just after seven pm here in the russian capital you're watching our t.v. now it was a tragedy that claimed the lives of thousands in an instant and later brought two wars with an even more devastating death toll the united states is marking a decade since the nine eleven terror attacks and right now you are looking at live pictures from a new york is celebrating commemorating the victims of the nine eleven terror attacks there now terrorists hijacked planes into the twin towers of the world trade center in new york as well as the pentagon in washington d.c. 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 what it was the worst strike on u.s. soil in history and united a nation and its determination to seek out the perpetrators and prevent more death but the american led invasion of afghanistan that followed nine eleven thousand more lives in what's now the longest conflict in u.s. history and as artists get an education 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 and september eleventh. but we know their true nature. north korea has a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction. while starving a citizens. iran aggressively pursue zs weapons and exports terror while an unelected few repressed the iranian people's hope for freedom. iraq and chinese dishonest hostility toward america and to support terror two years after nine eleven the us invaded iraq on the grounds that he had weapons of mass destruction and was doing business with al qaida grounds which proved to be false hundreds of

thousands of iraqi civilians have died since the invasion they use the moment 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 political on both sides so would be destroyed iran was too difficult seventy million people not fractured like the iraqis and the sunni and shia and christian and other as for the motives behind invading iraq some top or oil iraq right now is sitting on probably two hundred billion barrels maybe three hundred billion barrels that's correct zone or report. 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 the but world is going to be more secure place overall if there is a a unocal or world a sole remaining superpower much of what has happened post nine eleven in the name of responding to nine eleven has been a pretext as terrorism was no longer the only reason for landing on washington's enemy list the us had even more far reaching plans on the table form. vice president dick cheney says he urged the bush administration to bomb syria at one time because of its alleged nuclear weapons program a move which experts say would have had disastrous effects on the region president obama was elected on hopes that he would and the endless wars overseas which most americans are opposed to but he continues and adds one more another oil rich nation libya and this time in the name of removing an evil dictator. some worry syria

could be next we have an executive power that is beyond any check by the people by the congress or by the courts for war we can go toward the drop of a coin we've reached the point now where the president 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 r.t. a suicide bombing in afghanistan as 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 well the movement issued a statement after sunday's attack denying it had anything to do with events in the u.s. ten years ago 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 the still relentless or the conflicts conflicts estimated to have cost over ten thousand afghan civilians their lives as they're 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 what would 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 hurt can you show them

a few more and can us do they know where it is we don't know if that's because because we are former we never heard about the need for the world. cup with. the two young men and clearly never heard of nine eleven. but maybe the elders of the local sure would have more to say yeah i know you see. this thing 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 saying it so i think that was a call what if i just got here i would be surprised but having been here now for six months this is pretty much the 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 it just shows you how isolated they are even in their own country. understand. that you know you don't think you know you're going to come to this point and they get the airplane from here in the united states but you know how

much. it was nice to go from iraq to vent here is a lot easier to understand you know why you're here and where do you see at that picture you know it's good picture remind yourself because what you're there to see the afghans looking at it in this particular wearing the uniform of carrying a rifle. to back those. things that make and saying we're going to help you to decide one funding and they just asked how many danes and they said we're going to have. where is the help of god work your way down with this thing to give it to our kids are going to grow up fighting and they do it to their own kids in a paper that i don't and. i do sympathize or understand what you're 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 bird house yourself are you going to care about somebody six thousand miles away. so i can understand this i just filled it up all over the top of the list with i never thought to ask 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 oblivious to nine eleven with the afghan police and even some of the translators working with the us military you don't know that is for you to not know the syrians 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 from afghanistan for. well for full coverage of the ten year anniversary of the nine eleven tragedy just go to our website. where we provide you with the latest updates interviewees and videos well right now at the moment you're looking at live

pictures from be a memorial ceremony taking place at ground zero in new york to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the nine eleven attacks families and friends of the victims are attending this event now a citywide moment of silence is being followed by the reading of the names of the victims of the tragedy and you can watch the ceremony live as it happens at our web site our dot com. terrorist attacks it became. senseless slaughter of. people stop the. vision of a. ten years old. look back at nine eleven see. this week russia sporting world was rocked to its

core when one of its best hockey teams was all but wiped out in the blink of an eye they got on wednesday when the. plane crashed on takeoff and all saturday thousands gathered at the team's stadium to say their final goodbyes to the victims r.t. shaun thomas witnessed a city in mourning. waves of emotion poor through jaroslav as residents realize the full weight of the tragedy that country or 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 the games for us is there operable us 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 wall of flame after clipping a runway antenna forty three of the forty five on board perished soon as they were going to sleep we heard the plane takeoff so we told our granddaughter look there's going to be an airplane then i heard a bang and my daughter told me mom it's falling down to the side but then came the flames and the smoke and we wanted to run away but we didn't know where to run and then we went to the river and saw the plane with us in the wake of the tragedy 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. was a huge blow to this community international. team it was

a larger loss of for russia and of the rest of the world as well my friends but on the plane because a. couple years ago of course wonders just want to give my condolences to the. ceremonies to honor the players were held in minsk in bratislava with some reflections from those who knew the players well. at the top all demitra told me he actually wants to quit hockey that he wants to play a little bit more and then leave and spend time with his family so this last conversation came back to my head when i heard about the crash i want to only him at least by lighting this candle but 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 morning. as thousands poured into the stadium to view fourteen coffins on display and say their final goodbyes. we have

buried our friends the people who brought us joy and plead for our country this is an irreplaceable loss for us all the people of us level and the whole country. will shun thomas r t. a lot of the forty five people on board thirty six were squad members cultures and team officials of the committee of and many of them were players and their european national teams along with the continental hockey league well the warriors' services have been held in several countries hundreds of mourners gathered in the quad to honor the three czech hockey players who died in the forty two plane crash that deprived russia one of its top clubs they lay flowers and candles in memory of the international sports stars and in the meantime in slovakia fans have been paying their respects to national team captain paul demitra team coaches who knew the players that were involved with the team were deeply moved by the news. i worked in your islam i had the best time of my career that this past spring i flew with all those people

by the same plane it is a huge shock for the team and also for this city pavel was a great person and a great hockey player he was a legend of slow mike ice hockey sometime in february or may next year i was still trying to convince him to return back to the national team because i knew them very well even though they were playing abroad still they were always trying to get better they cared they didn't just want to be a part of the system they wanted to know the details of their positions and how best to school they took a huge interest in what they did and i really enjoyed working with them and coming to you later in the program the memory of hunger and desperation for the next seventy years to the start of the leningrad blockade one of the deadliest darkest chapters of world war two. 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 has reached an agreement with president bashar al assad

promised reforms well the plan outlines proposals to bring an end to the bloodshed release prisoners 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 violence in the country the united nations says more than two thousand have died in the uprising since mid march while authorities and blamed on groups for the rest. meanwhile russia is urging both sides to start talking to avoid another libya . 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 at the russian capital requested international help while speaking on the sidelines of an international policy for in the russian city of. president medvedev said he's concerned about 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 most of libya is now controlled by the national transitional council because often of euless have been putting up fierce resistance. in bani walid that's one of the colonel's last strongholds nato airstrikes continue to assist the rebels libya's ousted leader is on the run and now on interpol's wanted

list and he's claimed in recent all your messages that he's still in the country program the fighters have been given until saturday to surrender to the new leadership now in streets across the country celebrations over the end of the old regime had been replaced by fear as artie's what if a national reports. a city celebrates more than ten days the labor and capital has been rejoicing in the dictator's fall . he wanted to hand he's portrayed here in the central square for his roots for the 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 they were shot during this hold on tripoli earlier in august the libya pheno very busy with. this third gadhafi you can clearly have good duffy's victor thought he told

old to be more lovely would that be believe me no you see the love him and of course right up with them is that we don't really get that big and we don't like what they are but away from jubilant crowds we meet those who are not so pleased. lives in tripoli's district historically pro khadafi when the rebels arrived his sister was badly injured she's still in hospital in tunisia. other one doesn't want to show his face on camera and ceased want to hidden location for the interview he says revolution has brought much fear in its wake. there is no peace there is no safety in the city we don't want our children outside when it's dark we are afraid we always wait for something bad when gadhafi was here at least we didn't have to sleep awake what we do know of the rahman says he also want to change and the

brighter future for his country but not face way. 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 chaos the badly damaged buildings matched by the rise in stink of garbage and decomposing bodies youngsters roam the streets barely old enough to understand that what they carry are weapons not toys many shops schools and hospitals are closed while the cities symmetries are growing bigger and bigger. shortly after tripoli fell into rebel hands the national transitional council libya's new authority claimed it was moving here from benghazi two weeks have passed and there is still no sign of order being restored the city

is functioning by itself and treading a fine line between freedom and allocate. river national. tripoli libya. ukraine has been a major transit route for russian gas into europe but now it's losing its key bargaining chip in europe's energy industry but we're putting as though a lot of north stream gas pipe live in northern russia. ukraine is no longstanding partner any transit country is always tempted to use its exclusive status as a transit state now ukraine will lose this privilege i believe our relations will evolve into an ever more civilized free market partnership. well the north stream pipeline travels directly from russia to europe bypassing ukraine its role as a transit state has been a fractious in recent years resulting in disputes between moscow and kiev ukraine is struggling to pay its gas bill and wants a discount on the previously agreed price even threatening to take the issue to

court however the country's prime minister promised to stick to the current agreement until a new deal its side. well let's take a quick look at some news making headlines around the world today swedish police have arrested four people in the city of gothenburg on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack hundreds of people were evacuated from the city's art center fall would be arrests however the swedish acuity police decided not to raise the terror alert level which has been at the elevated mark since remember officials have not yet released any further information regarding this is spectacle. the tanzania region of zanzibar has begun three days of mourning for the victims of a ferry disaster that claimed as many as two hundred forty lives and many more are still missing well after losing power in rough seas the ship began taking on water eventually capsizing survivors say it was overloaded with both cargo and passengers many of whom were children meanwhile rescue teams are in their search but hopes of

finding more survivors are fading by the hour it's the country's worst maritime disaster in fifteen years. tropical storm majors reach mexico's gulf coast where officials have opened shelters as a precaution but forecasters say the gale force winds have been strengthened as expected and chances of it becoming a hurricane were reducing meanwhile an intensified air and sea search failed to find ten or very workers who went missing and there was no word for a dozen fishermen who disappeared aboard for big boats and much of the u.s. east coast is still recovering from last week's hurricane irene which left more than fifty. now this week russia mark a seventy years since the beginning of the leningrad blockade the deadliest siege of the second world war and the city now known as st petersburg survived almost nine hundred days of terror and starvation are these people are all over listened to the chilling stories of those lucky and determined enough to survive. and to get to the

brink of starvation. modern day seeing petersburg by nazi troops was one of the most destructive sieges make history of warfare when the german army encircled the city it wasn't the shells and bombs that the inhabitants feared most but was hunger. a good far worse when the famine spread well there is nothing material famine than to be the one in nearest and dearest starve to death. those trapped inside the city have to resort to what ever means necessary to survive and i want a horse slipped on an icy street and collapsed immediately people rushed out of their houses to chop it up our dad ran out with an axe he managed to get something like a hoof the whole family lived off it for a week sometimes they need to eat so people take drastic action. grown year there were days when i would step outside my house and see dead people lying in the snow

with their buttocks severed for meat this isn't something we should try to cover up with heroic stories that would be unfair to the history of the siege and the people who enjoyed it hitler designated leningrad as one of his major objectives and from august one nine hundred forty one the german armies group north set about tightening the noose on the key baltic port this is where the blockade began on the eighth of september nineteenth forty one german troops arrived here occupying the city of. it severed the last land connection to leningrad cutting off the city's supply of food and military equipment with the city cut off from the land the only way to get aid to leningrad was across the lake. in the short summer months boats were used but in the winter the frozen lake became a makeshift highway known as the road of life be it over or go by was one of those who worked on the ice helping to funnel valuable supplies into the besieged city

the perils of living on a frozen lake made the work dangerous enough without the constant german bombardment with most of all that. one time a drive in from the mainland came to bring us breakfast he noted that one of our times was sinking come out come out two divers you're about to drown he shouted the driver touched the tent to the truck and pulled it out on to solid ice many of the vehicles bringing in supplies didn't make it across some of those have now been raised from the bottom of the lake and can now be seen in the road of life museum so that seventy years on the sucker face is not forgotten the new kids are never that interested in photographs but actually seeing a historic really quit their own eyes they always ask is this thing authentic and when i tell them yes it is that's when their eyes widen and it's told more than a million civilians died in the groups will eight hundred seventy two day blockade which finally ended in the pits of cold january nine hundred forty three many of those who survived went straight into the fight to drive the germans back their

experiences during the siege spurring them on remember when you were a monster we were evacuated we joined the army to take revenge for what the nazis and done to our people in this city i'm so many civilians lost their lives through hunger and shelling so we proudly joined the red army to take revenge on the nazis peter oliver r.t. . with a recap of this week's top story shortly to stay with us you're not. to

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welcome back here's a recap of today's top news and the week's top stories on our t.v. america marks a decade since the tragedy of nine eleven but you know i did a nation but brought about two of the bloodiest war of the twenty first century. russia in the sports world say goodbye to the country's top national livestock the team wiped out in the blink of an eye forty three people died on. a plane crashed on takeoff. moscow calls on the international community not to take sides in a serious internal violence as president medvedev says negotiation is the only way to peace the arab league announces it has reached an agreement with damascus on the long promised reforms. now former boston served. instead.