attack in the west put on the back burner by al qaida as a claims instead for the heart as it aims instead for the hearts and minds of those who witnessed the ravages of the drone war on terror. 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 about them that is the u.s. we understand we're finding in this country. fresh clashes across egypt claimed thirteen lives as the country's military backed leaders continue their crackdown on the muslim brotherhood to protest against the upcoming constitutional referendum. volgograd grieves for those killed in the terra blast r.t. talks to the man who saved and nine year old girl who remains gravely ill.

fortune r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital on marina joshie welcome to the program a kind affiliated assassins have reportedly gone 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 this week off enough reports on how it's forceful qaida 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 a truck barrels into an army base in the shaab while province a sickening act of terror was captured on film omar oh it was more than fifty soldiers died that day but al qaida went beyond just 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 saying the american drones are in the sky a jury room the ground of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula was formed in two thousand and nine 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 tac revealed a group that still both organized and deadly the problem with the drones critics say is that they don't just kill terrorists and strike reportedly had a wedding party in the central city of raw dog tribal leaders from the area say mistakes like that help boost al qaeda ranks. in regard to

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 was a. 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 amy to win over locals with basic services in this propaganda video the group is 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. sometimes one hundred. two hundred dollars a month this is what. i mean is it isn't 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. that will advance to local communities so that when the u.s. and the government go after them they cannot. become a threat 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 the group. was 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 that they saw the sharia follow through on promises and 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 and lucy caffein of . robert de mint 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 multinational 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 the sunni gulf arab countries something we don't look at the western sanctions on iraq and how tightly their pores and then ask yourself where this agency.

financier's 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 of the united states and arabia qatar and french so how can they crack down on financing. a further north in iraq al qaeda linked militants have declared an islamic state in the western city off government forces there have killed a commander but have so far failed syria gain control over the area. the militant advance came after days of fierce fighting in the region which is a hub for sunni extremists who vowed 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 eight according to un studies the fence consultant believes the roots of the crisis lie well outside iraq. well security is nonexistent in iraq the situation is

nato created a division among the sectarian communities. and what's taken place is they gave power to the shia and no paula 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 over or over over all it would continue unless the world recognizes that the saudi arabian. ideology of financing. needs to be stopped they moved to start i'm told in no uncertain terms that. the. terrorists and unless this happens i'm afraid we'll see more of this. market of calm has a special section dedicated to those killed in the numerous terrorist attacks

plaguing iraq so discover just how delighted the nation has been over the past year along with expert analysis and coming up in the program here in our to international what does it take to get mad at the winter olympics. coming out and for starters but above all ensuring there is enough snow to compete on the lookout whether the white stuff is the right stuff sochi twenty fourteen. russia city of all the grads remains on high alert would have a police patrols in the streets and in public places as a stream of mourners visit the sites of the two terror last victims who continue daily while more than sixty who were injured are still in hospital some are desperately ill with doctors unsure whether all will survive next the story of a nine year old girl who was caught in the first bombing. it was just another day

for u.t. and wagner grads a main train station but suddenly at old changed. 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 reached riyadh crowded area between the entrance and the security national detectors. 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 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 transportation was possible the youngest victims of the volga grad 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 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 so. our team moscow. our web site has more stories of survival including the youngest victim to have suffered in a double bombings in volgograd. just three months old and lost her mother and grandmother in the horror of the second explosion online will tell you what saved her life. and i see irony

a ship sends to rescue people on board a stranded vessel in the antarctic frozen waters feared fall into the same trap details on line r.t. dot com. technology innovation. developments around russia we've. covered. dramas that try to be

ignored to. stories others refuse to notice some. say since changing the world right now. to picture a day you. want to hear from around the globe. doctors don't. go back to watching r t international live from moscow nationwide clashes in aged 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 from belcher. well these 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 anti cure alliance and those who support mohamed morsi are boycotting this referendum as they say the constitution is just a mess 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 several have already been shot dead today in favor human in serious in also cairo and alexandria a number of protestors 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 organised 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. political analyst time and again from the peace and liberty center in washington believes that if the military government continues cracking down on muslim protesters in egypt won't 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 egypt is to be moved to democracy i think

they'll probably have to be left 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. so we have very the sour here in our team the national one a dog's life is the good life which tell you about a new scheme that promises a policeman's best friend a comfy retirement after a long career in helping to collar criminals. the stadiums are ready the hotels prime but there is one vital ingredient needed for such

a two thousand and fourteen which is largely out of organizers hands but if mother nature can't quite manage a blanket of olympics know there's a plan b. esteban would say now explains. perhaps the biggest challenge facing so she's organizers is 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 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 there are four different forms of technology that have been used to ensure the snow a snow volt 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 extra boost without official snow of course technology is also being utilized by the competitors going for gold . i am in charge of skill lubricants including solid and liquid ones

were basically trying to figure out which lubricants would provide the maximum acceleration in the saatchi snow so then later we could share our findings with the services that are supposed to prepare the equipment for. yes 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 to size and to weight each is wax to make sure they slide foster than that competitive 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 hot 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 experts to help the athletes perform at their highest level each it's top secret and far too technical for the likes of me time to test out the mint 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 us to almost all the top of longer log off at the bar. and the olympic venues are getting a last minute look over from russian president vladimir putin together with the

prime minister he is checking out the hotels or creation zones and of course the snowy slopes and we'll bring you more on what the olympic city has in store as the clock ticks down to the seventh of february right here on our international. so two of the twenty fourteen olympic. stories like. this is so special as the russian resort prepares to logan the world power the game should be the city's present to just one more sochi wolverine yet this is the moment they're reporting from a very cold and snowy windy mountain is to be dylan picks what to say. on our team. now take a look at some other stories from around the world violence has broken out in chile during a demonstration to mark the sixth anniversary of the police killing of an indigenous student hundreds of protesters marched through the capital santiago before being

dispersed by water cannon the police man who shot the twenty two year old was convicted of unnecessary violence but never went to jail and is still a serving officer. fighting in the central african republic has 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 say through to people that needed because of the ongoing violence thousands of african peacekeepers and french troops have so far failed to quell the fighting between muslim and christian the july groups. bangladesh is braced for more violence during sunday's parliamentary elections after opposition candidates said they will boycott the folk a week of clashes between anti-government activists and riot police where several people dad 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 cancelled. just. now they span 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 first now in a welfare scheme that's raising taxpayers' hackles. ah. 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 plans nottinghamshire police dogs will receive vets costs of up to five hundred pounds a year for the first three years of the leaving the. twenty six dogs currently. working in the. police force. when the.

police officer. and the police officer. 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 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 seeing.

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 is acknowledge and it's sad to say that the u.k. is a nation of animal lovers but some campaigners have blasted the scheme saying that to award. pensions the time will start to it's quite simply you know what's coming bulking third. london and coming up on our teeter national next kaiser takes the british tabloids to task. 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 wall incredible.

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but. today on our team. i am max keiser welcome to the kaiser a part of the ball gary ends and romanians are here grouping on doorsteps across the u.k. according to british tabloids the same tabloids of course fail to mention that j.p. morgan banks have been definite kidding on our financial system for years and then 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 with hipsters with 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.