of the plane crash of their home stadium the sports world is in mourning after nearly the entire. team perished on wednesday our correspondent sean thomas is in front of the stage with more. so it must be a very somber morning. i don't know if you can tell but it is raining right now and this heavy rain is very symbolic of the feeling that is very heavy very somber people. streaming by the thousands into the stadium behind me. played. their games there are fourteen caskets in the stadium right now. people are expecting will have until twelve thirty today to pay their final respects the city is expecting thousands of people to the city as well as all over russia. players and officials are coming to pay their final respects as well this is the third official day of mourning the first day president. of the plane crash.

pay his respects but also to check how the investigation was going we also saw of celebration where fans came. to come to the stadium. every type of emotion shown here as this city the grief of losing their heroes this was a three time champion ship team they loved they loved this group of people they were the stars of the city. lives tragically cut short in such a way. community now today's people have the opportunity to come here between eight thirty and twelve thirty to actually go and. there will be. with the family as these players go into the

ground also. the team from other countries. to their respective countries. how strong is the determination. well certainly. moving forward or moving. out exactly what happened. looking into the minister of transportation. saying that the. problem with the fuel. coming out at this moment but also that. they will help rebuild. actually.

very last place where the. people who are determined to rebuild. as a city. for these players. for the. training.

one coach working with this new scheme was supposed to be on the fly and those he's back working now his thoughts are still strong for those affected by this tragic loss i think it's hard hearted photos. like families relatives and solar cells research based on the. strength to do. go on a month michael says everybody and for the next generation of jaroslava locomotive hockey players it's not just about rebuilding the team for the future of the city it's also about getting back on the ice as a form of therapy to help them get through their grief. but also have a strong greece to win bigger going comp no two in the use championship and to be kate's baby to read to my friends who died last year and while this team practices and even younger group is ready to follow in their footsteps. some of them play if you don't mind my asking stupid he told us about them in ca one one hundred eighty

page in the team oh never going to talk mark to school i want to be needing that movement he does extensive know committees next week i'm scheduled to be tested for the canal the county is going to come right cool. proving that even though they've gone from the ice to members of this ill fated locomotive team it will continue to be in the hearts and minds of the people of jaroslav will and the nation for generations to come in your side has shown thomas our team. americans are united in their grief as a decade later the nation compare the president prepares to commemorate the tragic attacks 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 feel no sense of safety the cloud of this dreadful lot of our syria has no silver lining art is very important i reports 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 without god. 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 ladin 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 are of nationalism journalist an offer 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 the refugee camps and 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 free. done in the name of security the past decade has paved the way for

a 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 is this national security grows as it becomes easier for the government to scrutinize big knives that's in all aspects of our lives i think of americans are really deeply deeply worried about this the issue. is larger than just the specific isolated orders even the easier that is all around us and much of it 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 a violent you know narrative of american imperialism around the world and we i 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. still waging war in the name of freedom

americans again began at the right but in the years that followed the military states. around the world the man behind nine eleven may have been. the international scene and yet he delivered. hearts. the u.s. war on terror launched after the attacks was sold as a vital measure to stop further attacks on u.s. soil but brian becker from the antiwar answer coalition says there are many who no longer buy that argument so i would say the american people who originally bought 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 ill defined for the broad public bush administration launched the war in iraq for instance on a completely false pretext the war on terror in fact has become

a slogan it will be all to meet we know and in history is the ultimate pretext to do whatever the u.s. government wants but in the case of iraq they invaded iraq hundreds of thousands died millions were made into refugees a beautiful country was torn apart and and divided along ethnic sectarian lines and iraq had nothing to do all to do with september eleventh likewise in afghanistan 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 u.s. americans fear of influence. our special coverage of the nine eleven anniversary continues later here on r t we as people on the streets of new york if the post nine eleven world is a safer place. than our website r.t. dot com you can read the stories of those caught up in the war on terror farmers and village elders clueless as to why bombs and missiles have rained down on their homes. soon after the war on terror came the war on drugs but ten years

later afghanistan remains the world's biggest producer of opium poppies with much of its income rooted in illegal narcotics but as nato forces struggle to destroy drug production in afghanistan the u.k. harvests a new crop of poppies to plug a growing painkiller shortage so at the lower end it discovers something that's counterproductive. in the rolling fields of oxfordshire at this time of year you'll probably see we barley ripening 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 under contract 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 are 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 oxfordshire has been used by the american and british governments repeatedly one of the so-called soft arguments of the 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 there's an effective distribution network and they can make around seventeen times more profit per hectare than they could on wheat despite the obvious economics farmers are still being encouraged to grow other crops british m.p. frank field thinks that policy has failed but the americans would budge from america and we follow in pursuit behind them. and makes a nonsense of what this relationship should be about when you're putting lives at

stake not to be. a. position with the americans to rethink a strategy which most people think. has failed if we look historically has. how do we try a new track frank field and his group poppy real. i 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 the brains and anybody who is 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.

two. burned in afghanistan and kept secret here in britain no one wants to talk about the u.k.'s opium growing program we asked both the farmers and the company they grow for smith if they would give us an interview but fallen smith 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 lost the u.n. says opium production in afghanistan has been on the rise since the us occupation began in two thousand and one. stay with us here on r.t. still ahead a pill too big to swallow president obama urging voters on lawmakers in the u.s.

to back his job creation an economic stimulus package but some say he's fighting the wrong battle in his war against unemployment. and we look at what's behind the reshuffle in the u.s. highest ranks of the general david petraeus takes the top job at the cia. but first the israeli embassy in cairo has been attacked by dozens of egyptian protesters they destroyed part of a wall surrounding the building and tore down the israeli flag replacing it with an egyptian one hundreds of demonstrators have been injured with police using tear gas against the crowd the israeli ambassador and his family were flown out of the country anger swelled last month after security forces responding to a cross border militant attack mistakenly killed five egyptian police officers the protests also come at a time of change for the country even months after the popular uprising that ousted hosni mubarak from power thousands had gathered in the capital to talk here swear urging an end to military rule and pressing for urgent reforms president of the arab lawyers association. worries that islamism groups may ultimately benefit from

the other arrest. 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 limits not taking boston and each side is accusing the other one of trying to show that. the islamists. don't want the election though because of a fall election though it takes 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 his would be happy for the military to stay but i don't think the egyptian people who would. 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 but the latest white house plan to rescue the economy includes a mix of tax breaks additional government investment and funding to states but gerald celente 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 minutes of 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 part but they creating them in the wrong place is creating him in afghanistan they're rebuilding iraq now they're going to be rebuilding libya which simple is the 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 overseas 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. america's former top commander in afghanistan general david petraeus has taken up

a new job as the head of the cia and a farewell to the army after thirty seven years in uniform are his military contributor looks at the reasons for the move he may seem in consequential but the first decision of a general petraeus has made on his way from the pentagon to langley wants to share and he is military uniform and to present himself in a new incarnation as a total civilian according to the official story gen patroons has an option to come to the cia as of a military or as a civilian and allegedly the white house did not force him to resign and to cut his image as a four star general and to downsize his figure on their 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 volunteer early decided to resign from the military i'm sure if he had an option he would never resign from active duty. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe libya's rebels say they're close to capturing the town of bani walid one of the four remaining gadhafi strongholds his loyalists have been given till saturday to lay down their arms with fierce fighting keeping up near the city of city three loyalists have been killed one rebel fighter reported dead colonel gadhafi audio messages claim he hasn't fled libya despite reports his supporters have crossed the border in tunisia where meanwhile interpol has issued a red notice is for the colonel's arrest and that of his son saif al islam. syrian

protesters say eleven people were killed in the latest anti-government rallies across the country friday thousands of demonstrators appealed for international help in the face of a bloody crackdown by armed forces more than twenty two hundred people are thought to have been killed since march in the uprising that's called for president bashar assad to step down. and a state of emergency has been declared in the u.s. states of new york and pennsylvania after torrential rains from tropical storm lee caused catastrophic flooding some towns were submerged does the river berthe their banks with water that's feared to be toxic flooded in at least seven people have been killed more than one hundred thousand had to evacuate it. finally in this news blog in the decade that followed the nine eleven attacks washington's campaigns in iraq and afghanistan were aimed at ridding the world of terror ten years later do people feel any safer the resident laurie harshness asked people on the streets of new york what they think.

a decade after the horrible man eleven terrorist attacks in 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 the 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 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 it'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 they are 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 last week. several places. 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 say you will be safe we trust you safer we pretend to be safe there tend to be safer that's right i mean during the suspended if you can somebody who wants to solve 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 and way of proving that are people like accepting

that people can be different and not just roll which my way is the right way i'm lead screw everybody and this is not right no matter what you think it's changed the bottom line is we can only hope the world continues just strive to be a safer place. to. be back with adeline's in a few moments stay with us. a little bit over. the.

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nine thirty am in moscow these are your arty headlines russia's city of jaroslav paying its last respects to the victims of wednesday's plane crash the tragedy claimed the lives of nearly the entire local ice hockey team led the u.s. prepares to remember september eleventh with security beefed up to protect against a possible new attack the war on terror unleashed that day now feared by some to be possibly a bigger threat to global security. hundreds of egyptians storm israel's embassy in cairo enraged by the killing of five egyptian border guards last month the israeli ambassador and his family have been flown out of the country. up next the kaiser report stay with us. because or this is the kaiser report reporting.