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other stories that have shaped the week poland to decide on whether to extradite one of russia's most wanted. after he was detained on friday but later released. also russia and norway reach a milestone agreement on their borders in the energy rich see putting an end to a forty year old spirit. and a new figures reveal a poverty in the us has left one in seven americans living below the breadline last year the highest number in over fifty years of record keeping. and broadcasting live from the heart of moscow this is r t with a look at this week's top stories and your top news in sweden's general election

preliminary results suggest a controversial far right wing party will enter parliament for the first time and with twenty seats of a could now hold sway over the ruling center right coalition that has retained power in the election but lost its majority the sweden democrats demanded steep immigration cuts saying it will ease pressure on the country's welfare system previously both the main parliamentary blocs said they would refuse to deal with what they call a racist organization prime minister fredrik reinfeldt said that he would approach the green party to strengthen his alliance as laura reports from southern sweden that despite many voters turning to the far right party some candidates say and others it denied their right to freedom of speach. 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 of being harassed and

bullied allegedly by young people from far left groups. there have been several cases which past with the now it's starting to become a big party names was getting more attention it's horrible that it should happen during an election campaign it's a threat to swedish democracy. sweden democrats are controversial they believe the government's immigration policy in recent years has been a failure allowing large numbers of migrants to live in enclaves where they don't learn swedish creating tension between diverse ethnic groups and draining the welfare system the s.d. would severely limit immigration and encourage migrants who won't assimilate to go home that 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. angry because it's one of the things that. we in this party. the democracy. used to be you can say what you want and. need to reckon she got. a fellow s.t. candidate in a scene reminiscent of a film was tortured by youth in his house held down while the swastika was carved

on his forehead he told the police teach heard 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 henning's a political candidate in the nearby town of law 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 very marginal. people. in public of course we can tolerate it 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.d. 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 moment swedish politics. the other party will have to decide whether 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 speach. play a role. have already. much more still ahead this hour here's a look at what's ahead. counting is under way in the. violence.

will bring you an update in just a few moments. gangster wars in the heart of moscow we bring you the story of an attempt on the life. and a look at possible motives for the violence. a polish court is set 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. reports from the post 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 after he landed in warsaw was apprehended by the police show for e.t.s. 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 is wanted something few in moscow believed. we heard a car i was heading to poland to turn himself into the prosecutor's office why he could go to the prosecutor's office in britain or any other country if he wanted to but he did it in poland so my theory is that it might be aimed at soaring the improving relations between moscow and warsaw. poland has to consider whether to be extradited to russia and no matter how hard war so try to de politicize this issue

. the prosecutor general tells me that they have no choice but to start the extradition procedures but these procedures do not mean an instant extradition in the russian side should it necessarily hope for a decision that will satisfy all. 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. and definitely i think this is. a moment of truth for all relations. has been one of russia's most wanted since two thousand and two it is now that he walks in the elegance huge 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 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 sec's tradition request as they legally must will review. 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. 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 been marred by violence reports of irregularities and low turnout artie's correspondent paula. the afghan capital was quiet and there have been no new incidence of violence reported although at the close of election day saturday at least fourteen people were confirmed did the taliban carried out more than thirty eight bombing attacks in a statement an e-mail that said it had targeted and hit some one hundred and fifty polling stations around the country we're hearing from afghan officials that little more than a third of the voting population turned out to bridges to be

a voter we were also hearing from the free and fair election foundation of afghanistan that they recorded some two hundred and twenty four incidents of serious intimidation they seem to have been problems particularly in the eastern provinces of afghanistan where there were virtually no female electoral staff and as a result women particularly in conservative communities were unable to come forward and crossed their ballot in addition to the more than one thousand 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 and he fooled 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 this election but it depends according to what yardstick you measure success in the yardstick they. been using is as many people here say extremely low they say that you regularities are inevitable they say that the violence of this year was innocent 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 waist a sense of democracy the fact that so few people to adopt to vote does not give legitimacy to the parliament which is due to take its seats next year. polis lee are reporting there for us now more than forty servicemen have reported been killed in a gunfight into 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 security guards and escaped into the mountains they were part of the islamic opposition movement that fought against the central government in the civil war in the one nine hundred ninety s. this week russia and norway signed an arctic border agreement to resolving a decades long territorial dispute the treaty created a maritime boundary in the energy rich barents sea and divided a disputed area roughly half the size of germany the deal is expected to boost

offshore exploration in a region rich with reserves of oil and natural gas. russian in the region leaders a glowing from satisfaction with president dmitri medvedev and prime minister young still who don't have achieved is a huge relief for the nation's. 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 elephants to develop. this disputed area later. place. promising demonstrating goodwill incorporating with a nato member russia still openly opposed to the alliances military presence in the region for. 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 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 will be done by new year some experts estimate the waters of the barrier would hide as wide as a quarter of the planet's seabed all and get resources but for years due to political opposition say they try to. has remained dead and buried now with russia in no way finally sinking their long running feud the two maritime powers are fine they're ready to make some headway what's been causing troubles for decades will soon bring in profits regional tional tea in the barents sea your words are still to come this hour the price of freedom as a rock pays out four hundred million dollars to american gulf war victims. now 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 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 a time to go to work now and i just don't think down it's time to head to the food pantry for charity if. 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 if there are people who can't make ends meet people like jenny are going tomorrow 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 one 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 why the particular needs are few and far between especially in the old urban industrial cities are rather simple as in so many cities in the united states manufacturing used to power this one these were still factories that now are decrepit boarded up sitting in disrepair there are signs everywhere here of the u.s. manufacturing jobs that have disappeared or gone overseas factory work all of the low level jobs that these folks with the old sort of out. and leaving them lining

up in droves for a little heat we now say prepare about twelve hundred meals a day now it will be serving about four hundred. people. have free hard liners some of the work and for some are homeless not surprisingly i was on call when some made there were twenty percent more mouths to feed here eva's kitchen than a year ago why do they know we're now and some can't work like for one who has an incurable disease who is not for work or for so many of it's 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 their color i don't know was the press the door.

for me is not going there is no gloom red or. disloyal in the urban decay of silk city gratitude is reserved for the help with recovery they do know. that we may feel they. can use their you very counter lauren lyster our t. patterson new jersey while the actual number of americans living below the poverty line could be even higher than official figures suggest that's the view of max fraud wolf an economist at the new school university who says he's studdard by the scale of the problem. well seeing numbers this large one in seven american adults living in poverty in just about one in four to five american children shows us that the sheer numbers and the percentage of americans who are being systematically failed by the american economy and it gives you a little bit of a taking of the temperature of just how severe the pain is there's every indication

from the data flow that next year will be worse than this year because the numbers that we're looking at today and in two thousand and nine and we're already three quarters of the way through two thousand and ten and every trend that made the poverty and the severity of poverty worse last year is very much in place this year and i would also add that we have really high poverty numbers here with an actual poverty rate income that you need to get that or less to be considered poor in the united states that's so low if you do a more realistic calculation we really have more like nineteen percent of our public in poverty not even the fourteen so in some level i would say to president obama it's already worse than it looks and i don't think that's quite good enough as a message when you're failing our economy is failing so many people also this week in the israel and palestinian leaders met for two days in sharm el sheikh and jerusalem for another round of middle east peace talks the meeting that was overshadowed by israeli warplanes attack in gaza twice in response to palestinian rocket and mortar fire the main issue for discussion was israeli settlements in the

west bank palestinian president mahmoud abbas and threatened to pull out of negotiations if israel extended the settlement building however abbas said the talks have to continue as there is no other alternative former negotiator for israel alan baker says you shouldn't sit down at the negotiating table if you're not ready to compromise. the palestinians have blown up this whole issue of settlements out of all proportion it's one of the negotiating issues so you it's not a zero sum game you can't say well we'll only negotiate if you already given on one of the major points of negotiation peace according to the the former agreements between the israelis and the palestinians peace is composed of a number of subjects one is refugees one is jerusalem one is water one is security one these borders and another one is the settlements now all these subjects have to be negotiated the palestinians can come along and say hey we're not going to

negotiate if you don't agree in advance to freeze all the settlements this is completely against all principles of negotiation the iraqi government has agreed to pay out four hundred million dollars to americans are traumatized during the kuwait invasion twenty years ago the decision has caused outrage among the country's population during the gulf war saddam hussein's regime had been torturing and using u.s. citizens as human shields but millions of iraqis who also suffered under saddam and later from the american military campaign are angry they've received nothing after the kuwait war iraq was put under u.n. sanctions which were provided the legal basis for the presence of american troops there on the question of reparations for iraqis and if qanbar a member of the iraqi national alliance party says there is cash in the country it just needs to be better distributed. iraq is not short of money by the way the poverty we see in iraq is caus by a great degree of mismanagement. on the iraqi government par huge

corruption i think they show in iraq is not if there is money or not i think the problem is how the money is managed and why the how the government is in complete control of the iraqi state's money while and they are like a government is extremely l.h. while there are people not explained before something very unusual i think in order to solve this issue is to have a modest government in the future specifically the upcoming government that could transfer wealth from the government to the iraqi people. the center of moscow witnessed a mafia clash this week the man the son to be the godfather of most of russia's criminal groups was shot and seriously wounded r t e got peace 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 boss

a slant known by the nickname grand son was entering an apartment building with his bodyguard when suddenly the two men were entering a vest a door when the shooting began 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 a son had died in the room 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 gave false reports on purpose to prevent a second assassination attempt grandpa her 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. 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 gangsta clans in russia. since the 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's still no evidence grandpa son is in any way connected. everyone knew al capone was they got farther into the mafia nevertheless he was jailed for tax evasion.