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blast at a polling station in afghanistan marks the beginning of the country's parliamentary elections as threats of more violence from the taliban force many voters to stay

away. whatever russia's most wanted terror suspects arrested then released in warsaw is awaiting a court's decision on his extradition. and find out what dangers why at the bottom of the baltic sea is r.t. explores the world war two relics still posing problems. nine am in moscow good to have you with us here on r t our top story parliamentary elections in afghanistan have been marred by several attacks by the taliban across the country it's feared that more incidents could follow with security forces on high alert as voting continues for the latest we're joined by paul asleep live from the afghan capital paula tell us about tell us more about the attacks and what kind

of impact they're having on the average voter there in kabul. well since the polling stations opened in the early hours of this morning a grim picture here in afghanistan in terms of security it was a massive explosion here in the capital city of kabul hours before those first stations opened no reports of injuries we're also hearing no reports of injuries regarding the rocket attacks in the south in the city of kandahar and there has also been a direct hit on a polling station in the east in jalalabad we are now hearing a woman any reports of a rocket attack in the north we're hearing that one person there has been killed but as of yet we've been unable to confirm this so certainly a grim picture in several provinces around the country and this is just a few hours after the potence stations opened tens of thousands of afghan police and security forces are out in the streets manning those polling stations they are back to what i said the foreign forces the us morning we drove past several polling stations here in kabul you can notice this heavy security presence there are

certainly a lot more roadblocks than they were for example yesterday but this is here in the city when you move further into the rule areas and we're talking here of some four thousand rural villages where polling stations are trying to run smoothly today certainly there are threats by the taliban and insurgency groups will play a bigger role the latest threats are that they will cut off the fingers of people who go to vote today you will know that people will have a purple marking on their finger indicating that they did vote and this marking takes some ninety six hours to disappear so that kind of intimidation is certainly being felt around afghanistan today among the first people to cast his ballot today was president karzai he urged afghans to come out and have they say we're also hearing from the independent electoral commission they say that the paper ations for this election have been more efficient than they were last year during the presidential election that was marred by reports and allegations of mess of forward the two main concerns of these elections are that fraud and security already twenty four people had to be revealed in election related violence in the run up to these

elections i looked at the phenomenon of security and what impact. would have been afghans in the following report from. the symbol of the afghan election more than a quarter of a million afghan police to protect those brave enough to defy the taliban we ourselves have received e-mails from the taliban saying that they planned attacks countrywide on the on the day of the vote and that they are targeting both voters and election workers it's nothing new even in the last election. the taliban did not kill anybody for that but what do you do you want to beat him you were around it up you were insulted those parliamentary elections were held five years ago and they brought to power former warlords and their followers but if mitt had been excited to take part now he's just grateful to be alive so i went with my family to an election station we got there there were people with guns they wanted us to vote

for their person they said if you don't vote for us we will hurt you we could see who we voted for and when they realized it was for someone else very badly. and here is one of those voting stations as you can see armed gunmen at the entrance who are these people are going to leave the security area because why just how dangerous to make it. sound sometimes it will be. are you going to be very same you know. because i don't trust anybody and seven in ten afghans agree they'll be staying away when he could go back to the edge this and which still exists and the . finger will not go in ninety two hours will not go away so people will think that the likud guys at least twenty four people including four candidates have already been killed in one of election related violence politicians

campaigners and candidates have also been kidnapped a thousand of the nearly seven thousand voting stations will not open their doors if you cannot make secure. for one day a lot of questionable rows one hundred fifty thousand four. hundred or six of those and. these former fighters are among the few who feel safe enough to brave the streets on election day. i have to accept the violence and voting for my future. so the fight now is for real political change but it seems that most afghans are so disillusioned in the politicians they feel the battles are not worth the risk of stepping foot outside their home on saturday. it seems like it's a bleak picture there sometimes how important is this election for the country. well these elections are important because first and foremost they are a taste of the afghan government's ability to hold free fair and legitimate

elections but at the same time they're a test of the power of the insurgency so what people will be looking at today is whether or not the government together with its international backers is in fact able to stop all the threats coming from organizations such as the taliban most afghans do believe in the electoral process i mean these are the filthy elections that have been held in this country since the fall of the taliban back in two thousand and one they do believe that these elections are a way to keep checks on the almost seemingly limitless power of president karzai administration and also the reports of corruption that come out of that administration but there was a lot of apathy there was also a lot of pessimism in terms of what has been achieved since the last parliamentary elections five years ago there are two hundred forty nine seats that people are voting for there are more than three thousand candidates standing there are a number of seats that have been specifically reserved for women twenty five seats there are three hundred women standing so that is also one of the focuses of the speech and a chance to empower women here in afghanistan but security remain

a number one concern more than one thousand out of six thousand eight hundred polling stations have been forced to keep the doors closed because of security concerns right artie's paulus leader live for us in kabul afghanistan thanks for that report stay safe. you're watching our team still ahead we hit the campaign trail for the u.s. midterm elections. by the all time i am poverty of more than fifteen years have these big name conservative leaders say what america can meet this demand gay marriage bring god we're not going to. find out what values some u.s. voters put up a top of their western times of crisis coming your way in a few moments on our team. first though one of russia's most wanted terrorist suspects who was detained in poland on for. day on an international arrest warrant has been released in the next few days the court will determine whether ahmed will be extradited to russia following moscow's demand to turn him over artie's alexei.

developments live for us in warsaw hello alexei so tell us what can we read if anything into this decision by the polish court to release. now and. walked out of this very building the record late on friday night after the court decided that it cannot keep in detention any longer the court justified this decision saying that it has a political refugee status in the u.k. and this status applies to the whole of the european union and that's why i have had to be released it is really hard to say now whether this decision was somehow influenced by his lawyers any kind of bail but what we've heard from the officials in the court is that hard to believe because of his political refugee status now i'd like to remind you is that one of russia's wanted terrorist suspects was detained in warsaw early on friday morning. he came here to attend the third old

world congress of the chechen people and as long as a crime has an international arrest warrant issued on him he is wanted by the interpol he was detained in a war cell for questioning in the local prosecutor's office now they have been lots of comments coming from the officials in poland concerning the fate of the concerning concerning whether he would be extradited to russia including comments from the country's prime minister don't. think any of them are going to the prosecutor general tells me 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. the media is now speculating here in poland where there's a guy who can leave the country as we heard from the representative of the district court in war so that's the kind of free to leave the country we know that he is now attending the congress of the chechen people obviously the mission which he came

here for and we still expecting any news whatsoever on the whether he will be extradited or not and whether he can leave the country or not as a kind of remains one of russia's most wanted terror suspects but it seems that moscow is having a tough time persuading other countries to help bring him to justice. indeed it's not the first time. extradition issue was surfaced in the in the news media the world news media indeed russia has been trying to extradite the cry from the u.k. since early two thousand and one in two thousand and two when he was granted a political asylum in the u.k. he is wanted in russia as one of the most wanted men in russia one of the terrorist suspects accused of many atrocities in the caucasus region in russia including several terrorist attacks in the region and also including the terror attack in mosque or the theater siege in most of the nord-ost theater siege in moscow where

most could believe he had some involvement in that terrorist attack as well indeed old these are these attempts by most school to extradite the kind of from london have been so far futile and this is the closest most school got so far to having a trial over the cry of held in russia but so far it is really hard to say what fate awaits this man as it is unclear whether he will be leaving poland in the next several days or so. like sarah shahi life for us in warsaw thanks for that state duma deputy valerie bhagam all all things there could be political factors behind her arrest in poland. but it was this incident was a kind is quite interesting i have to say boland has repeatedly declared that it will follow its obligations as an interpol member to prosecute any person who is wanted by that organization only other hand reports about zakaria's upcoming visit

appeared in the media two days ahead of the visit itself now we know that some kind of went straight to the prosecutor's office right after having arrived in poland why did you do that he could have done the same thing in the u.k. that countries in interpol number two but he had to do it in poland i have a theory on my own and why he did that although it may seem unusual but it's true goal was to provoke a strong reaction in order to spoil the improving political relations between poland and russia we all know that the russian authorities were upset over the u.k.'s repeated refusal to extradite snowden i have my request of the russian prosecutor general's office and now such an interesting twist i hope in the long run poland will act in accordance with international law and complete all extradition procedures. turning to the u.s. now where those preparations for a midterm elections against a backdrop of more grim news this week for the economy but on the campaign trail it for some parties that's not finance but family values that should be given top priority are things christina for us as been following the conservative values

voter summit. they say they came to take america back it isn't our values our shared timeless values that have changed is that it's our leaders that have changed. in campaign like speeches they criticized among other things president obama the white house tries to argue that their stimulus has helped. that's a bit like saying that squirting water from a garden hose helps put out a forest fire one day after staggering numbers were released from the u.s. census bureau showing a more than fourteen percent increase of those living below the poverty line powerful organizations and big name politicians came out to spread this message you cannot divorce the social issues from the fiscal and financial issues so just what are these pressing social issues like anything else everything's great. you're free to the first one organization says marriage in america is under attack marriage is

a fundamental right but there is not a fundamental right to marry whoever you want our government our policies have always regulated who you marry or who you may not know the national organization of marriage wants to keep it that way in other words no gay marriage and speaking of gays tradition family and property works to keep them out of the military when you fight for freedom shouldn't you also want to have freedom. obviously we have we have to fight for freedom and freedom does not mean license to do whatever you want these issues so important to the masses here a new lobbying group has been formed its aim is that republican elected officials to get them to put social issues back at the top of their agenda these are elected officials they were sent to washington to represent the people in their districts and their states many of these people the bottom line is they can't pay their mortgage they don't have a job shouldn't that be the number one focus the thing is is that the issue of the

middle class that's the main issue at stake here the middle class has a number of priorities it's the main class that is the emphasis for social issues well you heard it here first the middle class cares most about social issues a month there is one issue even more important to the participants here god hala emanates from an almighty god and then god. it confers upon the individual power and then the individual in turn confirms up portion of that power on the government reserving all the remainder of the power to themselves for the last two years the most our voices in the conservative movement have come from the tea party tea which stands for the fact that enough already well here are the voters values that never have a turning point that things are changing that despite an all time high in poverty in more than fifteen years that these big name conservative leaders say what

america needs is to ban gay marriage to bring god back into. the morning in washington christine right now are three. if you were to go fishing in the baltic sea you might be shocked by what your real way it thousands of world war two mines and missiles remain on the seabed and are still considered a threat not only how to over a ports on the efforts to make the area safe. cold weather but determined they do want is a man on a mission and that mission is to monitor the state of all german munitions. meeting with new shift at the visibilities load just a couple of mates is there missiles every web somewhere in boxes and tightly packed together the value could be from world war two its ranks some shells actually laying on the seabed near them but. one and a half kilometers of school seven thousand meters underwater and ten sold in me sile steel on board this june shape is just one of the many remind us it will do to

in the baltics the russian emergences ministry lissome was nine hundred what a hot spots in these areas alone but only a few have been checked subtly little of which you know both of these missiles are very dangerous there are none that have rusted away and become homeless around the country some that we take counts are in very good working condition when you. see some conceit is on the russian emergences minister to do list. but with money time and bureaucracy alone and complicated it's not something that can be done quickly and while the wheat local fishermen feel the weapons will still get their chance to fulfill their deadly room boats have been known to return to port with beetles in the nets captain valarie emotion knows only too well the dangers he says the d.p. and that goes the bigger the trouble it can bring out and i've got a group of once a fisherman from our village at thirty six missiles in his now that he was fishing near it's i don't keep him book the multiple t's they put all the missiles right on

the deck what else could you do though relatively small in size the baltics is the most insane mind area with around one hundred fifty some of the new missions to bury them the clock is ticking louder now as time and seawater are against the residents of policies the whole area could be held by a sudden explosion unless the instant masses on taking something that's wrong are sea. turned out of some other stories making headlines across the globe a drill boring the rescue a hole has finally reached the thirty three trapped chilean miners stuck underground since early august almost now why allow the men to be pulled out the government says that if all goes according to plan the miners could be pulled out in early november they were trapped when the main access title for the san jose copper and gold mine collapsed. thousands of people in indian kashmir have defied a definite curfew and marched in the funeral procession of a protester who was shot and killed by police the entire valley has been under a round the clock her theme for six days india sent troops to kashmir on friday

after a rise in angry separatist protests in the region anti indian state sentiments are high it will be you know stirred passion there were in the one hundred protesters died since two. deadly tropical storm karl is headed toward central that's of the brain with the threat of more rain and floods two people were killed when the first major hurricane of the atlantic season struck the mexican coast nine people have been killed and more than eighty thousand people had their homes damaged in severe flooding in southern mexico over the last month. yuliya bulk of a joins us in a few moments with all the latest business news stay with us here on our king. hungry for the full story we've got it for us to the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on.

every month we give you the future we help you understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join us for technology update on r g. hello and a very warm welcome to the business program in the patient partnership technology these are the key themes of the sochi international investment forum which is into its second day the forum has attracted over six thousand business representatives from russia and other countries and we continue to bring at the top speak us and issues from source which is also hosting the twenty fourteen winter olympics. and prime minister vladimir putin's speech was one of the key events of the first

day of the forum nicholas pool was listening in and he brings us this assessment from sochi. there's a palpable sense of optimism here at the sochi economic forum it's slightly smaller than the last year with five thousand delegates attending their representatives from companies both foreign and domestic the themes of the forum was set during the prime minister putin schemed of stress on the challenges of modernization and improving the investment climate the highlights of his message was that russia often photo ground for investors both big and small but she's going to make it up as normal the russian economy is still not spoiled by the attention of investors neither foreign nor local ones the russian business climate is claimed to have problems with and sometimes these claims are justified sometimes not we know our problems really well and we will solve them the key factor for the russian government will be a measured and rather conservative macroeconomic policy. the optimism about the

prospects for the economy was shared by a number of delegates among them with some mileage c.e.o. of it to be engineering job. invested already about a hundred twenty million so far and the medical facility in our number of facilities without really having transparent and we've done that because the tension here over the next twenty thirty years is tremendous. russia has nine percent of the world's arable land and it needs to come into production high production agriculture and stuff population continues to grow this is a two day event on saturday the winter olympics in sochi in two thousand and fourteen will be one of the main subjects we'll have full coverage of that but all the deals and amounts are archies nick pool the and in other news coming from the event russian state corporation rushing to colleges and boeing have signed a contract to supply fifty boeing seven three seven airplanes it will be acquired for air force russian airlines and

a unit of russian technologists from invest has signed agreements to form direct investment funds totaling eight hundred million dollars with gulf states investors for tax in infrastructure and when a state. representative from one top company which flew into sort she's the head of commercial jets for boeing he thinks there will be enough to munch to sell one thousand jets on the russian market over the next two decades but if you look at the air russia a big country a lot of space to cover you look at your plate traffic grows about one and a half times g.d.p. as you can grows you'll see more traffic and more traffic to try to meet the more airplanes i think the other thing that will drive the need is the fact that there are a lot of their place in the fleet and they have to be replaced that's how we come up with the number one thousand or. the oil sector is well represented at the source investment forum the head of will smith spoke exclusively to our. reporters

there should be we've reached a consensus with our main creditors spare bank and clean code they've downsize their new interest from twelve percent to eight and they expect that will start working with the new rates that will free up a lot of money up to two hundred million dollars this money will be used to this still license agreements still development capital investments and buying new assets that will help the company to improve its output and to stabilize its financial condition. let's have a look at how the russian markets were faring on friday we are to get my six were mixed up because we are just trading marginally in the black in mice it's finished down point nine percent shows of porter's goldthwaite down more than two percent off to russia's biggest producer of released its top net profits of one hundred five billion dollars that's down cent on the same period of last year it was a quite a week for the markets but they still managed to trade slightly higher i've seen metropole senior analyst gave us his views. so this week we saw

a combination of profit taking on the other hand were sore investors continuing to going into the market and investors starting to catch up to the new markets around the data we saw or strong data out of the united states namely industrial production came slightly above expectations because of the russian market and this week it actually took clues from the global markets performance and big also but very slightly among specific factors that affected the russian market this week and where are there with the ruble which was quite significant and came someone unexpected i think it's a temporary situation and i think we're going to see a ruble strengthening and getting taken back some of their losses. that's all for all the business team that saw and of course for all the day we'll be bringing you the latest from the investment investment international investment form in sochi and you can get more new small website archly dot com slash business.

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