just after six 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 well the united states is marking a decade since the nine eleven terror attacks where terrorists crashed hijacked planes into 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 remembrance 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 and united a nation in its determination to seek out the perpetrators and prevent more deaths but the american led invasion of afghanistan followed nine eleven has claimed thousands more lives in what's now the longest conflict in u.s. history and as art is going to educate and reports the killing didn't stop there. it started as a war on terror spawned by the deadliest terrorist attack in history you know

whether she would be enemy 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 the eleventh. but we know their true nature. north korea is 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. iraq and change the font of trust 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 use the moment and in the wake of nine eleven to divert from afghanistan

a 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 planet on both sides so would be destroyed iran was too difficult seventy million people not fractured like the iraqis and the sunni and shia christian and other 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 of the idea is that so 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. 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 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 that 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. well to talk more about the legacy of nine eleven we're now joined live from paris by a journalist and a former director of the french state more michel a column body thanks very much for being on the program all right well right after nine eleven the u.s. went to war as we know in afghanistan to track down those who were responsible for

the attacks and the u.s. but now with the benefit of hindsight why do you think the u.s. the stretched itself to war with iraq going as far as using a false pretext to invade. we all know that. it's the war in iraq was a pretext it was a. big mistake from coming from george bush. who was the. i'm president of the united states going to stand there was no subject it was a kind of normal defense because everybody you happen to know that. kind of territory which was the protection given by the taliban in afghanistan so a lot of countries followed the united states normally in the normal way of solidarity in afghanistan was totally different in a way the war in iraq was what the hoped george bush

would do because. that from the war in iraq would create sort of a couse. a low to low him to rise generations of terrorists and that was nearly what happened with the war in iraq so it was a complete mistake and very dangerous mistake for the united states. kind of totally different. even if we knew. because we saw so many years ago the soviet army in afghanistan that afghanistan is such a country that cannot be can quit and which is very very difficult and. there will be no solution with pakistan on one hand on the other hand. ok well looking at the perspectives of people especially ordinary citizen i mean there are those in afghanistan and iraq who do feel that the u.s.

attacked them for no credible reason i mean even if we go back to the reasons that existed at that time do you think there is a danger that the u.s. has created more enemies for its citizens in its efforts to protect. you can say that of the iraq war because going to war in iraq was the period of solidarity. necessary solidarity. yes. you know. going at war in iraq was. necessarily a way to create enemies of the u.s. . that's what history shows shows now ok at ten years on do you think the u.s. has a won anything in the war on terror. yes they have if you will if you look at the

ten years you look at the. ten years after if you look at the way terrorism spread. in other countries and if you look at the fact that the u.s. were not attacked anymore you can make sort of a balance. sheet. with this all thing but the main thing is that. it appears. to be as clearly now that the main enemies of al qaeda are people. who want freedom and democracy and mainly people living in muslim countries their main enemies in those countries and we are seeing now with. tunisia egypt in syria is that people from muslim countries ask mainly for

freedom and for democracy which is the only way to respond to. ok we're just following what you're saying i mean yes we can create a balance sheet can we tell a bank is still operating even though are some of bin laden is dead why do you think the world's nations had failed to contain this particular terrorist organization. we knew. the attacks occurred soon as the attacks of september eleventh is that we would have to live for a long period. and when they said they wanted to kill jews and christians we were not enough that their. main problem was in the muslim countries and now we see clearly that their main enemies are in those countries and those people responding now.

say. the right answer. so you cannot say. the response was adequate because every body know they. are right unfortunately we have lost many column body there however i would like to thank you he's the director of the french t.v. . all right well the suicide bombing in afghanistan has wanted 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 now the movement has issued a statement after the attack denying it had anything to do with the tragedy on u.s. soil now nearly ten years after the u.s. led coalition invaded afghanistan it doesn't seem any closer to winning the war there but the taliban is still relentlessly complex estimated to have cost over ten thousand afghan civilians their lives as are often caught in the crossfire 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 is the province that has borne 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 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 those who will go to. war with us will. never heard of going to see if can you show them a few more and can us the do they know where it is we don't know if that's because because we are former we never heard about anything else about the world. cup with . the two young men and clearly never heard of nine eleven. but maybe the elders at a local show would have more to say yeah no i didn't see it in. this ng i

just can see the smoke from the buildings and that's a that's only thing i can say when you guys show this picture guys doing it so i think that was a cop what if i just got here i would been surprised but having been here now for six months this is premised stone ages where we are and what to do about their reactions. so that the guy who said it was kabul was clearly never going to kabul and you just shows you how isolated they are even in their own country beat them on them without understand. how come that you know you don't think it out during the america afghanistan come to this point and get the airplane from here to attack in the united states but you know how much power that. go to those nice to go from iraq to even here is a lot easier to understand you know why you're here and what do you say you had that picture you know it's good picture remind yourself it's what you're there to see after looking at it in this context while wearing the uniform a care in the right. to be back that was what it was i'm going to make and saying we're going to help you to decide one funding and did

a survey asked how many funding and they said we're going to help you where is the help but not work your way down with the missing to give it to our kids again and to fighting and they do it to their own kids in a paper that i don't indeed 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 there's early how is your. are you going to care about somebody six thousand miles away. so i can understand that this is all you got up out of the top of the list with that i never thought to ask 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 oblivious to nine eleven but so were the afghan police and even some of the translators working with the u.s. military you don't know that is for you to say that i have no idea about syria but the other seeing the faces of all. the 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 at inputs from afghanistan for you know for full coverage of the ten year anniversary of the nine eleven tragedy you can go to our website that's our to dot com where we provide you with all the latest updates interviews and video. of terrorist attacks that became synonymous with. the senseless slaughter of dollars. over. ten years old. to.

look back at nine eleven to see. this week of russia sporting world was rocked to its core when one of its best hockey teams so is all but wiped out in the blink of an eye they died on wednesday when the. plane crashed on takeoff on saturday thousands gathered at the team's stadium to say their final goodbyes to the victims arthur sean thomas witnessed a city in mourning. waves of emotion poor through jaroslav as residents realize the full weight of the tragedy that country ordered the lives of some of the city's brightest stars but ended up with the fans of this team for many years our whole family including a little child went to all their games for us is there operable loss but 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 jaroslava 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 ships just 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 oh 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 vladimir putin 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

momentos 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 of for russia and of the rest of the world as well. my friends with the play and the guys that way to go a couple years ago and of course one just just want to give my condolences to the families as well that's why. ceremonies to honor the players were held in minsk in bratislava somber reflections from those who knew the players well. 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 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 conference on display and say their final goodbyes. we have buried our friends at people who brought us joy and played for our country this is an irreplaceable loss for the people of us level and of our country. thomas r.t. and still to come for you this hour theory in the middle east find out why a modern cairo to the israeli embassy by storm leading to the evacuation of its diplomats from the country. twenty seven people are reported to have been killed by syrian security forces backed by troops in several towns across the country now this comes as the arab league announced its real agreement with president bashar al assad on the long promised reforms the plan to outline his proposals to bring an end to the bloodshed release prisoners and hold elections within three years the u.s. will have imposed sanctions on syria and are calling for the u.n.

security council to condemn the violence in the country the united nations says more than two thousand have died of the uprising since mid march while authorities in damascus blamed armed groups for the unrest. meanwhile russia is urging both sides to start talking to avoid another conflict moscow plans to send a fact finding mission to syria to get first started formation are the areas hit by . violet's the decision was announced after members of the syrian opposition to visit the russian capital requesting international help were speaking on the sidelines of an international policy forum in the russian city of. 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 in fact be addressed to both sides things aren't just black and white 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. 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 while most of libya is now controlled by the national transitional council but get off the loyalists have been putting up fierce resistance in body will meet one of the colonel's last strongholds well nato airstrikes continue to assist the rebels libya's leader is on the run and now on interpol's wanted list he's claimed in recent audio messages that he's still in the country well program off the fighters have been given until saturday to surrender to the new leadership and in streets across the country celebrations over the end

of the old regime have been replaced by fear as art is what if a national reports. a city celebrates for more than ten days the libyan capital has been rejoicing in the dictator's fall. he wanted to hand he's portrayed here in the central square for his. rules forty second anniversary but we put our flag up instead we won we are so happy without him. it seems in the last weeks rebel fighters have fired bullets in the air the first shot during this sort of tripoli early i'll get stuff all reveal phenol very very forward. is very good duffy. duffy's victor thought. he told the old to be more lovely would the people of that we know you see love hear me all of us what a president is that we're going to get that big and that we're done all right with

a lower chair but away from jubilant crowds we meet those who are not so pleased up a lot of money lives in tripoli's slim district historically pro khadafi when the rebels arrived his sister was badly injured she's still in hospital in tunisia other hand 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 let 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 of the man says he also want to change and a brighter future for his country but not they sway. and people are dying on both sides the cities destroyed or no one cares do they seriously think that they

changed it for the better don't lie to yourself just look around is that what you wanted. and what is around is a scene of widespread destruction and social care as 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 but 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 anneke. original.

tripoli libya. the egyptian government's valve to tighten security and keep order in cairo where an angry mob stormed the 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 were slow to intervene but eventually managed to disperse the crowd israeli sentiment rose sharply last month after israeli forces responding to a quasi border militant attack mistakenly killed five egyptians the israeli prime minister says his country will stick to its peace treaty with egypt despite the embassy assault that led to be flown home but journalist mohammad are. still of the plenty to make enemies of the egyptian people. there is a lot of anger over what israel did recently which basically very 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 sent. is there a spin huge huge them on the stray sions and a sit in there for a few days outside the israeli embassy the minus traitors asking the egyptian government to at least expel the israeli ambassador from egypt this is not the first time that israeli troops kill 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 poor or the people living on our food 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. let's take a quick look at some news making headlines around the world today so we just police have arrested four people in the city of got to work on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack hundreds of people were evacuated from the city's arts center

following the arrests however this readership purity police decided not to race to tell terror alert level which has been elevated mark since november officials have not yet released any further information regarding the suspected plot. that sounds an invasion of zanzibar has begun the three days of mourning for the victims of a ferry disaster that claimed as many as two hundred lives and three hundred seventy people are still missing after losing power in rough seas the ship began taking on water and eventually capsized survivors say it was overloaded with both cargo and passengers many of whom were children meanwhile rescue teams have resumed their search but hopes of finding more survivors are fading by the hour it's a country's worst maritime disaster in fifteen years. air and sea search teams have intensified their hunt for ten missing oil rig workers and a dozen fishermen as tropical storm nate makes its way towards mexico's gulf coast

a commercial vessel of two shrimp boats were lost originates 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 in much of the u.s. east coast is still recovering from last week's hurricane irene which left over fifty people. well i'll be back with a recap of this week's top story shortly do stay with us for marty.

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welcome back here's a quick look at today's news and the week's top stories on our team america marks a decade since the tragedy of nine eleven which united a nation that brought about two of the bloodiest war of the twenty first century. his sound which was invaded by the us shortly after the atrocity the relentless tell about stage another deadly suicide bombing and discovers on the ground most afghan civilians don't even know why their country was ever occupied by foreign troops. 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 wednesday when the. plane crashed on takeoff. because of the international community not to take sides in syria's turn.