the radio from europe to africa the world was united behind america willing to help us recover and willing to help bring those who attacked us to account in any way they could even the talabani offered up support and pledged to handle some of bin laden over if we just showed the world some evidence linking him to the attacks a decade later though this is how the world is reacting to our nation on the tenth anniversary of nine eleven. on sunday we remember the nearly three thousand victims who lost their lives in that horrific attack with memorials in new york washington d.c. and shanksville pennsylvania it was a somber day a reflection of what was left out and the dialogue yesterday was the reality of where our nation stands now as

a result of nine eleven as in why is it that ten years ago we were embraced by the world yet today we're scorned and still under threat of terror threats yesterday wasn't the right day to ask those questions perhaps yesterday was a day for the victims but today and each day moving forward we need to be asking ourselves the tougher questions about how we've handled nine eleven over the last decade i say this because here we are ten years later dealing with a serious case of islamophobia it's cause many americans including some republicans running for president to forget what religious freedom means in america as they deny american muslims the right to build mosques in their local communities and here we are taking off our shoes getting groped and being radiated just to board a plane. and while we're at home having our emails and library books inspected by

the government and our phones wiretapped without a warrant all actions that made billions in profits for a boom in private security industry but have done little to actually keep us safe and even if they have kept us a little safer are they worth it as benjamin franklin so eloquently wrote more than two hundred thirty five years ago they who give up essential liberty to attain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety and we fall into that trap where we are fighting two wars that the national priorities project estimates of estimates of already cost our nation one point two trillion dollars over the last decade and according to the washington post will likely top three trillion dollars by the time they finally end if they ever do the center for american progress examine in what ways we could have spent that money instead of bombing the

middle east and killing or displacing millions of people including over six thousand dead american soldiers turns out with bush's war money we could have instead given fifty nine million children health insurance every year for the last ten years where we could have sixty three million people to college for free every year for the last ten years or we could have hired one point six million elementary school teachers every year for the last ten years any one of those alternatives would have made our nation far wealthier and safer than the endless wars that george w. bush declared in the wake of nine eleven and tragically that barack obama continues today. and it's not just about the persistent u.s. military presence in iraq and afghanistan that have bankrupted the nation so about the endless drone strikes around the world from yemen to somalia to pakistan that

have killed so many innocent people and leave muslims in the region in constant fear of death from above a whole new generation of muslims are growing up now and they have no other experience of the united states than as an occupying military force and even though our military has performed admirably it's not their good deeds that are remembered but instead those instances of brutality you grade the lack of water massacre in baghdad and the execution of ten civilians in iraq including five children as described by the most recent recent wiki leaks release thanks to george w. bush choosing the path the war as a response to nine eleven instead of just arresting the criminals who perpetrated the crime america is now perceived by the war as a criminal itself rather than as the victim of a new tory is crime

a somebody didn't just want to kill or scare as many people as possible in nine eleven he also said that he wanted to fundamentally change the united states he bet that if he attacked us in such a brazen gruesome fashion then we would all lose our minds that we would be blinded by fear and scream for revenge and shelve the constitution and our ideals to pursue a bloody crusade against islam that we would turn into the very enemy the bin laden had described us as all along a nation at war with islam both at home and abroad and in that transformation bin laden thought he would make himself more legitimate and list more people in his just a jihad and in the end there to be bush chose to do exactly what bin laden hoped he would do. it's been a tough decade for us but it's not too late to take a new. sunday's anniversary the tenth one needs to be about more than just remembering the victims it also needs to be about correcting the course after ten

years it's time to ditch bush's nine eleven roadmap of destruction and begin a genuine recovery that's the big picture first night for more information on the stories we covered visit our websites a town. free speech tonight or. as a check out our to you tube channels. and this entire show is also available as a free video podcast on i tunes and we have a free tom hartman i phone and i pad app in the app store it's honest feedback and twitter it's all numbers were placed on underscore our blogs message boards and telephone lines and final words. and don't forget democracy begins with you get out there get added to your. suitable. led mission. couldn't take three months for charges three.

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uncertain victory shortly of jubilation after the fall of gadhafi with some libyan saying they're now being abused by those who fought for their freedom. profiting from punishments at a time when the u.s. is tightening its fiscal belt flourishing private jails seek more revenue from cash cow prisoners. dad zone for tourists ukraine considers the legality of day trips to the contaminated area around sure not on the side of the world's biggest nuclear track.

it is eight am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me rena joshie amnesty international has called on all sides in the media to prevent human rights abuses and there are allegations of violations committed by both rebels and colonel gadhafi stroup rebels are still fighting pockets of cut off the loyalist but to the capital last month always nato's help that some people in tripoli say so far the fruits of the revolution are uncertainty and fear of the future. reports. i don't feel free tripoli just can't stop chanting to celebrate the birth of the you'll be. all remind us of a recently overthrown dictatorship suppressed what used to bring nightmares to some for decades is now a cause for law after all fathers are sure to for years curly hair we call him

because his hair is so long and he doesn't cut it and they are a reactionary but some out smiling believe in the post that often freedom is nothing but the mirage a crime has been arrested three times in the last two weeks rebels interrogated him and took his documents the reason the twenty seven year old copilot says is his family's ties with gadhafi his regime we cover his face and change his name in supposedly free libya it's man is afraid of being thrown to jail again or even killed you can see a bad words about gadhafi right frequency about wars i want to report and about could be a national icon for what they are talking about democracy this is not the walk with a crime says libya didn't get rid of a dictatorship it only fell into another one of the rebels' wrappings in a city where the gun has become a common accessory just like a cell phone and where one can only cross the town's numerous checkpoints with an

obligatory a large part of the winners this is a reality not hard to believe. no everybody we are happy we are freedom that feels good run away this is not true believe me because they are feared to know if they've left returned back to tripoli you see the same people same people same personalty they are supporting a revolution can bring much hope that was comes after us is not seen different those who drove egypt street called this year who are still on the streets this weekend seven months after toppling president mubarak and the lack of progress on the reforms the peace future too is still far from clear the post gadhafi libyan capital has been the scene of euphoria with celebrate three gunfire and singing heard here around the clock for more than a fortnight already by all parties however some believe they could be a serious hangover after wards in the form of retribution i don't certainty as to

how the future country will be governed regional arts he tripoli libya. well let's get more on the situation in the arab world from activist dr chandra is a far joining us from malaysia and some of our thank you very much for being here with us in the program. levy is now controlled by rebel forces so what kind of a country will become under the new government in your opinion. very very. very

. well beyond. doing to is willing to go with the good with which we're going to need out or. perish. you have. hard line the ground expanded which will lead to further new development but with the market all performing. live. always who does come with reform when. it isn't that something was right. nucleus crucially with the reputation you need your person who is. going to be able to get there but they will be the best. in the web will get stronger and stronger we go. to guy three. we should. know what

a great big. point. well you know let's now switch around to another country that's been far more known which is the point do you think and talk about its fate with nato saying that it has no plans to intervene there how much of a chance is there that it may make a u. turn and we may see the next media style campaign carried out when you know. it did. not read like mean we. meaning that when i made two and other forms and we had privacy we should be clear. there are very in fact is that we number one. so i can work with that for. when we knew we needed those cracks women.

there would be look we all know for certain he almost. will be limited to his cabinet if we live. with. one of the back with. the owner who have to leave they're going to libya because. that is normal they don't want to get into. the area where they have a baby because we will find it very. very good in. between would be a. bad move forward with seconds of time to wince. when we turn to. try to shape events in one eye because

period. we grew more. we were. all right mr chandra was apart thank you very much indeed for sharing your views with us here on r.t. . still have for you the south for the extremes of tourism. craving first hand experience of a post-apocalyptic world seeking way inside exclusion zone around the novel nuclear plant in ukraine. and this is the side that will welcome iran's president in new york when he visits for the u.n. general assembly next week. it's deja vu time for the greek economy once again and there is speculation it's close to default thanks to a soaring budget deficit in athens mainlander isn't helping the situation was

allies of the german chancellor suggesting greece may need to default and leave the single currency by financial journalist a matchmaker phina says there is no mechanism to exit the euro. and there are different ways that. the european central bank and the e.u. could go about dealing with a default of greece or an exit of greece portugal or some of the peripheral countries they could break the euro into two different types of euro and put the fact that no one is willing to talk about that option openly and kind of admit that that's where we are with an unsustainable debt like greece has and now the fact that the size of italy which is no longer really able to access the markets the way they're accessing it for the markets but the e.c.b. isn't there buying italian spanish debt so the fact that you have these countries unable to issue debt paper on their own is is frightening for the european union for the eurozone there is no real exit mechanism from the euro if you're part of the you you're part of it supposedly for life ok and so we saw how chaotic it was

when argentina. default and an exit of the dollar peg in the case of greece it's not even a peg they've given up their currency their french banks that are that are potentially on the hook with a lot of greek that brown who was exposed to those french banks then who's exposed the banks that are one of the french banks a lot of the banks prefer an environment i prefer right now which is we can leverage as much as we want doesn't matter and if we lose we just get bailed out there they're structurally adjust their business model and their profit making mechanism to this new environment which has been perpetual bailouts that we've seen since and i think. america needs all the cash you can get at the moment why do you have being mooted to save billions of dollars a year is a reduction in the number of people being kept behind bars however one group of people has a vested interest in keeping prisons as well as possible so it is more important i found out. america's financial crisis has been something of the unsociable

monster swallowing not millions of jobs homes and businesses throughout the nation yet amid this ongoing economic armageddon one industry has remained recession through. private prisons. with more than two point three million people behind bars the united states trumps china russia and the rest of the world in both the number and percentage of people doing time where it falls short though is being capable of containing such a large population it's a political dilemma turned cash cow for dozens of corporations creaming profits off punishment private prisons make money off course ration the more people they lock up and the longer the keep them the more money they make so they have the same perverse incentive to expand our justice system and increase or number of people or our number of citizens who are behind because it increases their profit margin. the profitability of private jails depends on the prison population continuing to go up

the rate of incarceration in the us has quadrupled since the days when america's war on drugs are short in the three strikes policy which ties judges to mandatory minimum sentencing even for nonviolent offenders since the late eighty's and into the ninety's and now today we see a turn away from that rehabilitated model so across the country prison programming is cut rehabilitation is being cut there's less opportunities for education to gain work skills and instead there's just this drive towards isolation towards punishment at private prison companies are paid between forty five and one hundred thirty dollars a day per detainee rates for juveniles women and immigrants could be higher for all public prisons are accountable to the public private ones answer only to shareholders and are not subject to external scrutiny that means many private contractors face few consequences for the poor or even inhumane treatment of

detainees we just see more and more isolation sensory deprivation and prisoners who literally never interact with human beings guards would come. into the facility there would be a sign out front with their stock crimes to let them know how the company was doing corrections corporation of america and geo group are the two largest private prison company it's with combined revenues of two point nine billion dollars last year but critics say they've been using that financial clout to line their own pockets even further encouraging politicians to keep going with the heavy handed sentencing program by launching an influential lobby campaign in the corridors of power lobbying in the new order to influence public officials only a small. and private prison industry. the policy of checking others include campaign donations so the companies make hundreds of thousands of dollars in

donations to politicians nationwide both on the federal and state levels with most states and the federal government currently operating under record deficits and budget cuts private prison companies are pitching their facilities as lower cost alternatives and while most americans continue struggling for in this economic downturn now's incarceration may grow even more profitable during upward nial artsy new york. adventurous travelers are waiting to see if they will ever be admitted to one of the globe's most surreal tourist sites the dead zone around her novel nuclear plant in ukraine twenty five years after the worst ever atomic disaster trips to the area were halted over allegations they were illegal art is a ski has the details. these cars were once heavily affected by nuclear radiation now the radiator for

a different reason part of an exhibition in kiev dedicated to the clear rubble of the one nine hundred eighty six chernobyl fallout over the years the chernobyl museum in ukraine's capital kiev has become one of the top tourist attractions especially in april this year when the world markets going through fifth anniversary of the disaster but for those craving for the firsthand post-apocalyptic experience looking at the exhibition here has not been enough. and the reason adventurous will turn it if you can terminate zone around should not would sell out over the past decades tourists have been floor can hear more than ten thousand of them each year that's why the forbes magazine named the dead zone one of the world's most exotic two respects the nation's. look sons a former resident of the goldstone of previous has been organizing the steelers for several years he told us that visitors are always fascinated by what they see although all their motivations for making the trip have always varied. i think you

can you hear people have different reasons. somewhere to see what an apocalypse could look like i love you so much to feel the history. which was so much their childhood like the atmosphere of the soviet union has been preserved but for me it's more important mulch why they come here and it's what effect it has on them. but since june that this radioactive tourism has been suspended the prosecutor general's office conducted checks and ruled that the emergencies ministry had broken the law with these trips as well as making an unhealthy profit every tourist to his own has been going around one hundred u.s. dollars to do so equates into a multimillion dollar revenue every year. we were to the ministry to inform the government of every dollar earned by the strip we know that a lot of money has been laid so we have no idea in whose pockets it ended up why not put the money into the budget and use it to solve

a zilch problems. that the ministry is defined it says it stuck by the law it claims these troops are a vital way of educating the world on how to avoid such disasters and says they could help fund new industrial projects on contaminated land which are not bill's own will never again be inhabited but experts say it could still serve other purposes. for the thirty kilometer area that has acceptable levels of radiation both because of the fallout of nuclear particles and decontamination procedures that's why we can use these large unoccupied spaces to build solar and wind power stations which we can even group biofuel here that's nonsense. the emergency's ministry has now filed a lawsuit in a big draw resume tours through the contaminated zone at the court is expected to start hearings in mid september ukraine's thirty kilometer nuclear wasteland will remain closed to the public until then but the debate remains very much open.

sea reporting from q. ukraine. for more exclusive stories and video be sure to check out our website r.t. dot com here's what's on mind right now if any time in history david cameron's visit to russia could herald a revamp of relations between the two countries so head to our side for an indefinite absence. and the russian communications satellites thought to be lost in space is a common lie after three weeks of very you silence will find more on this story in other news actually dot com. iran's first nuclear power plant is now on stream after being officially launched the russian built facility is the only such station in the entire middle east is currently running at forty percent capacity and won't reach full power until december russia will continue to provide help and fuel for the plant and iran will stand spent fuel back to russia the west

has long been worried about iran's atomic program concerned it is planning a nuclear bomb iran insists its ambitions are strictly peaceful. research or ad the school of oriental and african studies at the university of london believes iran has the right to peaceful nuclear energy just like any other developed nation . we have now a decades long standoff between iran and the west. over the iranian nuclear program this has been very hyped of. the nuclear issue for political reasons in order to be able to garner support to put pressure on iran if you cannot control or influence a country you might go for isolation weakening of the country in the best way to do that is through economic sanctions. if we just listen to the most authoritative source when it comes to analyzing the iranian nuclear program which

is the international atomic energy agency and if we read their reports we see that there is no evidence for any weaponization and also this is. numerous. on numerous occasions by the u.s. intelligence services and very recently so as well so the world has to face that iran as other developed countries has a nuclear program which is peaceful according. to all the evidence that we have. all there lino warm welcome for rainy and president mahmoud ahmadinejad in new york when he visits for the u.n. general assembly a massive billboard in times square hughes's iran of allying with al qaida a huge poster was put out by the united against nuclear iran group which opposes tehran's nuclear plants and also wants hotels to refuse to accommodate how many jobs but anyone's of the independent institute think tank told r.t. that attacking iran risks increasing its desire for nuclear weapons. if you

remember after all nine eleven iran helped the united states apprehend some alka people and provided intelligence on them because remember iran. islamised government is different than the al qaeda which is sunni and the iranian government is shia and the qaeda is hostile to show the billboard furler demonizes iran so i think the problem with being a zation as we've seen in the case of saddam hussein and moammar gadhafi is that the united states then seems to take out those leaders after a while and if you've got a republican administration in who beat obama and next year in the elections by two thousand and thirteen we could hear the drumbeat for attacking iran which of course i think would be disastrous you have to put yourself in their shoes they do have legitimate security fears but i think you have to take them into account and you have to do everything that you.