back at the palace seven days top stories in the latest developments this is the weekly on good to have you with us this hour 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 terrorists crashed hijacked planes into the twin towers of the world trade center in new york and the pentagon in washington a fourth plane came down 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 and united a nation in its determination to seek out the perpetrators and prevent more deaths but the american led invasion of afghanistan that followed nine eleven has claimed thousands more lives in what's now the longest conflict in u.s. history and is not is going to come reports the killing didn't stop there. it started as a war on terror spawned by the deadliest terrorist attack in history or whether she

with the enemy that's clear but the son of america's enemy 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 eleventh. but we know their true nature. north korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction. while starving its citizens. iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror while an unelected few repressed the iranian people's hope for freedom. iraq and change the font of 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 used the moment in in the wake

of nine eleven to divert from afghanistan our real target should have been our real target and go to iraq it also was the low hanging fruit north korea was far more dangerous than too difficult hundred thousand casualties they provide the proof on both sides seoul 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 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. 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 tours 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 a an executive power that is beyond any check by the people by the congress or by

the courts for war we can go toward the drop of a coin we've reached a point now where the present in the united states can kill people for state purposes any time he or she with 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 the movement issued a statement after sunday's attack denying it had anything to do with events in the

u.s. ten years ago when nearly ten years after the u.s. led coalition invaded afghanistan it doesn't seem any closer to winning the war that with the taliban still relentless the 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 be given 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 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. can you show them a few more and to us do they know where it is even we don't know if it's god

because you're a former neighbor heard about the world. cup. the two young men clearly never heard of nine eleven. but maybe the elders of the local sure would have more to say. no you see. in this ng i seem to 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 of guys saying it so i think that was a call but if i just got here i would be surprised but having been here now for six months i'm not this is promised stone ages where we are and what to do about the reactions fascinating so the guy who said it was kabul was clearly never going to kabul. it just shows you how isolated they're even in their own country go to them on them without understand. how look i'm not going to tell you i don't think you know we're going to america afghanistan come to this point and get the airplane from here to attack in the united states but you know how much. it was nice to go

from iraq to then here is a lot easier to understand you know why you're here and 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 context while wearing the uniform and carrying a rifle. we took you back that was what was our make and saying we're going to help you did this so one building and they just asked how many funding and they said we're going to help you where is the help. work your way down what they're saying to give it to our kids going into the fighting and they do it to their own kids a pen and paper but i don't invade and. i do sympathize or understand what your some are saying it's even just from the weather we've had recently people losing their homes and nobody to help them so you know when you have when you can feed yourself or earth house yourself are you going to care about somebody you know six thousand miles away. so i can understand that i just set it up i was about to finish 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 u.s. military but you don't know that is for you to say that i know i am not know the syrians have never seen these pictures before. 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 adam plots from afghanistan for at. well for full coverage of the ten year anniversary of the nine eleven tragedy go to our web site to tell a teen don't call where we provide you with the latest updates interviews and videos and at the moment we're bringing you live pictures from the memorial ceremony which is taking place at shanksville in pennsylvania where people have

gathered to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the nine eleven attacks and the bombers have laid a wreath there to the victims of flight ninety three and you can watch the ceremony live on the web site. dot com. the terrorist attack that became synonymous with. the senseless slaughter of almost seventy people stopped for. the vision of a. ten years old. to. look back at nine eleven to see. this week russia's 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 died on wednesday when look motive yes levels plane crashed on takeoff on

saturday thousands gathered at the team's stadium to say their final goodbyes to the victims or to sean 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 within fans of his team for many years our whole family including a little child went to all the games for us is there operable loss but it's like losing a family member. i knew one of the clears 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. 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 soon look at

mostly we heard the plane takeoff so we told our granddaughter look there's going to be an airplane then i heard a bang and my daughter told me mom it's falling down to the side then came the flames and the 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 which was in the wake of the tragedy put in ordered an immediate and thorough investigation as president led a country in mourning visiting the crash site and paying his respects. meanwhile fans of the three time championship winning jaroslava locomotive team made their voices heard in a show of solidarity and support. as you can see from the flowers and candles and left here at the stadium the loss of. was a huge blow to this community but international nature of this team it was a larger loss for russia and the rest of the world as well. my friends with the

plan you guys have put together a couple of years ago and of course one just just want to give my condolences to. all that stuff but the ceremonies to honor the players were held in minsk in bratislava with somber reflections from those who knew the players well. better to have 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 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 coffins on display and say their final goodbyes. we have buried our friends people who brought us joy and played for our country this

is an irreplaceable loss for the people of years level and over. the years level schon thomas r. t. . out of the forty five people on board thirty six were squad members coaches and team officials of look mighty of many of them were players of the european national teams along with the continental hockey league and memorial services have been held in several countries hundreds of mourners gathered in prague to honor the three czech hockey players who died in the yak forty two plane crash that deprived russia of one of its top clubs they laid flowers and candles in memory of the international sports stars in the meantime in slovakia fans have been paying their respects to the national team captain pavel demitra and team coaches who knew the players 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 slumber guys hockey sometime in february or may next year i would start 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. this is a party committee live from the russian capital with you twenty four hours a day still to come this hour fury in the middle east can find out why a mob in cairo took the israeli embassy by storm leading to the evacuation of its diplomats from the country. also still to come the tensions boil over in greece as protesters respond with fire bombs and stones an announcement made by the prime minister on the state of the country's economy. those stories to overcome but first

twenty seven people are reported to 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 assad on long promised reforms the plan outlined 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 and a calling for the u.n. 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 in damascus blame on two groups for the unrest. and meanwhile 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 firsthand information on the areas hit by violent. it's a decision was announced after members of the syrian opposition visited the russian capital requesting international help speaking on the sidelines of an international policy forum in the russian city of dallas level president 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 we should send a strong message calling on all the conflicting parties to come to the negotiating table start talks and stop the bloodshed. in libya the head of the country's interim government has arrived in the capital tripoli for the first time since it fell to rebel forces most of libya is now controlled by the national transitional council but. putting up fierce resistance in bani walid one of the colonel's last

strongholds nato air strikes continue to assist the rebels and he is ousted leader was on the run and now interpol's wanted list he's claimed in recent audion messages that he's still in the country profit off the fighters had been given until saturday to surrender to the new leadership in streets across the country celebrations over the end of the old regime have been replaced by fear. reports. a city celebrates for more than ten days even capital has been read joisting in the dictator's fall. he wanted to hand he's portrayed here in the central square for his rules forty second anniversary. we want. we are so happy without it it seems in the last weeks rebel fighters have fired over the city where they were shot during this hold on tripoli early august all revealed pheno very very

well with. mr gaddafi. duffy's victor thought he told older people love me what we know you will see love him and of us right of freedom is that we don't know a good job you don't know what they are like with a lower case but away from jubilant crowds we meet those who are not so pleased i thought of mom lives in tripoli's district historically pro khadafi when the rebels arrived his sister was badly injured she's still in hospital in tunisia of the one doesn't want to show his face on camera and ceased when i had no location for the interview he says revolution has brought much fear in its wake. there is no peace there is no safety in the city we don't want our children outside when it's done we are afraid and we always wait for something bad when gadhafi was here at least we

didn't have to sleep a wink what we do now. up the little man says he also wanted change and the brighter future for his country but they sway. people are dying on both sides in the cities destroyed and no one cares do they seriously think that will change it for the better don't want you so just look around is that what you wanted and what is around is a scene of widespread destruction and social chaos the badly damaged buildings matched by the rising stink of garbage and decomposing bodies youngsters roam the streets barely old enough to understand that what they carry our weapons not toys many shops schools and hospitals are closed while the city's symmetries are growing bigger and bigger. shortly after tripoli fell into rebel hands the national transitional council leavers 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 itself and treading a fine line between freedom and an a k. r t tripoli libya. the egyptian government's failed to tighten security and keep order in karo where an angry mob stormed and sacked the israeli embassy on 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 and israeli sentiment rose sharply last month after israeli forces responding to a cross 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 its staff being flown home the current based journalist mohamed says tommy has done plenty to make enemies of the egyptian people. there

is a lot of anger at what israel did recently which basically they crossed the border from israel into egypt killed a number of egyptian soldiers and they promise investigation and nothing has not been delivered yet ever sense there are spin huge huge them on the stray sions and the sit in a few days outside the israeli embassy the minus traitors asking the egyptian government to at least expelled israeli ambassador from egypt this is not the first time that israeli troops kill people all soldiers in the border area egypt 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 poor or the people living on our board 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. greece will impose a new one of property tax to make up for the shortfall in its budget this comes out of the prime minister to save his debt stricken country from bankruptcy in a key speech on the economy more than twenty five thousand people joined together to protest against tougher starting measures on saturday angry demonstrators threw bottles and stones at rock police to disperse the crowd with tear gas protesters say they're fed up with cuts to pensions and salaries and increased taxes imposed to secure international rescue loans the whole of europe that has been struggling with a sovereign debt crisis and as a financial advisor patrick young believes greece is better off without the eurozone. what's happening is should greece is essential to being sold hyde vying to end slavery by the way that the euro debt mechanism is working into a farce for greece it's a farce for the greece people and it's a total complete and utter disaster for the euro greece should be allowed to go

free and it must make its own decisions its own sovereign decisions that of greece doesn't leave the cancer is spreading and as we know it reached in italy last month period already rooting around the place in spain and portugal it hit ireland so far does the disease google for it finally kills the patient i think the question is it's not a question of how much work is there to get greece side of the euro actually are much chances are that the euro is going to survive with greece still in it and the answer is really not. patrick young there 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 that amid putin has now launched the north stream gas pipeline in northern russia. very limited go over to your ukraine is a 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 evel knievel civilized free market partnership. with the north stream

pipeline travels directly from russia to europe bypassing ukraine its role as a transit state has been 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 called over the country's prime minister promise to stick to the current agreement until a new deal is signed. well let's have a quick look at some news making headlines around the world today in our world update 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 center following the arrest however the swedish security police decided not to raise the terror alert level which has been at the elevated mark since november and not yet released any further information regarding the suspected plot. the attorney in 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 many more are

still missing 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 have resume their search but hopes of finding more survivors are fading by the hour is the country's worst maritime disaster in fifteen years. a. tropical storm has reached mexico's gulf coast where officials have opened shelters as a precaution but forecasts. so the go force winds haven't strengthened as expected and the chances of it becoming a hurricane were reducing i mean one testified air and sea search failed to find ten oil rig workers who went missing and there was no sign or word from a dozen fisherman who disappeared aboard two shrimping boats much of the u.s. east coast is still recovering from last week's hurricane irene which more than fifty dead. but brings up to date at the moment i'm up to twenty seven minutes past the hour here in moscow i'll be back with a recap of this week's top stories and today's main news in just

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this is the. top story. since the tragedy of nine eleven which united the nation. of the twenty first century. which was invaded by the. deadly suicide bombing. most afghan civilians don't even. foreign troops. russia and the sports world say goodbye to the country's national. forty three people died on wednesday when. plane crashed. in the international community.