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a great city posse all of those states telegraphed. was a polish court will decide on the extradition of one of russia's most wanted terrorist suspects melissa detained and later released in warsaw. and russia and norway agreed to a landmark deal that puts an end to a porny year disagreement over disputed waters in the energy rich parents sea. and a new plan announced to pull the ailing u.s. economy out of trouble but despite all measures new figures reveal how millions of unemployed americans are still living below the poverty line. with today's top stories and a look at the week that was here on r t it's election day in sweden with

a ruling coalition expected to win the most votes but a controversial anti immigration party is so far winning the most headlines latest poll suggests the center right bloc will win although the center left opposition isn't that far behind but for many observers this dual has been overshadowed by the growing popularity of the far right sweden democratic party and seen its candidates attacked and says it's been denied the right to free speech parties laura i met reports from. 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 a big part in 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.t.d. would severely limits immigration and encourage migrants who won't assimilate to go home that 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 this weekend 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 will stick a door on her front door so of course you look twice over the shoulder. i'm not

scare it gives more fuel to my fire and makes me angry because it's one of the things that may really. be in this party. used to be you can say what you want. nina reckon she. a fellow s.-t. candidate in a scene reminiscent of a film was tortured by youths in his house held down the wall a 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 democracy its people. there.

so. this weekend's election is likely to result in the sweet democrats winning their first ever. 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. counting is underway in the afghan capital and that reports of violence and fool will bring you an update in just a few moments. was cut off from the outside world a unique experiment to prepare mankind for future space expeditions reaches a fresh milestone details just ahead. first though

a polish court will determine the fate of one of russia's most wanted terrorist suspects. was detained in warsaw on friday under an international arrest warrant but later released ortiz like sarah shared ski 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 after he landed in warsaw was apprehended by the police show for e.t.s. was coming to attend a very high profile event the world chechen call gross which is taking place and called 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 into 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 warsaw try to de politicize this issue . the prosecutor general tells me that they have no choice but to start at the extradition procedures but these procedures do not mean an instant extradition and

the russian side shouldn't necessarily hope for a decision that will satisfy. experts knew from the very start the decision would not be free of mind games as you understand. but a relief 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 an elegant 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 north caucasus from brutal killings to kidnappings moscow says it has proved it was one of masterminds of the more 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 prove the pivotal force after the polish prosecutor general's office filed a 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 is internationally wanted and he was immediately released on friday night walked out the doors of warsaw as district court 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 a polish chord says 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 barents sea and divided a disputed area roughly half the size of germany the deal's expected to boost offshore exploration and arranging a rich with reserves of oil and natural gas. russian in the region leaders aglow in from satisfaction. with president dmitry medvedev and prime minister young still 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 peat but with unclear border no one could even start the series

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 always going to. need new fields and new big elephants to develop in this dispute is. 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. the 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 resources but for years due to political options say base treasure. has remained out in the beret now with russia in no way finally sinking their low and running feud the two maritime powers are flying there ready to make some headway what's been called in trouble for decades. britain profits right notional tea 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 both country's foreign ministers sat down

for talks in moscow after iowa said it's prepared to challenge russia in a race for the arctic's rich resource rich resources canadian researcher edwards jersey who's been exploring and studying the seabed says the territorial disputes are so far peaceful but anything might happen down the road 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 their 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 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 have been killed in separate bombings on the day of the country's parliamentary elections the vote counting is underway amid allegations of fraud and reports of irregularities artie's correspondent paul asli or has more from kabul. overnight the afghan capital was quiet and they have been no incidents of violence reported although as you say at the close of election day saturday at least fourteen people were confirmed dead the taliban carried out more than thirty bombing attacks in a statement it e-mailed it 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 the 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 crossed their ballot in addition to the more than one thousand floating stations that were unable to open because of intimidation and threats from the taliban the foundation has also recorded 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're 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 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. based on the yardstick they've been using is as many people here say extremely low they say that you regularities are inevitable they say that the violence of the su was less than it was last year during the presidential elections and they say that this election 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 democratic in the waste and sense of democracy the fact that so few people tuned out to vote

does not give legitimacy to the parliament which is due to take its seats next year . the white house is pressing ahead with plans to double u.s. exports over the next five years the proposals could generate two million jobs and it's hoped help spur the recut the country out of its economic recession but this comes as figures as new figures reveal about the number of americans facing poverty is at a fifty year high. welcome to silk city. this once was what the industrial revolution looked like in the united states. now this is what poverty looks like in this town more than twenty percent are poor more than seventeen percent unemployed it means for many here ninety m. is a time to go to work now to do something don't it's time to head to the food pantry for charity. they are

low income folks are some of them have been unemployed for almost two years is what we're seeing but on average it's the underemployed. there are people who can't make ends meet people like jenny like the one who are going to morrow and it's not enough you know it's just not enough to get all the poor we need and the numbers are only growing and we saw in two thousand and nine a fifteen percent increase over the two thousand and eight numbers and we're anticipating that that number will go up by another ten percent at the end of two thousand there not only here but in the entire u.s. new statistics for two thousand and nine show forty three million people one in seven are living in poverty this is the most people who are in more than fifty years that's when they first began tracking these numbers here you can see one reason they are turning these are few and far between especially in the old urban industrial cities are rather simple as in so many cities in the united states manufacturing used to power this one these were still factories that now are

decrepit boarded up sitting in disrepair there are signs everywhere here of the u.s. manufacturing jobs have disappeared or gone overseas to actually work all of the low level jobs that these folks with will shields what about you know you know and leaving them lining up in droves for a little heat we now see repair about twelve hundred meals a day now it will be serving about four hundred. people. three. some of them were going to work some are homeless not surprisingly. made there are twenty percent more mouths to feed here eva's kitchen and here again why. now when something like for one who has an incurable disease there's no. work or for so many of us used to be a truck driver yet he still can't afford lunch and experts say the needy are needier than ever how they more poor yes that i can say and you're on the ground

for from washington and wall street there is no sign of an economic recovery for these people in sight i don't see recovery. they have no thanks for their politicians i don't know what's going on with zero tolerance i don't know was the press doing. for me is not doing this in the womb better. in the urban decay of silk city gratitude is reserved for the help with recovery they do know. larry. thank you sir. loren mr r. t. patterson new jersey. well the actual number of americans living below the poverty line could be even higher than official figures suggest that's the view of max fraud wall an economist at new school university who says he's staggered by the scale of the problem. well seeing numbers as large one in seven american adults

living in poverty in just about one in four to five american children shows us that the sheer numbers and the percentage of americans who are being systematically failed by the american economy and it gives you a little bit of a taking of the temperature of just how severe the pain is there's every indication from the data flow that next year will be worse than this year because the numbers that we're looking at today and in two thousand and nine and we're already three quarters of the way through two thousand and and ten. every trend that made the poverty and the severity of poverty worse last year is very much in place this year and i would also add that we have really high poverty numbers here with an actual poverty rate and income that you need to get that or less to be considered poor in the united states that's so low if you do a more realistic calculation we really have more like nineteen percent of our public in poverty not even the fourteen so in some level i would say to president obama it's already worse than it looks and i don't think that's quite good enough as a message when you're failing our economy is failing so many people. turning to some

other stories now that are making headlines across the globe a powerful typhoon has battered taiwan bringing torrential rain and widespread floods thousands of villagers have been evacuated from mountainous areas where there is fears of landslides the typhoon is now heading toward central china threatens to become the strongest one to hit the country this year. b.p. says it needs to carry out one more pressure test before the blown out well in the gulf of mexico can be declared permanently sealed the test is that test is on the cement that was pumped in on friday a temporary cap had stopped the oil spilling into the gulf in mid july the wells closure will bring to an end almost five months of chaos after the rig explosion that killed eleven workers and led to the worst offshore oil spill in u.s. history. a giant storm in new zealand has left tens of thousands of people without power heavy snowfall and high winds damaged buildings and caused the roof to collapse at a local sports stadium lightning also caused several fires it's the second recent

natural disaster to hit the country after a seven point zero magnitude earthquake that hit the south island a fortnight ago. six russian men have been taking part in an experimental project to prepare for a trip to mars and they have set a new record for a simulation of this kind they have spent more than one hundred days confide in a spacecraft like capsule and more than four hundred days are still ahead the experiment though far from over is expected to contribute hugely to the future of space exploration. is a little. ordinary life but did an extraordinary setting this is the crew of the mom's five hundred experiment going about their daily business they've been looks in the mock up space module through one hundred days now psychologists watching for signs of stress or tension a little you that went into the experiment sincerely cool. the way they communicate with the control center and to particular the ticks they write for radio

communications and e-mails. just to see them into state and to weigh the into acting. the six men entered their voluntary isolation back in june simulating the estimated five hundred twenty day voyage to mars mock mars landing and the trip back the modules here in the institute of biomedical research in moscow are designed to mimic the conditions of such a journey minus the zero gravity and the physical distance as well as that the idea that they're traveling to mars and back is strongly cultivated but with the real world and not deep space just outside the door. how realistic appropriation is this for a future mars mission. because. of course this is not perpetration for a mission to mars that is out of the question there is no group and program a such power some aspects such as can for in space in limited communication are practiced here the results of such study mean later proven porton darley for space

missions but for areas like polar exploration where people have to spend a lot of time a little groups in isolated spaces. as well as going without outside contact the crew is also being denied female company others to likes of mariners or polar explorers have to spend long periods with only males psychologists here taking the opportunity to see what effects it may have. with you is your logy has its share in this of course perhaps the absence of women contributes to more irritability or even aggression it is totally up to our psychologists to smooth over any problems. much research work is being done on board which keeps the crew focused and motivated progress maps are updated daily and there's an artificial time delay of up to twenty minutes for all outside communications to account for the distance from earth for another four hundred eighteen days the staff here will monitor the

crew through these cameras twenty four hours a day every day if problems do occur this first to be most likely after about nine months but in this unique experiment it's so far so good. in our team. patrick forward from capitol science connection says that although there have been experiments like this before it's the sheer scale of the mars five hundred mission that makes it so useful what makes this particularly unique is not just the length of time but the fact that you've got increasing delays in communication as the experiment mimics the spacecraft getting further and further away from earth and i think that is probably one of the most intensely difficult things that the cosmonauts are actually going to have to cope with particularly the psychological interactions between these this group of people and how you build. it.