the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly team good to have you with us. 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 terrorists crashed hijacked planes into the twin towers of the world trade center in new york and the pentagon in washington a fourth plane came down 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 nation and 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 exactly the kind of reports the killing hasn't stopped and. it started as a war on terror spawned by the deadliest terrorist attack in history you know 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 they were defined by george bush as the axis of evil some of these regimes have been pretty quiet since september eleventh. but we know their true nature. north korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction. while starving its citizens. iran aggressively pursue zs weapons in exports terror while an unelected few repressed the iranian people's hope for freedom. iraq and tunisia shauna'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 in the in the wake of nine eleven to divert from afghanistan our real target should have been our

real target and go to iraq it also was the low hanging fruit north korea was far more dangerous but too difficult one hundred thousand casualties were predicted by the floor on both sides so would be destroyed iran was too difficult seventy million people not fractured like the iraqis and the sunni and shia christian and other as for the motives behind invading iraq some talk to oil iraq right now is sitting on probably two hundred billion barrels maybe three hundred billion barrels that's correct zone or report. 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 with others blame america's self assigned rule as the world's policeman the driving idea behind it is that it had to monex to belittle the idea is that so but world is going to be a more secure place overall if there is 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 and the oil rich nation libya and this time in the name of removing an evil dictator. some worry syria could be next we have 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 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 a handful of terrorists has turned the lives of the 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. for us a suicide bombing in afghanistan as wounded more than seventy american soldiers and killed two civilians it's being seen as the taliban's way of marking a decade since nine eleven the movement issued a statement after sunday's attack denying it had anything to do with events in the u.s. ten years ago when nearly ten years after the u.s.

led coalition invaded afghanistan it doesn't seem any closer to winning the war there with the taliban still relentless the conflicts estimated to cost over ten thousand afghan civilians their lives as they're often caught in the crossfire 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 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 will. never heard of can you show them a few more and can us do they know where it is even if we don't know so that's because because we are former we never heard about anything else about the world.

coming through. the two young men and clearly never heard of nine eleven. but maybe the elders at a local show would have more to say yeah i know you see it in. this ng i just can see the smoke from the buildings and that's it that's one thing i can say when you guys show this picture saying it so i think that was a call what if i just got here i would be surprised but having been here now for six months this is pretty much the stone ages where we are and what to do about the reactions fascinating so the guy who said it was kabul was clearly never going to kabul it just shows you how isolated they are even their own country. understand. what you know you don't think you know you're going to come to this point and they get the airplane from here in the united states that you know how much. it was nice to go from iraq to then here is a lot easier to understand you know why you're here and where do you see at that

picture you know it's good picture remind yourself it's what you're there to see after looking at it in this context while wearing the uniform of carrying a rifle. to your back. and saying we're going to help you did to say one thing and did this or ask how many funding and they say we're going to help you where is. but i can work your way down what this is going to give you to our kids going to fighting and they do it to their own kids in a paper that i don't and. i do sympathize or understand what you're 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 the earth how yourself are you going to care about somebody six thousand miles away. so i can understand that this is all you got up out of the top of the list with that i never thought to ask 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 villagers oblivious to nine eleven but the afghan police and

even some of the translators working with the u.s. military and you don't know this for your sake i know i know i've never seen. this in these pictures before. a survey taken in twenty ten by the international council on security and development found that ninety two percent of afghan men in helmand and other afghan provinces had no idea what nine eleven was with american troops that start with during this year it seems likely that they will leave afghanistan without the vast majority of afghans ever having really understood why they came in the first place adam plates from afghanistan. author and journalist afshin rattansi told me a little earlier in r.t. that the u.s. led war campaigns will eventually back far bringing more radical regimes to power. 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 it's

already backing some revolutionaries you wonder genuine transformation of libyan governance but it's also backing people that some say. quite close to three ideas and. as we all know we americans were created to fund 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 tonight eleven was so catastrophic. i don't get what he wants but people all around the world are being affected and lots of people in the global south still remember how their countries have been distorted and destroyed in so many ways by american.

people. the vision of a. look back at nine eleven. 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. plane crashed on takeoff on saturday thousands gathered at the team's stadium to say final goodbyes to the victims thomas witnessed a city in mourning. waves of emotion poor through jaroslav as residents realize the full weight of the tragedy that country or the lives of some of the city's brightest stars but ended up with the fans of this team for many years our whole family including our little child are going to 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 almost the entire jaroslava locomotive k h l hockey team crashed shortly after takeoff bursting into a ball of flame after clipping a runway antenna forty three of the forty five on board perished to look at mostly we heard the plane takeoff so we told our granddaughter look there's going to be an airplane then i heard a bang and my daughter told me mom it's falling down to the side 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 plane 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 momentos left here at the stadium the loss of. it was a huge blow to this community but due to the international nature of this team it was a larger loss of for russia and of the rest of the world as well. my friends but on the plane that you guys have played together a couple years ago and of course one just just want to give my condolences to the family as well it's. ceremonies to honor the players were held in minsk in bratislava somber reflections from those who knew the players well. after to have all demitra told me he actually wants to quit hockey that he wants to play a little bit more and then leave and spend time with his family so this last

conversation came back to my head when i heard about the crash and i want to only him at least by lighting this candle not only him but everybody who died i would like to express my condolences to his family to his children and wife. saturday marked the end of an official three day mourning period as thousands poured into the stadium to view fourteen coffins on display and say their final goodbyes. we have buried our friends people who brought us joy and played for our country this is an irreplaceable loss for the people of us level and over. the years level sean thomas r t coming up to fifteen minutes past the hour here still to come. fury in the middle east. karo took the israeli embassy by storm leading to the evacuation of its diplomats from the country. and also still to come this hour we look back seventy years to the start of the leningrad blocking one of the darkest chapters.

but first twenty seven people are reported to been killed by syrian security forces backed by troops in several towns across the country and 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 u.s. and e.u. and post sanctions on syria according to the u.n. security council to condemn violence in the country the united nations says more than two thousand have died in the uprising since mid march when authorities in damascus blame armed groups for the unrest. meanwhile resulting both sides. 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 foreign help speaking on the sidelines of an international policy forum in the russian city of. presumably have said he's

concerned about the situation is far from simplistic. the resolutions we would approve to send a strong message to the syrian regime should in fact be addressed to both sides things aren't just black and white and the anti-government protesters in syria are not followers of some refined european models of democracy some of them are to put it straight extremists and some might even be called terrorists the situation is not that simple and we have to take into account the balance of different forces and interests russia may support certain moves but only if they don't boil down to the one sided condemnation of the government and 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 last strongholds of the leader is on the run and now interpol's wanted list he's claimed in recent messages that he's still in libya and one of his son saadi is reported to have crossed the border into libya southern neighbor. fighters are being given until saturday to surrender to the new leadership in streets across the country celebrations over the end of the old regime of being replaced by fear. reports. a city celebrates for more than ten days the even capital has been read joy seen in the dictator's fall. thirty 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 him. it seems in the last weeks rebel fighters have

fired. the shot during this sort of tripoli early alcohol stuff all revealed phenol very very forward. is very good duffy. duffy's victor thought he told the old to be more lovely with the people of the we know you will see that love him all of us what a president is that we don't argue that began with an iraqi with a lower case but away from jubilant crowds we meet those who are not so pleased up a lot of money lives in tripoli's abu salim 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 want to hidden location for the interview he says revolution has brought much fear in its wake. there is no peace there is no safety in the city we don't want our children outside

when it's dark we are afraid we always wait for something bad when gadhafi was here at least we didn't have to sleep awake what we do know. of the man says he also wanted to change and a brighter future for his country but not they sway. and people are dying on both sides the cities destroyed or no one cares do they seriously think that they changed it for the better don't lie to yourself 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 made by the rise and stink of the garbage and decomposing bodies youngsters roam the streets barely old enough to understand that what they carry are weapons not toys many shops schools and hospitals are closed while the city's symmetries 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 raced towards the city functioning by itself and treading a fine line between freedom and anneke. tripoli libya. the egyptian government's veld to tighten security and keep order in cairo where an angry mob stormed and sacked the israeli embassy on friday ninety three people died and more than a thousand were injured in clashes after a demonstration demanding faster political reforms turned against the embassy egyptian police were slow to intervene but eventually managed to disperse the crowd and the israeli sentiment rose sharply last month after israeli forces responding to a cross border 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 staff being flown home based journalist mohamad a bullfighter says tel aviv is done plenty to make enemies of the egyptian people. there is a lot of anger over what israel did recently which basically very crossed the border from israel into egypt killed a number of egyptian soldiers and their promise investigation and nothing has not been delivered yet ever sense there are spin here. among the stray sions and the sit in a few days outside the israeli embassy the minus traitors are asking the egyptian government to at least expel the israeli ambassador from egypt but this is not the first time that israeli troops kill people all soldiers in the border area egypt's public opinion has been liberated and that means they're not going to face silence again when israel commits any act of thuggery on its own our folder or

the people living on our border and that's what has rolled down what happened last night so we have to look at the motivation to make a strategic solution to what has actually been happening. well let's have a quick look at some news making headlines around the world in our world update at twenty two minutes past the hour 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 authorities decided not to raise the terror alert level which has been at the elevated mark since november. yet released any further information regarding the suspected plot. but tanzania 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 many more are still missing after losing power in rough seas the ship began taking on water eventually capsizing survivors it was overloaded with both cargo and passengers many of whom were children meanwhile rescue teams of resume their search but hopes

of finding more survivors are fading by the hour it's the country's worst maritime disaster in fifteen years. tropical storm nate is reach mexico's gulf coast where officials have opened shelters as a precaution but forecasters say the force winds haven't strengthened as expected and the chances of it becoming a reducing meanwhile an intensified air and sea search failed to find ten oil rig workers who went missing and there's no word from a dozen fishermen who disappeared aboard two shrimping boats much of the u.s. east coast is still recovering from last week's hurricane irene which left more than fifty. this week russia marks seventy years since the beginning of the leningrad the deadliest siege of the second world war the city now known as some petersburg survived almost nine hundred days of terror and starvation and peter all of a listen to the chilling stories of those lucky and determined enough to survive. and take it to the brink of starvation the blockade of lead in. petersburg by nazi

troops was one of the most destructive. when the german army encircled the. city it wasn't the shells and bombs that the inhabitants feared most but was hunger and this is a good worse when the famine spread well there is nothing more terrible than famine than to be the one in nearest and dearest starve to death. those trapped inside the city have to resort to what ever means necessary to survive a lot of horse slipped on an icy street in collapsed immediately people rushed out of their houses to chop it up are down right now with an axe because he managed to get something like a risk to the whole family lived on that for a week sometimes they need to eat so people take drastic action. there were days when i would step outside my house and shoot dead people buying in the snow for several meter with your god this isn't something we should try to cover up with

heroic stories that would be unfair to the history of the scene the people who were in jordan or hitler designated leningrad as one of his major objectives and from august one nine hundred forty one the german armies north set about tightening the noose on the key baltic port this is where the blockade began on the eighth of september nineteenth forty one german troops arrived here occupying the city of. the last lun connection to leningrad cutting off the city's supply of food and military equipment with the city cut off from the land the only way to get aid to leningrad was across the lake. in the short summer months bomb to be used but in the winter the frozen lake became a makeshift highway known as the road of life be it was one of those who worked on the ice helping to funnel valuable supplies into the besieged city the perils of living on a frozen lake made the work dangerous enough without the constant german bombardment

with most of the but one time a drive in from the mainland came to bring us directly east he noticed that one of our tents was sinking but come out come out to devils you're about to drown he shout. the driver touched attention to the truck and pulled it out on to stall it isss many of the vehicles bringing in supplies didn't make it across some of those have now been raised from the bottom of the lake be seen in the road of like museum so that seventy years on the sun or face is not forgotten the new kids are never that interested in photographs you're actually seeing it has sort of like with their own eyes and they always ask is this thing authentic and when i tell them yes it is that's when their eyes widen it's told more than a million civilians died in the groucho eight hundred seventy two day blockade which finally ended to me it's a cold january nine hundred forty three many of those who survived went straight into the fight to drive the germans by their experiences during the siege sparing

them on remember when you were going to we were evacuated we joined the army to take revenge for what the nazis to our people in this city so many civilians stronger and shelling so we proudly joined the red army to take revenge on the. well plenty more ahead for you later this hour including our special interview and the latest action in the water sports before that i'll be back here in the studio with the week's headlines so stay with us here live in moscow.

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good to have you with. decade since the tragedy of nine eleven which brought about two of the. trees. in afghanistan which was invaded by the u.s. shortly after the. deadly suicide bombing. most afghans don't even know why their country was. in the country's top national. in the plane crash and the. calls on the international community not to take sides in syria's internal. negotiation is the only way to peace the arab league announces it and agree.