russia mourns the victims of monday's suicide bomb attack as people gathered to pay tribute to the thirty five people killed. seers are sure those who committed this terrible act targeting citizens of different countries expected their actions to bring russia to its knees but they thought. that was the key message of russian president dmitri medvedev the opening speech at the. border just to make. the house of parliament unanimously ratifies the new nuclear reduction deal with the u.s. that will see each nation's warheads reduced.

with news from russia and around the world this is r.t. here in the state flags are all across the moscow region to mourn the victims of monday's suicide bombing at russia's busiest airport people have been gathering at the site of the dumbing down of a blast to pay their last respects to those who died. the flags in most cases like half mast larking a day of mourning people turn out to the airport to pay tribute to the thirty five people who died in monday's terror attack. before christmas i came here specially this situation has really affected me. that everyone's grieving no one's left indifferent to this tragedy the blast went off in the international arrivals area at peak time the shuttle packed explosive seemingly designed to cause

maximum and devastation. my first thought was to get away a lot of people willing motionless even more people were being piled up near the first aid area some well ready dead they were dragged away a horrible picture. i looked at my watch and then flash and i passed out when i woke up there was a ringing in my ears there was a sour smell everything in ashes everyone is groaning three or four men were piled up on top of me the one directly above me was wounded in the chest he took all the shrapnel. and it's not just russia that's been affected people of many nationalities were among the dead and wounded the american ambassador was among those paying their respects these flowers are just my expression to help keep our solidarity with the russian people today. want to. bring together with the

families that lost their loved ones. and were expressing our solidarity the russian people the russian government. the no refugees or monster our people carrying out an attack like. commemorative services have been held across the country with the president medvedev and prime minister peace in attending the child to day uniting people of every faith. i could have lost my brother i want them to be punished if. their reaction from the kremlin has been fierce president vader's has vowed that all those responsible will be held accountable and as investigators now work to establish exactly who is behind the attack the think of blame has also on the airports and the transport authorities already there have been officials fired with more expected to come as the country looks to tighten its

security defenses in the aftermath of the attack people have rallied donating blood at hospitals and ensuring the victims and their families receive all the help they need but admits the charge of the russia has tried to stand united in its refusal to be intimidated people. and act of remembrance and a mark of respect they say lost their lives in the attack. russia's prime minister says the suicide bombing which killed thirty five is linked to chechnya based terrorists he's here's what vladimir putin has been telling reporters and then usually. 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 that's a single country in the world the respects itself does this that's common international practice. so you'd shahrzad whose pakistan bureau chief for asia

times online said an international terror hub is behind the bombing. that attack was planned by al qaeda and. i was recently in northern afghanistan and i gathered that. through its affiliated organizations like islamic movement of uzbekistan and. groups and church and groups the me the northern of one ist on the hubble did 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 in a while just on russia would be the most important regional player enough want to stop and that's why. strategy. well various international newspapers of course have been quoting sources suggesting the attack on may have been planned outside of russia. reports now from

washington d.c. on how the tragedies being reported in the west. security experts and investigative journalist have started looking into where these terrorists come from 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 in 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 had 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 terrorism was also in the spotlight at the world economic forum in davos in the opening keynote speech to the community the bombers wanted to intimidate russia once again failed the first time russia has been represented at the forum by its leader or the visit will be shorter than planned due to monday's attack i'm going to put well let's now across live to. more. dimitri medvedev covered a lot of ground in that speech to me can you just break down for us some of the

main points he raised. he really did cover a lot of ground but of course he started by talking about the terror attack on monday at some of the other airports in fact klaus schwab who introduced him the head of the world economic forum last everyone to stand on their feet and observe a minute's silence in honor of the victims then maybe get us started to talk about the attack and he said that they all felt the pain of loss but it had strengthened the world's resolve to combat this international threat of terror that we see society it spreads indignation throughout the world and here again thanks leaders of other governments who had sent him messages of condolence but there was also element of defiance in what he said he said that the terrorists expected that this would make him cancel his trip to davos and missed this appearance in front of the world to promote russia but in fact it did nothing of the sort let's hear what he said about that. here's rick dorsey were sure those who committed this terrible act

targeting citizens of different countries expected their actions to bring russia to its knees but they thought wrong russia was aware of its place in the world russia will fulfill its obligations towards its citizens and the world community unfortunately no state in the world is immune to terrorism terrorist attacks like this one in russia unfortunately can happen any time anywhere in the world there is no universal remedy against this evil but one thing we can say for sure our success in battling this threat very much depends on solidarity. he did understandably spend quite a lot of time on that about five minutes of what was only a twenty minute speech but he did then moved on to talk about various other things including environmental issues he mentioned how the world really is only one step away from the major environmental disaster that could bring us to her to our knees he was talking about incidents like the icelandic volcano which stopped flights in europe he was talking about the extreme heat. wave this summer which caused just

forest fires and he said that russia was proposing an early warning system to deal with monitoring those kinds of threats so that we would know before they happened that they were coming he also talked about the recent ratification in the russian government of the start treaty he said that was extremely optimistic moment and he said that people all over the world will be breathing a sigh of relief about nuclear weapons in that case he also mentioned wiki leaks he said that he himself had read the wiki leaks cables about russia that had been released and he said there was nothing really new there that the majority of it could it seems have come from open sources let's hear what he had to say about that . shooty issue also mutlu i think the wiki leaks issue should make a spirit of international relations. even though some states consider this an illegal activity the impact of this story is quite positive as for what was leaked some may find it interesting to others it's no secret as for me what i've read

about russia has been nothing new to me but it's the there was a humble note in his speech as well he recognized that russia has been criticized by western governments and by the media and he also wanted to point out that russia has made advances in terms of legislation corporate governance the application of the rule of law and corruption but there is still a lot more work to do laura thanks very much indeed for that summary laura emmett's reporting live from switzerland and i will get more on the economic aspects of the speech in just under fifteen minutes from now in our business bulletin and no doubt more from laura later thanks more. when you click ups treaty between russia and the u.s. known as 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 medvedev but our correspondent you to corpus cannot 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 poland 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 personally monitoring the way ratification has been going in fact on tuesday barack obama praised. 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 a 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 successfully through the us senate. so-called wanted three agreement on the russian american corporation and the nuclear field i mean the peaceful part of it. and. that is concerned we also are 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 right 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 well i spoke to joel rubin deputy director and c.e.o. of the national security network who says that the new start treaty is a big step towards global security. it's very beneficial to all involved the u.s.

and russia have now fully engaged in the 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 of our countries there's a interest in moving past the cold war and security threats are dynamic now we have terrorism and as you noted in moscow monday these threats come from a very long arm potentially from countries outside of nato and outside of europe 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 a new thinking about how dangerous this in two thousand and eleven. would want to

share your opinions about the new start treaty online poll. web site here's how the voting is going so far on the screen let's have a look almost half of the forty four percent think that 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 it makes the world safe twenty two percent describe the treaty as an actor stupidity saying that russia in the us will lose out to china and india and nine percent of you so far think that the new treaty is a purely pragmatic move by russia and the us to save money well those are the results of the moment but you can still have you all say on the issue don't call it would be good to hear from me. the official on t.v. application. i pod touch from the top story. on the. video on demand. is my old car.

and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. dot com. business news coming up for you very soon before that let's have a quick look at some of the major headlines from around the world to egypt first completion opposition protests that have clashed on a second day of inspired rallies against the government officials report that eight hundred sixty people have been detained and that some of them would face charges for taking part in banned protests the president's immediate family reported her flown to the unrest comes against a backdrop of growing anger over rampant poverty and unemployment. in the annual state of the union address barack obama look to heal some of the divisions between democrats and republicans in the congress the president called for a massive spending freeze to help revive the country struggling economy but also emphasize innovation and investment in infrastructure as a key to a successful future the speech is seen as

a move to the center by obama mid-term election losses last year. the year has been prime minister of lebanon has begun to form his cabinet following two days of widespread protests thousands of sunday muslims poured into the streets burning tires throwing rocks and accusing the militant group of a coup the new pm has vowed to unify a level and diverse society has blown its allies alstad the previous western backed government two weeks ago when they quit the cabinet. well as lebanon works to restore order peter lavelle in these guests on cross to discuss just what a hezbollah ruled government might mean for both the fragmented country and for the fractured region now here's a quick preview of what's ahead in the next hour on crosstalk. this government is much more representative than its predecessor 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 with the fifty five percent well it would you say not true not true what you'll see again is total nonsense and you know it's like i can't even answer as your side their side the facts i think the numbers they're all the numbers that as a fact the see happening since i started high that fact twenty nine percent and if anything the sunnis have them like a miniscule edge over them and you know this patrick you know it's really the study of the demographic ideas of. the fact is tony you don't want to accept. it.

crosstalk that's cross talk coming your way in the next hour on the business update with dimitri that's coming up in a few moments stay with us life here in moscow. and

welcome to business outing with me to mr medvedev the economy unsurprisingly was central to president medvedev opening speech to the devils forum he said russia is already taking steps to make its economy more attractive to investors and he outlined a range of issues that he said will broaden the country's industrial base and one of the key points is a massive sale of state assets which he hopes will stimulate better mass meant. that in the that i have an issue an unprecedented program of privatization of large state owned companies over the next three years large stakes in the banking

infrastructure and energy sectors will be privatized for the overall sum of tens of billions of dollars it is not the state budget we care about but improving the efficiency of companies and the business environment. all right well business south east correspondent daniel bushell wasn't listening to the speech and he tells us how it was received by the international what. in the hall where the president of russia dmitry medvedev was speaking there was a sense of a new start in russia u.s. business relations american business leaders listening were nodding and one even said to me that medvedev gets business in a way that barack obama does not the president of america of course under fire in some quarters back home for his perceived lack of understanding of business present really high on this many of the key themes that are being expressed throughout their votes for here this week one is the push towards a new green way of doing business no longer is it enough to pander only to the

shareholders and the bottom line the president made is that it's very important for business to take care of the environment and also make that at the forefront of the way it does business and third and finally russia hitched the way it does business to the rest of europe saying that it would start to forge a common economic grounds with the european union also in its attempts to draw on the world trade organization and then the o.e.c.d. the organization for economic cooperation and development. that was daniel bushell reporting from dabbles of course and one of the most widely expected deals of data has been signed rosneft and b.p. have concluded a framework agreement on corp it confirms their plan to form a joint venture to develop arctic fields rosneft will take sixty seven percent of the bench and the rest will be owned by b.p. the two sides have said they're discussing mutual representation on the board of the company the arctic reserves account for roughly four percent of global oil

resources and around six percent of the world's gas resources head of b.p. robert dudley says russia is a top priority for the cup. i think it's a very good 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 national how important is the arctic to p.p.s. new production strategy i think the arctic has great potential if 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 a course of b.p. we're very very excited about it could new finds help to maintain oil production at current levels if you look out to the year two thousand and thirty the growth in oil production will be fairly limited its value though will be high the world will need forty percent more energy by twenty thirty it's going to be something the

world needs how would you summarize b.p.'s new strategy going forward well i'd probably say three three ways one we are deeply embedded in safety risk management and 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 for us not just part of that where is b.p. now in the off the mass of the gulf of mexico oil spill well we have many many commitments to meet there we've got a long way to go to rebuild the trust there so we haven't put it behind it where we're deeply embedded in the learnings from that experience in cross country company in terms of what we do everywhere around the globe. robert dudley the head of b.p. was talking to business a bushel and it seems in devil's shaping the future of the global economy is a costly affair the new york times has calculated just to get the invitation for the devils forum one has to cough up an annual membership membership fee of roughly

fifty thousand dollars a ticket for the forum course nineteen thousand and to take part in the close sessions a person has to be an associate member of the form which means another fee of one hundred thirty seven thousand dollars it's no surprise that the devil's form is a money spinner generating one hundred eighty five million dollars a. speaking of spending money is look at the stock markets 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 now the dow has finally reached the twelve thousand point mark first time since two thousand and eight games are limited however as u.s. new home sales in twenty ten came in the lowest in forty seven years on record. european markets ended the day higher carmaker shares were in focus in frankfurt after porsche reported higher sales its shares jumped over seven percent in the session inspiring other automakers books while good ended two point nine percent

dive b.m.w. was also strong and in russia of course trading is ended steady recovery in moscow from monday's decline and tuesday's flat finish oil and gas companies the miners showed the biggest gains well telecoms were barely moving up more detail about russian stocks now energy shares were as we said leading to gains gas prom up three point seven percent lukoil a bit weaker though point four percent is burbank continued its winning streak it was up two and a half percent at the end of the session. that's it for now will be back in one eye was time bill is next with the headlines after this short break.

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