era ah, 0. great with me i i hello there, i'm the star yet. hey. and this is algebra live from our headquarters here in doha . we are now bringing you special coverage of the 20th anniversary of the $911.00 attacks in the united states. let's take you to some live pictures now from new york, where commemorations are just beginning to get underway in

a moment to for them to nearly 3000 people who died in those attacks. on september 11th, this is a scene in new york at ground 0, where the 1st moria will take place at the site where the world trade centers, twin towers. one stood. they collapsed after being hit by 2, hijacked passenger jets. they will also be further ceremonies and shanks, full pennsylvania, and also at the pentagon where 2 other hijacked planes crashed. president biden is among those attending all the ceremonies today, but he is not expected to speak. well, let's speak to our white house correspondent, kimberly how could she's in new york where those commemorations will begin in the next half hour or so. kimberly, can you talk us through what to expect this morning? it feels like the focus is very much on the people that were lost and, and their families. absolutely. that will be the focus, the nearly 3000 people who lost their lives on september 11th, 2001 will be remembered not only at ground 0 behind me,

but also if you mentioned in the field of shank full pennsylvania and also at the pentagon outside of washington d. c. now, what we can expect that ground 0 is for the attendance of not just joe biden, who is now here on site, but also 1st lady joe biden is with him, but he will be joined by other presidents as well. bill clinton and also we know that brock obama will be there who will not be here is george w bush. she is going to speak in pennsylvania. and notably, absent from the ceremony will be donald trump, although he will be attending later on in the day to pay his respects here at the reflection tool. now, what i can tell you is that this will be a ceremony that will go on for some time because the names of all of the victims will be read out and it is a long list. in addition to that,

there will be moments of silence 6 in total to commemorate not just the planes crashing into the towers, but also when the towers collapse and what there is an impact at the pentagon and also and shake. so pennsylvania, now we are not expecting the president to speak, this is a ceremony that will be attended by family members as well as 1st responders. but i can tell you the millions will be watching the ceremonies, whether it's live streamed or on their televisions. this is something that certainly affected so many millions of people, not just in the united states, but around the world and the san averse research of a lot of emotion. of course, kimberly really feels like this is one of those moments where everyone remembers where they were when it happened and obviously so much has changed since then. how are americans approaching this particular anniversary, especially off the last few weeks, and i've kind of stone in service up a painful memories for so many different people for so many different reasons. it's

not just the recent live last in afghanistan, that of course, the united states decided to invade afghanistan as an act to, to, to really find those that were responsible and to punish them. and what many americans felt was that the mission of that seem to get lost and there was just 20 years of war that many struggled to find meaning in top of that you have the invasion in the iraq and it wasn't just the external events outside the united states that pain, so many millions of americans is what happened inside the united states after the september 11th attacks. that also is so painful because the united states also not only turned on what they perceived as external enemies, but also looked at their own citizens as potential friends. surveillance became part of the new norm in the united states. whether it be the monetary of people,

phone records or electronic communications or even being fris at the airport, that all became. 9 sort of the normal, everyday life in the united states as a result of these attacks. so there's a lot of morning that is taking place and remembering life the way it was before the september 11th attacks and how it is today. and so that is why so many people are looking at this and remembering this and reflecting on all of this and i can tell you, i walked amongst ground 0 last night i saw the family members who were weeping. they were laying flowers. they were remembering their loved ones, but there were so many people outside of that area that were looking on and also very solemn as they seem to reflect in their own way how it affected them as well. and kimberly, we are just seeing pictures now live pictures of president joe biden, lady joe biden. they're walking in and just behind them all former president,

brock obama and his wife, michelle. and i believe bill clinton is there too. and hillary. so obviously a huge, a huge guess less this morning, but you were saying earlier that that they're not expecting to speak today. no, but what we do know is that they will be participate. and we understand that this will be a very long day, especially for jo by them and dr. jill bide in the 1st lady. they will be laying re not only potentially here at ground 0 but also in shanks. so pennsylvania and later on. * at the pentagon, we also know that when us president joe biden is in shanks, both pennsylvania, he will be joined by his vice president comalla harris. and she will be speaking along with the former president george w bush, of course, was your president,

commander in chief in 2001. now what we do know will be taking place here is not only the ringing of the bells to commemorate this and the names being red, but this isn't a long event that will be taking place. we saw this last night and we'll see it again this evening. starting at stuff, there are what is called the attribute of light that will be taking place 2 different beams of light to represent those 2 powers that were struck and collapse into rubble. they will be reading up into the air, into the sky as almost to sort of show a beacon of hope, if you will. that's what is the intention of those that have put together this installation. and i think when we talk about what happened on that day, it really is summed up by a statement that was put out by the current 1st lady, dr. joe bide. and she said that when it comes to the september 11th attacks,

even ask for 20 years on now, most americans remember it as before. and after, in terms of how america has changed, she said it's a moment that has changed all of us. and she says in our shared experiences, shot grief and resolve, we found unity. now that is a bit of a controversial statement, given the fact that we are in such a divided america right now. politically. but is certainly true that in those initial moments, americans did come together, they wanted to show american spirit and triumph over adversity. but so much of that has dissipated. and so what we've seen in the last day or so our messages from the former precedent, maybe many elected officials who are saying things like, we need to get back to that. we need to find that unity again. and this is a moment where we can reclaim that whether or not it will happen is up to ordinary

americans, but certainly it is something that they're elected leaders, whether it's chill bite and or joe biden, or any of the other precedent. they're hoping that this is a moments that americans can reflect on, but also build upon, kimberly speak there about unity. and i recall the bipartisan nature of the response that we saw in the aftermath of those 911 attacks with that's not surprising, but really striking. and today i was just reading some comments from the democratic senate majority leader who, who is in power on 911. 1 and he says he regrets pushing that bill through congress, which authorized military for how all, both parties now reflecting on the consequences of that choice and everything that's happened since there is no question that the majority of politicians, he was supported, the invasion of iraq and afghanistan were part of the vote to authorize that have he for the rest because they recognize that the intention,

what was desired of so many millions of americans they were presented to go in and take action against those that had caused loss of life in the united states. that somehow that got loss along the way and the mission changed whether intentionally or unintentionally. and as a result, not only were americans hurt by those actions, but we know that millions of other civilians in afghanistan in iraq and elsewhere, were also negatively impact. and, but the sad reality is that even as we've seen, the withdrawal of us troops in afghanistan, which obviously has not on well for this administration. what we see is this american combat mode continue. even though the us president says that the majority of us troops now gone from afghanistan, we know that there are still operations that continue in terms of counter terrorism,

whether it be in a gamma center elsewhere that sort of combat. the role of the united states is still in place, and that is what paid for many americans because there is a line reflection here. but what america does outside of the united nighted states has an impact on what happens inside the united states. it makes americans as they travel targets, of animosity of hatred, of anger and ordinary americans recognize that the way they did in 20 years ago. and so this was the responsibility now of their elected leaders to try and turn this around. but the problem is, is that like an airplane, it is not easy to do when it doesn't happen quickly. and so this is something that is now the challenge of, of americans moving forward and of their elected leaders. and this is sort of a reminder of all of that. and so again, it's, there's up so many painful memories live last mistakes made and what needs to be

done moving forward and then divided america. that is a very big challenge right now in order to even get the unity necessary to make the big and hard decision. kimberly went now watching a band walk in with a large us flag signifying the beginning of the royal service today. let's listen into a little bit of that music and get a sense of kimberly,

as he was saying, the mood that certainly feels very somber and it is this really broad moment for reflection. i wonder you talking about how the rest of the wild sea is the u. s. and how the u. s. is questioning its own identity, watching them there with the american flag. it makes me wonder. there was so many things that have happened since $911.00, including the use of enhanced interrogation techniques. jack,

the detention of people without trial for so long. i see that he 9 men still in custody in guantanamo bay. has there been a reflection in the us on pop? how the perceptions of moral authority have changed? yeah, it's interesting that you asked that question as i can hear the american national anthem playing behind me at ground 0. and we're seeing the displays of patriotism with the american flag isn't being brought in and a procession. and that's what's so interesting about all of this and how times have changed in 20 years. i can remember after the september 11th attacks, the signs of patriotism were everywhere. flags were flying. people wearing them on their t shirts proudly and 20 years later. many don't feel quite the same way about their flag about their country. there's a sense of shame,

as there is recognition of some of the mistakes made. there's no question that there's still pride, but there is certainly now this understanding of the impact of some of the actions of american hubris. so this is sort of what's embodied in the national ask them, let's take a listen. this, the i o, i me, well that was the young people's chorus of new york performing the star spangled banner, the u. s. national anthem there. and we do expect some music to continue after this from the drums and piper as the beginning. now kimberly,

a lot of the young people who sang in that quiet that we just saw now, and you spoke about the patriotism that they would have grown up with. a lot of them wouldn't have necessarily been alive during these attacks. how have they have their childhood been shaped by, by the events of 911? well, i can use my own personal experience here because i was 9 months pregnant on september 11th and had a baby just a couple of days later. he's now in college and almost completing his his university degree. and he doesn't remember a time when the united states wasn't at war. and so this is how this generation has grown up. they don't know anything else and they view it very differently. then americans who are her a little bit older and to remember times of peace versus times of conflict. they

only know the america as a surveillance state. they only know the america as a state. it works in and communicate through war. and so this is something that they're reflecting on as we look at this moment of silence. the moment of silence, while the moment of silence, we just shared marks. the very moment when years ago american airlines flight 11 flew in the north tower of the world trade center. my name is mike. whoa!

and my daughter, sarah, elizabeth lo was a flight attendant on that plane. these 20 years have felt life both a long time and a short time. and as we recite the names of those. busy we lost my memory goes back, so that terrible day, what i felt like an evil specter had descended on our world. but it was also a time when many people acted above and beyond the ordinary. beginning with the action of the flight crews, like sarah and the passengers on the 4 flights the individuals in the towers. the professionals of the fire and police. and later, the volunteers who have worked on the pile sensitive to recover and are a lot a lot one's remains. they help full us through the darkest days of our lives. in the last 20 years, my family and i have at times known unbearable,

saw and disbelief about the lives that would never be yours. we have fail with speaking out on my daughter's behalf and calling on many more precautions and also for the history to be remembered. not as numbers. busy and a date, but the faces of ordinary people, people who looked a lot like sarah at the 1st memorial ceremony. my wife bobby and i stood here with thousands of family members riding the midst. busy of the gray and black world of destroyed buildings. today, this is a quiet place of memory. the gleaming 911 museum hose, a sacred repository for our loved ones, remains and still brightly stories of all the sons and daughters, siblings, husbands and wives, grand parents and friends,

as we carry these 20 years forward and find such that's in a continuing appreciation. all of those whose ro is to be more than ordinary people and a father's pride and his daughter's selfless acts in the last moments of her life, acting with your wife, to help those in the air and those on the ground. a legacy from sarah that burns like an eternal flame. while you are listening there to my killer, he, as he said, is the father of one of the flight attendants who died online 11. and he spoke about the unbearable sorrow that he and his family have faced. and now we're hearing a number of the names of the people who did parish on that day. and we'll be listening in to some of those laurie christopher about alon on abraham

williams. f abraham then richard and many heinrich bernard ackerman, hall was the bomb christian donald la roy adam, patrick adam, shannon, louis adam steven george adam ignatius udo don. got crazy, a, a damn all. terrence edward adderly junior, sophia b. and you can see the us president joe biden, and his wife jill former president's brocker obama and bill clinton and their wives . also listening to the names we'll be hearing all of the names over the course of

the next few hours. let's bring in steve clemens. he's the host of the bottom line out of here is week he show and also editor at large. if the hell he joins us now from washington d. c. steve, this is clearly a moment for morning, but also very much and moment for reflection and it comes at a very specific moment for the us in the way that it sees itself. how do you think the country is, is reflecting upon its own identity in this moment? it's a great question. i think the country has seen a moment as kimberly how could said earlier when people were unified. they were, they were shocked that this could happen. and people of every background, every stripe and color, every part of society came together at a moment. and we're feeling the reflections in the memory of that day in a way we haven't dealt in 20 years. and i think right now it's the foil of that unity that makes today's division and toxicity inside america. really,

really disturbing. i was getting chills just thinking about it as you were talking, listening to, to them, to the gentleman after the moment of silence. but, you know, i think that america right now is split and divided and people have different senses of what has happened to the country since. and they are blaming each other inside the country for a nation that no longer has that unity of purpose. and unity of place, and i think that is something that while 1 may reflect on it tomorrow, we will still have, you know, sadly, and unfortunately in the united states, you know, real divisions among people and what they believe this nation should be about. and what ought to drive it? 911 is a memory of a moment when it was different. and i think, you know, tomorrow 912 is going to be a day where hopefully people get back together and begin thinking about what they could do to rebuild that sort of unity. but today america is a divided nation. steve, you talk about blame, then it's obviously been

a huge amount of blame being shifted around, especially in the last days of us presence in afghanistan. and we've been watching that happen. obviously, that was a direct link to what happened on 911. and even as the u. s. was leaving, we were watching eiffel k launch attacks at suicide bomb outside the airport. the rockets being fired. now cara threats clearly remain. and many people are arguing that u. s. presence in various countries is even created the climate for them to grow in your mind, how successful has this so called global war on terror bein it has been tragically unsuccessful. i think that, you know, people who want to point to success say there have been no major terror attacks on the united states since 911. but within, we've had significant terror attacks. you know, lone wolves, others that have done this, and we have externally around the world. you know, just as many people who have been radicalized and who, you know,

see the united states in their targets, among other nations and allies and people from around the world. clearly, but i think we've, we have played into what some terrorists wanted, which is to overreact overreach and help create the problems that made the grievances that people feel in various parts of the country made those terrorists look as if they were fighting for those people that those grievances were legitimate, and i think that is a real tragedy because nothing more could be nothing could be further from the truth in my view. but the united states really did overreach. it overstayed so long in afghanistan to a point, it became the forgotten war. now everyone is paying attention to it, but for a long period of time where other challenges around it was just the war on summer. but we still had people dying. we still had people reacting. we still had, you know, the, the, the costs of that building, both financially but in human lives. and also psychologically frankly,

and i think that that hubris, as you just said, is something that's had extraordinary costs on our reputation and brand around and around the world. we used to be, in my view, at least for some, a beacon on the hill, something they could look up to democracy meant something the way we ran our economy meant something. all of that has come crashing down. and when you think about what, why would another nation follow america right now? there are a lot of other choices they have. we're not the compelling brain for people to aspire to right now. and i think that as a result of what, what started with 911 but our b years after that they were watching family members here, hold up pictures of the people that they lost and without their names. and these were civilians, nearly 3000 civilians who died online 11. but at the same time, we also know about thousands of other civilian deaths that have happened in iraq and afghanistan. now, even today,

these details that have emerged about that drone strike in cobble that it was an aide worker for a u. s. n. geo. that the u. s. actually attacks. how reflective is that now of what's happened to the way that warfare is being conducted? post $911.00. well, it just shows the limit of the all knowing all seeing cyber world that we've built, that there are real human lives and they don't always match up with what intelligence thinks it's, it's, you know, an atrocity. these are the kinds of things that one would never imagine the united states doing a kind of, you know, i'm sure that people regret and have great regret for, for what occurred. but it is symptom that can i found this, you know, when we saw a lot of what was released in wiki leaks that we saw so many innocent families that had deaths and the families had had assassinations. people that had been killed during the war and that information hidden from them in certain parts of the wiki, leaks that came together. this is not just something that happened days ago. it's

been happening throughout these wars. and i think when you ask about the reflection, the consciousness of that, i honestly can't say america is at the point where it realizes the blow back that will come back from this. and the atrocious and horror of that happening to other people at our hands is something i don't think has been fully digested and understood yet as by me. but i think that a lot of others still view this role. this security obsession of the united states is one that's justified and i and i, i don't, but that's one of the points of divide in our nation. indeed, steve penance there. the hearst of the bottom line alger there is weekly show. steve will be coming back to you, so do stay with us, but for now let's listen into a few more of those names being read out that that memorial. that's going to continue for several hours. but these of family members who are reading out the names of their loved one watching over us. and even though i never met you in

person, i don't miss you a lot. mom always tells me all the crazy things he did. and i'm sure he, we're here probably be hearing them with you. thank you for being the best guardian angel and for sending us kelly. and we know he can see you. mom also says i have your level term and fearlessness. not only do i have your term, but i'm honored to have your name in my middle name. you pop up and dad have inspired me to fall in your footsteps and become a firefighter too. we hope you will continue to watch, to watch over us and keep us healthy. and c v show much uncle chris and my sister, the celia, elizabeth richard lawson, b c. c. it's been 20 years since you left us. i remember this day as if it was yesterday. you are greatly blessed by mother your sisters, your nieces and nephews. it was such

a sad day on september 11. i remember you working at the pentagon and when they told us the airplane had attacked their pentagon, i couldn't believe it from the building the way i worked at to see the smoke. and i couldn't believe that you're gone. this want to say, i love you. and we miss you. thank you so much. when you're listening to family members there, read out the names of their loved ones at the sight of ground 0, where the twin towers and the trade center one stood. well, if you are just joining us now on al jazeera, it is shortly after that teen g. m t. and we are listening in to a live memorial service from brown 0 in new york city where we are mocking the 20th anniversary of the 911 attacks. we have an.