over the latest news and video from around the world you can visit our website that's our t.v. dot com and here's what's on live right now i've got to say on may be the world's biggest opium poppy producer but the u.k. is making inroads into the market just go online to see what british farmers are growing and why. at moscow's highest observation exactly a study in a t.v. tower has been reopened for tourists after years of reconstruction and find the full story and more on our t.v. 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 a very israeli flag three people died and over a thousand were injured in writing after a demonstration demanding faster political reforms turned violent anger swelled last month after israeli forces responded to a cross border militant attack mistakenly killed five egyptian police officers the israeli prime minister says his country will stick to its peace treaty with egypt

despite the embassy attack that led to the back ration of most of its diplomatic staff to protest months after a popular revolt ouster of hosni mubarak the president of the arab world's associations tahrir says it's islamist groups who could ultimately benefit from the unrest. the various all article movements vying for all of that trying to show who is bigger than the other i think this demonstration is only the liberals islamists not taking part in it each side is accusing the other one of trying to show they are the bigger power the islamists are not concerned they're not worried about the election because whatever form the election no takes they will definitely get higher votes than the liberals their messages will continue i think the egyptian people will not accept that the military continue to be in power described 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. well let's 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 ally post 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 that's of course president has declared a three day mourning period. i struck with will 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 side of the cruise 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 tougher sturdy measures to lift the country out of its debt pits where he spoke of the country's second largest city of its a lot he has some twenty five thousand people marched in protest at the deep cuts angry demonstrators clashed with police throwing fireballs wildlife release responded with tear gas over a hundred people were detained and injured the greek prime minister attempted to assure you lenders that his country will be able to meet its second bailout

applications a much larger economy illegal also be on the verge of collapse after points of disagreement at the european central bank over its policy of helping vote by the government bonds forbid a massive financial analysts from germany's last party says if italy's the cops of the crisis the impact of the e.u. will be much harder than that of. the euro zone because people who thought. through two percent of g.d.p. but it will be. biggest economy in europe so i would certainly support the current crisis of the eurozone 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 they try to make the majority of the people. in crisis and this is not work and you can't run an economy again for majority of the population and we saw the

consequences in greece we saw in grief the g.d.p. . nearly five percent where rising or falling and so i think there's an awful lucian you have for all copper from the from interim markets and certainly you have two packs rich people if you want to bring a house in order going on like this one worker from a pretty. well i believe you can germany and france will have problems and in your future and for the fourth time the top prize at the venice film festival is sky. into russia alexandre movie faust beat off all their rivals to get at the golden lion the jury was united in its decision to read had a diary and other notes the praising the picture saying it would change viewers forever over two years of shooting in an overall price tag of over ninety million dollars foster is a crew of the most ambitious project inspired by goodness 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 the website that's r.t.e. dot com. and shortly we asked 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. from

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welcome back today's news of this week's top stories on our t.v. the u.s. commemorates its worst terrorist attack that divided the world the nine eleven assault ten years ago prompted america to launch a police ignition that many experts claim has made the global war dangerous. russia bids farewell to the players of a top nationalized hockey team who perished in a plane crash a jet went down shortly after taking off to get a slot in the region killing forty three people on board. moscow is the son of a fact finding mission to syria to get first set information about the crisis there

this as russia's president medvedev refuses to take sides in the conflict saying talks are the only way to see. whether ducking the fall of the nine eleven attack was marred by wars waged under the flag of ridding the world from terrorists lawrence wilkerson a former u.s. official of the administration of george w. bush told r.t. that america thinks its exceptional and abuses of power no longer hats. after nine eleven america did not just go after those who perpetrated back try to take vicious attack it only she campaigned on nations that had nothing to do with nine eleven we're talking about your background hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians have died since two thousand and three america's been in constant wars since nine eleven in different countries are we talking about one of the most profound overreactions in military history to talk about that i'm joined by colonel

lawrence wilkerson whose service call in powell as chief of staff colin powell secretary of state under george w. bush colonel wilkerson thank you so much for joining me thanks for having me more than six thousand american servicemen have died in the lies decade of war spawned by the nine eleven attack. tragedy worth remembering and knowing no doubt but why in all those speeches delivered by american officials i never hear about hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians dead in the wars waged by the united states and other countries like iraq as a collective entity we seem to think we were exceptional and so exceptional that we don't have to think about other people or as i said that's a position you can maintain as long as you are as powerful as we were powerful was rome and its day post world war two but we're no longer that powerful women are powerful recedes even as we speak here today some of the people who were at the

helm back then are now writing books saying everything they did was writing quoting guntown a movie including everything else i'm talking about cheney first of all writes president george w. bush and at the same time they're all blaming each other for something why all this confusion and should one be worried about the general picture that's being created at the last decade or for because they're all trying to blame each other and trying to get out of some of the blame and yes we should be going to. and why are they trying to blame each other let's let's face a factor for a moment that most americans don't even think about. nine eleven happened when george w. bush and dick cheney's what. they allowed the greatest killing of americans on american territory since the order. a lot of their rhetoric and aggressive actions post nine eleven was to hide that fact and also to keep it from happening again because if it had happened again the problem with been impeached on the spot from out of office so we spent four trillion dollars to counter an attack by bin laden's

a lhari would cost maybe half a million that's not very cost effective that's really bad it's bad business so you have to understand that first of all about the bush cheney administration the second thing up understand i think is that we have made a cottage industry if not to much more than a cottage industry out of the what my former boss colin powell has called a terrorist industrial complex lots of people are making lots of money off of this so-called global war on terror you're saying that you had lots of doubts about building this case for war in iraq was it possible at some point. to stand up and say no we have doubts we're not writing this speech we're we're we're out of it we all did it key points in the preparation of colin powells presentation on some of those occasions george tenet and his deputy john mclaughlin said ok ok we'll it's really that out of the cia head of the cia and the director of central intelligence

at the time. will throw that out and they threw it out the real essence of that presentation and they preserved they being george tenet and john mclaughlin and i think under some strong influence from the vice president's office they preserved and that was the mobile biological laboratories that was the active nuclear program as symbolized by the aluminum tubes and it was the existing chemical stocks and. nachum is hard connections between al qaida and baghdad those were the real faults of the ads in that briefing that george tenet and john mclaughlin the representatives of not just the u.s. intelligence community but of israel science britain jordan and a host of others who were feeding intelligence into us. that's what they said was sacrosanct they said that is the case that is what saddam hussein is doing only later that we learned that even those elements of his presentation were composed of

half truths false words even and i think today after doing more research outright lies lies created in the defense department under undersecretary of defense for policy doug feith and his special iraqi lie and lies created in the vice president . because they wanted for the same reason that in summer of two thousand and two i have discovered that the emphasis on enhanced interrogation techniques changed suddenly from being to try and find out if another attack were coming after all a lot of time expired for another attack were coming it would have come. in the summer of two thousand and two it shifted suddenly to enhanced interrogation in order to find out if baghdad had contacts with al qaida so we were actually torturing people not under the so-called smoking gun argument that we might have another attack so it was justified we were torturing people so we could attack iraq

and convince the american people we should do so. that's how drastic it got now ask me why they want to go to war with iraq and i'll give you a half a dozen answers if it's douglas feith is protection of israel if it's paul wolfowitz the deputy secretary of defense it's a little bit of israel it's a little bit of oil and it's a little bit of bringing peace and democracy and freedom to the middle east if it's george bush it's who i fear the nexus between our qaida and baghdad which cheney had convinced i'm sure george tenet had convinced him of it george tenet didn't think there was that big a nexus. with dick cheney i think it was all over iraq right now is sitting on probably two hundred billion barrels maybe three hundred billion barrels that's a reaction on all the pork that surpasses the. how do you read that if iraq is sitting on three hundred billion barrels of oil if that turns out to be true it will be more than saudi arabia now you know why dick cheney went to war in iraq it also was the low hanging fruit in north korea it was far more dangerous but too

difficult one hundred thousand casualties were predicted by the pentagon 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 so the low hanging fruit was a rock just use that moment in the wake of nine eleven they use the moment in the in the wake of nine eleven to divert from afghanistan a real target should have been our real target and go to iraq that's exactly what they did you said you were testifying if they put someone like cheney on trial about what you accuse them of i think he's already done it no one needs to accuse him of anything he has admitted publicly it is on videotape that he condoned waterboarding but he would still waterboard then he does not believe waterboarding is torture waterboarding is torture there is a ipso facto case the man's guilty but they're saying they did it in the best

interest of their country it seems to be the ultimate reasoning which can't be confronted what would you say to that i say that the in never justifies the means. and the question is does the lesser evil ever justify itself because it prevents a greater evil there are some real problems with that argument the logical problems as well as philosophical and what i would call value laden problems first is you can never know a hypothetical you never know if your lesser evil action actually prevented the greater evil dick cheney spends hours on television and elsewhere and in this book trying to say that his actions prevented a greater evil another attack on the united states and so forth well that's his interpretation on my interpretation of the bureaucracy which is probably far better than his because i was buried in it i heard people talking about it every day so bottom line is i know what dick cheney doesn't know because he was in the palace and he can't know horse soldiers surrounded cheney but people who surround cheney

are david addington and john hannah and scooter libby and they killed the cheney what dick cheney wants to hear george tenet told dick cheney what cheney wanted to hear oh yes it's working mr vice president we're getting great information and we're stopping terrorist attacks that is utter. they didn't stop anything through inherent in the hanssen interrogation techniques i have that from some of the most respected people in the f.b.i. and the intelligence community so i can't fault big cheney for not knowing the truth because he couldn't know the truth he's trapped he's trapped in his own. but the truth is the methods don't work and they rebound to your discredit and they recruit as you say for your enemy dick cheney is asked what would happen if an american were captured in iran and what would happen if they waterboarding because they thought he was a threat and the state of iran and so he just skirted around the question what he

really said was if you listen closely americans are better than anybody else in the world. americans shouldn't be waterboarding but anybody else we can waterboard especially if we're americans doing it that's essentially what dick cheney said now here's the kicker about forty percent of america agrees with you poll you look at the polls that have been done about forty percent of america at any given time they think that americans have the right to torture other people and other people don't have the rights to torture americans for various reasons and most seven think it's that way because we have a bigger gun that's why they think we can get away with it and do it because we have a bigger gun that's why i say the reckoning is coming the reckoning when we are just another country in the world and that they is coming it may not come in my lifetime but unfortunately i think it's coming in my children and my grandchildren's like time and this is going to be

a hard time for washington because we no longer going to have the money where no are going to have the economic might we're no longer going to have the military might and so forth to say to the world we can torture you but you can't torture us many say that america's will sponsor the nine eleven was one of the most profound overreactions in military history and you agree with that i think initially it was proportional it was rational it was fairly well supported in the international community and it was sadness that yes the initial reaction what we should have done was gone to afghanistan as we did did what we did about six months later said ok here's your government karzai you've got it go ahead and run your country as best you can we'll give you economic and financial support from afar we're going home oh by the way footnote if you are playing terrorists in this country you will come back and do it again in what way could that over we actually backfire. i think it

already has and this is a. change really that's happened since world war two it's been creeping up on us and now with libya it's here we have a an executive power that is beyond any check by the people by the congress or by the courts for war we can go toward the drop of a coin it matters not that the obama administration and i have to say i voted for president obama it matters not that they have protested rather few to leave and he ought to be relieved that they weren't involved in hostilities that the war powers act was not relevant and so forth it certainly was any time you kill people for state purposes the war powers act is relevant and the constitution is relevant we've reached a point now where the president the united states can kill people for state purposes any time he or she will feels i mean james madison said very

eloquently when you come to combine the power to initiate war with the power to execute it and you have achieved. that is a very profoundly worrying situation and that's what's happened in this country. since. nine eleven.

these scenes in this week's top stories in our t.v. u.s. commemorates its worst terrorist attack that divided the world the nine eleven assaults 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 a jet went down shortly after taking off in the us level region killing forty three people on board. and moscow is the center fact finding mission to syria to get first set information about the crisis there this as russia's president medvedev refuses to take sides in the conflict saying that talks are the

only way to peace. i'm back with more in fifteen minutes but first the sports something even its national. you're watching the sports news live in our gee thanks for joining us the headlines . which don't seem to be here it's open decided a repeat of the twenty ten final meanwhile so mounting saucer and serena williams will do battle for the ladies' title at train heat flushing meadows. now i'm old school strong premier league leaders and city rivals when you're away from home and second seed insinuates in pittsburgh also lose on saturday. and the last two by family browns fans and dignitaries play their respects to beloved nazi ice hockey players who were killed in a plane crash this week. let's begin with the latest from flushing meadows was

arena williams knocked out carolynn was knocking the u.s. open semifinal american through to the championship decided now with these winning six two six ball over the top seed meanwhile samantha starts her advanced second career grand slam final in the earlier clash the australian beating surprise package care bending the rain delayed match starts and started strongly taking the press. for a body inside a german called back to level the game and in fact textile the decider was one sided though with stars so running away thought of love and securing a six three two six six two million to reach the final is now aiming to become the pastor straight men who want to win a major says yvonne blood gongs ninety eight the wimbledon picture. had a chance to the french. was an error but it's a kid and you know i now understand the give myself another two to be see just go out there and you know use a little bit of that experience from last year really go after it and see what i

can do but it would be. a major highlight of my career. of the man. novel djokovic to be the daughter federer the second meeting of the season the match went to full five sets over the joker coming from two sets to love down and saving too much boys to eventually get through six seven point six six three six two seven five five time when a better loss of the same stage into the same man at last year's us open while the top seeded servings hoping for his grand slam title in twenty eleven and low. it's always important to. be calm to stay positive and to believe that you can win i mean since you're already in the city for a marriage it's only one break or difference or. so only rafael adult all stands between jobs which have the choke for defeating the call seeded andy murray six will since do three six six two in the second semi was

again denying the scots hopes of a major success the dull versus dark which will be a rematch of last year's party one and a battle between the world's top two players the men's decide that will be played on monday. thousands of football and sounds they saw the top four russian sides in action as the day started with a shock defeat. to cross city rivals didn't mind the first match without national team gilkey but it did i can feel you've picked up a serious knee injury a fortnight ago and the absence was a glaring one on the bar only an open for the visitors thirty six minutes in there more misery was down he says now as they're going to go he said again egypt to go just three minutes later carol gorani the man make need two zero two does not mark . has remained all that seasonally for the rest of the game. this taking advantage of it made way through the second half home a cool nicky and late substitute that xander got caught in would round out before

the stroke of full time. but they force needs in pittsburgh as well who could abandoned the day on top of a had avoided defeat at lincoln i see but it was beyond them which on the scale it was meant throwing away a two goal lead to lose four to done colossal bitch and alexander. striking with us out that was in need in the driving seat but most will fall back in the second summer signing because i'd be you know launching become big just after the break and now the new iraq will fully pick a sado side for savings right on the alamo. and yet one more man who's just out of messiah would look let's leave the course those left to make the difference because he's begging a brace within thirty minutes to complete the full two spring to look mighty. urbin meanwhile have slipped from full still fearful after a disappointing three one loss at the starbucks you see sound open for that has

eight minutes in following handball in the box there are many international easily missing the ball away now straight to the second half where the hosting double believe through alexander i mean so much really as a five over after a free kick the brass not sure pulled one back from the spot with zero minutes to go giving visitors a hope for a draw being key person again we should of then join his team mates up front hoping to score in the dying minutes spot has managed to deal with that threat enjoys the new brokenly it's because for beyond doubt in injury time hitting an absent absence to give the premier league new boys a well deserved three one victory in former russian champions. and there are four game schedule for sun this part of moscow are already in action and way to the car in gear and it's neil neil at half time there elsewhere a second from last. place that got us.