US transfers Guantanamo prisoner to Saudi Arabia

The Pentagon has sent home a Guantanamo Bay prisoner to detention in Saudi Arabia, the first such transfer of the Trump administration.

Ahmed al Darbi pleaded guilty to war crimes in 2014 and was sentenced to 13 years in prison. His departure leaves 40 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay prison.

Our US Correspondent Harry Horton reports.

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