the balls to do that colonel davis could you clarify that latest statement for us or he was elected i was thrilled you know that he took office in the first thing he did was sign an order. closing guantanamo within one year of his order which was signed in january of two thousand and nine and we're sitting here today and want on a most still open the military commissions have resume and in my view the president just didn't have the balls to follow through with the doing the right thing do you think it's because when he became president he learned things that he had known before i don't know if it was he learned things that he didn't know before or he faced a bigger obstacle than he anticipated you know saying that you know the slogan close guantanamo sounds fairly simple actually following through and doing it is a much more difficult process you know they're saying the reason we're not shutting down guantanamo is because we don't know what to do with the remaining detainees

other countries don't want to have them well you know we haven't helped ourselves in that front of the weaker is for instance the chinese muslims that were cleared years ago is not being a threat to the u.s. we beg two dozen countries to help us out they're not a threat take the weavers. and a few did a few countries did a couple of years ago a judge here in washington d.c. ordered the weavers released and brought to the u.s. and suddenly our government said oh no they're too dangerous we can't have them in the u.s. while we begged other countries to help us out and take some of the detainees we've never been willing to take one or so so we're a little hypocritical on that front colonel davis you were the chief prosecutor at guantanamo i want to know how did you go from being an advocate of the process to being a hardline critic of the practices i took the job as chief prosecutor in september of two thousand and five and i believed at the time and did for most of my tenure there were. we're committed to having full fair and open trials my policy had been

we were not going to use any evidence obtained by waterboarding or any of the other enhanced interrogation techniques that most people call torture and i had support above me for doing that then in the summer of two thousand and seven some new people came in and said wait a minute president bush said we don't torture so president bush says we don't torture who are you to say that we do and we've got all this information that was collected that you're not using you need to get in there and use it and that was when i felt that our commitment to full fair and open trials had diminished and i submitted my resignation what would you say to those who claim the difference between president obama and president bush as far as their anti-terrorism policy is bush would detain the suspects torture them prosecute them president obama just kills them doesn't have to go into all that detention trouble less certainly i think there's some facts to support that perception and i said

candidate obama you know said all the right things about justice and american values and closing guantanamo and doing away with military commissions and upholding the rule of law and then once he gets in office you know he didn't just embrace the bush policies he kissed him on the lips and ran with them and has advanced them further than president bush ever did by killing an american with a drone strike in yemen the bonior. correct which is just. astounding that an american president can make the unilateral decision that an american saying it was a really bad guy he deserved it well of all it bad guys need to die there are a lot of other people i could put on that list but an american citizen for an american president to make the unilateral decision that a civilian agency the cia. would go to another country and launch an office of military operation for a missile and kill american and bystanders. it wasn't just anwar although walkie

that was killed or four people killed that day. i'm not aware of any legal justification for that i think it's called murder to kill another human being deliberately without legal justification are drones becoming the new arm of the us justice you know there's nothing wrong with per se with drones i mean just another weapon system is basically an airplane with a pilot sitting in a in a lounge chair other than the cockpit it's how they're used to that concerns me. if they're being used to avoid. complying with the law and giving people due process and their day in court and that's a sad chapter in america's history at that's what we're doing. we've always our strength for two hundred years was the law not turning our back on it so if we're if the administration is choosing if they have as a choice between kill or capture and they're choosing kill just because that's the easy route and that's

a sad commentary on america in two thousand and eleven you know we hear that all the time but u.s. drone killed ten terrorists in pakistan as if that's beyond reasonable doubt that those were terrorists i think it's another black spot on the the american reputation. would we condone it these are american citizens being killed by another government under similar circumstances. you know it's great when we're the country that has the drones it may not be quite as great when other countries have that same capability that are used against us and. crossing another border launching an office of attack often conducted by the cia which is a civilian agency that you know they're not a they're not the military they don't have combatant immunity and to for the president to send them out to conduct office of military operations. it's just unprecedented you're talking about do you legal process do they think if they operate outside the united states everything is just legally fine i guess we're

fortunate that america's the no six hundred pound gorilla in the playground i mean who's going to tell us we can't. which is fine as long as we're the big kid on the playground but we may not always be in that status we're supposed to set the example a positive example you know we claim to be the champion of the rule of law but it seems that were a champion of the rule of law when we're trying to apply it to others not so much for mine. we're looking at in the mirror at ourselves. the convention against torture for instance we're signatory to that if you if you saw the recently of the republican presidential debates were candidates they would resume waterboarding so you know we love to criticize other countries. who were not so good at holding up the mirror to her so they were the chief prosecutor at guantanamo i was just wondering what was the ratio of people who got into one tunnel for for a reason real bad guys and those who let's say did not deserve

guantanamo treatment well if you accepted the bush administration's characterization of your call maybe donald rumsfeld secretary of defense saying you know these men are the worst of the worst they get you through the hydraulic lines on the airplane on the way to go on time or just to kill americans i think a lot of people bought that narrative that all of these guys are the worst of the worst there are a total of about seven hundred seventy five men that have been a kuantan a moat some point in time there are about one hundred seventy left today so more than six hundred have been released her transferred back to their country of origin or some other country most of those by the bush administration so you know these guys are all the worst of the worst the hardened terrorists that were out to kill americans it seems strange that we would send more than six hundred of them out of guantanamo the reason i asked is a former guantanamo detainee told me when. they seized him pakistan pakistani

authorities were so anxious to give the americans some numbers you know when heads that they couldn't care less about do a legal process he was tortured he was sent to guantanamo spend a few years there before being with us on a different note if president obama during his next presidential campaign again promises to shut down guantanamo and says well this time yes well well and yes we can would you believe him. i believe president obama the first time he told me he was going to close guantanamo i'd recently retired from the military when he was running for president and for the first time in my adult life i got to participate in a campaign you know the military stays out of politics so after i retired i put in a bomb a sign in the front yard i donated to the campaign i went door to door campaigning for him was somebody came in my yard set my obama sign on fire and i put up another one. i believed in this hope and change that he promised you know what you're

saying reminds me someone wisely said it's useless to hold the person to anything he says while his in love drunk or running for office or all three at the same time for even worse that you know i've seen his lips move before and say the right words i'll believe it when i see it thanks for the interview sir nothing less for your town. culture is that so much a lot of people actually carry all their little. difference would just be your twelfth hold for the world would be destroyed you would get the year before you will set the trend school stay in power and.

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president obama puts his signature under a controversial bill that could see terror suspect tell the definitely without trial but says he will not strictly follow some of the aspects it entails but critics say past examples show obama has not always been true to use word. recession alarm bells and gloomy predictions out of the start of the new year for the euro as the region's leaders warn of tough second fires in this most severe a test in decades twenty twelve years after a common currency made its way into people's wallets. and israel's secrets could soon be put under turkish lands this is new satellite is set to patrol the skies in two years at the moment israel cannot be in a trade and by the likes of google earth. to the top stories here next it's all the latest.

thanks for joining us this is sports they plan to head over the next ten minutes or so including the stories. as you were among chester city missed the chance to start the new year as so leaders of the english premier league bowling alley defeat to some gallant. first blood twenty ten champions spain open their hot one cup campaign with victory really despite the hosts taking the opening rubber in perth. and causing a splash we look back at one of the most thrilling sport events of twenty eleven the french leg of the cliff diving world championships. let's get the ball rolling with football it could have been a historic start to twenty twelve for months sister city but instead the sky blues

dream of taking over sole control of the premier league went up in smoke against sunderland city hall made it through at the stadium of light by an injury time drive from. breaking the hearts of the only some one else in the world when means that three title favorites city cross-town rivals on joint table toppers united on chelsea all lost their games this weekend earlier on sunday everton claimed the first win of twenty twelve in the league a late goal victory. making all the difference against west brom everton both the baggies and the tenth in the table. now to me our bill of dean off didn't see any playing time in his side's win over west brom indeed he may not be seeing any more at all and it meant with british media saying that twenty six will will move to russia during the january transfer window. on the side believed to be seeking the russian international signature. pozen played for the. three weeks the lack of

first team football also a concern as it could affect his chances for his country at next summer's european championships the midfielder was sold to everton by. just over two years ago for thirteen million dollars averaging reportedly wants nine million dollars for any of the away from cuteness. the new year may just have begun but the first big tournaments of the tennis season is already well underway australia on spain the latest countries who battled it out on sunday in the eight team event in perth. guy joseph getting the host off to a winning start in the group b. match up the czech born also he was taking on the bell medina good a good step to opening receiving sixty three responded opponent folkestone back in the second taken by the same scoreline but led by a big home support turning them around either also six three for the i.

opted out though for none too over the us goal level models for team spain defeating lleyton hewitt six three three six seven games by would mean decisive doubles rubber and they turned into the most of the pleasure of the day is truly taking the first set for spain four back in the second the third a war of attrition before the spaniards edge the l.f. and nine for the overall. ok let's talk n.b.a. basketball now a perennial underachievers to new york knicks and twenty eleven on a high note seeing off the sacramento kings uncalled for then fashion on the road the visitors starting as they meant to continue finishing the opening for a full fifteen points ahead leaving thirty five twenty. eight the scoring for the next with twenty three thirty two point around to make it fifty six forty two in the second period the hosts did reduce the deficit to thirteen by the end of the

third of the final twelve minutes were to belong to them and nine more points from their california rivals one hundred fourteen ninety two the final score new york she wins two losses for the year to. two i saw cuba russia took their foot off the pedal on sunday in their final group stage play. of the under twenty world championships the red machine though had already playoff berth earlier in the week the fourth time last week meaning russia finished second in group eight had it all been going swimmingly income of that for the russians leaving three zero . but the swedes did not give all leavening matters by the end of the third period before a name its goal other than the victory for the czech republic can choose day in the knockout stages. now the man who guided the all blacks rugby team to world cup glory has been country's new year's almost list graham henry led new zealand to

their first world cup title in twenty four years last october the noro eight seven win over france in the final sixteen year old former school teacher. served graham henry is the latest in a handful of former players and coaches to receive new zealand's highest honor the all blacks captain richie mccaw was also approached by prime minister john key but he had done stating he was too young thirty to receive such an act that henry was delighted with his own. daughters. feel very humble about it and as i say it's a reflection on people of their time. and. where it's come from and. respect for them. but i wouldn't be recalled. and let's finish up by taking a look back at one of the most exhilarating events of twenty eleven the rachelle laid off the cliff diving world championships and gary hunt may have won that you

but as robert downey and experience all those who jumped on the block. anticipation. diri. freedom. we still believe but we should see it in. dealing with any kind of or roy's. the school week during easter can prove it is not possible the only things we seem to be. playing dice for a decent night will be with twenty seven meters. almost resurgence of freefall still moving but in truth to go with this beautiful hundred dollars for all. this is one of the moves dangerous sports in the planet is just a slight mistake the resulting broken blues in much worse. in didn't do any

dumber. they have to fight their nerves before every single. yes it's clear but it's not panic it's good when you're scared it would be far more dangerous if we weren't before any high dive i realize how risky it is but you should be positive it is. scary and thrilling. but that's part of the enjoyment. there is a danger factor but we train. for many many years to become divers. professional. high quality and so the risk of danger is minimal this is the french serial flaw to share the police were the brits taking height and the weather conditions come together to cheer and elite cleave divers of the two for a diving comes within just a few hours of the high tide while the steep atlantic breeze of up to eighty

kilometers parole makes the scene equal so platform one of the toughest sports the weekly dubbing series have to all for the win like this it's hard down there on the platform and one of the one more important you'll have to keep your belt on. these guys prove they've go it takes skill i said dangerous weather conditions and the true self. but all the pressure and research these dear devils take. is the route the indy and east to them priceless you turn to the surface and take a deep breath. and it is such a big rally. and you've built up so much emotions before the dawn. finally when you when you hit the water everything's ok you you know sort of relieved. it's a long describable failing one of the same with the feeling you get doing high dogs

can hardly be compared to anything it's a competition it gives you an amazing drive especially when all the best of divers come together and you manage to. achieve it's extreme. it's been competitive says the year two thousand each passing season makes you feel completed high just with. the perfect takeoff we want the perfect position then the perfect autumn just because it brings in the elements doesn't mean that the judge has to give all points for this we want perfection we're looking for perfection and we judge according to. the biggest level throwed of seventy thousand spectators witnessed twelve men demonstrate their stunning abilities in the latest flick of the world series in little shit it's been. cliff diving is an up and coming sport there are a lot of different locations all over the globe which can host high diving competitions i'm a classic platform diaper and i sport never attracted as many spectators as cliff

diving never do the french leg comes. with rules and spills the team you keep usually. stay tuned for in the build up to them. over. pretty. pictures simply amazing every time i see them all the sport through weather is up next here in twenty four hour. well with. science technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. wealthy british style old. guys.

markets financed scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two causes a report on our culture is that so much of a lot of people at my area will stand the cold war and tell the difference what does the year two thousand and twelve hold for the world will be as true if you look at the year before who will set the trends who will stay in power and.

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president obama put his signature under a bill that could see terror suspects held indefinitely without trial despite saying he was unsure of some aspect entailed. and not so happy new year for the euro zone recession alarm bells and leaders gloomy predictions mark the start of two thousand and twelve ten years after a common currency made its way into people's wallets. and israel's secrets are put under the turkish lands with anchors new satellite in the works israel's concerned i am the spy who brake and zoom in down. eleven am the russian capital you watching r t. president barack obama has signed

a controversial to fans bill that basically allows the indefinite detention of terror suspects the u.s. president said he had serious reservations on some provisions regarding the treatment of detainees but as marina board now reports during his time in office obama shown he is not always good to his word long before he became u.s. president or a nobel peace prize winner for iraq obama was a constitutional law professor we have never been more energized by. a civil liberties champion turned charismatic candidate who vowed to reverse the abuses and policies of his predecessor george w. bush four years later many civil rights advocates who once cheered yes we can are finding themselves saying no you can't not only has the obama administration blocked torture accountability and refused to investigate and prosecute. he's he's basically maintained.