russian efforts against terrorism with security. legislation all of this following the bombing which killed thirty five in moscow's busiest airport. we do play special responsibility with the public leaders who are charged with protecting our financial system and the chief executives of companies whose failures drove us to crisis officially slow the course of the meltdown. and the common link. between the latest on. egypt and the string of colored revolutions in the post. in the last day. and for.

coverage from the event join us for more in twenty minutes time. a very warm welcome to you this is live from moscow where it's not just after two pm and news just in here on that russia's president dmitry medvedev has signed the ratification document on a new treaty with the u.s. it will come into force when the. ratification documents with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton that's news just in right here on. now you can always find more developments on that if you are looking to our web site that's r t dot com you'll find details on the new ratified start treaty the recent signing of today by the russian president and of course the latest string of stories over the

past several days of course including monday's bombing of a airport and a string of polls and opinions and blogs and live footage as well ok now let's let's cross live now to our tease you got a piece going off who is now joining me here in the studio we can talk more about this ratification go to the signing now this is news just in with the russian president he said he's he's signed the ratified start treaty what's next all next have to exchange the foreign minister and the secretary of state have to exchange these ratified documents make it official leave that the deals the deal would come into force so basically on russia's behalf everything is done and i think pretty much the peace that the deal was ratified first by the state duma and then by the federation council by both houses of the russian parliament then signed by the president such shows how russia is really keen into into fulfilling its

obligations you know when you talk about pace here we certainly had some issues over slow pace to the end of last year because the american politicians were were essentially accused of dragging their feet as russia was already saying that we're ready to ratify the start treaty to talk to me about that it was a bit of back and forth at the end of last year wasn't there when it was yes because the do you really barracked why the president's initially or both countries president need to get the idea of why barack obama and they were able to sign the treaty before the u.s. we probably. managed to get control over the house of representatives so very in the basically said we need to make amendments. so it was it was after the recent mid-term elections in the us near the telling of last year where the republicans they got control of the house and they they they were the ones who started saying well you know we're already sure about about pushing ahead with the start treaty

exactly they were not they were saying that we need to make these amendments or changes will be did make what they're called or a special recommendations they were not affected the implementation but it did. it did kind of prolong the entire process and. some experts and actually many people were you accusing the united states of dragging their feet didn't didn't some officials make some special changes or as they were ratifying it and also when you talk to me a bit about the issue of the european missile defense shield that was one of the concerns raised by russian officials am i right there well first of all russia was most concerned about a link between offensive forms and defensive arms and this was one of the. kind of the contention points between the united states and russia in during the negotiations since russia wanted to link these two together the united states were saying that these are separate issues missile defense plans in europe and.

nevertheless russian deputies say that in the preamble to the deal they've managed to link this these two legally so they are now connected and they've also made special statements kind of as a reflection of what the u.s. congress has previously made as well again their non-binding so they won't affect the actual treaty but they do secure moscow's right to step out of the deal if it feels threatened by u.s. missile plans in europe and also the outlines of that these special statements made previously by the congress are also non-binding so lead or not we washington from its obligations so you go now obviously that missile defense issue what was certainly a. a bone of contention between both sides of this particular russia. the start treaty is starting to become a reality now what is it what does it mean when it comes to lowering the number of warheads and what numbers are we looking at here when we're looking at quite

significant figures one third of for all switching to corms on both sides is going to be reduced so this is this is definitely a big step forward in terms of global security it's a great example for other nuclear states to maybe start thinking about reducing their nuclear arsenals as well and strategic arms as well and i spoke also previously as i've been covering this story throughout the week he spoke to the chairman of the federation council's community for international affairs federation council of the upper house russia's parliament he said that moscow and washington don't expect and they don't even want anybody else in the other countries to join this specific treaty but they are saying that this is a great example for other countries a watch on watch us we or disarming is a good example and it's a great example of cooperation since there have been many outstanding issues some of them or some of them still remain but nevertheless the treaty was signed it was

ratified and now only just the formality of an exchange of documents it's interesting what you say though about the exclusive city of this treaty that only america and russia will have it for themselves because they are the two biggest boys on the block they've got the two biggest assholes one would imagine of nuclear weapons in the world and when you talk about the issue of cooperation to your court . do you think this is a sign of cooperation between moscow and washington d.c. and do you think do you think the future looks good for the two biggest boys on the block here i think it's a great example of how some disputed issues can you overcome and can resort negotiations can result. in a real outcome a real deal which is ratified despite all the previous disagreements and. definitely does open a lot of new doors of opportunity for just too many new projects it's a great experience in terms of the two countries working together and i think it

would open the doors for other projects mutual projects because we do call each other strategic both russia and that it's the team that we get a lot of projects we can work together excellent you go to school for you've been covering this story for quite some time now and so the news just in is the president here that has signed the new start treaty you gotta thank you very much. well russia's parliament has started discussing a bill on a new terror combat system in the wake of the suicide bombing at the country's biggest airport that was a last monday where thirty five people were killed president dmitri medvedev harshly criticized law enforcement and for thora to use and fired several officials over security lapses which led to the tragedy. is now inside the state duma here in moscow with more on the security shakeup in russia. as it stands right now russia does not have a unified system which will allow the country and the security services in the country to act together in unison in case of

a terror threat now that the system will be somewhat similar to the american system of warning basically there will be three levels of terror threat which will be imposed in the country first level color coded blue will mean an increased level of a terror attack a second level yellow mean a high level and this thirty five no it will be color coded red and it will be critical level also federal security service has proposed that a certain unified governmental body be created in order to act where that where and if any of these terror levels will be imposed on the country the parliamentarian's insists that such a system is harshly needed this is what they have to say. just look how much we needed this system in light of the damage of attack no they're trying to find the culprits and they will find them and the culprits will be punished some have already been punished but what everyone is seeing is that there was no relevant information and now according to the rule we will have to inform the society both

the threats facing the russian government has allocated more than one hundred twenty million rubles to help the families of the victims and the wounded some of that money will go towards the funerals which are being held today in moscow and in the moscow region and of course a lot of that money will also go towards treatment of the wounded horses who are still in hospitals more than one hundred people remain hospitalized and are being treated for their wounds which they received in the terror attack and my call the good son a boy has met with some of them devout muslims these to france usually pray five times a day but the jumma did have a blast. ever since multiple shrapnel wounds bound them to hospital beds they've been praying nonstop. don't you think or is that i never have to witness such carnage and. they came to the airport to be. up there reality of flying in from to dick is still on him is the explosion by several minutes and still can't make sense of what happened in the morning and people who did it cannot possibly call

themselves muslims are true muslims should be striving to help others not killing innocent people those who did it will answer for it before. yet for many of those whose life was damaged by the blast the promise of the almighty is rare earth is not enough the domodedovo airport had already been implicated in terrorist attacks in two thousand and four when two passenger jets were blown up made their use of those in authority to everyone who is in charge and makes decisions in the company the airport management must face justice and report as some russians vented their anger with more enforcement for not being able to prevent their attack others to the initiative into their own hands hundreds of volunteers turned out bad blood than one thousand stations pawel is a first comer and explosion really seemed to pretty cute conscience. when something like this happened before i was concerned like everybody else but i never

did anything to help but based on the thoughts i had to get involved instead of just bashing our security services and blogs. while the tragedy at the airport prompted many russians to ask what they can do for their country improving security is still the main thing their country can do for them excel avoider r.t. moscow. and still to come for you this hour here on our twenty years of rocking the boat. it's the same footprint that we saw going back as far as serbia will be after most of that we look at why the antigovernment unrest in islamic states may be just the latest in a trend going back a dozen years. a report on causes of the recent global financial crisis has sparked anger over the authors of the meltdown. the document released by a u.s. investigative commission points finger at the country's economic elite but as aussies lower list of reports previous experience showed that those responsible are likely

to continue one unpunished. it wasn't so long ago the world was reeling from the financial crisis and in the financial capital of the world hard hit americans were calling for heads to roll on wall street and then he blamed irresponsible and illegal actions of big wig bankers for the economy's near collapse but i did that if you need they got it he did that we get it yeah it was born from this mess the us president formed a bipartisan commission to get to the bottom of the crisis. it is our hope that together we can rebuild the american people's belief in a financial system that puts americans to work over a year they heard from stewards of the economy the most important lesson of this crisis is we have to end too big to fail they heard from c.e.o.'s of investment banks anyone who says i wouldn't change a thing i think is crazy. now the meltdown panel believes the answers to this

outrage can be found here and five hundred plus pages of their findings it gives them enough room to point the finger everywhere for a crisis they say was avoidable we do play special responsibility with the public leaders who are charged with protecting our financial system those entrusted to run our regulatory agencies and the chief executives of companies whose failures drove us to crisis but we believe that we must also as a nation except responsibility for what we permitted to occur dad as far as wall street specifically the dramatic failures of corporate governance and risk management at many systemically significant financial firms were critical causes of the crisis while blame is directed it wall street that's where we are right now the i. bernie is though the new york stock exchange is here that's what you see behind me most of the big banks and investment firms people associated

with the financial crisis aren't even here anymore they're spread out all over new york city so just as wall street has become merely a symbol of the american financial industry so too is washington's condemnation of it like we're seeing in this report the reality is we've seen this all before we've already seen congressional hearings where u.s. lawmakers interrogated bankers we've heard lawmakers threaten those in charge of the economy yet no one on wall street or that was watching over finance has faced criminal charges no one has really been held accountable and by many accounts nothing has changed about financial practices and most of the people who were in power before the crisis are still in power most of the business practices that you know other than a few things are still going on and now nearly three years after the crisis the opportunity for this commission to sway public opinion and make any difference to those practices has seemingly passed it by the chip the moments those political

moments when everything comes together and you can pass this kind of comprehensive reform legislation our. little bubbles and they don't last very long and we missed ours. so for the american people who wanted wall street held responsible these guys have looted the american economy the global economy they may not get the justice they're looking for five hundred pages and a year later a world once sent reeling by a financial system on the verge of collapse maybe no more protected from it happening again i'm not sure that we can prevent it from happening again lauren lyster our new york. protests are rippling throughout egypt where deadly clashes with police have claimed five lives all of this on the third day of violence the turmoil is inspired by the month long chaos in tunisia uprisings deposed the country's leader left eighty dead and it led to a cabinet reshuffle and i think it's alexey going to ask you found out that images

of angry protesters gathering in the streets are ringing colored bells. georgio two thousand and three. ukraine two thousand for. two thousand and five. and egypt twenty eleven. think these are all completely different revolts well think again and not only because they're raised fist was one of their symbols if you look more closely you look at the so-called people who are leading this are being coached in the they're being coached by u.s. intelligence services the same way the orange revolution was in the roles revolution was saakashvili and in georgia a string of revolutions some bloodless some not rock the post soviet space at the

beginning of the twenty first century there were a number of common factors an uprising against the regime rooted in a popular dissatisfaction with standards of living hence the collective name colored revolutions amazingly their outcomes have been quite similar to six years ago key of independence square was the birthplace of the orange revolution it promised a new dawn and major changes for the country but ultimately all aspirations came to nothing. lawyer goody goody sudan is one of those disenchanted with the outcome of the orange make over he says the bright promises of the revolutions leaders have in reality pushed the country. into an abyss. and corruption greece. became divided on the. issue was nothing changed to the better it changed only to the world's. on the next elections revolutionary hero received only five percent of the world the lowest percentage for acting president of the world it was

a similar story in georgia where the haiti optimism of the rose revolution soon gave way to disappointment and eventually to mass protests their anger with president saakashvili was met with a response that was all too familiar as gas grenades and water cannons were used to quell the unrest. and then stan the revolution of two thousand and five or so quickly turned sour last years so yet another popular revolt but those false dawns and bitter lessons are far from the minds of those clamoring for change in north africa. or not danger emerges when the power overturning the government which they thought illegal and autocratic like in the case of tunisia and egypt does not have a political platform and the government apt to put things in order in the country the danger lies in the personality of those who desired to use the revolutions which happened in the arab world we have to take care that the far right or any

other forces with an imperialistic mood will not take advantage of the situation if those are really people's movements they should not have let anyone interfere with their fares and that. experts agree that it may take some time before the world will see whether the revolts in tunisia and egypt will change things for the better in these countries just as they have a common opinion that if these uprising floor europe will be the first to suffer from waves of immigrants let's see. now let's talk about our breaking news this hour russia's president dmitry medvedev has signed the ratification document on a new arms reduction treaty with the united states it will come into force as soon as foreign minister sergey lavrov exchangers the ratification documents with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton this is what the russian president to say. but this is a d. i signed the ratification bill on the new start treaty so this is

a very important event for our entire country considering the understandings that russia shares with the united states of america the americans have gotten their way and we have also accomplished a process in our side and now the state duma and the federation council have adopted all the necessary papers but we made some clarifications which are quite similar and proportionate to what the american the us senate did they are symmetric and they're reflecting the concerns that our deputies have and well earlier this week the russian upper house of parliament the federation council ratified the start treaty on reducing russian and american nuclear arms russian legislators stressed moscow could withdraw from the deal if it felt threatened by u.s. missile defense plans in europe the us senate back the treaty earlier in december

two thousand and ten following heated public debate the congressman amended the treaty prior to ratification several changes were also introduced by the russian parliament in response to the american interpretation of the text the amendments drawn up by both sides are non-binding meaning that both countries will have to keep to their obligations agreement was signed by president medvedev and obama last april and it will slash the country's nuclear arsenals by a third. time now for the business news with the idea. that's right time to have a look at what's happening in the world of business moscow has moved closer to fulfilling its dream of becoming an international financial center top officials and the business elites have have given advice such a working breakfast hosted by his burbank and doris.

ok let's now cross live to our correspondent daniel bushell to get the latest update from the result of davos where the annual gathering world business leaders is well underway so hello to you daniel the forum is in its third day so what's on the menu today. well pancakes and caviar was served at the annual burbank break first it's an annual gathering here in davos of the world's top bankers where of foreign investors and business leaders what's more sco still needs to do to transform itself into an international financial center the head of deutsche bank joseph ackerman said that was pretty much me that a country should be openly foreigners what they need to still do he told the story of how the some petersburg economic forum president medvedev gathered some of these top bankers from abroad and said that he fully backs them at the height of the

financial crisis despite all the bank of bashing going on in the west they hear understand their importance to the world economy and to russia's development and also affirm that he would continue to support them through the crisis now if i can said many thought that the u.s. government was actually against them and still are to some extent and it was pretty surprising to see the president medvedev was so forthright in his backing of spain because there was then a public vote what is the single thing holding back mosco from becoming. the center for international finance worldwide things like transport infrastructure but by far the winner was corruption and beyond in the new mayor of moscow then came out and said that he was selling dozens of stakes in banks energy companies that the most good government owns so that business can really get on with it without the interference of government he also did the profit traffic jams all normal normal in

any developing country but he said that the focus moving forward is not on the limos that these bankers drive but the public transport system he said one hundred twenty kilometers of new track public transport will be built. daniel as we've heard davos is not only region ideas but also in people who is on the guest list today. well it was pretty much who's who of russian and western business elites there was in the russian side there was sent central bank representatives the head of sperm bank obviously v t v troika dialog leading investment bank rubin valid then you're on there and also western leaders and of course the man at the center of a bitter probably the most bitter shareholder disputes in world business at the moment between north nickel the world's biggest nickel mine and roussel the world's biggest alum in your mind the victim is a key shareholder in roussel and he said that not only did they reject the recent twelve billion dollar bid by norris nickel to buy out the resell stake he would

also reject a new thinks teen billion dollar bit even though many analysts think that is a fair assessment let's listen in to what he told us. of course a sixty billion who's not enough but slowly of course are part of our discussion to be sure we would like to find our financial. world really cares about the discussion was big financial situation. everybody is a. group just like the more specific more they don't precisely review how we should build hopes. it's even before where our cooperation was a business the next step will be a more solid some cooperation with the financial institution. daniel of a lot of big announcements definitely coming out of the forum in davos from russian

companies can we say davus twenty eleven is a successful investment growth show for the russian economy. let's call it movement say it's a turning point if not a new era for russian business for the first time in years it gets american european businessmen coming up to you and really interested in really excited wanting to know more about about russian investment opportunities of course russia is growing many economies across the world and also it's about to sell off around thirty billion dollars of state assets which obviously foreign investors want to get their hands on we had a speech from president medvedev which are really said all the right things and also sure of all of the ministers should all of you also said that they would protect foreign investments in the russian economy and when you get a top western bank or like joseph ackerman of torture bank saying that the russian government gets business and banks in a way that maybe the u.s. government does not you really feel there's a bit of a revolution going on. daniel bushell thank you very much for this indeed daniel

shore pouring from switzerland for us and he will be keeping us updated throughout the day now it's time to have a look at how the markets are faring that's our european stocks have opened lower tracking losses in asia and dragged down by mining shares the food say is interesting point seven percent germany's dax is flat to positive all eyes are on the u.s. g.d.p. data jute tonight minus our top decline is ahead of news from the u.s. and it's expected to provide some hints about future demand for raw materials. and here in russia the indices are also losing ground tracking asian losses investors are also of course ahead of us g.d.p. at one thirty g.m.t. the r.t.s. slipped below nine hundred points but has broken the market again this hour. ok let's have a look at those stocks at. shares are leading the fall on the my six look or a list reading the top investor the porsche's as conoco phillips plans to sell the last two percent of it shares in russia's oil company russia's federal enter

monopolists this is the koreans with justification for product pricing on the russian exchanges is also adding tension gazprom is suffering a bit small also it's down about. zero point five percent and the world's nicholas black. ok that's all we have time for knowledge join us for more in less than one hours time.