terrorists crashed hijacked planes into the twin towers of the world trade center in new york and the pentagon building in washington d.c. commemorations 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 wage that's war on terror with the aim of preventing a nine eleven from ever happening again but critics say conflict has become an obsession with a price tag of billions of dollars it's going to check on their reports you know special coverage. it started as a war on terror spawned by the deadliest terrorist attack in history either with history with the enemy that's that's clear but the circle of america's enemies group quickly and included nations that had nothing to do with nine eleven years 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 trust 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 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 iraq's own or report mohi plans to be a thirteen million barrels per day production capacity in seven years that surpasses saudi arabia now you know why dick cheney went to war in iraq others blame america's self assigned role as the world's policeman the driving idea behind it is that it had to monex debility the idea is that the but world is going to be more secure place overall if there is a a unit whole 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 president obama was elected on hopes that he would and the endless wars overseas which most americans are opposed to but he continues and adds one more another oil rich nation libya and this time in the name of removing an evil dictator. some worry syria could be next we have a an executive power that is beyond any check by the people by the congress or by the courts for war we can go to war to drop of a coin we've reached a point now where the president 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 r.t. . washington's response to the attacks especially the invasion of iraq and afghanistan received massive global criticism international consultant and former belgian m.p. lowed van ost says the us use 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 this actually a war everyone in the world tradition agrees with the economic and military policies of the united states i disagreed after afghanistan and iraq on above the worst democracy. in the continuity last year are going to get is some kind of

control a democracy completely controlled by the u.s. and that should not surprise if you have general you know the real bosses that we have to also say what are the real goal to what i want to call she claimed in the media and so that's one of the official goals of course have not been achieved whether the real goal of the economic dominance. middle east in the region or achieved that's even a share you know mean the whole region these are more unstable than it ever was before. afghanistan was top of washington's hit list following that on eleven attacks thousands of nato troops were deployed to the country to destroy al qaeda and the taliban which gave them shelter but as adam 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 is 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 of can you show them a few more and can us them do they know where it is even we don't know if that's because because we are 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 i know but you see. this thing 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. i think there was a car 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 did you think about

the reactions. so that the guy who said it was kabul has clearly never been to kabul it just shows you how isolated they are even their own country don't understand. that you know you don't think you know if you're going to come to this point and get the airplane from here to attack in the united states 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're so you have that picture you know it's good picture remind yourself because what you're there to see the afghans looking at it in this context while wearing the uniform of carrying a rifle. to back. down make and saying we're going to help you to discern one building and did a survey asked how many buildings and they said we're going to help you where is the help. work your way down what they're saying to give it to our kids. going into the fighting and they get to their own kids a pen and paper to write down and read and write. 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 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 i think if it ended up all over the top of that if i never thought to ask those questions of if anybody here that's why we're here amazingly in a country where for ten years a war has been fought with nine eleven as its root cause and justification it turns out not only with the villages oblivious to nine eleven but so were the afghan police and even some of the translators working with the u.s. military but you don't know that is for you to say that no i am not no i never syria had never seen these pictures before. the 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 adam plots from afghanistan for. the terrorist attacks that became synonymous with. the senseless slaughter of almost six people stunned the world. the vision of a. ten years on the team members. 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 a locomotive jaroslaw ice hockey team in response president to the major me to get if once new legal powers to ground airlines are unable to assure a passenger safety sean thomas looks at the catastrophe that killed manning

a much loved player. 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 this team for many years our whole family including a little child that went to all the games for us is their 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 cage no hockey team crashed shortly after takeoff bursting into a wall of flame after clipping a runway antenna forty three of the forty five on board perished soon with a new look of mystery stares just 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 oh 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 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 locomotive 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. the loss of. it was a huge blow to this community international nature of this team it was a large loss for russia and the rest of the world as well. my friends when the plane because a. couple years ago or. just want to give my condolences to the

families and 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 demitra told me he actually wants to quit that he wants to play a little bit more and then leave and spend time with his family so this last conversation came back to my head when i heard about the crash i'm going to only him at least by lighting this candle 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 did it 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 country . and us level sean thomas r.t. . talk

a challen national hockey players from around the world are part of the locomotive team memorial 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 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 of the players and were involved with the team said the loss is a man's. i worked in your islam i had the best done 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

start trying to convince him to return back to the national team because i knew 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 score they took a huge interest in what they did and i really enjoyed working with them. watching r.t. live from moscow still had a sour stalemate is the resistance of khadafi loyalist stance firm with a deadline to surrender or ignored we have the latest on the fighting and the growing sense of fear in the capital. israel vows to keep the peace agreement with egypt despite embassy riots that led to be 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 to the visit of moscow they accuse president bashar lasette of continuing

a bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters and want international help russia is urging both sides to start talking voigt another conflict speaking on the sidelines of an international policy forum in the russian city. president medvedev said he's concerned about advances in syria but the situation is far from simplistic. the resolution which 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 you know 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 it was situation is not that simple and we have to take into account the balance of different forces and interests russia may support certain moves only if they don't boil down to the one sided condemnation of the present us out 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 admin and international relations expert thinks the harsh measures may not put the regime on its knees but they will definitely hit ordinary syrians in any case. what happened whatever happens the sanctions are clearly a blunt instrument that does not discriminate between the regime and the people and what my end up happening is that the people who probably are going to pay a price and the regime especially if we take a look at what happened in iraq or what happened with cuba. experiment is a very good example of this where some of the harshest sanctions ever imposed on any country in history were imposed on iraq and despite that. did not succeed in bringing that regime down. effect. the public which was

hurt severely. as a result of the sanctions so this is. i think is going to raise a lot of questions especially some of them political some of. course more. professor admin to grieve they're commenting on the west push for sanctions on syria. to another civil conflict in libya this week khadafi loyalists put up dog and resistance against rebel forces with a surrender deadline expiring on saturday fighting rages on near want to put out these last four strongholds bani walid nato airstrikes continue to assist the rebels leaving as ousted leader is on the run and now on interpol's wanted list is all your messages claim he is still in the country despite reports his family and some associates crossed the border into his chair meanwhile the have leaving as transitional council almost a fobbed illegitimate has moved to tripoli and

a major step toward setting up a post gadhafi government the capital fell to rebels last month but life there shows little improvement as a 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 labor and capital has been rejoicing in the dictator's fall where the. 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 i hope you don't seem to hear her short during this whole time tripoli in august or you feel free you know very very well with. this little gadhafi gone it is good duffy's

toward me he told me oh dear be would love me or would that be broken we know you would see loved him he was right of them is that we don't are a good dub you don't know where they are right when they were a kid but away from jubilant crowds we meet those who are not so pleased. mom leaves in tripoli's district historically pro khadafi when the rebels arrived his sister was badly injured she's still in hospital in tunisia. of the one doesn't want to show his face on camera and ceased want to hidden location for the interview he says revolution has brought much fear in its wake. there is no peace there is no safety in the city we don't want so children 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 a wink what we do know. of the rahman says he's also want to change and the

brighter future for his country but they sway. people are dying on both sides of the cities destroyed or no one cares do they seriously think that they changed it for the better don't want you so just look around is that what you wanted and what is 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 are growing bigger and bigger. shortly after tripoli fell into rebel hands the national transitional council libya's new authority claimed it was moving here from benghazi but weeks have passed and the resale no sign of order being restored the city is

functioning by south and treading a fine line between freedom and anik a. rich notion of. tripoli libya. the british prime minister wants to look into claims that u.k. secret agents sand terror suspects too could obviously be aware they were allegedly tortured human rights groups in tripoli found documents outlining m i six and cia are in dition programs but former british intelligence officer ronnie rashad 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 at the inquiries act two thousand and five an inquiry that is established including this in this torture inquiry headed up by subpoena gibson is circumscribed by the very organizations that are being investigated in this case m i five and m i six so it's going to be toothless plus of course the other consideration with this is that peter 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 he's going to unearth anything deliberately perhaps he would probably want to shine a bright light in the dark corner should we say he'll be friends to the intelligence agencies they will have lost all credibility they have double deals in libya for 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. for the latest news and video from around the world we can visit our t. dot com that's our web site and here's what's on line right now galveston and maybe the world's biggest opium poppy producer bought the u.k. is making inroads into the market so go online to see what british farmers are growing and why. moscow's highest observation deck of the astounding t.v. tower has been reopened for tourists after years of reconstruction find the full

story and more on our t. dot com. twenty years sentence for russian pilots convicted of conspiring to smuggle cocaine caused a strong reaction from moscow this week russia promise not to abandon constantini or shall go after the verdict by an american court it was detained 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 here's 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 arrest and rendition 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 amber see 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 tap mistakenly killed five egyptian police officers the israeli prime minister says he's country will stick to its peace treaty with egypt despite the embassy attack that led to back away from most of its diplomatic staff the protests come months after a popular revolt ousted hosni. bart president of the arab lawyers association seven hundred car says it to slot as groups who could ultimately benefit from the end rest. of the various political movements vying for part of the ad trying to show who is bigger than the other i think this demonstration it's only the liberals not taking part in it each side is accusing the other one of trying to show their

power the islamists are not concerned that not what i'm about the election because whatever form the election no takes they will definitely get higher votes than the liberals demonstrations will continue i think the egyptian people will not accept that the military continue to be in power this by the fact that most of the military as everybody knows the same old team of mubarak 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 without that. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world seventy seven u.s. soldiers have been injured in a suicide bomber assault on an american military base in eastern afghanistan it's one of a series of attacks on the eve of the anniversary of september eleventh earlier twenty five civilians were injured and killed after a large truck bomb exploded outside a nato outpost and two separate roadside bombings killed ten afghans close to the

capital kabul. as many as two hundred people are dead and three hundred seventy missing after at overload a vessel capsized in saying 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 sounds of course president has declared a three day mourning period. fast 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 fishing boat were lost during nate's approach and no sign of a cruise has been found while coastal areas brace themselves for the storm air and sea rescue teams are continuing their search despite worsening conditions. am for the fourth time the top prize of the venice film festival is coming to russia

alexander supports movie foulest be off other wiles to win the golden line the jury was united in his decision with darren aronofsky praising the picture saying it would change of your worst forever it's two years of shooting and an overall price tag of over nine million dollars faust a supporter of some most ambitious projects inspired by her days of tragedy the dialogue in germany has yet to be translated to other languages including russian for more about the director and he's a work you can visit our website r.t. dot com. while i'll recap the headlines for you in just a few moments stay with us. worldwide

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welcome back you're watching our t.v. live from moscow let's take a look at today's news and the 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 that 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 in the region killing forty three people on board. and moscow is to set a fact finding mission to syria to get firsthand information about the crisis there this as russia's president dmitry medvedev refuses to take sides in the conflict saying talks are the only way to peace. now the.