just after four pm here in the russian capital you're watching r t it was a tragedy that claimed the lives of thousands in an instant and later brought two wars with an even more monstrous death toll the united states is marking a decade since the nine eleven terror attacks in new york and washington d.c. it was the worst strike on u.s. soil in history with you not of the nation in its determination to seek out the perpetrators and prevent more deaths but the american led invasion of afghanistan that followed nine eleven has claimed thousands more lives in what's now the longest conflict in u.s. history while the initial aim of the war on terror was target al qaida which was blamed for the attack on america the fight was soon extended to iraq and its origins game it reports the new u.s. president has taken the battle even further. it started as a war on terror spawned by the deadliest here is the tactic in history or whether she would be enemy that's clear but this is an enemy quickly and included nations

that had nothing to do with nine eleven they were defined by george bush as the axis of evil some of these regimes have been pretty quiet since september the eleventh. but we know their true nature. north korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction. while starving its citizens. iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror while an unelected few repressed the iranian people's hope for freedom. iraq and change the font to show us 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 used 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 they put by the political on both sides so would be destroyed iran was too difficult seventy million people are not fractured like the iraqis and the sunni and shia and christian and other as for the motives behind invading iraq some talk or oil iraq right now is sitting on probably two hundred billion barrels maybe three hundred billion barrels that's correct zone or report 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 of the idea is that the but world is going to be more secure place overall if there is a a unocal or world a sole remaining superpower much of what has happened post nine eleven in the name

of responding to nine eleven has been a pretext as terrorism was no longer the only reason for landing on washington's enemy list the us had even more far reaching plans on the table former vice president dick cheney says he urged the bush administration to bomb syria at. times 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 of the 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 toward the drop of a coin we've reached the point now where the present in the united states can kill

people for state purposes any time he or she feels the need since nine eleven america's war on terror has crossed many borders from pakistan to yemen and other countries the chase for a handful of terrorists has turned the lives of entire nations upside down we're talking about hundreds of thousands of innocent lives taken by the decade of constant war and many worry that a tragedy as great as nine eleven has served as a pretext for an even greater tragedy one that has no end in sight i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team. a suicide bombing in afghanistan has wondered more than seventy american soldiers and killed two civilians is being seen as the taliban's way of marking a decade since nine eleven well the movement issued a statement after the attack denying it had anything to do with the tragedy on u.s. soil nearly ten years after the u.s. led coalition invaded afghanistan it doesn't seem any closer to winning the war

there with the taliban still relentless all the conflicts estimated to have cost over ten thousand afghan civilians their lives as are often caught in the crossfire but as u.s. combat troops begin their gradual withdrawal from the country most locals don't even know why foreign forces came in the first place. helmand in southern afghanistan this province that has borne the brunt of the fighting between the taliban and coalition forces with 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 this little boy with you. 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 you're a former neighbor heard about i need to know about the world or something. the two

young men that clearly never heard of nine eleven. but maybe the elders of the local sure would have more to say yeah no you see. it's just going to see the smoke from the buildings and that's a that's only thing i can see when you guys show this picture. i think it was a call what if i just got here i would be surprised but having been here now for six months it's premature stone ages where we are and what do you think about the reactions fascinating so i want the guy who said it was kabul was clearly never going to kabul it just shows you how isolated they are even their own country don't understand putting. think i would come back you know you don't think you know you've been there america afghanistan come to this point and then get the airplane from here in the united states but you know how much. it was nice to go from iraq to then here is a lot easier to understand you know why you're here and what it means so you have that picture you know it's good picture remind yourself it's what you're there to

see the afghans looking at it in this context while wearing the uniform of carrying a rifle. to your back that was of course much better to tell what was our make and saying we're going to help you to discern one building and to destroy us how many funding and they say we're going to help you where is the help but not work your way down what they're saying to give it to our kids going to fighting and they do it to their own kids in a paper that i don't invade and. i do sympathize or understand what you're some were 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 or earth house yourself are you going to care about somebody you know six thousand miles away. so i can understand that this is ended up out of the top of the list with i never thought to ask those questions of anybody here so 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 with 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 there are no i'm not no i don't want to syria have you ever seen these pictures before. a 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 you know well for full coverage of the ten year anniversary of the nine eleven tragedy just. go to our website that's our team dot com we provide you with the latest updates interviews and videos. of terrorist attacks that became synonymous with. the senseless slaughter of. people stop the. vision of.

ten years old. to. look back at nine eleven to see all this week russia's sporting world was rocked to its core when one of its best hockey teams was all but wiped out in a blink of an eye they died on wednesday we're lucky to get us levels plane crashed on takeoff well on saturday thousands gathered at the team's stadium to say their final goodbyes to the victims are to sean thomas witnessed a city in mourning. the waves of emotion poor through jaroslav as residents realize the full weight of the tragedy the country or the lives of some of the city's brightest stars but ended up with the fans of this team for many years a whole family including a little child to go into all the games for us in iraq are below us but it's like losing a family member well. 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 like 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 all hunky 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 then came the flames and the smell. and we wanted to run away but we didn't know where to run then we went to the river and saw the plane which was in the wake of the tragedy put in ordered an immediate and thorough investigation as president medvedev led a country in mourning visiting the crash site and paying his respects. meanwhile fans of the three time championship winning jaroslava lokomotiv team made their

voices heard in a show of solidarity and support. as you can see from the flowers and candles and left here at the stadium the loss of. it was a huge blow to this community but 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 you guys have put together a couple of years ago and of course one just just want to give my condolences to the families and all that stuff but the ceremonies to honor the players were held in minsk in bratislava with some reflections from those who knew the players well. of the title 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 i want to only him at least by lighting this candle not only him but everybody who died i would like

to express my condolences to his family to his children and wife. saturday marked the end of an official three day mourning period as thousands poured into the stadium to view fourteen coffins on display and say their final goodbyes we should you consider that we have buried our friends the people who brought us joy and played for our country this is an irreplaceable loss for the people of years level and. in years level sean thomas r.t. . a lot of the forty five people on board thirty six were squad members coaches and team officials of locomotive many of them were players of their european nash. teams along with the continental hockey league their moral services have been held in several countries and hundreds of mourners gathered in prague to honor the three czech hockey players who died in the forty two plane crash that deprived russia of one of its talk clubs flowers and candles a memory of the international sports stars in the meantime in slovakia fans have

been paying their respects to national team captain pavel demitra team coaches who knew the players and were involved in the team were deeply moved by the news. i worked in europe i had the best start 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 the city 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 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 to come for you this hour theory in the middle east find out why i'm on cairo take

the israeli embassy by storm leading to the evacuation of its diplomats from the country. and tensions boil over in greece as protesters respond with fire bombs and stones to the announcement made by the prime minister on the state of the country's economy. twenty seven people are reported to have been killed by syrian security forces backed by troops in several towns across the country this comes as the arab league announced its russian agreement with president bashar al assad on long promised reforms the plan outlines proposals to bring an end to the bloodshed in these presidents and hold elections within three years the us and e.u. have imposed sanctions on syria and are calling for the un security council to condemn the violence in the country the united nations says more than two thousand have died in the uprising since mid march well authorities in damascus blamed armed groups for the unrest. russia is urging both sides to

start talking to avoid another conflict well scott plans to set a fact finding mission to syria to get first information on the. areas hit by violence the decision was announced after number of the syrian opposition this is at the russian capital of international help speaking on the sidelines of an international policy forum in the russian city of that aslaug president medvedev said he's concerned about events in the syria but the situation is far from simplistic. the resolutions we would approve to send a strong message to the syrian regime should in fact be addressed to both sides things aren't just black and white 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 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. in libya the head of the country's interim government has arrived in the capital tripoli for the first time since it fell to rebel forces most of libya is now controlled by the national transitional council but gadhafi loyalists have been putting up fierce resistance in bani walid one of the colonel's. nato air strikes continue to assist the rebels liveris out of leader is on the run and now interpol's wanted list he's claimed in recent audio messages that he's still in the country program off the fighters have been given until saturday to surrender to the new leadership well in streets across the country celebrations over the end of the old regime have been replaced by fear as artie's body of financial reports. 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're so happy without him that it seems in the last weeks rebel fighters have fired bullets into the air to her shot during this old untruthfully era no alcohol. only be a fino is very very wooden mr gaddafi. duffy's victor told me he told old to be would love me or the people that we know you see love him and of course we're out of freedom as we don't know a good deputy and we're done all right with a lower case but away from jubilant crowds we meet those who are not so pleased at the time on leaves 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

. i'm going to have one doesn't want to show his face on camera and in ceased when i had no location for the interview he says revolution has brought much fear in its wake. there is no peace there is no safety in the city we don't want our children when it's done we are afraid and we always wait for something bad when we don't feel at least we didn't have to sleep a wink when we do know. of the rahman says he's also want to change and the brighter future for his country but not base way. people are dying on both sides of the cities destroyed no one cares do they seriously think that they changed 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 rising stink of garbage and decomposing bodies youngsters roam the

streets barely old enough to understand that what they carry are weapons not toys many shops schools and hospitals are closed while the cities symmetries are growing bigger and bigger. shortly after tripoli falling to rebel hands in 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 functioning by south and treading a fine line between freedom and anik a. rigged national. tripoli libya. the egyptian government's vowed to tighten security and keep order in cairo where there are grave mobs stormed and sacked israeli embassy friday night three people died and more than a thousand were injured in clashes after a demonstration demanding faster political reforms turned against the embassy

egyptian police force. to intervene but eventually manage the source the crowd now randi is really sentiment rose sharply last month after israeli forces responding to a cross border militant attack mistakenly killed five egyptians this really prime minister says his country will stick to its peace treaty with egypt despite the embassy assault the threat to its staff being flown home but cairo based journalist mohammad abdel fatah says tele viv's done plenty to make at least at the egyptian people. there is a lot of of anger of what israel did recently which basically they crossed the border from israel into egypt killed a number of egyptian soldiers and they promise investigation and nothing has not been delivered yet ever sends their spin huge huge them on the stray sions and the sit in a few days outside the israeli embassy the minus straight is also the egyptian government to at least expelled israeli ambassador from egypt this is not the first

time that israeli troops killed people all soldiers in the border area egypt's public opinion has been liberated and that means they're not going to face silence again when is read commits any act of thuggery on its own our fulda or the people living on our board and that's what has pro down what happened last night so we have to look at the motivation to make a strategic solution to what has actually been happening. started preparations for a state recognition bit at the united nations to later this month activists in the west bank have been rallying in support of the vote this week they say they will keep on demonstrating until palestine is granted you one membership the u.s. has promised to veto the bit and said a palestinian state should only be recognized through negotiations with israel in the meantime settler violence in the west bank has been on the increase after a mosque was vandalized and car set on fire dr ron paul doug chairman of the

palestinian israeli peace forum believes that there are forces on both sides for whom peace was never an option. now what is happening between us and the palestinians will be judged by whether they will be along with they seemed lines between the israeli forces and the palestinians and also between the palestinians and the settlements with their west bank but as much as i understand the interest of both sides is not to reach any hostility on both sides to provoke with the force and the strength of the two governments will be to try and calm down these provocations and not to be carried away by the look at those which would be to heat the area because they don't want to see quiet as quiet is a message for the future for the hope for the peace forces and these people don't want to see peace. the greek cabinet in six is considering proposals to cut its

deficit including new taxes this comes after the prime minister val to save his debt stricken country from bankruptcy in a key speech on the economy more than twenty five thousand people joined together to protest against tough assertive measures on saturday angry demonstrators threw bottles and stones at riot police to disperse the crowd with tear gas protesters say they are fed up with cuts pensions and salaries and increased taxes imposed to secure international rescue loads well the whole of europe has been struggling with a sovereign debt crisis economic analyst peter build thinks the euro zone has to really fatal flaws to survive. it may indeed be getting if not too late and certainly very late in the day in order to institute of financial government for europe the system could collapse before it is politically possible to put these sorts of measures in place but at the same time although parliaments if you like

don't want europe to collapse there is a growing feeling both within parliament and also amongst the people who elect parliament and that's certainly true of germany the most pro european all three of all of the countries but there is a certain impatience away in up is it really worth giving up a sovereignty and b. possibly a lot of money in order to save a system that was forcibly designed right from the beginning it is certainly a question the parliament are going to be putting to each other over the next coming months. well let's take a look at some news making headlines around the world today swedish police have arrested four people in the city have gotten bored guests on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack hundreds of people were evacuated from the city's arts center following the arrests however this readership curity police decided not to raise the terror alert level which has been at the elevated market since november officials have not yet released any further information regarding the suspected

plot. the times and region of zanzibar has begun three days of mourning for the victims of the ferry disaster that claimed as many as two hundred lives three hundred seventy people are still missing after losing power in rough seas the ship began taking on water eventually capsizing survivor say it was overloaded with both cargo and passengers many who were children meanwhile rescue teams have resume their search but hopes of finding more survivors are fading by the hour it's a country's worst maritime disaster in fifty years. air and sea search teams have intensified their hunt for ten that missing or oil rig workers and a dozen fisherman as tropical storm nate makes its way towards the mexico's gulf coast a commercial vessel and two shrimp boats were lost during nate's approach and there's been no sign of the crew since meanwhile forecasters say the gale hasn't strengthened as expected and chances were declining that it would become

a hurricane while much of the u.s. east coast is still recovering from last week's hurricane irene which left over fifty people dead. well more ahead for you this sunday afternoon artie's interview and lots more from the u.s. open the sports bullets and all that after the headlines do stay with us.

well when one deals with water it has to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that are done not just human damage but damage the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amounts of damage done by earl bombs by napalm boy coming from the city whether it's sonic boom city factory marine mammals or it's the burning oil field syria and iraq or it's destroyed coral reefs in the pacific for women purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states that there shall be taken in the war to protect involved against widespread long term and severe damage the united states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions of protocol one has taken exception to that.

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balkan these are the main stories here on r t america marks a decade since the tragedy of nine eleven which united the nation brought about two of the bloodiest war of the twenty first century. which was invaded by the us shortly after the atrocity the real world let's talk about stage another deadly suicide bombing those are two discoveries on the ground of most afghan civilians don't even know why their country was ever occupied by pulling some. brush out of the sports world say goodbye to the country's top nationalized hockey team wiped out in the blink of an eye forty three people died on wednesday when. plane crashed on takeoff in. moscow calls on the international community to take sides in syria's internal violence.