moskow more in the thirty five killed in monday's suicide bomb attack at doma dead of the airport. seizure to assume a shoe with the idea that those who committed this terrible it was targeting citizens of different countries expected their actions to bring russia to its leaves of the but they've ruled. that was the key message of russian president dmitri medvedev the opening speech at the top of the poor at war in just a moment. russia's new strategic arms reduction deal with the us set to become law after getting unanimous backing in the upper house of parliament.

it's two am in moscow i'm mad treasurer good to have you with us here on r t our top story state flags are at half staff 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 domodedovo develop last to pay their last respects to those who died r.t. sara for has more. the flags in most cases like half must larking a day of mourning people turn out to the airport to pay tribute to the thirty five people he died in monday's terror attack. there is frustration i came here specially this situation has really affected me so much 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 shop no 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 somewhere already dead they were dragged away a horrible picture so. 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 real full 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 have many nationalities were among the dead and wounded the american ambassador was among those paying their respects these flowers are just my expression on behalf of people who are solid already with the russian people today. want to. bring together with the families that lost their loved ones. and were suppressing our solidarity with the russian people the russian government there can be no

refuge for monsters from our people carrying out an attack like. commemorative services have been held across the country with a president medvedev and prime minister peace in attending the charge a day uniting people of every faith. i could have lost my brother i want them to be punished. the reaction from the kremlin has been fierce president medvedev has vowed that those responsible will be held accountable and doesn't vest the gates has now worked to establish exactly who is behind the attack the fingers blame has also on the airports and the chance. already there have been officials with more expected to come as the country looks to tyson its security defenses in the off the mouth 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 become. an active remembrance and a mark of respect to the allies in the attack south africa. russia's prime minister says the suicide bombing that killed thirty five people is not linked to chechnya based terrorist here's what vladimir putin told reporters when 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 not a single country in the world the respect. that's common international practice. chechen president says western media are often trying to create a negative image of modern day chechnya and see that. it's always this way they're

always in a hurry to tell the entire world that the caucus is a place where there is no order and people are ready to kill anyone as if we were all murderers and terrorists. and people as criminals through the international community that's the way they're making their politics it's always been so they want. older region st petersburg and other regions to treat us with apprehension that i do not want to let our society consolidate in russian that sturdy politics once a terrorist happens to be from the caucasus why do they always underline that in public opinion has russian a new way all of russian citizens the caucasus belongs to russia where citizens of the russian federation as well as the others why are we always separated from the us if one comes from the caucuses and appears to be a tears then he turns into a common enemy and he's to be arrested or eliminated we're all doing it day in and day out i've lost everything fighting against extremism who put everything in order

in our country and we will continue doing so we can this is the americans they have huge problems with in iraq and afghanistan they do not display their affairs but interfere with. various international newspapers have been quoting sources suggesting the attack on domodedovo may have been planned outside of russia or he's got a check a on is in washington d.c. to look at how the tragedy is 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 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 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 word them 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 he took the west the while to realize this or he's got a. reporting for us from washington before people have been killed six others

injured in a car bomb in russia's republic of dagestan the device detonated outside a cafe in the town of viewer to the second largest city in the republic and best gaiters are now working at the scene we'll keep you updated on this story as more details come in. terrorism has been in the spotlight at the world economic forum in davos in his keynote opening speech dimitri medvedev said the moscow airport bombers wanted to intimidate russia but had once again failed it's the first time that russia has been or is represented at the forum by its leader although the visit will be shorter than planned due to monday's attack on domodedovo airport or his lawyer and it is in davos with the details. 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 mega 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 he 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 those who committed this terrible act targeting citizens of different countries expected their actions to bring russia to its knees but they thought room russia was aware of its place in the world russia will fulfill its obligations towards its citizens and the world community unfortunately 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 just forest fires and he said that russia was proposing an early warning system to deal with monitoring those kinds of threats so. so that we would know before they have things that they were coming he also talked about the recent russification in the russian government of the starts treaty he said that was extremely optimistic moments 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 that that the majority of it could it seems have come from open source says let's hear what he had to say about that shooty issue also mentally i think the wiki leaks issues should make the 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 would be 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 wants 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. when we bring you the highlights of dmitri medvedev speech in poland in around twenty min or check that speech in around twenty minutes time

from now here on r.t. . nuclear treaty between russia and the u.s. no now start has been ratified by russia's federation council the deal could slash both country's nuclear arsenals by about a third now or provide both houses of russia's parliament the tree must be signed by president medvedev our correspondent europe is going to have house 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 who's sitting now he can now signed a treaty and president barack obama's lead in both mr sunni 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 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 cup ration in the nuclear field i mean the peaceful part of it. and. 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. as will have to do their part of their work repealing the so-called jackson benteke amendment which is one of the dinosaurs of political address at 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 is 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. january twenty seventh is international holocaust remembrance day it marks the day in one thousand nine hundred five when the auschwitz birkenau concentration camp was liberated it's estimated that one million jews and more than one hundred thousand other people were murdered there even today some questions remain unanswered over what exactly happened at the nazi death camp for more on this we go live to new york where we're joined by young grows version of history at princeton university good to have you with us professor so you spent many years investigating and writing about the holocaust and poland's role in helping run the concentration camps what was the position of the polish people at that time do you believe they collaborated in some way with the nazis. no no this is this is not the issue of the you know as far as concentration camps

are concerned this is this is completely and nazi that enterprise and they were established in poland because there are so many there were at that time so many jews living in poland this was the largest jewish population and in the was essentially what happened however all over all could buy. in that tell you tell these that the germans have invaded that it applies to western europe and even more so to the eastern europe to poland and to that it's obvious for the east is that the local population was as jews were being the local population got drawn into that process of persecution and they benefited materially from it and. it was of act on to give shelter to jews who were trying to avoid the. network but in some fundamental way of course. it's a story that's driven completely by the nazi scholar for with some collusion on the part of the local population throughout the. you you think they did what they did

just the local population because they feared for their lives and they thought if they didn't at some point ps i know a peace is a kind of a dirty word but appease the occupiers that they would be they would see the reaction come against them. i don't think this is a good explanation it seems to me that they said it isn't was a fairly well ingrained element of people's world outlook at the time and the now see move to say first of all the jews are. evil and they should be isolated and things should be taken away from them this was this was a kind of a set of slogans which local people have accepted with. some interest so to speak and then slowly they were drawn into assisting in various ways in the process of around up and occasionally unfortunately also in direct

assaults and even killings there were especially in the east. there were several tens some. even a two or three hundred thousand members in the. sort of. police units that were assisting the germans this is the speed in the ukraine in the russia. that it always occupied over over there as well as in poland to the there was a police that was staffed by polish former members of the police it had very limited responsibilities but unfortunately it took part in catching up and executing the juices will you got quite a bit of controversy in poland for a book you wrote about a massacre in a small polish village where the jewish community was wiped out now you claim the murders were perpetuated in some cases by poles or not by german occupiers tell us more about that. yes this is this is

a period of the of the beginning of the war between nazi germany and the soviet union as you know stallion and hitler were in fact the allies for most twenty months of the war the war started on september first thirty nine and then attack of nazi germany against the soviet union was only in june twenty first of nineteen forty one and when that attack was carried out nazis were right away waging a war of extermination and it was directed primarily against jewish communities that they were encountering in their march eastward which was very rapid and they the there was actually a directive of the nazi police chief at the time. that he to invite the local population to the to be active in acts

of programs and killings of the jews and unfortunately there was quite a sponsor at the time so the story which i have written about is a story of a little town. in an area that was essentially ethnically. mixed polish jewish area without any addition of other national minorities or groups such as ukraine and so that afghans were lithuanians were later on and we know about it very well such acts were taking place as well but in this little town it was the polish population of that town which turned against the jewish neighbors with whom they lived all their lives you know in a little town who were jews as i did for several hundred years and on that particular day it was the july tenth of one hundred forty one at the instigation of the germans but they were not really actively involved in it. they just allowed it

to happen the local population found it up the jewels and then they killed some just that it was in face to face and gals but then that s the of the of the jewish population that was. rounded up and put into a big barn and set on fire again numbers are in dispute but. in the end from several hundred to about fifteen hundred people who had been who had been killed on that day do you think that anti-semitism is still a factor in modern day poland i remember during the kaczynski funeral there were many jews who turned out in the crowd to mourn him what do you think the role of their of the jewish community in poland is today. you know the jewish community is very small in poland and it it's quite a thriving community a bit with as best i can tell you know that is that a viable of jewish life and they said it is mean to the extent that it

still exists in a variety of countries in poland that is that is that as a jew of it as well it's an abstraction because there are no juice of any in numbers that are significant there but this is the period of that it will delay shifts between poland and israel for example and the period of great interest in jewish the matters on the on the part of a large segment of the polish population of books published on this issue are sort that is the long for edition of the wonderful festival it's a national festival of jewish culture that goes on and i would rather for as well which is very well attended by just not by juice or the gum that of course but just the local population this is part of the life of these cities so one finds of course statements. with the vehement that they said it isn't it is being

pronounced but i think those are the younger generation these are really the things of that i'm sorry we have to stop it there we run out of time thank you very much for your comments professor young grows from princeton university thank you. and now back to russia and the russian president's opening speech at the world economic forum in davos addressing world and business leaders president had better talked about terrorism and a wide range of other issues from the importance of nuclear cuts treaty with the u.s. to the impact of wiki leaks disclosures on international relations the full speech available of course on our website r.t. dot com up next we bring you the an extract of his address. resume speaking today mr swan ladies and gentlemen the day before yesterday in moscow at a drama of an international airport a terrorist act was committed that took the lives of dozens of innocent people

citizens of various countries fell victim to a terrorist attack the citizens of russia the united kingdom. germany austria kyrgyzstan history's biggest. more than one hundred people were injured they are now in hospital the tragedy indeed shocked russian society although even before our country was subjected to serious tests the act caused indignation throughout the civilized world that. i have received numerous messages telephone calls from the leaders of foreign states leaders of international organizations expressing their condolences and solidarity i'm grateful for the condolences and for the words i've just heard from you and from other participants of the forum together we mourn the loss of life the pain from the loss of human lives will stay in our hearts for long the pain of the loss of human lives will stay in our hearts but what has happened has only strengthened our desire to find affective protection against international terror and i believe this must be of most importance those who committed this act

by targeting the citizens of various countries intended to bring russia to its knees force us to be defensive they expected and hoped that the president of russia would not come here to a tender for it among other things of course this is the criteria used to choose the time and place for committing that era the but they miscalculated russia is aware of its place in the world russia is aware of its responsibilities to its citizens and will comply with the world and it was sponsibility to the world community. and this is why on this day i'm speaking from a this rostrum terrorism negates the most important value of human life it tramples any rights and freedoms irrespective of ideology it generates fear and hatred and it's an obstacle to efforts to improve our world as a terrorist act seek to disrupt normal life in the normal currents of life and such acts often force us to take the tough decisions for these terrorist acts and change

the way of thinking not only of those who fell victim but of all people living on that. unfortunately no state in the world is immune to terrorism the reality is that terrorist acts like the one that just happened in russia and not for the first time can happen at any time and at any place in the world no one is immune to that today there are no universal recipes to combat that evil but one thing can be said definitively. our success in countering this common threat depends very much on our solidarity and consolidated action. particularly when globalization has made the world more interdependent than before and we have to win hearts and build upon the efforts joint struggle against terrorism in the way we need to do all we can to influence if not the ideology then the social and economic roots of terrorism that then with poverty unemployment illiteracy poor upbringing and we have to ensure

that global development is stable just and fair once again let me thank you for your expressions of kindness our forum is held at a time when many say the economic crisis is over but at the same time it's obvious that it's not all that simple it a period of extra rapid development resulted in many people becoming euphoric but a crisis has sobered everyone but we have coped with only one part of the sequence of the crisis and until we find a model for economic growth development is bound to be slower than we would like it to be that at the same time we have learned some serious lessons not only from the economics but modern day civilization is well developed at least compared to what it was two hundred years ago. but one technical disaster or mistake could be enough to bring us to the green give environmental catastrophe and continents will be cut off from each other as it was in the past eruption of iceland's volcano oil spill in the mexican gulf unprecedented heat in russian summer catastrophic floods and.

all this makes us think about the fragility of human on earth we can further procrastination could be dangerous and the thing is not just to complete the longstanding climate talks although that must be done but what is also what issue is to create a common monitoring system for environmental and hazardous systems and an early warning system for emergencies so what you did russia has advanced this initiative and i hope that our partners too will agree that this question is long over due today we need new ideas capable of changing the world for the better ideas that are contemporary and says to contemporary problems for nation states for business and for public development. but speaking of security russia has expressed its specific proposals on creating new security in europe and i believe that such topics can be discussed everywhere including here at the economic forum in davos. today the

actions of politicians in international relations are lagging behind progress some politicians continue to live off the phantoms of the cold war they are carried away by primitive force ambitions but at the same time this period is seeing almost a billion people let's realize this number using social networks for the first time in the history of mankind people are communicating with each other directly being on different continents that's incredible and our world is becoming increasingly flatty borders are vanishing people are being united by this same idea and no national government can claim to have full influence over these communities perhaps that's for the better. leg lifts .