we will remember that we will be. breaking news here on a second israeli air strike on syria in less than forty eight hours speculation and open conflict could break out between the two countries. it's a pleasure to have you with us this morning here on. live in moscow let's get straight to our breaking news for you this sunday morning on the program syrian state television has said israel has bombed syria overnight and this is only being confirmed by one at least a u.s. military official the strike supposedly targeted a military or search site and damascus let's get the latest now middle east

correspondent paula by for us here and paula good to see you this morning i can you bring us up to speed details of the attack what do you know. well there's been no immediate comment from israeli officials about this morning's explosions although an israeli military spokeswoman has said that israel does not respond to to quote this kind of a report the u.s. state department has also had no media comment although the israeli embassy in washington has declined to say anything at this stage it's not clear whether or not there are any wounded or did from the smalling six potions but syrian state television is reporting that is well launched at least twelve missiles from libyan knees a space targeting an ammunition depot on the outskirts of the capital city of damascus syrian television says and i'm quoting that the new israeli attack is an attempt to raise the role of terrorist groups obviously a reference to rebel fighters inside that country the syrian state t.v. is also reporting that israeli jets broke the sound barrier and hit several

military posts his belies menar t.v. station is reporting that the explosions may have been due to a downed israeli jet we are receiving some reports that two israeli jets were downed but let me reemphasize no confirmation reaction or any comment from the israeli side this comes as we start to see rumors now particularly on line following the latest volley of attacks on the syrian regime and these rima state that the syrian president bashar assad will soon officially declare war on israel not many are dismissing these reports as strictly rumor there was also speculation about the nature of this morning's attack with some insisting that israel's weaponry was nuclear lives there are some who are saying that chemicals could be smelt in the air and that the attack was coordinated between israel and the hope of syrian rebel fighters i witnessed as have described the attack as both in an earthquake and an precedented that israel has in the past repeatedly warned that it

is prepared to resort to resort to force to prevent syrian weapons reaching the hands of his below which is an organization is old. james is a terrorist organization based in lebanon and the ammunition depot that was hit this morning is a strategically important military position to the regime of syrian president bashar assad there is video footage it is not yet verify verify but it has been posted to you tube at least three videos showing a huge ball of fire why is ing into the night sky over this morning the early morning's attack in damascus. certainly things are heating up in the region this is the third time that israel has bombed syria in just the past five months or any reaction so far from damascus on this. well damascus certainly is heating up that's right trick i mean maybe make the point that there was a search say to that was hit this morning was the target of an early israeli strike back in january and according to damascus that strikes or two people killed and

some five workers wounded as i said we're still waiting for israeli confirmation regarding this morning strike and also still waiting for an official public display confirmation regarding a strike overnight thursday now according to a main israeli officials who are speaking on condition that they speak anonymously that attack was also carried out by television that attack is believed to have hit an armored convoy believed to be destined for his the light in lebanon it was first broken by american officials who said that of was and these raids strike what it does indicate is that this conflict is not only becoming regional but certainly has international ramifications as well has been the is a militant organization it is based in lebanon but it is allied with damascus and israel has repeatedly in the past stated that it would do everything to stop any kind of game changing weapons from getting into the hands of the organization lebanon has also launched a complaint with the international community saying that israel violated

international law by flying over maybe these a space israel in recent days has taken widely reported steps to neutralize trades that are emanating from syria and this is a departure because when the syrian conflict first broke out israeli officials were very reluctant to make any kind of comment over what was happening across the border but the way the situation is intensifying on the ground with a close look or another suspected israeli air strike inside syria that's. the latest on the breaking news large other for you thank you. well a bit earlier in the program here on our t.v. we did speak over the phone with damascus based journalist xeni he described the chaos in the syrian capital after the latest report it is really it sounds like. now we can make it about the.

morning. commute. any. more kokomo. from. what we have. to. confirm.

or let's get some more reaction on this old now from the u.s. or to james miller joining us live here on our t.v. and mr miller thanks for coming on the program today let's talk about the legality of these israeli airstrikes on the illegal. that's a good question we're assuming these they're israeli airstrike and it looks like they are we're now hearing from israeli or american source through the new york other works that this is an israeli airstrike no. president assad has it any. again. are they whether legal on the other half is really claiming that syria has been smuggling weapons for all lebanese border but none of that if it's been made that you know well certainly with an ongoing civil conflict there and a civil war as many are calling it it's very difficult to get confirmation on all the different stories flying around when it comes to though this israeli air strike

the latest one american officials were the first to confirm israel launching its warplanes over syria where does washington stand on all this. well this attack was right at the center of the map the largest military facility in syria so washington would at. least if it rained and allowed israel for the dust. so as something closer and closer to arrest all the obama administration very hesitant falls in yet another war in the middle east . so the. act and there is a. very bold and frankly a little surprised mr midst of a let's let's address one of the issues here possibly that of provocation we're already seeing some rumors a provocation flying around on the internet i hear one story we just establishing about a connection with we apologize to our viewers here when it comes to the issue that

syria has been under a huge amount of growing pressure from the west america has been bought peddling as earlier though it was very much for the removal of assad is it possible in some way that israel could be trying to provoke assad into some sort of regional war. it's possible israel has a lot of that aeration. there have been clashes on their border in the demilitarized zone there's fish in the boat rebels and syrian soldiers spent involved in those so it's very softly it's. on on one and more focused on syria than israel which i think would be in the israeli interest but on the other hand now they're saying that the starlit saw that supplying them with more weapons so i think what you are seeing in israel want this. and they are finally taking action in their own and when they're ready you know

some is saying that indeed as you were suggesting that the israelis was immediately stepping forward to the plate and lead to i suppose to be the antagonists to forward into this conflict do you think though you mention has ball or a moment ago very briefly lebanon's hezbollah and indeed iran could be a way in if syria did go to war with israel i think has been a very delicate situation. because there are so many internal conflicts in love no so they're in a bit of a fog and really go forward a war in syria they can't really afford a war with israel they can't really get bored the status quo iran is in a different. because they're not personally involved it's not like the public happening either on their borders or in their territory but but they certainly have a stake and they will be very anxious by. its right to seize it it's very clear

i want to paraphrase a so it is ready ask right now in the past five months is certainly heating up in the region the u.s. will to james miller a great pleasure to have you want to see today thank you thank you now in the meantime a jason did say news editor at antiwar dot com he believes that israel has had this attack on the cogswell for quite some time. until we have a clearer picture of what was what exactly was targeted it's difficult to speculate why the targeting took place although i would say that the united states gave israel a green light for the previous attack and past months and reportedly gave them an ok to launch future strikes so this probably isn't something that happens one moment which is rather low in the works for some time and they're prepared to do well. to go as far as they need to go and if that means all out war then as far as a lot of the people in the israeli government is concerned that that probably isn't

a big deal and it seems like a lot of the people in the current israeli government are very hawkish on the idea of. exerting their power especially after the november war with hamas would seem not to go in their favor and i think a lot of them are pretty eager to have another war in which they can sort of. flex their power and cause a considerable amount of destruction simply to prove their deterrent capability it's although i would say event it could get very easily get out of control i of course syria's unlikely being in the middle of a civil war or to launch much for retaliation against israel directly but. at the same time this probably undermines some of the more islamic factions in the syrian rebels especially with reports that they're benefiting from these airstrikes that. paints them as. being the recipients of israeli aid in. these

attacks i think if it gets into a larger conflict israel certainly can't handle all of this by itself started i think there the assumption is that especially with the u.s. still publicly lauding their attacks on syria that the united states would would step in as well and this would go from internal civil war to a regional war and indeed to a global war. are you watching on t.v. live from moscow let's give you a review now the latest on our breaking news story on this sunday morning u.s. military official has confirmed a second israeli air strike on syria in less than forty eight hours so no official confirmation from officials in israel that unverified footage from damascus shows a massive blaze at the site of the which is said to have targeted a military research facility hundreds of syrians reportedly killed in the attack meanwhile an israeli nonprofit organization claims damascus is preparing to declare war on israel in response this room has so far not been confirmed by the latest

asteroid it comes less than two days off to the previous israeli bombing of syria anonymous israeli officials said that a type targeted if he were syrian missiles on its way to his ball in the lead on a similar attack is said to have been carried out by israel earlier this year in january damascus has denied it's been trying to had advanced weapons over to hezbollah. oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh i will if you can do stay with us here and i'll see the latest on this developing breaking news story we've called the rest of our updates from around the world in just a moment. they all see themselves as dying swans in their dreams.

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to have you with us here on our. show i live in moscow the u.k. independence party has made a major breakthrough in local elections claiming one in every four votes cast and the conservatives which are of course part of the ruling coalition now have admitted that old mainstream parties have major lessons to learn from the group seeking the country's withdrawal from the e.u. now let's take a closer look at the party's gains and losses. ultimately the conservatives are down at see down three hundred and thirty five seats so while the coalition partners the liberal democrats have now lost one hundred twenty four the opposition labor party has two hundred ninety one seats up and ukip is going to hundred thirty nine you local councillors that is an achievement that the head of the party nigel

farage has praised as the a rival for party politics but the editor of the politics news website alex stevenson he stresses that success at local elections does not guarantee the group gains in the next general election in twenty fifty. although they're getting a decent vote in this year's local elections which are for councils around the country they're not necessarily going to be actually be be running any councils they'll be councillors where there weren't before but they're not actually going to be in charge anywhere in twenty fifteen when we have the westminster elections to to find out who are going to be our next m.p.'s. there's going to be the small matter of who runs the country to decide and there is a strong feeling here that a lot of the support for ukip is because the only protest vote. when it comes to actually becomes the general election it's likely that that support could do indoor

there's no doubt that ukip are gaining support on the doorstep because of strong feelings about immigration in this country fears that it's a new wave of arrivals from the european union could put pressure on public services and i don't know i think i'm a general sense of xenophobia which while mainstream politicians don't like to talk about if you could do make it into westminster that would be a real sign that politics in britain is heading firmly towards the right. now the unemployment level in the european union has hit record highs this week of the rate going up across most of the member states in fact the ever rising figures are are alarming and rising year by year greece and spain as you can see being affected the most portugal not to be neglected either though in greece twenty seven percent of the workforce is out of a job while in spain one in every four is employed by the increasing joblessness of

many and poor working conditions for some triggered massive demonstrations around the world on may day as we were reporting here on r.t. and the most turbulent protests took place in turkey police had to disperse demonstrators with tear gas and water cannons after the demo turned violent at least twenty eight people were injured in clashes dozens were. arrested and in greece the country worst hit by the crisis the day of action was marked by a twenty four hour strike spain has seen demonstrations in more than it eighty cities. she looks at how financially strained people in europe a dealing with the lack of job prospects. the unemployment rate in the years own has recently reached a record twelve percent of for those aged twenty five and below in countries like spain and greece that number is as high as more than fifty percent with very little signs of any economic improvement for those who are looking for a job that search is no longer just about trying to find work many are now trying to leave their home countries. like niccolo wriggles e

a biology graduate from italy now working in a show in brussels and the situation in italy was actually awful because the only thing i was able to get is a really short contract for like free mouth for six months with absolutely no possibility of growing out in an industry or in the laboratory anything most two of most of them were totally unpaid because you can't really think of your future he says it wasn't a walk in the park in beijing either as many companies require a working knowledge of both french and dutch a barrier that may be hard to overcome but perhaps still more attractive for some of the going back home i read. in two thousand and twelve. and the person present age of young people to emigrate from italy grew up by thirty

forty percent in two thousand and twelve i really don't know what will be interesting for you and it's not just the citizens feeding the kids foreigners would come to europe to see new opportunities started there will business is building their lives have now well. also changed their minds fred's iana this meant leaving greece and going all the way back to their native ecuador and while homesickness was the initial reason for the move she has no regrets about making that decision six months ahead also many foreigners decided to leave greece and move to countries like germany and switzerland but the greeks who stayed behind are saying that the situation is really difficult there for instance servicemen he used to get one and a half thousand euros are now paid just one hundred our place has been open for two years even though still new i believe we have very good prospects for the future. something she says just isn't possible in europe right now to trend look at the

figures in countries like ireland some people argue that a whole generation has left and perhaps for good you know. i don't think so i rather stay here for one time does so sylvia our team brussels. and a following the announcement of the latest e.u. unemployment figures the eurozone central bank has pushed interest rates in europe to a record low were zero point five percent however robert oulds from the euro skeptic think tank the bruges group believes the financial kickstart will not help those countries that are most in need of the aid. within the eurozone there will not be any change because they have one come and see so it won't actually help the economies of southern europe particularly spain portugal arland italy and greece which we can all count together as countries that are struggling as a result of their being the e.u.

single common see the euro france as well is also suffering economically and has unemployment rising we've seeing a separation between the french and german economies cutting interest rates by this small amount to no point five percent won't actually really make much difference we need a vatican change of policy within the e.u. to to bring about economic growth eventual the will have to be a breakup of the euro that's the only way to restore economic growth it's the only way to get people back to work if they can have their common seas depreciate and of course that the new tape instance adore each market that were to be returned that would then increase in value and that would help the disparities within the eurozone which has been created largely by the single currency to need to be of article change or course unemployment will just keep on going up. live from moscow this is art to you with me will research iraq is now seeing some of its worst bloodshed since the pullout of u.s. troops back in two thousand and eleven the u.n.

said this week that more than seven hundred people were killed in april over sixteen hundred injured across the land in secretary and violence outcomes ten years after george bush declared america's victory over saddam hussein he's gone after can sums up the rocky decade for us major combat operations in iraq have ended in the battle of iraq the united states and around lies have prevailed president george w. bush delivered the message on may the first two thousand and three a declaration of success followed by years of bloody war when bush made that speech i was in the military and public affairs that was the stated mission you know liberation and freedom for iraqis and it didn't seem to me like that happening because there was all this violence that was her head she waited by our presence for years after this speech as many americans and the whole world saw iraq as a part mire washington decided to send in twenty thousand more troops that surge

cost the u.s. the lives of more than a thousand soldiers and many billions of dollars of taxpayers' money on his deathbed iraq war veteran thomas young broder letter to george w. bush and dick cheney. was. both like you'd born and a terrible line in the church of american politics sometimes even doubting success can be perceived as blasphemous that's been true for the iraq surge even today will you correct or incorrect when you said that the search would be the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since viet nam we are correct or incorrect my regret or no my reference to the surge and seeing what is. the question is where you are right or wrong my answer is i'll defer that judgment to history i think history has already made a judgment about the search sir and you're on the wrong side of it chuck hagel is

reference to vietnam was not uncalled for years into the vietnam war even as most americans saw the involvement there is a mistake thousands of u.s. troops continue to die because washington didn't want to admit it someone has to die and so that president nixon won't be and these are his words the first president to lose a war supporters of president bush say history will treat him more kindly regarding iraq but the history that is being lived by iraqis today is one that has neither peace nor security in a country ripped apart by terror six tarion violence and fears of a looming civil war in washington i'm going to shut down. and i still to come for you a bit later in the program here on arts here at the changing face of law enforcement in britain the next time you're in london don't be surprised if you stumble upon a hard line islamists patrolling the streets and we meet them shortly here on a street that will be after the break.

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and every one of those who will step on red square on the ninth of may are ready. for the victory day parade. watched the live coverage on our t.v. . thanks for joining us here on our. muslims laying down sharia law on the streets of london it may sound surprising but it's actually become reality in parts of the british capital but many locals are not willing to put up with such an unconventional patrols despite what these islamist activists call their good intentions sara first called up with some of the newly fledged vigilant. when videos have listened in on tape find some place where lorne unsuspecting members of the public first hit the headlines there was an outcry in britain well since then

some arrests have been made found out self-titled most of them patrols a still in operation the muslim community will continue to patrol the streets and clear the streets of the bus isn't illegal activities this group called themselves the shari'a project. they make a point of differentiating themselves from the more hardline muslim patrol his video is cool such anger everything with scenes like this we almost. got it i wish. i were. a little longer a little bit calmer and really focused on the rockets although this patrol they say that whilst they share many of the same he's asked the other patrols they've never employed the same tactic. with the bank. i mean looking at those patrols i can say that is commendable but. decided to

take some kind of action against you know these things taking place in. their actual actions and the sad thing is we live. by intimidation obviously there is always a better way to do things. my approach as a muslim is to advise my muslim brothers i see you do an action that i have. always advised. the the many in the mainstream muslim community these patrols are of course the concern was if it is ensuring widespread media coverage many muslim leaders have condemned their actions is wrong and i'm representative these individuals are a fringe minority you know they don't represent the muslim community there's two point seven million muslims in the u.k. and they they they you know they would never. condone this type of behavior the groups were very clear to us that they have peaceful intentions some of the

members are alleged to be involved with the more extreme patrols one member served three and a half years in prison on charges of terrorist fund raising and it's lighting terrorism eva seeds and it didn't take him long to make his more hardline he's known all over the man to go to hell i believe so because i believe those who disbelieve in the oneness of god did find this vision would be the end point anyway and those laws at the establishment that would go with them would. be a roll makes it into him so i have no respect for the vision or what so ever i asked the leader of the sharia project whether he was concerned by statements like that i said you know if you take on the passive approach then i don't think you fix the country and these are great but you are doing no shouting and protesting your food before you start with the charade richard i think some things are really custody for your day to day this in many base amongst the muslim and the why to

push this community there are worries not just about these actions but about the potential repercussions the relative peace movement dorsey could have on a much larger scale so r.t. . and on our web site r.t. dot com right now political vendettas. personal fury against the muslim brotherhood in egypt spills over with the son of a leader in the islamist movement lynched for a shocking murder he allegedly committed those details on the website right now. also there for you this hour a world war two veterans in russia's northern region get probably the ugliest congratulations possible for the upcoming victory day they've received letters containing free burial was inside them. well it has been three nights of standing ovations at some petersburg's as it was unveiling its newest international cultural attraction a state of the art stage space of the world renowned theater. he has been following

the spectacular opening performances for us. the famous a russian a theatre company has opened its new opera and a ballet theater money in ski cheap with a ceremony that filled the auditorium with two thousand stars from both home and abroad including president putin and eighty thousand square meters of the building is covered with glass and limestone and it's it's one leg still to its eighteenth century classical and iconic assists up at seven hundred million dollars though this building has divided opinion and it took ten years to complete judge diamond of the architect of monday's q two said that he took the classical look of st petersburg in mind when designing it the point about simply disperse one of the most beautiful cities in the world does amazing continuity over the streets still

so in order to make it move. you need to cool you know something we you know you know no no no of us for the comfortable were just. standing controls two streets inside it's a different story all together seven stories high exquisite on the east wall the glows in the dark the swirl feel like the bring out of the glamour and the staircases that are both a modern and functional the auditorium was designed with the audience in mind making sure that from whichever seat you are in you can still hear the quite a sound of the flute all the mighty beat of the drum the stage with three floors beneath an interchangeable makes that change is easy and quick with the curtains lifted and three days of celebrations going without a hedge and the spectacular performance by placido domingo as well as the flawless staging of the marines ballet the public and we are the world themselves were not

disappointed and i think you should be proud of this. yes. it will be to do great company then you have to thanks to most of you to all of us thought of you is an ecstatic it's a great honor for me to preoccupy it is an opening of the house that was and to congratulate her on her again if nothing else it's a wonderful stage tonight so i think one of the most important. things. in states like this it's acoustics and it was. incredible this is so very much just to sunday's opened day is that designed to allow the public to see for themselves if that money inskeep so you can become a world renowned international theater at a new cultural emblem force in petersburg to bomb what they already.

well the millions of. celebrating easter in church ceremonies all around the world it's one of orthodox christianity is most important service is of course marking the resurrection of jesus christ immense crowds have gathered at russia's main vigil in the cathedral of christ the savior right here in downtown moscow of course celebrations ongoing this report two artes with caution. price does freeze and that's the phrase our two dogs believers greet each other with the celebration continues early on saturday you believe. in the church of the holy sample in jerusalem and the fly is described by our two dogs believers as a miracle that happens alfre year on the eve of the easter celebration later that fire is distributed to the r. to docs countries including ballo russia serbia georgia and many others and it was also brought to russia its lunch in moscow's of neugebauer airport and was

a later delivery to the price to savor a good leader which is really a bit landmark are to dogs cathedral in the country and that's where the a main easter service was taking place now this service to began shortly before midnight on saturday chris and believers holding candles and carrying on around the cathedral right after midnight glory flying the resurrection of jesus christ and that service lasted for several hours and did so well into the early hours of sunday it was also a time to buy the russian president vladimir putin and prime minister meet the media and really despite what about what the this day as it was pouring with rain throughout saturday still hundreds of people came here to this special night service easter is a precedent it's a by quite a long period of fasting b.g. verse abstain from meat ax fish and products for eight days which they tend to

stunting grain and this night so this is then followed by the easter sunday that's one believe those give each other colored folks that they've prepared and special russian easter brad which is called to each it is really a very special moment and a special day for millions of our dogs to believe around the globe as they celebrate the most important day and they are the docs calender. our live from moscow this is on to you let's give you the latest update on our breaking news story for this sunday morning a u.s. military official has confirmed a second israeli air strike on syria in less than forty eight hours so far though no official confirmation from officials in tel aviv unverified footage from damascus right here showing a massive blaze at the site of the strike which is said to have targeted a military research facility i mean an israeli nonprofit organization claims damascus is preparing to declare war on israel in response so far this rumor has

not been kind of either the latest asteroid comes less than two days after the previous israeli bombing of syria anonymous israeli officials said give it a shipment of syrian missiles on its way to hezbollah in lebanon a similar attack is said to have been carried out by israel earlier this year in january and damascus has denied it's been trying to handed vons to weapons over to his ball and do stay with us here on the latest on this developing breaking story oh oh. all right for now though it was this week the united nations or human rights office branded the treatment of detainees at guantanamo bay as torture and says indefinite detention and force feeding constitute inhumane treatment and violate international law and the u.n. experts called on the u.s. to either charge or release the prisoners and this comes as more and mates join the grueling three month hunger strike at the american facility in cuba the plight of

the prisoners at guantanamo there's up the pressure on washington to shut down what president obama called a legal no man's land at the american military admits the total number of protesters is now at more than one hundred but lawyers for the captors have said that all along the actual figure is much higher. who represents one of the inmates says the u.s. is simply failing to stop the crisis. right right now. has been on strike since february sixth he has chosen not to eat not to speak any of the guards in protest against detention forcing someone to do what they don't want to do it and tying them down strapping them insurance hair and sticking to their nose is depriving them of their liberties and you have a wall with their own body we just had our co-counsel visit him yesterday we have my co-counsel and richard said will be with you next week and he remains committed

to continuing to protest not just. at the base but now also for speeding up of the prisoners and his indefinite detention without any sort of reports this problem could be resolved something as simple as meeting with and talking to the prisoners at discussing with them what it is that it's going to mix and the hunger strike and it's a simple as allowing them to return the qur'an or to not have their qur'an searched that they haven't been security for many years but we finally heard from president obama on the issue he had been silent for many months many years however since he committed to close the prison and we find we. really need you'd prefer and your condemnation of the president. at all with the ongoing mass hunger strike pressure is being stepped up on the american president to deliver on his long running pledge

to close it up next artie's gun a teacher can sit down with a member of a key u.s. think tank with a chance recently been slamming washington's treatment of the detainees in cuba. live. science technology innovation all the list of melamine spun around russia we dumped the huge earth covered.

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this. looks. a legal research and advocacy group called the constitution project has produced a sweeping six hundred page report on u.s. interrogation and detention practices in the years after nine eleven the task force concluded that quote it is indisputable that the u.s. and gauge the in the practice of torture and that the nation's highest officials bore ultimate responsibility for that they also found no quote no for more persuasive evidence that these interrogation method it's produced valuable information that could not have been obtained by other beings present and former u.s. government officials who are part of the task force with me today is invested in james jones who co-chaired the group who's also

a former pastor to mexico sir thank you so much for coming good to be with you thank you president obama at the very beginning of his presidency signed an executive order to stop torture but human rights organizations say indefinite detention itself is torture is it fair to say that the obama administration is engaged in torture now i don't think so i think he made a lot of good moves when he came into office our our situation our conclusion is doing things by executive order can be changed by the next president very easily and so the kinds of protections human rights protections that we're talking about should be done by the congress and should be part of the statutory. part of the you know laws of the united states not just executive order but yes it's much better than it was we still have some concerns about policy on the drones for example but the kinds of abuses that we've found over the years since the nine eleven do not

seem to be practiced these days what about indefinite detention without is this one where the were the our task force was unanimous we. just do not believe that it fits into the laws and the ethics and the values of america. to have indefinite detention and to not allow a court of law and adjudication of charges against a person to be to go through an orderly process more than half of those detainees in guantanamo currently have already been cleared by the u.s. government that means all the intelligence the military the law enforcement and all the agencies involved have said there's no reason to hold these people and they still are indefinitely being detained in guantanamo we feel very strongly that they ought to be released and they are and that should be done immediately and the president we've called on the president to tell his secretary of defense to issue

that exact that order to release the defense lawyers argue that even with the transfer restrictions in place the law even now allows for the administration to use waivers to lease some of these men and get those waivers are not being used why probably politics comes into that. everything that. the loyal opposition wants to criticize the administration for being soft on terrorism or things like that so i think all those things go into the decision i don't know personally about being soft on the rule of law no i agree with that that's our position that we should we should meticulously follow the rule of law that's what we preach all over the world we preach our values and we have actually prosecuted similar cases. against other countries who have not followed what we say we ought to do and.