and this is the drain that leads to the river these millions of pellets are entering the ocean through those little holes right there you can see pellets on every side of the drain we found two hundred thirty six million of them in three days of sampling these rivers coming down the rivers to the sea just in three days two hundred thirty six million gallons. chose morrison fury's and by plastic waste because you will soon as that it never disappears. the captain's life changed twelve years ago when he settled a little used route across the pacific. every time i took the time to survey the ocean i was able to see something in it i even would make a bet with myself i will come out now i will survey the ocean and see nothing and i would lose the bet i would always see something and this gradually made me think something's wrong. when he returned he was intrigued that there was so much plastic

floating around so far from civilization so he decided to go back and quantify the problem. this was the big shock and this was a very very big surprise we were shocked when we pulled up the net for the first time i mean that was an aha moment my goodness what have we done that we can just throw a net anywhere in the ocean and hold this kind of plastic debris out of. i dr mark is here i'm hired by the pacific ocean and middle of nowhere looking for plastic and lots of it. captain jones move created a foundation called only to. mark as the activist joins him in no mood to construe t. they've obtained government grants to study this area since then they have kept on filtering the ocean. this place. since.

it's a couple. of. years old and. put up little bottle caps. so this is seven hours in the open ocean with a troll so that's why there's no more and more that's not much area. that's like its own human hair my entire football field the ocean is so vast this much plastic and very small strip really sand who is a virtual. captain moves samples of stirred up a planet wide controversy. he discovers the trash vortex i'm told to. trash from the american continent is sucked into the trash for to exploit spidery mean currents of the pacific joining the trash coming from asia.

some of the islands and beaches of one are in the direct line of phones this massive plastic. don't compel a girl is the victim of throughways from all the countries that border the pacific . we began cleaning this this coastline here in two thousand and three and since that time we've collected over ninety tons of trash just it's a few miles it goes like. the trash grips with major ocean currents spiraling round for at least ten years and finally ending up as a starter and centrism who sometimes is still a new. team

was established in operating procedure. samples are brought back to them to be studied. expedition after expedition the extent of the problem is revealed more clearly. from six hundred seventy one fish that we collected of six different species over thirty five percent of them had at least one piece of plastic and they're stuck and the reason we want to care about although these fish might be ugly to some people i think they're adorable and they're also the making food source for animals such as tuna and marking off and sounding people don't necessarily these fish people eat the fish that feed on these so it brought about who wanted more questions and how

densely is this going to attract humans down the line. in the middle of the trash looks as far as is possible from any inhabited land. and his team have discovered even the simplest forms of life struggling to survive in the midst of trash. jellyfish so trying to duck they can no longer swim. even as opened the most basic element of the ocean food chain are affected these tiny living organisms swallow tiny particles of plastic which get stuck and becoming better in that bodies. microscopic life forms but life forms that are already struggling for survival as they become further and further in mashed in our rubbish.

america marks a decade since the tragedy of nine eleven which united the nation but brought about two of the bloodiest war of the twenty first century. and afghanistan which was invaded by the u.s. shortly after the atrocity the relentless taliban's staged another deadly suicide bombing on his art he discovers most afghan civilians don't even know why their country was ever occupied by foreign troops. and the sports world say goodbye to the country's top national ice hockey team white tiles in a plane crash that killed forty three. mosco calls on the international community not to take sides in syria's internal violence as president inventive

says negotiation is the only way to peace. in the back of the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly on our team good to have you with us this hour it was a tragedy that claimed the lives of thousands in an instant and later two wars with an even more devastating death toll united states is marking a decade since the nine eleven attacks terrorists crashed hijacked planes into the twin towers of the world trade center in new york and the pentagon in washington the fourth plane came down in the state of pennsylvania so these 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 the. terminations to seek out the perpetrators and prevent more doubts 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 out is going to reports killing hasn't stopped. it started as a war on terror spawned by the deadliest terrorist attack in history you know whether she were the enemy that's that's clear but the circle of america's enemies grew quickly and included nations that had nothing to do with nine eleven they were defined by george bush as the axis of evil some of these regimes have been pretty quiet since september eleventh but we know their true nature north korea's regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction. starting a citizens. iran aggressively pursues these weapons and actually march terror while an unelected few repressed iranian people's hope for freedom. iraq and change the planet's 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 our real target children are we'll target and go to iraq it also was the low hanging fruit north korea was far more dangerous but too difficult hundred thousand casualties were predicted by the corner on both sides seoul would be destroyed iran was too difficult seventy million people not fractured like the iraqis and the sunni and shia question another as for the motives behind invading iraq some talk or oil iraq right now is sitting on probably two hundred billion barrels maybe three hundred billion barrels that's a wrap on or report well 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 rule as the world's policeman the driving idea behind it is that it had him on externality idea is that the 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 effect 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

leave yet and this time in the name of removing an evil dictator. some worry syria could be next we have are going to executives power that is. by the people by the congress or by the courts for war we can go toward the drop of a court we've reached a point now where the president can kill people for state purposes and in your show you feels committed 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 out reporting from washington r.t.

. well for more about the legacy and implications of the nine eleven attacks i can now cross live to the u.s. and talk with a girl and she could tell me a thanks very much indeed for being with us here on to you know this was the most patients terrorist attack the world has ever seen so was the reaction by the u.s. against afghanistan and iraq justified. well i think that certainly against iraq is it was not justified because there was no link between iraq and nine eleven against iran is a little bit more complicated story you know there are clearly are colored man has been harboring al qaeda and osama bin laden so there was an argument from for going in and cleaning out. that ought to have been an extremely limited and surgical operation and do you as should have got you know very very quickly instead we are kind of stuck in a quagmire there and i think that is a huge problem for the u.s.

and for the rest of the world too so in effect by putting in perspective something that six thousand two hundred american soldiers died have died so far in iraq and afghanistan in effect the terrorists one of rolled in there. you know in a sense yes they did because you know the. arrange for america to have such a huge overreaction to go to one back that in fact succeeded in stopping america from within the country as opposed to from a you know if he had to try to get america to you know launch that kind of a ten year war that it has launched by simply a conventional attack they would not have succeeded so yes in a sense a billion and a huge overreaction to a big large american plane gaijin who has been going on has given them a victory of sorts and george w. bush made the war on terror which that's the label so many give this the war on terror he made it sound something like. exalted almost divine he kept saying it's

god's will and so on was that a way of convincing the american people to wage wars are now that we're talking about all the loss of life do you think that argument is still accepted by the americans. where you know i think the george w. bush you know i don't buy this war like you know he actually hard this was something if we didn't worry. well you know mission ordained by god i mean he believed very strongly that when he was doing was the right thing to do it doesn't mean he was right i think you can believe that he was right i don't believe that the war in iraq was for oil because if it were for oil we're not in it would have been paid over the united states to keep gardening you know saddam hussein and getting cheap oil no i think you really exaggerated the threat that. ghost boot by nine eleven and that the you know they just started flailing around and it was a completely rational response but i think it was at the same time you noticed that it honestly believed it was

a narrative what about the response now after what we've seen happening in iraq and afghanistan what we now seeing in libya many would say that the campaign led by nato has resulted in a victory a success or would you say otherwise that we could actually see something similar to what we're seeing in afghanistan and iraq with prolonged conflict and instability you know that's a very good question and you know i don't think anybody really knows the answer to that right now. you know in libya it is slightly different in that the u.s. is not directly in order right now at least now if the situation deteriorates and you know we've seen some revenge killing by the rebel forces against you know all our black africans who are supposedly aiding the afi i think of that situation and continued was then the you might for humanitarian reasons be pulled in and are still being and then it could well become another one of my own and how do is that

. and you know on the other interventions there isn't any good precedent left for us not doing duty you know we have established and we have established a precedent here that the u.s. has to be you know the police of the global car and if it is called upon to be the global cup again. i don't see on what basis he really refusal is it being very good . read and see i'm just part of it there is a contradiction isn't there in the foreign policy here there is washington say is committed to defending democratic values in any country and we've seen obviously the intervention in libya and also a lot of vocal pressure on syria but what about the likes of yemen and bahrain for some reason off the radar just briefly explain that yeah another and the very good question i mean i think there is a double standard now again you know in yemen and bahrain in libya you know. there was a huge cry from the you know your own community to intervene and the u.s.

going to go dragged into the into syria because the europeans had the. united states in against them and so it was sort of a quid pro quo. you know but yeah but that absolutely is a double standard for the united states and why not yemen you know bahrain. in fact it is even has been even more draconian you know and gadhafi had initially been you know. so yeah question really interesting she could talk to which we had more time but the time is upon us thank you for joining us live there she can tell me are joining us live there in detroit talking about. a suicide bombing in afghanistan is word of 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 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 still relentless something we've just been discussing with our guest a few months ago the conflicts estimated to have cost over ten miles an hour civilians their lives as they're often caught in the crossfire and as u.s. combat troops begin a gradual withdrawal from the country most locals don't even know why foreign forces came in the first place. helmand and southern afghanistan is the province that's 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 here. never. finish a few more us do they know where. we don't know if that's because because we're a former neighborhood of. the world big time or start coming. two young

men are clearly never heard of nine eleven. but maybe the elders of the local show would have more to say you know you see. this thing i think you just can see the smoke on the buildings and that's a that's only thing i can say when you get your this picture saying it so i think that was a call what if i just got here i would been surprised but having been here now for six months this is pretty much stone ages where we are and what other reactions i thought you saw to guy who said it was kabul was clearly never going to kabul and he just shows you how isolated areas in their own country will be come on the i don't want to sound of. thing i would i'm not going to go you are going to you know you're going to send come to this point and to get the airplane from here in the united states and 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 myself because what you see after looking at it

in this passage where you want to write. to me back. make and saying we're going to help you to discern one building and it is to ask how many and this is going to help you where is the help. this is going to give it to our kids going into fighting and they do it to their own kids in a cave but i don't indeed and. i do sympathize or understand what some are saying is. even just from the weather we've had recently people lose their homes and nobody see their health so all you have when you can't feed yourself or earth house yourself are you get care about somebody you have six thousand miles away just so i can understand it i just filled it up over the top of this with that never thought to pass those questions of but if 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 villagers oblivious to nine eleven the afghan police and even

some of the translators working with the u.s. military will you go with this for your sake i know i might be able to syria if you ever see the faces before. a survey taken in twenty ten by the international council on security and development found that ninety two percent of afghan men in elena's 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 that impacts from afghanistan for. well for full coverage of the ten year anniversary of the nine eleven tragedy go to our web site r.t. dot com where we provide you with the latest updates interviews and videos and at the moments we're bringing you live pictures from rome just one of the many cities around the world holding special events to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the attacks. to see that the coliseum has been illuminated in remembrance of those that

died and you can watch the pictures from run that streaming live on our website. for terrorist attacks that became synonymous with. the senseless slaughter of almost street people stopped the. publisher of an evening. news on. often. look back at nine eleven 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 what they've got us levels plane crashed on takeoff on saturday thousands gathered at the team's stadium to say their final goodbyes to the victims an artist sean thomas witnessed a city and mourning. and waves of emotion poor through jaroslaw as

residents realize the full weight of the tragedy their country or the lives of some of the city's brightest stars but ended up with the fans of his team for many years our whole family including a little child the brunt of all their games for us is their 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 or most of the entire jaroslava locomotive came channel 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 to newark a mostly sinister so we heard a plane takeoff so we told our granddaughter look there is 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 then we went to the river and saw the plane. in the wake of a tragedy of what he will put in ordered an immediate and thorough investigation as president medvedev led a country in mourning and visiting the crash site and pain his respects. meanwhile fans of a three time championship winning jaroslava locomotive team bigger voices heard in a show of solidarity and support. as you can see from the flowers and candles and mementos left here at the stadium the loss of a look was a huge blow to this community international nature of this team it was a larger loss of her russia and of the rest of the world as well. my friends with the play and there's a way to give it a couple years ago or because one piece just wanted to give my condolences to the families and. it's what it's for everybody ceremonies to honor the players were

held in minsk. of somber reflection from those who knew the players as well. as the title could be tricked told me he actually wants to quit hockey and 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 and not only him but everybody who died i would like to express my condolences to his family to his children and wife. saturday march of 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 a privilege we have very dear friends the people who brought us joy and played for our country this is an irreplaceable loss for the people of years level and the whole country. in years level schon thomas r.t. . coming up to twenty minutes past the hour now and still to come for you here are tea tensions boiling over in greece as angry as respond with far bombs and stones

to an announcement made by the prime minister on the state of the country's economy . first twenty seven people are reported have been killed by syrian security forces backed by troops in several towns across the country this comes as the arab league announce 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. of imposed sanctions on syria and according to the u.n. security council to condemn violence in the country united nations says more than two thousand died in the uprising since mid march when the thought isn't damascus blame armed groups for the last. 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 and decision was announced after members of the syrian opposition visited the russian capital requesting international speaking on the sidelines of

international policy forum in the russian. president said he's concerned about. the situation is. simplistic. the resolutions we would approve to send a strong message to the syrian regime should in fact be addressed on both sides things are 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 of 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 soon.