christine, you know, when else ah al jazeera when ever use all the. ready ready news marking 20 years since the deadliest attack on us soil sombre ceremonies are held to remember the victims of september 11th. ah. hello barbara sarah. this is al jazeera life from london also coming up. the attacks lead to are drawn out conflict enough ganna on where generations of afghans

have grown up in the shadow of a new york times investigation reveals the final us their strike in afghanistan may have mistakenly claimed the life of an aide worker and police in israel recapture 4 of the 6 palestinians who escaped from a high security prison on monday. i we begin in the us were somber ceremonies have been held to mark 20 years since the september 11th attacks, the deadliest on american soil. nearly 3000 people were killed. 14 passenger jets were hijacked, crashing into the world trade center. the pent again and the field in pennsylvania commemorations began in new york at ground 0, where the twin towers. one stood president's past and present,

joined the families of those who died. and at 1246 jim t, the 1st silence was observed to mark the moment when american airlines flight 11 crashed into the north tower of the world trade center. there were similar scenes at the pentagon and in shanks vill, pennsylvania. george w bush was president at the time, delivered a message of unity at a memorial to remember the passengers and crew of united airlines flight 90. 3 question salumi begins are coverage with her report from new york alongside the memorial pools, which traced to put prints of the twin towers, family members of the victims gathered with leaders and 1st responders for what is now the 20th time. remembering the nearly 3000 people who died on september 11th, 2001 to decades is more than long enough for some attendees, who have no memory of that day to have become adults. but for many others,

it seems like yesterday they want to have felt like both a long time and a short time. and as we recite the names of those, we lost my memory goes back. so that terrible day, when it fell out and able specter had descended on our world. but it was also a time when many people acted above and beyond the ordinary moments of silence mark the time the plains hit. and when the north and south towers collapse, and michael into vain, silence broken by the customary reading of the names of the victims, a list so long it takes hours to complete us. president joe biden at ground 0, stood alongside to other former presidents. the horrors of $911.00 didn't end on september. $12000.00 more have died from exposure to toxins at the site. many of them, 1st responders, been 1st responders from all over the country,

have gathered to pay their respects, wendy norman as a florida firefighter who volunteered in new york in the weeks after or last deployment. at 220, it was helped me back. you don't want to call it a celebration so it's called the remember, that's what we do. as a firefighter recently retired, florida. it hit homely and here, work in the pile. beside the brothers and sisters from all over the world came, firefighter dennis shone, came from new mexico to participate in a fundraiser. this is a day to honor ram. remember the guys, i mean they left 5 families, they left behind their brothers in arms, veterans were on hand to an honor of the thousands more who died in the conflicts triggered by 911 with the withdrawal of our troops service members from afghanistan. here recently it's really just kind of full circle and it's hard

in shanks. so pennsylvania, the president and 1st lady laid reese were flight united. 93 was brought down on route to washington before it could hit another potential target. george w bush, us president at the time of the attacks recalled that day and sacrifices made since there were shot at the city of abel and gratitude for their wisdom and decency that are posted in this terrified of the 1st responders in the mutual aid of strangers, in the solidarity of grief and grace, the actions of anatomy revealed the spirit of a people at the pentagon, still grappling with the u. s. withdrawal from afghanistan, the focus was on the victims, and the day that started at all the united states. longest war now over perhaps,

but not the vow to never forget the day that started at all. christian salumi al jazeera new york and gabriella liaison. those live in new york for us overlooking ground, 0 gabriel. every year of course the us, your commemorates the events of $911.00. so how was the atmosphere different this year? i think there was added reflection this year, particularly for 2 reasons. number one, as we just been talking about this has been 20 years, exactly 2 decades. and i think the just the fact that it has been 2 decades says allowed people to think back about the last 20 years. what happened? and what has transpired in the last 20 years, you know, out of the 13 us service members that were killed just just very recently. and collab ganeth stand outside the airports from suicide bombing for of the 13 service members were born in 2001 or 20 years old when they died. and i think that that

helped to trigger a lot of reflection, that the service members that were still giving their lives and the so called war on terror, if you, as if you will, even as the u. s. was pulling out of afghanistan and a war that was started because of the events 20 years ago behind me here. and in the pentagon and washington and pennsylvania, that there are still service members dying for that. and also the fact that you know, that was the u. s, pulling out of afghanistan to just in the last couple of weeks sort of had added reflection for a lot of people, you know, as president bill clinton was here. brock obama, the current president, joe biden. all here a former president george w bush chose to attend the ceremony in pennsylvania, who was not here at this ceremony and reflection was former president donald trump . he did stop by here within the last couple hours after the official ceremony was

over and spoke to a few firefighters, and he chose to spend his day attacking president joe biden saying that the pull out from afghanistan was in his words chaotic and said that it was foolish, big picture here though is a lot of people are focusing on everyone that died here at ground 0. that was the point of these events here in this reflection. but it's also important to point out that of the 2753 people that died here at ground 0. 20 percent of them were foreign citizens, 59 people from the united kingdom, 36 people from india, 26 and the dominican republic and 25 japanese citizens died here. and there are a lot of dignitaries here, former and current president to the united states. it was really about the family members and all of the names of everyone that died. their names were said out loud, and it was a chance for everyone to reflect on that terrible day. 20 years ago. gabriel is on

the with the latest from new york. gabe? thank you. well, let's pick the alan fisher now. who's in shanks vill pennsylvania we're flight united. 93. crash that 20 years ago. alan earlier we heard from former president george w bush. of course he was president at the time, many of his initial decisions really shaped the war on terra. and what i found interesting in his message, very much focusing both on the role of the military and also the importance of unity. that's right. i mean, very few people would have ever had the shank spill that hadn't been for 911. on the bravery of 40 members of the crew and the passengers, who on board on you in 1903 who called their friends to tell them that the plane had been hijacked. and they had the news from new york and from the pentagon and realized this plane wasn't going to line. this was a suicide mission. and so in those few moments they bought it, bought it to this to try and take bike control of the plate. george bush called it

an active heteros and we said that this was a hollywood, an honor to police. but he talked his well about how the united states had come together in the days after the attacks and said that it was something that was missing from the us at the moment. he was critical of those who would see every issue as divisive to step away from someone you would consider a neighbor or a friend. he condemned violent extremists both abroad and home. he said, although there was no cultural overlap, they were children of the same federal spirit and the arch people to come together . he said he had no solutions and he spoke to those who served after 911. instead, they sat with the best interests of america at heart. so the sacrifice in his view wasn't in vain. and not theme of unity was picked up by vice president common le harris. she talked about how the country needed to come together and how it done. so, so many times when faced with challenges in the past on the days that followed,

september 11th, 2001, we were all reminded that unity is possible in america. we were reminded also that unity is imperative. in america, it is essential to our shared prosperity, to our national security and to our standing in the world. and by unity, i don't mean uniformity. we had differences of opinion in 2001, as we do in 2021. and i believe that in america, our diversity is our strength. united 93 was due to fly from new york international airport to san francisco. it got

diverted 20 minutes after to call the b hijackers, there were 4 of them, one from lebanon, 3 from saudi arabia. one intent on flying the plane to washington dc, and in fact, just above the skies of pennsylvania, they've actually programmed the auto pilot on the jet. had them in that direction. the target was thought to be capitol hill. but those on the plane decided that that wasn't going to happen and they gave their lives over the skies of pennsylvania, the pilot realizing that he wasn't going to be able to complete his mission, felt you knew other option, but to drive the plane into the ground it crushed at 900 kilometers an hour, killing everyone on board, but saved many, many lives in washington, just 210 kilometers away. ellen fisher with a latest bear from shanks fil island. thank you. president biden is now headed to the pent again, where he will take part in

a reef laying ceremony. patrick will have is live from there. now, patty, i guess the image, the conic image of 911, has always been between towers in new york, but really symbolically the fact that the pentagon was attacked really sort of strikes at the heart of the mice of the american military. what was, what has the mood been like at the pentagon today? i can tell you, i've been at the pentagon pretty much every day since we started to see the fall a couple and the mood has been very much the same. there's a tone of anger, of sadness, but anger. i think it probably catch like the best. this is a very solemn ceremony though. first time they had just come memorization. and the day that the u. s. wasn't currently wore it afghan instead. and so what you saw, excuse me, in this building is you saw the about how they needed the help of the taliban in order to continue that evacuation. this is what they saw as their enemy,

and then they were relying on their goodwill to get their people out. and then even though they said they were going to get all americans out and all the africans that they promised safe harbor to, they didn't get those out either. we believe those could be tens of 1000. so there is a lot of questions about exactly how this, what so wrong, how the intelligence was so wrong. and it doesn't look right now like it's for new impact or budget. currently looking at about another $700000000000.00 to be sent, but there are progresses. who are going to point to this is the u. s. does not need to spend that much money out of military that couldn't win wars enough ghana, stan or iraq that people have with the latest from the pentagon. thank you. still to come here on al jazeera, we're going to speak to the photographer who captured this eye clinic image shortly after the 1st power at the world trade center. ah,

ah. once again, after 2 or 3 nice warm sunny days in london for example, the weather in northwest was going to be overtaken by expanding circulation of cloud, bringing cooler and temporarily wet weather. now that's a fatty typical patton with pressure hurry over france and spain. so north settled warm weather and this big gap and clad in eastern europe, which is where the temperatures are actually fairly high. so whilst things are turning west and when the in scandinavia, and just breezy and normal, the british isles. so the warms, as represented by this overlay of oranges shows itself would be most concentrated in the balkans baltic states. actually vilnius is a case in point here. but the temperatures here as the crowd expands to lithuania or drop down to near normal life a bit below at 16. but that's by tuesday. stormy weather has been pretty vicious.

recently running through sicily, the forecast on sunday takes into grease it's thunderstorms. actually, they produced a tornado in the small island off the coast of sicily. in africa, the winds are still bringing duster this. a hell bigger shall be showing themselves in the ivory coast. and on their way, slowly west is reaching as far north as ban jeweler. next day, also, it's wet in west africa. ah. discover a world of difference, determination. i am coming down. we are moving freedom, shot saw the 16 people, corruption. compassion, the just 0 world selection of the best films from across our network of

channels. oh, a reminder. now the top stories on al jazeera, somber ceremonies have been held in the us to mark 20 years since the september 11th attacks. us presidents, past and present, joined families at ground 0 to remember the victims of 911 combinations have also been held that the size of the attack on the pentagon as well as check sco pennsylvania, where a passenger jet crashed into a field after being hijacked the former president george w bush and vice president tamela harris delivered a message of unity at the memorial. there were many haunting

images captured during the september 11th attacks. photojournalist stan, honda took this photo of a terrified woman, covered in dust. marsey borders entered a nearby office building to shelter after the 1st tower collapsed. the photo became one of the most iconic images that from that day and stand. honda joins us now via skype from pittsburgh in pennsylvania. thank you so much for joining us here on al jazeera, such on a coin, i, connie can distinctive a picture that so many people remember talk us through the moments that led to you taking this picture. while i was down photograph in the the attack i was, i got down to lower manhattan before the 1st hours had collapsed. and after that, after that 1st tower collapsed, i was near an office building between the smoke into debris. you couldn't really

see anything. it was like night, so there is a police officer pulling people into the, into a building. so i went into that building. it was a small lobby of an office building. and a few moments later, or there were other people in the lobby, and a few moments later, a person comes in completely covered in dust. and you couldn't really tell what colors address or shoes or anything like that. and this turned out to be marsey borders and she stopped for a 2nd by a bank of elevators. and i took one frame of her and then a group of people were helping her up some stairs. i think thinking that would be safer to get out. and get out of the lobby. and so that's how i came out to take a photo, considering how many horrific and memorable images emerged from september 11. what do you think makes this picture particularly i colic. well i think it be, it was used a lot by the media and i think people were, i think identified with it because it, it shows

a person trying to deal with just this chaos and the tragedy. and i think it kind of puts more of a human human face on, on the whole disaster at the time. and he took the picture. i mean obviously there was huge confusion. you didn't take her name, you didn't speak to her, but you did meet marcy borders later. she sadly died in 2015. what was it like meeting? i was, 1st of all, we were just amazed to even find out who this was, its situations in images like these during disasters. if you almost never find out who the person is, which is unfortunate. this is well before social media where you can reach out to large groups of people. so i was relieved to see that she was physically fine that she hadn't wasn't injured at all. i didn't have no idea what had happened to her after i took the picture. and so it was interesting to hear her story her and her background and, and how she came about to be in a tower. it's been in our house,

eventually just survive this, this whole attack must have been particularly difficult for you, obviously, because i think you were in the underground and then you sort of came up from the underground. but of course, at a time before mobile phones, before smartphones, did you have any idea of what was actually going on before the tower collapsed? no, that was what was so confusing is that i had spoken with a fellow a photographer. from my apartment i was home that morning he said a plain one plane had crashed into the world trade center. so that's, that's all i had heard before. i got into the new york city subway and i came out and both of the towers there are smoke smoke point from both. i hadn't heard about the 2nd plane and i still several hours later i didn't know they were. there were 2 planes. so like i said earlier, it was just a completely chaotic day. it was yet no idea of the information, of course, like you said, there was before smartphones and we had internet access and all that. so there was

early on the ground, there really was no information. you had no idea what was what was happening either in new york or anywhere else. and how do you feel 20 years after that they i'm, i'm fine. i mean, i don't have any physical effects in it and i think it's just my memories are just kind of chaotic day. and as a juror ellis, it wasn't, nothing was making sense. we're all used to covering large disasters and playing crashes, things like that. but this is way beyond anybody's experience, and i hope it, i hope this was the only event like this ever to happen. there's nothing anything, anything bigger than that? but i think i think the i kind of worry about what happened to our country after september after 2001 and how we waged war on to other countries basically destroying them so that, that i worry about as well. 20 years later photographer stan honda joining us from

pittsburgh, pennsylvania, who of course took that very famous, iconic image of marsey borders. a stand on the thank you. thank you very much. the september 11th attacks led to a 20 year war in afghanistan as us forces and their allies felt to target and the taliban tens of thousands of afghans were killed in that time. shall stratford isn't cobble and spoke to people about their hopes for the future. in cell whose homes was destroyed during fighting between us led forces and the tolerable 40 years ago. his brother, one of his songs, was killed. he and his family have lived in this camp for internally displaced people in cobble. and ever since he blames the united states and its allies for the pain. they've insured it. yes sir, look, colored coming at us in the past 20 years. we've suffered so much that at times

we've had the been able to eat for days with all africans have been through terrible hardships, not bombardments, fighting helen's destroyed the war last, not so long because we are africans, we will fight for our country in central cobble today, totally bon fighters, god form a government buildings and abandoned foreign embassies. the challenges, the movement faces off the what it describes as victory in a fight for national sovereignty or immense. it's been 20 years since the $911.00 attacks and the soon after us that invasion. to hunt down osama bin loud and remove the taliban for power. then followed the taliban describe 2 decades of foreign occupation. the foreign forces have gone metallic bond back in power. and the un says that afghan is down, is facing a humanitarian, an economic catastrophe. this is the old american embassy, once a hub of cia and military planning,

one of the most important centers of us foreign policy in the world. now, it's just an empty shout. from it, google was 24 when us led coalition forces invaded. he is scared about what the future holds. so look, i look in a moment in the last 20 years, my hopes change, but now they've been left behind all afghans. so we'll get close the rest of the world when the americans were here. but now we have to wait and see again what the future will bring. despite these doubts, meat says he wants the world to give the tale by the charms mythical taliban. oh no, no, all my life experience only war i just want to sleep with ease. i just want to wake up with no fear. i'm tired of saying good bye to my family as i leave for work. afraid i'll never see them again. this is one of many graveyards on hillside surrounding cobble here are buried. some of the estimated 50000 afghan civilians

killed in the last 20 years. well that, that is, our goal says he also wants the international community to accept the tal about. he wants education for his children who are born into war. he wants the chance for them all to start their lives. again. charles ralph al jazeera, cobble, an investigation by the new york times as revealed the united states final air strike in ghana stun may have killed an aid worker by mistake. 10 people, including 7 children, were killed in the august 29th stroke attack targeting isis fighters in cobble charlotte bell. this is more now from the african capital in that joint strike, the pentagon said that it had i for bombers who were planning an eminent attack on the airport. we know that civilians were killed in that, but now this investigation has, has you. cctv footage has talked to more than a dozen of the target family members and colleagues and found out that he was actually

a worker for us aid organization. they also showed that he was loading kindnesses of water into the car and not explosion. explosives, as the pentagon had seeds, and they are also teaching that there was a secondary explosion, which is what the pentagon used to prove that they knew that they were explosive in the car. the pentagon has responded saying that we are assisting results of the s drive. we work hard moving civilian casualties and it was based on good intelligence, but for africa and peers, a lot of criticism. and they also find it quite symbolic at the last is strike that happened in this nearly 20 year war came civilians and other big question marks or whether they had the right person for of the 6 palestinians who escaped from an israeli maximum security. prison are set to appear in court after days on the run. meanwhile, there have been more protests in drama lane, fidelity with palestinian prisoners protests to say inmates or facing further

punishment after the escapees. tunneled their way out of give bow a prisoner on monday. the man hunt continues for the 2 remaining fugitives. hurry for reports from western around 5 am local time on saturday, israeli counterterrorism units arrested to more of the 6 escaped palestinian prisoners in laurie park, east of the town of nazareth. a tip off from a local resident, reportedly led to the capture of mohammed al our day, a member of palestinian islamic jihad, and zachary, as who bady the highest profile. escapee of formerly photography armed wing the alex amount. his brigade, zabeda is reported to a resisted arrest, but was unarmed and overwhelmed. an image released by his where the police showed him with a bruised face. all 6 of the prisoners come from in or near jeanine. in the north of the occupied west bank mohammed al r does mother reacted to his arrest. lived a job. i want the whole world all organisations to stand by him because he's

a hero. he's my son. i want him out. i wish for the best the him to be released. late on friday to other escapees were captured, yucca country and muffled are they said to be the masterminded. the escape all 4 detained without a shot being fired, palestinian on factions had warned retaliatory attacks if any of the men were harmed. the arrest alone triggered sizable protests across the occupied west bank from gaza. rocket was fired, intercepted by israel's anti missile system. the extraordinary escape through a shower room floor into void space on the one of his rails. most secure prisons was an enormous embarrassment for israel security machine and celebrated as a victory by palestinian israel's effort to reverse. it has also been huge for the men were serving life sentences for killing israelis. babies on trial for similar charges. the israeli government will that they may have been planning fresh attacks with help from the outside. as it played out, the men appeared very much on their own and were captured without the kind of

bloodshed that many feared might. spock abroad around a violence that said the hunt for the remaining 2 men continues. and palestinians have been angered by abroad, a crackdown against prisoners since the escape on monday. this remains attent situation. harry force it, i'll just hear west gruesome, much more on that and everything else. the we have been covering here now jazeera on our website. there it is, al jazeera dot com. ah and now the top stories on al jazeera, sombre ceremonies have been held in the us to march 20 years since the september 11th attacks, the deadliest, all american soil. nearly 3000 people were killed were when 4 passenger jets were hijacked, crashing into the world trade center, the pentagon, and the field and pencils.