terrorist attack in history ten years ago terrorists crashed hijacked planes into the twin towers of the world trade center in new york and the pentagon building in washington d.c. and amerasians for the nearly three thousand people who lost their lives will be held on sunday at the attack sites and all over the country in the decade that followed washington to wage 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 this guy needs to count reports in our special coverage but it started as a war on terror spawned by the deadliest terrorist attack in history the women she 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. iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror while an unelected few repressed the iranian people's hope for freedom. iraq and change the font of hostility 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 north korea was far more dangerous but too difficult one hundred thousand casualties were predicted by the portal 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 at 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 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 had 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 so 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 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 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 our reporting from washington our team. washington's response to the attacks especially the invasion 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 gained 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 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. due to my war on anyone after nine eleven is the limits 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 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 toppled washington's hitlist following the nine eleven attacks thousands of nato troops were deployed to the country to destroy al qaida and the taliban which gave them shelter but as adam pled discovered the majority of afghans are oblivious 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. what would 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. they never heard i've got to see if you show them a few more and can us do they know where it is even we don't know if that's because because we were former we never heard about anything else about the world. cup and . the two young men and clearly never heard of nine eleven. but maybe the elders of the local sure would have more to say yeah no i don't see. it saying i 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. 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 to do about the

reactions fascinating so the guy who said it was kabul was clearly never going to kabul it just shows you how isolated they are even in their own country. understand . that you know you don't think you know you're going to come to this point and get the airplane from here in the united states but you know how much. it was nice to go from iraq to then here is a lot easier to understand you know why you're here and you see at that picture you know it's good picture mind yourself because what you're going to see after looking at it in this context while wearing the uniform of carrying a rifle. to be back with. me and saying we're going to help you to discern one building and to destroy us how many buildings and they say we're going to help you where is the help. work your way down what they're saying to give it to our kids go. fighting and they do it to their own kids in a paper that i don't invade 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 said helpful so you know when you have when you can feed yourself the earth house yourself are you going to care about somebody six thousand miles away. so i can understand that this is all you got up out of the top of the list with that i never thought to ask 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 were the villages oblivious to nine eleven with the afghan police and even some of the translators working with the us military but you don't know that is for you to say that i have no idea what the syrian at the scene they think is the full. 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 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. the response should not generalize this and 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 islamic phenomenon but view it as an aberration. against which we can mobilize most of the support of their epic vermont's i think if we didn't do that

we also enlarge the theater of war from of getting this done to iraq and as a consequence we have become embroiled in a much larger regional political conflict and not some sort of the religious crusade. for terrorist attacks that became synonymous with. the senseless slaughter of the syrian people stop the little. over to. ten years old. to. look back at nine eleven 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 jaroslav all ice hockey team in response present if once new legal powers to ground

their lines unable to assure a passenger safety sean thomas looks at the catastrophe that killed many much loved players. the waves of emotion poor through jaroslav of them as residents realize the full weight of the tragedy that country on the lines of some of the city's brightest stars but ended up with been fans of this team for many years our whole family including owen. the 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 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 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 which was in the wake of the tragedy put in 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. it 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 well. my friends with the play and the guys have played together

a couple years ago and of course one just just want to give my condolences to the families and all that stuff but the ceremonies to honor the players were held in minsk in bratislava with somber reflections from those who knew the players well. of the to have 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 family his. really so this last conversation came back to my head 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 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 do know that 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 of. the years level sean thomas r t. talk h l n national hockey players from around the world were part of the locomotive jaroslaw team the morial 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 lit candles and chanted the names of the former world champions slovakia fans have been coming to the hockey stadiums to pay their last 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 you're a slob i had the best time of my career there base past spring i flew with all those people by the same plane it is a huge shock for the team and also for this city pavel 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 because i need them very well 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. still have for you this hour here on r t stalemate in the resistance of could argue boil it 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. israel val's to keep a peace agreement with egypt despite the amnesty riots that led to the evacuation of diplomatic staff in cairo. russia plans to san

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 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 levy 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 aren't just black and white there and the anti-government protesters in syria are not followers of some refined european models of democracy some of the most 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. all the syrian government claims the unrest has been orchestrated by armed groups who aim to destabilize the country. from philadelphia university in jordan says both the authorities and protesters are responsible. there's two thousand people. sort of the say but these two some of them maybe there are incisions or some of them out but remember there is also one thousand soldiers was killed in syria so these one thousand soldiers are impossible that they have been killed by by peaceful demonstration and if you've been demonstrations in syria was not peaceful in many a sense because otherwise how could also be that one thousand. and these men

have been killed during these five months yes there is mistrust from both sides but we have the current situation and we should sit on that they have been negotiating because there is no other solution. well that was dr atomic shamar from philadelphia diversity in georgia commenting on the developments in syria. to another civil conflict in libya this week could offer you loyalists put up a dog to resist in sagansky rebel forces with a surrender deadline expiring on saturday fighting rages on one of could obviously last for strongholds body while the nato airstrikes continue to assist the rebels maybe 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 you know while they had

a libya's transitional council in the mail has moved to tripoli in a major step toward setting up a post gadhafi government the capital fell to rebels last month but life there shows little improvement as archie's maria 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 that they've been capital has been read joy seeing the dictator's fall. he wants to hang he's portrayed here in the city. 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 bullets in the air the for short hearing they sold in tripoli early august all revealed phenol very very forward. mr gaddafi.

duffy's dictatorial he told older people love me would that be belong to me no you would see love him all of us right of freedom is that we don't know a good deputy and that we're done all right with a lower care but away from jubilant crowds we meet those who are not so pleased. to him on leave and 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 when i had no 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 done we are afraid and we always wait for something bad when gadhafi was here at least we didn't have to sleep a wink what we do known of the rahman says he also want to change and

a brighter future for his country but not based way. 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 divorce 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 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

is functioning by south and treading a fine line between freedom and an occasion. rich notion of. tripoli libya. and for the latest news and video from around the world you can visit r.t. dot com and here's what's on the line 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 why the british farmers are growing and why. and moscow's highest observation deck the astonishing no t.v. tower has been reopened for tourists after years of reconstruction find the full story and more on our team dot com. a twenty year sentence for a russian pilot convicted of conspiring to smuggle cocaine cause a strong reaction from moscow this week russia promised not to abandon cars and after the verdict by an american court it was detained in liberia and twenty tannen

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 the third country shango repeatedly pleaded not guilty in the case his defense now has a. months to file an appeal although u.s. officials could take up to two years to consider it moscow says his arrest in dishes were illegal and that it will seek his repatriation. egyptian 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 the

israeli prime minister says his country will stick to its peace treaty with egypt despising embassy attack that led to evacuated of most of its diplomatic staff the protests come months after a popular revolt ousted hosni mubarak the president of the arab lawyers association sabah had with our says it's islamist groups who could ultimately benefit from the unrest the various political movements vying for power 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 that the bigger power the islamists. what about the election because well for the election no it takes they will definitely get higher votes than the liberals the demonstrations will continue i think the egyptian people who will not accept the military continue to be in this five that most of the military as everybody knows

are the same old team of mubarak people who have 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 they're egyptian people without the. ukraine is losing its key bargaining chip in europe sanity industry and it's been the major transit route for russian gas into europe but its monopoly is now coming to an at what the report has launched the north stream gas pipeline in northern russia. in the. ukraine is on longstanding partner and he transit countries are always tempted to use its exclusive status as a transit state now ukraine will lose this privilege i believe our relations will evolve into an ever more civilized free market partnership. to me but the north stream pipeline travels directly from russia to euro 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 pays for russian gas under contract signed back in two thousand and nine it 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. now let's take a look at some of the stories from around the world as many as two hundred people are dad 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 turnover of survivors say the ferry was overloaded with cargo and passengers many of them children zanzibar as president has declared a three day mourning period. this tropical storm nate 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 during nate's approach and no

sign of the crews has been found while coastal areas brace themselves for the storm erin sea rescue teams are continuing their search despite worsening conditions. watermelons look likely to elect a former military general as president in hope of bringing order to the country otto paris molina his favorite worrying leftist groups and human rights organizations still hoping to prosecute members of the country's former dictatorship but the key alexion issues for guatemalans appear to be the high crime rate and poverty which haven't golfed the country. and for the fourth time the top prize at the venice film festival is coming to russia alexander movie fast beat off other rivals to win the golden line the jury was united in his disagreement with darren aronofsky praising the picture saying you would change your viewers forever

with two years of shooting at a noble price tag of over nine million dollars pounds is a poor of some a vicious project inspired by go to spread the tragedy the dialogue in germany has yet to be translated to other languages including russian well for more on the director and he is working. visit our web site r t dot com. for. a quick recap of our main stories in just a few moments here in our team stay with us.

welcome back you're watching our team was take a look at today's news and the 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 many experts claim has made the globe more dangerous. russia bid 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 you are sol region killing forty three people on board. and moscow was to send a fact finding mission to syria to get firsthand information about the crisis they

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