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first. polish authorities make the decision to release so it's up to i have one of russia's most wanted men from custody pending the decision concerning his

extradition to russia. and preparations for saturday's part of the mantra elections in afghanistan are marred by escalating violence with the taliban stepping up threats and kidnappings . gangster wars in moscow an attempt on the life of an alleged top mafia boss right in the city center puts him in hospital. and warm welcome to you live from our headquarters in central moscow this is archie with me a nice and now way it's midnight here in the russian capital ten pm in warsaw where one of russia's most notorious terrorist suspects has been released that's after

a polish court declined prosecutor's request for his fourteen day arrest commands a cry of was detained by polish police upon arrival in the country moscow is calling on warsaw to extradite him let's get the latest marching every hour of a while now joins us live so. i have is now free from custody what happens to you next. this is a very russian. forces free free but according to the polish side he has been released from custody that means they will not spend the next forty days in detention behind bars you will have. ever spend them and colette is prohibited from leaving the country pending that decision concerning his extradition to russia of course the russian prosecutors have put forward an extradition request saying that this man the most one of the most wanted men in the country has been internationally wanted and a warrant has been out for his arrest for nearly a decade and of course they're very concerned this man comes back to russia and

stands trial the polish supply the polish side to change him earlier today and the prosecution did put forward a motion to to hard pressed him forty days and the extradition hearing that much was later denied by the polish courts but of course the extradition hearing even though russian prosecutors are possibly closer to it than they've ever been is still a very long way away and the decision may not know the russians that's. going to the prosecutor general tells me that they have no choice but to start the extradition procedures but these procedures do not mean an instant extradition and the russian side shouldn't necessarily hope for a decision that will satisfy you. hope or not this is the closest that russia has come in nine years to extradite. and make them stand trial here in russia so

hopes are still high you of course have said russia very seriously wants to see is a extradited but it's having a difficult time getting its point across that this man is behind some of russia's biggest terror attacks of the last decade or so and is the charges that it's a base here in this country are in serious rages for murder and kidnapping to extortion and terrorist and it's just to that he's the russian general passengers believe that they have enough evidence to successfully link the man to one of the worst terrorist acts that russia has. in the last two years they were the theater seats at the two thousand and two they also believe that to be one of the masterminds behind the general on going on the rest of russia's volatile top this is major so a man that prosecutors have that is to look behind bars for a very long time it's not like there was that whiting for his extradition for

a number of years previous the rest however have been denied by the united kingdom where it's a kind of as little asylum the united that's for court denied his extradition two thousand and three say that he was a political refugee and despite an existing remit that to the moscow want to do it stained wanted criminals this agreement does not apply to this specific case because of course he is a political refugee so far in the british authorities he has been quite a citizen however all the sides that are involved in this extradition battle say that no politics that enter the fray that this decision when it is made and whatever it is they will be done strictly by the book. for the polish prosecutor general has said the polish side will act in accordance with international obligations it has taken upon itself mr sherman saturday quote our actions will not be based on political factors model. russia's prosecutor

general yury cheika said it is evangelism extradition to russia has russia will be absolved and he will stand a fair trial in court. which the balls forces will they hold with but whatever decision they. make the decision that there is russia's expedition with the west will be a very well that. takes place. for that's that's right that's not going to be tracking the story for quite some time here in r.t. for now considering the us are alive in my. that's coming up to six minutes past the hour here with our two still ahead for you from boom to bust we look at the poverty that's hit america's recession battered industrial towns. and retro ride the russian and ukrainian presidents cast aside state vehicles in favor of historic rally in soviet made cars.

now afghans are heading to the polls this weekend to vote for the country's parliament and the taliban have stepped up attacks and that intended in voters and candidates ahead of the ballot dozens have been kidnapped prompting serious concerns about holding a fair election or do you suppose leader is in kabul briefing us on the situation. well in the run up to these elections in election related violence at least twenty one people have been killed the latest news is that two candidates as well as eighteen election officials have been kidnapped and some one thousand out of the six thousand eight hundred polling booths are not going to open a door because of concerns around safety and security this has prompted many people both here in afghanistan and abroad to actually suggest that the elections be postponed in the last few days the taliban has issued almost daily threats via islamist via telephone and on its web site saying that it will disrupt these

elections it will target voters coming out as well as people involved in this whole election process and they claim that he will make his agents of waste in government and that what they say she met is a waste and sponsored government as a result some thirty to thirty five percent of voters who can vote are expected to tune out this is some five percent below the last elections most of them staying away because of concerns around violence but many of them also asking the question whether or not they believe in a parliament because many of them feel very little was done in achieved in the last five years since the last elections. are supposed to reporting from afghanistan a suspected russian criminal mastermind has been treated in a moscow hospital after an attempt on his life nicknamed grandpas song he is thought to have fallen victim to a gangster war right in the center of the capital charges a corpse going off has more from the crime scene. vincent happened here on this

quiet sign street in the very heart of moscow at around eight pm on thursday evening cyan also known as grandpa son thought to be a major criminal ward in russia ryan to reportedly visit his son who lives in this apartment building over here and as grandpa has done accompanied by his bodyguard were trying to enter the building walking through this door over here the shots were fired the bodyguard went down first and according to reports from the witnesses grandpa son actually tried dodging the bullets but ended up getting one in his stomach that's when their driver ran out and called the ambulance the hitmen was firing the shots from one of those windows on the third floor of that building the distance between these two houses is really small and when the authorities came the saw that window was open and when they checked the apartment the found a weapon which is thought to have been used both men were rushed to hospital but soon authorities announced that grandpa and son had died later they deny this

information saying that they gave out false reports on purpose in order to prevent a second possible assassination attempt grandpas son is thought to be someone who is called by the code that is a person who has reached such a height in the criminal world that he can control supervise and benefit from criminal activities various criminal activities without actually leaving any traces or leaving any proof and it is thought that grandpa son controls most of the organized criminal groups in russia and in the c.i.s. grandpa son was very close to him it's four years gangster award known by the name of the points you call was assassinated back in two thousand and nine grandpa son was basically his right hand man and since two thousand and nine we've heard various reports of numerous games towards ensuring assassinations both in russia and in western europe as well. in switzerland or sprain of bodies or people

suspected of being connected to a verse or gang or criminal group in russia. president obama is pushing forward plans to double the u.s. is exports in the next five years the move that could generate two million jobs comes amid hopes that the country is finally pulling out of the depths of recession but with the number of americans facing poverty at a fifty year high millions are still fighting for survival. welcome to silk city. this once was what the industrial revolution looked like in the united states. now this is what poverty looks like in this town more than twenty percent are poor more than seventeen percent unemployed it means for many here ninety m. is a time to go to work. just to think it's time to head to the food pantry for charity

. they are low income folks some of them have been unemployed for almost two years is what we're seeing but on average it's the underemployed. there are people who can't make ends meet people like jenny like the one who are going to morrow and it's not enough you know it's just not enough to get all the poor we need and the numbers are only growing and we saw in two thousand and nine a fifteen percent increase over two thousand and eight numbers and we're anticipating that that number will go up by another ten percent at the end of two thousand and six not only here but in the entire u.s. new statistics for two thousand and nine show forty three million people one in seven are living in poverty this is the most people who are in more than fifty years that's when they first began tracking these numbers here you can see one reason they are turning these are few and far between especially in the old urban industrial cities are rather slim as in so many cities in the united states

manufacturing used to power this one these were still factories that now are decrepit boarded up sitting in disrepair there are signs everywhere here of the u.s. manufacturing jobs have disappeared or gone overseas factory were full of the low level jobs that these folks will show you what about you know you. and leaving them lining up in droves for a little heat we now see repair about twelve hundred meals a day now it will be serving about four hundred. people. free. some of the work around here some are homeless not surprisingly i was on call made there are twenty percent more mouths to feed here eva's kitchen and here again why . now know when something can't work like for one who has an incurable disease who is no furby goes to work or for so many of us used to be a truck driver yet he still can't afford lunch and experts say the needy are needy

or than ever are they more poor yes that i can say it here on the ground for from washington and wall street there is no sign of an economic recovery for these people in sight i don't see recovery. they have no thanks for their politicians i don't know what's going on with the dollar i don't know was the president gore. or me is not going there in the red or. in the urban decay of silk city gratitude is reserved for the help with recovery they do know. larry. thank you sir you're very kind lauren lyster artie patterson new jersey. it's a very real pictures there of course of how some forty three million americans are currently living below the poverty line well let's talk more about the economic situation in the u.s.

we're joined live now by a columnist max profit studio in new york thank you for talking to us mr frog wall the biggest number of americans in fifty years and you're now unemployed what do these figures reveal about the state of america's so-called recovery from recession . well seeing numbers this large one in seven american adults living in poverty in just about one in four to five american children shows us that the sheer numbers and the percentage of americans who are being systematically failed by the american economy is now in its fourth year of significant increase and it gives you a little bit of a taking of the temperature of just how severe the pain is in so many households and so many neighborhoods and so many cities so many states so many towns at the same time president obama is suggesting the new data from the u.s. census bureau could have been much worse what do you think. well i hope that's the challenge for next year because there's every indication from the data flow

that next year will be worse than this year because the numbers that we're looking at today and in two thousand and nine and we're already three quarters of the way through two thousand and ten and every trend that made the poverty the severity of poverty worse last year is very much in place this year and i would also add that we have really high poverty numbers here with an actual poverty rate income that you need to get that or less to be considered poor in the united states that's so low if you do a more realistic calculation we really have more like nineteen percent of our public in poverty not not even the fourteen so in some level i would say to president obama it's already worse than it looks and i don't think that's quite good enough as a message when you're failing our economy is failing so many people what would you tell obama to do about these numbers cut taxes more spending how do you see it. well i do think we have structural problems here and why do you think some tax and spending policy shifts are in order i think we probably need a bigger solution to the problem of this size but i would say the following if you

look through the data more than most people have last twenty four hours there you will see something the poorer the poorest americans or young children are the poorest group in the united states the younger the child the more likely they are to be poor and older people have the most money so i think we need to be targeting programs for early. good for a head start type programs you need to be beating the mob and we certainly shouldn't be doing what we are doing which is seeing school workers and teachers and lunch ladies and schools being fired i think we need nutrition a basic education program increase at a basic health care for children increase and i think we need to target the youth because that's the future and right now the future of america is living in poverty max rodwell from the new school in new york thank you very much for your time this hour. now the presidents of russia and ukraine have decided to swap their usual state cars for something a bit more retro to meet the needs of a dave and victor ghana coverts have been spotted actually over a vehicle dating back in the middle of the last century as you state have been

taking part in a rally with cars made when the two countries were both part of the soviet union race connects russia st petersburg and ukraine's capital kiev both leaders seem to enjoy their experience so perhaps we'll see them revving up retro style more often . and that's your update this hour coming up next artie's martin andrews and his team sample some of moscow's best cuisine from the far east time i jump in news and vietnamese food you can find it all here in the russian capital.

of japanese thai restaurants. muscovites for example asked sushi crazy. as to the subject of cuisine the theme for this week's. asian food many versions love it while some still haven't even tried it but here the ever changing culture muscovites means more diversity when it comes to eating. starting in. haven't visited. three hollywood actor robert deniro invited japanese chef neighbor matt so he's a second restaurant and tried back in new york and the partnership to critical acclaim today from las vegas to london and dubai nobu has dozens of locations around the world truly is as famous as the brand itself from his signature dish

which is black. to sushi tasting many millions of people around the world have enjoyed no beef mouth asian dishes sitting down and presented with a menu it's not cheap but it is worth every penny in this case every. i think i'll go with c.v.s. sushi. to c.v.s. it's from friends. if you want you can make or. useful to see. peace up the pole. but you can teach and you can see japanese ships right because she's flown in every morning not that it's fresh.

but the cia. and the. belief you know. so should fly in his skull and skills. we need to. take a. close up. she here in their group is all about secret ingredients citrus juice here is tripled over the neatly sliced chili peppers local culture. american intro and sushi different to say the least. is this incredible. the only one of the. cities the rest.

i'm not singling out some extreme events that have recently happened in the russian capital. has once again proved itself to be among the fashion capitals of the world big international shopping and . encouraged by the style magazine has taken place thousands of shopaholics to the city's main department store and design it. was right. the people didn't know what. it was that one year at this age if not this year. down much more. you. know it yeah if not then.

there is of insane to introduce the cultures of different countries ocean organize in the russian capital and this time it's switzerland that's in the spotlight the swiss embassy is celebrating its countenance to cino in moscow showcasing the region's cultural heritage and activities can be enjoyed down. to its. some mountains of. the climate is better to people warmer and you can do everything you can ski. it's an excellent center and you have many lakes so it's very beautiful you can compare to chino to sochi. like in sochi you have a lot of falls but you can also go to the mountains. so

we've arrived at our next destination chinese cities all over the walls from the u.k. to america and russia is no exception and unlike other cities around the world most cars restaurants germany vary from just the midbrain still expensive so we had no group and its credit card bill now it's there somewhere a little bit more past friendly and more down to us. believe it or not but the still asked to many chinese restaurants here in takeaways more or less know existed so when a new chinese chain like you can imagine the happy faces of. chinese cuisine is huge. and the secret of its popularity is simple it's healthy and tasty . great.

spring rolls. the bible we are everything. that we have it. so. our kitchen take a look at what. has to offer. these in fast food is becoming more popular. sushi oby is one of such cafes with a centerpiece. which carries freshly cooked food around the place in. dinah's can pick any dish they want and the prices are marked by the color of the plates they choose. if you're a fan of sushi. you don't necessarily need to go to

a restaurant to enjoy it it might be more fun trying to prepare yourselves to shop in all the fresh she'll need to make sushi various japanese dishes including special rice kinds of fish seaweed the sabi and ginger plus shopping for ingredients. takeaway restaurants. various canary events highlighting food from around the world are regularly organized in the russian capital a month of asian cuisine has been held in moscow recently creature in commentary delights from such countries. as in the easier thailand malaysia singapore and the philippines the latter became especially popular among the event's guests still opinion food is not so widely known in russia but those who tried it says its dishes fusing asian spanish and american cuisine very tasty indeed. this is an excellent opportunity ordinary rations to find out. how it been

caused her and sleeping in as you know the fastest way to manage heart is through his stomach and if you feed a man well that's a very good way of promote understanding and culture. meaning yoga patha is a center in club dedicated to the popular practice there are not only several his workouts relaxation a spar rooms but also a vegetarian restaurant where healthy dishes can be tasted in a relaxed atmosphere turn your mind away from the hustle and bustle of the city. back to the markets how to choose how spring rolls have been put into hot oil try for two minutes is simple not to overcook some. business and onions are added to the.