a day. in central moscow to commemorate the victims of the terror attack. exactly three days after the deadly blast that killed thirty five and injured to well over one hundred. so this is a saying this has now been named in connection with the. science fiction becomes reality russia develops a new warheads capable of penetrating all missile defense shield for the next forty years. for the economy has not been

stimulated like. barack obama's optimism in his state of the union address looks at how ordinary americans find it hard to believe the president's assurances of a growing economy. billion dollar deal between. have to develop the arctic shelf might bump into an iceberg as b.p.'s russian partners are complaining they were not invited to participate. a very warm welcome to you this is our. crowds have gathered at one of moscow's main square to mourn the thirty five victims of monday's tera blast. it comes as police have reportedly named one of the suspects who could have been behind the attack more on a both of these developments. going off who's on

a push. and. i'll start with you it was a very moving memorial service this afternoon wasn't it one of one of several around the city in recent days. that's right the ceremony began with a minute of silence at exactly four thirty two pm the time when the explosion happened the much of the airport on monday and despite the freezing temperatures scores of people gathered here at square which is not only one of the main squares and historic science of the city but it's also a scene of another terrorist attack in august two thousand. was a day of mourning in moscow and in moscow region many people came to the airport including officials and even for those also laying flowers at the scene of the attack the moral services were held at churches mosques and synagogues across

moscow and moscow region also in commemoration of the victims and the president the prime minister visited some of these ceremonies as well and just to remind you of this attack killed thirty five people and one hundred eighty others were injured so pretty much as well that the city and probably be entire country is still in shock after this attack so there you go we saw just a massive outpouring of grief and sympathy and condolences out where you are of pushkin's gaius where it was four thirty two pm this afternoon where they mark the one minute of silence flowers and lit candles thanks sara to you know tell me about how the investigation is going you are going to go to the site of monday's boston any progress being made at this point. but we've had some sources naming a suspect in connection to that attack we know his name is. and he is believed to be from russia. and is also thought that he has possible links to the now disbanded

a guy terrorist. we know. headed by shamil basayev and has links to international terrorist organizations they've been responsible for a number of bombings a very recent years one of these attacks was carried out at domodedovo airport when two planes took off from the airport exploded in the air when bombs were set off and one of the female suicide bombers aboard one of the planes that was headed to sochi was also a connected with the new guy terrorist group so we've also heard that they're on ten other suspects big thought to be connected to the attack but these of course all the unofficial sources though we've heard from the investigators here is that they've been able to find the body parts of the suicide bomber and they've had a team of experts working to analyze a picture of the head and the experts believe that person to be over southern european or arabic origin say the investigation here continuing and we know that

the think it is a plane is also be pointing to the transport and airport authorities that we've already seen president medvedev acting on these serious files that he said to hold days accountable the people who are responsible accountable and we've already seen a number of firings of top officials involved in the child's school sector today president medvedev visited. a station in the center of moscow to see how the security systems were working there he was joined by the most came out in a number of other officials they were really assessing the situation the message here in the wake of the attack very clear they want to ensure the security is as tight as it possibly can they are serious or certainly one possible suspect the name in the wake of this investigation that sort of domodedovo the scene of my most last time you go to preschool offered pushkin square a square the site of the softer more all starts with a thirty five victims to both. almost one hundred continues for those responsible behind monday's blast american defense analyst ivan eland says the al qaeda or

other groups linked to it might have had their reasons for attacking russia. 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 that they are fighting it seems like all these people are islamic what we generally call islamist but they are they often have separate goals and 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 it 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 well following the idea of

a nato and russia have vowed to work closely together in the fight against global terror making it a matter of priority and it was a military committee chairman told me that victory over terrorism is possible but only if there's a unity among the international community. we were already agreed that. the fight against terrorism is one of the main arrow corporation the need to rush a worker program what happened in the monday he's in even more and other witnesses to the ins and is increasing our determination to work together to fight terror because steroids as not like to 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 all the international community together even so work on a joint missile defense system in europe remains a stumbling block in russia nato relationship at their meeting in brussels russian

military officials called on the airlines to give player answers moscow's role in the european missile shield rushers chief of general staff. says that nato partners are still reluctant to listen to moscow's proposals. which he did building missile defense systems in europe is complicated because it affects the global stability reach through the new start treaty the russian proposals have unfortunately not been mit's with full understanding first later suggests building the systems stage by stage the logical it's unacceptable for us we must understand what russia's final role in building missile defense systems is 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. and there's more on the russia and nato relationship in our interview with the chairman of the federation council's foreign affairs committee the hallmark off it was also one of

the key men involved in the decision by the council to approve the long awaited nuclear cuts treaty with the us is a glimpse of what's coming your way in about fifteen minutes. needless to say that for us in the upper chamber of the. in parliament all the work on the cation has started long before the document was brought. to the floor to vote and we were let's say trying to remove all the speed bumps on the way of the rather for creation which could appear because the discussion was rather tough both in washington and in moscow and i think we did a significant amount of work together showing that for us both on the capitol hill and here in moscow the word that is a reset is not just a word we mean when we say the reset we need that reset unfortunately during the

last twenty years we've failed to work out the positive. literal agenda but it's called war agenda in our bilateral relations it's time to correct the mistakes of the past it's time to use that opportunity. and it's now at ten minutes past the hour here in moscow you are without saying that russia's armed forces now reportedly have a brand new nuclear warhead at their disposal now doesn't violate any part of the recently signed a treaty with america the design it says it will be able to beat any current missile defense system and any current system being built bennett he takes a look. the designers say it'll be able to penetrate almost all the french shields not only current ones the ones in production for the next forty years now this concept is so unique so groundbreaking actually prompted the chief designer of the missile to come out and say that thirty years ago this sort of concept would have

actually been considered as science fiction is that futuristic that advanced now we know that when the missile is in flight you will actually have several independently target for warheads will be deployed each with its own thermal technology will that means it'll they'll be allowed to go on undetected innovate any missile shield now other than those missiles you don't actually know any more about this one we're already russia claims to be in possession of one of the most powerful missiles there is in the world with ten indifferently top of the warheads each with a range of eleven thousand kilometers and obviously there's the design is a conference that will be even more powerful than that and so clearly that the technology they possess and have come up with is clearly very advanced indeed now they've been testing this for the last year the next two years they hope to combine it with current missiles and current carries they have later this year they hope to commission and put into service a new boulevard which the c c based in the continental may sell this all may sound like quite aggressive posturing on russia's part but actually under the new start treaty there is there are actually any restrictions at all on the development of

new technology so what they see is is more of the terror and rather than anything else and hence the comment in the statement from the defense ministry anatoly a surge of calls he said that should russia nato fail to actually come up with a joint missile defense shield in europe and russia will be forced to come up with one of their own. bennett there reporting from the center of moscow. on the second day of the economic forum in switzerland the russian economy has been at the center of much discussion it follows the russian president's opening keynote speech on wednesday but as it sees it lower and it reports he spoke more about real life than that of big business. it was a speech that began with an introduction by the head of the world economic forum klaus schwab and he introduced president medvedev and he asked the audience to stand and observe a minute's silence in memory of the victims of monday's blast of air force and that

set the tone certainly for the beginning of the speech president medvedev said that the pain that they're feeling in russia now strengthens international resolve to fight a common fight against terror and he also had some quite defiant words both for the terrorists and for the gathered audience years 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 but they thought wrong he also talked about other things environmental issues he said that we're just one natural disaster away from essentially complete meltdown he's talking about events like the icelandic volcano erupting that stopped flights in europe and the extreme heat that you experienced in moscow last summer which caused all these forest fires so russia is proposing an early warning system an international network of early warning systems that can predict these kinds of natural disasters so that this is it will be more easily dealt with he also mentioned wiki leaks he said that he had read the

cables that wiki leaks had released about russia and essentially there was nothing new there they could have come from open source and should be a should also mutlu i think the wiki leaks issue should make the spirit of international relations healthier 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 today is the first full day and there's going to be a huge range of meetings as is usually centering on both the business the the economic the governmental and the cultural but one of the most important sessions of today is a session entitled russia is. next step. i'm going to put in right well to discuss the issues on the davos agenda a bit further we can of course live too but now the door journal part i thank you for a bold and capital hello to you the russian delegation is seeking to attract foreign

investors to the country do you think do you think the recent act of terrorism a dollar deal to airport in moscow do you think that could actually harm those plans. to some degree i think it has an impact on the on the minds of people. so of course it creates a bit of fear but i would say in general people are looking at the market in long term investments and therefore they're looking at all of the other thing that is russia a place where you can invest where business is going to grow where you have the similar type of transparency and governance and freedom to do business and then the other pieces so if we start seeing a lot more successes there and then the foreign investors are reassured on these issues i think. you know events like the one that happened last week we want it won't be as a point when you when you are talk to us about foreign investment in russia we know that modernization is one of russia's priorities at the moment you were saying the

west is ready to invest in russia. but i think clearly our i mean i would say you know i'm a partner in a venture firm so we're looking at investment all around the world and you know young companies that are high ambition and growth plans and differently right now as the european investor we're looking not only in the core european markets but outside because where we see. much enhanced type of growth definitely investors are looking at russia as a place where they could find a lot more growth where for instance the internet as and yet. you know produce as many successes as in in the u.s. or in the rest of europe so we feel. so there are a lot of opportunities and it's a good place to invest so if we if we as investors feel that we're going to be able to again grow the business get the money out also when it's time to get to the exit then i think we will do so but we're definitely ready now other than the foreign

investment in in russia the euro crisis is also on the agenda davos international economic forum nicolas sarkozy has already said that france and germany will never let the currency fail but do you think that promise can be kept when so many years and members are just drowning in debt. yeah i think what was interesting in nicolas sarkozy speech this morning is when he referred to the euro it was a very very clear about it there was no ambiguity that there would never never abandon the euro and he'd draw it drew the link in not just to with the importance for the euro for economic reasons but really for the foundation of europe in itself and for peace and he said that both germany and france realize that euro was europe and europe was about peace and therefore euro was the fundamental. step to keep you know harmony in europe he recognizes i think that you know keeping

the euro alive is not easy because you have to coordinate the effort of many many different countries. and so. he didn't go into the details of what is going to be what is going to take to actually enable all these other regions to deal with their common currency and i think there will be a lot of the work that they're going to have to deal with in the g. twenty but i think what we saw was a very very strong statement around the euro and for the foreseen foreseen it will future or life in the annual economic forum in davos switzerland that's above your general partner bolton and. thank you. thank you but the american economy is growing and corporate profits are up and that's the optimistic assessment that barack obama made in his annual state of the union address but as artie's christine found out if obama said we measure progress by the success of ordinary people

there's little ground for optimism. 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 had 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 stuff that do you know but i don't think that's shouldn't even be in the top twenty heartlessly 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 get our jobs back i mean we're economy has not been stimulated like it's for the average person the suffering goes on to have several college degree family members you know 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 that's just around 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. that tax money is made in america that's been. made in other countries so it should 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 is 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 something happens everyone together. with 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 him 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 example r t let's go. to the business news in just a moment but for the meantime some some other headlines from around the world this hour the former head of the un's agency and nobel prize winner mohamed el baradei has announced he is returning to egypt following the unprecedented protests of the past two days he's over to lead egypt's opposition activists prepare for a massive rally in cairo the government has drastically tightened security and blocked cell phones and social networks used by protesters now more than nine

hundred demonstrators have been arrested so far with forty facing charges of trying to overthrow the government. there's also a growing unrest in yemen tens of thousands of protesters inspired by the popular revolt in tunisia flooded the streets of the capital demanding the president's resignation the demonstrators want economic reform and more to be done to fight corruption wracked by unemployment and poverty there are fears that various terrorist cells including al qaeda have been working to exploit the situation in yemen. are now top of the business news with dimitri. then welcome to business it's a good to have your company b.p.'s billionaire partners that russian joint venture . how filed a claim to a london court opposing b.p.'s plans to jointly develop rich arctic fields together with rosneft the tycoons known collectively as

a considerate are concerned that the deal might push them out of bed with me p a insists it doesn't want to block that you know what wants to be brought in however analysts doubt the legal action will achieve its goal he produces up to a third of b.p.'s oil output and the head of b.p. has highlighted that the company was acting within the law and was ready to share all documents with patents. we intend absolutely to follow all of our agreements with them we're certainly not in breach of those agreements we'll be sharing the information with them shortly b.p. is a very important venture for b.p. it's a very successful company and we see it as prospects for growth. great capability of operating on shore in russia which is now actually operate off shore the kinds of work that would be done with with our partners in ross natural sure require a different sort of skill set i think that's that's well known. but we'll be

absolutely sharing these agreements with our partners and working on a resolution which is. the second day of the devils forum brings together other world oil giants of course russia's top oil producer rosneft in the u.s. may jackson mobil have signed a deal to develop a deep water project in the black sea the company say even more energy projects are expected. to small. been extremely successful day for russian business on all fronts as you say the one billion dollars deal for rosneft along with the world's largest oil company exxon mobil to develop the resources and they say they want to make this a long term and wide ranging partnership which will look at all aspects of oil and gas throughout the country because it comes hot on the heels of all storage is in russia approving pepsi co's bid for wimbledon russia's largest dairy for very much

a consumer driven something that russia wants to move towards and the head of wimbledon says he now wants to make the russian sour juice drink a fear a worldwide hit and exported all over the world so it's been a very successful day on all fronts of course the shares a lot of russia's joint privatization program shares being sold in the likes of v.t. be the top two banks in russia as i've been talking to to go and grab the head of sperm bank also and take off to the head of a t.v. you'll get millions of people around desperate to talk to them to find out more there's a real fascination with russia of course its growth rates are expected to exceed those in the west in europe in europe in european union countries and also in the united states so it's a real growth market that western investors are keen to tap at the moment. the deal with russia is wimbledon that could make pepsico a leader on the food and beverage market in russia and the world's biggest dam reproduce that have sickos president for eastern europe told business r.t.

about plans to increase efficiency. in a country like russia with so much growth and so much opportunity for fish and sea we need to keep investing and we announced about a year ago that we we're going to have a one billion dollar investment in russia you know existing business almost the same amount will go into the you will double business because you do add capacity you need to make the business more efficient there's a big investment that we're going to agriculture we want to work with the with the local farmers in raising the productivity of their local farms as far as a real production is required. and you can watch the full interview with i'm on like what other president of eastern europe on saturday in peter the bells show on the body. move to the stock markets now we start with the united states where there's well flat movement actually because we can't really show you that we can go just zero point one percent for the dow jones point four for the nasdaq this is as more people have applied for unemployment benefits last week and as of course

quarterly earnings reports coming out netflix is up fifteen percent after it said that it now has more than twenty million subscribers and time warner cable is up four percent since raising its dividend thanks to higher profits to europe now european shares reversed the losses to trade well mostly as mining and automotive stocks rallied japan's credit rating was cut for the first time in nine years by standard and poor's as deflation political gridlock were taken into account. in russia where a lot making insider trading illegal finally comes into force slightly positive barely changed details on the stocks the above mentioned women bildad stock is up point eight percent as russians and the monopoly watchdog has approved the purchase of the food company by pepsi as you can see there and they're. moving down.

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