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russian investigators say they know who committed monday's deadly suicide attack on moscow's don't know dead if airport. investigators are saying the suspect was a twenty year old man romano russia's north caucasus republics but they will not disclose his name all the details in just a few moments exposing the uprising as protests roll through egypt with you leaks a diplomatic cables reveal washington's backing for evolved leaders and how it's been plotting to overthrow the country's president for years. good business is bad journalism good journalism is bad business with claims that a corporate agenda is hogging news coverage many americans are seeking alternative sources where big business is not pulling the strings.
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here watching our t.v. eleven pm here in moscow welcome to the program investigators say the suicide bomber who carried out a deadly attack at moscow's damage yet of our airport was a twenty year old man from russia's rest of caucasus region monday stair 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 until 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 is neither telling them that russian investigators and security services have identified the suicide bomber who detonated an explosive device stuffed with metal elements at moscow's douma dead of the airport on monday it was
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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 groups and separate extremists have claimed responsibility for similar deadly attacks in russia over the years in march twenty ton residents 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 machos system the attack claimed lives of dozens of people as far as moscow's attack at the airport has been sudden best to be to say that it was most likely aimed at foreign us arriving in russia and it was not by chance that the explosive was set off in the international arrivals area i'll be a little my dear the airport bore me as opposed to rebuild the gaping holes in
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security at our ports and train and 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 signed several orders to step up 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 through this will make terrorism stronger if you look at the way americans came together the events of nine eleven even those who are not very fond of president bush said yes he's got to be there he's got to be tough it's got to be the same for our
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country because here you way we can defeat terrorism look at the. russian lawmakers and also debating a new three level security alert system to be installed on russia's public transport this is a system similar to the one in place in the united states of america and this is the world classify any potential risk as any increased by more 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 they are poor suicide bombing has once again triggered international debate on how terrorism should be challenged a little later in our program a web journalist laurie harvest also known as the resident asks people in new york whether we have an answer on how to stop attacks of this kind. diplomatic cables released by wiki leaks reveal that the u.s.
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government had been plotting to topple the egyptian president for the past three years the fall show washington had been secretly backing leading figures behind the uprising in egypt well it comes as dozens have been killed in the violent anti-government protests since tuesday artie's polis leader has the latest from the egyptian capital cairo. so far more than one hundred people have been killed as mobile clinics throughout the city continue to operate there treating wounded many of whom are reporting that they were by police after being arrested and one of the most well in developments was that of looting the cairo museum was looted with money has there been ransacked we're also hearing reports from a number of neighborhoods where people say that their homes were broken into and goods a stolen 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 a woman who used to head the intelligence here at the same time the new prime
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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 and these moves are not going to do a lot of pacify them they say they want nothing short of the president himself stepping down 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 the mubarak now that is a clear example of double standards there's also been a clear balancing act that the american administration has been playing now some of these cables refer to almost solomon who has just been appointed the country's new vice president they say that he makes to quote the leaks and attractive alternative to robotic but analysts here say that mubarak would only have appointed solar men
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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. intervention after can. use. situation this 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 us only benefits from high oil prices and gas and oil trade is carried a two dollars dollar demand is only growing i don't believe in spontaneous revolutions when hundreds of millions of people come out onto the streets at the same time taking into account there's been no serious change to their standards of living for these demonstrations the needs coordination support leaders getting
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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 part inspired by what happened in trinity earlier this month there seems to be a message of hopefulness in the arab world that if you really put your heads together and your actions together there is the possibility of overthrow dictators who have been rumors floating around the last few hours it difficult to independently verify them but they suggest that barak's son gamal who has been gearing up to take over the presidency after him has infected traveled to england with his mother mubarak's wife suzanne but as i say we have no way of verifying that at least not now there is still this acrid smell of tear gas in the air they store the occasional shooter of gunfire and bullets being fired but aside from that where the the city has come to a standstill cairo tonight saturday is in a standstill as thousands of demonstrators take to the streets and their protests
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and their demands continue. that was paullus leader there reporting from cairo well you're brave r.t. and still ahead for you this hour a misplaced priorities search and see if the stand continues to claim lives artie's military contributor says the u.s. is looking in the wrong place personal or ship plus. well the world economic forum in davos is drawing to a close a 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. now with trust in the media on the wane in the united states some are searching for more diverse sources to get their news but many are skeptical over whether the big corporations owning the major t.v. networks can present them with unbiased output artes and associate sure 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 town. in the us
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paying the piper and running the show are corporations that you may 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 the industry of the twenty 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 near media monopoly spearheaded by a lucky few 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 robs 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
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out exactly who's behind what where the conflicts of interest are topping the list of owners of rupert murdoch and his empire the news corporation you have in the media enterprise maybe you shape that agenda at all no i didn't i mean. murdoch stands over fox news channel the wall street journal 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 and a political interest so is this because of rupert murdoch's personal interests definitely there's no doubt about it. 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 genet dangerous chemicals that were put there by general electric general
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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 disney and there were some a.b.c. stories about improprieties at disneyland is the world disney killed those c.n.n. 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 defeats the reason for their even existing the purpose of existence for corporations is profit meaning investors interests are placed a head of anything else that would matter in journalism good business is bad
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journalism good journalism is bad business broadcaster laura flanders says counting on getting facts from the corporate media is simply naive because 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. truth about what's happening in our economy the media are increasingly monopolized 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 become louder mouthpieces for a so if that's the truth in our hearts. well as more americans turn to alternative sources web sites and blogs. i wrote will host alex jones. also in danger of becoming. you have the old dinosaur me to get now owned
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by five or maybe six major conglomerates and they're really teaming up with the government and getting secret payments so this came out five years ago famous cases of reporters being given hundreds of thousands of dollars apiece by the bush administration armstrong williams is one of the famous instances to go out and promote new federal initiatives that bush was pushing for so it's not just that you have these five to six mega corporations that have all these other corporate subsidiaries and they won't report on things that put them in a bad light you have direct government payments of taxpayer money she currently being funneled to them this is outrageous and we've seen massive viewership drops on cable and broadcast t.v. and in newspapers and you've seen sites like info wars dot com or other alternative media exploding and so now they're announcing the internet kill switch and she she regulation over the internet senator jay rockefeller one of the key committee says we would have been better off without the internet so instead of just having
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a something where the egyptians shut the internet off in five minutes we have this shows strangling of the internet because the old dinosaur mega media is losing credibility and it's a government mouthpiece and so they're now moving in with a perfect storm to restrict free speech that the internet is in danger. the deputy governor of afghanistan's kandahar province has been killed in an attack while he was on his way to work a suicide bomber on a motorcycle rammed into 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 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
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herald tribune yet again from the cia sources it's bruce riedel the famous cia analyst claiming that eventually i kind of will be defeated due to their president obama charm offensive muslim community all around the globe while the terrorist threat is real it is not confined even closely related to ghana stand itself the terrorist threat comes along the afghan pakistani badland take out the ward alone afghan pakistani badland and substituted for a cross and that instantly will finally start making sense until the washington decision makers we'll accomplish this linguistic exercise they are doomed to play all along this vicious circle paying lip service to the threat
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coming from pakistan while ignoring the clear and present danger of narco terrorism that comes from afghanistan. well don't forget you can get the latest on all our stories on our website that's r t v dot com and let's take a look at what's online 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. in the world famous bolshoi theater takes london by storm it's down it's way to three top awards from british critics well you can get the full story and much more at our to you dot com. and now a quick look at other news making headlines around the world far people have been killed by a blast in a busy tunnel in northwest pakistan nineteen others were injured most of them were taken to a nearby hospital in the region has seen numerous over the past few years and it's
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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 is refusing to step down though his opponent is internationally recognized as the winner of the first presidential election the union called for an end to the government backed confining tara to a hotel it also strongly condemned the surge in violence that has gripped the country following the stalemate. and government is defending a proposed levy it hopes will pay for a massive flood across the country's eastern states heavy rains are responsible for the devastation that claimed thirty five lives and damaged or destroyed some thirty thousand homes and businesses a vast inland sea which developed near the southern state of victoria has left some
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communities in the region on high alert for days well authorities are also monitoring two cycles developing off the east coast. 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 well doctors say his condition is now stable and official said mandela's office had received more than ten thousand messages of support from well wishers. now the suicide bomb attack on moscow's the majed of our airport has led to global debate about what can be done to tackle terror laurie harf inist 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. the suicide bomber in moscow the car bomb in iraq the shootings in tucson
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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 not 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 is going to be protected more like strip searched at airports if necessary i'm i willing to be censors. i think the new machine i have is fine but sees through clothes you're ok with that ok do you think the scanners are ok if it means we're safe yes your calls are coming off a nobody stacia do you think it's ever justifiable old you think anyone ever has a good enough reason to get that angry to do something like that no no i think there's. there's overseas something roll wrong with them to thank about we that
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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 of the headlines in a few minutes but first all the business news with dimitri. good to have your company you're watching business outside the world economic forum as it is finishing stage but it has been more than intensive for the russian
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delegation with many major deals being announced investors say it's now time to turn expressions of will into action our 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 rosabelle joined finally the world trade organization this year followed 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
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words were by god deals as i say we had. russians all just there reproduced the 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 and 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. i think it has achieved a number of things first of all it has created you know great physical life the. project that it's gets a lot of visibility in russia. critical but i think it's also critical of the
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management development and the pairing 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 we kept in terms of what we are 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 when build that into a new episode of c.e.o. says russia is a perfect platform for the global expansion. using women down 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 develop a whole range of products that we can sell in other parts of the world so we can leverage the rhumba value added their expertise our partnership to saudi arabian
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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 two and russia becomes very interesting because russia's got land russia is 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 the differences between three in business in. the emerging market india russia is perhaps. more developed than india in terms of frameworks exist systems exist so does in india too but in india. when you want to buy and you have to really go through a long process to get it because as a rule of law you can go to
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a small farmer and say i want to learn you've 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 big mosque which was founded by a specific of the t.v. was the first to express interest in the assets but then alphabet wanted to buy one hundred percent of the land but it seems it has lost its. despite a 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 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
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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 overall 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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