new detention law to hold people indefinitely without trial or charges will ensure the center remains in place for decades to come. and the controversial stop and a search policy banned in most of europe but still used by british police as a black community leaders screaming racism those who are most often considered suspicious pile of stories believe they are being picked on simply because of the skin color. by next year in our tio we talked to the former chief prosecutor at guantanamo bay colonel morris davis he shed some light on the methods used inside the prison walls 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 of one tunnel 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 that latest statement for us or 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 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 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 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 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. janie's 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

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 impressed them bush as far as their anti-terrorism policies is bush would telling 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. 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 like killing an american with a drone strike in yemen bonior please correct which is just astounding that an american president can make a 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 can 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 here 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 it 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 options of attack often conducted by the cia which is a civilian agency they're not the military they'd. 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 we're a champion of the rule of law when we're trying to apply it to others and not so much when we're looking at in the mirror at ourselves the convention against torture for instance were signatory to that 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 story that you prosecuted guantanamo i was just wondering what was the ratio of people who got into one ton of four for a reason real bad guys and those who let's say did not deserve guantanamo treatment well if you separate 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 go on time go 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 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 him 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 released 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 obama sign in the front yard i donated to the campaign i went door to door campaigning for him somebody came in my yard set a 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 have 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 xeno fogging. the president who isn't supposed to hide anything. worth someone asking him why do you make a secret of it 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 if you put it from a book that was when the problems began piling up. interviews are now off limits to our journalists they were often be set up and humiliated in public one of the

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and fears blockade from the other. invisible border has cut people from the land for twelve years. the conflict that divided serbia into two hostile parts is still not over. more news today violence is once again flared up. in these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations to rule the day.

the issue is that so much of. which are right running for the republican party presidential contenders are falling over themselves and their support of israel is this a reflection of gross ignorance of history in the israeli. headlines on r.t. the syrian president claims he's still in control and all soon crush what he's branded as a foreign funded insurgency but international pressure on assad to step down is mounting as turkey leaves calls for intervention and gears up its forces. ten years on and america's infamous prison in guantanamo bay is still open with many inmates alleging abuse and torture there now debate rages over whether barack obama's new detention law to hold people indefinitely without trial will charge but ensure the center remains in place for decades to come. the controversial stop and

a search policy banned in most of europe but still used by british police as a black community leaders screaming racism those who are most often considered suspicious by the authorities believe they are being picked on because of the color of their skin. ok into the world of sports with unit so a future jail bird versus a current politician doesn't sound like the fight of the decade but it could be one of the hopes well i hope they are high at the moment we won the fight or floyd mayweather using twitter no less to call out money pacquiao for a fight before he goes to china would be a spectacle or that would indeed be a spectacle but if roy jones jr was in his prime as it was years ago and he went against mayweather who's corner would you be and i tell you what i'm going to go for plan d. there i'm going to say steve collins i think he was the best middleweight if you don't know who that was you choose the best five minutes of your life any viewers out there who don't know him but i tell you what more not boxing and the rest of this for coming up right now rory.

great to have you with us this is sports today plenty head over the next ten minutes or so including the stories in britain. going nowhere the man who is overseeing the needs most successful footballing period in history signs on for another two years in st petersburg. congress calling hopes rise that this so named fight of the decade may still go ahead between floyd mayweather jr on money. back home with the n.b.a. finally returning to the hardwood stateside we look at how the valve has affected the russian basketball league. let's start with the news that luciano will remain in this is a neat since petersburg called st for two more seasons of least news for the club

us the italian is widely regarded as the reason the team are reeling russian football champions the italians current contract expires at the end of this season having headed city eat since two thousand and nine in the time the side won the russian championship for only the second time the russian cup their russian super cup is a need also qualified for the champions league playoffs for that first time in their history this season his charge is currently set top of the current standings in the russian premier league. in spain real madrid have put their spot in the last eight of the cup a dell raid last collective cost seeing off four two on aggregate following choose this second leg encounter the premier league and leaders entered the clash with a three two advantage thoughts on the fact that they had won twenty of their last twenty one matches in all competitions meaning confidence was not lacking and when you're winning things like this tend to happen benzema netting the only goal of the

game seventy two minutes and cool keeper couple are oh surely wishing the ground would swallow him up right here one zero rio in the night for two over all the quarterfinals await. the boxing fraternity is suddenly holding its collective breath again for the ultimate wolter which showed on between the best on the planet possibly after floyd mayweather jr called it money on twitter telling to give the world what they want on may fifth now i mean whether being scheduled to serve eighty seven days in jail for domestic violence but the start of his sentence will not start on june first the delay would a lot of him to fulfill his contractual obligation for the possible make cloche the thirty four year old eager to exploit his window of freedom while pocket camp say they wanted june ninth fight date. has been busy combining a political career in his native philippines with being a boxer the thirty three year old's promoter bobby room says he wants to help me

whether postpone his sentence but. a month on this gives. us a farewell ceremony for the russian youth winter olympic team has been held at moscow's domodedovo airport the pick of the country's hopefuls flying off to innsbruck austria for the first ever junior games which get underway on friday russia will be represented by sixty seven young athletes with women's figure skating traditionally being one of the team's biggest hopes to wunderkinds all of the sport's three time domestic champion the leanest world junior championships runner up elizabeth thomas are regarded as strong favorites for glory out the foster approaching finals the jew seeing it as the perfect rehearsal and all the sortie twenty fourteen winter olympics. again it's going to be much more than just a completion for me myself and my team might think of

a chosen to represent our country at the winter youth a limpid games it's a big responsibility and a new exciting experience at the same time we will have a great chance to feel what the olympics are all about two years ahead of sochi two thousand and fourteen what it feels like to live and communicate with other athletes under the pressure and hopefully when. of course we expect one who results from our team of the games hopefully each of them will manage to fulfil their potential despite the pressure which is always there when it comes to big events like this. they have labeled it the miracle of tim thibeault and it's continuing in the n.f.l. with the quarterback winning in the n.f.l. playoffs the spite his technically undefined style of play the devoted to christian quarterback also putting the recent stunning overtime victory against pittsburgh to one side to focus on the heavily favored new england patriots this saturday. in the grand scheme of things it's one game and it's a playoff game so it's big but i'm not going to look too too much into it it's just

one game and you know we got another big win this week yeah i guess you know. to be exciting because you're playing the new england patriots and we get a chance to play tom brady and bill belichick and trucks and. it's another round of the playoffs and you know it's exciting what a clash that's going to be while it brings us to the hardwood where the shock of choose the evening in the n.b.a. saw the struggling golden state forget all about their recent woes to beat the star laden miami heat the hosts in control for the majority of the game even brainwave season high thirty four points not enough for the heat to make it nine wins from their past ten dorell wright cintra mental for the warriors scoring twenty points on the night including a superb effort from beyond the arc to tie the game ninety six apiece with just thirty one seconds to go in the fourth quarter that's took the much into overtime right to the fore here as well adding five of the fifteen points the winners

blitzing their one hundred eleven one zero six golden state how it ended up. so the n.b.a. is in full swing after months of died over whether to go ahead all this season the lockout no though just a memory with players returning to north america after seeing spurts of action in other leagues across the world in the meantime richard from port fleets reports now on the local impact. funds have hardly been affected by the resumption of the n.b.a. is very few stones came to become true in the first place but a few players like andre carolyn go have decided to stay in europe rob the move back stateside and a k forty seven decision to stay puts us in the un to preserve one of his rivals are things that. overseas loyalty to. the country and so i think it's gross. but some of my 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 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 he's on course he's going to go for a number and 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 that was of seriously and he's such a good go i suppose the same the 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 he'd 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 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 get out and you know see a 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 talents no less nielsen believes the fans certainly got their money's worth during the lockout it's now been over who. is now and like to flew out was the most interesting for outsiders i think especially just the one. some of these you know because it kind of shows that the level of your plane has a lot of good players from the time over and couldn't get it done and gone back and

done well this shows that it's a bit of a difference to all of us want some some players a bit of suited here involves first before should we rush 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 simply played here in 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 for fans of say it's going moscow they're in for not a bonus kirilenko definitely staying with the army to be end of the season which we don't see the moscow region. finally bargain hunters suddenly got the chance this week to search out a few deals through on likely scenario tiger woods' ex-wife eleanor green donating items once belonging to her former husband for resale at a non profit organization take a look decorations up

a whole street and other items that were in the form of couple's twelve million dollars home up for grabs in florida some people taking off their shopping in the early arriving before the doors opened at eight thirty in the morning the sale happening following the end of the couple's marriage after a sex scandal involving tiger in two thousand and nine more items will be arriving for purchase later in the week and that is all the sports weather is next here in twenty four hour party. well the. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

the syrian president claims he's still in control and will soon crush what's he's branded now as a foreign funded insurgency this as turkey leads calls for intervention and gives up its forces it's. nothing to celebrate ten years on and america's infamous prison guantanamo bay is still open and debate rages over whether barack obama's new detention law will ensure it remains open for decades to come. the controversial stop and search policy banned in most of europe but still used by british police it as a black community leaders scream.