foreign involvement would bring more harm than good. and the u.s. takes its anti-rock crusade to china tries to persuade energy hungry to stop by oil drum to iran currently purchases almost one third of iran's oil exports. with colonel morris davis former chief prosecutor at guantanamo as the light on some of the methods used in the prison and explains why he quit. we're sitting down with morris davis a man of a very interesting career he was the chief prosecutor for the military tribunals or 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 his own

terms the balls to do that colonel davis could you clarify about the latest statement where i'm sure he was elected i was thrilled you know that he took office 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 one hundred most still open the military commissions have resumed and in my view the president just didn't have the balls to follow through with 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 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 week or so 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 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 us and suddenly our government said oh. no there are too dangerous we can't have them in the u.s. so while we begged other countries to help us out and take some 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 hard lying 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 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 unless certainly i think there's some facts to support that perception. is that

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 but why. that was 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 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 and 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 rather 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 as a sad chapter in america's history if that's what we're doing. you know 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 it if it has 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 it's great when other countries have that same capability that are used against us and. crossing another border launching an options of attack often conducted by the cia which is a civilian agency that you know they're not they're not the military they don't have combatant immunity and put it 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 and we claim to be the champion of the rules and all but it seems that were a champion of the rule of law when we're trying to apply it to others not so much when. we're looking at in the mirror of ourselves. the convention against torture for instance we're signatory to that. you saw recently at 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 or 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

kuantan m o treating 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 no 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 about some point in time 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 pakistan pakistani

authorities were so anxious to give the americans some numbers you know when heads that they couldn't care less about due 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 what will 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 had 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 bonus on the front yard i donated to the campaign i went door to door campaigning for him somebody came in my yard set on obama sign on fire and i put up another one so 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 is 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. when an uncomfortable question leads to a grave accusation the world who is more is you know far. the president who isn't supposed to hide anything. or it's someone asking him why do you make a secret out that when the powers to be suppress the voice of those who think different. when you get experiencing very serious problems off of the saakashvili

government came to power in two thousand and three but from a book that was when the problems began piling up. interviews were now off limits to our journalists they were often be set up and humiliated in public when the attempt to protect property puts life in real danger that we have been deprived of the only needs of and living i have got the regionals of all the papers. then legalized the ownership rights on the basis of companies freedom becomes just a stage prop. now it's not about spilling blood if it's the war of the barricades from one side and fears blockade from the other. invisible border it has cut people from the land for twelve years.

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repeat a promise to close the infamous us prison are still on fulfill ten years on the seven hundred suspects have passed through guantanamo bay sit ins many allegedly being abused and tortured there last month obama signed a new law to hold people indefinitely without trial or charge. syria's president promises to completely revamp the constitution as a way out of the bloody dead log but its neighbor turkey calls for a humanitarian intervention instead but critics suggest foreign involvement will bring more harm than good. and the u.s. takes sides and tehran per se to china tries to persuade energy hungry beijing to stop buying oil from tehran it currently purchases almost one third of iran's oil

exports. as we had lines here in our sports next with miter. hello there welcome to the program let's take a quick look at what's making the sporting headlines in the world. into the last states real madrid beats monaco for so on aggregate to book a place in the quarter finals of the cup of delray. returning stateside the world's best possible league is back on competitive track has that affected the russian league. and on top of the world is named football of the year for the third time in a row. so let's start with football where real madrid have booked a place in the last eight of the copper del rey that's off to be fought on

aggregate in the last sixteen this spanish giants began their return leg with a free advantage from the first game the fact that his men had won twenty of the last twenty one matches in all competitions gave them confidence but this time pushed on a nod and company managed to score only once seventy two minutes into the game currency mark took advantage of really the errors as their model get the ball into the net between his legs sending the defending champions into the next stage. in the meantime the english carling cup competition has already reached its semi final stages in the first game crystal palace beat cardiff city by a single goal in london they took a championship side created a lot of chances during the ninety minute it was the fans who were rewarded the most the only goal of the game was netted by the anthony guard not taking his chance to keep a top aide to failed to reach

a quick eight minutes before half time in the second leg crystal palace will travel to wales to defend the one elude the city and liverpool. prepared to go head to head in the other seven final question tonight. i. staying with football and all my city has been named faith the world's player of the air for a third successive season their results of the ceremony in zurich almost a given following yet another stunning season for the twenty four year old argentinian messi had been up against barcelona teammate angelo do expression of another along with winning the spanish league spanish super cup yes the super cup and the club was cup last year he was named one of the match bosses tramples mcdonald victory over make sure not to to vote with the manager alex ferguson admitted that message was nothing short of great. i generally useful thing of course. someone. only years

past few years of people critics. was addressed to say you shouldn't we don't play in the fifty's like barely be able to play in present day. you know that the answer was we would put in a new generation. who we could put in the fifty's who could. prove to be unscrewed stefano. cloyd we could all anyway will because the group wears a moment most without question comes into that category. to the hardwood now where the golden state warriors have beaten the miami heat on the road one hundred eleven to one hundred six their hosts were in control for most of the game but even the wayne wade's season high thirty four points were not enough for the heat to weigh in right scored twenty points on the night including this shot from behind are to tie the game nine to six all with just that one seconds to go in the fourth quarter

to the match in overtime right was instrumental that adding five of the fifteen points. in total one hundred eleven one hundred six the final score there. so the n.b.a. is back in action with players returning stateside from all over europe to play in the best league in the world russia hasn't really been affected with only to my famous golf leaving richard assesses the mood amongst the fence and players. russian basketball fans have hardly been affected by the resumption of the n.b.a. as very few stars came to become true in the first place but a few players like andre carolyn go have decided to stay in europe robin the move back stateside and a k forty seven s. decision to stay puts has certainly earned the praise of one of his rivals or things as it will have all the russian brass war thinking overseas loyalty to the

country and so for that i think it's great. that some of make that decision and it could be good for the sport especially in russia so. he will be only russian club that was seriously affected by resumption of the n.b.a. as bale a spare star center to a famous golf to rejoin the denver nuggets however his former teammate nielsen has been russian made the right move in going back stateside i think age plays like cut his own course that he's got to go for and i'm going there's no direct india is the best league in the world and he's trying to make his own nation over there and we everyone here wish him nothing but the best there was just any such we could go ourselves in the same same leave on all counts chris quinn joined him key just before the lockout started the point guard signed a one year contracts so he wouldn't have been able to return stateside even if it wanted to know whether the new orleans native says the suspension of the n.b.a. has given him a wonderful opportunity he would have otherwise never really experienced i have

learned a lot you know on the court and off the court basket was a lot different here than in the n.b.a. the style of play is different. and also you know just into a new culture you know while it's been a little bit of a challenge for myself and my family it's been fun as well you know they've been a united states all my life you know it's it's great it to get out and you know see the new culture and see different things and you know it can only make your life experience that much better russian clubs were hardly affected by the resumption of the n.b.a. mainly because so few players let. america to find work in europe this was partly due to the high wage demands of the players but also due to very high insurance costs which puts a lot of potential clubs' of hiring some of the m.b.a.'s top talent nevertheless nielsen believes the fan certainly got their money's worth during the lockout it's now been over who eight years now and it is definitely what was the most

interesting for outsiders i think especially just to watch some of these guys you know because it kind of shows at the level of european racehorses a lot of good players from the n.b.a. come over and couldn't get it done here and they've gone back and done well this shows that it's a bit of a difference to all of us want some some players better suited here and vice versa unfortunately russian basketball fans weren't able to enjoy the same high profile names but russian hockey fans were able to witness during the n.h.l. lockout in two thousand and four when the lights have been simple a club here and pub of that sort played in russia. nevertheless the n.b.a. lockout has given fans the chance to witness some of russia's best players again and the fans of serious car moscow they're in for an added bonus kirilenko definitely staying with the army even to be end of the season richard bove lee dougherty the moscow region. in the dakar rally frenchmen serial do this process has returned to the top of the bike standings after winning stage nine to suppress

wrapped up the stage in a time of five hours four minutes and thirty three seconds defending champion markov off spain came second nearly four minutes after the winner while fellow spend it your hundred abort completed the boardroom. in the meantime american robby gordon played the day's victory in the competition. on the council of france finished second but still at the overall top with nearly six minutes advantage over golden spend money roll more pain. the next most of the season may not start until april bought the car to ride. already looking forward to a new challenge in two thousand to twelve like all the other riders the nine time world champion hopes to shine at the pre-season testing event it's a paying in malaysia at the end of the month remember the talent finished in a disappointing seventh last season despite that ross who is optimistic about the upcoming event with the moto g.p. class changing to allow bikes up to one thousand seat c. for sure the

feds we would be important and for sure. the bike. would be better to vs always impossible be competitive from the feds the feds the test the but i think we will. get the information before for war and the period before the first race. and finally some extreme sports know nothing has surprised they failed of the world's top plan as the american winning this seventeenth annual ice climbing championship in colorado the eighteen finalists competed for the two thousand dollar prize on a course that. linked a breach of ice. was one of only two climbers able to complete the task and other converts who managed to finish the joint to the top. and are smart and they

finished six seconds behind the winner others were less lucky. that's probably the hardest part because the weights all on your arms and your feet aren't very good once i got across in my feet on the rock again i just kind of look at my own speed because i across the gulf there i decide to kind of move through spastic. and i guess i made it. ok up to date no more sports news. goodbye. world. technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

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