live from central moscow this is r.t. it's just after eleven pm moscow time money was kevin and a very good evening to you the stadium where russia's lokomotiv ice hockey team played their last game has been transformed today into a venue of mourning and tia's more than one hundred thousand people attended a ceremony in memory of the team of the others that perished on board that yet forty two airplane in a crash on wednesday our correspondent sean thomas witnessed the city's grief. very somber day here in. thousands of people came to pay their final respects to the team members of the locomotive 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 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 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 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 duce

some answers we have been told us through the investigative committee that the engines that were working fine on this airplane but 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 talk to the next generation. of players. 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 foot you know the told us that we should go out onto the ice and play for all the guys who lost their lives in this crash he told us to win for them so we need to play our best just for these players practicing here is a special as it was from this very arena where the doomed team on their skates for

the final time. i met them on the fifth and sixth of september their training 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 sets hard hearted quarter. by fans family for a relative sense or so i just recently missed them the. strength 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. but also i have a strong wish to win big are going cop now to win the u.s.

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 our school they told us about them in ca one one hundred eighty page in the team oh never going to talk mark to school i want to be in the new team that movie does excessive not committees. next we can get you 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 will and the nation for generations to come in your slobber sean thomas r.t. . the city was robbed of its sports stars also its families and their loved ones now the investigation into what went so tragically wrong continues now on our web site r.t. dot com you can keep up to date with the latest some of the initial theories behind

the deadly plane crash slowly being ruled out now the focus has shifted to the possibility of pilot error or technical problems we've got the latest online for you. 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 authorities were important i have found that a decade on 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 with al qaida. but it does not in there. it will not end until

every terrorist group of global reach has been found stopped and defeated washington's military reach began with the hunt for osama bin ladin america strikes back afghanistan is home to put bombs and missiles from the air in the sea then a preemptive pounding into iraq. in the decade that followed america's fight for freedom has been stained by torture secret detention and rendition human rights violations symbolized by landmarks like one 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 licks are 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 fur. done in the name of security the past decade has paved the way for new state practices such as warrantless wiretapping intrusive airport screening and greater authority for law enforcement what some call a police state in the making and as this national security state grows as it becomes easier for the government to. ignite us in all aspects of our

lives i think americans are really deeply deeply worried about is the issue. is larger than just the specific isolated orders that is the danger that is all around us and much of it 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 narrative and violent you know 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 that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden the leader of al. still waging war in the name of freedom and their. yeah right i did that the following military states. around the world the man behind nine eleven make sure that the international scene yet

illiterate or not are. going to washington to talk to former u.s. diplomat george any mystic any thanksgiving i know it's international ten years ago to the us a place to start the war on terror put over the past decade as in washington only spread violence by unraveling its own terror in the middle east what are your thoughts on the. well several things one what we're doing internationally has not been effective or productive for anybody least of all the united states and second of all this whole idea of a war on terror has been an enormous distraction from real fundamental serious problems here in the united states and despite everything that mr obama said despite everything that the republicans have said what we really need is a paradigm shift where we're concerned with the well being of americans and not just the top one percent of people in this country but but having wars overseas spending trillions and trillions of dollars for those wars. is just

a complete waste it's foolish it's unjust it's immoral it's just wrong the aftermath of nine eleven was supposed to unite to nation everyone together in grief but you know in fact it could be argued that it's going the opposite thing by spreading nationalism and fear their response to nine eleven. well that's true i haven't but i think that understand it we need to look at a number of different time frames for about a year after nine eleven even a majority of democrats supported george w. bush but over time as president bush's policies became pretty obvious to everybody then the partisan lines hardened and and we haven't gotten out of that but i would suggest that the partisanship that we see and all of these internal disagreements. are not really a function of nine eleven as much as they are a function of the ordinary way that american political structures work the way that

they were designed to work over two hundred years ago and that in fact instead of looking at the united states as a normal country that's gone off track the proper perspective the one that makes sense to me in any case is to understand american politics as the politics of a dysfunctional government that's always been dysfunctional and it really needs to look hard at its own constitutional foundations all right on the face of it some of bin laden live in a off to that we heard all the media hype or read of the big buildup to it often that has the world become a safer place that was until mr sponsibility placed on just one man and his organization alone but it basically focused on one man didn't it. yeah well i think your question answers itself. a lot of people are going to object to what the united states is doing overseas most americans don't really understand what the united states is doing they don't understand that we're spending and unbelievably mind boggling amount of money on making people's lives miserable around the world

that we have all these military toys that we use but the those toys cause death and destruction. i find it hard to imagine that anybody outside the united states thinks what the united states does is rational reasonable or necessary. so. are we in a safer place the answer is in fact a clean no we're not we're making the world a more difficult more dangerous we're getting more people mad at us and we ought to understand that and of course to message is well the so-called fight for freedom is actually false many american citizens to give up their liberties and. well yes and the question is sort of how far will that go before people realize that the liberties are gone or in my cynical moments i ask how dumb will americans get before it's too late for us to turn things around but you know if if we had a society in which there was a very small group of rich people that declared war on everybody else and said

we're going to take from you by force everything that we want well that wouldn't last very long but what's happened is that the very small group of rich people fraction of one percent of the country has declared a silent war and has managed to trick everybody into allowing them to steal everything and that's a situation that cannot last and eventually i'll tell you all make this. prediction. americans will catch on and when they do they won't be very happy george one final full on this ten year olds is of course a long time but the pain of a nine eleven is still very wolf in so many in the u.s. now around the world focusing on the u.s. these days is the emotion more about solo for the dead or and get towards the perpetrators well that's a difficult question have a night in thinking about it i mean it seems to me that by asking that kind of

question and that question is being asked everywhere on this anniversary i think what we're seeing is a lot of confusion really about what is it that went wrong why is this happened what kind of condition are we in and that's as i suggested earlier the things that we have scribed to our response to nine eleven really should be understood in a different context of things that are just going wrong in america for other reasons for more fundamental reasons and that to fix that we need a paradigm shift in how we think about american politics. real pleasure to have you on our team tonight thank you for being on the program. that thank you. for the developing story tonight egypt's on high alert after a night of riots in cairo left at least three dead and more than a thousand injured and a demonstration for reform in the country quickly turned violent as protesters vented their anger against the israeli embassy a raging mob stormed the building with police slow to react eventually they did manage to push the rioters back with force that is paulus lee has got to lay his

from tel aviv. israeli officials have condemned this in the act most terms the israeli prime minister benjamin 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 the egyptian prime minister has offered the resignation of both him and his cabinet to the highest military council and this is almost as a form of apology for the fact that the police stood by it for several hours while protesters stormed the embassy and the police simply did nothing this resignation has been rejected there were hundreds of protesters they smashed down the embassy warned they three thousand documents out of the window they say it to police vehicles and lie it they threw molotov cocktails at the police and burnt an israeli flag now creepy people were killed we're being told hundreds if not thousands were injured many of them by the tear gas of the police were forced to use to disperse

the crowd 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 off to this phone call that the police intervened in the situation was eventually brought under control the incident was actually sparked by israel's refusal to apologize for killing five egyptian soldiers last month and that was in a cross border raid that is girls say it was a mistake but it hasn't gone the step of actually apologizing for those deaths all of this comes just months after the former egyptian president hosni mubarak was ousted he of course was a longtime 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 israel is 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 israeli ambassador 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. mideast correspondent there elsewhere around the world tonight in libya hundreds of people in the rebel town of benghazi of walked on to the streets to protest against the actions of the country's new government meantime libyan rebels are pulling back from bani walid one of four remaining colonel gadhafi strongholds as nato airstrikes reportedly start in the area the terms 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 the latest audio messages claim he's still in libya despite reports of his family and some associates crossing the border into a new jail. the arab league has reached an agreement with syrian president bashar al assad about a series of measures to end the long lasting violent crackdown on protesters there will be presented during a meeting of arab foreign ministers in cairo the syrian president was also urged to

speed up reform plans about two thousand people have reportedly been killed in syria since the start uprising in march. at least one hundred eighty seven people have died after a ship sank off mainland tanzania authorities say the ferry was carrying at least eight hundred passengers than it capsized after leaving port because it was heavily overloaded authorities say six hundred twenty survivors have been recovered from the water tough conditions are hampering the search and rescuers are requesting foreign help as well from kenya and south africa. the greek prime minister george papandreou has promised to save his debt stricken country from bankruptcy the valve to press ahead with vital reforms in a key speech about the economy in the city of thessaloniki police fired tear gas to disperse protesters some of whom reported the armed with bottles and stones a record number of officers are on standby as thousands of people holding onto your demonstrations across the weekend they're angry at the painful cuts to pensions and salaries and the increased taxes imposed to try to secure international rescue

loads let's turn now to the chief editor of the political web site of the daily bell dot com anthony while there is a barcelona for us tonight anthony very good evening we're seeing these protests on the streets of greece again this weekend police officers firefighters students taxi drivers the list goes on how the greeks had enough of being told what to do what's the feeling there all of i was greek i certainly would feel like i've had enough to do with the whole charade has been going on you know these are. are really really much much deeper than people realize these are cuts that are reaching into people's homes and lives and people when faced with the uncertainty of where they're going to get their next meal or where they're going to get a job but when jobs don't exist and a future that's just plain bleak and they see an outside group of people who have no cultural identity in line with themselves calling the shots as to how they're going to live their futures and the policies are going to live underneath. they

oftentimes turned turn turn to violence and this is not something that's human history so based were survivors people turn to the to the violent side of nature sometimes to deal with situations but. for the prime minister at least he's promised as a bench to fight until the bitter end in avoiding to fold thing is giving in to pressure again from the e.u. to keep that precious euro flag flying. well giving in to pressure from the you're from the e.u. i think that he comes from a fairly long line of political aristocracy and it would be fair to say in my opinion anyway that that he is. he's been pandering to the to be equal for some time i think the politicians it's kind of like the central bankers who people turn to to try to solve the very problems they've created these guys are the ones who are responsible at the end of the day him his predecessors all the people who decided that it was in the best interests of the people of greece because this isn't about greece it's about people and the people of greece are not going to be

any better off under the a stereo measures being levied against them today i would argue it has more to do with a consolidation of consolidation that puts more power in the hands of the euro kratz and takes away even more of the national identity that belongs to whatever's left of greece as we refer to it until we keep. this station because it's such an obvious question i mean despite the billions of euros worth of bailouts we've seen so far the greek economy doesn't seem to be benefiting still of we should greece leave the eurozone to avoid sinking even deeper is this just prolonging the agony. well here again whether greece decides to leave i think it comes down to the people and when the people are frustrated enough and the people are no longer willing to take the outside. shots being called by others and when the people realize that they're no better off and will not work look no one no one's going to sit here and suggest certainly not me that greece has been fiscally responsible that there's been following what i would consider responsible monetary policy they certainly

haven't but nonetheless it's up to the greek people themselves to determine what is staring measures will be implemented they certainly don't want to be taking orders i wouldn't think from people sitting in brussels and the i.m.f. who are trying more or less to consolidate the power to drive what i consider to be towards one world governance so i don't think that the greek people are going to be any better off or worse under the a sturdy measures and i believe the same sort of a sterile template that's trying to be created in greece today is going to be over later plans to be overlaid on the backs of spain italy portugal they're all in the same structurally bankrupt position quite frankly since you spoke to us what you know says where is the eurozone going to go what's it's fake. well i don't know where the euro zone is going but i would suggest that it's not good for the people of europe in their various respective countries to be to be pushed to be allowing the anglosphere lead to push for even more centralization the more you remove the power for decision making away from the individual the less effective the decision

making is and the more dysfunction you're going to have within your economy and within your political and social. structures and that is what we're dealing with here we're dealing with a euro zone which is based upon the false premise that central planning works and that more central planning can fix the misguided central planning on a national level that has failed miserably obviously in the case of greece and in the case of other other countries in europe and america for that matter and to think service about should be. chief editor of the political website the home along from. finally but a show business news for you tonight. movie follow the golden age of the sixty's venice film festival the critically acclaimed movie was selected by a jury headed by. black swan the color so that it's last year at its most well no work to date was the documentary russian praised for the directed signature single

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from moscow this is a very good evening for me kevin no and it's now eleven thirty pm top stories russia's city of novels paying its last respects to the victims of wednesday's plane crash that killed almost all of the public was talking to his investigators to my. theories into the cause of the tragedy engine failure and poor quality of fuel. security is being stepped up across the u.s. on the eve of the anniversary of nine eleven as new threats and some now fear that america's war on terror is creating more enemies than it's destroying. and television karo strike a new sour note in relations and more education companies storming the israeli embassy forcing its staff to flee the country at least three egyptians were killed and more than a thousand injured as rioters clashed with police in cairo. now spotty.