american sound of world war shocked by the worst terrorist attack ever on u.s. soil in the decade that followed washington waged that's war on terror with the aim of preventing a nine eleven from ever happening again but critics say conflict has become an obsession with a price tag of billions of dollars as guided you can reports in our special coverage. it started as a war on terror spawned by the deadliest terrorist attack in history either with history with the enemy that's that's clear but the circle of america's enemies grew quickly and included nations that had nothing to do with nine eleven they were defined by george bush as the axis of evil some of these regimes have been pretty quiet since september the eleventh. but we know their true nature north korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction while starving its citizens. juran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror while an

unelected few repress the iranian people's hope for freedom. the rat continues to stand a chance to lead toward america and to support terror two years after nine eleven the u.s. invaded iraq on the grounds that he had weapons of mass destruction and was doing business with al qaida grounds which proved to be false hundreds of thousands of iraqi civilians have died since the invasion they use the moment and in the wake of nine eleven to divert from afghanistan a real target should have been our real target and go to iraq it also was the low hanging fruit north korea was far more dangerous but too difficult one hundred thousand casualties were predicted by the planet on both sides so would be destroyed iran was too difficult seventy million people not fractured like the iraqis and the sunni and shia and christian and other as for the motives behind invading iraq some top or oil iraq right now is sitting on probably two hundred billion barrels maybe three hundred billion barrels that's correct zone or report

mohi plans to be a thirteen million barrels per day production capacity in seven years that surpasses saudi arabia now you know why dick cheney went to war in iraq others blame america's self assigned role as the world's policeman the driving idea behind it is that it had monex to belittle the idea is that the but world is going to be more secure place overall if there is a a unocal or world a sole remaining superpower much of what has happened post nine eleven in the name of responding to nine eleven has been a pretext as terrorism was no longer the only reason for landing on washington's enemy list the us has even more far reaching plans on the table former vice president dick cheney says he urged the bush administration to bomb syria at one time because of its alleged nuclear weapons program a move which experts say would have had disastrous effects on the region as

president obama was elected on hopes that he would and the endless wars. overseas which most americans are opposed to but he continues and adds one more another oil rich nation libya and this time in the name of removing an evil dictator. some worry syria could be next we have a an executive power that is beyond any check by the people by the congress or by the courts for war we can go toward the drop of a coin we've reached the point now where the present in the united states can kill people for state purposes any time he or she feels the need since nine eleven america's war on terror has crossed many borders from pakistan to yemen and other countries that chase for a handful of terrorists has turned the lives of entire nations upside down we're talking about hundreds of thousands of innocent lives taken by the decade of constant war and many worry that a tragedy as great as nine eleven has served as

a pretext for an even greater tragedy one that has no end in sight i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . washington's response to the attacks especially the invasion of iraq and afghanistan received massive global criticism and filreis who is a reporter and rider on international relations terrorism violence believes america's tactics have gained the country more enemies. declared a war on terror which what does that mean a war on a tactic which is a very stupid thing but it did provide cover for basically a new global vision which was to project american power american imperial power around the world and create a culture that basically legitimized war on anyone mediately 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 did america

to it simply said you're all terrorists in our mind now 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. afghanistan was top of washington's hit list following the nine eleven attacks thousands of nato troops were deployed to the country to destroy al qaeda and the taliban which gave them shelter but as adam discovered the majority of afghans are believe us to the events of ten years ago and wonder why their homes have been bombed and their children killed. helmand in southern afghanistan is the province that was borne the brunt of the fighting between the taliban and coalition forces. afghans in this war torn province think about nine eleven and its consequences. while on patrol with the marines i get a first opportunity to ask a couple of young afghan men what they know about nine eleven but those who are.

here. and can us know where it is we don't know if that's because because we are former we never heard about anything else about the world. cup. the two young men clearly never heard of nine eleven. but maybe the elders of the local sure would have more to say you know you see you. just can see the smoke from the buildings and that's a that's only thing i can say when you guys show this picture as saying it so i think that was a call what if i just got here i would been surprised but having been here now for six months this is pretty much the stone ages where we are what to do about their reactions. so i want the guy who said it was kabul was never going to kabul and he just shows you how isolated there are even in their own country don't want to. do you know you don't think you know you're. going to send them to this point and they

get the airplane from here to attack in the united states you know how much i. thought it was nice to go from iraq to then here is a lot easier to understand you know why you're here and they really had that picture goes good picture remind yourself is this you have to look at it this article where you form a career in the right. to be back. and saying we're going to help you to decide one funding and did this or ask how many funding and this is going to help you where is the head. down with this is going to give it to our kids. and fighting and they do it to their own kids in a paper that i don't and. i do sympathize or understand what you're saying it's even just from the weather we've had recently people losing their homes and nobody to help them so you know when you have when you can feed yourself the earth house yourself are you to care about somebody you know six thousand miles away. so i can understand this is what i thought you know that i never thought to ask those

questions of. anybody here that's why we're here amazingly in a country where for ten years a war has been fought with nine eleven as its root cause and justification it turns out not only with the villages oblivious to nine eleven but with the afghan police and even some of the translators working with the u.s. military. says. it's. a survey taken in twenty ten by the international council on security and development found that ninety two percent of afghan men in helmand and other afghan provinces had no idea what nine eleven was with american troops that start with during this year it seems likely that they will leave afghanistan without the vast majority of afghans ever having really understood why they came in the first place from afghanistan. one of the apparent consequences of the war on terror has been a rise in islamophobia both in america and abroad zbigniew brzezinski

a political scientist and former u.s. national security advisor told r.t. that from the outset washington adopted the wrong approach and its fight back. response should not generalize this. one particular religious phenomenon but it's a political issue in which our objective ought to be to isolate the terrorists from their political cultural national context and required avoiding stigmatizing the phenomenon as a generalized phenomenon but view it as an aberration. against which we can mobilize most of the support of their purpose i think we didn't do that we'll say enlarge the theater of war from the gannets down to iraq and as a consequence we have become embroiled in a much larger regional political conflict not some sort of the religious crusade.

for terrorist attacks that became synonymous with. the senseless slaughter of the most serious people stop. publishing. terms on the t.v. remember to. look back at nine eleven on aussie. a tragic loss hit the sports world this week fans and families are mourning the victims of a plane crash in central russia which killed almost the entire locomotive jaroslav ice hockey team over a hundred thousand people came to pay their last respects to the much loved players in their hometown sean thomas looks at the catastrophe. and waves of emotion poor through jaroslav as residents realize the full weight of the tragedy that country or the lives of some of the city's brightest stars but ended up with the fans of

his team for many years our whole family including a little child went to all the games for us is there operable loss but it's like losing a family member. i knew one of the players he was my neighbor and he was a great person he's got two little kids left how could this happen when we saw the news on t.v. i just burst into tears. at just after four in the afternoon on wednesday the charter plane carrying almost the entire jaroslava locomotive k h l hockey team crashed shortly after takeoff bursting into a wall of flame after clipping a runway antenna forty three of the forty five on board perished to look at mostly we heard the plane takeoff so we told our granddaughter look there's going to be an airplane then i heard a bang and my daughter told me mom it's falling down to the side but then came the flames and the smoke and we wanted to run away but we didn't know where to run then we went to the river and saw the plane with us in the wake of the tragedy vladimir

putin ordered an immediate and thorough investigation as president medvedev led a country in mourning visiting the crash site and paying his respects. meanwhile fans of the three time championship winning jaroslava lokomotiv team made their voices heard in a show of solidarity and support. as you can see from the flowers and candles and mementos left here at the stadium the loss of. what was a huge blow to this can. unity international. team it was a large loss for russia and the rest of the world as well. my friends when the. ceremonies to honor the players were held in minsk in bratislava somber reflections from those who knew the players well. demitra told me he actually wants to quit

that he wants to play a little bit more and then leave and spend time with his family so this last conversation came back to my head when i heard about the crash i'm going to only him at least by lighting this candle but not only him but everybody who died i would like to express my condolences to his family to his children and wife. saturday marked the end of an official three day mourning period as thousands poured into the stadium to view fourteen coffins on display and say their final goodbyes we should it was an idea that we have buried our people who brought us joy and played for our country this is an irreplaceable the people of. thomas r.t. . challenge ashleigh hockey players from around the world were part of the locomotive team moral services have been held in their native countries in prague hundreds of people gathered to remember three czech nationals who were among those

killed they with candles and chant of the names of former world champions. fans have been coming to the hockey stadiums to pay their respects to national team captain. they have been leaving messages and laying flowers national team coach who knew the players and were involved with a team said the loss is a man's. i worked in. i had the best time of my career that base past spring with all those people by the same plane but it is a huge hit for the team and also for this city was a great person and a great hockey player he was a legend of slow mike ice hockey sometime in february or may next year i would still trying to convince him to return back to the national team. it's hard even to talk about we've lost players in their prime but with the hard core of the national

team i knew them very well even though they were playing abroad still they were always trying to get better they cared i didn't just want to be part of a system they wanted to know the details of their positions and how to best score we took a huge interest in what they did i really enjoyed working with them. watching r t coming to live from moscow still had free of the sour stalemate in the resistance between rebel forces and could often loyalist continue with colonels ignoring a deadline to surrender. and standing for israel vows to keep the peace agreement with egypt despite advice he rides that led to the evacuation of diplomatic staff in cairo. russia plans to set a fact finding mission to syria to get firsthand information on the areas hit by violence the decision was announced after members of the syrian opposition visited moscow they accuse president bashar the loss of continuing a bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters and want international help russia

is urging both sides to start talking and avoid another conflict speaking on the sidelines of an international policy forum in the russian city jaroslava president movie have said he's concerned about events in syria but the situation is far from simplistic. the resolutions we would approve to send a strong message to the syrian regime should in fact be addressed to both sides things are just black and. and the anti-government protesters in syria are not followers of some refined european models of democracy some of them are to put it straight extremists and some might even be called terrorists the situation is not that simple and we have to take into account the balance of different forces and interests russia may support certain moves but only if they don't boil down to the one sided condemnation of the government and president assad we should send a strong message calling on all the conflicting parties to come to the negotiating table start talks and stop the bloodshed. all the syrian government claims the

unrest has been orchestrated by armed groups to destabilize the country doctor or topic some are from philadelphia university in jordan says both the authorities and protesters are responsible. there's two thousand people. sort of they say but these two some of them maybe there are incentives or some of them are but remember there is also one thousand soldier was killed in syria so these one thousand soldiers are impossible that they are being killed by by peaceful demonstration and if you have them in syria was not peaceful in any sense because otherwise how could the possibility that one thousand army men and these men have been killed during these five months yes that is the mistrust from both sides but we have the current situation and we should sit on that they have been negotiate because there is no

other solution. dr tawfik schumacher from philadelphia university in jordan commenting on the developments in syria. this week could offer a loyalist put up a dog and resistance against rebel forces with a surrender deadline expiring on saturday fighting rages on near one of could obviously last for strongholds bani walid nato airstrikes continue to assist the rebels maybe as ousted leader is on the run and now on interpol's wanted list his audio messages claim he is still in the country despite reports his family and some associates crossed the border into his chair meanwhile the head of levy is transitional council mr julio has moved to tripoli in a major step towards setting up a post gadhafi government the capital fell to rebels last month but life there shows little improvement as our financial reports celebrations over the end of the old regime have been replaced by fear in the streets. a

city celebrates for more than ten days and even capital has been reached in the dictator's fall. he wanted to hang his portrayed here in the central square for the forty second anniversary of his rule but we put our flag. instead we won we so happy without him. it seems in the last two weeks rebel fighters have fired bullets into the air to her short tour in this old country truly are no alcohol. or reveal pheno very very bored. mr gaddafi. duffy's victor thought. he told old to be more lovely with the people of the me no you see love him all of us what a player that is and we don't know we're going to be done we're done all right with a lower case but away from jubilant crowds we meet those who are not so pleased i thought

a man lives in tripoli's abu salim district historically pro khadafi when the rebels arrived his sister was badly injured she's still in hospital in tunisia other one doesn't want to show his face on camera and ceased want to hidden location for the interview he says revolution has brought much fear in its wake. there is no peace there is no safety in the city we don't want our children outside when it's dark we are afraid we always wait for something bad when gadhafi was here at least we didn't have to sleep awake what we do know. months says he's also want to change and the brighter future for his country but they sway. and people are dying on both sides the city is destroyed and no one cares do they seriously think that they changed it for the better don't want you so just look around is that what you wanted and what is a round is a scene of widespread destruction and social chaos the badly damaged buildings

matched by the rising stink of garbage and decomposing bodies youngsters roam the streets barely old enough to understand that what they carry are weapons not toys many shops schools and hospitals are closed while the city's symmetries are growing bigger and bigger. shortly after tripoli fell into rebel hands the national transitional council libya's new authority claimed it was moving here from benghazi it's weeks have passed and there is sealed no sign of order being restored the city is functioning by south and treading a fine line between freedom and anik a. rich notion of. tripoli libya. now for the latest news and video from around the world again visit our website which is r.t. dot com and here's what's on the line for you right now again

a state may be the world's biggest opium poppy producer but the u.k. is making inroads into the market fell in line to see what british farmers are growing and why. and moscow's highest observation dappy a stand you know t.v. tower has been reopened for tourists after years of reconstruction and find the full story and more on our t. dot com. egypt police have been put on a state of alert after protesters attacked israel's amber sea in cairo this friday they destroyed a wall near it. building and rip down the israeli flag three people died and over a thousand were injured in rioting after a demonstration demanding faster political reforms turned violent anger swelled last month after israeli forces responding to a cross border militant attack mistakenly killed five egyptian police officers israeli prime minister says his country will stick to its peace treaty with egypt

despite the attack but evacuated most of its diplomatic staff the protests come months after a popular revolt ousted hosni mubarak the president of the arab lawyers association says it is a lot of groups that could ultimately benefit from the unrest. the various almost equal movements vying for all of that trying to show who is bigger than the other i think this demonstration it's only the liberals not taking boston it is accusing the other one of trying to show the power of the islamists not. about the election because well for the election no it takes they will definitely get votes that the liberals the demonstrations will continue i think the egyptian people will not accept the military continue to be in this five most of the military as everybody knows the same old team of mubarak they are the people who were handpicked by mubarak with the approval of them out of that matter because

we'd be happy for the military to stay there but i don't think they're gyptian people without the. ukraine is losing its key bargaining chip in europe's energy industry and it's been the major transit route for russian gas into europe but it's monopoly is now coming to an end but they were put in has launched the north stream gas pipeline in northern russia. in the. ukraine is a longstanding any transit country has always tended to use its exclusive status as a transit state now ukraine will lose this privilege i believe our relations will evolve into an civilized free market. the north stream pipeline travels directly from russia to you or bypassing ukraine its role as a transit state has been fractious in recent years resulting in disputes between moscow and kiev ukraine wants a discount on the current price it pays for russian gas under contracts signed back

in two thousand and nine and even threatened to take the issue into court however the country's prime minister promised to stick to the current agreement until a new deal is signed. a twenty year sentence for russian pilots convicted of conspiring to smuggle cocaine caused a strong reaction from moscow this week russia promised not to abandon. after the verdict by an american court. was detained in liberia in twenty two and secretly transported to the u.s. the case itself set a major precedent as it was the first time a russian citizen has been sentenced to jail in the u.s. after being arrested in a third country or shango repeatedly pleaded not guilty in the case is the fans now has a month to file an appeal although u.s. officials could take up to two years to consider it moscow says he's arrested and dish and word illegal and that it will seek his repatriate repatriation.

now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world as many as two hundred people are dead and three hundred seventy missing after an overloaded vessel capsized and sank off the coast of zanzibar after losing engine power in rough seas the ship began taking on water and eventually turned over survivors say the ferry was overloaded with cargo and passengers many of them children. zanzibar president has declared a three day mourning period. as tropical storm named to heads its way towards the mexican coast the search is on for several missing oil workers and a dozen fisherman a commercial vessel and two fishing boats were lost a jury ninety's approach and no sign of a cruise has been found while coastal areas brace themselves for the storm air and sea rescue teams are continuing their search despite worsening conditions. what a mile and slick likely to elect a former military general as president in hope of bringing order to the country

auto paris molina is favorite worrying leftist groups and human rights organizations still hoping to prosecute members of the country's former dictatorship but the key election issues for guatemalans appear to be high crime rate and poverty which have been golfs the country. while the brings us up to date here in r t a quick recap of our top stories in just a few moments coming your way stay with us.

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i want you coming to live from moscow these are today's news and week's top stories the u.s. commemorates its worst terrorist attack the divide of the world the nine eleven assault ten years ago prompted america to launch a policing mission doubt many experts claim has made the globe more dangerous. russia bids farewell to the players of a top national ice hockey team who perished in a plane crash the jet went down shortly after taking off and killing forty three people on board. and moscow was to send a fact finding mission to syria to get firsthand information about the crisis the air this as russia's president refuses to take sides in the conflict saying the only way to peace.