today's news out of this week's top stories here in r.t. the southern russian city of volgograd mourns the thirty four victims of two terror attacks with dozens of injured people still in hospital r.t. brings a story of one of the survivors and nine year old girl whose life was saved by a stranger. the french military contingent fails to stem a wave of bloodshed that's gripped the central african republic with the u.n. now raising the alarm of a looming humanitarian crisis there. the situation is literally out of control in the cool front of the central african republic is not capable to control this violence. r.t. talks to medical group doctors without borders about the carnage ravaging this day as even hospitals and doctors become targets. europe sees

a rise of far right groups across the region as the financial crisis undermines public trust and governments forcing people to look for alternatives. and the bright minds working on bright lights we report in a one of a kind of elimination system set up by engineers for the winter olympics in sochi. the start the international coming to live from moscow with me marina joshua at 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 volga grads main train station

but suddenly it all changed. there was a loud clamp the force of it was so strong that it smashed the windows in 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 riyadh rounded the 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 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 do is go. she was so brave she didn't even cry i was talking to her all the time she kept

saying that she wanted to sleep but she was just losing consciousness and i was telling her just don't sleep don't sleep. there was panic and horror in the street to be released some time to find an ambulance for the girl. i rushed to the ambulances but they told me the only take grown ups and that i have to wait for the children's emergency to arrive my apologize now but i think 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 doctors say 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 faded 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 our oil out of the train station after the bombing on december twenty ninth twenty thirteen he told her not to fall asleep the girl remembers him has been asking about him for two days straight we really want to tell him thank you so it is good we will meet again definitely i will wait for her recovery and we'll keep in touch so. why do the question our team moscow. now will be keeping you up to date on all this condition as the changes here international well speaking about the attacks guardian newspaper contributor in new york clarke insisted that global powers must unite against terrorism if they want to eliminate it. it's 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 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. 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 should look at the boston bombings didn't we when we had the russian warnings about the south sarina 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 the major shift that's got to happen and it's ok to have nato she's coming out very quiet right and again this is but i'm less there is this approach to russia all respectful approach instead of this on the one hand said going to work with russia number one coming out of this cold war propaganda against russia that's the big should this for

a. while get more perspective on universal anti terror efforts and updates on the investigation into the volgograd bombings by heading to our web site r t v dot com also next hour here on our t.v. we're reporting on the youngest victim of the attack three month old of the car lost her mother and grandmother in the blast and has fighting for her life in a moscow hospital. the hospitals are under fire in the central african republic as 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 to face starvation a french military contingent has been battling militants there but has so far failed to bring added security to the country as are 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 of the situation in the central african republic as alarming if not greater than that your parents received a green light from the un security council to use military force to restore order after the deadly ethnic runnels in the country escalating. 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 other motive 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 a hand 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 christine president of france is new and capitalist party believes there is more to paris his decision to intervene that i was your fourth fifth france used to pretext of human rights and in fact it was aimed at protecting its economic interests the scenario 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 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 footing the bill that calls. 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 that 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 russian are seen reporting from paris. now we spoke to carolyn player an 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 dead 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 actually shooting in the camp . so that even our clinic cannot continue in its normal way so we can no longer treatment we have still gone 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 it's at this moment 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 how big a school certain is of the situation inside the hospitals but also is people being able to access medical care because they're too scared to go to help post and or do 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 today

in the bushes and people are more nervous they have access in food to accessing health care and you can just see that people are living in extremely poor conditions they're literally living in the bush this close which are more or less wrecks and some people live already since april last year in the bush. well the holiday sale season underway fancy tag gadgets top many wish list but as a famous saying goes be careful what you wish for later this hour a worry for it on how the national security agency infiltrates i phones laptops and other deals with the spirit globally changing people's attitudes towards technology plus. knock out a disturbing new trend in the u.s. sees teenagers punching people unconscious just for fun going out on our t.v. how frightened citizens are trying to protect themselves from a sudden the town. there's

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t. arabic to find out more visit our big. dog called. welcome back this is r.t. international the financial downturn in europe has given momentum to tranda could be too difficult and too late to reverse even as the clouds of the crisis are slowly clearing far right 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 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 were crude greece has

seen a marked increase in support of the far right and neo nazi groups golden dawn and all guys ation the right they did by their critics as hooligans and thugs heralded by the supporters as the savior for greece for the greeks and their systematic and not going to preach hate and cultivate. but they attack systematical. present golden dawn have made it further than most they have elected officials on their books including current greek m.p. elias custody at us it's not only in politics that extreme right to abuse the permeating this goal celebration by the athens 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. 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 the right wing in a recent election didn't care so we need to slow down immigration i have nothing against foreign us but enough is enough. to e.u. it is saying where the money should go to like and who come to our country is 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 put interest spruced and the e.u. second no 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 teacher all of germany. online 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 plus. we tell you why brits are advice to go to bed early drink less tea and even shower in groups the details on what's behind the story on our t.v. dot com. remember when you send all those text messages with holiday greetings to your loved

ones thinking they're the only ones reading down well if you were 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 control it remotely without the consent from the owner or apple it was 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 aniseed 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 that 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 and some other news making headlines around the globe car and a roadside bombs have ripped through commercial areas in iraq's capital baghdad killing at least twenty people scores more 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 is continuing to battle qaeda linked fighters in the city after insurgents to control on friday. polls are now closed in 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 escalating after the country's prime minister was used to step down and form a caretaker of ministration. and the winter olympics in sochi is aiming to quite literally outshine all previous events with a unique illuminations in place for the games artist of i would say explore 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 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 because of 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 cocktail 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 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 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 a touch of a button let's see what the magic of technology candy. and were a lot of the lotus. live and of course the right here in the snow and she between on the black sea and the beautiful white capped mountains and to the look they coming to you from the olympic park. and special zone is to be set up in sochi where people can protest president putin signed

a law that overall the last two years ban on rallies in the olympics area so how to r.t. dot com for more on this and of course stay with us here at national as if we bring you more from sochi in the run up to the winter games. now a strange and brutal game is spreading across the u.s. players choose a victim on the street where they only aim to knock them unconscious with a single punch police recently arrested a man suspected of at least five such attacks all dance women are just. 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 surrounded me one of them as i tried to get away one of them stepped out towards me and. with their clothes this 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 fly to from go through time where the knockout attackers are for him and for him ready to moskowitz believes are likely motivated by gang initiation something the n.y.p. . 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 gangs 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 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 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 artsy new york next hour he travels to an island outpost deep in the arctic circle stay with us for that and more. recently the federal reserve system celebrated its one hundredth birthday yeah that big con game that just a few years ago no one seems to know about has been in place for one hundred years so let's celebrate the federal reserve by remembering all their accomplishments since nine hundred thirteen firstly they've managed to take the printing of money out of the hands of the u.s.

government and thus out of the hands of us voters i what it comes to money who needs to mock received representation anyways they also managed to whittle away the dollars tagging the gold until nixon finally said forget gold let's print our way out of vietnam and because there's no link between the dollar and gold the purchasing power of the dollar has reduced by at least twenty three times since the fed came into being lovely but what about the next hundred years well if the recent rounds of quantitative easing are any sign of things to come then we're going to be seeing a lot more inflation and big private bankers getting richer while we all get poorer bad people generally don't survive one hundred years but bad systems sadly can go on and on and on forever but that's just my opinion.

spitzbergen is the stoning point for expeditions to the north pole a little over a thousand kilometers away. but there's next to no sunlight each day was a little light remains could. to news today. in just ten days the sun will stop rising above the horizon all together. along no it will begin. like it is on the mainland in the middle of. the locals say there are three four seasons here day and snowmobile season.

people on the island because of the harsh environment but a very small few have chosen to live here. yes. be careful. to. go. to great at the norwegian town of. special ceremony. for many years it was declared.