election results show sweden is a far right party going to take control of the seats in the country's parliament as the ruling coalition fails to hang on to its majority. and other stories that have shaped the week poland is 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 the borders in the energy sea putting an end to a forty year. new figures reveal a poverty spike in the u.s. has left one in seven americans living below the breadline last year the highest number in over fifty years of record keeping.

broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow this is certainly glad to have you with us let's take a look at your top stories now in sweden's general election preliminary results suggest a controversial far right party will enter parliament for the first time and with twenty seats they could now hold sway over the ruling center right coalition that has retained power in the election but lost its majority this weekend democrats. 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 he would approach the green party to strengthen his alliance. it's one of europe's oldest democracies but . up to the election in sweden has been. democratic candidates from the

right wing sweetened democrats of being harassed and bullied allegedly by young 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 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 draining the welfare system the s.d. would severely limit immigration and encourage migrants assimilate to go home that led to them being branded nazis by left wing groups this is one me saying 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. in this party. democracy. used to be you can say what you want and. reckon she's likely 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 this weekend democrats have attracted significant support among the swedish born population henning's a political candidate in the nearby town of sgrena doesn't agree with the message this week democrats are pushing out but thinks it's important they should be allowed to speak we do have the movement here. pretty well but it's very marginal people who are angry. to say whatever they like in public of course we can tolerate that 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 f.t. candidates have to worry about they're already discussing what to do. how to keep

us out anyway and what about the market it's people who have. to sit there and. 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 in swedish politics and society 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. r.t. . much for you still ahead this hour here's what's to come. around. it's underway in the afghan capital and for some find it and we'll bring

you an update in just a few moments. plus gangster wars in the heart of moscow we bring you the story of an attempted assassination on russia's most notorious mafia kingpin and 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. of was detained in warsaw on friday on an international arrest warrant but later released artie's alexy 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 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 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. and we heard 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 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 war so try to de politicize this issue . the prosecutor general tells me they have no choice but to start the extradition procedures but these procedures do not mean an instant extradition and the russian side shouldn't necessarily hope for a decision that will satisfy. experts knew from the very start the decision would not be free of mind games as you understand. they also have their own limitations but mesta cajetan. and they can go. 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 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 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 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 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 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 a parliamentary vote counting is underway in a ballot that's been marred by violence reports of irregularities and low turnout or he's a correspondent reporting 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 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 hearing from afghan officials that little more than a third of the voting population turned out to bridges to the 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 voting stations that were unable to open because of intimidation and threats from the taliban the foundation has also recorded a further one thousand five hundred and eighty four voting stations that opened their doors late because of problems in the whole mechanisms of organizing the selection we're also hearing and we've reported extensively on this on the 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 the selection but it depends according to what yardstick you measure success and 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 their sin of was last year during the presidential elections and they say that the selection of the two hundred and forty nine parliamentary members would 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

a democratic in the waist a sense of democracy the fact that so few people tuned out to vote does not give legitimacy to the parliament which is due to take its seats next year. party's policy are reporting there from couple afghanistan more than forty service men have reportedly been killed in a gunfight in tajikistan 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 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 signed an arctic a 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 region leaders a glowing from satisfaction. with president dmitri medvedev and prime minister young still have achieved is a huge relief for the nation's. well the go all 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 peat but with unclear border 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 production both in russia and in always going to. need new fields and new big elephants to develop. its 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 for them of. the arctics 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 there 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 much as a quarter of the planet's feeble at all and get resources but for years due to political opposition say this treasure has remained there then buried now with russia in no way finally thinking their law writing feared the true maritime powers are why they're ready to make some headway what's been called in trouble for decades well thrown sugru in profits. not in the bering sea meanwhile this week russia and canada were also looking to break the ice over their argument about another disputed part of the arctic on thursday the two countries that foreign ministers held talks in moscow after autumn less said it's prepared to challenge russia in a race for the r. six rich resources canadian researcher edward strategic who's been exploring and

studying the seabed says the territorial disputes are peaceful but that anything could happen in the future. there's a lot of energy underneath the arctic ice probably twenty percent of the world's remaining oil thirty percent of the natural gas really the future economies of these countries depend on energy and that is really you know going to be there guarantee for a future in the next ten twenty thirty forty years i think the sovereignty question is going to be a long long dispute and hopefully it's not going to end up with people making enemies of each other i think right now things are looking awfully good but when you have that much money at stake those kinds of resources at stake and something happens with the world economy. economies can collapse they can get in trouble you can get different world leaders have a different approach to these issues than anything can happen so i think this is a very dynamic situation that we're seeing unfold in the arctic. still to come

a cut off from the outside world for one hundred days and counting a unique experiment to prepare mankind for future deep space expeditions which is a new milestone details coming up next hour right here on our team. 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 in jerusalem the meeting was overshadowed by israeli warplanes attacking gaza twice in response to palestinian rocket mortar fire the talks on to need 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 barghouti from the palestinian campaign for the academic and cultural boycott of israel says the middle east talks are doomed to

failure because of the rights of palestinians are being negated. the entire settlement colonial settlement enterprise is illegal according to international law all of the settlements have to be removed according to international law and this points to the main problem with the so-called negotiations and i call them negations not negotiations because they negate palestinian rights they negate human rights in general and they negate their reference to international law and therefore these talks have no chance of success there 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 to help the country in its recovery from recession it comes as 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 that is just something 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 poor we need and the numbers

are only growing and we saw in two thousand and nine a fifteen percent increase over two thousand and eight numbers and we're anticipating that that number will go up by another ten percent at the end of two thousand 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 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 to actually work all of the low level jobs that these folks with low skilled but what about you know 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 serving about four hundred people. three blind some of the workers who are some are homeless not surprisingly. there are twenty percent more mouths to feed here eva's kitchen you can hear it why do they know we're now down and some can't work like irwin who has an incurable disease who is 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 their dollar i don't know was the press tour.

for me is not going there in the room better. in the urban decay of silk city gratitude is reserved for the help with recovery they do know care. you may feel you know you share your day count lauren lyster artie patterson new jersey 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 got a piece going off reports from the scene. with a click of a trigger this quiet side street in the very heart of moscow became the scene of a gangster movie at around eight pm on thursday evening alleged crime boss. known by the nickname ground by his son was entering an apartment building with his bodyguard when suddenly the two men were entering a vis 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 for 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 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 tourist mafia 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 a war currently going on between major gangster clans in russia that's what 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's still no evidence grandpa his son is in any way connected. up or everyone knew al capone was the got father of the mafia nevertheless he was jailed for tax evasion a crime which can't even be compared to the horrible things he was involved in proven grandpa stance criminal activities is just as difficult. as the gangster movies would shoot out and assassinations have become cinema classics but as investigators now try to find the hit man and the organizers of thursday's attack

the hollywood story lines of still stands are still just as well are. you going to spin off r.t. moscow. now for a brief look at some other stories making headlines around the world this hour four people have been killed and one policeman wounded after a blast and a shooting in a hospital in southwest germany two of those killed were found in the apartment a woman is reported to have fled from the building following an explosion authorities say she then entered a neighboring hospital and opened fire killing a member of staff police responding to the incident were fired on and then the woman was killed in the gunfight. the president has inspected rescue operations at the mine where thirty three workers have spent more than a month. doing everything in its power to rescue the men and value that they will succeed on friday a drill hole reached the men now must be to allow them to be pulled out goes to

plan. could be freed by early november. colombian authorities say at least twenty two rebels have been killed in an operation near the border with ecuador. belong to the group responsible for killing eight police officers earlier this month more than thirty policemen have been killed in colombia. and i'll be back with the headlines in a few minutes stay with us. wealthy

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