you do use it's exclusive status as a transit. now ukraine loses privilege i believe all relations will be. 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 just two years between moscow and here ukraine struggling to pay. a discount on the previously agreed price even threatening to take the should to court however the country's prime minister promised to stick to the current agreement until a new deal signed. let's not take a look at some other news making headlines around the world today swedish police have arrested two people in this case you have questioned by a grand suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack 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 elevated knocks since november officials have not

yet released any further information regarding that suspect plot. turns a near 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 but the more still missing after losing power in rough seas bishop began taking on water eventually count sizing 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 age has reached mexico's gulf coast have opened shelters as a precaution but forecasters say that gale force winds up in strength and us expected the chances of it becoming a hurricane where we can you sing. tell supplied air and sea search failed to find . it went missing and it was no work it doesn't dissipate it shipping

shrimping boats and much of the u.s. east coast is so 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 of world war two good leningrad located around a million citizens are thought to have been killed all started cheering the nearly nine hundred day long north to blockade of the city now called st petersburg she's peta all of the has been hearing these stories first time from those who managed to survive. bombed out cut off and taken to the brink of starvation the blockade of lebanon modern day st 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 fire worse when the famine spread there is nothing not terrible famine

than to be the running 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 streak and collapsed in egypt the people rushed out of their houses to chop it up or down run 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 darker in your grown year 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 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 endured it designated leningrad as one of his major objectives and from august one nine hundred forty one the german armies in the north said about tightening the noose on the key baltic port this is where the blockade land on the eighth of september nineteenth forty one german troops arrived

here occupying the city of she saw it severed the last lung 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 the short summer months bonds we used but in the winter the frozen lake became a makeshift highway known as the road of life here all the vote was one of those who worked on the ice helping to funnel bile util supplies into procedures city the perils of. living on a frozen lake made the work dangerous enough without the constant german bombardment. one time and driving from the mainland who came to bring us breakfast you know just one of our times with thinking come out come out she doubles you're about to drown he shouted trying to touch the times 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 that nobody raised from the bottom of the lake can now be seen in the

road of life museum so that seventy years on and some profiles is not forgotten the new kids are never that interested in photographs or 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 and they'd sold more than a million civilians died in the groups all eight hundred seventy two day blockade which finally ended in the pits of cold january nine hundred forty three and many of those who survived went straight into the fight to drive the germans back their experiences during the siege spurring them on preventing off the we were evacuated we joined the army to take revenge for what the nazis and done to our people in the city so many civilians lost their lives through hunger and shelling so we proudly joined the red army to take revenge on the north seems to be stronger. stories of coffee going up on the back of the week's headlines in just

a few months. thanks.

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i guess this is all sandy's ever beats top stories. american knocks a decade since the tragedy of nine eleven which ignited a nation by the. a lot of our two of the bloodiest wars of the twenty first century . in afghanistan which was invaded by the us shortly after the actual city the relentless taliban that staged another deadly suicide bombing and as always he discovers the most doubt in civilians don't even know why the country was an off people died by foreign troops. also russia has been mourning the loss of one of its top hole teams a joke and most of us live in

a plane crash and burn it to the game of the season. it's pulled with ceremonies and get us love in other countries which plays on the training started to disaster . because of the international community not to take some of the serious internal violence as president admitted that it says negotiation is the only way to peace while the arab league announces it's reached an agreement with them ask its own long promised border. the decade that followed the nine eleven attacks was marred by wars fought under the flag of reading the world of terror and lawrence wilkerson so were u.s. official in george w. bush of the ministration told us he that america things that holds one challenge both place in the world and abuses that power is no longer. after nine eleven america did not just go after those who perpetrated that tragic

vicious attack only if they campaign on nations that had nothing to do with nine eleven we're talking about your back where hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians have died since two thousand and three america's been in constant wars 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 going by colonel lawrence wilkerson who service collin powell 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 died in the last decade of war spawned by the nine eleven attack. tragedy worth remembering and knowing no doubt but why in all of 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 we 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 roman in its day post world war two we're no longer that powerful when 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 did was right including guantanamo including everything else i'm talking about big cheney first of all president elect 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 decade of war because they're all trying to blame each other and trying to get out of some of the blame and yes we should be going to. why are they trying to blame each other let's let's face a factor for a moment that most americans don't even think about. nine eleven happened when

george w. bush and dick cheney's what. they allowed the greatest killing of americans on american territory since corridor. 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 a problem with been impeached on the spot thrown out of office so we spent four trillion dollars to counter an attack by bin laden's a lhari but 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 is to understand i think is that we have made a cottage industry if not a much more than a cottage industry out of the what my former boss colin powell has called a terrorist industrial complex where lots of people are making lots of money all for this so-called global war on terror you are saying that you had lots of doubts about building this case

a war in iraq was impossible at some point. to stand up and say no we have doubts we're not writing the speech we're we're we're out of it we all did key points in the preparation for the cold tiles presentation on some of those occasions george tenet and his deputy john mclaughlin said ok ok we'll roll that out of the cia the cia and the director of central intelligence at the time. will throw that out and they threw it out the real essence of that presentation that they preserve 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. inactions hard connections between al qaida and baghdad those were the real faults of the ads 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 into us. that's what they said was sacrosanct they said bad is the case that is what saddam hussein is doing only later we learnt 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 why wasn't he on it 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 comedy expired another attack were coming it would have come on. 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 torturing 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 ask me why they want to go to war with iraq and i'll give you a half a dozen answers if it's douglas feith it's 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 for the middle east if it's george bush it's oh i fear the nexus between al qaida 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 all iraq right now is sitting on

probably two hundred billion barrels maybe three hundred billion barrels that's a wrap on all the pork that surpasses. how do you read this. 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 in question another so the low hanging fruit was a right 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 dick cheney on trial of our but when 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 that he does not believe waterboarding is torture waterboarding is torture there's a ipso facto case remains 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 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 forth 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 ivory pot palace and he can't know horse soldiers surrounded cheney but people who surrounded cheney are david addington and john hannah and scooter libby and they killed the cheney what the 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 now more stopping terrorist attacks that is utter bull they didn't stop anything through in here and 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 fault big cheney for not knowing the truth because he couldn't know the truth he was trapped he's trapped in his own.

what 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 were captured in iraq and what would happen if they waterboarding because they thought he was a threat to the state of vermont and 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 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 and 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 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 no longer are going to have the money were no are going to have the economic night 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 many say that america's response to nine eleven was one of the most profound overreactions in military history but 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 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 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 terrorists in this country you will 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 creeping up 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 to war to drop a record 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 futilely and he ought to be relieved 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 the point now where the president the united states can kill people for state purposes any time he or she would feels the need james madison said very eloquently when you compare combined the power to initiate war with the power to execute it and you have achieved clarity that is a very profoundly worrying situation in this that's happening in this country.

right an. american on the track you know nine eleven which united a nation but not killed a block just full of the twentieth century. you know i've got to start with children faded by the few hours shortly after their trials and tb relentless turn of on castration another deadly suicide bombing a president who discovers most dogs and civilians don't even know why the country was and will keep an eye on foreign troops and. russia has been mourning the loss of one of its top hockey teams at locomotion ghana's club in a plane crunch hungry to about be able to seize and trudge the household to support with ceremonies and guarantee of another country's national players and training stopped in the disaster. on most poke holes in the international community not to

take some of the sea with the internal bond that has us presidents going to bed it's as a game station is the only way to peace while the arab league says it's reached an agreement with damascus on the phone call the strength. of the news for you in less than a quarter of an hour in the meantime units here with this court. great to have you with us this is sport today plenty ahead over the next ten minutes or so including all that's. moving on all the sports like moscow's stretched their m.p. to record to eight games in the russian premier league with victory over al gore. pitched battle reeling rugby world cup champion south africa age wales in their opening clash of this year's campaign. and give me five big pentathlon world finals

kick off in moscow with the home side earning a podium spot on tape. let's get going with football. since june in the russian premier league has been extended for another week a couple sides meeting with i'm car of the first of sunday's four games only one goal coming on a dreary day and perm archon zuba had the chance to alter this 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 the referee. 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 so all there was continue. to get our stuff and some of 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 both teams with trouble executing and creating chances on till the. first interim period started home to be three minutes in sports like no bottom of the league after the us. about. is because. who had being going into the economics to clean only their fourth victory of the season for good for the link to getting things started again said see chum with nine minutes gone the television international left all alone to pick a spot for. the inside story was then double right before the break quick feet from kabul oh yes. i can the tomsk science the fancy cars wide open to milk the final straw. 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 mark as you can get his first home game in much before another world carlist never the winner right before the hour mark that means move up to fourth and it's table. monday see one more game before week twenty three is wrapped up at home on the crust and the chechen side evening to hold recent run of form which saw it down for. four five. just 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 and then claiming their first victory at the expense of. former lucky. peter odemwingie netting just three minutes in to see the points for the west midlands side while full on block burn in a knowledge is both winless the perp thing out of one one draw at craven cottage.

ok let's move to the rugby world cup we're older south africa have gotten off to a winning start in new zealand but only just the springboks beating wales by the minimum of margins and their coup de fixture but box getting off to a fire in wellington from steyn the man pummeling his. we were for a try early as the third minute. dogood well she didn't lift up the church them too much going in at the break ten six don't after good work from the good of this man james. and warren gatland from p c's the initiative in the second half to be followed so touching to get a six the lead but south africa aren't world champions for nothing francoise who guard slicing through your second try on sixty five minutes the box seventeen sixteen up and that's how it would finish after he missed penalties minutes after

that south africa when it was all for. australia should why they are second favorites for the tournament before the bettering it by twenty six points wallabies fly half quade cooper starting things off with in one thousand minute penalty. the keeper then becoming one of four different australian peers across the tri line making it sixteen six side center digby you on a another extensive effort to see thirty two six the final score a possible pool table topping and punching arlen no weights on saturday for the twice world cup champions. the irish themselves taking care of the us eagles in between those games but only after a tough eighty minutes a new plymouth saw me running into tries for hours in that one rushing kick off their campaign on thursday so i guess the us. to the european basketball championships.