it fell to rebel forces most of the country is now controlled by the national transitional council but gadhafi loyalists have been putting up his resistance in bani walid one of the colonel's last strongholds nato airstrikes continue to assist the rebels in his ousted leader was on the run and now on interpol's wanted list he's claimed in recent audio messages that he's still in the country program the fighters have been given until saturday to surrender to the new leadership and streets across the country celebrations over the end of the old regime have been replaced by fear as artie's marouf emotional reports. the. city celebrates for more than ten days than even capital has been read joy seen in the dictator's fall. 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 want we are so happy without him. it seems in the last weeks rebel fighters have. been

here the never shot here in this old country truly early august. be a fino believe believe war with. this third gaddafi. he's declared toward he told the world loved me would that be the last we know you would see love him he was rather pleased i was and we don't argue that began with an iraqi when they were a kid but away from jubilant crowds we meet stereo's who are not so pleased after a man leaves in tripoli's district historically pro khadafi when the rebels arrived his sister was badly injured she's still in hospital in tunisia. other hand 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 let our children outside when it's dark we are afraid

we always wait for something bad only that he was here at least we didn't have to sleep awake what we do know. up there one says he also wanted change and a brighter future for his country but not face way. people are going on both sides of the cities destroyed and no one cares do you seriously think who changed it for the better don't want to so just look around is that what you want to do and what is around is a scene of widespread destruction and social chaos it badly damaged buildings made by the rise in stink of garbage and decomposing bodies are junk says roam the streets barely old enough to understand that what they carry out weapons not toys many shops schools and hospitals are closed while the city's symmetries a growing bigger and bigger. shortly after tripoli fell into rebel hands the

national transitional council livia's new authority claimed it was moving here from benghazi it's weeks have passed and there is still no sign of order being restored the city is functioning by itself and trading fine line between freedom and allocate. right national team tripoli libya. greece will impose a new one of property tax to make up for the shortfall in its budget this comes off of the prime minister vowed to save his debt stricken country from bankruptcy in a key speech on the economy where more than twenty five thousand people joined together to protest against tough starting measures on saturday and we demonstrated through bottles and stones or police to disperse the crowd to protest and say they are fed up with cuts to pensions and salaries and increased taxes imposed to secure international risk you know all of europe has been struggling with the sovereign debt crisis honest and honest peter build thinks that the euro zone has too many

fatal flaws to survive. it may indeed be getting if not too late and certainly very late in the day in order to institute our financial government for europe the system could collapse before it is politically possible to put these sorts of measures in place but at the same time although parliaments if you like don't want europe to collapse there is a growing feeling both within parliaments and also amongst the people who elected parliaments and that's certainly true of germany the most pros european all of the of all of the countries that there is a certain impatience a way in up is it really worth giving up a sovereignty and b. possibly a lot of money in order to save a system that was falsely designed for right from the beginning it is certainly a question the parliaments are going to be putting to each other over the next coming months. peterbilt talking a little earlier this week here in r.t.

well it's a quick look at some news making headlines around the world to. an old world update in swedish police who 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 for the arrests however the swedish authorities 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. insurgent in regional zanzibaris begun three days of mourning for the victims of a ferry disaster a big claim as many as two hundred forty lives many more still missing after losing power 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 while rescue teams are resume their search but hopes of finding more survivors are fading as a country's worst maritime disaster in fifteen years. of the storm nate has reached mexico's gulf coast where fishel is of open shelters as a precaution forecasters say the gale force winds have been strengthened as

expected on the chances of it becoming a hurricane were reducing meanwhile an intensified air and sea search failed to find ten old republicans who went missing and there was no word from a dozen fisherman who disappeared aboard shrimping boats much of the u.s. east coast is still recovering from last week's hurricane irene which left more than fifty day. well probably more ahead for you this sunday evening artie's interview and lots of action in the sports business and on the way for you little later before that i'll be back with headlines stay with us live here in moscow. in the world.

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video on demand. in my old. speech now in the palm of your. call. it's the weekly coming to you live from moscow this is our t. top stories now this hour america not said decade since the tragedy of nine eleven which united the nation but brought about through of the bloodiest wars of the twenty first century and we're bringing you live coverage live pictures of. ground zero there in me. in afghanistan which was invaded by the u.s. shortly after the atrocity of the relentless taliban staged another deadly suicide bombing in the dark he discovers most afghan civilians don't even know why they turn tree was never occupied by foreign troops. and russia and the sports world say

goodbye to the country's top national ice hockey team and wiped out in a plane crash in the blink of an eye. moscow's calls on the international community not to take sides in syria's internal violence of present admit it says negotiation is the only way to peace on the arab league announces it's reached an agreement with damascus on one promised reforms. in the decade that followed the nine eleven attacks was marked by wars fought under the flag of ridding the world of terrorists and durrance wilkinson a former us official and george w. bush's administration has been telling r.t. that america thinks it holds an unchallengeable place in the world and abuses the power it no longer has that special interview for you next on r.t. . 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 calling powells chief of staff colin powell secretary of state under george w. bush colonel wilkerson thank you so much for joining me thanks for having me more than six thousand american servicemen have 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 gadd in the wars waged by the united states and other countries like iraq as a collective entity we seem to think were exceptional and 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 and it's today post world war two but we're no longer that powerful and 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 say it was writing closing guantanamo going clubbing everything else i'm talking about big change first of all my 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 at the last that came before because they're all trying to blame each other and trying to get out of some little boy and yes we should be going to. and why are they trying to blame each other but let's let's face the fact there for a moment that most americans don't even think about. nine eleven happened when george w. bush big changes what. they allowed the greatest killing of americans on american

territory since we're ordered. 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 that cost 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 to much more than a cottage industry out of the what my former boss colin powell has called the terrorist industrial complex and lots of people are making lots of money for 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 doubts we're not writing this speech where we're out of it we all did key points in the preparation of colin powells presentation on some of those occasions george tenet and his deputy john mclaughlin said ok ok we'll it's really that out of the cia head of the cia and the director of central intelligence at the time. would throw that out and they threw it out the real essence of that presentation and they preserved 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 logical laboratory that was the active nuclear program as symbolized by the aluminum tubes and it was the existing chemical stocks and. as hard connections between al qaeda 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 of israel finance britain jordan and

a host of others who were feeding intelligence and to 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 not 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 the southerly from being to try and find out if another attack were coming after all a lot of comedy expired another attack were coming it would have come. in the summer of two thousand and two it shifted suddenly to enhanced interrogation in

order to find out if baghdad had contacts with al qaida so we were actually portraying people not under the so-called smoking gun or internet that we might have another attack so it was justified we were clarke shooting 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 do you want to go to war with iraq and i'll give you a half a dozen answers if i'm still going to fight this 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 our qaida and baghdad which cheney had convinced i'm sure george tenet had convinced him of it george tenet didn't think there was that big a nexus. with dick cheney i think it was all over iraq right now is sitting on probably two hundred billion barrels maybe three hundred billion barrels that's

a racks on all of the floor that surpasses the. do you reckon 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 it also was the low hanging fruit in north korea it was far more dangerous but too difficult one 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 just use the moment in the wake of nine eleven they use the moment and in the wake of nine eleven to divert from afghanistan our 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 cheney on trial in our what you accused them off i think he's already done it no one needs to accuse him of anything and he has admitted publicly it is on videotape that he can go waterboarding but he would

still waterboard then he does not believe waterboarding is torture waterboarding is torture there is a if so facto case a 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 value laden problems first is you can never know a hypothetical you never know if your lesser evil action actually prevented the greater evil big cheney spends hours on television and elsewhere and in this book trying to say that his actions prevented a greater evil another attack on the united states and so very 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 palace and he can't know for soldiers surrounded cheney the 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 the order book they didn't stop anything through in here and and then it's 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 big cheney for not knowing the truth because he couldn't know the truth he's trapped he's trapped in his own mood 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 the cattle going to iraq and what would happen if they waterboarding him because they thought he was a threat to the state of mind so 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 dick 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 americans i do any given time they think that americans have the right to 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 it 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 overreactions of military history which 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 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 are going home oh by the way footnote if you entertain terrorist in this country good we'll come back and do it again in what way could that over we actually backfire. i think it already has and this is a. change really and it'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 or by the courts for war we can go toward the drop of a coin 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 silly and he really that they weren't involved in hostilities that the war powers act was not relevant and so for that it certainly was any time you kill people for state purposes the

war powers act is relevant and the constitution is relevant we've reached a point now where the president the united states can kill people for state purposes any time he or she will feels the need 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 in this that's happened in this country.

video. stores the sound of the america decade since the tragedy of nine. eleven which united nations have brought about two of the bloodiest wars of the twenty first century. and afghanistan which was invaded by the us shortly after the atrocities the relentless taliban staged another deadly suicide bombing this r.t. 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 life in a plane crash in the blink of an eye. and also another top story from the past week moscow calls on the international community not to take sides in syria's internal violence as present it says negotiation is the only way to peace while the

arab league announces it's reached an agreement with the mask on long promised reforms. so that brings up to date for the moment join me for more on those stories and other developments in about fifteen minutes from now in the meantime next with the sports. great to have you with us this is sports day plenty ahead of the next ten minutes or so including all this. moving on all sports like most schools stretch their unbeaten record to eight games in the russian premier league with victory over a car. pitched battle reeling ribby world cup champions south africa age wales in their opening clash of this year's campaign. and give me five to ten top clone world finals kick off in moscow with the home side earning

a podium spot on day one. let's get going with football where sports like muscles on britain run since june in the russian premier league has been extended for another week the couple side's meeting with the first of sunday's four games only one goal coming on a dreary day and perm archon zuba have the chance to alter the school board midway through the second half but miscued his effort when really he should have at least forced a save the fans literally soaking in the experience when nicklaus did break the deadlock with a pinpoint free kick five minutes from time not strike from the origin time enough for the last of fights to take all three points. the league's other sports meanwhile saw there was continued now a chip going john to get our stuff thomas opportunity to open from the spot thirty eight minutes and although the former russian international beat the keeper he

couldn't beat the post both teams with trouble executing and creating chances on till the. first error started home to be three minutes in sports like no bottom of the league after the one no one else. does. because. being left going into the weekend mommies to clean only their fourth victory of the season should be for the lanka getting things started against it see tom with nine minutes gone the bell rush international left all alone to pick a spot for one don't side story was then doubled right before the break which beat from kabul oh yeah that's sure i can the science the fans calls wide open to milk the final straw. in the days of final game some of his second goal in as many games for the fourth time african player of the year

equalizing mothers against his first home game and. before another world star of the carlist never the winner right before the hour mark that means move up to fourth as it's. monday see one more game before week twenty three is. home to the crust of the chechen side even to hold confounds recent run of form which saw. men win four of their pots five. just to too much for john for consideration in the english premier league on sunday the first of which finishing with west brom left the celebrate their first win of the season the body slamming their first victory at the expense of new boys. former. peter odemwingie netting just three minutes into the season not some points for the west midlands side. block burned in the norwegians both winless the perth thing at a one one draw at craven cottage. ok let's move 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 margins in their pool d. fixture the boks getting off to a flyer in wellington from steyn the man pummeling his. we prefer to try early as the third minute. that's dogged welsh didn't let that deter them too much going in at the break ten six. after good work from the part of this man james who and warren gatland probably seize the initiative in the second half to be solid so touching to get sixty and lead but south africa aren't world champions for nothing francoise who guard slicing through your free site second fright on sixty five minutes the box seven being sixteen up and that's how it would finish after hoops missed penalties minutes off the bat so tough to win it. all for.

australia should why they are second favorites for the tournament before the battering ikey by twenty six points wallabies fly half quade cooper starting things off put in one thousand for minute penalty. cooper then becoming one of four different australian peers to cross the tri line making it sixteen six while i side centered on a another extensive effort to see thirty two six the final score a possible pool see table talking in quite a way arlin no weights on saturday for the twice world cup champions. they irish themselves taking care of the us eagles in between those games but only after a tough eighty minutes in new plymouth so many people running into tries for hours in that one rushing kick off their campaign on thursday against the u.s. . to the european basketball championships to russia are continuing to air.