. >> they're not new charges, they're old charges refiled, and that means guantanamo bay remainsobama originally wanted. >> that's right. one of his election pledges in 2008, president obama wanted to close guantanamo bay within one year. a lot of people saw that as very optimistic at the time and ultimately that plan didn't happen. and guantanamo bay remains open with approximate 170 detainees and there's no sign had a it will be closed any time soon. essentially a lot of the detainees there are in legal limbo for different reasons. some of the detainees, the u.s. says are too dangerous to release but at the same time doesn't have enough evidence admissible in court they can use in court to actually prosecute those detainees. and other detainees who are to be released don't have anywhere to go. the united states has fears that releasing some of these detainees or returning them to their country of origin, they might be tortured. it's a very complicated situation at guantanamo bay and the fact that khalid shaikh mohammed and these four detainees will be tried in a military court

that means at guantanamo bay remains open, as opposed to what president obama originally wanted. >> as one of his election promises, president obama wanted to close guantanamo within one year. ultimately, that plan obviously did not happen. guantanamo bay remains open with approximately no sign it will be closed anytime soon. essentially, a lot of the detainees are in legal limbo for different reasons. some of them, the u.s. deems too dangerous to release but does not have enough evidence admissible in court to actually prosecute those detainees. other detainees have been deemed safe to release but do not have anywhere to go. there are fears that returning them to their country of origin, they might be tortured. a very complicated situation. the fact that and they will be tried in military court, it only confirms the idea that guantanamo bay is here to stay, at least in the short term. >> still to come, stepping into the future -- talking newspapers, advertisements, and museum exhibits. to many unsold properties are causing house prices in the united states to fall to their lowest leve

but it's still happening guantanamo bay is still open now president obama has signed. an executive order to have a formal policy for indefinite detention cell let's say that if you make it to the white house what do you do with one hundred people that are still locked up at guantanamo bay congress this time here arms they say you can't transfer them to u.s. soil going tobe a what we need to close when it comes to guantanamo bay is that torture would be occurring that endless detainment would be occurring without being charge that's what needs to be stopped when it comes to guantanamo bay maybe we keep going tom obey open from the standpoint of actually imprisoning of those that are convicted if you will but what is wrong with the prisons that we have here on american soil well we have well so the prisons of america i'm just i'm just pointing out what i think our realities to the notion of having a military tribunal actually do the. only fair conduct the hearings have not been tested oh yeah loudly as our civilian court which i they've been very well to say because we u

soil guantanamo bay what we need to close when it comes to guantanamo bay is the torture would be occurring that endless detainment would be occurring without being charged that's what needs to be stopped when it comes to guantanamo bay maybe we keep going tom obey open from the standpoint of actually imprisoning of those that are convicted if you will what is wrong with the prisons that we have here on american soil well we have well so the prisons of america i'm just i'm just pointing out what i think are realities to the notion of having a military tribunal actually do the. conduct the hearings have not been tested then you know how well these are civilian courts which are they've been very well to some because we used them for all you're a terry have been much higher when it comes to our federal courts here on american soil many legal experts will tell you that the military commissions are not the way to go well the military commissions are all right for our own military so these are not u.s. citizens they're not u.s. citizens so to have a military tribunal oversee oversee a trial not e

that you would probably rather forget well unfortunately that's exactly what happened to one guantanamo bay prisoner and artie's daniel bushell has that story. morricone as was arrested on the streets and sent to guantanamo for torture after five years america released him without charge to this day the u.s. has given no explanation all said story couldn't as is suing george bush's lawyer alberto gonzalez for ruling tool sure is legal interrogators from the land of the free are free to cause quote simulated drowning and rape point instrumentality impairment of bodily function organ failure and even death i was one of those who survived. on myself. because i will not sign papers. i was forced to agree that i'm a member of either and i said i am not the us refused to even reveal they were holding current as his mother also these lawyers to find her son it took several years there was no chance to get in quantity quantity it's a shame for the united states what happened. concerned national law and it's simply impossible twenty first century. put someone in the extra. room. and saying you have

of europe because at least they're in the guantanamo bay the judges know what the rules are at the hague tribunal this kind of court the rules are worked out as they go along and always at the expense of the serbs. but as for the killing of civilians this is going on part of as we reported later this hour told the soldiers have cleared away the killing of innocent afghans including children due to a lack of evidence to support the war crimes case. and saudia course back to earth the moscow mars mission turns a year old kept out of progress of the first intensive interplanetary test run. it's been an eventful week in libya with nato intensifying its controversial bombing campaign out of coalition voting to expand its intervention mandate in the north african country the un accuses girl about the of war crimes but admits the rebels are guilty of similar views as meanwhile britain and france have the cord low flying combat helicopters to the country the move has brought operations closer to the ground prompting concerns over an imminent land based offensive as russia's foreign ministe

but guantanamo bay, i think, surely president oba campaigned that he would... what he would do...e found it difficult and they changed what was going to happen. >> i think they also found it isn't what they thoughtt was. >> rose: but president bh, i think,asically was not... was epared to do something about guantanamo bay but he didn't know where to do it! >>e's the one tt requid that the department of defense detain these people. >> rose: right. >> we then looked at all over the world for the best place to do it, guantanamo bay had been used by previous presidents of both parties to detain people. >> rose: your successor was robert gates, who's retiring. >> uh-huh. >> rose: he's been prescribed as... described as most the effective secretary of defense in history. >> i think he's done a good job. >> rose: would you rank him that high? >> oh, goodness. i don't know. i think you need to let time walk over these things but i personally think he's done a good job. he's a fine man. >> rose: thank you. >> uh-huh. >> rose: donald rumsfeld's book is called "known and

book or your charity acts on behalf of guantanamo bay detainees and you have met some of them yourself as far as an al but we've heard repeated allegations of abuse and torture in the detention camp so when you visited the facility what was your experience of it. it has changed over time but when we first started to go see the prisoners there shortly after the supreme court allowed prisoners to go in we had heard all kinds of stories of people being roughed up and it is now now today let's be clear today things are not as they were in two thousand and three and two thousand and four but at this moment the clients i go and see there are going on ten years in detention they've lost almost a decade of their lives and there's no prospect of a trial no prospect of release and congress is going on saying we need to have gone talk about forever so that's the real good need that they go through at this point uncertain future no prospect of leave. let's talk now about the case of eunice rahman. the case of your charity is filming at the moment i believe. who is now for isn't and remains there w

balkans export market glasses draws parallels between the hague tribunal and guantanamo bay with us a danger of the emotion of winning out over. but the tribunal doesn't need him to. actually engage with his own defense to trial you'll need. to be sitting there for symbolic reasons he's sitting there the odium of the world is focused on him all the accusations are the wall of noise is against it because this tribunal you should remember is not a court it is a tribunals with all the dubious ad hoc quasi legal procedures that that involves it's the one time in most of europe where people are held for years without trial waiting for trial when their when their word is known in advance in fact is even worse than the guantanamo bay of europe because at least they're in the ground some of the judges know what the rules are at the hague tribunal this can report the rules are worked out as they go along and always at the expense of the serbs. but elsewhere the killing of civilians is going punished as we report later this hour here are two polish soldiers have been cleared over the killing of

of europe because at least there in the guantanamo bay the judges know what the rules are at the hague tribunal is kangaroo court the rules are worked up as they go along and always at the expense of the serbs. well blondes the deputy editor of the online magazine spike says what's going on in the hague now is a show trial with the outcome already set in stone but i don't think there's anything. there about this trial at all about the whole process. or what's what's happening in. the code the outcome is going to be in but it's been set already it's a bit of a show trial i think. as a result of yeah i think it's very much about bolstering the west's position and making the west look like it's the free defender of justice and the largest has already been such a bad guy in this i'm not. allowed to choose our wonderful human being but there were crimes on all sides in that war and to pick out one side was worse than the other is a bit peculiar of the situation was watching murky there were opportunists nationalists politicians on all sides and some fairly brutal people behind them as

and when a document from guantanamo bay was leaked, wikileaks published it. >> the defense of freedoms a value is on the front of guantanamo bay. >> reporter: wikileaks soon found itself in the cross hairs of the u.s. army. this report leaked to wikileaks identified it as a threat and revealed ways to shut it down. assange, though, remained defiant. >> when we're attacked that is usually the worst move that someone can do. the information is not going to disappear any time soon. >> reporter: growing pressure drove wikileaks under ground. they moved to a james bond bullet prop bunker in sweden. assange went to iceland. by 2009, iceland was a country on its knees. a banks crisis brought it to the brink of bankruptcy, banks went under. enter wikileaks. in july 2009, they posted a book from one of the largest failed banks, releases risky loans. the bank launched a counterattack. >> we got letters from the bank saying they could try to attack us and put news prison for a year. unless we removed it. and of course we said, we're not going to remove it. >> reporter: the leak became the story

of europe because at least there in the guantanamo bay the judges know what the rules are at the hague tribunal this kind group called the rules are worked out as they go along and always at the expense of the serbs. and. deputy head of sales the online magazine spiked so it's going on in behaving now it's a show trial with the outcome already set and standing but i don't think there's anything. fair about this trial it's all about the whole process. or what's what's happening it is that the kind of the outcome is kind of been. set already it's a bit of a show trial i think. as a result i think it's very much about bolstering the west's position and making the west look like it's a free defender of justice and the largest has already been certified as the bad guy in this i'm not for a moment thinking that she's our wonderful human being but the crimes on all sides are not war and to pick out one side has been worse than the other is a bit peculiar of the situation was much murkier there were opportunists nationalists politicians on all sides and some fairly brutal people behind t

now imagine walking down the street one day it's a nice evening and let me arrest you taken to guantanamo bay to spend five years at america's most notorious prison only to suddenly be released without any charge now no explanation no apology from the administration just silence and five years of lovely memories i'm sure you actually probably rather forget well that's unfortunately exactly what happened to one of the runtime of a prisoner or to his dental but still has that story. as was a wristed on the streets and since when time to move for torture after five years america released him without charge to this day the u.s. has given explanation all said story could as he's suing george bush's lawyer alberto gonzalez for ruling torture is legal interrogators from the learned of the free are free to calls quote simulated drowning point instrumentality impairments of bodily function. and even death i was one of. those kind of torture on myself. because i was not science. i was forced to agree that i am the member of either and i was not the us refused to even reveal who will hold the current. a

and when the operating manual for the guantanamo bay prison camp was leaked, wikileaks published it.ense says honor bound to defend freedom is on the front of it. the value is on the front of guantanamo bay. >> reporter: wikileaks soon found itself in the cross hairs of the u.s. army. this 2008 secret counter intelligence report ironically leaked to wikileaks, identified it as a threat and revealed ways to shut it down. assange, though, remained defiant. >> when we're attacked, that is usually the worst move that someone can do. the information is not going to disappear any time soon. >> reporter: growing pressure drove wikileaks underground. two of its servers was moved to a james bond style bullet proof bunker in sweden. assange went into a safe haven and found one in iceland. by 2009, iceland was a country on its knees. a banking crisis had brought it to the edge of bankruptcy, causing riots president streets. banks went under and thousands lost their life savings. >> iceland was hit harder than any other country by the banking collapse. >> reporter: enter wikileaks. in july 2009,

the defense of freedom as a value is on the front of guantanamo bay. >> reporter: wikileaks soon foundin the crosshairs of the u.s. army. this 2008 secret counterintelligence report ironically leaked to wikileaks identified it as a threat and reveals way to shut it down. assange, though, remained defiant. >> when we're attacked, that is usually the worst move that someone can do. the information is not going to disappear any time soon. >> reporter: growing pressure drove wikileaks underground. two of its servers were moved to a james bond style bunker in sweeden. assange went to iceland. by 2009, iceland was a country on its knees. a banking crisis had brought it to the edge of bankruptcy, causing riots in the streets. banks went under, and thousands lost their life savings. >> iceland was bothered by the international banking cleanse. >> reporter: enter wikileaks n.july of 2009, they posted a secret loan book from one of the largest failed banks, revealing risky loans to its own shareholders. the bank quickly launched a counterattack. >> we got letters from the bank saying they could

detention facility at guantanamo bay, cuba.blican says he wants terror suspects arrested in his home state transferred to gitmo and tried there. the kentucky republican and senate republican leader mitch o'connell joins from us capitol hill. senator, why? these would suspects were arrested here in the united states. track record is arrested here and tried here and why do you think they should go to gitmo? >> we set up military commissions, statutory process, for trying foreign terrorists. typically captured overseas. these are not american citizens. their offense occurred in iraq against iraqi citizens. you can put foreigners in u.s. article iii courts but the question is should you? the answer is you should not. for a whole variety of reasons. number one, bring the war on terror to bowling green, kentucky. you have security problems with regard to the judge, the prosecutor, jurors. you have security problems at the local government ends up having to pick up related to the transferring of prisoners back and forth between the ja

put under severe weather conditions and then he was taken to guantanamo bay i did was cleared from guantanamo from guantanamo very early on but he wasn't allowed to leave till january two thousand and ten when they found him a host country to welcome him which was sort of a cure but unfortunately even in sort of a cure i did was arrested and spent six months perhaps a little charge and it's actually from slovakia he returned to egypt. intending to return to a free job but the terms of now and then with being thrown into jail which is interesting because why has he been regarded as a threat especially when he's already been acquitted by the u.s. . exactly this is this is a question that we also haven't found an answer for by. i don't while i there wasn't one tunnel more into thousand and one i did was charge in egypt in a case known as case of this basically a group that was charged with wanting to topple the mubarak regime so basically idle got an essential sentence for three years which is by a military court three years by a military court standard is considered to be very law which explain

khalid sheikh mohammed and four others have been held at guantanamo bay since the charges were dropped against them two years ago. that's when the obama administration hoped to end military commission trials. the suspects will be tried in one of those commissions. >>> this morning we're learning about an emergency landing in washington, d.c. triggered by a midair fistfight between two passengers. check this out. a pair of f-16 fighter jets, like these seen here, were scrambled sunday night to escort a united airlines plane back to dulles airport. the flight had taken off for the african nation of ghana, when the pilot reported the commotion to air traffic control. >> we have a passenger secured. >> negative. the passenger is not secured at this time. the passenger has settled down, though. but an assault has taken place. but at, he is not this time, h secured. >> the fight reportedly started when one passenger hit another for reclining his seat too far. the fighter jets trailed the plane for half an hour, so the pilot could dump some of the 57 tons of fuel onboard. after that, no arres

reprieve charity which fights for the human rights of prisoners she's a visitor detainees at guantanamo bay and says there's no end in sight for those incarcerated there. at this moment the clients i go and see there are going on ten years in detention they've lost almost a decade of their lives and there's no prospect of a trial no prospect of release and congress is going on saying we need to have gone forever so that's the real agony that they go through at this point uncertain future no prospect of leaving i think is one of the saddest parts of the whole war on terror story the way various european nations for the kind of waiting around waiting handmaidens of us torture practices we know about cia secret prisons in poland romania lithuania the u.k. is the u.s. its closest ally let's be clear and we saw time and again in the war on terror the u.k. getting just a little bit too close to the illegality of george bush and his cronies and that was a reprieve as a charity to fight for the human rights of prisoners obviously giving our take on what's happening at u.s. detention camps. well ukr

is doing something wrong imprisoning people illegally torturing them taking them illegally to guantanamo bay as was done by the usa then you should say so and i think it's quite appalling waterboarding and torture completely illegal in britain and the completely legal within the terms of the united nations convention on torture they're not illegal within the u.s. jurisdiction in the same way george bush specifically authorized waterboarding in what they term as robust interrogation techniques my suspicion is that the british security services were happy to keep quiet about extraordinary rendition happy that these poor people should end up in u.s. jurisdiction where they were being tortured and so this is an issue that is going to come up again i'm sure in parliament next week it will be further inquiries into this because it's quite extraordinary that apparently there are people who allowed prisoners to be taken out of any jurisdiction that covered the convention on torture to the u.s. where the waterboarding took place in studying with this story britain is not the only state that it's been

for trial when they're when they revert it is known in advance in fact is even worse than the guantanamo bay of europe because at least they're in the grounds i'm a baby the judges know what the rules are at the hague tribunal is can report the rules are worked up as they go along and always at the expense of the serbs. and the temperature as a tell the online magazine spike is that what's going on in the hague now is a show trial with the outcome already starting but i don't think there's anything. fair about this trial it's all about the whole process. or what's what's happening in. the code the outcome is kind of been. set already it's a bit of a show trial or. as a result i think it's a very rich old story the west's position in the west look like it's a free defender of justice and the largest has already been. about this i'm not sure. remote think you got a lot of it she's are a wonderful human being but there were crimes on all sides in that war and to pick out one side was worse than the other is a bit peculiar about the situation was much more clear there were opportunists nationali

self-proclaimed mastermind of the atrocities shake from it or five previously in charge at the guantanamo bay detention center but they were set aside when president obama unsuccessfully tried to move the case to a civilian court proceeding to say they will face the death penalty if convicted. because one the russian charles dying wish to the president to see you hospital bills for kids to ease the pain youngsters like him have to go through so the cancer sufferer never lived to see his dream become reality there was a center now about to officially open his memory and live out what he said sort of what. it was supposed to be a happy ending six years ago the moraga child was successfully recovering from leukemia he was already strong enough to give them president vladimir putin a tour around these overcrowded cancer wards and insightful enough to ask when the country would build a new more spacious hospital how much would be it's very expensive out of five thousand russian kids who are diagnosed with cancer every year less than half managed to get specialized medical how do you know who was b

most one former guantanamo bay detainees tells r.t. how he suffered at the hands of u.s. authorities and how he continues to struggle for justice. and we take you to the fukushima exclusion zone to find out the true radiation levels of the leaking reactors. but first greece is expected to get another cash injection from the european union on condition it imposes severe financial measures totaling some seventy eight billion euros the greek parliament is expected to vote tuesday proposals caused an eruption of anger in the capital with protesters claiming the move was aimed at rescuing the ailing euro skeptics in brussels even staged this symbolic funeral for the currency according to one lecturer at the university of the aegean the only way out of the mess is nice splitting from the e.u. . the problem is we cannot do it we are giving twelve billion lifeline the limit the biggest part of which is going to be used to repay debt to repay previous dates this is totally absurd it is for the benefit of greek people to have an immediate exit from the europe from the euro zone the

as was arrested on the streets and sent to guantanamo bay after five years america released him without charge to this day the u.s. has given no explanation all said story couldn't as is suing george bush's lawyer alberto gonzalez for ruling tool sure is legal interrogators from the land of the free are free to calls quote simulated drowning rape boil instrumentality impairment of bodily function organ failure and even death i was one of those who survived those kind of closure on myself electroshocks because i was not science. i was forced to agree. and i was not the us refused to even reveal they were holding current as his mother owns this lawyer to find her son it took several years there was no chance to get in contact with mr corners it's really a shame for the united states what happened in. court concerning the national law and it's simply impossible in the twenty first century to put someone in the extra. room. saying you have no right bush for moves to end the practices they are imposing a set of standards on our intelligence communities in terms of interrogating prisoners tha

one former guantanamo bay detainees tells r t how he suffered at the hands of authorities and how he continues to struggle for justice. plus we travel to the fukushima exclusion zone to find out the true radiation levels but we can react. first though syrian forces have opened fire at funerals for the victims of a little crackdown on anti regime protesters near the capital damascus at least two people were killed more than twenty people are thought to have been killed across syria since friday the latest wave of protests against president bashar al assad's rule came despite a speech monday in which he promised liberal reforms in return for an end to the violence a three month long crackdown has reportedly left some fourteen hundred people dead former british ambassador to syria basler eastwood says people there are divided over president assad amid strong desire for a political process. there were great hopes that he would lead to a better future he still retains some of that popularity particularly with the urban populations in damascus and aleppo the second big city which have done

five has previously been charged at the guantanamo bay detention center they were set aside one person to bomb unsuccessfully try to move the case to civilian court prosecutors say they will face the death penalty if convicted. it was one russian child. dying wish to a president to see a new hospital built for kids to ease the pain youngsters like him have to go through sadly the cancer sufferer never lived to see his dream become reality for those of the senator they're about to officially open his memory permit for tales of sunnybrook or reports. it was supposed to be a happy ending six years ago. was successfully recovering from leukemia he was already strong enough to give them president vladimir putin a tour around these overcrowded cancer wards and insightful enough to ask when the country would build a new more spacious hospital how much would it be it's very expensive out of five thousand russian kids who are diagnosed with cancer every year less than half managed to get specialized medical how he was born in a small town of kalugin in central russia was sent to moscow for trea

our key belgrade serbia balkans aspart market draws parallels between the hague tribunal and guantanamo bay and where there's a danger of the emotive wearing out over evidence. but the tribunals needed to. be actually engage with his own defense the trial you'll need a tribunal needs to be going to be sitting there for symbolic reasons he's sitting there the only people the world is focused on and all the accusations are the wall of noise is against it because this tribunal you should remember is not a court it is a tribe you know with all the dubious i talk quasi legal procedures that involve the one time of most of europe where people are held for use without trial waiting for trial when they're when their verdict is known in advance in fact is even worse than the grandfather most of europe because at least they're in the grounds of a by the judges know what the rules are at the hague tribunal is called the rules are worked out i've been go along and always at the expense of the serbs. but elsewhere the killing of civilians is going out of punished as we reported later this hour always so