a bomb attack kills fourteen people and injures over one hundred at a security building in northern edge of the government spokesperson blames the muslim brotherhood branding it a terrorist group. the inventor of the legendary kalashnikov assault rifle dies at the age of ninety four we report of how a gunman dreamed up in a military hospital took the world by storm and the u.s. pushes for diplomacy in south sudan is raging battles between armed factions threatening to shut american firms out of key oil zones.

this is our athena national coming to you live from moscow with me marina joshie a bomb attack in the egyptian city of and soren has killed at least fourteen people and injured over one hundred some egyptian officials have put the blame on the muslim brotherhood tom dale now joins us live from a car tom did tell us what do we know at this point about this explosion. well we know that around one am a series of at least two explosions went off inside and just next to the security directorate building in months or we know that at least two senior security officers are among the dead according to state t.v. and this is the deadliest the most audacious in a series of attacks a series of bombings which will play it since the july third ouster of mohamed morsy. and the group which has been behind most of these bombings which has claimed most of them it's called beat them up this the party zones of jerusalem. they

haven't yet claimed responsibility for this attack they did the issue a statement two days ago where they specifically warned employees of the security services that they would be targets and that they were safe so this is a notation is the time on which apparently managed to penetrate the inside of a security building destroying as you can see from your pictures. part of the top three floors and one which poses a real question about transition post the ouster of president mohamed morsi well have we heard any official reaction so far what has it been of there has been any. well the first official reaction was from a spokesman for the cabinet office who appeared to block the muslim brotherhood and who said that they have been designated as a terrorist organization however surely after what the prime minister doesn't blow we emerged to say that the muslim brotherhood had not being so designated that they

don't officially considered to be a terrorist organization. drew no connection between them and this attack it should be said that it's very common for quite cultural connections to be drawn between the brotherhood and terrorist activity though there is absolutely no evidence that that has taken place so far for their own parts of course the brotherhood did no it didn't evolve and condemned the attack. all right tom thanks very much indeed for bringing us the very latest from cairo that was tom dale talking to us here on our t.v. now all the details on the latest attack in egypt as well as the unrest plaguing the country can be found on our website which is r t dot com so you can always had there for more analysis and views and the other had here on our c.n.n. national we look back at a stories that shapes of this year and why twenty thirteen matters today though the focus is on frag dubbed defeat of the oil lobby marketing the practice of shale gas

drilling has spawned a tide of opposition as its ugly side comes to the surface. and while former russian tycoon. ponders his future after being freed from jail and vows to fight for the release of his associates we'll look at why they're still behind bars. the father of the legendary a k forty seven assault rifle kalashnikov has died at the age of ninety four the weapon along with its successors remains the world's most widely used firearm and also an instantly recognizable brand or does it work to skin off him at the inventor has this report. the man behind a weapon that many say changed the face of combat produced in over a dozen states and officially used by thirty armies it's the most popular and reliable small arm in the world no competition a k forty seven short for off the

mark kalashnikov model nine hundred forty seven the year it was designed but the inspiration came a few years earlier during the war against nazi germany. this is one twenty one year old red army tank commander mikhail kalashnikov was wounded in battle and was recovering in hospital dreaming of designing a weapon that would help little geezers out and so he did his automatic rifle combines the best features of machine and submachine guns killing power lightweight their ability and simplicity often during the vietnam war american soldiers took from dead vietnamese troops preferring kalashnikovs to their own sophisticated but unreliable and sixteen's when the u.s.s.r. collapsed began to be sold on the cheap throughout latin america the middle east and africa where they were used by fighters in ethnic conflicts and in some countries by drug gangs and terrorists on al qaeda footage some of the london was often seen with

a kalashnikov rifle nowadays have the gun is believed to be responsible for a quarter of a million deaths every year and this always upsets me. we call for tougher your measures to halt the illicit distribution of small arms. you or your weapons should be in the hands of those people who defend their country that is to defend not to attack i designed a rifle not for international conflicts but to protect the borders of my homeland designs different models of the gun but what unites them all is their simplicity and reliability. the assault rifle even became a cultural icon is depicted on the flag and coat of arms of several countries and organ. the sions. have had many honors including the highest state award the golden store the hero of russia. the display of such astonishing freeman respect unbelievably he didn't make a penny from the sale of his weapons the only way he could profit from his invention was by allowing to use his name to promote various brands watches and p

three players and even vodka but without a doubt his legacy is the forty seven its production continues to this day and the guns reputation as the world's top infantry weapon remains unchallenged. r t. a former u.s. navy and cia officer and michael says that after more than six decades unused a kalashnikov rifle still stands up to its modern equivalent when the power of the weapon is as you have said and it's robustness in its simplicity i have field stripped and fired every modern weapon in the european and american arsenals and the easiest one to love the forty seven you just pop the cover pop the spring pop the rod comes a bolt and there it is it's the easiest modern weapon to strip short of an old bolt

action rifle it is amazing anyone can shoot and. it has been embraced by oppressed peoples everywhere. want to learn more about our history changing weapons stay tuned for our documentary as we take a tour of the factory where the gun is put together. now the former vice president of south sudan who's now leading an armed rebellion has said he may go she'd with a government that's according to the u.s. special envoy there who is working frantically to prevent the country from falling apart well american corporations have had their sights set on the country's oil zone since it broke away from sudan and twenty eleven the new borders contain over seventy percent of sudanese reserves now there are reports that army defectors in south sudan are in control of these areas after two weeks of violence which has seen hundreds of people killed but this leader has more details. it is the loots newest country but it is south sudan who will be on the brink of its own

a full blown divisive conflict you're dealing with a civil war that knows no bounds in terms of how long that's would last of course it has no determination as to how many people lose their lives not to mention those who will be displaced and alleged the vice president forced out which it's claimed ignited his loyalists into a deadly rebellion yet just two and a half years ago the world rush to recognize south sudan with washington among the loudest supporters in south sudan has mining reason reserves and it also has massive oil reserves those are the biggest interests land for oil mining and agricultural production the agents of power that have put in place the government of silva kerr the agent that supported the south sudan sudan people's liberation army would be the government of uganda and powerful factions from the united states including corporate executives from the oil companies to the oil companies have served their interests have been served by bringing deescalate to power which they

did and they succeeded in creating a separate independent state called south sudan now though a key oil producing area has fallen into when it gave forces a huge blow to a government that relies on the industry for just about all of its money well i'm afraid it's going to affect each and every one of us worldwide you will see a tail pullback in terms of production levels from the south sudan which will impinge on global world prices of oil and alternately we would fill it out the pumps irrespective of where you are in the world where you go to fill up so prices would go up there would be panic in the markets and the lost cause ultimately the biggest losers would be the south sudanese people foreign fuel systems are pulling stuff out and in many cases winding production down to zero last weekend for american service personnel wounded as the military aircraft came under fire during an attempt to evacuate u.s. civilians to say. fifty president obama warns that he may take further action to keep american safe i mean south sudan was never you know

a country that had proper infrastructure and the main complaint from from the people is where is the money going why are most south sudanese on the edge of survival and you know the new government is already driving their set of spans and building these huge houses this fledging nation born out of decades of civil war is facing the toughest test of maturity existence but the population wary of feinstein and flynn has fallen down the priority list of those championing the moves to get south sudan put on the map paul is here r.t. . while there are plenty of factors behind our dance failure to build a stable state since gaining independence former european diplomat and in africa mohammad his son told us what he sees as the main reasons no it is the political conflict that came from above could not solve their own problem and this

problem grows into a division in the ugly and in the society of course exceptional forces probably also their own role. that also down there is a very big rose and this will just supposed to be a blessing for the people of the book knowledge becoming a notes mirror and igniting a sectarian war which would be very dangerous for the done not only for the people of so that and so then also for the region. you know what you nineteen or national down and out in paris coming up we find out why one for people in the city of lights are finding themselves left out in the cold trying to find what shelter they can on the streets. no. this christmas no no no the north pole has been virtually invaded season occupied and so now santa is living in the occupied territories of the north pole.

and oil up there rudolph the red nosed reindeer has been read designated a terrorist. and a commie. and word any word that sets you up and makes you see the need for the u.s. military to occupy rudolph's oil rich homeland so while you may remember him as the free gift giving flying boat friend from now on coke sees the commie terrorist or all rich reindeer so bye bye santa by by rudolph there is oil to be secured from those bad guys.

welcome back you're watching our t.v. international line from moscow twenty fourteen is almost upon us and we've been busy here at r.t. sorting through the stories and revelations that the find going here. fracking was sold to the world as a revolution in an a g. destined to drive down bills and make the west energy sufficient but what wasn't in the marketing pitch was a devastating cost this year has been dotted with fracking horror stories which in turn have given birth to a global curse aid against shale gas drilling are just vanished account reports from texas the fragging capital of the world the local government in texas tells steve lipski that the water from his well water that he can set on fire is safe to drink and to use in his home. you can't get into your house. thank

you but steve has the assessment of other experts who say he's well is a ticking bomb in his backyard loaded with methane and other contaminants why the starkly different assessments steve claims that a fracking operation nearby contaminated his well and that texas energy authorities are shielding the gas company. they don't want the world to know that it really is this bad they don't want it in official documents or it could be that the fracking allowed gas from lower formations into the aquifer and subsequently into steve lipski as well the gas company denies the claim the lips sued the range resources corp but the firm counter sued and won caution in fact that we don't see groundwater credibly difficult to prove my do you sell us our is an engineer who worked with the federal environmental protection agency is not surprised that the

state oil and gas regulator sided with the gas corporation conceit that the rights its income and survival from oil and gas production. issue should we put him in charge of also regulating the protection of groundwater from going down swells and there's an inherent conflict of interest in that determined to fight for his home father of three steve has been shipping fresh water from the city on trucks at a cost of five hundred dollars a month but the family now faces another blow from the fracking corporation of four point two million dollars lawsuit for defamation steve lipski his dream house and it's a beautiful property has become his nightmare several of his neighbors apparently have the same problem but they're reluctant to speak out after they saw how the gas

company went after mr lipski they shouldn't expect much help from washington either . why do you sell us are says the environmental protection agency has not put nearly enough resources into studying the effects that fracking has on groundwater but that didn't stop the e.p.a. from coming up with a reporting favor of the practice. believes his word vice to vent the gas constantly to keep it from accumulating under their property as their neighboring gas well continues to frack it's five thousand feet deep it we're pretty much standing around in top of the one hundred years from now when somebody dies because there's some timing on the border and they're able to trace it to this fracking everybody else instead who cares invest in a philosophy for now it seems that the authorities at all levels are so fired up on fracking is potential profits that households like steve leave his family are left to fight alone to get a healthy environment in their homes. or t.

parker county texas george barda is a social and environmental justice campaigner who has become a leading voice in britain's anti fracking movement he says it's going to be a long fight the key from our point of view is to keep up the pressure so that the government and their cronies in big business can't get away with forcing this on to the british people what we're saying every time this this technology turns up on the doorstep of a community in the u.k. that community does not want it unfortunately the government is preparing legislation at the moment it's trying to make it more and more difficult for people actually to oppose this this technology and meanwhile they've actually put it made it possible for people to oppose wind farms but not fracking so this is obviously highly inconsistent from our point of view. i have saw that there are three point five million square meters of unused office

space in paris and yet nearly one hundred and fifty thousand people are homeless the french housing minister has recently called for all vacant buildings to be filled with people in need our national meets some of those forced to call the street their home. a time of seasonal joy cross europe but not for all. these people have nowhere to sleep and nothing to eat if you have reasons to feel festive although some try. to see what happened while you on the street. oh it's not very odd the system in france is designed so that anybody could be in my situation three decision is all these people think of as coins because they know they could be here one of the back of it is here economic decadence is here we are collapsing and no one wants to to advise that this is in france europe's second largest economy the number of homeless people has increased by fifty percent since

two thousand and one despite the promises of successive left and right wing governments to sort it out a year ago one hundred fifty thousand people had nowhere to call home. in paris alone it's thoughts more than eight thousand people leave rough today and the current economic crisis is not helping all reparable the family the family the same to our family experience with kids because they see employees who work out who are too poor to pay for accommodation because prices for rent and utilities are right they sleep on the streets or in their cars going about six students sleeping on the university's doorstep bel-air had become more and more numerous. dimitri spends eight hours a day underground he calls this his job by begging to prove himself for the hardest thing is loneliness we are many but we are alone all by ourselves alone and getting

little sympathy from the authorities. at this amateur video shows french officers trying to read a central treason street from what nearby shopkeepers considered a blot on the landscape lesser said before seven of the market. they become reminders of unstable wife excuse and ends up with anger disrespect or even brutality towards the homeless or themselves because in a lot of patrick has been livin rough for three years even the language he speaks is different they call it street french. do. one has money no one has a job in spain greece italy france everywhere in your reform there were jokes but today there's nothing today it's only day. as the day ends patrick takes a picture of us for tweeter he's one of five homeless people in france participating in a social project called tweet from the streets to raise awareness of the rising

numbers of those spending christmas out in the cold status show society here is more loyal to homeless people than in any other european country and one of the reasons behind it is that many think during a time of financial instability and a lack of trust and what's to come but tomorrow they can find themselves among those asking passers by for spare change for its national hero person from france. a cigarette amber rumors found in russia online at r.t. dot com police discover an alysa treasure trove with sacks full of gemstones worth thirty million dollars and also online. new cracks appear in israel u.s. relations as prime minister netanyahu joins the global criticism of the and as a as mass spying practices details are on our website r.t. dot com. former oil magnate. says

now that he's been freed from jail he is determined to fight the cause of his imprisoned x. colleagues people all over looks at one of the people before you is vowing to defend. after ten years in jail. has now decided to do is need found freedom and some of those plans have caused a few raised eyebrows. some of my comrades remain in jail they are my fellow sufferers for example my friend platon lebedev alexei protrusion there are still other political prisoners in russia not only those related to the u. cos case i am free now and i'm asking you to think of it as something which symbolizes that the efforts of civil society can lead to the release of some people who no one thought would be able to walk free to chew good was the head of security for his daughter called skis oil company you cos he's currently serving a life sentence for five counts of murder in two thousand and seven

a court convicted of ordering the shooting of a law to me a pet you call of the mayor of a town in siberia you call four hundred clashed with you can also over his insistence that the oil giant pay taxes due to his tone the court found no link between the murders and the head of you cos however as widow believes this was a crime that went to the top. there was no investigation about her that portuguese involvement in my husband's death he wasn't even interrogated both myself and other people who are analyzing this have plenty of facts proving that he did of course he was directly involved in the killing of my husband. while on trial for the murder of pair of legs going was already serving twenty years in prison for the attempted murder of former holocaust visor all good cause dinner after quitting her post with you cos she went on to work as the head of p.r.

for the mayor of moscow it was then that a bomb was placed in her moscow apartment fortunately it detonated while no one was home because the inner sees the holocaust these comments about political prisoners as self-serving. how to craft a hostage of his own party he can't act differently now if he ever recognizes what his security forces were doing and he will automatically become responsible or whatever i think now he fears that. may start talking and what the third you can skate could potentially be is a further investigation into those murders and assaults which the company security forces carried out a lot of traffic he has no other choice he will continue to insist people from the security department are political prisoners that are and he will pretend to be pushing for release the idea lation being heaped upon mr holocaust years left some of those watching feeling that only half the story is being told he stole

a lot of oil not physically by means of fiscal many police. every kind of businessman in the best who had done the same waterfall saw that in prison of this story is told in the west peter all of a r.t. belin. and coming up here on our team international exposing dodgy dealings in the world of finance as the kaiser report next. summer break a time when all students rejoice and most importantly relax but in russia summer

break for male students could change dramatically and involve lots of guns currently male russian citizens have to put a year into the armed forces but the ministry of defense thinks that they can make things easier by having students spend their summer breaks in the military this training would tie in with their future professions such as engineering students being put into military engineering position now the question is does your summer break belong to you or another words of the government have the right to tell you what to do and make you serve in the army even if just for three summers during your college years i think the answer this really depends on your culture in places which haven't been invaded countless times or have a strong individual ism streak any form of conscription sounds barbaric and oppressive but if you come from a country that is less individualistic and has been attacked invaded by pretty much every country that possibly could like russia then having a draft makes more sense i think this program could work and if i was in college i would be pumped to spend my summer vacation with some heavy artillery but this is definitely not a universal idea for all countries i don't think liberals or libertarians in

america would take too kindly to it and rightly so but that's just my opinion. welcome to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser no. this christmas no no no the north pole has been virtually invaded season occupied and so now santa is living in the occupied territories of the north pole and without an exit visa from the prison guards it doesn't matter whether you bend already or nice sense i am going to be all uring now deaths are down dancer now prancer and vixen on comet on cupid oh dunder and lets them you see.

found oil up there rudolph the red nosed reindeer has been read designated a terrorist. and a commie. and word any word that sets you off and makes you see the need for the us military to occupy rudolph's oil rich homeland so while you may remember him as the free gift giving flying who friend from now on folk sees the commie terrorist or all rich reindeer so bye bye santa by by rudolph there is oil to be secured from those bad guys stacy. yes max things are hotting up in the arctic circle this christmas did canada just claim the north pole canada may have positioned itself to eventually claim sovereignty over the north pole canadian foreign minister john baird made a statement last week that revealed that a scientific and geographical survey regarding its claim to arctic territories will

be submitted to the un commission on the limits of the continental shelf and may contain data robust enough to lay claim to the north pole yes all the way up to the north pole everybody's been see starting to maneuver to get some sort of oil rights up there but canada is going all the way up to the north pole well no. i'm so proud of my canadian friends who used to play aki up there over there and took them british columbia. i think they deserve the oil why don't we get a canadian air the central bank of the bank of england is drilling for debt all day long drill drill drill debt debt debt canadian why he's up there the north drill drill drill well why are all of these nations seeking the oil reserves of the north it's a mysterious thing but the glaciers and ice caps seem to be melting we can't mention why it's a very big mystery but why specifically is canada doing this the canadian decision to assert.