the iraqi prime minister urges on kind of fighters in control of key towns to give up towns as the militants enjoy a rise of inflows fueled by the war in neighboring syria. the army's greatest threat the u.k. military is disconnected from the public apparently don't understand what it's actually for that's the claim coming from a parliamentary watchdog. sledge hockey team prepares to make its debut at the upcoming paralympics or meet the captain's family to find out where he is drawing his strength and inspiration from.

this is unseen to national coming to life for most. of our hello and welcome iraq's prime minister is calling on al qaeda fighters and all those who joined them to surrender the militant group has occupied key cities of the country's biggest province and the government are struggling to regain control assays middle east correspondent points leader is following the conflict. well the situation certainly is becoming increasingly volatile but we've now heard from the iraqi prime minister is him urging all those who have joined a kind of to give up the fight he has hinted at the possibility of hardening these militants if indeed they do so they are facing a massive siege that has been launched by the government troops now i think he was speaking in his weekly televised address and he volunteered that address to continue what he calls the sacred war against al qaida is the local branch which is known as be islamist state in iraq and they live and he also said that he would

continue to finish the push to retake the key and bar cities often and ramadi which earlier were taken over by the militants and that the militants had to compete for lucia as their independent state what we see happening now is that al qaeda linked militants are trying to capitalize on the sick tarion tension that is currently inside iraq and this is a tension that the united states failed to resolve you'll remember of course that the united states occupied iraq for eight years and then pulled out leaving behind this major stick tarion power of the cave at the same time some of the al qaida and linked militants who are now fighting in iraq all reported meat coming from across the border in syria and of course the united states has been supporting the syrian opposition which inadvertently has allowed these extremist islamist militants to flourish in the first place the united states is now saying that it will be sending

an emergency shipment of surveillance from drones and missiles to iraq in an attempt to try and prop up its allies in baghdad. the militant group now in control of fallujah calls it sound the islamic state of iraq and the levant and its fighters are also known as the most radical jihadist wing of the syrian rebels let's now take a closer look at the organization which is gaining momentum in the region right now and its roots go beyond to the early years of the iraq war it was stumbled in april two thousand and four by sunni extremists and pledged allegiance to bin laden a bedtime it was called al qaeda in iraq two years later rounded as the islamic state of iraq in twenty thirteen it gained a strong presence in northern syria which saw it and to its name now and of course in the latest development of the group has taken control of saluja the key town in the province and in iraq and proclaimed an islamic state and their plan is to unite

iraq and syria to form an islamic state known as a kind of fate phyllis bennis from the institute for policy studies told r.t. is kevin owen the crisis in iraq is fueled by the syrian war. we risk the possibility of the extension of this militarization that we're seeing in iraq right now we're seeing it already in syria where a civil war has expanded to a regional war and it's now spilling over into iraq the increasing militarization by the united states to the iraqi government is only going to make that worse not better and of course the irony is on the one hand you've got the united states supporting the rebels in syria have not come over the border into iraq and we're also hearing this we know offering drones and military support personnel but military support to fight these very same people before the against the it directly you have this scenario where the sunni population which is the minority but a large minority in iraq feel completely disenfranchised disempowered disconnected

from their own government and so the u.s. is saying instead of in insisting that the government change its policy of discrimination towards one of egalitarianism many quality for all something that we are in no position to brag about here in this country i should say but what the u.s. claims to withhold as a hold up as a as a model the u.s. as well will send you told missiles so you can send more missiles and kill more people the wrong government has delayed its assault on the militant held a city of fallujah for now in civilian casualties but the troops and tanks besieging the same time as soon as they get the order and for the residents it's a looming catastrophe as are she's going to check out. residents of. hell during the u.s. occupation now face their own armies to solve on the cd the iraqi government has lined up tanks on loaded fighter jets preparing to drive al qaeda linked militants

out of the city the u.s. is packing more hellfire missiles and other weapons for the iraqi army to use and everybody knows when the bombing begins there will be blood brian back with me brian so many innocent iraqis have died in terror attacks do you think this. terror assault could turn out to be just as deadly as terror itself it could be even more deadly if the people who. have been through this before two thousand and four twice the u.s. marines committed to huge war crimes against the people of flu should they can they call a kill zone anything that moved was killed when you declare a kill zone you see everything that moves must die everything that moves must be a terrorist everything that moves is a legitimate target who then dies who then suffers it's the the people of pollution themselves of course they don't want to live under what do they want to live under these kind of military assaults paid for by the united states with arms from the united states carried out by the government which has also been

a brutal against the residents of fallujah i don't think so crucial question thank you thank you no doubt there is an urgent need to drive these militants out after all how can you allow extremists to run talents again territory expand but then you also have to ask if you see bombing as a viable option in order to drive extremists out of residential areas how different is it from what bashar assad is doing in washington i'm going to check on our team . baselining state of iraq and libya and controlling for literature in the same time urging a target on its rival opposition groups in syria while other rebel leaders are urging a truce between the function's rid of all about it on our website onto your column meanwhile the second round of peace talks will see where it's around the corner but the country's opposition's look is split on whether to attend coming up in just a couple of minutes we've got an expert opinion on what's behind the syrian

national coalition is divided start so stay with us. one of the biggest threats to britain's armed forces is a lack of public understanding of what they stand for that's according to a recent u.k. parliament report m.p.'s say their opposition to wars in iraq and afghanistan and a reduced public appetite for overseas of dimensions is leading people to question the purpose of the u.k. army and public support for defense is dropping due to what it's seen as a lack of a long term strategic mission meanwhile massive military budget counts are pushing the army's capabilities actress despite being one of the world's top defense spenders returns planning to cut personnel by nearly thirty thousand over the next six years and years are. the army's recruiting but applicant numbers are slow to pick up a bit thousands of layoffs there's

a massive drive to recruit army reservists but leaked mid year army memos reveal the number of people in list of the beyond the reserve over a three month period was just three hundred sixty seven barely a quarter of the target the ministry of defense said that after wrapping up the recruitment drive in september there were more than fifteen hundred applicants in the first four weeks and that it's too early to make a conclusion but this young man says he simply can't be convinced. for such second term enjoyed was in church. bad idea to be joining forces because they are fighting a war against fascism i don't agree with the way the army is he who just used it was used as a force regress rather than a and this morning that was erected to commemorate the conscientious objectors to military service those who would exercise their right to refuse to kill you at the time of the first world war for instance they faced a restaurant jeers from some of society who view them as cowards but times have

indeed changed. a decade of fighting in iraq and afghanistan has made the british war weary a most people join the armed forces to be in the peace business not in the war business because such is a threat to their livelihood nobody wants to be in a war because to be in a war activists have also lashed out at recruitment campaign started at sixteen and seventeen year olds who according to one recent study are more susceptible to post-traumatic stress disorder at the moment we're asking a sixteen year old who we don't trust the point to drink a pint of beer in the pub we don't trust a vote in the general election we're asking that person to make a very far reaching legal commitment towards a career like having a baby care of foreign accounts or the ministry of defense says the report completely ignores the benefits and opportunities that a military career offers young people but for this young man it's a career path is

a great way to change his mind about this not try to do the job anymore we're going to have to show people that if your joining the army no it is you're going to be sent abroad to shoot people who have done nothing against. us or so you are to. andrea glanton is a film a british soldier who refused to serve a second tour in afghanistan on moral grounds he was later jailed and spend five months in military prison he believes people have a problem with their politicians who turned defense forces into the names of invasion. because i was with had questions been the military there's just no four of them it's nor it's not the oxford debating society obviously you're just told to crack on and politics have nothing to do with you why defense i mean offensive capability and i mean invasions and the use of drones and special forces which is increasingly the trend clearly people want to be secure. and that's not all people the public generally have a problem with what they have a problem with repeated. operations along the lines of iraq afghanistan libya

nearly syria they were not sympathetic to those in the corridors of power who stop these walls and this is part of the reason why we've seen increasingly the khan of the law is a shoo in of of the military and you can call it a hero or a zation and you see this increasingly this very jingoistic kind of building up and placing on a pedestal of military personnel and from a used to counter the groundswell of popular opposition coming up later this program they tuxpan is picking up the endless bells. this building site will eventually be pretty constant all however it's already over ten times its original budget it's set to cost close to a billion euro so important it's huge national construction projects in germany that budget many times over you just appalled.

has been on their winter parlin picks a roast since one thousand nine hundred ninety four but this year will see russia make its debut and already has seen them on ice and their captain and now what made those who've helped captain buddy in silicon enjoy so many hot chips and his drive for victory. well for of against the who can he is known as the captain of the national paralympic flood talking to him here in russia but in this tells his just notice dad. we asked about his family and the first time he met his wife irene a. we first met when i was in the army serving in this area there was a spark from the very beginning and grew as we dated you could see it was love at first sight my entire life changed it had a new meaning but another kind of change was coming the two were considering time

the not when the diem went off to war where he lost both of his legs i removed into his hospital room to help with his care i'm a couple continued with their plan to marry when asked about the proposal irene a said she knew it was coming. over lists well i was expecting the proposal the wedding day we had a lot of guests and we all had so much fun. but the mood changes a little when we ask irene how she felt about his and jury. i couldn't believe it for a long time coping with the stress of any injury requires real psychological resilience they both clearly have that in spades. he does everything for the family we all feel that he helps people realize that life isn't over that everything is possible life goes on. the marriage is stronger than ever and katia became the second woman

to change the team's life six years ago. now he's heading for the paralympic games and that also means leaving his loved ones but for the team his two passions in life are never too far from each other. i really enjoy all the time i get to spend at home because when i'm away in training sessions with the team i miss my family very much it's the same as the game when you sit on the bench for a long time just watching the others play and then you get this little time and nice you want to make most of it you're one hundred percent committed. a commitment shared by everyone in the house while the dream is eager to take home gold come march he already has his prize at home in the moscow region and margaret howell r.t. . the olympic park limping game is fast approaching don't forget to follow the amazing well been falling into line as well for you cash the best bits of

a record breaking torch relay of the twenty fourth and winter olympics in sochi. the church is on its epic journey. one hundred twenty three days. through down some nine hundred towns and cities of russia. related by fourteen thousand people or sixty clans dancing killing. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others place. a lizard college feeling. on mars. and or interest of few months after the break we're trying to while russia saying some greenpeace is connected with the seizure one of its own is biased against senegalese authority is just a with us or that. choose

your language. make it without any. concern. to the opinions the degrade.

the stories get him. through. this is also international welcome bach and debunking the myth of german efficiency public construction projects have been turning into economic time bombs and you critics say to the irresponsible planning of those in charge and its tanks as who fail its taking last of all to all of the reports. if you listen to the politicians germany's ruling in it but if you believe those following the money trail is a different story. meanly it's a problem with cost estimates the use the wrong data they start building and

eventually they run out of money and then talk speirs have to pick up the bill. currently germany has one of the biggest construction sectors in europe but all around the country there's evidence that those in charge of the purse strings on the best to make building decisions this building site will eventually become birds premie a concert hall however it's already over ten times its original budget it's set to cost close to a billion euro it's not just the grand artistic projects that have cost the big money here in the thought off this tourist information booth has already cost taxpayers around one and a half million euro for the ultimate in modern german construction white elephants look no further than right here at the brandenburg airport grossly over budget already four years behind schedule it's currently costing nearly one million euro

or day to run and that's without any planes or passengers to those a train tunnel in late zigged that ended up five hundred million over budget that people had expected in two thousand and five and the german reputation for efficiency doesn't hold up when it comes to construction those running for election this year to the e.u. parliament believe those in power don't have the required skills to decide on huge projects it's not their money they can dream they can plan they can make each and every kind of. drafts. because they don't have to paid for four years before eight years as long as a project is not finished. they are fighting for the start over the top it's a toy about the additional cost increase the national debt so talk years have to be twice first to pay the interest on the debt then again on the extra cost of

planning it for you those familiar with the construction. of that if you plan as you go it's always more expensive than. i she was sworn in as chancellor for a third time late last year and promised five billion to fix up germany's rule germans will have no idea how much that promise. cost them peter all over germany. and the online view right now dot com does believe and he's trying. to find out why the former u.s. secretary of defense feels disillusioned by obama's policies plus some other juicy details that almost top military man reveals that he's never. won a greek terrorist might have run over time asking him to return to prison after his new year's leave more details on the story stick with the way.

with the geneva two talks on syria set to kick off later this month the country's opposition remains undecided on whether to take part while most of thirteen members of the sewer dashiell coalition have already resigned over the group's participation the blog has postponed its final decision until january seventeenth which has less than a week before the summit begins analysts believe despite being blocked by the west the opposition doesn't have the support of the syrian people. in syria you have an electoral process there is a presidential election this year and the big problem for the opposition is that they don't have the support on the ground in syria because they don't represent anyone other than western powers the western imperial alliance the transatlantic alliance nato the gulf cooperation council so their support in syria is very very minimal and that's why they don't want to take part in the actual election process in syria writing process so this is a big problem because how do you negotiate with people who essentially represent

western interests and don't represent the interests of the syrian people so they would rather not have to enter into any kind of rational negotiation and the reason for that of course is that they have no political program they have never had a political program they have no economic program. if they had their way they would simply destroy the country get in there tear the country apart privatized everything and sort it out to the gulf cooperation council countries particularly saudi arabia and qatar they would serve western corporate interests. and some other news in brief this sound at least nine people have been killed in india after a fire broke out on a passenger train and spread to three cultures the train was on its way from mumbai to the country's enormous other passengers were evacuated and continued with their journey in there were many carriages because of the fire in december at least twenty six people died after another train caught alight in the country's south. in

bangladesh police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse angry crowds of student protesters who've been staging a rally that followed one of the most violent national elections in the country's history called for a general strike against the prime minister shake this feeling that we can explode with over two thirds of the seats as the results were published the country has been plunged into trios with reports of dozens of deaths and why. spread allegations of fraud. on reality since south korea have staged a protest in a sore against cain young of the day believed to be the north korean leader they torched flanks of the neighboring country and depicted last month's execution of the powerful uncle overcame the raised tensions in the korean peninsula from to the united states to deploy troops and happy times in seoul as part of the so-called minute treat we're balancing. moscow says it's preparing to file several legal

claims to a court in sydney goal over the detention a russian fishing trawler it's now been trapped in the west african country since the weekend something greenpeace has expressed its satisfaction about going to cities. we're talking about an armed detention of this ship and some sixty two russian citizens that are on board about it since it was actually handled. because at least four people now off the course saying that they actually have medical help however they are not allowed to get off the ship in fact all of the russian citizens have had their passports taken away by the armed officials and they are the ship and the crew are essentially being accused of illegal fishing and poaching waters however the authorities of senegal still haven't given any concrete proof of that actually haven't taken place or have not provided any called explanation where these allegations are coming from and still we're already have

the green peace which is already making statements saying that they fully support the actions of the senegal government in their attempt to prevent the alleged illegal fishing this involvement by greenpeace is something that doesn't sit well with russia's federal fishing agency greenpeace says it's been tracking this vessel for a long time why are they taking upon themselves the government's responsibility to protect their waters and biological resources therefore based on the statements from greenpeace one may conclude that the military of senegal is acting upon these claims as you may know senegal specie minister the green party in senegal and was until very recently a member of greenpeace and she see the connection between this harsh and unprecedented attack on the russian trailer and its detention with greenpeace's actions if you go back to september i will remember the rest of the greenpeace arctic sunrise after an attempt by the greenpeace activist to scale russian oil rig

in the northern waters and then of course later they fell under the nationwide amnesty and were released and what we can assume that they are now safely home in their respective countries however this recent development in the west african nation is. seems to rise up at the tensions between russian officials and greenpeace yet again up next it's a story but for viewers in the u.k. it's going underground with option what. you cannot preemptively restrict your freedoms because of the fear of what something or how something might be used everything that has ever been developed has been used for a bad purpose baseball bats which are fun for you know for baseball players to hit balls you know they've also been used to be people today i mean we just cannot

restrict ourselves because something might be used in the in the wrong way. some of the sixteen percent of imports came from illegal fishing and. the european union is ironically taking fish from some of the poorest nations on earth so this is a very serious and very urgent problem that needs immediate international action. on foot to enter territorial waters they fish they load this fish into the ships and leave for europe. today illegal fishing just taking the bread out of our mouths. millions around the globe struggle with hunger each good. what if someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge. they can the very strong

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