early results would be investigation suggest. to do with the chechen republic russia's prime minister rules. and people gather in moscow and in moscow region on a day of mourning to commemorate those who died in monday's terror attack more details just ahead for you. terrorists expected to grab the spotlight at the economic forum president truman is due to give the speech his arrival in. russia's parliament you know. the new nuclear reduction deal with the u.s. the nation's warheads reduced by a third. with

news from russia and around the world this is. all across the moscow region to mourn the victims of monday's attack at russia's busiest airport people have been gathering at the site of the blast to pay tribute to those who died. that they went out of force. 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 we spoke to john byerly american ambassador to russia who said it does accusations in western media which say that russians have begun bridgette in 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 attacks 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. the services were held all across churches and they were attended to by russia's leadership president medvedev and prime minister has been put in have also attended immoral 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 to not just in churches but also in mosques and synagogues and not just in the country's capital all across the country the blast

occurred it started about four thirty two pm in the arrivals hall just outside of course havoc was out there with the how it was weeks how immediately following the blast there with muscle the small but also spoke to the brother of one of the victims who shared his experience and his thoughts with us. when my brother called me and said the team his wife were trying to get tired that they were bleeding and didn't understand what was going on there was an explosion then we got this connected i couldn't believe that this happened to my brother and his wife because we think that these things happened only to someone else and not understand that it really happened but it is hard to fathom why somebody would do such a thing innocent people became victims of the attack. and immediately of course the question arose who is responsible for. 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 i stacked for high ranking police officials most of them working in the structure of transport safety for their inability to prevent such an attack here is more from my colleague sara first. the harrowing scenes from the moment the blast hits for those who witnessed the attack it's a memory that went fade fast. like i was waiting for someone then there was an explosion. took. place. after. the blast hit at peak time is around thirty flights hoochie to lannes the bomb it seems time to cause maximum in the station. doing. something serious just call. the start

of the work. very well for the water to. be. packed. three. 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 mcveigh did his them out that all those responsible will be held accountable as investigators now what to establish exactly who is behind the attack the finger of blame his also a fall in on the courts and transport authorities to people and showing the resilience that many fail is a commendable trait of the russian people account to get on with azure. his exact words are to be true dr situation. in the aftermath of the attack people have rallied at hospitals and ensuring the victims and their families receive all the help they need to charge

a day russia has stood united in its refusal to be intimidated people feel a trip and act from membranous and a mark of respect that they too lost their lives in the attack. russia's prime minister says the suicide bombing which killed thirty five people is not linked to chechen based terrorists and here's what. told reporters. early results of the investigation suggest this terror attack has nothing to do with the chechen republic and we will not negotiate with any terrorists not a single country in the world that respects itself ever does this common international practice. whose pakistan bureau chief for asia times online has said that international terror harbors behind the moscow airport bombing. that was planned by al qaeda and.

i was recently in northern afghanistan and i gathered that. through. organizations like the islamic movement of uzbekistan and. groups and chechen groups to me the northern of one just on the hub of their activity and the pope was is not targeting the northern afghanistan but actually searching out a route to work the central asia. russia once the americans were you know started reducing the presence or not wanted russia would be the most important regional player in of want to stop and that's why it. is you know sorting out strategy. well there's newspapers been quoting sources that suggest the attack on don't have may have been planned and prepared somewhere outside of russia and that's he's got a check on reports now from washington d.c. on hell the west has been reacting to this tragedy. security experts and

investigative journalist have started looking into where these terrorists confound the telegraph and other media outlets say the bombers who carried out the moscow attack were thought to be part of a suicide squad training pakistan's all qaeda strongholds that were sent to the capital to target the city's transport system many security experts believe that terrorist groups operating in russia do get funding from abroad some of their members are known to have been trained abroad and also a fact here the new york state police the new york police department has sent people to moscow to learn about the attack which could help them prevent a similar tragedy here in the united states so if you think about it this really was an act of international terrorism attack the busiest international airport in washington a terrorist clearly knew that not only russian nationals are going to suffer everyone is talking about terrorism as a common threat and that the international community has to fight it together words and sympathy and solidarity were coming from all over the world but the rhetoric

hasn't always been like this for a long time the west would see that terrible things that terrorists that done in russia as part of some rebel separatist movement but now it's very much 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 this. is going to congress from washington d.c. . is due to open the economic forum in davos in switzerland the keynote speech is coming up in just a few minutes from now it's the first time russia has been represented at the forum by its leader will the visit will be shortened due to monday's attack on doma did it but. it has the details now from. it's a hugely significant event that president medvedev has been to make the keynote speech at is very significant for him and also for russia it puts russia firmly at

the center of what has become over the last forty one year is the most important meeting of business leaders and government ministers in the world it's a very eclectic meeting it's not just a business meeting it's also as i as i mentioned government ministers ahead so they all get to talk together they will say cultural events on the program so it's a very wide ranging eclectic mix of events and meetings that they are they're all going to be here president medvedev has now arrived will be making the keynote speech shortly and he is also attending at the moment a meeting of business leaders it's called the international business council it's a joining together of one hundred concerned and committed business leaders as they call themselves now to talk more about what the what the perception of russia at the forum is and how we perceive president medvedev speech is going to be i'm joined by timothy worth who is the president of the he went foundation mr worth thanks very much for talking to us what are we expecting from medvedev speech to

saying well i think that he very clearly is looking for greater investment in russia you know it's up to the russian government to provide a cocoon of stability but that's true everywhere i think there should be lots of room for discussions on energy in particular you know the needs of the world has for energy and doing this in a clean and effective way i think that the fact that the united states and russia have sort of buried so many hatchets over the last couple of years you know the start treaty and you know their cooperation on that front with the united states is very important these two huge economic powers you know coming together it can be very important to his being here i think is a signal as you say that russia is open for biz. yes but it's a signal that you know russia is joined with the international community and certainly the terrorism reflects that fact that we're all joined by at the hip you

know in our need to respond in our need to certainly do everything we can to not only discourage but prevent it all right if you are thanks very much for joining us that's all we got time for from davos said we will be back covering the president's speech just to see as it happens and that was your emmett's reporting from switzerland and we're expecting to meet medvedev speech in just under twenty minutes from now and we'll be covering that speech live here on the fourteen. nuclear cuts treaty between russia and the u.s. known as starts 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 medvedev and our correspondent has the 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 it it's also backed by

both president dmitry mediate who is sitting now he can now signed a treaty and president barack obama would lead in both personally 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 in the 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 successfully through the u.s. senate. so-called wanted three agreement on the russian american corporation and 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 this late. 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 that similar recommendations made previously by the us congress are now being made in 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 the statements on both sides are binding meaning the war not a threat to the actual implementation of the agreement. well for more insight on the significance of the start treaty we can now talk to joel rubin he's deputy director and chief operating officer for the national security network joining us there in washington d.c. good to have you here on r.t. thank you now what's your assessment of this new treaty is it beneficial to all

involved. it's very beneficial to all involved the u.s. and russia have now fully engaged in a restart of the relationship and put substance behind it a lot of good rhetoric over the last year and a half now we actually have an agreement a bipartisan agreement from capitol hill also is a very unique moment and so we see an american russian consensus around a key issue of security for both countries well what about russia's involvement and its relationship with other countries ok good news between russian the u.s. but in fact the u.k. and france they have their arsenals and of course they're also nato members is russia possibly making itself more vulnerable with this new treaty. well that would be. mean nuclear weapons are actually a threat right now to rush in to nato in the united states and we don't see it that way here in washington and there's there's

a clear interest in moving past the cold war and security threats are dynamic now we have terrorism in as noted in moscow on monday these these threats coming from a very long arm of. countries outside of nato and outside of europe we don't know the details of that but again these are threats that are dynamic and different from the past so looking at nuclear weapons is the sole threat is one that we should try to move but you can't surely ignore the fact that has been a lot of tension between russia. and europe over the missile defense issue in fact at one stage it looked as if it could have put this new start treaty but now there seems to be an air of compromise is it really a chance that they could be a joint russia nato anti missile shield now for europe as has been suggested as a possibility. well it's been very interesting to watch how both sides in the u.s. russia discussions over the new start treaty came to respectfully agree to disagree

where the american congress and the russians both put out non-binding statements as noted in the report about missile defense the u.s. is going forward with its plans nato is supporting these ideas i do believe that consultations are in the offing now with the positive momentum and the new grounding upon which this relationship stands so let's say that things may be possible again though it's clear that there are domestic political hurdles in both sides what about the reaction from design over this new ratification. of ratification of this steel everybody's obviously commending it saying i'm applauding saying it's good news but will action actually follow the words of praise do you think will actually join what could be described as a disarmament race. that would be a very interesting outcome clearly the comprehensive test ban treaty is on the docket in the global community a lot of countries have moved forward on it the u.s. has not yet there is

a process is underway at the united nations towards the nonproliferation treaty and strengthening that. significant action of multilateral level including russia towards iran and also actions towards north korea their efforts to acquire nuclear technology and potentially nuclear weapons in the case of iran so the hope is that this will create a new dynamic and create new opportunities now that everyone who cares about arms control and is looking at nuclear weapons as a serious issue sees that the u.s. and russia can make progress it does give an opportunity for new thinking about how to dress this in twenty life just briefly and finally to the problem that putting a positive angle on it concerning the perceived threats from north korea and iran some people may be saying this is crazy for the two countries to reduce their nuclear also when we do have these perceived threats. well as

the capitol hill unfolded in december it was pointed out that in the case of the united states maintaining one thousand five hundred fifty strategic nuclear warheads does not put it at a security deficit and so i think where policymakers are heading is to try to capitalize on the political momentum that the of obtain from this agreement without making the united states and russia as well make it to threats coming potentially from rising nuclear powers and you'll see a lot of different coalitions as a result of this type of effort it's very interesting to hear what you have to say we appreciate thank you very much deputy director and chief operating officer of the national security network in the states thank you. by the way you can also share your opinions about the new start treaty through our online poll at r.t. dot com here's how the vote's going so far your reaction that we can see here on the screen at this stage of the day almost half of you forty four percent think

that the new start treaty 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 does actually make the world safer and we can see there that 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 so far think that the new treaty is a purely pragmatic move by russia and the u.s. to save money well that those are the results so far but you can still have your say on the issue online dot com. well before the business news with dmitri let's update you on other major headlines from around the world at this stage of the day in egypt police and opposition protesters have clashed on a second day of. rallies against a government official report that eight hundred sixty people have been detained and that some of them would face charges for taking part in banned protests the presence immediate family reported to float to the u.k. this comes against a backdrop of growing anger over the rampant poverty and unemployment.

video has been backed prime minister of lebanon has begun to form his cabinet following two days of widespread protests thousands of sunni muslims poured into the streets burning tires throwing rocks and accusing the militant group of a coup in the pm has failed to unify lebanon's diverse society hezbollah and its allies asked at the previous western backed government two weeks ago when they quit the cabinet. back with a summary of our main news in about eight minutes from now in the meantime as promised the business update is next with dimitri. thanks bill yeah we're waiting for a keynote address from the president human vet if he's about to speak in dad force and emerging economies are considered the main growth driver in twenty eleven that's reflected in the doubt for the world economic forum a record number of executives from emerging markets are in dallas as is our correspondent daniel bushel and he's been looking at the guest list.

if you are critical iraq's top honor he calls it fact cats in the snow no less 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 and 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 the same story is over but it might be too late anyway because the chinese are coming china's economy ten percent last year through the global collapse compare that with barely one percent for many drugs to con amaze and this is really reflected in today's forum we've now got a true track system for growing emerging states with balls currency reserves like

china russia are on the one hand and on the other you've got sluggish growers with north to 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 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 for 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. oh yes we're expecting the speech from the president just a couple of minutes and one of the most widely expected deals off devils has been signed meanwhile ross naphtha b.p.'s concluding a framework agreement on cooperation he confirms that plans to form a joint venture to develop arctic feel ross nat's will be taking sixty seven percent of the bench and the rest will be by b.p. and also the two sides have expressed that they are considering mutual representation on the pool of the company the arctic reserves account for roughly four percent of global oil resources announced six percent of the world's gas resources had to be robert dudley says 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 but 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 that 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 good for the companies involved and pursued b.p. we're 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 in the future prospects with ross not just part of the. robert dudley there speaking and i was and it's a costly affair to shape the future of the global economy new york times is calculated just to get the invitation for the devils for one has to call for tonight your membership fee of fifty thousand dollars a ticket for the for those nineteen thousand and to take part in the close sessions of person has to be an associate member which is another one hundred thirty seven

thousand dollars it's no surprise of the devil's form as a money spinner generating one hundred eighty five million dollars a year. look at the stock markets now they're up in the united states after barack obama's state of the union address when he called for an overhaul of corporate taxes the dow isn't just up a notch right now but it did reach the twelve thousand points mark for the first time since two thousand make gains limited however as u.s. new home sales in twenty ten came in lowest in forty seven years the record. european markets are higher carmakers shares were in focus in frankfurt after porsche reported higher sales it shares jumped wouldn't seven percent at the close inspiring other automakers volkswagen up two point nine percent dima and b.m.w. also. and of course trading is over in russia was this there was

a steady recovery mostly from monday's decline and she stays flat finished oil and gas companies and miners showed the biggest gains well telecoms were a bit weaker than the market. on the stocks now in europe energy shares were leading the gains you can see there gazprom ended the session three point seven percent up lukoil however was weaker point four percent burbank continued its winning streak up two and a half percent. that's over now and we'll be expecting president meeting with head of to start his keynote address don't miss it will be broadcast live on.

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