the. islamist forces with links to al qaeda seize control of this 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's been able to carry out large scale devastating it's not like the one from emirate right here what's behind the rise of al qaida young that is the u.s. really understands with finding in this country. and in the russian city of volgograd a hero in the face of terror. she was so brave she didn't even cross your i was talking to her older talking to. r.t. hears from a man who rescued a nine year old girl after a suicide bomber struck 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 died in clashes with police the highest death toll in three months. you're watching our two live from our moscow studios islands in france thanks for joining me. as offshoot in yemen has threatened to step up its assault on the country's army that's after it admitted it was behind a suicide bomb attack at a police headquarters earlier this week the terrorist group has been waging a full scale guerrilla war for sixteen years assassinations bombings and strikes on military targets have become an everyday reality for the population. lucy captain of looks into while seems to be thriving just by all the efforts to bring it down.

it's a bone chilling video the man driving this s.u.v. is on a mission to kill as the truck barrels into an army base in yemen's szabo province a sickening act of terror is captured on film oh. oh oh god god more than fifty soldiers died that day but al qaeda 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 missing trench the american drones are in the sky and are on the ground kind of in the arabian peninsula was formed in two thousand and nine. eight 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 attack 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 helped 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 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 for filling the function of a state in the states absence. that's. 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 ansara 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 beyond province although western efforts to crack down on traditional funding sources have been successful as 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 a. few hundred. among the. many citizens this will be

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 and. that relevance 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. than one government offensive eventually dislodged ansal sure we have 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. many youth joined us willingly because they were looking for freedom justice in the application of sharia law that they saw the real follow through on promises and was committed to yemen's future home 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 for our team. meanwhile branch in iraq has gained full control of fallujah a strategic city to the west of baghdad over one hundred people were killed in the fighting on friday alone making it the deadliest day in the 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 two or three onwards back then american forces suffered a third of their total fatalities there robert naiman from the campaign group just foreign policy says the shiite government missteps may have laid the groundwork for vance's in iraq. al qaeda doesn't doesn't establish itself in functioning democracies where there's a broad social consensus that the state is legitimate establish bases and in countries where there's a breakdown of central government authority and conditions of civil war with a large part of the population sees the government as illegitimate you know we see this in. afghanistan was this august and yemen so this isn't in somalia so and we're seeing in iraq you know the the real 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. security forces are remaining vigilant in the southern russian city of volgograd following the two terrorist 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 volga grad's 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. then i noticed a man in a girl's around towards the girl who asked her whether she could bring him 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 do is go. she was so brave she didn't even cry i was talking to her all the time she kept saying that she wanted to sleep but she was just losing consciousness and i was telling her just don't sleep don't sleep. there was panic and horror in the street and it took you at least 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 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 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 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 that it was good we will meet

again definitely i will wait for her recovery and will keep in touch. my do not push the r t moscow. timeline of the tragic events unfolded gratin more reports from there are available on our website including the story of the younger survivor of the trolley bus attack was just three months old find out what say the little girl's life on r t. 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 only don't look around. there's one thing you can do with out of the winter olympics and saatchi is making extra sure it's slopes are white and gleaming come february we explain how later in the program.

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to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm wrong researcher. here gyptian 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 of the muslim brotherhood the death toll is believed to be the highest in three months the government granted the movement a terrorist network in last month but it's 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. the. general sisi and his government. indications that they want to reconcile with the muslim brotherhood

they are in this very hall you know crowd. meanwhile on the other side the muslim brotherhood supporters are lucky to get out anytime soon. the issue is that increasingly the secular. position any of the people who were. involved in the two thousand and eleven revolution joining up with the muslim brotherhood so that is. different to the old me and the current government not just from the islamist cow but increasingly from the south the liberal have as well who . has to be time back and we're going to kind of move to it looks like more because it's unfortunately with no end in sight well sports venues hotels recreations islands all are ready for to welcome fans and athletes the russian seaside resort for the winter olympics however there's one thing missing none of

the rest will matter and that's the snow but there's no reason to be worried and here's why. that's the biggest challenge facing so she's organizes is making sure there's plenty of the one thing the games hunt do without snow the new rosa haunted alpine resort to reaches up 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 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 vault has been storing snow thought over a year under special blankets keeping it from defrosting. there are hundreds of snowy canyons scattered around the slopes they use water from the mountain lakes to make artificial snow a special kind of snow salt is also being used as glue when and if the snow melts and finally mountain gutters these pipes will gather snow falling at the highest peaks transported down to the slopes wade will get an axe should boost without official snow of course technology is also being utilized by the competitors going for gold. i am going to charge of skill 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 fleet's the olympic games professional athletes use custom made sports equipment to maximize performance and make sure it caters to the exact needs the russian team uses ski specifically designed and shaped on comping machines they take into account weight strength aggressiveness body type to size and to. each is wax to make sure they slide faster than that competitive or even designated wes's on hand to help now that we've seen our snowboard go through the process of getting clean to allow 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 grip. every country has its own ski program made up of experts to help the athletes perform at the highest level each it's top secret and far too technical for the likes of meet time to test all 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 no look around. that almost all the top of the log off 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 soccer what

a mere putin put his high stalky skills to the test taking part in a friendly match while some veterans of the sport at the venue set to host the olympic final even roped in the leader of bel roof for the ok both presidents wearing red and with plenty of help from the hockey legends on their team the heads of state clinched the game with a score of twelve to three. and while he is talking to has reversed a ban on political protests during the winter olympics now demonstrators will be allowed to gather there during the games but with certain restrictions put online to find out more meanwhile as the 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 our team international. more of the twenty fourth jena lympics bristling. as the russian resort

prepares to welcome the world power the game should be the sudanese president into your blood flow so it will bring you this is the moment they're reporting from a very cold and snowy windy mountain is to be on the lympics with the. a key 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 part of a bigger bloc which is about to decide whether to attend the geneva conference on sunday however as syrian political activists explain to our t. the opposition feels it could lose ground if the civil war ends where 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 and then you have the second issue of the opposition figures to feed the feeling of being fearful of losing whatever thin representation bill think they have on 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 prison and then have this sort of democracy and so on if this will be fulfilled then probably people will just say whatever. small faction of people still believe in them brilliance of the they will

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

are demanding that a neutral authority be set up to oversee the voting process but the government has so far refused to agree the opposition has called for a boycott of the elections and promised more rallies. and police department in the u.k. has decided to pay pensions to retired dogs who spent years sniffing out crime surf earth reports on a welfare scheme that's raising taxpayers' hackles. 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 has decided that the police dogs should be awarded pensions when they retire under the plan's nottinghamshire police dogs who receive up to five hundred pounds a year for the first three years after leaving the. dogs. when

the rich. with the dog. 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 the same amount of money for drugs but 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 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. and it's fair to say that the u.k. is a nation of animal lovers but some campaigners have blasted the skiing saying that to award dogs pensions at the time of austerity is quite simply you know what's coming. our london. i'll be back in about thirty minutes with more news but next an r.t.a. international and gold mining giant comes up against entrees this tense from villages in guatemala.

i 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 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 are 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. the

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