what are they actually doing in antarctica. network of terror iraqi troops file qaeda linked militants for the city of fallujah while and no other branch of the extremist organization carries out of delhi attack in yemen are to find out why the terrorist group has been thriving despite being hunted by governments in the region and the us we came here to try to understand how the group has been able to carry out large scale devastating attacks like the one memory that right here what's behind the ribald by the government and that the us really understand we're finding in this country. also in today's headlines of meeting a hero. she was so brave she didn't even cry i was talking to her all the time r.t. talks to a man who saved one of the youngest victims of the terror attacks in volgograd as

the russian city remains on high alert. violent clashes between the police and muslim brotherhood supporters leave seventeen killed in edge of as islamist movement calls to boycott an upcoming referendum on the country's constitution. this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow with me marina joshie welcome to the program iraqi city of has become a battle zone between government troops and islamists with a population of three hundred thousand people has been occupied by al qaida wing groups that declared an islamic state there even though the army managed to kill the commander of the hardest and regain control of several districts the main part

of the city still lies in the hands of the extremists the militant advance comes after days of fierce fighting in the region between. backed sunni rebels tribal militias and the army around a hundred people have been killed in the bloodshed a third of them civilians robert naiman from the campaign group just foreign policy thanks government policies that have paved the way for al qaeda success. doesn't doesn't establish itself in functioning democracies where there's a broad social consensus that the state is legitimate it is that what this is and in countries where there's a breakdown of central government authority and conditions of civil war with a large part of the population sees the government as illegitimate you know we see this in. afghanistan reasons than this and yemen you know this isn't in somalia so and we're staying in iraq you know the the restart of the reason that al

qaeda has a base in iraq is because a large part of the sunni arab population sees melky governor as a discriminatory towards the sunni arabs and it's not just iraq were al qaeda strong enough to challenge the government in yemen the terrorist group has been waging a full scale guerrilla war for sixteen years despite every effort to put a down assassinations bombings and attacks on military targets have become an everyday reality for the population artistic often of looks up while qaida flourishes the spot all the countermeasures 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 shelled while province a sickening act of terror is captured on film omark about zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero more than fifty soldiers died that day but al qaeda went beyond

simply claiming responsibility it released this video showing computer generated maps preparation. for the attack of an interview with the bomber it even included english subtitles an 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 a jew or 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 the 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 air 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 qaeda ranks. in rudolph the

tribes initially united to defend against al qaida but then we saw the drone strikes were killing innocent people which has pushed the tribes to sympathize with 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. taking advantage of the chaos following the overthrow of yemen's president ali abdullah saleh al qaida was able to seize large swaths of land in twenty eleven under the name 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 stringing 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. 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 recruit a person is getting. in some times one hundred. two hundred dollars a month. job. that is a. 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. the 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 of a danger it's a lot more. although one government offensive eventually dislodged on social we are from seized land that doesn't mean the group is on the run this man spent years as a recruiter and agree 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 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. in 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 for our team and you see catherine of. gravel mains on high alert following the deadly terror a blast that struck the russian city the funerals of the victims continue daily while some of the sixty who were injured have been flown to moscow one of them a nine year old girl was caught in the first bombing. it was just another day for unity and volga grad's a main train station but suddenly an 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 through a 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 need to be ready 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 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 that 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 our team moscow. while the plight of the tragic events in volgograd of more survival stories are available online including the youngest victim was only three months old she lost her mother and grandmother in the trolley bus terror attack but find out what saved her life online r.t. dot com. well the news continues in just a moment here on our national with how the king gradient of the winter games is being prepared for the sochi olympics. not enough look around. and later in the program we reassure those who worry there's not enough for the white stuff. on.

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welcome back you're watching our team international in egypt at least seventeen people have been killed in more than fifty wounded in a nationwide wave of violent clashes between the police and muslim brotherhood supporters. has more. well these fierce clashes that have rocked the nation came after supporters of mohamed morsi 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 moves in 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 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 the tensions in 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 enforced a new to 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

horizon weeks and days and the arab harsh military crackdown on the muslim brotherhood has a broad egypt any closer to democracy as political analyst ivan eland. certainly the muslim brotherhood is no ideal group of people but. you know they they're they were elected by the egyptian people and if it egypt is to be moved to democracy i think they'll probably have to be led 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 pretty

common r t international fair payment or a barking mad idea. of a lease force in the u.k. who wants to pay pensions to retired police dogs but the plan hasn't gone down too well with the bobbies facing cutbacks. stadiums hotels or creation zones are all ready to welcome fans and athletes to the southern russian city of sochi for the winter olympics but if there is one thing missing now the rest will matter and that's no but there is no reason to be worried as we find out next. 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 tests to 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 snow a snow vault has been storing snow thought 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 get a snow falling at the highest peaks transported down to the slopes wade will get an x. should 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 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 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. each is wax to make sure they slide faster 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 to wear 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 heart 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 meet 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. to almost all the top of longer log off at the bar. you want all the olympic sites are getting a high profile look over president putin test of the slopes together with prime minister dmitry medvedev the president and checked out the ice hockey rink taking part of the friendly match with russian hockey stars and as the clock ticks down to the seventh a fabulous we'll be bringing you more on what the city has in store for its gas stay with r.t. international. sochi poland one of the country's fourteen olympics what's this place lying and 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 but the bombing won't say. on our. what you are seeing her national now let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world an assault on a joint afghan nato base in eastern afghanistan has left one soldier dead five taliban fighters trying to answer the compound after a suicide bomber blew himself up at the base and trains all the attackers were killed in the firefight last week taliban militants launched a suicide attack on a nato military convoy in kabul killing three soldiers. opposition activists in bangladesh have torched dozens of polling stations and clashed with police a had of sunday's parliamentary elections they say the polls will be rigged and demand a neutral caretaker ministration to oversee the process the government has so far

refused to agree reports say dozens of people have died in recent weeks of protests the opposition has called for a boycott of the elections and promised more rallies. well it's a dog's life for some aging police dogs but when their service is over most of the animals remain without official support and that's why one u.k. force has decided to pay pensions for their retired four legged agents an initiative that's provoked real debate artists are first find out why. the. best friend that their rules say an expensive piece of police kits well know for the first time in the u.k. and one police force has the sight of the police dogs should be awarded pensions when they retire under the plan's nothing from ship least those who receive vets close to five hundred pounds a year for the first three years of the leaving the there of twenty six dogs

currently in service or walk in the tiger woods. or the police fools with six or seven years when they retire with the dog police officer. who posed to the family. 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 you know drugs but actually what they are.

a very visible form of policing and the public really like see. so it's a really really important part of how british. 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 skiing saying that to award dogs pensions the time of austerity is quite simply you know what's coming . our london. and on our website the u.k. is battered by monster tide and storm force when. we've got the eyewitness accounts and pictures following one of the most severe storms to hit the island in years to have there for more plus. an icy irony ships to rescue

a stranded vessel in antarctic waters is feared to have fallen into the same trap. and next on our twitter hash. i look at those threatened by the twenty first century gold fever. i'm 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 british 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 are 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. no

demining just to learn i don't have mining just a lawyer. think there's a future with montana. know up with one time over with montana and i mean that by montana lied to us from the start saying that mining was life. while they're busy sharing their profits the people of san miguel. the people of san miguel are dying. we're asking the government to listen are the legitimate owners of our land.