well at least eighty seven you know two thirds of these are yemenis and as you mentioned after we had that trouble with. actually a nigerian man who was recruited in yemen for this attempted underwear bomb there was a backlash and the president capitulated to the criticism and said i won't release any more yemenis and he's been true to his word just one yemeni has been released through a court case now you know i think that really tragic thing and what i exposed in my report which i wrote last week for my website and the worthington and the close guantanamo website that iran is that some of these yemeni prisoners were cleared for release by military review boards under the bush administration back in two thousand and four eight years ago looking and i looked at all the other cases that i could find of yemenis and of people from other countries so they were cleared eight years ago and there's you know they're they're still there yeah i mean the bush administration was also reluctant to release prisoners to yemen but they did i mean two dozen prisoners have been released to yemen over t

and he's been true to his word just move on yemenis been released through a court case now you know i think that really tragic thing and what i exposed in my report which i wrote last week from my website and the worthington and the close guantanamo website that iraq is that some of these yemeni prisoners were cleared for release by military view goes under the bush administration back in two thousand and four eight years ago looking and i looked at all the other cases that i could find of yemenis and of people from other countries so they were cleared eight years ago and they're there they're still there yeah i mean the bush administration was also reluctant to release prisoners to yemen but they did i mean two dozen prisoners have been released to yemen over the years but there's been this persistent refusal to release people regardless of how they're judged and i think that makes a mockery of the entire process if we keep having review processes under bush and now under obama saying we do not want to keep holding these people and yet we don't release them what does that say for o

he is a yemeni. he said he traveled to pakistan to seek medical assistance for a severe head wound he received in yemen and was told he could get treatment there and it would be affordable. this is the story that seems to me to be believed by the authorities in guantanamo. he was approved for transfer under president george w. bush in 2006, possibly earlier than that. he had his release approved by obama's task force. he won his habeas corpus petitions as well. because the judges of the d.c. court circuit, a bunch of very right wing judges, fair to say these people are very right wing, who have been clamping down on the ability of the lower courts to approve the release of guantanamo prisoners under any circumstances -- they reversed the ruling in adnan farhan abdul sayings case and relied an intelligence report, which they even said was produced in haste under battlefield conditions, should be believed. they pushed it further than before about the standard of evidence required to hold prisoners. he

she has been dubbed on the subject of change, at the yemeni joan of arc. but at home, she is known as the mother of the revolution. a mother of three children herself and a mother of what she refers to as the yemeni youths peaceful resolution. she is credited with lighting the spark of the air of spring in yemen and leading the transformational demonstration in what she calls change. that is a central message. and it tends to dampen her fine, she has been arrested, -- and that tends to dampen her, she has been arrested and attacked. she and her fellow protesters are credited with the removal of the yemeni dictator and for setting her country on the course to democratic rule. in 2011, she was counted among foreign policies 100 most influential thinkers globally. as you know, she was also awarded the nobel peace prize for her leadership in non- violent struggle for peace, democracy, and women's liberation. karman dedicated her nobel prize to all of the yemeni who sought a peaceful resolution -- a revolution, facing snipers with flowers. and to be peaceful pr

our colleagues tell us they have plenty of information it was about what is happening as for the yemeni scenario which i don't want to simplify things. given actually the situation in yemen is far from being called it's not that simple even though this plan is. for overcoming the crisis has been implemented but the plan was exactly what we're talking about all the parties involved in the yemeni conflict came to the negotiating table without any preliminary conditions they said in reached an agreement there was no condition about the president leaving the country at the from the very start it was an agreement that has been reached later if the syrian parties can agree on that we would be happy to support this kind of resolution as well as many other countries but you shouldn't impose any conditions on the talks we think it is unacceptable it is our principled stand this will not take us to a stable solution to the problem. it's up to the syrians to determine their future and reach an agreement between them of course through democratic methods. by popular vote. because the conference that

yemeni armed forces backed by local fighters have retaken two strongholds of the country's south from al qaeda linked militants the islamist insurgents have held the cities for months to take advantage of last year's political turmoil yemeni officials are telling this latest victory as a turning point in the campaign against the militants. russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov heading to tehran less than a week before key international negotiations on iran's nuclear program start in moscow talks on the issue so far failed to produce any breakthrough with lavrov visit aimed at trying to bring about some progress reserve arashi research director for the national iranian american council believes lavrov meeting could be fundamental to the talks success. more diplomacy is almost always a good thing and when the permanent members of the security council the united nations security council plus germany sit down at the negotiating table with iran if there's no prep work that's done in advance of those negotiations then it essentially becomes a process that's tantamount to having a kitchen

we yemenis are very helpful, are very hopeful. we think that we're going to come out of this transition -- come out of this transition and be, you know, on the way to be a strong country. >> i'm glad you brought up ready-made solutions from somewhere else because on one level, they get a bad rap. they are ready-made because they've worked in other places and they are fast. but they don't necessarily have longitudinal power. because unless you want to stay and do them forever, they end up sort of as institutional orphans in the places where you've been worked. when i've done reporting in the developing world, i've seen that conflict over and over between creating local capacity and perhaps doing something a lot slower than you would want to. and seeing the results a lot more slowly than you would want to. also knowing that unless you do it this way, if you came back in two years, there would be nothing left of your work. i want to hear more from the panel on that. >> let me just -- if you haven't gone back and read this 1950s class

tried to cover it up and say it was a yemeni bombing.murder, mass murder when you say we're going to bomb this area because we believed a terrorist is there any no women and children are in the area. the u.s. has an obligation to not on that area if they believe women and children are in that area. i am sorry, that is murder. >> that was jeremy scahill on msnbc. chris woods, your response? would you call it murder? >> i think jeremy's strong words indicate rising concern, particularly about the signature strikes being carried out by the pentagon and cia in somalia, yemen, and pakistan. it is not just jeremy speaking out. we had the former director of the cia, the former head of the counter-terrorism center at the cia when the drone strikes began, and dennis blair, the former director of national intelligence for the u.s. -- all three of these very central characters have all made strong noises the last few weeks saying there were concerned about the policy, worried it was getting out of control, worried it is not achieving what it is sup

before the yemeni army recaptured southern strongholds earlier this week. a top official is warning the uprising in syria has grown into a full-scale civil war amid worsening violence in several key areas. herve ladsous, the u.n. undersecretary general for peacekeeping operations, is the first senior u.n. official to brand syria's conflict as a civil war. syrian activists report 51 civilians as well as 12 soldiers were killed in clashes on tuesday. more reports are emerging that both the syrian military and opposition rebels are receiving heavy arms from outside the country. on tuesday, hillary clinton accused russia of sending helicopters to syrian president bashar al-assad. >> we have confronted the russians about stopping their continued arms shipments to syria. from time to time, they have said we should not worry, everything they're shipping is unrelated to their actions internally. that is untrue. we are concerned about the latest information we have that there are attack helicopters on the way from russia to syria, which will escalate the conflict qu

convenient tool for the government to brush off investigative journalism and then there was this yemeni journalist who reported about the drone strike in yemen in two thousand and nine twenty one woman and fourteen children died there the journalist is now in jail where portably at the personal request of president obama himself. there's this line of thought in washington it's all perfectly fine as long as we're fighting the bad guys the president approves the list of those bad guys by the way the kill list on secret evidence with no review but does the argument we're fighting the bad guys mean that the world should keep quiet about the execution of innocent people in washington i'm kind of second. chance with someone who predicted the global economic crisis the consequences of which are still being felt across the world but first here are to bring you the hour's headlines again after this short. today children play war in the old keys me. but in june nine hundred forty one these walls will a first barrier from another troops on their way to moscow. sunders umbrellas were done one by on

twenty one al qaeda militants have been killed by the yemeni army in the country's southern provinces the final offensive ended weeks of battles with the terrorist group seized control of several strategic towns in the arab world's poorest country during last year's popular uprising civilian life is now returning to normal flow some militants still remain on the run scattered across the area. sixteen people have been killed in clashes between rival militias in the libyan city of. the center for supporters of gadhafi former regime this came right after the government had sent troops to the city in response to a week of violence security remains a serious issue in the country due to upcoming elections later this month to select an assembly that will draft a new constitution. iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad plans to end his political career next year after completing his second term he made the statement in an interview with an influential german newspaper expressing his wish to return to academic work jobs influence has been that waning in iran following his serious conflict with

convenient tool for the government to brush off investigative journalists and then there was this yemeni journalist who reported about the drone strike in yemen in two thousand and nine twenty one woman and fourteen children died there the journalist is now in jail reportedly at the personal request of president obama himself. there's this line of thought in washington. it's all perfectly fine as long as we're fighting the bad guys the president approves the list of those bad guys by the way the kill list on secret evidence with no review but does the argument we're fighting the bad guys mean that the world should keep quiet about the execution of innocent people in washington i'm going to check out. the syrian government is warning of possible suicide bomb attacks in mosques in damascus after it arrested a man with ties to an al qaeda linked group the suspect is said to have confessed he was going to blow himself up in the center of the capital syria is currently seeing one of the most serious escalation in violence since an international truce was brokered two months ago but there is n

forces yemeni troops are attempting to reclaim town seized by militants last year during the uprising against former president salih. the u.n. human rights chief says u.s. drone attacks in pakistan are quote legally problematic and not comply with international law and suggested the pakistani government invite the un to investigate some of the strikes americans as it will continue the attacks despite calls from pakistan to end the tensions between the two countries rose last year when missiles killed twenty four pakistani soldiers prompting islamabad to block nato supply routes to afghanistan. political parties in egypt have agreed on how to select the panel that will dry the country's new constitution after a push from the ruling military council the previous panel was dissolved after secular and liberal members organized a walkout complaining that islam is dominated these soundly preparations for the new constitution come as egyptians for fair to head to the polls for the upcoming highly contested election runoff which is scheduled to take place at the end of next week voters will h

too convenient tool for the government to brush off investigative journalism then there was this yemeni journalist who reported about the drone strike in yemen in two thousand and nine twenty one woman and fourteen children died there the journalist is now in jail reportedly at the personal request of president obama himself. there's this line of thought in washington it's all perfectly fine as long as we're fighting the bad guys the president approves the list of those bad guys by the way the kill list. on secret evidence with no review but does the argument we're fighting the bad guys mean the world should keep quiet about the execution of innocent people in washington i'm going to check on. becoming a little later in the program a surprise twist in egypt's politics the constitutional court dismisses the country's parliament even a year of post mubarak political struggles dead in the water. very quickly could. find himself in a swedish jail by the end of june after british judges refused to reopen his extradition case. after eight days of vicious combat against armed rebels syrian gov

twenty one al-qaeda militants have been confirmed killed by the yemeni army in the country's southern provinces the final offensive ended weeks of battles with the terrorist groups and sent several of its members on the run al qaeda use a popular uprising last year to seize control of many towns in the arab world's poorest country civilian life is now returning to normal through some militant still remains scattered across the area. euro iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad plans the end his political career next year after completing his second term he made the statement in an interview with the influential german newspaper frankfurter maine that is a tongue expressing his wish to return to his academic work as my dinner jazz influence has been waning in iran during his serious conflict with parliament and the supreme leader ali khamenei. last year. just doing your job could land you in trouble especially it seems if you're a journalist covering protests rallies in the us some reporters have accused the police of acting outside the law to suppress the media freedom artie's anastasio

twenty one al-qaeda militants have been killed by the yemeni army in the country's southern provinces the final offensive ended weeks of battles with of the terrorist group to seize control of several strategic towns in the arab world's poorest country during last year's popular uprising civilian life is now returning to normal though some militants still remain on the run and scattered across the area. sixteen people were killed on saturday in clashes between rival militias in the libyan the city of a center for supporters of gadhafi he's a former regime of the government is sending troops to the city in response to a week of violence that has claimed dozens of lives officials claim that could offer followers aimed to undermine security in the country ahead of elections for a national assembly to draft a new constitution. one crew member has died and three injured after a massive stage collapse just before the gates opened for a radiohead concert in canada nearly forty thousand people were expected to attend to the sold out a vent which has been canceled a similar incident in ottawa

twenty one al qaeda militants have been killed by the yemeni army in the country's southern provinces the final offensive and just weeks of battles with a terrorist group. seized control of several strategic towns in the arab world's poorest country during last year's popular uprising civilian life is now returning to normal though some militants still remain on the run scattered across the area. at least thirteen prisoners died and five were injured in an attempted riot in a turkish prison protesting against a detention conditions the inmates set light to bedding in their own cell where eighteen people were being held somewhere hospitalized with carbon monoxide poisoning. a suicide bomber has killed two soldiers and injured three civilians when a military base in somalia was attacked the man detonated a device in a minibus as guards ordered him to stop near the gates officials claimed the attack had actually been foiled as the terrorist failed to get inside the base the military compound is also where african union peacekeepers are stationed none of them were wounded. iranian preside

that is it is suggesting some kind of noth solution at the top of the regime to leave, the kind of yemeni solution, if you like. the problem with that is many people here -- and i mean international observers and diplomats are saying that you could then hand over the power to people even more hard line than the president, because it isn't cut and dried here anymore. >> right. with regard to what you're saying -- we're just showing pictures at the moment of residents from a village in hama maintaining their protesters going up. you saw one occupant screen, which is actually saying you can kill as many as you like, but we are coming after you. i suppose, paul, your point is magnified there, isn't it, that whichever side you're on, as you said, for sectarian, vicious sectarian issues, it's only going to grow. >> the international community that i've spoken to here are saying that the sectarian issue we spoke to at the beginning by people within the regime are trying -- they believe this is not a syrian revolution, but a sunni revolution. the question now, are those people that were instigate

too convenient tool for the government to brush off investigative journalism then there was this yemeni journalist who reported about the drone strike in yemen in two thousand and nine twenty one woman and fourteen children died there the journalist is now in jail reportedly at the personal request of president obama himself. there's this line of thought in washington it's all perfectly fine as long as we're fighting the bad guy the president approves the list of those bad guys by the way the kill list on secret evidence with no review but does the argument we're fighting the bad guys mean that the world should keep quiet about the execution of innocent people in washington i'm going to check and. after eight days of vicious combat against armed rebels syrian government forces are finally open the turn of a half or two universe and with memories of massacres still strong looking for the telltale signs of slaughter will be high on their agenda so far they found vast amounts of abandoned weapons and destruction so most all government buildings looted and burned turned also appears to be d

too convenient tool for the government to brush off investigative journalism then there was this yemeni journalist who reported about the drone strike in yemen in two thousand and nine twenty one woman and fourteen children died there the journalist is now in jail reportedly at the personal request of president obama himself. there's this line of thought in washington it's all perfectly fine as long as we're fighting the bad guys the president approves the list of those bad guys by the way the kill list on secret evidence with no review but does the argument we're fighting the bad guys mean that the world should keep quiet about the execution of innocent people in washington i'm going to check on. still ahead in the program here an artsy act of desperation palestinian villagers tried to make it into the guinness book of records saying their settlements have been destroyed by israeli authorities thirty eight times. also no unity in the e.u. discord over immigration is mounting within the bloc as critics accuse governments of using hardline tactics with deadly consequences. the syrian gov

convenient tool for the government to brush off investigative journalism and then there was this yemeni journalist who reported about the drone strike in yemen in two thousand and nine twenty one woman and fourteen children died there the journalist is now in jail reportedly at the personal request of president obama himself. there's this line of thought in washington. it's all perfectly fine as long as we're fighting the bad guys the president approves the list of those bad guys by the way the kill list on secret evidence with no review but does the argument we're fighting the bad guys mean that the world should keep quiet about the execution of innocent people in washington i'm going to check out. and i'll be back with a quick recap of the top stories in just a couple moments right after that it's over to peter lavelle for the latest from strong. culture is the same i understand my family and there is no reason rumors on the back of you or others in the bar business need to be american empire is. suffering from military overreach and katie continued to afford such a massive global mil

too convenient tool for the government to brush off investigative journalism then there was this yemeni journalist who reported about the drone strike in yemen in two thousand and nine twenty one woman and fourteen children died there the journalist is now when jail reportedly at the personal request of president obama himself. there's this line of thought in washington it's all perfectly fine as long as we're fighting the bad guy the president approves the list of those bad guys by the way the kill list on secret evidence with no review but does the argument we're fighting the bad guys mean that the world should keep quiet about the execution of innocent people in washington i'm going to check on. you be watching the weekly you're not seeing coming up united by one passionate special report meet some of the dedicated few who traveled the world unconventionally the first there and i'll tell you i'll be bringing you this hour's headlines once again after this short break stay with us. the. comfort is the least you have. your money is the last that you need if you travel this way. languag

has been pushing for a so-called yemeni style transition plan the first and foremost focuses on getting president bashar al assad out of office out of syria now the russian position has been that you know there's no need to have some sort of a backroom deal by world powers that doesn't include the actual syrians themselves this is a crisis that the country is undergoing syrians in need to get together and find some sort of a transition that works for them this should not be dictated by outside foreign powers the problem is that all of these sort of over the opposing sides are really going to come head to head tomorrow which is when the emergency talks in geneva are going to be held put together by kofi on months into this clear that the ceasefire has not worked so far on one hand if you're getting together world powers to sort of discuss the future of syria all of the key regional player should be uninvolved while the u.s. position has been no iran at the talks they do not want the arrhenius to be present the arabians are of course. of the syrian government kofi annan himself has said t

convenient tool for the government to brush off investigative journalism and then there was this yemeni journalist who reported about the drone strike in yemen in two thousand and nine twenty one woman and fourteen children died there the journalist is now when jail reportedly at the personal request of president obama himself. there's this line of thought in washington. it's all perfectly fine as long as we're fighting the bad guys the president approves the list of those bad guys by the way the kill list on secret evidence with no review but does the argument we're fighting the bad guys mean that the world should keep quiet about the execution of innocent people in washington i'm going to check out. coming up the modern day while the wild west comes into focus as we look at the work of a bounty hunters in america but first here are to bring you this hour's headlines again after this really short but. there hasn't been anything yet on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political back also. before source material is what helps keep journalism honest we are on. we want to present. something