it's just after three pm here in the russian capital and this is r t now the families and fans of russia's lokomotiv ice hockey team gather at the home stadium where the players who died and wednesday's plane crash played their last game russian of prime minister vladimir putin also attended to pay his respects to the team our correspondent sean thomas is witnessing the city's grief. very somber day here in as a thousands of people came to pay their final respects to the team members of the locomotive yes level team today's events saw thousands of people from around russia from around the city of jaroslav all different teams from around the country as well coming to say their last goodbyes to these a team members now the fourteen caskets that were viewed here today have been taken away so that they can have a private ceremony with their families and be laid to rest around the jaroslava

area some of the stories of the people who were part of this team have come to light as these three days of mourning have the past one team member proposed to his girlfriend just before this crash took place and it was looking forward to starting a family another woman twenty nine years old and she was a flight attendant on the plane and had just gotten married three months prior to the crash and was planning on leaving the aviation industry so that she could start a family with her new husband we also know of one team player who had decided to leave hockey that this was going to be his last season and of course unfortunately passing away on the way to the first game of his final season one of the tragedies of this entire incident is that this team was so young the young this person being only twenty years old many lives cut short in such a tragic event we had the opportunity to speak to a former coach of lokomotiv. it's very hard for me to talk about very

hard to find the words i really love. and i'm happy i had a chance to coach them these were great guys a good team that wants to play in the current cop who wants to win championships and all that was lost in a minute they were my friends on that plane and now the community looks to move forward to rebuild if you will there is some comfort in the fact that the. investigation is starting to brew some answers we have been told us through the investigative committee that the engines were working fine on this airplane but there may have been some problem with the fuel and people are starting to find out exactly what happened as people pieced together the final moments of this flight before it burst into flames but beyond the actual technical aspects of it there is a sense that this community wants to rebuild the hockey spirit here as well we know that former members of the jaroslava locomotive team have said that they will leave

their respective clubs and come back to help build the hockey tradition we also have the opportunity to speak to some of the younger players the next generation of professionals if you will and this is what they had to say about moving forward as a city continues to mourn one very dedicated group of young men have choosing to honor their heroes in a unique way by getting back on the ice with. the ice and play for all the guys who lost their lives in this chris. for them. for these players practicing here is a special as it was from this very. team their skates for the final time. i met them on the fifth and sixth of september their training sessions before 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 hard hearted. to. everybody for the next generation of jaroslav hockey players it's not just about rebuilding the team for the future of this. 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 wish to. know when the us championship and. 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 our school they told us about them in cannot one one hundred eighty page in the team only ever got to talk

mark to school i want to be in the new team that will be the success of locomotive next week i'm scheduled to be tested for the club the count 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. now on the eve of the tenth anniversary of the september eleventh attacks security is beefed up across the u.s. to protect against what's been called the credible threat of a new terror attack here for many people who still feel no sense of safety the clout of this dreadful anniversary has no silver lining as art is letting the 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 home 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 stated 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 the refugee camps i mean 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 growing deeply worried about this the issue. is larger than just the specific isolated orders it is the easier that is all around us and much of the 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 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. still waging war in the name of freedom america. began at the right but in the years that followed the military see.

you. around the world the man behind nine eleven may have been captured but international. illiterate or not artsy. well the u.s. war on terror launched after the twin towers fell was sold as a vital measure to stop further attacks on american soil but many americans no longer buy that story let's talk more about where the phil reese is a reporter and writer on national relations terrorism and violence and mr reese well the u.s. has been criticized for its leadership of the war on terror looking at the amounts of collateral damage innocent people killed as well as provoking vengeance or extremist behavior but isn't it wasn't it only natural mean washington had to react somehow to be attacks of nine eleven. it could have reacted very differently it could've tried to capture osama bin ladin at that time that wasn't the priority it declared a war on terror which what does that mean a war on a tactic which is

a very stupid thing but it did provide cover for basically a new global vision which was to project american power american imperial power around the world and create a culture that basically legitimized war on anyone and i think as well as the issues that came up in your your package that was played earlier one of the things that is happening now in the west is that war is just accepted as normal after the horrors of the second world war in vietnam you know nations went to war only when there was a very very serious reason and now it appears that western politicians quite gladly go to war and the domestic audiences seem to accept that because they are told about this vague and general threat to their lives and to everything we find important to us because of the war on terror well they're going after what washington actually did i mean the methods were in some way successful you said

earlier they could have taken out of some of bin laden and they did in the end did they sell the ends justify the means that. well they could have specifically targeted the people responsible for nine eleven which they didn't do at that time i mean absolutely they invaded afghanistan and changed its government and of course then invaded iraq with a grand plan to basically bring american power over large parts of the world you know has it worked i mean obviously bin ladin was captured and yes al qaeda has been weakened in terms of you know al qaeda central there that same group who were involved in the nine eleven plotting they have certainly been weakened but the idea that bin ladin promoted has become much more widespread and look at the u.s. economy one of the things bin ladin wanted. doing and this was in a speech in two thousand and four he spoke about bleeding dry america by forcing america into wars that it can't afford and forcing the country to become bankrupt well i mean it's not bankrupt but it isn't you know

a terrible terrible economic mess so if you're looking at you know whose ideas survived the decade who's perhaps winning even though of course he himself has been captured i think i'd have to tilt towards bin ladin all right and then of course after all this there has also been in fact in service of perception i mean there's been a colossal colossal outburst of islamophobia not just in america it's around the world how do you think that can be tackled. well i think you know we get to reap what's going to happen there and i think a lot of people are looking at the middle east and thinking all world now we've had an arab spring and we've got some kind of pro western democracy coming there well i don't believe that i think you've got a right of salafism of islam is in the kind of values that certainly bin ladin shared and indeed you've got a huge swell of sort of islamophobia so to some extent you know this is i mean bin ladin said no better ally than the american government over the past decade so you know these are serious problems for the countries themselves that is britain france

the united states with large muslim populations who basically don't trust their governments anymore so there's a major internal problem as well as all the rest of the problems we've got globally as a result of the reaction to nine eleven and that could have been very very different and just as prickly immediately after nine eleven islam is groups from hamas to the muslim brotherhood in egypt to pakistani islamist groups all said that he was wrong and they sided with america but what did america to it simply said you're all terrorists in our mind now and you're all our enemy so i think they had a major opportunity after nine eleven to embrace the muslim world in those parts of it which is the overwhelming majority that actually condemned nine eleven but they chose a different path. thank you very much for your thoughts there phil restrict water and writer talking to us live from london thank you. our our special coverage of the nine eleven anniversary continues later in the program and we have people on

the streets of new york if post nine eleven the world is a safer place. to live and on our website r.t. dot com you can read the stories of those caught up in the fight against terrorism farmers and village elders are clueless why bombs and missiles rained down on their homes. well soon after the war on terror came in 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. harvests a new crop of poppies to plug a growing painkiller shortage that explains in the rolling fields of this time of year you'll probably see we. playing 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 cuttin 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 are we destroying a man having to grow poppies in the fields in is being used by the american the british government repeatedly one of the so-called soft arguments of the liberal arguments is that they're fighting a war on drugs this is completely the point was they it's not true it's not what the war is about and we should own up to that it's easy to under. 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 their crops british m.p. frank field thinks that policy has failed but the americans would. america and we follow in behind. this relationship. when you're pushing which is. not to be. a. position with the americans to rethink. 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 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 transfer it into medicines to. 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 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 us occupation began in two thousand and one lower and it. had for you this hour a pill too big to swallow president obama urges voters and lawmakers in the u.s. to back his job creation and economic stimulus package but some say fighting the wrong battle in his war against unemployment. now 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 at least three people have died and over a thousand were injured during clashes with police and army troops the israeli embassy staff including the abass of their families have been flown out of the country anger swelled last month after israeli forces responding to a cross border militant attack mistakenly killed five egyptian police officers the

protests come at a time of change seven months after the popular uprising that ousted hosni mubarak thousands have gathered in the capital start here square urging an end to military rule and pressing for urgent reforms the president of the arab wars associations are says islamist groups could alternately benefit from the unrest. the various political movements vying for all of the trying to show who is bigger than i think this demonstration it's only the liberals not taking each side is accusing the other one of trying to show their power the islamists are not concerned about the election. because well for the election you know it takes they will definitely get higher votes than the liberals the demonstrations will continue i think the egyptian people will not accept that the military continue to be in power

the five most of the military as everybody knows are the same old team of mubarak people who were handpicked by mubarak with the approval of the americans americans would be happy for the military to stay there but i don't think the egyptian people without a doubt that president obama is urging voters across the u.s. to get behind this have a trillion dollar stimulus package to great jobs and of 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 also lead to a publisher of the trans 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 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 perfect but they creating them in the wrong place is creating him in afghanistan 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. let's now have a look at some other stories making headlines around the world at least forty people have died hundreds more are thought to be missing after a ship sunk off the mainland have the near survivors say the ferry carrying some six hundred passengers capsized in an area with strong currents near the coast of zanzibar or people or people expressed anger that the ship had been allowed to leave the port heavily overloaded well rescue efforts continue in the area. to libya one of four main colonel gadhafi strongholds but he will lead is close to being captured by the rebels despite fierce resistance from his supporters there's also continued fighting near the city of sirte where three gadhafi loyalists have been killed and one rebel fighter is reported dead colonel gadhafi is audio

messages claim he's still in libya despite reports of his family and some associates crossing the border into niger meanwhile interpol has issued a red notices for the colonel's arrest along with his son saif al islam. syria the protesters say eleven people were killed in a new government rallies across the country on friday thousands of demonstrators appealed for international help in the face of a bloody crackdown by the forces of more than twenty two hundred people are thought to have been killed since the uprising that's called for president bashar on the sat. well in the decade that followed the nine eleven attacks washington's campaigns in iraq and afghanistan were aimed at ridding the world of terror but ten years later do people feel any safer resident laura harford as sas 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 changed this week let's talk about back where 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 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 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 they are 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 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. live with. so we might be safer but we have to give up some things for that well i don't say you will be safe we trust you safer we pretend to be as they appear to be safer that's right i mean during the suspended if somebody wants to. 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. try to change her way of thinking and way of proving that are people like accepting that people can be

different and not just all which my way is the right way i'm 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 a safer place. all right all be back with a recap of our top stories in a few moments. welcome

back this is our team and here are the main stories we're covering today russia city of yet us level is saying an emotional goodbye to the victims of wednesday's plane crash that tragedy claimed the lives of almost all of the local ice hockey team. the u.s. prepares to remember september eleventh and security beefed up to protect against a possible new attack voluntarily that day is now feared by some to be an even bigger threat to the world security. and hundreds of egyptian stormy's rails that are missing in cairo and reached by the killing of five egyptian border guards last march the israeli ambassador and his family have been a full and out of the country. and up next puts a former cia me.