because of their skin color. ten years on america's infamous prison is still open with many inmates allegedly being abused and tortured there now debate rages over that barack obama's new detention law to hold people indefinitely without trial charged. remains in place for decades to come. up with another summary for in about fifteen minutes from now in the meantime we talked to the former chief prosecutor at the cuban based camp colonel morris davis who sheds 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 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 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 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 had known before i don't know if he 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 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. taking these 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 policies 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 let's 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 played cricket 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 walky 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 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. and 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 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. 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 deal 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 and not so much when we're looking at in the mirror at ourselves the convention against torture for instance were 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 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 separate 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 oh 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 in 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 and 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 bomb 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'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 an uncomfortable question leads to a grave accusation the world sees more as you know saw the way. the president who isn't supposed to hide anything. where it's someone asking him why do you make a secret out that when the powers to be suppressed the boys. so those who think different. when you get experiencing very serious problems often the saakashvili government came to power in two thousand and three but a book that was when the problems began piling up. interviews were now off limits to our journalists they were often based in up and humiliated in public and one of the attempt to protect property puts life in real danger is that we have been

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has black community leaders screaming racism those who are most often considered suspicious by the police they are being picked on because of their skin color. stories for in less than fifteen minutes from. next to with his update on the latest action from the world of sports. thanks for joining us this is sports today we've got plenty ahead of the next ten minutes including the stories in brief. going nowhere the man who's overseeing the needs most successful footballing period in history signs on for another two years in some petersburg. canvas calling hopes rise that the so name fight of the decade may still go ahead between floyd mayweather jr and money.

back home with the n.b.a. finally returning to the hardwood stateside we'll look at how that's affected the russian basketball league. let's start with the news that luciano will remain in this is a neat sin petersburg 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 sin eat since two thousand and nine in the time the side won the russian championship for only the second time the russian cup russian super cup is a need to 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 off the cop a dell raid last collective cost seeing off for two on aggregate following choose this second leg encounter the premier league 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 overall the quarterfinals zero eight. the boxing fraternity is suddenly holding its collective breath again for the ultimate wolter which should i'm between the best on the planet possibly after floyd mayweather jr called it money on twitter telling pacman 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 launch the

thirty four year old eager to exploit his window of freedom while camp say they wanted june ninth fight date. has been busy combining a political career in his native philippines with being a boxer that thirty three year olds promoter bobby room says he wants to help me whether postpone a 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 sports three time domestic champion of the. world junior championships runner up elizabeth thomas are regarded as strong favorites for glory out the fos

approaching finals the jew seeing it as the perfect rehearsal and off the 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 i was 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 at 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 labelled 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 put too much into it it's just one game and we've got another big one 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. in foxboro 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 dwayne wade 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 fleet's 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 i have decided to stay in europe robin the move back stateside and a k forty seven decision to stay puts the sunni and the praise of one of his

rivals i think. overseas loyalty to another 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. his bail spare stone 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 another and there's no idea where the 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 with the best that was of seriously and he's such a good go 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 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 m.b.a.'s top talent nevertheless nielsen believes the fans certainly got their money's worth during the lockout it's

now been over who. is now and why it is definitely what was the most interesting for outsiders i think especially just the one. some of these go you know because it kind of shows the level of your playing roles were there's a lot of good players from you 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 when some some plays a bit of suited here involves first. should be 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 simpler club ear and public 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 see as. their informatic bonus 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 and other items that were in the former couple's twelve million dollars home up for grabs in florida some people are teeing off their shopping 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. as all the sports know whether it's next year or twenty four hour party. well the future of science technology innovation all the latest developments from

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culture is that so much as i can recall on it so here it is the republican party presidential contenders are falling over themselves in their support of israel is this a reflection of gross ignorance of history in the israel. the official anti application. from the.

video on demand. an. apology. to. the syrian president claims he's still in control and will soon crush what he's branded a foreign funded insurgency civilian deaths are reported across the country. iran's top nuclear scientists is killed in a bomb blast in tehran while no one claimed responsibility pointing the finger at israel and the us. nothing to celebrate ten years on america's infamous prison in guantanamo bay is still open. detention will ensure it will remain for decades to come. from the. world.