loads of work ahead for america's brand new secretary of state john kerry where asking whether a fresh person on top of u.s. diplomacy will mean change for washington's foreign strategy. egypt's opposition wants to see the president for urgent talks after almost a week of deadly and grassed bombing morsi himself is meanwhile going to the e.u. to discuss partnership deals and a visit shortened by chaos at home. and open to detention the team tasked with shutting down guantanamo bay gets the axe the probe into cia secret prisons around the world gets little cooperation.

it's seven pm here in moscow you're watching are to live with me and he's now a good to have you with us our top story this hour the u.s. senate approved john kerry as the next secretary of state with hardly any want to posing nomination the sixty nine year old democrat will replace hillary clinton whose legacy includes the rise of anti-american sentiment worldwide as well as tough times with russia aren't you going to cheat you can takes a close look into kerry's political past to get more perspective on what to expect from him in 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 and its 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 perhaps 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 bush 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 believed 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 the range 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 be in 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 channel a 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 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. and we discussed the issue with brian drole a director of an independent media outlet deep dish t.v. and he believes there's a certain consistency in washington's foreign policy no matter who's at the helm it remains the same. kerry is secretary of state doesn't mean that the vietnam veterans against the war will be taking over for you. i mean you know there may be some changes in style and tone but there won't be a change in substance to kerry and clint any any more frankly than there was between kind of the still right use everything or he clinton in the last twenty years even in the last since bush and obama what is really change trays for afghanistan and yemen and pakistan and now that are positioning so-called missiles

defense which is essentially a first rate weapon targeted assassinations intensified under obama and his assertion of his right to order the killing of american citizens anywhere in the world is kerry 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. and a case of sexual abuse against a russian child services authorities in moscow seek justice of public feeling over the newly implemented ban on american adoptions still runs high. egypt's opposition has called for an urgent meeting with the president and ministers to end the violence in the country mohamed morsi himself is currently in berlin to negotiate a partnership agreement he had planned to visit paris next but decided to head home instead violent protests in egypt had been ongoing for almost a week and resulted in over fifty deaths thousands have been calling for an end to

morsi is rule clashing with police and troops and defying the curfew order close in three towns along the suez canal. 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 there are groups who are willing to sabotage anything and try to embarrass the government specifically morsi and the military that's on the surface however there are deeper into positions of what's going on some of the interpretation goes and that the military council or the military is behind all of this so that big can have a. grip over this way to intensify their presence. 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 kind of according to the new constitution there's something called the national defense council this council in most countries and previously had an advisory that right now it has more of an executive that has more military members on this board than civilian. which numbers the civilians including become on the chief the president which means that 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 emerge into the emergency law in those specific areas. the chaos in egypt is also the focus of today's cross talk here in archie where peter the bell grills his gassed over what went wrong in the country that spearheaded the arab spring that's coming your way in about twenty minutes. what's in play in the egyptian revolution

if it's even a revolution anymore part of the problem of 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 egging 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 still supporting morsi just like it did more borrowing 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. this is. another case of abuse against russian children adopted by u.s. citizens has come to light investigators in moscow have launched a criminal case into allegations of sex crimes against a six year old boy in an american foster family. house more. the increasing number of news of inhumane treatment of russian children adopted by americans is alarming to say the least but what's worse is that the russians can hardly do anything about it from here from across the atlantic and all russian investigators could do is launch

a criminal. here locally common sense says it will not affect the child rapist at all now the brit abusers like the foster parents in question and others well they managed to get away with murder and according to a russian investigators the family. sexually abused them had already been convicted by u.s. courts earlier for acts of abuse against now mind you the word sexual never came up and they only got probation at that time russian diplomats are unable to be any use to kids in such cases which early a problem to russian to. live a law and that law prohibits americans from adopting russian kids altogether now live was an adopted child from russia and that he was left by his american parents lost in

a car and that he eventually died from suffocation when the law was passed to. huge debates both here and in the united states whether the would benefit from such restrictions while the local authorities in the united states seem indifferent to the fate of little kids from here in russia. israel building a great wall of its own coming up the country something un session on human rights policies made plans to further build barriers towards neighbors stay with us for that is coming up. and wounds that just won't heal for some it's a sign of strength for others it's a reminder of an unequal past the politicians in northern ireland stand accused of using the british flag to whip up the new cold tension after the break.

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welcome back you're watching archie live from the russian capital. now hopes of a timely closure of guantanamo bay have him further with the man tasked with resettling inmates and shutting down the u.s. detention center in cuba now transferred away the white house has not so far signed a replacement daniel fried was picked for the job in two thousand and nine by president obama who had vowed to shut down the notorious prison fried work to convince other nations to take kuantan him over inmates considered to be low risk but he soon saw his job grow more difficult with new laws complicate complicating the riprap creation of detainees now of the almost eight hundred inmates that have passed through guantanamo only nine have had charges brought against them that's including the five nine eleven suspects currently facing pretrial hearings well

meanwhile investigations into america's so-called black sites abroad are making little headway a years long probe into covert cia jails in poland particular hasn't investigators frustrated with washington not volunteering much help and it's archie's arena glues can now reports even if the details were forthcoming justice might pre-nup. one tunnel may hall go all the headlines but all the interested it means people are 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 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 the records from the airport in germany where it's clear that they have learned the 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 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 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 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 it may also be a state secrets and swept under the carpet. a plane crash claims at least twenty lives in the republic of kazakhstan online find out more on the deadly flight including how the tragedy unfolded and expert opinion on what could have been behind it. and virtual kidnappings ransom a your idea and cyber terrorism that's only a quick glimpse into the internet to find future from

a top boss at google had to r.t. dot com a more. israel has boycotted a u.n. review of its human rights practices becoming the first country to make such a move it claims the organization is biased against it and the feeling of isolation is growing in tel aviv not only when it comes to international policies but the country planning to build more defensive walls on its territory it considers its own sorties alexy or step ski reports. 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 russia says that it will be a medieval one. holds so if someone really. decision of the government show the craziness or the crazy philosophy behind it to create a normality for our children. on the fortress completely surrounded by fans we are going back to. with this philosophy of creating the normality 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

which is part of the bill as seen in the state bar to the corporate it was excluded by the wall and now it is became. almost a get to some of. the part of the. various sources of his generals on the war for us 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 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. r.t. reporting from israel. let's take a look now at some world news in brief for you this hour the leader of the syrian

opposition says he's willing to start negotiations with the os of government if it meets a list of conditions including the release of one hundred sixty thousand detainees akhmed more as the head of the syrian national coalition said he would then discuss the terms of the regime's departure from power or the move is seen by some experts as a bold one that could divide the opposition until recently it had refused all calls for negotiations to take place. the french army has met little resistance from islamists as it moved into doll the third largest town in the north of mali elsewhere looting has taken place in timbuktu when residents have attacked suspected militants. we didn't flee when french in mali and troops secured the areas earlier it's fought many of the shops attacks belong to supporters of islamist pushed out of the city.

and twenty protestors have been arrested in athens after an members of a communist backed trade union class violently with police some demonstrators managed to get inside the labor ministry headquarters before being forced out onto the streets they were showing their anger at further cuts to their pay packages as part of the country's ongoing austerity program the greek government last week used emergency powers to break up a strike by transport workers that lasted eight days. well the area's government is expected to use its domination in parliament to keep in force its decision not to build a new nuclear power plant its construction earlier got over sixty percent backing in the national referendum but it turned out was a mere twenty percent handing final say back to the parliament moscow had offered to build and finance the new plan but bulgaria's allies in brussels and washington said that would deep in the country's energy dependence on russia.

a twenty year old man has been charged with injuring police officers during northern are the nz ongoing protests sparked by a decision to limit the number of days the british flag can fly from belfast city hall but conflict there is nothing new forty one years ago today the least in northern ireland shot dead twenty six unarmed protesters archies sarah firth looks at the impact of lingering tension on the lives of people in belfast. i am still there walking the pavements when i can to drink in 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 there was such a narrative of violence and dysfunctional relationship every level of the 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 for loyalists that 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 rising political divisions 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 you seem very emotive language the leaflets i was referring to by name means a cause of the riots but only example of the war of words. that many fail contributed to an already volatile situation. except that there is a responsibility to the d.d.p. in contributing to what we see on the street. you. know we asked the question. the. advance of the vote to. change your mind fareed.