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a great policy. plus polish court will decide on the extradition no one of russia's most wanted terror suspects who was detained later released in warsaw. russia no way i agree to a deal which puts an end to a forty year disagreement with disputed waters in the energy which. is an ailing u.s. economy trouble despite all measures new figures reveal how millions of unemployed americans are living below the poverty line. we are highlighting the top stories of today and all this week welcome to the program it is election day in sweden where the ruling coalition expected to win

most votes but are controversial immigration party you so far is attracting most of the headlines latest polls suggests the center right bloc will win all though the center left opposition isn't that far behind but for many observers this has been overshadowed by the growing popularity of the far right sweden democrats party. candidates and says it's been denied the right of free speech. reports from the city. it's one of europe's oldest democracy. but first the lead up to this year's election in sweden has been anything but democratic candidates from the right wing sweden democrats of being harassed and bullied allegedly by young people from far left groups. there have been several cases which passed with but now it's starting to become

a big party names was getting more attention it's horrible that it should happen during an election campaign it's a threat to swedish democracy. sweden 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. the democracy. used to be you can say what you want to. 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 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 henning's a political candidate in the nearby town of. doesn't agree with the message this week democrats are pushing out but thinks it's important they should be allowed to speak. here. pretty. soon other political parties have said they were sweet and 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 work to do. 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. is likely to be a divisive. politics. the other party will have to decide. 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. play a role. have already. there are many more stories have your way. and here are some of what's to come. under way in the afghan capital some violence and we'll bring you an update in just a few moments. plus cut off from the outside world

a unique experiment to mankind for future deep space expeditions reaches a fresh milestone details just ahead. a polish court will determine the fate of one of russia's most wanted terror suspects . was detained in warsaw on friday under an international arrest warrant but later released. 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 prevented by the pool. coming to a very high profile event the world. which is taking place 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 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 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 war so try to de

politicize this issue. the prosecutor general tells me they have no choice but to start 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. they also have their own limitations that mesta can and they can go to 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 allegan 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 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 sex tradition request as they legally must will review the. 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 pivot so forth 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 that 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 court says it may take several more days to deliver a decision on the fate of one of russia's most wanted criminals let's see 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 is expected to boost offshore exploration in a region rich with reserves of oil and natural gas. russian in the region leaders a glowing from satisfaction. president dmitry medvedev and prime minister yen stoltenberg have achieved is a huge relief for the nations. the goal 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 to return to heed containing vost all and gas reserves prophet has also been at the center of this pete but with unclear border no one could even start the series exploration circle in this issue moscow knows lay 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 norway is going to. need new fields and new big elephants to develop in this dispute is. place just very promising demonstrating goodwill incorporating with the nato member russia still openly opposed to the alliances military presence in the region for them of. the arctic 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 are 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 much as a quarter of the planet's seabed all and get resources but for years due to political opposition say they treasure has remained there then buried now with russia in no way finally thinking their law writing feared the true maritime power is a why they're ready to make some headway what's been called in trouble for decades

wealth own written profits. right ocean r t in the bering sea. turning our attention now to afghanistan where at least fourteen people were killed in separate bombings on the day of the country's parliamentary elections the vote counting is underway and made fraud allegations and reports of irregularities artie's correspondent is in. overnight the afghan capital was quiet and they 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 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 little more than a third of the voting population turned out to bridges to the vote and we were 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 voting 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 to see election we're also hearing and we've reported extensively on this on the anti food 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 the voter id 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. yes and the yardstick they've been using is as many people here say extremely low they say is that you regularities are inevitable they say that the violence of this year was less than of 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 wasted 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. now the iraqi government has agreed to pay out four hundred million dollars to americans traumatized during the kuwait invasion twenty years ago the decision has caused outrage among the iraqi population during the gulf war in one nine hundred ninety saddam hussein's regime had been torturing and using u.s. citizens as human shields but millions of iraqis who also suffered under saddam and later from the american military campaign are angry they received nothing after the kuwait war iraq was put under u.n. sanctions which provided the legal basis for the presence of american troops there antiwar activist a prime backer says it's the americans who should be making reparation payments to iraq not the other way around. they're making the iraq pay because they can i mean this is a kind of colonialism an ongoing pfaff that's been going on against iraq it started

in the one nine hundred ninety s. by the way during the so-called oil for food program that was designed as a pelion of measure to bring relief to our rockies who are dying in the thousands each month because the u.s. wouldn't allow them to have food or medicine that allowed iraqi oil revenues to be put into what you want to count administered really by the united states between one thousand nine hundred seven and two thousand and forty billion dollars of iraqi oil was sold but only twenty five percent twenty five percent of forty billion dollars actually went to the iraqi people the rest went to the kuwaiti monarchy to exxon mobil and other so-called victims of saddam's invasion in august one thousand nine hundred eighty i believe that the american government created these oceans of human misery and they have an obligation an accountability they in fact o. reparations to all of the iraqi people for this war of aggression. the white house is pressing ahead with plans to double u.s. exports in the next five years the proposals could generate some two million jobs.

to help the country and its recovery from recession it comes as new figures reveal that 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 and. it's time to head to the food pantry for charity but you know what. they are low income folks 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 i work in and i know 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 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 and ten 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 that have disappeared or gone overseas factory work all of the low level jobs that these folks with will shields are sort of out the window you

know and leaving them lining up in droves for a little heat we now see prepare about twelve hundred meals a day now it will be serving about four hundred people. a free lunch some of the workers here some are homeless not surprisingly. there are twenty percent more mouths to feed here avis kitchen than here are going to lie. down and some can't work like for one who has an incurable disease lose no work or for so many of us used to be a troll driver yet he still can't afford lunch and experts say the needy are needier than ever are they more poor yes that i can say and here on the ground floor from washington and wall street there is no sign of an economic record. very privies people inside i don't see how. they have no thanks for their politicians i don't know what's going on with the government i don't know was the press doing.

better. in the urban decay of still city gratitude is reserved for the help with recovery they do no. thank you dear. laura mr artie patterson new jersey. now among other stories we have this week here on the 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 by is ready warplanes are talking gaza twice in response to palestinian rocket and mortar fire the main issue was that of israeli settlements in the west bank palestinian president mahmoud abbas had threatened to pull out of the. israel extended settlement building. the talks have to continue as there's no alternative to go straight to israel alan baker says you

shouldn't sit down at the negotiating table if you're not ready to make compromises . 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 the the former agreements between the israelis in the palestinians peace is composed of a number of subjects one is refugees one has jerusalem one he's water one is security one is 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 or to freeze all the settlements this is completely against all principles of negotiation. omar but hootie from the

palestinian campaign for the academic and cultural boycott of israel says the middle east talks a doomed to failure. the entire settlement colonial settlement enterprise is illegal according to international law all the settlements have to be removed according to international law this points to the main problem with these so-called negotiations that i call them not negotiate house because they know gate palestinian rights they may gate human rights in china 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. six men taking part in an experimental project to prepare for a trip to mars have a new record for a simulation of this kind they have spent over one hundred days confined in

a spacecraft like capsule and over four hundred days are still ahead the experiment though far from over is expected to contribute hugely to the future of space exploration. result is all these are. ordinary life but did an extraordinary setting this is the crew of the mars five hundred experiment going about their daily business they've been locked in their mock up space module for over one hundred days now psychologists are watching for signs of stress or tension or would be they're willing to use an expedient experiments in psychology are quite exciting the way they communicate with the control center and in particular the ticks they write for radio communications and emails are important sources for psychologists who see their mental state and the way they're interacting. the six men entered the 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 jew. any 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 with the real world and not deep space just outside the door. how realistic appropriation is this for a future mars mission. experiment the most of course this is not perpetration for a mission to mars that is out of the question there is no group and program a search however some aspects such as can for inspiration limited communication are practiced here the results of such study may later proven porton darley for space missions but for areas like polar exploration where people have to spend a lot of time in 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 your lady has its share in this of course perhaps the absence of women contributes to more irritability or even aggression it is totally up to a psychologist 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 best friends to be most likely after about nine months but in this unique in an experiment it's so far so good.