merino for yes i was a locomotive ice hockey team has become the pilgrimage site for those mourning most of its players and key staff who died in wednesday's plane tragedy well the one hundred thousand people from all over russia including prime minister vladimir putin came to pay tribute to those who perished on board the yacht forty two airliner which crashed after takeoff from the city to survive the horror show thomas reports now from the scene of grief and sadness. very somber day here in it jaroslav will as 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 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 were working fine on this airplane but people are starting to find out exactly what happened as people piece 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 book you mother told us that we should go out onto the ice and play for all the guys who lost their lives in this press who 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 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 this 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 part of florida. but that family for the relative sense also i just wish you 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 when they use championship and dedicate

a victory to my friends who died. 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 cannot one one hundred to be made in the team only have a talk mocked at school i want to be needing that movie does excessive not committees. next week i'm scheduled to be tested for the club the county is going to come right. proving that even though they've gone from the ice the members of this ill fated locomotive to continue to be in the hearts and minds of the people of jaroslav and the nation for generations to come. sean thomas. a ceremony has also taken place in slovakia to remember pavel demitra who played for the country's national side and who died with his locomotive teammates local players and fans joined the country's prime minister paying tribute to the town of

pop grad. there reno the country's only. three czech internationals were also among the victims with a final emotional farewell to the trio to be held in prague on sunday. the investigation into what caused the trash days now surfacing on human aero technical problems so go straight to our web page for all the news on the inquiry into the crash that shocked russia and the ice hockey world. security is being stepped up across the u.s. for the tenth anniversary of the nine eleven at times so it will be of be i says it is a credible terror threat washington dulles international airport was part of occupy in a bomb scare before suspicious package found by a sniffer dog was given the all clear and american intelligence intercepted alleged al qaeda communications in pakistan indicating plans for an attack in new york or washington. or enough for now reports despite the so-called war on terror many of its citizens still feel vulnerable in that 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 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 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 and author 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 into 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 fear. 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 scrutinize guys that's in all aspects of our lives i think of americans are really deeply deeply worried about is the issue. is larger than just the specific isolated order is even easier that is all around us and much of the 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 narratives and violent you know narratives of american imperialism around the world and we 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 there i get. that right but in the years that followed the military say. around the world the man behind nine eleven may have been spared the international scene and yet deliver arena for nine. hundred full month american people are not jewish kenny says that in spending billions of dollars and of a season peroration is the u.s. has gone too far on should focus on the wellbeing of its citizens at home instead 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 that most

americans don't really understand what the united states is doing they don't understand that we're spending in an unbelievably mind boggling amount of money on making people's lives miserable all around the world that we have all these military toys that we use but to 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. since two thousand and one i've got to stand has not only become a battlefield for the war on terror but also for the war on drugs but a decade of military occupation and billions of dollars spent on a counter narcotics campaign has made little headway in cutting opium poppy production in the country but it's all she's lower and discovered while nations

like the u.k. are destroying poppies and i've got to stand with delight to hit a farm is western countries and are being forced to grow their own poppies to plug a shortage in pharmaceuticals. in the rolling fields of oxfordshire at this time of year you'll probably see 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 contracts to a pharmaceutical company that turns the opium into morphine and code to plug a shortfall in strong painkillers in the national health service in fact there's a global shortage of drugs made from poppies the opium here will be put to good use but thousands of miles away nato troops are wiping out existing afghan poppies with bombing burning and spraying the main question is why are we destroying crops and then having to grow poppies in the fields in which are 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 part was a it's not true it's not what the war is about and we should own up to the 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 british m.p. frank field thinks that policy has failed but the americans would budge from america and we follow in behind them. and. what this relationship should be about when you're putting lives at stake not to be. in as a bargaining position with the americans to rethink a strategy which most people think. if we look historically

has how do we try a new tack frank fields 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 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 so we will be thinking about how do we harness this how do we pay them for it. to transfer it into medicines to. 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 mcfarland smith if they would give us an interview macfarlane 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 three people have done well over a thousand have been heard in a fierce writing in cairo during which the israeli embassy was stormed after a large demonstration demanding faster political reforms turned violent egypt has declared a state of high alert with most of the embassies stop leaving and the israeli ambassador being recalled to tel aviv israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu

says his country will stick to its peace treaty with egypt just by that time. 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 wall 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 three 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 of 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 israel says 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 is always in a delicate position because it needs all the frames 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 palestinian state. and egyptian journalist one hundred abdel fattah told r.t. that tensions between his country any israel have been growing for months but says that cairo has done very little to stabilize the situation there is a lot of anger at what israel did recently which basically they crossed the border from israel into egypt killed a number of egyptian soldiers and they promise investigation and nothing has not been delivered yet ever sense there are spin huge huge them on the stray sions and the sit in there for a few days outside the israeli embassy the minus traitors asking the egyptian government to at least expel the israeli ambassador from egypt vision government so mistakingly has not responded to the will of them on

a straight is for weeks after weeks they have not been serious enough to respond to the public opinion and because of this in action those them on the straight of thirds along to their own hands and expel the israeli ambassador out of cairo there have been very keen in keeping everything in place as much as mubarak did but then you variable on the ground is that egypt's public opinion has been liberated and that means they're not going to face silence again when israel commits any act of thuggery on its own our fault or the people living on our border and that's what has brought down what happened last night so we have to look at the motivation to make a strategic solution to what has actually been happening. greek prime minister george papandreou has promised to save his debt stricken country from bankruptcy and press ahead with vital reforms in a key speech on they called me and as he spoke police fired tear gas to disperse an angry crowd of protesters in the city have to salonika eight thousands of officers

and not just have a deployment of police in the country are on standby but. has this weekend. after this however being too slow in cutting jobs and privatizing the state i say it's the to decide by the end of the month if the government is doing enough to get the next eight billion euro bailout stalled and crucial for the greek economy to staff allowed. to tell the political web site the daily dot com and that's because people should not tolerate having. to brussels imposed on them. 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 sturdy cuts 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 when jobs don't exist and a future that's just plain bleak and they see

a. 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 under needs of they oftentimes turn turn turn to violence and this is not something that's human history i think the politicians it's kind of like the central bankers who people turn to to try to solve the very problems that created these guys are the ones who are responsible at the end of the day 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 the 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 and will not work it's up to the greek people. holds to determine what his theory 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 government so we're dealing with a euro zone which is based upon the false premise that central planning works and that more social 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 too for that matter. some other stories elsewhere around the world in libya hundreds of people in the rebel town of benghazi have walked into the streets to protest against the actions of the country's new government meanwhile libyan rebels are pulling back one of the four remaining colonel gadhafi strongholds as nato airstrikes reportedly start in the area the time told by loyalists had been given until saturday to surrender to the new libyan leadership as the rebels continue the search for the fugitive leader gadhafi messages claim he's still in the v.a. despite reports of his family and said i say it's crossing the border into tunisia . around two hundred people have died after a ship sign called mainland authorities say the ferry carrying over eight hundred

passengers capsized after leaving port heavily overloaded officials say that so far six hundred twenty survivors have been recovered from the sea search and rescue operations are being hampered by lack of equipment and help has been requested from kenya and south africa. so massive flooding in southern pakistan has claimed more than one hundred thirty lives this week in monsoon rains like the country for nearly a month now that you know he died in karachi up to being electrocuted and he couldn't it's related to the heavy rain the weather also calls huge traffic jams in that situation with many motorcyclists injured after escaping pakistan is still recovering from the was the floods in the country's history a year ago when over one thousand seven hundred people died and twenty million lived with that. i'm back now to the tenth anniversary of the nine eleven attacks and our resident reporter in new york laurie hoffman it has been out on the city's streets asking people how the world has changed in the decade since that.

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 won't say more dangerous but it's more like our tick so all 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 a threat just more on the lookout do you think that people around the world still keep that vigilant ten years later probably not as much as we did five years ago do you think that the amount of lives lost in the name of the war on terror has been worth feeling safer i think that's

a difficult thing to comment 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 war so no i don't think war is to make us feel safe if everyone lines his 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 is because he wasn't before but 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 think it will be safe we try to pick a safer we pretend to be safe return to be safe that's right i mean during the spirit if you can somebody who wants to do something 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 bridging motor people like accepting that people can be different i'm not just roads my way is the right way i'm lead screw 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 for the fourth time in its history be top prize at the venice film festival will be finding its way to russia backstops alexander said curves movie files be told otherwise both to win the golden lion the jury was invited united in its decision would have carried i don't think praise the pictures which as far as i over two years of shooting and over the price tag of over ninety million dollars from the states that for most of the project if i buy gas has trashed it they've done a good german have yet to be translated into other languages ok.d. in russian and for more about the director on his website called.

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