the world trade center in new york at the pentagon building in washington d.c. one more plane came down in the state of pennsylvania commemorations for the nearly three thousand people who lost their lives will be held on a sunday at the attack sites and all over the country one of the decade that followed washington waged its war on terror and was able venting a nine eleven from ever happening again but critics say conflict has become an obsession with a price tag of billions of dollars as again if you check out reports in our special coverage. it started as a war on terror spawned by the deadliest terrorist attack in history you know whether she would be 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 is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction. while starving its

citizens. iran aggressively pursues ease weapons and exports terror while an unelected few repressed the iranian people's hope for freedom. iraq and change the view 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 to use the moment and 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 people on both sides so would be destroyed iran was too difficult seventy million people not fractured like the iraqis and the sunni and shia. question another as for the motives behind invading

iraq some top or oil iraq right now is sitting on probably two hundred billion barrels maybe three hundred billion barrels that's correct zone or reported. 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 monex to belittle the idea is that so 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 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 by the courts for war we can go toward the drop of a coin we've reached the 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 that chase for a handful. terrorists just 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. reporting from washington r t. o 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 qaeda and the taliban which gave them shelter that is out of blood 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 those who are

going to look forward to school. they never heard of can you show them a few more and can us do they know where it is we don't know if that's because because of uniform or we never heard about the need to support the world big time or suck up to. the two young men and clearly never heard of nine eleven. but maybe the elders at a local show would have more to say yeah i know you see it in. this ng 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 because i think i was a cop if i just got here i would be surprised but having been here now for six months this is premised stone ages where we are and what to do about their reactions. so that the guy who said it was kabul was clearly never going to kabul and it just shows you how isolated they are even in their own country. understand.

from what you know you don't think you know if you're going to send come to this point and get the airplane from here to attack in the united states but you know how much power that. it was nice to go from iraq to then here is a lot easier to understand you know why you're here and where do you see at that picture you know it's good picture remind yourself it's what you're there to see after looking at it in this context while wearing the uniform if you're in the right. to be back. and saying we're going to help you to discern one funding and to destroy us how many funding and this is going to help you where is the help. down what this is going to give it to our kids . i'm going to go up 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 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 this is all you got about i was about thirty five i never thought to ask those 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 with the villages oblivious to nine eleven the afghan police and even some of the translators working with the u.s. military and you don't know that is for you to see that no serious 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 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 plots from afghanistan for. a lot of the apparent consequences of the war on terror has been

a rise in islamophobia both in america and abroad well speaking of brzezinski a political scientist and former u.s. national security advisor told r.t. but from the outset washington adopted the wrong approach in its fight back. the response should not generalize this and this. 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 one is also the support of their epic. i think we didn't do that we will say in large the theater of war from the countess down to iraq and as a consequence we have become embroiled in much larger regional political

conflict not some sort of the religious course a. terrorist attack that became synonymous with. the senseless slaughter of the syrian people stop the little. vision of a. ten years old and she. has to. look back at nine eleven and see. a tragic loss hit the sports world this week friends and fans and families are mourning the victims of a plane crash in central russia which held almost the entire lokomotiv yet us level ice hockey team well in response president dmitry medvedev wants new legal powers to ground airlines on able to assure passenger safety artificial thomas looks at the catastrophe that killed many much loved players. and waves of emotion poor

through jaroslav and as residents realize the full weight of the tragedy that country the lines of some of the city's brightest stars everybody ended up with the fans of this team for many years who family including a little child born 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 k h l 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 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 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 your us level locomotive team made their voices heard in a show of solidarity and support. as you can see from the flowers and candles and momentos left here at the stadium the loss of. was a huge blow to this community but due to the international nature of this team it was a larger loss of for russia and of the rest of the world as well. my friends with the plan because a. couple years ago of course one does just want to give my condolences to the family. ceremonies to honor the players were held in minsk in

bratislava with some reflections from those who knew the players well. after to have all demitra told me he actually wants to quit talkie that he wants to play a little bit more and then leave and spend time with his family so there's less. conversation came back to my head when i heard about the crash and i want to honor 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 have buried our friends the people who brought us joy and played for our country this is an irreplaceable loss for the people of us level and of our country. and yours level xan thomas r t. l and national hockey players from around the world are part of the locomotive yet us level team memorial services have been held in their

native countries now in prague hundreds of people gathered to remember to check nationals who were among those killed there with candles and chanted the former world champions in slovakia they're coming to the heart to pay their respects to the national team captain. the leaving messages flowers national team coaches who knew the players and were volved the loss is immense. i worked in your islam i had the best time of my career that this 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. i need them very well even though they were playing abroad still they were always trying to get

better they came 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. i had for you this hour a stalemate in libya the resistance and get up the wall it stands for the deadline to surrender ignored we have the latest on the fighting and the growing sense of fear in the capital. of israel people peace agreement with egypt despite embassy riots that led to be evacuation of diplomatic staff in cairo. russia wants to send a fact finding mission to syria to get first started formation on the areas hit by violence the decision was announced after members of the syrian opposition and this of moscow they accuse president assad of continuing a bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters and they want international help well russia is urging both sides to start talking and avoid another conflict and

speaking on the sidelines of an international policy forum in the russian city of. president medvedev said he's concerned about events in syria and 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 and the anti-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 and 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

doctor to philadelphia university in jordan says that both the authorities and protesters are responsible. there's two thousand people. sort of they say about these two some of them maybe they are insurgents or some of them are but remember there is also one thousand soldiers killed in syria so these one thousand soldiers impossible that they have been killed by by peaceful demonstration definitely have them do three shows in syria was not peaceful in any sense because otherwise how could the possibility that one thousand. policemen have been killed during this five month yes there is the mistrust from both sides but we have the current situation and we should sit on the table and negotiate because there is no other solution that was dr tawfik shah maher from philadelphia university in jordan commenting on the developments in syria. also another conflict now in libya this

week get off the loyalists put up the dog and resistance against rebel forces in the surrender deadline expiring on a saturday fighting rages sawing near one of gadhafi last four strongholds that's bani walid nato airstrikes continue to assist the rebels in libya south of leader is on the run and now interpol's wanted list all his audio messages claim he's still in the country despite reports his family and some associates crossed the border into niger meanwhile the head of libya's transitional council. has moved to tripoli in a major step toward setting up a post gadhafi government the capital fell to rebels last my life there shows little improvement as artie's body of a notion of 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 read joisting in the

dictator's fall. he wants 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 quiet person. shot during this whole country truly are no alcohol stuff or reveal pheno very very bored. mr gaddafi. duffy's victor thought he told old to be more lovely with the people of that we know you will see that love him all of us what a president is that 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. 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 what a 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 our children saw it 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 what we do know. up the man says he's also wanted change and the brighter future for his country but not base way. 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 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 there is still no sign of order being restored the city is functioning by itself and treading a fine line between freedom and anik a. rich notion of. tripoli libya. over the latest news and video from around the world you can visit our website that's our team dot com and here's what's on live right now afghanistan may be the world's biggest opium poppy producer but the u.k. is making inroads into the market let's go online to see what british farmers are

growing and why. at moscow's highest observation deck be a star get a t.v. tower has been reopened for tourists after years of reconstruction and find the full story and more on our team dot com. egypt's police have been put on a state of alert after protesters attacked israel's embassy in cairo this friday they destroyed a wall near the building of the israeli flag three people died. over a thousand were injured in writing 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 despite the embassy attack that led to the vacuum ration of most of its diplomatic staff the protests come months after a popular revolt ousted hosni mubarak the president of the arab wars association.

says its islamist groups who could ultimately benefit from the unrest. the various political movements are 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 boston and each side is accusing the other one of trying to show that the bigger power the islamists. the election because well for the election you know it takes they will definitely get higher votes than the liberals their messages will continue i think the egyptian people will not accept the military continue to be in this five most of the military as everybody knows the same old team of mubarak people who were handpicked by mubarak with the approval of them out of the americans would be happy for the military to stay there but i don't think they're egyptian people without the. well let's now look at some other stories

making headlines around the world seventy seven u.s. soldiers and twenty five afghan civilians have been injured in a suicide bomber assault on an american military base in eastern afghanistan it's one of a series of attacks and the anniversary of september eleventh earlier two afghan civilians were killed after a large truck bomb exploded outside a nato outpost do 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 an overloaded vessel capsized and sank off the coast of zanzibar after losing engine power and 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. a strong pickel storm 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 sight of the crew has been found while coastal areas brace themselves for the storm air and sea rescue teams are continuing their search despite worsening conditions. but the greek prime minister has pledged to move ahead with the toughest early measures to lift the country out of its debt pit where he spoke of the country's second largest city of this a lot he has some twenty five thousand people marched in protest at the deep cuts angry demonstrators clashed with police throwing fire bombs wildlife police responded with tear gas over a hundred people were detained and some injured the greek prime minister attempted to assure you lenders that his country will be able to meet its second bailout obligations a much larger economy at least also be on the verge of collapse reports of disagreement at the european central bank over its policy of helping rome by by the government bonds to massive financial analysts from germany's left party says if

italy succumb to the crisis the impact of the e.u. will be much harder and that of. italian downgrading would be. a huge blow to the euro zone because it will use not greece you know greece just represents two percent of g.d.p. but it will be the biggest economy in the euro zone it would certainly be a huge blow the current crisis of the euro zone as an offspring of the economic crisis which has been caused by the financial markets by the banks and currently what the government is trying to do is they try to let the majority of the people pay the bill of the crisis and this is not work and you can't run an economy against a majority of the population and we saw the consequences in greece we saw in grief the g.d.p. shrank by nearly five percent where rising or falling and so i think there is no solution you have for us of all to decouple from the financial markets and secondly

you have two parents rich people if you want to bring the holes in order going on like this won't work there from the pre and so i believe even germany and france will have a few problems in the near future and for the fourth time the top prize at the venice film festival is sky. into russia. movie faust beat off father rivals to win at the golden lion the jury was united in this decision over the head of doubt and i don't know if steve praising the picture saying it would change your view worst forever over two years of shooting an overall price tag of over over ninety million dollars foster is so kudos most ambitious project inspired by god to this tragedy the dialogue in german has yet to be translated to other languages including russia for more about the director and his work just go to our website that's r t v dot com. and shortly we ask a former george w. bush administration official for his views on the fallout from nine eleven that's

after a recap of this week's top stories in just a few minutes. nine

eleven ten years ago. the fall of the nine eleven attacks.