on our t. our top story the families and fans of russia's lokomotiv ice hockey team gather at the home stadium where the players who died in the plane crash played their last game the sports world is in mourning after most of the locomotive jaroslava heise hockey team perished on wednesday our correspondent sean thomas has more from the ceremony. 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 the hockey players officials as well as the entire city of jaroslav all is coming here to this a stadium 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 as this three day mourning period starts coming to a close we know of one player who had just proposed to his girlfriend and was planning on getting married and this 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 play one more season just to give you 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 is a life one other story of a 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 a wide range of emotions here and. celebration of the team in their lives also to the somber sad final goodbyes 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 past that former. 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 jaroslava locomotive

professional team as a city continues to. have. by getting back on the ice. for these players practicing here is a special. training sessions before they were confident. very high spirits. are still strong for those affected by this tragic loss i think it's a hard hard. life.

this time they are going to. go on a lot 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 i have a strong griefs to when they're going comp you know when they use championship and it to kate's baby to read to my friends who died you know and while this team practices and even younger group is ready to follow in their footsteps. some of the players who don't mind where from school they told us about them and cannot one hundred eighty page in the team only have a goal to talk mark to school i want to be in the new team that muti does excessive no 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 have 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 and the nation for generations to come in your us level sean thomas. of the tenth anniversary of the september eleventh attacks security is being beefed up across the u.s. to protect against what's being called the credible threat of a new terror attack though for many people who still feel no sense of safety the cloud of that dreadful lot of our syria has no silver lining as art historian port 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 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 track deep from that very dark a lick sort 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 some in 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. ignite us in all aspects of our

lives i think of americans are. worried about is the issue. is larger than just the specific isolated or there is even a 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 and 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. still waging war in the name of freedom americans can't get. the right but it's the military states. around the world the man behind nine eleven may have been. the international scene yet deliberate or not. the u.s.

war on terror launched after the attacks was sold as a vital measure to keep from further attacks on u.s. soil but brian becker with the entire war 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 in the program we asked people on the streets of new york if a post nine eleven world is a safer place. at our website r t dot com read the stories of those caught up in the fight against terrorism farmers and village elders in afghanistan clueless why bombs and missiles rained down on their country. soon after the war on terror came the war on drugs but ten years later afghanistan remains the world's single largest 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 aimed at plugging a growing painkiller shortage parties laura emmet explains. 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 we destroying crops and then having to grow poppies in fields in oxfordshire is being used by the american and british government repeatedly one of the so-called soft arguments of the liberal arguments which 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 wouldn't budge from america and we follow in pursuit behind them. and makes a nonsense of what this relationship should be about when you're pushing. not to be . in as a bargaining position with the americans to rethink our strategy which. is. if we look historically has for 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 backs of our troops we will be thinking about how do we harness this how do we pay them for it. to transferred into medicines to counter. burned in afghanistan and kept a 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 mcfarland smith if they would give us an interview. 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 voters and lawmakers in the u.s. to back his job creation and stimulus plans but some say he's fighting the wrong battle in his war against unemployment. and we look at what's behind the reshuffle and america's highest ranks of the general petraeus takes up the top job at the cia . but first egyptian 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 had been injured by police using tear gas against the crowd the israeli ambassador along with his family's been flown out of the country anger swelled last month after israeli forces responding to a cross border militant strike mistakenly killed five egyptian police officers protests also came at a time of change seven months after a popular uprising that ousted hosni mubarak from power thousands had gathered at the capital's tahrir square urging an end to military rule and pressing urgent reforms president of the arab lawyers. are worries islamic groups may ultimately benefit from the 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 slimmest taking boston it is accusing the other one of trying to show that. the islamists.

the election though because well for the election though it takes they will definitely get 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 are picked by mubarak with the approval of them out of them out of kids would be happy for the. military disdain but i don't think the people who would. president obama is urging voters across the u.s. to get behind his half trillion dollar stimulus package and create jobs and pressure american lawmakers to pass it the latest white house plan to rescue the economy includes a mixture of tax breaks additional government investment and funding to states but gerald solenn de publisher of the trends journal says the 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 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 all 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 bidding farewell to the army after thirty seven years in service or his military contributor you have any 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 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 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 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 the former commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan 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 four of the remaining get off the strongholds his supporters have been given told saturday to lay down their arms with fierce fighting continuing in a city of seventy three khadafi loyal us had been killed one rebel fighter reported dead colonel gadhafi is audio messages claiming he's still in libya despite reports of his family and some associates crossing the border in tunisia where meanwhile interpol has issued arrest warrants for both a colonel and his son saif al islam. a syrian protesters say a leaven people were killed in the latest round of anti-government rallies across the country on friday thousands of demonstrators appealed for international help in the face of help and what a crackdown by security forces. more than twenty two hundred people are thought to have been killed since march the op rising that's called for president bashar assad to step down. a state of emergency has been declared in the u.s.

states of new york and pennsylvania after torrential rains from tropical storm lee cause catastrophic flooding some towns were submerged as the 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 evacuated. in the decade that followed the nine eleven attacks washington's campaigns in iraq and afghanistan were aimed at rooting out the causes of terror ten years later do people feel any safer the resident laurie harshness to ask people in the streets of new york what they think. 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 soul 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 in america i think so i don't know you kind of more aware of the threats 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 that common 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 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. 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 pick a safer we pretend to be as they appear to be safer that's right i mean during the spirit 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. should change the way of thinking and 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. returning to our top story at their home stadium russia city of jaroslav all is

honoring the players of its lokomotiv ice hockey team who perished in a plane crash on wednesday you're watching live pictures here from the memorial ceremony where the team last train before boarding that ill fated plane to minsk families are joined by the club's many fans as about seven thousand people have gathered for this heartfelt farewell burial for the crash victims will happen later today or remains of foreign players for the club have already been returned to their home countries we'll bring you more of the morning from the city of jaroslav as it happens here on our to. be back with headlines in a few moments stay with us. in

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eleven thirty am in moscow these here are t. headlines brushes city of jaroslav all that is saying an emotional farewell to the victims of wednesday's plane crash the tragedy claimed the lives of almost all of the local ice hockey team these are live pictures you're looking at from lokomotiv stadium in jaroslav all at the commemoration service. the u.s. prepares to commemorate the september eleventh attacks with security stepped up to protect against a possible new attack the war on terror unleashed that day now feared by some to be an even greater threat to global security. hundreds of egyptians storm israel's embassy in cairo in a rage by the deaths of five egyptian border guards last month the israeli ambassador and his family have been flown out of the country. next al gore and of puts the former cia chief and osama bin laden tracker under the spotlight it's coming your way.