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amid reports. that. one of russia's most wanted men terror suspect. awaits a court decision on his extradition. looks of the efforts to. posting. life from the heart of moscow. welcome to the program parliamentary elections in afghanistan are being monitored by militant attacks several people have been killed in separate incidents across the country while there have also been rocket attacks in kabul and jalalabad voting on violations are also being reported. in the afghan capital for us. we're at one of some six thousand polling stations across

afghanistan and as you can see behind me a relatively reasonable turnout there have also been no reports of violence at this particular station so far this is probably because we're in the capital city of kabul where relatively speaking the situation is a lot calmer and a lot safer than it is on some of the regions where more than one thousand five stations have been forced to close the doors because of quakes on the telephone and the polls opened on time this morning at seven o'clock local time one of the first people to cross just damage this place is common cause and he urged afghans to follow the search now one of the major concerns of course remains the vast of security there are of course coming through all any exposing station that took a direct hit by a rocket in the eastern part of the country we're hearing of injuries we're hearing of people killed in the city of jalalabad as well as in the eastern city of boston where we're hearing some injuries including afghan officials we've established city

of kandahar has mostly and while kabul so far has been the reasonably safe it was with us explosion or in the early hours of this morning and for the polls open the other concern is that of a breaking narratives now we are hearing that in some of the stationery into his office who are causing so much so that instead of exhausting all the people saying there's still some ninety six i was after they voted and that is the ink that shows if you could in fact average it in some cases people are reported being able to watch that in cost of three minutes which means that they have a possibility to come back and vote again who are also hearing from the independent electoral commission that they have uncovered thousands if not tens of thousands of that fake ballot boxes these concerns are significant particularly in light of last year's presidential elections which were marred by reports of widespread corruption and i could be the other main concern on people's minds as they come and costly ballot today whether or not with a ballot on it will make a difference outside a strong central. president cheney's of thousands of jobs backed up by the saudi

forces from iraq the frantic coming into the polling station we were chasing we were also stopped by secret way for misleading statements and for stuff are not there so i'll go with five hundred police has two offices have marveled at the top united nations official to be honest i was to place a series of voice to voice in excel from all over your posts was running on american morning i'm different because i seem to be some kind of the scenario for a six point three zero hour team at kabul. well foreign policy expert in my lou innocent from the liberal think tank the cato institute says the u.s. is being hypocritical by supporting the afghan government and the country's flawed elections. given the amount of insecurity and instability in the fact that there are flawed voter registries there's been voter intimidation voter bribery there's a great deal of uncertainty as to what's going to happen and despite the fact that

there are twenty four hundred candidates over three hundred forty of them are women you have to really understand that the complexity of all this means that there really won't be what we would define as a liberal democratic electoral process what's interesting is that there's sort of a paradox with u.s. policy and u.s. policy makers in particular specially regarding this election and other places so much emphasis on these processes on the fact that you know these are elections that allow the voice of the afghan people to speak to the world that this is shows that they're on the march toward a democratic process but the same time they're placing so much emphasis on a process that is deeply profoundly flawed and so if they're going to place such a huge light on this process and it could be so fundamentally problematic this sort of underscores underscores a sort of the broader problems in some ways a metaphor for the problems we have in the country as a whole it appears a little blatantly hypocritical why we're sort of supporting what is essentially a very highly unpopular and corrupt regime in kabul that many of the people think are essentially a us puppet and yet we're sort of touting the ideals of liberty and democracy and

freedom if we undercuts a lot of the principles we stand for and it makes us very hypocritical. you are with r.t. live from moscow it's good to have you with us today and still to come this hour calls for a change in priorities in u.s. politics. despite all my poverty in more than fifteen years these big name conservative leaders they want to marry me to ban gay marriage bring back and get their campaign trail for the u.s. mid-term elections and discover what values something that the most important in these hard economic times. when the program find out what dangers lurking in the depths of the baltic sea that's coming your way in just a few minutes. a polish court is to decide whether to extradite one of russia's most wanted terror suspects. was detained in warsaw on friday and later released russia is demanding his extradition in connection with atrocities in the

north caucuses. reporting for us from the polish capital. walked out of this very building the warsaw as district court late on friday night after the court decided that it cannot keep in detention any longer the court justified this decision saying that. has a political refugee status in the u.k. and this status applies to the whole of the european union and that's why as a kind of 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 had to be released because of his political refugee status now i'd like to remind to our viewers that one of russia's top wanted terror suspects was detained in warsaw early on friday morning after he came here to attend the third old world congress of the chechen people and as long as it 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 concerning whether he would be extradited to russia including comments from the country's prime minister. going to the prosecutor general tells me they have no choice but to start 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 the can leave the country as we heard from the representative of the district court in war so that is 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 it's been a tough battle for moscow to persuade other countries that must be extradited since

it was granted political. in the u.k. and at the same time he was placed on the most wanted list in russia he is accused of cities in the north caucasus region including many different horrible things terror attacks in the caucasus region including the nord-ost theater siege which took place in moscow moscow believes that has his involvement in that attack as well indeed this situation when it was detained in poland is the closest so far most go as got to getting back to russia and holding trial over him but this story is yet unclear and whether he will be extradited to moscow is still unclear. how to select a university reporting both. political analysts from the commissar newspaper told us why he things poland what extradite to russia. i think that despite current approach me and russian poles for relations and despite russia strong pledge pledges to extradite him i don't think that we expect him to come back to russia i

personally would be very surprised if he's extradited for simple reason that still this is a very politically charged issue and as you understand to their relief they also have the only mitigations they have all on domestic agenda and they can go too far in that so i see it this as a sort of get and mouse game you see all the north i think you would not go to russia there were some conflicting reports some said that he was not informed that he might be arrested but i think the reason is that he simply understood that polish authorities had no guts just to arrest him and percent russia and in fact it was proved yes to do important prime minister said that russia should not go to fly expectations definitely i think this is. a moment of truth for all relations moment just to see how much of this relations of course what he's facing this those are

very serious accusations but he definitely he would be intitled the best lawyers and the case would be fully transparent and it would come under close scrutiny of international community of international human rights activists so i don't understand why such a big fuss or what that's why he can go to russia can be extradited. it's now time and as part of the hour here in the russian capital than mine there are many more stories we're covering always available for you twenty four seven our web site is called and here's a quick look at what is waiting for you there right now so the space crew for the next mission to the i access has been confirmed find out who is going to be doing in orbit after the launch in october. and writing retro style the russian nine hundred ukrainian presidents get behind the wheels of soviet made cars in an international.

the u.s. is preparing for midterm elections against a background of grim news this week about the country's property rights but on the campaign trail some parties say it's not finance but family values that should be the priority christine has been following the so-called conservative values voter summit. they say they came to take america back it isn't our values our shared timeless values that have changed as it 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 the stimulus has helped . that's a bit like saying that squirting water from a garden hose helps put a forest fire up 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 help if you are very close 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 name 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 in 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 avalanche from an almighty god and then god. 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 down the conservative movement have come from the tea party which stands for enough already well here at the voters values a turning point that things are changing that despite an all time high in poverty in more than fifteen years at these big name conservative leaders say what america needs to ban gay marriage to bring god back and. reporting i want to christine right now our tweet. well we are coming to you live from moscow and a paradise lost makes no odds he brings you the story of the caribbean island over used and abused by the u.s. navy. these guys. were not for the military presence which occupies almost two thirds of the

instruments and overshadows the people's everyday life. with all the sand so people could use their life as they would. be it is worth every bit of stress on our teeth. dangerous work is underway at the bottom of the baltic sea to remove world war two munitions it's expected to take at least two years to dispose of thousands of mines and mortar shells piled up on a sunken german ship that oksana reports. called weird but determined to do what it does a man on a mission and that mission is to monitor the state of all german munitions. even with new chautauqua visibilities low just a couple of meters their missiles every web somewhere in boxes and tightly packed together the vote could be from world war two it's racks some shells actually laying on the seabed near but. one and

a half kilometers of salt seven thousand meters underwater and ten soudan me sile still on board this german ship is just one of the many reminders a world war two in the baltics the russian emergencies ministry list some was ninety underwater hotspots in this area alone but only a few have been checked several in which you know both of these missiles are very dangerous there are none that have rusted away and become homeless on the contrary some that we take out here in very good working condition. this some can see it is on the russian emergences minister to do list but with money tight and bureaucracy lawn and complicated it's not something that can be done quickly and while they wait local fishermen feel the weapons will still get their chance to fulfill their deadly role boats have been known to return to port with altered paedos in their nets captain valeri or motion knows only too well the dangers he says they deeply and that goes the bigger the trouble it can bring out. but once

a fisherman from our village at thirty six missiles in his net he was fishing near it on cape and brought the multiple tees they put all the missiles right on the deck what else could you do though relatively small in size the baltics is the most densely mined area with around one. hundred and fifty some of the new missions to bury their. s. time and see what are against the residents. a it could be a sudden explosion. taking. our seat. our let's check out some other news now making headlines around the world. over the sexual abuse of children priests on the third day of his tour in britain he said the scandal had shame upon the catholic church and what's being seen as his strongest apology yet the comments were made at westminster cathedral where he was leading mass earlier in the day he met with prime minister david cameron. and his

being poured into b.p.'s oil well in the gulf of mexico bringing it one step closer to being sealed b.p. expects the well to be completely fixed by the end of the day the oil leak has been plugged temporary was placed on the well in mid july the explosion at the deepwater horizon rig in april killed an eleven workers leading to the worst offshore oil spill in u.s. history. and see japan protests have swept across china that marked the anniversary of the japanese invasion of their country seventy nine years ago there were traitors in several cities also demanded the release of a chinese man arrested last week after his fishing boat i did with a japanese coast guard vessels in the street. but i just over ten minutes time joined it modernisers as he shows us how to enjoy the far east in the russian capital with this weekend's entertainment guide. past fifteen years to see the

explosion of japanese thai vietnamese restaurants in moscow muscovites for example are crazy so join me more so than do so as we delve into the subject of you see cuisine theme for this week's moscow. time now for the business update with you. time for the business update a very warm welcome in the patient partnership technology the key themes of the social 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 of the top speakers and issues from sochi which is also hosting the twenty fourteen winter olympics.

business people say russia is a great place to invest but all the putting their money where their mouth is correspondent nicholas bull asked businessmen why investment volumes don't always keep up but expectations. talking some of the delegates here you get the impression that russia is one of the golden children of the world economy along with its bric cohorts brazil if you are in china speaking with the presidents of such heavyweights john deere and boeing they see tremendous growth potential here given the changes to be made in recent years ten years ago i picked up a number of things that we want to see improved by frankly we've seen a lot of improvement over last ten years i think that the real issue for us is that we know we can count on the russian manufacturers to provide us what we need to see

ten years ago there is a lot of risky business or not today. on mr putin said at the turn in his keynote address on improving the investment climate in russia expired at the virtues of russia saying it's pulled through the crisis in some style but it also photo ground for investors but there's one big problem in spite of the evidence to me the money is not flowing brush it's. very interesting position between europe and asia the to do provide the what he sees where you can market to continue to do this it could be very successful i think. and that's why i think you for your best this is. basically russia would be also. a key part of a block to push through all the delegates all we've spoken to at least agree that this is not just a free jump it's more of a t.x. sites this is genuine opportunity to profit. the investment forum

has already been a success with a number of business deals spain signed precious cross into our region has signed contracts with both russian and foreign investors valued at more than ten billion dollars over three match kerry or else a bank or among those willing to participate in that we just development saga and is currently in talks with russia call make a guy us and less to take a final decision on cooperating with the automotive engine here in court by the end of this year. well the forum has focused on more than a zation in many spirits and that includes news of a traumatic turn around the fortunes of russia's car industry. we did preserve critical took knowledge is in skilled labor during the crisis is in now thanks to the fact that we have discussed and accepted the program of auto industry development up to twenty twenty we have a clear path to improve the range of cars soon we will see absolutely different cars on general platforms it will be integrated into world's best standards with

new quality and features available to us. the banking sector has been battling with enormous debts coming out of the financial crisis whether or not president off the association of regional banks or russia says the sector is seeing a recovery. there with the banking sector this year is on the whole developing world in july we saw a turning point in terms of profits which in the first eight months of this year equaled twelve billion dollars whereas profit for the whole of last year was six point four billion which means we have doubled those profit results already this year however many banks are still suffering losses these losses are mainly due to a build up of large reserves in order to cover debt problems and unfortunately the share of debt is still high. and a quick look at how the russian markets were faring on friday the r.t.s. the my six were mixed at the close of trading market like in the black and my six

finished down point nine percent shares are fallen as gold went down one and two percent after russia's biggest producer released its first top that profit from one hundred five million dollars that's down more than thirty percent from the same period of last year. and it was a quite a week for the markets but they still managed to trade slightly higher i see metropole senior analyst gave us his views. so this week we saw a combination of profit taking on the other hand which saw investors continuing to going into the market and investors starting to catch up to the new markets around the data we saw or a strong data out of the united states namely industrial production came slightly above expectations because of the russian market at least weak it actually took clues from the global markets performance and moved up also but very slightly among specific factors that affect the russian market in this way and where are there

with the ruble which was quite significant and came somewhat unexpected i think it's a temporary situation and i think we're going to see the ruble strengthening and gaining taking back some of their losses. well that's it for now and you can get all the latest news coming from the international investment forum in source or from all websites are dot com slash business.

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