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from the nancy immigration policy. and telegraph. of the. polls will decide on the extradition of one of russia's most wanted terrorist suspects was detained and later released in. russia and norway's lead to a landmark deal that forty year disagreement over disputed waters in the energy rich the barents sea. nine am in moscow with a round up of the news from the past seven days and today's top stories here on r t good to have you with us sweden is heading to the polls today with the ruling ruling coalition expected to win the most votes but a controversial anti immigration party is so far winning most of the headlines

latest poll suggests the center right bloc headed by the swedish prime minister will win the center left opposition aren't far behind with some estimates putting them at just five percent margin away from victory for many observers this door has been overshadowed by the success of the far right sweden democrats party which has seen its candidates attacked and says it's been denied the right to free speech parties laura emmet reports from sweden. it's one of europe's oldest democracies but first some the lead up to this year's election in sweden has been anything but democratic candidates from the right wing sweden democrats have been harassed and bullied allegedly by young people from far left groups. there have been several cases which passed with a notice but now it's starting to become known we're a big party nice is getting more attention it's horrible that it should happen during an election campaign it's a threat to swedish democracy. this weekend democrats are controversial they

believe the government's immigration policy in recent years has been a failure allowing large numbers of migrants to live in enclaves where they don't learn swedish creating tension between diverse ethnic groups and draining the welfare system the s.d. would severely limit immigration and encourage migrants who won't assimilate to go home that's led to them being branded nazis by left wing groups this is one meeting that was allowed to go ahead but in the days leading up to the election the sweden democrats were forbidden from campaigning like this with the police saying they couldn't guarantee their safety s. d. candidate nina cain says that's tantamount to the state guaranteeing free speech with one hand but taking it away with the other and she knows all about threats to her personal safety last week she came home to find just swastika daubed on her front door so of course. i'm not scare it.

makes me angry because it's one of the things that. we in this party. democracy. used to be you can say what you want. nina reckon she got off lightly a fellow s.t. candidate in a scene reminiscent of a film was tortured by youths in his house held down while the swastika was carved on his forehead he told the police he told them speaking arabic in a town like malmo where thirty percent of the population was born abroad the sweden democrats have attractive significant support among the swedish born population the latest polls put their popularity nationwide at seven point six percent enough to win twenty six parliamentary seats out of three hundred forty nine henning's

a political candidate in the nearby town of sgrena doesn't agree with the message the sweden democrats are pushing out but thinks it's important they should be allowed to speak we do have the movement here. pretty well but it's very marginal. people. in public of course we can tolerate that here in this country. sweden's other political parties have said they won't work with the sweden democrats even if they do get elected to parliament so it's not just threats to their safety that the s.t. candidates have to worry about they're already discussing what to do. how to keep us out anyway and what about the. its people. there. so. this weekend's election is likely to result in the sweet democrats

winning their first ever seats in parliament is likely to be a divisive. politics. the other party will have to decide. and how they're prepared to deal with this group they've tried so hard to ignore and ordinary people will have to decide whether they value free speech enough to let in and see immigration policy play a role in governing some have already shown they don't know or abbott's artsy sweet . stay with us here on r t we've got lots more headed your way including this. counting is underway in the afghan capital and that reports of violence unfold we'll bring you an update in just a few moments. and one step closer to a nuclear weapon free world as the start treaty goes to the u.s. senate. first though

a polish court will determine the fate of one of russia's most wanted terrorist suspects meds acquired was detained in warsaw on friday under an international arrest warrant but later released parties like sarah shahi assesses the chances of being extradited to russia. two days before i arrived in warsaw the polish media was speculating over whether one of russia's most wanted terrorist suspects who was also on interpol's list would be detained just hours after he landed in warsaw was apprehended by the police show for it to us was coming to attend a very high profile event the world. which is taking place in poland and it was impossible to ignore he would be making a public splash so therefore the poles had to act because they do have obligations to their european partners to the systems legal systems they belong to and i think that's what they're answering to in detaining the man himself seemingly confident

of his immunity provided by his political refugee status made his own way to the prosecutor's office where he was detained he said poland was not his enemy and that he wanted to find out for himself why he is wanted something few in moscow believed . we heard a car i was heading to poland to turn himself in to the prosecutor's office why he could go to the prosecutor's office in britain or any other country if he wanted to but he did it in poland so my theory is that it might be aimed at soaring the improving relations between moscow and warsaw. poland has to consider whether to be extradited to russia and no matter how hard war so try to de politicize this issue . the prosecutor general tells me that 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. experts knew from the very start the decision would not be free of mind games as you understand. they also have their own limitations but mastic agenda. and they can go. and definitely i think this is the moment of truth for our relations committee has been one of russia's most wanted since two thousand and two it is now that he walks in the lagoon suit but just a decade ago he was the leader of a chechen militant group and he is believed to have been involved in a string of atrocities in the caucasus from brutal killings to kidnappings mosco says it has proved it was one of the masterminds of the most school theater siege in two thousand and two which led to more than one hundred deaths however in two thousand and three he received political asylum in britain and all attempts by russia to extradite him for trial have been futile the polish courts as we all know

considering the sex tradition request as they legally must will review that evidence so will also review the basis of the decisions taken in the u.k. which granted him asylum and that asylum proved. to the polish prosecutor general's office their request to keep him behind bars for at least forty days or so as district court ruled that political refugee status meant more than the fact he's internationally wanted and he was immediately released on friday night walked out the doors of record feeling like a free man the question is is whether he will be able to go home or will be extradited to any other country the polish courts as it may take several more days to deliver a decision on the fate of one of russia's most wanted criminals. reporting from warsaw in poland this week russia and norway signed an arctic border agreement

resolving a decades long territorial dispute the treaty created a maritime boundary in the energy rich parents divided this area roughly half the size of germany the deals are expected to boost offshore exploration in a region are rich with reserves of oil and natural gas. russian in the region leaders aglow in from satisfaction with president dmitri medvedev and prime minister yen stoltenberg have achieved is a huge relief for the nations. it took us forty years to arrive at this agreement it's a long time but this event must certainly turn a new page in our bilateral relations the area which stretches over one hundred seventy five thousand kilometers in the bering sea has been a bone of contention between the neighboring countries since the nine hundred seventy s. but this wasn't simply a territorial he'd containing vost oil and gas reserves prophet has also been at the center of this pete but with an unclear border no one could even start the

serious exploration circle in this issue moscow knows les have done with been impossible for decades and that some say because they need to boost their coffers and reserves but actually both in russia and in norway is going to. need new fields and new big elephants to develop in this dispute it is. a place just very promising demonstrating good we'll incorporate in with a nato member russia's to openly opposed to the alliances military presence in the region. or. the arctic's natural resources have nothing to do with nato it's a zone for economic cooperation and military presence will create additional issues here the signing comes and it's rising tension between the five arctic states which also include canada denmark and the united states over who owns water in this lucrative region moscow knows they have showed how to return to feuds can be

resolved very important from the point of view of. the russian strategy which i would call to ease tensions on the russian borders the treaty is yet to be ratified by russian and the weekend parliaments something the two leaders predict will be done by new year some experts estimate the waters of the barrier would hide as wide as a quarter of the planet's seabed all and get three sources but her years due to political opt in say they try to. has remained dead and buried now with russia in no way finally thinking they low and running feud the two maritime powers are fine they're ready to make some headway what's been called in trouble for decades. britain profits. in the bering sea meanwhile this week russia and canada were also looking to break the ice over their argument about another disputed part of the arctic on thursday the two countries foreign ministers held talks in moscow after ottawa said it's prepared to challenge russia and

a race for the arctic's rich resources canadian researcher edwards who's been exploring and studying the seabed says the territorial disputes are now peaceful but anything could happen in the future there's a lot of energy underneath the arctic ice probably twenty percent of the world's remaining oil thirty percent of the natural gas really the future economies of these countries depend on energy and that is really you know going to be there guarantee for a future in the next ten twenty thirty forty years i think the sovereignty question is going to be a long long dispute and hopefully it's not going to end up with the people making enemies of each other i think right now things are looking awfully good but when you have that much money at stake those kinds of resources at stake and something happens with the world economy. economies can collapse they can get in trouble you can get different world leaders have a different approach to these issues than anything can happen so i think this is

a very dynamic situation that we're seeing unfold in the arctic to afghanistan now or at least fourteen people were killed in separate bombings on the day of the country's parliamentary elections the vote counting is underway and for more we go live to our correspondent paula sleep tabel. hello paula saturday's isolated violence across the country has there been any return to stability today. all right apparently we're having some audio trouble with paula there so we're going to move on to another story for now but we're going to come back with her later the center of moscow this week became a mafia battleground the man thought to be the godfather of most of the c.i.s. as criminal groups was shot and seriously wounded but managed to survive r.t.c. or piskun of has more from the scene of the crime. with a click of

a trigger this coincides street in the very heart of moscow became the scene of a gangster movie at around eight pm on thursday evening alleged crime was a slant in sajjan known by the nickname ground by his son was entering an apartment building with his bodyguard when suddenly the two men were entering a vest a door when the shooting began the bodyguard went down first while witnesses say. actually tried dodging the bullet ended up getting one in his stomach both men were rushed to hospital and the authorities soon after announced grandpa son had died from the room back at the scene of the attack investigators found a kalashnikov rifle a silencer and empty shells but when was firing the shots from that window on the third floor it's right opposite the entrance at such a short distance made it nearly impossible to miss as it turned out the leader of the alleged crime leader and his bodyguard both needed to the hospital underwent surgery and are now recovering authorities said they give false reports on purpose

to prevent a second assassination attempt grandpa her son is believed to be in charge of most organized criminal groups in russia and the c.i.s. and controls highly profitable lands in moscow and in southern russia very attractive for his rivals he used to be the right hand man of viewpoint and a tory a smart your boss assassinated last year was also shot in the stomach. and so far it's hard to say who ordered the latest attack but it's definitely the result of a war currently going on between major gangsta clans in russia that's what since you point exists there have been various reports of gangster shootings and assassinations both in russia and in western europe including switzerland spain and greece the police found dead bodies of men suspected of being members of this or that gang operating in russia or the c.i.s. but there's still no evidence grandpa his son is in any way connected. everyone

knew al capone was the goat for the mafia nevertheless he was jailed for tax evasion a crime which can't even be compared to the horrible things he was involved in proving grandpa his son's criminal activities is just as difficult but i would just completely the gangster movies with shootouts in excess emissions have become cinema classics but as a must to get is now trying to find the hitman and the organizers of thursday's attack the hollywood storylines of those stones are still just as relevant. you got the skin of our d. . returning now to our earlier report in afghanistan at least fourteen people were killed in separate bombings on the day of the country's parliamentary elections vote counting is underway and for more we return to our correspondent paula sleep and how so paula saturday saw isolated violence across the country has there been any return to stability today. well overnight the afghan capital was quiet and they

have been no new incidents of violence reported although as you say at the close of the election day saturday at least fourteen people were confirmed dead the taliban carried out more than thirty bombing attacks in a statement an e-mail that said it had targeted and hit some one hundred and fifty polling stations around the country we're hearing from afghan officials that a little more than a third of the voting population turned out to bridges to vote and we're also hearing from the free and fair election foundation of afghanistan that they recorded some two hundred and twenty four incidents of serious intimidation they seem to have been problems particularly in the eastern provinces of afghanistan where there were virtually no female electoral staff and as a result women particularly in conservative communities were unable to come forward and close their ballot in addition to the more than one thousand floating stations of what i'm able to open because of intimidation and threats from the taliban the foundation has also record. a further one thousand five hundred and eighty four

voting stations that opened their doors late because of problems in the whole mechanisms of organizing the selection we were also hearing and we've reported extensively on this on the anti forward problems that we face primarily by the so-called indelible ink that could be washed off in many cases in just a matter of minutes and also cases of fake voter cards in one example there was a car that was found with one thousand six hundred fake voter cards so these have been some of the problems that are coming forward and will continue to come forward in the coming days. when we expect the results to be announced and what's been the early reaction so far from the difficult circumstances under which the poll was conducted. preliminary results are expected on the eighth of october although it will take several weeks for the final results to be tabled now the afghan government particularly president hamid karzai and his international backers have

been at pains to point out the success of this election but it depends according to what yardstick you measure success in the yardstick they've been using is as many people here say extremely low they say that irregularity is are inevitable they say that the violence of this year was less than of was last year during the presidential elections and that they say that the selection of the two hundred and forty nine parliamentary members will not be as corrupt or as difficult as it was last year having said that though there are many observers many analysts and a lot of afghans themselves who say that these elections cannot be called a democratic in the waist a sense of democracy the fact that so few people turned out to vote does not give legitimacy to the parliament which is due to take its seats early next year all right art his policy reporting for us from kabul thanks for that. the treaty between russia and the u.s. which would see both countries cut their nuclear arsenals known as start is going

to the u.s. senate for approval but there are fears that republican politicians are opposing the treaty in order to damage to the democratic administration. the start treaty got the green light from the senate foreign affairs committee and is heading for the senate floor this treaty will make america more secure it will assist us in moving towards the goal of less nuclear threat and for that reason we're probably actually took today it's been a bumpy ride this five months of hearings and the resolution that the senators passed reflects that they put all their concerns in one package among them the time between offensive and defensive weapons senators clarified the treaty in no way is an obstacle for the u.s. plans to deploy defense systems american officials say at the same way it commits us to continue to develop the ability to be able to protect our people and to have a robust missile defense system but russians do take the time mentioned in the

treaty quite seriously they see the new start as an agreement based on equality and balance and if that balance is shifted or disturbed they say they can pull out. but both russian and american leaders are very eager to have this treaty in place they say it's an example for others to follow and the door into future cooperation in security something that the hands of defense of both countries reaffirm this wednesday when they madding washington d.c. but some in washington say there are hurdles related to the ratification are not so much about the details of the treaty but about republicans trying to make a point to the democrats one of the problems is good old fashioned red meat paul politics the republicans don't they just can't resist this opportunity to say well you know the democrats are weak on national security and that's one of the real barriers that the obama administration faces here i have no doubt whatsoever if we had

a republican administration this this treaty would be already ratified the paradox is that the number of republicans who had testified for the. treaty outnumbers democrats on top of that the u.s. military officials are you negative as in their support of the deal something that many experts are pointing out here senators ten expressed their concerns but they can't really change the trading they can either ratified or not and judging by what senators were saying this thursday they surely will the question is when i'm going to check out our reporting from washington d.c. former u.s. senator gary hart says almost all opposition to the treaty comes from the republican side. will clearly the republicans. have. concerns some of them genuine i think others last year and when. there is still i think for many of us not the kind of understanding. by americans

of russia and russia its government and where it's headed that we would like. but and i think from the russian side there is still confusion as to why. we have not developed stronger ties in the last fifteen or twenty years i'm not clear clear on that myself i think we should have but. as time goes on hopefully the questions are being raised again primarily on the republican side will be satisfied at the end of the day there will be a boat on the treaty people will have to vote for it or against it and those who vote against it are going to have to justify why they voted against it and why it makes us more secure not to have a treaty then if we had the treaty and it's a very hard burden to carry. you can catch the full interview with former u.s. senator gary hart in the next hour here on r.t.

. nuclear nonproliferation treaties will be among the problems discussed by global leaders in new york at the sixty fifth un general assembly artie's new york resident talks to people on the streets of manhattan and ask what they think the outcome of the gathering will be. the u.n. general assembly is opening at sixty fifth session here in new york city on the agenda that meant to be attended by the world's most prominent leaders is it the world's most important meeting or just another annoyance for new york city this week let's talk about that too with the same thing year after year i was excited back in the seventy's when when carter was making his big you know push for everything and. then went back the same sort of thing and now everyone who comes in thinks that they can fix it i know from my experience from the computer say communiqué. and it's never the same face to face. different situation.

if you give a. i probably won't accomplish anything at all and it probably is just another chance to tell everybody hey we're here look we're doing do nothing. and in the meantime they take up a parking space there's traffic for everybody congestion kind of stuff. by looking forward to it i tell you what do you think is important for them to talk about this for me. hunger i think as well as. the boring climate change questions. why are those boring is not boring and just that it's. we never get anywhere and you're problem you're one of the problems. you think all the countries have equal say like they're supposed to know i don't i don't really think has more is that i think the united states of america why but that well they've got that go to.