please how the rest of the people in the city of gothenburg go to special plotting a terrorist a time hundreds of people were evacuated from the cities and sent to fall in the well of the swedish authorities decided not to raise the terror alert level which has been at the elevated walk since november officials have not yet released any further information regarding the identity of the suspects. they tell us any and region of zanzibar has begun three days of mourning for the victims of the ferry disaster that killed at least two hundred forty people after losing power in rough seas began taking on water eventually capsizing the boat was overloaded with both cold passengers many of whom were children rescue efforts are continuing but it's fear they'll be no more survivors from the country's worst maritime disaster for fifteen. two people have died and thirteen are missing as tropical storm major graders along the coast of mexico seven or workers were rescued from a life raft after reading about curation but two colleagues were found dead while

another is 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 storms and light is a big ol hurricane shelters have been opened as a precaution. to ensure their march to remember the forty thousand victims who died during the regime of dictator augusto pinochet has ended in violent clashes with police they initially peaceful event was hijacked by who did protesters who threw stones at officers and needier thousands of trillions of turns because the ration is every year and she got jamal the other throw of elected president salvador and then the eleventh of september nineteenth seventy three the military coup with cia with which we all try to hold you know shater power killed we thousands of people that loads. this week marks this seventeenth at least seventy three other anniversary of the start of the deadly siege of world. the netting grog located

around a million citizens are thought to have been killed or starved during the nearly nine hundred day long nazi blockade of the city now called think it is bad peter oliver has been hearing the stories firsthand from those who managed to survive. consul and take him to the brink of starvation the blockade of lead in grass modern day saint petersburg by nazi troops was one of the most destructive sieges 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 strad there is nothing much terrible than famine and to be the nearest and dearest starve to death. those trapped inside the city had to resort to what ever means necessary to survive my war of course ripped on an icy street and collapsed in egypt the people rushed out of their houses to chop it up are down right now

with an axe he managed to get something like this creature the whole family lived off it for a week sometimes they need to eat so people take drastic action dark or unusual grown year there were days when i would step outside my house and see dead people buying in the snow. for me 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 lou designated leningrad as one of his major objectives and from this one nine hundred forty one the german armies north set about tightening the noose on the keyboard to port this is where the blockade began on the eighth of september nineteen forty one german troops arrived here occupying the city of. the last learn connection to leningrad cutting off the city supply of food a military equipment with the city close off from the land the only way to get aid to leningrad was across lake lot. in the short summer months bones were used but in

the winter the frozen lake became a makeshift highway known as the road of life. be it all over was one of those who worked on the ice helping to funnel valuable supplies into perceived safety the perils of living on a frozen lake made the work dangerous enough without the constant german bombardment with no support that the program time and driving from the mainland came to bring us bread faced energies that one of our times was thinking come out cannot she dabbles you're about to drown he shouted to try to touch the tension to the truck and pulled it out on just knowledge 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 the sun for place is not forgotten the new kids are never that interested in photographs and actually seeing a historic really it was their own eyes and they always ask is this thing of frantic and when i tell them yes it is going to that's when their eyes widen they'd

sold more than a million civilians died in the brutal eight hundred seventy two day blockade which finally ended in the basic cold january nineteenth 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. the we were evacuated we joined the army to take revenge for what the nazis and guns want people in the city of them so many civilians lost their lives stronger in shelling so we proudly joined the red army to take revenge on the no. he's rather our t. . and there's other stories of this out stay with us here for a recap of the week's headlines in just a few. it'll

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a layer was. this is our city and these are the week's main stories. american marks a decade since the tragedy of nine eleven which united a nation but it brought about it too old to bloodiest movies of the twenty first century and where bernice and my pictures from new york right now. in afghanistan which was invaded by the you are surely out of the atrocity the relentless taliban has staged another deadly suicide bombing and as a whole she discovers the most are been civilians don't even know why their country was either occupied by foreign troops and. also russia has been mourning the loss

of one of its top hockey teams locomotion gallus lauder in a plane crash under each of their pros games this season the tragedy has shocked the string of words ceremonies in the hours club and other countries are sure there is a training stop of the disaster. and russia's president calls on the world community not to take sides in syria's a negotiation it's an easy way to peace the arab league has announced that the damascus has agreed to open a dialogue with the opposition to bring the violence to. the decade that followed the nine eleven attacks was marked by wars of force under the flag of reaching the world of terrorists and lawrence wilkerson of former u.s. official in george w. bush's administration told r.t. that america's things that holds one challenge of all peace are place in the world and abuses that power no longer hons.

after nine eleven america did not just go after those who perpetrated that tragic 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 in constant war 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 joined by colonel lawrence wilkerson who served as call in powell as chief of staff collin 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 attacks. 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 or 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 but we're no longer that powerful women are powerful and even as we speak here today some of the people who were at the helm back then are now writing books saying everything they date was right including guantanamo including everything else i'm talking about cheney first of all writes president and it was 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 before 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. and why are they trying to blame each other let'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 character or 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 have been impeached on the spot thrown out of office so we spent four trillion dollars to counter an attack by bin laden's a watery would 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 and lots of people are making lots of money all for this so-called global war on terror you're saying that if 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 the speech we're where we're out of it we all did key points in the preparation of the cold tiles presentation on some of those occasions george tenet and his deputy john mclaughlin said ok ok we'll it's really that out of the cia head of 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 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 logical laboratories that was the active nuclear program was symbolized by the room to us and it was the existing chemical stocks and. nachum is hard connections between al-qaeda and baghdad those were the

real fault so the ads in that briefing that george tenet and john mclaughlin the representatives of not just the u.s. intelligence community but israel finance britain jordan and a host of others who were feeding intelligence into 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 iraq team lie and lies created in the vice president. 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 for another attack were 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 torturing people not under the so-called smoking gun or 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 do you 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 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 to the middle east if it's george bush it's who 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 in iraq right now is sitting on probably two hundred billion barrels maybe three hundred billion barrels that's a rat's own oil record that surpasses saudi arabia. 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 christian and other so the low hanging fruit was a rock just used a moment in the wake of nine eleven they used the moment in the in the wake of nine eleven to divert from afghanistan our real target should have been our real target and go to iraq that's exactly what they did you said they would testify if they put

someone like cheney on trial in 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 can go to waterboarding but he would still waterboard then he does not believe waterboarding is torture waterboarding is torture there's a ipso 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 mames. 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 hypothetical you never know if your lesser evil action actually prevented the greater evil dick 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 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 palace and he can't know horse soldiers surrounding cheney the people who surrounded cheney or david addington and john hannah and scooter libby and they tell big 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 water. they didn't stop anything through in here and enhanced interrogation techniques i 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's trapped he's trapped in his own me to do but the truth is the methods don't work and they rebound for your discredit and they recruit as you said for your enemy dick cheney is asked what would happen if an american captured iraq and what would happen if they waterboarding because they thought he was a threat to the state of reminds of 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 most of

them 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 it may not come in my lifetime but unfortunately i think it's coming in my children and my grandchildren's lives 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 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 many say that america's response to nine eleven was one of the most profound overreactions to military history would 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'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 if you will come back and do it again in what way could bad over we actually backfire. i think it already has and this is open change really that's happened since world war two it's been creeping up on us and now 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 at 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 futile and

idiotically really 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 a 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 feels the need james madison said very eloquently when you come to combine the power to initiate war with the power to execute it and you have achieved tyranny that is a very profoundly worrying situation and that's what's happened in this country.

nine eleven which neither the nation but. you're looking at live pictures from. the. to buy a bigger car she would get on to that transfer to be related to this town of a station not a deadly suicide bombing and that's all she discovers most of them civilians don't even know why that country was ever ok private for entry. parts of russia has been moving bindle so we want to stop talking teens and locomotive jaroslav in a plane crash on route to their prized table this season the tragedy how short the sport was ceremonies and get us out in other countries bush will lead in training and stop it dissolves. on the president calls on the world community not to take

sides in syria's say negotiation is the only way to peace the arab league has announced that the mosque has agreed to open donald with the opposition to bring the bonnets truckloads. and more needs to be in less than a quarter of an hour in the meantime units here with the spoke. 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 m.p. to record to eight games in the russian premier league with victory over the car. pitched battle reeling rugby world cup champions south africa age wales in their opening clash of this year's campaign. and 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 go in with football where sports like most schools on britain run since june in the russian premier league has been extended for another week a couple sides meeting with the first of sunday's four games only one goal coming on a dreary day in perm archon zuba had the chance to alter the scoreboard 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 prayer to break the deadlock with a pinpoint free kick five minutes from time not strike from the origin time enough for the last invites to take all three points. the league's other sports meanwhile saw there was continue going to and to rust off. the opportunity to open from the spot thirty eight minutes i'll go the former russian

international beat the keeper he couldn't beat the post both teams with trouble executing and indeed creating chances on till the. first period out of home each three minutes in sports like no bottom of the league after the loss. that. because. being cooling into the weekend managed to team only their fourth victory this season should get the rank getting things started against it see tom with nine minutes on the television international left all alone so pick a spot for. the inside story was then double right before the break which beat from kabul oh yeah that's like in the tomsk side for the fans cars wide open to milk for the final score. 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 carlist netted the winner right before the hour mark that means move up to fourth as its people. see one more game before week twenty three is wrapped up at home to crusted or the chechen side even to hold two pounds recent run of form with. four of their past five. just achieved much as much on for consideration in the english premier league on sunday that first of which finishing with west brom left the celebrate their first win of the season but he's claiming their first victory at the expense of new boys nor age city former. peter odemwingie netting just three minutes into the season maximum points for the west midlands side phone block burned. both winless.

craven cottage. ok let's move to the rugby world cup where 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 pool d. fixture the boks getting off to a flyer in wellington from steyn the man pummeling the. for for a try cause i was the third minute. dog well she didn't let up deter them too much going in at the break ten six. after good work from the pit of this man james who and warren gatland men from p.c.c. initiative in the second half to be followed so touching down to get a sixty lead but south africa aren't world champions for nothing francoise who guard slicing through your free site second friday on sixty five minutes the box seven being sixteen up and that's how it would finish after hoops missed penalties

minutes off the bat so far for the win it was all for it. just really showed why they are second favorites for the tournament before the bettering ikey by twenty six points smaller planes fly halfway clipper starting things off with a nineteenth minute penalty. actually cooper then becoming one of four different history in fierce across the tri line making it sixteen six while i sighed center to greet you on a. fair for to see thirty two six the final score a possible pool see table topping encounter with arlene 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 in new plymouth running in two tries for hours in that one rushing kick off their campaign on thursday against the u.s. . to the european possible.