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i want to die young young. the stories that dominated the week on our team volgograd pays its last respects to the victims of two terror attacks while medics labor to save the lives of sixty five others including a three month old baby girl. sectarian slaughter in the central african republic proved too much for foreign troops to handle with reports of children be headed raising alarm at the u.n. . a low blow new york residents have a new reason to be wary on the streets as a potentially deadly game of violence spreads fear across the city. and as e.u. rules relax making it easier for internal migration the british get wary over a possible wave of unskilled workers and criminal calls for the prime minister to safeguard the borders go on it.
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it's a day i'm in moscow you're watching the weekly here in our chief international with me and he said now it's. well grad began the new year stricken by grief as the city was hit by a terror attack and is mourning and burying victims of the two bombings during the last days of says december thirty four people died in the attacks while twice that number remain in hospitals many in intensive care margaret howell has been keeping up with the condition of one of them the youngest terror victim. bekah is just three months old but she's found that life can be hard and unjust she was badly injured and a terrible terror attack she is now in an induced coma in intensive care clinging
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on to life what we give you is a baby girl remains and a coma we put her on a ventilator in intensive care also she sustained some light yet serious brain damage condition is very serious but we've got it under control on that dreadful morning of december thirtieth vico caught a fever and was on route to a hospital with her mother and grandmother when a powerful explosion rocked their trolley bus the three happened to be in the very epicenter the women died the infant survived it was blind luck the thick blanket she was wrapped in saved her from life threatening burns she was pulled from the wreckage in a critical condition only two days ago doctors allowed her to be airlifted to moscow's children's hospital so it's here in this hospital where baby bekah is receiving treatment for those endurance to her skull and her lungs she received in that blast the family and friends little bekah has left are torn between hope for
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her miraculous recovery and grief for their dad. did work you'd be very grateful to everyone who took part in the rescue of my girl to volgograd hospital doctors they performed the miracle return my daughter from the dead. thanks to all who haue transfer my daughter to moscow i hope my wife is safe now what kind of human being could see a newborn child on the bus and still carry out such an atrocity but now it's time to think of rehabilitation so that she can leave a full life but there is a dynasty of doctors in our family and i hope she will grow up and become a doctor to place jim i knew her mother since she was a child she was a very talented creative girl it's very sad when people die in such sudden violent acts like this she had big plans like any young mother i believe that her baby will grow up will leave we will be helping her because mother and grandmother on the
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stasia and tatyana are just two of the thirty four people who fell victim to two terror attacks on the railway station and trolley bus more than sixty injured are still in hospital the city remains in mourning in moscow margaret howell r t well doctors are cautiously optimistic about little because recovery will keep you up to date on her condition as she recovers but speaking about the attacks guardian newspaper contributor neil clark told us it's paramount that russia and the west combine their anti terror efforts. the west has got to i think change its race to saudi arabia which is a major sponsor of a lot of these radical islamic groups around the world the west has got to realize its foreign policy the trouble if you can get syria for example the west is actually on the same side as a terrorist because it's because of its relationships with large between sweetly saudi arabia and israel who both want that region and syria to be removed so i think we need a shift in the western capitals i think we need to get to work closer with russia
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because when they reach closer cooperation we saw that with the boston bombings in we when we had the russian warnings about the south sorry no problems were ignored by the americans because there again there was a tendency so it's russian warnings taken with peter so and so unless the west does work cooperate more seriously with russia as equal partners in this battle against the radical terrorist groups you know that's the product that met that's the major shift that's got to happen and it's ok to have nato she's coming out today quite rightly to get this attack but are less there is this approach to russia more respectful approach instead of this on the one hand so going to work with russia number one carrying out this cold war propaganda against russia to be sure this will happen. on our website we've got investigators the latest findings an opinion on who possibly states the horrifying attacks and what the terrorists think they might gain you'll be able to keep up to date on survivors conditions in hospital.
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rights groups say the situation in the central african republic is out of control amid horrifying reports of children being beheaded thousands of international troops are in the country but have failed to halt the blood said instead their presence appears to have emboldened christian moms which are now want lynching muslims in the capital riyadh for no it's an outline for what's at stake for france in this conflict. less than a year after french moods marched into mali france again is fighting in another of its former colonies in africa. that's a church or the situation in the central african republic is alarming if not frightening that your paris received a green light from the un security council to use military force to restore order after deadly ethnic russians in the country escalated. i have decided to act immediately or more precisely this very evening this was eight hundred french
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soldiers were sent to the violence torn country to join the six hundred already deployed there on a force that france has no other modes of than to save human lives and months later and lives are still being lost on all sides france's sixteen hundred strong force appeared and mabel to put an end to ethnic tensions dating back to the central african republic independence in one thousand nine hundred sixty four through france of former monopoly is responsible for helping to create in africa a number of totally artificial states like ca are and now they jump in with this operation which is stupid militarily economically and politically dangerous scandalous from a human perspective and lead to zero results that zero results if we are talking bringing stability to the country but alan krueger been president of france is new
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and capitalist party believes there is more to paris's decision to intervene that i was your fourth fifth france used the pretext of human rights and in fact it was aimed at protecting its economic interests the c.a.r. is rich in resources but it mostly has value due to its strategic location in the center of a vast and rich area so it's eventually all about dominating and controlling the entire region. but i. others see the african countries central location on the continent as the key to fulfill the stated goals of the french military mission of securing the entire region. france and other european countries are threatened by islamic radical and terrorist groups that are now decentralized and developed in the belt from the murshid timi a coast to somalia and french troops deter these dangerous forces and also prevent pirates and drug traffickers from uniting which would both critics and advocates of
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the french military operation in the central african republic equally agree on is that no matter what the intentions are behind france's authorities decision to get involved it's the french people footing the bill that was. the operation only became needed as there was a failure of diplomacy and politics in this year are a failure of the un the african union economic community of central african states and the you who pays for this pricey campaign french taxpayers surveys show less than half of the french population support their country's latest michu expedition to africa pushed forward by france's least popular president in pollen history well more than a thousand french soldiers are now in the central african republic here in paris the intervention into the country's former colony still gets a mixed reaction no one's really sure if it's a lapped of goodwill or
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a calculated move to benefit fronts. where russian are seeing reporting from paris . bruno drives from the institute of oriental languages and civilizations says there's particular significance in when france decided to act. first of all the central africa was the under french influence since they became independent through the french army and soon central africa second point is the former central african president was kicked out from power just at the moment when he signed agreement with chinese. companies i've done time france didn't react and it is very important to. chinese economy is growing economy and it's. much more active
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in africa. all the western economies use and i think that's one of the basic reasons of conflicts and i think i know it's to compute issues between western powers and china. believe in label that starts and criminals by somebody increasingly they're getting elected extreme groups across europe are looking forward to a successful twenty fourteen as far right politicians look to turn a grinding economic hardship into votes i'll tell you more in a few minutes. and shedding light on the games we report on the unique elimination for the winter olympics and the working to make sochi shine. the rough and tumble of new york streets are known for their magnum and magnanimity and now citizens have a new type of gang violence to contend with as martina portman i have rediscovered the police seem unable to do anything about it. you're walking down the street
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minding your own business and without warning police say they are investigating yet another knockout attack attackers mainly in their teens targeting victims at random it's called the knockout game the goal of this violent and twisted so called game is to knock a stranger unconscious with a single punch a feared phenomenon across the nation the ongoing brutality has claimed lives in at least three u.s. states here in new york city more than ten people have been randomly assaulted among the youngest a twelve year old student among the oldest seventy six year old woman was walking along warman avenue when a man struck her in the head this man too scared to show his face on camera says he was attacked last month while walking home from work surrounded me one of them as i tried to get away one of them stepped out towards me and. with the clothes this hit me in the face in some cases suspects have been arrested and
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charged however exacerbating the problem these videos uploaded on you tube have been viewed by millions raising concerns about copycat attacks many knockouts have taken place in broad daylight as victims were walking through their own neighborhoods and as the n.y.p.d. a department of thirty four thousand officers continue struggling to curb the string of violence citizens are seeking alternatives to stay safe. former n.y.p.d. officer rabbi gary moskowitz and is offering his seventh degree black belt skills for free to knock out victims and others seeking protection we're going up to someone who works worker you must learn how to be aware you must learn how to fight if some go through time to the knockout attacks are for him and for him ready to moskowitz believes are likely motivated by gang initiation was something the n.y.p.d. hasn't officially acknowledged if they had knowledge of the guy who had
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a problem is they have to really try to curb all the guns and they can't do that so for three or so a long time they don't want to put a name on something right away because if they put a name want to run they have to go where through archie reached out to the n.y.p.d. to find out what america's most powerful police department is doing to combat the knockout epidemic our questions and interview requests were ignored it is not fair to ask any pleas for parm to be able to be assigned to everybody in the shrewd they can protect. us from new york city streets the big apple's mass surveillance system does actually allow officials to know where and when many of the crimes are occurring but so far filming the knockouts hasn't helped to prevent them marina. new york. this is new year's day britain's been braced for a flood but this has nothing to do with the storms battering the country right now the u.k. fears a massive influx of eastern europeans now that e.u. wide immigration rules are relaxed as polly boyko reports people's biggest concerns
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are a wave on skilled workers and criminals leading up to the new year the british government hadn't released any estimates about the number of remain ians ambo garion is that they expected to arrive in britain now that immigration restrictions have been lifted for them and that since he hasn't done much to allay the fears of the british public. and although romanians and bulgarians now have every right to live and work freely anywhere within the european union euro skepticism and public concern say the mass immigration a written all time high what are you currently doing to stop the influx of skilled workers in from the e.u. upon him to do we've made absolutely sure that it's not possible for people to come
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here simply to claim benefits to a putting a brace very tough measures in controls for the latest report by the institute of public policy research dismissed these as symbolic gestures saying the person can cope with very many and ambo garion migration according to the paper instead of alarming the public the government may need to implement some minor contingency measures in order to help schools and housing stretch this deadline has been known about for precisely seven years so the idea that we should be rushing around by making about it now it's completely absurd it's quite important for politicians to step back and explain that this is not the end of the world but on the whole immigration and indeed free movement within europe you know been quite beneficial to the u.k. economy remaining in diplomats to say that their citizens are deeply offended by that portrayal as scroungers and criminals in the u.k.
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press they point out that most of their citizens are hardworking and will contribute to british society something that economists had a happy to back up over the available evidence is the migration to britain has been on a positive both in terms of cultural and richmond economic enlargement we have to remember that one point six million britons british nationals are working through you and they enjoy the benefits of that so if we start setting up you shouldn't. benefits for all migrants we can expect a quid to cool cool despite the politicians tough. talk of the tabloid headlines fears of a flood of migrants have been dismissed as nonsense and according to remain in officials most of their countrymen would prefer to live in spain or italy anyway judging by the weather here you can blame them. see. the recent polls of just a quarter of britons say they're ready to leave the e.u.
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if it means safeguarding their borders from unwanted migrants the deputy leader of the u.k. independence party paul not all believes that's the only solution but it is critical here is that they can come here from april face not january the first and claim benefits from that and it's a noncontributory system so quite frankly they can come here and they can claim some welfare but are over putting into the system that the reason why we're having to do it is because of the european union the freedom of movement of peoples is written into the e.u. treaties which are concerns by labor governments and conservative governments so there's no point crying about it now the only way we can deal with this problem is by leaving the european union and if people want to protest and if people want to go out there and vote against the you can do show by voting for the party which wants to leave and that you keep on may the twenty seconds this year in the european elections. russia has been making every effort to make sochi a shining jam for the trying to fourteen olympics but what does it take to right now the stadiums and venue in the depths of winter darkness to bang on it so it
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takes a look at the work that's being done to make an illuminating spectacle. the eyes of the world will be on sochi come february the seventh and frantic work has been going on behind the scenes to make sure the lippy venue sparkle not just for the crowds but for millions of t.v. viewers around the world for the lighting technicians it's been a mess of undertaking lush media for us this is one of a kind technology and design in the world that isn't even the manufacturers who initially claimed it was similar to some other models that have finally admitted our installations are totally unique in other words this is an experimental model that will set a benchmark for the whole world this electric cutting lighting was months in the making the olympic committee found the brightest and best engineers who came up with a unique design for every stadium l.e.d. lights was selected for the age or ability they made to last for
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a century but also for their college changing wall factor in for certain such installations are temporary solution for various sports competitions but this one is hopefully going to stay for quite some time it is based on the cutting edge technology and totally new software that the world has yet to a dog. off to dog the park stadium becomes a scene not worrying ice storms and tumbling snow flakes the ice bank sports palace turns into a giant alchemy arena wave the atlas skating rina the neon giant was shimmering rainbow colors the first stadium will be hosting the opening and closing ceremonies and the preparations are for the light sherry's have been kept carefully under wraps but the crowd work of the lighting mission is the ice palace this evening i've been given the honors of switching on of the lights here at the olympic park
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stadiums with this smartphone and a touch of a button let's see what the magic of technology candy. and was a lot of it in the kaleidoscope of a carload a rod of sportsman lives and of course a right here in the snow and she between on the black sea and the beautiful white capped mountains and to them look they coming to you from the olympic park in sochi . latest visit to sochi vladimir putin reversed a ban on political protests during the winter olympics demonstrators will now be allowed to gather during the games but with certain restrictions had on mind to find out more meanwhile as the clock ticks towards the seventh of february we'll bring you more on what the city has in store for its guests stay with our chief international. sochi for the twenty fourteen olympics was this police
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line on the line is so special as the russian resort prepares to welcome the world power the games should be in the city's present and future one more sochi will bring you this is the moment they're reporting from a very cold and snowy windy mountainous tough beyond the olympics but come on let's see. on our team. from embattled greece to indebted france europeans are being drawn to the far right the small signs of economic growth aren't enough to prevent voters swinging to the extremes that are all over takes a closer look at a continent in search of new answers to tough problems. from the d.l. in britain in the north to golden dawn in greece and the south far right groups are making their voices heard in europe. this financial crisis affected everyone and it has allowed the right wing organizations to give people someone to blame for
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their problems it's those people's fault that is how they were crude greece has seen a marked increase in support of the far right and neo nazi groups golden dawn and organization the right did by their critics is hooligans and third heralded by their supporters as the savior for greece for the greeks and they systematic and not going to preach and cultivate. but they attack systematical immigrants present golden dawn of made it the most they have elected officials on their books including current greek m.p. elias custody out us it's not only in politics that extreme right to abuse the permeating this goal celebration by the athens just kept the artists so the midfielder banned for life from the national team despite his claims that he didn't
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know what the salute meant but the clearest indicator of the popularity of the far right will be when europeans go to the polls in may to vote in the e.u. parliamentary elections one of those parties on the rise in france's muddying lipans national front. on the european people are realizing that the use in empire the soviet union that in fact is destroying their freedom despite insistences that they want to take part in the political discourse we've seen repeated violent clashes involving these groups even in some of the most stable nations like austria where around a third of people voted for parties that are considered the right wing in a recent election. so we need to slow down immigration i have nothing against foreign us but enough is enough. e.u. is saying wow diminution of good cheer like. poor countries on which of their own
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country and they used to wouldn't. join dictates everything. it used to be that opar. interest spruced and the e.u. second no it's only a few. it seems as long as europe's finances continue to languish in the red more and more people are seeking. the right key to all of germany. your highness beth is the socialist who says far right politicians are offering fear but not a viable solution to the financial crisis is really to keep decent by these parties have gained support in recent years the crisis had led to distrust of politicians is it has led to distrust of immigration or immigrants and i think what they're offering is not a very concrete alternative in terms of policy in terms of economic policy support
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for these parties is really based on you know and dislike of the established political regime whatever that is and so people are looking for some alternative and these parties come in and provide that but i don't think it's clear to people what they actually represent or what the consequences of their policies would be. and then he fascist march in berlin has attracted hundreds of protesters angry at an attack on a hostel for asylum seekers the demonstrators chanting slogans against neo nazis accusing them of launching fireworks at the center on new year's eve also of banners saying refugees welcome and let's fight white pride the extreme right movement is becoming more visible across germany they hold more than a dozen rallies outside government buildings in two thousand and thirteen compared to just three the year before. in other world news at least fourteen construction workers have died after
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a three story building collapse in southern india some to fifty people were on site when it caved in emergency workers are sifting through the rubble for survivors it's not uncommon for buildings to collapse in india where regulations are typically lax. in iraq's armed radical islamists claim to have ambushed and set fire to nine government found on the highway to palooza just fifty kilometers from baghdad al qaeda linked fighters took control of the city center raising their flag over state buildings on saturday government troops terror groups and local tribes are attacking each other in an outburst of violence that has lasted several days. coming out max and stacey on a cover pickpocketing on a nationwide scale in the kaiser remember. the old. technology innovation and all the latest developments
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around russia we've got the future of covered. the new world the market like the bank in your knowledge base your life you. pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i roll researcher.
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i am backscratcher 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 have 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 areas 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 rome.

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