troops kill people all soldiers and the border area. 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 border or the people living on our border and that's what has brought down what happened last night so we have to look at the motivation to make a strategic solution to what has actually been happening. let's have a quick look at some news making headlines around the world in our world update it 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 arrests however the swedish authorities decided not to raise the terror alert level which has been at the elevated mark since november visuals of not yet released any further information regarding the suspected plot. the times 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 lines many more still missing after losing 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 natives 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 hard can reducing the amount of 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 lots of the u.s. east coast is still recovering from last week's hurricane irene which left more than fifty. this week russia seventy years since the beginning of the leningrad the deadliest siege of the second world war the city you know known as petersburg survived almost nine hundred days of terror and starvation and

artie's peter all of a listen to the chilling stories of those lucky and determined enough to survive. cuts off and take it to the brink of starvation the blockade of lead in grant petersburg by nazi troops was one of the most destructive sieges in the history of warfare and when the german army encircled the city it wasn't the shells and bombs that the inhabitants feared most but was hunger. a good far worse when the famine spread well there is nothing much hearable family than to be the one in the midst of the dearest starve to death. those trapped inside the city had to resort to what ever means necessary to survive a lot of horse flipped on an icy street can collapse in egypt the people rushed out of their houses to chop it up are down right now to the naps he managed to get something like a who for this creature the whole family lived off it for

a week sometimes they need to eat some people take for us take action. grown year there were days when i would step outside my house and see dead people going in the snow with their books etc to me 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 enjoyed it lo designated. just one of his major objectives and from august nineteenth the german armies group says about tightening the noose on the keyboard to port this is where the blockade began on the eighth of september nineteenth forty one german troops arrived here ok applying 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 we used but in the winter the frozen lake became a makeshift highway known as the road of life. or was one of those who worked on

the ice helping to funnel valuable supplies into the siege city the perils of living on a frozen lake made the work dangerous enough without the constant german barque meant with merciful at one time in jordan from the mainland came to bring us breakfast you know one of our tents was thinking come out come out to daddles you're about to drown he shouted trying to touch the tanks to a truck and pulled it out under stalin. many of the vehicles bringing in supplies didn't make it across some of those have no been raised from the bottom of the lake be seen in the road of life museum so that seventy years on the sacrifice is not forgotten. or never that interested in photographs actually seeing a historic really it was their own eyes they always ask is this thing a fan trick and when i tell them yes it is that's when their eyes widen it's more than a million civilians died in the brutal eight hundred seventy two date blockade which

finally ended in the it's a cold january nineteenth 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. we were evacuated we joined the army to take revenge for what the nazis. the city fume so many civilians hunger and shelling so we proudly joined. well plenty more had. including our t.v. special interfere in the elections action in the lot of 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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. china operations are old today. good to have you with us if you just joined us top stories now this hour america marks a decade since the tragedy of nine eleven which united the nation but brought about two of the bloodiest wars of the twenty first century. in afghanistan which was invaded by the u.s. shortly after the atrocity the relentless taliban stage another deadly suicide bombing and discovers most afghan civilians don't even know why their country was ever occupied by foreign troops. russia in the sports world say goodbye to the country's top national ice hockey team liked out in a plane crash in the blink of an eye. and moscow calls on the

international community not to take sides in syria's internal violence as president veteran says negotiation is the only way to peace the arab league announces it's reached an agreement with a mask promised reforms. about another summary for in fifteen years and in the meantime the decade that followed the nine eleven attacks was not by wars fought under the flag of ridding the world of terrorists lawrence wilkerson a former u.s. official in 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 some special interview next. after nine eleven america did not just go after those who perpetrated that project 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 over reactions in military history to talk about that i'm joined by colonel lawrence wilkerson whose service calling powells chief of staff collin powell secretary of state under george w. bush colonel wilkerson thank you so much for joining me for having me more than six thousand american servicemen have guy in the last decade of war spawned by the nine eleven attack. tragedy worth remembering the knowing no doubt but why in all those speeches delivered by american officials i never hear about hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians dead in the wars waged by the united states and other countries like iraq as a collective entity we seem to think 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 was rome when it's today post world war two but we're no longer that powerful in our powerful recedes even as we speak a really good some of the people who were at the helm back then are now writing books saying everything they did was right in closing guantanamo including everything else i'm talking about big cheney first of all president under george w. bush and at the same time they're all blaming each other for something why all this confusion and should one be worried about the general picture that's being created at the last that came before because they're all trying to blame each other and trying to get out of sort of the blame and yes we should be going to. and why are they trying to blame each other what's let's face a fact here for a moment that most americans don't even think about. nine eleven happened on george w. bush and dick cheney's what. they allowed the greatest killing of americans on american territory since florida. a lot of their rhetoric and aggressive actions post nine

eleven was to hide that fact and also to keep it from happening again because if it had happened again they probably would've been impeached on the spot thrown out of office so we spent four trillion dollars to counter an attack by bin laden and zawahiri 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 lots of people are making lots of money all for this so-called global war on terror you're 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 cold pals presentation on some of those occasions george tenet and his deputy john mclaughlin said ok ok we'll roll that out of the cia head of the cia and the director of central intelligence of the time . will 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 biological laboratories that was the active nuclear program as symbolized by the aluminum tubes and it was the existing chemical stocks and. hard connections between al qaeda and baghdad those were the real fault so the odds in that briefing that george tenet and john mclaughlin the representatives of not just the u.s. intelligence community but of israel france 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 lied in american and because they wanted for the same reason that in summer of two thousand and two i have discovered that the emphasis on enhanced interrogation techniques changed suddenly from being to try and find out if another attack were coming after all a lot of time expired from another attack or a 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 courtroom people not under the so-called smoking gun argument that we might have another attack so it was justified we were torturing people so we could attack iraq and convince the american people we should do so that's how drastic it got now asked me not to want to go to war with iraq and i'll give you a half a dozen answers if it's douglas feith and protection of israel if it's powell 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 green peace and democracy and freedom to the middle east if it's george bush it's what i fear the nexus between al-qaeda and baghdad which cheney had convinced him of 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 also iraq right now is sitting on probably two hundred billion barrels maybe three hundred billion barrels that's

a reaction on all the work that surpasses the. be ready. 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 i did cheney with the warner it also was the low hanging fruit north korea 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 in question and other so the low hanging fruit was a right to 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 would testify if they put someone like dick cheney on trial and our what would you accuse them off i think he's already done it no one needs to accuse him of anything he has admitted publicly it is on videotape that he condoned waterboarding but he

would still waterboard then he does not believe waterboarding is torture waterboarding is torture there is a good so facto case the man's guilty but they're saying they did it in the best interest of their country it seems to be the ultimate reasoning which can't be confronted what would you say to that i say that the in never justifies the means. and the question is does the lesser evil ever justify itself because it prevents a greater evil there are some real problems with that argument the logical problems as well as philosophical and what i would call value laden problems first is you can never know what 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 for well that's his

interpretation my interpretation of the bureaucracy which is probably far better than his because i was buried in and i heard people talking about it every day so bottom line is i know what dick cheney doesn't know because he was in the ivory palace and he can't know horse soldiers surrounding cheney the people who surround cheney or david addington and john hannah and scooter libby and they killed 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 a lot or. they didn't stop anything through inherent enhanced interrogation techniques have that from some of the most respected people in the f.b.i. and the intelligence community so i can't thought dick cheney for not knowing the truth because he couldn't know the truth you stress 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 say we're in to me dick cheney is asked what would happen if an american were captured in iraq and what would happen if they waterboarding because they thought he was a threat to the state of iran and so forth he just skirted around the question what he really said was if you listen closely americans are better than anybody else in the world. americans shouldn't be waterboarding but anybody else we can waterboard especially if we're americans doing it that's essentially what 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 america at 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 while 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 they is coming and may not come in my lifetime but unfortunately i think it's coming in my children and my grandchildren's lifetime and this is going to be a hard time for washington because we know are going to have the money we're no longer 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 maybe say that america's response to nine eleven was one of the most profound overreactions in military history don't you agree with that i think initially it was proportional it was rational it was thoroughly well supported in the international community and it was a sadness that yes the initial reaction what we should have done was gone to afghanistan as we did did what we did about six months later said ok here's your government karzai you've got it go ahead and run your country as best you can we'll

give you economic and financial support from afar we're going home oh by the way footnote if you entertain terrorist in this country again 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 profound change really that's happened since world war two it's been a creeping up office and now with libya it's here 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 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 few leaders and he ought to be relieved that they weren't involved in hostilities that the war powers act was not relevant and so forth it certainly was any time you kill people for state purposes the war powers act is relevant and the constitution is wrong and

we've reached the point now where the president the united states can kill people for state purposes any time he or she would feels the need to james madison said very eloquently when you compare combined 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. you deleted. wealthy british.

markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy is a report on our. top stories this hour nazi. said decades since the tragedy of nine eleven which united the nation but brought about the true of the bloodiest wards of the twenty first century. and afghanistan which was invaded by the us shortly after the atrocity the relentless taliban's stage another deadly suicide bombing runs off he discovers most afghan civilians don't even know why their country was ever occupied by foreign troops. rusher in the sports world say goodbye to the country's top national ice hockey team wiped out in a plane crash in the blink of an eye. calls on the international community not to take sides in serious internal violence as president says negotiation is the

only way to peace the arab league announces it's reached an agreement with damascus on long promised reforms. put more news for you in less than a quarter an hour from now in the meantime union is here with the support. good to have you with us this is sports day plenty ahead over the next ten minutes or so including all this. moving on all sports at moscow's stretch their unbeaten record to eight games in the russian premier league with victory over the car. pitched battle reeling rugby world cup champions south africa aged wales in their opening clash of this year's campaign. 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 folklorist protect muscles on beaten

run since june in the russian premier league has been extended for another week the couple sides meeting with the first of sunday's four games only one goal coming on a dreary day and perm archon zuba had 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 bones literally soaking in the experience when nicklaus the referee did break the deadlock with a pinpoint free kick five minutes from time not strike from the origin time enough for the muscovites to take all three it's. the league's other sports meanwhile saw there was continued now a chip going john to rust off. the opportunity to open from the spot thirty eight minutes and although the former russian international beat the keeper he couldn't beat the post two things with trouble executing empty creating chances on till the

. first period out of home to be three minutes in sports no buffalo believe after the one no was. about. it is because of who humping but also going into the weekend not least the clean only their fourth victory of the season should be for the lanka getting things started against it see tom with nine minutes on the television international left all alone to take his spot for one nil the inside story was then doubled right before the break which feed from problem probably. to again the twenty sides the fancy cars wide open to milk the final step. in the days of final game some of his second goal in as many games for the four time african player of the year equalizing mothers against his first home game and. before

another world star carlist netted the winner right before the hour mark that means move up to fourth and table. monday see one more game before week twenty three is rock. home to the crust of the chechen side even to hold coupons recent run of form which saw it down for trespassing and went for five. just too much for john for consideration in the english premier league on sunday the first of which finishing with west brom left to celebrate their first win of the season this sunday slamming their first victory at the expense of new boys nor age city former lucky. peter odemwingie netting just three minutes into points for the west midlands side. block burned in the norwegians both winless the 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 the. over for a try early as the third minute. that's dogged welsh outfits didn't lift up deter them too much going in at the break ten six john after good work from the pit of this man james who and warren gatland then promptly seize the initiative in the second half to be solid so touching to get six the lead but south africa aren't world champions for nothing francoise who guard slicing through your side seconds right on sixty five minutes the box seventeen sixteen up and that's how it would finish after he missed penalties minutes off the bat south africa when it was all for. australia showed why they are second

favorites for the tournament before the bettering ikey by twenty six points wallabies fly halfway trouper starting things off in one thousand from in a penalty. for them becoming one of four different history in fierce across the tri line making it sixteen six while i side center degree on a another exclusive effort to see thirty two six the final score a possible pool see table top an unquenchable are the no weights on saturday for the twice world cup champions. the irish themselves taking care all the us eagles in between those games but only after a tough eighty minutes in new plymouth so many tall running into tries for hours in about one rushing kick off their campaign on thursday against the u.s. . to the european possible championship for russia are continuing to do everything right on the hardwood david plotz menno on beaten after so.