on the ice of their home stadium the sports world is in mourning after nearly the entire lokomotiv jaroslav team perished on wednesday our correspondent sean thomas is out in front of the stadium he joins us live with more so sean it must be a very somber morning in your office level tell us more. well matt it certainly is a very somber tone in the air as hundreds of people are gathering here at the locomotive stadium in. where they will view. fourteen caskets most of them close caskets on the ice at their home state of the team members and crew people who were killed in this fateful ill fated flight in fact you can tell it is raining out here but it's not stopping the crowds of people and judging from the police presence officials tell us they're expecting the entire city to come and show up between twelve thirty and excuse me eight thirty and twelve thirty they will have the opportunity to pay their respects and bring flowers on the ice and

actually say their last goodbyes following this there will be private ceremonies for these fourteen caskets here in the area where only friends and close family members will be able to attend as they are put to ground and then the city can then begin the process of trying to recover from this tragedy we had the opportunity to speak to two of the coaches one of them who was supposed to be on the flight one of only two members of the locomotive team who were not killed in this tragic accident this is what they had to say. you see that they have require some very. tough situation. very very very. very nice guys from. the goldfish players to. we were expecting the games to start and everybody was what.

i think it's it's hard hearted. but. really is. this them. going to. go. when i first heard the news i really couldn't believe it was true. i've known some of the players for thirteen years since they were. the fifth and sixth of september training sessions before. the midst of. very high spirits. and this is the third official day of mourning here in the city. and over the past three days we've spoken to many fans and friends of the players and the emotions have run from. the celebration of the team as fans gathered here

throughout the past days chanting slogans of the team. shock disbelief grief somber attitudes all the entire gamut of emotions here in the city of. people here. and even though the team has been devastated by this tragedy it looks as though its spirit will live on how strong is the determination to rebuild after this. yesterday we had the opportunity to go to a hockey rink. too . because. this was a championship. and they don't want to lose that tradition so the coaches getting.

to make sure that they rebuild. is. so that they can continue this tradition. it's. these people really take this to heart another thing moving forward if you will the investigation about them. not to get. the fuel that was put into the plane. this is what. it is my favorite team and number eight because it's strong and it's. going to games recently some of the players don't mind when. you told us about them and not none more you need to made

in the team oh never going to talk to school he was in the ninth room when i started. he died in the crash i'm going to be needing that ruthie this expensive no committee next week i'm scheduled to be tested for the canal the county is going to come right. and we will be here throughout the day as thousands of people throughout jaroslav will and the region come here to pay their final respects on this final day of mourning for today's sean thomas live in the us level thanks for that report. turning to the other top stories here on r t americans are united in their grief as the nation commemorates the events of september eleventh across the country security has been beefed up to protect against what's been called a credible threat of a new terror attack yet for many people who still have no sense of safety the clout

of this dreadful anniversary has no silver lining is very important i reports in our special coverage from new york. ten years ago america was rocked by unprecedented terror. nearly three thousand innocent lives were lost in a post nine eleven world was born. our war on terror. begins with al qaida. but it does not in there. it will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found stopped and defeated washington's military reach began with the hunt for osama bin laden america strikes back afghanistan is home to put bombs and missiles from the air in the sea then a preemptive pounding into iraq. in the decade that followed america's fight for

freedom has been stained by torture secret detention and rendition human rights violations symbolized by landmarks like one tom obey grave and the bob graham airbase prison we had garnered the empathy not only of the world but the muslim world and if we had the courage to be vulnerable. we would be far safer and more secure than we are today instead we drank deep from that very dark licks or of nationalism journalist in office chris hedges says america's terror unleashed throughout the middle east has opened a pandora's box of evil estimates are over a million iraqi dead since the invasion. you know hundreds and hundreds of civilians killed in pakistan thousands killed in afghanistan not to mention millions of people displaced in a refugee camp something that the terror that we have unleashed will not go on paid it is and it will strike us eventually however in

a post nine eleven america citizens have been forced to compromise their freedom. in the name of security the past decade has paved the way for new state practices such as warrantless wiretapping intrusive airport screening and greater authority for law enforcement what some call a police state in the making and as this national security state grows and as it becomes easier for the government to scrutinize the guys in this in all aspects of our lives i think of americans are going deeply deeply worried about this the issue . is larger than just the specific isolated orders that is the danger that is all around us and much of it may be right here at home from people in our own country. since nine eleven a rising tide of islamophobia has passed through this formerly tolerant nation

according to the f.b.i. the four men intended to carry out their plan today dozens of muslim americans have been arrested and convicted in so-called f.b.i. for oil terror plots plots that were orchestrated and manufactured by government paid informants these cases have been created by the government and yet we're supposed to feel safer because criminals that would not have come up with the plot had not been brought to them on a platter by the u.s. government are now in jail we have you know snowball the violence that's going on around the world only raise more hatred only raise more bad feelings only reinforced many narratives there and violent you know narratives of american imperialism around the world and we think we've created more enemies than friends you know if we targeted communities rather than making them partners not only has it not made us any safer i think that it has undermined you know the very fabric of american society the fabric of a post nine eleven america that the united states has conducted an operation that

killed osama bin laden the leader of al qaeda. still waging war in the name of freedom america again began the process all right but in the ten years that followed a military state. that he turned. around the world the man behind nine eleven may have been. the international scene and yet he delivered or enough or not artsy. u.s. war on terror launched after the attacks was sold as a necessary measure to stop further attacks on u.s. soil but brian becker from the antiwar answer coalition believes people no longer buy the argument sixty five percent two thirds of the country oppose the war in afghanistan they don't know why they're there why the u.s. is there they don't know what victory means and they favor ending the war in american people who originally thought the position that this was

a war to stop another september eleventh they have no longer believe that position they they now believe that it's a war for something else and we have thousands of troops who are going to be in afghanistan for decades because this is part of a grand scheme to keep these countries under u.s. control as part of a us americans fear of influence what we see is the institutionalization of everything that started before september eleventh but accelerated the tendency towards militarism towards war towards occupation towards intervention towards torture black hole prisons rendition all of that has become institutionalized in spite of whoever is in the white house. our coverage of the nine eleven anniversary continues later in the program. we have people on the streets if the post the world of the post nine eleven has become a safer place. the war on drugs or hypocrisy while struggling to destroy the fields of opium poppies are not going to stand the u.k.

harvest the crop but for good use. but first the israeli embassy in cairo has been attacked by dozens of egyptian protesters they destroyed part of the wall around the building and tore down the israeli flag replacing it with an egyptian one hundreds of demonstrators had been injured with police using tear gas against the crowd the israeli ambassador and his family have been flown out of the country anger swelled last month after israeli forces responding to a cross border militants attack mistakenly killed five egyptian police officers the protests came at a time of change seven months after the popular uprising that ousted hosni mubarak thousands had gathered in the capital talk here square urging an end to military rule and pressing for urgent reforms president of the arab lawyers association. believes islamist groups wall timidly benefit from the un arrest. the vatican well that's a good movements vying for all of that trying to show who is bigger than the other

i think this demonstration it's only the liberals this slimmest taking boston in each side is accusing the other one of trying to show that. the islamists. don't want to the election though because of a fall election no thanks they will definitely get votes then the liberals demonstrations will continue i think the egyptian people who will not accept the military continue to be in this five most of the military as everybody knows the same old team of mubarak people who picked by mubarak with the approval of them out of them out of kids would be happy for the minute. i don't think people would. soon following the war on terror was the war on drugs ten years later afghanistan as afghanistan remains the world's biggest producer of opium poppies with much of its income rooted in illegal narcotics but as the west struggles to destroy drug

production in afghanistan the u.k. harvests a new crop of poppies to plug a growing painkiller shortage discovers some think it's counterproductive in the rolling fields of oxfordshire this time of year you'll probably see we. playing for the harvest but dry springs and warm summer's have enabled these farmers to plant a very different type of crop opium poppies that contracts to a pharmaceutical company that turns the opium into morphine and code to plug a shortfall in strong painkillers in the national health service in fact there's a global shortage of drugs made from poppies the opium here will be put to good use but thousands of miles away nato troops so wiping out existing afghan poppies with bombing burning and spraying the main question is why are we destroying crops and then having to grow poppies in the fields in which is being used by the american

and british governments repeatedly one of the so-called soft all humans of a liberal arguments is that they're fighting a war on drugs this is completely part was a it's not true it's not what the war is about and we should own up to the it's easy to understand why afghan farmers grow then sell opium to the taliban as an effective distribution network and they can make around seventeen times more profit per hectare than they could on wheat despite the o.p.'s economics pharmacists still being encouraged to grow of the crops british m.p. frank field thinks that policy has failed but the americans would. america and we follow. this relationship. when you're putting. not to be. a. position with the americans to rethink. if we look

historically has. frank field and his group poppy relief think afghan opium should be legalized instead it would benefit afghan farmers raise much needed revenue for the governments nation rebuild and stop the opium falling into the hands of the drug cartels field says it should be military strategy to. grow them brains and then be thinking about how do we get ordinary people to see poppies as a cash crop. to protect the troops we will be thinking about how do we. how do we pay them for it. to transferred into. burned in afghanistan and kept secrets here in britain no one wants to talk about

the u.k.'s opium growing program we asked the farmers and the company they grow for . if they would give us an interview but said they wouldn't allow the farmers to talk to us because it's part of that contract with the home office that they keep the poppy growing hush hush the home office also declined to comment while poppies are increasingly harvested in britain the so-called war on drugs is being decisively the u.n. says opium production in afghanistan has been on the rise since the us occupation began in two thousand and one. oxfordshire. president obama is urging voters across the u.s. to get behind his half trillion dollar stimulus package to create jobs and pressure u.s. lawmakers to pass it the latest white house plan to rescue the economy was a mixture of tax breaks additional government investment and funding to states but gerald celente a publisher of the trends journal says politicians are fighting the wrong battles

in the struggle against unemployment if anybody watched that you could wonder how any self respecting adult could have any respect for these politicians jumping up and down and clapping like trained seals that every two bit laws all this speech was is obama's campaign speech on one and you have the republicans that want to cut back in title mention anything going to the people bringing our stary measures and obama promising empty promises the federal reserve and some sixteen trillion dollars in stimulus back to a loans etc and they couldn't create jobs well obama said he wants to create infrastructure jobs perfect but they creating them in the wrong place is creating them in afghanistan they're rebuilding iraq now they're going to be rebuilding libya which simple there's

a way to solve this cutback on these massive wars and defense spending and repatriate the money number one and then listen to what else obama wants to do he wants to open up more free trade pacts oh great export jobs all this see why don't you export americans over to china panama indonesia and vietnam to do them so we have to re trench we have to stop these trade agreements that are raping america of its resources mental and natural. on our website r.t. dot com there's a lot more for you including videos news and analysis here's what's a click away right now. at the funeral of the man whose alleged shooting by police triggered four nights of chaos and bedlam across the u.k. back in august. and driving mad that's exactly what moscow was doing to its drivers with traffic jams that go on and on.

america's former top commander in afghanistan general david petraeus has taken up a new spot as head of the cia he's bid farewell to the army after thirty seven years in uniform military contributor looks at the reasons for the top brass reshuffle it may seem in consequential but. the first decision they general petraeus has made on his way from the pentagon to langley was stiff shared his military uniform and to present himself in a new incarnation as a total civilian according to that fishel story general patroons has an option to come to the cia as of the military or as a civilian and allegedly the white house didn't force him to resign and to cut his image as a four star general and to downsize he's figure on the way to his new job if the

official story is to believe general petraeus bend over back wards to appease the intelligence community and to make sure that he could blend easily at langley cafeteria refuse new peers and associates i find it hard to believe that the former commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan voluntarily decided to resign from the military i'm sure if he had an option he would never resign from the active duty first if he were allowed to stay on active duty it would show his due respect to his military peers and subordinates in the military community second in no way it would insult the intelligence community for a simpler reason that historically they have more than enough flag officers who lead this organisation and michael hyden comes to mind as the latest example and

last but not least central intelligence agency puts a premium on symbolism so it was pretty symbolic that general petraeus was forced to step down from the military right on the eve of the nine eleven. train out of some other stories making headlines. cross the globe libya's rebels say they're close to capturing the town of bani bani walid one of the four remaining qaddafi strongholds his loyalists have been given till saturday to lay down their arms with fierce fighting continuing near the city of sirte to three khadafi loyalists have been killed one rebel fighter reported dead colonel gadhafi audio messages claim he hasn't fled libya despite reports that supporters of his have crossed the border into an easy chair meanwhile interpol has issued red notices for the colonel's arrest along with his son saif al islam. syrian protesters say eleven people have been killed in new anti-government rallies across

the country friday thousands of demonstrators appealed for international aid in the face of a bloody crackdown by army forces more than two thousand two hundred people are thought to have been killed in the uprising that's called for a posh are all assad to step to leave since march. a state of emergency has been declared in the u.s. states of new york and pennsylvania after torrential rains from troubles of tropical storm lee caused catastrophic flooding some towns were submerged as a river burst its banks and water that's also appeared to be toxic at least seven people have been killed and more than one hundred thousand evacuated. the decade that followed nine eleven has been called. the u.s. air of endless war by some critics washington's campaign in iraq and afghanistan were aimed at ridding the world of evil but ten years later two people feel safe or he's laurie harvest people on the streets of new york.

a decade after the horrible man eleven terrorist attacks on the us how is the world changed this week let's talk about that there were this i won't say more dangerous but it's more like our tick saw things are predictable you don't know what what's going to happen next life is much intense i think so no. every day can can be the last and you think people around the world feel this way. i think in europe and in america i think so i don't know you kind of more aware of the threat just more on the lookout do you think that people around the world still keep that vigilant ten years later probably not as much as we did five years ago do you think that the amount of lives lost in the name of the war on terror has been worth feeling safer i think that's a difficult thing to comment on to be honest i have a lot of friends that have fought over there and i would say it's hard every time

they leave you know i'm not for war so no i don't think war is to make us feel safer if everyone lines is own business i think everything would be better if we had been here in new york just last week. several places you see. the places we find this a lot of security so we understand all that. because he wasn't before but something we have to understand. so we might be safer but we have to give up some things for that well i don't think it will be safe we try to pick a safer we pretend to be as they appear to be safer that's right i mean during the spirit if somebody wants to do something it will do it so is there anything that anyone can do or is that just what's going to happen it's going to happen i don't know people should be. try to change her way of thinking way of treating the other people like accepting that people can be different and not just all which my way is

the right way and let's kill everybody this is not right no matter what you think it's changed the bottom line is we can only hope the world continues just struck. back with the headlines in a few moments stay with us. download

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eight thirty am in moscow the zero r.t. headline is the first funerals taking place today of those who perished in the plane car plane crash near russia's jaroslav the tragedy claimed the lives of almost all a local ice hockey team led. u.s. prepares to commemorate september eleventh with security beefed up against the possibility of a new terror attack the war on terror unleashed that days now feared by some to be a possibly greater threat to world security. and hundreds of egyptians storm israel's embassy in cairo in a rage by the killing of five egyptian border guards last month the israeli ambassador and his family have been flown out of the country. takes a stroll around exploring some of the cozier neighborhoods and parks of the russian capital stay with us.