for being a co-conspirator with hezbollah, hamas, the taliban, and al qaeda? the united states believes you deserve better. and i have an additional point for the iranian people to ponder. here in the west presidents are held apart from the terrorist behavior and treated differently. the west says only if they could control atolla khomeini, and others it could be great. yet, they are your elected leaders. are they not the most responsible for your economic struggles? are these two not responsible for wasting iranian lives throughout the middle east? it's worse the iranian people considering. because instead of helping their own citizens, the regime continues to seek a corridor stretching from iran's borders to the shores of the mediterranean. iran wants this corridor to transfer fighters and weapons to israel's door steps. in recent months, they've flown an armed drone into the golan heights from syria. our steadfast ally has asserted the sovereign right of self-defense in response, a stance the united states will unequivocally support. and the jcpoa was a bad

our officers are out there fighting extremist al qaeda and the taliban. we have 125 stars on our memorial wall now. many of those it's shocking how many stars we've added. i believe we added seven stars to our wall last year. perhaps i could cite one personal example of an officer who worked for me. she was the most extraordinary woman. she was our number one al qaeda expert. i worked with her in the counterterrorism center. she was having her third baby in those days following 9/11, but we needed her because she had such deep expertise. she later worked for me on terrorism issues in a foreign capital, and then she went to afghanistan, and she and six colleagues were murdered by a suicide bomber who penetrated our base. these are very real sacrifices. these are my friends and leagues. all of us at cia have a commitment and an honor-bound obligation to uphold the memory of those officers, mothers who have left their children to go to the field and sometimes have given their all in service of this country. >> thank you, senator. >> thank you, mr. chairman.

justice senior al qaeda members esiding in tehran. today we ask the iranian people, is this what you want your country to be known for? for being a co-conspirator with hezbollah, hamas, the taliban and al qaeda? the united states believes you deserve better. and i have an additional point for the iranian people to ponder. ere in the west, president rouhani and the foreign minister are often held apart from the regime's unwise terrorists and maligned behavior. they are treated somehow differently. the west says, boy, if only they could control ayatollah khomeini and suleimani, then things would be great. yet they are your elected leaders. are they not the most responsible for your economic struggles? are these two not responsible for wasting iranian lives throughout the middle east? it's worth the iranian people considering. because instead of helping their own citizens, the regime continues to seek a corridor stretching from iran's borders to the shores of the mediterranean. iran wants this corridor to transport fighters and weapons s

one of the suspects was according to the cia a key al qaeda figure no charges were brought against him as part of his interrogation he was water boarded eighty three times it said he lost his left eye during cia torture the other detainee was also subjected to the agency's in hans interrogation program according to the cia he led al-qaeda is gulf region operations but both are still held in the notorious guantanamo bay prison the hearings revealed the conditions under which the two suspects were kept peter oliver has more. there had been held in these facilities and the domestic authorities had been aware that the cia would subject them to treatment contrary to the convention now what we have heard is a little bit about the conditions in which they were kept in lithuanian site we're getting a little bit of a glimpse into what was going on there and how prisoners were held up this this hearing no it prisoners were kept in blindfolded all time they were put in solitary confinement and they were forced to wear leg shackles at all times as a beta gave an account of what was done to him whi

number of al qaeda and taliban detainees transferred to u.s. forces in afghanistan has continued to grow and now stands at four hundred and forty five. is the secretary said the first plane with twenty detainees arrived in guantanamo bay cuba we were notified here at approximately thirteen fifty. it would be handled not as pretty miserable wars but as unlawful combatants technically unlawful combatants do not have any rights under the geneva convention we have indicated that we do plan to for the most part. treat them in a manner that is reasonably consistent with the geneva convention conventions to the extent they are appropriate. it could be the biggest lie in history. as powerful nations lay claim to territories under the ocean twenty one geologists are secret. borders. as the struggle for resources intensifies some of the world's most powerful scientists speak out. on a zero. i remember the first time i walked into the newsroom and it felt like being in the general assembly of the united nations because it was so many nationalities. it's j

. >> ali al marri, convicted al qaeda agent. this rare 2005 video shows how he spent many of his 13 years in u.s. custody as an enemy combatant on u.s. soil. a kill status placed him in military hands, stripped of any civilian rights. >> you american, you cook, you s u cook me for 13 years. >> now al marri oken to cnn, his first u.s. television interview sie his release in 2015. he claims he pleaded guilty because he was tortured in military custody on u.s. soil. he now denies the evidence presented against him inourt. you trained at al qaeda training camps in pakistan. is that true? >> false. >> they say you provided material support to khalid sheikh mohammed, the man believed to be behind 9/11? they say that you hadovert communications witilhim on e-mahat were found on your computer. >> false.ar >> this was al's world for years, solitaryme confine in a by two meter cell, his bed a metal rack. the defense intelligence agencyd record his treatment and his interrogations in numerous videos and handwritten prison logs. al marri's

supplies to al qaeda. marc thiessen is a columnist for the "washington post" and fox news contributor and joins us to comment on it. thank you for joining us. busy day. here is what apparently happened. this person we will call him abu said was trying to get home to west aleppo. he had to go through this territory that was dangerous. he gave part of al qaeda, a branch of al qaeda, in exchange five pickup trucks and ammunition to get him there safely. and he actually goes on to say that when the americans found out about it, they cut his salary and that's really all they did. there is nothing else they could do. >> yeah. basically what he is saying is the americans abandoned him. this was the problem the obama-era train and equip program was a disaster. we got weapons but didn't help them form an army and win. this guy was abandoned and had to get through this territory. the big problem with the obama policy -- unless we want to send hundreds of thousands after americans to fight. we need sunnis on the grou

but one of the suspects was according to the cia a key al qaeda figure no charges were brought against him as part of his interrogation he was water boarded eighty three times he said he lost his left eye during cia talk in his diary he did document torches he was subjected to and even sketch them in detail the other detainee also face the agency's enhanced terry interrogation program according to the cia he led al qaeda is gulf region operations both still held in the tories kuantan m.-o. bay prison the hearings revealed the conditions under which the two suspects were kept. there had been held in these facilities and the domestic authorities had been aware that the cia would subject them to treatment contrary to the convention now what we have heard is a little bit about the conditions in which they were kept in lithuanian site we've gotten a little bit of a glimpse into what was going on there and how prisoners were held up this this hearing no it prisoners were kept in blindfolded all the time they were put in solitary confinement and they were forced to wear leg shackles at all ti

don and he's al-jazeera is bureau chief in islam a bad man he's also interviewed a number of top al qaeda chiefs so essentially these are the two journalists that a filed a complaint just block tracking a little bit. on the evocatively named ken lewis what do we know about the. well this refers to sky and net and this is essentially a machine that determines based on computer algorithms whether or not someone's a terrorist it tracks their location it tracks their communications and you know mechanically determines who is a terrorist and who is not and skynet has been very widely criticized for harming freedom of the press and breaking the rights and surveillance of journalists so it seems to point to one of the potential issues with artificial intelligence when we have a machine doing a computer algorithm to determine who is and who is not a terrorist and possibly not confirmed but possibly who ends up getting killed by drones breaking down that story for us this hour live from new york. the greater march of return protests along galluses border with israel are entering their sixth week a

qaeda suspects one of the suspects according to the cia a key al qaeda figure no charges they were brought against him as part of his interrogation he was water boarded eighty three times it is said he lost his left eye during cia torture well in his diary he documented torches he was subjected to an even sketch them in detail of the detainees also face the agency's enhanced interrogation program according to the cia he led our gulf region operations but both still being held in the tourist town i'm obey prison the hearings revealed the conditions under which the two suspects were kept peter oliver has more details. there had been held in these facilities and the domestic authorities had been aware that the cia would subject them to treatment contrary to the convention now what we have heard is a little bit about the conditions in which they were kept in lithuanian site with getting a little bit of a glimpse into what was going on there and how prisoners were held up this this hearing no it prisoners were kept in blindfolded all time they were put in solitary confinement and they were forc

european court of human rights rooms lithuania and romania were complicit in the tools with al-qaeda terrorist suspects in the cia's program at secret detention centers and journalists worldwide vent their anger at ukraine the staging the murder of russian opposition journalist cenk trust. but both of you feel as a bald winning dog of the civilians of the me about that and you want to hop in youth chemical weapons against civilians or to want to be supported. and exclusive interview with r.t. president bashar assad notes that syria would never have used chemical weapons against its own paper and says that. civil war is the wrong description of the conflicts in the country. just on four pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now the russian foreign minister has met with north korean leader kim jong un has pyongyang prepares for a possible historic peace summit with south korea and the u.s. however sergey lavrov has warned that the peace process remains fragile. the research regarding sanctions is completely obvious that when we start talking about the nuclear issue and o

terrorist suspects one of the suspects was according to the cia a key al qaeda figure no charges they were brought against him he was arrested in two thousand and two and is currently being held in guantanamo bay as part of his interrogation he was water boarded eighty three times said he lost his life left eye during cia torture the other detainee was also captured in two thousand and two and subject.

he was awarded the militaries highest honor for lead a reconnaissance team against al-qaeda and attempted to rescue a navy seal team member in afghanistan in march 2002. this ceremony is 20 minutes. ♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of united states accompanied by medal of honor recipient master chief special warfare operator britt slabinski come united states navy retired. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> let us pray. mighty god, we come before you on this very special occasion from different backgrounds and cultures and expressions of faith towards you but we all, as americans and those who love her. those who have sacrificed for her, who have bled for her, and who have died for her. today as we gather in our nation's most sacred home, we have the privilege to witness come to celebrate and to honor an extraordinary naval career and a life that is been set apart and called to service and devotion to this nation and those in it. today we're among the most privileged to watch as our nation's highest honor a special trust and achievement and fidelity is both given and received from our nation's

qaeda fighters u.s. officials say american forces have been involved in interrogations of detainees in yemen but they deny any participation in or knowledge of human rights abuses rob reynolds has more now from washington. the associated press news agency was the first to uncover the existence of a network of secret prisons in yemen run by the united arab emirates in a report published last year the eight hundred secret prisons reportedly have as many as two thousand prisoners and those prisoners have been subjected to a variety of brutal tortures including electric shocks beatings burning and sexual abuse those findings were largely confirmed by a special panel of experts appointed by the u.n. now this legislation passed by the house is part of a much larger defense department budget bill it would have to go to the senate to be then sent on to president trump for his signature to become law the senate just recently voted to approve gina haskell as director of the cia his haskell was allegedly involved i

we got valuable information from debriefing of al qaeda detainees. and i don't think it's knowable whether interrogation techniques played a role in that. >> shepard: that matter is under dispute and others have said they got false information as a result. the former undercover agent faced tough questions about her role in a cia black site in thailand where interrogators used waterboarding and other torture methods following the attacks of 9/11. lawmakers also grilled gina haspel about her knowledge of why the cia shredded dozens of videotapes showing agents using torture. haspel said the recordings showed the faces of undercover spies and that put their lives at risk. a lot of details about the cia's now outlawed interrogation program remain classified. waterboarding is torture and is not permitted under army guidelines. torture is illegal under international law. the supreme court noted in 2004 that the united states has a historical record as regarding waterboarding as a war crime and has prosecuted individuals for such practice in the past. our c

our officers are out there fighting extremist al qaeda and the taliban. we have 125 stars on our memorial wall now, many of those it's shocking how many stars we have added. i believe we added seven stars to our wall last year. perhaps i could cite one personal example of an officer who worked for me, she was the most extraordinary woman, she was our number one al qaeda expert, i worked with her in the counterterrorism center. she was having her third baby in those days following 9/11, but we needed her because she had such deep expertise. she later worked for me on terrorism issues in a foreign capital and then she went to afghanistan and she and six colleagues were murdered by a suicide bomber who penetrated our base. these are very real sacrifices, these are my friends and colleagues. all of us at cia have a commitment and an honor bound obligation to uphold the memory of those officers, mothers who have left their children to go to the field and sometimes have given them their all in service of this country. >> thank you, senator cornyn. senator reid.

there is also no question that there is a strong al qaeda presence in yemen that we are fighting. and mr. khanna's amendment goes to say nothing in the amendment will restrict us from continuing that particular fight. but the third point is yemen has become one of the least known and largest humanitarian crises in the world largely because of the approach that saudi arabia took to it. and yes, in most instances, saudi arabia is our ally. certainly not in all. but what they did undermine their interests. the bombing campaign, they basically closed off the port said the basic food supplies couldn't get into the hundreds of thousands of people are starting in yemen and there was one particular instance where the group of people that were most trying to resolve the dispute in yemen and again that the dispute is primarily a [inaudible] other people started playing and there is no question, but it started long before iran had anything to do with it. there was a group of people trying to negotiate peace and they went to the funeral of one of the leaders of the effort who have died, and t

it was june of 2008 that al qaeda was on the wane. we couldn't have known what would happen to osama bin laden and others of the like. one of the things the blair institute concentrates on is countering extremism. before we get to the larger problem of extreme ism, i want talk to you about a specific area of it. you have spent so much time dealing with this problem. do you think it's fair to say as the israeli government does, that those 60 people that were killed, that it was hamas's force, because they sacrificed them to media attention? >> when people die as a consequence of what's happening in gaza and i see it from both sides, and since i'm actually still involved in trying to find a way through, it's pobably better that i don't apportion blame that that way. but there has to be a new way forward for gaza. and the two actual things that we should be focussed on is the middle eastern peace program. the two things that are on my mind is a plan for gaza that gives it dmnew infrastructure, d creation of job. i think you would get a t

indeed, al qaeda had those kinds of programs. efforts to acquire dirty bonds, efforts to develop, they had a program of biological weapons. i remember the operative who was in charge of that. there was very deep concern about potential contact. we continue to monitor this very closely today, between extremists and pakistani nuclear scientists. >> here we said, years following the terrible events of 9/11, we are sitting here safe and secure, thanks to the incredible work being done by intelligence communities -- the intelligence community including men and women at the cia, as well as men and women who serve in the military. we are feeling very safe and secure in the memories of that terrible event are very distant. it strikes me that, in addition to the double standard that i believe you and this president are being held to, compared to secretary brennan -- director brennan and president obama's administration, that people have simply forgotten. that's dangerous. it's dangerous to have forgotten the circumstances under which they

to justice senior al qaeda members residing in tehran. today we ask the iranian people, is this what you want your country to be known for? for being a co-conspirator with hezbollah, hamas, the taliban and al qaeda? the united states believes you deserve better. and i have an additional point for the iranian people to ponder. here in the west, president rouhani and the foreign minister are often held apart from the unwise terrorist and malign behavior and treated differently. the west says if only they could control the -- they're your elected leaders. aren't they the most responsible for your economic troubles and responsible for wasting iranian lives throughout the middle east? it's worth the iranian people considering because instead of helping their own citizens the regime continues to seek a corridor stretching from iran to the shores of the mediterranean and wants it to transport fighters and transport weapons to israel's door steps. in recent months the irgc has flown a drone into israel from syria. our steadfast ally has asserted

s complicity in handing over an al-qaeda linked libyan opposition leader and his pregnant wife to the government of now slain libyan leader moammar gadhafi the couple will also receive compensation of half a million pounds prime minister has now written to them both to apologize on behalf of her majesty's government i apologize reservedly we are profoundly sorry for the ordeal which you both suffered. wrote it. there's been a lot of reporting on the story not that much background detail on the man at the center of it. bell had she is now a prominent libyan politician but while moammar gadhafi was still in power he was a prominent anti gadhafi opposition leader and a leading member of an anti gadhafi militia as well which is called the libyan islamic fighting group the l i f g that would explain why he fled libya back in two thousand and one just a little bit more information about this group the ally f. g. it operated from one thousand nine hundred five until last year it was considered an al qaeda affiliate and the group stage three attempts to assassinate gadhafi himself so a pretty

we got valuable information from the briefing of al qaeda detainees and i don't think it is knowable whether interrogation techniques played a role in that. >> the hearing sitting snags when protesters got rowdy. [shouting] >> 7 people were arrested. one of them a former cia officer. that did not stop haspel from gaining surprised, joe manchin says she has is that but she faces opposition from some republicans. rand paul is likely a no vote and john mccain is calling on the senate to deny haspel as he continues to recover from brain cancer. she does have support from her old boss. secretary of state pompeo saying i had a chance to watch gina haspel testify, looking forward to receiving intelligences secretary of state from this amazing leader. and donald trump voicing support tweeting gina haspel did a spectacular job today, there is nobody even close to run the cia. the senate will likely decide haspel's 8 with a vote next week. rob: facing major heat from democrats on the senate intel committee fielding many questions attacking her tenure at the cia. jillian: democrats will eventua

it operated from one thousand nine hundred five until last year it was considered an al qaeda affiliate and the group stage three attempts to assassinate gadhafi himself so a pretty violent organization so much so that it was regarded as a terrorist group by the u.k. and the u.s. nevertheless despite his checkered past shall we say and his wife have been on a quest for an apology from the british government ever since he was released from prison six years ago and documents discovered after the fall of gadhafi revealed that british m i six agents were involved in bell kidnapping so the kidnapping took place in two thousand and four in thailand belle hodges wife fatima was four months pregnant at the time and cia and m i six agents together kidnapped kidnapped them and handed them back over to the gadhafi government where bell hard claims he was then imprisoned and tortured for six years his wife fatima was released after four months just before she gave birth they've managed to get the british government's top lawyer jeremy right to come out in parliament today to apologize so publicly t

was the leader of an anti-government group which had ties to al-qaeda he fled libya in two thousand and one and claims the british secret service is help gadhafi capture him in two thousand and four as a result he spent six years in a libyan jail claiming he and his pregnant wife were subjected to torture for that the british government has now officially apologized prime minister has now written to them both to apologize on behalf of her majesty's government i apologize reservedly we are profoundly sorry for the ordeal which you both suffered. wrote it . there's been a lot of reporting on the story not that much background detail on the man at the center of it. bell had she is now a prominent libyan politician but while moammar gadhafi was still in power he was a prominent anti gadhafi opposition leader and a leading member of an anti gadhafi militia as well which is called the libyan islamic fighting group the l i f g just a little bit more information about this group the ally f. g. it operated from one thousand nine hundred five until last year it was considered an al qaeda affiliat

it was operated from one thousand nine hundred five to last year it was considered an al qaeda affiliate and it staged three attempts to assassinate gadhafi the group's been regarded as a terrorist group both by the u.k. government and the us government up until it disbanded last year nevertheless despite this relatively dubious checkered past bell haulage and his wife have been on a quest for an apology from the british government ever since he was released from prison and documents were discovered after the fall of the gadhafi government that linked the kidnapping of belle harbor and his wife to m i six two british m i six agents she was four months pregnant at the time this happened it was back in two thousand and four in thailand cia and m i six agents kidnapped the two and handed them back to the gadhafi government where claims that he was then subjected to six years of torture at the hands of the gadhafi government his wife was released after four months just before she gave birth so a significant victory for this couple today the british government's top lawyer jeremy wright appea

qaeda terrorist suspects one of the suspects was according to the cia a key al qaeda figure no charges they were brought against him he was arrested in two thousand and two and is currently being held in guantanamo bay as part though of his interrogation he was water boarded eighty three times said he lost his life left eye during cia torture the other detainee was also captured in two thousand and two and subjected to the cia's enhanced interrogation program according to the cia he led arcadia's gulf region operations including the u.s.s. cole bombing seventeen american soldiers were killed and many more were injured hearings revealed the conditions under which the two day detainees were kept peter oliver has more. the applicants had been held in these facilities and the domestic authorities had been aware that the cia would subject them to treatment contrary to the convention what we have heard is a little bit about the conditions in which they were kept in lithuanian site we've gotten a little bit of a glimpse into what was going on there and how prisoners were held up this this hea

. >> reporter: haspel ran a secret prison in thailand where an al qaeda suspect was waterboarded, a practice the senate called torture and made illegal in 2015 but during the campaign donald trump endorsed waterboarding and worse. >> torture works. don't tell me it doesn't work. >> the president asserted that torture works. do you agree with that statement? >> senator, i don't believe that torture works. >> reporter: but then she seemed to hedge. >> valuable information was obtained from senior al qaeda operatives to allow us to defend this country and prevent another attack. >> is that a yes? >> no, that is not a yes. >> what would you do? >> i would not restart in any circumstances an interrogation program at cia. >> reporter: haspel grilled on why she went along with the destruction of interrogation tapes to protect the identities of cia operatives but tonight democrats doubt they can stop her from becoming cia director. the first woman to lead the agency. andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. >>> now to the news hitting close at home at nbc news, today nbc universal released the finding

. as hezbollah, tomas and al-qaeda. kidnapped, imprisoned and tortured american citizens. american citizens. chaos and terror by plundering the wealth of its own people. wealth of its own people. nuclear weapons and the means of delivering them. delivering them. other nations in a deal regarding iran's nuclear programme. iran's nuclear programme. was known as the joint comprehensive plan of action orjcpoa. plan of action orjcpoa. bomb, which would only endanger the survival of the iranian regime. survival of the iranian regime. overtime reach the brink of nuclear break—out. break—out. and other places all around the world. world. great terror — many billions of dollars, some of it in actual cash. dollars, some of it in actual cash. citizen and to all citizens of the united states. united states. could easily have been struck at the time but it wasn't. time but it wasn't. that a murderous regime desired only a peaceful nuclear energy programme. a peaceful nuclear energy programme. today we have definitive proof that this iranian promise was a lie. this iranian promise

it would do nothing to restrict our actions in yemen against al qaeda. the enemy that has attacked our homeland. and i would ask members on this committee to think about this very simply. as we talked to our constituents back home and ask them, do you think your tax dollars should be going to support saudi arabia because we need a different regime in yemen, is that really where you want your tax dollars going? and i would argue republican, democrat, or independent, 90% of constituents would say what are you talking about? and the other 10% would say no. if you said do you want your tax dollars going to fight terrorists who attacked us, then i think you would get overwhelming support. i think everyone in this country believes we should be on the offensive against the terrorists who have attacked us. but no one believes that we should be engaged in a civil war against a regime that 99% of americans cannot pronounce. and the issue here is our founding ideals. john quincy adams warned us about this. he said if america wants to chair for freedom and human rig

qaeda. over the years iran and its proxies have bombed american embassies and military installations, murdered hundreds of american service members, and kidnapped, imprisoned and tortured american citizens. funded ian regime has its long reign of chaos and terror by plunderering the wealth of its own people. no action taken by the regime has been more dangerous than its pursuit of nuclear weapons. and the means of delivering them. in 2015 the previous administration joined with other nations in a deal regarding iran's nuclear program. this agreement was known as the joint comprehensive plan of action or vk -- jcpoa. in theory, the so-called iran deal was supposed to protect the united states and our allies from the lunacy of an iranian nuclear bomb, a weapon that will only endanger the survival of the iranian regime. in fact, the deal allowed iran to continue enriching uranium, and over time reach the brink of a nuclear breakout. the deal lifted crippling conomic sanctions on iran in exchang

compensation one of the suspects was according to the cia a key al qaeda figure no charges were brought against him as part of his interrogation he was water boarded eighty three times and said he lost his left eye during cia torture in his diary he documented tortures he was subjected to and even sketched them in detail for the detainee also face the agency's enhanced interrogation program and according to the cia he does gulf region operations both still held in the notorious guantanamo bay prison hearings revealed the conditions under which the two suspects were kept. there had been held in these facilities and the domestic authorities had been aware that the cia would subject them to treatment contrary to the convention now what we have heard is a little bit about the conditions in which they were kept in lithuanian site we're getting a little bit of a glimpse into what was going on there and how prisoners were held up this this hearing no it prisoners were kept in blindfolded all time they were put in solitary confinement and they were forced to wear leg shackles at all times as a

was the leader of an anti government jury which had ties to al qaeda he fled libya in two thousand and one and claims that the british secret service is how gadhafi capture him in two thousand and four as a result he spent six years in a libyan jail claiming he and his pregnant wife were subjected to torture that the british government has now officially apologized it has now written to them both to apologize on behalf of her majesty's government i apologize reserved we are profoundly sorry for the ordeal which you both suffered. it. there's been a lot of reporting on the story not that much background detail on the man at the center of it. bell had she is now a prominent libyan politician but while moammar gadhafi was still in power he was a prominent anti gadhafi opposition leader and a leading member of an anti gadhafi militia as well which is called the libyan islamic fighting group the l i f g just a little bit more information about this group the ally f. g. it operated from one thousand nine hundred five until last year it was considered an al qaeda affiliate and the group stage

yes it was extraordinary even accuse iran of helping al qaeda hide in the taliban where we all know everyone knows that the united states and saudi arabia they were the ones behind the establishment of the extremists in afghanistan and pakistan which led to al qaeda and the taliban and in fact a while back he actually said that you know the iranians and the russians are fighting isis so apparently his world view changes very rapidly but no i don't i don't think it's really possible for the united states to seriously contemplate any military aggression against iran or the so-called the notion of the you know regime change as they say because first of all the iran is a very powerful country it's a very large country. that the country is united in very much thanks to trump because now the differences that existed over negotiating with the united states are all over everyone agrees that you can't talk to the united states are simply unreliable those who are opposed to the negotiations are saying we were right and those who were for the negotiations said well we gave it a shot and we show that th

from its shelter in afghanistan al qaeda sought revenge for the u.s. cruise missile attacks it chose a daring strike against a symbol of american power. you know told the truth fellas and a small boat charged with explosives was driven into the u.s.s. cole will ship off the yemeni port of aden. the suicide bombers were killed along with seventeen american sailors. bin laden showdown with america was intensifying. back in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight he had called on muslims to kill americans including civilians. but he's animosity to america and dated back eight years. earlier when u.s. forces deployed in saudi arabia following iraq's invasion of kuwait in ninety nine bin laden accused the americans of desecration what he called holy arab soil he said i'm opposed to the presence of foreign troops in saudi arabia for two reasons the reasons and feel trivial because he said i don't want my homeland to be occupied by foreign troops secondly islamic reason because they're. you know the you know the holiest places for muslims and we don't want the

so we are you could say funding somebody who could have been a al qaeda member the whole thing is. at least six people including two children have been killed in an alleged saudi led airstrike near the rebel held capital sanaa that's according to yemeni officials and warning you may find the following pictures to stopping this building collapsed as a result of the strike you can see rescuers trying to help the victims mostly children who were trapped under piles of rubble local medical officials say the airstrike hit a house and a nearby shop wounding a further six people yemeni journalist hussain al book describes the rescue efforts . so they have targeted. on that as the entire family was living in the entire country was leaving that out of the house of a black man. and they have killed his wife and then to all this just in what you have seen in the video of the four children under the rubble after this i'll get a coalition fighter jet but event it is secured to come and we have seen in some of this video again which was that i was asking for some water and one of the disk you wa

qaeda in the early two thousand and was a victim of rendition as part of the u.s. war on terror which was backed by the u.k. lawrence lee has the story. if revenge is a dish best served cold then the fourteen years it took. and his wife fatima bhutto to get their apology will have been worth it we come now to the state went by the attorney general in the british parliament a place which so often hears lectures about how other countries should have paid the rule of law the government finally admitted what bell had always said that it's had illegally kidnapped him and handed him over to the gadhafi government in libya to be tortured on behalf of her majesty's government i apologize reservedly we are profoundly sorry for the ordeal which you both suffered and our role in it. in two thousand and four the british prime minister tony blair was eager to win over gadaffi as part of the american war on terror. and his wife were taken from thailand by officials from the british intelligence service m i six over suspicions they were linked to al qaeda through the libyan islam

s complicity in handing over an al qaeda link to a libyan opposition leader and his pregnant wife to the government of the now slain libyan leader moammar gadhafi the couple will also receive compensation of half a million pounds prime minister has now written to them to apologize on behalf of her majesty's government i apologize reserved we are profoundly sorry for the ordeal that you both suffered. wrote it. has been following that session in the british parliament and joins us now from the u.k. good afternoon to you paula the story surrounding this apology does seem to be pretty controversial doesn't it. there's been a lot of reporting on the story not that much background detail on the man at the center of it. bell had she is now a prominent libyan politician but while moammar gadhafi was still in power he was a prominent anti gadhafi opposition leader and a leading member of an anti gadaffi militia as well which is called the libyan islamic fighting group the l i f g that would explain why he fled libya back in two thousand and one just a little bit more information about this g

qaeda, from isis to al shabaab to boko haram as well as of date. >> yaya, you mentioned something very interesting which is about this question of interpretation. i mispronounced the word but i think the concept is ijihad which is basically the idea that you can interpret the koran. for fundamentalists that's just sort of -- you know, which is their prerogative to say you can't -- the gates of interpretation are closed. but i thought it was very interesting because after 9/11 there was a lot of discussion about potential refresh nation in islam, that was by people who didn't know much about islamic history. there have been many reformations along and way and the people. but i was unaware of anything you just said about this attempt. so was it controversial in the islamic world, americans were sort of doing this bowl al azar university and other arab -- >> yeah, i mean, so obviously i didn't live through it directly because i was born in 1975 so i didn't see it. but i think you had a very quiet sort of movement, you know, so when muhammad -- when imam muhammad sort of took the reins of

and i was on the front lines with fight against al qaeda. i'm proud we captured the perpetrator of 9/11, khalid sheikh mohammad. i think we did extraordinary work. to me the tragedy the controversy around the interrogation program, i indicated to smart warner, i fully understand that, it cast a shadow what is a major contribution to protecting this country. liz: general, nobody disputes her resume'. dianne feinstein and joe manchin like her. help us work through this. haspel testified, i don't think torture works. she is holding the cia to higher moral standard. but says the u.s. did get valuable information from al qaeda operatives that stopped further attacks. what is your reaction to this? >> she is doing an excellent job weaving through stupid questions, liz. the fact she was in the middle of the fire. she was working the problem. she was working to save america and go after those radical islamists, they're asking absolutely stupid questions. it reflects on the democratic party who doesn't really care about terrorism or frankly national

it operated from one thousand nine hundred five until last year it was considered an al qaeda affiliate and the group stage three attempts to assassinate gadhafi himself so a pretty violent organization so much so that it was regarded as a terrorist group by the u.k. and the u.s. nevertheless despite his checkered past shall we say and his wife have been on a quest for an apology from the british government ever since he was released from prison six years ago and documents discovered after the fall of gadhafi revealed that british m i six agents were involved in bell hard kidnapping so the kidnapping took place in two thousand and four in thailand bel hodges wife fatima was four months pregnant at the time and cia and m i six agents together kidnapped kidnapped them and then handed them back over to the gadhafi government where bell hard claims he was then imprisoned and tortured for six years his wife fatima was released after. for months just before she gave birth they've managed to get the british government's top lawyer jeremy right to come out in parliament today to apologize so pu

today, lam as islamic state or al-qaeda. today, iaman as islamic state or al-qaeda. today, i am an atheist. i initially wanted to find logic in islam but i could not, i became atheist. i only believed in god and rejected all religions. then i started questioning god. i cannot tell my familyl questioning god. i cannot tell my family i am an atheist. my father is very religious. my mother prays seven times a day. they cannot possibly take it. i used to support the islamist government here. they used to be humanists. but oppression breed s revolution. they wanted to oppress us and we started to react. clever animation expressing some of the views from young people in turkey. and we will stay with the theme of election. iraq is holding a parliamentary election on saturday. the first to be held since the government declared an emphatic victory over the so—called islamic state last year. hoping for re—election is this man incumbent prime minister haider al abbadi. he heads the shia nasr coalition, which means "victory" in arabic. nearly 7000 candidates from 87 parties