decade that followed washington waged its 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 going to reports in our special coverage it started as the war on terror spawned by the deadliest here is the talk 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 as a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction while starving its citizens. iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror while an unelected few repress the iranian people's hope for freedom. iraq continues to

flaunt a chance to lead toward america and to support terror two years after nine eleven the us 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 in in the wake of nine eleven to divert from afghanistan our real target should have been our real target and go to iraq it also was the low hanging fruit in north korea was far more dangerous but too difficult a hundred thousand casualties were predicted by the political 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 talk or oil iraq right now is sitting on probably two hundred billion barrels maybe three hundred billion barrels that's correct zone or report mo he 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 to monex debility of 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 and 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 and other 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 with 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 international consultant for a belgian m.p. load of honors says the us used nine eleven as a pretext to wage war on everyone who disagreed with its policies but its tactics failed today do want there or you should not forget it's actually a war everyone in the world tradition agrees with the economic and military policies of the united states i disagree that after afghanistan and iraq on a do was to not proceed on into continuity as they are going to get is some kind of control democracy completely controlled by the us so much that you're not surprised if you have general you know the real bosses that we have to say what are the real goals and went on to call she asked who claimed in the media and such well the official goals. have not been achieved by the real goal of economic dominance.

middle east and other region or achieved that's even a failure may mean the whole region is more unstable than it ever was before. the terrorist attacks it became. a senseless slaughter of. people stop. over. ten years old. to. look back at nine eleven to see. 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 jaroslava 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. 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 an fans of his team for many years our whole family including a little child that went to all the games for us in europe or below us 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 ball 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 then came the flames and the smoke and we wanted to run away but we didn't know where to run and 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 community but international nature of this team it was a larger loss for russia and the rest of the world as well. my friends with the plan because a. couple years ago of course one just just want to give my condolences to the

families of all the stuff the. ceremonies to honor the players were held in minsk in bratislava with some reflections from those who knew the players well. at the top all demitra told me he actually wants to quit hockey 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 want to only him at least by lighting this candle 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 morning. period and as thousands poured into the stadium to view fourteen coffins on display and say their final goodbyes. we have buried our friends the people who brought us joy and played for our country this is an irreplaceable loss for the people of years level and the whole country. thomas r. t.

. takei challenge national hockey players from around the world were part of the locomotive team memorial services have been held in their native countries and prague hundreds of people gathered to remember three czech nationals who were among those killed they were candles and chants of the names of the former world champions. and in slovakia fans have been coming to the hockey stadiums to pay their respects to national team captain pavel demitra they have been leaving messages and laying flowers national team coaches who knew the players and were involved with the team said the loss is a man's. i worked in your islam i had the best time of my career there this past spring with all those people by the same plane that it is a huge 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 their national team i knew them very well even though they were playing abroad still they were always trying to get better they can't get it just want to be part of a system they want to know the details of their positions and how to best score they took a huge interest in what they did i really enjoyed working with them. so i had for you this hour here on our team stalemate here the resistance of gadhafi loyalists stance furman a deadline to surrender is ignored we have the latest on the fighting in libya and the growing sense of fear in the capital. and standing firm israel to keep a peace agreement with the spy embassy right that led to the evacuation of diplomatic staff in cairo. russia plans to say it 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 asad of continuing a bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters and wants 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. president medvedev said he is 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 white there and the. 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 of 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. the west has been pushing for hardline approach the syrian government imposing various sanctions but professor and international relations expert thinks the harsh measures may not put their regime on its knees but they will definitely hit ordinary syrians. but in any case what top whatever happens they're saying jones are clearly. instrument does not discriminate between the regime and the people and what my end up happening is that the people who probably are going to. use. especially if we take. a look at what happened in iraq or what happened with. the experiment there's a very good example of this where some of the harshest sanctions out imposed on the only country in history were imposed on iraq and despite. did not succeed in

bringing down. the public would cheer was heard severely as a result of the sanctions so this is. think is going through a lot of questions especially some of them political economic and some of course more. professor admin buried there commenting on the west's push for sanctions on syria. into another conflict civil conflict now and levy of this week get off the loyalists put a dog of resistance against rebel forces with a surrender deadline expiring on saturday fighting rages on one of get off his last four strongholds bani walid nato airstrikes continue to assist the rebels he is ousted leader is on the run and now on interpol's wanted list his audio messages claim he's still in the country despite reports his family and some associates crossed the border in tunisia where meanwhile the head of libya's turn. 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 the libyan capital has been rejoicing in the dictator's fall well here he wanted to hang his portrayed here in the central square for the forty second anniversary of his rule but we put our flag up instead we won we're so happy without him. it seems in the last two weeks rebel fighters have fired bullets into the air the the who shot during this hold on tripoli early august. already be a phenol very very forward. mr gadhafi. gadhafi is victor

thought. he told hold to be would love me would the people on that we know you see love him all of us were out of freedom is when we don't know a good deputy and we're done all right with a lower case but away from jubilant crowds we meet those who are not so pleased about a man lives in tripoli is obviously in 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 when i hadn't 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 let 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 like we do now abdul rahman says he also want to

change and the brighter future for his country but not they sway. and people are dying on both sides of the cities destroyed and no one cares do they seriously think that they 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 rise in 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 a growing bigger and bigger. shortly after tripoli fell into rebel hands the national transitional council leavers new authority claimed it was moving here from benghazi two weeks have passed and there is still no sign of order being restored

the city's functioning by. and treading a fine line between freedom and anik a. rich notion of. tripoli libya. the british prime minister wants to look into claims that u.k. secret agents sent terror suspects to could obviously be a worthy were allegedly tortured human rights groups in tripoli found documents outlining m i six and cia were in dition programs but former british intelligence officer and he was shot expects the inquiry will be swept under the carpet. when david cameron calls for an inquiry into these allegations he's been credibly disingenuous under the u.k. law the inquiries act two thousand and five and the inquiry this is established including this an inquiry headed up by subpoena gibson circumscribed by the very organizations that are being investigated in this case m i five an m i six so it's going to be toothless plus of course the other consideration with this is that

subpoena gibson himself is heading up this inquiry was actually intelligence services commissioner for five years prior to taking on this role so he's been cozying up to the intelligence services in the u.k. for five years i doubt if he's going to unearth and the thing deliberately perhaps he probably won't shine a bright light in the dark corners should we say he'll be friends to the intelligence agencies they will have lost all credibility they have double deals in libya food decades now and really their chickens are coming home to roost and i can't see how any government that comes into power in libya will trust whatever m i six or the british government now says. now for the latest news and video for around the world you can visit our website r t v dot com and here's what's on the line for you right now afghanistan may be the world's biggest opium poppy producer but the u.k. is making inroads into the market so go online to see what british farmers are growing and why. bad moscow's highest observation. t.v.

tower has been reopened for tourists after years of reconstruction find a full story and more on our t. dot com. 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 cars and after the verdict by an american court there shango was detained in liberia in two thousand and ten 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. repeatedly pleaded not guilty in the case his defense now is a month to file an appeal although u.s. officials could take up to two years to consider it moscow says his rest in ridesharing were illegal and that it will seek his repatriation. egypt's police have been put on a state of alert after protesters attacked israel's amnesty 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 responded 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 embassy attack that led to the accusation of most of its diplomatic staff the protests come months after a popular revolt ousted hosni mubarak the president of the arab lawyers association . says its islamist groups could ultimately benefit from the unrest. the various political 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 box and it is accusing the other one of trying to show the power of the

islamists. what about the election because well for the election no it takes they will definitely get votes the liberals demonstrations will continue i think the egyptian people who will not accept the military continue to be in power this by the fact that most of the military as everybody knows are the same old team of mubarak they are the people who were handpicked by mubarak with the approval of them out against the americans would be happy for the military to stay there but i don't think the egyptian people without the. palestinians in the west bank have been rallying this week in support of a planned bid for statehood at the united nations later this month they vow to keep on demonstrating until their state is recognized and granted u.n. membership organizers say the rallies will remain peaceful even if israeli forces try to break them up despite overwhelming support for the better around the world the u.s. has promised to veto the you know letter all move washington believes

a palestinian state should be formed only through negotiations with israel the palestinian leader said he would only reconsider the bid if israel completely freeze the settlement building and offers talks on the basis of pre-one thousand seven is sixty seven borders dr ron pundak chairman of the palestinian israeli peace forum says there are forces in both israel and among palestinians for who peace was never an option. no what is happening between us and the pussy means we'll be judged by whether they would be along with a seam lines between the israeli forces and the palestinians and also between the palestinians and the second amends with their west bank but as much as i understand the interest of both sides is not to each end the hostility of both sides to provoke with the force and the strength of the two governments would be to try and calm down these provocations and not to be carried away by the. look of those

which would be to heat the area because they don't want to see quiet as quiet is a message for the future for the hope for the peace for source and these people don't want to see peace. 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 overload of 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 as president has declared a three day mourning period. tropical storm nate heads its way towards the mexican coast the search is on for several missing oil workers and a dozen fisherman commercial vessel and two fishing boats were lost during late approach and no sign of the crews have been found while coastal areas brace

themselves for of the storm erin sea rescue teams are continuing their search despite worsening conditions. look likely to elect a former military general as president in hope of bringing order to the country ot of paris molina'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 high crime rate and poverty which haven't golf the country. the greek prime minister has pledged to move ahead with tough austerity measures to lift the country out of its debt pit he spoke in the country's second largest city of thessalonica he is some twenty five thousand people marched in protest at the deep cuts angry demonstrators clashed with police throwing fire bombs while riot police responded with tear gas over one hundred

people were detained and some injure the greek prime minister attempted to assure you manders he's country will be able to meet its second bailout obligations but the whole euro zone is in financial crisis and the incoming european central bank had once greater. this school integration within the union to protect it however economic analyst peter bell believes the system is too flawed to survive. may indeed be getting if not too late and certainly very late in the day in order to institute the financial government for europe the system could collapse before it is politically possible to put these sorts of measures in place but at the same time although parliaments if you like don't want europe to collapse there is a growing feeling both within parliaments and also amongst the people who elect parliaments and that's true of germany the most pro european in all three of all of the countries but there is

a certain impatience away in up is it really worth giving up a sovereignty and b. possibly a lot of money in order to save a system that was fulsomely designed right from the beginning it is certainly a question that parliaments are going to be putting to each other over the next coming months and for the fourth time the top prize at the venice film festival is coming to russia alexander sykora his movie fouls beat off other rivals to win the gold line the jury was united in his decision it was had darren aronofsky praising the picture saying it would change viewers forever with two years of shooting and an overall price tag over a nine million dollars phalluses so course most ambitious project inspired by a strategy of dialogue in german has yet to be translated to other languages including russian for about the director and he's of work can visit our web site r t v dot com. well be back with the headlines very

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welcome back you're watching live from moscow here's a look at today's news and this 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 that manny 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. killing forty three people on board. and moscow was to send a fact finding mission to syria to get firsthand information about the crisis there this as russia's president would be at a for fuses to take sides of the conflict saying talks are the only way to peace. former bosnian serb general is standing trial in hague on charges of genocide in the one.