tv [untitled] September 19, 2010 3:00pm-3:30pm EDT
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a far right party claiming very different tasks and do not. bother a better shape than we were in order to brush our way to decision on the extradition order it's one of its most one terrorist suspects from poland he was detained on friday may be released. norway reach a milestone agreement on their corners in the energy rich parents say what he and then forty years the spirit awards. live from moscow you're watching our team with me and you so now way i've got the latest for you and a look back at the week's top stories but first exit polls in sweden's parliamentary election suggest the conference ruling center right coalition has won but it's not yet clear if this retain the majority
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a controversial far right party could hold the balance of power with polls indicating it's extremely close to clinching seats for the first time this week and democrats the man sark immigration cots saying it will ease pressure on the contras welfare system that the party gaining ground some candidates have been attacks and others to my bare wire to free speech as lore and that reports from the city of namo. it's one of europe's oldest democracies but the lead up to the ac is election in sweden has been anything but democratic candidates from the right wing suite in the democrats of being harassed and allegedly by. people from far left groups thank you. there have been several cases which passed with a notice but now it's starting to become a big part in this was getting more attention it's horrible that it should happen during an election campaign it's a threat to swedish democracy. the sweden democrats are controversial they believe
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the government's immigration policy in recent years has been a failure of 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 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.
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angry because one of the things. in this party. the democracy. used to be you can say what you want and. reckon she. a fellow s.t. candidate in a scene reminiscent of a film was tortured by youth 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 this weekend 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 of law doesn't agree with the
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message to sweden democrats are pushing out but thinks it's important they should be allowed to speak we do have the movement here. pretty well but it's very marginal. people. in public of course we can tolerate that here in this country. other political parties and 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. to keep us out anyway and what about the market its people. to sit there and. so.
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this weekend's election is likely to result in the sweet democrats winning. is likely to be a divisive. politics. the other parties have to decide. and how they're prepared to deal with this group they've tried so hard to ignore and ordinary people will have to decide whether they value free speech enough to let an anti immigration policy play a role in governing some have already shown they don't your own. sweet. we've got much more ahead for you this hour on our here's a look at what's to come. is under way in the afghan capital with reports of violence and fraud we'll bring you an update in just a few moments. plus cut off from beyond time world for one hundred days and counting merriment there mankind deep space missions reaches
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a new milestone details just ahead. a polish court is set to decide whether to extradite one of russia's most wanted terrorist suspects commands a kind of was detained in warsaw on friday on an international arrest warrant but later released argues alexy are sensitive reports from the polish capital. two days before i arrived in warsaw the polish media were speculating over whether one of russia's most wanted terrorist suspects 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
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that's what they're answering to in detaining is a kind of 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 a 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 storing 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
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procedures but these procedures do not mean an instant extradition and the russian side shouldn't necessarily hope for a decision that will satisfy the. experts knew from the very start the decision would not be free of mind games as you understand. they also have their own limitations they have all the mastic agenda. and they can go too far and definitely i think this is the moment of truth for our relations committee has been one of russia's most wanted since two thousand and two it is now that he walks in the lagoon 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 the caucasus from brutal killings to kidnapping moskos says it has proved it was one of the masterminds of the more school theater siege in two thousand 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
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extradite him for trial have been futile the polish courts as we all know considering the sex tradition request as they legally must will review that evidence so will also review the basis of the decisions taken in the u.k. which granted him asylum and 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 walked out the doors of 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
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warsaw poland. to afghanistan now where fourteen people were killed in a string of attacks on saturday when the country voted in parliamentary elections ballot counting is underway amid fog allegations and reports of. our correspondent is in kabul. 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-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 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
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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 eighty four voting stations that opened their doors late because of problems in the whole mechanisms of organizing the selection we're also hearing and we've reported extensively on this on the anti forward problems that we face primarily by the so-called indelible ink that could be washed off in many cases in just a matter of minutes and also cases of fake voter cards in one example there was a car that was found with one thousand six hundred fake voter cards so these have been some of the problems that are coming forward and will continue to come forward
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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 that you regularities are inevitable they say that the violence of the su was less than of was last year during the presidential elections and that they say that this election of the two hundred and forty nine parliamentary members will not be as corrupt or as difficult as it was last year having said that though there are many observers many analysts and a lot of afghans themselves who say that these elections cannot be called democratic in the waste and sense of democracy the fact that so few people turned out to vote does not give legitimacy to the parliament which is due to take its seats next year
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. the democratic process is failing in afghanistan guts the view of dr of the. afghan opposition leader who is a made karzai as main challenger in the two thousand and nine presidential election well he says his country must learn from past mistakes to avoid collapse. as i had predicted before the presidential elections last year but if the same situation continue the situation turned only to tell 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 the these sort of sliding down all the the downward trend can 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
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stage the african leadership the administration led by mr accounts say it in itself is a misled leadership and then lost as of date action the failures of the national government cannot be substituted with more troops from outside sources from outside more energy and more support from outside this is a situation that afghans are to start with and the international community is also stuck with. more than forty servicemen have been reportedly been killed in a gunfight to take a stand and stop they were ambushed in the mountains in the northern part of the central asian republic the soldiers have been searching for fugitive criminals who had fled from a high security prison last month more than twenty people convicted for an attempted coup killed the jail security guards and escaped into the mountains they were part of the islamist opposition movement that fought against the central government in a civil war in the one nine hundred ninety s.
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. but this week norway assigned norway and russia rather 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 the 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 a glowing 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
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seventy s. but this wasn't simply a territorial he'd containing vost oil and gas reserves prophet has also been at the center of this peat but with unclear border no one could even start the series exploration circle in this issue moscow knows les have done with been impossible for decades and that some say because they need to boost their coffers and reserves production both in russia and in norway is going to. need new fields and new big elephants to develop in this dispute it eerie alessi. place just very promising demonstrating goodwill incorporating with the nato member russia still openly opposed to the alliances military presence in the region the form of the breaking up 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
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also include canada denmark and the united states over who owns wat 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. a russian strategy which i would call to ease tensions are on the russian borders the treaties yet to be ratified by russian and the weekend parliaments something the two leaders predict. don by new year some experts estimate the rules of the bering sea tod as much as a quarter of the planet's seabed all in gas resources for three years due to police corpse and sea bass treasure has remained there than buried now with russia in no way finally sinking their long running feud the two maritime powers and why they're ready to make some headway what's been causing troubles for decades will soon start bringing profits reagan national t. in the bering sea. the treaty between russia and the u.s.
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that would see both countries cut their nuclear arsenals loose going to the american senate for possible however there are fears that republican politicians are opposing the treaty known and start just to deny the obama administration a political victory the start treaty it 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 assist us in moving towards the goal of less nuclear threat and for that reason we're probably actually took today it's been a bumpy ride 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
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a robust missile defense system but russians do take their time mentioned in the treaty quite seriously they see the new start as an agreement based on equality and balance and that balance is shifted or disturbed they say they can't 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 is security something that the hands of defense of both countries reaffirmed this wednesday when they madding washington d.c. but some in washington say they're 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 politics the republicans don't you 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
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barriers that the obama administration faces here i have no doubt whatsoever if we had a republican administration this this treaty would be already radical the paradox is that the number of republicans who had testified for the treaty outnumbers democrats on top of that the u.s. military officials are unanimous in their support of the deal something that many experts are pointing out here senators ten express their concerns but they can't really change the trading they can either ratify it or not and judging by what senators were saying this thursday they surely will the question is when i'm going to check on our reporting from washington d.c. . well former u.s. senator gary hart says some republican opposition to the treaty may just be because of a lack of understanding and he wants the whole interview with him next hour here in our. will clearly the republicans. i have.
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concerns some of them genuine i think others less genuine. there is still i think for many of us not the kind of. understanding. by americans of russia and russians government and where it's headed that we would like. but and i think from the russian side there is still confusion as to why. we have not developed stronger ties in the last fifteen or twenty years i'm not clear clear on that myself i think we should of but. as time goes on hopefully the questions are being raised again primarily on the republican side will be satisfied at the end of the day there will be a boat on the treaty people will have to vote for it or against it and those who vote against it are going to have to justify why they voted against it and why it makes us more secure not to have a treaty then if we had the treaty and it's
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a very hard burden to carry i. think the man taking part in an experiment simulating a trip to mars has that record they've spent over one hundred days confined in a sealed spacecraft like tough sell the longest time so far for the project of this kind and there's over four hundred days still to go in this ultimate test of human endurance as tom barton reports. these are it's all in our. 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 a hundred days now psychologists are watching for signs of stress or tension a would be the next in experiments in psychology are quite exciting the way they communicate with the control center and in particular the techs they write for
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radio communications and emails which are important sources for psychologists who see their mental state and the way they're interacting. the six men entered their voluntary isolation back in june simulating the estimated five hundred twenty day voyage to mars mock mars landing and the trip back. the modules here in the institute of biomedical research in moscow are designed to mimic the conditions of such a journey minus the zero gravity and the physical distance as well as that the idea that they're traveling to mars and back is strongly cultivated with the real world and not deep space just outside the door. how realistic appropriation is this for a future mars mission. experimental mars of course this is not perforation for a mission to mars that is out of the question there is no group and program as such however some aspects such as confined space and limited communication are practiced here the results of such study may later proven porton darley for space missions
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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 their own e-mails psychologists here taking the chante to see what affects it may have. logy has its. erin this of course perhaps the absence of women contributes to more irritability or even aggression it is totally up to our psychologists to smooth over any problems with us in the world with 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
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a day every day if problems do occur best first to be most likely after about nine months but in this unique experiment it's so far so good tom bought an r t o's. nuclear nonproliferation and poverty will be among the issues to be tackled by the un general assembly in new york next week are they as people in the city what was all they expect from this session. the u.n. general assembly is opening it 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
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everything and and then went back the same sort of thing and now everyone who comes in thinks that they can fix it from my experience and computer say communicate with . face to face. situation. if you together. i probably won't accomplish anything at all and it probably is just another chance to tell everybody hey we're here look we're doing and do nothing. and in the meantime they take up our parking spaces. congestion kind of stuff. by looking forward to it i tell you what do you think is important for them to talk about this year for me third country and hunger i think as well as. boring the climate change questions. why those boring is not boring and just that is. we never get anywhere and you're problem you're one of.
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