people who were imprisoned at guantÁnamo to president biden to close guantÁnamo. you talked about "some of us had children who were born in her absence and grew up without fathers. others experience the pain of learning our close relatives died back home waiting in vain for news of our return, waiting in vain for justice." can you talk about how this affected families? >> yes. just to say that letter was written by a group -- published authors and werote this letter to be published in the new york review of books to biden, offering forim and describing for him and a point plan that would help tclose guantanamo the effects on people's lives is -- one of my closest friends was held in guantanamo 14 years without charge or trial. he came home to see four children, the youngest of whom was 14 years old, child he had met in his life. the others were so young that they barely remembered him and were now grown adults. i spoke to three young men, he is 19, his father is still in guantanamo that is cleared for release. he had never seen his father in his life. jawad's fath

he this use guantanamo as a recruiting tool. they do not want us to close guantanamo. some of you might be thinking, my constituents don't ever ask me about guantanamo. and you would be correct. most of america has forgotten about guantanamo. but hear me when i tell you this our enemies have not. closing guantanamo responsibly restores the reputation of america, ensures accountability for those who have committed crimes against us, and provides closure for the families of those they have harmed. the issue isn't whether to close guantanamo, but how. so how do we close it? here are some suggestions. first, make someone in the white house clearly responsible for closure and give them a finite period of time to make it happen. i was given 96 hours open it. 96 days to close it seems reasonable. whoever gets this thankless job needs to have the authority to direct the necessary elements of our government to make it happen. second, there also needs to be a senior officer official at the state department in charge of negotiating transfer. more than two thirds of the remaining

. >> close guantanamo. >> close guantanamo now. >> our enemies act without conscious. we must not. >> nearly 20 years after the attacks on 9/11, the long wait for justice continues. the cia has admitted to subjecting to repeated water bording, a technique that simulate drowning. >> he was sexually assaulted and nearly drown by his sbeer gators who threatened to rape his sister. >> in his statement, he also cast doubt on the effectiveness of the cia program. nothing the interrogators were doing was effective. whenever i was being tortured, i told them what i thought they wanted to hear. >> for the survivors and family members of the victims, it's a process that has taken far too long. >> justice delayed is justice denied. and now we're 20 years later with no justice. >> my sop gave his life is and it does not honor him that we violate our constitution in retaliation for what happened on september 11th. >> we have a constitution. we have a bill of rights. and it applies to all persons. >> the stories of torture that have come out of guantanamo and cia black sites around

today we have 35 men in guantanamo bay. including the mastermind of 9/11 and the mastermind of the attack on the uss cole. they are being prosecuted for their cop -- crimes and for of a military commission. in 2010, under president obama, deferred national security division attorney general led a review of the 240 detainees still at quintana mao at that time -- only a small portion could be prosecuted due to legal and evidentiary challenges. some were set for transfer to other countries and some work so dangerous that the task force recommended continued detention. president biden has committed to closing guantanamo by the end of his term. he is not the first president to attempt to do so, but as the task force report explains, simply prosecuting or transferring a detainee is not an option in every case. assistant attorney general olson is not here to say whether he has changed his conclusions about continued detention at guantanamo. there is no representative from the state department to say what countries will be able to

guantanamo mean? what it means in a time of stress, as you just said, was the, the united states willingness to push aside many of the many of the rules and regulations and norms that would have governed prisoners in a war time situation. and i would say more than it was the to, to john bellenger's point, the, it was the perpetuation of that, as much as the original fed up that has led us to the quagmire that we're in today . also just want to tag on to something else that you said before you raised about the black sites and the torture of individuals in custody and black sites. in many countries around the world, those prisoners are brought to the united states in the fall of 2006. after the time john was talking about that there was some consideration including his that it was the right thing to do to close guantanamo bay. rather than close it, they did bring these black site individuals that we referred to, mostly as high value detainees to guantanamo. and that in a way change the nature of guantan

so that's why guantanamo was originally created. not so much to try to put people outside the law, but to have a secure place to hold them. that was not in afghanistan. well, before i jump to karen, let me just follow up john and ask, you know, on one level that sounds pragmatic. it even sounds innocent. but we saw, as you said, you know, the development of enhanced interrogation techniques and then, and then behavior is not just about guantanamo, but other black fights. we've heard stories about rendition of these prisoners at different places, humiliation, abuse, etc. i guess my question to you is something that seem pragmatic at the time became something that became very much of a dark spot later. what happened is it, is it just the nature of governments and power and trying to deal with the, the passion and fear at that moment that led to those behaviors? what's your sense of it? because you are in the middle, and i know i'll just tell our audience, you had a lot of moral problems with, with what it evolved. but how did that hap

military prison at guantanamo bay.e will hear about the legal rights of detainees, national security concerns, an attempt to close the facility. [indiscernible conversation] >> this hearing of the senate judiciary committee will come to order. theodoric just as ski is often quoted as saying the degree of civilization and society can be judged by entering its prisons. for the last two decades, most notorious prison in america has been guantanamo. we know today, and we knew when the senate judiciary committee held its first hearing on closing the guantanamo detention center in 2013, eight years and three administrations ago. i chaired that hearing, at the time many senior military officials, national security experts and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agreed it was far past time to close guantanamo bay. it saddens me that this hearing today is necessary. the story of guantanamo is a story of a nation that lost its way. it is a story of unspeakable abuse, indefinite detention without charge or trial. elements that a

the 1st prisoners arrived in guantanamo by. this is the detention cam set up by the us following the 911 attacks and the insuring invasion of afghanistan, nuclear breach of human rights. most prisoners were held indefinitely without trial . d. w is all of a salad, went to the us naval base on guantanamo and says, and the camp and, and the camp some say has come to symbolize one of the biggest us moral failings in the so called war on terror. ah guantanamo, located in a tropical paradise. but the u. s. naval base in cuba stands for human rights abuses and torture mohammed to old slaw. he was held cheerful, 14 years, suspected of involvement in the $911.00 attacks, but never charged for a crime. he was brutally tortured and suffers from post traumatic stress disorder until today, 34 nights ago i woke up and i was shaking. so skin because i saw my, my jacket on the door and i thought it was someone coming to get in. and it took me a very long time. some time i wake up, i cannot breathe defense council, anthony natalie represents a

when i became special envoy for guantanamo closure, there were 166 people remaining at guantanamo when president obama left office. there were 41. and as we just heard, there are 39 now. and the reason i emphasized that is because sometimes there's fatalism in a sense of defeat and we absolutely can and must move forward aggressively and moving the remaining people out of guantanamo. it can be done this way. any hours they be sent, mr. so where would you send them? well ok, so of the $3912.00 are facing charges in the military commissions process including 2 that were convicted. 27 have never faced charges. those $27.00, unfortunately, there still is a law that they can't go to the united states, but they can either be repatriated to their country of origin. or if that's not possible for national security or human rights reasons, they can be resettled in 3rd countries as has been done with other detainees. and when i say transfer them, i'm not saying transfer to incarceration, i'm saying transferred to freedom. those 27 should be transferred to other countries. it's, it's difficult to

guantanamo has been seen internationally as a stain on u.s.istory. >> we are ashamed that everything that made this country, one that we can say was a free country, that had equal justice for all, has abandoned all of that. and that's sad. it said. i don't know how -- it's said. i don't ow how we're going to be able to recover. oliver: the u.s. government named for a forceful and rapid response. >> the united states will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts. oliver: in the war on terror, america and its allies invaded afghanistan. the u.s. naval base at guantanamo served as a prison for alleged war criminals and terrorist suspects, a place where the constitution of the united states does not exist. ever since it was open, human rights activists argued guantanamo is where the united states lost its moral authority, a place of torture and double standards. there's also another side of guantanamo, a place were 6000 inhabitants tried to go about their everyday lives in a bizarre contrast to the infamous prison. residentia

s. detention center in guantanamo america's war on terror had begun, and guantanamo would quickly become part of the story. the nation would try to forget, ever since it was opened, human rights activists argue guantanamo is where the u. s. lost its moral authority, a place of torture and double standards. that is mostly of limits for our a camera. to our viewers watching on p b. s. in the united states, into all of you around the world. welcome. we begin the day with a medical 1st and what it could possibly mean for the thousands of people who die every year waiting for an organ transplant. last week you a surgeon successfully and planted a genetically modified pig heart into a human patient who had run out of options. the 57 year old patient had exhausted all known treatments and he was too sick to qualify for a human heart transplant. to night, doctor said they are cautiously optimistic. thousands of people around the world are hoping that this will mark a new chapter. every day people in need of an organ transplant die waiting because the demand is simply greater than the supply. thi

that the guantanamo prison should be closed. that it's tragic that it was open, that it was cited torture is continuing to abuse people using indefinite tension without charger trial. i think most people agree that it's an atrocity, but it's become kind of political to fall in this country. and so it has been easier in a way, politically, for our various leaders to leave it open. but that is no longer completely violates the rule of law that the u. s. government, as it stands for, you know, there was a president to promise to close it down and who did not. his name was brock obama, almost 10 years ago, obama appointed a special envoy, cliff sloan, to shut down the detention camp. now he quit the job 18 months in i just spoke to him. i want you to take a listen to what he had to say to me. now some of them can't go to their country of origin because of security concerns, for example, in yemen. or because of human rights concerns that they might be abused, and then they need to be resettled in other countries. and there's no reaso

the guantanamo bay detention camp. ever since it was opened. human rights activists argue guantanamo is where the u. s. lost its moral authority. the infamous prison has violated the geneva convention for 20 years. why has it still not been closed? today on d. w. news. with oh magazine. how many if need be? let one body, cynthia may till it's either me or i said logan. good morning, ma'am. by soon our get out goes to read me, it will be a good.

s. naval base on guantanamo and the camp. some say has come to symbolize one of the biggest us moral failings in the so called war on terror. mm guantanamo, located in a tropical paradise. but the u. s. naval base in cuba stands for human rights abuses and torture mohammed to old slaw. he was held cheerful, 14 years, suspected of involvement in the $911.00 attacks, but never charged for a crime. he was brutally tortured and suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder until to day 3. 4 months ago i woke up and i was shaking. so skin because i saw my my jacket on the door and i thought it was someone coming to get him. and it took me a very long time. some time i wake up, i cannot breathe. defense counsel anthony natalie represents an alleged, okay, the terrorist who arrived here in 2006 and since then has been waiting for his trial. guantanamo has been seen internationally as a stain on american history. so where does that place here put the united states? we're ashamed that every thing that made this country one that we could

because primary for evidence that came out of guantanamo the formal guantanamo prisoners, that i have a documented and worked with are all around the world. clearly, i think the majority, if not all of the mirage put on some kind of a list of united states that, that has their stopped them or prevents them from opening bank accounts. it stops them from travelling properly harasses them. so the, essentially the imprisonment of guantanamo may and when you're freed, but the, the connection to guantanamo and the targeting and disruption of your life does not end for this episode. for me is one of the proofs of that though there are others. 33 and a half minutes, i will, i will be back with another fallen fresh look at, you know, stay with the so called enhanced interrogation techniques used by the u. s. officials were basically designed as techniques to break down the human mind. if you force a human being to stay in a certain position doesn't take very long to the pain involved to become absolutely excruciating. but nobody's lean finger on you. you are doing it to yourself. and we starte

so the, essentially the, the imprisonment of guantanamo may end when you're freed. but the, the connection to guantanamo and the targeting and disruption of your life does not end. this episode for me is one of the proofs of that though there are others. that is, for me, this hour i will be back in about 30 minutes is another full and freshly new says our international. glad that with no other shows are happy to report pleasant sounding lies. our politicians are constantly telling us, pleasant lies. i'm the show. we dare to delve into unpleasant truth. yes, i do unique name senior, but will i, lisa typical. there is only 9 but already a university. students that away m slash a new model appointment. let's see. yep. you got the last, there's dos padilla to get it and i am noble, choose a yahoo that he may go to coast. he shows the trust programs. now brochure, nebraska, of course with level your special i will the yeah my but i did say the 1st grade and of course the, what the plan was to get on the she was a new mom. she's in this, i'm the little one.

so the, essentially the, the imprisonment of guantanamo may end when you're freed. but the, the connection to guantanamo and the targeting and disruption of your life does not end. this episode for me is one of the proofs of that though there are others. the number of daily co cases are searching in europe with the alma kron variance spreading across the continent. but so to our waves of unrest to do to tough new restrictions being imposed in some countries. a word of warning, you might find some of the following images disturbing. there have been violent clashes in northern germany, where hundreds of protested against a possible vaccine mandate that would prevent people from entering indoor venues without a negative cobit test or a job. people set off firecrackers and at least a dozen were reportedly arrested. officers stopped to protest due to demonstrators plotting mask mandates there. meanwhile, in italy, thousands took to the streets in protest over the weekend. it is now mandatory there for everybody to get everybody over 50. that is to get a covert job and it

because primary for evidence that came out of guantanamo the former guantanamo prisoners, that i've documented and worked with all around the world. clearly, i think the majority of not all of them are actually put on some kind of a list of the united states that, that has stopped them or prevents them from opening bank accounts. it stops them from travelling properly harassing them. so the, essentially the, the imprisonment of guantanamo may end when you're freed. but the, the connection to guantanamo and the targeting and disruption of your life does not end. this episode for me is one of the proofs of that though there are others. the number of daily covered cases are surging in europe with the micron variance spreading across the continent. but so to our waves of unrest due to tough your restrictions being imposed in some countries. now, what of a warning you might find the following images a bit disturbing. now there have been violent crashes in northern germany, where hundreds protested against the possible vaccine mandate that would prevent people from entering indoor venues without a n

a former guantanamo detainees. he was released without charges taking legal action against government to restore his british passport off of the case against him collapse. they issued my passport eventually after 8 years of waiting and then took it away 3 weeks later . this is all connected to the initial imprisonment, telemundo hasn't gone away. the harassment continues over the past decade with life from moscow. thanks for joining us. and daniel hawkins, wherever you are this hour, welcome to the program. now, western media stepping up their attacks on moscow, trumpeting what the kremlin calls, unsubstantiated warnings of russia when an invasion of ukraine. the russian government strenuously denied any move towards a conflict, but has laid out red lines against night. i was eastward expansion towards its borders. he's out, he's gone, quarter would be tough. over the past several months, hysteria surrounding up reported russian invasion of ukraine had spread across the west like wild fire and to top it all off a n

he was released from guantanamo in 2005. he was detained again by you can police a decade later, but the case against him collapsed. he applied for a passport in 2019 and even got one in september 2021. but it was revokes just 4 weeks later or beg believes his passport troubles or connect with his previous imprisonment at one time of the passport was when i received it, i was overjoyed i i tweeted out that i'm finally be able to travel and then within 3 weeks i was, i received a letter, an ironically this letter i received would show the great deal of incompetence was actually primarily the cover letter was addressed to a person who'd been convicted in the north of england for passport fraud. and it was dated 2017. nonetheless, the letter sort of rece regurgitate and reiterated the reason why my passport has been revoked. back in 2013. it was they said, based upon a trip that i did to turkey and to syria. again, i was in investigation investigating the role of the british government in working with various regime. i have no

and try to find ignorance about flooding rules with causing a formal guantanamo detainees. he was released without being charged a is taking legal action against you take government to restore his british passport off in the case against him collapse. they issued my passport eventually after 8 years of waiting and then took it away 3 weeks later. this is all connected to the initial impression in content mode. it hasn't gone away. the harassment continues over the past 2 decades with us from moscow. thanks for joining us on our international on daniel hawkins. were you are this our welcome to the program? now, western media are, are stepping up their attack so moscow talking about what the kremlin kohls unsubstantiated warnings of russia's imminent invasion of you crime. the russian government has strenuously denied any moved towards a conflict, but has laid out red lines against nato's eastward expansion towards its own borders. ortiz don't quarter, has more. over the past several months, hysteria surrounding up reported russian invasion of ukraine has spread across the we

ready, you get more, delivers the sound trick for guantanamo, and she is get most voice. i get my hello. hello. well belmont, to your morning show with the day candles otherwise known as petty. i'm say an a lease for trials in the prison are not part of their coverage. a, it's not really part of like the culture here. you know, that's a, another side of the base. here on this side, we have a whole different type of operations going here. the new school allows its students somewhat of a normal childhood, 5 kilometers from the notorious torture prison. good. okay, what are some other things that you know about native that's actually the message that went, that always sent to the whole world. they said there are 2 kinds of people in this won't people who don't deserve a little bit of law. muslim young people and people who deserve the latino, out of almost 800 former detainees, 39 are still incarcerated in guantanamo only to have been convicted of a crime. ah, to toner there soon. who passed away in english, filmy, has developed a system to collect donations for the homeless

we examine the legacy of the guantanamo bay prison, 20 years after its opening.uch more. >> woodruff: as we reported earlier, president joe biden and vice president kamala harris are stepping up their push for democrats to pass federal voting rights legislation. geofbennet gets two different views on the significance of their trip to georgia today, and what lies ahead. >> reporter: thanks, judy. while the president was joined by several civil rights leaders today during his events in atlanta, some local voting rights advocates chose not to participate. one of those organizers joins me now. latosha brown, co-founder of black voters matter. it's good to have you with us. and president biden did today the thing that you and so many other advocates have been calling on him to do which is to inject new urgency into the push for voting rights. why did you oose not to attend his speech today. >> we weren't trying to be combative. we want his agenda to pass. we want him to be successful. we helped put him in office. but we also wanted to send a message loud and clear the

k. independence party on a former guantanamo detainees. amazon beg, who spent nearly 3 years in the infamous us prison without being shot, is now taking legal action for the u. k. to restore his passport, a beg, who's a british pakistani had been initially detained 2 decades ago when allegations of enrollment and terrorist activities. it was released from montano in 2005. it was attained again. but you can police a decade later, but the case against him collapse. he applied for a passport in 2019 and even got one in september 2021. but it was provoked just 4 weeks later. beg believes his passport troubles are connected to his previous imprisonment. guantanamo the passport was when i received it, i was overjoyed i, i tweeted out that i'm finally be able to travel. and then within 3 weeks i was, i received a letter, an ironically this letter i received would show the great deal of incompetence was actually primarily the cover letter was addressed to a person who'd been convicted in the north of england for passport fraud. and it was dated 20

this is all connected to the initial imprisonment in guantanamo that hasn't gone away. the harassment continues over the past 2 decades. hello, good evening. you're watching international. my west, the media are stepping up their attacks on moscow trumpeting what the kremlin calls, unsubstantiated warnings of brushes, imminent invasion of ukraine. the russian government has strenuously denied any move towards a conflict, but is laid out red lines against natives eastward expansion towards its borders. don't quarter has the tax. over the past several months, hysteria surrounding up reported russian invasion of ukraine has spread across the west, like wild fire, and to top it all off a number of media outlets. specifically, cnn are continuing to show reports, proport accusing russia, basically of provoking the conflict in done boss. russia is preparing what's known as a false flag operation to create a pretext for another invasion of ukraine in the view of american intelligence. that could be an impending attack of some kind on the current territory move up from the crime

so the, essentially the, the imprisonment of guantanamo may end when you're freed. but the, the connection to guantanamo and the targeting and disruption of your life does not end for this episode. for me is one of the proofs of that though there are others. the number of daily covered cases, a sizing in europe with the micron variant to spreading across the continents. but so to a waves of unrest, shoot a toughie restrictions being imposed in some countries. what a warning you might find the following images disturbing, or the happen volume clashes in northern germany, where hundreds protested against the possible vaccine mandate that would prevent people from entering into the news without a negative or a jump even set of firecrackers and at least a dozen reportedly arrested officers stop the process to, to demonstrate a 1000 mall. the least themes in italy sounds are taken to the streets in protest. we tend not mandatory this, everybody over 50 to get a cobra. jeff. it's essentially banned the on vaccinated from using public transport or entering bars and restaur

you have a live video link to guantanamo bay.ou just reported on one detainee, a somali man who i believe is the first high-value detainee who has been approved for transfer out of guantÁnamo. explained to me the significance of that. big of a deal is that? quiet he is one of 18 men, we have more transfer decisions that camout today. but the significance of this man, a somali man is that they never before cleared someone who came straight to guantÁnamo from the cia black site for transfer to another country and there is a number of those former cia prisoners or not charged with crimes and this suggests the cia had at some point felt they could not ever be released. some of them might be. the best-known one is -- has never been charged with a crime. there are some expectations that we will hear about whether or not they decide he can be really -- he can be relocated to another country. >> for anyone who has been catching up on how this has been open for 20 years, when you look back at january 2009, that is when president obama and

and it is still there to day 20 years on be guantanamo located in a tropical paradise. but the u. s. naval base in cuba stands for human rights abuses and torture. mohammed will old slaw. he was held to your for 14 years suspected of involvement in the $911.00 attacks, but never charged for a crime. he was brutally tortured and suffers from post traumatic stress disorder until today. and 134 nights ago i woke up and i was shaking so skill because i saw my, my jacket on the door and i thought it was someone coming to get in. and it took me a very long time. some time i wake up, i cannot breathe. defense counsel anthony natalie represents an alleged al qaeda terrorist who arrived here in 2006. and since then has been waiting for his trial. every thing that made this country one that we could say was a free country that had equal justice for all has abandoned all of that. and that sat, it's sad and i, i don't know how we're going to be able to recover what animal was built after the $911.00 attacks, as government aimed for a forceful and rapid response. in the war on terror, america

the harassment continues over these past few decade and a former guantanamo detainees. he was released without being charged to taking legal action against government to restore his british passport off to the case against him, collapse with good even just on 6 o'clock in moscow, you watching us international now west the media, stepping up their attacks on moscow trumpeting what the cramming calls unsubstantiated warnings of rushes, imminent invasion of ukraine. the russian government has strenuously denied and he moved towards the conflict but has laid out red lines against natives eastwood expansion towards his borders. with more details his don't quarter over the past several months. hysteria surrounding up reported russian invasion of ukraine has spread across the west like wildfire, and to top it all off a number of media outlets specifically you, cnn are continuing to show reports proport accusing russia, basically of provoking the conflict in don boss. russia is preparing what's known as a false flag operation to create a pretext for another invasion of ukraine