day's news the week's top stories from on to the southern russian city of volgograd continues to mourn the thirty four victims of two terror attacks with dozens of survivors still in hospital we bring you the story this hour of one of them a nine year old girl and life were saved by a stranger. a 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 this situation is literally out of control in the coffin and of the central african republic is not capable to patrol this violence talks to the aid group doctors without borders this hour going about the carnage ravaging the state right now as even hospitals are medics are becoming targets also making your lympics we report to on what does the illumination system really to

inspire audiences of the winter. good morning live from moscow is kevin owen here at r.t. international this morning this is a weekly roundup of the big stories that shape the past seven days and first the start of the new year was marred with loss for volgograd as its citizens said their last goodbyes and farewells to the thirty four victims of two bombings that shook the southern russian city dozens of man intensive care still we report now one of the youngest victims and the man who saved her life. it was just another day for u.t. and wagner grads a 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 on 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 read through a crowded area between the entrance and the security national detectors. 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 beauty some time to find an ambulance for the 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 childrens clinic hospital in moscow and currently doctors are battling to save their lives dr c. the girl has damage to her lungs her mother is with her at the hospital and her condition is stable but serious as the first shock of what happened fade it all disappear and started to look for their daughter's rescuer they even posters or call for help on a social network. please help us identify the man who carried 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 there was the we will meet again definitely i will wait for her recovery and will keep in touch with their. minds and of course not our eighteen moscow. will be given your position all of us progress to speaking about the attacks guardian newspaper contributor and they'll clarke told us the global powers he thinks need to unite against terrorism if they want to destroy 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 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 in 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

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 ph assault 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 she's coming out today quite rightly to get this attack but i'm less there is this different approach to russia more respectful approach instead of this on the one hand saying going to work with russian other hand carrying out this cold war propaganda against russia has to be sure this will happen. well sort of a british journalist no clout there when you get more perspective on counterterrorism efforts not dates on the investigation into the volgograd bombings over on our website as well r.t. dot com forget and next hour as well here and i'll be reporting on the youngest of

the survivors involved a grad three month old vic you've been following a story all week you may recall she lost a mother and a grandmother in one of those blasts that she still fighting for her life thankfully conditions not got worse for bringing up today. all spittles of commodified of the central african republic now over the past week as violence in the country's reached crisis point the international charity doctors without borders says it's been forced to scale back its work in the country's largest refugee camp and the u.n. is now warning of an imminent humanitarian catastrophe with disease rampant among more than a million displaced people half of whom face starvation french military contingents been battling militants there too but it's so far failed to bring any security to the country as artie's briffa not 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 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 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 violence torn country to join the six hundred already deployed there on the force that france has no where the most of them to save human lives and months later and lives are still being lost on all sides prices 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 christine president of france is new and to capitalist party believes there is more to paris's decision to intervene that i was your fourth fifth france used to create a list 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. 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. which would 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's cause. the operation only became needed as there was a failure of diplomacy and politics in the c.a.r. a failure of the un the african union economic community of central african states and the you know who pays for this pricey campaign all french taxpayers. surveys show less than half of the french population support they 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 whereas russia not seeing reporting from paris or to get more of what was happening on the ground and it was protocol in place she's an emergency manager with doctors without borders this is what she had to say about the situation there. 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 treat monitress should 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 reese finance 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 bonn the our estimation is that more than six hundred thousand people are living in the bushes and i've met them i faced them in the bushes and people are more nervous they have problems of excess 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 that they have close which are more or less wrecks and some people live already since april last year in the bush. clear there from doctors without borders papers but earlier on coming up with the holiday sale season underway fancy tech gadgets top many a wish list but as the saying goes what you wish for later this hour of portland how the national security agency will trace smartphone of laptops or other gizmos to a revocable even changing people's attitudes to take elegy where you think of us to take a little bit. knock out a disturbing new trend in the u.s. these teenagers punching people for no reason on call just just for fun of ed we look at how frightened citizens are trying to protect themselves to. the beginning of the long politic night marks in the face of school island life.

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to try to alter the spanish find out more visit. slogan economic stagnation in europe sparked a trend that many finding a while government insists the crisis is drawing to an end the steadily losing ground to to far right opposition movements marty's paper all of the reports i from the d.l. and 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 cruet 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 systematically not only preach hate and cultivate. violent behavior but they attack systematically immigrants present golden dawn of 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 views of 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 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 francis body depends

natural fraud. on the european people are realizing that the use in them parts of the soviet union that in fact is destroying their freedom despite insistence is that they want to take parts of 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 vote for parties that are considered the right wing in a recent election careless i mean that's all you need to slow down immigration i have nothing against foreigners but enough is enough. yeah e.u. is saying where the money should go to like and who can work country is on its own country and it used to wouldn't be like. state everything. it used to be. proofed and the e.u.

second us now its only. limit it seems as long as your spine and says continue to languish in the read more and more people are seeking answers to the right key to all of it all to be. on top of the news the day was trying to line up something interesting and different for you to get teeth into online interesting story tonight than talking a witch but cost cutting at that clean up of fukushima the awful disaster but turns out he's coming through for workers now claiming makeshift materials like gaffer tape used to hold the leaking nuclear plant together apparently as they duct tape was used as pows in an emergency it's all hands today isn't it more about the revelation online also to tell you why brits are being advised to go to bed early drink less t.v. or so i thought i had even showering proof why the reason behind it i don't t. don't. remember just a couple days ago when you sent maybe you know all those text messages to loved

ones with holiday greetings thinking they were the only ones that were going to be reading them hopefully well if you're using an i phone it appears there's a chance the n.s.a. was it only two as the latest leaks claim it could track a device and control it remotely without the consent from the owner or apple it was the only information needed to emerge in the week from the german magazine der spiegel it also claimed the agency intercepts freshly bought laptops and bugs them with spyware infiltrate software and even servers in order to get to the targets journalist david seaman says after the scandalous exposure of the n.s.a. people will never trust tech companies where they used to. my understanding of it is that this is extremely widespread but it's 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 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 an opinion in this global society but the n.s.a. has destroyed a lot of that it's undermined basic faith in the internet. car roadside bombs ripped through commercial areas in iraq's capital baghdad it's killed at least twenty people scores more but injured the two it's after radical islamists reportedly ambushed and set fire to nine government vehicles on the road for luge a real mess there right now the army is continuing to battle al qaeda linked fighters in the city after insurgents took control on friday before in that story. over thirty thousand african asylum seekers have taken to the streets here in the israeli city of tel aviv calling on the government to recognize their status as

refugees demonstrators also protest against current legislation allowing the detention of illegal migrants for years without trial around sixty thousand asylum seekers live in israel currently most of them coming from eritrea and sudan. more like to know the winter olympics in sochi are aiming to quite literally shine all previous events with unique illuminations in place for the games the organizers say artists have a more to say explores the more from 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 of 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 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 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 a century but also put a college changing wall factor in for such a short film 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 snowflakes the ice bank sports palace turns into a giant aquamarine wave the atlas skating arena the neon giant was shimmering

rainbow colors the first stadium will be hosting the opening and closing ceremonies and the preparations of all 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 of the lights here at the olympic park stadiums with this smartphone and it's has to have a button let's see what the magic of technology candy. and what the fellow does they. laid on the wrong side of most men's lives and of course on right here in between on the black sea and the beautiful white capped mountains into the mud they coming from the olympic park. warning. now the appliance of science the small new sea for such a special zone is said to be set up now where people can protest if they want to

those more big news and such in the way president putin signed a law that overhauled last year's ban on rallies in lympics area it's been a big move if you want to find out more about acute speed it's it r t dot com and of course your darts international we've got much more to come from sochi in the run up to those big winter games. running off with a strange story a strange book brutal game is spreading across the u.s. players choose a victim randomly in the street with the only aim to knock them on conscious with a single punch police recently arrested a man suspected of at least five such attacks are his more important following this 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 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's step towards me and. with the clues is 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 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 for the knockout attacks or throw him into him ready to moskowitz believes are likely motivated by gang initiation was something the n.y.p.d. hasn't officially acknowledged if they acknowledge that there's a guy who had a problem is they have to really try to curb organs 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 after r.t. 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. 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. ok you say next travels to a remote island surrounded miss for six months of the inventions continue that but after this break.

there are many internal battles in society liberals and conservatives will never agree on gun rights or abortion but there is one battle that is often more generational than anything the battle for school uniforms teachers argue that uniforms eliminate a big distraction in the classroom and break up the caste systems that can evolve at school between the cool festival kids and the ones who can barely afford lunch like me in my younger years but teenagers will scream uniforms crush their freedom of expression and that they have a right to express who they are their individuality who has the right to dictate to them what to wear the thing they don't realize is that if the school doesn't tell them what to wear that big corporations and m.t.v. will all the cool individuals who dress alike and blindly follow all the trends are just obeying corporate marketing instead of their parents yeah for some reason it is bad if the school punishes you for dressing improperly but if the cool kids make your life a living hell for not wearing the right brand of shoes well that's all well and good for some reason hey look at this way school uniforms are cheap which leaves

more money for parents to buy you video games being individual in your actions and not a fake individual in trendy clothes but that's just my opinion. spitzbergen is the stoning point for expeditions to the north pole a little over a thousand kilometers away. as. next to no sunlight each day what little light remains continues 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 night. it's just.

the locals say there are three or four seasons here day and snowmobile season. people on the island because of the environment but a very small few have chosen to live here. yes. just. be careful.