a militant attack mistakenly killed five egyptians israeli prime minister says his country will stick to its peace treaty with egypt despite the embassy assault that led to its star being flown home a car a based journalist mohamed says to me it's done plenty to make enemies all the egyptian people. so there is a lot of anger at 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 sense their spin huge huge the ministrations and the sit in a few days outside the israeli embassy the minus traitors are 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 and the border area egypt's public opinion has been liberated and that means they're not going to pay

silent again when israel commits any act of thuggery on its own our porter or the people living on our border 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 valve 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 the toughest thirty measures on saturday angry demonstrators threw bottles and stones at riot police who dispersed the crowd with tear gas to say they're fed up with cuts to pensions and salaries and increased taxes imposed to secure international rescue loans the whole of europe 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 that greece is essentially being sold by

just slavery by the way that the euro mechanism is working shameful harsh for greece traitor or so degrees of people and it's a trickle complete and utter disaster for the europe of greece should be allowed to go free and it must make its own decisions its own solomon decisions but of greece doesn't leave the counter is spreading and as we know it reaching the last month it's already rooting around clear since the end of it here. 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 free 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 numb patrick young there ukraine has been a major transit route for russian gas into europe but now it's losing its key gardening chip in europe's energy industry that a new president has now launched the nord stream gas pipeline in northern russia that's very honest girl would you. create his own long standing car 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 mostly of the river and north 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 court to have the country's prime minister promise to stick to the current agreement until a new deal its side. well it's 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 fishelson not

yet released any further information regarding the suspected plot. the attorney and 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 after losing power in rough seas the ship began taking on water eventually capsizing the survivors say it was overloaded with both cargo and passengers many of whom are children we will rescue teams of resume their search but hopes of finding more survivors are fading by the hour is the country's worst maritime disaster in fifteen years. tropical storm nothing has reached mexico's gulf coast where officials have opened shelters as a precaution but forecasters say the girl force winds haven't strengthened as expected and the chances of it becoming a hurricane were reducing anyone to it supplied 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 take to the money come 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 a few moments stay with us live here in moscow.

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this is the. top stories now this. decade since the tragedy of nine eleven which united a nation of the bloodiest walls of the twenty first century. which was invaded by the us shortly after the atrocity. staged deadly suicide bombing. most afghan civilians don't even know. foreign troops. russia and the sports world say goodbye to the country's national ice hockey team.

forty three people died on wednesday when. plane crashed. moscow calls on the international community not to take sides in serious internal violence spreading the good of says because she is the only way to peace while the arab league announces its reach an agreement with the mask has long promised reforms. the power of another summary for in fifteen minutes from now the meantime the decade that followed the nine eleven attacks was marked by wars fought under the flag of ridding the world of terrorists lawrence wilkinson he's a former u.s. official in george w. bush's administration told r.t. that america thinks it holds an unchallengeable place in the world and abuses the power it no longer special interview next. after nine eleven america did not just go after those who perpetrated that tragic vicious attack it only she campaigned on nations that had nothing to do with nine

eleven we're talking about iraq where hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians have died since two thousand and three america's been in constant war since nine eleven in different countries are we talking about one of the most profound overreactions in military history to talk about that i'm joined by colonel lawrence wilkerson whose service call in powell as chief of staff colin powell secretary of state under george w. bush colonel wilkerson thank you so much for joining me for having me more than six thousand american servicemen a guy in the last decade of war spawned by the nine eleven attack. tragedy worth remembering and knowing no doubt but why in all those speeches delivered by american officials i never hear about hundreds of thousands of. innocent civilians dead in the wars waged by the united states and other countries like iraq as a collective entity we seem to think we are exceptional or in so exceptional that

we don't have to think about other people as i said that's a position you can maintain as long as you are as powerful as we were powerful as rome when it's today post world war two but we're no longer there powerful in our powerful recedes even as we speak here today some of the people who were at the helm back then are now writing books saying everything they did was right including guantanamo including everything else i'm talking about big change first of all president under george w. bush and at the same time they're all blaming each other for something why all this confusion and should one be worried about the general picture that's being created in the last decade before because they're all trying to blame each other and trying to get out of sort of a bloody and yes we should be going to. and why are they trying to blame each other let's let's face a fact here for a moment that most americans don't even think about. nine eleven happened on george w. bush and dick cheney's what. they allowed the greatest killing of americans on american

territory since florida. a lot of their rhetoric and aggressive actions post nine eleven was to hide that fact and also to keep it from happening again because if it had happened again they probably would've been impeached on the spot thrown out of office so we spent four trillion dollars to counter an attack by bin laden's a watery because maybe half a million that's not very cost effective that's really bad it's bad business so you have to understand that first of all about the bush cheney administration the second thing you have to understand i think is that we have made a cottage industry if not a much more than a cottage industry out of the what my former boss colin powell has called a terrorist industrial complex lots of people are making lots of money off of this so-called global war on terror you are saying that you had lots of doubts about building this case for war in iraq was it possible at some point. to stand up and

say no we have to out we're not writing this speech where we're out of it we all did key points in the preparation of colin powell presentation on some of those occasions george tenet and his deputy john mclaughlin said ok ok will this roll that out of the cia head of the cia and the director of central intelligence at the time. would throw that up and they threw it out the real essence of that presentation that they preserve they being george tenet and john mclaughlin and i think under some strong influence from the vice president's office they preserved and that was the mobile biological laboratories that was the active nuclear program as symbolized by the aluminum tubes and it was the existing chemical stocks and. actions hard connections between al qaida and baghdad those were the real faults of the in that briefing that george tenet and john mclaughlin the representatives of not just the u.s.

intelligence community but israel finance britain jordan and a host of others who were feeding intelligence into us. that's what they said was sacrosanct they said that is the case that is what saddam hussein is doing only later did we learn that even those elements of his presentation were composed of half truths false words even and i think today after doing more research outright lies lies created in the defense department under undersecretary of defense for policy doug feith and his special iraqi lie and lies created in the vice president in their opinion because they wanted for the same reason that in summer of two thousand and two i had discovered that the emphasis on enhanced interrogation techniques changed subtly from being to try and find out if another attack were coming after all out of time expired for another attack were coming it would have come home. in the summer of two thousand and two and shifted suddenly to enhanced

interrogation in order to find out of baghdad contacts with al qaida so we were actually torturing people not under the so-called smoking gun argument that we might have another attack so it was justified we were cluttering people so we could attack iraq and convince the american people we should do so that's how drastic it got now ask me why they want to go to war with iraq and i'll give you a half a dozen answers if it's douglas feith that's protection of israel if it's paul wolfowitz the deputy secretary of defense it's a little bit of israel it's a little bit of oil and it's a little bit of bringing peace and democracy and freedom to the middle east if it's george bush it's who i fear the nexus between al qaida and baghdad which cheney had convinced him of i'm sure george tenet had convinced about it george tenet didn't think there was that big a nexus. with dick cheney i think it was all iraq right now is sitting on

probably two hundred billion barrels maybe three hundred billion barrels that's a rat's own oil report that surpasses. the record. if iraq is sitting on three hundred billion barrels of oil if that turns out to be true it will be more than saudi arabia now you know why dick cheney went to war in iraq that also was the low hanging fruit north korea was far more dangerous but too difficult a hundred thousand casualties were predicted by the pentagon on both sides seoul would be destroyed iran was too difficult seventy million people not fractured like the iraqis and the sunni and shia christian and other so the low hanging fruit was a rock he just used the moment in the wake of nine eleven they use the moment in the in the wake of nine eleven to divert from afghanistan a real target should have been our real target and go to iraq that's exactly what they did you said they were testifying if they put someone like big cheney on trial and our what would you accuse them off i think he's already done it no one needs to

accuse him of anything he has admitted publicly and it is on videotape that he condoned waterboarding that he would still waterboard then he does not believe waterboarding is torture waterboarding is torture there's a fact though case the man's guilty but they're saying they did it in the best interest of their country it seems to be the ultimate reasoning which can't be confronted what would you say to that i say that the in never justifies the means. and the question is does the lesser evil ever justify itself because it prevents a greater evil there are some real problems with that argument the logical problems as well as philosophical and what i would call valuing problems first is you can never know a hypothetical you never know if your lesser evil action actually prevented the greater evil dick cheney spends hours on television and i don't swear and in this book trying to say that his actions prevented

a greater evil another attack on the united states and so for well that's his interpretation my interpretation of the bureaucracy which is probably far better than his because i was buried in it i heard people talking about it every day so bottom line is i know what dick cheney doesn't know because he was in the ivory palace and he can't no horse soldiers surrounded cheney and people who surrounded cheney or david addington and john hannah and scooter libby and they told the cheney what dick cheney wants to hear george tenet told dick cheney what dick cheney wanted to hear oh yes it's working mr vice president we're getting great information and we're stopping terrorist attacks that is broader. they didn't stop anything through inherent and hanson interrogation techniques i have that from some of the most respected people in the f.b.i. and the intelligence community so i can't fault the cheney for not knowing the truth because he couldn't know the truth he stressed the strath and his own. but

the truth is the methods don't work and they rebound to your discredit and they recruit as you said for your enemy dick cheney is asked what would happen if an american were captured in iran and what would happen if they water boarded him because they thought he was a threat to the state of iran and so forth he just skirted around the question what he really said was if you listen closely americans are better than anybody else in the world. americans shouldn't be waterboarding but anybody else we can waterboard especially if we're americans doing it that's essentially what they cheney said now here's the kicker about forty percent of america agrees with you poll you look at the polls that have been done about forty percent of america at any given time and they think that americans have the right torture other people and other people don't have the rights to torture americans for various reasons most seven think it's that way because we have a bigger gun that's why they think we can get away with it and do it because we

have a bigger gun that's why i say the reckoning is coming the reckoning when we are just another country in the world and that a is coming and may not come in my lifetime but unfortunately i think it's coming in my children and my grandchildren's lives and this is going to be a hard time for washington because we know are going to have the money were no are going to have the economic might we're no longer going to have the military might and so forth to say to the world we can torture you but you can't torture us and many say that america's response to nine eleven was one of the most profound or for reactions in military history don't you agree with that i think initially it was proportional it was rational it was fairly well supported in the international community and it was a sadness that yes the initial reaction what we should have done was gone to afghanistan as we did did what we did about six months later said ok here's your

government karzai you've got it go ahead and run your country as best you can we'll give you economic and financial support from afar we're going home oh by the way footnote if you were tainted in this country good will come back and do it again in what way could that over we actually backfire. i think it already has and this is a profound change really that's happened since world war two it's been creeping up on us and now it's here we have a an executive power that is beyond any check by the people and by the congress by the courts for war we can go to war to drop of a coin and it matters not that the obama administration and i have to say i voted for president obama it matters not that they have protested rather late and he ought to be relieved that they weren't involved in hostilities that the war powers act was not relevant and so forth it certainly was any time you kill people for

state purposes the war powers act is relevant and the constitution is role we've reached the point now where the president the united states can kill people for state purposes any time he or she will feels the need to james madison said very eloquently when you can combine the power to initiate war with the power to execute it and you have achieved tyranny that is a very profoundly worrying situation and it's happened in this country. in the ability to look easy to believe. it's the only way even if it's because of. the millstones some of the country house the day in the pool.

the river. it used to be the insecure the oil the ruben's hotel. stories of america marks a decade since the tragedy of nine eleven which united a nation for. tour of the bloodiest wards of the twenty first century. and afghanistan which was invaded by the us shortly after the atrocity of the relentless taliban staged another deadly suicide bombing result he discovers most afghan civilians don't even know why their country was ever occupied by foreign troops. rusher in the sports world say goodbye to the country's top national ice hockey team in the blink of an eye forty three people died on wednesday when looking motifs and levels planes crashed on takeoff. moscow calls on the international community not to take sides in syria's internal

violence as president putin says negotiation is the only way to peace in the arab league announces it's reached an agreement with damascus and long promised reforms . back with more news for in about fifteen minutes from now we well you know he's here with the latest sports. thank you bill very warm welcome to the sports day base sunday evening here in central moscow plenty ahead including. moving on up spartak moscow stretched their unbeaten record to eight games in the russian premier league with victory over a car. pitched battle reigning rugby world cup champion south africa age wales in their opening clash of this year's campaign. gimme five and

top long world finals kick off in moscow with the home side earning a podium spot on table. let's get going with football where a late goal has seen sports like moscow move to fourth in the russian premier league capital sides meeting with omkara the first of sunday's four games only one goal coming on a dreary day in perm our children's zoo by the chance to alter the school board midway through the second half but miss chewed his effort when really he should have at least forced a safe but literally soaking in the experience when nicholas did break the deadlock with a pinpoint free kick five minutes from time that strike and now for the muscovites to call it's. the league's other sports talk i fit me well so there was continue no chick stuff down off the opportunity to open the thirty eight minutes and also the former russian international beat the

keeper he could not beat the post both teams who had trouble executing on indeed creating chances until coach burst into the other home in the evening third minute . bottom of the league after they won their loss. where indeed column heading into that we can put home to have seats on has seen them swap places with while samuel at saul is revving up the crowds and. for a time african player of the year taking part in his first home game for on g. but so far there is no score against fifteen minutes played. just a two game time for consideration in the english premier league today the first of which is now ended with west brom left to celebrate their first win of the season the baggies doing so well at the expense of new toys noraid city former lock in the t.v. peter odemwingie netting just three minutes into seal not some points for the west

midlands side phone who have just one point sell for three games or entertaining blucher to new points warm the school with around five minutes to go on craven. princes the tennis where the final line up the u.s. open are set novak djokovic on the rafael nadal will to tackle for the men's kronwall some other stones or will attempt to hold shereen a williams quest for a forty eight grand slam title the younger sister of venus early breaking sweat in the first set against world number one car line was the key on williams continued got dominance in the second the twenty nine year old power telling in the guise of a six two six four scoreline be all those short for a fourth title at flushing meadows for serie. she no take solace trillian some stories are who saw off surprise package angelica kerber in a rain delay clash stews are starting strong in taking the first set six three put

the on see the german pulled back to level a much in emphatic style the third set a one sided or further with still to recent to a five advantage before eventually wrapping up six three two six six two five. had a chance of the french very. nice. yeah but it's a kid i now understand giving myself another opportunity to see this guy. use a little bit of that experience from last year really go after it in say what are the. major highlight of my theory there was another classic martial which we knew back to your kitchen roger federer in the men's semifinals the match a full five center which are fighting back brilliantly from two sets to notch point and eventually for him to win six seven four six six three six two seven games to five the epic result five time winner federal law the same stage and see the same

man at last year's u.s. open while the top city talk which is aiming for his third run slam crown this year alone. it's always important to. be cause to stay positive and completely believe that you can win i mean since you're already in the fifth set for marriage it's only one great difference or. rafael nadal nor stands between djokovic and glory in new york the spine your defeating fourth seed on memory six four six two three six six two in the second semi wants i guess denying the scots dream of a major success so it isn't so versus talk of which i remarked of last year's final one by the serve on a battle between the world's top two ranked parish backlash takes place on them. to the rugby world cup where holder south africa have gotten off to a winning start in new zealand but only just the springboks beating wales by the minimum of march.