the spanish foreign visit. to day's news and this week's top stories here on our to international the southern russian city of volgograd mourns the thirty four victims of two terror attacks with dozens still in hospital r.t. brings you the story of the youngest survivor a three month old baby clings to life after losing her mother in the bombing. a french military contingent fails to stand 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 out of control in the fulfilment of the central african republic is most capable to control this violence r.t. talks to medical group doctors without borders about the carnage ravaging the state is even hospitals and doctors become targets. europe sees a rise of far right groups across the region as the financial crisis undermines

public trust in governments forcing people to look after alternatives. out of bright minds working on bright lights will report on a one of a kind elimination system set up by engineers for the winter olympics in sochi. six pm in moscow watching r t international with me marina josh welcome to the program. the beginning of the new year was marred with 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 we have a story of the youngest terror a victim who lost her mother in the blast and who is hanging on to life. 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 onto life what we give you as 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 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 vico has left are torn between hope for her miraculous recovery and grief for their dad. working very grateful to everyone who took part in the rescue of my girl to volgograd hospital doctors they perform 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 you can live 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 question my 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 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 hello r.t. and i will be keeping you up to date on because condition as the changes speaking about the attacks the guardian newspaper contributor neil clark insisted that global powers must unite against terrorism if they want to eliminate it. the west has got to i think change its relationship saudi arabia which is a major sponsor of a lot of these radical islamic groups around the world west has got to realize its foreign policy the trouble is if you put 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. 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 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 this tendency so it's russian warnings taken with peter so and so unless the west just work cooperate more seriously with russia as equal partners in this battle against the radical terrorist groups you know that's the problem 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 that's the big ship is going to. get more perspective on universal anti terror and updates on the investigation into the volgograd bombings by heading to our web site r t v dot com. also next hour

here in r.t. we're bringing you the touching story of another young survivor of the attack nine year old all gone whose life was saved by a stranger. but also 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 alone faced starvation. a french military contingent has been battling militants there but has so far failed to bring added security to the country as artie's refinished now reports. less than a year after french moods marched into mali france again is fighting in another of its former colonies in africa. let's address short the situation in the

central african republic as alarming if not frightening that your parents 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 francs soldiers were sent to the violent storm country to join the six hundred already deployed there and the force that france has no the most of them 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 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 capitalist party believes there is more to paris's decision to intervene that i was your fourth fifth france used to pretest of human rights but in fact it was aimed at protecting its economic interests the c.e.o. 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 with both critics and advocates of the french military operation in the central african republic it clearly 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 holds. the operation only became needed as there was a failure of diplomacy and politics in the ca are a failure of the un the african union economic community of central african states and the you know 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 polling 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 lack of goodwill or a calculated move to benefit fronts. whereas russian are seeing reporting from paris. and we spoke to carling player in emergency manager with doctors without borders and here's what she had to say about the situation on the ground. we see more than six hundred thousand people displaced olf alone two hundred thousand in the capital and the finance 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. the shooting in the camp and the shooting is so bad that even our clinic cannot continue in its

normal ways we can no longer treatment 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 are in feted by armed men we have people discriminates in the hospital who came there to a deck patients inside the hospital so yes we see a big problem inside the hospitals are our biggest concern is the situation inside the hospitals but also his people not being able to access medical care because they're 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 face them in the bushes and people are more nervous they have problems accessing food accessing health care and 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. now with the holiday sale season underway found sea tech gadgets a top manny wish list but as the famous saying goes be careful what you wish for later this hour we're reporting on the national security agency infiltrates i phones laptops and other gizmos revokable changing people's attitude towards technology plus. knockouts a disturbing new trend in the u.s. teenagers punching people unconscious just for fun coming out how frightened citizens are trying to protect themselves from a sudden attack. well . it's technology innovation all the latest developments from around

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welcome back to watching our team international the financial downturn in europe has given momentum to tran that could be too difficult and a way to reverse even as the clouds of the crisis are slowly clearing foreign groups are still gaining ground with the u.k. greece and france among those witnessing a rapid spread of nationalism artist peter oliver reports. from the deal in britain in the north to golden dawn in greece and the south far right groups are making their voices heard in europe finance is 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 were accrued greece has seen a marked increase in support of the far right and neo nazi groups golden dawn and old guys ation the right they did by their critics is hooligans and. heralded by

their supporters as the savior for greece for the greeks and they systematic and the not going to preach hate and cultivate. violent behavior but they attack systematically immigrants present golden dawn have made it further than most they have elected officials on their books including current greek m p n y s custody at us it's not only in politics that extreme right to abuse a permeating this goal celebration by the athens he ordered to stop the itis 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 modi depends

national front. on the european people are realizing that the use in empire the soviet union in fact is destroying their freedom despite insistence is 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. it's all we need to slow down immigration i have nothing against foreign us but enough is enough. e.u. is saying where no money should go to allow again poor countries on it should stay in their own country and did he used to wouldn't be like. dictate everything. to us it used to be that party's interest spruced and the e.u.

second now it's only you. it seems as long as europe's finances continue to languish in the red more and more its people are seeking answers. the right key to all of it. and i will 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 plus. tell you why brits are advised to go to bat early during class tea and even shower in groups details on what's behind a story in our online energy dot com. remember when you sent all those text messages with holiday greetings to your loved ones thinking they are the only ones reading them well if you are using an i phone there's a chance the n.s.a. is in on it too as the latest leaks claim it can track the device and controlled

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 and also claim the agency intercepts freshly bought laptops and bugs them with spyware infiltrate software and hack 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 tech 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 now a car and roadside bombs have ripped through commercial areas in iraq's capital baghdad killing at least fifteen people over twenty others have been injured and that's after a radical islamist reportedly ambushed and set fire to nine government vehicles on the road to fallujah the army's continuing to battle al qaeda linked fighters there after insurgents took control of the city on friday. polls are now closed and bangladesh amid violent protests 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 as 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 was unique eliminations in place for the games our teams to be i would say explores the olympic city. 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 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 edge or ability they made to last for a century but also put a college changing wall factor in for such a shame 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 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 aquamarine 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 lighting 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 much fern and a touch of a button let's see what the magic of technology candy. and we're a lot of the logos all the. laws of. live and of course right here in between on the black sea and the beautiful white capped mountains and to the look they are coming to you from the olympic park in sochi. specials onus to be set up in sochi where people can protest president putin signed a decree that overhaul of last year's ban on rallies in the olympics area had to r.t. dot com for more on that and of course stay with us to international as we bring

you more from source in the run up to the winter games. now a strange and brutal game is spreading across the west 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 parties marina 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 has stepped out towards me and. with the clothes is hit me in 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 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 a where you're more for how to fight if some go through time where the knockout attacks are for him and for him ready to moskowitz believes are likely motivated by gang initiation something the n.y.p.d. . he hasn't officially acknowledged if they acknowledge that there's a guy who had a problem is they have to really try to curb all the guns and they can't do that so fast here so a lot of times they don't want to put a name on something right away because if they put a name one of them they have to go away or 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 police department to be able to be assigned to everybody in the shrewd they can't 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 port ny archie new york. and among the challenges facing the twenty first century many place of a city high on the list but can't get slimer by simply cutting down on food and that's discussed next and worlds apart with it's unavoidable. the. economic ups and downs in the find that month day the deal sank night and the rest that life. will be if briefly.

compared to any other big large nationwide to an institution i would say in the bank is almost free from all those mistakes. significant number of mistakes happen and we try to rectify it and we try to put in the system where you can detect any fault any any problem that arises in the system because that does system is computer that is so deep in chicken that from your head office what's going on in the villages and demoed branches we were could all live there if the single village of physics. back microcredit program so we have all around the country we have eight and a half million dollars ninety seven percent of the women are all connected with system. of the twenty four gene olympics this police line why is this so special as the russian

resort prepares to local the world power the game should be the city's present and future one moment sochi will bring you this is the moment everybody from a very cold snowy windy mountain is still beyond the olympics but. today on our team. hello and welcome to world if you are a westerner out there is one in three chance that you started this here by promising yourself to lose weight interestingly the data on new year's resolutions and diets are almost identical more than nine in talent failed so it is believing in a slim line how for yourself just this childish as believing in santa to discuss that

i'm now joined by john michelle kwan a prominent. the inventor of the parisian diet thank you very much for your time sir and now i know that your interest in nutrition stems from your childhood you were a chubby kid and you decided to overcome that by empowering yourself with knowledge now you try to share that knowledge with other people but i think it was we know for a fact a scientific fact now is that diet simply don't work what works is knowing basic principles of nutrition and applying down through all of your lives so i wonder why do you think people need to buy your book when they can go online and learn everything they need to know about nutrition about metabolism about food free of charge because i believe that it is enough to get so much. believe in people.