the league has announced that damascus has agreed to open dialogue with the opposition to bring the fun in that. you're watching all of you hello and welcome to the program they were tonks which claimed the lives of fathers and later brought to wars 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 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 hit back against those responsible but the american led invasion of afghanistan that followed has claimed thousands more lives in what's now the longest conflict in u.s.

history and nature can report the killing hasn't stopped that. it started as a war on terror spawned by the deadliest terrorist attack in history you know whether she would be 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. iran aggressively pursue zs weapons in exports terror while an unelected few repressed the iranian people's hope for freedom. in iraq and change the font of 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 used the moment in in the wake of nine eleven to divert from afghanistan our real target should have been our real target and go to iraq it also was the low hanging fruit north korea was far more dangerous but too difficult one hundred thousand casualties were predicted by the political on both sides so would be destroyed iran was too difficult seventy million people not fractured like the iraqis and the sunni and shia and christian and other as for the motives behind invading iraq some top or oil iraq right now is sitting on probably two hundred billion barrels maybe three hundred billion barrels that's correct zone or report 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 role as the world's policeman the driving idea behind it is that it had to monex debility of 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 has even more far reaching plans on the table former vice president dick cheney says he urged the bush administration to bomb syria at. time because of its alleged nuclear weapons program a move which experts say would have had disastrous effects on the region president obama was elected on hopes that he would and the endless wars overseas which most americans are opposed to but he continues and adds one more another oil rich nation libya and this time in the name of removing an evil dictator. some worry syria

could be next we have a an executive power that is beyond any check by the people by the congress or by the courts for war we can go toward the drop of a coin we've reached the point now where the president 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. at least two civilians have been

killed and almost eighty u.s. troops injured in a service on ball met an american military base in eastern afghanistan is being seen as the town of bones way of marking a decade since nine eleven but in a statement the movement claimed it had no role when the twin towers tox nearly ten years after the u.s. led coalition innovated afghanistan it doesn't seem any closer to winning the war with a ton about still fighting relentlessly the conflict estimated to have cost of attorney thousand civilian lives caught in the crossfire only nato strike against militants but as u.s. troops begin their gradual withdrawal from the country most civilians don't even know why their country was fined 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 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 they're still

going to look forward to. you 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 you're a former neighbor heard about the world. cup and. the two young men 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 you can see 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 pretty much the stone ages where we are and what do you think about their reactions. to the world the guy who said it was kabul was clearly never going to come. it just shows you how isolated they are even in their own countries. understand. i think i would come that you know you don't think that

we're going to america afghanistan come to this point and get the airplane from here to the united states but you know how much power that. was nice to go from iraq to then here is a lot easier to understand you know why you're here and what it means so you have that picture you know it's good picture remind yourself it's 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 that was of course much better to tell what it was i mean the make and saying we're going to help you to discern one building and to destroy us how many buildings and they say we're going to help you where is the help. can work your way down what they're saying to give it to our kids are going to go up fighting and they do it to their own kids in a paper that i don't invade and. i do sympathize or understand what you're some were 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 house yourself are you going to care about somebody you know six thousand miles away. so i can understand that i just figured it out about 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 oblivious to nine eleven with 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 they are not i am not no i don't know the syrian but you have seen these pictures 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 set to 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 no. term.

you. look back at nine eleven. this week russia saw the tragic would also want to would stop hockey teams after their plane crashed on very to their foes again of the k h l season on wednesday and i lined up with almost the entire lokomotiv yes loud team plus key stop one down just after takeoff from their home city on their way to minsk they're trying to you hasn't got a hockey world with players and stopped from several countries losing their lives while russia has been shot at yet another plane disaster and jaroslav one hundred thousand attended a 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 went to all their games for us is their operable loss but it's like losing a family member. i knew one of the players he was my neighbor and he was a great person he's got two little kids left how could this happen when we saw the news on t.v. i just burst into tears. at just after four in the afternoon on wednesday the charter plane carrying almost the entire jaroslava locomotive k h l hockey team crashed shortly after takeoff bursting into a ball of flame after clipping a runway antenna forty three of the forty five on board perished to look at mostly 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 winning your os 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. what was a huge blow to this community but due to the international nature of this team it was a larger loss of for russia and the rest of the world as well. my friends with the play and the guys that played together a couple years ago of course one just just want to give my condolences to the family. ceremonies to honor the players were held in minsk in

bratislava with somber reflections from those who knew the players well. the demitra told me he actually wants to quit corky that he wants to play a little bit more and then leave and spend time with his family so this last conversation came back to my head when i heard about the crash i'm going to only him at least by lighting this candle 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 have buried our friends the people who brought us joy and played for our country this is an irreplaceable loss for us all the people of us level and of our country . and you know it's level sean thomas r.t. . coming up later this hour they disunited kingdom. of the drive for independence

and wales following scotland by seeking to break from london. 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 it's reached an agreement with president bashar al assad to open dialogue with the opposition and bring the violence to a close the plan also outlines proposals to release prisoners and hold elections with a three years meanwhile the u.s. and e.u. have imposed more sanctions on syria and are calling for the united nations security council to condemn their assad regime for the violent crackdown the us has over twenty two hundred have been killed since the uprising began in march while the offer to mask is blame groups are down breath. russia however is urging both sides to start talking to avoid another libya style conflict bosco plans to send a fact finding mission to syria to get firsthand information on the areas hit by the violence that is. signals announced after members of the syrian opposition visited the russian capital requesting international help speaking on the sidelines

of an international policy forum in the russian city of us president that of sadness concerned about about syria 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 aren't 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 controlled by the national transitional council but gadhafi loyalists are still holding out of their remaining strongholds was this true despite intense nato bombardment rebel fighters returning from three battles in bani walid that they felt demoralized and outgunned one of his sons al saadi has crossed into neighboring new shed to join other family members who fled the capital himself is now on interpol's most wanted list in the west and would your message that he's still in leave. and us out is maria cino chanel report does not end soon maybe it might fall into. a city celebrates for more than ten days the libyan capital has been rejoicing in the dictator's fall. he wanted to hand he's portrayed here in the central square for his roots for the second. and in verse three 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 first shot here in this small town tripoli are no alcohol stuff going to be a phenol very very forward. mr gaddafi. duffy's victor thought. he told old to be more lovely. we know you see love him all of us what a player that is and we don't know where to get that bit on that we're done all right with a lawyer but away from jubilant crowds we meet those who are not so pleased a thought of money lives in tripoli's abu salim district historically pro khadafi when the rebels arrived his sister was badly injured she's still in hospital in tunisia other one doesn't want to show his face on camera and in ceased when i hadn't 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 let our children side when it's done 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 know of the ramadan says he also want to change and the brighter future for his country but not they sway. 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 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 in stink of garbage and decomposing bodies armed 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. original. tripoli libya. let's now take a look at some other top stories from around the world would displease the right people in this city have gotten suspicion of plotting a terrorist a time hundreds of people were evacuated from the cities and sent to. the swedish authorities decided not to raise the terror alert level which has been on the elevated mark since november officials have not yet released any further information regarding the identity of the suspect. two people have died and

thirteen are missing as tropical storm nate raters along the coast of mexico seven oil workers were rescued from a life raft after a week of occupation but two colleagues were found dead while another still a thing a dozen fisherman who disappeared aboard a board to being boats also remain unaccounted for forecasters say the gale force winds have been strengthened as expected and the storm's unlikely to become a hurricane but shelters have been opened as a record. in chile in march to remember the forty thousand victims who died during the u.s. backed regime of a dictator to pinochet has ended in a van and climb. issues with police then issue the peaceful event was hijacked by who did protesters who threw stones at officers and media thousands of chileans it turns the commemorations every year in santiago to log the overthrow of elected president salva to a land on the eleventh of september nine hundred seventy three the cia banks military coup general pinochet to power killed three thousand people.

and hundreds of chinese people are lighting thousands of lanterns to celebrate their traditional festival also called the real festival the holiday celebrated much like thanksgiving in the united states it's an important day for all family members as they get together to celebrate the harvest the mood festival became a holiday observed in large parts of china about one thousand he has a grouch. resistant pose a new special property tax and real estate as the country needs to raise about two billion euros to meet the terms of the international low package in his annual speech on the economy greek prime minister george bush on the drone that his country will emerge from the crisis and meet 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 saloniki in protest demonstrators threw bottles out stones at riot police who pushed them back with tear gas and flash bombs many public sector employees face massive pay cuts and

a struggle to make ends meet workers are furious as they believe they're now paying for reckless behavior by greek and european banks their reach and their country's political elite and economic analyst peter build believes that the eurozone the national system a collapse of the near future. may indeed be getting if not too late and certainly very late in the day in order to institute a 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 are elected 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. ukraine has been a major transit route for russian gas into europe into your but now it's losing its key bargaining chip in europe's energy infrastructure education has now launched a north stream gas pipeline offering a new route bypassing its neighbor which has been at the center of disputes blocking supplies to europe in recent years. ukraine is a longstanding partner any transit country is always tempted to use its exclusive status as a transit state now ukraine lose this privilege i believe our relations will into an ever more civilized free market partnership. the north stream pipeline travels directly from russia to europe bypassing ukraine its role as a transit state has been fractures in recent years resulting in disputes between

moscow and kiev ukraine struggling to pay the gas count on the previously agreed price he was threatening to take the sure to court however the country's prime minister promised to stick to the current agreement until a new deal is signed. the united kingdom may not be so united soon with plans for a referendum on independence for scotland after the scottish national party is booked accurately one of the actions for the d. devolved parliament in edinburgh earlier this year so the movement for welsh independence is not following suit with growing calls to break from west ministers of all. that explores the small nations and patient. 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 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 hearts 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 have done a few years ago or last saturday to validate sizing the people in where's it going to see 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 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 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 i like. because we really 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 that you can get free prescriptions. education seems to be a bit better. 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. those are the stories of for you this hour back with the week's headlines in just a few moments to stay with us.

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