russia's lokomotiv ice hockey team gathered at the home stadium where the players who died in the plane crash played their final game but the sports world is mourning after most of the locomotive jaroslava team perished wednesday our correspondent sean thomas is following the ceremony he joins us live with more sean it is a somber morning and people have gathered to remember the team's lost players tell us more about what's going on where you are. it is an incredibly sad day here as thousands of people are streaming to the locomotive stadium here to pay their final respects it is a cold day it is a rainy day and in many ways the weather echoes the feeling in the air the very sad a heavy and somber tone because this was a much beloved team. there were three time world champion or champion ship team rather and they were the stars of this city so people from all over russia hockey players officials as well as the entire city of coming here to the stadium

inside the stadium you can see live pictures of what's happening people are streaming up by the fourteen caskets of people who perished in this plane crash there were forty three people confirmed dead two people survived it was a multinational team those who are not from. were sent to their home countries yesterday and today the fourteen who will be buried here after this a visitation. they are laid to rest so the people can pay their final respects now let me tell you some of the emotional human stories as this three day mourning period starts coming to a close we're learning more about the human side of this tragedy we know of one player who had just proposed to his girlfriend and was planning on getting married and of course a very young team their lives tragically cut short we also know of another player who had said i've had enough of hockey but i'm going to. one more season just going

to give it one more go and of course the first game of the season on their way to. the plane crash and of course ending his career and has a life one other story of the flight attendant on board three months ago just got married and was planning to retire from the aviation business she wasn't going to be a flight attendant anymore she was going to having children as well so these are the tragic stories that are coming out of this incident of course this celebration the insides you see. behind us i say celebration because people are starting to chant slogans from the team and cheers from the team in solidarity to show to come together in some aspects so a wide range of emotions here and. celebration of the team and their lives also to the final good byes. and even though the team has been devastated by this loss how strong is the determination to rebuild after this. well certainly there is

a lot of determination first of all there's hope of moving forward from the investigation itself the. getting the announcement that the engines of the plane were fine but there may have been some sort of problem with the fuel and some people are taking comfort in the fact that they are starting to get answers as to what caused this tragedy but moving. former jaroslava locomotive players have announced that they will come back to help rebuild this team so that there can be this spirit of hockey here. so that they don't have to lose that connection to a. sport that this city loves so much but we have the opportunity to actually speak to some of the younger players of the. franchise the next generation if you will of the people who are training to hope to become part of the locomotive professional team and we got to hear their stories of how they want to move forward this is what they had to say. as a city continues to more. and one very dedicated group of young men have choosing

to honor their heroes in a unique way by getting back on the ice with what you told us that we should go out onto the ice and play for all the guys who lost their lives in this chris who told us to win for them we need to play our best. for these players practicing here is a special as it was from a visit very arena where the doomed team done their skates for the final time. i met them on the fifth and sixth of september their training sessions before minsk they were confident and quite optimistic and determined all of them were in very high spirits. one coach working with his youth team was supposed to be on the flight and though he is back working now his thoughts are still strong for those affected by this tragic loss i think it's a hard hard part or part of my family's relatives. to research this term and. bring to. mind michael

this 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. also i have a strong greece to invigorate during cop no two in the us championship and dedicate a victory to my friends who died. and while this team practices an even younger group is ready to follow in their footsteps. some of the players who died where from our school they told us about them in class one one hundred eighty page in the team only ever got to talk mark tidd school i want to be in the new team that would be this excess of not committees next week i'm scheduled to be tested for the club the county is going to come right cool. proving that even though they've gone from the ice the members of this ill fated locomotive team will continue to be in the

hearts and minds of the people of jaroslav will and the nation for generations to come in us level sean thomas r t. turning now to other news we're covering on our t.v. americans are united in their grief as a decade later the nation prepares to commemorate the tragic attacks of september eleventh across the country security has been stepped 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 out of a story has no silver lining authorities were an 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 and 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 laden america strikes back afghanistan is pounded with bombs and missiles from the air and 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 kuantan m 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 drag deep from that very dark licks or 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 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 there for. 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. ignite us in all aspects of our

lives i think of americans are growing deeply deeply worried about this the issue. is larger than just the specific isolated orator's it 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 very violent you know narratives 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 a. still waging war in the name of freedom america's campaign against terror began at the right but in the years that followed the military states. then he turned. around the world the man behind nine eleven may have been captured by international safety and yet illiterate or not artsy the.

u.s. war on terror launched after the attacks was sold as a vital measure to stop further attacks on the american soil but brian becker from the anti-war answer coalition says there are many who no longer buy the 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 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 us americans fear of influence. our special coverage of the nine eleven anniversary continues later in the program we asked people on the streets of new york at the post nine eleven world is a safer place. at our web site r.t. dot com read the stories of those caught up in the battle against terror farmers and village elders clueless as to why bombs and missiles rained down on afghan villages. for a soon after the war on terror and 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. harvest a new crop of poppies to plug a growing painkiller shortage laura emmet has more. 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 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 are wiping out existing afghan poppies with bombing burning and spraying the main question is why we destroyed and then having to grow poppies in 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 that it's

easy to understand why afghan farmers can 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 him to sit behind them to. this relationship. when you're pushing. not to be. in as a bargaining position with the americans to rethink a strategy which most people think is. if we look historically has. how do we try a new tack frank fields 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 ordinary farmers to see poppies as a cash crop. to protect the troops we will be thinking about how do we harness this how do we pay them for it. transferred into. two counts. in afghanistan and kept a secret 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 he. 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. the home office also declined to comment while puppies 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 u.s. occupation began in two thousand and one. stay with us here on r.t. still ahead a pill to swallow president obama urged lawmakers in the u.s. to back his. economic stimulus plans but some say he's fighting the wrong battle. and we'll look at what's behind the reshuffle and. general david petraeus takes the top job at the cia. but first egypt's police have been put on a state of alert after protesters attacked israel's embassy in cairo. they destroyed a wall near the building and tore down the israeli flag replacing it with an

egyptian one hundreds of demonstrators were injured with police using tear gas against the crowd the israeli ambassador along with his family's been flown out of the country last month after israeli forces responding to a cross border militant attack mistakenly killed five egyptian police officers protests also come at a time to time of change seven months after the popular uprising that ousted hosni mubarak from power thousands have gathered in the capital's tucker square urging an end to military rule and pressing for urgent reforms the president of the arab lawyers association. says islamic groups could ultimately benefit from the unrest. on the tickle movements vying for all of the at trying to show who is bigger than the other i think this demonstration it's only the liberals this slimmest take in boston it is accusing the other one of trying to show that. the islamists. the election though because well for the election

no thanks they will definitely get high of votes then the liberals the 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 by mubarak with the approval of them out of them out of his would be happy for the military to stay there 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 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 a publisher of the trends journal says politicians are fighting the wrong battles again 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 lawing all this speech was is obama's campaign speech on one end 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 him in afghanistan they're rebuilding iraq now they're going to be rebuilding libya which simple there's a way to solve this back 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 post as the head of the cia but in a farewell to thirty seven years in uniform in the army are his military contributed to any khrushchev looks at the reasons for the move he may seem in consequential but. the first decision the general betray us has made on his way from the pentagon to langley was stiff shan't he is military uniform and to present himself in a new incarnation as

a total civilian according to the official story gen but your office 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 he's figure on their way to his new job if the official story is to believe general petrou bend over back wards to appease the intelligence community and to make sure that he could blend easily their language cafeteria refuse new peers and associates i find it hard to believe that the former commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan or interiorly 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 whore remaining qaddafi strongholds his loyalists have been given till saturday to surrender with a fierce spiting continuing in the city of santa three khadafi loyalists have been killed one rebel fighter reporting dead khadafi audio messages claim he hasn't fled libya despite reports his supporters have crossed the border into new share meanwhile interpol has issued a red notice is for the colonel's arrest and that of his son saif al islam the. syrian protesters say eleven people were killed in new anti-government rallies across the country friday thousands of demonstrators appealed for international help in the face of a bloody crackdown by army forces more than twenty to one hundred people are thought to have been. 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 as a river burst its banks with water that's also appeared to be toxic at least seven people have been killed more than one hundred thousand displaced. in the decade that followed the nine eleven attacks washington's campaigns in iraq and afghanistan more aimed at ridding the world of terror ten years later do people feel any safer the resident laurie harshness house people on the streets of new york what they think. a decade after the horrible man eleven terrorist attacks on the us how is the world change this week let's talk about that there were this i want to say more dangerous but it's more like how to solve 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 a threat just more on the lookout do you think that people around the world still keep that vigilance 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 that common and 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 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 just last week we are several places. places we find this a lot of security so we understand all that. because he wasn't before but something

we have to understand. that we might be safer but we have to give up some things for that well i don't say you will be safe we try to make you safer we pretend to be as they appear to be safe and that's what i mean during this is very difficult 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. try to change the way of thinking way of treating other people like accepting that people can be different and not just my way is the right way i'm leadscrew everybody this is not right no matter what you think it's changed the bottom line is we can only hope the world continues to strive to be a safer place. for turning out to our top story russia's lokomotiv yaroslavl ice hockey team home stadium honors its players who died in a plane crash on wednesday these are

a live video that you're watching from the memorial ceremony where the team last train before boarding their ill fated plane to minsk families are joined by the club's many fans about seven thousand people have gathered for this heartfelt farewell burials for the crash victims will start later today the remains of foreign players for the club have already been flown back to their home countries we'll bring you more from the morning in the city of jaroslav. stay with us here on r t headlines up next.

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ten thirty am in moscow the headlines russia city of saying an emotional goodbye to the victims of wednesday's plane crash the tragedy killed claimed the lives of almost the entire local ice hockey team this is live video we're looking at now from the commemoration ceremony at lokomotiv stadium. the u.s. prepares to commemorate the september eleventh attacks security stepped up to forget protect against a possible new attack a war on terror unleashed that day now feared by some to be an even bigger threat to the world's global security. hundreds of egyptians storm israel's embassy in cairo in a rage by the killing of five egyptian border guards last long the israeli ambassador and his family have been flown out of the country. we explore the deadly legacy of war and the second strike servicemen long after they come home.