on both sides the cities destroyed and no one cares do they seriously think that he changed it for the better don't lie to yourself just look around is that what you wanted. and what is around is a scene of widespread destruction and social chaos the badly damaged buildings matched by the rising stink of garbage and composing bodies youngsters roam the streets barely old enough to understand that they carry our weapons not toys many shops schools and hospitals are closed while the city's symmetries are growing and. sure enough the tripoli fell into rebel hands the national transitional council leave his new authority claims it was moving here from benghazi it's weeks have passed and there is still no sign of all the race towards this city functioning by itself and treading a fine line between freedom and an a k. t

tripoli libya. and for the latest news and video from around the world again visit our website which is r g dot com and here's what's on the line for you right now again the state may be the world's biggest opium poppy producer but the u.k. is making inroads into the market now in line to see what british farmers are growing and why. and moscow's highest observation deck at the astound you know t.v. tower has been reopened for tourists after years of reconstruction and fine full story and more on arteaga. egypt's police have been put on a state of alert after protesters attacked israel's amber c. in cairo this friday they destroyed a wall near the building and ripped 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 this piety a tap but evacuated most of its diplomatic staff the protests come months after a popular revolt ousted hosni mubarak president of the arab lawyers association says its largest groups could ultimately benefit from the unrest. various and logical movements vying for trying to show who is bigger than the other i think this demonstration it's only the liberals not taking part in it it is accusing the other one of trying to show their power the islamists are not not want to go about the election law because whatever form the election takes they will definitely get votes then the liberals demonstrations will continue i think the

egyptian people will not accept the military continue to be in power describe the fact that most of the military as everybody knows are the same team of. people who were handpicked by mubarak with the approval of the americans the americans would be happy for the military to stay there but i don't think the egyptian people would allow that. ukraine is losing its key bargaining chip in europe's energy industry and it's been a major transit route for russian gas into europe but its monopoly is now coming to an end but the reporting has launched the north stream gas pipeline in northern russia. ukraine is a long standing power any transit country is always tempted to use its exclusive status as a transit state now ukraine lose this privilege i believe our relations will evolve into an civilized free market partnership. but. the north stream pipeline travels directly from russia do you are bypassing ukraine its role

as a transit state has been fractious in recent years result in disputes between moscow and kiev ukraine wants a discount on the current price and pays for russian gas under contracts signed back in two thousand and nine it even threatened to take the issuance of 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 a russian pilot convicted of conspiring to smuggle cocaine caused a strong reaction from moscow this week russia promised not to abandon cousin senior shanika after the verdict by an american court. was detained in liberia in twenty 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 shanghai 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 dishes were 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 sons of course president has declared a three day mourning period. as tropical storm nate heads its way towards the mexican coast the search is on for several missing oil workers and a dozen fishermen commercial vessel and two fishing boats were lost during ninety's approach and no sign of a cruise has been found while coastal areas grayson selves for the storm air and

sea rescue teams are continuing their search despite worsening conditions. for what amounts to look likely to elect a former military general as president in hope of bringing order to the country out of paris from a leader it's 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 the high crime rate and poverty which have been goal for the country. a. lot of reasons up to date here in r t a quick recap of our top stories just a few moments i mean your way stay with us. since

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what you actually coming to live from moscow these are today's news and week's top stories the u.s. commemorates its worst terrorist attack the divided 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 jaroslav the region killing forty three people on board. and moscow sent

a fact finding mission to syria to get firsthand information about the crisis they are this as russia's president medvedev refuses to take sides in the conflict saying talks are the only way to peace. the decade that followed the nine eleven attack was marked by wars waged under the flag of writing though the reading the world from terrorists lawrence wilkerson a former u.s. official in the administration of george w. bush told r.t. that america things it's exceptional and abuses that power it no longer has. after nine eleven america did not just go after those who perpetrated that tragic vicious attack it only should campaign on nations that had nothing to do with nine eleven we're talking about your background hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians have died since two thousand and three america's been in constant war since nine eleven in different countries are we talking about one of the most

profound overreactions in military history to talk about that i'm joined by colonel lawrence wilkerson whose service call in powell as chief of staff collin powell secretary of state under george w. bush colonel wilkerson thank you so much for joining me thanks for having me more than six thousand american servicemen have died in the last decade of war spawned by the nine eleven attack. prejudice worth remembering and knowing no doubt but why in all of those speeches delivered by american officials i never hear about hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians dead in the wars waged by the united states and other countries like iraq as a collective entity and we seem to think we are exceptional and so exceptional that we don't have to think about other people as i said that's a position you can maintain as long as you are as powerful as we were probably for as rome when it's day post world war two but we're no longer that powerful and our

powerful recedes even as we speak here today some of the people who were at the helm back then are now writing books saying everything they say it was right including guantanamo including everything else i'm talking about think cheney first of all writes president george w. bush and at the same time they're all blaming each other for something why all this confusion and should one be worried about the general picture that's being created at the last decade before because they're all trying to blame each other and trying to get out of somebody and yes we should be going to. aren't why are they trying to blame each other let's let's face a factor for a moment that most americans don't even think about. nine eleven happened when george w. bush and dick cheney's what. they allowed the greatest killing of americans on american territory since florida. a lot of their rhetoric and aggressive actions post nine eleven was to hide that fact and also to keep it from happening again

because if it had happened again they probably would have been impeached on the spot thrown out of office so we spent four trillion dollars to encounter an attack by bin laden's a lhari that cost maybe half a million that's not very cost effective that's really bad it's bad business so you have to understand that first of all about the bush cheney administration the second thing up understand i think is that we have made a cottage industry if not to much more than a cottage industry out of the what my former boss colin powell has called the terrorist industrial complex lots of people are making lots of money all for this so-called global war on terror you're saying that you had lots of doubts out building this case for war in iraq was it possible at some point. to stand up and say no we have doubts we're not writing the speech where we're out of it we all did it he points in the preparation and cold callous presentation on some of those occasions george tenet and his deputy john mclaughlin said ok ok we'll

a throw that out of the cia head of the cia and the director of central intelligence at the time. will throw that out and they threw it out the real essence of that presentation they preserve they being george tenet and john mclaughlin and i think under some strong influence from the vice president's office they preserved and that was the mobile logical laboratory that was the active nuclear program as symbolized by the aluminum tubes and it was the existing chemical stocks and. inactions hard connections between al qaida and baghdad those were the real fault so that in that briefing that george tenet and john mclaughlin the representatives of not just the u.s. intelligence community but of israel france britain jordan and a host of others who were feeding and thousands into us. that's what they said was sacrosanct they said that is the case that is what saddam hussein is doing only

later did we learn that even those elements of his presentation were composed of half truths false words even and i think today after doing more research outright lies lies created in the defense department under undersecretary of defense for policy doug feith and his special iraqi lie and lies created in the vice president i mean and because i wanted for the same reason that in summer of two thousand and two i had discovered that the emphasis on enhanced interrogation techniques changed suddenly from being to try and find out if another attack were coming after all a lot of time expired for another attack or a coming it would have come. in the summer of two thousand and two and shifted suddenly to enhanced interrogation in order to find out if baghdad had contacts with al qaida so we were actually torturing people not under the so-called smoking

gun or argument that we might have another attack so it was justified we were torturing people so we could attack iraq and convince the american people we should do so that's how drastic it got now ask me why they want to go to war with iraq and i'll give you a half a dozen answers if it's douglas feith it's protection of israel if it's paul wolfowitz the deputy secretary of defense it's a little bit of israel it's a little bit of oil and it's a little bit of bringing peace and democracy and freedom to the middle east if it's george bush it's who i fear the nexus between al qaida and baghdad which cheney had convinced him of i'm sure george tenet had convinced him of it george tenet didn't think there was that big a nexus. with dick cheney i think it was also iraq right now is sitting on probably two hundred billion barrels maybe three hundred billion barrels that's a rat's own oil report that surpasses the. do you really think. if iraq is sitting on three hundred billion barrels of oil if that turns out to be true it will be

more than saudi arabia now you know why dick cheney went to war in iraq that also was the low hanging fruit north korea was far more dangerous but too difficult one hundred thousand casualties were predicted by the pentagon on both sides seoul would be destroyed iran was too difficult seventy million people not fractured like the iraqis and the sunni and shia christian and other so the low hanging fruit was a rock just use the moment in the wake of nine eleven 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 that's exactly what they did you said you would testify if they put someone like dick cheney on trial and our what would you accuse them are i think he's already done it no one needs to accuse him of anything he has admitted publicly it is on betty oh ok that he condoned waterboarding that he would still waterboard then he does not believe waterboarding is torture waterboarding is torture there's

a ipso facto case the man's guilty but they're saying they did it in the best interest of their country it seems to be the ultimate reasoning which can't be confronted what would you say to that i say that the in never justifies the means. and the question is does the lesser evil ever justify itself because it prevents a greater evil there are some real problems with that argument the logical problems as well as philosophical and what i would call value laden problems first is you can never know hypothetical and you never know if your lesser evil action actually prevented the greater evil big cheney spends hours on television and elsewhere and in this book trying to say that his actions prevented a greater evil another attack on the united states and so for well that's his interpretation and my interpretation of the bureaucracy which is probably far better than his because i was buried in it i heard people talking about it every day so bottom line is i know what dick cheney doesn't know because he was in the

ivory palace and he can't know horse holders surrounding cheney but people who surround cheney are david addington and john hannah and scooter libby and they killed the cheney what dick cheney wants to hear george tenet told dick cheney what dick cheney wanted to hear oh yes it's working mr vice president we're getting great information and are stopping terrorist attacks that is broader book they didn't stop anything through in here and in the hanssen interrogation techniques i have that from some of the most respected people in the f.b.i. and the intelligence community so i can't fault big training for not knowing the truth because he couldn't know the truth he's trapped in strath in his own military but the truth is the methods don't work and they rebound to your discredit and they recruit as you said for your enemy dick cheney is asked what would happen if an american would catch him in iraq and what would happen if they waterboard him

because they thought he was a threat to the state of iran and so he just skirted around the question what he really said was if you listen closely americans are better than anybody else in the world. americans shouldn't be waterboarding but anybody else we can waterboard especially if we're americans doing it that's essentially what dick cheney said now here's the kicker about forty percent of america agrees with. you poll you look at the polls that have been done about forty percent of american way to any given time and they think that americans have the right to torture other people and other people don't have the rights to torture americans for various reasons and most seven think it's that way because we have a bigger gun that's why they think we can get away with it and do it because we have a bigger gun that's why i say the reckoning is coming the reckoning when we are just another country in the world and that they is coming and may not come in my lifetime fortunately i think it's coming in my children and my grandchildren's

lives and this is going to be a hard time for launching because we know are going to have the money were no are going to have the economic night we're no longer going to have the military might and so forth to say to the world we can torture you but you can't torture us many say that america's response to nine eleven was one of the most profound overreactions in military history if you agree with that i think initially it was proportional it was rational it was fairly well supported in the international community and it was a sadness that yes the initial reaction what we should have done was gone to afghanistan as we did or did what we did about six months later said ok here's your government karzai you've got it go ahead and run your country as best you can we'll give you economic and financial support from afar we're going home oh by the way footnote if you entertain terrorist in this country good will come back and do it

again in what way could that overreaction backfire. i think it already has and this is all profound change really and that's happened since world war two it's been creeping up on us and now with libya it's here 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 it matters not that the obama administration and i have to say i voted for president obama it matters not that they have protested rather futilely and he ought to be relieved that they weren't involved in hostilities that the war powers act was not relevant and so forth it certainly was any time you kill people for state purposes the war powers act is relevant and the constitution is relevant we've reached a point now where the present in the united states can kill people for a state purpose and it's any time he or she feels

a need james madison said very eloquently when you come to combine the power to initiate war with the power to execute it you have achieved. that is a very profoundly worrying situation in this that's happened in this country. you delayed. brighton if you knew the song from comes to fruition with some.

news from the stones on t.v. don't come. days news in this week's top stories the u.s. commemorates its worst terrorist attack on the quiet of the world the nine eleven assault ten years ago prompted america to launch a policing mission that manny experts claim is made the globe more dangerous. russian 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 in jaroslav region killing forty three people on board. and moscow was to send a fact finding mission to syria to get firsthand information about the prices they are this as russia's president made related refuses to take sides in the conflict saying talks are the only way to peace. time now is take a look what's happening in the world of sports tell us here with us.

thanks very much for watching this board live on our t.v. have lines. georgevitch evolves into the year or so and decide that a repeat of the twentieth sound final made while some other stars around for no williams will do battle for the ladies title after a neat blushing mother. a man trampled on the ball skills stunned party leaders and city rivals well we'll wait on the show with a lot of second base. and last goodbye family browns fans and dignitaries pay their respects to the looking mighty guys hockey players who were killed in a plane crash this week. let's begin with the latest from flushing meadows where serial williams knocked out carolyn was knocking the u.s. open semifinal the american for it to be championship decided now with these

winning six two six ball over the top seed meanwhile samantha stalls are advance to her second career grand slam final in the early match in australia and beating surprise package. in the range delayed game starts and started strongly taking the press i six games to three bobby and see the germans pulled back to level the game in style the decider was one sided though with salsa running on wait five law and then securing a six three two six six two going to reach the final she's now aiming to become the first australian woman to win a major since involved ninety eight the wimbledon victory. the chance of the french open and. was an avid it's a kid and you know i now understand you have given myself another opportunity to see just go out there and you know use a little bit of that experience from last year really go after it and see what i can do but it would be. a major highlight of my career. on the men's side no joke

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the second hall now with the head of steam double believe through alexander i miss a lush really as a father who will carry. freekick. the brass not sure pulled one back from the spot with four minutes to go given because there's a hope for a jewel been keeper said he had reason to join his team mates up from hoping to scoring the dying moments on the hosts managed to deal with that for at and enjoy the new procreated to build the school beyond doubt the injury time hitting immense nets to give the premier league new boys a well deserved three one victory over before what russian champions. now look at much of us have pulled out of ice hockey skates challenge till next season it was expected that all the teams would be players for the great strike and seen votes local officials say they will take a break now senses a soul thousands of people come out to pay their last respects.