**US President Barack Obama has for the first time admitted that the US will miss the January 2010 deadline he set for closing the Guantanamo Bay prison.**Mr Obama made the admission in interviews with US networks during the president’s tour of Asia.
He said he was “not disappointed” that the deadline had slipped, saying he “knew this was going to be hard”.
Officials are trying to determine what to do with some 220 detainees still held at the US prison on Cuba.