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 met yet if in which she expressed dismay and disgust on the german foreign ministry condemned 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 the. meeting. was 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 saying and supporting the people at this time it is more important and who can blame him for that because 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 that the rest of the people here at davos 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 in that. many people saying this is an attack on the international

community but just really what is the impact you could have on russia's business on this economy off with that of the biggest. and to have that sort of incident happening at such a key place. is the course of choice. the ex-pat community in moscow as you know. and of course many international. 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 no effect this will have on the business climate safer and i think that's something that will be established. and i think the global community and business leaders and leaders feel that it's something that we have to confront and not back away from so that may have

a positive effect. the u.n. security council has condemned monday's terror attack in moscow leaders from many countries including spain and britain have called russia's president medvedev to offer condolences and help in fighting terror from or any international reaction we go live to. joining us in washington so by and i tell us more about this reaction the support is really pouring in isn't it. matt the u.s. security council has condemned the blast president obama has done the same he called it an outrageous act of terrorism against the russian people he also expressed condolences to the families of the victims words of sympathy and solidarity were coming from all over the world this monday here is just some of the reaction we're getting to this tragedy at the washington airport. to members of the security council. the strongest. that there is to cure it. had them

a debt of international airport must go russian federation on january twenty fourth two thousand and eleven causing numerous that's and injuries. they express their deep sympathy and condolences to the victims of this heinous act of terrorism and to their families and to the people and government of the russian federation i strongly condemn this outrageous act of terrorism against the russian people at the dome of yet of our airport i want 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 offer our deepest condolences to the russian people who have suffered greatly at the hands of terrorism. resulted. in their common fight against. terrorism. with the families of the victims and we are praying for a successful recovery. also we know that

the u.n. security council is going to start their session on tuesday with a minute of silence in memory of the victims we also have a statement from nato secretary-general who said he was shocked by this attack he says terrorism is a common threat and the international community has to fight it together and this really was an act of international terrorism if you think about it they attacked the busiest international airport the terrorist clearly knew that not only washington nationals are going to suffer more of what we're getting reports about french italian nationals caught up in this tragic attack this could suggest that carries don't really care about nationality well what's really shocking to most here is this blast in context of the previous ones russia has suffered from a succession of horrendous terrorist attacks over the last year and a help there were the moscow metro suicide bombings last march there was the attack

on the passenger train a little bit over a year ago so russia is falling victim to terrorism on a regular basis and only recently has the united states and the west the in general started to sort of a can all is that this is part of international parries and not just russia as the mass they choose. what are the security experts saying especially considering that is a major international. well met security experts point out that these monsters could actually be staging the attacks to raise funds from international terrorist networks you know to sort of shoulder they can pull this off and in russia it is not as difficult to pull it off as say the united states we have our own. talk to waleed faurisson advisor to the u.s. congress on terrorism here is what kind of a message he says behind this horrendous attack let's listen. to our 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 all the entire international community that the cheras been able to discover more areas where governments in general in mosul 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 borders. russian security officials believe that terrorist groups operating in why should do get

funding from a brought some of the members are actually known to have been trained in the broad so really to stop this there has to be an international effort you know incidents like this this one are supposed to bring countries together because after all it's a common goal to prevent this things like this from happening now everybody's talking about terrorism as a common threat that the international community has to fight fight it together and so on and so forth but the rat awake hasn't always been like this for a long time the west would see the terrible things that terrorists. as part of some rebel separatist movement as they would call it but now it's very much clear to everyone that these things are as threat to the whole of the international community and that their actions. cannot be justified by anything but again it took the west the while to realize that. united in their fight artie's guide aged live for us from washington thanks for that report. i haven't even a political strategist from the independent institute in washington tells r.t.

that tragedies like the one i don't want out of zero could draw 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 you know who's ahead and who's behind in 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 an acceptable and a matter what your cause is. fred fred we are a 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 i think that we will we know that it 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 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 to him made them speed up made them perhaps less more careful of this 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 is they study these things and they select their target 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 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. russian president dmitry medvedev has ordered extra security be put in place in all of moscow's airports and railway stations here's what he had to say in response to the attack. the explosion in

domodedovo took people's lives i've 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's 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 happened in a waiting area that's usually filled with family members and taxi drivers meeting newly arrived international passengers a journalist and member of russia's council on defense and foreign policy says it's

not by chance that part of the airport was targeted and worst of all is that of course if you go through security control and don't want to hear about supply you have to post through a state of the art security here they actually organized the whole thing in their area which is not normally checked in any airport anywhere in the world there is the waiting area where people wait for those present just we were writing. if memory serves well it's seven or eight years ago there was a priest. to check everyone at the terminal. it really matter whether you was why you were to meet people you still had to you know get checked i think the whole thing was leaked. 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 legal atmosphere is more relaxed if we compare it to any major international airport you can't really say that the security procedure proceedings at the ones. that actually the same person with heathrow or j.f.k. or shall go in paris it's relatively the same having said that 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 which describe the security procedure done with the of the various state of the art. but of course even the major terrorist threat eason brusha it is of course necessary to think

once again. maybe unfortunately implementing security control and security procedures at the very essence of the terminal. for everyone and that i am going to morrow come from another board i would be surprised if i am stopped so maybe even searched the ben ferguson show airport and i would accept you know i would accept it as a normal citizen i would accept to these are explicable security arrangements given the circumstances peter power a u.k. based crisis management specialist from visor consultants tells our team that following a terrorist attack it's essential to keep things moving. the first thing to realize that it won't be just moscow airport where he's going to tightening up you know about twenty million passengers flying through that airport which actually is a lot less and 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 every over 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 there you actually detain women but then let them on so light think that the security is being tightened he said believe me right now all major airports around the world are looking into this and asking themselves these sorts of questions is not just moscow one of the questions we're going to ask is well who the perpetrators mean all these events go into three stages there's always

a sort of mayhem and then as a mastermind and as a manhunt the mayhem is where we are now the dust has hardly circled could it be juco you know it was 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's happening now i'm sure as it will be in any country is gathering the evidence and finding out where is 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. not to stop everything if you can possibly keep things going it's a judgment of moscow if they can allow some flights into well that's the cool you have to remember that terrorism doesn't actually rely on the buying it relies on the fear of the bank and so yes we've got to the catastrophe and by the sound of it

many debts today which is a tragedy but over rule actually you will probably alone live more likely to be hit by lightning than it would be to be killed by to it is just the random nature of terrorism so we can carry on business as usual as quickly as we can and 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 the lines through satellite navigation around russia and so on and they're busy no one to give them advice when they go to the airport over there 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 the reason we can be and remember we're talking about weapons of mass effect 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. domodedovo international airport is russia's largest airport in terms of passenger traffic connecting moscow to hundreds of

cities across the globe it's located twenty two kilometers southeast of the russian capital to give you a sense of how significant this airport is the number of passengers using the airport exceeds twenty two million per year more than nine hundred thousand people use the airport during the winter holidays in two thousand and ten two thousand and eleven currently seventy seven airlines both russian and foreign offer regular flights to and from dubai dead of all flights from the airport cover two hundred forty two hundred forty one and national and international routes it's one of three major airports along with sheremetyevo and of new kobo that service the moscow area . recapping for you our breaking news story a massive explosion rocks moscow's largest airport our teams are going to lose go is following the events. as you can imagine the security measures of course at this terminal at the delegate of an airport have been stepped way more than you can imagine there are more police officers at the scene probably then there are people coming and going from and to the airports and that is absolutely understandable

this is the biggest air in the country naturally this is a risk that perfect tragedy for the for the. city and for the country as well bill we arrived here shortly after the flop the first thing that we noted was the fact that the planes were coming and going as you said of course at first we were told that there were reports of counting up chaos basically at the terminal black smoke everywhere we did speak to some because of my witnesses and this is what they had to tell us about the situation immediately after the blasts. someone detonated a hidden explosive device it was either in luggage or suicide i saw the blast a suitcase was on fire and a person had his back to me so the explosive devices are their own this person or in a suitcase so i don't know what she looked like he was dressed in black and standing with his back to me which looked blustery me three meters back because i stood up everyone was running towards the exit out of there was

a lot of black smoke and the lights went out so i went for a medical check up at first i thought i had a wound on my head but it turned out i just had someone else's blood on me because that means when it's not you can't see anything at the scene of the blast it's all kind of gone and the investigators are working to the concierge anything that's up there's a distinctive smell in the air. that he took off because it was nice of people covered in blood with injured limbs and the ones their faces were covered with blood to someone conscious there was a feeling that something big something heavy fell down there is a construction site near there so with that the workers drop something heavy but people from the second floor say that they felt a shake of the door and it is who were leaving the airport when we heard the explode. when we were leaving the luggage claim area there was something in the air into a smoke that our friends were calling us saying that there was an explosion and there were victims the bomb was not in the baggage area but tried behind the doors in the crowd of people welcoming us in the airport sort of principle which is you know the

blast wave was very strong we are quite far from the explosion but even there we could feel the blast graziers and we felt a strong blow to the portugal. of course well we arrived the smoke cleared so just big both literally and proverbially at that point the security measures of course were in place tremendous security measures the area the area where people were allowed to come in to meet and greet those. who are arriving was that there right by the arrival by the arrival area and that is where the explosion is which needed at this point everybody that's coming to the airport to meet and greet their whole forces than to ride the departures old so there is a sort of there's a lot of commotion there at the moment because that entire area has been fortunate off bob dole so they are there of vehicles being evacuated right now a lot of emergency vehicles still in place you can imagine that immediately following the blasts all the emergency vehicles the police vehicles were coming in

and because of that the airport security had to basically kick everybody out of the airport and out of the parking area and at this point that parking lot is in fact is still taken up by all the emergency vehicles a lot there are a lot less of them now that there were several hours ago you can also imagine that probably you would assume the their flights to be counseled some of them were indeed canceled at least several flights to vienna there was also a flight to st petersburg the has been canceled as well but at this point the airport is functioning normally almost to its full capacity but we also know that they've also made sure i was at the scene also speaking to the investigative comedian that it is to get the media arrived here shortly after the blast and they're still working at the scene and they probably will cost. stay here for the remainder of the remainder of the night these folks have a lot of work that they have to do in the next few hours trying to figure out who and what is behind this particular blast which have a listen to what the investigative officials told us earlier. that police.

at the scene the explosion took place in the international arrivals who the suicide bomber is suspected of carrying out the attack it's a group. of course as we said earlier hundred sixty people are thought to have hundreds at least a hundred sixty people have been injured that we know that at least three foreigners are among them we know that an italian a french missile that can nationals are among the injured has also if you mentioned earlier today britons are among the thirty five killed in this blast however despite this horrendous tragedy that took place earlier the domodedovo airport the mood here of course though hope though tense is not to panic at all but we also have to remember that in this stuff in this police this horrific incident there were there were people coming together we know that people who are working at shops and cafes they were very close to the arrival area came together started

helping a bit at the airport staff when they were evacuating the injured and of the bodies of the killed from of the arrivals area and that of course this is one of the shows of people coming together in times of tragedy but also unfortunately not all stories are that good we know that some taxi drivers were charging as much as five hundred dollars the equivalent of five hundred dollars in rubles for those who wanted to leave the air force but also good news there as well. there were also volunteers people standing outside offering free rides to moscow or to the closest metro station to those who needed to leave also the area at the train that is taking. this transporting the cars. just to and from the airport the scene is between don't get it all and most of the bell at those train rides were also offered for free for everybody willing to take them at this point all over we do know that the security measures of course have been stepped way out but of course

they actually even for hitting filming inside the airport when we went in they told us to leave with no more filming no more camera crews allowed inside and the security measures are so strict that at this point people have to literally open their bags before the even get into the departure area you come in and you immediately met with the cordoned off police you have to go through the metal detectors you have to open your bags they're checking everything even cell phones unfortunately it takes something as big as this tragedy for the security measures to be stepped up to where they really should have been at that at the very beginning at some people that we've heard hoppin say. stay with us here on our t.v. and online at our team dot com for all the latest on the tragedy out of nowhere or .

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