four others roughly seventy five remain at guantanamo bay who have been cleared for release. why they have not been released yet. i don't know but it is the time is here all we do appreciate you coming on and breaking down this case jon eisenberg promo console forty nine has signed. late this afternoon received a statement from the pentagon regarding this matter it said eisenberg has no access to health records sell all kind of dumpy and mounds of paper used or the time it takes to deliver it is interesting but the relevant council usually where lane the agenda of their clients is nothing you know what i can tell you is that the masses and ministered on the few at guantanamo. reply err they are both humane and necessary to preserve life. to sochi russia now where the paralympics has wrapped its seven day is a quick look at the medal count so far russia is currently in the lead with a total of fifty medals. i also have the most bronze silver and even gold medal wins and second places ukraine with fourteen total medals canada is in third with ten medals and the us is in four h

. >> a former guantanamo bay detainee appeared in a british court on terrorism charges. he has been carrying out humanitarian workers begg, says. he was released without charm from the u.s.-run guantanamo bay prison in cuba in 2005. >> egypt has sworn in its latest interim government, the reshuffle coming after a surprise resignation of the government. >> egypt's president swore into a knew government. the prime minister was the first to take the oath. he used to be the housing minister. however, many egyptians are waiting to see what field marshal abdul fatah al-sisi will do. there was speculation he would resign as defence minister and run for president. turns out he is staying on as minister of defence and leader of the armed forces - for now at

guantanamo officials are no longer allowed to use the phrase hunger strike. instead any prisoner who is starving himself is categorized as being on a long term non religious fast the rebranding effort is part of guantanamo is revised standard operating procedures conveniently called the medical management of detainees with weight loss as first reported by journalist jason leopold for speeding is now called central heating and us officials no longer disclose how many prisoners are on hunger strike except for ahmad hassan his story will be heard in a court of law. very hard on our team meal. every day for supporters of muhammad more see an upper egypt court has issued a death penalty. i'm twenty eight supporters of the muslim brotherhood on charges of murder and inciting violence only one hundred and fifty three of those sentences are currently in custody. the rest were tried in absentia our teeth del trial has more from cairo this is one of the ninety s death penalty but it's i think in egyptian history this case the present day and find inspiring people. clea

you take guantanamo for instance. a military base, but yet it also became the site of the cia interrogations of prisoners there in the war against terrorism. owncia's possession of its air force, its own ability to attack people around the world with missiles and targeted killings. what do you see as the problems between established military in a system of accountability to the public versus the cia as they continue to expand its efforts around the world? >> that is a fascinating question. i will try to be concise. before i start, just briefly clarify, the cia interrogation program did not take place at guantanamo. in black sites overseas. there were no ca interrogations done at guantanamo. it was a military dod operation. to your larger question, yes, certainly,een -- 9/11, accelerated the phenomenon inincreased cia involvement paramilitary activities -- you know, creation of the air force. that would seem to parallel the normal existing traditional roles and duties of the u.s. military. personally, i did get increas

well, how long have bee people been held in guantanamo without trial?eard prisoners getting beaten. josh and i pounded on the doors and the guards would come running. we learn the way to get them was to say, what is this, guantanamo? there were so insulted by that. in their minds, being compared to this prison to them was the worst prison possible was an insult and it would actually stop beating people. i think it is simple. i was held for two years without trial. there was no evidence against me. i think very few people in our society would think that is justified. we believe in trial by jury in this country. apply that everywhere. it should be applied all over the world, including a guantanamo bay where people have been held for years, some over 10 years, without trial. >> josh fattal, could you read your selection from your book? this is while i was in solitary confinement. "a tall well-built guard charges down the hallway. he clashes a few feet from my door with a prisoner. i hear a single smack. i rushed to the door to listen as i cringe at the cru

and obviously they have one eye on eventually closing guantanamo bay and having more trials like this in the united states. if abu is found guilty, he will spend time in a domestic prison. >> coming up on aljazeera america, from time to time, police find themselves dealing with repeat offenders, but there's a different type of program in texas that is forcing police to go the extra mile. >> welcome back to aljazeera america. i'm del walters, and here are your headlines. russia giving ukraine an ultimatum. if the international community is responding. john kerry is on his way to kiev for talks. >>> and the trial of osama bin laden's son-in-law. he is charged with killing americans on stent 11th. and israeli prime minister is in the united states, today he will meet with president obama to talk about middle east peace, and he will talk to one of the largest pro israel groups. >>> the former libyan, accused of kill -- olympian, oscar pistorius, he said that he thought he was shooting at an intruder when he shot his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp. shots rang out and her i.d. was protected in

what people need to understand, this doesn't only happen in places like iran or guantanamo. this is a widespread practice in our own country. we have 80,000 people in solitary confinement, many for years and some for decades. these are not the most violent prisoners. some have done violent things. many are in for arbitrary reasons. there's no oversight. pity prison infractions. >> describe what happened the day you thought your hearing someone screaming. somes, that -- there were -- that was the worst breakdown i've ever experienced. i lost a sense of who i was. screaming and all i could think was, i want it to stop. it sounded far away. then the doors of my cell burst open and one of the guards came in and started shaking me. and i look at her, and through her eyes, i could see myself and i realized i had been screaming. i had been beating at the walls.

and guantanamo bay detainee denies charge of providing terrorism training in syria. >> taliban announce in pakistans cease-fire because it wants to revive peace talks. as the oscars approach why stuntmen feel they're not getting enough recognition for being blown up, beaten up, and knocked down. >> in just an hour from now the u.n. security council is meeting to discuss the escalating crisis in ukraine. this is just hours after the russian president is given permission to put troops in ukraine. vladimir putin warns of a threat for russians in the area. we're going to be going live to the capitol where we'll speak to rory in moscow, but first let's go to our diplomatic editor james bays. james, round two at the united nations. what are the expectations regarding the latest development? >> i think the expectations are pretty low. closed door meetings starting in an hour's time, and i think most people assume that it will be pretty similar to the meeting that took place 24 hours ago, but in an even more charged atmosphere. i think behind those closed doors you'll have denunciation of russi

her striking guantanamo detainee in on the sign is suing present brock obama to stop the brutal force feeding actions at it now. lawyers for the grief we killed yemeni man say he's been force fed over five thousand times and subjected to a form of the people border torture known as pumping he is being given very large quantities of fluid through oversized nasal gastric feeding tubes in a short period of time perhaps two thirds of a gallon in craps thirty minutes twice a day which is causing him considerable pain more pumping was widely used during the spanish inquisition and ironically employed by the japanese army against american soldiers during world war two. it's the same part to play present requests. it's been going to do this by doctors and nurses not by inquisitor is one of the tea pots and buckets is sometimes fatally a laxative is given to the detainees in conjunction with the liquid nutrient which causes him to dedicate time before a screening process. afterwards are held in a restraint chair for as much as two hours equally sitting in their own filth. four year old hassan

its eastern ukraine well your ally as agreed to accept some guantanamo bay prisoners into the country the obama administration which is looking to close the detention center has been in talks with the countries and our relocating inmates the american countries accepted a request by washington to take some prisoners when the president saying he would consider than refugees have been some speculation and you're applying has considered allowing and find inmates from guantanamo with the requirement that the state in the country for at least two years. however us officials say the final deal has yet to be made to the details are still living in the works at this point i've had resettled forty three guantanamo detainee in seventeen countries. since obama took office and released thirty eight dollars to their homelands. obama began his first term with a pledge to close the prison but he says he was sworn in by congress which impose restrictions on overseas transfer is an abandoned transferred to the united states congress finally he's those restrictions in december. last week the state depar

and british guantanamo bay detainee denies charges of providing terrorist training in syria. >> the pakistan announcement of one-month cease-fire because it says its want to revise peace talks. >>> and as the oscars approach, why some feel they are not getting enough recognition for being blown up, beaten up, and knocked down. hello, so just in the past hour it's emerged that the russian president has asked parliament to send troops to ukraine. an increasing number of men have appeared armed in the region in the past few days. they've taken over a number of airports as well as the parliament building. the live pictures that you're looking at right now are from russia where a parliament session is being held right now on ukraine. now just to let you know, a majority of the population in crimea are ethnic russian. we're joined now from moscow, to tell us more about the session that we're looking at right now going in moscow. >> reporter: it's almost breathtaking how fast this situation is moving. earlier on, on saturday the lower house of parliament requested that putin step in and take decisi

federal court hunger striking guantanamo detainee his son is suing president barack obama to stop the brutal force feeding actions at get him out lawyers for the gravely ill yemeni man say he's been force fed over five thousand times and subjected to a form of medieval water torture known as pumping he is being given very large quantities of fluid through oversize nato gastric feeding tubes in a short period of time perhaps two thirds of a gallon and perhaps thirty minutes twice a day which is causing him considerable pain water pumping was widely used during the spanish inquisition and ironically employed by the japanese army against american soldiers during world war two it's the same torture with the twenty first century to too us. it's being done with feeding tubes by doctors and nurses not by inquisitors with the tea pots and buckets sometimes frequently a laxative is given to the detainees in conjunction with the liquid nutrient what causes him to death akkad during the force feeding process afterwards or held in a restraint chair for as much as two hours frequently sitting in t

all the fuss about closing guantanamo, i would say is related to this failure to have an appropriately goals strategy. i can offer some comments but the short of its is when james cole and eric holder and others were talking about this in old campaign days it seemed easy to criticize guantanamo but once in office for a variety of reasons they found they found guantanamo quite useful for managing the legal odd problem of the detainee's that we have for neither pure criminals more people in uniform who we would treat purely through military means. the basic point, the administration is a bit soft on whether we are at war. we are repeatedly seeing that. starting with the may 23rd speech at national defense university, suggestion that the war should end, the war will end, no one wants perpetual war. there are ambiguities that entered into the conversation which right now are simply unhelpful because al qaeda still thinks it is that war and i think we are still at war. there are parts of the executive branch, the military to think they are at war and i think going back to the question of le

key campaign topic for president obama, he couldn't close guantanamo bay because of the nimby congress, not in my backyard congress, not wanting trials in their backyard, even in new york, especially in new york and now they are slowly starting to happen. this man abu ghaith is the highest being ranching al qaeda member to be tried on u.s. soil. prosecutor, obama administration hoping they could pull this off smoothly that it goes well that it seems to be fair and free and there is no trouble in the hope they can hold other high profile trials here and maybe close guantanamo bay. >>> peter lanza, so father of am lanza, wish his birth had never happened. he said, i know adam would have killed me in a heartbeat if he had the chance. the reason he shot nancy four times, one for each them, one for nancy, one for him, one for ryan and one for me. he says he hadn't seen his son for two years, tried to reconnect but adam ignored all of his requests. a short time ago new information was released concerning security plans for next month's boston marathon. three people were killed, more than 260

so all the fuss, for example, about closing guantanamo, i would say, is related to this failure to have an appropriate legal strategy. i could offer some comments, but the short of it is that i think when james cole and eric holder and others were talking about this in old campaigning days, it seemed easy to criticize guantanamo. but once many office they found for a variety of reasons that they actually find guantanamo quite useful for managing the legal odd problem of the detainees that we have who are neither pure criminals, nor people in uniform who we would treat purely like. the basic point i want to argue, and i think that the administration's a bit soft on, is the question of whether we're at war with terrorism. suggestions that the war should end, the war will end, the that we're withdrawing from the war, nobody, of course, wants perpetual war and, of course, that's right. and so there's some ambiguities that i think have been entered into the conversation which right now are simply are unhelpful. because al-qaeda still thinks it's at war. i certainly think we're still at war.

us and by nations' top human rights before the sun its peak and if the applicant is committed to guantanamo prison which mr obama had promised to produce before he became president covenant. it's not one time a month with belgium on the message for us president barack obama ahead of the eu in asia summit in brussels honesty protesters wants european leaders to talk about the plight of guantanamo prisoners with the president while he's in time. they want their elected representatives to raise questions about the u s death penalty on the use of drones as i want to get it. was it the distance. this exhibit the u s has defended its use of the o month old check up the term strikes often leave communities devastated. you may need to see a shrink to the crying in the crisis in his speech at the european council mr obama said. sure would be put on the wall political pressure. if he continued i don't use can cause a decline in prices was high on present among his agenda in brussels. still it didn't receive the expected attention. james rainey. we can expect him to pee the brussels us president barac

but once in office they found for a fur idea for reasons that they find guantÁnamo quite useful foraging the legal problem of the detainees that we have. neither criminals or people in uniform do we treat purely through military means. we can talk about that a bit if you would like. the basic point i want to argue and the administrations that soft tone is the question of whether we are at war. there were portably seeing starting with the may 23 speech at national defense university suggesting that the war should end, the war will end and nobody of course wants perpetual war. so there's ambiguities in the conversation which right now are simply unhealthy because al qaeda still thinks it's a war. i certainly think we are still at war. there parts of the executive branch and the military that very much think we are war and going back to the question of legal strategy some of the conundrums we have made for ourselves about detention, about surveillance are resolved if you consider we are in fact still in a state of war with al qaeda. some of those problems are quite clear. we have a gre

we could not hear you. >> yes, the actual prison situation in guantÁnamo is often used as a reason thatsparks terrorism. what would your response be to that? >> are the people at guantanamo fostering the fact that we are holding them there, does that foster terrorism? >> that is what osama bin laden was saying, that is what the egyptian doctor, the new al qaeda leader was saying. it was a u.s. naval base in cuba. is it the reason for which we have terrorism? terrorism existed way before guantanamo was created. >> right over here. >> marc, i think the group you were try to think of earlier wasms-13. dr. matusitz, my compliments to you just as an average citizen. we in america take everything for granted. there is no question about that. that prompts this question to you. and the last of love years we saw the decline of the government in egypt, -- couple of years we saw the decline of the government in egypt, libya with kaddafi. in america, there is concern we are backing the wrong horses. my question to you, sir -- is america for all presence in those areas, are we getting involved with

you now maybe they want to protect the base in guantanamo. how would we react and so i know i don't think that but that doesn't mean did i endorse today we went to the auburn convenient part of a non interventionist pro american foreign policy is and i don't have to make that determination cuz it is complex. i do know that the people more local have more to study about it just geographically. i would assume that the russians have a moral justification being concerned about what's happening in the naval base in the crimea. as as compared to united united states and on god and for this reason i am typing it out. i know there's a bit more in the more the outsider stay out of it. the font they would be nice if it meant i could wait no i don't like the cake just like the ukrainians the side that what they wanted to and europeans and americans walk away from finding a minute that's not likely dampen the only thing that i might have an influence even on the unofficially government anymore. my advice would be that we should stay on it and i'm not the

plus a guantanamo bay inmate sues the u.s. military and president obama taking the battle against torture at the facility to a federal court for the first time. and case figures of simmering sectarian tensions in the u.k. is radical cleric choose to create divisions between shia and sunni muslims. they're coming to you live from moscow you're watching r.t. international. now ukraine's prime minister has turned down a major nuclear security summit in the hague opting instead to meet i.m.f. bankers he hopes to secure billions in loans money that would come with severe austerity conditions attached piece can of explains what he's missing. all eyes are now being focused on the netherlands or specifically the hague where wolves politicians and diplomats have been gathering to take part in two major events the unofficial meeting of the g seven without russia the west accusing moscow for crimea and a major nuclear safety summit with moscow taking for all happening in the same town and pretty much with the same politicians involved wh

and i had a conversation with another senator and i said, does it mean a citizen can be sent to guantÁnamobay with no trial? he said yes, they are dangerous. it backs the question. who gets to decide if you are dangerous or not? ,he reason why it is important people believe in individual rights, this really bothers us. it is a bigger audience than that. think about it. american, african japanese american, jewish american, hispanic, have there been times when the government did not treat you fairly? have there been times when you sell the war on june ask have had a racial outcome -- when the war on drugs has had a racial outcome? the law should not have a racial outcome. maybe then people will say i always hated those republicans are crust sucks. maybe there are new republicans. maybe a new gop. we will see. thank you. [applause] >> we have questions from the audience. we pass on note cards. i will read some of them. do you think the issue of privacy could bridge the partisan divide in congress? right/leftre is a nexis on this. one of the persons i work most closely with on an essay, spying

what isious as to really going to happen with guantanamo bay. to know if guantanamo bay is on the list foreclosures -- four closures. there has been so much talk in the media. as far as being in a hot zone -- can you comment on that? guantanamo bay is in an overseas location, in cuba. it is not covered by the brac process. it is only focused on u.s. domestic installations. lepore, thank you for your time. the atlantic council is where we will take you next. it is an event with marietje schaake. that event will take place shortly. >> we are alive at the atlantic council. last year, marietje schaake travel to iran. she will talk about her impressions as well as the nuclear program. barbara slaven will interview her. this is expected to start in a moment. live coverage here on c-span. >> good morning. thank you for coming. we have a treat. we are lucky to have a member of european parliament who had an interesting trip to iran. thank you from our sponsor that sponsors the iran task force. we focus on every aspect of iran that you can imagine. the i

as of last march the regulations governing hunger striking at guantanamo bay were public information the end of this past year in november and december the government redrafted the regulations called protocols are standard operating procedures governing force feeding at guantanamo they have kept most of those retracted provisions secret i have seen some of them i am not permitted to see others of them but what i have seen the designated secret i cannot discuss in public what i can tell you about the revised protocols publicly is was been released in retracted portions of the revised protocols they are no longer addressed to hunger striking they are addressed to. weight loss detainees with weight loss i believe the government since the hunger strike of last year has engaged embark upon a new tactic of rebranding the hunger strike as nothing more than. unexplained weight loss they are no longer releasing figures for how many people are hunger striking and being force fed our understanding from the detainees is currently thirty five of them or so are hunger striking and about sixteen of

police have arrested former guantanamo bay detainee more bag and charged him with terrorism offenses linked to the syria conflict the man who was a british citizen is accused of carrying out rebel training and funding terror acts bag was held in the notorious guantanamo bay for three years without charge he was finally freed in two thousand and five and recent years back has spoken frequently to watty describing the inhumane conditions of the prison and you can watch as interviews along with other. that's on our website all to you dot com looking forward to australia now where people in the southeastern town of moore will have been advised to leave their homes because of a raging fire in a nearby coal mine smoke and shrouded the site for almost three weeks blighting the area that's about one hundred fifty kilometers from melbourne officials suspect the blaze that is now forecast to last for ten. so who left out first but then think about it a bit later what am i talking about. aaron aid should be here in just a moment. judy cox a utah mother out of spite but an entire line of t. shir

. >>> jean guantanamo bay has said there is a there is -- want has talked about the service center. it blasted last night's decision which creates a 24 hour systems facility. it includes surveillance cameras and shots spotters they are afraid it will charge us and not the entire city. they are remembering a popular 8 8th grade student. they were mourning the loss of jenna betty. she tried to retrieve her cell phone from the train tracks sunday evening. family and classmates are remembering her, she meant so much to so many. >> jenna was one of the best friends i have ever had. i doesn't think i could ever replace that. >> there will be another emotional ceremony later this week and there is a stun did i new development at transgender high school student. he was sexually assaulted by three boys in the school bathroom. they don't know why he made up the lie and he could face charges for filing a false report. it could prove for the latest wake-up call with a school district with a troubled history. >> we do have harassment and individuals who get confronted every day and we need to lo

people at guantanamo fostering the fact that we are holding them there, does that foster terrorism?>> that is what osama bin laden was saying, that is what the egyptian doctor, the new al qaeda leader was saying. base in u.s. naval cuba. is it the reason for which we have terrorism? terrorism existed way before guantanamo was created. >> right over here. , i think the group you were try to think of earlier was ms-13. dr. matusitz, my compliments to you just as an average citizen. america take everything for granted. there is no question about that. that prompts this question to you. and the last of love years we saw the decline of the government in egypt, -- couple of years we saw the decline of the government in egypt, libya oh with gaddafi. in america, there is concern we are backing the wrong horses. isquestion to you, sir -- america for all presence in those areas, are we getting involved with the proper groups to restore some type of stability in those regions, or are there terrorist organizations? washe obama administration accused of supporting the muslim brotherhood against

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eyes of the nation have not exactly turned to his pretrial hearings which have staggered along at guantanamout of town show that anyone has any intention of seeing. joining me, amy davidson. we've been talking about, in an effort to draw more attention to what is happening, talking about the lack of discussion, which is nothing of the eyeballs turned, to words what's a huge deal for the country and for the city. >> one would think would be a huge dealing it is a mystery it's no like we're a country that doesn't like courtroom dramas. it not like a country that hasn't been changed by 9/11. so that's where i started, why -- why aren't we more excited about the trials? why aren't we following them? even pretrial hearing for khalid shaikh mohammed, under a couple of answers, one is what holder was talking about how badly we've handled the ksm proceeding. he was arrested a dozen years ago. he has said that he masterminded 9/11. that should have been the trial of the ken tri and it never happened. it's instead we have he's not being tried in a real courtroom, he's being tried in what americans who

a hunger striking guantanamo bay prisoner has filed a first-ever legal challenge to force-feeding at the president federal court. emad hassan is said to have been force fed over 5000 time since his first hunger strike in 2005. his attorneys detailed several forms of alleged torture by the u.s. military. they include the water cure, a technique dating back to the spanish inquisition that inserts large amounts of liquid into prisoner stomach that harsh speed, causing severe pain. the case could lead to the first significant court hearing on the legality of force-feeding guantanamo prisoners. a louisiana prisoner has been freed after 30 years on death row. of theord walked out angola penitentiary on tuesday after a judge vacated his murder conviction and death sentence. ford's exoneration came after new evidence emerged clearing him of the 1983 murder for which he was convicted. details have been kept under wraps in order to prosecute the actual killer. ford, who's african-american, was tried by an all-white jury. he spoke rudely to reporters as he left the prison a free man. >> my mind

white house level congressional level and further down about whether it's right to try them at guantanamo bay or to bring them i in the federal arena as what happened with sulaiman abu ghaith. the question was would he get a fair trial. the trial lasted far less time than predicted. it was predicted to go into april. there were things that did not happen. there were no evidence given for the maste mastermind of 911. there was no evidence of bin laden's driver. there were videos, and abu gaith was calm and said a lot of things that he didn't need to say because it probably hurt his case. the prosecution released a statement saying they hope thes were cushion brought comfort to the victims of 9/11. stanley cohen, the lead attorney for sulaiman abu ghaith said that there will be an appeal, and this trial was effectively conducted in secret. >> john terrett by phone concerning the guilty verdict in the case of sulaiman abu ghaith. >>> the death toll from that washington state mudslide now stands at 16 but that number is expected to rise. eight more bodies have been found. al jazeera is in was

we suffered a major strain years ago and with the creation of guantÁnamo.it is very controversial i realize. it had a negative effect. allies need to believe in what you are doing. when you have a dissenting factor involved, it affects the attitude and work. what happens is that so many people inside and outside intelligence were morally offended by what was going on. it became a campaign issue in 2008. people debate whether enhanced interrogation techniques were torture or not. all i can say is if what happened happened to you or your family, you would never have that debate. both president obama and dennis blair said it is over. we will not get into what it was. it will not happen on our watch and it ended. it made a huge change in our relations with our allies. it also did some damage to our intelligence community. people who were told to to do this, it is legal, moral, necessary for our intelligence. they proceeded to do so and then were second-guessed later on. people said it was not legal or moral. we do not believe it was necessary. how does a profes

you mentioned one word, guantanamo, right? >> right.isoner who was in really bad shape. every time the guards would come to his cell, he would just scream in terror. one time, a bunch of guards went to his cell. we heard them beating him, and josh and i start pounding on the door and the guards kind of -- a guard came and said what are you doing? shut up. and we said, what is this, guantanamo? we knew that was very insulting to them. he was taken aback and they stopped actually beating this prisoner. >> josh, how about life now? how different is it for you after your imprisonment? what was the lasting effect that it's had on you? >> well, one of the cruel gifts in solitary confinement is i realize that -- how central relationships were in my life, because i, you know, had no relationships at that point. and so, you know, when i got out -- so that became central to how i would move through life afterwards. sort of valuing those important things. when i got out of prison, i ran out of prison into my family's arms and i was immediately swi

mohammed, who is in prison in guantanamo bay, says that abu ghaith has had no role -- he had no roleg military operations. arguments on that issue are scheduled for today. >>> another very big recall for general motors, this time involving faulty airbags. the automaker is recalling more than 1.2 million suvs that may have a wiring problem that could cause their side-mounted airbags to not deploy. this comes at the same time that gm is recalling more than 300,000 full-sized vans to make the instrument panel more safe and 64,000 cadillac xts sedans for overheating brakes. >>> all right, global stock markets mixed right now. asia closed higher, taking a cue from wall street, which saw big gains yesterday. europe, though, seeing some losses in the early going. futures also slightly lower here. worries over the crisis in crimea still weighing in on investors. if the west does decide to ramp up sanctions, it is russia that has the most to lose. investors pulled $33 billion out of russia's economy in january and february. that number could grow as high as $55 billion by the end of this mont

the cia didn't stop with the panetta review or the interrogations during the iraq war or at guantanamo. the cia is an active hand in shaping american intelligence. and that's what i'm hearing from overseas, that the cia has pushed too hard and now congress is pushing back. >> right. >> larry, dianne feinstein is a major democrat. this is a major voice in the democratic party. >> i know she is. and she's usually very positive towards the intelligence committee. let me switch gears real fast. there is much talk today, as you well know, by the french and others that the time for tough sanctions on russia is coming. these are trade sanctions, these are economic sanctions, these are banking sanctions, these are visa sanctions. let me ask you this. in your opinion, will president obama go along with these sanctions? >> no, he will not. the european union is at risk if there are sanctions levelled on russia. this is not just about russia. this is about the eurasian su r supercontinent. it is wrong-headed to punish russia because you will also punish the eu. that's our trading partner. i'm awa

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the authorities picked up the wrong man, confused him with somebody with a very similar name in guantanamo bay. it's likely to last around one month. >> oscar pistorius pleading not guilty in the shooting death of his girlfriend. what fellow south africans are saying about the case that is grabbing global attention. >> al jazeera america is a straight-forward news channel. >> its the most exciting thing to happen to american journalism in decades. >> we believe in digging deep. >> its unbiased, fact-based, in-depth journalism. >> you give them the facts, dispense with the fluff and get straight to the point. >> i'm on the ground every day finding stories that matter to you. >> in new orleans... >> seattle bureau... >> washington... >> detroit... >> chicago... >> nashville... >> los angeles... >> san francisco... >> al jazeera america, take a new look at news. primetime news. >> i'm john seigenthaler in new york. >> stories that impact the world, affect the nation and touch your life. >> it's like a brawl here in the waters around monterey. >> only on al jazeera america. >> welcome back to

>> the answer's guantanamo bay.president obama when he campaigned to be president in 2008, a key part of his campaign was to close guantanamo bay, and he's been unable to do that and the reason is the congress, members of congress simply don't want this kind of high profile trial taking place in their back yard, so if ever it remains open. many of the al-qaeda leadership are there. that is why a trial of this magnitude is causing such a lot of interest, because it's something that the authorities want to be able to use, certainly the obama administration is keen to see this go off smoothly as a way of maybe moving some of these people to trial in the united states in the future and eventually one day maybe even closing guantanamo bay. if he is found convicted at the end of this one month trial, he will face life imprisonment. >> john, thank you very much. >> in south africa, it is day one of the pretorous murder trial. you are looking live inside that courthouse. the former olympian known as blade runner pleading in