one pm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story families and fans of russia's lokomotiv 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 team perished on wednesday our correspondent sean thomas is in europe with more. thousands of people are streaming to the locomotive stadium. 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. 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 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. 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 has 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 in 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. that they don't have to lose that connection with hockey 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. in a unique way by getting back on the ice with. us. for these players practicing here is special as it was for this. with. their skates for the final time. i met them on the fifth and sixth of september their training sessions before they were confident. and. very high spirits. working with this team was supposed to be on the flight and he's back. his thoughts are still strong for those affected by this tragic loss i think it's hard hearted. but.

for the next generation of. 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. and also have a strong growing comp you know to use championship and duty kate's baby to reach my friends who died. and while this team practices and even younger group is ready to follow in their footsteps. some of the players you don't mind. he told us about them in cannot one more you need to be made in the team oh never going to talk more kid school i want to be need he does extensive know committees next week i'm scheduled to be tested for the canal 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 yachts level and the nation for generations to come in the sean thomas. and at their home stadium rush's city of jaroslav is honoring the players of its locomotive ice hockey team who died in that plane crash on wednesday this is live video that you're looking at from the memorial 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 vladimir putin there laying flowers in this commemoration ceremony.

on 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 the credible threat of a new terror attack ever many people who still feel no sense of safety the cloud of that dreadful anniversary has no silver lining as artie's were in a port and 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 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 ton 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 drank deep from that very dark licks or 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 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 as it becomes easier for the government to scrutinize and niceness in all aspects of our lives i think of americans are really deeply deeply worried about is the issue. is larger than just the specific isolated or there is it is

a danger that is all around us 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 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 al qaeda. still waging war in the name of freedom america's campaign against terror began at the hospitals right but in the ten years that followed the military say to. you that the security around the world the man behind nine eleven may have been captured by international safety and yet to be delivered for nine 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 antiwar 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 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

commemoration continues later on r t we have people on the streets of new york if the post nine eleven world is a safer place. and our website are to read the stories of those caught up in the fight against terror 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 came 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 a new crop of poppies to plug a growing painkiller shortage or. in the rolling fields of oxfordshire this time of year you'll probably see we ripening for the harvest but dry spring 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 cody 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 the fields in oxfordshire has been used by the american and british governments repeatedly one of the so-called soft arguments of the liberal arguments is that they're fighting a war on drugs this is completely it's not true it's not what the war is about and 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 obvious economics farmers are still being encouraged to grow the crops critics m.p. frank field thinks that policy has failed but the americans would. america and we're following behind. this relationship. when you're putting. not to be. a position with the americans to rethink. if we look historically has. how do we try a new tack frank field and his group poppy real. i think afghan opium should be legalized instead it would benefit afghan farmers raise much needed revenue for the governments nation rebuild and stop the opium falling into the hands of the drug

cartels field says it should be military strategy to. grow them brains and anybody would 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. to transferred into medicines to. burned in afghanistan and kept secrets 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 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. still ahead for you this hour a pill too big to swallow president obama urging voters on lawmakers in the u.s. to back his job creation an economic stimulus package but some say he's fighting the wrong battle in his war against unemployment. and we'll 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 israeli embassy staff including the embassador and their families have been flown out of the country anger swelled last month after israeli forces responded to a cross border militants attack mistakenly killed five egyptian police protesters also came at that time of change for the country seven months after the popular uprising that ousted hosni mubarak from power thousands had 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. worries islamic groups could ultimately benefit from the unrest. 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 take in boston and each side is accusing the other one of trying to show that. the islamists. that know what the election though because of

a fall election no thanks they will definitely get votes then the liberals demonstrations will continue i think the egyptian people who will not accept the military continue to be in this five most of the military as everybody knows the same old team of mubarak people who had one picked by mubarak with the approval of them out of them out of his would be happy for the military to stay but i don't think the egyptian people who would. president obama is urging voters across the u.s. to get behind his half trillion dollar stimulus package 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 a publisher of the trends journal says politicians are fighting the wrong battles in the struggle against unemployment if anybody watched that you could wonder how any self respecting adult could have any respect for these politicians jumping up

and down and clapping like trained seals that every two bit laws all this speech was is obama's campaign speech on one and you have the republicans that want to cut back in title mention anything going to the people bring in a stereo measures and obama promising empty promises the federal reserve and some sixteen trillion dollars in stimulus back to a loans etc and they couldn't create jobs well obama said he wants to create infrastructure jobs part but they creating them in the wrong place is creating him in afghanistan they're rebuilding iraq now they're going to be rebuilding libya 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 more 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 at the head of the cia bidding farewell to the army after thirty seven years in uniform our military contributor looks at the reasons for the move. he may seem in consequential but. the first decision the general petraeus has made on his way from the pentagon to langley wants to shed his military uniform and to present himself in a new incarnation as a total civilian according to their official story gen patroons has an option to

come to the cia as of a military or as a civilian and allegedly the white house 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 langley 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 the active duty. taking 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 obs and a bar people xpress anger at a fish ship had been allowed to leave port so heavily overloaded rescue efforts continue in the area. in libya one of the four remaining colonel gadhafi strongholds bani walid is close to being captured by rebel forces despite fierce resistance from khadafi supporters there's also continued fighting near the city of sirte three khadafi loyalists reported killed one rebel fighter reported dead colonel gadhafi is latest audio messages claim he's still in libya despite reports of his family and some of. crossing the border into an easy air meanwhile interpol has issued a red notices for the colonel's arrest and the rest of his son saif al islam. syrian protesters say eleven people were killed in the latest round of 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 hundred people thought to have been killed since march in the uprising that's called for president bashar assad to step down. and its state of emergency has been declared in the u.s. states pennsylvania and new york after tarantula rains from tropical storm lee caused catastrophic floods some towns were submerged as a river burst its banks with water that's also feared to be toxic at least seven people have been killed and more than one hundred thousand had to be 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 president laurie harshness to ask 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 our tick saw things are predictable you don't know what what's going to happen next to 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 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 lives is own business i think everything would be better if we had been here in new york just 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 somebody wants to solve it he 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. can i said i shouldn't change her way of thinking way of treating other people like accepting that people can be different i'm not just all which

means my way is the right way i'm leadscrew over but 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. we're back with a recap of our top stories in a few moments stay with us. for .

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one thirty pm in moscow these here are the headlines russia city of jaroslav paying an emotional farewell to the victims of wednesday's plane crash tragedy claimed the lives of almost all of the local ice hockey team. the u.s. prepares to commemorate the september eleventh attacks with security beefed up against the possibility of a new attack the war on terror unleashed that day now feared by some to be a bigger threat to global security. hundreds of egyptians storm israel's embassy in cairo in a raid by the deaths of five adoption border guards last month israel's ambassador and his family have been flown out of the country. kaiser report coming up next stay with us here on r.t. .