it's just after seven pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. good to have you with us now the studio where russia's lokomotiv ice hockey team play their last game has been transformed into a venue of mourning and tears more than a hundred thousand people that 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 the city come to say their last goodbyes as this three day morning. we've been hearing some of the personal stories of the players who lives were tragically cut short one player who just before this flight had proposed to his girlfriend and was hoping to start a family. just 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. 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 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 a 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 good of you. guys simply for all. of us he told us to win for them. for these players practicing here is special as it was from this very arena where the doomed team their skates for the final time. i met them on the fifth and sixth of september their train. sessions before minsk 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 but a lot of life than family for relatives and solace all adds up research based on the. strength to. go on i'm

a mum i've been told 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 i have a strong wish to win big are going crop now when they use championship and indicates they beat to it to my friends who died it was 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 school they told us about them in cannot one boy who made to page in the team oh never going to talk mark to school i want to be needing that movie does excessive know committees next week i'm scheduled to be tested for the club the county is going to come right cool. proving that even though they've gone from the ice the members of this ill fated will continue to be

in the hearts and minds of the people. and the nation for generations to come. so how was the city robbed of its sports stars and families of their loved ones where you can head to our to dot com for the latest updates investigators continue to. the deadly catastrophe the latest claim that the fuel was contaminated that's all or more about the possible causes of the crash head to our website again that's our dot com. security is being stepped up across the u.s. following a terror threat on the eve of her 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 body to port ny 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.

was 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 bob graham

air base 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 in office 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 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 is this national security grows as it becomes easier for the government to. ignite us in all aspects of our lives i think of americans are growing deeply deeply worried about this the issue. is larger than just the specific isolated orders that is the 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 very violent and the 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. still waging war in the name of freedom america again began at the right but in the ten years that followed the

military see most of. the turn. around the world the man behind nine eleven may have been captured but international safety yet delivered in a fortnight artsy. phil research report on wider international relations terrorism and violence believes the u.s. war on terror has created more enemies for america across the globe. media 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 he 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 they invaded afghanistan and changed its government and of course they 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 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 to do when 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 winning even though of course he himself has been captured i think i'd have to tilt towards bin ladin. we asked the people of new york what kind of impact the tragedy had on their lives. it's more like. things are predictable you don't know what what's going to happen next i don't know

you kind of more aware of it or it's just more on the lookout people should. think it well of. people accepting that people can be different in about ten minutes time you could watch what people are the streets of the big apple have to say about nine eleven ten years after the terrorist attack rocked the city. and if you have something to share on the subject log on to our website to participate in our poll and today the question we're asking is what does nine eleven look for you now ten years on and so far the most popular. response is a convenient pretext to invade afghanistan and iraq. to rob americas of their freedoms comes as close as some of the say it leaves a tragedy the nation must learn to let go and an enemy of the us will never allow to happen again you can go to our dot com to share your opinion. that terrorist attacks became synonymous with. the senseless slaughter of the

most serious people and stop the. vision of a new. zone she remembers to. look back at nine eleven to see. egypt is on high alert after a night of riots in cairo left at least three people dead and one of the thousand injured a demonstration for reform in the country quickly turned violent as protesters vented their anger against the israeli embassy a raging a mob stormed the building with the police slow to react and eventually they did manage to push the rioters back with force let's get more from paula's leader now who is in that television for us paula what's the reaction in israel to the events any tough measures being spoken about where you are. when the tough tough measures as such being spoken about but what we do know is that israeli

officials have condemned this in the act most terms the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu saying that it is simply unacceptable now israel has withdrawn all its embassy staff with the exception of one person that it's keeping in cairo in the hope that it can maintain some kind of diplomatic relations between both countries we've just been told that the egyptian prime minister has offered his resignation and the resignation of his cabinet to the high military council almost as a form of apology for the fact that the police did not prevent this incident from happening the facts as they stand all that hundreds of people stormed the embassy building the police stood by for several olives while thousands of documents were thrown from the windows we're being taught. boy that molotov cocktails were thrown at police that two police vehicles were sit in light that three people were killed and that hundreds if not thousands more were injured particularly in the tear gas that the police used to disperse the crowd now one of those comes just months after the

for me gyptian president hosni mubarak was ousted he of course was a long time friend of israel and this is why many here also suspecting that israel because of its traditional behavior is likely to react much strongly in the coming hours if not in the coming days but of course as well as in a delicate position because it needs all the friends that it can have particularly in light of the fact that it is just one week since the israel. that was expelled from turkey all of this coming at a critical juncture for israel just days ahead of palestinians going to the united nations security council to call for a palestinian state and of course lots of things happening in egypt of course you remember the uprising in february the u.s. was very quick to embrace the toppling of mubarak calling it an expression of the egyptian people's will and now the people are venting anger at israel house washington reacting when it is coming under fire. well the u.s. defense secretary called cairo while all of this was happening and urged the police

there to do something and for something to be done to protect the israeli embassy and it seems as if it was almost all of this phone call that the police intervened in the situation was eventually under control so of course this is raising various questions with people asking if in fact it had not been the israeli embassy that for example it could have been the radian embassy would america have got involved to this extent but most people saying no so this does point to the very special relationship between israel and egypt and again people saying that if it was not a full back relationship the situation would have spiraled out of control these all very negative developments as i say they come at a critical time in this region it is a time when the situation is particularly detained israel is finding itself increasingly isolated the incident was actually sparked by israel's refusal to apologize for killing five hundred soldiers last month and that was in a cross border raid that is don't say it was a mistake but it hasn't gone the step of actually apologizing for those deaths

thanks very much for keeping us up to date on developments in the region artie's paullus lire reporting there from. the embassy assault comes less than a month after israeli forces killed five egyptian policemen in a border clash and some of the house refused to apologize for that incident or presidential candidate egyptian presidential candidate that is all things is therefore no surprise that people are venting their anger at israel. had been attacking egypt and the talk lately the responses of the egyptian government to really respond positively to their demands even be very modest reduction government also was very lenient with the israelis so the people was very futile so about that issue of the president and that it would give the egyptian government sees an israel now or could do something for egypt but we have double standard we have the gibsons are around for example and we are demolishing their embassy it would be

a reason but because it is a good perspective of the fact that. their kitchens this is a very bad move. well the u.s. led war on drugs in afghanistan has been ongoing since the fall of the taliban in two thousand and one despite millions of dollars being spent on destroying crops afghanistan remains the world leader in opium poppy production. discovered the crackdown is having an adverse effect with countries like the u.k. now forcing grow their own poppies to plug a shortage in a pharmaceuticals. in the rolling fields of oxfordshire at this time of year you'll probably see we barley ripening for the harvest but dry springs and warm summer's have enabled these farmers to plant a very different type of crop opium poppies under contract to a pharmaceutical company that turns the opium into morphine and co dean 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 the british government repeatedly one of the so-called soft arguments of the liberal arguments which is that they're fighting a war on drugs this is completely the pot was a is not true it's not what the war is about and we should own up to that 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 budge from

america and we follow him to sit behind them. relationship. when you're putting. not to be. a position with the americans to racing cars which. is. if we look historically has. how do we try and you charge 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 transferred into medicines to counter. 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 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. well let's take

a look at some other news stories dominating headlines around the world and we start with benghazi the cradle of the country's revolution where hundreds of people have walked on to the streets to protest the actions of the new libyan government even rebels are pulling back a bloody walid one of four remaining colonel gadhafi strongholds as nato airstrikes reportedly start in the area towns held by loyalists had been given until saturday to surrender to the new libyan leadership as the rebels continue the search for the fugitive leader colonel gadhafi is audio messages claim he's still in libya despite reports of his family and some associates crossing the border into die each year. at least one hundred sixty three people have died and over one hundred more are thought to be missing after a ship sank off greenland tanzania with already 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 to south africa. just so we can do the job japan's new trade minister has resigned and that's after he made a comment deemed insensitive to locals forced out of their homes by the nuclear crisis in a quickly. 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 his departure is a major embarrassment for prime minister yoshihiko noda who took office and installed a new cabinet just a week ago. fidel castro has appeared in a in an interview shown on bet as well in 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 an open seat in public says the communist party summit it april he stepped down age like two thousand and six

handing power to his brother raul castro ruled cuba for nearly half a century becoming a revolutionary icon. and i we're turning to our coverage of the tenth anniversary of nine eleven 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 the scars on the big apple remain as laura 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 back there were this i won't 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 and 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 that common and 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 its own business i think everything would be better if we had been here in new york 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. so 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 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. we'll think of a way of treating other people like accepting that people can be different i'm not just all which my way is the right way i'm leadscrew 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. and that's all for this hour i'll be back with a recap of all our top stories in just a few moments.

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watching these are the headlines to russia city of. its last respects to the victims of wednesday's plane crash that killed almost all the top local ice hockey team. and security is being stepped up across the u.s. on the eve of the adverse real nine eleven as new threats emerge and some now fear that america's war on terror has created more enemies that is destroyed the last television cairo strike a new song in the lesions as an angry mob of egyptian capital storms the israeli embassy forcing its staff to flee the country. and coming up next stay with us here on our. eh.