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a far right party claiming they. denied freedom of speech. and other stories that have shaped the week russia. most wanted terror suspects from poland. that he was detained on friday. to a forty year over the water. in the u.s. new figures reveal one in seven americans are living below. the highest number in over fifty years of. the top stories of today and all this week. 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 shop immigration cuts saying 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 denied their right to free speech florida reports from the city of melbourne. it's one of europe's oldest democracies but first 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 groups. there have been several cases which passed with a notice but now it's starting to become known were

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. 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 one. daubed on her front door so of course you look twice over your shoulder but i'm not scare it gives more fuel to my fire and makes me angry because it's one of the things that made we. be in this party it was. democracy. used to be you can say what you want. reckon she's. a fellow s.t. candidate in a scene reminiscent of a film was tortured by huge 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 well but it's. people. here in this country. 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 what to do. upon how to keep us out anyway and what about the. its people. there.

so. this weekend's election is likely to result in the sweet democrats winning. it's 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 have already shown they don't know or at it's artsy sweet. and there is much more ahead for you this hour here on our two and here is what's to come. down to is underway in the afghan capital amid reports of violence and fraud we'll bring you an update in just a few moments. plus going towards in the heart of moscow we bring you the story of

an attempt on the life of russia's notorious mafia kingpin and look at possible motives for the violence. a polish court has to decide whether to extradite one of russia's most wanted terror suspects. was detained in warsaw on friday or in international arrest warrant but later released . the reports 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 it to us was coming to attend a very high profile event the world. which is taking place in poland and it was impossible to ignore he would be making

a public splash so therefore the poles had to act because they do have obligations to their european partners to the systems legal systems they belong to and i think that's what they're answering to in detaining the man himself seemingly confident of his immunity provided by his political refugee status made his own way to the prosecutor's office where he was detained he said poland was not his enemy and that he wanted to find out for himself why he is wanted something few in moscow believed . we heard was heading to poland to turn himself in to the prosecutor's office why he could go to the prosecutor's office in britain or any other country if he wanted to but he did it in poland so my theory is that it might be aimed at soaring the improving relations between moscow and warsaw. poland has to consider whether to be extradited to russia and no matter how hard warsaw try to de politicize this

issue. the prosecutor general tells me that they have no choice but to start extradition procedures but these procedures do not mean an instant extradition and the russian side shouldn't necessarily hope for a decision that will satisfy. experts knew from the very start the decision would not be free of mind games as you understand. they also have their own limitations but mystic agenda. and they can go talk 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 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 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 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 that's when the country voted in parliamentary elections ballot counting is underway amid fraud allegations and reports of irregularities he's a correspondent is in kabul for us. 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-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 will stop and as a result women particularly in conservative communities were unable to come forward and cross 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 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 western 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. reporting that now the democratic process is failing in afghanistan that's the view of dr abdullah abdullah afghan opposition leader who was hammered karzai as a main challenger in the two thousand and nine presidential election he says his country must learn from past mistakes to avoid coming. as i had predicted before the presidential elections last year that if this 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 by lists by lists we look into the mistakes of

the past we draw lessons from the mistakes of the past and we give the people of afghanistan back 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 lost as of direction of the failures of the national government cannot decide 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. you can always find more on the stories we're covering on our website www dot com and here's a quick look at what else is there waiting for you right now you can find out more dangerous than in the depths of the baltic sea the efforts being made to make the world least safe again. and archaeologists have found the remains of an eighteenth century russian emperor was ousted from power in childhood spent his life in

solitary confinement. this week russia norway you 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 weeds and leaders aglow in from satisfaction with president dmitri medvedev and prime minister yen stoltenberg have achieved is a huge relief for their 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 production both in russia and in norway is going to. need new fields and new big. to develop. this disputed area later. place just promising demonstrating goodwill incorporating with a nato member russia still likely opposed to the alliances military presence in the

region if. 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 in the sun in cannes 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 treaties yet to be ratified by russian and the region parliaments something the two leaders predict. some experts estimate the rules of the bering sea hard as much as a quarter of the planet's seabed all in gas resources for twenty years due to police co-ops and sea based 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. in the barents sea. and coming your way next hour here on r.t. one step closer to a nuclear free world as the 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 hamper the ratification. 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 will continue to be stalled over israeli settlements in the west bank palestinian president mahmoud abbas had threatened to pull out of negotiations if israel extended the settlement

building however he added that there is no alternative to peace omar particle to from the palestinian campaign to the academic and cultural boycott of israel since the middle east talks are doomed to failure because of the rights of palestinians that are being negated. 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 negotiations because being a gate 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. now it's just twenty minutes past

the hour here in moscow you with r.t. and in just over an hour's time r.t. reports on soldiers who listen to their conscience rather than their commanding officer. 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 taking part in the. ranks 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 in the next five years the proposals could generate two million jobs and

it's hoped to help the country in its recovery from recession it comes as new figures are real that the number of americans facing public 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. just don't think 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 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 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 signs everywhere here at the u. . manufacturing jobs have disappeared or gone overseas factory were all of the low level jobs that these folks with mostly old sort of how likely are you. and leaving

them lining up in droves for a little heat we now see prepare about twelve hundred meals a day now with no will be serving about four hundred people. free. some of the workers who are some are homeless not surprisingly. there are twenty percent more mouths to feed here eva's kitchen and here i go why do they know we're now and some can't work like or one who has an incurable disease lose no. work or for some out of it used to be a truck driver yet he still can't afford lunch and experts say the needy are needy or 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 the caller i don't know was the press and george. foreman is not the snow blower better. his live in the urban decay of silk city gratitude is reserved for the help with recovery they do know. that we. thank you sir you very carefully lauren lyster artie patterson new jersey. he will be one of the top issues discussed at the un general assembly session in new york next. people in the city what results they expect from the governor. probably want to accomplish anything at all or probably it's just another chance to tell everybody hey we're here look we're doing do nothing and in the meantime they take up our park. spaces are direct traffic for everybody in our congestion if we all stopped believing in that what 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 center of moscow witnessed a mafia clash this week the man thought to be the godfather of most of russia's criminal groups was shot and seriously wounded you could have just gone off reports from the same. 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 in sajjan known by the nickname ground by his son was entering an apartment building with his bodyguard when suddenly the two men were entering a vest a door when the shooting began 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 it's right opposite the entrance at such a short distance made it nearly impossible to miss as it turned out the leader of the alleged crime leader and his bodyguard both needed to the hospital underwent surgery and are now recovering authorities said they give false reports on purpose to prevent a second assassination attempt grandpa has a 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 shocked.