monday's deadly blast at los case the other day. with not orchestrated by terrorists from the that you're in the public but has deep international routes we'll be bringing you the latest on that story in just a few minutes. president mitterrand be out of sets the tone for the economic forum in davos you know speech and promising terror threat environmental disasters nuclear nonproliferation and the weekly scandal. and you asked president barack obama's the state of the union address is being met with skepticism by every americans who say yes not focusing on the right things.

to start the live from moscow nine am here in marina joshua welcome to the program a gathering to commemorate the thirty five victims of a terror attack at russia's domodedovo airport will be held in the heart of moscow later on thursday the blast at the airports arrival zone comes less than a year after two suicide bombers from the north caucasus struck on moscow's metro the russian government however says the latest attack is not linked to chechnya based terrorists well for more on this we can cross live. earth was outside the airport sara it sounds like we might be getting closer to finding out who exactly is behind this attack. well absolutely the latest information we have for. being a possible suspect named from russia stuff riposte region in connection with that attack now that's an unofficial sources at the moment but what we do know is that

the investigators have managed to find the body of the suicide bomber and analysts have been looking at an image of the head of that body and to establish that it's not pro it's a personal friend of the chechen republic but for the southern europe in arabic origin now this is despite claims that we've heard in the western media with very quick to do appreciate and pointing to the attack being carried out by some from the north caucasus now when the most came much evolving as happens a terrorist group from the north caucasus claimed responsibility within a matter of days and this is what we've seen is a difference no no one has claimed responsibility yet and the response from russia was not to point any fingers but the western media did just that with very little facts we can head now from the head of the chechen republic he says that the international community does have a tendency to act in this manner. it's always this way they're always in a hurry to call the entire world the caucuses

a place where there is no order and people are ready to kill anyone as if we were all murderers and terrorists who present church. people as criminals to the international community that's the way they're making their politics. investigators still working to try and identify just exactly he. was and we seen international condemnation of this attack but now as we know it's not it's someone from the south and europe in the arabic origin and we have president of it is saying that this is really no needing the international community to unite and to stand together and fight against what is clearly a global threat. well sir tell us more about the public and political response to the tragedy. where yesterday here at the airport for the day of mourning we had lots of people turning up to pay tribute to the victims and the people who were

involved in the attack on monday they were laying flowers inside the airport and there were candles lit and we saw the american ambassador to present the prime minister putin also attended services around the country we saw many many different sides of it really united all the religions everyone everyone's tools of course with the families and friends that they see died in the attack thirty five people dead many more still in hospital recovering many of them in a serious condition now today in the hearts of most gay they're going to be having a gathering to commemorate the people who were involved in that attack and there's going to be lots of people turning out to know what we have seen this course of the investigation continues is the president invaded taking serious action on the words that he said after the attack he promised results and he is delivering that he's already fired a number of top officials within the interior ministry involved in child support we know that the transport enough for thirty being closely scrutinized this

investigation to that part that they're playing and they're working now to establish exactly who was involved in this and hold them accountable. raiser thanks very much indeed for the something tara for us there. and i'm anyone to an american defense analyst and author explains why russia is becoming a frequent target for islamist terrorists. these people may have been trained in pakistan and the al qaeda areas the problem that you have with that those areas is there are many groups that are there and they all have different causes but they are fighting it seems like all these people are islamised what we generally call islamist but they are they often have separate goals usually groups have a specific target in mind they've done studies on suicide bombings and this technique is often used against democracies to try to get them to withdraw from various areas 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 has to do

with the main reason the al qaeda attacks the united states because it. meddles in the muslim world 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 yet another terrorist attack this time in russia's north caucasus republic of dagestan that's killed four and left six injured the devise detonated in a car parked outside a cafe in the town of house of you are the second largest city in the republic it's the second car bomb explosion in the city in the past two weeks four people died in a similar attack on another cafe in the city after the bombing a dumb idea of an airport nato and russia have vowed to work together to fight terrorism r.t. spoke to nato military committee chairman admiral deepal says the fight against terrorism remains a top priority. we have already agreed that. the fight against

terrorism is one of the main iraq operation the made to russia worker program what happened in that the move there go monday is an even more and other witnesses to the ins and increasing our determination to work together to fight terror because terrorists as no lack good as not terrorism is their own and we need to work together to counter it to win it that's what we have to do with all the information coming together following the ratification of a strategic arms reduction treaty by moscow and washington russia and nato as top military officials met to discuss joint missile defense and europe the two agreed lisbon last november how to cooperate in the creation of the system the chief of the general staff nicole on a card says there should be a clear understanding of the outcome of the project. of building missile defense systems in europe is complicated because it affects the global stability reached through the new start treaty the russian proposals have unfortunately not been

mit's with full understanding at first nato suggests building the systems stage by stage logical that's unacceptable for us we must understand what russia's final role in building missile defense systems is just like nato in the us said we should stop to analyze all the threats and challenges and to understand how we'll cooperate this gives us confidence that we'll be building those missile defense systems together if not the consequences will be disastrous. building will security has become more likely with the signing of the new start treaty says joel rubin deputy director and c.e.o. of the national security network. 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 in american russian consensus around the key

issue of security for both countries there's a clear interest in moving past the cold war and security threats are dynamic now we have terrorism and as you know the in moscow monday these 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 it the u.s. and russia can make progress it does give an opportunity for new thinking about how do you dress this in two thousand and eleven what you know if you live from moscow still to come in the program making the world. where you have the liberation of the nazis largest death camp a joint effort by google. aims to educate the masses on the atrocities of the holocaust. and we'll look at why ordinary people in america don't share the

optimism your president sought to instill. terror threats preventing manmade disaster is on the weekend leaks revelations the first day of the world economic forum in davos a stake in an unexpected course after the russian president's opening speech argues lower and it has the details from switzerland. today is the first full day of. the economic forum but the tone for the rest of the meeting was really set by the keynote speech made last night by russian president dmitri medvedev he was introduced by the head of the forum klaus schwab who asked the audience to stand and observe a minute's silence in memory of the victims of monday's bomb blast at domodedovo airport understandably president medvedev then started his speech by talking about that bomb blast he talked about the way that it had shaken society and created

indignation throughout the world and he thanks again world leaders who had sent him messages messages of solidarity and he also had some quite defiant words to say both to the terrorists and to the world at large sears rick dorsey. those who committed this terrible act targeting citizens of different countries expected their actions to bring russia to its knees but they thought he moved on then to talk about environmental disasters and how the world is potentially just one serious environmental disaster away from complete meltdown he was talking about events like the icelandic volcano that erupted stopping all flights inside europe he was also talking about things like the extreme heat. last summer which caused all those very serious forest fires russia has proposed an early warning system to do with those kinds of disasters and the aim is that the world will be able to work together to. he also talked about wiki leaks and he said that he himself had read the wiki leaks revelations so-called about russia and he said that they seemed to

him as if they could have come from open source isn't there was nothing very new that. ultimately i think the wiki leaks issue should make the spirit of international relations feel fear 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 right. that has been nothing new to me and he also struck a slightly humble nature he said that he recognized that russia had come in for some criticism from other world leaders and from from media organizations he wanted to point out the advances that russia has made in terms of legislation copra governance the application of the rule of law and eradicating corruption but he admitted that there was still work to be done to the speech we talked to some people about what they thought about what made it had said how they'd received his speech but i was very struck by how humble and. the speech is

a very measured assessment of where russian stands and where it needs to go opening financial markets and inviting investors from the world to come to. russia be part of russian development i think this is not only a very very to the point you know it's also very one of the biggest sessions to be held today will be a session in titles brushes next steps to modernization and that was supposed to be attended by president medvedev but he has had to go back to moscow to deal with the aftermath of monday's bomb blast at the airport say first steps the primacy of suv all us will take his place to talk about how to modernize russia. reporting there and will bring you more coverage of the ongoing summit in our business bulletin later in the program and also financial analyst max kaiser is focusing on the economic aspects of what's being decided in switzerland. about instituting one

hundred trillion dollars of new debt that's one hundred trillion dollars of worthless cocktail napkins with smeared lipstick that's one hundred trillion dollars i would exchange the most corrupt bankers for the pay for these overpriced orders. at israel's national holocaust museum and the search giant google have announced a joint project on the nazi era archives more than one hundred thousand photos and documents from the museum will now be available online this comes as the world marks international holocaust remembrance day on the twenty seventh of january and on this day nine hundred forty five the largest of the nazi concentration camps with birkenau was liberated by the soviet army it's estimated around six million jews were murdered by the nazi regime in europe even today some questions remain unanswered over what exactly took place during the nazi occupation of poland as history professor john gross explains. what's happened however all over occupied

europe in the territories that the germans have invaded is that the local population was as jews were being persecuted local population good drawn into that process of persecution and it benefited materially from it and. was a reluctant to give shelter to jews who were trying to avoid the german network but seems to me that and they said it isn't was a fairly well ingrained element of people's world outlook at the time and see move to say first of all the. 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 of round up and occasionally unfortunately also did act as

olds and even killings there were especially in the east there was actually a directive of the nazi police chief at the time. to invite the local population to be active in acts of programs and killings of the jews and unfortunately there was quite a response at that time. you'll find more on that story on our website artie dot com and there is plenty more available there for you right now right now why news blogs are gaining popularity among people craving for an instant of what's going on around the world. and sailing into the twenty four thousand sochi winter olympics and new thirty million euro yacht views as a comfy gathering spot for the world leaders has been unveiled check out the full story on our website our team dot com.

one day on from barack obama's state of the union address his rhetoric filled speech is being poured over about many doubt their president's rosy depiction of the u.s. or if the president's words will become reality christine for the views of the average american. you can find them at the crossroads in truck stops of most small cities in america and just about everyone at some point has stopped in for breakfast served twenty four hours a day. at the waffle house this one in dumfries virginia draws in truck drivers and teachers and even high school students like fernando where to who are just eighteen years old criticizes the government for focusing so many of its resources outside

of the country i don't think we should be too worried about other nations right now like i don't like i mean i know there's big catastrophes like haiti and so do you to help but i don't think that's shouldn't even be in the top twenty of our list of concerns. the concerns of the country were highlighted in president obama's state of the union address tuesday night where he also highlighted progress two years after the worst recession most of us have ever know the stock market has come warring but corporate profits are up the economy is growing again it's acclaimed julie warner doesn't totally agree with we need to want our jobs back i mean the economy has not been stimulated like that for the average person the suffering goes on to have several college degree family members with no jobs have been laid off. want to have the house foreclosed we decided to travel a little further down the road to the grayson village mobile home park people we

met here describe themselves as ordinary americans it's just about thirty miles outside of washington d.c. but in many. way remember we met robert allen who lives here with his wife barbara and father in law irvin watkins he says many people at his own company lost their jobs their health insurance and their hope he says congress should stop propping up the banks and stop spending money on wars they ought to look at their own people for. but tax money is made in america that's been if not made in a lot of countries so it's to be here first. before you take somebody . at the state of the union address in light of the deadly shootings in tucson arizona many republicans and democrats opted to sit together instead of in different sections what comes of this moment it's up to us what comes of this

moment will be determined not by whether we can sit together tonight but whether we can work together tomorrow. so what's the likelihood of that happening anything when something happens everyone comes together and we're going to the moment we hang out together we love each other but then next week the fight over health care. just like taken a kid and put him in a candy shop. be good give me some candy that's what it looks like to me you put them there just. a big kick in at each other again for americans like this the words are a start that our future is hopeful our journey goes forward but the action still seems a long way off reporting in dumfries virginia christine for south r.t.

may god bless. political analyst brian devol said while obama's speech was a success tough action needs to be taken regarding cuts and most importantly a freezing of budget spending. to get out of iraq and stop spending money on iraq and afghanistan that's the first thing that's happened the reality is that no we can't pay for it right now we need to find spaces in the budget that we can cut whether it's defense whether it's discretionary there may be some interest in holding discretionary to two thousand and eight levels like the republicans want to do versus the current levels which is what barack obama wants to do so we can have some space to make those investments secretary gates has pointed out places where you can make cuts future at ransom and projects that can be cut one of the debate boondoggles was the new presidential helicopter marine one who supposedly one of those high tech the grants you know when systems ever made it's never been proven to work so they're getting rid of it is what exactly what they should be doing but

in terms of the baseline budget you can't cut baseline defense while you're in the war theater it cannot be done freezing spending is something that should have happened probably three congresses ago because once we realized that the wars were costing upwards of one and a half trillion that two trillion dollars that weren't budgeted there not in the budget there special spending then there should have been a freeze on discretionary spending at that time the fact that it didn't happen is sort of the reason why the republicans lost in zero six and it's a reason why the democrats lost in the most recent elections and you know unless there's some leadership on this some point soon we're going to be a lot of people losing jobs look out will. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and one workers killed in colombia in a deadly coal mine explosion rescue teams had no initial access to the victims due to rock collapse officials suspect the explosion is likely to have been caused by a buildup of methane a similar blast occurred in the same mine to four years ago killing thirty two

people. in japan of raise the alert level as a volcano in southern japan continues to spew smoke and ash residents are banned from getting within a two kilometer radius of the area the volcano had a smaller option which caused a plume of smoke to reach fifteen hundred meters and covered nearby villages and nash activity has caused travel disruptions but no injuries or serious damage have been reported. and coming up in just a few always here in our tease all the latest business news with. hello time to have a look at what's happening in the world of business all eyes are of course on the

davos economic forum and the economy was central of course to present a veteran opening speech to the forum he said russia has already taken steps to make us economy more attractive to investors and he outlined a range of issues that he said will broaden the country's industrial base one of the key points as a message sale of state assets which he hopes will stimulate better management. looked at him as a sort of i have an issue rated and i'm president a 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. and our correspondent general bushell was at the economic forum in davos and he listened to the speech of the president and now he tell us how it tells us how it

was received by the international audience. in the hall where the president of russia dmitry medvedev for speaking it was a sense of a new start in russia u.s. business relations american business leaders listening we're not doing on one even said to me that if it gets business in a way that barack obama does not the president of america of course on the fire in some quarters back or for his perceived lack of understanding of business resume both really harness many of the key themes that are being. brest throughout the 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 says 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 dollars has been signed for us nafta and b.p. have concluded a framework agreement on corporation it confirms their plan to form joint venture to develop arctic fails will take six to seven percent of the venture the rest will be owned by b.p. the arctic reserves account for roughly four percent of global wealth resources and around six percent of the world's gas resources the head of b.p. robert dudley says russia is a top priority for the company. i think it's a very good good good deal for b.p. i think it's a good deal for rostov to have 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. a new production strategy 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 a course of b.p. we're very very excited about it could new finds hope to maintain or 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 and b.p. and the future prospects with ross 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. all that so take a look at how the market's up the forming asian stocks are higher this hour helped by mild gains on wall street and has decision to keep supporting the u.s. economy with its own plan and he's also avoid my expectations for op feature earnings and the gans forgets the euro which has given strong support for just so many gross point seven percent and the gains point eight percent. and there are some markets will open in time and let's have a look how they fared on wednesday that's definitely a steady recovery from monday's to quiet and tuesday's flat finish well and gas companies and miners showed the biggest gains and telecoms were barely moving up

let's have a look at some stocks gazprom rally it's over three point eight percent look oil where we call them the market about point four percent as burbank continued its winning streak its shares were up more than two and a half percent. that's your business update for this hour you can find more stories on our web site archie dot com slash business. close our team has been to the country. to the land developed by cossacks in ancient times. now watty goes to the center of russian defense production. with christianity and shamanism existed side by side for centuries.