islamist forces with links to al qaida seize control of the strategic iraqi city of fallujah forcing back government troops are to looks into what's driving the terrorist networks relentless advance throughout the region. we came here to try to understand how the group has been able to carry out large scale devastating that's not like the one in memory that right here but behind the rise of al-qaeda yemen and does the us really understand that finding in this country. and in the russian city of volgograd a hero in the face of terror. she was so brave or she didn't even cry or i was talking to her all the time. r t here's from a man who rescued a nine year old girl after a suicide bomber hit the city's train station. and in egypt the government

pledges to widen its crackdown on the muslim brotherhood just a day after seventeen people were killed in street riots the highest death toll in three months. you're watching our international live from our moscow studios i am lindsey france thanks for joining me. as offshoot in yemen has threatened to step up its assaults on the country's army that's after it admitted it was behind a suicide bomb attack on a police headquarters earlier this week the terrorist group has been waging a full scale guerrilla war for sixteen years despite intense efforts to bring it down assassinations bombings and strikes on military targets have become an everyday reality for the population artie's lucy catherine of looks into why al qaeda seems to be thriving 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 omar 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 in 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 a saying trench the american drones are in the sky a jury room the ground of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula was formed in two thousand and nine the weak state into a breeding ground for some of the most high profile plans to attack the united states in response a steady barrage of the u.s. hellfire missiles but the shaab wiretap 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 ra doc tribal leaders from the area say mistakes like that help boost al qaeda ranks. in rudolph the tribes initially united to defend against al qaida but then we saw the drone strikes were killing innocent people which has pushed the tribes to sympathize with the militants and to support them directly but the rise of extremist groups here in yemen is also related to the country's scarce resources water being a perfect example now in some parts of yemen they've been able to come in and prove the infrastructure as well as resolve disputes over water fulfilling the function of a state in the state's absence. 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 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 to person is a good thing maybe. in some times one hundred. two hundred dollars a month this is what. i mean is that the this would be

the business to do not necessarily because they believe in. 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 they're focusing on building a presence in yemen. 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 dangerous it's 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 many youth joined us willingly because they were looking for freedom justice and the application of sharia law in him they saw that sharia followed through on promises and was committed to yemen's future a worrying future if the present is any indication the group stage a brazen attack on the defense ministry in the heart of yemen's capital fifty six people dead more than one hundred sixty wounded it's a bloody reminder that violence remains a key weapon in his arsenal reporting in yemen fourteen. meanwhile branch in iraq has gained full control of fallujah a strategic city to the west of baghdad over a hundred people were killed in the fighting on friday alone making it the deadliest day in years the group has also been tightening its grip on the surrounding sunni dominated province and is trying to establish

a breakaway islamic state was the focal point of the sunni insurgency during the u.s. led war in iraq from two thousand and three onwards back then american forces suffered a third of their total fatalities there robert naiman from the campaign group just foreign policy says iraq's shiite government missteps have laid the groundwork for advances. coated does doesn't establish itself in functioning democracies where there's a broad social consensus that the state is legitimate it is 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 reasons and yemen you know this isn't in somalia so and worse being 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. government as a discriminatory towards the sunni arabs security forces are remaining vigilant in the south russian city of volgograd following the two terror attacks that killed thirty four people there last week and the death toll could have been even higher if it wasn't for the bystanders who stepped in to help the injured after deadly explosions hit the train station and a trolley bus we spoke to one of them. it was just another day for u.t. and wagner grads a main train station but suddenly an old changed. there was a loud clamp the force of it was so strong that it smashed the windows of 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 riyadh rounded area between the entrance and the security national detectors. 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 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. 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 all you don't sleep. there was panic and horror in the street and i took 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 ignore the

children's emergency to arrive i apologize now but i thought that time i broke down and i started yelling at them swearing and finally they took her. as soon as transportation possible the youngest victims of the volga grad terror attacks were delivered here to the childrens 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 misty 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 our oil 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 to do it. we will meet again

definitely i will wait for her recovery and will keep in touch with. my no question our team moscow. a timeline of the tragic events and volgograd and more reports from there are available on our website including the story of the younger survivor of the trolley bus attack who is just three months old find out what saved the little girl's life on r t dot com. syria's most influential opposition group is refusing to take part in an upcoming peace conference in geneva later in the program we ask how that could affect the international efforts to end the long running civil war also coming up not enough look around. there's one thing you can do with out of the winter olympics is making extra sure it slopes are white and gleaming come february we explain how later in the program .

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sophisticated robots which fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tunes mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. the egyptian government has vowed to use full force against the muslim brotherhood as the group calls for more protests that's after seventeen people were killed and over fifty wounded in friday's nationwide wave of brutal clashes between police and supporters in the muslim brotherhood the death toll is believed to be the highest in three months the government branded the movement a terrorist network last month but the islamic state group is refusing to back down and calling on supporters to boycott the upcoming referendum on a new constitution journalist and author hugh miles believes the worst is yet to come for egypt. did at the moment general sisi and his

government. indications that they want to reconcile with the muslim brotherhood and they say it is very hollow you know crowd. i mean one of the other side of the muslim brotherhood their supporters are not likely to get out anytime soon. the other issue is that increasingly the. rule position to 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 which is from the islamist but increasingly from the south the liberal have as well who. has to be time back and we are going to move to it looks like more because unfortunately with no end in sight sports venues

hotels and recreation zones are already to welcome fans and athletes to the russian seaside resort of sochi for the winter olympics however there's one thing missing none of the rest will matter and that's no there's no reason to be worried and here's why. 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 snow a snow vault has been storing snow for 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 with artificial snow of course technology is also being utilized by the competitors going for gold. i'm 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. russian skier fleets 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 t.v. uses ski specifically designed and shaped on comping machines they take into account weight strength of less of man's body type size and to. each is a way to make sure they slide faster than that competitor 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 ironing out the snowboard and this is done for performance wise so when you're out on the slopes you're going to be foster. with a little bit of grip. every country has its own ski program made up of the expos to help the athletes perform at the highest level each it's top secret and far too technical for the likes of me time to test out the equipment as 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 smoke look around. of almost all the top of long god awful at the bar. meanwhile the olympic venues are getting the

final stamp of approval from russia's president a day after hitting the ski slopes of soft landing near putin put his ice hockey skills to the test taking part in a friendly match with some veterans of the sport at the venue set to host the olympic final putin even roped in the leader of belarus for the game both presidents wearing red and with plenty of help from the hockey legends on their team the heads of state clinched the game the score of twelve to three. mile and in is also reversed the ban on political protests during the winter olympics now demonstrators will be allowed to gather there during the games but with certain restrictions head online to find out more meanwhile as a clock ticks down to the seventh of february we'll be bringing you more on what the city has in store for its guests stay with r t international. short. of the twenty fourth jean olympics what's this for you slowing down the line is so

special as the russian resort prepares to open the world power the game should be in the city's present and future what more sochi will bring you this is the moment they're reporting from a very cold and snowy windy mountain is to be on the olympics would come. on our. it keys syrian opposition group has refused to take part in the upcoming peace talks known as geneva two the syrian national council blames western powers for failing to put enough pressure on president bashar assad to resign the council is a part of a bigger answer regime block which is about to decide whether to attend the geneva conference on sunday however as a certain political activist amar walk off explain to our t.v. opposition feels it could lose ground if the civil war ends. 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 successful then you know they will push for the opposition figures to withdraw but then you have the second issue of the opposition figures to feed the feeling is of being fearful of losing whatever thin representation bill think they have of the ground so they feel that if they go moved haven't 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 you know we're going to dig down present on assad and then have this sort of democracy and so on if this will be fulfilled then probably people just say whatever. small faction of people still believe in them religiously they

will say you know you're not good enough. so probably they're fighting for themselves here as well. for some other international headlines in brief now a building which was under construction has collapsed in the southern indian state of killing at least fourteen people dozens are fair trapped in the rubble authorities say at least forty people were thought to have been at the site at the time of the incident. a russian fishing vessel has been seized by senegal's navy off the coast of kenya. two people including the ship's captain were reportedly injured during the operation senegalese officials claim the ship was detained for illegal fishing it is now being escorted to say capital of the car the crew of sixty two russians and twenty fishermen from kenya south on board. opposition activists in bangladesh have torched dozens of polling stations and clashed with police ahead of sunday's parliamentary elections three people are now

reported to have been killed in the unrest protesters say the polls will be rigged and demanding neutral caretaker and minister the overseas and to oversee the process the government has so far refused to agree the opposition has called for a boycott of the elections and promised more rallies. in the it police department in the u.k. has decided to pay pensions to retired dogs who spent two years sniffing out crime so first reports on a welfare scheme that's raising taxpayers' hackles. ah. they might 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 plans nottinghamshire police dogs who receive vets cost 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 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 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. 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. pensions as a time of all star eighty is quite simply and you know what's coming. therof the london i'll be back with more news from around the world in thirty minutes time before that though max and stacy get their teeth into the british tabloids and the kaiser apart.

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unexplored antarctica what is it in this icy expanse that attracts the people who come here. along with you know now i only go to the dock. 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 .

i am x.-prize or welcome to the kaiser report of the ball gary ns and romanians are here pooping on doorsteps across the u.k. according to british tabloids the same tabloids of course fail to mention the j.p. morgan banks there's been definite kidding on our financial system for years and then collecting big big bonuses from shaking down and scalping the population do the tabloids report this no maybe it's because jamie diamond dances and hangs with hipsters was no faces or that jamie diamond dances and tickles young women in many places no it must be the jamie diamond dances and never ever fails to draw four aces yes the dancing shakedown man always wins stacey. max well yes the remanding in some bulgarians are here and it was all the headline news

across the u.k. of course leading up to january first british bankers are worse than roma beggars says damian draggy chief advisor to romania prime minister so he is the minister in romania for the roma and he says that the bankers are worse than any of the roma beggars and he says quote the roma begging in the streets are obvious because we see them they ask for one pound or one euro and they bother us yet some of the people in the banks are stealing billions of euros but nobody sees them because they are on the sixtieth floor that's very true so very true the people who come in or people who work here are just basically begging on the streets it's something that is repeated in the boardrooms in the banks across the nation when they go begging to the central bank for free money free change to bail them out of their losing positions did.