with a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly tea 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 united states is marking a decade since the nine eleven attacks terrorist 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 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 that followed nine eleven has claimed thousands more lives in what's now the longest conflict in u.s. history and as it is going to reports the killing hasn't stopped. it started as a war on terror spawned by the deadliest terrorist attack in history either whether

she with the enemy that's clear but the son of america's enemy quickly and included nations that had nothing to do with nine eleven years 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 its citizens. iran aggressively pursues these weapons in exports terror while an unelected few repressed the iranian people's hope for freedom. iraq continues to try to shall still 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 used the moment in

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 a hundred thousand casualties they put by the corner 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 mohi 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 a monic still it had the idea is that so but world is going to be more secure place

overall if there is a a unit whole 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 and president obama was elected on hopes that he would enter the endless wars. overseas which most americans are opposed to but he continues and adds one more and not the oil rich nation and this time in the name of removing an evil dictator. some worry syria could be next we have a an executive power that is beyond any check by the people by the congress or by

the courts for war we can go toward the drop of a coin we've reached the point now where the president of the united states 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 the nine eleven terror attacks i'm now joined live from london by author and journalist returned see thanks so much for being with us live here on our team action while the u.s. saw the nine eleven attacks as an act of war and its own soil so surely it was

justified to lash out in the way that it did i mean what else would any other country have done in the same circumstances. well it was certainly a tragedy but the definition of an act of war of course is a nation state it involves a nation state and it wasn't this wasn't pearl harbor although of course roosevelt at that time they say did know that was going to happen this is what an act of war was a criminal act led by someone who was from a family were very close to the bush family and i think many people now see it as blowback for years and decades and arguably centuries of american power and i suppose it signals the beginning of the end of american empire what was the u.s. so completely on able to prevent this from happening do you think. i think institutional structures even in a country as advanced as the sole superpower on earth were at fault for many people

of the institutional and bureaucratic procedures didn't allow them to shoot down those planes before they hit the world trade center and so forth but perhaps a bigger malays here is that all systems seem to have failed the media the courts the police forces the intelligence agencies government it's as if this happens when empires start to fold these structures calcify. and arguably they were they can't stop asymmetric attacks anyway i mean it is it is difficult to attack to defend yourself against a terror group like which is small and all that takes they say is one of them to be successful. and that's what happened let's talk about the aftermath of the reaction obviously leading to the iraq conflict and indeed the afghanistan war well it may have been a long ten year war there in afghanistan and cost more lives than the u.s. would ever have imagined but surely with afghanistan now on

a path to more democracy many would say this is the right thing to have happen it in other words the conflict in afghanistan has been justified hasn't it. i think that american intervention in afghanistan and the other superpower previously the soviet union has proved again and again very dangerous for the superpowers involved and we know that in the past few hours i think it's seventy seven at the moment the count of american soldiers in the past few hours afghanistan is not an easy place for america to take over and i think you're more if when i asked comic guys i'd say his first responsibility is to the afghanistan people who say that in public and then to the wider region not to the united states so the idea that the united states can take from what's happened in afghanistan i don't think so and as to democracy building democracy building needs to be created from the ground up

and one wouldn't want to go into egypt now because the transitional council was causing some problems from what was obviously a people's revolution against a u.s. back to crater so you don't think then lessons have been learned from afghanistan the u.s. of course being involved in the military campaign in libya which is now seen gadhafi regime being toppled i mean many would say this is a victory for nato or do you actually predict there will be a similar instability that we're seeing in afghanistan and indeed in iraq. i think that continued u.s. support for dictators for vile regimes means that it makes the same mistakes again and again so that in libya we now hear that it's backing. who is backing off the backing some revolutionaries who want to genuine transformation of libyan government but it's also backing people that. say. quite close to the ideas of some of bin laden and as we all know we americans were created to funded

the mujahideen let's see whether the americans are yet again making the same mistake but on a larger scale economic problems social problems civic problems the response from the united states to nine eleven was so catastrophic the wrong. someone in love may not get what he wants but people all around the world have been affected so poorly for badly by u.s. policy we must remember that the u.s. is also the anniversary of the american backed coup against chile in one hundred seventy three and lots of people in the global south still remember how their countries have been distorted and destroyed in so many ways by american just briefly funny you talk about the way people have been affected by. by these events now of course the u.k. has supported the u.s. in its fight against terror as they like to call it but europe doesn't many ways seem like it still a very dangerous place to be i mean you're there in london how is it do you think

affecting our lives now in europe and indeed how can we now deal with this threat of terrorism in europe. of course we did suffer here the seven seven bombings few years after two thousand and one but it doesn't matter over egg the threat of terrorism there is always a reason why terrorists act i think often enough it is to do with all sorts of insecurities that societies feel as to whether europe really is more dangerous i think i think we still have to wait and see but i think european governments certainly after the reaction by the us government through the events of nine eleven realize that they have to look elsewhere not just because of the u.s. reaction but it took a huge toll on the american economy as well and i think many people are now looking to the new super powers and it's a sad day some with a sad day for those who believe in the constitution the original constitution of

united states of america one of the greatest ever and see how superpowers they rise and they fall here we have to session very interesting to hear your thoughts on this action returns the author and journalist joining us live there in london. a suicide bombing in afghanistan has wounded more than seventy american soldiers and killed two civilians it's being seen as the taliban's way of marking a decade since nine eleven and issued a statement after sunday's attack denying it had anything to do with events in the u.s. ten years ago well 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 still something we've just been discussing there with afshin rattansi a complex estimated to 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 was borne the brunt of the fighting between the taliban and coalition forces but with 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. can you show them a few more and can us do they know where it is even we don't know if that's because you're a former neighbor heard about the world. cup and. the two young men clearly never heard of nine eleven. but maybe the elders of the local sure would have more to say you know because you. just can see the smoke from the buildings and that's. when you go sure this picture. if i just got here i would be surprised but having been here now for six months

it's primitive stone age where we are and what do you think about the reactions. of the guy who said it was kabul has clearly never been to kabul. it just shows you how isolated they are even in their own country go beat them on them without understand what. they have come to where you know you don't think you know we're going now america afghanistan come to this point and get the airplane from here to attack in the united states 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 what it means so you have 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 of carrying a rifle. to your back that was of course most part of the things that make and saying we're going to help you did to so one building and to destroy us how many buildings and they say we're going to help you where is the have. to come work your way down what they're saying to give it to our kids are going to go up fighting and they do it to their own kids in

a paper that i don't invade and. i do sympathize or understand what you know 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 or earth house yourself are you going to care about somebody you know six thousand miles away. so i can understand that i just started up out of the top of the list with i never thought to ask those questions of anybody here so 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 this is for you to say there are no i'm not no i don't want the syrians if you haven't 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 intelligence 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 tea. well for full coverage of the ten year anniversary of the nine eleven tragedy go to our website it's called online all the time where we provide you with the latest updates interviews and videos. of the moment we bring you live pictures from the memorial ceremony which is taking place at ground zero in new york to commemorate the tenth anniversary of those attacks 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 life on the web site r.t. dot com richard. a terrorist attack that became synonymous with. the senseless slaughter of homeless

people stopped the. vision of a. ten years old. to. look back at nine eleven to 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 died on wednesday when looking more to the us levels plane crashed on takeoff on saturday thousands gathered at the team's stadium to say final goodbyes to the victims and all to sean thomas witnessed a city in mourning. the 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 in fans of this 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 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 cage fell 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 serious because we heard the plane takeoff so we told our granddaughter look there's going to be an airplane then i heard a bang and my daughter told me mom it's falling down to the side but then came the flames and the smoke and we wanted to run away but we didn't know where to run and then we went to the river and saw the play. 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 left here at the stadium the loss of. was a huge blow to this community but international nature of this team it was a large loss for russia and the rest of the world as well. my friends with all the play and the guys have played together a couple of years ago and of course one just just want to give my condolences to the families and all that stuff but ceremonies to honor the players were held in minsk in bratislava of somber reflections from those who knew the players well. at the table demitra told me he actually wants to quit talkie 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 for 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 soon it was an idea that we have buried our friends the people who brought us joy and played for our country this is an irreplaceable loss for the people of years level and. years level sean thomas r t. 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 announced it's reached an agreement with president bashar al assad promised. reforms 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 calling for the un security council to condemn

violence in the country united nations says more than two thousand died in the uprising since mid march on authorities in damascus plane. rest. meanwhile russia researching 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 violence the 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 president said he's concerned about. the situation is far from simplistic. the resolution which we will approve to send a strong message to the syrian regime should be addressed to both sides things aren't just black and white 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. 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 the country is now controlled by the national transitional council but gadhafi loyalists have been putting up fierce resistance in bani walid one of the colonels last strongholds nato airstrikes continue to assist the rebels as ousted leader is on the run and now on interpol's wanted list he's claimed in recent messages that he's still in the country. fighters have been given until saturday to to surrender. the new leadership in streets across the country celebrations over the end of the old regime of been replaced by fear as autism or if an ocean reports. a city celebrates

for more than ten days the labor and capital has been read joisting in the dictator's fall. only he wanted to hand he's portrayed here in the central square for his rules for the second anniversary but we put our flag up instead we won we are so happy without it it seems in the last weeks rebel fighters have fired hundreds of declare her shot during this whole untruthfully are no alcohol. or b.b. of pheno very very forward. mr gaddafi. duffy's victoria. he told old to be more lovely all the people we know you see love him and of course we're out of freedom as we don't know a good deputy and we're done all right with a lower case but away from jubilant crowds we meet those who are not so pleased applauded him on leaves in chief police 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 in 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 when it's dark 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 know. of the rahman says he also wanted change and a brighter future for his country but not base way. people are dying on both sides of the cities destroyed no one cares do they seriously think that they changed 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 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 is functioning by itself and treading a fine line between freedom and allocate. rich national. tripoli libya. the british government ordered an investigation into allegations the country secret service is extradited terror suspects to libya where they were allegedly tortured the claim surfaced after human rights groups found documents in

tripoli detailing the ousted regime's toys with m i six and the cia but former british intelligence officer any national thinks the results of the investigation will be brushed under the carpet. when david cameron calls for an inquiry into these allegations he's been credibly disingenuous under the u.k. law and the inquiries act two thousand and five an inquiry this is established including this in this torture inquiry headed up by subpoena gibson circumscribed by the very organizations that are being investigated in this case m i five and m i six so it's going to be toothless plus of course the other consideration with this is that peter gibson himself is heading up this inquiry was actually intelligence services commissioner for five years prior to taking on this role so he's been cozying up to the intelligence services in the u.k. for five years i doubt if he's going to unearth anything deliberately perhaps he would probably want to shine a bright light in the dark corner should we say he'll be friends to the intelligence agencies they will have lost all credibility they have double deals in

libya for decades now and really their chickens are coming home to roost and i can't see how any government that comes into power in libya will trust whatever m i six or the british government now says an emotion talking to me a little earlier this week now let's have a quick look at some news making headlines around the world today in our world update swedish police arrested for the city of gothenburg on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack hundreds of people were evacuated from the city's center following the arrest whoever the you swear to security police decided not to raise the terror alert level which has been at the elevated mark since november officials have not yet released any further information regarding the suspected plot. to 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 many more 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 are resume their search but hopes of finding more survivors are fading by the hour is the country's worst maritime disaster in fifteen years. twenty eight minutes past the hour here in moscow will be but with a recap of our top stories for in just a couple of minutes stay with us live here on l.t. .

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nine thirty on a sunday night here in the russian capital this is r t with weekly top stories this hour america decade since the tragedy of nine eleven which united a nation brought about two of the bloodiest wars of the twenty first century and we bring the live pictures of the ceremony taking place there ground zero in you will . also in the sports world say goodbye to the country's top national ice hockey team in a plane crash in the blink of an eye. on the international community not to take sides in syria's internal violence as president bit of says negotiation is the only way to peace in the arab league announces it's reached an agreement with damascus on long promised.