cynthia with the group "no more guantanamos." the resolution is expected to coming up at the city council tonight. one possible hurdle, there is a federal ban allowing those who have spent same time in guantanamo to be released. but they say part of this is to open up a discussion on this topic and possibly have some people -- have them discuss this issue and maybe prompt congress to change some of those laws. allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you. >>> 7:34. also tonight, the berkeley city council will consider a watered- down version of a bill that caused national controversy. there was a any resolution to call this man a hero. the council was criticizing for honoring a man some consider not a hero. >>> an autopsy is scheduled today for a man shot and killed by vallejo police. the 45-year-old man was killed on friday after a slow-speed car chase. police will release the man's name after that autopsy is completed. police and the driver refused efforts by the police to pull him over in the country club neighborhood frida

in fact, they shouldn't have any places like guantanamo bay. >> i think it's a great idea. honestly, i think what we did in guantanamo's completely unjust. >> reporter: now the resolution goes onto say that if the men were brought to berkeley, the city would help them find housing and job training and that written resolution the peace and justice commission lists local nonprofits and volunteers have already said they would be willing to help. but under current federal law there's a ban on allowing people who have spent time at guantanamo bay to live in the u.s. so the berkeley city manager is recommending that the city council not take any action on this resolution tonight because it's already not allowed under current law. but people supporting the resolution say part of the point of this resolution is to ask congress and to prompt congress to maybe reverse that ban and change some of its laws. later on this morning we're working on getting hold of someone from the berkeley peace and justice commission to tell us a little bit more about their resolution. reporting live in

the resolution recommends the city council invite guantanamo bay detainees to come live in berkeley. >> i -- i think it's a great idea. >> reporter: the resolution includes two possible candidates, one man listed, a russian ballet dancer, the other a chef. >> we feel it's an impassioned -- it's a gesture of compassion. >> reporter: but constitutional law professor jessie roper says there's a difference between releasing someone from guantanamo and going out to cause harm. >> the city council needs to be focusing on local issues a little too more. a lot of times they think too high. we have potholes to fill. >> reporter: now, another hurdle for this resolution under federal law, guantanamo bay detainees are not allowed to live in the u.s. the city manager is recommending that the city manager take no action on the resolution. he does say that this wouldn't cause the city anything because housing for the detainees would be provided by nonprofits and volunteers. allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you. >>> president obama is defending his new budget proposal as one of tough choi

>>reporter: cynthia heads berkeley no more guantanamo. her idea to invite 2 detainee cleared of wrongdoing to live with local family is safe and willing to let one of them live in her own home. >> we believe innocent from the beginning and they simply need to heal and resume their lives and we would love to offer them that opportunity in berkeley. >>reporter: the 2 who would be invited to move to berkeley are this algerian chef moved to afghanistan. he was arrested while crossing into pakistan and ballet dancer converted to islam while in the russian army and later moved to afghanistan and pakistan. >> first thing through our mind here's berkeley at it again. >>reporter: move america forward visited guantanamo bay in 2008. he says berkeley officials are so eager to live with guantanamo detainees his pro troop organization will pay to relocate them to the island prison. >> berkeley putting the citizens in danger f.they are putting their citizens at considerable economic risk as well. >>reporter: berkeley guantanamo debate comes as city fac

both are currently being held at guantanamo bay. but the commission says the men have never been charged with a crime by the u.s. government and that they expect the men will be released at some point. the resolution says if the men were brought to the u.s. and berkeley the city would help them find housing and job training. and in their written resolution the peace and justice commission includes some local nonprofits and volunteers they say would be willing to do that to help the men. but under current u.s. law anyone who's ever been detained at guantanamo bay is not allowed to live in the u.s. so berkeley's city manager is recommending the council take no action on this resolution at this point because it's not even allowed under federal law. reporting live in berkeley, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> also tonight the berkeley city council will consider a watered down version of a bill that caused a national controversy. back in december the council briefly considered a resolution to call bradly manning a hero. he's the army private sus

mat sort to speak to detainees of guantanamo bay cleared of crimes. jolie hernandez is in berkeley. jody? >> reporter: they say the city has a long tradition of offering help to people in need and now they want to stretch out a helping hand all the way to guantanamo bay. >> they're as innocent as could be and some of them are very talented musicians, some cooks, one of them is a cook. >> reporter: that's how rita describes many of the detainees who are being held at guantanamo bay. >> terrific people. not charged. the government has cleared them and they have no place to go. >> reporter: she and berkeley's peace and justice commission want to change that by inviting them the move to berkeley. marin drafted a resolution for the city council to consider. >> to offer them a chance to restart their lives here in a welcoming community, no charge to the federal government. no charge to the city of berkeley. >> reporter: berkeley city council members weren't able to comment on the proposal but the city manager is urging the council to take no action, stating federal law currently prohibits

there are men like that at guantanamo.nd those men deserve to resume their lives. >> reporter: like jamal. an algerian native. and another man said to have taken a vacation in pakistan around 9/11 and captured and sold as bounty to the u.s. >> if it is not a problem to the community i don't see a reason why not. >> we shouldn't have locked up all these people without knowing they were guilty or not for all these years without charging them for something. >> reporter: do you think they should come to berkeley? >> aut

to decide whether to invite former guantanamo detainees to live here. christie smith is live with more. >> reporter: yes, a big vote is expected here in berkeley tonight. a lot of people are watching this very closely. this resolution was crafted by berkeley's peace and justice commission. and it would invite guantanamo detainees to berkeley. those cleared of wrongdoing. they are reportedly looking at two people, a russian ballet dancer and an allgerian man who is also a chef. they say this is one way they can right the wrongs of government. if approved the men would live with berkeley families and a nonprofit group would help them find work. berkeley wouldn't pay out of its general fund according to "the chronicle." but it could hit a couple snags. one with the department of defense. the men have no passports, no visas or money. the city council is being asked to take no action at all on the detainees. there are still hurdles in place, assuming the men still want to come to berkeley, and the soonest they could come here would be september. christie smi

defy the human rights loophole of guantanamo hundreds of thousands of iraqis continue to suffer from the u.s. led invasion now faced with a growing of sectarian violence and a religious persecution iraq's christian minority has little choice but to flee so fast in my reports those who chose to remain are putting their lives in danger. every night miriam gets ready for bed with her family but it's not her bed it's not even her house miriam and her family are christian iraqis who have been forced to flee from baghdad to the semi autonomous kurdish region because they become targets of extremist groups in the country in two thousand and seven miriam was hit by a bomb that was planted outside her house the lack i went out with my arm just to buy some chocolate and come back i went out and didn't see anything i just had the bomb and i fell to the ground miriam was lying in the street with her foot dangling from her leg her father i had rushed outside. i saw my daughter lying on the grown it was eleven my my daughter was lying in the growing and people were running show tng everything was

this is a resolution 18 and it will basically roll out the welcome mat for guantanamo bay detainees. with its restaurants and shops, berkeley is about as far away as you can get from the forced confines of a guantanamo prison cell and for one or two of the detainees it might become their home. >> they do not have to be born on this soil for us to be concerned. >> reporter: it would extend an invitation to a few of the men at the u.s. naval base in cuba who have been cleared of wrong doing. >> some where between 30 and 70 clears detainees have been inprisoned in guantanamo for over eight years, almost nine years. they are acknowledged to have no reason to be there. >> they do pose a danger, a risk to the american security. >> reporter: but -- stands by congress's current ban on clear detainees resettling in the u.s. >> it doesn't mean they don't have ties to al-qaida, it doesn't mean the evidence we have against them is incorrect. and it doesn't mean that that person is not dangerous. >> reporter: resident john flanders calls the debate frivolous and says there are other most importan

the city council set to vote on a resolution to bring guantanamo detainees who have been cleared, to berkeley. marla is live with the controversi controversial. >> reporter: it's no surprise that berkeley peace and justice commission is behind this latest controversial story here in berkeley. it has drafted a resolution that essentially invites a couple of guantanamo bay detainees who have been cleared of the wrong doing to come to the city to live within city limits. in all, 38 detainees have been cleared of the crimes they were held for. of those, the resolution invites two to live in berkeley. the first is a russian ballet dancer who converted to islam while serving in the russian army. he was arrested in pakistan while trying to hide from the kgb. the other invite for an algerian chef who worked in autreyia. after his work visa was not renewed he moved to canada. he was arrested in pakistan. neither man was charged with a crime but both were tortured while at guantanamo bay according to the center for rights. the plan could be diverted because president obama recently signed an a

this is a resolution 18 and it will basically roll out the welcome mat for guantanamo bay detainees. with its restaurants and shops, berkeley is about as far away as you can get from the forced confines of a guantanamo prison cell and for one or two of the detainees it might become their home. >> they do not have to be born on this soil for us to be concerned. >> reporter: it would extend an invitation to a few of the men at the u.s. naval base in cuba who have been cleared of wrong doing. >> some where between 30 and 70 clears detainees have been inprisoned in guantanamo for over eight years, almost nine years. they are acknowledged to have no reason to be there. >> they do pose a danger, a risk to the american security. >> reporter: but -- stands by congress's current ban on clear detainees resettling in the u.s. >> it doesn't mean they don't have ties to al-qaida, it doesn't mean the evidence we have against them is incorrect. and it doesn't mean that that person is not dangerous. >> reporter: resident john flanders calls the debate frivolous and says there are other most importan

>> guest: guantanamo is complex.here's the illegal principle surrounding it which the supreme court found against quite a number of bush that they have no right of habeas corpus lawyers and these kind of things. then there were the people are put in guantanamo which these are two different things. of all the people who are put in guantanamo should've been in are the first place. i quote multiple fbi senior al qaeda experts who said we didn't get a lot of useful information. on the other hand, you have people like khalid sheikh mohammed. what you do with them, not pretending it's easy and, of course, the obama administration has not found it easy. as a general principle we're sitting here in manhattan, federal courts in manhattan have a 100% conviction rate for terrorists. i mean, civilian -- >> host: there were also a lot of cases not brought because they didn't think that enough evidence before a secret indictment was delivered against a mom. >> guest: that's a good point or they didn't know enough about bin laden i

guantanamo bay detainees will not be offered invitations to resettle in berkeley once they're released from prison. at 11:30 last night, the berkeley city council rejected a resolution to welcome detainees who had been cleared of wrongdoing to come live in berkeley. it's an issue that once again put berkeley in the national spotlight, with strong opinions on both sides. >> i want to know if the peace and justice commission really did their homework on these detainees. just because they haven't been charged and convicted of a crime doesn't mean they're innocent. >> we don't have decision coming out of berkeley, but i think the most amazing thing we've achieved is raising the issue to the public, bringing america's attention back to the problems of guantanamo. >> some councilmembers say they cannot support the resolution now because federal law prohibits detainees from coming to the u.s., but if the federal law changes, they may reconsider the issue in the future. >>> a bay area mortuary director is due in court today to face felony grand theft charges. investigators seder ic washington

even at this late hour city council is getting ready to debate whether two men held at guantanamo bay to relocate to berkeley. alan wang is live with the story tonight. >> dan, once again a provocative berkeley city resolution is raising eyebrows. the peace and justice commission wants to invite two guantanamo bay detainees who were cleared of terror charges to live in berkeley. one is an algerian chef arrested while crossing into pakistan and the other is a ballet dancer who converted to islam. he later moved to afghanistan and pakistan. the peace and justice commission says the resolution would cost taxpayers nothing. in fact, she is willing to let one of them live in her home. that, however, is unlikely because president obama signed an act last month prohibiting the u.s. for paying for the relocation of clear detainees. meanwhile, berkeley is facing an $11 million deficit and the possibility of laying off 70 em plough ies. -- 70 employees. >> guantanamo is basically a sideshow that is irrelevant. i am more concerned about firefighters and more concerned about nurses and more conce

we're the reason they're in guantanamo in the first place.ome have been tortured and treated unhumanely. this is a show of compassion. >> and one man is a russian ballet dancer, the other a chef. both are in guantanamo but neither are charged with a crime and both are about to be released soon. >> the city council needs to be focusing on local issue a little bit more. sometimes they think way too high. we have potholes to fill. >> guantanamo detainees are not allowed to live in the united states. we will bring you their decision coming up on the 10:00 news. >>> steve jobs historic mansion is coming down. the mansion is being demolished the work began yesterday. this is ending a long battle by preservationists. jobs argued that renovating the mansion would actually cost millions more than building a new home. an attorney fought to save the home calls this demolition a shame. >>> five wins here on grizzly peak say that the storm door is definitely over. pg & e is also getting ready to respond. i'm tom vacar, that story coming right up. >>> peop

bush the eight hundred page work defends the iraq invasion and says guantanamo base detention center provided the only effective way of obtaining intelligence well brian becker from the antiwar answer coalition says it's because of rumsfeld that the world now sees america as complicit in the business of torture he set up an interrogation regime that allowed a starting of course anchoring with grave that allowed the american government to be understood by the entire world is nothing but torture inc torture incorporated that he helped set up along with the c.i. a not only not only the guantanamo bay which is the un described as a torture center but all sorts of black cold prisons and secret detention centers where people were horribly tortured and murdered in fact and now he has to describe this is something that was good so of course from the point of view of rumsfeld and bush and cheney they want to rescue their image they want the american corporate media to treat them kindly they want of course as they do constantly to make mega millions of dollars from this kind of promotion but i

torture inc torture incorporated that he helped set up along with the cia not only not only the guantanamo bay which is the un described as a torture center but all sorts of black hole prisons and secret detention centers where people were horribly tortured and murdered in fact and now he has to describe this is something that was good so of course from the point of view of rumsfeld and bush and cheney they want to rescue their image they want the american corporate media to treat them kindly they want of course as they do constantly to make mega millions of dollars from this kind of promotion but i think the record is so clear the world recognizes the bush administration as nothing but torture and get at the center of that at the center at the top of the command was donald rumsfeld secretary of defense and in a special report later today the find out about a casualty of war the environment scarred last that wooded lives is coming up next hour. well when one deals with war for us to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that are done not just human damage but damage to the physica

a not only not only the guantanamo bay which is the un described as a torture center but all sorts of black cold prisons and secret detention centers where people were horribly tortured and murdered in fact and now he has to describe this is something that was good so of course from the point of view of rumsfeld and bush and cheney they want to rescue their image they want the american corporate media to treat them kindly they want of course as they do constantly to make mega millions of dollars from this kind of promotion but i think the record is so clear the world recognizes the bush administration as nothing but torture it can at the center of that at the center at the top of the command was donald rumsfeld secretary of defense. and while the u.s. officials work to clear their names and justify the human rights loophole of guantanamo hundreds of thousands of iraqis continue to suffer from the u.s. led invasion now faced with growing sectarian violence and religious persecution iraq iraq's christian minority has little choice but to flee and a sebastian my reports those of chose to

. >>> and inviting guantanamo bay detainees to live in the bay area city. we'll tell you about the important decision today to determine if that plan will move forward. >>> taking a live look outside from the south bay, rain is coming down. it is kind of drizzling in some spots. we have slick roads. take it easy and add a little extra time to your commute. play it safe. it is 5:09 right now. switching to progressive could mean hundreds more in your wallet year after year. feed me! saving you money -- now, that's progressive. call or click today. never in my lifetime did i think i could walk 60 miles in 3 days. 60 miles in 3 days-- i can do that. 60 miles compared to what a cancer patient goes through is a walk in the park. from the moment i registered, people started immediately supporting me. we had an outpouring of-- of support. i wanted to do something bigger than myself. the 60 miles-- it makes a statement. i know i'm stronger than i was before, both mentally and physically. i walk with my sister. our relationship has gone to a whole new level because o

channel who was incarcerated in guantanamo for years and we mustn't forget forty eight year old guy a few days ago after being in guantanamo for nine years also without charge of course and tortured but so with these human rights groups really have had any realistic chance of making a successful arrest or was this more about papa thirty. i mean published he comes into it my feeling is that the swiss authorities were more frightened that when george w. bush appears at this. organization in geneva that a lot of demonstrators would be throwing shoes at george w. bush perhaps you wouldn't catch them this time marking of course or miss them like you did in baghdad i think international law has proved pretty useless when it comes to torture i think most people would agree that the torture in guantanamo violates nine hundred forty eight. of human rights and and so many act of the united states where the retitle eighteen of us code arguably the eighth amendment of the us constitution will any of these come to pass to actually indict all these people including of course tony blair britain's ve

where he may be held in guantanamo bay or a similar detention facility and they also say that he is at risk of being subject to the death penalty if indeed he is extradited on words to america they're also fighting this on the grounds that he hasn't actually been charged with any crime the swedish prosecution wants to question him about these crimes but they haven't charged him yet and they say that the principle of extradition law is that suspicion of having committed a crime is not grounds for extradition you actually have to charge somebody however many say that sweden has an incredibly close friendship with the u.s. and say there would be a lot of political pressure to extradite him on woods once he gets to stockholm you know what this is the last day of this particular hearing but we're not really expecting a decision to be made today the judge has already said that he may take several weeks to consider this decision and then will be able to appeal if the decision goes against him so we'll have to wait to see how it pans out later on this afternoon. in other news as anti-governmen

presente en la tierra suiza para abrir una investigaciÓn. >> en madrid, otros tres ex prisioneros de guantÁnamoocrÁtico se produce la alternancia en el poder y no hay rendiciÓn de los delitos cometidos por la anterior administraciÓn. >> es que fue a pedido de la justicia espaÑola que se produjo en londres, en octubre del 98 el arresto del ex dictador chileno augusto pinochet, acusado del asesinato de ciudadanos de su paÍs durante su rÉgimen. pero las acusaciones son polÍticas, dicen los ex asesores del bush. >> todo lo que hace el presidente bush estÁ dentro del marco legal norteamericano autorizado por la justicia. >> 147 paÍses han ratificado la convenciÓn contra la tortura y potencialmente bush podrÍa ser detenido en cualquiera de ellos. >> algunos expertos legales dicen tambiÉn que es muy poco probable que el expresidente hubiese sido detenido en suiza y que mÁs bien la cancelaciÓn de su viaje se debe a tratar de evitar un mal rato. en nueva york, blanca rosa univisiÓn. >> en la poblaciÓn de california que ha llamado la atenciÓn en todo el paÍs por los elevados salarios que se pagaban a alg

however, federal law prohibits the transfer of guantanamo detainees. we'll have more on that story coming up. a news conference that's going on right now regarding the barge sinking in san francisco let's listen in. >>reporter: we believe a minimal amount of oil was released. we believe less of a gallon is a good guess at this point. we do know full potential of 3,800 gal. is on board the barge. we believe most of the or all of the tanks are completely intact. what was released was all residual oil or floated up due to flooding of the vessel itself. tremendous actions by the responsible party at this point at dewatered the vessel. were still working on removing some of the sediment from and said he dredged in order to get it fully ready to be refloated at high tide. as i said before, great work, a great agency cooperation. we appreciate the hard work of the responsible party. high tide it is a little bit after 10:00 p.m. tonight. >>reporter: we've had great partnership here today. we have a lot done, or hoping to offload more cargo. then move the barge

initially claimed both were said sent to guantanamo bay, where they've been more than eight years now. both have been clear fd any wrong doingings. >> and they're not violent people and would be a great fit for the community. i'd be happy to welcome one of them. >> and local nonprofits are advising the city not to take this action. >> and coming up, the awards that brought together a former president and billionaire warren buffet. >> and there is a plan to make sure pregnant women don't lose health insurance when they need it most. >> if you want to go to a good college and live a happy live, get good grades. >> a mid-year celebration in a east bay high school. students are climbing the ladddddddddddddddddddddddddddd >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> san francisco police released a sketch of a person of interest in a stabbing death of a teenager last week. >> the person they're looking for is described as 18 to 19 years old, about five 10 inches tall and 160-maybe 180 pounds. >> police say a man punched a 16-year-old near capitol avenue, he and his friends

guantanamo, one of the most mature as prisons, is still open despite the obama pledges. but have conditions improved? first, the leading egyptian opposition figure has been talking with christian freezer. he says that no one really knows who is running the country. >> the purpose of the demonstration is obvious, that we have not seen any of the demands of the peaceful revolution that took place a couple of weeks ago with millions of people in the streets being implemented. all that we see is, first, military bulletin's every two days saying that this is what will happen. next week, this is what will happen. then the week after. but what is the road path? how will we do this transition? that is crucial to the future. nobody knows. >> has the army come to talk to you about what they will do? >> absolutely not that is what makes everybody apprehensive. they have not talked with anybody. they have not talked to mr. >> , mr. why, in mr. izzy. -- mr. x, mr. y, and mr. z. the demands go to the heart of every egyptian. we have a radical shift from 30 years under mubarak into a d

this sixth day of protests saw crowds gathering after rumors spread that guantanamo bay guantanamo bayanamo bay left the country. -- gaddafi and angry demonstrations set fire to government buildings. monday morning, gaddafi's son appeared, threatening civil war if protests did not end. >> we'll get about democracy, forget about reform. >> he stressed the country's military is behind his father, and today, two libyan pilots flew to malta and deflected. sources say jets were armed with rockets andÑi machine guns. travelers just in from libya say armed gunmen are roaming streets of the capitol. >> every corner. >> in jordan's capitol protesters demonstrated outside of the libyan embassy. and in new york dozens of people marched outside of the united nations building demanding gaddafi step aside. and gaddafi's ambassador to the un slammed the military leader for the violence. >> we have come to the conclusion this is a declaration of war against the people. a regime of gaddafi has already started the genocide against the libyan people. the 5th of january. >> and where the revolt began, dem

> late last night the berkeley city council voted down a resolution that would have invited two guantanamo detainees to come live in berkeley once they are released. it's an issue that once again put berkeley in the national spotlight with strong opinions on both sides. >> just because we didn't get a conviction on these people for whatever how many years they have been in guantanamo bay that they are not dangerous. >> if we don't open our hearts in a situation where people have been proven in many venues as innocent, than who are we? what if that were to happen to us? >> some council members say they can't support the resolution right now because federal law prohibits detainees coming to the u.s.. they also say if the law changes they may reconsider the issue in the future. >>> the berkeley city council did pass another resolution last night that calls for the immediate end to the cruel inhumane and degrading treatment of bradley manning. the army private accused of leaking classified documents to wikileaks. manny has been held in confinement since back in may. >>> this morning police are

. >>> from guantanamo bay to the east bay, why some former detainees may soon call the city of berkeley home. >>> enjoyable sunny and ry conditions today, now leading to a clear night. 30s on parts of our map, with 39 in napa. cold in the south bay as well. and, yes, our rainfall forecast has been updated. i'll have details onnute >>> a berkeley group is petit n petitioning the city to lenned a helping hand for former detainees from guantanamo bay. the group says it would sponsor the two suspected terrorists so there would be no charge to the federal government or city of berkeley. >> to offer them a chance to restart their lives in a welcoming community. >> quite a few of them have rejoined terrorist activities. those who have been cleared -- >> i don't think i would like them to be here. >> i would love to have one as the boyfriend of my granddaughter or something like that. >> the city manager is urging council to take no action, stating federal law currently prohibits the transfer of detainees to the united states. >>> gene quan is taking a page out of jerry brown's playbook. she's

it would have asked guantanamo bay prisoners found not guilty to move to oakland. the so-called american taliban man, today his father spoke to some students at the university of san francisco. it was part after campaign to clear his son's name. frank lind had plenty of complaints about how his son was treated from time the u.s. troops detained him to how the media portrayed him. some in the audience were not buying the idea that lind was an idealistic 20-year-old. >> when he saw them at the camp there should have been a light bulb that went out. this may not be about defending afghanistan. >> frank lind believes that his son didn't understand exactly what he was doing when he was in afghanistan. at the time john joined the taliban the united states was not hunting down taliban fighters. he is currently serving a 20- year sentence. >>> headlines from around the bay area now. a freshman is under arrest after police say he made death threats against a teacher. the boy allegedly told a school councilor he was angry with the teacher because he believed the teacher emba

he said eventually you would move to guantÁnamo.believe it or not come the very first question robert intercede at his briefing was about the process of closing down guantÁnamo. is your very first briefing. is it now no longer a main policy goal of this administration to get guantÁnamo closed in the first term? with the cia director saying he's assuming guantÁnamo is going to be there take high-level detainees. >> while, i think the dni director is also followed up on that, but i would point out the president remains committed to closing the guantÁnamo bay because it is a national security advisory to do so. >> the cia director is using -- i mean were -- is there no plan b? >> i'm not going to speculate on what would happen if we were to capture osama bin laden. i'm going to say that this government is very focused on bringing to justice perpetrators and the attacks on 9/11, but beyond that i wouldn't speculate about what happened. the president remains committed to closing guantÁnamo. >> tomorrow the president is made in a tie of i

flights. >> he called the city council resolution to settle some of the guantanamo people here is just a contest as to who is the most liberal. >> even one member of council agreed. >> it is a gesture to goat attention. we have a lot of other problems. >> reporter: like being $11 million red in the next budget year. even the committee says it was a rush job. >> largely the commissioners weren't ready for this. >> reporter: but supporters say opening the city to detainees is necessary nonetheless. >> the united states are asking other countries to take them in, assuring them they won't harm anyone in those communities. >> reporter: councilman was kneeac says passing this would have a lot of bark and no bite. >> it's premature, the federal law precludes moving the detainees. >> reporter: now this city council session started more than three hours ago and at this hour there are still no decisions. the city manager is prepared to take to the podium telling the city council to take no action because he says, in his words, to take any action would violate federal law. >> and not to underscor

the camp commander at guantanamo bay in cuba has told the bbc conditions for detainees have significantly improved in the two years since the obama administration took office. he says most of the more than 170 prisoners are now in cells and assaults on staff have reduced. it is still unclear when president obama will close the base. promise to do so by the end of january last year. >> marking a new day of the world's most notorious prison. in nine years, america's commitment to the war on terror has turned a small naval base in cuba into what now resembles a typical american town. but a few kilometers across the bay, there is a very different world. 172 prisoners are being held across seven different compounds. which one depends on their behavior and how much of a threat they are perceived to be. at this camp, we glimpse their protest signs. >> i can tell you that from can x-ray, which was only open for 92 days, to with the detainees are now, in february 2011, their standard of living has increased. >> we are told that they complain detainees are held here at camp 6. they have access to c

. >> el concilio del berckly desatonnuevaente la polemica con una invitacion a los reos de guantanamoque se muden a esa ciudad. >> la policía pide ayuda para identificar a un sujeto a sesino a un joven la semana pasada. >> las autoridades lo acusan de apuñalar a víctor shame. >> esta semana la administracion de trasporte dara 130 millones de doalres este año para inciar este año, . >> cada evz son mas las agencias que utilizan el sistema de apgo electronico,. >> primero, para lsor esidentes de san farncisco apgar con la tarjeta clipper es algo bastatnte habitual, y tambiñn los erñ poara el condadod e santa bárbara . >> inluyendo el tranvia y los autbuses mas de 200 mil personas al dia >> la tarjeta se puede usar en buses y otros servicios. >> mucho de nuestra información esta en español tenemos uns ervicio en español, les planificamos su vaje. >> añade que las ventajas de modernizarse don varias, enbtre ellas que los pasajeros no tendran que utilizar el boleto para transbordo. >> un viaje sencillo cuesta 2 dolares , . >> un incendio destryo una residencia de veteranos de guerra, nadie

. >> guantanamo bay detainees coming to the bay area, that's the plan floated around right now by the berkeley city council. marla is live with more on the story. good morning, marla. >> reporter: good morning. no surprise the berkeley peace and justice commission is behind this latest controversial move. the commission has drafted a resolution that essentially invites a couple of detainees to come to berkeley to live. in all, 38 detainees have been cleared of the crimes they were held for. of those, the resolution invites two of them to live here in berkeley. the first is a russian ballet dancer who converted to islam while serving in the russian army. he was arrested in pakistan while trying to hide from the kgb. the other invited a former algerian chef. after his work visa was not renewed he moved to canada but was not granted asylum. he was arrested trying to make his way from afghanistan into pakistan. neither man was ever charged with a crime but both were tortures while at guantanamo bay according to the center for constitutional rights. this could fall through because presiden

so being a recruitment officer for the taliban he is the seventh detainee to have died at guantanamo bay since two thousand and two. they are going prime minister of me and mine has been named as the country's first president in almost fifty years of military rule sixty eight year old saying a former general chancellor pro-con top party which gained an overwhelming majority and last november's elections a point followed the first meeting of the parliament in more than twenty years most analysts say the appointment will do. a little to weaken the influence of the junta . all right now let's return to our top story here as egypt is braced for another day of turmoil as opposition supporters take to the streets in the latest attempt to force president hosni mubarak out of office now we go to these are the latest pictures here for you on artsy and according to egypt's health ministry says that eight people have been killed and more than eight hundred injured in the clashes the u.n. estimates that about three hundred people have died since the unrest broke out on january the twenty fifth w

all that he may be kept in a detention facility like guantanamo or something similar to that of the u.k. is pirate party lows there is overwhelming support for the work out of saunders to do it. we think there is a very real danger julian assange could be taken to the united states even possibly detained in guantanamo bay and actually basically pursuit of some kind of espionage charges and i was what i'm seeing in terms of how people are responding to the wiki leaks is that actually people overwhelmingly support the freedom of information and we can see how the free flow of information has been absolutely crucial to democracy united states politicians out to criticize him but even actually have been calling for his assassination and i think that means that it's going to be impossible to see any kind of fair trial of justice if julian the song is going to be extradited to sweden commentary from u.k. pirate party leader lo's case speaking with us from manchester. turning now to egypt were a constitutional reforms intended to diffuse public anger have backfired after thousands of protester

a not only not only the guantanamo bay which was the un described as a torture center but all sorts of black cold prisons and secret detention centers where people were horribly tortured and murdered in fact and now he has to describe this is something that was good so of course from the point of view of rumsfeld and bush and cheney they want to rescue their image they want the american corporate media to treat them kindly they want of course as they do constantly to make mega millions of dollars from this kind of promotion but i think the record is so clear the world recognizes the bush administration as nothing but torture in going at the center of that at the center at the top of the command was donald rumsfeld secretary of defense. and a woman dies every forty minutes in domestic violence attacks in russia and meanwhile a lack of adequate protection leaves hundreds of thousands of victims on able to report the abuse to the authorities well there are help set us for victims but they are far and few between as i discovered too often the victims end up suffering in silence it was a vi

air force space to guantanamo when when the whole international campaign for bradley manning raised that he was held in. solitary lockdown total isolation sensory deprivation conditions in the u.s. . and that caused a real outrage but at that time many of those who do prison advocacy in the u.s. said wait a minute the conditions under which bradley manning are held more than twenty five thousand prisoners in the u.s. are held in similar conditions torture really torture and veiling that to the world is also very important part of the struggle of wiki leaks of showing what are the real conditions whether in afghanistan and in iraq all around the globe the kind of pressure and then the forms of repression and intimidation that also exist within the u.s. today sara flounders from the american activist group international action center joining us live in new york thanks for your time on. to libya and the country seeing more bloodshed as colonel gadhafi is clinging to the last vestige of a country which only a matter of days ago he presided over in tiny the capital tripoli now reportedly the

air force space to guantanamo. there has been more bloodshed as colonel gadhafi is clinging to the last vestige of a country which only a matter of days ago he presided over entirely the capital tripoli now reportedly the only part still under his control could out he has called thousands of masteries to defend his bastin and he's faced with more defections from his. death toll from the ten days of unrest has been difficult to determine conflicting reports put the number between two three hundred and two thousand and meanwhile the swiss government has ordered a freeze a very locally held assets belonging to the libyan leader ahmed but our way from a basic conflict and i. believe the crisis we're currently witnessing in the arab world is the consequence of years of policies in the west what is happening at the moment in the arab world first taken everybody by surprise there's definitely an intelligence failure on the part of the worst part is actually the outcome of you see failure from the worst in not being able t

now i'm down man held without charge for eight years at guantanamo bay has died in custody reportedly while exercising the military said his death resulted from natural causes but it is still under investigation the forty eight year old was suspected by the u.s. of being a recruitment officer for the taliban he is the seventh detainee to have died in guantanamo since two thousand and two. in australia the threat of flooding is hampering the clean up operation from the cycle which has ripped through queensland's northeast coast. is reportedly losing power now with evacuees returning to their homes and airports reopening one of the strongest storms on record destroyed dozens of homes in a region already suffering from last month's devastating floods one person has reportedly died and several remain missing. well this week our tease moscow out team is getting out of moscow they've travelled to london where host martin andrews continues to explore russian history and culture and that's coming up in under ten minutes time here in. london one of the most visited cities in the world dove int