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CCTV footage shows the blast as passengers walked through the airport
The managers of the Moscow airport hit by an apparent suicide bomb attack must be held responsible for “clear security breaches”, Russia’s president has said.
Russian media say the bomber detonated some 7kg (15lb) of TNT explosives at Domodedovo airport, killing 35 people and injuring more than 100.
“Someone had to try very hard to carry or bring through such a vast amount of explosives,” Dmitry Medvedev said.
Many in Russia suspect militants from the North Caucasus of the bombing.
Militants from the unsettled region are frequently blamed for terror attacks in Russia, including a double suicide bombing in March 2010 that killed 40 people on Moscow’s underground system.
That attack was blamed on female suicide bombers from Dagestan.
Unnamed officials said three suspects were being sought over Monday’s attack.
In addition, an unconfirmed report from Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency quoted one unnamed security source as saying that warnings of an attack were received a week ago.
Analysts say militant groups fighting in the Caucasus aim to undermine the idea that Russia’s president and prime minister preside over a safe and secure society.
Speaking on Russian TV, President Medvedev was clear that he believed airport managers were responsible for allowing the explosives into Domodedovo on Monday.
“Judging from the location and other indirect signs, this was a well-prepared terrorist attack [that] aimed to kill as many people as possible.
“The airport is good, and this is recognised by all. It is new and modern. However, what happened shows that, clearly, there were violations in providing security.
Austrian traveller Dr Johann Hammerer: “Injured people were lying on trolleys”
“Those who take decisions there, and the management of the airport itself, must answer for this,” he said.
According to RIA Novosti, Russian authorities were warned a week ago that an “act of terror” would be carried out near one of Moscow’s airport’s, adding that police were seeking three suspects.
Monday’s explosion hit the airport’s busy international arrivals hall in a public area where friends and drivers meet passengers who have passed through customs.
Eyewitnesses told Russian TV that before a bomber detonated the charge, he had shouted: “I’ll kill you all!”
Scenes of panic ensued as the area filled with smoke, with bodies strewn across the floor.
One Briton was among the dead as well as one German.
Thick drops of blood and pieces of shrapnel were scattered across the snow-covered tarmac outside the hall, and emergency workers used luggage trolleys to ferry the dead and injured from the scene to hospitals in Moscow, 40km (25 miles) to the north-west.
Many of those injured are now in a serious condition in hospital.
Mr Medvedev has ordered Russia’s prosecutor general to lead an investigation into the attack.
• Oct 2010 – Six people killed as militants storm parliament in Chechnya, North Caucasus
• Mar 2010 – Suicide bombings at two Moscow metro stations kill 40 people; attack blamed on North Caucasus militants
• Nov 2009 – Bomb blast hits Moscow-St Petersburg luxury express train, killing 26; North Caucasus Islamist group claims responsibility
• Sept 2004 – Chechen rebels seize school in Beslan; 334 hostages, including many children, killed in ensuing battle
• Aug 2004 – Suicide bomber blows herself up at a Moscow metro station, killing 10
• Aug 2004 – Two Tupolev airliners that took off from Domodedovo blown up in mid-air by suicide bombers, killing 89 passengers and crew
“After previous similar events, we passed appropriate legislation, and we have to check how it has been applied,” he said. “Because obviously there have been lapses, and we have to get to the bottom of this.”
He has admitted that poverty, corruption and conflict in the North Caucasus is Russia’s biggest internal problem.
He ordered increased security across Russia’s capital, its airports and other transport hubs.
But like Vladimir Putin before him, Mr Medvedev appears unable to find a solution that would bring stability to that region and peace to Russia, says the BBC’s Steve Rosenberg in Moscow.
Mr Putin has built much of his reputation on a tough security stance to crack down on such violence.
More generally, security authorities internationally have been concerned that – while there is been a huge effort focused on airline passenger and airliner security – keeping airports and airport terminals themselves secure remains a major challenge.
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Protesters accuse Hezbollah of mounting a coup but Hezbollah says it has used only democratic means
Hundreds of protesters have descended on the Lebanese city of Tripoli to take part in a “day of rage” over the likely appointment of a Hezbollah-backed candidate as prime minister.
Reports said angry demonstrators set upon a van used by an Arab TV station.
Smaller protests were also reported elsewhere in the country.
Protesters accuse the Shia Islamist movement of staging a coup after it brought down the Western-backed government in January.
On Monday, Hezbollah gained enough support from parliamentary deputies to allow the candidate it backs, billionaire businessman Najib Mikati, to form the next government.
The US has expressed “great concern” over the prospect of a Hezbollah-dominated government.
Hezbollah-backed candidate Najib Mikati is a US-educated business tycoon Lebanon’s national unity cabinet collapsed on 12 January after a row over a UN tribunal investigating the 2005 murder of Rafik Hariri, the father of Western-backed caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri.
Mr Hariri had refused to renounce the UN inquiry that correspondents say will blame senior Hezbollah figures for his father’s murder. Hezbollah says the investigation is politically motivated.
TV pictures from a big square in Tripoli on Tuesday morning showed angry protesters waving banners and holding aloft pictures of Prime Minister Hariri.
“I am a moderate guy, a moderate politician… My objective is the interest of Lebanon”
Najib Mikati Businessman and politician
The pictures showed protesters setting upon a van reported to be used by Arab broadcaster al-Jazeera. Reports said the van was later set on fire.
Schools and shops in the Tripoli area reportedly closed down in anticipation of the protests on what has been dubbed a “day of rage”.
Smaller protests were also reported in the capital Beirut and the mainly Sunni southern coastal city of Sidon.
At protests on Monday at Sunni Muslim bastions around Lebanon, demonstrators burnt tyres and chanted “Sunni blood is boiling!”
Under Lebanon’s power-sharing system, the post of prime minister is reserved for a Sunni, while the president must be a Maronite Christian and the speaker of parliament a Shia.
During consultations with President Michel Suleiman at the presidential palace on Monday Mr Mikati – a Sunni and US-educated billionaire businessman, as well as a former premier – won the support of 65 of the 128 members of the Chamber of Deputies.
It was the decision of Druze leader Walid Jumblatt and six members of his Progressive Socialist Party to switch their allegiance from Mr Hariri that swung the vote.
Mr Mikati insists that, although he needs the votes of Hezbollah, he remains independent of the movement.
“I am not at all related to Hezbollah by any means,” he told the BBC.
He said people were blaming him because he had Hezbollah’s support, but he was not connected to Hezbollah politically and therefore the criticism was “not relevant”.
On Monday, protesters blocked roads and burned tyres in towns and cities
“I accepted to be prime minister not to create problems but to solve problems”.
“I am a moderate guy, I am a moderate politician, I am always at equal distance from everybody. My objective is the interest of Lebanon and the interest of the nation, the international security of Lebanon and especially to have good relationship with the international community,” Mr Mikati said.
President Suleiman is due to announce his choice for the post of PM on Tuesday after meeting all groups in parliament.
However, Mr Hariri has already said he will refuse to join a Hezbollah-led coalition government. Hezbollah is backed by Iran.
Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said that if the group’s candidate was appointed prime minister, it would try to form another national unity government that included Mr Hariri’s Western-backed Future Movement.
Hezbollah is on the official US list of foreign terrorist organisations and is subject to financial and travel sanctions.
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Model maker Hornby, which also owns Scalextric and Airfix, says profits will be below forecasts after cold weather hit Christmas sales.
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A 7/7 survivor tells the inquests her friend persuaded her to get on the doomed Number 30 bus, only to be killed minutes later in the blast.
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Firth was nominated last year for A Single Man British actor Colin Firth is expected to receive an Oscar nod later when the nominees for this year’s Academy Awards are announced.
His film, historical drama The King’s Speech, is one of the main contenders for this year’s accolades.
Comedienne Mo’Nique, winner of last year’s best supporting actress award, will join Academy president Tom Sherak to reveal the nominations at 1330 GMT.
The 2011 Academy Awards will be held in Los Angeles on 27 February.
This year’s hosts, James Franco and Anne Hathaway, could conceivably be up for awards themselves for their roles in 127 Hours and Love and Other Drugs respectively.
Firth, nominated for a best actor Oscar in 2010 for A Single Man, is considered by many to be a shoo-in for this year’s award.
Natalie Portman, meanwhile, is favourite to be named best actress for her role as a driven ballet dancer in the psychological thriller Black Swan.
Welsh-born actor Christian Bale has emerged as a front-runner for the best supporting actor prize, for his work in boxing drama The Fighter.
With 10 films set to be nominated for the best picture award, however, opinions are divided over the title most likely to win.
Facebook movie The Social Network – named best film drama at the Golden Globes earlier this month – is many pundits’ tip for the Academy’s highest honour.
Yet The King’s Speech’s chances were boosted at the weekend when it was named film of the year at the influential Producers Guild awards.
Both titles are expected to be nominated for a slew of awards later.
So are Black Swan, The Fighter and hi-tech thriller Inception, while Toy Story 3 is expected to be one of three nominees in the animated feature category.
There will be live coverage of the nominations from 1330 GMT on the BBC News website.
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Sky discipline reporter Andy Burton following sexist comments made against a female official at the weekend.
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MPs have been told that mobile phone hacking of MPs may involve being in contempt of Parliament.
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The chief prosecution witness in the trial of a Belfast man accused of murdering a taxi driver refuses to testify, saying he fears for his life.
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Small protests have been held in the capital in the past week to support Tunisia Anti-government activists in Egypt are preparing for a rare day of protest, inspired by the recent political upheaval in Tunisia.
Organisers have called for a “day of revolt against torture, poverty, corruption and unemployment”.
But the government has warned they face arrest and is calling its supporters out in a counter-demonstration.
Weeks of unrest in Tunisia eventually toppled President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia earlier this month.
The events in Cairo are being co-ordinated on a Facebook page – tens of thousands of supporters have clicked on the page to say they will take part.
“Our protest on the 25th is the beginning of the end,” Reuters quoted the organisers as saying.
“It is the end of silence, acquiescence and submission to what is happening in our country. It will be the start of a new page in Egypt’s history – one of activism and demanding our rights.”
The BBC’s Jon Leyne in Cairo says event is a direct response to the campaign that ousted President Ben Ali of Tunisia, in which the internet also played an important part.
But there is bound to be scepticism about exactly how many will actually turn up, say our correspondent.
They know they could face a tough response from the police, who often break up protests with violence.
In a statement, the government’s security director in the capital said: “The security apparatus will deal firmly and decisively with any attempt to break the law.”
Egypt’s political opposition is also divided – one leader, Mohamed El-Baradei, has called on Egyptians to take part, but the Muslim Brotherhood, still the most powerful opposition movement, has been more ambivalent.
Egypt has many of same social and political problems that brought about the unrest in Tunisia – rising food prices, high unemployment and anger at official corruption.
But protests so far have only been small-scale and correspondents say a similar political upheaval is unlikely.
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David Cameron briefed the cabinet on latest GDP figures Prime Minister David Cameron has told cabinet colleagues the government would not be blown off course by a surprise 0.5% contraction in the UK economy.
He told the meeting the government had never hidden the fact that this year would be choppy, the BBC understands.
But Labour said the UK’s economic recovery had “ground to halt” and urged Mr Osborne to rethink his “reckless” deficit reduction plan.
Chancellor George Osborne has blamed the fall on bad winter weather.
Mr Osborne said: “These are obviously disappointing numbers, but the ONS has made it very clear that the fall in GDP was driven by the terrible weather in December.
“There is no question of changing a fiscal plan that has established international credibility on the back of one very cold month. That would plunge Britain back into a financial crisis. We will not be blown off course by bad weather.”
At a cabinet meeting ministers Ken Clarke, Vince Cable and Iain Duncan-Smith are all said to have spoken up in favour of the chancellor’s view that the government must stick to its course.
Mr Cable, the business secretary, has said the probability of a double dip recession is “not high”.
At a press conference with business leaders, Mr Cable accepted that the economy had a “bad quarter”, but added: “Within the overall numbers, there were some encouraging figures from manufacturing industry.”
“Simply slamming on the brakes is not a credible economic policy”
Ed Balls Shadow Chancellor
But shadow Chancellor Ed Balls said: “We are seeing the first signs of what the Conservative-led government’s decisions are having on the economy.
“The fact is cuts which go too far and too fast will damage our economy. And shrinking growth and rising unemployment is not only bad news for families but will actually make it more difficult to get the deficit down.
“As the head of the CBI said only yesterday, this government has no plan for growth and it is taking political decisions regardless of the damage they will cause to job creation and business. Simply slamming on the brakes is not a credible economic policy.
“It is not too late – George Osborne and the Treasury must urgently re-think their reckless plan to cut the deficit too far and too fast and start putting growth and jobs first.”
He stopped short of predicting a “double dip” recession, but he said it was clear Mr Osborne’s economic strategy was not working and he should act now to reverse it.
“We will see a much, much tougher year in 2011 unless George Osborne listens and changes course and does do quickly,” he told the BBC News channel.
Len McCluskey, general secretary elect of Britain’s biggest trade union, Unite, said it was “beyond belief” that ministers were blaming the weather for “these appalling growth figures”.
“George Osborne sounds like a rail boss trying to blame delays on leaves on the line,” he said.
“The blame lies squarely on this government’s policy of massive spending cuts with no strategy for growth.”
Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls: “People are pulling in their horns because they are fearful about the future.”
The economy shrank by 0.5% in the last three months of 2010, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
The severe weather hit activity in the quarter, but the ONS said even if the weather impact had been excluded, activity would have been “flattish”.
The contraction follows growth of 0.7% in the previous three months and 1.1% in the second quarter of 2010.
The release is a first estimate for the quarter from the ONS and is subject to revision. The statistics body will publish two further updates at monthly intervals.
The contraction took economists by surprise, as forecasts had been for growth of between 0.2% and 0.6%.
The construction industry was a large contributor to the fall, with activity decreasing by 3.3% in the quarter.
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At least seven people taking part in a minority Shia Muslim procession in the Pakistani city of Lahore have been killed by a suicide bomber, police say.
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A 37-year-old man has been charged with making a bomb hoax following an incident on board an aircraft which was diverted to Stansted Airport in Essex.
The Etihad Airways plane left Abu Dhabi and was due to land at Heathrow before its destination was changed.
Two RAF Typhoon fighter jets were scrambled during the incident on Monday morning.
James Glen, of High Street, Chard, Somerset, is due before Harlow magistrates later.
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The Met said the officers were covertly deployed to identify potential criminals A senior Metropolitan Police commander has apologised for giving false information to MPs over the 2009 G20 protests in London.
A month after the protest Commander Bob Broadhurst claimed no plain clothes officers were deployed in the crowd.
Scotland Yard has now admitted covert officers were used.
Mr Broadhurst told an MPs’ Home Affairs Select Committee the information was “true to the best of my knowledge at the time”.
“If you are running a huge operation like that you can’t know everything all the time”
Tim Godwin Acting Met commissioner
In 2009 he told a parliamentary committee: “We had no plain clothes officers in the crowd.
“It would have been dangerous to have plain clothes officers in the crowd like that.”
Commander Broadhurst was so-called ‘gold commander’ of the police operation on the day.
He told the latest hearing: “I first of all apologise. When I appeared before you I gave you information that appears to be inaccurate.
“At the time it was true to the best of my knowledge.”
He was supported at the hearing by acting Met commissioner Tim Godwin, who said: “If you are running a huge operation like that you can’t know everything all the time.
“In intelligence you don’t always know the source.”
Commander Broadhurst’s 2009 claim came under scrutiny after the unmasking of former undercover officer Mark Kennedy.
Mr Kennedy spent seven years posing as a green activist and reporting back to police.
He caused the trial of six men accused of conspiring to shut down Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottinghamshire to collapse after he said he would testify for the defence.
Police were heavily criticised after clashing with protesters at the 2009 G20 demonstrations.
Newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson died after being pushed over by a police officer, but no prosecution was brought.
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The rodent made its move during a broadcast by the BBC’s political correspondent Gary O’Donoghue
The government says it is not planning to bring in a cat to deal with a rat spotted running around Downing Street.
The prime minister’s spokesman said there would not be a replacement for Humphrey, nicknamed “Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office”, who died in 2006.
A rat has been seen scuttling outside the door of Number 10 on two TV news bulletins.
The number of the creatures living across the UK is estimated to be more than 50 million.
The Downing Street rat was recently spotted during a BBC News broadcast by political correspondent Gary O’Donoghue.
It passed behind the railings outside Number 10 during a live report last week.
Asked about the rat during a lobby briefing, the prime minister’s official spokesman said there were “no plans” to bring in a cat to deal with it.
Humphrey was adopted by Number 10 after wandering into the building as a stray while Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister in 1989.
He moved out six months after Labour’s 1997 general election win, with Tony Blair’s wife Cherie denying reports her dislike for the animal was to blame.
Humphrey died in March 2006 at the home of a civil servant who cared for him during his “retirement”.
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