network of terry robiskie troops fight al-qaeda linked militants for the city of fallujah while another branch of the extremist organization carries out a deadly attack in yemen finds out why the terrorist group has been thriving the spy 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 memory that right here looks behind the eyes of our young men and that the u.s. really understands that fighting in this country. 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 a man who saved one of the youngest victims of the blast involved a grad of the russian city remains on high alert. and violent

clashes between the police and muslim brotherhood supporters believe seventeen killed and injured as the islamist movement calls to boycott an upcoming referendum on the country's constitution. this is r t coming to you live from moscow may reign in joshua welcome to the program. the iraqi city of fallujah has become a battleground between government troops and islamists since the start of the weekend it 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 jihadist 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 the al qaida 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 thinks it's government policies that have paved the way for al qaida success a kind of doesn't doesn't establish itself in functioning democracies where there's a broad social consensus that the state is legitimate 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 that sees the government as illegitimate you know we see this in. afghanistan reasons and yemen you know this isn't in somalia so and worse being in iraq you know the resort of the reason that al-qaeda has a base in iraq is because a large part of the sunni arab population. melky governor as

a discriminatory towards the sunni arabs. not just iraq where al qaeda is strong enough to challenge the government any amman the terrorist group has been waging a full scale guerrilla war for sixteen years despite every effort to put a down assassination spamming set and attacks on military targets have become an everyday reality for the population of looks of while the 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 the truck barrels into an army base in yemen's shelled 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 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 know that you and the americans are in a saying trench 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 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 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. of. taking advantage of the chaos following the overthrow of yemen's president ali abdullah saleh al qaida will. able to seize large swaths of land in twenty eleven under the name on star all 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 is shown streaming up powerlines 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 out a group that person is getting. in sometimes one hundred. two hundred dollars a month. job. that is and this will be a 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 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. although a government offensive eventually dislodged ansal sure we are 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. 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 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 . volgograd remains on high alert following the deadly terror blasts 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 and nine year old girl was caught in the first bombing. it was just another day for you idiot volga grads 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. then i noticed a man in a girl's around towards the girl who 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 be released some time to find an ambulance for the girl. i rushed to the ambulances but they told me they only take grown ups and that i have to wait for

the children's emergency to arrive my 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 doctors say 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 faded 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 it was good we will meet

again definitely i will wait for her recovery and will keep in touch. my jenna bush know our team in moscow. well the timeline of the tragic events in volgograd and more survival stories are available online including the youngest victim his only three months old she's lost her mother and a grandmother in the trolley bus terror attack but find out what saved her life on . and the news continues here on our to international in just a moment with how the kingery into the winter games is being prepared for the such . not enough time to look around later in the program we reassure those who worry there is not enough of the white stuff.

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drop to. the. some of the sixteen percent of imports came from illegal fishing. the european union is ironically taking fish from some of the poorest nations on earth so this is a very serious and very urgent problem that needs immediate international action. on for territorial waters like they fish they load the fish into the ships and leave for europe. to do illegal fishing just taking the bread out of our mouths. welcome back to watching r t international image of to at least seventeen people

have been killed and more than fifty wounded in a nationwide wave of violent clashes between the police and muslim brotherhood supporters are 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 muslim brotherhood and their supporters in the form of the anti cure 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 several 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

or the most of 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 constitutional referendum and also the trial horizon we expect this to get worse in the coming days a word winning freelance journalist and author hugh miles believes it is in for a prolonged period of violence. i did

a lot of general sisi and his government. indication that they want to reconcile with the muslim brotherhood and they do it in this very hall you know. meanwhile on the other side of the muslim brotherhood the supporters are a lot like the get off any time 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. this isn't the all me in the in the current government not just from the islamist camp but increasingly from the secular liberal camp is well who. has been time back to kind of move to it looks like a move on this is on the call unfortunately with no end in sight. and over in our website the u.k.'s battered by monster tides and storm force we're on our to dot

com we've got the eyewitness accounts and pictures following one of the most severe storms to hit the island in years so had there for more plots. an icy irony as a ship sent to rescue a stranded vessel indian tar takes frozen waters this fall into the same trap. well if you're going to the market a lot of these new policies if you believe. they should have you with us here on our t.v. today i'm rollers to show.

welcome back to watching r t international stadiums hotels record owns 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 there's no reason to be worried as we find out. 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 who did all kinds of odd to reaches out 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 full of different forms of technology that are being used to ensure snow a snow balled has been storing snow thought over and yet on to 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 gutter these pipes will gather snow forming 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 . 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. yes fleet's 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 two point each is a way to make sure they slide faster than their competitive rate even designated wes's on hand to help now that we've seen our snowboard go through the process of getting clean to where now at the final stage of the stage we're going to actually

wax 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 foster with a little bit of crap. 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 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 to look around. the moment of the top of

mangudadatu at the bar. and meanwhile the olympic sites are getting a high profile look over president putin test of the slopes together with prime minister dmitry medvedev the president then checked out the ice hockey rink taking part of a friendly match with russian hockey stars as a walk to exist down to the seventh of february will be bringing you more of what the city has in store for its guess stay with our team international. sochi home of the twenty fourteen olympics was this boy's life why is it so special as the russian resort prepares to logan the world power the game should be the city's present and future what more sochi it 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 let's say. on our team. which is our senior national now is a look at some other stories from around the world an assault on a joint afghan nato base in the east of galveston has left one soldier dead five taliban fighters tried to enter 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 activists in bangladesh have torched dozens of polling stations and clashed with police and had of sunday's parliamentary elections three people are now reported to have been killed in the end arrest or task or say the polls will be rigged and the matter a neutral caretaker administration to oversee the process the government has so far refused to agree the opposition has called for a boycott of the elections and promised more rallies. a russian fishing

trawler has been seized by senegal's navy off the coast of getting to solve the vessel was bordered am the captain detained sixty two russians and twenty residents of guinea bissau are believed to be on board of a fishing boat which is being scored to senegal's capital to car the russian embassy there has so far received no information on why the ship was seized it's a dog's life for some aging police dogs because 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 a real debate artie's her first found out why. 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 the police dogs should be awarded pensions when

they retire under the plans nothing from ship police dogs who receive that five hundred pounds a year for the first three years after leaving the. dogs. or working. for the police. when they reached the. police officer. and the police officer. horrified the police officer. but at a time when cuts to services 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 have their greatest. feature is that they're a very visible form of policing and the public really like seeing police officers on. scene 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 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. pensions time will start it's quite simply you know what's coming. london and coming out here on our teams the latest edition of breaking the sound will be marred and for our u.k.

viewers it's going underground with afshin rattansi. bog ariens and romanians are here to bring on doorsteps across the u.k. according to british tabloids the same tabloids of course failed to mention the j.p. morgan banks there's a definite kidding on our financial system for years and then collecting big big bonuses from shaking down scalping the population there that's our boys report this . show to. the county florida jena lympics what's this police lining the line is so special as the russian resort prepares to welcome the world power the game should be the city's present and future ludlow sochi will bring you this is the moment they're reporting from a very cold and snowy windy mountainous tough beyond the olympics but

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