the u.s. gets a new secretary of state as democrat john kerry wins overwhelming senate approval with a look at his record in foreign policy decision making and whether there is likely to be any change on 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 said the president's not being the u.n. human rights watchdog while fencing off even more from its closest neighbors.

this is r.t. live from moscow with me marina 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 just going to chicago and looks at 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 he 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 u.s.

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 and 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 he said although the u.s. favors diplomacy but washington will act to prevent iran from getting the nuclear weapon whether the 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 is not necessarily a flip flop but you can see that his actions and views can go either way during the confirmation hearing we've heard john kerry pretty much channel you 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 that when the 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 brian droid director of an in a panel media 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 right to it would have the chilling of american citizens anywhere in the world is kiri 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 well was a little change expected in washington's foreign policy some u.s.

secrets are likely to remain hidden overseas and later on we analyze the investigation into cia prisons in poland. dragging on for five years and as have little assistance from america which try to shed some light on the issue in about ten minutes here in r.t. . ongoing turmoil in the streets of egypt threatens to push the country towards collapse that stark warning came from the defense minister as violent protests slow. show rather no sign of relenting anti-government demonstrators continue to the five president morsi is curfew clashing with police and troops in cities along the suez canal protesters also seem deterred by the law granting the military power to arrest thousands have been forcefully calling for dance to the rule of law misleader mohamed morsi and the muslim brotherhood for a week now blaming them for hijacking of the train revolution however ahmed. koat

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

more of an executive branch and it has more military members on this board. which numbers the 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 had the commander in chief see that he would 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 people of el grills his guests over what went wrong in the country that spearheaded the arab spring is coming your way later today. 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 i'm a spectator 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 secure its 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.

israel's become the first country to show on the un human rights council scrutiny session saying the body has a strong bias against it last year the jewish state claim it will no longer cooperate with the watchdog after an investigation into its settlements in the west bank are due to let's hear chefs he 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 barrier 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 behind it to create a normality for our children. based on the fortress completely surrounded by. we are going back to. with this philosophy of creating a normal routine behind 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 their competitors it was excluded by the wall and now it is became. almost a gift to some of his part of the. land there are various sources

of his generals on the war and for us is a nightmare and it is also very much of them aging 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 so not 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. altie reporting from israel. and coming up this hour deep rooted decision northern ireland marks the anniversary of the so-called bloody sunday which sparked national attention still echoing today this and more after a short break. really

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welcome back you're watching r t you know the u.s. has reassigned the special envoy tasked with working on the closure of the guantanamo bay prison there were placement has been named increasing fears among critics that the dettori is jail could remain open indefinitely the news comes as five of its prisoners face trial over nine eleven during the pretrial hearings to fans lawyers ask the judge to publicly disclose classified details about so-called cia black sites where they claim their clients were tortured meanwhile the five year long probe into one of such jail in poland continues as are now reports 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 the through anywhere 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 in 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 these 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 it's big news to me it's called ski this first high profile official of any nation to be prosecuted over the issue

well as 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 warsaw 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 authorities have not helped the investigation any way in fact i can say obstruct that investigation by invoking in my absolutely. 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 their investigations progress just like any information about the torture of prisoners regarding who wants 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 may also be a state secrets and swept under the carpet. well there are more revelations about poland's connection with cia prisons online we've got the story of whether or not to get into america's shady actions in poland is driving a wedge between warsaw and washington. plus we've got the story of how google's tracking policies in the thirst for users online habits are on the web giant a loss of millions of u.k. citizens. and.

now it's a painful anniversary for the u.k. as a marks forty one years since british soldiers shot on our own protestors in northern ireland fourteen people were killed on what's became known as bloody sunday which stirred up nationalist tension for years to come as artist sarah ferguson reports deep divisions still remain. so far i am still there walking the pavements when i can to drink in the smell sound and smiles of the street and 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 that 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 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 political divisions to have once again become apparent we have to also oust the two unionist party. and u.u.p.

for their action of distributing forty leaflet to inflame the situation to whip up tension in loyalists areas you seem very emotive language the leaflets and is referring to by name means a cause of the riots but only example of the war of words. many feel contributed to an already volatile situation. with this lead yes a lot of the students that that there is a responsibility that the dea be contributing to what we've seen play out on the street no one the latter wasn't and. you think that let me know we asked the question read the leaflet the. advance of the vote to contact the alliance party and ask them to change their mind it's very difficult to tell the child not to hit somebody when you may may be 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 violence it's all they're using with our own help oh we've come having returned to northern ireland the time being wasted now in agreement that the peace process here needs to evolve. must go in seeking so with the political level there were many things needed now is a solution that works at a grassroots level here amongst the community who got things to be harder to followings so. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world when peace envoy lakhdar brahimi has told the un syria is being destroyed and we have to warn you you may find the following food rich showing evidence of one of the conflicts biggest massacres extremely disturbing scores of bodies of young man house and it's found on the bank

of the river in serious northern city of aleppo activists reported there were at least seventy one while levels put the number at over one hundred most had their hands tied behind their backs with gunshot wounds to the head at the moment there is no information on who carried out the killings. residents in towns of gallo and timbuktu have hunted down the remaining islamised who recently lost control of the city's following the relief operation by french and malian military troops locals also attached businesses allegedly links to rebel fighters international forces say the unrest isn't over yet with britain laying out its plan to sand war than three hundred military personnel to the region. at least four people have died and 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 of a strong and summer weather conditions are

a constant threat to the region more than thirty people die during floods in twenty one. mar has lifted a ban on public gatherings which has been placed for over two decades of the law was imposed by the military john to the to power in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight and prohibited gatherings of more than five people the band which many claim was unconstitutional was widely used during the al break of protests in recent years upon taking office and twenty one president tain saying paved a chorus towards political reform including revoking strict censorship. i had it's breaking i sat with abby martin stay with us.

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collegiate shaikh mohammad and four other guantanamo be bay detainees made a public appearance before a military tribunal as they face the death penalty over the nine eleven attacks and there's all of this brings me back to obama's promise to close guantanamo bay prison this symbolic event and neatly following his inauguration in two thousand and nine yet and symbolic it was because for the last four years he's completely dropped the ball on following through with its closure fast forward four years later just after being reelected first second term obama made another symbolic gesture regarding guantanamo but this time moving in the opposite direction on monday the state department shut. down the office that was appointed to work on closing guantanamo yet closed for business so even though then candidate obama ran on the platform of closing this torture house making it seem like it was an actual priority for him it couldn't be more apparent now that it's completely off his radar so here's the lesson kids if it first you don't succeed at closing and

internationally condemned prison camp don't try again and remember obama doesn't have to worry about reelection anymore so for all of you expect him to change now in his second term probably start investing your hope elsewhere. imagine this scenario you're sit in your house your cake and back you're watching t.v. and all of a sudden you hear the deafening sound of machine gun fire from low flying helicopters overhead you're probably a little startled the hell you might even think that world war three was going down well the black helicopters flying above might not come as a surprise if you live right here in d.c. but if you live in any other city this probably isn't the norm but that could be changing take a look at what happened in miami last week.