you know i think. the team the goods could really see this toward a much larger as i did not do well. at the u.s. open rough will play and be merry in the semifinals after both one on friday flushing meadows and all enjoyed a straight sets win over andy roddick and it was relatively easy breaking the american in the first game and then reeled off four in a row taking the first set six to the bounce power and accuracy continuing in the second set where he broke three times to take six one finds that was a similar story six three no doubt he's thirty of the match for victory. i think both. show up much for the finals of to go play with them and. i think that the most we were. from boyd's few of us in shorts. it was. whiskey but. it

was that because for much of us. will play murray for a place in the final after the brit battle for a gruelling match against john isner the first set was tight with murray taking it seven five seconds. with murray doing enough to take that six ball but is no four back. and there was a booming eight giving him the third set. we gave the american momentum of the next said going to six games all before murray came into his aggressive hitting giving him six match points but he needed just one finishing it off air mary has now reached the last quarter of all the grand slams this season. to the host of the. booklet rual program includes corps. interview serving you have the option of obscure stroy yourself of the roads. and

you're under a lot of pressure on your service you don't want to speak russian stock of the huge wooden bridge to. give to your producers to grow room to recruit your. and they join in the next round roger federer who plays novak djokovic in the other semifinal now it is a big day in the russian premier league with three of the top four in action and we will see a scar taken by an army. i t a skull could leap frog zinni to the top of the table for a couple of hours at least if they can avoid defeat the army men will be without keeping iraq in fear from stuff in the league and damage by the nominee when could put them within two points here scott. wells in the kick off two and a half hours later against lokomotiv moscow for a six in the league at the moment and rubin are undefeated in four games travel to

prance in the dark. over in england after the manager asked i'm going to says he hopes his side will make a fresh start to the season. and you'll see by now you to bolster his midfield after the gate drubbing by managed united amberley used his new signings will give his team a lift when they entertain swanzy at the emirates the stuff the name. we're going to work for. the last. so had to focus on something. different you. i feel. relief because we knew everybody knew good. quality that number one should be true or treats a prisoner of loss to be machine for injuries because i did bruise were. sure to complete on your front. of the game day most of the big names are on their travels these manchester united are at bolton they will all go to stoke chelsea are

away at sunderland while spurs take on more years of nolen you have it in villa go head to head match the city and to take wigan. now the weather has affected play a gold star jochen germany's marcel c.m. and stephen gold from wales have the clubhouse lead after their second round was cut short yesterday they are on a grander par over all indian shift poor big complete his second round and his one shot hitting a ball well off the t.v.'s on the fifth finding the green nicely and us open champion rory mcilroy carded a sixty five in his three off really is a cracking approach from him on the seventeenth of the oversight of course. and finally world heavyweight boxing champion bitterly klitschko has a hefty fifteen kilogram advantage for tonight's title fight with thomas adam make the ukrainian defense his w.b.c. belt in poland and even of course he was looking in fine shape at the way he is five years older than his boxing brother valid me looking on there but italian says

he isn't going to retire soon and plans three more bags after this one against the six years his junior at polls record stands at forty four wins and just wonder feet or klitschko has been beaten twice in his career but boast thirty nine knockouts have the support of two when it's. so that's a sport for the moment a union will be here a bit later on he got paid. right

the city says an emotional farewell to the victims of wednesday's plane crash that killed nearly the entire local ice hockey team. thousands of people streaming into the stadium where locomotive you played i'm sean thomas in jaroslav as mourns and grieves the loss of their stars. the u.s. prepares to commemorate the september eleventh attacks for the day that unleashed the war on terror now feared by some to have an even bigger threat. a crowd of egyptians storms the israeli embassy in cairo in a raid by the deaths of five egyptian border guards last month.

one pm in moscow i'm not treasurer good to have you with us here on r t our top story families and fans of russia's locomotive's ice hockey team gather at the home stadium where the players who died in airplane crash played their final game the sports world is mourning after most of the locomotive euro slidell team perished on wednesday our correspondent sean thomas. with more. 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 teen. 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 you are sol is coming here to the same 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 all 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 could 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 it 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 get 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 jaroslav. celebration of the team and their lives also to the somber sad final goodbyes there's hope of moving forward from the investigation itself that 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 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. also that they don't have to lose that connection with hockey a sport that this city love so much but we have the opportunity to actually speak

to some of the younger players of the locomotive 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 mourn one very dedicated group of young men at choosing to honor their heroes in a unique way by getting back on the ice with the still does that we should go out onto the ice and play for. chris of those. bands. just for these players practicing fear is special as it was from this very alina with the team their states for the final time. and six of september they're training sessions before missed they were confident and card optimistic and determined all of the very high spirits. one coach working with this youth team was supposed to be on the fly and the back working now his thoughts are still

strong for those affected by this tragic once i think it's it's hard hearted. but really it really gives us pause as we sit here miss them. to. go on michael. 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 been strong we. know when to use shame and duty to reach my friends who don't know and while this team practice is an even numbered group is ready to follow in their footsteps. some of the plays in times square. he told us about coming cannot manuel you need to major in the team oh never going to talk more kids

i'm going to be needing that rule he doesn't think of no committees next to me come scheduled to be tested for the count the county is going to come right. 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 you know some of the sean thomas team. and that their home stadium rushes city of heroes is honoring the players of its lokomotiv ice hockey team who died in that plane crash on wednesday this is live video that you're looking at from little morial ceremony where the team last train before boarding the plane four minutes families are joined by the club's many fans as more than thirty thousand are gathering for this heartfelt farewell burials for the crash victims begin later today there remains of the foreign players have already been returned to their home countries that is prime minister of lebanon are putting their laying flowers in this commemoration ceremony.

the eve 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 be credible threat of a new terror attack ever many people who still feel no sense of safety the cloud of that dreadful adversary has no silver lining us or if he's worried of course and i are 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 in america. 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 a high pro-sumer but modern america strikes back afghanistan as only with bombs with 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 tension and rendition human rights violations symbolized by landmarks like one ton m obey grade and the block airbase prison we had garnered the empathy not only of the world 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 lips 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 and sorrow 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 the way 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 it 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 as this national security state grows as it becomes easier for the government to scrutinize and niceness in all aspects of our lives i think that we're. worried about is the issue. is larger

than just the specific isolated workers that is in the ether that is all around us and much of it 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. day 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 a plot had it not been brought to them on a platter by the u.s. government are now in jail and we have you know snowball into a pile and that's going on around the world anyways don't you can only raise more

bad feelings only reinforced many narratives very violently millionaire to american imperialism around the world and we i think we've created more enemies than friends you know being 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 the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden the leader of al qaeda. in the name of freedom of america i guess we get the right but it's clear that the military states. and. around the world the man behind nine eleven may have been. the international to get the letter 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 brian becker from the high war answer coalition says there are many who no longer buy that line. 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 at 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 the u.s. americans fear of influence. our special coverage of the nine eleven commemoration continues later on r.t. we asked people on the streets of new york if the post nine eleven world is a safer place. and on our web site r t v dot com read the stories of those caught up in the fight against terror afghan farmers and village elders who are clueless as to why bombs and missiles have been raining down on their country. soon after the war on terror and the war on drugs but ten years later afghanistan is still the world's biggest producer of opium poppies with much of its income rooted in the illegal narcotics trade but as nato forces struggle to contain the drug production in afghanistan the u.k. harvests under new crop of poppies to plug a growing painkiller shortage or he's more of it hasn't. in the rolling fields of oxfordshire at this time of year you'll probably see wheat or barley ripening for

the harvest but dry spring and warm summer's have been able piece promise to plant a very different type of crop opium poppies that are under contract 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 are wiping out existing afghan poppies with bombing burning and spraying and my question is why we destroying property and then having to grow poppies in fields in oxfordshire is being used by the american and british governments repeatedly one of the so-called soft arguments on the liberal arguments is that their party war on drugs is completely pop was a it's not true it's not what we should own up to 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 o.p.'s economics farmers are still being encouraged to grow other crops which is m.p. frank field thinks that policy has failed but the americans would punch america and we follow him behind them. makes a nonsense of what this relationship should be it's. not. a. position with the americans to rethink a strategy which. has if we look historically has. rather we try and track frank field and his group popular. 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 afghanistan we have chosen drums rather than 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 troops we will be thinking about how do we harness this core how do we pay them for it. to transfer it into medicines to cancer. 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 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 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 nor am it oxfordshire. still ahead for you this hour a pill too big just swallow president obama voters of 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 a point. look at what's behind the possible shuffle in america's highest ranks the general david petraeus takes the top jobs of the cia. but first egypt's police have been put on a state of alert as protesters remain on the streets after attacking 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 and israeli embassy staff including the embassador and their families have been flown out of the country anger swelled last month after israeli forces responder who crossed the border militants attacked mistakenly killed five egyptian police protesters also came at a time of change for the country seven months after the popular uprising that ousted hosni mubarak from power thousands have gathered in the capital stock here sware urging an end to military rule and pressing for urgent reforms the president of the arab lawyers association. worries islamised groups could ultimately benefit from the arrest. well that's a good movements vying for trying to show who is bigger than the other i think this demonstration it's only the liberals this limits they can bust and then each side is accusing the other one of trying to show that. the islamists.

don't want to go about the election because for election though it takes they will definitely get votes the liberals demonstrations will continue i think the egyptian people who will not accept the military continue to be in this five that most of the military as everybody knows the same old team of mubarak. 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 would. president obama is urging voters across the u.s. to get behind his half trillion dollar stimulus package aimed at creating jobs and pressure american 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 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 did it 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 minson 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 our 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 oh it's 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 sees 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 job at the head of the cia but in farewell to the army after thirty seven years in uniform or his military contributor looks at the reasons for them he may seem an consequential but. the first decision general petraeus has made on his way from the pounds are going to langley was he is.