the. attacking the west of sport on the back burner by al qaida as a games instead 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 has been able to carry out large scale devastating attacks like the one that rated right here what's behind the rise of a private firm that does the u.s. really understand we're fighting in this country. fresh clashes across egypt claims thirteen lives as the country's military backed leaders continue their crackdown on the muslim brotherhood's protest against the upcoming constitutional referendum. and as well the grand grieves for those killed in the terror blast are t. talks the man to save the nine year old girl who remains gravely ill.

this is already international coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshing welcome all kind of filly eight assassins have reportedly gunned down a senior yemeni intelligence officer in a broad daylight a drive by shooting the terror network has been increasingly cornered in recent years by both government forces and the u.s. drone strikes lucic often have reports on how it's forceful kata 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 the 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 soldiers died that day but al qaida went beyond just simply claiming responsibility for it released this video showing computer generated maps 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 in the same trench the american drones are in the sky and you are 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 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 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. of. taking advantage of the chaos following the overthrow of yemen's president ali abdullah saleh al qaida was able to. sees 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 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 recruit a person is getting maybe. sometimes one hundred a. few hundred dollars a month the. job. that is and this will be very lucrative 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 focusing on building. presence in yemen and stuffing the evidence to local communities so that when the u.s. and the government go after them they cannot then they cannot the truth of them. is that more dangerous it's a lot more. although when government offensive eventually dislodged ansal sure we have from seized land that doesn't mean the 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 of america many youth joined us willingly because they were looking for freedom justice and the application of

sharia law in him that they saw the show real follow through on promises and 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 you see catherine of. iran word that they meant from a campaign group just foreign policy told us he believes the u.s. is willing to target prominent al qaida sponsors. by now it's a multinational corporation so it has funding sources from saudi arabia qatar but a huge gap in western is that tonight with the funding that comes from sunni gulf arab countries something you don't look at the western sanctions on iraq

and how tightly their poor's and then ask yourself where this agency. financier's and then you realize day well you know with the financing that's going to. to disown each august in syria this is with the open collaboration of the united states and arabia and french so how can they crack down on the financing. of further north in iraq al qaeda linked militants have declared an islamic state in the western city off government forces there have killed a jihad as 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 home for sunni extremists who vowed to topple the shii dominated government since the latest clashes erupted on monday are around a 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 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 is they gave power to the shia and no power to the sunnis 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 over over all it would continue unless the world recognizes that the saudi arabian. ideology of financing those scales needs to be stopped day neutered and stopped and told in no uncertain terms that. the. terrorists and unless this happens i'm afraid we'll see more of this. party dot com

has 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 an expert analysis and coming up here internationally what does it take to get a man oh at the winter olympics cutting edge equipment for starters but above all ensuring there is enough snow to compete on a look at whether the white stuff is the right stuff such a twenty four team. russia 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 science of the two terror a blast 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 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 on 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 route through a crowded area between the entrance and the security metal detectors. then i noticed a man and a girl 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 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.

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 and into 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 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 this 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

goes pear and started to look for their daughter's rescuer they even posters or call for help on this 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. we will meet again definitely i will wait for her recovery and will keep in touch. my do not question our team moscow. and our web site r t dot com has more stories of survival including the youngest victim to have suffered in the double bombings in volgograd has just three months old and lost her mother and grandmother in the horror of the second explosion online would tell you what saved her life. and there's an icy our name as a ship sent to rescue people on board

a stranded vessel in the antarctic frozen waters is feared to have fallen into the same trap the details are line r.t. dot com. there's a media leader so we leave the baby. by the sea motions to the play you pour the musical. shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from . politics. are today. thank. you.

do we speak your language i mean some of the will not advance. news programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you breaking news that will turn it into anglos stories. here. i'll teach spanish to find out more visit i to allahabad tito it's calm. welcome back you're 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 to the group which backs the ousted president mohamed morsi was recently branded a terrorist network by the military backed government more details from belcher. 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 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 so who 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 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 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 has escalated on christmas day

when the authorities decided to declare the mission motherhood a terrorist organization anyone who helps them is 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 and horizon we expect this to get worse in the coming days. political analyst time anyone from the peace and liberty center in washington believes that if the military government continues cracking down on muslim protesters egypt won't see a real democracy any time soon certainly the muslim brotherhood is no ideal group of people but. you know they there they were elected by a majority of the egyptian people and if and 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 cent and egypt that's bubbling under the surface so i think the prospects for democracy in egypt are virtually nil right now. and still have the sour when a dog's life is a good lie 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 haue tells primed but there's one a 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 now there's a plan b. that's obama to now explains. that's the biggest challenge facing so she's open eyes this is making sure there's plenty of off the one thing the games hunty without snow the new resolute that all pine result to reach is five thousand feet making it one of the biggest lifts of mountains in the world concerns about a snow less the lympics will raised up to to test events in sochi had to be cancelled last february because still 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 are being used to ensure the snow a snow vault has been storing snow for over a year under special blankets keeping it from defrosting. there are hundreds of snowy canons 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 without official snow of course technology is also being utilized by the competitors going for gold. i'm in charge of ski 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 for russian ski athletes 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 team uses ski specifically designed and shaped on copying machines they take into account weight strength aggressiveness body type to size and to weight each is a way to make sure they slide faster than their competitors. there are 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 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 fausta. with a little bit of grip. every country has its own ski program made up of the expos 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 smoke look around out. of almost all the top of long fought the bar. now the olympic venues are getting a last minute a look over from russian president vladimir putin together with the prime minister

is checking out the hotels for gratian zones and of course the snow we slopes will bring you more on what the olympic city has in store as the clock ticks down to the sevens a family are right here on r.t.e. international. one of the twenty fourteen olympics displays flying why is it 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 to say. on our team. now is 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 policeman 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 vigilante 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 they all boycotted the vote a recent poll suggests more than seventy five percent of the population saying the ballots should be canceled. they spend

a life sniffing out crime and help pull 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 reports now on welfare a scheme that's rising taxpayers' hackles. the. best friend that the rules say an expensive piece of police kits well know for the first time in the u.k. and one police force has the side of the police dogs should be awarded pensions when they retire under the plans nothing from ship police dogs who receive that close to five hundred pounds a year for the first three years of the leaving the bulls there of twenty six dogs currently in service or walk in the tiger woods for the police force was six years when they retire with a dog police officer. to the family and the police officer with his old

expenses and the no risk. 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 special 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 are there 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 skiing saying that it's right and proper that the hard work that the police dogs do is acknowledged and it's fair to say that the u.k. is a nation of animal lovers but some campaigners have blasted the skiing saying that to award dogs pensions at the time of austerity is quite simply you know what's coming. our london. and coming out here on our national it's the latest edition of breaking the sat with abby martin stay with us . the ball garion is an romanians are here to bring on doorsteps across the u.k. according to british tabloids the same tabloids of course failed to mention that

j.p. morgan banks have been deafening kidding on our financial system for years and collecting big big bonuses from shaking down scalping the population that's our boys report this. much of your advice is centered around the negative aspects of american culture example mindful eating social inning of voiding of snacks how much of an influence do you think this american culture has on the rest of the while crazy. six to do two things with. the food. all the countries worldwide.

of the twenty fourth jena lympics what's this place like. this is so special as the russian resort prepares to local the world power the game shaping the. sudanese president. ludlow so it will bring you this is the moment they report you from a very cold snowy windy mountain just up here beyond the olympics but. today on our team. ok paul so i'm a goes i'm out of a martin and this is breaking the set so much the duck dynasty controversy that the

mainstream media is trumpeting there's actually a positive news to report a panel appointed by obama just released its recommendations to scale back the n.s.a. and the document they recommended forty six changes to add transparency accountability the agency but most importantly they suggest scaling back its authority to snoop and every aspect of our lives so time the pop the champagne all rolls right not so fast this is only good news if obama actually decides to embrace the advice and here's the cold hard truth even if the recommendations are adopted it's not going to prevent mass surveillance and the president's review panel did nothing to answer the questions raised about the constitutionality of the n.s.a.'s global spying tentacles so walter nice gesture for members of the administration to condemn the n.s.a. as attack on privacy until there is action to end unabated surveillance on the entire planet i'll be here break in the set.