u.s. gets a new secretary of state as democrat john kerry wins overwhelming senate approval we'll look at his record in foreign policy decision making at whether there's likely to be any change in key issues. ongoing protests and deadly clashes are pushing edge of towards the brink of collapse the country's military chief makes his first statement since the turmoil began a week ago as a curfew fails to keep the demonstrators off the streets. and israel sets a precedent on the un human rights watch dog while fencing off even more from its closest neighbors.

it is eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r t m arena joshing the u.s. senate has overwhelmingly approved president obama's nomination of john kerry as the next secretary of state the sixty nine year old democrat will succeed hillary clinton taking over washington's diplomacy and the deepening turmoil in the middle east raging conflicts in africa and complicated relations with russia are his gun and she can look to kerry's past foreign policy decisions and what it might signal about the future. the evolution of john kerry's views has been quite remarkable so remarkable that it's hard to pin where exactly his standing on a number of issues he built his career on the reputation of a name to war advocate a vietnam veteran himself he was very vocal as a spokesman of the vietnam veterans against the war back in the seventies then in the eighty's he challenge to the reagan administration's policies on central america in one thousand nine hundred one he voted against the us involvement in the

first gulf war but later over the years john kerry has morphed into a pretty much mainstream politician with a record which casts a shadow on the antiwar image that he's been trying to build for himself in two thousand and two he voted to authorize the iraq invasion and since then he has made a slew of conflicting statements which might have cost him the election in two thousand and four when he was running as the antiwar candidate so while criticizing george w. bush for the war in iraq in two thousand and four in august of that year when asked if he would still of gone to war knowing saddam hussein did not possess weapons of mass destruction john kerry said yes i would have voted for the authority i believe it was the right authority for a president to have in september that year in direct contradiction to that statement john kerry said we should not have gone to war knowing the information that we know today. these are just some of his other conflicting statements for

example on supplemental funding for the troops back in two thousand and three it was an eighty seven billion dollars bill in september that year he was for it in a cold war he voted against it it was at that time when he said i actually did vote for it before i voted against it a phrase which kind of stuck with john kerry on patriot act again he was for it before he was against it on israel's unilateral construction of a security fence he called it a barrier to peace at one time but less than a year later he reversed himself calling the fence a legitimate act of self defense. now as far as his present views which he shared during his confirmation hearing last week on you range he said although the u.s. favors diplomacy but washington will act to prevent iran from getting the nuclear weapon whether it's a preventive action could mean war he did not clarify that he was cautious speaking about syria and that caution is reflective of the white house becoming seemingly

more aware of the challenges there and the threats behind a military intervention but it's worth noting that he may ask if there were any conditions under which you would support u.s. or nato led airstrikes on the syrian military john kerry said quote unquote sure but before that in march he also said bombing syria would not be the right thing to do so it's not necessarily a flip flop but you could see that he's actions and views can go either way during the confirmation hearing we've heard john kerry pretty much channel the new message that the obama administration is trying to convey and that is in president obama's own words we're not treating from the hips and his nomination of chuck hagel who is known to have been against a strike on iran for example could be part of that message so secretary of state john kerry now channels that we are not going to rush into action message but he's record shows when that tide turns and that tide can turn very quickly and the drums of war start beating loud and clear again john kerry would probably jump on that.

well earlier we spoke to a director of an independent media outlet deep dish t.v. who shared his view on how kerry's appointment is likely to affect key international issues. if you look at american policy in the last twenty years even in the last since bush obama what is really change trey's first strike wars in afghanistan and yemen and pakistan and now they're positioning so-called missiles to fence on the turkish russian border which is essentially a first rate weapon targeted assassinations intensified under obama and his assertion of his ready to order that shelling of american citizens anywhere in the world is curious going to stand up in international forums and say no that's wrong we can't do that i don't think so neither did hillary clinton. with a little change expected in washington's foreign policy some u.s. secrets are likely to remain hidden overseas later on we had

a wise investigation into a cia prison poland that's been dragging on for five has had a little assistance from america to try to shed some light on the issue in about ten minutes. on going to more on the streets of egypt threatens to push the country towards collapse that stark warning came from the defense minister as violent protests show no sign of relenting anti-government demonstrators continue to defy president morsy is curfew clashing with police and troops in cities along the suez canal. protesters also seem to target by new walk rantings of military power to arrest thousands have been forcefully calling for an ant to the rule of islam this leader khalid morsi and the muslim brotherhood for weeks now blaming them for hijacking and betraying the revolution however that the key co-founder of the council of trustees of the revolution in egypt says amid

the chaos the military's role should not be underestimated. the surface interpretation of what's happening definitely that there are groups who are willing to sabotage anything and try to embarrass the government specifically morsi and the military. on the surface however they are deeper into the positions of what's going on some of the interpretation goes that the military council or the military is behind all of this so that big can have. intensified their presence militarily over there. don't want to see an economic development of this specific strategic area because it would hand over to civilian oversight of the canard rather than military oversight of the according to the new constitution there's something called the national defense council this council in most countries and previously had an advisory is that right now it has more of an

executive stature and it has more military members on this board. billions. numbers of civilians including the commander in chief the president which means they can force the president to take certain decisions which we have just seen in the past couple of days when they have the commander in chief see that he will declare martial law or emergency emergency law in those specific areas. the chaos in egypt is also the focus of today's cross-talk here in r.t. where peter lavelle grills his guest over what went wrong in the country that spearheaded the arab spring that's coming your way later this hour. what's really in the egyptian revolution if it's even a revolution anymore part of the problem with the egyptian revolution is that turned into a form of a spectator sport where outside there is going to have they're saying i mean i shouldn't be saying that external observer is well but to the extent that it's kind

of interfering with this process and unfortunately that form of intervention is again one side or the other you can also look other than western countries are there all of the countries are playing in supporting certain parties within egypt now when it comes to international intervention or opinions it's the same the international scene is just looking at egypt and trying to make security interest and i mean the u.s. for example hold you know still supporting morsi just like it did mubarak and i feel that at this moment it's just. you know speculation like. things are happening on the ground that they need to catch up on. the.

international diplomatic efforts to and the bloodshed in syria appear exhausted u.n. peace envoy lakhdar brahimi telling the u.n. the country is being a strong he says without compromise between the government and opposition the whole region will be pushed into an extremely bad situation meanwhile evidence of one of the conflicts biggest massacres has been discovered you may find a following food is extremely disturbing. scores of bodies of young man have been found on the bank of the river in syria's northern city of aleppo activists reported there were at least seventy one while we put the number of at over one hundred most had their hands tied behind their backs with gunshot wounds to the hats at the moment there is no information on who carried out the killings at her in chief of the online intelligence and geo politics blog power phone and says militant groups fighting in syria are targeting civilians is rather the

forces. of syria. really that mean there's. my. little silence we have to divide. this between there's certain rebellion to this started due to the good it's faction they've against the lot of them overseas and then these three groups. of the the some of this. is and. destroying basically this society and the country if i suffer fools. therefore c.e.o. of gradient assume the tradition of syria which would be even worse for free for

the serious first of all but also for all the neighboring countries and some of the great powers that have been trying to deal with syria so far. and coming up this hour deep rooted divisions northern ireland mark the anniversary of so bloody sunday which sparked national attention still echoing today this and more after a short break. do we speak your language as anybody will or not a day in. the program says documentaries in spanish what matters to you.

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nine eleven suspects has granted to the fans lawyers a limited access to see a secret section of the u.s. detention camp that's one of dozens of issues be ironed out during the trial hearings the fans lawyers have also asked the judge to publicly disclose classified details about so-called cia black sites were they claim their clients were tortured meanwhile the five year along probe into one such jail and polling continues as our teacher in english can argue for it's whatever the outcome it could be swept under the carpet. guantanamo may hold all the headlines but all the interested it means people aren't moving their focus elsewhere so-called black sites secret prisons were established by the cia during its well publicized war on terror unlike the cause however these secret facilities were never publicly discussed by the authorities the us claimed they could hold prisoners outside the us because then they wouldn't be subject to

the geneva conventions to international law and humanitarian law reports suggest such prisons were in existence from two thousand and two basically not long after the events of nine eleven the us government denied the existence of these prisons until two thousand and six now the only country in europe which has acknowledged the presence of a secret cia facility on its territory is lithuania and if you were to look at it you will see something almost a deliberate site except for the imposing fences surrounding it likewise a suspected secret prison poland is believed to be located here apparently in one of the most beautiful spots in the country according to various reports mostly from journalists or human rights organizations so-called high value detainees were flown in by the cia for interrogation at these polish facilities. i managed to get records from the airport in germany where it's clear that they have learned an

aircraft used by the cia very important evidence because until then everyone denied b.'s landings and reported different destinations of these flights to europe controlled however just like their american counterparts the authorities in warsaw have been extremely frugal with the details and investigation into the secret prisons has been dragging on for almost five years now but what is on earth during its course remains unknown one man who has been charged with involvement is poland's former chief of intelligence and security is big news tonight called ski this first high profile official of any nation to be prosecuted over the issue while this investigators have only one response to all questions concerning their investigation all the information has been classified as it involves state secrets which of course they're not allowed to divulge on top of that since the case directly involves u.s. officials one would imagine warse and washington working very closely together and yet people who are privy to the investigation say this is definitely not the case

the united states or thirty. anyway in fact i can say obstructed the investigation by invoking in my absolutely bad. article three. mutual legal assistance treaty between poland and the united states. they've refused to produce any information requested by the prosecutor therefore the extent of the investigations progress just like any information about the torture of prisoners regarding who what where when and how all of it remains a mystery and the investigation is rumored to conclude next month by the looks of it whatever its outcome it may also be a state secrets and swept under the carpet. well there are more of a violation about poland's connection with cia prisons online at r.t. dot com we've got the story of whether the best a geisha into america's shady actions in poland is driving

a wedge between warsaw and washington plus we've got to the story of how google's tracking policies and services for users online habits made earned a web giant a lawsuit from millions of u.k. citizens. israel has become the first country to show the un human rights council scored in the session saying the body has a strong bias against it last year or the jury's state claimed it will no longer cooperate with a watchdog after an investigation into its settlements in the west bank. takes

a closer look at israel's fencing off policy. if you were allowed to invest your money into israel's construction companies those supplying materials for defensive walls you would have probably made a hefty profit government decision suggests they will never run out of business and . we intend to erect a fence along the golan heights we know that on the other side of our border with syria today the syrian army has moved away and in its place global jihad forces have moved in therefore we will defend this border against both infiltration and terrorism. that would make a third defensive wall in less than twenty years along with the one in jerusalem and on the border with egypt barriers with lebanon and jordan are also being discussed all have the same just difficult security reasons israel built a concrete wall in the west bank more than a decade ago to protect itself from palestinian terrorism years on not only it is still dividing the land and the people but the opinions as well supporters of the

defensive beriah pointed to a decreased number of attacks while its opponents say that its existence in the first place is creating more grounds for instability political writer michael believes the west bank barrier may have been a temporary solution years ago but it's no longer proving effective just as the march braced friends with the sea knight peninsula that eventually failed to keep out african migrants if building another turns israel into a fortress for shaft he says then it will be a medieval one. holds in the war so if someone is really. willing to. decision of the government show the craziness or the crazy philosophy which is behind it to create a normality for our children grandchildren. on the fortress completely

surrounded by fans we are going back to. with this philosophy of creating and all money in the war the war building business may seem profitable to some but financial experts say constructing these barriers consumes a sizeable chunk of the defense budget as well as suffocating regional development in which is part of the palestinian state but of the. it was excluded by the wall and it became. almost. part of the. sources of his generals on the war. and it is very much. to their business environment the fence at the border with egypt can be excused for being an international border the golan heights on the other hand is only a cease fire line left from the israeli syrian warfare only it would not protect

israel from any kind of mordant weapon attack but just like the wall in the west bank it could become another more humans to the indefinite occupation of territory conquered by force. reporting from israel. and i was take a look at some other stories from around the world presidents and their mali and now and timbuktu of how to down there were meaning islamised who recently lost control of the sea this following the relief operation by french and malian military troops locals also attacked businesses allegedly length to rebel fighters at a national force a saving unrest isn't over yet with britain laying out its plan to sand more than three hundred military personnel to the region. least four people have died of thousands more were forced to flee their homes in australia after having floods hit new south wales and queensland military personnel have been sent to the region to help deal with the aftermath and summer weather conditions

are a constant threat to the. region more than thirty people died during floods in twenty one. jamar has lifted a ban on public gatherings which was in place for over two decades the law was imposed by the military john to the to power in nineteen eighty eight and prohibited gatherings of more than five people the ban of which matic claim was unconstitutional was widely used during the outbreak of protest in recent years upon taking office in two thousand and eleven president am saying it paved the course towards political reform including revoking strict censorship. it's a painful anniversary for the u.k. marks forty one years since british soldiers shot on armed protesters in northern ireland fourteen people were killed on what's became known as bloody sunday which stirred up nationalist tension for years to come and as our sara first reports deep

divisions still remain. so far i am still there walking the pavement and i can drink in the look the smell sound and smiles of the street i'm sharing joy and pride and progress and pain this is the story of life living and working in a loyalist community that was such a narrative of violence and dysfunctional relationship every level of their community politically in the community leaders as well as in their homes and their families. by a former youth worker harriet long's writing struck a chord with many trying to make sense of the recent rising on the surface and the latest trouble was with the decision to limit the number of days the union flag would fly from belfast city hall in northern ireland and the flag has an important political and cultural meaning a reminder of the loyalists the province is part of the day but also that it must

remain say the catholics though a reminder of a less equal past youth worker mark davies tells me that despite this new young generation having been brought up in peace times social issues have made it easy to fall back on old narrative. they are generation. who have grown up in peace times but that doesn't mean that the tensions on the issues are deep seated within their families or within this community having gone away with the recent rioting police could have visions to have once again become apparent we have to also asked to unionist party p and you pay for their action of distributing forty thousand leaflet to inflame the situation to whip up tension in loyalist areas very emotive language the leaflets i was referring to by no means a cause of the riots but only example of the war of words. that many feel

contributed to an already volatile situation. with this lead yes a lot of the students said that there is a responsibility that the d.v.d. had contributed to what we've seen play out on the street no one the latter wasn't and. you think that the majority know we asked the question. advance of the vote to contact the alliance party and ask them to change their mind it's very difficult to tell a child not to hit somebody when you know maybe in their community their leaders are using violence to keep control and but that politicians and maybe aren't using violence but they're using file where it's all they're using words are on helpful with calm having returned to northern ireland for the time being wasted now in agreement that the peace process here needs to evolve who must go in seeking so

willing political level but what many say is needed now is a solution that works at a grassroots level here amongst the community who got things to be harder to followings says arts. and more international news and around thirty minutes time here in r.t.m. ahead it's crosstalk with peter.

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leave them a few. times or. hello and welcome to cross talk or all things are considered i'm peter lavelle egypt locked in turmoil is this country experiencing the continuation of the revolution that happened two years ago or has the revolution been interrupted in hijacked by the op is. with outside force or is it something very different another revolution in place. to cross-talk events in egypt i'm joined by carl sharon london he is a middle east blogger in cairo we have while he is a blogger and a journalist and in washington we crossed ratner he is a fellow at the truman national security project or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump.