ideals i had when i was eighteen or nineteen. all of the good things the beautiful things my dreams. they all started falling apart. i was just an empty shell. with a uniform and a gun. very strong very courageous. but empty. i don't know if the human being of sane mind gets used to killing. me sure i never got used to killing.

all right party winds up first seats in parliament in sweden's general election and could hold the balance of power after the ruling coalition loses its majority.

and other stories that have shaped the week to decide on whether to extradite one of russia's most wanted terror suspects after he was detained on friday but later released. also russia and norway reach a milestone agreement on their borders in the energy rich parents putting an end to a forty year territorial dispute. and new figures reveal a poverty spike in the us left one in seven americans living below the breadline last year the highest number in over fifty years of record keeping. broadcasting live from capitol moscow direct to you this is r t certainly glad to have you with us now sweden's general election

a controversial far right party has clinched the seats for the first time they could now hold sway over the ruling center right coalition that has retained power in the election but lost its majority the sweden democrats demand steep immigration cuts saying it will ease pressure on the country's welfare system as it reports from southern sweden despite more voters turning to the party some candidates are saying they have been attacked and others denied their right to freedom of speech. it's one of europe's oldest democracies but the lead up to the election in sweden has been democratic candidates from the right wing sweetened democrats have been harassed. and that should lead 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 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. the 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.t.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. a fellow s.t. candidate in a scene reminiscent of a film was tortured by youths in his house held down while 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. doesn't agree with the message this week democrats are pushing out but thinks it's important they should be allowed to speak . pretty but it's very. public of course we can tolerate that here in this country. sweden and 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 work to do. to keep anyway. it's people. there.

at. 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. policy play a role. some have already. sweetened . much more still ahead for you this hour here's a look at what's to come. under way in the capital violence and we'll bring you an update in just a few moments. gangster wars in the heart of moscow bringing you the story of an

attempt on the life of russia's notorious kingpin and a look at possible motives for the violence. a polish court is said to decide whether to extradite one of russia's most wanted terror suspects. was detained in warsaw on friday on an international arrest warrant but later released our. reports from polish capital. two days before i arrived in warsaw the polish media was 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 so kind of 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 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 was wanted something few in moscow believed. we heard a car i was heading to poland to turn himself into the persecutors office why he could go to a prosecutor's office in britain or any other country if you wanted to but he did it in poland so my theory is that it might be aimed at soaring the improving relations between moscow and warsaw. poland has to consider whether to be extradited to russia and no matter how hard warsaw try to de politicize this issue . the prosecutor general tells me they have no choice but to start extradition

procedures but these procedures do not mean 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 mastic agenda and. 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. but just a decade ago he was the leader of a chechen militant group and he is believed to have been involved in a string of atrocities in the caucasus from brutal killings to kidnappings. that has proved. the minds of the most school theater seats 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 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. also review the basis of the decisions taken in the u.k. which granted. 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 the fact he is internationally wanted and he was immediately released on friday. walked out the doors of 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. as 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 election observers in afghanistan are questioning the legitimacy of saturday's parliamentary vote counting is underway in a ballot that's been marred by violence reports of irregularities and a low turnout our correspondent. from kabul. the afghan capital was quiet and they have been no new incidents of violence reported although at the close of election day saturday at least fourteen people were confirmed dead the televen carried out more than thirty bombing attacks in a statement and e-mailed it said it had targeted and hit some one hundred and fifty polling stations around the country we're hearing from afghan officials that a little more than a third of the voting population turned out to bridges to the vote and we're also hearing from the free and fair election foundation of afghanistan that they recorded some two hundred and twenty four incidents of serious intimidation they

seem to have been problems particularly in the eastern provinces of afghanistan where there were virtually no female electoral staff and as a result women particularly in conservative communities were unable to come forward and crossed their ballot in addition to the more than one thousand floating stations where i'm able to open because of intimidation and threats from the taliban the foundation has also recorded a further one thousand five hundred and eighty four voting stations that opened their doors late because of problems in the whole mechanisms of organizing the selection we're also hearing and we've reported extensively on this on the 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 in the yardstick they. i've been using is many people here say extremely low they say that irregularity is are inevitable they say that the violence of this year 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 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. and sticking with the story of the elections in afghanistan at the democratic process is a failing in afghanistan that's the view of dr abdullah abdullah in an afghan opposition leader who is hamid karzai his main challenger in the two thousand and nine presidential election he says his country must learn from past mistakes and to avoid collapse. as i had predicted before the presidential election is lost but 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 sort of sliding down all the the downward trend to lead to an absolute failure i list i 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 african leadership the

administration led by mr i can say it in itself is a misled leadership and then lost sense of dietitian to the failures of the national government cannot be said to do with more troops from outside water sources from outside more energy and more support from outside this is it was such a ration that afghans are just stacked with it and the international community is also stacked with more than forty servicemen have been reportedly killed in a gun fight and to jigga stand it is reported they were ambushed in the mountains in the northern part of the central asian republic the soldiers had been searching for prisoners who had escaped from a high security prison last month more than twenty people sentenced for their part in an attempted coup killed at the jails and security guards and escaped into the mountains they were part of the islamist opposition movement that fought against the central government in the civil war in the one nine hundred ninety s. . this week russia and norway aside an arctic border agreement resolving

a decades long territorial dispute the treaty created a maritime boundary in the energy rich barren to 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. go or 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 unclear burder 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 good production both in russia and in norway is going to. need new fields and new big elephants to develop in this disputed area later. place just very promising demonstrating goodwill incorporating with a nato member russia still openly opposed to the alliances military presence in the region. is not 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. in this lucrative

region. 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 russian borders the treaties 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 bering sea were tied as much as a quarter of the planet's seabed all and gas resources for three years due to police co-ops and see this treasure has remained there then buried now with russia in no way finally sinking their long running feud the two maritime powers are why they're ready to make some headway what's been causing troubles for decades will soon start grid in profits. in the barents sea. coming your way next hour one step closer to a nuclear free world. as the strategic arms reduction treaty between russia and the

u.s. heads for a vote before the senate we look at how america's domestic issue could hamper ratification. this week at the leaders of israeli and palestine a med for the latest round of middle east peace talks in sharm el sheikh and jerusalem the meeting was overshadowed by israeli warplanes attacking gaza 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 had threatened to pull out of the negotiations if israel extended the settlement building however he added that there is no alternative to peace political analyst omar barghouti says that the talks are doomed for failure until israel begins to obey international law. the entire settlement colonial settlement enterprise is illegal according to international law all of the settlements have to be removed according to international law this points to the main problem with the so-called

negotiations and i called them negotiations not to negotiate because they know ghaith palestinian rights they negate human rights in general and they negate their reference to international law and therefore these talks have no chance of success there is really side is a belligerent occupier and an apartheid system that's denying the majority of the palestinians the refugees the right to return to their homes the palestinian side is too weak and lacks democratic mandate not to mention vision and other things so there is no chance for these talks to succeed the 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 could help the country in its recovery from recession it comes as a 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 it time to go to work now and just moving down 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. the 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 poor 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 paterson 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 were full of the low level jobs that these folks with will still be sort of out. there 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 seven about four hundred. people. are free like some of the workers who are some are homeless not surprisingly always on call been made sterile twenty percent more mouths to feed here eva's kitchen you can hear it

going to why the world now and something can't work like for one who has an incurable disease lose not for work or health 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 and 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 to do it. for me is not the rare snow bloom better. in the urban decay of silk city gratitude is reserved for the help with recovery they do know her area you may see her

you know you share your very character lauren lyster r.t. patterson new jersey. and the poverty will be one of the top issues discussed at the un general assembly session in new york next hour r.t. asks the people in the city what results there expect from the gathering. probably won't 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 parking spaces are direct traffic for everybody congestion if we all stop believing in that water 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 all. 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 r t z e got a piece going off reports from the scene. with a click of a trigger this cohen says street in the very heart of moscow became the scene of a gangster movie at around eight pm on thursday evening alleged crime was a slant sajjan known by the nickname ground by his son was entering an apartment building with his bodyguard when suddenly two men were entering a vest a door when the shooting began around the bodyguard went down first while witnesses say. actually tried dodging the bullet ended up getting one in his stomach both men were rushed to hospital and the authorities soon after announced grandpaw son had died from the wounds back at the scene of the attack investigators found a kalashnikov rifle a silencer and empty shells. when was firing the shots from that window on the third floor it's right opposite the entrance and such a short distance made it nearly impossible to miss as it turned out the leader of

the alleged crime leader and his bodyguard both made it to the hospital underwent surgery and are now recovering authorities said they gave false reports on purpose to prevent a second assassination attempt ground by his son is believed to be in charge of most organized criminal groups in russia and the c.i.s. and controls highly profitable lands in moscow and in southern russia very attractive for his rivals he used to be the right hand man of viewpoint and a tory a smart your boss assassinated last year was also shot in the stomach. and so far it's hard to say who ordered the latest attack but it's definitely the result of the war currently going on between major gangs to clans in russia. since you point exists there have been various reports of gangster shootings and assassinations both in russia and in western europe including switzerland spain and greece the police found dead bodies of men suspected of being members of this or that gang

operating in russia or the c.i.s. but there is still no evidence grandpa his son is in any way connected. everyone knew al capone was they got far though the mafia the never the less he was jailed for tax evasion a crime which can't even be compared to the horrible things he was involved in proven grandpa his stance criminal activities is just as difficult. as gangster movies with shootouts in excess in asians have become cinema classics but as investigators now try to find the hit men and the organizers of thursday's attack the hollywood storylines of those stones are still just as relevant. you go it was going off already moscow. now for a brief look at some other stories making headlines around the world this hour. four people have been it killed and one policeman wounded after a hospital shooting and apartment blast in southwestern germany two of those killed were found in the apartment a woman.