and in moscow i matricide good to have you with us here on r t our top story families and fans of russia's lokomotiv ice hockey team have gathered at the home stadium where the players who died in a plane crash on wednesday played their last game the sports world is mourning after most of the locomotive your os level ice hockey team perished on wednesday our correspondent sean thomas has more. thousands of people are streaming it 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 the 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 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 jaroslav 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 got 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 is a life one other story of the flight attendant on board three months ago just got married. it was planning to retire from the aviation business she wasn't going to

be a flight attendant anymore she was going to have children as well so a wide range of emotions here and. celebration of the team and their lives also to the 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 that former. players have announced that they will come back to help rebuild this team so that they are. here. 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. the next generation of people who are training to

hope to be part of the. as a city continues to. have. in a unique way. for these players practicing special. training sessions before. high spirits. are still strong for those affected by this tragic loss i think it's hard.

relatives of the solar cell research based i'm. going to. go on i'm a mom my condolences for 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 reach to win bigger growing comp you know the use championship and dedicate it to be true to my friends who died. 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 one hundred eighty page in the team oh never going to talk mocked at school i want to be need that movie 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 it 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 r. t. . i'm a native of the tenth anniversary of the tragic september eleventh attack security is being stepped up across the u.s. to defend against what's being called a credible threat of a new terror attack yet for many who still feel no sense of safety the cloud of the just out of our story has no silver lining as our teams were in a port and i reports that 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 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 grade 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 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 the 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 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 that is a danger that is all around us 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 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 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 i don't let me have. the international. yet he

delivered or not artsy 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 anti-war answer coalition says there are many who no longer buy that argument and 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 here on our t.v. coming up the people on the streets of new york if the post nine eleven world is a safer place. and on our website r.t. dot com the stories of those caught up in the fight against terror farmers and village elders in afghanistan clueless why bombs and missiles are pouring down on their country. soon after the war on terror came the war on drugs but ten years later afghanistan remains the world's biggest producer of opium with much of its income rooted in a legal narcotics but as nato forces to struggle to force a struggle to destroy drug production in afghanistan the u.k. harvests new crop of poppies to plug a growing painkiller shortage or diesel or am it reports in the rolling fields of

oaks which are at this time of year you'll probably see we are right playing for the whole of east but drawing 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 coating 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 we destroying crops and then having to grow poppies in the fields in which it's been used by the american the british government repeatedly one of these so-called soft all cubans that a liberal it was like is that they're fighting a war on drugs this is completely pointless they 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 to the taliban as an effective distribution network and they can make a. around seventeen times more profit per hectare than they could on wheat despite the obvious economics farmers are still being encouraged to grow their crops. frank field thinks that policy has failed but the americans would. america and we're following behind. this relationship. when you're pushing. not to be. a. position with the americans. 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 the brains and then be 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. how do we pay them for it. transferred into medicines to. burned in afghanistan and kept 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

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. the home office also declined to comment while puppies. 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 u.s. occupation began in two thousand and one you were and it's. stay with us here on r t coming your way a pill too big to swallow president obama urging voters on lawmakers in the u.s. to back his job creation an economic stimulus plan some say he's fighting the wrong battle in his war against unemployment. and a look at what's behind the reshuffle of the u.s. highest ranks is general david petraeus moves to the top job at the cia. but first egyptian police have been put on a state of high 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 police using tear gas on the crowd israel's ambassador along with his family was flown out of the country anger swelled last month after israeli forces responding to a cross border a militant attack mistakenly killed five egyptian police the protests also came out of china in time of change seven months after the popular uprising that ousted hosni mubarak from power thousands are gathered in the capital's tahrir square urging an end to military rule and pressing for urgent reforms the president of the arab oil as associations worries islamic groups might ultimately benefit from the. the various political 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 not taking boston and each side is accusing the other one of trying to show that the

bigger power the islamists i'm not concerned that not what the election because whatever form election no takes they will definitely get higher votes than the liberals demonstrations will continue i think the egyptian people will not accept the military continue to be in power this by the fact that most of the military as everybody knows the same old team of mubarak people who were handpicked by mubarak with the approval of them out of the americans would be happy for the military to stay there but i don't think the egyptian people with. president obama is pressing voters across the u.s. to get behind his half trillion dollar stimulus package aimed at creating jobs and pressuring american lawmakers to pass it the latest white house plan to rescue the economy includes a mix of tax breaks additional investment in government investment and funding to states but gerald celente a publisher of the trends journal says the politicians are fighting the wrong

battles in the struggle against of employment. if anybody watched that you could wonder how any self respecting. 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 while 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 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 bidding farewell to the army after thirty seven years in uniform or his military contributor looks at the reasons for the move. it may seem in consequential but. the first decision the general petraeus has made on his way from the pentagon to langley was still shared his 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 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 that the former commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan mullen tearfully 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 a ship carrying some six hundred people has sunk off mainland tanzania with more than half the passengers thought to be missing survivors say the ferry capsized in an area with strong currents near the coast of zanzibar people xpress to anger about the ship had been allowed to leave port heavily overloaded rescue efforts continue. in libya what a horror manning khadafi strongholds bani walid is close to being captured by rebels despite fierce resistance from khadafi supporters was also continued fighting near the city of sirte three khadafi loyalists have been killed one rebel fighter reported dead prebble cut off his audio messages claim to be still in libya despite reports of his family and some associates crossing the border into not nice hair. meanwhile interpol has issued red notices for the colonel and his son saif al

islam. syrian protesters say a levin 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 security forces more than twenty two people twenty two hundred people 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 massive flooding some towns were submerged does a river burst its banks with water also appeared to be toxic at least seven people reported killed and 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 ridding the world of terror ten years later do people feel any safer the resident laurie 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 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 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 it's

a difficult thing the commandant 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 winds its own business i think everything would be better if we had been here in new york last week we enter 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 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 solve it 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. people like

accepting that people can be different and not just. lead screw 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 at play. turning back to our top story now at their home stadium russia city of jaroslav authors the players of its lokomotiv ice hockey team who died in a plane crash on wednesday this is live pictures you're looking at from the memorial ceremony where the team last train before boarding the plane to minsk families are joined by the club's many fans about seven thousand people gathering for those heartfelt farewell burials for the crash victims will happen later today the remains of the foreign players for the club have already been returned to their home countries we'll bring you more of from the ceremony in europe as it happens so

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thirty pm in moscow these are your headlines russia's city of yaroslavl 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 video you're looking at right now of the commemoration ceremony at lokomotiv stadium in. the u.s. prepares to commemorate the september eleventh attacks with security stepped up protecting against a possible threat of a new attack the war on terror unleashed that day is now feared by some to be a bigger threat to global security. hundreds of egyptians storm israel's embassy in cairo enraged by the deaths of five egyptian border guards last month israeli ambassador and his family have flown out of the country. continues exploring the russian capital with a saunter through some of moscow's cozy parks and historic neighborhoods stay with us.