day's news and this week's top stories here on our teeter national the southern russian city of volgograd mourns the thirty four victims of two terror attacks with dozens of injured people still in hospital party brings you the story of one of the survivors a nine year old girl whose life was saved by a stranger. french military contingent fails to stem a wave of bloodshed that's gripped the central african republic as the u.n. raises the alarm of a looming humanitarian crisis there. this equation is literally out of control in the fulfillment of the central african republic is not capable to control this violence r.t. talks to medical brigade october's without borders about the carnage ravaging the state as even hospitals and doctors become targets. europe sees a rise of far right groups across the region as

a financial crisis undermines public trust and governments are forcing people to look for alternatives. and the bright minds working on bright lights will report on their one of a kind of illumination system set up by engineers for the winter olympics in sochi . to start the international coming to you live from moscow with me marina joshing welcome to the program now the beginning of the new year was marred with a loss for volgograd as its citizens said their last goodbyes to the thirty four victims of two bombings that shook the southern russian city dozens remain in intensive care and we report on one of the youngest victims and the heroic man who saved her life. it was just another day for you wagner grads

a main train station but suddenly at old 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 blasts of the station set off by a suicide bomber reached through a crowded area between the entrance and the security metal detectors and. 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 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 community some time to find an ambulance for their 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 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 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 goes pear 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 that 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 there is. we will meet again definitely i will wait for her recovery and will keep in touch with her. mind in the question our team moscow. and of course will be keeping us up to date on all this condition as a change is here in a tear gas shop and speaking about the attacks guardian newspaper contributor neil clark insisted that global powers must unite against terrorism if they want to lemonade it but 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 is if you look at 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 regime in 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 because where there is closer cooperation we should look at the boston bombings and we when we had the russian warnings about the south sarina brothers were ignored by the americans because their game there was a tendency so it's russian warnings taken with peter salt 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 the product that met that the major shift that's got to happen and it's ok to have nato shoes coming out of there quite right and again 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 and other hand carrying out this cold war propaganda against russia that's

the big shift as well. more perspective on universal and. our efforts and updates on the investigation into the volgograd bombings by heading to our website r.t. dot com. and also next hour here on our team or national we're reporting on the youngest victim of the attack three month old vega a lost her mother and grandmother in the blast and is fighting for her life in a moscow hospital. hospital's under fire in the central african republic as the violence in the country reached a crisis point this week even the international medical group doctors without borders was forced to cut its aid to the country's largest refugee camp the u.n. is now also warning of an imminent humanitarian catastrophe was disease rampant among more than a million displaced people have a home face starvation french military contingent has been battling militants there

but has so far failed to bring any security to the country as a marine a financial reports. less than a year after french moods marched into mali france again and in other words former colonies in africa. the situation in the central african republic is alarming if not frightening. paris received a green light from the u.n. security council to use military force to restore order after deadly ethnic russians in the country escalated. feels i have decided to act immediately or more precisely this very evening eight hundred francs soldiers were sent to the violence torn country to join the six hundred already deployed there. a force that france has no other motive than to save human lives a month 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 fourth 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 and to capitalist party believes there is more to paris his decision to intervene there was your fourth fifth france used the pretext of human rights but 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 others see the african country 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 mercian timi a coast to somalia. and french troops deter these dangerous forces and also prevent pirates and drug traffickers from uniting but would both critics and advocates of 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 food in the bill that calls the operation only became needed as there was a failure of diplomacy in politics in this year are

a failure of the un the african union economic community of central african states and the you but 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 an act of goodwill or a calculated move to benefit fronts. where is russia not seen reporting from paris . and we spoke to colleen clare an emergency manager with doctors without borders and here's what she had to say about the situation on the ground we're seeing more than six hundred thousand people displaced off alone two hundred thousand in the

capital defiance is continuing our teams are witnessing that bodies on the streets every day yesterday in the camp close to the airport where more than one hundred thousand people are at this moment looking for safety checks the shooting in the. that even our clinical to continue in its normal way so we can no longer treatments ration we have still one or two doctors in the camp just to take care of the heavily injured people but it's almost impossible for doctors without borders to continue its work at this moment is that the hospitals in bangor but also in the rest of the central african republic are feted by armed men we have people discriminates in the hospital who came there to a deck patients inside of the spittle so yes we see oh it's a big problem inside the hospitals. because school certain is of the situation inside the hospitals but also we speak will not help being able to access medical care because they are too scared to go to help post and are too scared to go to

hospitals outside of bangui our estimation is that more than six hundred thousand people are living in the bush years now i've met them i faced them in the bushes and people are more nervous they have grown just excess in front if those accessing health care you can just see that people are living in extremely poor conditions they're literally living in the bush piece that they're close which are more or less wrecks and some people live already since april last year in the bush and with a holiday sale season underway found sea-tac gadgets job manny wish list but as a famous saying goes be careful what you wish for later this hour we'll report on how the national security agency infiltrates i phones laptops and other gizmos revokable the changing people's attitudes towards technology. knock out a disturbing new trend in the u.s. sees teenagers punching people unconscious just for fun coming up on our t.v. how frightened citizens are trying to protect themselves from

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to see good laboratory kirby was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation and why it should care about humans in. this is why you should care watch only on the r g dot com. welcome back to starting international the financial downturn in europe has given momentum to a train and that could be too difficult to reverse even as the clouds of the crisis are slowly clearing far right groups are still gaining ground was a u.k. greece and france among those witnessing a rapid spread of nationalism are just peter all over reports. 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 their problems it's those people's fault that is how they recruit 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 as hooligans and third heralded by their supporters as the savior for greece for the greeks and they systematic and not only preach it and cultivate. but they attack systematical immigrants present golden dawn have made it further than 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. athens just kept the artist so the

midfielder banned for life from the national team despite his claims that he didn't 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 and france's muddying lipans national front. of european people are realizing that the use in empire the soviet union 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 right wing in a recent election. so we need to slow down immigration i have nothing against

foreigners but enough is enough. to e.u. is saying where the money should go to allow again poor countries on it's their own country and they used to wouldn't be like that. dictate everything. to us it used to be that all parties interest spruced and the e.u. second now it's only. it seems as long as europe's finances continue to languish in the red more and more its people and says the right teacher all of a germany. line would tell you about the cost cutting clean up at fukushima as duct tape was apparently one of the most common methods used to strap the leaking nuclear plant back together lots. which tell you why brits are advised to go to bed early drink less tea and even shower in groups details of what's

behind the story on r.t. dot com. and remember when you send all those text messages with holiday greetings to your loved ones thinking they are the only ones reading them well if you were using an i phone there's a chance the n.s.a. is in on it too as the latest week's clément contract advise and control it remotely without the consent from the owner or apple it wasn't the only information to emerge this week in the german magazine der spiegel it also claimed the agency intercepts freshly bought laptops and bugs them with spyware infiltrate software and hacks servers in order to get to their targets journalist david seaman says after the scandalous exposure of the n.s.a. people will never trust companies the way they used to. my understanding of it is that this is extremely widespread but is not so much the companies cooperating with the n.s.a. as it is the n.s.a.

pouring tremendous amounts of money and talent into developing these hacks we're talking about complete orwellian control of innocent people's phones and innocent people's computers and laptops and i think that it undermines the basic faith and confidence in american tech companies this is going to lead to a massive loss of revenue technology has the power to lift all of us up to provide more innovation and transparency that ever before in human history and that's the path that the internet was already on you see the explosion in online media and everybody has a voice in opinion in this global society but the n.s.a. has destroyed a lot of that it's undermined basic faith in the internet. and in some other news making headlines around the globe today car and the roadside bombs have ripped through commercial areas in iraq's capital baghdad killing at least fourteen people over twenty others have been injured and that's after radical islamists reportedly ambushed and set fire to nine government vehicles on the road to fallujah the army

is continuing to battle qaida linked fighters there after insurgents to control of the city on friday. polls are now closed in bangladesh amid violent protest against the parliamentary elections at least thirteen people have been killed and over one hundred polling stations torched the opposition have boycotted the vote saying the process is rigged violence that left dozens killed in recent weeks this collated after the country's prime minister refused to step down and form a caretaker administration the winter olympics in sochi is aiming to quite literally outshine all previous events with unique eliminations in place for the games r.t.s. bomb would say explores the olympic city now. 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 lifting 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 blush media for us this is one of a kind technology and design in the world 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 danger ability they made to last for a century but also put a college changing wall factor in for service you know 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 but the world has yet to a dog. off to dog the park stadium becomes a scene no whirling ice storms and tumbling snowflakes the ice back sports palace turns into a giant alchemy arena wave the atlas skating rina a million 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 are being kept carefully under wraps but the crowd work of the life mission is the ice palace this evening i've been given the honors of switching on the lights here at the olympic park stadiums with this smartphone and it's hatch of a button let's see what the magic of technology candy. and were a lot of the lotus gave all the. laws of. live and of course i'm right here in the snow and she between on the black sea and the

beautiful white capped mountains and to them look they are coming to you from the olympic park. forty. special zone is to be set up and sort you are people can protest president who can sign a decree that overhauls last year's ban on rallies in the olympics area had to r.t. dot com for more on that have chorus stay with our to international as we bring you more from sochi in the run up to the winter games. a strange and brutal game is spreading across the u.s. players choose a victim on the street with only aim to knock them unconscious with a single punch police recently arrested a man suspected of at least five such attacks all against women are his work in a fortnight is following the disturbing trend. you're walking down the street 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 the group surrounded me and one of them as i tried to get away one of them stepped out towards me. and. with the clothes is hit me on the face in some cases suspects have been arrested and 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 to someone who works worker you must learn how to be aware you must know how to fight if some girls are time for the knockout attacks or throw him into him ready to moskowitz believes are likely motivated by gang initiation something the and wipe. he hasn't officially acknowledged if they acknowledge that there's a guy who had a problem i mean they have to really try to curb we're going from they can't do that so for fear so a lot of times 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 after arts he 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 poor farm to be able to be assigned to everybody in the shrewd they can protect. from also 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. and up next an r.t.s. travel to antarctica to meet russia's team of polar explorers statements.

i'm an old 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 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 or 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 but that's just my opinion. summer is coming to an end. the crew of the academic field of is waiting for the station to pick up the winter everything has to be done quickly if the wind gets any

stronger the helicopter won't be able to take off and there's no other way of getting people onto the ship from the station they need to hurry when begins tomorrow. used to be the. station. now it only works during the summer. in the southern hemisphere has some a stance in december and ends in much it's now april so seasonal operations are over. geological samples are gathered during the summer a loaded into containers. water is drained from the station and windows are boarded up and filled with insulation for.