rashad ismael has two relatives detained at guantanamo. his brother sadeq was released back to yemen in 2007, after six years. rashad says that a few yemenis have joined up with al qaeda after returning from guantanamo. but he blames poverty & rampant unemployment, and american counter- terrorism policy. >> and what is your current relationship with al qaeda in yemen? >> watch more "faultlines" on demand or visit aljazeera.com/faultlines. >> sunday. >> you have to look at the suffering of these children. >> director of unicef, anthony lake. >> every one of those numbers is an individual child. >> helping the innocent victims of war. >> what can unicef do? >> there's a very short answer... our best. >> every sunday night. >> i lived that character. >> go one on one with america's movers and shakers. >> we will be able to see change. >> gripping. inspiring. entertaining. talk to al jazeera. sunday, 6:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. in washington, there's no hint that talks with al qaeda are on the table. but in may, as he laid out th

rashad ismael has two relatives detained at guantanamo. his brother sadeq was released back to yemen in 2007, after six years. rashad says that a few yemenis have joined up with al qaeda after returning from guantanamo. but he blames poverty & rampant unemployment, and american counter- terrorism policy. >> and what is your current relationship with al qaeda in yemen? >> watch more "faultlines" on demand or visit aljazeera.com/faultlines. in washington, there's no hint that talks with al qaeda are on the table. but in may, as he laid out the next steps in america's war, the president announced his intention to renew efforts to close guantanamo - and lifted the moratorium on returning detainees to yemen. [...] given my administration's relentless pursuit of al qaeda's leadership, there is no justification beyond politics for congress to prevent us from closing a facility that should never have been opened. president obama has the legal authority to transfer many detainees out of guantanamo - but his critics say he has so far lacked the poli

rashad ismael has two relatives detained at guantanamo. his brother sadeq was released back to yemen in 2007, after six years. rashad says that a few yemenis have joined up with al qaeda after returning from guantanamo. but he blames poverty & rampant unemployment, and american counter- terrorism policy. >> and what is your current relationship with al qaeda in yemen? >> watch more "faultlines" on demand or visit aljazeera.com/faultlines. >> tomorrow. >> to the apaches, it's an ancestral place. >> sacred lands threatened. >> were the apache consulted on this? >> no. >> a controversial deal. >> we would love to have a mine in the community. at the end of the day, it is an issue of fairness. >> america tonight gets an exclusive interview with a foreign mining company accused of taking native american land. >> people have been very critical of your company, saying that it'll leave a permanent scar on the landscape. will it? >> an america tonight special report: "mining sacred lands". tomorrow, 10:00 eastern. only on al jazeera america. in was

then to life after guantanamo. we will look at the story of a father and son who were both imprisoned at guantanamo and held for eight years. they were never charged. one was resettled in portugal, the other two kate -- the other twoto cape verde. welcome to democracy now! democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has won a surprise election victory, putting him on course for a fourth term. his likud party is poised to control 29 or 30 seats in the 120 member knesset. the zionist union opposition based second with 24 seats. a united list of arab parties came in third. netanyahu closed out his campaign with a vow to oppose a palestinian state, reneging on his nominal endorsement to a two-state solution in 2009. net and then younetanyahu also vowed to expand the illegal west bank statements and issued a last-minute plea to supporters denouncing a high turnout of arab voters. the zionist union also ran on a platform for israel to keep that many of israel set

we meet former guantanamo detainees struggling to adapt. and we visit a red-light district to see if the criminalizing of prostitution affect the hiv. >> weeknights on al jazeera america. >> join me as we bring you an in-depth look at the most important issues of the day. breaking it down. getting you the facts. it's the only place you'll find... the inside story. >> ray suarez hosts "inside story". weeknights, 11:30 eastern. on al jazeera america. >> welcome back. our top stories on al jazeera. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu have denied reports of strained relations with the u.s. he is in washington where he's just addressed a jewish lobby. netanyahu will speak to the congress, which has upset many democrats. >>> secretary of state john kerry said he wants a fully implemented cease-fire in ukraine within hours or there will be further consequence force russia. more than 6,000 people have died since fighting began in april in eastern ukraine. [ explosion ] >> iraq has launched a major operations to recapture the city of tikrit f

six guantanamo bay detainees who were released and settle in uruguay. we begin with stories making headlines around the world. in bangladesh. taken to jail on monday officials say rachman admitted to. >> joint military drills involving south korea and the u.s. south korea's military says the missiles were fired from the city of nampho and flew about 300 miles before splashing into the sea of japan. threats of violence towards south korea. >> a massive fire engulfed more than 400 homes in manila, philippines, firefighters did not act quickly enough say rm. >> outside the shadow of benjamin netanyahu is the country's minister naftali bennett. many. >> some say had he is on track to become prime minister in the coming years. he's been described as a phenomenon had israeli politics. naftali bennett. >> behind the did i guise -- disguise is a hawkish politician. a party that under bennett has been seen as young and cool, while remaining more conservative than prime minister benjamin netanyahu. >> i people there should be new politicians. in politics he's con

guantÁnamo naval base is usually useful as a facility to the united states.one of the big things, i have a mission, mass migration mass migration type scenarios which is often before. haitians that are trying to get somewhere else and the same thing with the cubans. the cubans. the coast guard saves their lives, generally brings them to gitmo and are under dhs authority. and they repatriate them or listen to the stories. at a certain time when that process gets overwhelmed in the last time i got overwhelmed was the mid- 1990s 47000 haitians and who knows how many died from a us coast guard navy saved all of these lives move into guantÁnamo. the military then does not take responsibility but houses them, takes care of them. dhs is in charge. we construct camps, treat them right take care of them in the way that the un has guidelines for refugees and assist dhs and repatriate. it is a useful base. if you are talking about guantÁnamo in terms of detention off, i don't know. the pres. wants to close it and until that happens i we will take care of those prisoners

i took a group of senators to guantanamo bay a couple of weeks ago. soldiers are living in substandard barracks, communication facilities are not adequate. even if you oppose detention operations at guantanamo bay you should know that in barely 20 years there have been five different humanitarian operations at guantanamo bay to include post-haiti earthquake operations. this amendment would allow for military construction to ensure that guantanamo bay naval station, regardless of detainee operations, treats our troops to the highest standards they deserve and preserves it for humanitarian contingency operations in the future. i would urge a "yes" vote. oh and i ask unanimous consent to modify the amendment with the modifications at the desk. the presiding officer: is there objection? mr. sanders: i object. the presiding officer: objection is heard. mr. sanders: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. sanders: sanders: i raise a point of order that the amendment is not germane to underlying resolution and therefore violates t

they were in guantanamo bay. i was in guantanamo bay a few months ago. and the president is so eager to shut that place down. and that's what he did with this trade. he got rid are of five people in guantanamo bay. and he also was having really bad press with the rise of isis and everything. he thought that getting this soldier back would cause the american people to forget about everything else in the world and praise him on his foreign policy and it's really back fired. >> there has been some -- it's not just republicans who are angry that he didn't notify congress according to the law. >> yeah. it's the law. at the end of the day congress has a role it to play. i get he is the commander and chief. he has a lot of leverage. when we put into law that ultimately is signed by the executive branch that he has to notify us. he has to come to correct me if i am -- congress. he us being offended by what happened to congress but on behalf of the american people who put us there to defend what they want. >> why did he fail to notify you? >> i think because -- w

guantanamo naval bases a hugely useful facility to the united states. and one of the big things -- i migrationsion in mass type scenarios, and this happened before, and it happens pretty regularly where we pick tians that are trying to go somewhere else, they are brought to gitmo, and they are under dhs authority at that point, and they repatriate. i listen to their stories and make a decision if they go to haiti or back to the united states. when that process gets overwhelmed, and the last time it got really overwhelmed was in the mid-1990's when 47,000 haitians, and who knows how many died, the u.s. coast guard, navy saved all of these lives, move them to guantanamo, and then the military then does not take responsibility for it, but houses them, takes care of them. hs is still in charge. that's dhs is still in charge. youeed them in the way that and particularly has got guidelines for refugees, and and we assist at dhs repatriate them. it is a very useful base. if you are talking about guantanamo in terms of detention ops, i do not know. the presiden

. >>> three months ago six men were freed from guantanamo bay and send to uruguay.e the transition to their lives has proven to be difficult. >> reporter: after more than 12 years detained at guantanamo bay, this man, a chef from tunisia, was delighted to be offered a new home in uruguay. it was a country he knew little about, but knew it was a long way from the life he had been living, as a prisoner never charged with a crime, but with no home to return to. >> translator: i want to stay in uruguay and rebuild my life. if i didn't what would i do? i have no pass port or papers i asked for the americans to send me back to tunisia, but they refused. >> reporter: he would like to open a restaurant here serving arabic food and asked the authorities for help. he also would like to be reunited with his mother. >> translator: when we were in guantanamo uruguayan authorities made many promises but these promises haven't been held. >> reporter: he and another man have moved out of the house, and now live in a nearby hotel. he says it was too crowded. their costs are goved by

closing guantanamo is not going to make any difference whatsoever. they're going to keep attacking us until we're wiped off the map and israel is wiped off the map. comes down to president obama's flawed leadership and this world view which is harming for the united states. >> of you're in iran some you're looking at the bickering back and forth between our -- get can testy with benjamin netanyahu addressing congress and talking about scrapping a deal they're cobbling together with the administration, do you get a sense that the bad guys are really like can all -- liking all of thaws because we're divided on this and more inclined to support or at least understand our enemies than stand by our friends? >> well, very challenging situation and it's growing. under this administration, we have seen the pair and the regional -- the power and regional influence of iran grow which is destabilizing and going to destabilize more our traditional allies in the region. this is a problem that is not going away and by closely working with iran on some operations i

on the question of the terrorists from guantanamo bay that were released and have been held in qatarast year that also very controversial because one of them at least made contact with his old taliban buddies. so this is a very complex case emotions high. and at 3:30 today, we are going to find out what the next steps are that the u.s. army plans to take. >> 3:30 p.m. eastern, a little bit less than two hours from now. cnn a lot of coverage of that. barbara, we'll be watching together with you. thank you very much. >>> let's take a quick break. we're standing by for that news conference the ceos of lufthansa and germanwings, we expect new information on the investigation into the crash in the french alps. it apparently killed 150 people. before earning enough cash back from bank of america to help pay for her kids' ice time. before earning 1% cash back everywhere, every time. and 2% back at the grocery store. even before she got 3% back on gas all with no hoops to jump through. katie used her bankamericard cash rewards credit card to stay warm and toasty during the heat of competitio

army sergeant spent yearsgl white house traded him for five guantanamo bay detainees.r says the army is to charge him with des certification. we could very well find out what investigators learned in a news conference scheduled minutes from now, so let's get to it. >> shepard smith reporting live from the fox news desk. >> now we know the military will charge sergeant bowe bergdahl with desertion the

five members of the taliban who had been held at guantanamo bay. reports emerged in january that the pentagon had decided to charge bergdahl with desertion, but so far the pentagon has adamantly denied those reports. let's go first to ed lavandera. he's live with so much to impact on this. i think as we await sort of news of any kind of disciplinary action let's begin with the possibilities. what are the options he could face? >> brooke i just hung up a phone call with the attorney for bowe bergdahl. and he tells me confirms to us that what the u.s. military will announce here at 3:30 eastern time is that bowe bergdahl has indeed been charged with two charges, desertion and misbehavior before the enemy and that his case is now being referred to an article 32 hearing which is the equivalent of a grand jury proceeding in the u.s. military court system. so bowe bergdahl apparently will face criminal charges. this according to his own attorney who was brief on these matters a short while ago. and we expect this to be the announcement here in a couple o

the trade of five guantanamo detainees cobourg dole was controversial from the start now it is the trade that it is inexplicable and explosives because the trade of five radical islamic terrorists made little sense in and out nidal today bergdahl was accused of desertion and misbehavior meeting he faces charges that carry a maximum sentence of life in prison and we have more coming up. the united states carries out jetfighter attacks over the assault -- stalled assault from the islamic state. and jimmy jordan joins us as well. we take up what may be a breakthrough that brought down the airbus jetliner over the alps and we have the latest. the charges against bergdahl of the taliban and swap were not the only reversals of the administration is on the verge of collapse as the rebels of the hands. in washington d.c. the president declines to meet with the secretary general even as they are faced with growing threats from russia even the incredible development from iraq of the rising strikes against the islamic state in the battle that is now not going well for the iranians. approaching the

the prisoners at guantanamo bay.uest: this is actually a problem we have come to see in the public. week tend to conflate everything into one issue. there are three separate distinct issues here and we need to deal with them on their own levels. one is, the spin or the way the administration framed this. and what they said, the right answer and why they said that, that -- those are political judgments, rhetorical things. that is one issue. we could have a big debate about that. the second issue, the wisdom of the mechanics of the swap itself. every soldier, we have an obligation to bring every soldier back. it does not matter what they did, so that is irrelevant. how we bring them back, that does matter. and there have been many situations where soldiers have been kept in terrible circumstances because of the good of the nation always comes first. we can about them, we are going to bring them back, but how and when we do that, that, -- the nation comes first. so we could have a debate about the wisdom of the swap. th

i don't care about closing guantanamo bay, but they need to be housed somewhere. that is our facility. you say they've been down there so long they are ineffective. nelson mandela was in prison 27 years and came out for good and ran a country. camp boco gave us the leadership of isis. these guys are there for a reason. they are not there for parking tickets. there is no reason to let them out because your political ideology about guantanamo bay. >> why close gitmo if there is proof they are going back to the fight? >> the biggest reason to close it is it actually does have more harm than good. there are currently 129 die tan'stan detainees in gitmo. but the people being recruited is so many more than that. it is so costly. >> what? >> i don't understand that. >> they talk about the fact that we have this and hold them. if we have them and have the proof, we should bring them on to american soil and charge them. >> we have to decide what we are doing here. the same day we are flying sortees, let's decide whether we are going after these people and trying to kill th

so here we are giving -- go ahead pip think it's about closing guantanamo prison.y they released these five because they're the hardest to get out of guantanamo. now they're out and the president is moving forward with a political decision to close guantanamo despite the threat posed by those who are in guantanamo who are terrorists. >> representative we're out of time but i appreciate you coming on the program. ed royce of california. thank you, sir. >> thank you, poppy. >>> "the new york times" is reporting that antidepressants have now been found by investigators in germany in the apartment of germanwings co-bilt andreas lubitz. what does ma that mean as this investigation continues? we'll dig into that next. >>> first, we have been telling you all evening about the victims of flight 9525. 18 of them came from the same high school in germany. 16 students, two teachers on their way back from an exchange program in spain. the school's headmaster saying he and others first hoped the group had missed their flight. they soon learned all of them, all 18, were on board

i don't care about closing guantanamo bay, but they need to be housed somewhere. that is our facility. you say they've been down there so long they are ineffective. nelson mandela was in prison 27 years and came out for good and ran a country. camp boco gave us the leadership of isis. these guys are there for a reason. they are not there for parking tickets. there is no reason to let them out because your political ideology about guantanamo bay. >> why close gitmo if there is proof they are going back to the fight? >> the biggest reason to close it is it actually does have more harm than good. there are currently 129 die tan'stan detainees in gitmo. but the people being recruited is so many more than that. it is so costly. >> what? >> i don't understand that. >> they talk about the fact that we have this and hold them. if we have them and have the proof, we should bring them on to american soil and charge them. >> we have to decide what we are doing here. the same day we are flying sortees, let's decide whether we are going after these people and trying to kill th

none was willing to discuss their time in guantanamo, at least not yet. but the most important message is that they want to be reunited with their families as soon as possible. he's desperate to be reunited with his family. he's been to to argentina to talk about their polite >> only god knows the future. >>reporter: it's a future in a foreign land that's no longer sure it still wants them and where they're still trying to learn the language. freedom is fraught with difficulties. >>> a fire swept through manila in the philippines. some have accused firefighters of being slow to tackle the blaze. >>> children in liberia are back in the classroom after several months away from school. liberia was worst hit by the ebola outbreak. public public institutions were closed seven months ago to try to stop the spread of the virus. hand washing stations will be set up and students will have their temperatures checked at the beginning of each day. >>> almost two-thirds of sex workers in south africa are hiv positive. rights groups say that's why the government needs

while relieved to be away from guantanamo freedom is also fraught with difficulties. daniel schwindler, al jazeera montevideo. >> increased activity from the villa riko volcano. the area might have to be evacuated. the volcano which lies 650 kilometers from the capital santiago spewed out lava from its carat on sunday. scientists feel more eruptions are possible. >>> avalanche buried underneath bad snow. the worst snowfall to hit afghanistan in 30 years. eastern province of panshir on sunday rescue teams had been able to access some remote villages, cut off for the last week. nicole johnston reports. >> emergency crews are finally able to get to some of the districts that have been cut off by these heavy snow storms and avalanches. we just visited the area of dara and as we arrived the road had also been cleared. in one of the villages, 30 people had been killed and people there had had to dig mass graifers togragraves to bury bodies. many were complained that they hadn't received enough help from the government. the government is now giving them $2,000 for every pers

should we shut guantanamo? >> absolutely not. we need to keep guantanamo.letting the most brutal killers in the world back out on the battlefield. this is high-stakes foreign-policy negotiations. imagine for business, would you trade your entire company just to save someone who was actually trying to short your stock? tom: 5 is working for you and you had renegotiate contracts and every contract was a disaster i think by now i would have been fired. >> i think you would as well. susan rice was behind this whole one direction fiasco of yesterday trying to renegotiate that one. litter is full of blaming the white house. tom: pete snyder, thank you very much. back to the breaking news story two men have been arrested for conspiracy to support isis. one of them is a member of the army national guard very troubling. his name is edmonds and he is an army national guard specialists who was arrested in chicago trying to board a plane to egypt. concerned veterans for america joins us surprise pete? >> yes and no. yes because you don't expect members who have worn a

the obama administration agreed to release five high value prisons from guantanamo bay in exchange for the soldier. upon his release his parents appeared in the rose garden with president obama. little comfort to theparents to lost their son and claim he was killed while searching for bergdahl. >> he's not a hero. he left his post in war. >> senior defense officials tell us it's likely bergdahl will be offered a plea bargain to avoid jail time. let's turn to business. stocks fell across the board for a third day wednesday falling back into the red for the year. the dow jones dropped nearly 300 points. overseas saudi arabian air strikes in yemen are causing a surge in oil prices. could we see a spike in u.s. gas prices as a result of the escalating conflict? >> reporter: we could, but many analysts are telling us this morning that the spike in oil prices we saw at $3 per barrel jump in crude and prices overnight, that could be very short-lived because yemen is not a big oil producer per se. there is a little bit of lmg in oil production but it isn't a big player. that means the supply c

he wants to repatriot a number of yemenis held at guantanamo.nt then and we are seeing now with the unrest and the overthrow of the pro american government there by the iran backed that this was a problem waiting to happen. i think it goes beyond iraq cht charles' point is right. i'm more concerned about the region cht this is not just happening in iraq and yemen. this is happening throughout the region. what you have are two forces, isis growing, strengthening, gathering more territory, working in more countries in the region and iran at the same time expanding its power, expanding its influence. this can't end well if there is a civil war in yemen or a civil war in iraq. it's highly unlikely that it will remain a civil war in just yemen or a civil war in just iraq. >> you have to imagine the saudis next door are probably very scared of the situation. i want to bring in the david petraeus quotes from the washington post. the former general who lead the coalition effort on the ground. he says i would argue that the foremost threat to iraq's long

am sure it sold book, but been in office for six years and we are still force-feeding people in guantanamoit is uncomfortable. for both of you, what bearing or relevance? >> yes. i think novels are inevitably political. but the political content of a novel depends on the reader. if you are to sports toward asking ethical questions, then practically any text becomes loaded with political meaning. i certainly feel that my most recent book in dubai is investigating all sorts of political things, how countries are structured. >> i think from the former soviets, whatever, you do get political. i want to capture the feeling of what it is like to be in these two giant countries when one does well and the other collapses. yeah, it is a very 20th century of experience that i have had. a part of me wishes i was working in a burger king in denmark and having a decent life instead of -- >> that is a good segue, because of the prospect of you working in a mcdonald's in denmark. what do you think the future of the novel is? philip roth a few years ago called the novel a dying animal, and he elaborated,

out and have an argument that you don't need guantanamo anymore. think this administration often starts from what they call the narrative and works backward to what they'll do. whereas it ought to be the other way around. figure out the right thing to do and figure out how to sell it. >> there's another report today concerning the cia and the fact that the man who is behind getting bin laden. the man on his trail for at least nine years was fired at the cia. quite a legendary -- he wasn't exactly fired, but removed from his position as head of the counterterrorism center. >> right. >> and it seemed to be kind of a sloppy operation in which he was removed from that position. can you tell us about it? >> i don't know anything about it. it looked like he wasn't honohonored in the stepdown. he was given the opportunity to stay at a more injury position, but he chose not to. if we don't capture and interrogate (?) prisoners from al-qaeda and the rest of these groups, then killing the leaders the way the cia has been doing is really kind of our only out.

time members of his platoon started to come out and by the time that the trade happened, the five guantanamo detainees for his release in 2014, he was being heralded as a hero and there was real frustration among those who serve add longside him those who risked their lives trying to find him and rose garden ceremony where the president was flanked by his parentses and he was celebrated as an hero. a month later susan rice came out and said he served with honor and distinction. it was the time tipping point of the lack s backlash ofness someone who should not labeled a hero. the u.s. fought for him to come back because the motto is we don't leave sorledes behind but that doesn't make him a hero. dan: why did the white house get as far out in the direction they did when he was released? and what's been the reaction within the white house since then as they watched this thing unfold and in a sense unravel from where it was? nancy: moin sense is there was an underestimation of how angry people were in the military of the circumstances that led to his disappearance. remember for five years every

government over his seven-year wrongful imprisonment at guantanamo.ul rahim abdul razak al janko was detained by the united states in 2002 after being tortured by al qaeda and imprisoned by the taliban and on suspicion of being a western spy. in the lawsuit, al janko described his time at guantanamo as a kafkaesque nightmare saying he was tortured, beaten, subjected to sleep deprivation and urinated on by u.s. soldiers. he said he attempted suicide 17 times. in 2009 a judge ordered his release, saying that claim he was part of al qaeda defines common sense. but on monday the supreme court left in place a lower court ruling al janko cannot e because he is an enemy combatant. in a second decision, the court declined the case concerning videos and photographs which according to the center for constitutional rights, would prove the torture of another guantanamo prisoner, mohammed al-qahtani. the move leaves in place a lower court ruling the images could threaten national security by stoking anti-u.s. sentiment. a new report nds u.s. weapons manufacturers

melissa: you think guantanamo did this to them? >> think guantanamo aggravated people.emember we weren't at war with these folks formally, september 11th, 2001. a lot of these people were very, very enlisted ranks. melissa: colonel cowan, do you believe that. >> yes. no i think geraldo is absolutely correct. no question. we grabbed up a lot of people who probably shouldn't have been there in the first place. i would be very helpful -- hopeful many people released were indeed those people. fact of a matter people went into abu ghraib as innocent people and suddenly became radicalized. if environment wants to radicalize you probably able to do that. gitmo one example. abu ghraib another. melissa: we've leave it there. thanks to both of you guys. >>> college acceptance season is in full force. don't think financial aid is set in stone. we'll have tips how you can land more cash really? >> animal rights activists take credit for ringling brothers doing away with elephant acts but the owners say this was a decision 145 years in the making. do you ever have too much money? ♪

guantanamo five were transferred out of guantanamo to caterpillar tar. precedent going around congress. we're not sure what intentions the white house will be as we get to the end of the second term bill. bill: we know you will stay on it thank you katherine. >> reporter: thank you bill. martha: then there is this. spring officially arrives today but weather advisories posted in eight states covering 32 misdemeanor people get to experience the first day of spring in their snow boots. it goes up so southern new england where they haven't had much snow this year in boston? not too much. maria molina is live in the fox extreme weather center with what we can expect. good morning, maria. >> good morning, martha. in defense the of mother nature. that is not technically spring just yet. that happens 6:45 p.m. eastern time. some areas feeling more like summer especially miami 88 degrees for the high temperature. you will be in 80s in the city of phoenix but across the mid-atlantic parts of northeast feeling like winter out there. here is a look at the storm sys

from the fellow platoon mates. >> what do we know about the five taliban commanders released from guantanamow about their whereabouts and what they are doing today. >> and they are still under house arrest and that is vague because we are not under serious request. and they are in qatar and they have maintained some kind of surveillance and restrictions on the mobility communication of the five individuals to ensure they are not returning to the battlefield. there have been anecdotal reports that they could make phone call and express kind of their opinions or sympathies on the politics of what is happening in afghanistan. but it is important to keep in mind the big picture. the afghan president is here and trying to jump start talks with the taliban as the u.s. begins to wind down so this fits into big picture pieces of the region and that can't be lost on people. >> that these people won't return to the battlefield that are housed in qatar, that won't be brought to light. >> and your thoughts that the notion josh brought up, chris thousands of men and women have deserted, but not on the ba

. >>> plus, an american soldier rescued from a taliban prison in exchange for five guantanamo bay detainees. he's now charged with desertion. we talked to the woman in the photo about her new-found internet fame. >> and good morning. we do begin with break news coming to us right now from north philadelphia. >> that's where firefighters have spent hours battling a massive warehouse fire. >> let's look at the scene, this is from overnight. it is from the 2400 block of the west west moreland street. >> it appears the fire started just before about 2:30 this morning and quickly grew to four alarms. the fire is now under control but we have no word on what caused it. we do know that the where house where it started was abandoned. >> we want you to know that septa service along this line is suspended. >>> it is march 28th, it's chilly but it is sunny and there's so many events happening on this day. good morning, bill anderson. >> good morning to you karen hepp. >> we're going to find out what's going on with the weather. it's been all over the place for the last couple of weeks. we'll get to ca

these five members of the taliban who were held at guantanamo bay? all as part of this agreement with the taliban, they were swapped for bowe bergdahl who by the way, was promoted and received pay the entire time he was held captive by the taliban. so i've got ed lavandera, i've got barbara starr, they've covered the bergdahl story extensively. welcome back to the two of you. as we await this official statement from the army. barbara let me just begin with you. why don't we run through these initial charges and explain to me what this will mean for him. >> well it's very serious, brooke. desertion. it doesn't really get more serious than that. but that may be a difficult charge to make. to make a charge of desertion, you have to have the evidence that the military person deliberately left his post and had no intention of returning. intended never to come back to be potentially with enemy forces. this gets down to the essential question that we don't know the answer to -- did bergdahl absolutely intend to willfully desert his post? or was this a confu

the trade of five guantanamo detainees cobourg dole was controversial from the start now it is the tradet it is inexplicable and explosives because the trade of five radical islamic terrorists made little sense in and out nidal today bergdahl was accused of desertion and misbehavior meeting he faces charges that carry a maximum sentence of life in prison and weha

the trade of five guantanamo detainees cobourg dole was controversial from the start now it is the tradeble and explosives because the trade of five radical islamic terrorists made little sense in and out nidal today bergdahl was accused of desertion and misbehavior meeting he faces charges that carry a maximum sentence of life in prison

they are still force-feeding people in guantanamo bay. is problematic to have obama's name on your book jacket. so what bearing do politics have on your novels? [chatter] [laughter] gary: yes. i think novels are inevitably physical -- notably political. the content actually depends on the reader. neil: it asks more ethical questions than any text. my most recent book, set in dubai, i think it investigates all sorts of physical things, how countries are structured and what that says about american society. gary: being from these former soviet whatever, you do get political. i want to capture the feeling of being in to join countries -- russia and the u.s.. i was privileged to be in one superpower that collapsed and another that is doing great. [laughter] it feels like everywhere i go, wherever i went in aging -- in beijing -- it is a very 20th-century experience i have had. a part of me which as i was just working in a burger king in denmark and having a decent life. >> that is a good segue. the prospect of you both, and all not was workin

or the decision to empty guantanamo, to trade five taliban leaders for one american who most knew was a desserter and more on that one coming up later in the show. but even your most cynical patriotics can't figure out what possible benefit there is to engage in nuclear discussions with iran. do you really believe, mr. president, that iran is developing centrifuges only for scientistic and medical reasons? is the ayatollah ka mainy challenging you, channeling you, and trying to institute ka mainy care in iran? iran is one of the world's largest exporters of oil. they have few energy needs. and if they want nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, why were they hiding one of their facilities and putting it in a bunker 300 feet below ground? behind mountains. making it almost impervious to attack. now, you all know i've been pushing the u.s. to protect its power grid for years. but the iranians bearing at the length of a football field, below ground, to me can mean only one thing. and reports are this year that they will have intercontinental ballistic missile escapable of carrying a nucle

it gives obama a chance to close down guantanamo. the next time we catch them we can release them and skip the intervening steps. >> it is way above. >> there is no way we can hope to understand that. a u.s. official says three of the five we traded for bergdahl have tried to get back into their old terror networks. >> shocker. >> you seem surprised. >> very surprised. the obvious reason this swap occurred was to close guantanamo bay. this was also a pr move with the embarrassing display at the rose garden and then susan rice praising bowe bergdahl and saying he was such a great soldier. and now we have to live with the consequences consequences and have five members of the taliban back in the middle east and three have tried to join the taliban again because of president obama's ego. >> you think that's bad? i am getting the sense that you don't think that is a good idea. >> you think they would repent. >> i think i see the problem. >> we won't. >> how long do you think you would last as a taliban prisoner? >> taliban bride. >> whic

year ago, the united states gave up five senior ranking members of the taliban that were held at guantanamo bay. at the time, there was a lot of questions as to whether this was a violation of american law. did the united states negotiate with a terrorist organization to release bowe bergdahl? it was decided no. we were simply bringing home an american soldier, a prison of war, from enemies on the battlefields. there was also questions on whether or not the administration was required to tell congress that they were releasing five detainees from guantanamo bay. there were allegations that that perhaps was a violation as well. you can imagine this may once again reignite that political debate in washington, but from a military perspective they're going through with the questions that had been if you will, unanswered for years as to how sergeant bowe bergdahl disappeared off his military base. >> this is the proper way to do it with him here at home in custody and not leaving him out abroad. these are serious charges carrying up to life in prison. thank you for your reporting. don't forget to

>> i think i would have closed guantanamo on the first day.ic around it. >> i want to bring in what dick cheney said in this playboy interview. he said i can't count the hours we spent on what i considered to be a totally wasted exercise arguing about let's close guantanamo. it's still open today. it's still there for a reason. and i found that quote interesting because it's not still there because the president tried and failed or he realized now that he's in the oval office that he can't close it. congress injected itself into the process, took away money that would allow him to close it. stopped him from releasing anyone into the fall court system where they could be tried that would allow him to close guantanamo. i think the vice president is being disingenuous there and gliding over the truth. >> he made a few statements that were incorrect because he said everyone in guantanamo was caught in the act or on the battlefield. we know that was not true. there were at least 26 people that the u.s. government admitted who were there because the

yo puedo hablar de guantÁnamo.anifestantes que han denunciado torturas, todos los opositores que han denunciado torturas? >> te repito, el que tortura en venezuela-- el que tortura en venezuela-- >> cuando hemos visto los videos de la guardia bolivariana disparando en contra de civiles-- >> te repito-- >> ¿eso no le parece que es suficientemente grave? >> nuestra postura en contra de las violaciones a derechos humanos es de principio, quien viole derechos humanos debe ser sancionado. >> por eso, pero no lo estÁ haciendo, seÑor saab. >> en venezuela hay 15 funcionarios-- >> o sea, lo que estÁ diciendo suena bien, pero en la prÁctica-- >> estoy diciendo que hay--pero es que tÚ no me quieres oÍr. >> ¿dÓnde estÁ la lista de los bolivarianos?-- >> seÑor jorge ramos, usted no me quieres oÍr. te lo he dicho y no quieres oÍrla--pero no quieres oÍrla. ya tienes un problema de audiciÓn grave. te he dicho que hay 15 funcionarios, 15 funcionarios presos, entre ellos guardias nacionales, policÍas y miembros del sebin, por haber