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The US has announced that five people held at Guantanamo Bay will face trial before a military commission.

Among them is Canadian detainee Omar Khadr. Khadr was only a teenager when he was brought to Guantanamo after being captured in Afhganistan for allegedly killing a US soldier there.

Canadian courts have ordered their government to request his repatraition. But the governemnt is now fighting that ruling before the supreme court.

Al Jazeera’s Monica Villamizar sat down with Khadr’s sister Zaynab for an exclusive interview and began by asking her how her brother has been treated over the past seven yaers in detention.

As its troops continue to face lnegthy and mutiple tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq, the United States is looking at new ways to attract potential recruits.

The US military says the economic downturn and rising unemployment are sending more and more young people into their recruiting offices. And as Monica Villamizar found out, a lot of those conversations happen at the Army’s newest, multi-million dollar recruit veune in Philadelphia – the military’s version of a video arcade.

Hondurans loyal to the country’s deposed president have faced severe restrictions on freedom of assembly, speech and movement since the country’s de facto leaders imposed an emergency order which they said was aimed at preventing the political crisis in the country from deepening.

Two media stations loyal to Manuel Zelaya, the country’s ousted leader, were shut down just hours after the decree was imposed last week. Police also moved to break-up pro-Zelaya demonstrations in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital.

Scores of Zelaya supporters were arrested by security forces at the height of the crackdown, wtih many transferred to high-security
jails. Monica Villamizar visited the largets women’s pirson in Honduras to see how the inmates were faring.

After more than three months of deadlock, rival leaders in Honduras say they are ready to start a dialogue to try and bring the country’s political crisis to an end.

Aides to interim president Roberto Micheletti have been holding talks with ousted president Manuel Zelaya’s camp, but three are no plans for the two men to meet face-to-face just yet.

Meanwhile Micheletti says emergency measures put in place nearly a week ago to limit freedom of expression and public demnostrations could be lifted in the next few days.

This is good news for the many Hondurans weary of the months-long dispute that is costing millions of dollars in business evrey day.

Al Jazeera’s Monica Villamizar reports from one cigar factory struggling to stay open.

Manuel Zelaya, Honduras’ deposed president, has remained in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa since his surprise retunr home last week.

The country’s interim administration has said that Zelaya can leave the embassy, as long as he seeks assylum in another country.

Al Jazeera’s Monica Villamizar rpeorts from the Honduran capital, where tensions are mounting and pictures of Zelaya’s first family reunion inside the embassy have been released.