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candidates from a far right party claiming they've been attacked and denied freedom of speech. and other stories that have shaped the week russia awaits a decision on the extradition one of its most wanted terror suspects from poland where he was detained on friday but later released. russia and norway reach a milestone agreement on their borders and the energy rich parents see putting an end to a forty year dispute over the waters. and a spike in poverty in the u.s. new figures reveal one in seven americans was living below the breadline last year the highest number in over fifteen years of record keeping. with the top stories of today and all of this week your with

a very warm welcome to. sweden is holding general elections with the ruling coalition expected to win most seats in the parliament but a controversial far right party is so far winning most of the headlines the sweden democrats party that demands a sharp immigration says it will ease the pressure on the country's welfare system and with a real chance of winning seats some of the candidates have been attacked and others deny their right to free speech. reports from the city. it's one of europe's oldest democracies but the lead up to this year's election in sweden has been anything but democratic candidates from the right wing sweetened democrats have been harassed and bullied allegedly by young people from far left grapes. there have been several cases which passed with a notice but now it's starting to become known we're 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. they didn't. 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 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 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 we do have the movement here. pretty well but it's very marginal. 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 market 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. whether 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 so have already shown they don't your artsy suite at. your with r.t. live from moscow and there is a much more ahead for you this hour and here is what's to come. counting is underway in the afghan capital and reports of violence and fraud we'll bring you an update in just a few moments. to find out how goldstraw using stars have been promoting the

game in russia this week a. polish court is set to decide whether to extradite one of russia's most wanted terror suspects. who was detained in warsaw on friday on an international arrest warrant but later released. he reports for us from the polish capital. 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 e.t.s. and was coming to attend a very high profile event the world. which is taking place in color 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 . and 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 where there's a car 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

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. their release they also have their own limitations but mystic agenda and they can go. talk and definitely i think this is. a moment of truth for our relations. 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 also review the basis of the decisions taken in the u.k. which granted him asylum and that asylum proved. 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. reporting from

warsaw in poland to afghanistan now where at least fourteen people were killed in a string of attacks on saturday when the country voted in parliamentary elections ballot counting is under way amid fraud allegations and reports of irregularities he's correspondent paula reports for us from kabul. 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 did the taliban carried out more than thirty bombing attacks in a statement an e-mailed its stated had targeted and hit some one hundred and fifty polling stations around the country we hearing from afghan officials that a little more than a third of the voting population turned out to bridges to their 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 of 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 the selection 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 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 regularity is our inevitable they say that the violence of the su 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 west and 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. while the democratic process is failing in afghanistan that's the view of dr abdullah abdullah an afghan opposition leader who was home and karzai as a main challenger in the two thousand and nine presidential election he says his country must learn from past mistakes to avoid collapse. as i had predicted before the presidential elections last year that if the same situation frontin you this situation can only do to you date this is exactly what we are witness to in terms of governance issues of corruption rule of law and justice and security and as a whole so this is a the these sort of sliding down all the the downward trend to lead to an absolute failure i list a list we look into the mistakes of the past we draw lessons from the mistakes of the past and we give the people up on this on their sense of direction so this is

stage the afghan leadership the administration led by mr katter say it in itself is a misled leadership and then last sense of direction of the failures of the national government cannot be sad to do with more troops from outside sources from outside more energy and more support from outside this is the situation that afghans are to start with and the international community is also stuck with it it's now approaching the call her minute mark of the hour now here in the russian capital. and you can find more we're always covering on our website that is dot com and here's a quick look at what else you'll find there right now you can find out what dangers lurking in the depths of the baltic sea and the efforts being made to make the water safe. and archaeologists have found the remains of an eighteenth century russian emperor who was ousted from power in childhood and spent his life in solitary confinement.

this week russia and norway signed an arctic border agreement resolving a decades long term tauriel dispute the treaty created a maritime boundary in the energy rich barren 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 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 its disputed area later. place. promising demonstrating goodwill incorporating with a nato member russia c. likely opposed to the alliances military presence in the region. 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 in 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 we didn't parliament's 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 feeble at all and get resources but for years due to political opt in say base treasure. has remained dead and buried now with russia in no way finally sinking their long running feud the two maritime powers are finally ready to make some headway what's been causing troubles for decades will soon bring in

profits rich notional tea in the barren sea. and coming your way next hour one step closer to a nuclear free world. arms reduction treaty between russia and the u.s. heads for a vote before the senate we look at how america's in-house issues could put the ratification. well this week also saw another round of middle east peace talks with the israeli and palestinian leaders meeting for two days in sharm el sheikh and jerusalem the meeting was overshadowed by israeli warplanes attacking garza twice in response to palestinian rocket and mortar fire the talks continue to be stalled over israeli settlements in the west bank palestinian president mahmoud abbas has threatened to pull out of negotiations if israel extended the settlement building however he added that there is no alternative to peace but what about

equality from the palestinian campaign for the academic and cultural boycott of the israel says the middle east talks are doomed to failure because of the rights of palestinians that are being neglected. their 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 and i call them negotiations 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's 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. in a few hours time marty takes a look at soldiers who listen to their conscience rather than their commanding

officers. sergeant of the israeli defense forces. during his service scorched a street fight. colonel of the chilean armed forces participated in keeping down a military revolt. sergeant in the us army. trying to become an american by getting pardon the. franks and reasons differ but one thing brings them together once they disobey. the white house is pressing ahead with plans to double u.s. exports over the next five years the administration believes the proposals could generate two million jobs on hope the country clore its way back from the depths of recession this comes as new census data reveals that the number of americans facing

potency 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 just the thing down it's time to head to the food pantry for charity. 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 that there are people who can't make ends meet people like jenny like the one who are going in and it's not enough you know it's just not enough to get all the food 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 where 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 patterson 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 sign. is everywhere here in the u.s. manufacturing jobs have disappeared or gone overseas factory work all of the low level jobs that these folks with will still sort of like oh yeah you know and leaving them lining up in droves for a little heat we now see repair about twelve hundred meals

a day now with no will be serving about four hundred people. free during some of the work around here some are homeless not surprisingly always on call been made there are twenty percent more mouths to feed here eva's kitchen you can hear it why do they know we're now in something and work like for one who has an incurable disease who is now for 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 are they more poor yes that i can say it here 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 color i don't know was the press the door. for me is not going there in the room better. in the urban decay of silk city

gratitude is reserved for the help with recovery they do no air fare. you know you share your very character lauren lyster artie patterson new jersey. and cody will be one of the top issues discussed at the upcoming un general assembly session in new york next to. people in the city what results they expect from the other. probably won't accomplish anything at all just. to tell everybody hey we're here look we're doing do nothing and in the meantime they take up our parking space the. american gesture and if we all stop believing in that what's really the other option i guess i mean if martin luther king said you know it is the average dream or the avenue and 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. it's now twenty five minutes past the hour here in moscow you're with r.t. some of the world's top golfers have been showing their best swings here in russia all of this of an international tournament it's hoped the russian challenge cup will boost the popularity of the sport in the country. farmers in the course of the moscow region joins us live with more details and hello to you andrew so i gather that the competition has just ended. yet has just ended a few moments ago actually the spaniard. picked up this check for twenty eight thousand euros not bad for an afternoon's work after winning the first ever russian challenge cup don't worry i will return it to him but to give you an idea of what went on today this is part of the challenge to all of the european challenge tour which is the table of the european tour which is where all the the world's best

players places have a very high standard but it was a real coup for russia to get this here over the last few days because as a sport gold hasn't really been developed in this country during the soviet neglected and even though it only has a handful of courses but it was lucky enough to get jack nicklaus designed this course two years ago he is of course the eighteen time major champion and by all accounts the plays that played here this weekend very impressed with what they found. i think the reflection from the players certainly the players that i've talked to which is pretty much everybody has been a good response. they have enjoyed the course immensely they have told me that it's been prepared to the highest standard. the practice facility. every facility even down to the catering in the clubhouse has been welcomed by.