the bread out of our mouths. on our see this morning iraqi troops fight al qaeda linked militants for the city of fallujah while another branch of the terrorist network is a deadly strike in yemen we find out why the group appears to be thriving despite being hounded by governments around the world. which came here to try to understand how the world has been able to carry out large scale devastating attacks like the one that read it right here look behind the drive up highway one that is the u.s. we understand. that. also had learning from us. a hero in the face of terror. she was so brave she didn't even go to when i was talking to her all the time to meet some man who say one of the youngest victims of the recent bombings in volgograd is the russian city

remains on high alert. and clashes between egyptian police and supporters of the muslim brotherhood leaves seventeen dead as the islamist movement to ban the boycott of the upcoming referendum on a new constitution. along kevin are you watching r.t. international where it delighted to have your company our top stories in this morning was just mentioned iraqi security forces say they've killed fifty five al qaeda fighters near the city of ramadi find it continues for the nearby city of fallujah to 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 a militant commander immigrating and regain control of several districts the main part of fallujah still in the hands of extremists the jihadist violence comes after days of fierce battles in the region. when 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 the have been civilians robert nyman from the campaign group just foreign policy told us missteps by the government paved the way for al qaeda success if al qaeda doesn't doesn't establish itself in functioning democracies where there is 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 with this act and yemen this isn't in somalia so and worse being 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 where al qaeda strong enough to challenge the government in yemen the terrorist group from waging a full scale guerrilla war for sixteen years now despite intense efforts to bring in assassinations bombings and attacks on military targets have become an everyday reality for the population there wanted to see catherine off next looks at why that is flourishing 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 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 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 don't know that you and the americans are in the same trench the american drones are in the sky and you were 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's 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 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 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. of. taking advantage of the chaos following the overthrow of yemen's president ali abdullah saleh al qaida was able to. sees large swaths of land in twenty eleven under the name on sorrow shari'a the rebranded al qaeda offshoot fought with more than just guns aiming to win over locals with basic services in this propaganda video the group has shown a string of power lines in a long neglected 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 the person is getting. in some times one hundred a. few hundred dollars a month. job. that is and this will be the 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. and the government go after them they cannot then they can look at sort of them. is that more of a danger so a lot more. government offensive eventually dislodged on social we are from seized land that doesn't mean the group is. on iran this man spent years as a recruiter and agree to speak to me on camera without hiding his identity which 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 that was committed to yemen's future your home a worrying future if the president 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 . volgograd remains on high alert after the two suicide bombings that struck the russian city a week ago the funerals of the victims continue meantime some of the sixty who were injured of also been flown to moscow one of them a nine year old girl was caught in the first blast it was just another day for unity at volga grad's a main train station but suddenly at 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 to the 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 need 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 and 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 vodka grabbed terror attacks were delivered here to the children's clinic hospital in moscow and currently doctors are battling to save their lives dr c. the girl has damage to her lungs her mother is with her at the hospital and her condition is stable but serious as the first shock of what happened fade it all goes pear 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 we'll keep in touch there.

are a team in moscow. on the timeline of the tragic events of all the credit more survival stories two are available online from us including b. of story to the youngest victim is only three months old she lost her mother she lost her grandmother two in the trolley bus attack in front of what saved her life at r.t. dot com. and thanks me with this news continues just a moment after the break with how the kids grade into those winter games is being prepared for the sochi olympics. not to. look around for the program we're assured those we reassure those who worry that there's no let up for the white stuff there's plenty there.

with economic down in the final. night and the rest of it will be if we. want to. thank you peter. pleasure to have you with us here on our t.v. today.

seventeen people have been killed more than fifty wounded in a nationwide wave of brutal clashes between police and muslim brotherhood supporters true. 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 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 it's ever constitution is it just hits and they are escalating their demonstrations as they go through to the fourteenth and fifteenth of january so egypt is very much bracing itself for more violence and are 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 and their killings is sparking the movement to keep going further and people are very angry organised 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 has escalated on christmas day when the authorities decided to declare the mission brotherhood a terrorist organization anyone who helps them as a brotherhood in their marches or even has literature supporting them could get a five year jail sentences organizers of these demonstrations could face execution so there is a lot of anger on the streets and on the behalf of the supporters of mohamed morsi who is going to trial on the eighth of january so this is another event that's on the horizon angering these protesters on the streets and making egypt quite a volatile place we really with this constitution referendum and also the trial in horizon we expect this to get worse in the coming days award winning freelance

journalist and author believes egypt for a prolonged period of violence to. the moment his government. indication that they want to reconcile with the muslim brotherhood they are in this very hot line. meanwhile the other side of the muslim brotherhood the supporters already give out any time soon. the issue is that increasingly the. 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. different to the all me and the current government not just from the islamist camp but increasingly from the secular liberal camp as well who. is to be telling the back we are going to move to move on this is on the call

unfortunately with no end in sight. over our website but amongst the tides and storm force winds of the last twenty four hours to come we've got eyewitness accounts of pictures from one of the most severe storms to hit the island is also that with i see irony is that ship sent to rescue the stranded vessel in the on top takes frozen water has become stuck as well not fall into the same trap track it's very minimal progress at. stadiums hotels recreation zones are all ready to welcome fans and athletes to the southern russian city of sochi for this winter olympics if there's one thing missing of course none of the rest is going to matter we're talking about snow however there's a reason to be worried we hear and find out more. perhaps the biggest challenge facing so she's organizers is making sure there's plenty of the one thing the games hunt do 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 are being used to ensure snow as snow balled has been storing snow thought over yet 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 with artificial snow of course technology is also being utilized by the competitors going for gold. 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 with 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 of less of man's body type to size and to. each is waxed to make sure they slide faster than their competitors or even designated wes's on hand to help now that we've seen our snowboard go through the process of getting 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 cramp. every country has its own ski program made up of experts to help the athletes perform at the highest level ease this 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 couple of longer logoff not that far. into element that make time the olympic sites getting a high profile look over to president putin test of the sleeves to get the slope together with the prime minister dmitry medvedev the president then checked the ice talking to one of his favorites taking part in a friendly much with russian hockey stars and as the clock ticks down to seventy five we'll bring you to more of what the city's go to the store for its many guests

on a two dimensional. show to call more of the twenty fourteen olympics was this phrase live on the 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 tough beyond the olympics what to say. on our team. but the news of the day i want to syria's largest opposition group says ritter it once again that it won't take part in the plan geneva two peace conference the syrian national council claimed their main demand that assad should step down hasn't been fulfill a final decision about whether the opposition in a shape or form will take part of a conference that will be decided in istanbul on sunday syria political activist our worker told me he thinks some opposition groups fear they could lose all

support if geneva two takes place. what we need to look at the opposition as not completely independent of the opposition forces factions are not completely independent some of them are really manipulated by the governments in the region who actually supported them from day one and if there are certain governments in the region who do not want this geneva process to be a successful one then you know they will push for the opposition figures to withdraw and then you have the second issue of the opposition figures to feed the feeling of being fearful of losing whatever thin representation they think they have all the ground so they feel that if they go move having really gone so far in promising them all sorts of. victories in you know the government is going to fall within a couple of weeks and you know we're going to dig down president has been and have

this sort of democracy and so on if this will be fulfilled then probably people just say you know whatever. small faction of people still believe in them religiously they will say you know you're not good enough and a few girls probably they're fighting for themselves here as well and more news in brief at least fourteen people have been killed in the south in the fate of go in the collapse of a building that was under construction where dozens are feared trapped in that rubble authorities say at least forty people are thought to be on the site at the time of the incident. the taliban has confirmed it carried out today's attack on a military convoy in kabul's diplomatic quarter just hours after insurgents assaulted a joint afghan nato base that left one soldier and six insurgents dead last week taliban militants launched a suicide attack on a nato military convoy in the afghan capital again that killed three soldiers. opposition activists in bangladesh torched dozens of polling stations and clashed

with police ahead of sunday's parliamentary elections three people are now reported to be killed in the rest protest to say the polls will be rigged and they're demanding a neutral caretaker of ministration to oversee the process but the government's refused to agree the opposition's call for a boycott of the elections and has promised more rallies. the russian fishing trawlers been seized by senegal's navy off the coast of getting one person was reportedly injured when the vessel was boarded senegalese officials said the ship was detained for illegal fishing that ship which is now being a score to seven dollars capital dhaka has a crew of sixty two russians and twenty others from. its dog's life for some aging police dogs because when the service is over most of the animals remain without official support for the future of get older that's why that one u.k. force as decided to pay pensions for the retired four legged agents an initiative that's provoked some real debate is r.t. center of. they may 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 this side of the police dogs should be awarded pensions when they retire under the plans nottinghamshire police dogs will receive that cost of up to five hundred pounds a year for the first three years after leaving the. dogs. when they retire. with the police officer. and the police officer. and 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. 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. so it's a really really important part of how british policing operates nothingism so police have defended the scheme saying that it's right and proper that the hard work that the police dogs do. and it's fair to say that the u.k. is a nation of animal lovers but some campaigners have blasted the scheme saying that

to award the. pension at the time of the stereotype it's quite simply you know what's coming bulking. london well for next not international gold mining giant comes up again staunch resistance from villages in guatemala if you are watching us in the u.k. a different program few evening to you stuff going underground with afshin rattansi asking tonight where the producers side is becoming more racially divided it's great programs lined up for you know. i'm an old 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 can 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 british 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. right

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