mrs arty's weekly review hello and welcome to the program tom a story now they were time which claimed the lives of thousands and later brought tools with an even more devastating death toll the united states is knocking a decade since nine eleven 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 there was trying to u.s. soil in history and united a nation and its determination to head back against those responsible but the american led invasion of afghanistan that followed has claimed thousands more lives in what's now the longest conflict in u.s. history as artie's again nature can now report the killing hasn't stopped that. it started as a war on terror spawned by the deadliest here is the tactic in history either whether she would be enemy 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 the eleventh. but we know their true nature north korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction. while starving in citizens. you're on aggressively pursues its weapons in exports terror while an unelected few repressed the iranian people's hope for freedom. iraq continues to flaunt a chance to lead toward america and to support terror two years after nine eleven the us invaded iraq on the grounds that he had weapons of mass destruction and was doing business with al qaida grounds which proved to be false hundreds of thousands of iraqi civilians have died since the invasion they used the moment in in the wake of nine eleven to divert from afghanistan 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 corner on both sides so would be destroyed iran was too difficult seventy million people not fractured like the iraqis and the sunni and shia and christian and other as for the motives behind invading iraq some top or oil iraq right now is sitting on probably two hundred billion barrels maybe three hundred billion barrels that's correct zone or report mohi plans to be a thirteen million barrels per day production capacity in seven years that surpasses saudi arabia now you know why dick cheney went to war in iraq others blame america's self assigned role as the world's policeman the driving idea behind it is that it had to monex to military the idea is that the but world is going to be more secure place overall if there is a a universal or world a sole remaining superpower much of what has happened post nine eleven in the name

of responding to nine eleven has been a pretext as terrorism was no longer the only reason for landing on washington's enemy list the us had even more far reaching plans on the table former vice president dick cheney says he urged the bush administration to bomb syria at one time because of its alleged nuclear weapons program a move which experts say would have had disastrous effects on the region as 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 libya and this time in the name of removing an evil dictator. some worry syria could be next we have a an executive power that is beyond any check by the people by the congress or by the courts for war we can go toward the drop of

a coin we've reached the point now where the president can kill people for state purposes any time he or she feels the need since nine eleven america's war on terror has squashed 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. . at least two civilians have been killed and almost eighty u.s. troops injured in a sort of side bomb at an american military base in eastern afghanistan it's being seen as the taliban's way of marking a decade since nine eleven but in a statement of the movement claimed it had no role when the twin towers time it's nearly ten years after the u.s. led coalition invaded afghanistan it doesn't seem any closer to winning the war

there but the taliban still fighting relentlessly so the conflict is estimated to have cost over a telephone thousand under the civilian lives caught in the crossfire or when nato strikes against militants but as u.s. troops begin their gradual withdrawal from the country most are good for billions don't even know why that country was able to buy it by market forces in the first place. helmand in southern afghanistan is the province that has borne the brunt of the fighting between the taliban and coalition forces would afghans in this war to . in provence 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 see if 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 who clearly never heard of nine eleven. but maybe the elders of the local sure would have more to say yeah no i didn't see it in. this ng i just can see the smoke from the buildings and that's a that's only thing i can say when you guys sure that's a picture saying it so i think that was a call but if i just got here i would be surprised but having been here now for six months this is premised 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 and it just shows you how isolated they are even in their own country don't understand . what you know you don't think you know if you're going to america afghanistan come to this point and get the airplane from here to attack in the united states but you know how much it's going to. go to those nice to go from iraq to then here is a lot easier to understand you know why you're here and where do you say you had that

good picture remind yourself this is what you're there to see the afghans looking at it in this context while wearing the uniform of carrying a rifle. to the back those. things that make and saying we're going to help you to discern one by doing and to destroy us how many funding and they say we're going to help you where is the head. down with this is going to give it to our kids again and to fighting and they do it to their own kids in a paper that i don't indeed and. i do sympathize or understand what you're some were saying it's even just from the weather we've had recently. their homes and nobody to help them so you know when you have when you can't feed yourself or earth how yourself are you going to care about somebody you know six thousand miles away . so i can understand that i think if it ended up all over the top of that if i never thought to ask those questions of 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 villages oblivious to nine eleven but so were the afghan police and even some of the translators working with the u.s. military and you don't know that is for you to say that i've got no idea what the syrians have never seen 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 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 plots from afghanistan for. the terrorist attacks that became synonymous with. the senseless slaughter of almost surreal people stunned the world. of vision of an evening. ten years on t.v. remember. to. look back at nine eleven

to see. this week russia saw the tragic loss of one of its top hockey teams after their plane crashed on route to their first game of the k season on wednesday and ally and i would almost the entire lokomotiv team plus key staff went down just after takeoff from their home city on their way to minsk the tragedy has engulfed the world with players and staff from several countries losing their lives while russia has been shocked at yet another plane disaster in one hundred thousand attended a remembrance ceremony for the city's sporting heroes. thomas was there. 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 a little child went 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 serious just 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. what 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 going to play in them because they play together a couple of years ago and of course one just just want to give my condolences to the families of all the. ceremonies to honor the players were held in minsk in bratislava somber reflection from those who knew the players well. 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 i'm going to only

him at least by lighting this candle for not only him but everybody who died i would like to express my condolences to his family to his children and wife. saturday more to 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 years level and over. the years level sean thomas r t. this hour tensions boiling over in greece angry protesters respond with fire bombs and stones to the greek prime minister's speech on the state of the country's economy with war staring he's on the way. and also look back seventy years to this start of the leningrad located one of the deadliest in darkest chapters and. twelve people have been killed

over the weekend and yet more violence in syria and that's according to opposition supporters this comes as the arab league announced it's reached an agreement with president bashar al assad to open dialogue with the opposition and bring the violence to a close the plan also outlines proposals to release prisoners and hold elections within three years meanwhile the u.s. and e.u. have opposed more sanctions on syria and are calling for the united nations security council to condemn the assad regime for its violent crackdown with the two thousand two hundred have been killed since the uprising began in march while the authorities in damascus blamed groups for their progress. russia how as a surgeon both sides to start talking to avoid another leader style conflict moscow plans to send a fact finding mission to syria to get firsthand information on the areas hit by violence the decision was announced after members of the syrian opposition visited the russian capital requesting international help speaking on the sidelines of an

international policy forum in the russian city of paris travel present to me that have said he's concerned about events in syria but the situation is far from simplistic. the resolutions we would approve to send a strong message to the syrian regime should be addressed to 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 and 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 they 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 libya is now controlled by the national transitional

council but khadafi loyalists are still holding out in their remaining strongholds offering stiff resistance despite intense nato barm and rebel fighters are returning from street battles in the funny while it says they felt demoralized and outgunned meanwhile one of his son. had crossed into neighboring new shared to join other family members who fled colonel himself who is now on interpol's most wanted list said in a recent or do you message that he's still a neighbor and won't leave and there's a lot he's maria financial reports he of the fighting goes not does not end soon in libya might fall into. a city. celebrates for more than ten days the labor and capital has been rejoicing in the dictator's fall. he wanted to hand he's portrayed here in the central square for his rules forty 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 bullets into the air there were shot during this hold on tripoli early albums. all reveal the phenol very very forward. mr gadhafi. gadhafi is viktor toward. he told old to be more lovely with the people we know you see love him all of us were out of freedom is that we don't argue that you don't know what i like with a lawyer but away from jubilant crowds we meet those who are not so pleased up a lot of money lives in tripoli is slim district historically pro khadafi when the rebels arrived his sister was badly injured she's still in hospital in tunisia abdul rahman 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 now. abdulrahman says he's also want to change and the brighter future for his country but not the sway. people are dying on both sides the city is destroyed or no one cares do they seriously think that they changed it for the better don't you so just look around is that what you wanted and what is around is a scene of widespread destruction and social chaos the badly damaged buildings matched by the rise in stink of 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 cities symmetries are growing

bigger and bigger. shortly after tripoli fall into rebel hands the national transitional council libya's new authority claimed it was moving here from benghazi to two weeks have passed and there is still no sign of order being restored the city is functioning by itself and treading a fine line between freedom and anneke. tripoli libya. greece is to impose a new special property tax on real estate as the country needs to raise about two billion euros to meet the terms of international law and package in his annual speech on the economy greek pm george pop intro valid that his country will emerge from the crisis a need this year's budget targets artistic austerity cuts more than twenty five thousand people took to the streets of greece's second largest city this alone akkad protest demonstrators threw bottles and stones at riot police pushed them

back with tear gas and flash bottles many public sector employees face massive pay cuts the struggle to make ends meet work is that here is they believe they're now paying for reckless behavior by a greek and european banks the rates. political elite and economic analyst peter bell believes that being here as a rational system may collapse in the near future. 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 elect parliaments and that's certainly true of germany the most pros european of all of the of all of the countries but there is a certain impatience away 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 right from the beginning it is certainly a question that parliaments are going to be putting to each other over the next coming months. ukraine has been a major transit route for russian gas and to europe but now it's losing its key bargaining chip in europe's energy infrastructure limitation has now launched the north stream gas pipeline in northern russia offering a new route bypassing its neighbor which has been at the center of disputes blocking supplies to europe in recent years. ukraine is a longstanding partner any transit country is always time to do use its exclusive status as a transit state now ukraine will lose this privilege i believe our relations will evolve into an civilized free market partnership. so the north stream pipeline travels directly from russia to europe bypassing ukraine its role as

a transit state has been fractures in recent years resulting in disputes between moscow and kiev ukraine struggling to pay. a discount on the previously agreed price even threatening to take the shoot to court however the country's prime minister promised to stick to the current agreement until a new deal signed. let's take a look at some other news making headlines around the world today swedish police have arrested two people in the city have gotten bug on suspicion of plotting a terrorist a time hundreds of people were evacuated from the city's art center following their arrest however they 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 suspect. turns any and region of zanzibar has begun three days of mourning for the victims of a ferry disaster that's claimed as many as two hundred forty lives many more still

missing after losing power in rough seas there she began taking on water eventually capsizing survivors say it was overloaded with both cargo and passengers many of whom were children meanwhile rescue teams have resumed their search but hopes of finding more survivors are fading by the hour as the country's worst maritime disaster in fifteen years. tropical storm nate has reached mexico's gulf coast where the shoals of opened shelters as a precaution but for coast to say the gale force winds have been strengthened as expected and the chances of it becoming a hurricane were reducing one tells the air and sea search failed to find an oil rig workers who went missing and it was no work it doesn't dissipate it board shipping shrimping boats and much of the u.s. east coast is still recovering from last week's hurricane irene left more than fifty people dead. this week marks the seventieth anniversary of the start of that

deadly siege a wall built to be netting grabbed located around a million citizens are thought to have been killed during the nearly nine hundred day long nazi blockade of the city now called saying bob to all of the has been hearing these stories first time from those who managed to survive. bombed out count off and taken to the brink of starvation the blockade of lenin grant modern day saint petersburg by nazi troops was one of the most destructive sieges in the history of warfare 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 there is nothing more terrible than famine than to be the or when nearest and dearest starve to death. those trapped inside the city have to resort to what ever means necessary to survive a horse slipped on an icy street in collapsed in egypt the people rushed out of

their houses to chop it up our dad ran out with an axe he managed to get something like a hoof the whole family lived off it for a week sometimes they need to eat so people take drastic action on your own your there were days when i would step outside my house and see dead people lying in the snow with their buttocks severed for me to look at this isn't something we should try to cover up with heroic stories that would be unfair to the history of the siege and the people who enjoyed it hitler designated leningrad as one of his major objectives and from all this one nine hundred forty one the german armies going north said 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. it severed the last line connection to leningrad cutting off the city supply of food and military equipment with the city cut off from the land the only way to get aid to leningrad was across lake lot of

in the short summer months bonds we used to put in the winter the frozen lake became a makeshift highway known as the road of life be it over or go by was one of those who worked on the ice helping to funnel valuable supplies into the besieged city the pearl. as of living on a frozen lake made the work dangerous enough without the constant german bombardment both up with political at one time and driving from the mainland came to bring us breakfast he noted that one of our tents was thinking come out come out to davos you're about to drown he shouted the driver touched the tent to the truck and pulled it out on to solid ice 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 can now be seen in the road of like museum so that seventy years on the sun for face is not forgotten the new kids are never that interested in photographs of actually seeing a historic really quit their own eyes 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 in the pits of cold january nine hundred forty three many of those who survived went straight into the fight to drive the germans back their experiences during the siege spurring them on remember when you were a monster we were evacuated we joined the army to take revenge for what the nazis and done to our people in this city so many civilians lost their lives through hunger and shelling so we proudly joined the red army to take revenge on the nazis . peter all of. those other stories of golfing we're not all back with the week's headlines in just a human face but that. it's

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i guess this is always here and these are the week's top stories. american knocks a decade since the tragedy of nine eleven which ignited a nation. brought about two of the bloodiest awards of the twenty first century. in afghanistan which was invaded by the us shortly after that length of time about the staged another deadly suicide bombing and as he discovers most of been civilians don't even know why their country was and by foreign troops. also russia has been mourning the loss of one of its top team is so commercial plane crash to their game of the season the tragedy of the sport with ceremonies and jaroslav in other countries. the training stoppages announced. last week old.