islamist forces with links to al qaida seize control of this strategic iraqi city of fallujah forcing back government troops are to look into what's driving the terrorist networks relentless and advance through the region. we came here to try to understand how the group's been able to carry out large scale devastating that's not like the one in memory that right here what's behind the rise of a high that yemen and does the us really understand we're finding in this. and in the russian city of volgograd a hero in the face of terror. she was so brave she didn't even cry i was talking to her old toys r t here is 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 r t live from moscow island de 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 admittedly 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 assassinations bombings and strikes on military targets have become an everyday reality for the population artie's lucic out from of looks into why al qaeda seems to be thriving despite 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 a truck barrels into an army base in yemen's shabwah province a sickening act of terror was captured on film omar oh it was more than fifty two 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 and al qaeda leader is then shown chiding a group of captured soldiers i don't know that you and the americans are in a saying trench the american drones are in the sky and we're on the ground of al qaeda 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 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 helped boost al qaeda ranks. in regard to tribes initially united to defend against al qaida but then we saw that drone strikes were killing innocent people which has pushed the tribes to sympathize with americans and to support them directly but the rise of extremist groups here in yemen is also related to the country's scarce resources water being a perfect example now in some parts of yemen they've been able to come in and prove the infrastructure as well as resolve disputes over water fulfilling the function of a state in the state's absence. that's. taking advantage of the chaos following the overthrow of yemen's president ali abdullah saleh al qaida was. able to seize 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 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. and is a good thing. in some times one hundred. to one hundred. among the. many citizens this will be

the business to do not necessarily because they believe in. the objectives of the leaders of these groups but just as 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 relevance 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 it's a lot more. than one government offensive eventually dislodged 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 of lebanon because many youth joined us willingly because they were looking for freedom justice and the application of sharia law they saw the surreal. 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 one hundred people were killed in the fright 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 the shiite government missteps have laid the groundwork for advances 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 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 was this pakistan yemen so this is in somalia so and we're seeing it 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 weekend 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 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 reached three a crowded 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. 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 they only take grown ups and that i have to wait for the children's emergency to arrive 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 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 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 thirty he told her not to fall asleep the girl remembers him has been asking about him for two days straight we really want to tell him thank you so. we will meet again definitely i will wait

for her recovery and we'll keep in touch. the question to our team moscow. you tragic events in volgograd and more reports from there are available on our website including the story of the youngest survivor of the trolley bus attack who is just three months old we 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 the upcoming peace conference in geneva later in the program we asked how that could affect international efforts to end the long running civil war also coming up. not enough oh look around. there's one thing you can't do with out of the winter olympics is making extra sure it's slopes are white and gleaming come february we explain how later in the program.

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from around the globe. broke through. 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 of the muslim brotherhood the death toll is believed to be the highest in three months the government branded the movement a terrorist network just last month but it's refusing to back down and has called 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. i did

a lot of 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 not likely to get off anytime soon. the issue is that increasingly the secular. position 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 kind but increasingly from the side of the liberal have as well who. has been time back and we're going to kind of move to it looks like more because unfortunately with no end in sight in sports venues hotels recreation sounds all are ready to welcome fans athletes the

russian seaside resort of sochi for the winter olympics however if there's one thing missing none of the rest will matter 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 organizers is making sure there's plenty of the one thing the games can do without snow the new rosa hooted alpine resort to reach is 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 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 snow cannons scattered around the slopes they use water from the mountain lakes to make artificial snow a special kind of snow salt is also being used as glue when and if the snow melts and finally mountain gutters these pipes will gather snow falling at the highest peaks transported down to the slopes wade will get an axe should boost with artificial snow of course technology is also being utilized by the competitors going for gold. i am in 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 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 to size and. each is wax 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 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 over it it's almost kind of like 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 me time to test out the mint 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 out. of almost all the top of longer log off on the blog. read while the olympic

venues are getting the final stamp of approval from russia's president and a day after hitting the ski slopes of saatchi vladimir 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. 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 heads of states clinched the game the score of twelve three. ice. and while in saatchi which it has also reversed a ban on political protests during the winter olympics now demonstrators will be allowed to gather there during the games but with restrictions put on line to find out more and meanwhile as the clock ticks down to the seventh of february we're bringing you more on what the city has in store for its guests stay with our team international. show true home of the twenty fourteen olympics

what's this police lining the line is so special as the russian resort prepares to welcome the world power the games should be the city's present and future ludlow sochi will bring you this is the moment they're reporting from a very cold and snowy windy mountain is to be on the lympics what to say. it's 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 and bloc which is about to decide whether to attend the geneva conference on sunday however as syrian political activist amar walk off explain to our t.v. not everyone in the opposition wants a peace deal 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. they want and if there are certain governments in the region who do not want this geneva process to be successful will need then you know they will push for the opposition figures to withdraw but then you have the second issue of the opposition figures phoebe feeling of being fearful of losing whatever thin representation bill think they have of the ground so they feel that if they go 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 you know we're going to dig down present them and have this sort of democracy and so on if this will be fulfilled then probably people will just say

you know 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. 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 at the time of the incident. a 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 it's now being escorted to senegal capital to a car with a crew of sixty two russians and twenty fishermen from guinea bissau 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. a police department in the u.k. has decided to pay pensions to retired dogs who spent years crime surf earth 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 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 told to 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. 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 the same amount of 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 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. pensions assets i'm a star it's a it's quite simply you know what's coming. serve the london. next an r t gold fever looks at a mining giant that's facing a wall of resistance in guatemala where villagers are battling to save their land.

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of. the people. bog ariens and romanians are here to bring on doorsteps across the u.k. according to british tabloids the same tabloids of course failed to mention the j.p. morgan banks there's a been definite kidding on our financial system for years and collecting big big bonuses from shaking down of scalping the population to the tabloids report this. is the twenty fourth jena lympics what's this place like why is it so special as the russian resort prepares to welcome the world power the games shaping 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 tough to be on the olympics but . today on our team. new demining just to life don't have mining just a lawyer. think there's a future with montana. new up with one time with montana that means that by montana lied to us from the start saying that mining was life yet these them. while they're busy sharing their profits the people of san miguel. the people of san miguel are dying. we're asking the government to listen are the legitimate owners of our land.

we count b m. officers in crim white uniforms pick up their golden cargo on what we call. there's no question that the united states has a history of intervening and america and fomenting coups in sas and nations the cia has admitted that they were deeply involved in the overthrow of arbenz and want to well in one hundred fifty three mile of past a major land reform law this was going to have significant effects throughout all of central america it was right around that time that they began to to seriously contemplate a covert operation directed at overthrowing the government aquatic. worse carried off by the us there were major business interests in the company.