this is r.t. international tonight the network of terror iraqi troops fight al-qaeda linked militants for the city of fallujah while another branch of the extremist organization carries out the deadly attack in yemen and tonight our team finds out why the terrorist group's been thriving despite being hunted by governments in the region and the u.s. . came here to try to understand how the world has been able to carry out large scale devastating attacks like the one in memory right here behind the ride about how they learned that it is the u.s. we understand fully and. also had learning from us tonight a hero in the face of terror. she was so brave she didn't even cry i was talking to her all the time our team mates the man who saved one of the youngest

victims of the blast involved as the russian city remains on high alert. and violent clashes between the police and muslim brotherhood supporters leave seventeen killed in egypt as the islamist movement calls to boycott an upcoming referendum on the country's constitution. well over a good evening just joy this is kevin owen here at r.t. tonight with your company our top story the iraqi city of fallujah has become a battleground between government troops and islamists since the start of the weekend has been occupied by an al-qaeda linked group that declared an islamist state there even though the army managed to kill the commander of the jihadists and regain control of several districts the main part of the city still lies. in the

hands of extremists the militant advance comes after days of fierce fighting in the region between the al qaeda backed sunni rebels trouble militias and the army around one hundred people have been killed in the bloodshed so far a third of them have been civilians robert nyman from the campaign group just foreign policy thinks it's government policies that have paved the way for al qaeda success if. al qaeda doesn't doesn't establish itself in functioning democracies where there's a broad social consensus that the state is legitimate established 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 back then and yemen you know this isn't in somalia so and worse being in iraq you know the reason part of the reason that al-qaeda has a base in iraq is because

a large part of the sunni arab population. melky governing as a discriminatory towards the sunni arabs. is not just are ok to strong enough to challenge the government either in yemen the terrorist groups who were due a full scale guerrilla war for sixteen years despite every effort to pull it down assassinations bombings and attacks on military targets have become an everyday reality for the population there until you see caffein off next looks at why al qaeda flourishes despite all the counter measures. it's a bone chilling video of 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 is 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 don't know that you and the americans are in the same trench the american drones are in the sky and we're 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 drones critics say is that they don't just kill terrorists an errant strike reportedly hit a wedding party in the central city of ra doc 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. of. taking advantage of the chaos following the overthrow of yemen's president ali abdullah saleh. 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 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 a recruiting person is getting. in some times one hundred. two hundred dollars a month this is what. i mean is that is and this will be the business to do not necessarily because they believe in the ideology of 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 and steps. 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 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. because many youth joined us willingly because they were looking for freedom justice and the application of sharia law they saw that sharia followed 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 . well grad remains on high alert after the deadly terror blast that struck the city the set of both of them being in roles of the victims continue daily with some of the sixty who were injured have now 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 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 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 threat 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 to be released 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 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. we will meet again definitely

i will wait for her recovery and we'll keep in touch so i. imagine the question are to moscow. and the time the tragic events in volgograd and more survival stories are available from us online including to the youngest victims only three months old she lost a mother and a grandmother in the us terror attacks find out what saved her life. dot com. news continues in a moment here and i would say with the how the kid graded the winter games being prepared for the pick. up look around. here later the program we wish all those who worry there's not enough of the white stuff.

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only seventeen have been killed more than fifty wounded in a nationwide wave of violent clashes between the police and muslim brotherhood supporters true more. well these fierce clashes they 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 illegitimate 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 in 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 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 if this constitution referendum and also the trial on horizon we expect

this to get worse in the coming days will do for us journalists north of blues egypt for a prolonged period of violence here to. problem is that. i did a lot of general sisi and his government has indication that they want to reconcile with the muslim brotherhood and they are in this very hall you know. meanwhile on the other side of the muslim brotherhood the supporters are a lot like the get off anytime soon. the 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 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 to be in town back to kind of move to it looks like move on because it's unfortunately with no end in sight. overall website the u.k.'s battered by monster tides and storm force winds. i would contemplate so after one of the most severe storms to hit the all in the years ahead on live from the one and also to it i see already is a ship sent to rescue the stranded vessel in the antarctic frozen waters itself now fall into the same trap it's dug.

a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. stadiums hotels recreation zones all ready to welcome fans and athletes to the southern russian city of sochi for the winter olympics but it was one thing missing now the rest is going to matter and that's of course no part of there's no reason to worry as we found 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 brotherhood that 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 the snow a snow vault has been storing snow thought all but yeah 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 get

a snow falling 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. i am in charge of ski lubricants including solid and liquid ones were 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 skier fleets the olympic games professional athletes use custom made sports equipment to maximize performance and make sure it caters to the exact needs the russian team uses ski specifically designed and shaped on comping machines they take into account weight strength aggressiveness body type to size and to. each is a way 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 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 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 crap. every country has its own ski program made up of the expos to help the athletes perform at the highest level ease it's top secret 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 to look around that. almost all the top of longer lot but that was. mean time to the olympic sites for me getting a high profile. tabby. test of the slopes together with prime minister to be treated better president then checked. to one of his favorite sports taking part in a friendly match with the russian hockey stars and as the clock ticks down to the seven february bring you lot more to the city has in store for its guests here on the today. show to see more of the twenty fourth. displays why why this 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 are reporting from a very cold snowy windy mountainous tough beyond the olympics but. well these are brief not a powerful blast and gun five being reported near the german embassy at military base in kabul that comes just hours after a taliban assault on a joint afghan nato base in eastern afghanistan has left one soldier and six insurgents dead last week taliban militants launched a suicide attack on a nato military convoy in the afghan capital that killed three soldiers. opposition activists in bangladesh have told dozens of polling stations and clashed with police said of sunday's parliamentary elections the three people now reported to have been killed in the unrest test to say the polls will be rigged or lead demanding a neutral caretaker administrator to oversee the process the government though so far refused to agree that the opposition's call for a boycott of the elections and promised more rallies if it does now. the russian

fishing trawlers been seized by senegal's navy off the coast of guinea pursue the vessels boarded in the captives detained sixty two russians and twenty residents are going to be on board the fishing boat which is now being escorted senegal's capital dhaka the russian embassy there so far received no information about why that ship was seized. is a dog's life for some aging police dogs because when the service is over most of the animals remain without any official support that's why than one u.k. forces decided to pay pensions for their retired four legged agents and initiative that's provoked a real debate on t. sarah ferguson and 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 police dogs should be awarded pensions when they retire under the plans nottinghamshire police told to receive that cost of up to

five hundred pounds a year for the first three years after leaving the. dogs. when the. 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 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 the same amount of 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 their 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 is acknowledged and it's sad to say that the u.k. is a nation of animal lovers but some campaigners have blasted the scheme saying that to award dogs pensions at the time of austerity is quite simply you know what's coming. our london. shows a connection between that max because it won't make it he's in the break taking the british tabloids to task.

recently the federal reserve system celebrated its one hundredth birthday yet the big con game that just a few years ago no one seemed to know about has been in place for one hundred years so let's celebrate the federal reserve by remembering all their accomplishments since nine hundred thirteen firstly they've managed to take the printing of money out of the hands of the u.s. government and thus out of the hands of us voters i what it comes to money who needs to mock received representation anyways they also managed to whittle away the dollars tagging the gold until nixon finally said forget gold let's print our way out of vietnam and because there's no link between the dollar and gold the purchasing power of the dollar has reduced by at least twenty three times since the fed came into being lovely but what about the next hundred years well if the recent

rounds of quantitative easing are any sign of things to come then we're going to be seeing a lot more inflation and big private bankers getting richer while we all get poorer bad people generally don't survive one hundred years but bad systems sadly can go on and on forever but that's just my opinion. i am backscratcher welcome to the kaiser report the ball gary ns and romanians are

here pooping on doorsteps across the u.k. according to british tabloids the same tabloids of course fail to mention the j.p. morgan banks there's been definite kidding on our financial system for years and then collecting big big bonuses from shaking down and scalping the population do the tabloids report this no maybe it's because jamie diamond dances and hangs with hipsters was no faces or that jamie diamond dances and tickles young women in many places no it must be the jamie diamond dances and never ever fails to draw four aces yes the dancing shakedown man always wins stacey. max well yes the remanding in some bulgarians are here and it was all the headline news across the u.k. of course leading up to january first british bankers are worse than roma beggars says damien draggy chief advisor to romanian prime minister so he is the minister

in romania for the roma and he says that the bankers are worse than any of the roma beggars and he says quote the roma begging in the streets are obvious because we see them they ask for one pound or one euro and they bother us yet some of the people in the banks are stealing billions of euros but nobody sees them because they are on the sixtieth floor that's very true very true the people who come in or people who work here are just basically begging on the streets it's something that is repeated in the boardrooms in the banks across the nation when they go begging to the central bank for free money free change to bail them out of their losing positions to bail out there's. zombie banks they're constantly begging the central bank who for some reason always acquiesces and gives them money i guess because they always threaten to crash the system unless the bank the central bank gives them a few extra bob to.