five pm here in the russian capital you're watching r t it's good to have you with us at the stadium where russia's lokomotiv ice hockey team play their last game has been transformed into a venue of mourning and tears more than one hundred thousand people have attended the ceremony in memory of the team and all others that perished on board the yak forty two in a crash on wednesday our correspondent sean thomas is witnessing the city's grief. the tone inside the stadium where the. players played their games is very somber and quiet as thousands of people from all over russia and the city come to say their last goodbyes as this three day mourning period. we've been hearing some of the personal stories of the players who lives were tragically cut short we know of one player who just before this flight had proposed to his girlfriend and was hoping to start a family. has declared that this was his final season and he wanted to give up

hockey so that he could spend more time with his family of course losing his wife on the way to his first game of his last season also a flight attendant twenty nine years old just got married three months ago and was planning to leave the aviation industry so that she could start a family now as the rebuilding of the team and the spirit of moving forward best a geisha is still going on right now as we speak but beyond that we have the opportunity to speak to players from former. locomotive teams who said that they will come back so that they can help rebuild this franchise and make it the championship team that it once was we also have the opportunity to talk to the next generation of players the people who hope to become professionals and this is what they had to say about moving forward from this tragedy. 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 other big. guys . of the story he told us to win for them. that the support for these players practicing is special as it was from this barrier to now with the team and their state for the final time. i met them on the fire from six of september their train. sessions before mr moore they were confident and quite optimistic and determined all of them were in very high spirits or. one coach working with this news team was supposed to be on the floor and those back working now his thoughts are still strong for those affected by this tragic loss i think it's it's hard hard to put out a photo but that family for the relatives of the soldiers all adds up to very serious this time a drink to. go about my mom my granddaughter this everybody

and for the next generation of jaroslava lokomotiv 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 don't have a strong reach to win big or growing crops no championship and dedicated maybe to each of my friends when i was young and while this team practices an even younger group is ready to follow in their footsteps. some of them play if you don't mind where you are still he told us about them in ca one more you need to be made in the team only ever bought stock market school i want to be needing that move if he doesn't sense of no committee next week i'm scheduled to be tested for the county the county is going to come right through. proving that even though they've gone from the ice to members of this ill fated locomotive team that will continue to be

in the hearts and minds of the people of jaroslava and the nation for generations to come out. of the sean thomas. so how was a city robbed of its sports stars and families of their loved ones to come had to r.t. dot com for the latest updates investigators continue to rule out the theories behind the deadly catastrophe well the latest being that the fuel was contaminated more about the possible causes of the crash just go to our website r t v dot com. security is being stepped up across the u.s. following a terror threat on the eve of the tenth anniversary of the september eleventh attacks american intelligence intercepted communications from an al qaeda operative in pakistan indicating plans for a vehicle bomb plot against new york city or washington as artie's medina portnoy reports a decade on and many u.s. citizens still feel vulnerable in the old country. ten years ago america was wrong by unprecedented terror.

nearly three thousand innocent lives were lost in a post nine eleven world was born. or war in term. begins. but it does not in their. 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 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 a lick sort 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 a 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 the niceness in all aspects of our lives i think of american for good. we deeply deeply worried about is the issue here is larger than just that specific isolated or there is even a danger that is all around us and much of it may be right here at home from people in our own country. since nine eleven a rising tide of islamophobia has passed through this formerly tolerant nation according to the f.b.i. the four men intended to carry out their plan today dozens of muslim americans have been arrested and convicted in so-called f.b.i.

for oil terror plots plots that were orchestrated and manufactured by government paid informants these cases have been created by the government and yet we're supposed to feel safer because criminals that would not have come up with the plot had not been brought to them on a platter by the u.s. government are now in jail we have you know snowball the violence that's going on around the world only raise more hatred only breeds more bad feelings only reinforced many narratives there and violent 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 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 arsenal right but in the ten years

that followed military proceed to know. that he turned. around the world the man behind nine eleven may have been captured but international safety and yet he delivered in a fortnight our team the. international consultant and former belgian m.p. no divine all says the u.s. just used on eleventh as a pretext to wage war on everyone who disagreed with its policies. the war on terror you should not forget it's actually a war everyone in the world tradition agrees with the economic and military policies of the united states whether they react violently or in or either can democratically it's all against afghanistan or iraq but they are going to get is some kind of control fake democracy completely controlled by the us so much that

you're not surprised after after all they are the real bosses there whether the real goals of economic dominance over the middle east and other regions are achieved that's even a failure meaning the whole reason is more unstable than it ever was before the west has no place in those countries it's up to the people of those countries themselves to decide what their fate will be they should have been there in the first place. ask the people of new york what kind of impact the tragedy had on their lives. so things are predictable you don't know what what's going to happen next i don't know you kind of. just more on the lookout people should. think of a way of treating older people like accepting that people can be different in about ten minutes time watching what people on the streets of the big apple have to say about nine eleven ten years after the terrorist attack the city.

well if you have something to share on the subject you can log onto our website to participate in our latest poll that's our dot com and today our question is what does not eleven mean for you now ten years on and so far the most popular response is a convenient pretext to invade afghanistan and iraq the answer a conspiracy to rob americans of their freedoms comes a close second and some of you say it's a tragedy the nation must learn to let go at an enemy attack the u.s. will never allow it to happen again well you can go to our dot com to contribute your thoughts. to. the city's. vision. is to. look back at nine eleven.

and president obama asked pleaded with voters to support his half trillion dollar package of spending cuts aimed at creating jobs and stimulating the sluggish economy but with almost ten percent of americans currently out of work the latest rescue plan needs to be passed quickly by lawmakers but you're also led to a publisher of the trends journal says that the politicians are looking in the wrong places when it comes to combating u.s. 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 long all this speech was is obama's campaign speech on one end you have the republicans that want to cut back in title minutes of anything going to the people bringing our stary measures and obama promising empty promises the federal reserve and some sixteen trillion

dollars in stimulus back to a loans etc and they couldn't create jobs well obama said he wants to create infrastructure jobs perfect but they creating them in the wrong place is creating him in afghanistan they're rebuilding iraq now they're going to be rebuilding libya oh it's 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. the u.s.

led war on drugs in afghanistan has been ongoing since the fall of the taliban in two thousand and one and despite millions of dollars being spent on destroying crops got a stand remains the world leader in opium poppy production. discover the crackdown is having an adverse effect with contras like the us now forced to grow their own poppies to plug a shortage in pharmaceuticals in the rolling fields of oxfordshire at this time of year you'll probably see barley 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 are under contract to a pharmaceutical company that turns the opium into morphine and code to plug a shortfall in strong painkillers in the national health service in fact there's a global shortage of drugs made from poppies the opium here will be put to good use but thousands of miles away nato troops are wiping out existing afghan poppies with

bombing burning and spraying the main question is why are we destroying crops and then having to grow poppies in the fields in oxfordshire it's 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 proper say 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 to grow then sell opium to the taliban there's an effective distribution network and they can make around seventeen times more profit per hectare than they could on wheat despite the obvious economics farmers are still being encouraged to grow other crops british m.p. frank field thinks that policy has failed but the americans would. america and we follow in behind them. relationship.

when you're putting. not to be. a. position with the americans to racing cars which. 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 them brains and anybody would be thinking about how do we get ordinary people 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.

burned in afghanistan and kept secrets 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. 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 puppies are 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 us occupation began in two thousand and one. egypt is on high alert after a night of riots in cairo left at least three people dead and over

a thousand injured a demonstration for reform in the country quickly turned violent as protesters vented their anger against the israeli embassy a mob tore down a wall filled the high rise building and ransacked parts of the embassy which was virtually on stop at the time well after hours without intervention riot police used tear gas to disperse the protesters who responded by throwing bombs israeli diplomats and their families have been flown home as television condemned the attack the incident comes less than a month after israeli forces killed five egyptian policemen in a border clash presidential candidate of dollars shall says television has only itself to blame for the embassy assault. as it had been attacking egypt and the the it took lately the sponsors of the egyptian government didn't respond positively to the demands even very modest given government also was really mean with there's a leader is so of the people it was very futile i would give to the president and

to the egyptian government to see you soon as well now it will do something for egypt but we have to give the gift of. around for example and we ought to be watching that embassy it would be. because it is going to respect the fact that they are going to give sions this is a very bad mood. let's take a look at some other news dominating the headlines around the world and we start with benghazi the cradle of the country's revolution where hundreds of people have walked to the streets to protest the actions of the new libyan government meanwhile libyan rebels are pulling back from bani walid to one of four remaining little bit off the strongholds as nato airstrikes reportedly start in the area the towns held by the boy loose have been given until saturday to surrender to the new libyan leadership as the rebels continue the search for the visions of leader colonel gadhafi is already of messages claim he's still in libya despite reports of his

family and some associates crossing the border into night here. at least one hundred sixty three people have died and over one hundred more are thought to be missing after a ship sank off mainland tanzania with already save the ferry carrying more than five hundred passengers capsized after leaving port heavily overloaded rescuers are struggling to search for survivors in tough conditions and have requested a foreign help from kenya and south africa. just so we can do the job japan's new trade minister has resigned that's after he made a comment deemed insensitive to locals forced out of their homes by the nuclear crisis in fukushima you show you how cheetos and later apologized multiple times for his verbal gaffe he said he was just trying to convey the seriousness of the situation what he called the now desolate area around the fukushima nuclear power plant a quote talent of death his departure is

a major embarrassment for probably the story you say he couldn't order it took office and installed a new cabinet just last week. fidel castro has appeared in an interview shot i very well on state television to dispel rumors of his death the former cuban president joked that this was not the first time such reports had spread well the eighty five year old has not been seen in public since the communist party summit in april he stepped out in july two thousand and six adding power to his brother raul castro ruled cuba for nearly half a century becoming a revolutionary. well returning now to our coverage of the that inverse of nine eleven the event it was the worst act of terrorism on american soil and the spark that ignited the war against al qaeda but this why the killing of osama bin laden the scars on the big apple remain a story harford has found as she spoke to people in new york.

a decade after the horrible man eleven terrorist attacks on the u.s. how is the world changed this week let's talk about the words i won't say more dangerous but it's more like. things are predictable you don't know what what's going to happen next. i think. every day can be less 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 you know i'm not for war so no i don't think war is to make us feel safer if everyone joins us on business i think everything would be better if we had been here in new york last week we had several places. 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 tend to be safer that's right i mean during the spirit if you will i mean somebody who wants to solve it will do it so is there anything that anyone can do or is that just what's going to happen it's going to happen i don't know people should. try to change your way of thinking the way of treating other people like accepting that people can be different and not just my

way is the right way and let's kill 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. america's former military commander in afghanistan has been sworn in as the new head of the cia david petraeus shed his four star general in uniform to become a civil official but artie's military contributor thinks the move was forced upon him. it may seem an consequential but the first decision of a general petraeus has made on his way from the pentagon to langley was stiff shan't he is military uniform and to present himself in a new incarnation as a total civilian according to the official story gen patroons has an option to come to the cia as of 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 his figure on their way to his new job if the official story is to believe general petraeus bend over back wards to appease the intelligence community and to make sure that he could blend easily at their language cafeteria refuse new peers and associates i find it hard to believe that the former commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan voluntarily decided to resign from the military i'm sure if he had an option he would never resign from the active duty. and just ahead we've got the kaiser report that's right after reminder of our top stories this saturday evening.

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welcome back and here's a quick look at the main stories today on our russia city of yet us level is paying its last respects to the victims of wednesday's plane crash that killed almost all of the top local. security is being stepped up across the u.s. on the eve of the adverse real nine eleven as a new threat emerged some now fear that america's war on terror has created more enemies than it's destroyed. plus television a cairo strike a new sour note in relations as an angry mob egyptian capital storms the israeli embassy forcing its staff to leave the country. and next on our two year financial guru max kaiser talks about a dramatic shift in the global currency war because reporters up next.