i. take him in moscow this is our seat tonight over sixty people are killed in iraq is al qaeda linked forces step of their brutal campaign for the wave of bombings targeting crowded neighborhoods. that are now attempting to look at syria and and from their spring throughout the entire region puts you right smack at the foot of southern europe a former pentagon official tells our see about where al qaeda is expansion is heading. and president obama is accused of directly encouraging u.s. intelligence to spy on chancellor merkel's phone calls that claim that the n.s.a. vigorously denies.

very good evening if you just joined in this is our top story a series of bomb attacks across iraq has left at least sixty six people dead and dozens more wounded most of the blast targeted shiite muslim districts around the capital baghdad the iraqi government blames the daily attacks on sunni islamists linked to al qaeda let's take a look at how this terrorist network then became so powerful in the news war based in afghanistan from one thousand nine hundred six to two thousand and one al qaeda was under the protection then of the taliban it was also present in pakistan to the jihadist group began a rapid expansion after washington launched its war on terror in response to those awful attacks of nine eleven prompted by the u.s. invasion in iraq the country's radicalism is then turned to al qaeda by two thousand and four moving on a couple of years two thousand and seven now powerful terror network to become by then. united under the name al qaeda in the islamic magreb started expanding

through north africa the yemeni and saudi branches merged two years later in two thousand and nine to form al qaeda in the arabian peninsula the network's been gaining ground since the across the region since then as the arab spring is on folded with new cells of merging of the countries gripped by unrest including syria where new radicals in are fighting against the regime as we've been reporting at length hear it r.t. that is going to hit you can investigate. 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 saw it to launching extra long for asians against the west one u.s. lawmaker pointed out that's exactly what happened even ghana sent which. they are now focused on fighting assad but very soon they'll be focused on something else we have michael here 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 what your 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 similar attitude the u.s. helped to kill qaddafi now the countries 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. monster it spreading through the region the u.s. 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 seventy percent of those who died were civilians washington

says they've decimated al qaeda leadership but it seems al-qaeda has metastasized and continue spreading with drawn strikes and brewing civil wars in washington i'm going to check on. what we discuss this disturbing situation with journalist and broadcaster mill clucky believes the u.s. is simply not interested in curbing its influence in the region the fact is that if al qaeda didn't exist it have to be invented it serves an awful lot of good purposes for united states to push its again you around the world if the u.s. was really serious about al qaeda and wanted to deal with it they would do they wouldn't be supporting al-qaeda in syria they would be wanting a secular regime in syria to be toppled that they wouldn't be wanting regime change in libya would be a new clark oh so assiduously turmoil in iraq to read the link to the rise of. syria. incidence has been a huge spike in violence in syria and in iraq at the center of al-qaeda groups are

going from iraq to syria from syria to iraq the whole nishan is in turmoil because of the united states policies and this is not a mistake this is it is a mistake to think it's a mistake if you like because whenever the neo-cons come on to talk about iraq of course they very rarely want to talk about iraq they always like to claim that well tony blair and george bush wanted well but they've made a few mistakes along the way that's nonsense the whole of the exercise was to destroy iraq as a functioning country to make never again be a threat to regional powers that the us backs in that region the same with syria. also for middle class woman thomas geodes militants keep up the war of attrition against syria's government a growing number of civilians are volunteering for military service. my family worries a lot but nothing is not precious than our country is how land where i was raised coming up then we meet a syrian woman who's putting our life on the line to defend her family and their country. president obama is facing some of

barassi revelations in the german media reports there say the us president had full knowledge that the n.s.a. was tapping chancellor merkel's mobile phone despite his claims to the contrary he was allegedly briefed by the head of the n.s.a. about the scheme back in twenty ten and did even ordered a full dossier on the german leader merkel made her outrage clear in a recent phone call to a bar machines said such monitoring practices would be a breach of trust if confirmed the chancellor also said that spying among friends just doesn't work apparently a bomber apologized insisted he had no previous knowledge that the n.s.a. had been tracking merkel had been targeted by the agency for over a decade they were calling to latest leak documents european leaders are now pushing for a new spy code of conduct with the u.s. but fred roeder for the international advocacy group young voices says that would be unlikely to restrain the n.s.a. . 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 well meantime the latest league from edward snowden shows that the n.s.a. intercepted sixty million phone calls in spain in just the space of a month spanish media say that in december last year u.s. intelligence harvested numbers and calling locations all over the country the government some of the u.s. ambassador now over those allegations but while the case builds up against american intelligence fred rogers says european agencies shouldn't be little for the hook either. it's not just about the n.s.a. it's also about. surveillance agencies in europe such as the british law and even the german ones which do not allow citizens to keep their privacy their snooping on each other i would not be surprised if there will be further revelations on other

countries spying on each other's leaders that's just a dynamic we now live from the twenty first century. well germany's also sending its top intelligence officials to the u.s. seeking an explanation so how much damage is being caused here to relations between the two countries and what kind of fallout should we expect as we're asking you in our website poll thanks for taking part if you have this is what you're telling us so far forty percent of you say the e.u. will react by developing highly encrypted communications for its leaders despite a quarter of you there expect europe to restrict access to private data and raise costs for american businesses as a result the same number suggested by going to apologize and offer to spy on the u.k. prime minister david cameron and just about ten percent of you say germany is going to retaliate by offering asylum to edward snowden and julian assange as well thanks for thanks for voting there good to hear from you as always r.t. dot com is the place where you can make that change now

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like women around the world she enjoys putting on makeup before heading to the office but merriam's job is a little different to most of 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 million is a mother her sons are just four and six years old. i signed up because of them i'm not afraid anymore because i've stopped worrying we are in a state of war. but every 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 rocket to town 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 did i did and luckily they eventually let me go but the risks facing a woman in uniform are often far greater and for a 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 our homeland where i was raised to my children are very precious very prudent 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 the bonds when have been in the syrian army since the seventy's there's even a special military college for them but usually even jobs are administrative and logistic desperate times however cord for desperate measures pointlessly r.t. damascus. meantime the syrian government's been taking steps to ease tensions ahead of next month's geneva peace talks on veiling a plan to destroy its chemical arsenal in line with an international deadline and other nineteen opposition groups refusing to take part in the negotiations political analyst. thinks they're determined to prolong the war. naturally some of those groups will work under the auspices of the various regional powers and players and also. the international climate where an agreement has been set up between the. different players the steves to the russian

people you to get back to the political solution of the conflict. and seem syrian rebels are even resorted to blackmail sending threats to the nation supporting the geneva peace talks so the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov condemned as outrageous in his latest speech he also addressed the long running controversy between russia and the united states expressing ongoing frustration over nato is refusal to make any compromise on the missile defense system is developing in europe to skin off scot more on that dispute. foreign minister does say that moscow is ready for a compromise on the anti 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 in two 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. from washington for a few years now moscow has been 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 anti missile shield in europe has started. on monday and it's that base will start operating by around twenty twenty five you can offer online does a saudi arabian woman have caused a stir at the weekend by defying a bad old female drivers one man inspired by the campaign came up with this.

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thanks for choosing r.t. for your news soaring rental costs and putting a strain on work being blamed for the rise in homelessness in the british capital these days but no charge has come up with a very novel solution to the problem of first investigates when adjusting the issue of the foldable housing one london charities thinking outside the box but when it comes to the solution it's a little insight that counts meet the my i pad the shipping container that doubles as a low cost. renting in long is to take expensive and once again we hit record high so we're going to go. and see what this is all about. you know how. they feel very much a how they go yes this is my parents yeah this is the mine pat as you can see we've got a desk here inside the my pants been designed to provide these who need it most with

affordable independent living and just seventy five pounds a week the my pad certainly cheap by london standards i think it's difficult for anybody right now to get. comfortable accommodation and a good price without you know paying extortionate amounts of the projects the brainchild of timothy payne. this is essentially this is a shipping container full time this is a stripping charter. this cover over a great big boat to the projects already received planning permission and funding is expected to come from the greater london authority initially this project will be soley for young people the charity works with society just takes the you know. for months of them because the moment they get into work they can't afford to live in a hostel and they can't afford to live anywhere else because doesn't make any moral or any economic sense. as an idea. is brilliantly

innovative it's been designed as a quick fix now there's planning permission for thirty more these to be built next year but predictions that if bracing continues at its current rate of building them by twenty twenty and we face a shortfall of two million homes in the case you can see the scale of the problem and it's why what started out as a local temporary solution could end up becoming a more permanent fixture so our city london. well hopefully this to look at the really bad weather london the south of england has been putting up with world news no seven britain's been hit by its worst storm of five years claiming the lives of at least two people a teenage girl died when a falling tree crashed through the roof of her home while she was sleeping and a man was killed when a tree hit his car the disasters caused extensive damage in london where

a toppled crane also hit the cabinet building in whitehall around two hundred twenty thousand homes have been left without power and so several train lines have been closed although we're latest we hear is that things are start to get what's normal those first transports concerned. in the south of france police abuse buttons and tear gas all around seven hundred animal rights activists clashes erupted during a protest against the coming bullfighting festival spanish style courageously held in many towns in southern france and schools offer horrible training. in turkey police have fired tear gas and water cannons on a crowd of students outside holding an incredible policeman accused of killing a demonstrator of the earlier this year is being tried nearly two thousand protesters gathered to voice their anger over the court's decision to let the officer attend hearings via video link local media say several people are injured in those clashes. the israeli air force is bombed missile launches in the northern gaza strip just hours after palestinian militants there allegedly fired two rockets

across the border israel managed to destroy one missile as another fell into the sea no injuries are reported tensions flare despite an apparent concession from israel the country's released a list of pretty six palestinian prisoners to be freed as part of a u.s. brokered deal aimed at restarting peace talks. meantime palestinians have sent letters to over fifty countries calling on business is to boycott israeli settlements in the west bank and israeli was stalled blow in the military told not so why many i.d.f. soldiers are unhappy about their mission to keep the settlers safe. you send nineteen year olds eighteen year olds to court to control millions of people through the barrel of the gun i was trained as an infantry soldier to fight another army and this is the case for most soldiers so you get there to to the west bank or to 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 yard told me when i got to the west bank i was told that we need to show the ship what it's doing is that there is a new sheriff in town and i'm quoting here. the final touches be made to the olympic facilities in sochi with just over three months now to go before the twenty forty winter games russia's president is there right now to the day with the new head of the international olympic committee president putin gave his assurances that all guests competitors will be made to feel welcome at the event regardless of the race or sexual orientation. president vladimir putin began his day by evening and you are transport hubs in the city and with the new president of the international olympic committee the president has assured. us back from the i.o.c. that the venues will indeed be ready on time even the venue for the opening ceremony which is a county having

a roof installed there have also been those concerns in a recent months about russia's what's known as the gay propaganda law there have been campaigns to possibly even boycott the sochi winter olympics president vladimir putin has laid some of those for some of those face today saying that doesn't matter in the next city nationality or sexy or sexual orientation everyone will be welcome in sochi when the game starts but the olympic torch relay is continuing its journey it's one hundred twenty three days it's going to last of course started in moscow on october seventh it's going to cross all three regions in russia it's hoped that anyone who wants to be able to see the olympic flame on its journey will be able to do so it's going to be transported via various different methods as we know by book by car by plane and even by reindeer and of course it is set to go to the international space station as well and clock is ticking down only one hundred days to go now starting tuesday before the winter

olympics kick off in sochi here in artane will bring you all the action as it happens tomorrow. one hundred days remove. the fleet. with all votes counted from sunday's presidential election in georgia the ruling party candidate your. spin confirmed the clear winner with over sixty percent of the vote that brings an end than to the decade long rule of because saakashvili his party's candidate trailed a distant second artist or expose the controversial legacy of the outgoing leader. people he believes have told us that the presidential vote was less about twelve came in the future but more about saying goodbye to the country's past because like us really is banned from running for president again and these are his last days at

the helm of the country he was a once popular leader off the rose revolution the first color revolution a ticket which saw power change in the post soviet republics but others who we spoke to here in philly see accuse him of building an authoritarian regime with brutal oppression own opposition with enter a geisha ends and arrests during his term in office make us like ishmael attempted to bring the full of rancor republic of south assertive back on the georges control and this is when russia had to intervene and fended off told us forces in a five day conflict last year had not told worth parliamentary elections the party of mikhail saakashvili last after videos were revealed showing young inmates in georgian prisons been beaten and humiliated in ten years this man has come full circle from a very popular to one of the most hated politician here in the country who is now

facing accusations and enter acacias this is a pledge for pushed forward by the current prime minister is in a even ishmael a. reflection of their thanks for coming as our own but with movies and thirty three minutes next though after the break libya is on the brink of a new civil war two years of the overthrow colonel gadhafi people both in this disgust and the reasons for that cross talk. a spanish language teacher in texas has been fired for pows. being 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 appearance on the other hand though teachers are supposed to be people for children to respect and to look up to and when you're spanish teachers when the 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 that could come back to haunt you but that's just my opinion.

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