attacking the west is put on the back burner for al qaida as the dame's instead the hearts and minds of those who witnessed the ravages of the drone war on terror. which came here to try to understand how the group's been able to carry out large scale devastating attacks like the one memory that right here what's behind the rise of the high def jam that is the us really understand what it's like. clashes across egypt claim thirteen lives of the country's military backed leaders continue their crackdown on the muslim brotherhood's protests against the upcoming constitutional referendum. and as volgograd griese for those killed in the terrible last r.t. talks the man who saved a nine year old girl who remains gravely ill. welcome

to you watching 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 of the man driving this s.u.v. is on a mission to kill as the truck barrels into an army base and yemen's szabo province a sickening act of terror was captured on film omar oh it was more than fifty two soldiers died that day but al qaida went beyond simply

claiming responsibility it released this video showing computer generated maps in preparation for the attack an interview with the bomber it even included english subtitles an al qaeda leader is then shown chiding a group of captured soldiers know that you and the americans are in a sling trench the american drones are in the sky and were on the ground of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula was formed in two thousand and nine turning the weak state into a breeding ground for some of the most high profile plans to attack the united states in response a steady barrage of a u.s. hellfire missiles but the shaab tack revealed a group that still both organized and deadly the problem with the drones critics say is that they don't just kill terrorists an errant strike reportedly hit a wedding party in the central city of raw dog tribal leaders from the area say mistakes like that help boost al qaida 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 the militants 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 we. able to seize large swaths of land in twenty eleven under the name ansara 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 streaming up powerlines in a long neglected abhi on 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 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 out of group the person is getting maybe. in some times one hundred a. few hundred dollars a month this is what. i mean is that is a this will be very lucrative business to do not necessarily because they believe in. the objectives of the leaders of these groups but just as 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 stopped focusing on trying to attack the united states and the west focusing on building a presence in yemen and. that relevance 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 ansal sure we have from seized land that doesn't mean. group is on the run this man spent years as a recruiter and agreed to speak to me on camera without hiding his identity 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 of sharia law and they saw that show real follow through on promises that was

committed to yemen's future 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 and lucy caffeine of the robot nine men from the campaign group just a 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 canadians with the funding that comes from. countries something we don't look at the western sanctions on iraq and how tightly their port and then ask yourself where the sage and. finance

years and then you realize they well you know with the financing that's going to. to the sunni jihadists in syria this is with open collaboration after united states and arabia are too entrenched so how can they crack down on al-qaeda financing. while further north in iraq al qaeda linked militants have declared an islamic state in the western city of fallujah government forces there have killed a jihadist commander but have so far failed to regain control over the area the militant advance came after days of for. is fighting in the region which is a hub the scenic stream is a value to top of 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 eight according to u.n. studies defense consultant my own roof believes the roots of the crisis lie well

outside iraq. security is nonexistent in iraq the situation is nato created a division among the sectarian communities. and what's taken place as they give 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 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 be stopped they looted and stopped and told in no uncertain terms that they need to rein in the. terrorists and unless this happens i'm afraid we'll see more of this. party dot com does have

a special section dedicated to those killed in the numerous terrorist attacks plaguing iraqi you can 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 sport 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 sort she twenty forty. russian city of volgograd remains on high alert with heavy police patrols in the streets and in public places a stream of mourners visit the sites of the two terror blasts victims funerals continue daily war more than sixty who were injured are still in hospital some desperately ill but doctors unsure whether all will survive makes the story of a nine year old girl who was caught in the first bombing. it was just another day

for unity at wagner grad's a main train station but suddenly it all changed. there was a loud clamp the force of it was so strong that it smashed the windows in 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 reached riyadh crowded area between the entrance and the security national detectors and. then i noticed a man in a girl's around towards the girl 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 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.

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. i rushed to the ambulances but they told me the only take grown ups and that i have to wait for the children's emergency to arrive my apologize now but i thought that time i broke down i started yelling at them swearing and finally they took her. as soon as transportation was possible the youngest victims of the volga grad terror attacks were delivered here to the childrens 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 or call for help on a social network. please help us identify the man who carried 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. we will meet again definitely i will wait for her recovery and we'll keep in touch i. know our team in moscow. but our website has more stories of survival including the youngest victim to have 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'll tell you what saved her life. also there and i see irony a ship sent to rescue people on board or stranded vessel in the antarctic frozen

mortises fit to fall into the same trap the details. economic down in the final. day. and the rest. will be if we. want to. thank you peter.

it's about you with us here on our t.v. today i roll researchers. nationwide clashes in egypt between police and muslim brotherhood supporters have left at least thirty 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 would details now from beltran. will be as fierce clashes they 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 unsecure

alliance and those who support mohamed morsi are boycotting this referendum as they say the constitution is it just hits and they are escalating their demonstrations as they go through to the fourteenth and fifteenth of january so egypt is very much bracing itself for more violence now so far have already been shot dead today in fail human in serious in also cairo and alexandria a number of protestors and also students have been killed students here in egypt are 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 or them as a brotherhood as well are very angry because the government has enforced a new occurring in law the protest law which sees demonstrations have to get permission from police before they can go ahead in addition has 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 sentence is organizers of these demonstrations could face execution so there is a lot of anger on the streets and on the. behalf of the supporters of mohamed morsy 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 horizon we expect this to get worse in the coming days political analyst ivan eland from the peace and liberty center in washington believes that if the military government continues cracking down on muslim protesters egypt when see real democracy any time soon. certainly the muslim brotherhood is no ideal group of people but. you know they they're they were elected by a majority of the gyptian 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 the sentence egypt that's bubbling under the surface so i think the prospects for democracy in egypt are virtually nil right now. still ahead for you this hour when a dog's life is the good life we tell you about a new scheme the old mrs a policeman's best friend a comfy retirement after a long career in helping to call a criminal. the stadiums are ready to hotels prime but there's one vital ingredient needed to sochi twenty fourteen which is largely active organizers hands but if mother nature kong quite manage a blanket of olympics no there is a plan to bang not say explains. that's the biggest challenge facing so she's

organizes making sure there's plenty of off the one thing the games hunting without snow the new rosa haunted 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 testy benson so she 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 yonder 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 extra boost without official snow of course technology is also being utilized by the competitors going for gold . i am in charge of ski lubricants including solid and liquid once 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 to 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 boost size and to. each is a way to make sure they slide faster than that competitor 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 crap. every country has its own ski program made up of the expos to help the athletes perform at the highest level eats it's top secret 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 that. almost all the top of longer but that was a. big venues are also getting a last minute look from russian president vladimir putin together with the prime minister he's checking out the hotels recreations owns and of course the snowy sledge will bring you more on what the limbic city has in store as the clock ticks

down to the seventh of february right here on r.t. international. show to the twenty fourteen olympics what's the stories like why is this so special as the russian resort prepares to welcome the world power the games should be the city's present and future what more sochi will bring it this is the moment they are reporting from a very cold and snowy windy mountainous stop here beyond the olympics what they say. on our team. for a look at some other news has broken out in chile during a demonstration tomorrow six anniversary of the police killing of an indigenous student hundreds of protesters marched through the capital santiago before being dispersed by water the policeman who shot the twenty two year old was convicted of unnecessary violence but never went to jail and is still serving as

a police officer. fighting in the central african republic has now forced just under a million people to free that. holmes that 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 beyond going violence of african peacekeepers and french troops have so far failed to quell the writing and between muslim and christian vigilante groups. the more 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 representation says the elections could be rigged in a recent poll suggests more than seventy five percent of the population think the ballot should be canceled. now they spend a life sniffing at 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 for now on a welfare scheme that's raising taxpayers hackles. ah. they may 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 this side of the police dogs should be awarded pensions when they retire under the plans nottinghamshire police dogs who receive vets costs of up to five hundred pounds a year for the first three years after leaving the course there are twenty six dogs currently. working. for the police force for. when they retire with the police officer. and the police officer. who's. horrified 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 about the same amount of 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 they're a 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 skiing saying that it's right and proper that the hard work that the police dogs do. and it's fair to say that the u.k.

is a nation of animal lovers some campaigners have blasted the scheme saying that to award . pensions the time of austerity is quite simply and you know what's coming. artsy london is just coming up to a half past eleven here in moscow we've got a story next of the guatemalan villages fighting against the gold mining conglomerates. much of your advice is centered 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. the world the snake. the food they invaded all the

countries worldwide. government system is to help poor people poor women but they're going to loot to change their life and nobody is trying to make money out of them those who want to make money out of them by misusing government concept turned the whole thing into long shot can do that shit and we're all forced to more shockers. right on the scene. first street. and i think you're. on a reformist twitter. and instagram. could

be in the know. on. so much more of the twenty four gene olympics was this boy's life on the line is so special as the russian resort prepares to locum the world power the game should be in the city's present and future. so it will bring you this is the moment they're reporting from a very cold snowy windy mountain installed beyond the olympics. but . today. i am max keiser welcome to the kaiser report of the ball garion is an romanians are

here grouping on doorsteps across the u.k. according to british tabloids the same tabloids of course fail to mention the j.p. morgan banks there's been definite kidding on our financial system for years and collecting big big bonuses from shaking down and scalping the population do the tabloids report this no maybe it's because jamie diamond dances and hangs with hipsters was no faces or that jamie diamond dances and tickles young women in many places now it must be the jamie diamond dances and never ever fails to draw four aces yes the dancing shakedown man always win states. max well yes the remanding in some areas are here and it was all the headline news across the u.k. of course leading up to january first british bankers are worse than roma beggars says damien advisor to romania prime minister so he is min.