we can leave you alone welcome to the program there were times which claimed the lives of thousands and later brought to war that with an even more devastating death toll the united states is marking 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 remember families are being held at ground zero in new york and all across america and it was there was strike on u.s. soil in history and united a nation and its determination to hate by against those responsible but the american led invasion of afghanistan that followed has claimed thousands more lies and what's now the longest conflict in u.s. history and as the day that you can report the killing haven't stopped that. it started as a war on terror spawned by the deadliest here is the tactic in history either whether she were the enemy that's 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 its citizens. you're on aggressively pursues its weapons and exports term while an unelected few repress the iranian people's hope for freedom. iraq continues to fantasize 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 use the moment and in the wake of nine eleven to divert from afghanistan a 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 planet 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 talk 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 belittle the idea is that the but world is going to be more secure place overall if there is a a unocal 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 present in the united states 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 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 our reporting from washington our team. and historian and professor stanley conflict says that many of the deaths in afghanistan which fall to could have been avoided still argue whether it was wise to go to afghanistan to rid the country of the taliban and try to. take its place but you know we did get rid of the tower that

a couple of shots at now ten years later we're still there that's what i question the. nine years of casualties after it initial invasion to get a stamp. could have been avoided. at least two civilians have been killed and almost eighty u.s. troops injured in a suicide bomb at an american military base in eastern afghanistan that's being seen as the taliban's way of marking a decade since nine eleven but in a statement the movement claimed it had no role in the twin tower tox nearly ten years after the u.s. led coalition baited afghanistan it doesn't seem any closer to winning the war but the taliban still fighting relentlessly copulate estimated to have cost of the telephone wasn't on the civilian lives caught in the crossfire only nato strikes against militants but as u.s. troops begin their grandchild withdrawal from the country most are going to civilians don't even know why their country was ever occupied by american forces 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. can you show them a few more and can us do they know where it is even we don't know if it's god because uniform or we never heard about it we're. talking. the two young men who clearly never heard of nine eleven. but maybe the elders of the local sure would have more to say you know you see if. you just can see the smoke from the buildings and that's what you think when you go to show this picture. if i just got here i would be surprised but having been

here now for six months this is from a stone age where we are and what do you think about the reactions. to the guy who said it was kabul was clearly never going to kabul it just shows you how isolated they are even in their own countries. i don't understand. you know what i'm not going to tell you but don't think you know we'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 fun i think you're going to it was nice to go from iraq to then here is a lot easier to understand you know why you're here and where they are you so you have that picture you know it's good picture remind yourself because what you're there to see the afghans looking at it in this context while wearing the uniform of carrying a rifle. to your back or the. americans saying we're going to help you did a so one building and they destroy us how many funding and they say we're going to help you where is the help but not work your way down what they're saying to give it to our kids are going to fighting and they do it to their own kids in

a paper that i don't invade and. i do sympathize or understand what your some are 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 or early house yourself are you going to care about somebody you know six thousand miles away. so i can understand that i just set it up i was about to finish it but 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 the bolivian 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 have no idea what the syrians have never seen these pictures the full. 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 for. the time. first attack the became synonymous with. the senseless slaughter of almost six people stunned the world. the vision of a living. ten years old bochy remembers. to. look back at nine eleven on aussie. well we go now this week russia saw the tragic loss of one of its top hockey teams after their plane crashed over to their first game of the season on wednesday and airliner with all those the entire locomotive the rest of the team plus case start went down just after take off from their home

city on their way to minsk they tragedy hasn't gone to the hockey world with pleasant staff in several countries losing their lives while russia has been shocked at yet another plane disaster and yes hundred thousand attended the remembrance ceremony for the city's sporting heroes and thomas was that. 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 that went to all the games for us is there operable us 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. just after four in the afternoon on wednesday the charter plane carrying almost the entire year on slava locomotive k h o hockey team crashed

shortly after takeoff bursting into a ball of flame after clipping a runway and turner forty three of the forty five on board perished to newark a mostly serious 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 which was 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. willing your arse level 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 large loss for russia and the rest of the world as well. my friends with. the guys a. couple of years ago of course one just just want to give my condolences to. ceremonies to honor the players were held in minsk in bratislava with some reflections from those who knew the players well. demitra told me he actually wants to quit hockey so 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 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

should because we have buried our friends the people who brought us joy and played for our country this is an irreplaceable loss for the people of years level and of our country. in years level sean thomas r.t. . and later this hour the disunited kingdom. the drive for independence in wales followed by a break from london that's later. twelve people have been killed over the weekend and yet more violence in syria that's according to opposition supporters this comes as the arab league announced states reached an agreement with president bashar al assad to open dialogue with the opposition and bring the violence to. plan also outlines proposals to release prisoners and hold elections within three years you know well then you are suddenly you have impose more sanctions on syria and are calling for the united nations security council to condemn the assad regime for its violent quieted down. the two thousand two hundred

have been killed since the uprising began in march while the authorities in the mosque is blaming armed groups for the rest. russia however is urging both sides to start talking to avoid another leader style conflict moscow plans to stand a fact finding mission to syria to get firsthand information on the areas hit by violence that assertion was announced after members of the syrian opposition visited the russian capital requesting international help speaking on the sidelines of an international policy forum when they were. president medvedev said he's sound about events in syria but the situation is far from someplace. the resolutions we will prove 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. and leave where 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 controlled by the national transitional council but khadafi loyalists are still holding out in their remaining strongholds of stiff resistance by intense nato bombardment rebel fighters returning from the street battles in bani walid they felt demoralized and outgunned. and while one of his sons al saadi has crossed into neighboring asiad to join other family members who fled the colonel himself who is now an interpol interpol's most wanted list said in a recent order message that he's still in the bia and won't leave and as all he's

a lawyer for an ocean a report in the fighting does not answer maybe i might fall into. a city celebrates for more than ten days the neighbor in capital has been rejoicing in the dictator's fall where 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 bullets in the air the the first shot during this whole time tripoli earlier in august all revealed to me now very very well with. mr gaddafi. gadhafi is viktor toward me he told me all day be will love me all the people love me no you see love hear me earlier was right of where that is we don't know where to get that we don't know where they are like with

a lawyer but away from jubilant crowds we meet those who are not so pleased. lives in tripoli is a bustling district historically pro khadafi when the rebels arrived his sister was badly injured she's still in hospital in tunisia abdulrahman 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 like we do now. abdulrahman says he's also want to change and a brighter future for his country but not least way. people are dying on both sides of the cities destroyed and no one cares do they seriously think that they changed

it for the better 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 city's symmetries are growing bigger and bigger. shortly after tripoli from going to rebel hands the national transitional council libya's new authority claimed it was moving here from benghazi 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. and let's take a look at some other headlines from around the world swedish police have arrested two people in the city of gas and on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack hundreds of people were evacuated from the city's arts center. while at a swedish authorities decided not to raise the terror alert level which has been at the elevated box since november officials have not yet released any further information regarding the identity of the suspect. tanzanian region of zanzibar has begun three days of mourning for the victims of a ferry disaster that killed at least two hundred forty people after losing power in rough seas the ship began taking on water eventually capsizing the boat was overloaded with both cargo and passengers many of whom were children. but it's feared they'll be no more survivors from the country's worst maritime disaster for fifteen years. two people have died and thirteen a missing as tropical storm nate rages along the coast of mexico seven oil workers

were rescued from a life raft after reading about curation but two colleagues were found dead while another still missing a dozen fisherman who disappeared aboard two shrimping boats also remain unaccounted for forecasters say the gale force winds have been strengthened as expected and the storm is unlikely to become a hurricane but shelters have been opened as a precaution. in chile a march to remember the forty thousand victims who died during the regime of dictator augusto pinochet has ended in violent clashes with police edition a peaceful event was hijacked by hooted for testers who threw stones at officers any media thousands of chileans the terms of the liberation is every in santiago to the overthrow of elected president and the eleventh of september nine hundred seventy three the military coup. all general pinochet took power killed three thousand people and. 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 the international package in his annual speech on the economy greek pm george pop on the trail that he's country will emerge from the crisis and made this year's budget targets after steve austerity cuts more than twenty five thousand people took to the streets of greece's second largest city of the saloniki in protest demonstrators through bottles and stones at riot police who pushed back with tear gas and flash bottles and any public sector employees face massive pay counts and a struggle to make ends meet what those are furious as they believe that now paying for reckless behavior by greek and european banks the reach on their country's political elite and economic analyst peter build believes that the eurozone but actual 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 all three 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 the united kingdom may not be so united saying with pilots for a referendum on independence for scotland out of the scottish national party spectacularly why elections for the devolved parliament in edinburgh earlier this year the movement for welsh independence is now following suit with well in calls

to break from westminster as will our he's the editor explores a small nation's ambition. welcome to wales part of the u.k. and a proud nation with its own language and customs and the latest voice to call for independence applied comrie which means the party of wales has always argued the country could be better off without the u.k. and it seems increasing numbers are starting to see their point of view our economy has been run from london with the interest and priorities of the south east of england to the fore an independent will be able to chart a different course based on our needs and priorities wales is a long way from declaring independence but it's no longer just a pipe dream people here voted overwhelmingly earlier this year in favor of handing the welsh assembly full law making powers that was considered a turning point in welsh nationhood and plights couldn't read the party of wales

have undoubtedly taken heart from the surprise victory of the scottish national party that victory in may gave the s.n.p. an outright majority in the scottish parliament which has many powers devolved from westminster the party's promise to hold a scotland wide referendum on whether to declare independence according to plied comrie that marks the turning of the tide for a unified u.k. people now i believe are beginning to to use the word independence in in a welsh context which say they they wouldn't of jennifer use our last debate develops i think the people where's it going to see that when scotland becomes independent the next logical step is for we're just becoming dependent to of course separatism is nothing new to the british isles and the thousands of victims of the troubles in northern ireland are testament to how high feelings can run both in the present day and for centuries past while national sentiment may not be

a new phenomenon the reasons for it have changed over the years and in these. current turbulent economic times money talks scotland has oil and gas but while wales was a proud coal producing nation its minds are now closed and it's got some of the highest unemployment levels in the u.k. because of that the older generation is reserved when it comes to independence but young people are filled with national fervor for them independence is less about money and more about nationhood and identity wales needs to be independent because it is a great country and we do we do and i like being because we're ready patriotic i think we're more patriotic than england definitely we have a lot of culture that we shouldn't forget just seem to be better here at the moment we get free prescriptions and education seems to be a bit better plight comrie says it's going to build on that support providing not

just emotional reasons why wales should be independent but concrete economic reasons too and it says wales does have resources particularly land and see for green energy if the scots vote for independence wales might not be far behind nor emmett's r.t. cardiff. and those are the stories of got for you this hour of course i'll be back with a week's headlines in just a few moments to stay with us. you're

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welcome back this is all sand these are the week's top stories. america marks a decade since the tragedy of nine eleven which united nations thought about two of the bloodiest walls of the twenty first century right now you're looking at live pictures from new york. in a balanced on which was invaded by the two us shortly after that the relentless town about staged another day it's a side bomb they has only to discover as most of their civilians don't even know why their country was at the top you find by foreign troops. also russia has been mourning the loss of one of its top hockey teams a locomotive in a blank crash hungry to that first game of the season the tragedy how shocked the sport with ceremonies and garrison of another country's bushnell's players and training stopped at the disaster.