network of terror iraq you troops while qaeda linked militants for the city off the loop while another branch of the extremist organization carries out a dally attack in yemen r.t. finds out why the terrorist group has been thriving despite being hunted by governments in the region and the u.s. we came here to try to understand how the group's been able to carry out large scale devastating attacks like the one from emirate right here behind the rides about by the yemen does the u.s. really understand it would find it and that's. also in today's headlines a hero in the face of terror. she was so brave she didn't even cry i was talking to her all the talking to our teammates a man who saved one of the youngest victims of the blast involved

a grad as the russian city remains on high alert. in violent clashes between the police and muslim brotherhood supporters believe it seventeen killed in a trip as the islamist movement calls to boycott an upcoming referendum on the country's constitution. it is six pm in moscow watching r.t. international with me marina joshie welcome to the program. the iraqi city of fallujah has become a battle zone between government troops and islamists with a population of three hundred thousand people has been occupied by al qaeda linked group that declared an islamic state there even though the army managed to kill the commander of the jihad and regain control of several districts the main part of the city still lies in the hands of the extremists the militant. vance comes after days

of fierce fighting in the region between the al qaeda backed 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 as 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 there but this isn't in countries where there's a breakdown of central government authority and conditions of civil war with a large part of the population that sees the government as illegitimate you know we see this in. afghanistan was this back then in yemen this isn't in somalia so and we're staying in iraq you know the the reason part 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 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 portadown assassinations bombings and attacks on military targets have become an every day reality for the population which is losing often if looks at why flourishes despite all the countermeasures. it's a bone chilling video 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 a province a sickening act of terror was captured on film omar. more than fifty soldiers died that day but al qaida went beyond simply claiming responsibility it released this video showing computer generated maps in

preparation for the attack an interview with the bomber it even included english subtitles and al qaeda leader is then shown chiding a group of captured soldiers don't know that you and the americans are in the same trench the american drones are in the sky or on 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 the u.s. hellfire missiles but the shaba tack revealed a group that still both organized and deadly the problem with the drones critics say is that they don't just kill terrorists an errant strike reportedly hit a wedding party in the central city of raw dog tribal leaders from the area say mistakes like that help boost al 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. 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. 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 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 a string of power lines in a long neglected beyond 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 the person is getting. in some times one hundred. among the. many so it is a sort of 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. presents. in yemen. the two local communities so that when the u.s. and the government go after them they cannot. become a threat of them. is that more of a danger 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 lebanon because many youth joined us willingly because they were looking for freedom justice and the application of sharia law that they saw the show real follow through on promises it 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. volgograd remains on high alert following the deadly terror blast that struck the russian city the funerals of the victims continue daily while some of the sixty who were injured have been blown flown to moscow one of them a nine year old girl was caught in the first bombing. it was just another day for you idiot volga grad's a main train station but suddenly it all changed. there was a loud clamp the force of it was so strong that it smashed the windows in the doors of the luggage room i got up and rushed in to help people it was the first of two

explosions that rocked the city just east before the new year the blast of the station set off by a suicide bomber reached riyadh crowded area between the entrance and the security national detectors in both us and. then i noticed a man in a girl's around towards the girl who asked her whether she could bring him 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 do is go. 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 be released some time to find an ambulance for the girl. i rushed to the

ambulances but they told me the only take grown ups and that i have to wait for the children's emergency to arrive my apologize now but i thought that time i broke down i started yelling at them swearing and finally they took her. as soon as transportation 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 our oil 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 that we will meet again definitely i will wait for her recovery and will keep in touch so. my do not push the r t moscow. all the timeline of the tragic events in volgograd a more a survival stories are available online at r.t. dot com including the youngest victim who's only three months old she's lost her mother and grandmother in the trolley bus terror attack but find out what saved her life on r.t. dot com. and the news continues in a moment was how the kingery end of the winter games is being prepared for the sochi olympics. not enough to blow another round out. later in the program we reassure those who worry there is not enough for the white stuff.

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choose the stories get in the. troops be sent off to. welcome back you're watching r.t. international it is at least seventeen people have been killed and more than fifty wounded in a nationwide wave a violent clashes between the police and muslim brotherhood supporters are true has more. 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 unsecure alliance and those who support mohamed morsi are boycotting this referendum as they say the constitution is it just hits and they are escalating 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 protesters 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 or the most of brotherhood as well are very angry because the government has enforced a new occurring in law the protest law which sees demonstrations have to get permission from police before they can go ahead in addition 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 live now to cairo and hugh miles award winning freelance journalist and author of specializing in the middle east thanks so much for joining us mr miles while you've covered the situation the events in egypt extensively so how would you assess the situation there now. what it seems like a decision has been taken by the government to try and get rid of the muslim brotherhood once and for all. because both sides have a very cold the supporters it seems we are in for a prolonged conflict between these two it looks like more violence is on the costs unfortunately with no end in sight so why do you think that i mean why do you think that we are are in for a prolonged violent situation in the country what in your opinion would help to

stop it. if there was some kind of reconciliation between the two you saw a problem is that. you did at that moment but you don't believe it possible the only person who has enough power in the country to bring about such reconciliation would be general sisi. at the moment his general sisi and his government. indications that they won't reconcile with the muslim brotherhood they are in this very hall you know crowd. meanwhile on the other side of the muslim brotherhood the supporters are very old and stale not likely to get off anytime soon and. the other issue is that increasingly the essential role position in each of the people who were. involved in the two thousand and eleven revolution joining up with the muslim brotherhood so that as. this into the

army and the current government not just from the islamist camp but increasingly from the secular liberal camp as well who. has been time back and we're going back to kind of move to. well as we can see now and from the picture they have just painted the country is deeply divided and so many different groupings and factions there but what could be in such a difficult situation what could be any unifying factor. well what we need is a kind of truth and reconciliation like happened in south africa we need a kind of egyptian nelson mandela to come forward but i mean there's absolutely no sign of this of the moment of the photos well it's the forum because this current government the gulf arab powers. friends of the muslim brotherhood themselves so they are supporting egypt. quite likely on the condition that the egyptian government does not reconcile with the is the miscount and this is the go

far there are concerns about muslim brotherhood so the government has little incentive to reconcile i mean this is the only house. otherwise it looks unfortunately like the country is going to slide in. her own conflicts because the muslim brotherhood i mean and this is having seen the. power. of a life time. and what about the attitude towards a constitution i mean the idea of having a want of course is in everyone's interest but in egypt it's pacifically as such a burning issue what's your take on this well i mean the constitution and the elections which are planned i mean this is all the government's kind of total law and wish list how they would like egypt to continue in the future if egypt was a normal country fortunately the muslim brotherhood. is missed completely by

jeffs the constitution and the whole program which. they accept this government they see them as prices but i think the president is still the government of egypt the country is very divided this constitution and it is meaningless to the end it lisa pauses of the beautiful mess. by you maz award winning freelance journalist and middle east nationalists thank you so much for reviews here on r t. and over on our web site r t v dot com the u.k. is battered by a monster tying to in storm force wind. we've got the eyewitness accounts and pictures following one of the most severe storms to hit the island in years and our website so had their for more on this plus. an icy irony as a ship sends to rescue a stranded vessel in the on target exposing waters has fallen into the same trap.

stadiums hotels recreate 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 saying miss same not of the rest will matter and that snow well there is no reason to be worried as we find out. 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 who did all kinds lot of reaches 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 are being used to ensure the snow a snow balled has been storing snow thought over yeah and a special blankets keeping it from defrosting. there are hundreds of snowy 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 get the snow falling at the highest peaks transported down to the slopes wade will get an extra boost to fishel snow

of course technology is also being utilized by the competitors going for gold. charge of ski lubricants including solid and liquid water is 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. russian skier fleets 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 less of man's body type to size and to. each is a way to make sure they slide faster than their competitors or even designated wes's on hand to help now that we've seen our snowboard go through the process of getting into we're now at the final stage of the stage we're going to actually

whacks it we're using wax as well as hard and all you really have to do is this now what this does is that it covers the holes that are on the board and once those holes are covered with wax you then slide the hot i'm over it it's almost kind of like ironing out the snowboard and this is done for performance wise so when you're out on the slopes you're going to be foster. with a little bit of cramp. 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 too technical for the likes of me time to test out the equipment as 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 out. of almost all the top of longer god awful at the bar. meanwhile the olympic sites are getting a high profile look over president wouldn't test of the slopes together with prime minister dmitry medvedev the president then checked out of the ice hockey rink taking part in the friendly match was russian hockey stars and as the clock ticks down to the seventh the fabulous will be bringing you more on what the city has in store for its guess stay with our international. show to play more of the twenty fourteen olympics displays like why is this so special as the russian resort prepares to welcome the world power the games should be the city's present and future what more sochi will bring you this is the moment they report you from a very cold and snowy windy mountains to be on the olympics

what the say. on our team. i was take a look at some other stories from around the world an assault on a joint avg a nato base in the east of galveston has left one a soldier dead five taliban fighters tried to answer the compound after a suicide bomber blew himself up at the base entrance 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. and opposition activist and bangladesh have torched. dozens of polling stations and clashed with police ahead of sunday's parliamentary elections three people are now reported to have been killed in the protesters say the polls will be rigged and demand a neutral caretaker administration to oversee the process the government has so far refused to agree the opposition is called for a boycott of the elections and promised more rallies next international

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