today's news and the week's top stories here on our t.v. the russian southern russian city of volgograd it's a final farewell to the thirty four victims two terrorist attacks r.t. brings you the story of a three month old survivor and his relatives are torn between hopeful her recovery and grief of the loss of her mother. a french military contingent fails to stem a wave of bloodshed gripping the central african republic with the united nations now warning of a looming humanitarian crisis. the situation is nitze out of control in the middle of the central african republic is not capable to control this frightens party speaks to the aid group doctors without borders about the carnage ravaging the states as even hospitals and medics come under fire.

tough economic times for the government's losing popular popular support paving the way for a resurgence of far right movements just months before the european parliamentary elections. and sought to get some world class elimination we were poured on a one of a kind lighting system that will make the upcoming olympics sparkle through the winter darkness. you're watching are two live from moscow and lindsey france thanks for joining me. here arrival of the new year was a time for grieving for russia's southern city of volgograd devastated by two terrorist attacks on monday a trolley bus was ripped apart by a suicide bombing that was less than twenty four hours after a massive explosion shook the city's main train station. thank

you. no i was i was. the two assaults left thirty four people dead and dozens more injured many of whom are still in intensive care one of those is a nine year old girl are to use medina coaching of i met the man who rescued her. it was just another day for u.t. and volga grads main train station but suddenly and old 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 we react rounded the area between the entrance and the second

international detectors in both us and. then i noticed a man in a girl with a run towards the girl asked her whether she could breathe but she was losing consciousness i picked her up and carried out of the station you'd be 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 can do is go. she was so brave she didn't even cry i was talking to her all the time because she kept saying that she wanted to sleep but she was just losing consciousness and i was telling her just don't sleep all you don't sleep. there was panic and more in the street to be released sometime to try an ambulance with the girl. i rushed to the ambulances are 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 think that time i broke down i started yelling at them of 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 from mother is with her at the hospital and her condition estate but serious as the first shock of what happened they did all this here and started to look for their daughter's rescue they even posters are called for help on this social network. please help us identify the man who carried 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 to do it. we will meet again definitely i will wait for her recovery and we'll keep in touch.

when the bush team are. here trustees involve a crowd came just over a month before the winter olympics and saw speculation that they could be linked to the games volgograd and saatchi are in the same broad geographic region but around six hundred fifty kilometers separates the two cities the international olympic committee has said it's confident russia will deliver a safe and secure games and tighter security has also been ordered across the country in the wake of the bombings r.t. has been getting reaction from around the world as to be events involving a grad most experts we've talked to seem to agree that no country can go it alone when it comes to counter terrorism. we're talking about asian harvest movement which is linked to a car that is outraged but not just in russia but also in other countries including in syria as we know now now the direct motive is not different from the previous attacks on moscow on other locations inside russia and i would say it is not so

different from attacks that has happened around the world why blacks and slide in seventy two and the olympics in germany any sporting event of a major size is bound to attract terrorist activity there isn't doesn't someone to rely on the bones and it relies on the fear of the bank is quite clear that even though volgograd is some four hundred miles away from the site of the winter olympics it is a transport hub for that part of russia and one of the media impact on the russian public and not just the russian public for those traveling to the goings next year it requires an international response because. many caution the water threatened by this is a danger but when terrorism occurs in russia it's kind of dismissed or it's kind of regarded it's not really the same thing so i think there's a double standard here we've got to take these terrible terrorist attacks in russia very seriously as seriously as we take these attacks in new york or in london and until that happens until the west does take this seriously i'm afraid that we're

not going to get the action needed internationally to stop these attacks taking place in the future. on our website we've got a timeline of the tragic events that involve other as well as the investigators latest findings. hospitals have come under fire in the central african republic over the past week as violence reached crisis point international charity doctors without borders has been forced to scale back its work in the nation's largest refugee camp the u.n. is now now also warning of an imminent humanitarian catastrophe with disease rampant among more than a million people displaced half of whom they starvation and french military contingent has been ballot battle battling militants there but as so far failed to bring any security to the country as artie's refinance explains. less than a year after french moods marched into mali france again is fighting in another of its former colonies in africa. that's

a church or the situation in the central african republic is alarming if not frightening that your paris received a green light from the un security council to use military force to restore order after deadly ethnic russians in the country escalated. i have decided to act immediately or more precisely this very evening this was eight hundred 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 and months later and lives are still being lost on all sides france's sixteen hundred strong force appeared and mabel to put an end to ethnic tensions dating back to the central african republic independence in one thousand nine hundred sixty four through france of former monopoly is responsible for helping to create in africa

a number of totally artificial states like ca are and now they jump in with this operation which is stupid militarily economically and politically dangerous scandalous from a human perspective and lead to zero results that zero results if we are talking bringing stability to the country at alland 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 c.a.r. is rich in resources but it mostly has value due to its strategic location in the center of a bath and rich area so it's eventually all about dominating and controlling the entire region. but i. others see the african countries central location on the continent as the key to fulfill the stated goals of the french military mission of

securing the entire region. france and other european countries are threatened by islamic radical and terrorist groups that are now decentralized and developed in the belt from the mercian timi a coast to somalia. and french troops deter these dangerous forces and also prevent pirates and drug traffickers from united. 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 moved 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 the country's latest

michu expedition to africa pushed forward by france's least procurer president in poland history that more than a thousand french soldiers are now an essential 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 . we spoke to carla and clare an emergency manager for doctors without borders here's what she has to say about the situation. 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 big that even our clinic cannot continue in its normal way so we can no longer treat military mission 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 the hospital so yes we see a big problem inside the hospitals are our biggest concern is the situation inside the hospitals but also it's people not being able to access medical care because they're too scared to go to help post and or to 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 nurse they have gone just accessing 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. it's a bizarre new craze punching strangers on the straights apparently just for fun we'll be reporting on the so-called knockout game that's causing havoc in u.s. cities later on in the program plus. if you own an i phone you may be unwittingly sharing your device with the n.s.a. more on that in a few minutes. car ends and roadside bombs have ripped through commercial areas in iraq's capital baghdad killing at least twenty people meanwhile in the nearby city of fallujah as offshoot in iraq has seized control of government forces and declared a breakaway islamic state during the u.s. led war the city was a major pocket of resistance american forces suffered a third of their total from its holidays there

a veteran of that war spoke to me earlier. my time inclusion in two thousand and four there's been able to step back and you know i've been involved you know you know a lot of various efforts here in the united states to help fellow veterans out with p.t.s.d. and things like that so i it's it's just it's incredible to see that you know a lot of the projections that those of us who wonder stood with the war was about at least figured out when we got home coming through now because when you understand the nature of war is a racket you want to stand the true motivations behind the united states in a very general occupation when you understand what kind of puppet government was installed in iraq your standard it was really only a matter of time before this happened at the nomic stagnation in europe has sparked a trend that many find alarming while governments insist the crisis is drawing to land that there are steadily losing ground to far right opposition movements artie's peter all of our reports. from the d.l.

in britain in the north to golden dawn in greece in 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 in 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 systematically not only preach it and cultivate it. 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.

elias custody at us it's not only in politics that extreme right views the permeating this goal celebration by the athens 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 in france's. national front the. european people are realizing that the use in them part of the soviet union 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 voted for parties that are considered right wing in

a recent election there's no question it's all we need to slow down immigration i have nothing against foreigners but enough is enough. e.u. is saying where the money should go to like come to our country is it should stay in their own country and they used to would. be like. everything. it used to be that party's interest groups and the you know it's only. limit it seems as long as europe spine and says continue to languish in the red more and more people are seeking and says the right key to all of it all to me. well good times are about to get better for the brits just americans add to our website find out why taxes billionaires are exempt from social security payments up

to the end of this year plus. google glass has a new arrival as a us company unveils contact lenses powered but not technology that could revolutionize the wearable computer market get the details on r.t. dot com. the software winter olympics are promising to be a literally thousand event top specialists and engineers have created a lighting system like no other and are ready to wow audiences with it around the world artists about not say reports from the host 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 like 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. lines was selected for danger ability they made to last for a century but also put their college changing wall factor in for certain such installations are temporary solution for various sports competitions but this one is hopefully going to stay for quite some time it is based on the cutting edge technology and totally new software that the world has yet to a dog. of 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 have been 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 what a lot of the fellow does get a. rod of sportsman lives and of course right here in the sword she between on the black sea and the beautiful white capped mountains and to the look they coming to you from the olympic park in sochi. and we'll be bringing you more behind the scenes coverage of the olympic build up

the just one month to go before the sox are two thousand and fourteen launch. of the twenty fourteen olympics was this police line. is so special as the russian resort prepares to logan the world power the games should be in the city's present and future life so it will bring you this is a moment still reporting from a very cold and snowy windy mountainous stop here beyond the olympics but come. on our team. well new yorkers have a new cause for concern on their streets a potentially deadly game called knockout is gaining in popularity police recently arrested a man suspected of at least five such attacks all of them against women artist maria is 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 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 a 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 and one of them as i tried to get away one of them stepped out towards me and. with the clothes this hit me in the face in some cases suspects have been arrested and 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 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 ignored because they're going to have a problem if they have to really try to curb all the guns and they can't do that so

for three or so a long time they don't want to put a name on something right away because if they put him in 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 their morals and most of 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 artsy new york for apple and desist it might seem like there's not much an i phone can do from editing video to scanning fingerprints but the bad news is that you're not the only one enjoying these features according to new leaks and a say can infiltrate the devices with minimal difficulty an article in the german magazine der spiegel claims

a program called dropout jeep allows the security agency to track all kinds of personal user data apple has already denied granting the n.s.a. backdoor access to its devices but journalist david seaman thinks americans could lose face and high tech firms. 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 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 on to some other news making headlines around the world now in stampede at a muslim ceremony in northern china has left at least fourteen people dead and many others injured four people remain in critical condition the incident occurred when traditional religious food was handed out to the people attending the event. record low temperatures are set to hit parts of the united states as winter storms continue across the country forecasters say the freeze could hit minus fifty celsius in the midwest and are warning people to stay home the extreme weather conditions claimed the lives of sixteen people this weekend grounded thousands of flights next up on our t.v. it's cross talk with peter lavelle stay with us.

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