well terrorist networks you know to sort of show that they can pull it off and in russia it is. not as difficult to put it out as in the united states and using suicide bombers they make their message even work rafiq we have earlier talked to wally far as former u.s. senate visor on terrorism and terrorists what. kind of a message he sees behind this this horrendous attack. well there are tool important notes here for international observers number one is that this attack against most schools airport which was bloody this is a massacre is also a message to all the entire international community that the cheras been able to discover more areas where governments in general in moscow in particular but any other airports around the world will have to pay attention to these are areas not protected by security measures so that is something that now the international

community would have to look at very seriously i think that in the next few weeks there would be a important push both in washington in brussels the european capital and of course in moscow to sit down together and think of a proposal that the united nations should have an agency that would go after those who are inciting for violence worldwide across the border. also russian security officials believe that terrorist groups operating in russia do get funding from the brought some of the members are actually known to have been trained abroad so really to stop this there has to be an international effort going to washington president obama was quick to send a message to the russian people a message of condolences. bearing in mind the relations between the two countries have really been improving recently do you think this sort of incident could actually unite russia and america evolution now. well bill incidents like

this are supposed to bring countries together because after all it's a common goal to prevent things like this from happening now everybody is talking about terrorism as a common thread that the international community has to fight together but the rhetoric hasn't always been like this for a long time the west would see the terrible things that terrorists had done in russia as some sort of a rebel movement some some separatist the whatever they used to call them but now it's very clear to everyone that these thugs are a threat to the whole of the international community and that their actions cannot be justified by anything but again it took the west a while to realize that it's going to thanks very much indeed for that from washington d.c. auntie's going to check on that. when i spoke to ivan eland he's a political analysts from the independent institute in washington and he told me that tragedies like the one that. could rule the u.s. and russia closer together as we've already intimated. growing islamism is

a global phenomenon but the terrorism is usually caused by even splinter groups within the islamist. movement and those are usually pretty local with local causes for instance al qaeda attacks the united states for its foreign policy that sort of thing so. it seems like a global movement but it's really not that coordinated various groups attack various countries for various reasons and it's usually local i think it will make the two countries go together because to some extent they do perceive it as a global phenomenon even though i think that's an erroneous perception but but also simply the humanity of it you know after nine eleven the world reached out to the united states i think after this really unfortunate and horrible incident certainly brok obama and the people of the united states will reach out to russia tragedy like this you know brings everybody together at the human level and i think we need . a little bit more of that in the international politics we tend to get you know

wrapped up in the you know who's ahead and who's behind it and what who's interested is in that sort of thing but you know this kind of this type of terrorism attack is really a cowardly attack no matter who does it for what reason you know they may have in their minds they have a great cause but this is simply going and slaughtering innocent people who are doing nothing more than trying to fly on an airplane so you know at the human level we're all connected and this is unacceptable in a matter what your cause is. talking to be a little earlier from washington well after the event. president of the late his trip to the swiss town of course which is hosting the annual world economic forum let's get more now from. who's traveled there at the moment laura talk of the international reaction have we had to this mosque obama and what reaction have you gauge there with all those international leaders. well we're just at the very

very beginning of this forum at the moment it's not due to start until wednesday so leaders and business people are just starting to arrive in davos but we have had international international reaction from around the world of course but also from inside europe president medvedev received phone calls of condolence from the u.k. prime minister david cameron also from king of spain the polish president and stuff come out of ski and president hosni mubarak of egypt and more specific things william hague of course we now know that two britons were killed in this attack and william hague the foreign secretary came out and said that he was deeply shocked and saddened at this explosion and the loss of life that it entails and he sent his condolences to the victims and to their families we've also heard from the head of nato. and he offered solidarity and he said that we were in this fight together that was his message to the people of russia that this is

a common threat that we have to unite to face we also heard from president sarkozy of france who also expressed his solidarity in the face of what he called a barbaric and cowardly attack he will be here in davos this week as will the chancellor of germany. and she wrote a letter to many had it in which she expressed her dismay and disgust on the german foreign ministry condemning what they're calling a dreadful and bloody attack in the strongest terms. do you think there will be any negative impact. effect on the proceedings the. meeting. it's very unfortunate timing for president medvedev because he was due to give the keynote speech here in davos at the opening ceremony which is going to take place on wednesday night we have heard that he's put his trip to divorce but we're also hearing from various sources that he will still make that keynote speech but he

possibly may leave straight afterwards he was planning to spend a couple of days here talking to other world leaders and to business leaders and certainly that will have a negative effect it's just very unfortunate in terms of timing he was also due to participate in a session on the next steps towards russian modernization and they were going to talk about the investment climate in russia and also building confidence in business and government now it's not clear whether he will be able to participate in that he would obviously like to but he seems to feel that staying at home and supporting the people at this time is more important and who can blame him for. his thoughts are obviously with the victims and their families but it's also going to be one of the main goals of devils this year is going to be to create a risk response network to a sort of global network to respond the rest of the people here to see if we will face going forward they are going to be talking not exclusively about the global

security threat but certainly they will be talking about that and this as the most recent incident of terror in the world will certainly be under discussion that will or so many people saying this is an attack on the international community but just finally what is the impact it could have on russia's business on its economy after all the with the biggest port here and to have that sort of incident happening at such a key place. ideas deep here unfortunately of course is the airport of choice for both the ex-pat community and most. as you know. and of course many international airlines so it certainly will have an impact but i think that people are not becoming used to these kinds of attacks but they're seeing them as something that instead they're going under the pressure of them they're really having to having to just go out anyway and face it anyway and so it's not clear what effect this will have on the business climate safer and i think

that's something that will be established. in the i think the global community and business leaders and this is something that we have to confront and not back away from say that may have a positive effect. thanks very much indeed for that update this is coming to you live from the russian capital with you twenty four hours a day our breaking news tonight if you've just joined us up to thirty five people have been killed by a terrorist explosion at moscow's airport the busiest in the country around one hundred thirty others have been injured by the blast and the international arrivals hall it's a low security area filled with waiting family members and taxi drivers forty people are said to be in critical condition two british citizens are now thought to be among those killed and they suspect a suicide bomber is to blame but i don't yet know whether it was a man or woman or what nationality they were investigators are studying c.c.t.v. footage at the moment and it's thought that the explosion was caught on camera russian president dmitry medvedev has ordered extra security at all of moscow's

airport stations to be increased planes are continuing to land and take off the. political analyst. and political commentator said it's not easy to intimidate russia through attacks like this. people getting back to doing their daily lives here unfortunately we do have these kind of attacks but people are not intimidated by them life will go on is tragic as this event is today number two russian afghanistan warmed up relations the last few days soon don't discount that as somebody sending a signal because you know they've been very good at getting rid of the coalition of the willing america's willing partners in afghanistan has made a sweet little baby step there to work on the drugs trade but you know it's you know that could be a doctor we could be connecting my point is this is outside funding these are people outside funding these people training people in many cases or training people to train other people and outside and it's extremely well documented western

media doesn't like to that angle because it makes russia look like it can't deal with the north caucuses and all that has a lot of problems down there who would want to have to deal with the kind of a social breakdown that we've had in many cases and we need investment there's unemployment there's actually discrimination poor governance i would say in many ways but there is an initiative and has been initiative to deal with that issue but still we have this why did they come to the world capital why to send a message to keep the training going and keep the money coming in from the outside and this is something that russia is very well aware of and i agree with him is he started out here there's still a lot of loopholes here if you look around you know they still have a lot of work to do to use to combat this kind of activity some loopholes perhaps but certainly security when you when you see it at the metro the airport security is always a far as i'm concerned very impressive but you drew or you draw the focus down to the north caucuses here dmitri do you think it's corrected enjoy pointing the finger of blame at that area. if i said the news that that terrorist act was

committed suicide confirmed that and obviously. track will be the first or the number one triple investigation since it's such a huge city you just cannot bring it to a standstill even by a major terrorist act. on what. peter has said before you know of financing if. the terrorist who was source is good for. i think the western audience should step up to the letter states or the european union we're not going to see the russia part of the west what for us when this terrorist russia is a part. of me sort of move. how do you have terrorism it's not just a domestic issue it's a global issue. it's like the weakest link. in the west and it's dangerous and difficult to strike at ease with israel's security it's very difficult to

strike the states it's a bit easier to straighten europe but europe gets very easily but in russia because it's such a it's basically a new state and it's a porous border is a very porous they're all sort of communities here it's just easier to strike at russia but the problem with russia for these people the terrorist is that russia is not so easily intimidated for example spain in spain the terrorist immediately had a positive effect on the action in russia because of its political system because of all the main reasons they can strike again if it came it again and there is no result and if we have a north caucuses connection here too we have a very huge immigrant communities from central asia i mean we have people in here very easily in very strong communities right here it's very good coverage here because they're not they're not wiretapping the technology isn't really there

they're not know he's dropping and of course they go to find individuals and groups and in clans that could be very dangerous but it's there is so again it is not a tight here and security wise as so many people would think it would be good russia is all about russia's very loose on very many things and and its easy place to blend in. and to organize these types of terrorist attacks. the explosion took place in a waiting area usually filled with family members and taxi drivers meeting newly arrived international passengers will set a good deal of he's a journalist a member of russia's council on defense and foreign policy says it's not by chance that that part of the airport was chosen and worst of all is that of course if you go through security control and don't want to go there about supply you have to pass through a state of the art security here they actually organize the whole thing in an area which is not normally checked in any airport anywhere in the world because the

waiting area where people wait for those passengers who are right. if memory serves me well about seven or eight years ago there was a priest teacher out of order to check everyone at the terminal. interleave said what do you want why you want to meet people you still have to you know get checked i think the whole thing was leaked said. five or six years ago. and he's a results so you know the whole thing is very sad it's a very sad lesson all of us normal passengers are used. but it's often a very sad lesson for our security services and the police who i understand in this last couple years it's maybe this side of the legal atmosphere is more lax if we compare it to any major international airport you can't really say that the

security procedure in proceedings at the ones. that actually the same person would heathrow or j.f.k. or shall go in paris it's relatively the same having suburbs in this last two or three years the security procedure for those quite apply have been improved. it's not just me it's the people who specialize in these things would describe the security procedure done what they are the most state of the art. but of course even the major terrorist threat eason russia it is of course necessary to think once again. maybe unfortunately implementing security control and security procedures. for everyone i am going to morrow probably not a board i would be surprised if i am stopped or maybe even searched but. i would accept you know i would accept it as

a normal citizen i would except to because these are explicable security arrangements given the circumstances. this is r.t. live here in moscow we're bringing you news of the explosion that occurred earlier today at moscow's main international airport and we understand now that thirty five have been confirmed killed and now one hundred sixty eight injured we're having reports from not only dead of itself but also from a corresponds around the city on the impact this is have on the city but of course also the impact it's had on the international community this is our life here just to remind you that the whatever is russia's largest airport in terms of passenger traffic connecting moscow to hundreds of cities around the world it's located twenty two kilometers southeast of the center of moscow and the number of passengers using the airport exceeds twenty two million a year over nine hundred thousand people use the airport during winter holidays in

two thousand and ten and two thousand and eleven are currently seventy seven nine lines both russian and foreign office regular flights to doma denver and the flights from the airport cover two hundred forty one national and international routes it's one of the three major moscow airports along with. and. well the russian president dmitri medvedev has ordered extra security to be put in place in all of moscow's airports and railway stations and here's what he had to say very shortly after the attack. yes. the explosion in domodedovo took people's lives are spoken to the health minister and the emergencies minister those injured in the explosion move receive all necessary aid i express my condolences to the families of those killed extra security will be put in place in all airports roee stations and transport hubs a special investigation group will be set up to look into the incident we need to

look at what's happened in the immediate aftermath as to security and transport we've recently approved a number of laws on that we need to check that those laws are working because what happened shows not all of those rulings are being properly applied we have to look into that the most important thing at the moment is to support the victims and their families. well fred fred we're from the christian science monitor says that terrorists target weak points and that he personally experience poor security at the middle of airport just a few weeks ago. you know i think that we will we know that he is the gateway to the north caucasus as far as russian domestic airports go from moscow that may be a reason but i think it's all so fact that over the past few years we see terrorists striking in moscow most memorably less than

a year ago when two suicide bombers hit the moscow metro. i think they find vulnerable points i think they notice that security is lax and and they select these places for for maximum impact and i know since i went through the bill just because weeks ago their security measures had really fallen off i suppose it was because of the black coat that they had on december twenty sixth the airport was shut down and and and they had all these problems i'm sure introduced me him made them speed up made them perhaps less more careless i don't know what are the reasons and we're speculating here but i think that one thing you have to understand about terrorists are people who want to inflict maximum damage and get maximum attention for it and they study these things and they select their target they see is the way and it is the way everywhere not just in russia but i have

noticed particularly here that when bad things happen there's a few weeks there's a period in which everybody is striving to change their ways and and plug those holes of whatever that were identified as as contributing to that and then after some time they become more relaxed and careless and after some time after that they've forgotten all about it and i fear this is yet another example of that. piece of a u.k. based crisis management specialist from visor consultants totality that keeping things moving following a terrorist attack is essential. the first thing to realize that it won't be just moscow airport where he's going tightening up you know about twenty million passengers flying through that airport which actually is a lot less than say heathrow but nonetheless it's a major hump of that part of the world another question i've already heard in the last few minutes is was that the real target could something have happened here

with a bomb exploded on route to somewhere else for example if a bomb detonated in the air in very very near any airport you're going to show it to a wide area it could be detonated by a mobile phone providing it's at a low level so there's a chance that the target might have been somewhere else this is the first attack in moscow since march of last year where two female suicide bombers blew themselves up and if you give way back to two thousand and four again two female suicide bombers which is almost unique blew up an aircraft in the air to separate aircraft through a photo. of a head of security that you actually detain women but then let them on so light think that tightening security has been tightened since then but believe me right now all major airports around the world are looking into this and asking themselves these sort of questions is not just moscow one of the questions you're going to ask is well who the perpetrators mean all these events going to three stages there's

always a sort of mayhem been as a mastermind and as a man on the mayhem is where we are now the dust is hardly circled could it be juco you know it was already talked about bringing threats of terrorism to the streets of russia that he is probably going to be the number one suspect here but it's too early to point the blame when now to what's happening now i'm sure as it will be in any country is gathering the evidence and finding out where there's a cause and most importantly could something happen in the next town the next day the next week this is the beginning of a campaign and so far as far as i'm aware we haven't got anybody admit to the crime one of the rules with dealing with terrorism in the twenty first century is. not to stop everything if you can possibly keep things going it is a judgment of moscow airport that they can allow some flights well that's their call you have to remember that terrorism doesn't actually rely on the bang they were lies on the fear of the bank and so yes we've got a catastrophe and by the sound of it many deaths today which is

a tragedy but overall actually you are probably a lot more likely to be hit by lightning than ever be to be killed by a terrorist bomb it is just the random nature of terrorism so if we can carry on business as usual as quickly as we can so much the better i mean there are companies all around the world like for example one in the u.k. called the anvil company who actually followed their clients through satellite navigation around russia and so on and they're busily now trying to give them advice when they go to the airport or whether they stay behind and so on that's my point about a lot of people affected beyond this but the issue is gather that intelligence as most important make sure your security is as good as it reason we can be and remember we're talking about weapons of mass effect here not weapons of mass destruction so we still don't know who did it whether it's an affiliate of al qaeda we simply don't know yet. talking to be a little earlier from the u.k. just to remind you of our breaking news tonight here on up to thirty five people

have been killed by a terrorist explosion at moscow's domodedovo airport the busiest in the country around one hundred sixty eight others have been injured by the blast in the international arrivals hall it's a low security area often filled with family members in texas drivers thirty people are said to be in a critical condition two british citizens and therefore to be alone very skilled police suspect a suicide bomber is to blame but whether it was a man or woman or what russian embassy they were investigators are studying c.c.t.v. footage and it's the moment of the explosion was the hotel russian president dmitry medvedev has ordered extra security at all the ports and railway stations to be increased. these are continuing to land on takeoff at the madrid. well that brings you up to date for the moment. back with more news from done with that of a and of course reaction here both in the russian capital and of course course and

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