and russia because of its political system because of all reasons they can strike again if. there is no result and if we have a north caucasus connection here too we have very huge immigrant communities from central asia i mean we have a people mixed 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 they're not that he's dropping i mean of course they go to find individuals and groups and in clans that could be very dangerous but there are so again it's not as tight here security wise as so many people would think it would play with russia is all about russia's very loose on very many things and its easy place to blend in and to organize these types of terrorist attacks. well many passengers traveling out to doma did airport use the airport express train which travels from way station here in central moscow noughties lindsey france reports from that. well

it's been a lot of shock and a lot of dismay some people were and many people were scattered about the airport when it happened some people thought it was construction work they had no idea bomb had actually got all gone off there was dust falling from the ceiling isn't it seemed a bit odd to them but they had no idea just how how abnormal the situation actually was a lot of people said they didn't actually see or hear anything but they smelled a lot of heavy smoke and got on the train out of the airport as soon as possible this train is about forty kilometers away i'm sorry the distance is about forty kilometers away from the airport to get into this station so it does offer them a very quick ride lauzon to avoid traffic so a lot of passengers were talking with each other about their experiences on the train before it before they got here and their passports were checked by security a lot of people were warned before their planes landed what was going to be

happening at the airport and they were very worried that maybe people were there waiting for them that family members had been waiting for them and something had happened and they there was no way to confirm that until they landed at more taxing and could get on their phones and confirm that so there's some very nerve wracking times others. actually have been taken off we're we're we're about to get on their airplanes when news came that had been bombed and had to get on the phone with loved ones who are going to be waiting for them to avoid the problem so there's a lot of anxiety here trains are still stopping here at the station and letting people off and so everyone sort of settling down but these first couple of hours have there's just been a lot of shock and a lot of dismay over what's happened. lindsey france talking to be early an hour police are currently working to identify the suspected suicide bomber behind monday's attack and security has been tightened across the capital russia's antiterrorism committee says the situation at the airport and across moscow is now

under control. but i will put a bullet in your surgeon or as soon as we received information about the explosion police officers federal security experts and emergency teams went to the airport uploading it with we're taking every measure to prevent any such incidents in other public places in accordance with presidential order we've tightened security at school transportation hubs in moscow we are considering various motives but the most likely one is an act of terror of the national antiterrorism committee has already asked the public for any information about the incident the situation at the airport and across the capital is under control this is of course a very grave incident and it shows a society should mobilize to fight against terrorism. the u.n. security council has condemned monday's terror attack here in moscow leaders from many countries including spain and britain have called russia's president medvedev to express their condolences and also help in fighting terrorism well for more on

the international reaction let's now talk to. she is in washington going to tell us more about this reaction that has now been received by the russian citizens as well as the russian government. well yes bill as you mentioned the u.n. security council condemned the blast and also the american president has condemned the blast and he called it an outrageous attack act of terrorism against the russian people suppressed condolences to the families of the victims press secretary robert gates actually read out the president's message for all they are today here is what he said. i strongly condemn this outrageous act of terrorism against the russian people at the airport or to express the solidarity of the american people with the russian people in the aftermath of this premeditated attack against innocent civilians michelle and i for deepest condolences to the

russian people who have suffered greatly of tears. we share your sorrow in a resolve to stand with you in our common fight against those who use terrorism for their political goals. thoughts are with the families of the victims and we're praying for a successful recovery. you know many other world leaders as you mentioned have done the same they express their condolences their solidarity we have a statement from nato secretary general who said who says he will buy this attack he says terrorism is a common threat and the international community has to fight it together and all of the leaders are actually saying the same and this really was an act of international terrorism if you think about it they attacked the these iest international airport in washington and the terrorists surely known that not only

were nationals suffer from it and more of what we're getting reports about french italian nationals who got caught up in this tragic incident and that this could suggest a terrorist don't really care about nationality what's really trucking to most here is this blast in the context of the previous ones you know has suffered from a succession of a number of horrendous terrorist attacks over the last year and how we're remembered the metro moscow metro suicide bombings last march or the attack on the on the passenger train a little bit over a year ago or so is falling victim to terrorism on the regular basis but only recently has the united states and the west in general started to acknowledge that this is part of international terrorism and not just the mess that. the mastic problems which has been saying for years that there has to be a global effort to fight it and it is not only. responsibility to do so to do that

although russia is in many ways more vulnerable to terrorism than other western countries are going to do is a world. i was there this morning actually. security what i didn't know to security it does look just as normal and as tight as one would expect an international airport so so so what are security experts actually saying about this particular attack on a major international. well security experts point out that these stocks could be actually staging the attacks to to send a message to response from international terrorist networks to fold them they think they can pull this off and it is actually not in russia is not as difficult to call it off as say in the united states we have earlier talked to wally foreign former u.s. senate advisor on terrorism here here's what kind of

a message he says behind this horrendous attack. well there are tool important note 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 will be entire international community that the terrorists have 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 inside before violence worldwide across the borders. you know russian security officials believe that terrorist groups operating in the washer are receiving funding from abroad and a number of them a number of them their members are actually known to have been trained abroad so this really has to be an international effort to find it to fight it will leave it there thanks very much indeed for that live from washington. well off to the events at domodedovo airport president medvedev has delayed his trip to the swiss town of davos which is hosting the annual world economic forum and and it is in the office for us. we're just at the very very beginning of this forum at the moment it's not until wednesday so leaders and business people are just starting to arrive in. we have. 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 komorowski 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 medicine which she expressed 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 in effect on the proceedings that. 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. 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 you 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 saying and supporting the people at this time is more important and who can blame him for that. 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. to people 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 following really what is the impact it could have on russia's business on this economy off to rule

the biggest here and to have that sort of incident happening at such a key place. does deep here unfortunately of course is the course of choice for the ex-pat community in moscow as you know all over russia and of course many international airlines so it certainly will have an impact but i think people are not becoming used to these kinds of attacks but they're seeing them as something that instead of bowing 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 so far and i think that's something that will be established to a certain degree here and. certainly i think the global community and business need is and me to spill it is something that we have to confront and not back away from say that may have been posed to the fags. i spoke to ivan eland he's a political analyst from the independent institute in washington and he told me

that tragedies like the one it doesn't have airport could draw in the u.s. and russia closer together 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 international politics we tend to get you know wrapped up in who's ahead and who's behind 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 in an airplane so you know at the human level we're all connected and this is unacceptable in a matter what your cause is. and fred we're russian affairs expert from the christian science monitor says that terrorist target weak points and that he personally experienced poor security at domodedovo airport just a few weeks ago. you know i think that we will we know that the good of all

is the gateway to the north caucasus as far as russian domestic airports go for 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 blackout that they had on december twenty sixth the airport was shut down and and they had all these problems i'm sure introduced may have 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 or people who want to inflict maximum damage and get maximum attention for it is they study these things and they select their targets it's the 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 and plug those holes of whatever that that were identified as as contributing to that and then after some time they become more relaxed and careless then after some time after that they've forgotten all about it and i fear this is yet another example of that . russian president dmitry medvedev has ordered extra security to be put in place and all of moscow's airport and real way stations and here's what he had to say in response to 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 for security on transport we 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. the explosion took place in the waiting area usually filled with family members and taxi drivers meeting newly arrived international passengers and sergey brin 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 worst of all is that of course if you go through security control and don't want to hear about supply you have to parse through a state of the art security here they actually organize the whole thing in their area which is not normally checked in any airport anywhere in the world because the waiting area where people wait for those passengers we were right. if memory serves well about seven or eight years ago there was a priest. order to check everyone and the the terminal. somebody was why you would meet people. you know get checked i think the whole thing was lived. 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 slight lesson for own security services and the police who i understand in this last couple of years it's maybe this side of the vehicle atmosphere is more lax if we compare it to any major international airport you can't really say that the security procedures proceedings at the ones. that actually the same heathrow or j.f.k. or shall go in paris it's relatively the same having said that in this last top three years the security procedure for those quotes apply have been improved. it's not just me it's the people who specialize in these things which describe the security procedure done with the other state of the art. but of course even the major terrorist threat eason russia it is of course necessary to think once again.

may be unfortunately week implementing to cure or to control and security procedures at the. terminal. where everyone that i am going tomorrow from from another airport i would be surprised if i am stopped or maybe even surge but then from some charity or airports i would accept you know i would accept it was a normal citizen i would accept of bizarre explicable security arrangements given the circumstances. peter power a u.k. based crisis management specialist from vi's or consultants told told me earlier that keeping things moving following a terrorist attack is essential. the first thing to realize that it won't be just moscow airport where 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 but other 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 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 the security is being tightened since they believe me right now all major airports around the world are looking into this and asking themselves these sorts of questions it's not just moscow one of the questions we're going to ask is

well who are the perpetrators mean all these events go into three stages there's always a sort of mayhem and then as a mastermind then as a manhunt the mayhem is where we are now the dust has hardly circled could it be juco you know who's already talked about bringing threats of terrorism to the streets of russia he is probably going to be the number one suspect here but it's too early to point the blame when now to what is 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 hour 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 now. not to stop everything if you can possibly keep things going it is a judgment of moscow airport but making a well some flights well that's the course you have to remember that terrorism doesn't actually rely on the bang they were lies on the fear of the bang 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 follow 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 that's 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 was an affiliate of al qaeda we simply don't know yet. peter power talking to be earlier we're done with

that of international airport 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 well the number of passengers using the airport exceeds twenty two million per year nine hundred thousand people used during winter holidays and twenty ten twenty eleven to the festive period there currently seventy seven airlines both russian and foreign offer regular flights to accommodate over flights from the airport cover two hundred forty one national and international routes it's one of the three major airports along with children and even a couple more than one hundred sixty others have been injured in this blast in the international arrivals hall it's a low security area. often filled with family members and taxi drivers and forty people are said to be in a critical condition two british citizens we understand are now thought to be among those killed in a suspected suicide bombers to blame but they don't know yet whether it was

a man or a woman or what nationality one. investigators are studying c.c.t.v. footage and it's thought the moment of the explosion most calls on. the russian president dmitry medvedev has ordered extra security at one of the next president points. to be increased in planes all continuing to land and takeoff at domodedovo airport we're covering the events of life here on r.t. throughout the day throughout the night wherever you are in the world to stay with us as we get international reaction as well as the latest from our correspondents from some of that a and also the russian capital this is live in moscow stay with us. to. to.

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