attacking the west of sport on the back burner by amos and stan for 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 group's been able to carry out large scale devastating attacks that the one that read it right here what's behind the rise of apply the damage that the u.s. really understands with fighting that's. fresh clashes across egypt claimed thirteen lives of the country's military backed leaders continue their crackdown on the muslim brotherhood's protest against the upcoming constitutional referendum. and as volgograd grieves for those killed in the terror blast r.t. talks to the man who saved a nine year old girl who remains gravely ill. watching

our d. international with me marina joshua welcome to the program a kind 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 who speak often of reports on how it's forssell qaeda to down 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 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 for it released this video showing computer generated maps in preparation for the attack 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 in a saying trench the american drones are in the sky are on the ground of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula was formed in two thousand and nine states 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 shaba tack revealed a group that's still both organized and deadly the problem with 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. of. taking advantage of the chaos following the overthrow of yemen's president ali abdullah saleh al qaida was a. 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 streaming up power lines 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 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 it's 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 they're 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 of a danger it's a lot more. although a government offensive eventually dislodged ansal sure we are from seized land that doesn't mean the group. as 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 they saw the show real follow through on promises the most 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 his arsenal reporting in yemen fourteen and lucy catherine of. robert naiman 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 is the can i didn't with the funding that comes from the gulf countries something we don't look at the western sanctions on iraq and how tightly they're pours and then ask yourself where this agency on. earth

financier's and then you realize they well you know with the financing that's going to. to discern e.g. harvest in syria this is with open collaboration the united states and arabia and french so how can they crack down on financing. 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 jihad as commander a 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 sunni extremists who vowed to topple the shii dominated government since the latest clashes erupted on monday around one hundred people have been killed and a third of them civilians last year became the deadliest in iraq since two thousand and eight according to u.n. studies defense consultant believes the roots of the crisis lie well outside iraq.

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 power to the sunni so the sunni are fighting for a place in the society and in government the saudis are also sponsoring the obvious from the terrorists to create chaos in the country simply to eliminate the shia influence over over over all it would continue unless the world recognizes that the saudi arabian. ideology of financing those scales needs to be stopped they moved to stalked 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. calm have a special section dedicated to those killed in the numerous terrorist attacks

plaguing iraq discover just how blighted the nation has been over the past year along with expert analysis. and coming out in the program what does it take to get a maddow the winter olympics cutting edge of quitman for starters but above all ensuring there is enough snow to compete on the lookout whether the white stuff is the right stuff at sochi twenty fourteen. russia city of all grad remains on high alert with having police patrols in the streets and in public places as a stream of mourners visit the site of the two terre blasts victims funerals 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 you 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 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 through a crowded area between the entrance and the security metal detectors. then i noticed a man in a girls i ran 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 streets and it took you at least 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 i apologize now but i think 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 there is good we will meet again definitely i will wait for her recovery and will keep in touch with their. mind in a question to our team moscow. and our website has more stories of survival including the youngest victim to have suffered in the double bombings in volgograd. 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. there is an icy irony as a ship stands to rescue people on board

a stranded vessel in the arctic frozen waters was feared to have fallen into the same trap the details are available online our team. of. economic downturns in the final. day. and the rest of life during the case will be every week. you're. going to run your comment along the bank of new policies just like you.

pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i roll researcher. welcome back to watching r t international nationwide clashes in egypt between police and muslim brotherhood supporters have left at least thirteen people dead and over fifty one did the group which backs the ousted president morsi was recently branded a terrorist network by the military bad government more details from bell true. well these fierce clashes 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 and they say the constitution is just a minute 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 and 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 in 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 is 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 and political analyst ivan eland from the peace and liberty center in washington believes that if the military government continues cracking down on muslim protest there's 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 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 the sentence egypt that's bubbling under the surface so i think the prospects for democracy in egypt are virtually nil right now. for you this hour here in our international one a dog's life is a good life will 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 to help tell us primed but there's one vital ingredient needed for sochi 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.

has to balance a no explains. perhaps the biggest challenge facing so she's organizers 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 a year 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 axe should boost with artificial 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 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 it's 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. each is wax to make sure they slide faster than their competitive or even designated waxes on hand to help now that we've seen our snowboard go through the process of getting clean to allow 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 i am going 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 the highest level each is 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 smoke look around that to have almost all the top of the hot the bar in. all the olympic venues are getting a last minute look over from russian president vladimir putin together with the prime minister he's checking out the hotels for creation zones and of course the

snowy slopes all bring you more on what the olympic city has in store as a clock ticks down to the seventh of february right here on our international. show tonight for the twenty fourth gina london because what's this place lying on the line is 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 you this is the moment they're reporting from a very cold and snowy windy mountain is to be on the olympics what the bunk say. on our. i was to go 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 aid 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 but july into groups. thirty polling stations have been burned down in bangladesh ahead of sunday's parliamentary elections weeks of clashes between anti-government activists and riot police have left one hundred people dead opposition candidates have said elections could be rigged and fail boycotted the vote a recent poll suggests more than seventy five percent of the population think the ballot should be cancelled. and these spanned 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 reports on 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 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. or working. for the police force. when the retired. 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. 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 they and 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 scheme saying this is 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 but some campaigners have blasted the scheme saying that to award the. pensions the time will start to it's quite simply and you know what's coming. london and next in our state or national look at those threatened by the twenty first century gold fever and for our u.k. viewers it's going on the ground with a few tons. i middle school kind of guy i like tradition and heritage and all that stuff when i look to the past i see that there's a lot that we could learn from our ancestors however one thing we don't need from

them are debtors prisons which according to a fox news report are somehow on the rise in the united states in the twenty first century the a.c.l.u. and the britain center for justice claim that the local courts have been sending individuals with unpaid fines and fees jail which the courts may not even realize is illegal these courts are locking up people with fines that have exploded in size due to interest imposed on the initial amount and for the representation they had when they were in court which i always thought was supposed to be free but worst of all some are still in prison for fees they occurred while being in prison like having the audacity to use toilet paper hey that's taxpayer money down the toilet the kicker to this all is that throwing people in prison for their public debts costs more than the debts the prisoners have to pay off that's right the local governments lose money doing this someone please resurrect the founding fathers america is running out of time if you aren't worried about this comeback of debtors' prisons or you think those rednecks deserve it so let me ask you something

how's it going with paying off all your loans and bills i hope for your sake you don't miss a payment a fascist my opinion. question

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