latest headlines and a look package back at the week's headlines here on our t.v. monday suicide blast of moscow's going to the airport was aimed at foreigners and carried out by a man from the north caucasus the attack killed thirty five and injured more than until. you can see it's really people it consolidates public school says. bet it guarantees russia safe for investors on the sidelines of the world economic forum in davos citing new security measures and more effective ways of battling terror attacks already in the pipeline.

in egypt as the nation descends into chaos with protesters lashing out against the government for a sixth day in a row more than one hundred have been killed and thousands injured in the uprising that led to the dissolution of the cabinet. after months of negotiations in washington and moscow about a fresh start as they ratified their new nuclear arms reduction treaty takes a look at the ups and downs of the deal and what's ahead for both sides. ten am in moscow i'm not giving you today's top stories and a look back at the week that was here on r t we start with a story that's shaken up the week a suicide blast at moscow's domodedovo airport monday's terror attack took the lives of thirty five people more than one hundred still in the hospital many of them in critical condition on saturday russian investigators said they had solved the case in. identity of the suicide bomber r.t.

sorry for thousand more. for thirty t.p.m. on the twenty fourth of january a suicide bomber delays 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 ashes everyone is groaning real full men were piled up on top of me they want to regulate above me it was wounded in the chest she took all the shrapnel. amongst the thirty five dead people for many nationalities days made it winnie fathers gordon coups then used to to marry the mother of his child cavell buggery shelves wife watched him die in front of her on the airport

floor around the world families now grieving the days who will say precisely calles . you're going to. have some very very serious just come very close to the start her stations are very graphic here. really with her but there was a true. story. after a fire sometime. very soon. 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 element 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 a stand. 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 i was carried out by a terror group and. 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 today in eight bloods. those who committed this terrible act targeting citizens of different countries expected their actions to bring russia to its millions but they thought. russia was aware of its place in the world russia will fulfill its obligations towards its citizens and the world community unfortunately as 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 even the one thing we can say for sure 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 those 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 who are on the front line in a scene of tragedy. and of mourning now it's time for action and the international community. together now to fight this global terrorist threats so. that monday's bombing was a deliberate attack on russia's economic growth. well of course this is the major

gateway for international airlines flying into moscow it is the favored airport. one house to ask question whether because of that fact because many international visitors to to russia pass through the airport. you know the question has to be whether this was primarily the target in other words targeting the big economic well being of russia as well as those people who are traveling on the aviation assets. russia is also working to any possible security lapses that may have helped the suicide bomber reach his target on monday better reports the country is adapting a is adopting a new anti terror warning system. as the dust settled the blame game began dumb and dead of it took the rap from russian authorities with a number of airport officials sacked by the international observers made more

worrying conclusions the awful truth is is that there is no way to stop terrorists in any cattle on the bases you have to there are certain things you have to do especially after a time 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 airports 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 targets that 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 object you want to facilitate the flow of commerce and the third is you want to protect individual law privacy in the question and i would. where in the middle of the triangle do you want to make a law in or for russia's parliament it's about security this week the state duma gave preliminary approval to new anti terror warnings they modeled on the us system of color coded alerts created post nine eleven plot in the government just look how much we needed this system in light of the damage it 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 r.t. moscow. the shock waves of the attack in the moscow airport echoed around the world but the scenario did have an earring forerunner a video game released two years ago became an instant success and featured in part a similar story why our teams lauren lyster takes a look at the parallels between the fantasy of the 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 does no russian in this mission the player goes on

a terrorist page 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 duma gedge 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 now 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 be attacks but so far no one is coming out questioning justification for a virtual version lauren mr r.t. new york. the domodedovo tragedy was the first issue addressed by the russian delegation to the world economic forum in davos but there were other issues on his agenda at the meeting of the world's financial power players you've got all the details coming up there. was new light being shed on the plane crash that killed the polish president lech kaczynski last year more coming your way in

a few moments. but first we go to egypt where more than ten protesters were killed in clashes with police in the early hours of sunday demonstrations turned bloody when the crowd tried to storm the country's interior ministry building in cairo it's the sixth day of riots against president hosni mubarak's three decade rule in response to the op rising mubarak has appointed his first ever vice president and a new prime minister but so far refused to step down more than leaders have urged the president to refrain from violence i don't act reforms meanwhile diplomatic cables released by wiki leaks suggest washington help those behind the uprising which is being linked to a western plan to overthrow the egyptian president or his policy or has more from cairo. so far more than one hundred people have been killed as mobile clinics throughout the city continue to operate by treating wounded many of whom opposing that they would be sent by police off to you know wasted one of the most warning developments is that of losing the cairo museum with newsweek with mummies they

being ransacked now the egyptian president hosni mubarak has tried to address protesters demands by appointing for the first time in thirty years as the country's first vice president now that is almost a man who used to head the intelligence yet at the same time the new prime minister mr ahmed shafik he's a technocrat he's from the aviation industry he's being tossed with forming a new government but speaking to protesters these moves on not going to do or not to 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 hosni mubarak now that is a clear example of double standards there's also been

a clear day we 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 mubarak 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 a question of just how spontaneous today's demonstrations in fact were you just doing from leaving school in tunis revolution when hundreds of thousands of millions of people come out onto the streets at the same time. there's been no serious or immediate change to their standards of living ready for these demonstrations the need scored you shouldn't 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 partly new spy but what happened

in 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 overthrowing dictators who have been rumors floating around the last few hours 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. paul asli reporting from cairo will be ringing you more on the situation in egypt throughout the day so stay with us here on r t remember you can always find the latest on our website our team dot com for all the latest videos and top stories here's what's online right now. with the board at your own risk in today's high tech world it's easy to film the police but in the u.s. you could get arrested or even put in jail for this. if you don't have a man about the house but need one now there's a chance you can rent one

a number of russian companies give ladies who need help a chance to hire a husband to take care of all the handy. plus leading russian maestro. is the busiest conductor of twenty ten giving no fewer than fewer than eighty eight concerts and performances around the globe in one year with no plans to stop. as the investigation into the fatal plane crash in western russia that claimed the life of the polish president last april continues poland itself seems divided over whom to blame new evidence has come to light that the former head of state himself like kaczynski gave the order the final order to land the plane or his catarina as our reports. forced to land according to one article in

a russian newspaper that was the cause of this man'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 wasn't made by the pilots or air traffic controllers the 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 v.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 even force a to rule it 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 did not 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. and 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 minsky n.v. tips in this really says a lot about the quality of the cruise preparation because of egypt 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 that 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 game voter support many more similar revelations could come to light placing the polls in an even more uncomfortable position catherine as our r.t. moscow. russia and the u.s. are set to begin scrapping their deployed nuclear arsenals the new strategic arms reduction treaty was good finally ratified by both sides this weekend should come into force in a matter of days it was signed by presidents made event of an obama back in april so what took him so long to get started this kind of 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 managed to become the symbol of the restart of the illusions 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 bought all of us on a war against three d. which of 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 do russian deputies also made it known by. ending special statements 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 years will show that both americans and us 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 u.s. is close it's expected the leaders deal will open many new doors of opportunity also moving forward on the russia's 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 us going off r.t. moscow. joel rubin 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 safe nuclear free planet 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 an american russian consensus around a key issue of security for both countries there's a clear interest in moving past the cold war and security threats are dynamic now we have terrorism and as you noted the in moscow monday these these threats coming 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. commentary from joel rubin deputy

director of the national security network turned out of some other stories making headlines across the globe in germany ten have been killed and dozens injured after two trains collided in the east of the country the accident happened when a passenger and freight train crashed head on near the city of nod to bird knocking the wagons off the tracks several carriages carrying around forty five passengers overturned officials say it's too early to determine the cause of the accident but they believe excessive speed was a factor. and fresh clashes broke out between protesters and police as riot squads fired tear gas it stone throwing protests demonstrators people marched past a government building to call for the resignation of the newly appointed interior minister and young people threw stones at the police it's been two weeks since the north african nation ousted its president who fled to saudi arabia after twenty three years in power. or in space freighter the first to see your house successfully docked with the international space station the spacecraft called

progress m o nine am delivered two and a half tons of supplies including fuel food and presents to the six member crew and also brought a mini satellite spacesuit made by students designed to transmit greeting messages in fifteen languages plus photos and data there are six scheduled trips to the i.s.a.'s this year. 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 that wraps up sunday the russian delegation presented a detailed plan to members of the global market promising to share risks and cost with foreign investors gaining access to the world trade organization this year and building a common economic space with the e.u. also in the country's top targets many of the world's biggest companies already operating in russia among them is b.p. he recently sealed up a multi-billion dollar deal with oil giant rosneft c.e.o. robert dudley says the company's long standing partnership with russia. will only

be bent. i think we intend absolutely to follow all of our agreements with them we're certainly not in breach of those agreements we'll be sharing the information with them shortly b.p. is a very important venture for b.p. it's a very successful company and we see it as prospects for growth it has great capability of operating in the on shore in russia it doesn't actually operate offshore the kinds of work that would be done with with our partners in ross naff off shore require a different sort of skill set i think that's that's well known. but we'll be absolutely sharing these agreements with our partners and working out a resolution with them. i was robert dudley c.e.o. of b.p. speaking with us dmitri medvedev spearhead of the russian delegation to davos and suppose exclusively spoke exclusively to bloomberg television on the sidelines of the meeting you can watch the full interview in just a few minutes after the headlines stay with us here on r.t. .

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