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by the time david's hit jason play in election campaign and what if you're a sell this to all christie candidates for the nancy immigration policy all told

say it's telegraphed. polish will decide on the extradition of one of russia's most wanted terrorist suspects who was detained and later released in warsaw. and russia and norway include deal that puts an end to a forty year disagreement over disputed waters in the energy rich parents see. one pm in moscow giving you today's top stories and a look at the week that was here on r t it's election day in sweden with the ruling coalition expected to win the most votes but a controversial and time a great party has so far attracting most of the attention the latest poll suggests the center right bloc will win although the center left opposition isn't far behind

but for many observers this dual has been overshadowed by the growing popularity of the far right sweden democrats party it's seen its candidates attacked and says it's been denied the right to free speech parties or emmet reports from almos we. it's one of europe's oldest democracies but the lead up to the election in sweden has been anything but democratic candidates from the right wing sweetened democrats have been harassed. by young people from groups. there have been several cases which. 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.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. reckon she's. a fellow s.t. candidate in a scene reminiscent of a film was tortured by use 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 attracted 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. a political candidate in the nearby town. doesn't agree with the message this week democrats are pushing out but thinks it's important they should be allowed to speak.

pretty but it's. people. here in the. other political parties have said they won't work with the sweeping 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. how to keep us out anyway and what about. its people. there. so. this weekend's election is likely to result in the democrats winning. it's likely to be

a divisive. politics. the other parties have to decide. how to deal with this group they've tried to ignore and ordinary people will have to decide whether they. should not. play a role. so. stay with us here on our teams we can review here's what's coming up later. in just a few moments. and mafia wars turned. into a scene from a gangster movie. manages to escape with his life. but first 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

and later released. his chances of being extradited to russia. two days before. 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 as he landed in warsaw. by the pool. coming to 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. the. immunity provided by his political refugee status made his own way to the prosecutor's office where he was

detained he said. to me and that he wanted to find out. something few in moscow believed. we heard was heading to poland to turn himself in to the prosecutor's office why he could go to the prosecutor's office in the 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 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 all. experts knew from the very start the decision would not be free of mind games as you understand. but

they also have their own limitations that mystic agenda and they can go too far and definitely i think this is. a 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 elegance hued 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 moscow says it has proved it was one of the 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 sec's tradition request as they legally must will review that

evidence also review the basis of the decisions taken in the u.k. . which granted him asylum and 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 that walked out the doors of war so 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 of polish courts as it may take several more days to deliver a decision on the fate of one of russia's most wanted criminals. reports in 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 divided

a disputed area roughly half the size of germany the deal is 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 young still who didn't have achieved is a huge relief for the nation's. 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 production both in russia and in always going to. need new fields and new big elections to develop. this disputed area later. place just promising demonstrating goodwill incorporating with a nato member russia still like openly opposed to the alliances military presence in the region. or. 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 region 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 feeble all and get three sources but for years due to political opposition say they throw. it has remained that been buried now with russia in no way finally sinking their low and running feud the two maritime powers and why they're ready to make some headway what's been causing troubles for decades. britain profits. tea in the barren sea. to afghanistan or at least fourteen people have been killed in separate bombings on the day of the country's parliamentary elections the vote counting is under way amid allegations of fraud and reports of irregularities artie's correspondent in kabul paula sleeper has more. overnight the afghan capital was quiet and there have been no new

incidents of violence reported although as you say at the close of election day saturday at least fourteen people were confirmed did 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 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 cost their ballots in addition to the more than one thousand floating stations that were i'm able 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 and he fooled 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 the selection but it depends according to what yardstick you measure success. based on the yardstick they've been using is this 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 if 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 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 center of moscow this week became a mafia battleground a 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 president of has more from the crime scene. with a click of a trigger this cohen says 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 sajjan known by the nickname ground by sun was entering an apartment building with his bodyguard when suddenly two men were entering a vest a door when the shooting began around 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 grandpaw son had died from the wounds 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 its right opposite the entrance and 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 made it 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 the war currently going on between major gangs to clans in russia. since the 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 is still no evidence grandpa his son is in any way connected. everyone knew al capone was the goat for the demand here but 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 hassan's criminal activities is just as difficult. as gangster movies with shootouts and sasa lesions have become cinema classics but as investigators now try to find the hitman and the organizers of thursday's attack the hollywood story lines of those stones are still just there's room and. you go it was going to moscow also this week israeli and palestinian leaders met for two days in sharm el sheikh and jerusalem for another round of middle east peace talks the meeting was overshadowed though by israeli warplanes attacking gaza twice in response to palestinian rocket and mortar attacks the main issue of the discussion was israeli settlements in the west bank palestinian leader mahmoud abbas threatened to pull out of negotiations if israel if israel extended the settlement building but abbas said the talks have to continue as there is no alternative former negotiator for israel alan baker says you shouldn't sit down at a table if you're not ready to compromise. the palestinians have blown up this

whole issue of settlements out of all proportion it's one of the negotiating issues so you it's not a zero sum game you can say well we'll only negotiate if you already given on one of the major points of negotiation peace according to the former agreements between the israelis and the palestinians peace is composed of a number of subjects one is refugees one is jerusalem one is water one is security one these borders and another one is the settlements now all these subjects have to be negotiated the palestinians can come along and say hey we're not going to negotiate if you don't agree in advance to freeze all the settlements this is completely against all principles of negotiation. from a more pessimistic perspective omar barghouti from the palestinian campaign for the academic and cultural boycott of israel believes the middle east peace talks are

doomed to failure the entire settlement colonial settlement enterprise is illegal according to international law all of the settlements have to be removed according to international law and this points to the main problem with these so-called negotiations and i call them negations not negotiations because they negate palestinian rights they negate human rights in general and they negate their reference to international law and therefore these talks have no chance of success there is really side is a belligerent occupier and an apartheid system that's denying the majority of the palestinians the refugees the right to return to their homes the palestinian side is too weak and lacks democratic mandate not to mention vision and other things so there is no chance for these talks to succeed. the treaty between russia and the u.s. which would see both countries slash their nuclear arsenals is going to the american senate for approval but there are fears that the republican politicians are opposing the treaty known as start in order to do you know what or to do damage to

the democrat led 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 system 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 see it 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 mad in 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. outnumbers democrats

on top of that the u.s. military officials are you now 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 treaty 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. nuclear nonproliferation treaties will be among the issues discussed by global leaders in new york for the u.n. general assembly scheduled to begin next week artie's new york resident. talks to people on the streets of the big apple and ask what they think about the gathering . 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 you know everyone who comes in thinks that they can fix it i know from my experience you go on the computer say communicate with look out for it it's never the same face to face. a different situation. if you. probably want to 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. now 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. boring.

climate change questions the usual why are those boring is not boring just that it's. we never get anywhere and your problem one of the problems for you is you think all the countries have equal say like they're supposed to know i don't know i don't really think as mars that i think the united states of america why would that be well they've got they've got all the power in the world have got the money they've got the influence money talks are a money talks they're not doing anything i mean it's for who i mean for the common people you know it but it will come on the streets or whatever i mean what it is going to do for us you know it's just a more or less you know they get face time and they're going to be like oh yeah we did this student or whatever but it's nothing if we all stop believing in that what are what's really the other option i guess i mean if martin luther king said you know it is the i have a dream or the avenue i nightmare yet a dream so i think that what we all hope for is that we don't have that fatalistic

view that we hope there's always a possibility to change the bottom line is that the un's agenda is important to the peoples of the world whether or not they're actually able to do anything about it remains to be seen until then we've got a lot of traffic. it's just a couple of days now before that u.n. session begins and world leaders have already started arriving in new york iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad was among the first he hopes to meet with u.s. academics and iranian immigrants ahead of the general assembly that starts on monday the serious session focuses on millennium development goals such as combat in poverty and disease around the world oil spill the gulf of mexico protecting species diversity is also a priority. in the gunmen on motorcycle have shot at a bus carrying taurus near one of the country's biggest.