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voting violations. one of russia's most wanted men terror suspect. awaits a court decision on his extradition from poland. and deadly secrets. of the efforts to rid the baltic sea of world war two which still pose a danger. with news from russia and around the world. the parliamentary polls in afghanistan have seen reports of voting irregularities and deadly militant attacks across the country and with u.s. troops pledging to pull out of afghanistan by next summer many fear the election show the country is far from stable or free of corruption. is 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 their 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 kamikaze and he urged afghans to follow on the search now one of the major concerns of course remains that of security there are reports coming through of a supposing 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 things to try to let out as well as in the sense that in the last february here in some injuries including an afghan officials at least southern

city of kandahar has also made it and while kabul so far has been reasonably safe it wasn't as explosions or in the early hours of this morning i saw the polls open what the other concern is that of a breaking narratives now we are hearing that in some of the stations to include is also reports honestly so much so that instead of exhausting on people saying there's still some ninety six i was after they voted and that is the ink that shows if you can in fact average it in some cases people are reported being able to watch that inconsistency in minutes which means that they have a possibility to come back and vote again we're also hearing from the independent electoral commission that they have uncovered thousands if not tens of thousands of fake ballot boxes these concerns all significant particularly in light of last year's presidential elections which were marred by reports of widespread corruption and that will be the other main concern on his mind as they come and costly ballots today whether or not they ballots and will make a difference outside

a strong central. president's tens of thousands at that time i don't think we'll see the french coming into the polling station we were tricked we were also stopped my secret way from escaping state for stock market economy if you will go with five hundred and this has throughout the city council talk united nations official today and it's time to place a series of voices to point to make shelf more that it was. hard to have twenty one different because if you don't seem to find an artist system or a place to point to steer our team carville. well joining us now to talk further on this matter is dr hubby paul keim political analyst live for us from afghanistan. hello dr hakim or so the people of afghanistan have been exposed to danger and attacks and there are also reports now of voting violations of these elections really worth the risk they pose to people. actually diego

is was a big concern among the people of afghanistan about this election. particularly when the taliban threatened the people of afghanistan to not participate in this election and they threatened that today well as attack the polling stations in afghanistan because of. the level of turnout in general in afghanistan in this election was very low particularly in those areas or under control of taliban or under the threat of threats of taliban even. turned out to was very low in the capital of kabul. and the government of afghanistan tried to assure the people of afghanistan about the curative concerns that in general elections and afghanistan was held in a better situation in comparison to the past. ears and that the taliban of course attacks some places off that can three and some. some polling stations as well and

different parts of the country but in general election i believe supporting the government of afghanistan was a health and a better situation more than it was expected but you are saying that we've had low turnout there have been attacks that kind of suggest that the situation in afghanistan may not be perhaps the best for an election now with the u.s. pulling out next year and these elections are simply a way to display is still functioning country when the reality is really far from that. i don't think that this election well lead change many things to an afghanistan and particle of the political map so afghanistan afghanistan is facing a lot of challenges in this period in this problem on cannot solve the problems of afghanistan particularly the problem the problem of security and afghanistan because the taliban are gay and getting the ground in. sun and getting stronger by

day by day. the only option the people of afghanistan have they have to go to polling stations and they have vote because they think that there is no other option for them in current current situation but the main question for the people of afghanistan is a. transparent free of this election because due to many challenges in afghanistan and many ways and elections cannot be free fair and transparent and afghanistan and . this is the big concern of the people of afghanistan and the separate same time the result of this election will not give it to legitimacy to next parliament because in many parts of the cantar the country the polling stations are war closed due to taliban taliban threats and we can say just that this election

was held among the. twenty per cent of the people voters. in afghanistan just two n.t. person of eligible people could go to a polling station to vote if i may just jump in for a moment given that the two thousand and nine elections will proceed with violence and violence again this time around surely the american imposed version of democracy is not working whilst. exactly. democratic process in afghanistan has failed. the people of afghanistan as i mentioned. options have to go to polling stations and they have to use the. political process because i think that the political process in afghanistan in the democratic

process afghanistan. the problem of the people and bad the problem and afghanistan wars. political analyst live for us from the afghan capital thank you well you are with r.t. and still to come this hour find out what dangers are in the depths of the baltic sea that's coming your way in just a few minutes. a polish court is due to decide whether to extradite one of russia's most wanted terror suspects. was detained in warsaw on friday and then released demanding his extradition in connection with atrocities in the north caucasus let's not cross. he was waiting for us. and actually hello to you when can we expect a decision to be. extradition. well obviously this might happen in the next several days but for now we know that. this building was district court late on

friday night feeling almost like a free man it is hard to say whether he is a free man now as the court as you said is still to decide whether extradite to russia or anywhere else or not we've heard comments from the officials working in this court that according to the country's largest lation that has a political refugee status in the u.k. this applies to the whole of the european union and that's why he had to be set free immediately i'd like to remind all of us that he was detained early on friday morning in the post capital warsaw charges that he is on the international wanted list by the interpol and that's why the polish authorities had to detain one of russia's most wanted terrorist suspects now many experts in poland have already been very surprised at the decision by this court saying that usually the fact that a person is on an international wanted least is more important than

a rescue political refugee status and that's why it is still unclear what fate lies ahead of. me. coming in from the polish officials they comin to say the least including one from the country's prime minister mr. alexie so we understand from you there's a kind of is one of russia's most wanted terror list he's on an international terrorist but tell us just take us back what is it that he's actually accused. well all in all. eleven criminal acts russia believes moscow believes that he led militant group in the northern caucasus which was involved in a lot of different crimes from brutal killings to kidnappings in the northern caucasus region also mosco believes that as a kind of was somehow involved in a terrorist attack in most infamous theater siege the north or siege in in moscow

which was one of the most painful pages in the modern russian history. is definitely on one of the most wanted man in russia he had he was granted political asylum in the u.k. in two thousand and three and ever since most go has been asking london to extradite but so far all attempts have been futile this detention in warsaw which happened on friday morning is the closest moscow got so far to actually get things that drive back to russia for a trial but so far it is as i've said unclear whether he will be extradited to all the comments we've heard from the local politicians and authorities say that this decision will not be politicized that poland will act in full accordance with its own law and international legislation and we of course are waiting to hear any developments on the story and the future fate of one of the most wanted man in russia our intellects for those future developments we will come to you for more

porting. live for us thank you both. political analyst from the sun newspaper told us why he thinks poland one to extradite to russia. i think that despite current approach mint and russian polls show 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 the ruling elite they also have the only mitigations they are all on domestic agenda and they can go to fight in that so i said this as a sort of get in my old game you see all the north i think you would not go to russia there were a subgroup 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 him to russia and in fact it

was proved yes to do and polish prime minister said that russia should not go to fly in its expectations definitely i think this is. a moment of truth for relations moment just to see how much of this relations of course what he's facing this those are very serious accusations but definitely he would be entitle to 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. now bear in mind there's much more in many of the stories we're covering on our website at auntie dot com here's a quick look at what else is there for you right now such a space the crew of the next mission to the i assess has now been confirmed find out who is going and what they'll be doing in orbit the launch that comes in

october. kind of writing retro style russian and ukrainian presidents get behind the wheels of soviet made cars in an international route. it's nearly quarter past the hour here in moscow you with r.t. now the u.s. is preparing for midterm elections against a background of grim news this week about the country's poverty rate but on the campaign trail some parties say it's not finance but family values that should be the priority christine for sol 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 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 if you're you know very. 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 district 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 avalanche from an almighty god and then god. first upon the individual power and then the individual in turn each 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 out of the conservative movement have come from the tea party key which stands for tax enough already well here in the voters' values on that perhaps 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 is to ban gay marriage to bring god back into the morning in washington christine right now our teams are let's go to some other news now making headlines all around the world and on the day so sudden it was deep sorrow over the sexual

abuse of children by priests this being said on the third day of his tour of britain he said the scandal has huge shame upon the catholic church and what's been seen as the strongest apology yet the comments were made at westminster cathedral where he was meeting mouse earlier in the day he sat down and met with prime minister david cameron. cement is being poured into b.p.'s oil well in the gulf of mexico to bring it one step closer to being sealed he expects the well to be completely fixed by the end of the day the oil leak has been plugged since a temporary coffee was placed on the well in mid july the explosion at the deepwater horizon rig in april killed eleven workers leading to one of the worst offshore oil spills in u.s. history. answer japan protests have swept china they marked the anniversary of the japanese invasion of the country seventy nine years ago demonstrators in several cities also demanded the release of a chinese man arrested last week after his fishing boat collided with japanese

coast guard vessels in this heated waters. well dangerous work is underway at the bottom of the baltic sea to remove world war two munitions it is expected to take at least two years to dispose of thousands of mines and mortar shells on a sunken german ship that looks on a live reports. cold word but determined to do or does a man on a mission and that mission is to monitor the state of all german munitions. everything was new she thought the visibility is low just a couple of metres their missiles every web somewhere in boxes in tightly packed together the boat could be from world war two it's racks some shells actually laying on the seabed but. one and a half kilometers of shore seventeen 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 emergences ministry with someone's ninety underwater hotspots in this area alone but only a few have been checked several in little which in a puff of these missiles are very dangerous there are none that have rusted away and become homeless on the contrary some that we take our tour in very good working condition when you. say some can ship is on the russian emergences minister to do list but with money tight and bureaucracy alone 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 alter paedos in their nets captain valeri emotion knows only too well the danger. yes he says the d.p. and that goes the bigger the trouble it can bring out. once a fisherman from our village had thirty six missiles in his net he was fishing near its head on cape and broke 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 densely mined area with around one hundred fifty some of the new missions to bury there the clock is ticking louder now as time and seawater are against the residents the whole area could be in by a sudden explosion unless the urgent measures are taken to sound like a troll or artsy. all right in just a few moments will be here to bring you the latest from the world of. this is more region is economically and socially one of russia's better developed provinces the region has a significant scientific and industrial capacity that will realize its full potential after the construction of this you go to valley i-t. park and tell ya he has completed the id particle has r. and d. projects in the spheres of automotive construction aerospace and oil chemistry high

tech data center ferber's with cutting edge servers and communication equipment will be constructed at the core of the park the project has been personally approved by prime minister vladimir putin the federal government is planning to allocate sizable funding for the parks construction investors will be given benefits such as property tax exemption low land rental prices and other preferences but this is a more regional government is open to mutually beneficial cooperation we invite investors to participate in existing projects and we are ready to give a hand of fulfilling your projects and growing your business in this small region. time for the business update a very welcome innovation partnership technology base all 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 correspondent nicholas poll asked businessman 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 truly know speaking with the presidents of such heavyweights john deere and boeing they see tremendous growth potential here given the changes the be made in recent years ten years ago i pick 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't count on the russian manufacturers to provide us what we need say ten years ago there is a lot of risky business here not today. for mr putin set the tone in his keynote address on improving the investment climate in russia expired at the virtues of russia saying it's called true the crisis in some style of the photo ground for investors but there's one big problem in spite of the evidence and through the eyes of the money is not flowing brush it's. very interesting position between europe and the issue of going to be the private mood he sees where you can market to continue to. seek to be very successful i think. and that's why i think you for your best to be. investing in russia we also see. a key part of a blow to the bush knew all the delegates well we've spoken to at least agree that

this is not just a free jump it's more about the t.x. so this is a genuine opportunity to profit. the investment forum has already been a success with a number of business deals been signed precious cross into our region has signed contracts with both russian and foreign investors valued at more than ten billion dollars o.j. case three match kerry coral sea bank were among those willing to participate in that wages development saga and is currently in talks with russia's call make 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 spheres 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 and now thanks to the fact that we have discussed and accepted the programme of auto industry development up to twenty twenty we have a clear path to improve in 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 in. the banking sector has been battling with enormous debts coming out of the financial crisis whether or not president off they associate regional banks or russia says the sector is seeing a recovery. the banking sector this year is on the whole developing well 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 her.