ago terrorists crashed hijacked planes into the twin towers of the world trade center in new york as well as 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 sunday at the attack sites and all over the country well in a decade that followed washington waged its war on terror with able preventing a nine eleven from ever happening again but critics say conflict has become an obsession with a price tag of billions of dollars a day and it's again reports now 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 has

a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction. while starving a citizens. iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror while an unelected few repressed the iranian people's hope for freedom. irak and cheney's dishonest 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 the 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 point on both sides seoul 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 top 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 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 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 form. 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 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 president of the united states can kill people for state purposes any time he or she would 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 a massive global criticism but bryde backer from the antiwar as her coalition says the war on terror is just an excuse to keep those countries in the grip of america . so i would say the american people who originally bought the position that this was a war to stop another september eleventh they have no longer believe that position they they now believe that it's a war for something else ill defined for the broad public bush administration launched the war in iraq for instance on a completely false pretext the war on terror in fact has become

a slogan it will be all to meet we know and in history is the ultimate pretext to do whatever the u.s. government wants but in the case of iraq they invaded iraq hundreds of thousands died millions were made into refugees a beautiful country was torn apart and and divided along ethnic sectarian lines and iraq had nothing at all to do with september eleventh likewise in afghanistan we have thousands of troops who are going to be in afghanistan for decades because this is part of a grand scheme to keep these countries under u.s. control as part of a u.s. americans fear of influence but one of the apparent consequences of the war on terror has been a rise in islam a phobia both in america and abroad well speaking of brzezinski a political scientist and former u.s. national security advisor told r.t. the from the outset of 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 we can mobilize most of the support of their epic. i think we didn't do that we also enlarge the theater of war from the down to iraq and as a consequence we have become embroiled in a much larger regional political conflict and not some sort of the religious course a. terrorist attack that became synonymous with. the senseless slaughter of the syrian people stop the. vision of a new. ten years old she remembers. to. look

back at nine eleven and see. now 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. team now in response president dmitry medvedev wants new legal powers to ground air lies that are are they able to assure passenger safety are to sean thomas looks at the catastrophe that killed many much loved players. and waves of emotion poor through jaroslav will as residents realize the full weight of the tragedy that country the lines of some of the city's brightest stars but ended up we've been fans of this team for many years who family including a little child went to all the games. for us it's their operable loss 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 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 and then we went to the river and saw the plane with us in the wake of the tragedy put in ordered an immediate and thorough investigation as president medvedev made 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 here at the stadium the loss of. was a huge blow to this community or national. team it was a larger loss of for russia and of the rest of the world as well. my friends but. because a. couple years ago because of wonders just want to give my condolences to. the. ceremonies to honor the players were held in minsk in bratislava with some reflections from those who knew the players well. better 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 his family 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 for 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. 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 people who brought us joy and played for our country this is an irreplaceable loss for the people of us level and over. the years level sean thomas r.t. . top a.f.l. and national hockey players from around the world are part of the lack of motive yet us level team moral services have been held in their native countries in prague hundreds of people gathered to remember three czech nationals who are among those killed there with candles and shouted the names of the former world champions there was a block of fans have been coming to the heart of stadiums to pay their respects to the national team captain. they've been leaving messages and laying flowers national team cultures that we knew the players that were involved with the team

said the loss is immense. i worked on 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 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 school they took a huge interest in what they did and i really enjoyed working with them. and still ahead for you this hour israel vows to keep the peace agreement with egypt this is why the embassy riots that led to the evacuation of diplomatic staff in cairo.

and the stalemate in libya the resistance of get up of oil is stands firm with a deadline. to surrender or ignored well we have the latest on the fighting at the growing sense of fear in the capital. a twenty year sentence for a russian a pilot convicted of conspiring to smuggle cocaine cause a strong reaction from moscow this week russia promise not to a bad go after the verdict by an american court. in liberia in two thousand and ten and secretly transported to the u.s. now 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 that has shankar repeatedly pleaded not guilty in the case his defense now has a month to file an appeal although u.s. officials could take up to two years to consider it moscow says his arrest and rendition that were illegal and that it will seek his repatriation. now 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 and ripped down the israeli flag three people died over a thousand were injured in the rioting after a demonstration demanding political reforms turn violent anger swelled last month after israeli forces responding to a cross border militant attack mistakenly killed five egyptian police officers israeli prime minister says he has gone three will stick to its peace treaty with egypt despite the embassy attack that led to the evacuation of most of its diplomatic staff for more this we're now joined from jerusalem by dr jonathan spyer from the global research in international affairs center mr speier we're talking about the attack which was just it just happened a month ago after israeli forces of course killed the egyptian policeman is that the only reason behind me and israeli sentiment. no i think there's quite a lot more to it and i think the fact of the matter is that in terms of public

opinion in egypt even though there's been peace fishery for more than for more than thirty years public opinion in egypt remains very solidly israel and i think what's now happening is that since the fall of president hosni mubarak we're seeing in a sense of public opinion making itself much more visible much more loudly and i think that this should be put into that context rather than relating it directly to the issue of the terror attack and a lot and then the incidents that followed it you're talking about public opinion saying there's a big anti israel sentiment there however the government itself is saying it will hang on to that peace treaty as we know that peace treaty has given if it gets aid and funding from the u.s. do you think that this is going to change any given public opinion versus any egyptian government in the future can it live without u.s. support. well clearly economically egypt right now cannot live without us that is to say that egypt is a country with very deep structural economic problems and therefore is dependent on

the level of aid which realistically speaking only the united states can provide for it now this place is the current egyptian government and military government in quite a difficult situation on the one hand they are dependent on american aid and therefore as an aspect of that they are required to keep the peace treaty with israel a central linchpin of regional diplomacy in a certain sense of. the u.s. in this region on the other hand they do not wish to be seen publicly to be cooperating with israel to be in any way sympathetic to israel because they also used to be responding to that very. public opinion which they're called to deal with remembering that the government of egypt is heading towards elections in. therefore in order to win the elections are going to be to come out well they want to continue to have a general atmosphere of norm simply to israel and to western and so is ready rhetoric same time in reality they are dependent on american support they're going

to continue to be ok let's talk about israel's relationship with the region the countries around it i mean there has been a lot of falling out first we saw it with turkey and now with cairo and they're barely clinging on to that peace treaty with egypt what consequences are the consequences of israel losing its allies in the region essentially it's being even more isolated. that's absolutely correct it's important to remember that there are there a process is underway in the region right now which are in no way in which israel can in no way really exert any influence on we are in the midst it might be said of a tectonic shift actually in the strategic picture of the middle east and israel to a great extent. in this process and one of the most central things now taking place i think is that turkey for example is moving forward to try to take advantage of the void in the sense that has been left by the fall of egypt and the strategic changes taking place and one of the aspects of turkey's move towards making a bid for regional leadership is once again the very distinct cooling off to put it

mildly its relations with israel so these approaches of historical magnitude which israel can't really influence israel in a certain sense is only going to be able to pursue a policy of damage limitation hoping very much to keep these relationships with egypt with as much track as they possibly can speaking about keeping relationships just very quickly do you think israel should change its stance towards a peace process with the palestinians to keep its allies. well i think that really. got to the palestinians and with regard to this approach to september once again is dealing with them in an imitation that's to say the government is public about wanting to bring the go back in to begin again of the palestinian authority determined to have this unilateral declaration of statehood on the twenty september at the u.n. general assembly and once again i think about the damage limitation doesn't really matter right now exactly what israel does israel is going to be increasingly isolated it's going to be put in a very defensive situation and that i think is the reality in the region we're

looking forward to at the moment right thanks very much for jonathan spyer from the global research in international affairs thank you. well russia plans to send a fact finding mission to syria to get firsthand information on the areas hit by violence the decision was announced after members of the syrian opposition decided moscow is president assad of continuing a bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters and they want international help russia is urging both sides to start talking and avoid another conflict speaking on the sidelines of an international policy forum in the russian. president medvedev said he's concerned about it that's in syria but the situation is far. the resolutions we would approve to send a strong message to the syrian regime should in fact be addressed to both sides things are just black and white there and the 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 west has been pushing for a hardline approach to the syrian government imposing various sanctions but professor edmund ghareeb an international relations expert thinks that the harsh measures may not put the regime on its knees but they will definitely hit ordinary syrians. but in any case what happened whatever happens there sanctions are clearly . 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 price. 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 are imposed on any country in history when imposed on iraq and despite. not succeeded in bringing the regime down. the public which was heard 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 economic and some of course. professor edwin garrett they're commenting on the west's push for sanctions on syria. to another conflict now in libya this week get off a loyalist put up dog resistance against rebel forces with a surrender deadline expiring on saturday fighting rages. these last four strongholds that's bloody nato airstrikes continue to assist the rebels leave us out of leader is on the run and now on interpol's wanted list because of your

messages he's still in the country despite reports of 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 month but life there shows little improvement as artists but if 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 the libyan capital has been rejoicing. in the dictator's fall. he wanted to hang his portrayed here in the central square for the forty second anniversary of his rule but we put our flag up instead we won we so happy without him. it seems in the last weeks rebel fighters have fired bullets into the air the to her short tour and they sold on tripoli are no alcohol stuff or reveal

pheno very very forward. is their gaddafi. duffy's toward me he told me oh do be would love me would that be broken we know you see love him all of us what a president is that we don't argue that you don't know what they are like when they lower their 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 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 our children outside 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 raman says he's also want to change and the brighter future for his country but they sway. people are dying on both sides the city is 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 cities 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 it 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 for the latest news and video from around the world this visit our web site that's our t.v. dot com here's what's on line right now afghanistan may be the world's biggest opium poppy producer of the u.k. is making inroads into the market will go online to see what british farmers are growing and why. at moscow's highest observation deck be a stock in a t.v. tower has been a reopened for tourists after years of reconstruction could find the full story and much more at r.t. dot com. now 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 on the adversity of september eleventh earlier two afghan civilians were killed after a large truck bomb exploded outside a nato outpost and two separate roadside bombings killed ten afghans close to the capital kabul. for people suspected of planning a terrorist attack have been arrested in the city of goldenberg they were taken into custody shortly after the evacuation of the cities across a stone art center where the international art festival has brought together nearly four hundred people the police conducted a search of the premises but found nothing suspicious. 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 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 so the president has declared a three day warning period. and for the fourth time the top prize at the venice film festival is coming to russia i think sanderson movie beat off all their rivals to win the golden lion the jury was united in its decision with had out of north sea praising the picture so it would change viewers forever two years of huge deal and overall give over nine million dollars. most ambitious project inspired by go to tragedy of the dialogue in the german has yet to be translated to other languages including russian but you can find more about the director and his work just go to our website that's our to call. shortly report all the deadly legacy of war and that's after a recap of the week's top stories to stay with us. the

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here are today's news in 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 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. shortly after taking off a region killing forty three people on board. and moscow is to set a fact finding mission to syria to get first hand 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. well coming up next it's our special report about the deadly legacy of war and how it could come back to haunt military

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