new of the week here on our russian investigators identified the man who committed the deadly suicide attack on moscow's damage out of an airport and say he was from the north caucasus all in the wake of the blast and a new anti terror alert system is being considered. considered. by consolidating. even some to reduce. nuclear arms cuts a deal between moscow and washington is to come into force within the hour for the start treaty receive the final seal of approval from both sides. and the world is calling on egypt to put

a stop to violence as the anti-government uprising kills over empacher of protesters the clashes and tanks raging across the country. you're watching r t seven pm here in moscow welcome to the program well they've identified the bomber now investigators of the deadly terror attack on moscow's main airport are stepping up their hunt for the people who organized it it's almost a week since a twenty year old man from the north caucasus set off the ball with the jet of it claimed thirty five lives and over one hundred remain in hospital. looks back on the day terror returned to russia's capital. well thirty t.p.m. on the twenty fourth of january a suicide bomb that delays apart the packed arrivals for 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 world already dead they were dragged away a horrible picture. and 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 and one directly above me was wounded and there just all the shrapnel . amongst the thirty five dead people for many nationalities days made it we need this golden coups the end is 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 say precisely kills. you're going to have to have some very very serious i just. heard her sing the

star and i say she supported governor caught up with her players there was a two way street pretty far back sometime. very soon. investigators say they've now identified the man responsible but haven't yet released the name of. the russian investigators and security services have identified the suicide bomber who detonated an explosive device that stuff was metal elements of moscow's domodedovo airport on monday it was a twenty year old man from russia's north caucasus although investigators know the terrorist name we're not going to disclose it now as we're currently working to establish the organizers and accomplices of this crime north caucuses set. it is great 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 carried out by

a terror group. this attack has once again raised serious questions about the counterterrorism methods in russia and the airports the 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 had redeemed and people have been visiting the hospitals today nate blood tears rick door sir. those who committed these terrible acts targeting citizens and countries that expect that their actions to bring russia to at least. the winner of its place in the world russia will fulfill its obligations towards our citizens and the world community unfortunately no state in the world terrorism from terrorist attacks like this one in russia unfortunately can happen any time anywhere in the world there's no universal remedy against this evil but one thing we can say for sure. solidarity.

and the official day of mourning but president medvedev and prime minister putin attended services all religions uniting to commemorate those who died in the attacks. continue to be laid at the site of the blast this is going it remind 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 message to the international community to stand united to work together now to fight this global terrorist threat so. russian authorities are now looking into security lapses that led the suicide bomber reach his target but as i have a better purports monday's blast also triggered a wider debate on whether such attacks can actually be prevented. as the dust settled the blame game began dominated 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 capital or cuts 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 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. just look how much we needed

this system in light of the demo did of attack what everyone is saying 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 moscow's airport echoed around the world but the scenario had an eerie forerunner an american videogame released two years ago featured a similar story line as artie's lauren lyster found out the game was sold worldwide without any condemnation. terrorist attack kills dozens of innocent people and 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 dozen new 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 doing we did to vote airport more than thirty people have been killed more than one hundred eighty injured stars 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 youtube 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 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 brain just public figures came out condemning the attack but so far no one is coming out questioning justification for a virtual version lauren mr r.t. new york. well the damage of a tragedy was the first issue addressed by the russian delegation at the world economic forum in davos lots of there were other subjects at stake for russia at the meeting of the world's financial power players we've got all the details coming up. and in the wake of the violent protests in egypt could there be a link with the colored revolutions of former soviet countries well r.t.u.

looks at who might be benefiting from the global anger. now russia and the u.s. are bout to begin cutting their strategic atomic arsenals the new start agreement between the world's biggest nuclear powers is due to come into force within days after it was approved by the russian parliament this week. 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 then the federation council gave the bill the green light now that it's signed by the president a formal exchange of ratification documents is left before the new store 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 fall 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 level of nuclear weapons because we reached really insane levels during the cold war i think it will have real irrational implications in 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 the internal disputes stretched for months the president obama finally pushed through. the congress ended up making two 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. in the war against three d. which of the rather strange but i think it was. a bomb on and in most of the obama administration and basically i don't think that was so much a ring of it three d. russian deputies also made non-binding special statements 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 i 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 and 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 nine are 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 l 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 into dependent we are the better it is for our future a future which has become a little clearer the. 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 its 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 or russia in the united states or in forcing their strategic partnership at least for the next decade. or to moscow. antigovernment protesters in egypt are ramping up the pressure on embattled president hosni mubarak as violence rages for a sixth day more than one hundred fifty people are believed to have been killed in the uprising with the looting is spreading across the country as the army struggles to restore order well arty's policy or reports from the egyptian capital cairo. in the early hours of this morning ten people were killed while trying to break into the interior ministry at the same time flowers of prisoners have broken out of jails around the country among them are muslim extremist muslim militants and hearing reports that some of them have already made their way back to palestine not as a result the egyptian government has closed its border with gaza the real sense or different being there is

a 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 now armed they have any mission there are people standing guard in front of their homes the protesters are still out on the streets the city remains in a lockdown the protesters say they're going no way until mubarak himself steps down the egyptian president has sacked his government at the same time has appointed a vice president as well as a new prime minister who is 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 the ballot to implement reforms and to refrain from violence there have been protests and demonstrations around the world particularly with egypt showing support for their families and their friends back home there were some wiki leaks documents that came to light some of them of going to cables as far back as two thousand and seven

showing that while in the public light the american administration has been supporting about it privately it's been supporting his opposition and this was raised many questions particularly among analysts who are now asking just how spontaneous these demonstrations in fact were numb was so obvious that the u.s. and the u.k. are behind the recent events in africa i don't believe in spontaneous revolutions when hundreds of thousands millions of people come out into the streets at the same time. there's been no serious change to their standards of living for these demonstrations the. support groups and many from foreign secret service. 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 to position their 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 and one of the opposition leaders perhaps to emerge as mohamed el baradei he is the food my head of the international atomic energy agency has said that he is prepared to hit an interim government of court to do so and he is no longer under house arrest there was artie's paulus leo reporting from cairo and while we can lease points to a u.s. had behind the current uprising in egypt it's not the first time washington has been suspected of involvement in regina change many believe the so-called colored revolutions that took place and former soviet countries have been initiated and sponsored by the united states and as our. reports they're not the only parallels

with the current on rest in north africa. georgio two thousand and three. and ukraine two thousand and four. killed just on two thousand and five. and egypt twenty eleven i think these are all completely different revolts well think again and not only because they're raised fist was one of their symbols if you look more closely you look at the so-called people who are leading this are being coached in the they're being coached by u.s. intelligence services the same way the orange revolution was in ukraine or the roles revolution with saakashvili and in georgia a string of revolutions some bloodless some adults wrote the post soviet space at the beginning of the twenty first century there were a number of common factor is an uprising against the regime rooted in

a popular dissatisfaction with standards of living hence the collective name colored revolutions amazingly the outcomes have been quite similar to six years ago key of independence square was the birthplace of the orange revolution it promised a new dawn and major changes for the country but ultimately all aspirations came to nothing. lawyer goody goody sedan guy is one of those disenchanted with the outcome of the orange make over he says the bright promises of the revolutions leaders have in reality pushed the country into an abyss. and corruption increased the country became divided on the. issue was nothing change because the better it changed only to the worse victor usually on the next elections revolutionary hero received only five percent of the wall the lowest percentage for acting president of the world it was a similar story in georgia where they had the optimism of the rose revolution soon

gave way to disappointment. and eventually too much just their anger with president saakashvili was met with a response that was all too familiar as just grenades and water cannons were used to quell the unrest and then killed just on the revolution of two thousand and five also quickly turned sour last year so yet another popular revolt but those full storms and bitter lessons are far from the minds of those clamoring for change in north africa. or no danger emerges when the power overturning the government which they thought illegal and autocratic like in the case of tunisia and egypt does not have a political platform and the government to put things in order in the country the danger lies in the personality of those who would desire to use the revolutions which happened in the arab world we have to take care that the far right or any other forces with an increasingly stick mood will not take advantage of the situation if those are really people's movements they should not have let anyone

into the field with their theirs and that's what will artist experts agree that it may take some time before the world will see whether the revolts indonesia and egypt will change things for the better in these countries just as they have a common opinion that if these uprising is flawed europe will be the first to suffer from waves of immigrants let's hear a shift you see. you can read more on all our stories at our website that's our t.v. dot com and here's what's all new life for you right now media monopoly as several large corporations dominate t.v. news in the u.s. viewers are beginning to doubt whether they're being given unbiased coverage will find out where else they're turning to to stay in for. and st petersburg is renowned for its architecture and history so why does a local mayor want to strip the city of its historic status when you can get b.s. or at art dot com. now russia has reaffirmed its. ambition to set itself

up as a global financial center the country's leaders also promised a better business climate and greater transparency at the annual world economic forum in davos which is now wrapping up the russian delegation presented members of the global market with detailed plans promising to share risks and costs on the head of the world trade organization said he believes twenty eleven will be this year russian joins its ranks like building a common economic space with the e.u. is also a moscow is top targets and many of the world's largest companies are already operating in the country among them is b.p. which recently sealed a multi-billion dollar stock swap with oil giant. daniel bushell spoke to b.p.'s c.e.o. robert dudley who said the deal is beneficial for both sides as well as a model for future cooperation. people. i think it's a very good good deal for b.p.

i think it's a good deal for us now i think it's a watershed deal in the international oil industry i think it's good for russia this cross holding between two companies that have aligned interests is is a very good thing i think it's a harbinger of things you know in the decades ahead between the international oil companies and national how important is the. new oil production strategy i think the arctic has great potential you look at the maps in russia i think it's going to be something that's great for russia good for the companies involved and they pursued b.p. we're very very excited about it could new orleans hope to maintain oil production levels if you look out to the year twenty thirty the growth in oil production will be fairly limited its value though will be high the world will need forty percent more energy by twenty thirty it's going to be something the world needs how would you summarize b.p.'s new strategy going forward well i'd probably say three three ways one we are deeply embedded in safety risk management and everything we do in the company we're going to meet our commitments we need to rebuild trust. in the

company and then our strategy going forward to rebuild the value for shareholders and b.p. and the future prospects with ross not just part of that where is b.p. now in the off the top of the gulf of mexico oil spill well we have many many commitments to meet there we've got a long way to go to rebuild the trust there so we haven't put it behind it where we're deeply embedded in the learnings from that experience in cross country company in terms of what we do everywhere around the globe. well that was robert dudley the c.e.o. of b.p. and meanwhile on the sidelines of davos president medvedev who spearheaded the russian delegation spoke exclusively to bloomberg television and you can watch the full interview in just over an hour here on our t.v. . our it's time at some other international headlines a passenger train has collided head off with a good street in eastern germany killing at least ten and injuring dozens the accident happened late on saturday evening on a section of the track scheduled for overnight engineering work more than one

hundred fifty farm and police and rescue workers were dispatched to the scene police say the rescue operation is ongoing and want the death toll may rise the cause of the crash is not yet known. provisional results in a referendum on southern sudan's independence show almost everyone who voted wants a split from the north more than ninety nine percent of those polled voted for independence however reports show voter turnout exceeded one hundred percent in several areas well despite the anomalies the referendum commission defended the outcome of the landslide victory the final results from the january both are expected to release next month. radek demonstrations continue in tunisia and the interim prime minister the north african nation ousted its president two weeks ago following massive civil unrest on saturday a group of shopkeepers squashed with protesters accusing them of jeopardizing the

contraries tentative steps towards democracy a later riot police used tear gas on demonstrators who had been thrown stones and calling for the resignation of the newly appointed interior minister. a fire at an army depot in the venezuelan city of morocco has triggered a series of explosions at least one dead and three injured an estimated ten thousand people have been evacuated from the surrounding area according to the country's information minister well it's not the yet clear what caused the blaze and forefathers are waiting for the explosions to subside before approaching the facility. a russian space freighter has successfully docked with the international space station in the first event of its kind this year the spacecraft has delivered over two tons of supplies including fuel food and presents for the six member crew it also brought a mini satellite made by students designed to transmit greeting messages in fifteen

languages photos and data it will be put into orbit in two weeks well there are six scheduled trips to the u.s. us this year as russia celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of soviet cosmonaut guardian being the first man in space. well in just a few minutes we explore the tragic effects of plastic pollution on the world's seas and oceans but before that we have a reminder of our top stories this week that's after a short break. welcome

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