the latest headlines and we can review here on our t.v. russian investigators got a breakthrough just five days after the suicide blast at moscow's dumb ahead of o. airport the culprit has been identified as a man from the north caucasus north caucasus who was targeting foreigners the attack killed thirty five people and injured more than one hundred. considered that's a consolidated public feels is can we increase this ease. president dmitry medvedev reassure his global leaders that russia is safe as he addressed the tragedy on the sidelines of the world economic forum in davos a new terror alert system already being discussed.

in egypt as the nation descends into chaos with protesters lashing out against the government for the sixth day in a row more than one hundred have been killed and thousands injured in the uprising that's led to the dissolution of the cabinet. and the start treaty gets the final go ahead in russia and the us complete the ratification process with months of negotiation and heavy opposition r.t. looks at the bumpy road of the nuclear arms reduction deal. noon in moscow i match reza good to have you with us as we bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week that was here on r t we start the story we start our news there with a story that's shaken up the week a suicide blast of moscow's domodedovo airport monday's terror attack claimed the lives of thirty five people more than one hundred still in the hospital some of them in critical condition on saturday russian investigators said they had cracked

the case and knew the identity of the suicide bomber. reports. four thirty pm on the twenty fourth of january a suicide bomber blaze apart the packed arrivals hall at russia's busiest airport. 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 you took all the shrapnel. amongst the thirty five dead people for many nationalities days made it when the father's good includes their injuries due to marry the mother

of his child. shelves wife watched him die in front of her on the airport floor around the world families now grieving the days who were saved precisely calles. doing. something very serious just. very. stark realization of the work of god that was for there was a true. story for. our part 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 establish the organizers and accomplices of this crime north caucasus separatist clique some extremists have been responsible for a similar deadly attacks in russia the twin bombings at 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 into 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 nate blood's sears rick dorsey were sure. those who committed these terrible acts targeting citizens of different countries expected their actions to bring russia to its knees but little iran but it is aware of its place in the world russia will fulfill its obligations towards its citizens and the world community unfortunately new states in the world is immune to

terrorism terrorist attacks like this one in russia unfortunately can happen at any time anywhere in the world there is no universal remedy against this evil but one thing we can say for sure our success. 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 it's 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 action and a message to the international community to stand united away together now to fight this global terrorist threats so. and it's not just the quest to seek those responsible for monday's moscow suicide bombing the top of the agenda

russia is also working to any possible security lapses that may have aided the suicide bomber reaching his target as are his eyes or better reports the country is now adopting a new anti terror warning system. as the dust settled the blame game began donna. dead of a 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 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 object 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 is 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 they modeled on the u.s. system of color coded alerts created post nine eleven 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 both 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 events r.t. moscow the shock waves of the attack on moscow's airport echoed around the world but the scenario had an eerie forerunner a videogame released two years ago became an instant success featuring a similar story line laura lister takes

a look at the parallels between the fantasy and the 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 regime 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 dome of judge of o. 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 surged asked one billion dollars now even for people that didn't download the game just a simple youtube 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 the 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 at the world economic forum in davos but there were issues on a lot jen that at the meeting of the world financial power players we have all the details coming up. political figures in warsaw have been questioning the conclusions of an independent investigation commission on the fatal plane crash in western russia that killed the polish president lech kaczynski but as poland continues the probe the new evidence has come to light the former head of state himself may have given the final order to land the plane artie's 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 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 says that the special every asian regiment that flies v.a.p. passengers received a secret instruction which said the plane could die the 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 but i don't want to know about it because according to every existing rule in regulation the crew prepares the flight and until the point lands 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 and i've already received one hundred percent information but such an

instruction didn't exist neither internal nor general. 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 you know we will have the pilot had to back up airports minsky n.v. tips in this really says a lot about the quality of the cruise preparation because 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 are 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 gain voter support many more similar revelations could come to light placing the poles and an even more uncomfortable position. cashman has r r t moscow bellerose former presidential candidate lead in munich lie of has been released on bail after being detained during the violent protests in december on saturday the wife of another former candidate was also released pending house arrest many more have been freed despite being accused of instigating a violent outbreak after alexander lukashenko won the country's disputed presidential elections six hundred people were arrested and all some of them were badly beaten the european union has been urging voters to release members of the opposition who've been detained for political reasons they demanded the country investigate the abusive actions of security forces against demonstrators instead. the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe has called for new sanctions

against della reese over its violent treatment of the opposition president lukashenko has said he would retaliate if any action was taken against the country the e.u. boycotted his inauguration with many countries opting to distance themselves from the ceremonies. russia and the us are all set to begin scrapping their deployed nuclear arsenals the new strategic arms reduction treaty was finally ratified by both sides this week and should come into force within a matter of days it was signed by presidents medvedev and obama back in april so what took him so long to get started 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 the same level of nuclear weapons because we reach really insane levels during the cold war i think it will have a real international implications and affect other countries as decision making as well managed to become the symbol of a restart of the lesions 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 the deal through the congress ended up making to so-called special speedman 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 to the republic. on the war against three d. which is the rather strange but i think it's. a bamma and in most of the obama administration and basically i don't think that was so much of a of a three d. russian deputies also made non-binding special states. illegally 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 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. to schools it's expected the leaders deal will open many new doors of 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 of it still leaves both the nuclear superpowers with the north warheads to blow the entire planet into a different solar system so perhaps it's not numbers that the new start is all about 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 more than one hundred protesters have been killed in egypt since tuesday in what is the biggest challenge to president hosni mubarak's three decade long rule the country has closed its border with the gaza strip amid an uprising against the government paula sli or as in the capital we don't live there for the latest hello paula so it's the sixth day of the turmoil there seems to be no end in sight one of the main fears for the people right now. well matt in the early hours of this morning ten people were killed while trying to break into the interior ministry this brings the total number of dead to some one hundred and ten

at the same time thousands of prisoners have broken out of jails around the country among them are muslim extremist muslim militants and we're hearing reports that some of them haven't really made their way back to palestine not as a result the egyptian government has closed its border with gaza not far from where i'm standing a few hours ago there were gunshots on the cairo university bridge as protesters clashed with on the very things have a relatively quiet on the sixth day of violence when you compare it to previous mornings the protesters are still out on the streets the city remains in a lockdown and the protesters say they're going no way until mubarak himself steps down so it looks like the situation may be spiraling out of control how was the government trying to deal with. well the egyptian president says he's going no way he has sacked his government at the same time he's appointed a vice president as well as a new prime minister who's tasked with forming a new government but speaking to protesters say they say that this will go no way to pacify him and addressing their concerns the international community

particularly european countries in the united states has called on mubarak to implement reforms and to refrain from violence there have been protests and demonstrations around the world particularly with egyptian is showing support for the families and they frame is back home there were some wiki leaks documents that came to light some of them referring to cables as far back as two thousand and seven showing that while in the public light the american administration has been supporting mubarak privately it's been supporting his opposition and this is raised many questions particularly among analysts who are now asking just how spontaneous these demonstrations in fact were. suitable of the. recent events in africa i do believe in school today. these revolutions when hundreds of thousands millions of people come out onto the streets at the same time taking into account that there's been no serious or immediate change to their

standards of living life for these demonstrations the need co-ordination support leaders getting money from foreign secret service aides. now of course the question that everybody's asking right now what's next for egypt what are the experts saying . well many of the experts are saying that these demonstrations were in part filled by what we saw earlier this month but that it's still too soon to say whether the deposition there for president is going to be the same conclusion that is reached here in egypt the problem here is that there is no unified opposition voice what we see on the streets is a lot of people come together in defiance against mubarak but that opposition is fragmented the largest opposition group here in egypt is the muslim brotherhood and they've been careful not to hijack these demonstrations they don't want them to be seen as islamised they believe that the people have very real grievances that need to be addressed one of the opposition leaders perhaps to emerge as mohamed el baradei he is the former head of the international atomic energy agency in the

nobel peace prize laureate he has said that he is prepared to hit an interim government of course to do so and he is no longer under house arrest. so you're there in cairo in the middle of things what's your sense how do you think see things unfolding. well matt the real sense you get from being here in the city center is the sense of normal isness the police have completely abandoned the city it's firmly in the hands of the army and what this means is that you have these vigilante groups that have broken into police stations many of them are not armed they have ammunition we're hearing reports of some of them walking around with a k forty seven when you walk down the streets there are people standing guard in front of their homes in fact in the office out of the pool from two from the russia today offices here in cairo overnight ten people tried to break in and as a result cameramen and technicians yeah would go out in the building throughout the night to try and prevent any kind of equipment being stolen any kind of violence occurring here it really is still too soon to say what will evolve but again

a reminder the protesters say that they demands are far from being met right artie's polis we're reporting live from cairo stay safe there paula thanks for. you with us will be getting updates from paul and our reports throughout the day here on r t so stay with us. turning now to some other stories that are making headlines across the globe in germany ten people have been killed dozens injured after two trains collided in the east of the country the accident happened when passenger and freight trains crashed head on the the city of nod knocking the wagons off the tracks several carriages carrying around forty five passengers overturned officials say it's too soon to determine what caused the accident but they believe excessive speed was a factor. have been sporadic demonstrations against tunisia's prime minister in the capital as the interim government struggles to restore order on saturday a group of shopkeepers clashed with protesters ahead of accusing them of jeopardizing the country's tentative steps towards democracy later riot police used tear gas as demonstrators throwing stones at them calling for the resignation of

the newly appointed interior minister it's been two weeks since the north african nation ousted its president who fled to saudi arabia after twenty three years in power. a russian space freighter the first this year has successfully docked with the international space station this spacecraft called progress m o nine am has it delivered two and a half tons of goods 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 along with photos and data there are six scheduled trips to the i.s.a.'s this year. nearly all of those polled in southern sudan have voted to split from the north in a recent referendum more than ninety nine percent of the poll voted for independence in the plate indicating southern sudan had secured a mandate to become the world's newest nation final results from the january vote are expected earlier that's. russia aims 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 set to wrap up on sunday the russian delegation presented a detailed plan to the 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. are also among the country's top priorities one of the big deals that's already come out of the davos meeting is a multi-billion dollar acquisition of russia's largest dairy producer wimbledon and by pepsico pepsi co c.e.o. indra nooyi says that russia is a perfect platform for further global expansion. using women done i think we can expand into cia's central eastern europe because those markets can all be so the start of wimbledon in 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 we can leverage to build on that we've got a duty expertise

a partnership which is 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 should be going to be interesting because russia is going to war that and russia can be a great source of fruits for us so one of our goals is to develop russian agriculture to be the hub for certain fruits to influence in particular the rest of the world. commentary from injury new c.e.o. of pepsico president dmitri medvedev who spearheaded the russian delegation to davos spoke exclusively to bloomberg television on the sidelines of the meeting you can watch the full interview in just a few minutes after a recap of our top stories stay with us.

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