irish themselves taking care of the us eagles but only after a tough eighteen minutes in new plymouth tommy bull running in three tries for our lead in the one russia kick off their campaign in the same pool on thursday i can see us. russia continue to run through the opposition of the european basketball championships david plotz charges on beaten in seven games so far blowing our two thousand and five champions greece and group f. on saturday again close in the opening office the scrappy greeks not rush a shot for shot however and be a player to a famous gough only missed one of eight shots all night i picked her up also proved tough to handle for a shot by eight to start the final quarter comfortably losing a night eighty three sixty seven not lost ross reese the third in the group russia on top not satori who have not lost since the opener all next for the russians on monday. and brings us to boxing where for telly klitschko are successfully defended his w.b.c. heavyweight title feeding polish contender to mush adamic on saturday night their

four year olds at ukraine taking the win with a technical and temperament pitch called us extending his record to forty three for three sporty of those by kiel with just two defeats controller claiming after the part that his sights are now in britain david haye whose last of a tolley's younger brother luckier earlier this. in motorsport herdman benefited from teammate you are a must see last fall a slowing down under team orders to win the rally over st the finn taking his second one of the season with his completed relegated to second place overall the thirty one year old is now fifteen points behind seven time defending champ sebastian loeb with three races to go irvin starting the day twenty two point seven seconds behind his team into hard won nine special stage of the course of the event by russian knockoff and quite a rough ride during a particularly challenging stretch of train traction here for the hotel many. the

top spots on the podium eventually with a slowing time to a lie when the top spots are sober coming home and third the lonely citrin invalid . finally koreans victoria tara should take an individual gold at the modern pentathlon world championships taking place in moscow well the combined russian women's result to earn them a team bronze in the ladies' sides. four out of seven russian women qualified for the finals of the modern pentathlon world championship in moscow and judging from their opening performance it seems one of them might even get a place on the podium you have the. start of the second event with the best result from earlier fencing tournaments well her it's important you know who ask you know i wasn't third to swim in competition so both women relinquish their leading roles with the chief nicole was dropping to fourth and her asking are all the way down to thirteenth. in the third events which is

a show jumping give the kids usually go by and her horse made only one mistake and climbed up to third place going into the final phase which is running and shooting at that point she was the only russian left with a chance to claim a podium spot as her other teammates slipped away below thirty. the combined events which is a little similar to that by half long where athletes run a three thousand meter distance stop it should it's our gets separated the cool headed from the rest though the russians result wasn't enough to win an individual men's all the fourth place finish still earned it you have the key a good place on russia's olympic team. despite the fact that you've posted your personal best results in fan since women she still couldn't win the bronze this shows that women have been tough on her competitive no one to win a tournament and now it must out self that certain mental will concede. over the

next few days with the men's women's and mixed team relays still to come as well as the men's individual final. costs are of artsy moscow. yeah it's a busy few days in moscow and busy here in the sports room as well plenty more coming up in two hours time for you weather is next though. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from around russia. we've got the future covered. when you look for nuclear winter in the street against all odds. in human blonde this one measured in barrels. will brain is most. new

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the. stories our top stories on our t.v. america marks a decade since the tragedy of nine eleven which united a nation brought about two of the bloodiest wars of the twenty first century. in afghanistan which was invaded by the us shortly after the atrocity the relentless tell about staged another deadly suicide bombing those are two discoveries on the ground most afghan civilians don't even know why their country was ever occupied by foreign troops. russia and the sports world say goodbye to the country's top national ice hockey team wiped out in a plane crash that killed forty three people. moscow calls of the international community not to take sides in serious internal violence as president of viet of says that negotiation is the only great piece.

by pm here in the russian capital this is 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 says that are the eleven terror attacks terrorists a crash hard planes of the twin towers of the world trade center in new york as well as the pentagon in washington a fourth plane came down in the state of pennsylvania remembered ceremonies are being held at ground zero in new york and all across america it was the worst strike on u.s. soil in history the united nation and its determination to seek out the perpetrators and prevent more deaths for the american led invasion of afghanistan that followed nine eleven has claimed thousands more laertes in what's now the

longest conflict in the u.s. history those are his good education reports the killing didn't stop there. because it started as a war on terror spawned by the deadliest here is the tactic in history either 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 years they were be fined 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 as a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction while starving its citizens. iran aggressively pursue zs weapons in exports terror while an unelected few repress the iranian people's hope for freedom. iraq and change the font of choice 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 faults hundreds of thousands of iraqi civilians have died since the invasion 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 it also was the low hanging fruit north korea was part more dangerous but to difficult hundred thousand casualties predicted by the. us seoul would be destroyed iran was too difficult seventy million people not fractured like the iraqis and the sunni and shia christian and other as for the motives behind invading iraq some talk to well iraq right now is sitting on probably two hundred billion barrels maybe three hundred billion barrels that's a reaction or reported. 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 rule as the world's policeman the driving idea behind it is that it has a monex to realty the idea is that the but world is going to be more secure place overall if there is a a eunuch or world a sole remaining superpower much of what has happened post nine eleven in the name of responding to nine eleven has been a pretext as terrorism was no longer the only reason for landing on washington's enemy list the us had even more far reaching plans on the table former vice president dick cheney says he urged the bush administration to bomb syria at one time because of its alleged nuclear weapons program a move which experts say would have had disastrous effect on the region and president obama was elected on hopes that he would answer the endless wars. overseas which most americans are opposed to but he continues and adds one more end of the oil rich nation 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 to war to drop a book on we've reached the point now where the president can kill people for state purposes any time you're sure you fuels i mean since nine eleven america's war on terror has crossed many borders from pakistan to yemen and other countries that chase 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

wounded more than seventy american soldiers and killed two civilians it's being seen as the taliban's way of marking a decade since nine eleven 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 doesn't seem any closer to winning the war there with the taliban still the rest of the conflicts estimated to have cost over ten thousand afghan civilians their lives are often caught in the crossbar and 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 has been the brunt of the fighting between the taliban and coalition forces. afghans in this war torn province think about nine eleven and its consequences. while in 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 year we're going to. look. for the few more

and us do they know where it is even we don't know if it's guys because your former neighbor heard about it were. the two young men who 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 smoke on the buildings in the take a silly thing you can see when you go through this picture. so i think that was a if i just got here i wouldn't surprise but having been here now for six months this is from a stone age where we are. what about their reactions though fascinating so what the guy who said it was kabul has clearly never been a cult it just shows you how isolated they're even in their own country come on the one that wants them. well you know you don't think you know that america kind of

come to this point and i mean from here to the united states you know how much. those nice to go from iraq to them here is a lot easier to understand you know why you're here and they really had epic she was good picture remind yourself of his wife of yours and see after looking at it in this context while wearing the uniform if you're in the right. to back that war was. going down make and saying we're going to help you here just one thing and it is to ask how many funding and they say we're going to help you where is the help. you wake up with this is our kids going and fighting and they do it to their own kids but i don't indeed and. i do sympathize you understand what your some are saying it's you can just from the weather we've had recently people losing their homes and nobody syria so you know when you have when you can feed yourself the earth house yourself are you going to care about somebody you know six thousand miles away just so i can understand this it ended up all over the top but if i

never thought to pass those questions of. anybody here that's why we're here amazingly in a country where for ten years a war has been fought with nine eleven as its root cause and justification it turns out not only with the villages the polygamist tonight this is 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 oh no i am not no i don't want the syrians have never 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 a. without the vast majority of afghans ever having really understood why they came in the first place adam puts from afghanistan. let's talk more about the legacy of the nine eleven terror attacks we're now joined live from london by journalist. thanks very much for joining us of course the u.k. stood side by side with the u.s.

in the war on terror from the outset and ten years after the attacks have the british people changed their opinion about why the war is being fought in the first place i'm not sure british public opinion has really changed its understanding of what the so-called war on terrorism about but i think they would do well to look at what's happening in tripoli in libya today where as we told that al qaeda is the existentialist threat to the west we have now nato was the main rebel commander in tripoli who was a performer friend of al qaeda and a so-called jihadi so this is really the big news story of the day which another and hardly any of the news news networks are covering and also today in libya after nearly ten years after nine eleven we saw the feet off the the feet actually for the west after nine eleven definitely with the resistance in iraq which bogged down the empire so the rest of the global south could develop especially after america and china with the defeat by russia of nato in the conflict with georgia and by

hizbollah against israel in two thousand and six we're finding now that empire wants to go back on the offensive in its war against the global south which is libya today and probably going to be syria now experience africa and others to follow a we're talking about perception and you bring up libya i mean the u.k. recently joined the u.s. in intervening in libya is there a feeling that this particular campaign is justified comparing that with the perception on the war on terror ten years ago. i think there's some there's there's truth in what you're implying in as much as that they've more or less successfully sold this nato war and aggression only to the western public and to much of the arab public but never the less known lessons of obviously been learnt by the west because what they've done in libya. you know gadhafi has more of a social support in libya than the taliban do in afghanistan unlike of kindness in libya is this neighboring europe so with the resistance that is raging in bend will

lead uncertain to want to go in so for in libya i think you used the russians back ok the terror attacks in europe i mean it has still continued even after the war on terror was largely has europe actually won anything from this from taking part in this global war on terror of course that the u.s. led nor has it has won nothing it seemed defeat and it's and the west is not stupid i mean perhaps the rest the global south are not intelligent enough to defend it so therefore the west or what intelligent but they knew that they have to the way that they had to sell a war had to be different to the whole axis of evil thing which was a lot easier for example how they killed osama bin ladin you don't see that as anything gained no i think i think if it was again it would be trying to develop a relationship of mutual respect and friendship with the rest of the world but what we're saying seeing now with libya and syria and other countries to follow is the progressing on this war path by slightly different media propaganda that means ok

let's talk about that the invasion of iraq is continuing and that it was never cited by the u.n. i may have turned out that there were no weapons of mass destruction essentially under false pretenses there a sense that someone should bear responsibility for the war i mean that cost thousands of lives here. absolutely this is this the onus is on the global self to hold and pie and the west accountable the attack on iraq like the attack on libya is an attack on the forward positions of the global south so the responsibility is on the global south to defend itself and in so doing and i'm a little friend of the global south we failed in that chavez is the best brother of gadhafi so venture to cut off the oil to north america like russia did to europe so so i think there is weakness in the global south that that we need to strengthen ok just very briefly and quickly lessons learned lessons there is over the last ten years on this war on terror what should the world have learned from it the world has to learn that the west will never give up its domination of the globe without

devastating and taken the rest of the world to war so in as much so doing the main lesson for us to learn is how do we develop our effective internationalism against aggression of the west and we have to we have to be in the global south has to make make the west hate and hit them where it hurts someone doesn't mean any violence it means stop stop what will stop all that russia to europe so i think i think this is the name of something more than ever thanks very much for your thoughts there live from london journalists aren't trans-am thanks again thank you. however for full coverage of the ten year anniversary of the nine eleven tragedy just go to our web site that's dot com where we provide you with the latest updates interviews and theos. part of looking at your screen there you're watching live pictures from the memorial ceremony which is taking place at ground zero in new york it's being held of course to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the nine eleven attacks now

a citywide moment of silence is being followed by the reading of the names of the victims of the tragedy well you can watch your ceremony live as it happens on our web site that's our dot com. since you see at least some people stop. using it. to. look back at nine eleven. this week russia's sportive world was rocked to its core when one of his best hockey teams was all but wiped out in a blink of an eye they thought and once they were not going to be honest levels plane crashed on takeoff i was saturday thousands gathered up a team stadium to say their final goodbyes to the victims are the sean thomas

witnessed a city in mourning. and waves of emotion poured through jaroslava as residents realize the full weight of the tragedy the country or the lives of some of the city's brightest stars everybody ended up we've been fans of this team for many years our whole family including a little child to go into all their games harass iraq or below us but it's like losing a family member. because if i knew one of the players he was my neighbor and he was a great person he's got two little kids left the place happened like when we saw the news on t.v. i just burst into tears. and just after four in the afternoon on wednesday the charter plane carrying almost the entire jaroslava locomotive cage hill hockey team crashed shortly after takeoff bursting into flames after clipping a runway antenna forty three of the forty five on board perished to new york and mostly cities because 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 then move on to the river and saw the plane with us in the wake of the tragedy flooded near court and ordered an immediate and thorough investigation as president medvedev led our country in mourning visiting the crash site and painting his respects. meanwhile fans of the three time championship winning your os level locomotive team made their voices heard in a show of solidarity and support. as you can see from the flowers and candles and mementos left here at the stadium the loss of. what was a huge blow to this community but due to the international nature of this team it was a larger loss for russia and of the rest of the world as well. my friends going to the play and. play together couple years ago and of course one just just want to

give my condolences to the families and. ceremonies to honor the players were held in minsk in bratislava of somber reflection from those who knew the players well. better to have all demitra told me he actually wants to quit hockey and 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 wanted to only him at least by lighting this candle and 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 did it was an idea that we have buried our friends and the people who brought us joy and played for our country this is an irreplaceable loss for us all the people of the earth level and of all of you. and you know so i will shun thomas

archie. and still to come for you this hour here in the middle east by now why a mob of israeli embassy by storm leading to the evacuation of its diplomats from the country. that's why 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 it's reached an agreement with president bashar al assad on long promised reforms but one outlines proposals to bring an end to the bloodshed release prisoners and hold elections within three years the u.s. and e.u. have imposed sanctions on syria are calling for the u.n. security council to condemn violence in the country the united nations says more than two thousand have died the uprising since mid march while authorities in damascus armed groups for the young rest. we'll all russia is urging both sides to start talking to avoid another libya style conflict moscow plans to send

a fact finding mission to syria to get first hand information on the areas hit by violence the decision was announced after members of the syrian opposition visited the russian capital requesting international help and speaking on the sidelines of an international policy forum in the russian city of got a slot on president medvedev said he's concerned about events in syria but the situation is far from simplistic. the resolutions we would approve to send a strong message to the syrian regime should be addressed to both sides things are just black and white and the 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 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 go down to the one sided condemnation of the government and president we should send a strong message calling on all the conflicting parties to come to the negotiating

table start talking. well 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 because after loyalists have been putting up fierce resistance in the body will be one of the colonel's last strongholds nato airstrikes continue to assist the rebels in libya south of the leader is on the right now on interpol's wanted list he's claimed the recent audio messages that he's still in the country program off the fighters had been given until saturday to surrender to the new leadership in streets across the country those celebrations over the end of the old regime have been replaced by fear as are these but if an option or reports. a city celebrates for more than ten days and even capital has been rejoined seeing images take his fault. he wanted.