why i am here in moscow this is our top stories this morning islam is forces with links to al qaida seize control of the strategic iraqi city of fallujah forcing back government troops there we look into what's behind the terrorist networks relentlessly throughout the region. we 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 behind the ride about why they run that is the u.s. understands i think that's. also headlining a hero in the face of terror. she was so brave she didn't even go and i was talking to her all the time you are to meet a man who saved one of the youngest victims of the recent bombings in volgograd was the russian city remains on high alert. and egypt's government pledges to toughen

its crackdown on the muslim brotherhood just a day after seventeen people were killed in street riots the highest death toll in three months. either if you just joined us for most welcome on its cover now and this is r.t. international our top story. in yemen's threat to step up its assault on the country's army its softer admitted it was behind a suicide bomb attack on a police headquarters earlier this week terrorist groups where do full scale guerrilla warfare sixteen years despite intense efforts to bring it down along the way assassinations bombings and attacks on military targets are becoming every day reality for the population there. looks into why this seems to be thriving despite all the countermeasures. it's a bone chilling video the man driving this s.u.v.

is on a mission to kill as the truck barrels into an army base in yemen's 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 preparation for the attack an interview with the bomber it even included english subtitles an 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 you are on the ground 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 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. 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 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 to person is getting. in some times one hundred a. few hundred dollars

a month this is what. i mean is it isn't this would be very lucrative 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 a presence in yemen. 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 are from seized land that

doesn't mean the group is. on the run this man spent years as a recruiter and agreed to speak to me on camera without hiding his identity in fact he now works as an accountant for the government. because many youth joined us willingly because they were looking for freedom justice and the application of sharia law they saw the real follow through on promises the most 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 calf. militants in iraq again full control of the strategic city of fallujah to the west of baghdad over one hundred people were killed in the fighting on friday alone making it the deadliest in years the group's also been tightening its grip on the

surrounding city dominated province too and is trying to establish a breakaway islamic state and locals there have long been dissatisfied with the government accusing it of discrimination and have been staging regular protests robot nyman from the campaign group just foreign policy says the government's missteps of lay the groundwork if it is advances. 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 sees the government as illegitimate you know we see this in. afghanistan with this act and yemen you know this isn't in somalia so and we're staying in iraq you know the 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 the maliki government as

a discriminatory tours of the sunni arabs vocal grad remains and after the two suicide bombings and struck the russians if you we could go to funerals of the victims continue daily will some of the sixty who are injured now being flown here to moscow one of them a nine year old girl was caught up in the first blast. it was just another day for u.t. and wagner grads 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 rounded the area between the entrance and the security national detectors. then i noticed a man in

a girls around towards the girl asked her whether she could breathe she was losing consciousness i picked her up and carried out of the station you'd be 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 do it. 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 in my 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 will keep in touch with.

my jenna bush there are eighteen moscow. or time one of the whole tragic events involve a grad more survival stories are available for you on our website including the story of the youngest victim she's only three months old she lost her mother she lost her grandmother in the trolley bus attack you can find out what saved her at r.t. . thanks for being with us i'm kevin over the news continues after a break in just a minute or two with how the kid graded to those winter games is being prepared for the such a lympics. not to. look around and later in the program and reassure those who worry there's not enough for the white stuff. it's technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the

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ready to step up its crackdown on the muslim brotherhood a terrorist organization itself just seventeen people were killed and over fifty wounded in a nationwide wave of brutal clashes between police and muslim brotherhood supporters the death tolls the highest in three months indeed they comes as the government proposed to hold a nationwide referendum on a new constitution. at the threshold of more chaos. genesee and his government. they want to reconcile with the muslim brotherhood. in this very hall you know. meanwhile on the other side of the muslim brotherhood the supporters are a lot like the get go anytime soon. the issue is that increasingly the secular liberal 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 old me and the current government not just from the islamist camp but increasingly from the secular liberal him as well who. has to be time back and we're going. to look like more. unfortunately with no end in sight. lined up as ever in a website and i doubt they're the. ones to tell it's installed force will last twenty four hours or so we've got eyewitness account of some pictures falling one of the most severe storms to hit. this also to an icy irony that ship sent to rescue the stranded vessel and talk to frozen water there's no self fall into the same trap its. stadiums hotels recreation zones are all ready to welcome fans and athletes to the

southern russian city of sochi for the winter olympics but if there's one thing missing of course none of the rest is going to matter we're talking snow but the party has no reason to be worried as we've been finding out. 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 khutor 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 canons scattered around the slopes they use water from the mountain lakes to make artificial snow a special kind of snow salt is also being used as glue when and if the snow melts and finally mountain gutters these pipes will gather snow falling at the highest peaks transported down to the slopes wade will get an extra boost with artificial snow of course technology is also being utilized by the competitors going for gold . i am in charge of skilled lubricants including solid and liquid water

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 for. yes 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 two size and to. each is waxed to make sure they slide faster than their 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 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 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 to look around at the moment the other couple of longer ride up but that was a. good job but one main time the olympic sites are getting

a high profile look over president putin tested the slopes together with prime minister dmitri medvedev the president then checked to the ice hockey one of his favorite sports taking part in a friendly match with russian hockey stars and as the clock ticks down of course to the seventh of february bring you more of what the city's got in store for its guest here on our key international. search for the twenty fourth jean olympics what's the stories like 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 stuff yet beyond the olympics what does it say. on our team. works who are news of the day and i want to

syria's largest opposition group says ritter rated once again that it won't take part in the planned geneva two peace conference the syrian national council claim the main demand that assad should step down hasn't been fulfilled the final decision on whether the opposition will take part of the conference at all will be decided in istanbul on sunday i spoke to syrian political activist i'm a walk if you think some opposition groups fear they'll lose all support if geneva two takes place. well we need to look at the opposition as not completely independent though 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 feeding the

feeling of being fearful of losing whatever thin representation of the things they have on the ground so they feel that if they go moved 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 can take down president assad and then have this sort of democracy and so on if this won't be fulfilled then probably people will just say you know whatever. small faction of people still believe in them brilliantly they will say you know you're not good enough and if you go so probably they're fighting for themselves here as well. i'm a waka embrace at least fourteen people have been killed in the south in the south in the city go in the collapse of a building that was under construction dozens of fate trapped in the rubble and authorities say at least forty people thought a brain on that building site at the time of the incident. taliban's confirmed the

carried out an 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 day and then only last week course taliban militants launched a suicide attack on a nato military convoy again in the afghan capital that killed three soldiers. opposition activists in bangladesh of 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 unrest tester said the polls have been rigged and they're demanding a neutral caretaker going to straighten to oversee the process the government so far refused to agree that the opposition's call for a boycott of the elections and promised more rallies. the russian fishing trawlers been seized by senegal's navy off the coast to get one person was reportedly injured when the vessel was boarded senegalese officials claim the ship was being detained because of illegal fishing now it's being misquoted to senegal's capital

dhaka with a crew of sixty two russians and twenty others from getting purcell on board will keep you posted. it's a dog's life for some aging police dogs because when this service is over most of the animals remain without official support that's why the one that u.k. forces are to pay pensions now for the retired. initiative this provokes a real debate of find out why. ah. they might be man's best friend but they're also an expensive piece of police kits well now for the first time in the u.k. and one police this side of the police dogs should be awarded pensions when they retire under the plans nottinghamshire police dogs will receive vets costs of up to five hundred pounds a year for the first three years after leaving the. dogs. when

the risk. with the police officer. and the police officer. 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 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 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 scheme saying that to award dogs pensions at the time of austerity is quite simply you know what's coming. third of our london. up next thought international b. martin looks into whether the u.s. government's willing to restrict the n.s.a.'s mass spy it's in the lead station of breaking the set but after this break.

the beginning of the long politic night marks in the face from island life. in sanaa enough temptation. the darkness last for six months. there are more polar bears than people. and it's as easy to hire a rifle as a scooter. because the island is so in a spiritual there are no indigenous people but there are others who do choose this frozen life. this era this could be really bad if you are. unexplored antarctica what is it in this icy expanse that attracts the people who come here. now i only go to the doctor.

and enter into. a new generation of polar explorers is coming. we have a new group of specialists here now all of them are young how are they going to get along with each other and i don't know. do. i used to be a bureaucrat. seriously. what adventures await in this mysterious land where do they live what do they eat and what are they actually doing in antarctica . please.

ok paul so i'm a 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's actually a positive news to report a panel appointed by obama just released its recommendations to scale back 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 to pop the champagne all goes 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 to answer the questions raised about the constitutionality of the n.s.a.'s global spying tentacles so waltz a nice gesture from members of the administration to condemn the n.s.a. as attack on privacy until there is action to end unabated surveillance on the

entire planet i'll be here break in the set. of the piece. it was very. very hard to take that. i never had sex with her right there. lists lists .