the. it's nine pm here in moscow tonight network of terror iraqi troops fight al qaeda linked militants for the city of fallujah while another branch of the extremist organization carries a deadly attack in yemen we find out why the terrorist group's been thriving despite being hunted by governments in the region and these. which came here to try to understand how the world's been able to carry out large scale devastating attacks like the one memory right here but we'll find the rival played a game that does the u.s. understand why that's. also the headlines 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 artie meets a man who saved one of the youngest victims of the blast in volgograd as the

russian city remains on high alert. and violent clashes between the police and muslim brotherhood supporters least seventeen killed in egypt as the islamist movement calls to boycott an upcoming referendum on the country's constitution. giving thanks for being without international it's kevin owen who was visiting our top story there is mention iraqi security forces say they've killed fifty five al qaeda fighters near the city of ramadi meanwhile fighting continues for the nearby city of fallujah after it was occupied by al qaeda linked group that declared an islamic state there on friday even though the army managed to kill the commander of the jihadists and regain control of several districts the main part of flu just still lies in the hands of the extremist tonight the militant advance comes after

days of fierce fighting in the region between the al qaeda backed sunni rebels tribal militias and the army around one hundred people have been killed in the bloodshed so far a third of them have been civilians robert nine men for the campaign group just foreign policy told this is the government's approach that paved the way for al qaeda success here. al qaeda doesn't doesn't establish itself in functioning democracies where there's a broad social consensus that the state is legitimate establish bases 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 with this act and yemen 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 seeds melky governing as a discriminatory tours of the sunni arabs. the rocker there were strong enough to challenge the government in yemen the terrorist groups are waging a full scale guerrilla war for sixty years despite every effort to put it down assassinations bombings and attacks on military targets have become an everyday reality for the population and to lose a calf now for why al qaeda flourishes despite all the counter measures. 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 is captured on film oh. oh oh god more than fifty soldiers died that day but al qaida went beyond simply claiming responsibility it released this video showing computer generated maps

preparation for the attack and 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 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 a. 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 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 i recruited person is getting maybe. in some times one hundred. two hundred dollars a month. more than what job can provide to any citizen this would be a very lucrative 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. that relevance 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 of a danger so a lot more. although a government offensive eventually dislodged ansal sure we are from seized land that doesn't mean the group. was 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 you many youth joined us willingly because they were looking for freedom justice and the application of sharia law that they saw that surreal 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 you see catherine of. volgograd remains on high alert after the deadly terror blasts that struck the russian city the funerals of the victims continue daily well some of the sixty or 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 at wagner 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 through a crowded area between the entrance and the security metal 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 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 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 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. we will meet again definitely

i will wait for her recovery and we'll keep in touch there. are no question our team moscow. time one of the tragic events in volgograd more survival stories are available for you online from us including to the youngest victim who's only three months old she's lost a mother and a grandmother in the us tell her you can find out what saved her life one hour to come. news continues in a moment with me kevin now in the with how the king greeted the winter games is being prepared for those pics and on our way. not enough to look around. later in the program we reassure those who worry there's not enough for the white stuff.

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arabic to find out more visit our big teeth dog called. in egypt at least seventeen people have been killed more than fifty wounded in a nationwide wave of violent clashes between the police and muslim brotherhood supporters at his belt true. 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 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 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 several have already been shot dead today in fail you mean 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 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 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 constitution referendum and also the trial

horizon we expect this to get worse in the coming days award winning freelance journalist north believes egypt for a prolonged period of violence no to. the moment. indication that they want to reconcile with the muslim brotherhood they see it in this very hall you know crowd. and meanwhile the other side of the muslim brotherhood that support is already a lot like the get go and harm say. the issue is that increasingly the sad little role position in each of the people who were. involved in the two thousand and eleven revolution joining up with the muslim brotherhood said it is. its own decision to the all me and i'm the current government not just from the islamist camp but increasingly from the secular

liberal house as well who. is beating time back and we're going back to kind of move to it looks like more violence is on the call unfortunately with no end in sight of a website called an update on the u.k. been battered by those months to tides and storm force winds the last forty eight hours or so we've got the eyewitness accounts of pictures of the one the most severe storms to hit the island of nias also to online and i see irony for the ship said to rescue that stranded vessel in the antarctic frozen water is not fall into the same trap itself. but if you will come and watch. the face just like you know. it was.

a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm researcher feel. stadiums hotels recreation zones are already to apparently welcome the fans and athletes to the southern russian city of sochi for those winter games now but if there's one thing missing none of the rest is going to matter in that snow well there's no reason to be worried as our correspondent found out. that's the biggest challenge facing so she's organizes making sure there's plenty off to 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 the snow a snow vault has been storing snow thought over a year under 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 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 become patas going for gold. i am 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. 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 team uses ski specifically designed and shaped on comping machines they take into account weight strength aggressiveness body type to size and. each is waxed 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 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 eats 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 no look around at. the moment the other top of longer rod up at the bar. very looks to will make time as well the olympic sites be getting a high profile look over president putin test of the slopes together with prime minister dmitry medvedev the president then checked the ice hockey room of his favorite sport taking part indeed in a friendly match with russian hockey stars and as the clock ticks down to the seventh of february knew a lot more as well on what the city's got in store for its being stay with us here on the international. search for the twenty fourth jean olympics was this very slight 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 are reporting from a very cold and snowy windy mountainous stop here beyond the olympics what does it say. on our team. over new stories in brief tonight a powerful blast and gunfire been reported in the german embassy and u.s. military base in kabul it happened just hours after a taliban assault on a joint afghan nato bases. one soldier and six insurgents dead last week taliban militants launched a suicide attack on a nato military convoy in the afghan capital that then killed three soldiers. opposition activists in bangladesh torched dozens of polling stations and clashed with police ahead of sunday's parliamentary elections there three people are now reported to have been killed in the arrest protesters say the polls will be rigged and they're demanding a neutral caretaker administration to oversee the process the government though so far refused to agree the opposition's called for a boycott of the elections and promised more rallies. and russian fishing trawlers

been seized by seven goals navy off the coast of guinea bissau one person was reportedly injured when the vessel was boarded sixty two russians and twenty residents of guinea bissau believed to be on board the fishing boat which is now being a score to senegal's capital dhaka the russian embassy there so far received no information about why the ship was seized is a dog's life for some aging police dogs because when this service is over most of the animals remain without official support for the future that's why that one u.k. forces decided to pay pensions now for the retired four legged agents an initiative that's provoked real debate sarah firth why. ah. they may be man's best friend but they're also an expensive piece of police kit 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 plan's nottinghamshire police dogs who receive vets costs of

up to five hundred pounds a year for the first three years after leaving the. dogs. for the police. 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 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 you know battle against drugs but actually what they 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 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 at the time of austerity is quite simply you know what's coming. our london. next on this channel a giant company looking for gold goes up against guatemala village is trying to save the story that right after this break.

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