the six million of them and three days of sampling these rivers coming down the rivers to the sea just in three days two hundred thirty six million gallons. chose more is infuriating by plastic waste because you will soon as that it never disappears. the captain's life changed twelve years ago when he sailed a little used route across the pacific. every time i took the time to survey the ocean i was able to see something in it i even would make a bet with myself i will come out now i will survey the ocean and see nothing but i would lose the bet i would always see something and this gradually named me think something's wrong. when he returned he was intrigued that there was so much plastic floating around so far from civilization so he decided to go back and quantify the problem. this was the

big shock and this was a very very big surprise we were shocked when we pulled up the net for the first time i mean that was an aha moment my goodness what have we done that we can just throw a net anywhere in the ocean and pull this kind of plastic debris. but. dr mark is here from high above the pacific ocean and middle of nowhere looking for plastic and lots of it. captain shows move created a foundation called uncle eat or not because the octopus joined him alone with a construe team they've obtained government grants to study this and since then they have kept on filtering the ocean. this place. since. it's up. there.

for a little bottle cap. so this is seven hours in the open ocean with a troll so that's why there's no more gore that's not much area. that's right maybe its own human hair high entire football field the ocean is so bad that this much plastic and very small strip that we sample is a virtual. captain mils samples of stirred up a planet wide controversy. he discovered to trash thought and told about. trash from the american continent is sucked into the trash cortex by spiral currents of the north pacific joining the trash coming from asia. some of the islands and beaches of one are in the direct line of the phone of this massive plastic.

gilkey pilliga is the victim of throughways from all the countries the border the pacific. we began cleaning this this coastline here in two thousand and three and since that time we pull up over ninety tons of trash just this few miles of coastline. the trash drifts with major ocean currents spiraling ground for at least ten years and finally ending up as a stagnant mass in the central sun is still a. team was established in operating procedure. samples are brought back to them to be

studied. expedition after expedition the extent of the problem is revealed more clearly. six hundred seventy one fish that we collected of six different species over thirty five percent of them had at least one piece of plastic in their stomach and the reason we want to care about this although these might be ugly to some people i think there and they're also making food source for animals such as tuna and maki maki and sound people don't necessarily these fish people eat the fish that feed on these so it brought about who have more questions and how densely is this going to affect humans down the line. in the middle of the trash book text as far as is possible from any inhabited land. and his team have discovered even

the simplest forms of life struggling to survive in the midst of our trash. jellyfish so turned up they can no longer swim. even as o. plant the most basic element the ocean food chain are effective these tiny living organisms one of the tiny particles of plastic which get stuck and become imbedded in that bodies. microscopic life forms but life forms that are already struggling for survival as they become further and further in meshed in our rubbish.

today's news and the week's top stories the day that divided the world remembering the terror attack the private america to launch a global policing mission that many have spurred claim has made the world more dangerous. for every young russian bids farewell to the players of a top national ice hockey team who perished in a plane crash that killed forty three. am bosco is to say in a fact finding mission to syria as president would be to use this to take sides in the conflict say talks are the only way to peace.

and watching are you going to live from moscow i'm marina joshua welcome to the program i was the day that changed history americans around the world were shocked by the worst terrorist attack in history ten years ago terrorist crashed hijacked planes into the twin towers of the world trade center in new york and the pentagon building in washington d.c. and then aeration for the nearly three thousand people who lost their lives will be held on sunday of the attack sites and all over the country in the decade that followed washington to wage its war on terror with the eva for banning of nine eleven from ever happening again a critics say conflict has become an obsession with a price tag of billions of dollars it's going into account before it's in our special coverage. it started as a war on terror spawned by the deadliest here is the 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 eleventh but we know their true nature north korea's regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction. starving its citizens . iran aggressively pursues ease weapons and actually forced her while an unelected few repressed the iranian people soap for freedom. iraq and change the sourness are still a huge one 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 all kind of grounds which proved to be false hundreds of thousands of iraqi civilians have died since the invasion they used 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 north korea was far more dangerous but too difficult one hundred thousand casualties were predicted by the polls on both sides so would be destroyed iran was too difficult seventy million people not fractured like the iraqis and the sunni and shia 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 a reaction or report well 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 rule as the world's policeman the driving idea behind it is that it had to monex to realty the idea is that so but world is going to be more secure place overall if there is a a universal 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 kerry's and 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 is stress effect on the region and president obama was elected on hopes that he would enter the endless wars. overseas which most americans are opposed to but he continues and adds one more another oil rich nation yet 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. by the people by the congress by the courts for war we can go toward the drop of a koran we've reached

a point now where the president can kill people for state purposes and. since nine eleven america's war on terror has crossed many borders from pakistan to yemen and other countries the 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 out reporting from washington our team. washington's response to the attacks especially in beijing of iraq and afghanistan received massive global criticism and phil rees who's a reporter and rider on international relations terrorism and violence believes america's tactics have gave the country more anime's. a war on terror which

what does that mean a war on a tactic which is a very stupid thing but it could provide cover for basically a new global vision which was to project american power american imperial power around the world and created a culture that basically legitimized war on anyone immediately after nine eleven groups from hamas to the muslim brotherhood in egypt to pakistani islam is 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 and 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 qaida and taliban which gave them shelter but as adam played 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 this province has been the brunt of the fighting between the taliban and coalition forces but with afghans in this war torn province think about nine eleven and its consequences. while in patrol with the marines i get a first opportunity to ask a couple of young afghan men what they know about nine eleven. commission of a few more on can us do they know where it is even we don't know if that's because because you're a former neighborhood about it were. the two young men are clearly never heard of nine eleven. maybe the elders of the local show would have more to say yeah i know you see it. in this ng i just can see the smoke on the buildings and that's it that's one thing i can say

when you go sure that's a picture that goes hearing it so i think that was a call but if i just got here i would be surprised but having been here now for six months this is pretty much the stone ages where we are and what about the us. fascinating so what the guy who said it was kabul was clearly never going to cause it just shows you how isolated they're even in their own country come on them i don't understand. how well you are going to get out of there america afghanistan come to this point and get the airplane from here to attack in the united states but you know how that might. go to those nice to go from iraq to then here is a lot easier to understand you know why you're here and we're so yeah def if you know a good picture remind yourself of his letters to see afghans looking at it in this context while wearing the uniform of carrying a rifle. to back that war was. me saying we're going to help you to decide one thing and it is to ask how many buildings and those

who are going to help you where is the help. you wake up witnessing to give it to our kids again and food fighting and they do it to their own kids in a day but i don't indeed and. i do sympathize or understand what your some are saying it's even just from the weather we've had recently people losing their homes and nobody to help them so when you have when you can feed yourself or her house yourself are you care about somebody you have six thousand miles away just so i can understand this it ended up it was you that i never thought to ask those questions of anybody here that's why we're here and mazing when 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 they put us to nine eleven or so with the afghan police and even some of the. as working with the u.s. military if you go this far you know i have no idea. if you haven't seen these pictures before. 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 withdrawing 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 adam clips from afghanistan forty. three one of the apparent consequences of the war on terror has been a rise in islamophobia both in america and abroad speaking of political scientist and former u.s. national security advisor told r.t. that from the outset washington adopted the wrong approach in its fight back. they respond should not generalize this and this. particular religious phenomenon but it's a political issue in which our objective could be to isolate the terrorists from their political cultural national context and that required avoiding stigmatizing

the phenomenon as a generalized islamic phenomenon and view it as an aberration. against which we can mobilize also to support their application for months i think we didn't do that we'll say enlarge the theater of war from the can understand from iraq and as a consequence we have become embroiled in much larger regional political conflict i'm not some sort of the religious crusade. for six hundred sixty synonymous with. the senseless slaughter of the most serious people stop the loss. of the public in. song that she wants. us 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 a locomotive jaroslaw ice hockey team in response presently to reveal if once new legal powers to ground airlines unable to assure passenger safety child thomas looks at a catastrophe that killed very much a lot of players. and waves of emotion poor through jaroslav as residents realize the full weight of the tragedy their country or the lives of some of the city's brightest stars but ended up with the fans at this team for many years our whole family including a little child went to all their games for us in europe or below us it's like losing a family member. was that i knew one of the players he was my neighbor and he was a great person he's got two little kids left this happened when we saw the news on t.v. i just burst into tears. just after four in the afternoon on wednesday of

a charter plane carrying almost the entire of a locomotive cage and all hockey team crashed shortly after takeoff bursting into a ball of flames after clipping a runway and turner forty three of the forty five on board perished to newark a mostly serious we heard a 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 though went to the river and saw the plane which was in the wake of the tragedy of loving your point and ordered an immediate and thorough investigation and as president of the country in mourning and visiting the crash site and paying his respects. we are fans of the three time championship willing your eyes level locomotive teen 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 jaroslava look was

a huge blow to this community but due to the international nature of this team it was a larger loss for russia and the rest of the world as were. my friends with a plan. that we could get a couple of years ago or because it's just want to give my condolences to the families and. the sweet stuff for the ceremonies to honor the players were held in minsk in bratislava of somber reflection from those who knew the players well. the title to be true told me he actually wants to quit hockey and he wants to play a little bit more and then leave and spend time with his family so this last conversation came back when i heard about the crash and 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 in march of 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 good byes we should you consider that we have buried our friends look at the people who brought us joy and played for their country this is an irreplaceable loss for the people of years level and for you. and yours level sean thomas archie. talk a challenge national hockey players from around the world for a part of the locomotive here are solid team morial 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 lit candles and chanted the names of the former world champions survive here fans have been coming to the hockey stadiums to pay their last respects to national team captain pavel the mitra 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

start of my career that this past spring i flew with all those people by the same claim it is a huge shot for the team and also for the city pavel was a great person and a great hockey player he was a legend and slam a guy sarky sometime in february or may next year i was still trying to convince him to return back to the national team i knew them very well and even though they were playing abroad still they were always trying to get better they cared they didn't just want to be a part of the system they wanted to know the details of their positions and how best to school they took a huge interest in what they did and i really enjoyed working with them. so i have for you this hour here on our team stalemate in the resistance of could argue loyalist stands firm with a deadline to surrender or ignore it now we have the latest on the fighting and the growing sense of fear in the capital. is rove vows to keep

a peace agreement with egypt despite the amnesty rides that led to the back he wasted of diplomatic still in cairo. russia plans to send 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 big he was president bashar last of of continuing a bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters and once international help russia is urging both sides to start talking and avoid another alleviate style conflict speaking on the sidelines of an international policy forum in the russian city of the. president returned to riyadh 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 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 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 go see it and table start talks and stop the bloodshed. i was here in government claims the unrest has been worked straight up by armed groups who aim to destabilize the country dr topics are from philadelphia university in jordan says both the. sorties and protesters are responsible for this two thousand people. and sort of the same but these two some of them maybe they are incisions or some of them out of fear but remember there is also one thousand soldier was killed in syria so these one

thousand soldiers are impossible that they have been killed. by peaceful demonstrations. in syria was not peaceful in many a sense because otherwise how could possibility that one thousand. policemen have been killed during these five months yes there is mistrust from both sides but we have the current situation. to sit on it they have been negotiate because there is no other solution. well that was dr topics from philadelphia university in georgia commenting on the developments in syria. to another civil conflict in libya this week loyalists put a dog into resistance against rebel forces with a surrender deadline expiring on saturday fighting rages on near one of these last four strongholds bani walid nato airstrikes continue to assist the rebels as ousted

leader is on the run and now interpol's of wanted list his audio messages claim he is still in the country despite reports his family and some associates crossed the border into an issue where he while they had a levy is transitional council mr julio has moved to tripoli in a major step toward setting up a hosted up government the capital fell to rebels last month but life there shows little improvement as archie's money 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 joisting 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 up instead we won we so happy without him. it seems in the last weeks rebel fighters have fired

rockets into the air for short during this hold in tripoli there are no alcohol. or maybe a few you know very very well with. this for good buffy and clear good duffy's victor told me he told older people love me we're the people wrong we know you see the victim and of course we're out of rhythm as we don't really get that bit of we're done all right with a lower case but away from jubilant crowds we meet those who are not so pleased at the one lives in tripoli's district historically pro khadafi but 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.