looking. why from your to new center at nine pm moscow time over sixty people were killed in iraq is al-qaeda linked forces stepped up the brutal campaign the wave of bombings targeting crowded neighborhoods. and they are now attempting to look at syria and from there they'll spring throughout the entire region puts you right smack at the foot of southern europe a former pentagon official tells r.t. about where it is expansion is heading. and president obama is accused of directly encouraging u.s. intelligence to spy on chancellor merkel's phone calls a claim that the n.s.a. vigorously deny.

if you joined us one name is kevin i mean this is our top story than a series of bomb attacks across iraq left at least sixty six people dead and dozens more wounded to 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 qaida let's see how it pans out on the news war how this terrorist network became so powerful all right well the date start here based in afghanistan from two from months ninety six to two thousand and one al qaeda was under the protection of the taliban it was also present in pakistan to the jihadist group began a rapid expansion then after washington launched its war on terror and response to the attacks of nine eleven prompted by the u.s. invasion of iraq the country's radical islamist turned to al qaeda by two thousand and four then by two thousand and seven a powerful terror network 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 as they called it. the network's been gaining ground across the region since the arab spring on foldit with new cells emerging in the countries so gripped by rest including of course syria where radicals in their fighting against the regime as we've been reporting at length r.t. is going to cannes investigates. 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 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 they're spreading throughout the entire region when you look at a map of the whole area stream from the arabian peninsula. all the way across north africa and into the margaret right. at the foot of southern europe and that is. 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 the 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 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 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. discuss the situation with journalist abreu cost of neil clark who believes the u.s. is simply not interested in curbing our code is 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 look like also the worsening turmoil in iraq's directly linked to the roosevelt corridor in syria. incidence that has been a huge spike in violence in syria and in iraq at the same time al-qaeda groups are going from iraq to syria from syria to iraq the whole metion 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. and as you heard this militants keep up their 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 the homeland where i was raised . coming up then we need a syrian woman who's putting a life on the line to defend her family and her country. president obama's facing some embarrassing 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 even himself ordered

a full dossier on the german leader merkel made her outrage clear in a recent phone call to a bomber she said monitoring practice would be a breach. or also said that he spying among friends just doesn't work a bomber apparently apologized insisted that he had no previous knowledge that the n.s.a. had been tracking or merkel had been targeted by the agency for over a decade they were courting to these latest leaked documents european leaders are no pushing for a spy code of conduct with the u.s. but fred rohde from the international because the group young voices says it would be unlikely to restrain the n.s.a. . i don't think that these proposed anti spy 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 have to have really 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 the space of just one month spanish media says that in december last year u.s. intelligence harvested numbers and called locations all over the country the government has summoned the u.s. ambassador of those allegations but while the case builds up against american intelligence fred rohde says european agencies shouldn't be lovely hookey that it's not just about the n.s.a. it's also about. surveillance agencies in europe such as the british one and even the german ones which do not allow citizens to keep their privacy their snooping on each other would not be surprised if there were further revelations on other countries spying on each other's leaders that's just an dynamic we now live from the twenty first century or the n.s.a. leaks have been piling up more revelations are expected to we'll be covering them but what impact of the that's what we're asking you our viewers in our latest web

poll thanks for voting if you have let's see what part of the wall now almost half of you voted who voted so far forty six percent of you explain policies to make more promises on respecting privacy but no action is going to follow around thirty percent predict public anger of the n.s.a.'s practices will rise following on from the recent stop watching us rally in washington d.c. fifty percent of using see their. further leaks will have no real impact as the public a longer shot by such news in the majority the eight percent expect real steps to curb surveillance r.t. dot com you can cast your vote you can make that change. he.

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logan as the syrian conflict continues to shatter civilian lives some are decided that matters into their own hands party's policy that met one young mom who's chosen to fight for her country's future 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 her sons are just four and six years old. and i signed up because of them i'm not afraid any move because i've stopped worrying we're 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 guess when they are there i'm most afraid when the letter 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 did i did 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 my 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 own homeland where i was raised because to my children are very precious very important but my country is even more 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 their jobs are administrators of and logistic desperate times however cord for desperate measures pointlessly r.t. damascus the syrian government's been taking steps to ease tensions ahead of next month's geneva peace talks on building a plan to destroy its chemical arsenal in line with an international deadline however nineteen opposition groups are refusing to take part in those negotiations political analysts thinks peace is simply not part of their agenda. naturally some of those who fought were under the auspices of the various regional

powers and players and those are. the international climate where an agreement has been set up between the. different players steves to the russian people here to get back to the political solution of the conflict. syrian rebels even resorted to blackmail sending threats to the nation supporting the geneva peace talks something that the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov condemned as outrageous in his latest speech he also addressed to a long running controversy between russia and the united states expressing frustration over nato as refusal to make any compromise on that missile defense system is developing in europe but if you go to press can offers more on that dispute. 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 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 no legal guarantees 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 guarantees 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 in the romania on monday and it's planned at that base will start operating by around twenty twenty five. going off on live does a saudi arabian woman caused. by defying a ban on female drivers now one man inspired by their campaign there for came up

with this. it's a kind of get out of a key is me but clips go viral over the past two days gathered over three million hits on you tube drawing and present them to the women's fight for their rights you know what should you get the full story online for most dot com. and also the if you get a minute security flaw in the u.s. state department's electronic communication systems apparently opened up external access to highly sensitive information in check that as well as for interesting read from us r.t. dot com. soaring rental costs are putting a strain on working londoners and being blamed for the rise in homelessness in the british capital but charities come up now with a novel solution to the problem of first investigate. when addressing the issue of the political housing one london charities being thinking outside the box but when

it comes to the solution in sight that counts meet the my i pad shipping container doubles as a low cost. renting in london is particularly expensive and once again we've seen rents hit record highs so we're going to go take a look inside and see what this is all about. oh how are you doing thank you very much for having us yes this is my palace yeah this is the my. desk here inside the my pants been designed to provide these who need it most with the food of all independent living and just seventy five pounds a week the my pads certainly cheap by london standards i think it's difficult for everybody right now to get. comfortable accommodation and a good price for about you know pay and extortion and lots of the projects the

brainchild of timothy payne. this is essentially this is a shipping container full time this is a strip of. bread you 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. place to copy out from under them because the moment they get into work they can't afford to live in a hostel on the corner for 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 things to be built next year but predictions say 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. it's going to end here in moscow no more world news in brief in the south of france police have used tear gas on around seven hundred animal rights activists clashes erupted during a protest against an upcoming bullfighting festival there spanish style. many towns in southern france and dozens of schools offer tarullo training and. in turkey police of fired tear gas and water cannon on a crowd of students outside a court in ankara where a policeman accused of killing a demonstrator earlier this year has been tried in the two thousand protesters gathered to voice their anger over the court's decision to let the officer attend hearings for video link up local media say several people were injured in the ensuing clash. the israeli air forces 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 of those missiles and another fell into the sea no injuries reported tensions flare despite an apparent concessions from israel the country's least a list of twenty six palestinian prisoners to be freed as part of that u.s. brokered deal aimed at restarting peace talks. and palestinians have sent letters to over fifty countries calling all businesses to boycott israeli settlements in the west bank and israeli military will supply told r.t. sophie shevardnadze 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 be careful of the palestinians if you turn your back to them they will stab you in the back you are told when i got today to the west bank i was told that we need to show the ship palestinians that there is a new sheriff in town and i'm quoting here in. the final touches paid made to military for cities and such he would just over three months to go now before the twenty forty would to games russia's president is there right now actually met today with the new head of the international olympic committee president putin gave a short answer is that all guests and competitors will be made to feel welcome at that event regardless of their race all sexual orientation scott. president vladimir putin began his day by evening and you are transport in the city and the new president of the international olympic committee the president has assured. us back from the eye or say 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 some of those face today. they will do everything to ensure that all competitors and guests at the winter olympics in sochi two comfortable regardless of race or sexual orientation. if you're going to. go for the olympic torch relay is continuing its journey its one hundred twenty three days it's going to last of course started in moscow on october the 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 by 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 yep just a hundred days to go now starting shoes day before the winter olympics kick off in sochi here on r.t. in the next twenty four hours or so we'll bring you all the action as it happens and of course following it through the next hundred days as well. one hundred days remaining. days of play. with all votes counted from sunday's presidential election in georgia the ruling party candidate. being confirmed the clear winner with over sixty percent of the vote that brings an end to the decade long rule of mikhail saakashvili his party's candidate trial a distant second. explores the controversial legacy of the outgoing leader.

people he believes it told us that the presidential vote was a lesson about twelve came in the future but more about saying goodbye to the country's past because like us really has been from running for president again and these are his last days at the helm of the country he was a once popular leader of the rose revolution the first color revolution to which so power change in the post soviet republics but others who we spoke to here in belief they accuse him of building an authoritarian regime with brutal oppression own opposition with into reggae shins and a rest during his term in office make us like ishmael attempted to bring the full of regular republic of south assertive back on the georgists control and this is when russia had to intervene and fended off soldiers forces in a five day conflict last year had not told worse parliamentary elections the party of nicholson has been lost after the do is revealed showing yawn inmates in georgian prisons being 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 a geisha is this is a pledge for pushed forward by the current prime minister busy even if she lives. the next full use bulleted with me kevin i would no doubt international thirty four but it's time to know that all the sports action which is here after the break. place.

technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. right to see. her story. and i think the trick. on our reporters. hello welcome to the all t.v. sports show hof an hour of talk sporting action with me kate partridge and these

other headlines. all me pro you a for investigates claims of racist chanting as tesco use to want to tie him to manchester city in the champions league. plus a driving force of red bull sebastian vettel think it's his full straight forward to one championship after winning the indian grand prix. and packing a punch you have to see champion john jones and kick boxing legend to run the band up with a star guest at moscow's latest evan bayh fight night. but first champions league football and sony went seconding group g. eight after a late one no win a ten month old the hosts were down to ten men off to just six minutes to error picking up two yellow cards well porto held off their visitors but with four minutes to go substitute alexander mccall headed home to gives an eight three points and their first victory in three group games while allegations of racist

chanting overshadowed to sky's two one defeat at home to match the city something manager manuel pellegrini says must be addressed. shows like games i guess i think it's a pity that you know where that stupid things. hold they would have he had the right message to finish old or all those things said before or yeah it would be to four for the seat and while those incidents are being investigated by your wife at city went on to lose two one late on at chelsea in a dramatic english premier league match on sunday bought city a still targeting domestic and european success as reports after an eventful night in the champions league matches the city marked their maiden visit to moscow by coming back to edge russian champions serious guy two one at the arena all the goatskin and down for us how minute they are man opening after thirty two through former manchester united midfielder zoran to watch it but.