another day another tragedy iraq endures a serious loss of more than sixty people as a merciless campaign by the way. of easing. the more that we attract tourists the way that we're doing. here we explore how the brainchild of osama bin laden has spread its wings from central asia all the way to the atlantic since washington launched its war on terror. and president obama has reportedly been known so yes the n.s.a. was spying on. not to stop a claim. from

moscow are you with. with me good to have you company with us let's take a look at our top story today. a series of bombings has ripped through iraq or killing at least sixty people in sixty six people and such coordinated attacks have become the whole mark of a country's our kiters sell its bloody efforts to undermine the authority of the iraqi government have already made this year the deadliest in the country since two thousand and eight right let's take a look now at the roots of the crisis from ninety eight ninety six to two thousand and one al qaida was based in afghanistan where enjoyed the protection of the taliban and was also present in pakistan now its expansion gathered steam after washington launched its war on terror in response to the nine eleven attacks the us invasion of iraq prompted radical islamists are to declare their allegiance to osama bin laden's network in two thousand and four two thousand and seven saw

a powerful jihadist group in north africa unite under the name of al qaida in islam make a muslim and spread its operations across the region two years later the yemeni and saudi branches merged to form al qaeda in arabian peninsula now since then the terror network's been gaining ground with new cells emerging in the regions in the arab spring as the arab spring unfolded including some powerful groups waging a war against president assad in syria now rajiv gratitude you can investigate small. u.s. intelligence officials speaking anonymously of course say they're not concerned that al qaeda affiliated groups in syria are shifting some of their focus from toppling bashar al sought to launching external operations against the west one u.s. lawmaker pointed out that's exactly what happened even ganesan which led to nine eleven they are now focused on fighting assad but very soon they'll be focused on something else we have michael maloof here

a former pentagon official with me mr maloof where are the groups headed in your opinion the. forces that are there. are now attempting to look at syria in the long term to be under a caliphate and their spring throughout the entire region when you look at a map of the whole area stream from the arabian peninsula to all the way across north africa and into the margaret right. at the foot of southern europe and that is where here the strategy is to ultimately move into europe according to various estimates more than ten thousand committed members are operating just along syria's eastern border with iraq it's reported to be more than the number of jihad is in iraq during the u.s. led occupation worth mentioning it was the u.s. invasion that brought terror into iraq this graph from the national consortium for

the study of terrorism and responses to terrorism shows the spike of terrorist attacks in iraq following the u.s. invasion the u.s. now shrugs at all these terror that iraq has to deal with every day calling it well panes of democracy libya similar attitude the u.s. helped to kill qaddafi now the country is involved in chaos and terror again you hear pains of democracy but as these extremist groups in different countries become more and more organized as a network it's difficult to ignore them on. that's spreading through the region the west thinks drones are the perfect tool to deal with terrorists they say drones are the solution but on the receiving end those drone strikes are seen as acts of terror when they kill innocent people and they help terrorists recruit more terrorists most recently to report came out by amnesty international and human rights watch they looked into u.s. strikes in pakistan and yemen human rights watch found that in the strikes that

they have investigated seven percent of those who died were civilians washington says they decimated al qaeda solution but it seems al-qaeda has metastasized and continue spreading with drone strikes and brewing civil wars in washington i'm going to check on. judge kenny he's former diplomat in the u.s. foreign service as says washington keeps showing its war on terror is a full of inconsistency. we should reasonably assume that within the u.s. government they have exactly the same data they know that the more that we attack harris the way that we're doing the more terrorism appears and so then the question is well if we're creating more terrorists through our end of terrorism activities why are we doing it there's no sensible strategy there's no consistent logical strategy behind us actions we're taking things one piece at a time so here we support one group there we suppress the same group here we talk

about terrorists and their we support terrorists in syria there's there's no real consistency in that that shows that that's very strong proof that there is no thought behind what we're doing. and as all coddling to militants a push on the way the offensive against the government in syria more civilians are stepping forward as civil war volunteers. war is going on but nothing is more precious than a country home on to our grave coming up when we meet a syrian woman who's putting her life on the line to defend the country and children.

a german news outlet to suggest president obama has been a way of the n.s.a. tapping chancellor merkel's phone and let it go on for yes' this comes after reports of stated that he confirmed to going to merkel over the phone that he knew nothing of the practice merkel said to the monitoring would be a breach of trust if confirmed and that spying amongst friends does not work obama apologize and reportedly claimed to have had no prior knowledge that it was going on but germany's build a newspaper suggests he knew about the spying on germany's leader and encouraged it a claim denied by the n.s.a. fred root a director of young voices and international advocacy group says european legal action will not deter america from snooping on its own friends and. the u.s.

was always perceived as a shining beacon for civil liberties and freedom and now we actually this year more and more of the snowden revelations show us how much and to what extent the n.s.a. and the u.s. surveillance apparatus was even snooping on the elyse not just on the german citizens but also on the german government and especially chancellor merkel now these m.p.'s make a huge scandal out of and it's a listening to phone calls i don't think that these proposed. treaties are no spy laws will have a big impact these secret surveillance agencies have grown to an extent that it's really hard to control them basically you would need to have to heavily cut down all these surveillance agencies such as the n.s.a. or the cia to make actually sure that they don't have the power and the resources anymore to snoop on everyone around the world. we would like to know what do you think a mother developing scandal around you is spying practices and we also knew how how

will the revelation of the n.s.a. back to angela merkel's phone affect e.u. america ties on to our website r.t. dot com to vote and later as a weapon but so far here's what you've been saying in the most popular opinion seems to be that the e.u. will introduce highly encrypted communications for all top officials to protect countries against u.s. snooping over a quarter of a you believe that president obama will apologize to angela merkel and offer to spy on david cameron instead a slightly fewer thank you european governments will resist access to private data raising the cost for u.s. businesses in the e.u. and the minority religion in visions germany offering snowden and a son asylum in return for launching a cyber counter attack against the u.s. if those are some of your thoughts go to our to dot com to have your say and while you're online get the latest updates on this story and many others right while

you're there is such as the reports that tells of millions of phone calls in spain way intercepted and stored by the n.s.a. last year read up on that the spread of the american spy web on our website also online. a schoolboy from canada reads a guilty to hacking government website and passing the data to the not amisse in exchange for video games and more about the twelve year old prodigy on our team. you're watching our team more news just ahead to stay with us don't go away. well. science technology innovation called the list of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. wealthy british style.

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deserve answers from it's all on politicking only on our t.v. . look there just so happens to this go back to libya because for all the criticism that you have about russia and syria russia doesn't want to see syria explode everyone thinks it's russia trying to protect its friends by the geopolitical i just know it's about a region because explode and they get explode in a really vicious fashion say a way for me to do what i want of this war because we're not doing killed in a civil war is that your position not mine or is it is your submission is war sheeple that doing something because of all we're doing nothing at all the way one hundred and the logic of the arabs richey to your policy is your those are on my even across the border all i'm going to show you for you down the road ok i'll give you good to finish the question one way i don't know i don't know not what i want

to do in the line of peter all of my lines. thanks for staying with us here on r.g.p. for more international news as the human cost of the spiraling syrian conflict monza civilians are being increasingly caught up in the fighting someone are facing no other choice than to enlist in the military and head to the forefront now policia one syrian mother who's taken the safety of her children into her own hands miriam is getting ready for work like women around the world she enjoys putting on makeup before heading to the office but miriam's job is a little different to most the twenty three year old is heading to the syrian frontline it gives me great satisfaction being able to defend my country against terrorists who want to destroy it. it's strange to find women here in the line of

fire even more so because maria is a mother whose sons are just four and six years old. i signed up because of them i'm not afraid any move because i've stopped worrying we are in a state of war. but if we day miriam sees the reality of war more than one hundred thousand people most of them civilians killed the people who lived in these homes will have friends and family all of them have fled most of them will never return i . am most afraid when the water bombs fall in our posts and there is shrapnel if you days ago the terrorists launched rockets at our checkpoint their rockets are not accurate sadly they had a civilian building and many people died were rescued a few and carried them to hospital this used to be a school playground but children's laughter has long been drowned out by the whistling of bullets. and i was kidnapped twice the last time for two months they

arrested me when i was in civilian clothes this is back to doug was cooperating with the army i denied it and luckily they eventually let me go but the risks facing a woman in uniform are often far greater than for her male counterparts several of miriam's female colleagues have been killed while held hostage often it's nothing more than luck that separates the living from the did my family worries a lot but nothing is more precious than our country the homeland where i was raised it's true my children are very precious very important but my country is a move to say. and despite the price it's a job she's proud to wake up to each day and events when have been in the syrian army since the seventy's there's even a special military college for them but usually their jobs are administrative and logistic desperate times however cord for desperate measures pointlessly r.t.

damascus. coming up in the program the thinking outside the box. fictions of housing crisis with rents at an all time high in the u.k. right now we're going to be telling you why some people it's finding a way for bricks and. turning to the. shipping can faded but the police. russia is still pushing for a compromise with the u.s. i have a deployment of a nato missile defense shield in europe but washington remains immovable and it's a mission for the project that's according to the russian foreign ministry artes

you go these cannot has the details. foreign minister does say that moscow is ready for a compromise on the into missile defense system issue but at the same time he says it's not going to pretend that it's ok with all the talks that nothing could be changed in the american scheme and still no legal guarantees from washington that the system would not be against russia really this has been one of the biggest problems in the relations between the two countries thousand and ten russia and nato agreed to work together on european missile defense but these talks pretty much have been frozen because there are still no legal guarantees from washington for a few years now moscow is going to calling for the construction of a unified into missile defense system where each member would share the responsibility for the safety of others saying that otherwise and without legal fees it would see it as a threat to its national security so it's really been one of the hottest topics in the relations between moscow and washington in the meantime the construction of one of the elements of the american shield in europe has started. on monday and

it's that base will start operating by around twenty twenty five. billion and prime minister is winning the country's presidential ballot with a sixty percent of the vote this marks an end to a decade and. a string defeat at the poll during his term in office really started a war against a former breakaway republic. to bring it back under georgia's control russia had to intervene to protect the citizens there and fended off the georgian forces that's when relations between moscow and that's a big hit rock bottom and diplomatic ties were cut art is very different now brings us more on the outgoing president legacy. over the years we have been able to speak to him believes he told us this is a vote is less about welcome in the future but no more and rather about same

goodbye to the country's past and personally because he's known in the west as the man who brought democratic changes here to georgia and there are many people here in the country who share this opinion saying that he was the man who made the country turn away from the soviet past and move towards civilized world but his legacy is very controversial he was wrong very popular leader of the rose revolution but those who started this revolution with him accuse him of boudin author of terror and regime with repressions and oppression of the opposition million people who fled the country in fear of this repression the country has many of those who are specially prisoners and the video revealed last year showing inmates in the georgian jails beaten and humiliated were the last straw for georgian public to reject mikhail saakashvili and his policy and his party so the legacy of michael circus really is something that many people now question maupin

who is going to run this country for the next two years and. also seems to have been overtaken in a recent poll enough and on this has lost in mid-term elections off the opposition candidates. into victory in the country. this needs one be able to push through a constitutional change to allow a third term in office the president has been out of action during the campaign due to emergency brain surgery in argentina which is one of the world's top grain exploiters struggles to keep up with rising from demand and attracting investment to exploit its oil reserves. well you say used to but tons and the tear gas on around seven hundred animal rights activists in southern france clashes erupted during a protest against an upcoming bullfighting festival spend

a star hotel guests held only many towns in the south of france and dozens of schools are. training. in madrid as thousands have been protesting against a court ruling in favor of the basque separatist movement last week of the european court of human rights ordered spain to lose an appointed member of the armed group in is that del rio who had been in jail for her role in multiple bombings in the one nine hundred eighty s. john laughland from the institute of democracy and corp says at the strasburg court is doing exactly the opposite of what it's supposed to be. but it's incredible isn't it that a european court of human rights should intervene in this way to alleviate the sentence of the woman who has been convicted of the due process of the murder of more than twenty three people this woman is a mass murderer and the idea that a body the european court of human rights which was set up to safeguard citizens

against the abuses that could be committed by states against room citizens that such a body should now be as it were in to dealing in favor of people who have themselves ok grossly abused the rights of citizens by murdering them. time now for a quick look at what russia's black sea coast looks like at the moment why well it's almost one hundred days before the grand opening of associate twenty fourteen winter olympics you are now seeing the latest pictures of the cutting edge arenas that are almost done and dusted today in sochi vladimir putin will meet the new president of the international olympic committee for a final chapter on the preparations it will also unveil one of the city's new transport hubs so it's one hundred days to come tuesday and here on r.g.p. we bring you all the action as it happens as the occupation of

palestinian territories continues to spark a deadly clashes an international controversy some israelis are stepping forward with revelations an eyewitness accounts coming up r.t. is sophie shevardnadze speaks with israeli military whistleblower well who explains why he's against keeping the palestinian penned in. you see nineteen year olds eighteen year olds to court to control millions of people through the barrel of the gun most of us untrained i have to say that for example i was trained for eight months before i was sent to active duty for the first time out of this eight months seven months seven months and three weeks had nothing to do with what i was doing in my in my in the remaining of my service i was trained as an infantry soldier to fight another army and this is the case for most soldiers so you get there two to the west bank or two you know around the gaza strip unprepared to deal with civilians unprepared to control civilians the only thing that you are fed with is fear and hate and you know you are constantly told be careful of the palestinians

if you turn your back to them they will stab you in the back your told when i got to the west bank i was told that we need to show the ship quite a scene is that there is a new sheriff in town and i'm quoting here. that's an artsy how the world's appetite is literally stealing from the poor stay with us . a spanish language teacher in texas has been fired for posing nude in playboy before she became a teacher parents of found out about this demand that she be fired because her past was inappropriate and that it was a distraction the classroom well this was something she did in the past which was legal so this i mean if you pose for playboy you are forbidden to work in the

normal world also as a former teenage boy i can tell you that any young attractive teacher will cause a distraction with the boys and wolf you can fire people for being distracting that when they have to fire every teacher with a handicap or abnormal parents on the other hand though teachers are supposed to be people for children to respect and to look up to and when your spiritual teachers warned us so the good stuff for money to playboy it is a lot harder respect that sort of person and it sure isn't a good example for my daughter this is actually very complex issue but i can say is that you should really try to fight the temptation to make quick money with some nude photos it could come back to haunt you but that's just my opinion. deliberate torch is on its epic journey to such. one hundred and twenty three days. through two hundred ton two cities of russia. relayed by

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