the victims of monday's suicide bomb attack as people gathered to pay tribute to the thirty five. years of. 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 of the foreign born just a moment. russia's parliament unanimously ratified is the new nuclear reduction deal with the u.s. that will see each nation's warheads reduced by a third. with

news from russia and around the world this is in moscow good to have you with us this. 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 science of the dome a bit of a loss to pay their last respects to those who died. as more. the flags in most cases life must 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. the first time i came here especially 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 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 world already 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 it 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 you 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 flowers are just marks for. our dirty with russia today. bring together with the families that lost.

our solidarity the russian people the russian government. the revenue. monster our people carrying out. commemorative services have been held across the country with both president medvedev and prime minister peace in attending the charge of a uniting people of every faith. i could have lost my brother i want them to be punished for. their reaction from the kremlin his being fifth president of vader's has vowed that all those responsible will be held accountable and doesn't invest the gates has now worked to establish exactly who is behind the attack the fingers blame has also a foreign on the air because in the transporters there are cities 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

dating blood at hospitals and ensuring the victims and their families receive all the help they need but admits the charge of the version has tried to stand united in its refusal to be intimidated can't people come to lay treat and act for members and a mark of respect they see their lives in the attack sapphire. russia's prime minister says the suicide bombing which killed thirty five people is not going to church in a base terrorists is what vladimir putin has been telling reporters. early results of the investigation suggest. has nothing to do with the chechen republic and we will not negotiate with any terrorists was a single country in the world the respect. that's common international practice. well there is international newspapers have also been quoting sources suggesting the attack on don't have a may have been planned outside of russia. is in

washington d.c. and looks of hell the tragedies being reported in the west security experts and investigative journalists 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 al 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 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 in 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. well it is going to churn reporting there from washington d.c. well for more on this i'm joined by ivan eland he's a senior fellow at the independent institute in washington d.c. good to have you with us here on r.t. vladimir putin has suggested this terror attack is nothing to do with the chechen republic so where else do you think could the blame lie. well i think according to the what's reported in the telegraph and in london these people may have been

trained in pakistan and the al qaeda areas the problem that you have with the those areas is there are many groups that are there and they all have different causes that they're fighting it seems like all these people are islamised what we generally call islamist but they are they often have separate goals there are people there that are fighting indians in kashmir and there are probably chechens there that are interested in attacking russia and according to the telegraph report some people do suspect chechen or or north caucasus. origin for the for the attack because of the car borne by the woman black she may be a black widow. or her husband jailing or or killing by russian authorities so it's hard to say at this point i don't think it's conclusive what's what's happened. you know they'll maybe get to the bottom of it but i think just because these people are trained in pakistan they could be from many different

groups but usually groups have a specific target in mind you don't know their islamised and they usually has to do with foreign troops or what are perceived as foreign troops they've done studies on suicide bombings and despite the fact that some of mars lawmaker the islamists didn't invent the suicide bombing the tamils did in share along and this technique is often used against democracies to try to get them to withdraw from various areas and so this was a to suicide bombing and so there's no guarantee that that's what it is but certainly. a lot of these terrorists groups are local for instance al qaeda focuses on the u.s. other groups focus as i mentioned on india so it's usually. despite their religion that's not usually the main factor when u.s.

troops pull out of afghanistan russia could become a very important player in the region in terms of antiterrorism do you think whether it's al qaeda or indeed other groups that you've been talking about. they could be sending rusher a message by this attack if if indeed a group from that area could be involved. well i think the pro people were probably trained there i'm not sure because there's training camps so i'm not sure that they're that they're from that area now if russia got more heavily involved in afghanistan in the region again of course you might see some of the groups there. go against russia it has to do with the main reason the al-qaeda attacks the united states because it. meddles in the muslim world and it has military occupations in various arabic and muslim countries and so this is usually what drives it is foreign occupation and particularly non muslim occupation of perceived muslim lands and it can be in palestine it can be in afghanistan iraq wherever

chechnya wherever but this is a perceived occupation by the people involved and that's why that's why they do this and it's very specific usually the victims we have this conception that they're just blowing up everybody and killing people for no reason they may be killing civilians and of course that's wrong but their methods are very. precise in what i mean by precise is their target they know who they're targeting what country they're targeting and they know why they're targeting and they're just not crazy and i think we are really doing ourselves and all the countries that are victims of terrorism are doing themselves a disservice if they think these people are crazy because they're not crazy they have a very specific objectives in mind and they are very ruthless in how they pursue these and there's no excuse for whether it's the moscow airport the twin towers in new york where india wherever they do it suicide terrorism against civilians is

simply unacceptable in the matter where where it's done or for what reason president medvedev has just been speaking at the economic forum in davos in switzerland was saying how much support he's got from international from the international community and obviously in. international community have really being seen to be expressing a lot of remorse and indeed support for russia but do you think now that maybe the west beginning to realize in fact that there is indeed a common enemy and it's not just this last incident focused on russia but indeed it is a global problem. well to this state that it's a global problem some of these training camps in pakistan may be training fighters from various places but that may be a global problem or problem that countries can team up to to eliminate but i think the real problem is with. the local issues involved

no matter where it is in the world if you solve the underlying problems that cause the terrorism you'll probably get rid of the terrorism as well and. we've seen that time and again so i think i think we need to focus we can't make it too much of an international problem certainly countries should cooperate with each other if they know that groups are about ready to strike another country etc certainly law enforcement can cooperate in intelligence court and cooperate but i think there are only only some of it's an international problem of training camps funding maybe funding flows and that sort of thing but usually the particular groups attack particular countries for particular reasons and they may be loosely linked through islamism or fundamentalist islam but that's not really the real reason that there that these attacks are occurring in place a or place b. thanks very much indeed good to hear from you senior fellow in director of the

central piece and the dependent institute in washington thanks for being with some naughty thank you. well terrorism was also in the spotlight at the world economic forum in davos as i've just mentioned in his opening keynote speech to meet them inventive said that the moscow airport bombers wanted to intimidate russia but it once again failed and for the first time russia has been represented at the forum by its leader although the visit will be shorter than planned due to that attack on monday on domodedovo airport it is also and she has the details of the form. of course he started by talking about the terror attack on monday at the other airports in fact klaus schwab who introduced him the head of the world economic forum asked everyone to stand on their feet and observe a minute's silence in honor of the victims then met at a 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 an element of defiance in what he said he said that the terrorists expected that this can 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 so let's hear what he said about that you know group here's rick dorsey were sure that those who committed this terrible act targeting citizens of different countries expected their actions to bring russia to its knees the very thought of going to russia or is aware of its place in the world that russia will fulfill its obligations towards its citizens and the world community unfortunately as you know 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 even the one thing we can say for sure our success in battling this threat very much depends on solidarity and 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 move 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 hurt 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 her endless forest fires and he said that russia was proposing an early warning system to deal with monitoring those kinds of threats to. so that we would know before they happen to know that they were coming he also talked about the recent ratification in the russian government of the start treaty he said that was an extremely optimistic moment and he said that people all over the world would 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 source says let's hear what he had to say about that as i'm sure you should 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 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 more amateur reporting from switzerland and we'll get more on the economic aspects of the speech in just under fifteen minutes from now in our business update. the nuclear cuts treaty between russia and the u.s.

a 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 veteran our correspondent you've got this kind of 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 educate it's also backed by both president dmitry mediate who is sitting now he can now sign 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. 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 successfully through the u.s. senate the 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. those will have to do their part of their work repealing the so-called jackson that 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 the future 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. when i spoke to joel rubin deputy director and c.e.o. of the national security network he 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 the 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 in the in moscow on monday these threats coming from a very long arm of 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 new thinking about how to in two thousand and eleven. and we can also share your opinions about the new start treaty through our online poll that don't com here's how the vote is going so far here on the screen we can see that 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 of course if 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 a purely pragmatic move by russia and the u.s. to save money well the results so far you can still have your say on the issue on our website dot com. well now for

a brief look at other major headlines from around the world at this stage of the day a second day of anti-government riots in egypt have seen protesters throw far bombs and set fire to government buildings in cairo officials report that eight hundred sixty people have been detained in the clashes and that some of them would face charges for taking part in banned protests presence immediate family reported to flow to the. rest comes against a backdrop of growing anger over rampant poverty and unemployment. a new hezbollah 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 new people and as far to unify lebanon's diverse society has been and its allies alstad the previous western backed government two weeks ago when they quit. to bring up the data about another summary of all news in about seven minutes from now the meantime business is next with dmitri.

thanks very much bill and of course we start with divorce the economy was central to president event of opening speech at the world economic 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 management. i haven't issued 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. for business artie's daniel bush always in

our boss he was listening to the speech and he told us how it was received by the international audience. 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 president really harnessed 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 said 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 ground with the european union also in its attempts to join the world trade organization and then the o.e.c.d. the organization for economic cooperation and development. and one of the most widely expected deals of davus has been signed last after b.p. have concluded a framework agreement on cooperation now it confirms their plan to form a joint venture to develop arctic fields was nafta will be taking sixty seven percent of the venture the rest will be owned by b.p. the arctic reserves account for roughly four percent of global oil resources and around six percent of world gas resources the head of b.p. robert dudley spoke to daniel boyd show and in the interview he said 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 who 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. a new oil production strategy i think the arctic has great potential to look at the maps and russia i think is going to be something that's great for russia good for the companies involved and a course of b.p. were very very excited about a good new finds hope 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 and 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 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 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 speaking to bush or exclusively there and finally staying with the swiss resort of devils it seems shaping the future of the global economy is proving to be a costly affair the new york times calculated just to get the invitation to the devils for one house to cough up an annual membership fee of roughly fifty two thousand dollars the ticket for the forum costs nineteen thousand and to take part in the closed sessions a person has to be an associate member of the forum and that cost another one hundred thirty seven thousand dollars it's no surprise that the devil is a money spinner generating a hundred eighty five million dollars a year. thinking about spending money is take

a look at the markets they're up in the united states barack obama's state of the union address where he called for an overhaul of corporate taxes the dow hit twice the twelve thousand mark for the first time since two thousand a a bit lower than that right now gains however as you can see that limited as us new home sales in twenty ten came in the lowest forty seven years of record. european markets ended the day carmaker shares were in the focus in frankfurt after porsche reported higher sales its shares jumped over seven percent at the close inspiring other automakers volkswagen for example up two point nine percent at the close and b.m.w. were also. here in russia closing picture for wednesday's trade in moscow that's of course a recovery from monday's decline and choose to explore finished oil and gas companies and miners showed the biggest gains well telecoms were barely moving up to take a look at some of those stocks gazprom one of the strongest performers of the day

up three point seven percent at the close look while a bit weaker their point four percent is berber continue this winning streak its shares are up two point five percent at the close. and that's it from the business team for today of wednesday it's half past eleven pm of course here in moscow we'll be back in the morning headlines are next with bill after a short break. in moscow all she's available in grand hotel ritz carlton royal marriage renaissance on larry crowne plaza holiday inn circle beach. holiday inn social ski patrol meridian national the meridian country club some bowling shirt and qantas pizza the first all kinds all sure can pinski switzer told cousin whole. sky.