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russian investigators say they know who committed monday's deadly suicide attack on moscow's domodedovo airport. investigators are saying the suspect was a twenty year old man from what russia is not pocus republics but they will not disclose his name all the details in just a few moments. exposing the op arising as protests roll through egypt we queue leaks diplomatic cables reveal washington's backing for evolved leaders and how what's been wanting to overthrow the country's president for years.
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you're watching r t ten pm here in the russian capital welcome to the program investigators say the suicide bomber who carried out a deadly attack at moscow's airport was a twenty year old man from russia's restive caucasus region and monday's terror claimed thirty five lives and left more than one hundred people injured parties you've got to do you know brings us the latest. the russian investigators of kmita says that the case into monday's terrorist attack at the country's largest airport has been solved and they say they know the name of the man who carried out this u.s. side bombing. russian investigators and security services have identified the suicide bomber who detonated an explosive device stuffed with metal elements at moscow's domodedovo airport on monday it was a twenty year old man from russia's north caucasus although investigators know the terrorists name we're not going to disclose it now as we're currently working to establish the organizers and accomplices of this crime the north caucasus terrorist
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groups and separate extremists have claimed responsibility for similar deadly attacks in russia over the years in march twenty ton residence of the russian republic of biggest i must remind of done two female suicide bombers of the same origin carried out an attack a two an attack on moscow's macho system the attack claimed lives of dozens of people as far as moscow's attack at the airport he's been sudden best again to say that it was most likely aimed at foreigners surviving in russia and it was not by chance that the explosive was set off in the international arrivals area i'll be happy to let them i did the airport bore me as opposed to rebuild the gaping holes in security at apples and train a mattress stations in russia that it forced the government of the country to confront improving safety in crowded places had on and the country's president
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signed several orders to step up to safety on the country's busiest transportation systems though of course as you said no president and no country is one hundred percent protected against this international evil international terrorism faces not solely russia but the whole world what russia could do is look to other countries' governments for tips on tackling the problem consider the situation. certainly consolidating all public forces can we vanquish this evil we have no right to get hysterical about terrorism and spread out so this will make terrorism stronger if you look at the way americans came together after the events of nine eleven even those who are not very fond of president bush said yes he's got to be at the helm he's got to be tough it's got to be the same for our country that's the only way we can defeat terrorism look at the. russian lawmakers and also debasing a new three level security alert system to be installed on russia's public
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transport this is a system similar to the one in place in the united states of america and this is still world classify any potential risk as any increased high or critical and this would enable introduce a rush it would enable law enforcement agents and security officials to work together in case of a terror threat terror attack similar to the one which happened at my to the airport on monday well the airport suicide bombing has once again triggered international debate on how terrorism should be challenged while little later in our program web journalist laurie harford has also known as a resident asks people in new york whether we have an answer on how to stop attacks of this kind. while you're with our team and still ahead for you this hour misplaced priorities as the insurgency in afghanistan continues to claim lives artie's military contributor says the u.s. is looking in the war place for a solution plus. with the world economic forum in davos is drawing to
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a close report on how russia plans to create a common economic space with the e.u. well that's coming up in our business bulletin in about ten minutes time. well with trust in the media on the wane in the united states some are searching for more diverse sources to get their news and many are skeptical over whether the big corporations owning the. t.v. networks can present them with on biased output and us to see if you're going to delve deeper into the means and message of the main broadcasters. everyone seems to know that he who pays the piper gets to call the tune. in the us paying the piper and running the show our corporations the tune they call what american see hear and read it's a money maker it's a cash cow people don't think that there's any money in the media i mean aside from health care these days there's probably the media is is the industry of the twenty
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first century half a century ago fifty corporations rammed a major networks and newspapers since then a rapid concentration of media ownership has resulted in a near media monopoly spearheaded by a lucky few for pumping money from the news cash cow and piping corporate interests to the viewers and readers. the danger of this kind of media concentration is that it robs democracy of diversity it rob viewers from being exposed to a wider range of views. analysts say the u.s. is living in the golden age of media bias. it's never been easier for them to find out exactly who's behind what where the conflicts of interest are topping the list of owners rupert murdoch and his empire the news corp you having a global media enterprise and if you shape that agenda at all you know it interests i mean we try to. murdoch stands over fox news channel the wall street journal
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and the new york post the fox channel is definitely seen as the most partisan and the most focused on advancing a particular political party at a political interest so is this because of rupert murdoch's personal interests definitely there's no doubt about a. general electric one of the largest military contractors for the u.s. government plus comcast one of america's largest cable providers are joined by the hip running the n.b.c. network the floor of the hudson river is covered with carcinogenic p c b s these toxic janet dangerous chemicals that were put there by general electric general electric owns n.b.c. and a.b.c. has not taken any trouble to report on this massive environmental story with the innocent face of mickey mouse as their trademark disney is the proud owner of a.b.c. when a.b.c. was bought by does the and there were some a.b.c. stories about improprieties at disneyland is the world does the killed those c.n.n.
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and time magazine belong to time warner joining the media giants are c.b.s. corporation towering over c.b.s. news and viacom a global entertainment content company running among others comedy central they're supposed to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted. but when you have journalists treading lightly around corporate and governmental elites it almost depletes the reason for their even existing the purpose of existence for corporations is profit meaning investors interests are police to head of anything else that would matter in journalism good business is bad journalism good journalism is bad business broadcaster laura flanders says counting on getting facts from the corporate media is simply naive because it be reliant on military contractors gee to bring us our news about the war any more than we can be reliant upon television networks that are run by disney to bring us the truth about what's
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happening in our economy media are increasingly one not was the number of voices interested in bringing their viewers a little something called truth has decreased as a result instead of representing journalism the media has become loudmouths. for a show if that's the truth our chief. diplomatic cables released by wiki leaks reveal that the us government had been planning to topple egypt's president for the past three years the fall show washington had been secretly backing leading figures involved in the egyptian uprising and it comes as dozens of people have been killed in violent anti-government protests well let's get more now from marty's paulus lee or was it karl rove for us well paula could you just give us an update on what the situation is like in the country right now. well despite the fact that a curfew was imposed here some five hours ago thousands of demonstrators are still out on the streets in direct defiance of it and also far more than one hundred
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people have been killed as mobile clinics throughout the city continue to operate there treating wounded many of whom are reporting that they would by police after being arrested and one of the most worrying developments today saturday in the last few hours is that of looting the cairo museum was looted with monies there being ransacked we're also hearing reports from a number of neighborhoods where people say that the homes were broken into and good stone and now the egyptian president hosni mubarak has tried to address protesters demands by appointing for the first time in thirty years the country's first vice president now that is almost solomon who used to head the intelligence here at the same time the new prime minister mr ahmed shafik he's a technocrat he's from the aviation industry he's been tasked with forming a new government but speaking to protesters in these moves on not going to do a lot to pacify them they say they want nothing short of the president himself stepping down. or out with all that that is happening there right now as
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a backdrop the latest release documents reveal that the u.s. had been undermining a president it had supported for so long but what's the consensus on the thinking behind this policy. now the minute the relationship between the united states and egypt has always been a complicated contradictory one the wiki leaks documents refer to cables as far back as two thousand and seven and in those cables there is discussion where the american administration puts its weight behind opposition figures here in egypt while at the same time supporting the presidency of course the mubarak now that is a clear example of double standards there's also been a clear delicate balancing act that the american administration has been playing we've seen for example in public the president obama embrace him and supporting president mubarak but in private. from these cables we understand that he has taken him to book lately though particularly in the last few days that seems to have slightly shifted with president obama publicly calling on president obama to
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implement much needed reforms now some of these cables refer to almost on a man who has just been appointed the country's new vice president they say that he makes to quote the makes an attractive alternative to what barack but analysts here say that mubarak would only have appointed so many if he trusted him if he was to quote them rock solid the other point that analysts themselves have been discussing is the question of just how spontaneous these demonstrations in fact were let's have a listen then. it's obvious that the u.s. and the u.k. are behind the recent events in africa if you don't care about destabilizing the situation there sufferings of millions of people or any potential war that would make living in those countries impossible we all know that's a major transport oil pipeline is running through egypt the u.s. only benefits from high oil prices as all global gas and oil trade is carried out in dollars the us dollar demand is only growing i don't believe in spontaneous
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revolutions when hundreds of thousands millions of people come out onto the streets at the same time taking into account there's been no serious or immediate change to their standards of living for these demonstrations the needs chords are an issue in support leaders getting money from foreign secret services. now there's no denying that the demonstrations we've seen this week here in the egyptian capital have been popping inspired by what happened in trinity earlier this month there seems to be a message of hopefulness in the arab world that if you when you put your heads together and your actions together there was the possibility of overthrown dictators there has been rumors floating around the last few hours is difficult to independently verify them but they suggest that the barracks son gamal who has. in gearing up to take over the presidency after him has in fact traveled to england with his mother mubarak's wife suzanne but as i say we have no way of verifying
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that at least not now as i'm talking to him still this acrid smell of tear gas in the air is full of the occasional sheets of gunfire and then it's being fired but aside from that really the city has come to a standstill cairo tonight saturday is in a standstill as thousands of demonstrators take to the streets and they're protesting at the man's continued. right thank you very much for the update our t's'pol asli are talking to us from the egyptian capital cairo. well the deputy governor of a gun is to kandahar province has been killed in an attack while he was on his way to work a suicide bomber on a motorcycle rounded to the official's car with the taliban claiming responsibility the blast killed. on the spot while three of his bodyguards were wounded on friday at least nine people were killed in a bomb blast in the capital kabul a recent u.s. intelligence report paints a rosy picture of the war claiming it will eventually be won but artie's military
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contributor says that's not going to happen unless washington changes its approach to beating the taliban. another year another january and yet another article in the herald tribune again from the cia sources bruce riedel. cia analyst claiming that eventually there will be defeated president obama charm offensive muslim community all around the globe while the terrorist threat is real it is not confined even closely related to get on the stand itself the terrorist threat comes along the afghan pakistani birdland to the ward alone is going to take a study by. and substituted for a cross and then instantly we'll finally start making sense until the
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washington decision makers real accomplish the linguistic exercise they are doomed to play all along reassure circle. lip service to the threat coming from. while ignoring the clear and present danger terrorism that comes from against it although forget you can get the latest on all our stories on our website that's r t it dot com and let's take a look at what's on live right now the deal on the new arms reduction treaty between russia and the u.s. has finally been sealed get all the analysis and reaction to what it means for global security and. the world famous bolshoi theater takes london by storm it's dance its way to three top awards from british critics of the full story and much more is that all t.v. dot com. and now a quick look at other news making headlines around the world five people had been
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killed by a blast in a busy tunnel in northwest pakistan nineteen others were injured most of them were taken to a nearby hospital and well the region has seen numerous bombings over the past few years and it's believed the taliban or al qaida militants are behind the attack. the african union is commissioning a panel that it says will resolve ivory coast leadership dispute within a month incumbent leader who is refusing to step down there his opponent is internationally recognized as the winner of the presidential election the union called for an end to the government backed seats confining tara to a hotel it also strongly condemned the surge of violence that has gripped the country following the stale. mate. the government is defending a proposed levy it hopes will pay for massive flood damage across the country
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eastern states heavy rain is responsible for the devastation that claimed thirty five lives and davidge destroyed some thirty thousand homes and businesses a vast inland sea which developed near the southern state of victoria has left some communities in the region on high alert for days but authorities are also monitoring two cyclons developing off the east coast. a former south african president nelson mandela is recovering at home in johannesburg after hospital treatment the ninety two year old was admitted for two nights with an acute respiratory infection doctors say his condition is now stable but official said mandela's office had received more than ten thousand messages of support from well wishers. well this suicide bomb attack on moscow's airport has led to a global debate about what can be done to tackle terror lawry harford it's also known as the resident took to the streets of new york to find out whether people there think enough is being done to stop it.
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the suicide bomber in moscow the car bomb in iraq the shootings in tucson considering the recent spate of violent acts around the globe are we doing enough to prevent terrorism this week let's talk about that do you think that the world is doing enough to stop terrorism definitely no i think we could be keeping lines of communication open and i think we can be trying to consider other people's perspectives i think we can be thinking more about policy and less about rhetoric are you willing to do more for if it meant the world was going to be protected more like strip searched at airports if necessary am i willing to be searchers. i think the machine i have is fine to see through clothes you're ok with that ok do you think the scanners are ok if it means we're safe yeah your calls are coming off a nobody stacia do you think it's ever justifiable she think anyone ever has
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a good enough reason to get that angry to do something like that no no i think those. there's obviously something roll wrong with them to thank about we that it's but it's a good thing to kill people and kill themselves or noise no you have to ignore these people you can't obviously it's horrible what happens but these people that that's what they're trying to get they're trying to get the reaction here let them have that kind of power over society and be scared all the time so if the media turns it down a little bit of the coverage it'll have an impact on it make them consider whether or not they're going to do it i think so whether or not you think we're doing enough to end terrorism the bottom line as with all the recent violence clearly we have yet to succeed. all the back with a recap of our top stories in about ten minutes sign but first it's all the latest
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business news with dmitri. good to have your company you're watching business the world economic forum as it is finishing stage but it has been more than intensive for the russian delegation with many major deals being announced investors say it's now time to turn expressions of will into action correspondent daniel bushell wraps up the business conference wars. well if russia does go on to become the open high tech economy that protects foreign investment then economists will call devils twenty eleven the turning point the right words were backed by deals president medvedev ten point plan this week here in davos really cemented that reputation he promised a fund to share risks and costs with foreign investors that invest in russia he also said russia will join finally the world trade organization this year followed
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by the o.e.c.d. the organization economic for a developed countries and finally create a common economic space with the european union a common space from the atlantic to the pacific it sounds impressive and those words were by god deals as i say we had. russians all just there reproduced being bought by pepsi co with the plan of turning it into the world's largest every producer then exxon mobil the world's largest oil and gas company agreeing with rosneft to develop black sea oil and gas for over a billion dollars and finally we've got several deals in the pipeline the world's largest advertising company w p p is in talks with quite one or two russian companies to purchase them and increase their presence on the russian economy the dean of the school of a school of management is echoing the sentiments among world business leaders and explains what also has brought in for the russian high tech. i think it has
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achieved a number of things first of all it has created you know great fiza belike the. project that it's gets a lot of visibility in russia. critical but i think it's also critical management development that preparing leadership worldwide so it's a great opportunity for us to come here see our friends and sponsors potential new people that support the idea so overall this has been you know very good for the school in terms of visibility in terms of the feedback at the terms of what we're doing and i think you know overall i'm very happy because it's feels like we're on the right track. russian authorities have approved pepsico three point eight billion dollars acquisition of the country's dairy giants win build that into a new episode c.e.o. says russia is a perfect platform for the global expansion. using them well done i think we can expand into cia central and eastern europe because those markets can all be serviced out of wimbledon and russia we have to decide how to take the technology
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develop a whole range of products that we can sell in other parts of the world so we can leverage the. value out of their expertise our partnership with the saudi arabian dairy company and figure out how to bring the expertise of both companies together to build out their platform for the company how much can you grow as a company our nutrition business which is about ten billion today and with wimbledon becomes twelve twelve billion plus can grow to about thirty billion by the year twenty twenty and russia becomes very interesting because russia's goodland russia's called water and russia can be a great source of food for us so one of our goals is to develop russian agriculture to be the hub for certain fruits stone fruits in particular the rest of the world differences between three business in russia and i know the emerging market india russia is perhaps. more developed than india in terms of frameworks exists
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systems exist so does in india too but in india. when you want to buy land you have to really go through a long process to get it because as a rule of law you can go to a small farmer and say i want you got to go through a process. the first deputy chairman of the c.b. will become the president of the bank of moscow and they say this effectively means russia's second largest lender has been given the green light to acquire the bank of moscow which was founded by a specific of the t.v. was the first to express interest in the assets but then alpha wanted to buy one hundred percent of the end but it seems it has lost the rights. this spike to terrorist attack at one of moscow's ports on monday the russian stock markets experienced a very stressful week of trading says stephen the ship's managing partner at the ship skin partners the russian market is finishing the week largely unchanged because over the. last couple of years it really has become much more driven by the
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external events rather than some internal specific factors and so together with global markets which have been largely flat over the last couple of weeks the russian market has been flat we've seen some activity in gas prominent roles we see people switching out for example out of steels into some of the oil and gas names like gas prom and nafta but all the role there has not been a lot of activity and that's all from the business team for now the headlines are next on out so you don't go away.
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