it's just after six pm here in the russian capital this is r t thanks for joining us now 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 a ceremony in memory of the team at all those 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 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 three months ago and was planning to leave the aviation industry so that she could start a family now as the rebuilding of 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. 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 you. simply for all. of us. as. for these players practicing here is special as it was from this very hour you know with the dude their skates for the final time. i met them on the fifth and sixth of september they train. sessions before minsk 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 flight and though he's back working now his thoughts are still strong for those affected by this tragic loss i think it sets hard hearted but a lot of the life that families are relative since all this all adds up to a series based on her trying to. go on i'm

a mom i ponder this 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 yeah but also i have a strong wish to win big are going crop now when they use championship and dedicate a victory to my friends who died as you know 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 house school they told us about them in cannot one one hundred eighty page in the team only have a goal to talk mark to school i want to be need that will repeat this excess of not committees next week i'm scheduled to be tested for the club the county is going to come right to school. 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 you and the nation for generations to come. on thomas. so how was a city robbed of its sports stars and families of their loved ones while you can head to our tea dot com for the latest updates investigators continue to rule out theories behind the deadly catastrophe the latest being that the fuel was contaminated two or more about the possible causes of the crash you can add to our web site that's our to make dot com. a 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 but as artie's embodying a portnoy reports a decade on that many u.s. citizens still feel vulnerable in their own country. 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 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 pounded with bombs and missiles from the air and 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 kuantan i'm obey grade and the blogger

airbase prison we had garnered the empathy not only of the world but the muslim world and if we had the courage to be vulnerable. we would be far safer and more secure than we are today instead we drank deep from that very dark licks are of nationalism journalist and author 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 paid it is and it will strike us eventually however in a post nine eleven america citizens have been forced to compromise there for. 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 is this national security grows and as it becomes easier for the government to. ignite us in all aspects of our lives i think the americans are growing deeply worried about this the issue. is larger than just the specific isolated orders that is in 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 raise more bad feelings only reinforced many narratives there and a violent you know narrative of american imperialism around the world and we i think we've created more enemies than friends you know if we targeted communities rather than making them partners not only has it not made us any safer i think that it has undermined you know the very fabric of american society the fabric of a post nine eleven america that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden the leader of a. still waging war in the name of freedom america i guess yeah.

right but in the years that followed military see. the turn. around the world the man behind nine eleven may have been captured by the international scene and yet the liver or not hearts be. well let's talk more about the anniversary of nine eleven with lynsey german from stop the war coalition is joining us live from london german at the scenes of course of horror that unfolded on nine eleven it sparked a response that would see the invasion of afghanistan and later iraq and it was a decision that would come to attract much condemnation but but then again at the time it wasn't possible that they had enough reason enough intelligence that perhaps did not have any other option but to do what they did. well i don't think so many of us at the time right back ten years ago did say that we thought that the response from george bush would make things much much worse it wouldn't make the

world safer it would reduce terrorism it would increase terrorism and also another alternative that you could treat bin ladin than his allies as criminals you could capture them and bring him to trial you did not need to wage war against one of the poorest countries in the world and we had an alternative for the people who now justify these wars are using the terrible scenes from nine eleven to try to get sympathy for more walls but we are in a much much more dangerous state now than we were ten years ago no one should be the only downside. but then again there's been no terrorist attack in the u.s. since nine eleven and of course osama bin laden has been killed so perhaps the u.s. and others in fighting terror are are working. well they may be for the u.s. but these terror methods of spread to many many parts of the world we've had a very serious attack here in britain back in two thousand and five again the people who committed the attack the suicide bombers made it absolutely clear that

their motivation was opposition to the wars in iraq and afghanistan and of course al qaida has spread to they appear to somalia to many many countries around the world so the idea that just because there hasn't been another nine eleven in new york or anywhere else in the united states this means greater global security is simply false ok some say that the u.s. has created many enemies during its war on terror not just those that existed even before the attack but who or what are these enemies. well the problem is there was a problem with al qaida. that was aimed at bringing the americans into a war with it had. just perspective this is grow but in addition to that there has been a situation now where muslims around the world and not just muslims many other people oppose u.s. and british policies over these wars impose their policies over palestine over

a whole range of issues and these people are now being lumped in as extremists and terrorists in the same while so when you took the enemy is the enemy for people like bush and blair is getting wider and wider exactly you are saying that the muslims around the world are being lumped together basically one of the legacies of the word terror is this emergence of islamophobia especially in the west how do you think this trend could be reversed. and well i think. has to be fought politically if you look in europe there are now very very dangerous signs for example the banning of women wearing vials and wearing the burka many many attacks are more the prevention of the building of mosques in countries like switzerland all of these things have happened. that route we need to deal with the political reasons for islamophobia and the major reason why islamophobia has grown so much has been because the west is waging war in afghanistan iraq and now most recently in libya and it needs to criminalize and demonize the people who is waging more

against and therefore it is as tony blair said today if you look at why these people do it they do it because their religion tells them to this is absolute nonsense this is a college team lies asian which is going on ok i just want to question on afghanistan i mean are the taliban is still strong there are those who always say that the future of a country should be left to its people but is a country really ready to police and protect itself. well it's clear that the whole process of afghanization which is the idea of having the afghan police the ask afghan army taking over from the occupying forces is a failure at the same time one of the reasons for failure is because the taliban and the other forms of resistance have not diminished in the last ten years they've grown we were told in the vendor two thousand and one of this war in afghanistan was one was finished the taliban was a spent force now the taliban is getting stronger and stronger the americans and

other forces are already talking to the taliban and again in afghanistan the will have to be a political solution but how many people will have to die before that happens or it is very very quickly is the world a safer place than it was ten years ago. i think it's controversial play a more dangerous place that we now have the spread of wars we have more and more talk of attacks on iran we have wars going on in many many countries the consequences of the war on terror has spread throughout south asia for out the middle east and it is a much more dangerous place and the responsibility lies with the governments who started this war in the first place all right thanks very much for your thoughts lizzie german from a stop the war coalition thank you. well we asked the people of new york what kind of impact the tragedy had on their lives. this morning so things are

not predictable you don't know what what's going to happen next i don't know you kind of more aware of it of it or it's just more on the lookout people shouldn't change bird will think of the oil. people like accepting that people can be different in about ten minutes time watch what people on the streets of the big apple have to say about nine eleven ten years after the terrorist attack in the city. if you have something to share on the subject log on to our website to participate in our latest poll. today we're asking the question what does not eleven needed for you now ten years on and so far the most popular response is a convenient pretext to invade iraq and afghanistan. to rob americans of their freedoms comes a close second and to some of you say it means a tragedy the nation must learn to let go add an enemy attack the us will never allow to happen again well just go to our dot com and share your opinion.

and maybe sneeze some people stop. the vision of a leech. choose. to. look back at nine eleven see. president obama speeded with voters to support his half trillion dollar package of spending cuts a but creating jobs and stimulating the sluggish economy 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 laws all this speech was is obama's campaign speech on one end you have the republicans that want to cut back in title mention anything going to the people bringing our stary measures and obama promising empty promises the federal reserve and some sixteen trillion dollars in stimulus back to a loans etc and they couldn't create jobs 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 which simple there's a way to solve this back on these a 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 train should we have to stop these trade agreements that are raping america all of its resources mental and natural. egypt is on high alert after a night of riots in cairo left at least three people dead and over a thousand injured the demonstration for reform in the country quickly turned violent as protesters vented their anger against the israeli embassy a mob tore down a wall shielding the sun the high rise building and ransacked parts of the embassy which was virtually on staff at the time after hours without intervention of riot police used tear gas to disperse the protesters who responded by throwing petrol bombs israeli diplomats and their families have been flown home as television the

attack the incident comes less than a month after israeli forces killed five egyptian policeman in a border clash presidential candidate a dollar says television has only itself to blame for the embassy assault. had been attacking egypt and the the it took lately the sponsors of the egyptian government didn't respond positively to their demands even the very modest we hear from the government also was really leading into this really is so the people was really futile so i would beg to differ as well and that you could do the usual government and that is to send those who will now are cooking something for egypt and they have dubbed the start of the. protests around for example and the out of the monitoring that embassy it would be. but because it is going to respect the fact that they're going to give sions this is a very bad mood. now it's time to take a look at some other news dominating the world headlines and let's start with

benghazi the cradle of the country's revolution hundreds of people have walked onto the streets to protest the actions of the new libyan government meanwhile libyan rebels are pulling back from bonnie one of the one of four remaining colonel gadhafi strongholds as nato airstrikes reportedly started in the area the towns held by loyalists have been given until saturday to surrender to the new libyan leadership as the rebels continue the search for the fugitive 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 nigeria. at least one of his sixty three people have died and over one hundred more are thought to be missing after a ship sank off mainland tanzania authorities say 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 foreign help from kenya and south africa. well just a week into the job the pads

a new trade minister has resigned that's after he made a call that insensitive to locals forced out of their homes by the nuclear crisis in fukushima yoshio hot cheetos 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 town of death is departure is a major embarrassment for prime minister yoshihiko noda who took office and installed a new cabinet just last week. fidel castro has appeared in an interview show then venezuelan state television to dispel rumors of his death the former cuban president joked that this was not the first time such reports had spread the eighty five year old has been seeded public since the communist party summit in april he stepped down in july two thousand and six handing power to his brother raul castro ruled cuba for nearly half a century becoming

a revolutionary icon. well returning to our coverage of the tenth anniversary of nine eleven valid the event was the worst act of terrorism on american soil and the spark that ignited the war against al qaeda but despite the killing of osama bin laden at this course all the big apple remain as lori harford has found out as she spoke to people in new york. a decade after the horrible man eleven terrorist attacks on the us how is the world changed this week let's talk about that there were this i want to say more dangerous but is 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 in america i think so i don't know you kind of more aware of their

it's 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 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 you know i'm not for the war so no i don't think war is to make us feel safer if everyone lines 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 it's 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 try to pick a safer we pretend to be as they appear to be safer that's right i mean during the spirit if you can 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 bill. i think in way of treating other people like accepting that people can be different and not just all it's my way is the right way 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 just strive to be a safer place. america's former military commander in afghanistan has been sworn in as the new had of the cia david petraeus shed his four star general uniform to become a civil official but our military contributor thinks the move was forced upon him

he may seem in consequential but. the first decision the general petraeus has made on his way from the pentagon to langley was shared his military uniform and to present himself in a new incarnation as a total civilian according to the official story gen patroons has an option to come to the cia as 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 his figure on their way to his new job if the official story is to believe general patrols bend over back wards to appease the intelligence community and to make sure that he could blend easily language cafeteria refuse new peers and associates i find it hard to believe that the former

commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan volunteer early decided to resign from the military i'm sure if he had an option he would never resign from the active duty. all right well i'll be back with a recap of today's headlines in just a few moments to stay with us.

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welcome back you know here's a quick look at the main stories we're covering today on r.t.e. russia city of yet us labile as paying its last respects to the victims of wednesday's plane crash that killed almost all of the top local ice hockey team and that's as investigators rule out two main theories into the cause of the tragedy and failure and a poor quality of fuel. security is being stepped up across the u.s. on the eve of the adverse really of nine eleven as new threats emerge some fear that america's war on terror has created a more adam mayes that has destroyed. our noted relations as an ag with the egyptian capital storms the israeli embassy staff to flee the country. and coming up next our special report about the day.