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looks at how ordinary americans find it hard to believe the president's assurances of a growing economy. between . developed. they were not invited to take. news from russia and around the world this is r.t. here in moscow crowds of one of moscow's main squares 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. discuss these developments. and also. the ceremony began with

a minute of silence at exactly four thirty two pm the time when the explosion happened to the much of the airport on monday and despite the freezing temperatures scores of people gathered here at pushkin square square which is not only one of the main squares and historic science of the city was also a scene of another terrorist attack in august two thousand wins the was a day of mourning in moscow and in moscow region people came to do much of the airport including officials and even for the usual 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 on thursday short as well that the city and probably be

entire country is still in shock after this attack turned 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 you know his surname is restive each day and he's believed to be from russia start from pole region and i was also thought that he has possible links to the now disbanded new guy terrorist three. we know that. was headed by shamil basayev and has links to international terrorist organizations now they've been responsible for a number of bombings a very senior is one of the day's attacks was carried out at domodedovo airport when t. planes takeoff from the airport exploded in the air when bombs a set off and one of the female suicide bombers aboard one of the planes that was headed facility i was also a connect. with the new guy terrorist group. we've also heard that they're on ten

other suspects big thought to be connected to the attack but these of course all of the unofficial sources though we've heard from the investigators here is that they've been able to find the body puzzle of the suicide bomber and they've had a team is that working to analyze the pictures the has the experts believe that person to be the southern european origin say the investigation here continuing and we know that the i think his of blame is also be pointing to the child's will and it will to thirty's and we've already seen president they did acting on these serious files he said to hold days accountable for the people who are responsible accountable and we've already seen a number of firings of top officials involved in the child's ability and today president made a visit to. a station in the center of most gate to see how the security systems working there he was joined by the most came as a case of yet in a number of other officials they were really assessing the situation the message

kid in the wake of the attack very clear they want to ensure the security is as tight as it possibly can be so reporting that well as the hunt for those responsible continues american defense honest i haven't even says all qaeda or other groups linked to it might have their reasons for attacking russia these people may have been trained in pakistan and the al qaeda areas the problem that you have with 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 islamised what we generally call islamised 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. following the attack adama deliver nato and russia have to work closely together in the fight against global terror as a matter of priority nato military committee chairman told r.t. that victory over terrorism is possible only if there is unity among the international community. we were already agreed that. the fight against terrorism is one of the main heroic operation the need to rush a work of program what happened in the war monday is an even more and other witnesses to the ins and is increasing our determination to work together to fight terror because terrorists as not to as not call 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 international community together even so work on

a joint missile defense system in europe remains a stumbling block in russia nato relations at that meeting in brussels russian military officials called on the alliance to give clear answers over moscow's role in the european missile shield russia's chief of the general staff nicholai account of says that nato partners are still reluctant to listen to moscow's proposals. which 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 first later suggests building new 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.

well that's more russia and nato in our interview with the chairman of the federation council foreign affairs committee. was also one of the king's men involved in the decision by the council to approve the long awaited new click cuts treaty with the us the new start treaty will here's a glimpse of what's coming your way in the next hour here on r.t. . needless to say of the four in the upper chamber of the russian parliament. well the work on the fifth 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 read the cation 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 bilateral 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 all those. protests inspired by the revolt in tunis you have domino egypt yemen and algeria when you mendell the author of the book full spectrum dominance says this wave of unrest has the same roots as the color revolution seen in countries. what happened in georgia with the orange revolution or rather the rose revolution in georgia in ukraine with the orange revolution two thousand and three two thousand and four was part of a long term strategy orchestrated by the pentagon the state department and various us financed and geos like. national endowment for democracy to create

nato regime change in those former soviet union areas and to literally encircle russia now the what what's going on in the middle east with the jasmine revolution. in tunisia that we saw a few days ago and now in egypt where we have a food crisis taking place it is the backdrop and within that you have these n.g.o.s like freedom house training activists in trade unions and various other organizations to demand democracy demand human rights and so forth and a majority of this appears to be orchestrated very finally by by the technique that was perfected of nonviolent revolution by gene sharp's albert einstein institution institute in cambridge the same footprint that we saw going back as far as serbia with the ouster of milosevic. russia's own forces now reportedly have

a brand new nuclear warhead at their disposal it doesn't violate any part of the recently signed reduction treaty with the u.s. and the design it says it will be able to beat any current myself defense system and any other being built all of these other benefits 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 war has will be deployed each with its own thermal technology with that means it'll they'll be allowed to go on undetected innovate any missile shield now other than those visitors who don't actually know any more about this when we're already russia claims to be in possession of one of the most

powerful missiles there is in the world with ten individually target or 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 car missiles and car and carrys they have later this year they hope to commission and put into service a new call of our which the c c based in the continental missile how this all may sound like quite aggressive posturing on russia's part but actually under the new start treaty there is there aren't actually any restrictions at all on the development of new technology so what they sees is more with 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. bodies are bennett reporting there from moscow.

on the second day of the double 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 the first time russia has been represented at the forum by its lead. visit was shorter than planned due to monday's attack on domodedovo airport the bombing was the first topic you touched upon in his speech before turning to issues of preventing manmade disasters and the wiki leaks revelations the devils for last until sunday on our website r.t. dot com we're asking what do you think people decide that for a more let's have a look at the reaction so far just seven percent of you think the devils forum is there to make the world a better place although it's half of you that forty eight percent believe it's an excuse for the rich to get richer at the expense of those not attending we can see that think that it's an opportunity for the purple to plot how to stay in power and

eighteen percent of you've gone with the less obvious option you think it's the big fashion fads for the year head being talked about well as you can see those are the results so far still have your say on the issue at r.t. dot com. and we'll bring you more coverage from davos in our business update in about fifteen minutes from now and while politicians and bankers are holding discussions at the forum ortiz thomas financial critic next kaiser is keeping a close eye on what's being decided in switzerland the food program is coming up in less than fifteen minutes from now but here's a quick preview for. you people are concerned out there and rightfully so because the global economy is being held hostage by the global kleptocracy that's meeting this week in devon hose to talk about all of the ways are going to totally screw the global economy so more and still more money because as of the best doing they're talking about instituting one hundred trillion dollars of new debt that's one hundred trillion dollars of worthless cocktail napkins with smeared lipstick

that serves one hundred trillion dollars on an exchange or most corrupt bankers for a fee to pay for these and overpriced others. and that's a cause report coming our way in about fifteen minutes from now and that'll be just after business update the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe is calling for new sanctions against the better russian leadership it follows december's disputed election which saw the president and xander look at shanker often dubbed europe's last dictator returned to power and in the protests that followed the vote six hundred people were arrested some of whom were badly beaten while to discuss the current standoff between european countries and minsk i'm joined by little vote again a london based little animals thanks very much indeed for joining us here on our team the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe has followed in the european parliament's footsteps with these sanctions what will they include do you think. it's most likely to. call for the same

sanctions as there and as you mentioned previously had been in place. if we recall they were posting two thousand. six. after march elections and they basically imposed travel ban on high ranking belorussian off the shelves as well as freezing the financial assets of look at shankar and members of his regime. one of the points was calling for direct nation of the chairwoman of the central elections committee because she was allegedly involved in vote rigging there's also a provision that provides support for a student and generally easing travel to european union for a common belorussians to establish closer ties we citizens of european union are

talking about those citations imposed back in two thousand and six he's still there so the sanctions haven't worked is it likely that these sanctions will work and we will anything but the russian leadership listen. i think he would probably listen when the sanctions hurt where it hurts most and that's economy however the the chief european diplomat catherine ashton has already indicated that the european bloc is not interested in imposing sanctions that would hurt the economy and thereby their livelihood of the russians so he would have peer that most of the sanctions will have political nature and they would the block will try to continue its pressure until at least most of the political prisoners are really the better routes can play a strong card here call me it's an important transit nation for russian oil and gas

supplies to europe could they not use this important strategic position for for economic blackmail. they could but not now i mean at the moment. and his regime decided to ignore and this me saying the political pressure after all. if there is no economic impact. would not really resort for example severe ng oil and gas supply to the european union and the energy resources that comes from russia and makes the most of the state income so unwise at the moment to resort to any blackmail but indeed future if there is economic impact of the sanctions the black cannot be excluded just briefly russia is stunning but from the current standoff between but a recent europe relations between moscow and minsk not great holiday but do you think russia could be doing more should it be doing more in this. it could be doing

more but i don't see any incentives why mosco would decide. to exercise political pressure on belarus for what east day have successfully concluded an agreement on the oil export prices and tariffs so at the moment the relations look fine and russia is more interested in integrating belarus into a customs union with kazakhstan so it has more pragmatic rather than pushing valorous to open up to democratic institutions for the gov the last dictator of europe. and he's accusing the european countries of plotting to get rid of him to do you think there's any truth in that. well the truth is and probably truth is that if directions where fair because dave belorussian opposition has been suppressed for so long it's quite likely that look would have been elected probably with a lesser number of votes but could have been elected as

a president and that probably gives him the stance that he's actually president and when do european union openly says that they are going to fund students and. media outlets for a position then he's actually using days for his own advantage cheese thriving on these statements and saying look i was right all along that these are agents of the west and they are trying to unseat me but in reality things are not as black and white. who probably would have elections just his stubbornness to give more democratic openings and his heavy handed treatment of opposition that has triggered their political standoff we're really interested to hear what you have to say we appreciate your time thank you very much little to give a green london based political analyst joining us here on our to thank you.

turning to the american economy it's growing corporate profits are up well that's your mystic assessment barack obama made in his annual state of the union address but as a tease christine for all find out if obama said we measure progress by the success of ordinary people there's a 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 need 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 roaring back 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 accountable 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 or. what have the house foreclosed we decided to travel a little further down the road to the grayson village mobile home park people we might hear 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. but tax money is made in america that's been. made in other countries so it's to be your first take. 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 and something happens everyone comes together and we're going to be 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. to be kicking 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. well. coming up to twenty five minutes past the hour here in the russian capital the business news is next with dmitri that's after a short break. for the full stop we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. in

moscow. hotels. it is called us hotel. water. park historical hotels capturing the city. as a good. district or less the tropicana. it's good to have your company watching business. is going to court over b.p.'s plans to develop arctic fields with raw snap claiming the deal breaches its agreements with the british oil h t m k says its agreement cobbles projects in russia and ukraine

that mr speaker says the two sides must consult about deals with third parties british oil giant says it's acting within the law and all details of its deal with that richard swung from plots says b.p. i have to like you to stay put until the court hearing. this is a legal claim lodged in london and it goes right to the heart of water. there's a lot of money tied up in and if they have a right to what b.p. now wants to do with me after you've got serious liability not the end of the road for b.p. but it's a big roadblock to b.p. thinks it has the right to anything for anything b.p. wants to in russia according to their suit they're meant to run by b.p. first giving them the right of first refusal they didn't get that here they were presented with the rosneft deal is a pretty much a fait accompli. meanwhile alexander nazar of metropole says d.m.k.

could be willing to join the optic project rather than block the deal or doubt that actual rule anymore for a are is to cancel his due because this would only harm our image for investors so probably would want for take a b.p. to get some. benefits from benefits from. the markets now in the united states before closing markets are looking up with the world quite flat and really uneasy with industrial giants like caterpillar leading the way caterpillar quadrupled its fourth quarter profits into its. in europe she has reversed early losses at first to go up but then ended mixed in flat this is because 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 consideration and that

sent a chill restaurants in russia a law making insider trading illegal finally comes into force today stocks were positive on thursday session more details some of the stocks when bildad was up one point six percent at the end of the session as russia's and two monopoly watchdog group the purchase of the foods company by pepsico meanwhile energy companies were down. and russia's major stock exchange my sex hiked its bid for rival trading platform to one point one five billion dollars by six offers to pay thirty five percent of the sum in cash and convert the rest into my six shares the russian trading system has not yet responded to. that's it for now the headlines will be next with bill after a short break. the

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