he made its way into people's wallets. and his real secrets could soon be put on their turkish plans as anchors new satellite is set to patrol the skies in two years at the moment israel cannot be penetrated by the likes of google earth. one of the first promises made by president obama when he first came to power back in two thousand and eight was to close a controversial guantanamo bay detention center for years later it's still there next r t talks to the former chief prosecutor of the get no military commissions colonel morris davis who speaks of his huge disappointment in the u.s. president. we're sitting down with morris davis a man of a very interesting career he was the chief prosecutor for the military tribunals a guantanamo bay in two thousand and seven he resigned over his objection to the use of evidence obtained by torture and to what he saw as growing political

interference in those military tribunals now he says although president obama promised to shut down guantanamo he doesn't have the using colonel davis' own terms the balls to do that colonel davies could you clarify that latest statement where i'm sure 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 guantanamo still open the military commissions have resumed 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 hadn't known before i don't know if his he learned things that he didn't know before or he faced a bigger obstacle than he anticipated you know saying 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've begged two dozen countries to help us out they're not a threat take the weekers. 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. so while we begged other countries to help us out and take some of the detainees we've never been willing to take one ourselves 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 that we were 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. called 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 they are in tight hair is policy is bush would tell 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. like 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. bonior all while i played. 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 fire a missile and kill american and bystanders it would just anwar all the 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 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 if 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 it to 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 a 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 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 often said military operations. is 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 one. we're looking at in the mirror at ourselves. the convention against torture for instance we're signatory to that piece all recently of the republican presidential debates where candidates said they would resume waterboarding so you know we love to criticize other countries. who were not so good at holding up the

mirror torso story that you prosecuted 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 just to kill americans i think a lot of people bought that narrative that all of these guys were the worst of the worst there were a total of about seven hundred seventy five men that have been a kuantan i'm at some point in time there are about one hundred seventy left today so more than six hundred have been released or 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 seem 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 legal process he was tortured he was sent to guantanamo spent 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 we will and yes we can would you believe. 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 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 a person to anything he says while he's in love drunk or running for office or all three at the same time to be 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. practically in those towns. squandered money.

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israel cannot be penetrated by the likes of google or. also the top stories here in r.t. sports next. thanks for joining us this is sports they plan to head over the next ten minutes or so including the stories of three. as you were among chester city missed the chance to start the new year assume leaders of the english premier league following our early defeat to some gallant. first blood twenty ten champions spain open their home run cup campaign with victory over it 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 who dominated through the stadium of light by an injury time drive from. breaking the hearts of the only some one else on the go and win means that three title favorites city their cross-town rivals on the joint table toppers united and 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 combo of the baggies and the tenth in the table. now to me are 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 than in meant with british media saying the twenty six will will move

to russia during the january transfer window but are being on the side believed to be seeking the russian international signature. wasn't played for the. toughies in three weeks the luck of first team football so a concern as it could affect his chances of lining our for his country at next summer's european championships the midfielder was sold to everton by lokomotiv moscow just over two years ago for thirteen million dollars everton reportedly wants nine million dollars for any move away from criticism. the new year may just be gone but the first big tournaments of the tennis season is already well underway australian spain the latest countries who battled it out on sunday in the eight team event in perth. guy joseph getting the hosts off to a winning start in the group jump the checkerboard also he was taking on the belle medina good a good step to get to seville opening receiving six three responded opponent pope

stormed back in the second taken by the same scoreline but led by a big home support turned them around this role some six three for the. aftermath though for none over the us the level models for team spain defeating lleyton hewitt six three three six seven six five that would mean decisive doubles rubber and they turned into the moves ahead 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 as the eleven nine but 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 function on the road the visitors starting as they meant to continue finishing the opening for a full fifteen points ahead leaving thirty five twenty zero on the me the scoring

for the next with twenty three two point around fall 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 the final twelve minutes were to belong to them and nine more points on their californian rivals one hundred fourteen ninety two the final score new york she wins two losses for the year to. two ice hockey russia took their foot off the pedal on sunday in their final group stage of the under twenty world championships the red machine though had already booked their playoff berth earlier in the week the fourth were time last week meaning russia finished second in group eight had it all been going swimmingly income of the for the russians leaving three zero for the opening third but the swedes did not give up levelling managed by the end of the third period before a punter named meets goal rather than the victory that makes 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 knighted in his country's new year's honors list graham henry led new zealand to their first world cup title in twenty four years last october the narrow eight seven win over france in the final. rule former schoolteacher can now call them self serve graham henry is the latest in a handful of former players and coaches to receive new zealand's highest honor the all blacks captain rich mccall was also approached by prime minister john key but he turned the night to darren stating he was too young thirty to receive such an act that henry was delighted with his own. daughter's pride as you know we feel very humble about bats and as i say it's a reflection on a lot of people have done everything for time. and i appreciate where it's come from and got a lot of respect for them. but i wouldn't be asked because. let's finish up by

taking a look back at one of the most exhilarating events of twenty eleven the rachelle leg of the cliff diving world championships in japan gary hunt may have one that you can turn. i mean experience although. there's a part of the back. in to see patients. buried. freedom. we still have fooled by resurfacing we don't know if it's cool feeling any i don't ever roys for the school to be done being nice to get out of proving it is not possible the only things we see the. big playing dice from a decent night before were twenty seven meters. only three seconds of free fall. into the water and this beautiful hundred kilometers per hour. this is one of the moves dangerous sports in the planet is just

a slight mistake may result in broken buoys in much worse. indifferent any dumber the fish that have to fight their nerves before every single i don't. fear but it's not panic it's good when you're scared it would be far more dangerous if we weren't scared and before any high dive i realize how risky it is but you should be positive it is. scary and. but that's part of the enjoyment. there is a danger factor but we train. for many many years to become divers of a professional. high quality and so the risk of danger is minimalize this is the french serial flourish in a police where the brits taking height and conditions come together to challenge

elite cleaved drivers with a two for a diving comes within just a few hours of the high tide while the steve atlantic breeze of up to eighty kilometers parole makes the scene the coolest so platform one of the toughest sports there will sleep during serious have to all four with a win like this it's a bit hard to stand there on the platform and one of the even more important you'll have to keep your belt on before the high dive. these guys prove they've go it takes until i said dangerous weather conditions and the need for itself but all the pressure and research these dear devils take they all is the right thing in the end east to them priceless you turn to the surface and take a deep breath. and there is such a big rally you we've built up so much emotions before the dawn. finally when you when you hit the water everything's ok you know so i really. it's

a long describable failing one of the same with the need to the feeling you get doing high dogs can hardly be compared to anything it's a competition it gives you an amazing especially when all the best gift ever come together and you manage to. it's extreme. it's been competitive says the year two thousand each passing season takes yet more skill than completed it does too with one perfect take off we want the perfect position then the perfect autumn just because it brings in the elements doesn't mean that the church has to give all points for this we want perfection we're looking for perfection and we judge according to. the biggest little crowd of seventy thousand spectators witnessed twelve men demonstrate their stunning abilities in the latest look 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 the. public but the party. prospects are simply amazing every time i see them all the sports weather is up next here in twenty four hour. well with. science technology innovation called the least developed from around russia we've got the future covered. practically a ghost town. squandered money.

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