isn't calls on the world community not to take sides in secret say negin safe place the only way to peace the arab league has announced that the mosque is has agreed to open a dialogue with the opposition to bring the violence to. this is our weekly review hello and welcome to the program there were times which claimed the lives of thousands and later brought two wars with an even more devastating death toll the united states is marking a decade since nine eleven terrorists crashed hijacked planes into two 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 and ceremonies are being held at ground zero in new york and all across america it was the worst strike on u.s. soil in history and united a nation and its determination to heed back against those responsible but the

american led invasion of afghanistan that followed has claimed thousands more lives and also now the longest conflict in u.s. history and as always he's got an education report that came in hasn't stopped that . it started as a war on terror spawned by the deadliest here is the tactic in history you know whether she would be enemy that's that's clear but the circle of america's enemies quickly 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 eleventh. but we know their true nature. north korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction. well starting a citizens. iran aggressively pursue zs weapons and exports terror while an unelected few repressed the iranian people's hope for freedom. iraq and tunisia

dishonest hostility 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 our real target should have been our real target and go to iraq it also was the low hanging fruit in north korea was far more dangerous than too difficult hundred thousand casualties but by the fall on both sides so would be destroyed iran was too difficult seventy million people not fractured like the iraqis and the sunni and shia 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 mo he 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 rule as the world's policeman the driving idea behind it is that it had to monex to military the idea is that so 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. times 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 we will reach a nation and this time in the name of removing an evil dictator. some worry syria could be next we have 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 court 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 that 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. 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 it'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 time nearly ten years after the u.s. led coalition invaded afghanistan it doesn't seem any closer to winning the war with a ton about the still fighting relentlessly the conflicts estimated to have cost over ten thousand civilian lives caught in the crossfire or in nato strikes against militants but as u.s. troops begin their gradual withdrawal from the country must stop and 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 is 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 those who will go to. war with us will. never see if can you show them a few more and can us them do they know where it is even we don't know if that's because because we are former we never heard about anything else about the world. coming to. the two young men and 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. this thing i just can see the smoke from the buildings and that's a that's only thing i can say when you guys show this picture. so i think i was a cop if i just got here i would been surprised but having been here now for six months this is premised stone ages where we are and what to do about their reactions. so that 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 country. understand. from what you know you don't think you know you're going to come to this point and get the airplane from here in the united states but you know how much. it was nice to go from iraq to then here is a lot easier to understand you know why you're here and you say you had that picture you know it's good picture remind yourself just what you're going to be after 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 building and they just ask how many funding and they say we're going to help you what is the have. done with. this is going to give it to our kids going into the fighting and they do it to their own kids a pen and paper to write down and didn't write. 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 earth how yourself are you going to care about somebody you know six thousand miles away just so i can understand that this is headed up out of the top of the list if i never thought to ask those questions of anybody here so 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 with the afghan police and even some of the translators working with the us military but you don't know that is for you to say that no i have no idea about the syrians have you ever seen the faces before. the 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 r.t. . to terrorist attacks it became synonymous with. senseless slaughter of the most serious stuff the world. vision over. ten years on t.v. remember. to. look back at nine eleven to see. this week so the tragic and also one of its top hockey teams after that plane crashed on a very fast game b.k. chel scenes that are on wednesday and the line i would almost the entire lokomotiv team plus case study. well down just after takeoff from their home city on their way to minsk they trashed hasn't the hockey world with players or star from several countries losing their lives while russia has been shocked at yet another plane

disaster in one hundred thousand attended every member a ceremony for the city's sporting heroes and. that. waves of emotion for through jaroslav as residents realize the full weight of the tragedy their country or the lives of some of the city's brightest stars nobody ended up with the fans of his team for many years whole family including a little child went to all the games there are sincere admirable laws 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. 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

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 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 put in ordered an immediate and thorough investigation as president medvedev laid a country in mourning visiting the crash site and paying his respects. meanwhile fans of the three time championship winning jaroslava locomotive team made their voices heard in a show of solidarity and support. as you can see from the flowers and candles and mementos left here at the stadium the loss of. what was a huge blow to this. 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.

couple of years ago and of course. just want to give my condolences to the families . for the ceremonies to honor the players were held in minsk in bratislava somber reflections from those who knew the players well. demitra told me he actually wants to quit 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 want 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 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 you consider that we have buried our people who brought us joy and played for our country this is an irreplaceable loss for the people of years and over.

the years level sean thomas r.t. . later this hour disunited came to. try for independence in wales for the scotland by seeking to break from london rule that. twelve people have been killed over the weekend. that's according to opposition supporters this comes as the arab states reached an agreement with president bashar asad to open dialogue with the opposition and close the plan also outlines a proposal to prisoners and hold elections for the three years meanwhile the u.s. and e.u. have imposed more sanctions on syria. nations security council to condemn the assad regime down. you and says over two thousand two hundred have been killed since the uprising began in march while the all sources in damascus blamed armed groups for their regrets. russia however is sized to start talking to avoid any.

conflict moscow plans to sound at finding mission to syria to get firsthand information on the areas hit by violence the decision was announced up to 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 yaroslavl president medvedev said this about iran and syria but the situation is far from simplistic. the resolutions we would approve to send a strong message to the syrian regime should in fact 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 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 leave is now going to trial by the national transitional council but the conductor loyalists are still holding out in their remaining strongholds offering stiff resistance despite intense nato bombardment rebel fighters returning from street battles and bani walid said they felt demoralized and gone and in a while one of gadhafi son al saadi had crossed into neighboring need share to join other family members have fled because of themselves is now on interpol's most wanted list said in a recent ordering a message that he's still in libya and won't leave and as. very few notional reports say the fighting does not end soon for him to kill. a city celebrates more than ten days of even capital has been rejoicing in the

dictator's fault. the way 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 it it seems in the last weeks rebel fighters have fired bullets into the air the were shot during this sort of tripoli early august the reveal phenol very very forward. mr gaddafi. gadhafi is viktor toward. he told old to be more lovely with the people of the we know you see the love him all of us what a president is that we don't know or get that we don't know what i don't like with a lower case but away from jubilant crowds we meet those who are not so pleased. and tripoli's slim district historically pro khadafi for the rebels arrived his

sister was badly injured she's still in hospital in tunisia other hand 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. up the man says he also want to change and a brighter future for his country but not they sway. and people are dying on both sides the cities destroyed and no one cares do they seriously think that they changed it for the better don't lie to yourself just look around is that what you wanted. and what is around is a scene of widespread destruction and social chaos the badly damaged building

smudged by the rise and 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 going to rebel hands the national transitional council libya's new authority claimed it was moving here from benghazi but 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. original. tripoli libya. the egyptian government to tighten security and keep order in cairo after angry protesters storms these really embassy on friday night three people died while over a thousand were injured after a demonstration or with

a slow pace of political reforms turned violent egyptian police were slow to intervene but eventually managed to disperse the crowd and israeli sentiment rose sharply last month after israeli forces responded to a cross border militant a ton mistakenly killed five egyptians that the and the sioux falls the israeli ambassador and always the entire diplomatic staff to flee from the country the crisis has become the worst a relation between two countries in decades but israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu said that israel that israel will stick to the peace treaty with egypt that dr jonathan is from the global research in international affairs center that it called peace with israel is one of the conditions on which egypt receives but i'm sure aid from america as they are all of its role in the changing middle east diminishes. economically egypt right now cannot live without us that is to say that egypt is a country with very deep structural progress economic. and therefore is dependent on the level of aid which realistically speaking only the united states can provide for it this place is the current egyptian government and military government in

quite a difficult situation on the one hand they are dependent on american aid and therefore as an aspect of that they are required to keep the peace treaty with israel on the other hand they do not wish to be seen publicly to be cooperating with israel it's important to remember that there are up there a process is under way in the region right now which are in no way israel can in no way really exert any influence on we are in the midst it might be said of a tectonic shift actually picture of the middle east and one of the aspects of turkey's move towards making a peaceful regional leadership is once again the very distinct cooling off to put it mildly its relations with israel so these approaches. to which israel can't really influence israel in a certain sense is only going to be able to pursue a policy of damage limitation hoping very much to keep these relationships with egypt with as much as they possibly can i think that really israel with regard to the palestinians and with regard to this approach to september once again is

dealing with damage limitation that's to say the government is public about wanting to bring negotiations back and to begin again. to have this unilateral declaration of statehood on the twenty to september the u.n. general assembly and once again i think about the damage limitation it doesn't really matter right now exactly what israel does israel is going to be increasingly isolated. take a look at some headlines around the world swedish police have arrested four people in the city have grabbed him by suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack hundreds of people were evacuated from the cities all sent to foreigners in the red 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 identity of the suspects. two people have died and thirteen are missing as tropical storm nate rages over the coast of mexico seven oil workers were rescued from a life raft after

a regular curation but two colleagues were found dead while another is still missing a dozen fisherman who disappeared two shrimping boats also remain unaccounted for forecasters say the gale force winds have been strengthened as a spectrum on these storms and likely to become a hurricane but shelters have been opened as a precaution. in march to remember the forty thousand victims who died during the u.s. for a moment pinochet has ended in violent clashes with police that initially peaceful event was hijacked by protesters who threw stones at officers and media thousands of chileans the townspeople migrations every year in santiago to mark the overthrow of the leftist president salvador learned another september nineteenth seventy three b.c. i box with a tree crew which brought general pinochet to power three hundred three thousand people that. hundreds of chinese people are lighting thousands of

lanterns to celebrate their traditional media also festival also called the moon festival the holidays celebrated much like fine skating in the united states it's important day for all solemnly members as they get together to celebrate the harvest the moon festival became a holiday observed in large parts of china about one thousand years ago. the united kingdom a. no be so united seeing with plans for a referendum on independence for scotland after the scottish national party spectacularly won elections for the devolved parliament in edinburgh earlier this year the movement for welsh independence is also following suit with growing calls to break from westminster the rule. that explores this small nations and bishop. 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 plied 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 and 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 they say they wouldn't of jennifer use our last activity valid sizing the people in where's it going to seem that they're to 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 its 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 mines 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 they like. because we really patriotic i think we're more patriotic than england definitely we have a lot of culture there we shouldn't forget it just seem to be better here at the moment that you can get free prescriptions. education seems to be a bit better plights 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 sea for green energy if the scots vote for independence wales might not be far behind nor emmett's r.t. . those are the stories of go for you this hour here on r.t.

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well combined this is all see the headlines. america marks of decades in the trenches of nine eleven which united a nation bug brought about two of the bloodiest battles of the twenty first century you're looking at live pictures from new york. in afghanistan which was invaded by the u.s. shortly after that transfer to the relentless taliban are staging nothing deadly so seinfeld makes and he discovers most of them civilians don't even know why their country was at all people and by foreign troops. also russia has been warning them not to one would stop poppy teams from lokomotiv we are a slob in a plane crash hungry to the pros game of the season they're trying to school to win even get us louder than other countries for showing players and training stomp and the design stuff.