may have been committed and we think based on what we have found further investigations are required and do need to be taken up by the relevant bodies in the international justice system you don't know all of th

by the new york times are not revealed and no names are given the cia itself has declined to comment but certainly what the time does report does reveal is a pattern being carried out by saudi arabia of which jamal khashoggi was just a pot according to the reports of this group was carrying out operations well before the murder of jamal khashoggi it does name a couple of members of the group headed by solid i'll call tawny a close associate of the crown prince and a man who was allegedly at the consulate when jamal khashoggi was murdered he is one of the eleven that is believed to saudi arabia is has charged with the murder saudi arabia continues to insist that this murder was carried out by what it calls a rogue group unlike president trump and his administration at a very close relationship with the saudis so how is this latest revelation like it's a play out than. well it's not clear what the reaction of the president is being that in the past he's indicated very clearly that he believes that the whole affair of the murder of jamal khashoggi is over this despite informatio

future in the hands of the cia you can make the sun shine or not rendition even said to talk one on out is iraq. on the news on here at al-jazeera and these are our top stories ready forces are once again bombing of the military says it's hitting our math targets and has mobilized ground forces near the gaza border this is after a rocket landed near tel aviv and wounded seven people. the more us president donald trump signed a directive recognizing israel's sovereignty over the occupied golan heights the u.n. secretary general says the status of the dollar has not changed and legally as an illegally occupied territory until recently i believed her brags that deal lacks the support needed for a third photo but britain's. prime minister says she will not allow the u.k. to the e.u. without a deal unless the government agrees. so just back to our top story now as we said israel launching airstrikes on the gaza strip we've just had some new pictures come in of a first strike it's a look. right so that would be i would believe at least the third building to be hit harry force that our cor