you're watching r.t. from moscow ten pm here tonight network of terror iraqi 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 tonight we find out why the terrorist group's been thriving despite being hunted by governments in the region and the u.s. . which came here to try to understand how the world's been able to carry out large scale devastating attacks like the one memory that right here look behind the right about how they can that is the u.s. we understand we're going to let. all since night'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 time our team meets a man who saved one of the youngest victims of those blasts evolve as the russian

city remains on high alert. and violent clashes between the police and muslim brotherhood supporters of left seventeen killed in egypt as the islamist movement calls to boycott now an upcoming referendum on the country's constitution. all over again leaving us if a company is kevin oh and here you go sour our top story then iraqi security forces say they've killed fifty five zero qaeda fighters near the city of ramadi meantime fighting continues for the nearby city of after it was occupied by an 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 there is still the main part of law. it's in the hands of the extremists

tonight the militant violence 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 a third of them have been civilians robert nyman from the campaign group just foreign policy told us it's the government's approach though that's paved the way here for al qaeda success. al qaeda doesn't doesn't establish itself in functioning democracies where there's a broad social consensus that the state is legitimate it establishes it 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 act and this and yemen this isn't in somalia so and we're staying in iraq you know the reason art of the reason that al-qaeda has a base in iraq is because

a large part of the sunni arab population sees melky governing as a discriminatory towards the sunni arabs. and it's not just iraq or al qaeda strong enough to challenge the government in yemen to the terrorist groups and waging a full scale guerrilla war for sixteen years despite every effort to put it assassinations bombings and attacks on military targets are becoming every day reality for the population. of looks next to 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 the shelled wall 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 for it released this video showing computer generated map was in

preparation for the attack in an interview with the bomber it even included english subtitles and al qaeda leader is then shown chiding a group of captured soldiers. that you and the americans are missing trench the american drones are in the sky were on the ground of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula was formed in two thousand and nine the weeks date 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's 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 helped 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 americans 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's. taking advantage of the chaos following the overthrow of yemen's president ali abdullah saleh al qaida was a. 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 streaming 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 al qaeda in the arabian

peninsula has extorted 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 the person is getting. in some times one hundred. two hundred. 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 with 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 evidence to local communities so that when the u.s. government go after them they cannot. become a threat of them. is that more dangerous it's a lot more. than one government offensive eventually dislodged on social we have 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 many youth joined us willingly because they were looking for freedom justice and the application of sharia law in europe that they saw that surreal follow through on promises and was committed to yemen's future home a worrying future if the present is any indication that 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 capital . remains on high alert after the deadly terror blasts that struck the russian city the funerals of the victims continue daily will some of the sixty who were injured have now been flown here 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 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 we react rugged 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 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 grown ups and that i have to wait for the

children's emergency to arrive and i 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 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 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. we will meet again definitely

i will wait for her recovery and we'll keep in touch there. are eighteen in moscow. the whole tragic timeline of the events in volgograd more survival stories available for you on line for most including to the youngest victim was only three months old she's lost her mother and grandmother in the trolley bus terror attack you can find out what saved her life. the news continues now with me kevin know when you're out international with the kids greeting to those winter games is being prepared for the sochi olympics. not to not look around for the program that we were sure those of where there's not enough for the white stuff.

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look to. me. in egypt only seventeen people have been killed more than fifty wounded in a nationwide wave of violent clashes between the police and muslim brotherhood supporters true reports. 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 if they have a 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 several 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 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 place we really with this constitutional referendum and also the trial

horizon we expect this to get worse in the coming days of all what do freelance journalists north. for prolonged periods of violence. problem is that. i did a lot of general sisi and his government have 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 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 all me in the in the current government not just from the islamist camp but increasingly from the secular liberal camp is well

who fear. to be in town back to kind of move to it looks like a move on this is on the call unfortunately with no end in sight. over our website the u.k. is battered by monster tides and storm force winds over the last twenty four hours or so without a dot com with all the eyewitness accounts and pictures following the most severe storm is going to read it more valid then and now and then i see irony we've got the latest on the ship that was sent to rescue that stranded vessel in antarctic frozen waters but now fall of the same threat it's. one of syria's largest opposition groups reiterated once again that it won't take part in the planned geneva two peace conference twenty second in january the syrian national council claimed their main the band that assad should step down has not been fulfilled a final decision on whether the opposition will take part in the conference and all will be decided in istanbul on sunday let's go live to syrian political activism or

work up to talk more about the choices the rebels have how their foes take the time to be with us on top of what i've just said there the syrian national council is even threatened doesn't it to leave the opposition all together if a delegation is sent to geneva two by any of them why are they so insistent that the talks don't happen here what's the problem. we're giving her i think will be for obviously a large chunk of the syrian national coalition so who it's a real threat in a sense however what's happening is that they feel that if they go to geneva and some agreement is reached here by which will through which the syrian or a current syrian government would remain in place they would lose you know the last straw sort of break the last straw with what sort of you know a little representation they might have on the ground they don't have much representation and they feel that if the go and do not achieve anything then

probably people not listen to them and anymore at all they don't listen much to them anyway at the moment but they want to remain in the game they want to still have a say and so they feel that probably not going to geneva is best for them broader than you know there was there is see it then what is the op should more bloodshed. well we have to you know i have to tell you that a lot of syrians don't really give a damn story for the word whether they go or they don't go but i would say that these are some of them are nice people they really good people you know many of culture literature and so on and so forth but what they actually control on the ground is very little to very thin on the ground those who control things on the ground are those who have a grip on me and so people if if the opposition national council national coalition go to geneva or not people realize that if there is not a sort of regional agreement by which the turks the saudis and the iranian sit down and agree with each other to stop this regional conflict rather than

a very domestic conflict in syria then nothing is going to happen that it's already spilling over to the likes of iraq and to lebanon and that much is happening in egypt as well so people need to sit with each other at that sort of stage or that sort of level and try to to sort things out. the serial positions position really is a minimal you know take for example john kerry and and and said he never want to get into meetings in ten days to discuss whether iran should do interlink it would be on the negotiation table what would that mean a source of what nobody's talking about whether the syrian coalition are going to be there or not and equally i can tell you that the syrian people whether they support the government or oppose the government don't really mean you know hand much optimism on you know the the current political stance what of course but of course each and every day more and more people of big killed on all sides what do

you make of this much vaunted at one point has to say i have to say this said geneva two peace talks on the twenty second of january what's it going to be that a busted flush not going to happen what what are you saying about it where's your money i think my money is on on the fact that someone will bring this up. it is and the turks to their senses mainly the saudis the saudis now are even and expand during their vision they don't only want to prolong a and the conflict in syria until for example a new american administration that is a little bit more hawkish that would come to the white house but they're actually now pushing things into russia itself we know that back in the summer when prince bandar met president ready would put in there was a sort of a threat as one russian official told me that you know the saudis are going to do something about the games in sochi probably someone in saudi arabia feels that we've been been there before in afghanistan we fought with the russians and we

actually defeated them so probably now someone is thinking you know we could do the same and force them to leave syria and i would argue as well that probably this is you know with the backing and blessing of the americans because i do not really buy and i don't think many people do that by the rift or the current rift or the apparent rift between the saudis and the americans on syria so this is threatening to go wide and if the saudi ruling family or the leadership team or it's out in saudi arabia at the moment can be appeased you know they can given guarantees then up that might all that it's a very complicated layered picture your are laying out there for us thank you for explaining our work a syrian political activist by spring on the line experiment. stadiums hotels recreation zones are already not welcome fans and athletes to the southern

russian city of course a such a for those winter olympics but if there's one thing missed signal the rest is going to matter in that snow while there's one reason not to be worried as we found that. 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 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 task there are four different forms of technology that are being used to ensure the snow a snow volt has been storing snow thought over a year 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 gather snow falling at the highest peaks transported down to the slopes wade will get in at 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 leads the olympic games to 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 copying machines they take into account weight strength aggressiveness body type to size and to weight each is wax to make sure they slide foster than that competitive or even designated wes's on hand to help now that we've seen a 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 hot 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 experts to help the athletes perform at their highest level each 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 snow you look around at the moment that all the top of longer all buffet at the bar. well meantime to the

olympic sites are getting a high profile look over president putin tested the slopes together with prime minister dmitri medvedev a bit earlier the president then checked one of his favorite sports taking part in a friendly match as well with the russian hockey stars and as the clock ticks down to the seventh of february records are bringing you more on what the city's got in store for its guests here on r.t. international. sochi the twenty fourth genomics the stories 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. so it will bring you this is the moment everybody from a very cold snowy windy mountain is tough beyond lympics what to see. on our team. the next full news update with me kevin oh in just over an hour's time ahead though abby martin questions the sincerity of

the u.s. government's pledges to limit n.s.a. snooping on if you're watching us in the u.k. right now a different program for you is george galloway in the many troubles of the world's most secretive state r.c.c. . 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 britain 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 or 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. ok

plus sony goes i'm not a martin and this is breaking the set so much the duck dynasty controversy that the mainstream media is trumpeting there is actually positive news to report a panel appointed by obama just released its recommendations descale about the n.s.a. and the document they recommended forty six changes to add transparency accountability the agency but most importantly they suggest scaling back its authority to snoop and every aspect of our lives so time the pop the champagne o o's right not so fast this is only good news if obama actually decides to embrace the advice and here's the cold hard truth even if the recommendations are adopted it's not going to prevent mass surveillance and the president's review panel did nothing answer the.