and they promise investigation and nothing has not been delivered yet ever sends their spin huge huge them on the stray sions and a sit in the for a few days outside the israeli embassy the minus traitors all stinking gyptian government that's least expel this really impressive from egypt this is not the first time that israeli troops kill people all soldiers and the border area egypt's public opinion has been liberated and that means they're not going to face silence again when israel commits any act of thuggery on its own our border or the people living on our food and that's what has brought down what happened last night so we have to look at the motivation to make a strategic solution to what has actually been happening. palestine has started preparations for a state recognition of it 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 u.n. 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 died chairman of the palestinian israeli peace forum believes that there are forces on both sides for whom peace was never an option. and now what is happening between us and the palestinians will be judged by whether there will be clashes along with the scene lines between the israeli forces and the palestinians and also between the palestinians and the second mends within the they west bank but as much as i understand the interest of both sides is not. only hostility on both sides to provoke a fee for service and the strength of the two governments will be and why and can go on these provocations and not to be carried away by. those which

reply actually to heat the area because they don't want to see quiet as quiet is a message for the future for they hope for the peace forces and these people don't want to see peace. the greek cabinet is considering proposals to cut its toughest set including new taxes this comes after the prime minister proud to safe instead stricken country from bankruptcy in a key speech on the economy more than twenty five thousand people joined together to protest against tough austerity measures are saturday angry demonstrators threw bottles and stones at riot police have dispersed the crowd with tear gas protesters say they are fed up with cuts pensions and salaries and increased taxes imposed to secure international rescue routes or the whole of europe has been struggling with a sovereign debt crisis if you don't like analyst peter bill thinks the euro zone has too many people for us to survive. it may indeed be getting if not too late

and certainly very late in the day in order to institute a 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 elected parliament and that's certainly true of germany the most pro european albie of all the countries so there is a certain inclinations a way 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 fully designed right from the beginning a question in the parliament are going to be put in 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 of cotton boy guests on suspicion of plotting

a terrorist attack hundreds of people were evacuated from the city's art center following view of arrests however the swedish security police decided not to raise the terror alert level which has been at the elevates of more since november officials have not yet released any further information regarding the suspected plot. at times an invasion of zanzibar has begun three days of mourning for the victims of a ferry disaster that claimed as many as two hundred lives through it has seventy people are still missing after losing power in rough seas the ship began taking on broader eventually capsizing survivors say it was overloaded with both cargo and passengers many you have who were children meanwhile rescue teams to 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 a justified their hunt for ten that missing oil rig workers and a dozen fisherman as tropical storm nate makes its way towards the mexico's gulf

coast a commercial vessel into shrimp boats were lost during nate's approach and there's been no sign of a crew since meanwhile forecasters say the gale hasn't strengthened as expected and chances were declining that it would become a hurricane but much of the u.s. east coast is still recovering from last week's hurricane irene which left over fifty people dead. but more ahead for you this sunday afternoon artie's interview and lots more from the u.s. open the sports bulletin all that after the headlines do stay with us.

well when one deals with war for us 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 and tremendous amounts of damage done by aerial bombs by napalm boy chemical circumstance whether it's on the sonic boom some factory murray mammals or it's the burning oil field syria and iraq or it's destroyed coral reefs in the pacific for ramming purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva convention says nineteen forty nine states that there shall be changes in the war to protect one votes against widespread and long term

and severe damage to the united states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions protocol one has taken exception to that. is. to.

the. balkan back these are the main stories here on our t.v. america marks a decade since the tragedy of nine eleven which united the nation but brought about two of the bloodiest war of the twenty first century. in afghanistan 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 all complied by the instant. 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 lucky lucky to get a plane crashed on takeoff. moscow calls on the international community involved to take sides in syria's internal violence as president of the others says that negotiation is the only way to peace or the arab league announces its reach an agreement with damascus on the long haul this reforms. over there ok the fall of the nine eleven attacks was marked by roars fought under the flag of ridding the world of terrorists lawrence wilkerson a four former u.s. official in george w. bush's administration told r.t. that america thinks it's what holds an unchallengeable place in the world and abuses the power no longer house. after nine eleven america did not just go after those who perpetrated that tragic vicious attack it only shows a campaign on nations that had nothing to do with nine eleven we're talking about

iraq where hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians have died since two thousand and three america's been in constant war 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 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 to die in the last 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 gadd in the wars waged by the united states and other countries like iraq as a collective entity we seem to think were exceptional and so exceptional that we

don't have to think about other people in the world as i said that's a position you can maintain as long as you are as powerful as we were powerful was roman in its day post world war two but we're no longer that powerful in our 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 it was right including guantanamo being clothing everything else i'm talking about cheney first of all my president under 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 of war because they're all trying to blame each other and trying to get out of some of the blame and yes we should be. why are they trying to blame each other let's let's face a fact here 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 florida. 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 they probably would have been impeached on the spot thrown out of office so we spent four trillion dollars to counter an attack by bin laden's a watery that 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 you have to understand i think is that we have made a cottage industry if not a much more than a cottage industry out of the what my former boss colin powell has called the terrorist industrial complex lots of people are making lots of money for 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 impossible at some point. to stand up and say no we have doubts we're not writing this speech where we're out of it we all

did key points in the preparation colin powells presentation on some of those occasions george tenet and his deputy john mclaughlin said ok ok will this roll that out of the seat 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 logical laboratory that was the active nuclear program it was symbolized by the aluminum tubes and it was the existing chemical stocks and. next comes hard connections between al qaida and baghdad those were the real faults of the 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 and to us. that's what they said was sacrosanct they said that is the case and that is what saddam hussein is doing only later did we learn 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 in their opinion 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 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 portraying people not under the so-called smoking gun or argument that we might have another attack so it was justified we were twittering people so we could attack iraq and convince the american people we should do so that's how drastic a god 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 it's protection of israel if it's karl 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 al qaida and baghdad which cheney had convinced him of i'm sure george tenet had convinced about it george tenet didn't think there was that big a nexus. with dick cheney i think it was a war in iraq right now is sitting on probably two hundred billion barrels maybe

three hundred billion barrels that's a rat's own oil record that surpasses. 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 i think cheney went to war in iraq that also was the low hanging fruit north korea 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 and 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 and in the wake of nine eleven to divert from afghanistan our 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 they change on trial and our what we can accuse them off i think he's already done it no one needs to accuse him of anything he has admitted publicly it is on duty ok that he condoned waterboarding that he would

still waterboard then he does not believe waterboarding is torture waterboarding is torture there is a ipso facto case remains 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 the ever justifies the means. and the question is does the lesser evil ever justify its because it prevents a greater evil there is some real problems with that argument 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 big 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 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 would be cheney doesn't know because he was in the ivory pot palace and he can't know horse soldiers surrounding cheney the people who surrounded cheney or 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 dick 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 broader book they didn't stop anything through inherent in the hanssen interrogation techniques i have back from some of the most respected people in the have and the intelligence community so i can't fault big training for not knowing the truth because he couldn't know the truth he's trapped he's trapped in his own military but the truth is the methods don't work and the rebound to your discredit and they recruit as you

said for your enemy dick cheney is asked what would happen if an american were captured in iraq and what would happen if they waterboarding him because they thought he was a threat to the state of iran and so he just skirted around the question of 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 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 of them 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 a is coming it may not come in my lifetime fortunately i think it's coming in my children and my grandchildren's lined up and this is going to be a hard time for washington because we know are going to have the money we're 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 response to nine eleven was one of the most profound overreactions of military history but 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 sad is 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 were entertained terrorist in this country good we'll come back and do it again in what way could that over we actually backfire. i think it already has and this is a profound 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 to war to 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 futile and he ought to be relieved that they weren't involved in hostilities that the war powers act was not relevant and so for that 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 the point now where the president the united states can kill people for a state purpose and any time he or she feels a need james madison said very eloquently when you compare combined the power to initiate war with the power to execute it you have achieved tyranny that is a very profoundly worrying situation and it's happened in this country.

is on our team america marks a decade says. the tragedy of nine eleven which united a nation brought about two of the bloodiest wars of the twenty first centuries on your screens right now you're looking at live pictures from ground zero in new york where families of the victims have gathered and both president obama ad for president bush and other facilities. in afghanistan which was invaded by the u.s. shortly after the atrocity even regardless tell about stage another deadly suicide bombing has already discovers on the ground most afghans civilians don't even know why they're called free was ever occupied by four returns. while russia and the sports world say goodbye to the country's top national ice hockey team wiped out in the blink of an eye forty three people died on the ground state and local to get us

levels played crashed on takeoff from. moscow calls on the international community not to take sides in syria's internal violence plus president medvedev says negotiation is the only way depends on the arab league announces its reach an agreement with damascus on long promised reforms. and now it's time for sports with human. thanks tessa great to have you with us a bit sunday afternoon here in central moscow plenty of sport ahead including. court date with rafael nadal and novak djokovic should bounce into the u.s. open decider a repeat of last year's final clubs a month or so those are on serino williams' will to battle for the ladies' title later on some. tough test reaming rugby world cup champion south africa

age wales in their opening clash of this year's campaign. give me five tips on how flown the world finals kick off in moscow with the home side earning a spot on the podium. let's start with tennis where the final lineups of the u.s. open are sets novak djokovic on the rafael nadal will to pop up for the men's crawl and while it's a month or so those are will attempt to hold serina williams' quest for a fourth grand slam title the younger sister venus barely breaking sweat in the first set against world number one carline wozniacki and williams but she continued dominance in the second the twenty nine year old power telling in the guise of a six two six four scoreline be all that shortened for a fourth title out flushing meadows for serena. she now takes on some but some stores are struggling girl whose sole surprise package and julie kerber in

a rain delay plus those are starting strongly taking the first set six three three on seeded german poll box a level to match in and fossick style the decider was one sided though it's there was a recent five love bump before securing it six three two six six two the finals. had a chance of the french. was unable to take kids you know now on this that we have given myself. another judy see. you know i used a little bit of that experience from last year really go after it in see what i can do it would be. a major highlight of my career a classic match up between if i talk about roger federer will take place in the men's semifinals the march a full five setter with fighting back brilliantly from two sets of too much points trying to eventually came their way six seven four six six three six two seven games the five epic result five time winner federal lost at the same stage to the

same on last year's u.s. open. top seeded job which is aiming for his third grandstand run of twenty eleven a little. it's always important to. be calm to stay positive and believe i believe that you can win i mean since you're already in the fifth set for the match it's only one break difference or. rafael nadal now stands between joke which glory in new york this on your defeating fourth seed andy murray six four six two three six six two in the second semi once again denying the scots dream of a major success in itself versus joke which then a rematch of last year's final one by the serve out a battle between the world's top two clash taking place on monday. all right let's move on to football where a late goal is seen sports like moscow move up to fourth in the russian premier league the capital sides meeting with the first of sunday's four games lispers

eighty fifth minute free kick the difference between the teams in perm. game with fellow strugglers last off is smallest the how time whistle just gone their rock bottom clearly it's obvious up welcome f.c. tom to a really some are a vault some will be seeking his first full goal. brings us on to the repeat world cup where the africa have gotten off to a winning start in new zealand but only just the springboks beating wales by the minimum of margins in their pool d. fixture the box getting off to a flyer in wellington france steyn the man pummeling his way over for a try out early the third minute. but the good welsh outfit didn't let the turn them too much going in at the break ten six down after good work from this man james who with the boots and warren gatland men promptly seize the initiative in

the second half to be followed so it's down to get wales a sixteen and lead your book so that they are world champions for nothing francois who guard slicing through for the try and sixty five minutes the boks seventeen sixteen up and not finish after hoops missed penalty minutes later africa when it's like this if there. really is. why their second favorite south again before that easily peeling its sleeve while always fly half quade cooper starting things off with a ninety minute penalty cooper then becoming one of four different strains to score tries this one making it sixteen six well outside center digby you are in a another explosive effort to see you latino thirty two six with the final score possible see table top an encounter with ireland no waits on saturday for the twice world cup champions. the.