but his neighborhood turkey calls for humanitarian intervention instead critics suggest that foreign involvement would bring more harm than good. in the u.s. it takes it and iran crusade to china and try to persuade energy hungry beijing to stop buying oil from tehran that currently purchases almost one third of iran's oil exports. and next we sit down with colonel morris davis the former chief prosecutor guantanamo and he shed some light on some of the methods used in the prison and explains why he resigned. 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's own terms the balls to do that colonel davis could you clarify that 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 gone tomorrow 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 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 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 be telling 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 the but why. he 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 other than the cockpit it's how they're used to 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 even if they have as

a choice between kill or capture and they're choosing to 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 drums 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 options 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 is the you know six hundred pound gorilla in the playground 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 would 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 at ourselves. the convention against torture for instance we're signatory to that if you use 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 or that you prosecuted guantanamo i was just wondering what was the

ratio of people who got into want four 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 you're called 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 going to go just to kill americans i think a lot of people bought that in. it is 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 we 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 i think i share your tent. when can uncomfortable question leads to a grave accusation the world who is more xeno following. the president who isn't supposed to hide anything. or it's someone asking him why do you make

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much. of the headlines on r.t. repeated promises to close on the infamous u.s. prison are still fun to fill ten years on seven hundred as suspects have passed through guantanamo bay since many allegedly being abused and tortured there but just last month obama did sign 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 deadlock but his neighbor turkey calls for a humanitarian intervention instead but critics suggest foreign involvement could bring more harm than good. and the u.s.

takes its and c iran crusade to china and tries to persuade energy hungry beijing to stop buying oil from tehran that currently produces almost one third of iran's oil exports. right here with r.t. live from moscow to me tree joins us now with all the action from the world of sports. hello there. thanks for joining us this hour top stories. for more seasons zinni decided to stay. until the end of twenty fourteen. into the last eight. to book a place in the quarter finals all the great. returning stateside the world's best possible league he's competitive truck back to the russian league.

but start with the news that it will remain the manager of the need for two more seasons that's according to the telephone himself his current contract expires at the end of twenty eight twelve fifty two year old manager has been coaching since two thousand and nine on his management side won the russian national championship the russian cup and the russian super cup also made it into the champions league for the first time in their history now his charges are on top of the current standings in the russian premier league. another madrid have booked a place in the last eight of the copa del rey that's after a break for two on aggregate in the last sixteen the spanish giants began a return leg with a freak to 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

around and company managed to score only once to two minutes into the game mark took advantage of popularity or was that malaga keeper. into the net between his legs sending the defending champ into the next stage. in the meet on the english carling cup. petition has already reached its semi final stages in the first game crystal palace beat cardiff city by a single goal in london the two sides created a lot of chances during the ninety minutes it was the fans who were rewarded the most their only goal of the game was netted by the hosts god not taking his chance after keep a top eight and failed to reach. minutes before half time in the second leg or so palace will travel to wales to defend their one million next the city and liverpool to go head to head in the semifinal question tonight. staying with football little message has been named faith world player of the year for

a third successive season there is out of the ceremony in zurich almost a given following get another stunning season for the twenty four year old argentinian messi had been up against barcelona teammate and real madrid's christian elder along with winning a spanish league spanish to pick up the efforts to pick up and the club what cup last year yes it was named one of the match bosses tramples week from a victory of mentor to united to boot even their manager alex that was admitted the message is nothing short of great. generational thing of course. someone. only years past few years of people. was a drain you should. fifty's like barely be able to play in present day you know that the answer would put in a new generation. who we could put in the fifty's you could put him in the press

and be as good stefano clearly. cloyd you could anywhere because the great players and i am almost without question comes into that category. to the hardwood now where the golden state warriors have beaten the miami hate on the road the hosts were in control for most of the game but even when wade season thirty four points were not enough for him to win dorell wright scored trying to point the night including this shot from behind are to tie the game at ninety six all with just that one seconds to go in the fourth quarter to the match into overtime right was instrumental there to having five of the fifteen points the visitors called in total one hundred and eleven to one hundred six the final score . 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 fans and players. question basketball fans of hardly been affected by the resumption of the n.b.a. has very few stars came to become true in the first place but a few players like andre carolyn go have decided staying europe rather the move back stateside and a k forty seven decision to stay puts has certainly earned the praise of one of his rivals are things is a lot about russian gas war thing that overseas loyalty to the country and stuff like that i think it's great to think 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. has been a last best on sentence in a famous golf to rejoin the denver nuggets however his former teammate nielsen has the russian made the right move in going back stateside i think age plays like his

own course that he's going to go for and i'm going there's no direct n.b.a. 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 seriously any such you could go on the same same leave on all counts chris quinn joined him he just before the account 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've learned a lot you know on the court and off the court 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 living in the united states all my life you know it's it's great to 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 left 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 off hiring some of the n.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. flew what was the most interesting for outsiders i think especially just to watch some of those guys them you know because it kind of shows that the level of european braswell has a lot of good players from the n.b.a. come over and couldn't get it done and they've gone back and done well this shows that it's a bit of a different style of 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 ear and public that's played in russia. nevertheless the n.b.a. lockout has given fans but 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 to be end of the season richard bove lead r.t. the moscow region. in the dark or rather french press has returned to the top of the bike standings after winning stage nine display top stage in a time of five hours four minutes and thirty three seconds sending. off spain came second nearly four minutes after the winner while fellas entered the red a court completing the podium in the meantime american robby gordon claimed the day's victory in the past competition. to fun and of france finish second but a still at the overall top with nearly six minutes advantage of old will spend it

on what came have third. the next moto g.p. season may not to start until april but the car to ride of all is already looking forward to a new challenge in twenty twelve called other riders the nine time world champion hopes to shine at the pre-season testing event that's a pang in malaysia at the end of the month remember the telling finished in a disappointing seventh last season despite that ross is optimistic about the upcoming event with the moto g.p. class changing to allow bikes up to one thousand seat c. we would be important and for sure. the bike. would be better to last vs always impossible be competitive from the first the third is that there's the but i think we will. get information for for a war and the period before the first race. and finally some extreme

sports no nathan culture has surprised a thing of the world's top climate american winning the seventeenth annual ice climbing championship in colorado the eighteen finalists competing for the two thousand dollar prize on a course that featured two will climb linked by a bridge of ice. was one of only two climbers able to complete the task on the other competitor and managed to finish the joint to the top. and are smart and it finished six seconds behind the winner others were less lucky. that's probably the hardest part because the weights on your arms. your speed aren't very good once i got across in my feet on the rock again and just kind of move at my own speed because i crossed the loft there i just had to kind of move through spastic. i guess i made it. ok that's all from me for

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repeatedly but i intend to close guantanamo and i will follow through on promises to close the us still fulfilled ten years on with obama even signing a new law to hold people indefinitely without trial or challenge. syria's president promises to completely revamp the constitution its neighbor turkey calls for a humanitarian intervention instead. the u.s. takes its iran crusade to china to try to persuade energy hungry beijing to stop buying oil from iran.