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signs of the political process here is fading join me for an update. also on r t one of russia's most wanted men terror suspect our meds a cry of awaits a court decision on his extradition from poland. and these secrets down below we look at the efforts to rid the baltic sea of world war two munitions which still pose a danger. or welcome to you live from our studios in central moscow this is are to you with me and you so now way it's ten pm here in the russian capital ten thirty pm in kabul and polls have closed in afghanistan's parliamentary elections after a day marred by reports of voting irregularities and deadly militant attacks across

the country now with the u.s. troops pledging to pull out of afghanistan by next summer many fear of the election showed the country is far from stable and still play by corruption party's polis lear is in the afghan capital. by and large this was certainly not a successful day for afghan democracy it was an extremely ill voter turnout with some polling stations reporting that less than a quarter the number of people turned out today compared to the number of people casting their ballot last year during the presidential elections the slowest to insults will come in next week wednesday with the final tape tally been tabled at the end of october but these certainly will be elections associated with violence more than a thousand polling stations where i'm able to open the doors particularly in far flung rule communities where the taliban has a strong control we've also heard some of the electoral complaints commission and it says it throughout the course of the day it received numerous reports on irregularities some of the complaints were by people saying that they saw election

officials accepting bribes some of the reports were about the fate of those cards and also reports are the so-called indelible ink which was supposed to last more than four days and that was supposed to indicate that a person had voted and prevent them from voting a second time but we've heard many stories of people being able to wash off the sink in just a matter of minutes the afghan parliament is meant to be installed early next year that is reports of a vote rigging in the coming weeks materializing in fact become larger and if many of the two hundred and forty nine candidates who take up seats in the parliament turn out to be the preferred candidates of president hamid karzai people here will feel even listen to me she asked him about the political process one of the main reasons for such a go to not to date was violence but the other reason was a lack of enthusiasm and support for an administration that many people feel is corrupt by and large people also feel that this is an administration backed by western governments that has not listened to the will of the people the cause my

administration will be for that deal it gets revised by these reports of irregularities and violence it certainly seems as if they haven't been able to stem the violence throughout the course of the day. this will soon is being touted by many on this as a missed opportunity by kamikaze and his sponsors to actually win support from the afghan people and also to win support for a political process here in afghanistan that all his troops mean to leave this country by july of next year they say they will only do so if there is a security system in place that can ensure political stability and security would suit me based on what we saw today this does not seem to be the case. archies policy in kabul they're well afghanistan can only avoid becoming a failed state if it learns from past mistakes that the view of do law and afghan opposition leader who is hamid karzai is main challenger in the two thousand and

nine presidential election. as i had predicted before the presidential elections last year but that if the same situation frontin you the situation can only to tell you that this is exactly what we are witness to in terms of governance issues of corruption rule of law and justice and security and as a whole so this is the these sort of sliding down all the the downward trend. to an absolute failure by lists by lists we look into the mistakes of the past we draw lessons from the mistakes of the past and we give the people of afghanistan back their sense of direction so this is stage the afghan leadership administration led by mr karzai it in itself is a misled leadership and then lost sense of direction to the failures of the national government cannot decide to do that with more troops from outside water

sources from outside more energy and more support from outside this is the situation that afghans are to start with and the international community is also stuck with. and if afghanistan does fail to become a stable nation it will have serious consequences for other regions other countries rather in the region that's according to matthew hoh head of the afghan study group i think it's in. every other nation's interest to see a negotiated settlement afghanistan that's been a proxy war or. a real war in one way or another for the last thirty thirty five years in afghanistan and it has improved nobody's economy is approved nobody's way of life. i think for nations like the central asian states for russia for china to have issues with their own ethnic minorities or muslim minorities i think it's important for what's happening in afghanistan not to spread across boundaries

here with our to you live from moscow still to come for you this hour calls for a change in priorities in u.s. politics. despite an all time ally in poverty of more than fifteen years at these big name conservative leaders say what america needs to ban gay marriage to bring god back and we hit the campaign trail for you on midterm elections and discover what values something are the most important in these hard economic times. call for the program find out what dangers lurking in the depths of the baltic sea that's coming up in just a few minutes. but first a polish court is due to decide whether to extradite one of russia's most wanted terror suspects adds a cry of was detained in warsaw on friday and later released russia is demanding his extradition in connection with atrocities in the north caucasus artie's alexei yourself ski is in the polish capital. left 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 heard comments from the officials working in this court that according to the country's largest lation that's a kind of 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 you of us that he was detained early on friday morning in the polish capital of warsaw on 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 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 in in moscow which was one of the most painful pages in modern russian history. it was definitely one of the most wanted man in russia 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

like i've 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 our heads like i have one of the most wanted man in russia. well thirty's that will come up a little analyst from commerce newspaper told us why he thinks poland won't extradite a kayak to russia. i think that despite current approach mint and russian polls relations and despite russia's 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 the as you understand poorly shouldn't really

an elite they also have the only mitigations they have all on domestic agenda and they can go too far in that so i said this as a sort of get in my old game he sees all the north i think he would not go to russia they were 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 control russia and in fact it was proved yes to do and polish prime minister said that russia should not go to fly expectations definitely i think this is. a moment of truth for our relations at a moment just to see how mature this relations are of course what he's facing this those are very serious accusations but 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. there's more on that and many of the stories we're covering on our website that are t. dot com let's take a quick look at what else is on line for you right now that's for space the crew for the next mission to the i have found has been confirmed find out who's going and what they'll be doing in orbit after the launch in october. and riding retro style the russian and ukrainian presidents get behind the wheels of so we have made cars in an international round. 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 financed by family values that should be the priority party's christine for has been following the conservative values voter summit. they say they came to take america back it isn't our values our shared tireless 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 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 there are things very well you're very close to the first one organization says marriage in america is under attack but 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 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 evidence from an almighty god and then god. upon the individual power and then the individual in turn confirms up portion of their power on the government reserving all the remainder of the power to themselves for the last two years the most outspoken voices in the conservative movement have come from the tea party tea which stands for tax enough already well here at the voters values demographic

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 and. were boarding in washington christine right now our team. paradise lost in a few hours time our t. brings you the story of a caribbean island called v.a. case which is used and abused by the u.s. navy. this. is paradise center. when not for the military presence which occupies almost two thirds of the island's temperature and overshadows the people's everyday lives. when with all the sand so people could use their land.

is worth everything. well dangerous work is underway at the bottom of the baltic sea to remove world war two munitions is expected to take at least two years to dispose of thousands of mines and mortar shells piled up on a sunken german checked their. house more. cold weather but determined to do what is a man on a mission and that mission is to monitor the state of all german munitions. even with militia totally visibilities low just a couple of mates is their missiles every web somewhere in boxes and tightly packed together the value 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 shape is just one of the many remind us a world war two in the baltics the russian emergences ministry lissome was ninety

underwater hotspots in this area alone but only a few have been checked subtly little of which you know personally these missiles are very dangerous there are none that have rusted away and become homeless on the contrary some of that we take counts are 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 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 vetoes in the nets captain valeri emotion knows only too well the dangers he says the deeply and that goes the bigger the trouble it can bring out. once a fisherman from our village at thirty six missiles in is that he was fishing near its head on cape and broke the multiple tees they put all the missiles right on the deck what else could you do still relatively small in size the baltics is the most

densely mined area with around one hundred fifty some of the new nations to bear it 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 sound like a troll r c. let's take a look now at some other stories dominating world news this hour thousands have rallied in london against pope benedict's visit to cuba ok they slammed the church over the sexual abuse of children by priests and other issues the pontiff meanwhile met with find victims of abuse earlier in the day he expressed his deep sorrow over the scandal saying it had he shame upon the catholic church it's been seen as the strongest apology yet. b.p. is waiting for just one more pressure task before its ruptured well in the gulf of mexico can finally be declared sealed for good cement has been poured into the well

head after a relieved drill reached on friday the oil leak has been plugged by a temporary cap since mid july the explosion at the deepwater horizon rig in april killed eleven workers leading to the worst offshore oil spill in u.s. history. it's have caused rivers across slovenia in central europe to burst their banks running in some areas has forced residents to flee their homes several roads are closed to traffic in the capital your more heavy rain is expected only. in about ten minutes time martin andrews joins us and he'll show us how to enjoy the far east in the russian capital with this weekend's and thirteen minute guy. the past fifteen years have seen an explosion of japanese tie between these restaurants in moscow divides for example off sushi crazy so julie martin andrews as we delve into the subject of the same cuisine the

theme for this week's moscow i. want to go out is coming up in under ten minutes time up next few days here with the business stay with us. time for the business update a very warm welcome in the patient partnership technology these are the key themes of the source 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 i'll 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're in china speaking with the presidents of such heavyweights as john deere and boeing they see tremendous growth potential here given the changes the be made in recent years ten years ago i couldn't come up with a number of things that we want to see improved quite frankly we've seen a lot of improvement over the 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 i would say ten years ago there's a lot of risky business here not today. from 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 cool through the crisis in some style but it also 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 asia the going to be the provide the mood he sees quezon markets have to continue to do this it could be very successful i think. and that's why i think you for your best to be. basing in russia would be also. a key part of a blow to push you all the delegates all we've spoken to at least agree that this is not just a free jump it's more about a tea exercise this is a genuine opportunity to profit. the investment forum has already been a success with a number of business deals been signed precious crescent that region has signed contracts with both russian and foreign investors valued at more than ten billion

dollars over three matches kerry or else a bank or among those willing to participate in that region is development saga and is currently in talks with russia com they could guide us and less to take a final decision on cooperating with their automotive engineering crew 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 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 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. the banking sector has been battling with enormous debts coming out of the financial crisis whether or not the president off the association

of regional banks of russia says the sector is seeing a recovery. of. 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 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 of foreigners gold were 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 with sore investors continuing to going into the market and investors starting to catch up to the new markets around the data we soar 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 moved up also but there is likely one specific factors that affect the russian market this week where are there whipping on 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 again

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 sochi from our website our team dot com slash business.