latest headlines and weekend review here on our t.v. mondays suicide blast of moscow's domodedovo airport was aimed at foreigners and carried out by a man from the north caucasus the attack killed thirty five people and injured more than one hundred. consider the security bullet consolidate public fool says to weave evil. dimitri medvedev guarantees russia safe for investors on the sidelines of the world economic forum in davos citing that new security measures and more effective ways of battling terror attacks are already in the pipeline. egypt descends into chaos as protesters lash out against the government but the six

day in a row more than one hundred have been killed thousands injured in the uprising leading to the dissolution of the cabinet. after months of negotiations washington and moscow got a fresh start as they ratify their new nuclear arms reduction treaty or takes a look at the ups and downs of the deal and what's ahead for both sides. eight am in moscow i'm at kicking off our weekly review here on r t giving you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news we start the sunday program with a story that's shaking up the week a suicide blast in moscow's domodedovo airport monday's terror attack claimed the lives of thirty five people more than one hundred remain in the hospital some of them in critical condition on saturday russian investigators said they had solved

the case and knew the identity of the suicide bomber. four thirty pm on the twenty fourth of january a suicide bomber blaze apart the packed arrivals hall at russia's busiest airports . my first thought was to get away a lot of people willing motionless even more people were being piled up near the first aid area some well ready dead they were dragged away a horrible picture. i looked at my watch and then flash and i passed out when i woke up there was a ringing in my ears it was a sour smell everything in nash's everyone is groaning three or four men were piled up on top of me the one directly above me was wounded in the chest he took all the shrapnel. amongst the thirty five dead people for many nationalities. added when the father's golden koos then was due to marry the mother of his child correll buckhalter shelves wife watched him die in front of her on the airport

floor around the world families now grieving for those who were say precisely killed. doing. something very serious just. very. stark realization that the work of their daughter was far greater there was a two. hour prior to. investigators say they've now identified the man responsible but haven't yet released the name of . 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 north caucasus separatist groups and extremists have been responsible for similar deadly attacks in russia the twin bombings of the mosque a match a less than a year ago was carried out by a terror group in dagestan. this attack has once again raised serious questions about the counterterrorism methods in russia and the airports and transport authorities and the police have come under heavy criticism yet the russian response has been one of resilience just hours after the attack flights. and people have been visiting the hospitals to donate blood. those who committed this terrible act targeting citizens of different countries expected their actions to bring russia to its knees but they thought. russia was aware of its place in the world so russia will fulfill its obligations towards its citizens and the world community unfortunately you know state in the world is immune to terrorism terrorist attacks

like this one in russia unfortunately can happen any time anywhere in the world there is no universal remedy against this evil but one thing we can say for sure our success in battling this threat very much depends on solidarity and the official day of mourning both president medvedev and prime minister putin attended services all religions uniting to commemorate days he died in the attacks. continue to be laid at the site of the blast is a poignant reminder that in the war on terror it's once again ordinary people here on the front line in the scene of tragedy. and of mourning now it's time for. the international community. together now to fight this global terrorist threats so . it's not just a question sponsible for monday's moscow suicide bombing that's the top of the agenda russia is also walking into any possible security lapses which may have

helped the suicide bomber reach his target for better reports the country is adopting a new anti terror warning system. as the dust settled the blame game began dominated of it took the rap from russian authorities with a number of airport officials sacked but international observers made more worrying conclusions the awful truth is is that there is no way to stop the terrorists in any capital or cuts the bases you have to there are certain things you have to do especially after attack but ultimately it's very very hard protect all transport hubs in the capital city security at domodedovo has now been increased mandatory metal detectors and baggage x. rays accompany every entrance to the building this answers one question but poses another we're not actually allowed to film inside the airport anymore since

security's been stepped up but one of the problems with the new stringent checks here is that a queue of people build up just inside the airport presents exactly the sort of target at trying to avoid these pictures were filmed covertly around fifty people are packed into a tiny space with queues ten minutes long before the explosion security here was no different to most other international airports only israel's ben gurion airport is considered more secure than any other with vehicle checkpoints fingerprint scanners and compulsory passenger interviews but such resource intensive measures aren't possible at larger airports domodedovo handled twenty two million passengers last year double that of ben-gurion so what's the answer in the first call if you want to promote security the second objective you want to facilitate the flow of commerce and the third is you probably want to protect individual our privacy and the question and i would pose it where in the middle of the triangle do you want to

make the line or for russia's parliament it's about security this week the state duma gave preliminary approval to new anti terror warnings there. modeled on the u.s. system of color coded alerts created post nine eleven in the government just look how much we needed this system in light of the demanded of attack what everyone is seeing is that there was no relevant information and now according to the war we will have to inform the society about the threats facing russia's determination in fighting terrorists has never been questioned but its methods have now has the system you must make sure it works on the bennetts not see moscow the shock waves of the attack in the moscow airport echoed around the world but the scenario had an eerie forerunner for us videogame released two years ago became an instant success and featured a similar story line r.t.s. lauren lyster takes a look at the parallels between the fantasy of a game and reality. a terrorist attack kills dozens of innocent people in creates

chaos at a moscow airport fact. or fiction it's the scenario being played out here in this popular american video game sold worldwide call of duty modern warfare two dubbed no russian in this mission the player goes on a terrorist rampage hoping to massacre civilians in a fictitious moscow airport it may have seemed too gruesome and tragic to become true were it not for the very real events seen here at the dome of judge of the airport more than thirty people have been killed more than one hundred eighty injured in what investigators believe was a terrorist attack sars a video game version a lot more people have been involved in this violent video game was released in november of two thousand and nine by the american company activision and in just a few months sales had surpassed one billion dollars now even for people that

didn't download the game just a simple you tube search where you type in no russian can reveal that segment right here this one has eight hundred seventy thousand views and with so many people seemingly downloading playing or watching this game you have to consider whether or not anybody ever thought that this game could so closely resemble reality the issue is we need to know if terrorists or extremists are using these videos or these d.v.d.'s with these games to basically apply the model there's a way in which you know entertainment mirrors reality and reality mirrors entertainment and there are people who are influenced by all this even though the manufacturers always deny that it has any influence on anyone your range of public figures came out condemning the attacks but so far no one is coming out questioning justification for a virtual version lauren mr r.t.

new york. the damage out of a tragedy was the first issue addressed by the russian delegation to the world economic forum in davos there were other issues on russia's agenda at the meeting the world's financial power players all the details coming out. was a new light shed on the plane crash that killed polish president lech kaczynski last year more in just a few minutes. first the world leaders from europe and the u.s. have urged egypt's president to refrain from violence and enact reforms have made ongoing riots there were one hundred people were killed in anti-government protests that started on tuesday demonstrators are demanding regime change in the exit of hosni mubarak egypt's leader appointed his first ever vice president a new prime minister but has so far refused to step down on saturday thousands ignored a curfew filling the streets reiterating calls for an end to mubarak's thirty year rule meanwhile diplomatic cables released by wiki leaks suggest that washington may be behind the bloody uprising which is part of a u.s.

plan to overthrow the egyptian president artie's laurus leader paulus leader is in cairo with more. so far more than one hundred people have been killed as mobile clinics throughout the city continue to operate but treating wounded many of whom are the poor thing that they would be sent by police to you know wasted and one of the most well in developments is that of losing the cairo museum with news hit with mummies they being ransacked now the egyptian president hosni mubarak has tried to address protesters demands by pointing for the first time in thirteen was the country's first vice president now that is almost a man 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 tossed with forming a new government but speaking to protesters these moves are not going to do a lot to pacify them they say they want nothing short of the president himself stepping down the relationship between the united states and egypt so. a

complicated contradictory one in 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 demi could balancing act that the american administration has been playing now some of these cables refer to a muslim man who has just been appointed the country's new vice president they say that he makes to quote the leaks and attractive alternative to barrick but analysts here say that will but it 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 spontaneously is demonstrations in effect work. i don't believe in school in tunis revolutions with hundreds of thousands or

millions of people come out onto the streets at the same time. there's been no serious change to their standards of living ready for these demonstrations the need scored you need to 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 partners fired 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 overthrown dictators who have been rumors floating around the last few hours and difficult to independently verify them but they suggest that will barak's son gamal whom he has been 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 that at least not now. for more a lot onto our web site to check out the latest videos and top stories and see

what's waiting for you online today. or to add your own risk in today's high tech world it's a lot easier to film the police but in parts of the u.s. you can get arrested and even jailed for this. and if you need a man and if you need a man about the house and you don't have one you can rent one one number of russian companies give ladies we need the help of a chance to hire a husband to take care of all the handy work for them. plus leaving the russian maestro valerie great beauty of this is the busiest conductor of two thousand and ten and he's given no fewer than eighty eight concerts and performances around the globe in one year and not planning to stop. as the investigation into the fatal crash in western russia that killed the polish

president last april continues poland itself seems divided over who's tipped over whom to blame new evidence has come to light that the former head of state himself like kaczynski gave the final order to land the plane are. forced to land according to one article in a russian newspaper that was the cause of this morning's plane crash which killed the polish president his wife and most of poland's political elite but the decision according to the paper's anonymous source was it made by the pilots or air traffic controllers that banner reverting to a backup airport was allegedly put in effect but the president himself. one polish journalist whose name is not disclosed for o.b.'s reasons said that the special every asian regiment that flies the a.p. passengers received a secret instruction which said the plane could divert only with permission from its main passenger the rules state that the pilots priorities however should never

have changed whether such instructions existed or not. maybe could enforce a rule you but i don't want to know about it because according to every existing rule and regulation the crew prepares the flight and until the point lands of the pilot and not the president is in charge of every decision. poland is of course vehemently denying even the possibility of such instructions existing thanks for this information was for me unbelievable from the beginning but i ordered it to be checked i have already received one hundred percent information but such an instruction didn't exist neither internal more general than that this statement however would have carried a lot more weight if it wasn't contradicted by the government spokesman. ben this is obvious that there are internal regulations in the division there is the head instruction which regulates the flights of the most important people in the country . and the confusion doesn't stop here. or your.

pilot had to back up airports minsk n.v. tips in this really says a lot about the quality of the cruise preparation because v.t.s. wasn't even working that day. the official investigation found pilot error was to blame despite mounting evidence poland remains intent on pursuing its own investigation into the crash and trying to prove the russian air traffic control was also responsible action some say only for political leverage ahead of the country's parliamentary elections polish aviation experts agreed with the investigation report and its findings and unless the politicians are willing to do the same instead of trying to shift the blame and going voter support many more similar revelations could come to light placing the polls in an even more uncomfortable position ghastliness r.t. moscow. russia aiming to become

a global financial center with guaranteed protection for foreign investment that's the message from the country's leaders at the annual world economic forum in davos which wraps up on sunday the russian president presented a detailed plan to the members of the global market promising to share risks and cost with foreign investors he also said russia is ready to join the world trade organization this year a common economic space with the e.u. is another big financial target for the country one of the big deal that's already come out of the davos meeting is a multi-billion dollar acquisition of russia's largest dairy producer when bill down by pepsico its c.e.o. injury newey says that rush is a perfect platform for further global expansion one using women done i think we can expand into cia's central and eastern europe because we want kids can all be so this town of wimbledon and russia we have to decide how to take the technology develop a whole range of products that we can send in other parts of the world so they're going to leverage the little bit of them that you want to do the expertise

a partnership which is how do you really been dairy company and figure out how to bring the expertise of both companies together perspective there from pepsico c.e.o. indra nooyi president medvedev who spearheaded the russian delegation to davos spoke exclusively to bloomberg on the sidelines of the meeting and you can catch the full interview with them in a few minutes here on r.t. . russia and the u.s. are set to begin scrapping their deployed nuclear arsenals the new strategic arms reduction treaty was finally ratified by both sides this weekend should come into force in a matter of days it was signed by president medvedev and obama back in april so what took at all what took it so long to get started artie's europe is going off explains. after more than a year of hard line negotiating and ten more months of internal dispute it's finally done moscow and washington are stripping down their nukes first the state duma and then the federation council gave the bill the green light now that it's signed by the president only a formal exchange of ratification documents is left before the new start comes into

force for the next ten years many hope it will not only restrain the two nuclear superpowers but become an example for others to follow this first of all is about the security of the united states and the security of russia this is about unwinding the excesses of the cold war this is about bringing both countries back to a same level of nuclear weapons because we reach really insane levels during the cold war i think it will have real international implications and affect other countries as decision making as well mans to become the symbol of the restart of the delusions between moscow and washington the deal was initially backed by both presidents but it didn't come easy most of the u.s. republicans fell into opposition demanding amendments and the internal disputes stretched for months before president obama finally pushed a deal through the congress ended up making two so-called special statements

securing washington's right to modernize its remaining strategic arms and insisting the deal would not affect america's missile defense plans but the statements are non-binding meaning they will not affect the actual implementation of the deal the original text remained untouched but unfortunately for the first time the republic . in a war against three d. which is the rather strange but i think it was. a bomb and in most of the obama administration and basically i don't think that was so much of a pivot three d. russian deputies also made a non-binding special states. legally linking offensive and defensive weapons which was one of the main stumbling points in the negotiations secured moscow's right to step out of the agreement if it feels threatened by u.s. missile defense plans in europe and stressed statements previously made by the us congress do not free washington from its obligations they hope that the coming here

is will show that both americans and the russians show responsibility in fulfilling these obligations and that will create a new spirit of mutual confidence and trust then you start is not the first such agreement between moscow and washington the first two were signed in one thousand nine hundred one and in ninety three but neither managed to bring russia and the us to school it's expected the leaders deal to open many new doors over opportunity also moving forward on the russians w t o accession america is very supportive but it's not enough we have to have more time as we have to have more docking mechanisms we have to have more bridges the more dependent we are the better it is for our future a future which has become a little clearer the exchange of the ratification documents officially enforcing the new start could happen as soon as the fourth of february even though the treaty

is set to reduce the number of strategic arms by over one third it still leaves both the nuclear superpowers with enough warheads to blow the entire planet into a different solar system so perhaps it's not numbers that the new start is all about but trust by reducing the number of strategic arms russia and the united states are in forcing their strategic partnership at least for the next decade you've got this going off r.t. moscow. joran from the national security network in the u.s. says the new start treaty turns a new page in international relations which could eventually lead to a safer nuclear free world. it's very beneficial to all involved the u.s. and russia have now fully engaged in the restart of the relationship and put substance behind it a lot of good rhetoric over the last year and a half now we actually have an agreement a bipartisan agreement from capitol hill also is

a very unique moment and so we see in american russian consensus around the key issue of security for both of our countries there's a clear interest in moving past the cold war and security threats are dynamic now we have terrorism in the in moscow on monday these these threats come from a very long arm of potentially from countries outside of nato and outside of europe the hope is that this will create a new dynamic and create new opportunities now that everyone who cares about arms control and is looking at nuclear weapons as a serious issue sees that the u.s. and russia can make progress it does give an opportunity for new thinking about how do you dress this in two thousand and eleven perspective from joel rubin deputy director of the national security network starting now to some other stories making headlines across the globe in germany people have been killed dozens injured after two trains collided in the country's east the accident happened when passenger and freight trains crashed head on near the city of magic bird knocking out knocking

wagons off the tracks several carriages carrying around forty five passengers overturned officials say it's too early to determine what caused the accident but they believe speed was a factor. in tunisia fresh clashes broke out between protesters and police is why it was fired tear gas at stone throwing demonstrators people marched past a government building to call for the resignation of the newly appointed the material minister. stones of police it's been two weeks since the north african nation ousted its president fled to saudi arabia after twenty three years. an iranian dutch woman who was detained in iran. during anti-government protests in two thousand and nine has been to hang. you was executed for drug smuggling early saturday bringing the number of executed in the islamic country this year to sixty six the netherlands has frozen contacts with tehran following yes sure. i'll be

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