hello this is r t it's now eleven pm this thursday evening the eighth of september you are a moscow my name is kevin owen and first we start with what's been called ice hockey is darkest day and the worst disaster affecting sport in russia's recent history it's not a look at these pictures from earlier on the saving 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. what has been locomotives opponents tonight and they've been symbolically scoring own goals as a mark of respect during the ceremony the stadiums been crowded with people holding banners and scarves bearing the names of those who perished. thomas managed to speak to the sole player who didn't board that fateful flight.

one. hundred bills of jaroslav a 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. because nobody knew many of the boys personally what can i say they were saints 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 march to the start of a three day mourning period as fans of ja 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 they were like family to me. but as a support group of thousands work through their greed. together one man maxime's is

akon is going through his own personal nightmare he is the only member of the team not on board the fateful flight his coach told him to take the rest and meet the team for the next game in moscow. this is very terrifying for me the hockey team is like a family i lost a family of forty people people i was close to for such a long time. now maksim is supportive of rebuilding the locomotive franchise but is 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 so awful 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 team and something very important to a community that they will remember forever in your survival sean thomas. well of course we know there were two survivors on board that fateful flights that are in a critical condition in hospital tonight we'll be closely monitoring the progress for you the accident happened on the first day of the new season of the kontinental hockey league many of those who perished played for their countries and the real stars of the game are supporters of the cold partridge as well. 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 is the portrait of the of this man response allays thirty six the better russian captain i defended that played in the n.h.l. we've come to an author russian he was thirty three runner up last year and been a junior world champion with russia and we don't see that part of the czech squad that what won the world championships last year and along with lucky ones escape

the cattle class next and also turning to another checkers well that's years of russia shake he was only thirty again czech republic it 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 three hundred of i mean he'd been thirty been in junior champions looking at some of the. where of the dead there were four were actually playing in the junior league of part of the m.h.l. there were two players who were just twenty years old get tragic loss of life i mean we are 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 or. on the midget of his the k. it k h l chief we got to be hearing from him soon he said about maybe volunteering for his country but as we can hear from that is. 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 t. with a unique group of players and the international sports community sharing our grief it was announced and in team and our priority will be to build and you lock motif. of calls as a lecture the. five calls i was a boy we try to do the wall full of what you believe it will be so if you're good you're fit. and nobody over there was a decided way as it was sort of so. that when things are sold most of the clubs give a look of course as it is it really gave the best players for the record if it was a history of very little slower what gets overlooked stop this this tragedy has is still only hours old and yes there is a there is a will from the whole ice hockey community to move forward mark the tragedy and 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 wipes out a whole team affects a 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 to to head up leagues in their own countries that have played it in at this particular city as saying they can empathize with just what a tragedy it must mean how devastating it must be felt. kaito sports correspond with me a bit earlier than all the money raised from that commemoration of that we just saw in minsk and we sing again on the screens will go to the families of the players many of them left behind young children of course and as kate was saying the talk is turning to rebuilding the team and lokomotiv is just appointed a new coach to do just that appeared to be of previously headed the junior team meanwhile more details are emerging about the last moments of the players on board the doomed 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

yellows remember also among the dead the youngest player of the team who despite being injured and disqualified had wanted nothing more than to be with his sporting brothers a decision of course that eventually cost him his life more human stories and the timeline for this tragic event on our website r.t. dot com. to be too inventive has visited the crash site and laid flowers in tribute to the victims of the plane disaster and jaroslav all at the site the russian president said the number of airlines must be reduced dramatically now he also ordered the transport ministry to pay special attention the 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 foreign gallus level to visit the site of the crash but later he did arise to 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 with the nyssa 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 kelli was behind a report showing that britain knew there were no weapons of mass destruction in iraq before joining the invasion and as artists or emmott 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 door to david kelly and still no inquest following his own mosque as the source of a report saying tony blair's government knew iraq had no weapons of mass destruction be full 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 pain is demanding that the question of holding an inquest be reopened he's challenging a decision by attorney general dominic grieve who ruled 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 him and a group of other doctors are distinctly underwhelmed by the evidence. from across the iron lady. monogram who. the lead lady with the police. become pain

has popular support of the daily mail newspaper have to native 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 and just subsequent government 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 but as we begin our special coverage of the anniversary artie's going to teach you can takes a look at whether the past decade made america any safer. they are going to be one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in history that i'm sure that 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 and after as for terrorists experts say the methods used to fight them have spawned even more extremism torture and if this which weren't just put out a great we're going to look for thank you is the highest level on a curtain call theater and that have significantly thought it's back on whether they're trying to defeat terrorism america's that kaid 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 wiretapping well with the right approval 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 dick cheney wanted to hear oh yes it's working mr vice president we're getting great information and we're stopping terrorist attacks that is order book in pakistan u.s. drone strikes have killed thousands of civilians and made it only a handful of actual terrorists many of the victims' loved ones seek revenge 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 the 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 qaida. 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 from washington r.t. 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. what i'm trying to say

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 what. 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 pick choose which one you want had a. positive effect 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 they went into iraq terrorism spike and the reason that obama has not used the term war on terror i think because it is been discredited as to why you just played the clip where bush

said it only begins with al qaeda well the 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 in line which were totally false and other groups which. may be called al qaeda that have local affiliates but there are concerned with local issues so i think we need to focus on the main trunk go and al qaeda and 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 your own strikes and this is only causing further problems u.s. popularity in the muslim world is below 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 bin laden 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 the mind 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 quip that or even though bin laden's that we're still going to have this animosity which breeds terrorism ok i'm going to take everything you say that i can you said you in the negative count the paper 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 now on

a path to democracy the has been some progress because of this war on terror. well i think we got bin laden and i certainly don't have a problem with taking out the old or bin laden himself the main trunk of al qaeda but we created al qaeda in iraq and we've strengthened. it in the arabian peninsula and in the magreb and the reason that we've done that and also the group in somalia and i think we've 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 we fight everybody else and that obama least came back to getting al qaeda first and i think that's one area where he was superior to bush but then now he's taking it into somalia yemen. you know the magreb there are other places so i think it's really it's going too far and what you need to do if you're fighting terrorism means 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 shower it was special forces cia you don't a country's or a bomb them 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 so it was good to hear your insight and get on the program thanks i'm afraid the time is up there's a lot we can chat about but we're up for now saying a 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 an eleven will both only us and to own those in afghanistan where many still don't know why they were invaded in the first place. if i just got here would it surprise everybody you know for six months from

a stone age. hero that tomorrow palestinians have 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 and as artie's policy reports next the whole region is in a state of build up now to that 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 just demolished 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 twentieth it has been dubbed the national campaign for palestine state one hundred and one thousand and two launch at some one hundred palestinian

high ranking officials and activists gathered today for this day at the u.n. headquarters in ramallah for a short ceremony now both the israeli government as well as the obama administration is against the stick to ration and the u.s. has sent 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 eating informally and in secret to discuss the possibility of possibly postponing this declaration that we have no confirmation of this what we've witnessed here particularly in the last two months is a build up of anger frustration discontent within the israeli public particularly leveled at the netanyahu government these have been the largest protests in this country from history protesters clashed here in tel aviv with police a number of the wrists were held people accuse the police of treating them brutally and all of this was because the government has started removing tens from the

streets of several cities so what protesters are saying here is that they really cannot trust the government and there's also the concern that as the government turns its attention to what is happening externally these of the september the twentieth it will no longer even listen to the concerns being addressed here within the israeli society president barack obama has to speak before the u.s. congress to tackle the ongoing drug crisis gripping about a recurring follows reports that no new jobs are being created in the country during august that's worrying news for a nation with tens of millions classed as employed or underemployed as would the press secretary at the progressive change campaign committee told me believes there's no more time left to do. twenty four million folks unemployed or underemployed in this country what the president's got to do tonight is go big or go home i mean the reality is that we've got to have a massive direct government investment in job creation if we're going to get through this the recurrence jobs crisis here in this country the good thing for the

president and progress is that the american people are behind it when you ask folks what they want this country to do they want massive investment in job creation the way we're going to pay for it is by ensuring that the richest americans are paying their fair share you know right now while republicans are fighting at every opportunity you know to ensure that some of these huge corporations don't have to pay their taxes the american people want the wealthiest one corporations to pay their fair share and that's how we're going to pay for what really needs to happen and it's vestment in infrastructure development making sure our crumbling schools are better and can provide for american children and at the same time create jobs that's really what we need to be doing and that's what the president needs to be doing tonight. it's exactly twenty four minutes past eleven o'clock mosco time now the jet crash in yugoslavia was shot of the major political event taking place in the city's change plans including those of president speaking the second and final

day of the global policy for we touched upon the major challenges russia is facing right now in this in the early reports. almost certainly a lot of debate and discussion took place at this two day forum just by the tragedy nevertheless the president felt it was the right thing to do to begin his keynote speech with a moment of silence for the new our citizens were killed in the crash as were listed as ins of several other countries let's address the need of silence to honor their memory but you buy that. the president went on to give his speech it focused on multiculturalism of course that's the theme of this year's forum here in jaroslav oh he spoke about the ethnic divides in russia and also about income divides and about how he thought that is very much why the country needs to push on further with its at konami diversity in order to help society grow in the country grow in its steady path towards

modernization of course a very i think we could say main platform of president made but he also spoke about the situation in north africa and in the mideast saying that countries shouldn't. push forward and try to teach other countries really in one word or another how to build a democracy it's something that has to come from within and of course he was talking about the situation in libya and syria and that's something that has really been a big topic that there's today for him again multiculturalism and it's a failure really report from plenty of critics over the past couple of months that it's just not working in europe we've seen violence on the streets of western europe and says this is something that experts analysts leaders have been discussing this today for. more about the policy forum which wrapped up in your slab of stone our web site. you can also find this in russian's presidential envoy with africa over the both of. you tonight business update coming up next though.

welcome to business here on our team new pipelines are sprouting across russia on the other side of the country from north stream the roof ski gas pipeline provides a new artery now to markets in asia and business artist identify the global travel there for us. this land is surrounded by some of the most adler jihan green nations in the world consumption in places such as south korea or china is growing rapidly offering great opportunities for gas brum to cash in especially now as it has loads of gas close to the region and read it to be exported this new gas pipeline which would lead to more putin is opening rounds from sacrebleu into vladivostok it is able to supply thirty billion cubic meters of gas annually bazza the russian seat

is the round here need just a tiny part of that and that's why gas problem is desperate to find buyers for its extra gas and doesn't talks with several contras but it's not all so easy at the moment talks with china are dragging over a prize and possible supplies to south korea are complicated by risk in transit through north korea bought through their reason not a project to make use of the far eastern gas it is an alan g. plant and lots of us talk gazprom is considering building the plant with japan's corp and if it's on stream in five years as planned the gas from here may be shipped to the world's biggest alan g. consumers south korea and japan. and let's take a look at the markets now also with oil prices have slid back down as weather conditions in the mexican gulf war is still far from call for the more topical storms coming to threaten production let's move over to the he was trading in the

red ever for some applicants for jobless benefits climbed last week which drove in the scenes lower and ben bernanke his comments that he's not worried about inflation didn't help matters over in europe stocks go their way back into positive territory and that's despite their central bank cutting its forecast for economic growth in the euro zone also signaled it was no longer consider any further rate hikes here. so.

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this is our. top stories the world community is united in grief after the. plane crash in the city of. commemoration ceremonies being held right in a place with a team supposed to play with sportsmen and. government faces. demanded new inquiry into the shady death of an arms inspector and 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 palestinians are starting a peaceful campaign for statehood ahead of the un vote while in israel tensions are growing as police are clashing with protesters who are calling for a better government. coming up next financial pundit max kaiser looks at the scandal behind the latest financial news headlines enjoy.