revolution the penitentiary system. prison. cell again this is all see coming to life from the headlines. remembers the victims of the terror tarka domodedovo airport they blasted the country's busiest airport killed said to five people and two hundred schools nor over one hundred people remain missing. that's a great israelis the fancy photograph of the suspect wanted in connection with monday's bombing named as the time lead as the sources say it was a house link star stoppable days terrorism group is believed to bad islamic who joined educated in militant cell in the north caucuses and. the russian economy

took center stage on the second day of the dallas economic forum in switzerland it follows president dmitry medvedev steamboats speech that opened the form on wednesday. algeria egypt and yemen and now they include top in the wave of violent and to government protests that started in tunisia some on the bass sound joint paolo's with the color revolutions to see them pose some treats. as the headlines up next is the need to show spotlight on the program this time focuses on ways of safeguarding russia from terrorism. hello again. today my guest on the show is. this week the deadly attack on russia. has cost more than one hundred

victims including foreign citizens dozens are in hospitals some of them in critical condition police say this was a terrorist attack the bomb was carried into the building through an unsecured entrance how can we feel safe in the country. here is vice president of the international vets association the. dead of an apple or two place in the international arrivals the police say the bomb was stuffed with shrapnel to cause serious injury and damage many of the dead are foreigners from the former soviet republics and from the u.k. and germany present bed of has postponed his visit to switzerland where he was to attend the devils forum the president says the dead of the managers must be charged with security failure but experts say it's the police responsible for safety at

russian apples. think you for a time my first question to you now what's happened. seems to indicate. a very dangerous place to live in do you agree with the city you know this just confirms something that i often see you know that the whole world and especially russia. war when we are. in the war. terror and we should never forget about this whether we like it or not the that's something we'll have to live with for many years to come. any other big city is a soft target for terrorists. let's go back to the war you've just mentioned so you're one of those who think we're still at war right there are a lot of people who think so not only in russia but also in america in the u.k.

and other countries that are lawyers so you think the war is not over yet right well i would not wish well it's not the same kind of war as world war one a world war two so that is still a war you have troops you have terrorist cells because unless you have already agents working among them. in north caucasus counterterrorist operations are conducted almost every week in the sword that. we kill terrorists we find caches who would weapons and explosives so i think this is their war but so our enemies in the north caucasus is that what you're saying or not only their no personally i would limit this a problem to slant at least for russia he's just the caucus is happens to be the weakling what makes our situation with terrorism different from that in europe or europe in the anime outside that's why i believe easier for them to fight terrorism

they have to deal mostly with foreigners with immigrants you know if they have integrated into their society whereas we have to deal with our own citizens but you know the recent this happens in the north caucuses is because it is. in russia. here surely aware of all the problems we have with corruption unemployment and social injustice was to go in russia as a whole is rated among some in african countries but if we consider the north caucasus as a separate creature and the situation in derry it's much worse i believe you. talking about corruption levels or something like that this is right international records. terms of corruption well i don't remember the exact figures of course but you get the idea but it's a bit obvious social injustice unemployment corruption and sometimes even the use of treatment by the authorities just has been security

forces. during the forward for terrorism you know that takes his just one skill. to come to a place like this so some seeds of the terrorist will spread. and flourish. every war has a goal and objective i mean what is the goal of this war. the u.s. goal is security but what is the goal of those on the side if. they have a goal. is the only goals people may have and what they were doing to use just money and power. and islamic fundamentalism is just to to just those who masterminded those terrorist attacks would you save on the costs just the pure has you know people can work for money or they can work for ideological

reasons you can replace money with ideology. toward an interpretation of islam to turn people regularly boys and girls into walking bombs as they call them now mystify lot of i have a few specific questions part of the terrorist attack took place adama dead of. that and the authorities are blaming the airport management for it they're saying there were security flaws do you think it is fair. same soli going to the management even though it is a private enterprise after all we have the federal security service the internal affairs ministry and the m to terrorist committee there would have to you know i talked to disagree i don't think that the airport management is to blame here i travel all over the world and i can see it at the end of his perhaps the safest

ford in the world in terms of security clues he gets the suppression when you see all those canneries in the number of police officers at the airport it's the safest except perhaps for it. in fact i had a chance to see israeli security agencies at work last year is that when i was flying in they interviewed me for an hour and is i was flying out for two hours i almost missed my flight of course to some extent perhaps this was my fault because i provoked them a little on purpose because i was curious to see them at work still the point is that it is not appropriate to blame the airport management in fact i kind of feel sorrier for that jordan general functions well but they were unfortunate to have one accident after another if you remember it was the madrid of what airport that stopped working because it was. before the new year here and that was not their fault it was beyond their control or their heat with this terrorist attack some say it's a private airport but let's just take

a look at the various places where terrorist attacks have taken place cost the hostage crisis in one thousand nine hundred five the moscow theater siege in two thousand and she's the best massacre in two thousand and four suicide bombings at a rock concert that air filled again on an open ground explosion at monash square you know one thing i don't fly is this something that's happening now too soon as there was an explosion entered an international airport to dent it security measures are introduced to do that all the transport facilities for example to. out of the sheer scale highway in moscow has been closed down i don't see any reason for it is only creating more traffic jams i think the authorities and security agencies are just trying to press everybody with how hard to work but all the achieves just make people angry such measures can hardly yield any positive results so the airport just happened to be yet another size that she had in

a series of attacks. the same can happen any place else i won't mention specific places where you can do this any place attracting a big enough crowd of people is potentially side for a terrorist attack. do you see any connection between the terrorist attack and then my dead. and last year's bombings in moscow metro you know i think it's the same thing going to go to some people complain that these attacks happened very frequently it depends on how you look at it this someone who was nine months since the previous incident right a worrying months now almost. ten months now. could just as well have been happening every month i think that terrorists receive financial aid from foreign sources and perhaps they need just teach such attacks from time to time to report on the work done perhaps do more often than do through more money to get us to sometimes to succeed sometimes to feel to school in fact i would like to give

a warning should think right now there are yet another terrorist attack and it's up to us in our security agencies to prevent this terrorist attack according to unofficial. thousand and seven hundred russians have been killed by terrorists since nine hundred ninety five let's take a look at some of the deadliest terrorist attacks in the country over the last fifteen years has their support from. the nine hundred ninety five. when russia had its first taste of terror for days more than a thousand people were held hostage by chechen militants headed by shamil basayev russian troops unsuccessfully tried to storm the building more than one hundred people died since then terrorist attacks have repeated in russia on a regular basis and have usually been associated with the chechen militants in one thousand nine hundred ninety four apartment buildings were blown up within their

own three hundred people eventually forced more schools hand and the beginning of the second warring change. part of it was militants systematic attacks on russian civilians in two thousand and two eight hundred people were taken hostage a demo schofield regime special forces stormed the building one hundred and twenty nine host ages and forty one chechen fighters were killed children became victims of terrorists in two thousand and four the siege of a school in beslan resulted in more than three hundred deaths most school metro has become a popular target for. the subway so a number of deadly attacks over the years the station was one of the two attacked last march forty people were killed in a double suicide blast their recent explosion at the international arrivals hall at most schools dhamma dead of an airport is a sign that terrorism remains a major threat to the country's security. you've just said something

quite terrible right now terrorists are planning yet another attack. that attacks been paid for. those people. appears to be some sort of professional capacious their way of making a living saying it's. fans there are a mastermind. stabilize the situation in russia. reduce our. there are a lot of the world's fuel and energy supplier need to live and there are soldiers who may have different motives and again i'd like to repeat dead fish blame is laughable as it all stems from russia's internal problems such as social discord and dissatisfaction with some of those unemployment and corruption. he could also says the falls president of the international red association the alpha

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a report on. the world including. bringing you the latest in science and technology from the realms of russia. we've got the future covered. welcome back to spotlight. my guest in the studio today is the vice president of the international association of the terrorist departments. mr no one has claimed responsibility for this terrorist attack at the airport. no one has made any demands which is very upsetting because it means that regular

people i mean civilians russians and those who come to visit moscow. become targets of these murders business what. business. i will say it again we always need to remember that there is a war going on so we should remember that we should always be alert and watchful we should be embarrassed to contact police if we see some suspicious things around this. then the war on terror will be affected. by the way you mentioned israel and the israeli security officials have told me that. most of the time they were able to prevent terrorist attacks because somebody tipped them off informed them about a planned attack. nothing works the batter than being alerted by any.

surveillance dogs explosive deterrent none of that can compare with the information provided by how would you comment on the proposal by the head of the state duma security committee of a syria. introducing terrorism threat levels i mean you know like in america they have already yellow green threat levels would you think about it. are you suggesting that we resort to permanently to rid. this won't really change the current situation in russia this might work in good old europe where things are somewhat calm would put our people have a different mindset do you remember what happened after those explosions in apartment buildings after the first there was nothing we were just considering the situation on the waiting for someone to claim responsibility for the attack and scratching our heads then ten days later a second blast takes trace and it was only at that point that we realized that

these were terrorist attacks and that we needed to chapel at aix and the decency to use volunteers as a neighborhood watch informing police about all suspicious people and businesses and we don't do anything until something terrible happens then there were no terrorist attacks for a while and we forgot all about them we forget such things very quickly in six months and next time we remember this that is only a year later on incentive bursaries loss and even then our media tries to tune it down making sure they don't upset people let's not think about it with. and to draw for why would we want to do that for the things that enough is the our this is wrong if there is a war going on people should always be on high alert whenever we allow some slack in that situation like this would happen. we don't often talk about the fact that the last major terrorist attack in america was nine eleven for since then they have not been serious terrorist attacks in the us so whereas in russia they happen quite

frequently. but why all the americans able to prevent terrorist attacks and we're not. because there's some key difference in our approaches but it's a bit there is a key difference they have a different enemy and mentioned at the beginning that they're dealing with an external enemy their wars against al qaida or why ours is not we fight first and foremost against our own internal problems as more of a. background for example it's hard to differentiate between terrorism and extremism but he's only looks that it's a very subtle distinction and little granya that the pretty much shot it was a well as far as i know of the terrorist attack on moscow metro have never been found. well they did mention some names some but i take such reports with a grain of salt and that's the way we do things in russia when we have an order to find a person even if we can't find him we'll find somebody who is the best thing to do

they always perhaps not so she said after a specific person who will do it but to do your regular work. consistently in fact i think both recent attacks on our air response to our fight against terrorist groups in the north caucasus which was already killing testified about three years ago in militants in terrorist leaders have been killed so this is a response to that and it's lost to be expected when somebody texts you you want to fight that. after the attack in the metro some suggested installing metal detectors in the metro but then the decided against as saying this would her allies the metro system would this detect this can be used annapolis including the arrivals hall does it make sense to do that or do you think that's what we have now is enough. doesn't make any sense to put up metal detectors everywhere including airport metal detectors cannot detect symmetrix or see for for example foot seven or ten kilos

the terrorists will still be able to get explosives in the building i can foresee that what is going to happen now is the government is going to allocate huge amounts of money to install metal detectors everywhere but unfortunately this money for them won't be spent efficiently i think russia can't afford being wasteful so i would see in iraq two crucial things we should spend money on their first security services should intensify their work with agents and develop an agent yeah right. long after the collapse of the soviet union this effect only ceased to exist. after the second aspect. of educating people concerning terrorism for our people should remember that we are at war. so that if they see something suspicious around them just that they should feel awkward involved with alerting law enforcement agencies about that though it soon let's go back to the side of

this tragedy for a minute. here is several eyewitnesses of the tragedy in the moscow airport. i saw people bleeding badly injured many of them had their faces all covered in blood i had lost it sounded like something fell down as if someone dropped a heavy cargo construction works going on over there so we thought the sound came from there as if somebody dropped something there and people on the second floor felt a big shake. but did you see her leaving the airport when we heard the blast stuff started falling from the ceiling as we were leaving the baggage claim area we saw everything was in smoke we started getting phone calls and found out that many people were injured and the explosion happened in the area adjacent to the baggage claim so. we were bags everywhere and everyone was scared to get close to that you know i grabbed the lost luggage claim desk which is far away from the area

where they explode in happened but we still felt it was a very powerful blast. because people were leaving the area in panic some were looking for their family members there were people on the floor covered in blood people were panicking however they left very quickly then apple employees came and began to administer first aid to the injured. you know what i'm watching these are from two g.m. i thought about one past. thing. there was no panic and one of the eyewitnesses did use the word panic but there were no reports of people trampling over each other when the people who were leaving the area in a relatively calm and organized manner the ones who survived and the injured was quickly taken to hospitals does that mean the emergency services handled the situation well i want to. think that the airport management did

a pretty good job i know from my witness reports that the airport beast emergency services on the spot in a couple of minutes then began to administer first aid the much for taking danger in the. explosion started it far so they were putting out the fire there was no panic as far as i know continue to do that while arriving planes were directed to other airports. airport authorities handled the situation well. i guess i'm trying to find a silver lining even tragedy like this one so i wanted to ask you i mean. there was a major terrorist attack with many people taken hostage. then there was the hostage crisis at the moscow theater and now the explosions in the metro and that

the airport the it seems like the scale of attacks has diminished or does this mean that terrorists are running out of steam and can we say that russia is actually prevailing in this war. i think that the terrorists in general want to create as much panic and fear response. they need big reaction and in this sense the aftermath of the terrorists who would join us in the future hostage crisis was a lot more siri. yes and then what is going to happen now yesterday it was the fact that there haven't been any major terrorist attacks you know since two thousand and four and what it tells us that there's a terrorist underground has been critical of the many militants and their leaders have been killed which means only a few isolated groups are allowed to think it is over the fog or even in conflicts and to disputes among terrorists he did first in the united states the caucus emirate and now there is divided again with chechen militants operating separately

cost but the what is it in this means that our agents are doing that you good job is someone. who is. we do it's of course it's a lot easier to send a suicide bomber into a crowded place and then to organize a large scale operation that is like the dubrovsky a hostage situation so i think that security agencies have achieved certain results of course after this tragedy we can start complaining asking where the taxpayers' money goes and so on i don't think this should be our focus right now and then we need to think about what we can do you so that the same thing doesn't happen again to us in our families and children and on how to live in the fear and usually it. thank you thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder that my guest in the studio today was the lead seafield vice president

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