bagram has been able to absolutely escape that.that's why you look at bagram detainees not afforded the basic of rights such as access to attorneys, something that guantanamo detainees have. we want to draw attention to the fact that bagram is there, and it's going to be there unless something is done to shut it down. >> ramsey kassem, you have a client in bagram, what has his experience been like and what do you plan too requested. >> the prisoners of bagram do not have access to counsel. i was there last year demanding to see my client and my client was demanding to me, but they were saying that they have no righrightright to counsel. we were about to go back to the court of appeals to ask for a simple thing, the right for a day in course. the obama administration is taking the same thought, courts have no jurisdiction over what goes on in bagram. you know, we've been trying to get that very basic right to get into the courthouse door, which guantanamo prisoners in theory have been able to do in the last seven years. >> we resear

afghanistan a facility so dark that former detainees say one tunnel is a holiday camp compared to bagram. and shouting to be heard a london street performer with a booming voice and then i have a controversy would have been a megaphone read from his hands by the authorities. you're watching are two live from moscow and lindsey france. america's top diplomat says congress is not the last word when it comes to america's ambitions to attack syria u.s. secretary of state john kerry believes there is enough evidence to allow the president to launch an attack even if lawmakers say no but after years of constant war and killing it's not the strikes that scare syrians the most as artie's maria financial reports from damascus. we're last time in damascus a year ago now we returned and we decided to meet some of the people we've previously interviewed for our report but sadly many of them have either fled the chaos or were killed one of those who died was hamad rafia yon very successful very famous actor who was also another and activist he chose wards to defend his country and he was killed for t

some call the bagram prison a second guantanamo although in reality it was established just before the detention center in cuba and at one point housed twice as many inmates at the height of the u.s. war in afghanistan but these are just details the two really could be called sister jails just like guantanamo bagram is used to detain people apprehended in the u.s. war on terror and has been around for more than a decade the detention centers have both had their fair share of scandals surrounding the conditions in which the prisoners are held and the way they are treated humiliation of inmates by u.s. personnel physical and emotional abuse allegations of torture you can really sign off the checklist as you go for both prisons and of course the biggest common trait inmates in so-called administrative detention that's people who were arrested but never received a court trial they've been behind bars for years and will stay there for no one knows how long sure american officials insist some of detainees at bagram a hard core al qaeda operatives and will immediately get back to the old busi

and will stay there for no one knows how long sure american officials insist some of detainees at bagram a hard core al qaeda operatives and will immediately get back to the old business of terrorism the minute they're set free and just look at guantanamo there are prisoners of program who have already been cleared for release and yet remain in jail sixty seven of them for more than a dozen different countries and no one knows what to do with them again sounds very familiar doesn't it however things that bug rome are slightly more complicated than what told him oh by the fact the facility has actually been handed over to the afghan government which was deeply unhappy about having a foreign operated geologic soil to begin with as soon as couple to full control of the ground in march it either transferred or released prisoners what to do with the almost seventy foreign nationals that remain and what to do with the u.s. because some allege the americans are still very president fearing that are going to fish will release inmates that the u.s. sees as a threat to its security and they're goi

afghanistan or passivity so dark that former detainees say one tunnel is a holiday camp compared to bagram. and shouting to be heard a london street performer with a booming voice and an eye for controversy could have been megaphone ripped from his hands by the authorities. live from our studio center here in moscow where it's just turned one pm i'm going to france. for some breaking news for you this hour russian radar systems have reportedly detected two missiles launched eastward from the central mediterranean the u.s. has been readying a military strike against syria and its ships have been converging in the area for around two weeks now president obama however said there should be a congress vote before washington launches any action russian radar systems have reportedly detected two missiles which were launched somewhere over. the middle east all america's top diplomat does say congress is not the last word when it comes to america's ambitions to attack syria u.s. secretary of state john kerry believes there is evidence enough to allow the president to launch an assault even if lawma

between bagram and guantanamo bay most on big spend three years being churned through america's terror program he told us of what he saw including allegations of people literally being beaten to death amongst the things that i witnessed was prisoners being beaten in two cases actually physically to death one of the techniques they used to use was to hold us into common or soles our hands were tied above our heads to the top of the cage for punishment or for discipline a hood would be closer placed over our heads and we would be left there sometimes for hours on end and in this way i saw at least one person getting beaten so badly that it was that he was beaten to death and weren't even allowed to get up to walk we weren't even allowed to pray in congregation if we didn't comply with the orders would simply be taken to the front of the so or to the isolation cells and they would be physically tortured and i was during one interrogation i remember very clearly being interrogated by the cia with my hands tied behind my back to my legs and in the next room there was a sound of a woman scre

military general has confessed that there is absolutely no plan on how to deal with the detainees at bagram so the stalemate looks set to drag on. and online for you right now russian type koreans and the cross has a bell of russian justice in the c.e.o. one of the walls the largest call to ash produces detained in minsk over corruption charges which has done that to the company's principal shareholder. in june and a song is no clinchers in washington as a legal investigation over hey claims is an unlawful quieted down by the us on the weekend leaks website that says he mocks a thousand days income of fine meant i had to off the dot com formal. up next stuff to a very short break when me and the russian law gave a home to social friends stay with us he owns. all. the. economic up and downs in the find out all day long to do your shanghai and the rest of life it's going to be hazy it will be everything we told me. right there seems to be a. first rate. and i were being butchered. on a report. i use to my. i. am now. on my. i. will go as beast of the bible says many times that god is the fath

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. >> it's not like walking around bagram air base where everybody has weapons. >> that's right. >> intates, you don't expect anything like this to happen. it's a navy yard. but there are a lot of civilians who work there, as well. >> mostly civilians. >> mostly civilians. >> and the navy that's there is hr than kind of navy. it's not war fighter types for the most part. >> you know, what's fascinating, it's right in a really developing part of washington, d.c. right next to washington nationals park. there are single family homes, apartments going up. retail. it's a really lively part of the district of columbia now supposed to let's say 10 or 15 years ago when it wasn't. >> it's a great part of town. it feels safe all the time. so when i take my kids down there, on friday nights for concerts and that kind of thing, it's great. i've never been concerned with anything like this. >> matt, you're still in the ares. you could be called up. right now you're not on active duty. >> matt maasden, thanks for joining ugh. much more right after this. if there was a pill to help protect your eye