people gather. on a day of mourning to commemorate those who died in monday's terror attack more details just ahead the. terrorism is expected to. make for a. speech. around

the world around the clock. the suicide bombing. which killed thirty five people is not linked terrorists. i mean usually during any musical the results of the investigation suggest this it has nothing to do with the chechen republic good fifty million north going to have any negotiations with terrorists or that he's not a single country in the world that respects itself never does this is common international practice. while state flags are at hamas all across. the victims of the attack of russia's busiest airport people have been gathering at the site of the blast to pay tribute to those who died. before he joins us now live and. tell me what are you seeing how are people paying their respects to the tough

. love a very emotional day here at the airports as a people have been gathering here in fact laying flowers since yesterday but today of course was the day of mourning so there were a lot more of them coming in and laying down flowers lighting candles and taking their time just standing there praying or taking a moment to remember the thirty five victims of monday's terror attack it was we're not talking just about people for hostages for coming and going to and from the airport and stopped by a flower shop which is located here flowers we're talking about people who work at the airport airport staff the airlines are presented just even our members of the american embassy stopped by fax we spoke to john byerly american ambassador to russia who said it does accusations in western media which say that russians have begun rigid and cold hearted and continue to go on as if nothing happened are in fact biased and do not have any basis in reality whatsoever. i think that the

best response that we can give to the kind of people who are capable of carrying out an attack like this is to show them that they're not going to change our laws but of course we're going to be more vigilant we're going to have better security but we're not going to stop living. we're not going to become like they are. we also spoke to the brother of one of the victims who shared his experience and his thoughts with us. if when i brother called me and said the team this wife we're trying to get tired but they were bleeding and didn't understand what was going on but there was an explosion has been we can't disconnect we want to i couldn't believe that this happened to my brother and his wife were the point because we think that these things happened only to someone else and not understand what's really happened but it is hard to fathom why somebody would do such a thing and it seems people have became victims of the attack. and of course

this is a day of mourning and there were no morals services being held here at the airport and not just at the airport of course the as it is a commemoration day in moscow and in moscow region services were held all across churches and they were attended to by russia's leadership president medvedev and prime minister doesn't which you have also a to do in a moral services in the churches in moscow and in the moscow region but it's not just the russian orthodox churches which have held those memorial services we have to remember that russia is a multinational months a confessional country and those of a similar services were also held not just in churches but also in mosques and synagogues and not just in the country's capital but all across the country so really a sad day a day to commemorate a tragedy but as you would see an entire nation has come together to grieve over the thirty five people who were killed in monday's deadly blasts and also of course television programming was also changed on this day channels and radio stations

have to try to tone down the entertainment program to a minimum and try to cut down the commercials on their airwaves as well. so a day of mourning all across if you will just take us back to be events of monday what exactly happened. well as you have said earlier the blast occurred it's a four. thirty two in the arrivals hall just outside of course i shall vic was out to see how it was rick's out immediately following the blast everything was filled with small cars but when we got here not even twelve hours afterwards you could see that the airport authorities have tried to do their best to to told the situation of course there was immense police presence officers from federal security service were here a sniffer dogs were here. and authorities were looking for possible traces of any other explosives which could have been left in the building of course there were none found and immediately of course the question arose who is responsible who

allowed this to happen we're not talking just about the terrorists the people in question of course are the security services the airport security the police whoever allowed this to happen in president of puzzle ready to act for high ranking police officials both of them. working in the structure of transport safety for their inability to prevent such an attack and i see a promise that further attack and further. further of repercussions will follow and of course what transpired after the monday's a terror plot to attack here is more from michael weeks are the first. the harrowing scenes from the moment the blast hits for those who witnessed the attack it's a memory that waits fade fondest. there was

an explosion. or clay. was. absent from. the blast hits at peak time is around thirty flights hoochie to land the phone it seems time to cool is max and then the station. are going to. do something seriously. just. very. stark realization it's a very graphic thought that really was for there was a true. story maybe. some time. others didn't have such a lucky escape i could have lost my brother but i want them to be punished. and punished they will be as president mitigated desired that all those responsible will be held accountable to investigators now what to stablish exactly who is

behind the attack the finger of blame he's also a fall in on the court and transport authorities get people ashamed of resilience that many feel is a commendable trait of the russian people i found to get on with. this exact route a tribute to dr situation. in the aftermath of the attack people have rallied dating blood at hospitals and ensuring the victims and their families receive all the help they need and that's the charge a day russia has stood united in its refusal to be intimidated people still a trip and action from members and markets but they too lost their lives in the attack south africa. just a bit earlier we spoke to matthew clements a terrorism expert with jane's defense group in london he says although dumb idea of airport security was floored it's hard to make any transport harbin. if you look at the kind of the sheer scale of some of the transport networks in moscow itself

the size of major train stations of airports it's very difficult to enact security that can really be hundred percent foolproof the thing is even the most advanced western countries such as the united states in the u.k. there's always going to be weak links in the transport section in the areas where public people gather and there's always going to be opportunity for terrorists to strike the it's impossible to completely safeguard against terrorist attacks although clearly they do seem to skew to measures in place port weren't quite as they should be in the run up to this attack. well despite the moscow airport bombing it's down to business in switzerland just a few find out if terrorism is threatening investment president there's a visit to the economic that's coming your way just a little bit later right here. with the nuclear cuts treaty between russia and the u.s. start has been ratified by russia's federation council the deal would slash both

country's nuclear arsenals by around a third now approved by both houses of russia's parliament the treaty must be signed by president to be our correspondent pissed off as details. everything happened really quickly just on tuesday they stay duma ratified the treaty now the federation council has unanimously voted for the ratification of the treaty which means that both chambers also parliament have now supported education it's also backed by both president who's sitting now he can now signed the treaty and president barack obama's lead in both monitoring the way ratification has been going in fact on tuesday barack obama praised the state decision to ratify the deal previously were able to speak to the chairman of the federation council's committee for international affairs who also took part in the long running negotiations may come out of the elephant he says that this is

a significant step forward in the relations between moscow and washington we managed to pass successfully through the us senate the so-called one two three agreement on the russian american cup ration in the nuclear field i mean the peaceful part of it. that is concerned we also moving forward on the russians w t o accession america is very supportive we are moving relatively fast and i think that two thousand and eleven will be the year of russia's w t o accession after that american partners will have to do their part of their work repealing the so-called jackson very commandment which is one of the dinosaurs of. the time of the cold war. but it's not enough we have to have more time as we have to have more docking

mechanisms we have to have more bridges the more dependent we are the better it is for our future it's the third such agreement between the two countries the first two were signed back in one thousand nine hundred one and in one thousand nine hundred three with the slate. one is meant to reduce the number of strategic weapons on both sides by over one third so it's significant for global security russian deputies did make some special statements or recommendations first of all securing moscow's right to step out of the treaty if it feels threatened by a u.s. missile defense plans in europe and secondly they've outlined that similar recommendations made previously by the u.s. congress are none binding meaning the will do not really washington from its obligations previously the u.s. congress has secured washington's rights to modernize the remaining arms and has also claimed that the treaty should not obstruct america's missile defense plans

but these statements on both sides are non binding meaning they will not affect the actual implementation of the agreement. you're going to piss off a point that well kingston reef is director of the center for arms control and nonproliferation he says there's no doubt the start treaty will last its entire ten year term. the treaty is so all overwhelmingly in the national security interests of both the u.s. and russia because of the predictability transparency and stability that the provisions in the treaty are going to bring to the relationship that i see no way in which either the u.s. or russia would pull out of the tree and just to go back for a very brief second on the missile defense issue there's been a lot of consternation among some observers that the russians have said that it that they could withdraw from the treaty if the u.s. builds up its missile defense programs but the russians have been very clear from the beginning that the only only circumstance under which they would consider withdrawing from the tree because of missile defense is if the missile defenses

posed a threat to their strategic nuclear deterrent and the u.s. has made it abundantly clear that it has no intention or desire to threaten russia's strategic nuclear deterrent and to add to that it will not even have the technology to do so even if it wanted to within the actual life of the treaty or you can also share your opinions about the new start treaty through our online poll that ought to dot com and here's how the voting is going at this point in time almost half of you about forty four percent think the new start is just a p.r. stunt and having a few less nukes doesn't really make much difference a quarter of you believe that the treaty is sensible and makes the world safe twenty two percent describe the treaty as an act of stupidity saying that russia and the u.s. will lose out to china and india and nine percent of you think that the new treaty is purely pragmatic and that russia and the u.s. are looking to save money well those are the results of the moment when you can still have your say on the issue and ought to see dot com.

the official. video. it's now a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital you all with a hot seat now the president's dimitri medvedev that is to promote investment in russia at the annual economic forum in davos switzerland the president's visit will be shorter than planned due to the attack on moscow's main airport even so it's the first time the country has been represented at the forum by its president. who is in davos explains why. well this is a key moment for both medvedev and for russia and what it really does is put russia

at the center of what has become the most important meeting of world business leaders and governments if you looked at the program of course just sort of ten to fifteen years ago it was really exclusive to western leaders in fact it started off as a european business forum but there's been a trend in recent years and it's carried on this year whereby there are schools of indians chinese people and russians there are more than sixty important business leaders and government ministers from russia in davos this year and in fact fewer and fewer western europeans and that's what we see as a balance of power shifts to these emerging markets these bric countries and moves towards what we call this new world order where these growing economies these emerging markets are developing so far just. fear this speech and his appearance here at davos will also show that russia is open for business despite what happens

and i'm of course referring to monday's bomb blast at port this does cause medvedev to perspire on his arrival but he's going to deliver this opening speech but before that he'll be taking part in the international business council which is a meeting of what the world economic forum calls one hundred concerned uncommitted business leaders it's all to promote russia as an investment destination and in economies from a knowledge of russia to show how they have made economic and legislative steps forward in recent years and to try and attract investment medvedev said that he won't be brushing aside fools and difficulties in russia and of course one of these current difficulties is this terror attack i asked some of the foreign delegates how they thought this bomb blast would affect the perception of russia as an investment destination here's what they told me i don't think we've heard. perception as a this nation a forty vestment but it's more on i think they need to understand. the countries

is in control i cover america and we certainly have had terrorist attacks so there are unfortunately as well and it's very unfortunate but we keep going like he was going business keeps going and i think to say will be true. had a vote for him to be sure many had if explained why he thinks involvement at davos is so important for russia you can watch the full interview next hour but here's a quick preview. so i first went there when i worked in the government i did like it because the atmosphere at the forum was very good you don't even need to wear a tie at the same time you can easily run into a major or not so major businessman a president or prime minister grab them by the sleeve ask about things our task is to promote awareness of russia's capacity its economic and legislative strength and capacities by talking openly about the. nearly twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital you with r.t.

now a brief look at some of the major headlines from around the world and opposition groups in egypt for a second day of inspiring rallies following a government decree banning protests police used tear gas and beat demonstrators in an effort to disperse yesterday's unprecedented rallies against the government the unrest comes against a backdrop of growing anger food shortages and unemployment nearly half of egyptians are living below the international poverty line earning less than two u.s. dollars a day. in the annual state of the union address barack obama look to heal some of the divisions between the democrats and republicans in the congress the president called for a massive spending freeze to help revive the country struggling economy he also emphasized innovation and investment in infrastructure as key to a successful future speech is seen as a move to the center by obama following a midterm election losses last year. has fallen back to prime minister of lebanon

has begun to form his cabinet following two days of widespread protests thousands of sunni muslims poured onto the streets burning tires throwing rocks and accusing the militant group of a coup the new prime minister has vowed to unify levanon diverse society. hezbollah and its allies ousted the previous western backed government two weeks ago when they close the camp. and as lebanon works to restore order and his guests on cross-talk discuss just what a hezbollah ruled government might mean for both a fragmented country and for the fractured region brief glimpse at what's ahead in a few hours. this government is much more representative than its peter says it is an alliance of half the christian community with hezbollah which represents forty percent of lebanon's population as. look there hasn't been a census since nine hundred thirty two but most people would say the figure is

close to forty percent so with half the christians with other druze the way over the fifty five percent well you say not true not true what you're seeing is total nonsense and you know it's like. you're saying the fact the fact i think the number is there all the numbers that does affect the. fact twenty nine percent and if anything the sunnis have a miniscule edge over them and you know this. demographic. the fact is tony you don't want to accept. it. and the business news now with dmitri.

thanks very much rory emerging economies are considered the main growth driver in twenty five and that's reflected in the turnout for the world economic forum a record number of executives from emerging markets in correspondent that your boss who has been looking at the. if you are critical iraq's top honor he calls it fact cats in the snow nonetheless bono is here today along with a record number of v.i.p.'s behind me as you can see it's a very packed hall today on the opening day that was in fashion again after three years of global meltdown and bankers are once again coming to the fore last year when the head of barclays bank told me he gets people's anger at the bankers and the banking system but this year he says the time for same story is over but it might be too late anyway because the chinese are coming china's economy saw ten percent last year through the global collapse compare that with barely one percent

for many drugs emerged economies and this is really reflected in today's forum we've now got a true track system for growing emerging states with currency reserves like china russia are on the one hand and on the other you've got sluggish growers with north the levels of debt for example the european union and the united states the slogan for this year's shared norms for the new reality tries to find common ground between the two sides and the first four sessions today all try to learn from the experience of those upstart the first four sessions of dedicated to emerging markets that china russia india and also brazil in particular president medvedev of russia goes on to give a speech where the priority is expected to be welcoming investors and promising them their shareholdings all entirely safe of course that comes on the background of the holocaust trial at the moment and other issues which of raise some doubts in

the west over the safety of investments in russia which are related full say that in order to transform russia to a knowledge based economy over the coming years from a resource based one it really needs foreign expertise and for that it needs to guarantee foreign to foreign investments. more keen to improve the investment climate russian representatives and dabbles to woo foreign investors if you are bigger than b.p. which is stepping up its work with have to develop the arctic shelf the head of b.p. robert dudley told artie's daniel bushell russia is a top priority for the company i think it's a very good good deal for b.p. i think it's a good deal for us now i think it's a watershed deal in the international oil industry i think it's good for russia this cross holding between two companies that have aligned interests is is a very good thing i think it's a harbinger of things you know in the decades ahead between the international oil companies and nationally we've learned a lot about our difficulties this past year we're going to take great care great responsibility of developing the arctic i think the arctic has great potential you

look at the maps in russia i think it's going to be something that's great for russia but it companies and. b.p. we're very very excited about it we are deeply embedded in safety risk management into everything we do in the company we're going to meet our commitments we need to rebuild trust back in the company and then our strategy going forward to rebuild the value for shareholders in b.p. and the future prospects with ross not just part of that. as we've heard from our correspondent just a while ago president that it will be speaking tonight in a matter of around three hours rather nash of capital believes he has good reason to deliver an upbeat message about russia. i think for the first time a russian leader is going to die a boss with a lot of positive material behind him so when president medvedev gets up and speaks of davos it will be on the back of the pepsi deal at the end of last year three point eight billion dollars the b.p. rosneft deal at the beginning of this year opening the first pipeline into china on

the on the first of january there's a lot of really good material he should be i would emphasize the opportunities that exist for investing into russia and that gives him a great platform to go out there deliver a strong message about why the west should be investing into russia. and it was indeed a costly affair to shape the future of the global economy the new york times is calculated just to get the invitation for the devils who are one has to cough up an annual membership fee of just over fifty thousand dollars a ticket for the forum course nineteen thousand dollars to take part in the closed sessions a person has to be an associate member which means another fee of one hundred thirty seven thousand dollars it's no surprise that the devils is a money spinner generating one hundred eighty five million dollars a year. more money generation now take a look at the markets the european markets are trading higher they're taking their lead from asia and from positive futures in the united states where president obama

called for freeze on domestic discretionary spending and a lower corporate tax rate carmaker shares in the focus in frankfurt after porsche reported higher sales now this helped the company's stock move more than five percent right now inspiring other automakers volkswagen is up three point three percent b.m.w. also strong a steady recovery in moscow from monday's decline and tuesday's that initial oil and gas companies of miners are showing the biggest gains will telecoms are barely beefing up. some of the stocks in more detail energy shares leading the gains as we've said gazprom is up more than forty percent from the half a cent lou coral's close behind and continues its winning streak jazzer up more than one percent. now the new sales by russia's largest car maker after jump forty eight percent last year to just over five hundred thousand cars production recovered from the collapse of the previous year to stand eighty five

percent higher the company says it wants to do sales by a flirt with this year's shares are up more than a percent in the month. we'll be back in one hour's time rory is next with the headlines just after this short break to stay with. what's the strangest attempt of a military takeover of. the us president trying to overthrow

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