a crucial role for some young player to make the top twenty and that's what everyone is trying to make her not just make more money present on it but to make the top twenty in the final rating which gives you an automatic card on the your paint or for the next year so that's pretty much what everyone will be fighting for for those coveted the top twenty places. now just a week after becoming the first i am p.c. to play a medal at the able bodied world championships warned us of being missed out on blade runner oscar pistorius as the south african pulled the wraps off a sculpture of his torso in loans and the other day was part of international paralympic day in the british capital which is to take place next sunday and then thanks pam karlan picks stories was the star attraction of the festivities at trafalgar square and graciously last acts of the kids improvised running british prime minister david cameron and there of london boris johnson also attended tickets from south of the paralympics on friday a story this is a big metal hope that those games but he also wants to run for his country in the

name fix. now the rugby world cup finally gets underway on friday with new zealand taking on tonga the pressure is all the all blacks who haven't won the tournament since one thousand nine hundred seventy despite regularly being ranked as the world's best side but she found a course that was for one use even captain sean fitzpatrick who says this side is capable of winning the sport's biggest crown for the first time in twenty four years. but we're very excited it's. three four years as we've now and we have with on the right house world cup and it is on top why it was not nearly seven last time we had up there there are lots of times to musial and something. as a nation. as four million people talk about a stadium of four million people and they're looking forward to welcoming the rugby world and you think of possible cups the ones that are being toward the world cups the world cups that are being treated have been gracious about the nations that have really taken on board what

a rugby world cup has got the heart of the. i love the rugby and i'm sure the. writers of our product you know just what we can offer as a national party has been twenty four years i've heard so far i've you know twenty eight years ago that's not what i said we spoke in couple of months earlier i mean there is. when a little later it's two defeats to south africa and just last weekend. it's a new slightly different is this going on and i haven't seen him around but never saw obviously he said twenty four years since we last won the world cup there's a little marking up that we need to get rid of. and the new zealand as a table done very well masri three years preparing for this world cup but a force in the last couple of games we've had a little bit of luck doing that hopefully it's it's you know the prize by them realize that you know it's not going to be as easy as some people think i'm a bit of a reality check for us to those fans and media let's you know we'll cups you know

a very very difficult job and for new zealand they've got to play every guy like it's like the world cup final so you could be a blessing in disguise or just just get expectations down a little because i mean in new zealand a few months ago it's not going to go i think i think in terms of the why that new zealand they were struggling with such ease at the start of the trial i should say they've russell thought that's what will happen again and it's really kind of out of them really what we're going through to the all blacks and to shy to have haters of the bright gammas and if you don't like write them. more often than not the team of dumb nice bright down the one the guy in them and i show them the pocket a mess and a game with three four weeks earlier richie mccaw or part of what. the right going to score a show and this rubbish i try the world's best sound knowledge against australia yeah i'm up early that's anything's possible if you reply well we can solve it even already you see inside your well you know i think i've seen injuries and that's

just with the things that injuries is a concern and we saw that with the withdrawing kind of kind of not plying adam thompson in applying not helping one hundred percent upset the balance of the team and that's why what combinations aside bottle injuries this is a concern for the grampian right. here and raping a jew that night but as a as a as a problem but he backs up i forgot quarter final time. but in doing that it was something else an opportunity and put the face i took as of should read it well it gets started last week so hopefully we've got a couple of guys was forced to dress. the saving by stay without see further news on the plane crash that killed almost all the luck of us if i saw him last wednesday night.

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oh. tonight the world's ice hockey league it's a united in grief after russia's locomotive team was almost entirely wiped out in a plane crash in the city. i cannot go ration ceremonies been held right in the place with the team was supposed to play sportsmen and fans. also in the program the u.k. government faces legal action as don't just demand a new inquiry into the shady death of an arms inspector he was the man who revealed britain knew iraq had no weapons of mass destruction ahead of the invasion.

and the middle east build up palestinian start a peaceful campaign for statehood ahead of the un vote while in israel tensions grow it was police clashed with protesters calling for a better governor. hello this is r.t. it's now eleven pm this thursday evening the eighth of september you're a moscow my name's kevin. well first we start with what's been called ice hockey is darkest day and the worst disaster affecting sport in russia's recent history as i'd say look at these pictures from earlier on this evening in a very stadium in minsk where the locomotive team should have been playing tonight but of course what we're seeing is a very different event that people have gathered for instead of a game you're looking at a commemoration ceremony for the forty three people killed when their plane crashed

on takeoff one player and a crew member survived in a moments what has been locomotives opponents tonight and they've been symbolically scoring own goals as a mark of respect during the ceremony the stadiums and crowds of people holding banners and scarves bearing the names of those who perished i see sean thomas managed to speak to the sole player who didn't that fateful flight. the famous bells of jaroslav ring out for a community grieving a chilling reminder of the tragedy the country with the lives of some of the city's brightest stars your murdered because i knew many of the boys personally what can i say there were scenes i can say this about many of them they were joyful people they loved life and they wanted to live they brought so much joy into our lives.

thursday marked the start of a three day mourning period as fans of ya slava locomotive gathered and one of the city's central cathedrals i can't describe how i feel it's a very serious loss to me the only thing worse than that would be to lose my family and we were like family to me. but as a support group of thousands work through their grief together one man maxime's is dark and is going through his own personal nightmare he is the only member of the team not on board the fateful flight as coach told him to take the rest and meet the team for the next game in moscow but again this is very terrifying to meet the hockey team is like a family i lost a family of forty people people i was close to for such a long time. and now maxine is supportive of rebuilding the locomotive franchise but it's torn by survivor's guilt. that i haven't met their families yet i can't

imagine how that'll be this is horrible for me i wasn't thinking about whether i was lucky or not that i wasn't on that plane. and now he must rely on his community sharing in the grief process so that the healing can begin and as a steady stream of mourners continue to come to this central church and you are startled to show their support it is clear that this is not just about an accident or a plane crash but it's about the loss of a teammate something very important to a community that they will remember forever. on thomas. well of course we know there were two survivors on board that fateful flight they're in a critical condition in hospital tonight and will be closely monitoring their progress or if the accident happened on the first day of the new season of the kontinental hockey league any of those who perished played for their country is no real stars our game our sports presenter kate partridge has more. we can see some of the portraits of some of those players that be coming out now i mean as we've

said before there were ten different nationalities within the team but it was very poignant for the local means crowd for it was the portrait of this man responsible a thirty six the better russian captain i defended it played in the n.h.l. we've come to perth and off the russian he was thirty three occasional runner up last year and being a junior world champion with russia and we don't see you are not a part of the czech squad that what won the world championships last year and along with looking at escaping cattle to next and also returning to another check as well as years of russia's shake he was only thirty again czech republic he spent most of his n.h.l. career at the carolina hurricanes and been a world champion in two thousand and five we've mentioned before i mean he didn't actually been junior champion looking at some of the roster. where of the day there were four actually playing in the junior league and part of the m.h.l. there were two players who were just twenty years old they get tragic loss of life i mean any sporting loss by definition people are younger anyway i mean some of the

the senior players were only in their thirty's there's been a kind of a collective will in trying to rebuild this club and he's on the myth that if he's the k. it page shell chief we're going to be hearing from him soon he'd said about maybe volunteering for his country but as we can hear from. the federation president the idea the will of to bring players to a may change is coming forward immediately. the ice hockey family mourns the loss of one of the best teams it was a multinational with a unique group of players and the international sports community sharing our grief it was an outstanding team and our priority will be to build and you like i'm a thief. of calls was a true so of. course. the wolves go forward do you believe it will be so if you're good you're for. border. it was very deserted reserved for balls of the religious all of those records the with records

of the degree of birth groups for the work or if it was a history of very little slower recorded civil war stop this this tragedy has zero is still only hours old and yes there is a there is a will from the whole i sort of community to move forward mark the tragedy move forward and rebuild what was a powerhouse in russian ice hockey but you have a city like alice level which is basically a hockey city so anything any tragedy that effects that might set a whole team affects our whole city but also what we know just as well with some of the tributes that are coming in from former players who've gone on sea to head up leagues in their own countries that have played in at this particular city are saying they can empathize with just what a tragedy it must mean how devastating it must be felt. sports crossfire with me a bit earlier than all the money raised from a commemoration of that we just saw in men's can be seen again on the screens will go to the families of the players many of them left behind young children of course

as kate was saying talk is turning to rebuilding the team and lokomotiv is just appointed a new coach to do just that appeared to be all of previously headed the junior team meanwhile more details are emerging about the last moments of the players on board the plane i love you they were the final words of one of the players that he got to say to his wife and baby son just minutes before the crash their words you'll always remember also among the dead the youngest player of the team who despite being injured disqualified wanted nothing more than to play with the sporting brothers a decision of course that eventually cost him his life more human stories and the timeline to this tragic event on our website r.t. dot com. rita rivetted has visited the crash site and laid flowers in tribute to the victims of the plane disaster and jaroslav on the site the russian president said the number of airlines must be reduced dramatically and he also

ordered the transport ministry to pay special attention to pilot training in russia's civil aviation sector saying those not up to the job must be sacked and very valid the entire industry must undergo serious changes now the russian president adulthood his plans for the international policy for gallus level to visit the site of the crash but later he did arise from address the global gathering our correspondent mr now is there and she'll have more of what was said look at later in the program. let's focus in on some other top stories now today before we catch up within itself and the british government faces court action from a group of doctors over the death of weapons expert david kelly in two thousand and three they're pushing for a new inquiry after the first reached a verdict of suicide kelley was behind a report showing that britain knew there were no weapons of mass destruction in iraq before joining the invasion results is the element found out the evidence in the case isn't as clear as previously thought. more than eight years since the

death of u.n. weapons inspector talked to david kelly and still no inquest following his own masking as the source of a report saying tony blair's government knew iraq had no weapons of mass destruction before person invaded the country kelly was found dead in woods near his home a verdict of suicide was recorded despite what many see as conflicting evidence no one's ever said questions under oath about kelly's death and all medical and scientific reports relating to it were secretly classified something which has never been legally explained but it hasn't gone away this week talked to david how it is to monday that the question of holding an inquest to be reopened he's challenging a decision by attorney general coleman a green who rules out holding a coroner's inquest in june citing what he called overwhelming evidence that the u.n. weapons inspector committed suicide but david help and

a group of other doctors are distinctly underwhelmed by the evidence the. one group. cross. your mind. who's. the lead. with these huge part of the campaign has popular support reaches of the daily mail newspaper have to natives around fifty six thousand dollars in just a week to help finance the appeal how pain and his fellow campaigners hope this will lead to a full inquest into kelly's death many suspect foul play i just subsequent governments coverup. lauren that there in just a few days' time the united states will be marking its greatest tragedy in half a century the terrorist attacks on september the eleventh two thousand and one what followed was a decade of invasions torture scandals and untold abuses on both sides and as we

begin our special coverage of the anniversary artie's going to feature can takes a look at whether the past decade made america any safer. one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in history i'm sure the in a decade of anti terror campaigns across the globe. but is america and the world now a safer place ten years on the most recent nine eleven commission report card gives aviation security in the u.s. the worst rate an f as for terrorists experts say the methods used to fight them have spawned even more extremism torture and if which were great we're going to tell them oh richard thank you it's a i thought a curtain call here and that signal if we think it's back on the road in a try if the earth and america's decade long campaign on terror has created

a new phenomena more without borders and as many say without rules torture rape and murder that took place at the u.s. run prison in abu ghraib iraq as well as other u.s. prisons overseas brought global condemnation but key decision makers in the bush administration say what they did was in the best interest of their country and they would do the same again people call it torture you think it should still be a tool yes rendition yes secret prisons yes ryder cup. with the right to prove colonel lawrence wilkerson was collin powell chief of staff when he was the secretary of state under george w. bush he says some of the bush administration members deserve to be put on trial and he would be ready to testify george tenet told dick cheney what they cheney wanted to hear oh yes it's working mr vice president we're getting great information there more stopping terrorist attacks that is order. in pakistan u.s.

drone strikes have killed thousands of civilians and maybe it only a handful of actual terrorists and many of the victims' loved ones secret venge by joining radical groups. others like this young man who lost both of his legs and three family members in a drone strike gather in protest asking when will the killing stop we have made much more than a cottage industry out of what my former boss colin powell has called the terrorist industrial complex lots of people are making lots of money off of this so-called global war on terror our war on terror. begins with al qaeda. but it does not in there listening to george bush's declaration of war on terror from ten years ago one is left wondering whether it was the beginning of a vicious circle where the revenge would take more innocent lives and would start a new wave of terror i'm going to check our reporting for martial arts so more

reflections on the past decade more opinion is getting on in this new age of global terror let's go live to our studio in washington d.c. of millan's there is a senior fellow at the independent institute scutari on the program tonight ivan i mean today the phrase war on terror has almost become a slur isn't it it's always great to have the hindsight of. it's always good to have the wisdom of hindsight but is it really justified to attack the bush administration for its invasion of afghanistan at the time given all the fear or the grief or the confusion in the immediate aftermath of nine eleven which great to talk about now but things are very different than. yes i think now a recent poll shows that the american public only twenty about twenty five percent think that the war in afghanistan or the war in iraq and choose which one you want had a. positive impact on fighting terrorism in fact they seventy five percent think it

either had no effect or it had a negative effect and i'm in the negative effect category i think george bush did exactly what bin laden wanted him to do he overreacted it went into iraq terrorism spike and the reason that obama has not used the term war on terror i think because it has been discredited as to why you just played the clip where bush said it only begins with al qaeda well united states has many terrorist groups on its terrorism list but most of them don't attack the united states and therefore the united states should have focused on al qaeda. and excluded saddam hussein and all these manufactured associations between iraq and been line which were totally false and other groups which. may be called al qaeda that have local affiliates but there are concern with local issues so i think we need to focus on the main trunk

and then they have done that to some extent but i think obama is making the same mistake that bush made he's just doing going into more countries somalia yemen. you know all these countries that where he's doing drone strikes and this is don't they causing further problems the u.s. popularity in the muslim world is go low what it was at the end of the bush administration so you may even if you go into libya or something in another intervention you may please some libyans but the rest of the muslim world is saying oh that's another intervention and that's of course what we've never dealt with in the united states is why did you do this in the first place americans tend to. focus on events where they're attacked like pearl harbor or whatever and just say there was nothing before that and the same with nine eleven but none has said he did this because of u.s. intervention in meddling in muslim countries particularly inside the raid but other muslim countries as well and i think we have to quit that or even though bin lives

that we're still going to have this animosity which breeds terrorism ok i mean i'm speaking of the you say that i can you said you in the negative count the people the positive say that has been some move forward say well hang on the initial objectives been achieved bin ladin is no dedicated is a shadow of its former self we and to fully hostile nations is not a part of democracy the has been some progress because of this war on terror. well i think we got in line and i certainly don't have a problem with taking out the. or not and them self the main trunk of al qaeda but we created al qaeda in iraq and we strengthened. it in the arabian peninsula and in the margrave and the reason that we've done that and also the group in somalia and i think we both in somalia and yemen in yemen we've made our enemies stronger and that they weren't even really our enemies when we started out so i think fight

every that obama at least. and i think that's one area where he was the period of course but then now he's taking it into somalia yemen. you know the. other places so i think it's really it's going too far and what you need to do if you're fighting terrorism easy you can't do it with law enforcement alone which you should do most of it with law enforcement then you use the military but you do it in the shelter with special forces cia you don't big countries or from the air as in libya or whatever i mean you just be as surgical as you can so you don't stir up more of the animosity that breeds the terrorists ivan it's always good to hear your insight and good on the program thanks i'm afraid our time is up there's a lot more but we're up for now i've merely and senior fellow at the independent institute thanks for being on the program thank you. and just let you know tomorrow

will be assessing the effects of a post nine eleven world both on the u.s. and on those in afghanistan where many still don't know why they were invaded in the first place. the see. if i just got here it wouldn't surprise everybody you know for six months some brimstone you just were. in for that tomorrow palestinians who started the campaign for statehood ahead of the september twentieth vote in the united nations they carried a letter to the local u.n. mission in ramallah saying their peaceful demonstrations will continue until palestine becomes a member state. reports next the whole region is in a state of build up now to vote. well the palestinian authority officially launched its campaign for statehood today thursday and in a formal letter to the un secretary chief banki moon it urged the international

body to recognize tellus fenians in just a minute and what we understand is that the campaign will involve a series of events in the run up to the opening session of the un general assembly on september the plaintive it has been drives the national campaign for palestine state one hundred and ninety three and to launch it some one hundred palestinian high ranking officials and activists gathered today for is day at the un headquarters in ramallah for a short ceremony now of both the israeli government as well as the obama administration is against the stipulation and the u.s. has into a formal request to the palestinian president mahmoud abbas asking him not to go ahead with it but a bus has rejected as we are hearing some rumblings behind the scenes that israelis and palestinians have been meeting informally and in secret to discuss the possibility of possibly postponing the sticks ration that we have no confirmation of this what we've witnessed here.