welcome this is r t it's just after midnight now here in moscow kevin zero in and first the stadium where russia's lokomotiv ice hockey team played their last game has been transformed into a venue of mourning and tease more one hundred thousand people attended the ceremony in the memory of the team and the others that perished on board that yet forty two plane in the crash on wednesday our correspondent sean thomas witnessed the city's grief. very somber day here in it jaroslav well as thousands of people came to pay their final respects to the team members of the locomotive team today's events sall thousands of people from around russia from around the city of jaroslav all different teams from around the country as well coming to say there are a last goodbyes to these team members now the fourteen caskets that were viewed here today have been taken away so that they can have private ceremonies with their

families and be laid to rest around the jaroslav 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 been the past one hundred members opposed 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 should start a family with her new husband who 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 youngest 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 are 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 know that former. amount of team have said that they will leave their respective clubs and come back to help build the hockey tradition we also have the opportunity to speak to some of the younger players the next generation of professionals if you will and this is what they had to say about moving forward as a city continues to mourn one very dedicated group of young men have choosing to honor their heroes in a unique way by getting back on the ice with the flow of the other told us that we should go out onto the ice simply. going to the city told us to win for them and so

we need to see that this for these players practicing for here is special as it was from this barrier you know with the doomed team on their states for the final time . i met them on the fifth and sixth of september their training sessions before mr moore they were confident and quite optimistic and determined all of them were in very high spirits for. one country working with this nice 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 sets hard hearted. by fans families and relatives of the soul is a test for syria to stem the. strength to. go on i'm out of my part of 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. also because i have a strong wish to win big are going to pop out of the championship and dedicate a victory to my friends who died young and while this team practices and even younger group is ready to follow in their footsteps. coming into play if you don't mind where. they told us about them in ca manuel you need to. made in the team only ever bought stock market i'm going to be needing that movie does expensive not to. become scheduled to be tested for the count is going to come right. through saying that even though they've gone from the ice to members of this ill fated locomotive will continue to be the hearts and minds of the people of our struggle and the nation for generations to come in spite of sean thomas. the city was robbed of its sports stars family members loved ones investigation of

what went so tragically wrong continues on our website r t dot com you can keep up to date with the latest some of the initial theories behind the deadly plane crash are slowly being focused now shifting to the possibility of pilot error or technical problems you can keep up to date say the latest on our website. 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 the american intelligence intercepted communications from an al qaeda operative in pakistan indicating plans for a vehicle bomb plot against new york city or washington a decade on many u.s. citizens still feel vulnerable in their own country artie's more important more. 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 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 pounded with bombs and missiles from the air in the sea then a preemptive pounding into iraq. in the decade that followed america's fight for freedom has been stained by torture secret detention and rendition human rights violations symbolized by landmarks like one tom obey grave 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 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 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. it is and it will strike us eventually however in a post nine eleven america citizens have been forced to compromise there for. 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 as this national security state grows and as it

becomes easier for the government to. ignite us in all aspects of our lives i think of americans are going deeply worried about is the issue. is larger than just the specific isolated orders it is 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 it not been brought to them on a platter by the u.s. government are now in jail and we have you know snowball the violence that's going on around the world only raise more hatred only raise more bad feelings only reinforced many narratives very violent 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 of al. still waging war in the name of freedom. and i guess we get the sun all right but in the years that followed the military state. that the turn. around the world the

man behind i don't let me have been captured international and yet the liver for not hard see the. costs live to washington d.c. talk to professor michael at the u.s. naval war college professor good morning to you me and your article when i think of the question did you did the u.s. lose the war on terror briefly as you can what's the answer to that do you think. my commentary was essentially couched as a critique not so much of the war which i believe is over and in fact the anniversary the tenth anniversary tomorrow is in many ways a useful symbolic opportunity to mark the end of the war and to collectively look back at what happened and my great concern the burden of my argument and my critique is to basically. show that we're

not looking. but the choices we made our inability to adapt in time. are our long term willingness even now to understand what we were facing in the muslim world or indeed what was really even going on in the muslim world from their standpoint and the biggest thing that we have yet to do is to understand how in the kind of exuberant and tremendously powerful situation that we inhabited the day after nine eleven how we could commit ourselves to a strategy that all. reached and over reached the point where we can sit here today and look. a very bad outcome in terms of a war outcome if you have a strategy and that strategy takes you to a worse place and you fail to achieve your objectives ban that has been

nothing more or less than a strategic failure and the key is to be able to face up to that and i'm not sure we are i guess it's easy to look ten years hindsight and criticize what was thought to have been the right thing to do then i mean it. is difficult isn't it i mean what if you could wind the clock by yourself and you making decisions on what to do then given all the anger given all the frustration given all the fear just after nine eleven i know you didn't think differently now but can you see why that path was chosen then or not. well. i rode through the last ten years critiquing the decisions that were being made and the choices that we determined on on the basis that they were the wrong kinds of choices for what we wanted in the long term to achieve in the muslim world in other words that we were doing things that as you just suggested may have felt good may have addressed tremendous sense

of. that we felt but in the long run we're cheating in many ways the opposite of what we want it and i think that's all pretty clear now and if you look at my commentary you'll see that there were. not just one but many things that we did that have ended up putting us in the difficult place and it's all too late and just as you said twenty hindsight is twenty twenty but i'm not calling on hindsight now except as a utility of virtue as a way to see how we can avoid making these mistakes in the future but they are being made on the i guess one of obama's election promises was to end the u.s. military campaigns it was engaged in but it does seem to have got the country into a new war yet again always seeing this cycle of violence of war continuing looks like we are. well the day to day will look very different the dynamic over time and the concern that i voiced in my commentary was that

we need to do a fundamental reassessment now if things went as badly as they did and if things are as negative as they are right now then we need to reassess things and not simply continue as we have and those reassessments are very hard to us came out of the vietnam war in one nine hundred seventy five in the us army went through a tremendous reassessment and the result of that was an army that was a military as a whole navy air force included a force that was suddenly in the one nine hundred eighty s. tremendously effective at the focal point of u.s. strategy at that time as you recall which was toward the end of the cold war. but then full of confidence flush with a sense of invincibility we made many of the same mistakes we did going into vietnam and this is

a recurring problem with with great states and what i think the u.s. needs to do now is to look very harshly and coldly changes that are going on in the world the most powerful truth to come out of the last ten years is the relative ineffectiveness of the u.s. military in achieving the kinds of goals that were set forward and we have to begin to think to rethink very strongly. what his military effectiveness how can military force be used in ways better advance our national interest reinforce our sense of who we are that do well for us in the world and also do well for the world as a whole and i don't think we've had that conversation that is the focal point of my paper how do we begin to have that conversation now and if we don't have that conversation the worst things are going to happen to the united states i just want to touch on one other quick point we've talked about before. policy there and the implications of it and i want to look at the implications of in the us briefly it

is of course one of the most diverse nations in the world but about two million muslim americans living in the states but i ask you has the u.s. war on terror brought more hatred and divide to the country. the war the war has brought division in large part because of the way in which the war was wrong and presented domestically and the war was used as an extension of domestic politics in the former administration and that tended to build political strength at home on the basis of division and i think that has backfired terribly and what we see today is a riven electorate and the only thing as i say in my piece the only thing that two very different political worldviews democrats and republicans have in common is that they both believe that leadership in washington is utterly failed and so you have i think a tremendous potential political crisis in the united states which is going to be

under undergirded and reinforced by a tremendous economic crisis that is not about to go away what amounts to a depression in terms of unemployment which today is at nine hundred thirty four levels if you look at actual unemployment the united states and there's very little likelihood that that's going to and anytime soon maybe even a decade from now a final thought from you professor has the world changed become a safer place i think i know what your answer is going to be but is the world a safer place a decade on from nine eleven. world system has fundamentally. shifted over the last decade the world system the day after nine eleven was a world system that was firmly and fully under us leaving the us was not only acknowledged as the leader but in the wake of nine eleven the nations of the world gave the us there for support. ok day we have returned to

a nineteenth century like world of great powers that's a very unstable world and that's not a good prospect looking ahead at the future professor michael virus of the u.s. naval war college thank you for your input into the program tonight very much appreciate it thank you. take a look at some more news tonight developing story egypt is on high alert still after a night of riots in cairo left at least three dead and more than a thousand injured 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 the did manage to push the rioters by force artie's middle east correspondent paula slee has the latest 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 burned to the israeli flag now three people were killed we're being told hundreds if not thousands were injured many of them by the tear gas that 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 old 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 here 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 is one 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. more news around the world in libya hundreds of people in the rubble turn a big garden you've walked out of the streets to protest against the actions of the country's new government libyan rebels the police boat from bani walid one of the

four remaining colonel gadhafi strongholds as nato airstrikes reported the start of the area the terms 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 of the gadhafi saudi your messages claim that he's still in libya despite reports of his family and some associates crossing the border into nature. the arab league has reached an agreement with syrian president bashar assad to vote in a series of measures to end the long lasting violent crackdown on protesters that were 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 of the uprising. at least one hundred eighty seven have died after a ship sank off mainland tanzania authorities say the ferry carrying at least eight hundred passengers capsized after leaving port because it was heavily overloaded authorities say six hundred twenty survivors have been recovered from the water the tough conditions though hampering the search and rescuers have requested foreign

help from kenya and south africa. the u.s. led war on drugs in afghanistan has been ongoing since the fall of the taliban in two thousand and one despite billions of dollars being spent on destroying crops afghanistan remains the world leader in opium poppy production but if that is laura discovered the crackdown is having an adverse effect with countries like the u.k. now being forced to grow their own poppies to plug a shortage in pharmaceuticals. in the rolling fields of oxfordshire 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 that 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 we destroyed and then having to grow poppies in fields in oxfordshire is being 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 was a 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 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 critics m.p. frank field thinks that policy has failed but the americans would budge from

america and we follow in behind. this relationship. when you're pushing. not to be. a. position with the americans to rethink a strategy which. is. if we look historically has how do we try a new tack frank field and his group poppy real. i 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 who is thinking about how do we get ordinary people ordinary farmers 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 transfer it into medicines to. burned in afghanistan and kept secret here in britain no one wants to talk about the u.k.'s opium growing program we asked both the farmers and the company they grow for mcfarland 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. oxfordshire. for those who show business use

for this half hour russian director legs movie faust as won the golden lion prize at the sixty eight venice film festival the critically acclaimed movie was selected by a jury headed by darren aronofsky hughes black swan opened venice last year his most well known work to date was the semi documentary russian ark praised for the director's signature single an edited shot to learn more about his work at a website called twenty seven a half minutes past midnight moscow time we got we came through this with you know neil including use of football shocks aplenty in the russian premier league my name's kevin i want thank you for choosing r.t. this sunday morning very early sunday morning update you on our top stories in a couple of minutes.

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how we can all sin sin. precious city of jaroslav was paying its last respects to the victims of wednesday's plane crash that killed almost all of the top local ice hockey team says investigators from two main 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 now fear that america's war on terror is created more enemies than it's destroyed. also tel aviv in cairo struggle new salad noted relations as an angry mob in egypt should capital stormed the israeli embassy forcing its staff to flee the country at least three egyptians were killed and more than a thousand injured as rioters clash with police in cairo. to watch.