i was. bringing down the united states is put on the back burner for al qaida today is instead the hearts and minds of those who witnessed the ravages of the drone war on terror. we came here to try to understand how the world has been able to carry out large scale devastating attacks like the one that read it right here but behind the rise of our high the young that is the u.s. really understand what fighting in this country. clashes across egypt claim thirty lives as the country's military backed leaders continue their crackdown on the muslim brotherhood to protest against the upcoming constitutional referendum. and this bold new grad griese for those killed in the terror of the last r.t. talks the man who saved a nine year old girl who remains gravely ill. hello

there thanks for watching you with r.t. international now al qaeda affiliated assassins have reportedly gunned down a senior yemeni intelligence officer in a broad daylight drive by shooting the terror network has been increasingly cornered in recent years by both government forces and u.s. drone strikes. reports on how it's forced al qaeda to adapt and evolve its strategy . it's a bone chilling video the man driving this s.u.v. is on a mission to kill as a truck barrels into an army base in yemen's shabab province a sickening act of terror was captured on film a small one zero zero zero zero. god more than fifty two soldiers died that day

but al qaida went beyond simply claiming responsibility it released this video showing computer generated map was in preparation for the attack in an interview with the bomber it even included english subtitles and al qaeda leader is then shown chiding a group of captured soldiers to know that you and the americans are missing trench the american drones are in the sky or on the ground of the al qaeda in the arabian peninsula was formed in two thousand and nine. into a breeding ground for some of the most high profile plans to attack the united states in response a steady barrage of the u.s. hellfire missiles but the shaab attack revealed a group that's still both organized and deadly the problem with the drones critics say is that they don't just kill terrorists and strike reportedly hit a wedding party in the central city of raw dog tribal leaders from the area say mistakes like that helped boost al qaeda ranks. in rudolph the

tribes initially united to defend against al qaida but then we saw the drone strikes were killing innocent people which has pushed the tribes to sympathize with americans and to support them directly but the rise of extremist groups here in yemen is also related to the country's scarce resources water being a perfect example now in some parts of yemen they've been able to come in and prove the infrastructure as well as resolve disputes over water fulfilling the function of a state in the state's absence. that's. taking advantage of the chaos following the overthrow of yemen's president ali abdullah saleh al qaida was able to seize large swaths of land in twenty eleven under the name on sorrow shari'a the rebranded al qaeda offshoot fought with more than just guns aiming to win over locals with basic services in this propaganda video the group has shown a string of power lines in a long neglect. beyond province although western efforts to crack down on

traditional funding sources have been successful al-qaeda has since turned to a different lucrative trade over the last two years al qaeda in the arabian peninsula has exported some twenty million dollars worth of ransom money and according to some estimates kidnapping has become the group's single largest source of funds foreigners can bring in multimillion dollar ransoms and in a country where nearly half the population lives below the poverty line twenty million bucks can go of very long way to person is getting. in some times one hundred. to one hundred. among the. many citizens this will be business to do not necessarily because they believe in. the objectives of the leaders of these groups but just with a business and al-qaeda campaign for hearts and minds may sound bizarre but experts

warn it's a dangerous tactical shift it appears that they have to start focusing on trying to attack the united states and the west focusing on building a presence in yemen. that will advance to local communities so that when the u.s. and the government go after them they cannot then they cannot get rid of them. is that more dangerous it's a lot more. than one government offensive eventually dislodged on social we are from seized land that doesn't mean the group is on the run this man spent years as a recruiter and if we to speak to me on camera without hiding his identity which in fact he now works as an accountant for the government. because many youth joined us willingly because they were looking for freedom justice and the application.

shari'a law and they saw that surreal follow through on promises that was committed to yemen's future home a worrying future if the present is any indication the group stage a brazen attack on the defense ministry in the heart of yemen's capital fifty six people dead more than one hundred sixty wounded it's a bloody reminder that violence remains a key weapon in al qaeda as arsenal reporting in yemen fourteen. a robot nine men from the campaign group just foreign policy told us he believes the u.s. is unwilling to target prominent al-qaeda sponsors by now it's a modern national corporation so it has funding sources from saudi arabia qatar but a huge gap in western also because the can i didn't with the funding that comes from. countries something we don't look at the western sanctions on iraq and how tightly they're port and then ask yourself where this agency.

financier's and then you realize well you know with the financing that's going to. to the sunni jihadists in syria this is with open collaboration that. are too entrenched so how can they crack down on finding a gene. well further north in iraq al qaeda linked militants have declared an islamic state in the western city of fallujah government forces there have killed you had his commander but have so far failed to regain control over the area the militant advance came after days of fierce fighting in the region which is a hub for the sunni extremists who hope who value to topple the shiite dominated government since the latest clashes erupted on monday around one hundred people have been killed a third of them civilians last year became the deadliest in iraq since two thousand and the. according to u.n.

studies defense consultant mona roof believes the roots of the crisis lie well outside iraq. were security is nonexistent in iraq the situation in nato created a division among the sectarian communities. and what's taken place is they gave power to the shia. no power to the sunni so the sunni are fighting for a place in the society and in government the saudis are also sponsoring. this reload the terrorists to create chaos in the country simply to eliminate the shia influence or overall it would continue unless the world recognizes that the saudi arabian. ideology of financing this chaos needs to stop still new to start i'm told in no uncertain terms that they move to remove the. terrorists and unless this happens i'm afraid we'll see more of this. party has

a special section dedicated to those killed in the numerous terrorist attacks playing iraq discover just how blighted the nation has been over the past year along with expert analysis. still to come on the program what does it take to get a medal at the winter olympics cutting edge equipment for starters but above all ensuring there's enough snow to compete on we look at whether the white stuff is the right stuff saatchi twenty forty. russian city of volgograd remains on high alert with heavy police patrols in the streets and in public places as a stream of mourners visit the sites of the two terror blast victims funerals continue daily one more than sixty who were injured and still in hospital some are desperately doctors unsure whether all of them will survive next the story of a nine year old girl who was caught in the first bombing. it was just another day

for you father grads the main train station but suddenly it all changed. and there was a loud clamp the force of it was so strong that it smashed the windows and the doors of the luggage room i got up and rushed in to help people it was the first of two explosions that rocked the city just east before the new year the blast of the station set off by a suicide bomber threat crowded area between the entrance and the security metal detectors and. then i noticed a man in a girl's around towards the girl who asked her whether she could breathe she was losing consciousness i picked her up and carried out of the station u.-t. saved a nine year old all girl following an ironic twist of fate she was there with her family to return train tickets as they decided to travel by plane in stat and.

she was so brave she didn't even cry i was talking to her all the time she kept saying that she wanted to sleep but she was just losing consciousness and i was telling her just don't sleep don't sleep. there was panic and horror in the street to beauty some time to find an ambulance for the girl. with gold on i rushed to the ambulances but they told me the only take grownups and that i have to wait for the children's emergency to arrive and i apologize now but i thought that time i broke down i started yelling at them swearing and finally they took her. as soon as tries pretension was possible the youngest victims of the vodka grab terror attacks were delivered here to the children's clinic hospital in moscow and currently doctors are battling to save their lives dr c. the girl has damage to her lungs her mother is with her at the hospital and her condition is stable but serious as the first shock of what happened fade it all

disappear and started to look for their daughter's rescuer they even posters are called for help on a social network. please help us identify the man who carried our oil out of the train station after the bombing on december twenty ninth twenty thirteen he told her not to fall asleep the girl remembers him has been asking about him for two days straight we really want to tell him thank you so that there is. we will meet again definitely i will wait for her recovery and we'll keep in touch with their. mind and of course there are a team in moscow. and our website has stories of survival including the youngest victim to suffered in the double bombings in volgograd she is just three months old and lost her mother and grandmother in the horror of the second explosion online we tell you what saved her life. and an icy irony

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of your advice. around the negative aspects of. american culture example mindful eating social inning avoiding of snacks how much of an influence do you think this american culture has on the rest of the was incredible they succeeded two things with me can and will this make. the food they did all the countries worldwide. welcome back in our nation wide clashes in egypt between police and muslim brotherhood supporters have left at least thirteen people dead and over fifty wounded the group which backs the ousted president morsi was recently branded

a terrorist network by the military backed government more details now from. well these fierce clashes that have rocked the nation came after supporters of mohamed morsy called for protests in the lead up to a referendum on the egypt's new constitution on the fourteenth and fifteenth of january now the muslim brotherhood and their supporters in the form of the anti cure alliance and those who support mohamed morsi are boycotting this referendum as they say the constitution is illegitimate and they are escalating the demonstrations as they go through to the fourteenth and fifteenth of january so egypt is very much bracing itself for more violence now so it will have already been shot dead today in favor human in serious in also cairo and alexandria a number of protesters and also students have been killed students here in egypt very much of the vanguard of the pro-democracy movement there detentions and their killings is sparking the movement to keep going further and people are very angry organism brotherhood as well are very angry because the government has in force

a new occurring in law the protest law which sees demonstrations have to get permission from police before they can go ahead in addition of escalated on christmas day when the authorities decided to declare the mission brotherhood a terrorist organization anyone who helps them as a brotherhood in their marches or even has literature supporting them could get a five year jail sentences organizers of these demonstrations could face execution so there was a lot of anger on the streets and on the behalf of the supporters of mohamed morsi who is going to trial on the eighth of january so this is another event that's on the horizon angering these protesters on the streets and making egypt quite a volatile place we really with this constitution referendum and also the trial in horizon we expect this to get worse in the coming days. the school analyst ivan eland from the pace and liberty center in washington believes that if the military government continues cracking down on muslim protesters egypt won't see you won't

see real democracy and time saying certainly the muslim brotherhood is no ideal group of people but. you know they they're they were elected by a majority of the egyptian people and if it egypt is to be moved to democracy i think they'll probably have to be let to rule egypt but of course they're not being allowed to rule and the military has taken over and the military seems harsher than even the mubarak regime which was in power before the arab spring started so i don't see much public support in egypt for the military government there's a lot of dissent and egypt that's bubbling under the surface so i think the prospects for democracy in egypt are virtually nil right now. still ahead this hour when a dog's life is the good life we tell you about a nice thing that promise is a policeman's best friend a comfy retirement after a long career in helping to call

a criminal. the stadiums are ready the hotels prime but there's one vital ingredient need to sort she twenty fourteen which is largely active organizes hands but if mother nature can't quite manage a blanket of lympics now there is a plan b. is to bang more he explains. perhaps the biggest challenge facing so she's organizes is making sure there's plenty of the one thing the games hunting without snow the new rosa khutor alpine resort to reach is over five thousand feet making it one of the biggest lifts of mountains in the world concerns about a snow less the lympics were raised up to two test events in sochi had to be cancelled last february because there wasn't enough the temperatures here rarely falls below freezing but snow is being guaranteed and here's how sixteen million cubic feet of snow has been stored and europe's biggest snow making system is in

place weather stations make sure the organizers know when they're going to have to act as mother nature themselves now we care for the field of play almost done so it's more than one meter of snow right now on the slopes so this is this is the main this is the main task there are four different forms of technology that have been used to ensure the snow a snow vault has been storing snow thought over yet under special blankets keeping it from defrosting. there are hundreds of snow cannons scattered around the slopes they use water from the mountain lakes to make artificial snow a special kind of snow salt is also being used as glue when and if the snow melts and finally mountain gutters these pipes will gather snow falling at the highest peaks transported down to the slopes wade will get an actual boost without official snow of course technology is also being utilized by the competitors going for gold

. i am in charge of steel lubricants including solid and liquid ones we're basically trying to figure out which lubricants would provide the maximum acceleration in the saatchi snow so that later we could share our findings with the services that are supposed to prepare the equipment. yes lisa the olympic games professional athletes use custom made sports equipment to maximize performance and make sure it caters to the exact needs the russian t.v. uses ski specifically designed and shaped on comping machines they take into account weight strength aggressiveness body type to size and to. each is wax to make sure they slide faster than their competitors or even designated wes's on hand to help now that we've seen our snowboard go through the process of getting clean two we're now at the final stage of the stage we're going to actually whacks it we're using wax as well as hard and all you really have to do

is this now what this does is that it covers the holes that are on the board and once those holes are covered with wax you then slide the hot i'm over it it's almost kind of like ironing out the snowboard and this is done for performance wise so when you're out on the slopes you're going to be foster with a little bit of cramp. every country has its own ski program made up of experts to help the athletes perform at the highest level each it's top secret and far too technical for the likes of me time to test out the equipment and the snow the artificial snow does seem different in texture but in terms of performance the difference is minimal but then again i'm not trying to win a medal. not enough no look around out. of the top of the.

bar. and it's not just there at the moment the olympic venues are getting a last minute look over from russian president vladimir putin together with the prime minister is checking at the hotels recreation zones and of course the snowy slopes will bring you more on what the city has in store as the clock ticks down to the seventh of february right here and tonight. show to. the twenty fourth genomic what's this phrase like why is it so special as the russian resort prepares to welcome the world power the game should be the city's present and future a lot more so to bring you this is the moment they are reporting from a very cold snowy windy mountainous stop here beyond the olympics what. are. some international news

brief and i violence has broken out in chile during a demonstration to mark the six on of the police killing of an indigenous student hundreds of protesters marched through the capital santiago before being dispersed by water cannon the policeman who shot the twenty two year old was convicted of unnecessary violence but never went to jail and is still a serving officer. biting in the central african republic is now forced just under a million people to flee their homes that's double the number since the start of december the u.n. says it's struggling to get a through to people that need it because of the ongoing violence of african peacekeepers and french troops have so far failed to quell the fighting between muslim and christian vigilante groups. meanwhile bangladeshis brace for more violence during sunday's parliamentary elections after opposition candidates said they will boycott the vote

a week of clashes between anti-government activists and riot police have left several people dead the opposition says the elections could be rigged a recent poll suggests more than seventy five percent of the population think the ballot should be canceled now they spend a life sniffing out crime and help put criminals behind bars so one police force in britain thinks it's only fair that canine constables get the same rewards as their handlers when they retire sarah ferguson now on a welfare scheme that's raising taxpayers hackles. they might be man's best friend but they're also an expensive piece of police kits well now for the first time in the u.k. and one police has decided that police dogs should be awarded pensions when they retire under the plan's nottinghamshire police dogs who receive vets costs of up to five hundred pounds a year for the first three years after leaving the. dogs currently.

working. for the police. when they retire with the police officer. and the police officer. the police officer. but at a time when cuts to services have meant police officers out of work the taxpayer funded scheme has been receiving mixed responses it is a strange one. i think it probably does. everybody everything is being cut back in the public service it just seems a bit strange that a police force is paying money for drugs they do a very specialised function pretty important when it comes to pretty important when it comes to public order a very very important in the battle against drugs but actually what their greatest. feature is that there are very visible form of policing and the public

really like see. so it's a really really important part of how british policing operates nothingism so police have defended the scheme saying that it's right and proper that the hard work that the police dogs. and it's fair to say that the u.k. is a nation of animal lovers but some campaigners have blasted the scheme saying that to award dogs pensions at the time of austerity is quite simply you know what's coming. our london. next an aussie international look at those threatened by twenty first century gold fever and for our u.k. viewers it's going underground with national returns.

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