The president pays tribute to the 2,977 victims on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the attacks.
US President Joe Biden has urged unity as his country prepares to remember the victims of the 11 September attacks.
In a video released on the eve of the 20th anniversary, he paid tribute to the 2,977 people who lost their lives. "We honour all those who risked and gave their lives in the minutes, hours, months and years afterwards," Mr Biden added, speaking of the emergency workers who responded to the attacks."No matter how much time has passed, these commemorations bring everything painfully back as if you just got the news a few seconds ago," the president said.
He acknowledged the "darker forces of human nature - fear and anger, resentment and violence against Muslim Americans" which followed the attacks, but said that unity had remained the US' "greatest strength".British Prime Minister Boris Johnson meanwhile said the attacks had failed "to shake our belief in freedom and democracy". Among the dead in the 11 September attacks were 67 Britons.
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