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capturing the city. as a good. stroke for us to become the hoto. politicians to win hearts and minds before sunday's election the president of the central asian republics says the poll will go ahead amid tight security in case of violence. polls protests the construction of a new mosque fearing. stream ism in the country but the muslim minority say all the victims. are ways by choice fifteen russians and on a year long journey of complete tell us a nation aboard a floating chunk of arctic ice.

in central moscow this is with you twenty four hours a day to have you with us the president has offered reassurances that the country is ready to hold parliamentary elections this sunday just a few weeks ago. had suggested the vote could be postponed if there was evidence of illegal activity or extremism during the campaign. reports now on the changes the outcome could bring to the republic. burns down shops and houses abandoned cafes and broken windows political billboards alongside piles of debris on the streets as kyrgyzstan gets ready to vote for a new parliament here in or should the country's second largest city the need for change is obvious we need a decent government able to restore peace and stability that it will stop people from leaving economies going to stability and the economy to start that's what we

need. eighty two polling stations have been set of across the city the election is to be observed by monitors from the sea russia and the c.i.s. the amount of competing parties is all time record twenty nine the country's interim president is pushing to build a parliamentary republic where the head of state is more of a ceremonial figure than the one who holds power however several parties are against the idea including the one headed by the former prime minister felix school . each body has to pass the five percent mark in order to get into college. it's. after what happened this election is not just a political choice it's a chance to reunite two peoples to build a new country. the majority of the population in or shark your guess while around one third was back nationals in june the two clashed in a massive outburst of violence armed gangs that destroyed shops and said houses

ablaze according to the most modest figures hundreds of people were killed and several thousand others were injured the havoc lasted several days until the interim government regained control by that time most populated districts have been almost completely destroyed many lost everything and even forced to survive without a roof over their heads. my house was burned down i don't have anything now only food i can get is from the red cross maybe three or the upcoming vote could attract more violence on thursday police arrested a man sending s.m.s. threats to locals trying to make them vote for specific party over three hundred officers will patrol the polling stations and five hundred swat like commandos have been flown in from the capital bishkek volunteers have also been recruited. we've now switched to an intense mode of operations besides the additional force a separate seam of around one hundred officers is taking part in tactical drills

and will also be deployed in the case of emergency. the election was proposed by the interim government and me after president like he it was overthrown by thousands of protesters the opposition to control of the country promising democratic reform. friday is the final day off political riling which means just one more day is left before sunday's election here in it seems the authorities are ready both in terms of the organization and security but the traces of the recent violence. can still be easily found in most parts of the city and or a clear sign stability is still a long way off you go to is going to be or you're just. political activists in poland have staged protests against the building of a new islamic center in the capital of the mainly catholic country critics say the mosque in warsaw could force radicalism and terrorism the next u.s. has been finding out there are fears ethnic tension could erupt into violence.

muhammad moved from egypt to warsaw several years ago however he says it's been hard to settle in i mean i only do freelance jobs because it's very difficult for me to find any permanent work and it's not because i'm not skilled because my applications are turned to soon as employers learn that my name is muhammad. poland has long been a mono ethnic nation with the muslim community less than one percent of the population most of them are ethnic talks are swear have been here for centuries but ahead of warsaw it's only islamic center says the number of migrants from muslim countries is growing rapidly the. right sort of this mosque almost twenty years ago and the several dozen people were coming here for prayer now the friday prayer gathers hundreds and the building simply cannot fit everyone. news of another islamic center to be built in warsaw was welcomed by the nation's thirty thousand

strong minority construction of a new second mosque in warsaw began last year according to blueprints it is supposed to be three times as large as the initial islamic center like the first mosque which was sponsored by the local muslim community this one was financed from abroad. the fact that construction money came from saudi arabia enraged several political movements in poland they staged protests urging the government just. stop what they call islam isolation of the country the man behind the rally says it is the fear of terrorism that drove people onto the streets we believe that this is going to just push that which is going to build this mosque on in war so he's connected to the for the nation of islam if you're going to say she knew it all the other organizations which are members of. the notion of going just a few up. in western europe from the right because that's my frontal semitic

statements from connection to terrorism the rally gathered several hundred men and was little surprise to politicians this is an influence of what is happening to western european countries i mean everybody here wants to know what was happening in perry in france in another frame say it is us ago that's read from the fundamentalists from the terrorists after all and they decided to participate in iraq and afghanistan operations sociologists say most crowley slit a fuse for a time bomb pistol so on for now the civic outrage is more or less count down by the presence of european human rights activists but as the number of immigrants grows this may well be not enough to keep the protests down i believe we're facing a serious conflict in the future. at the moment only around three percent of the

country is of normal but with more immigrants coming to poland the anticipated brighter future with the european union could be clouded by worries of ethnic tension. reporting from warsaw in poland. when on its way here on r.t. for you blastoff baikonur. find out how to cosmonauts are keeping the latest mission to the international space station in the family that's coming your way in just a few minutes from now here on r.t. . the first the governor of the northern afghan can do is province and at least fourteen more people have been killed in a mosque bluster at least twenty others were wounded while most militant attacks happened in the south and east of the country this is a sign of the deteriorating situation in north afghanistan the bombing marks the start of the tenth year of the u.s.

led war in the country it's already the longest in america's history and there are fears it's turning into a vietnam like quagmire the violence continues to escalate with twenty ten already the deadliest year for the coalition since the conflict began. and european intelligence officials and senior pakistani diplomats accuse the u.s. of crying wolf after it issued a terror for europe earlier this week the u.k. guardian newspaper goes on to allege the actual purpose of the alert was to justify a recent increase in drone attacks inside pakistan before more or less i'm joined live from frankfurt by historian f. williams and l. he's the author of full spectrum dominance totalitarian democracy in the new world order thanks very much indeed for joining us here on our team now as i've just mentioned there are accusations that the alert was simply a justification for a rise in drone attacks inside pakistan as well as to justify america's troop surge in afghanistan as well and what do you think do you agree. that reasoning well i

think the main reason that i can figure out for the troop surge in afghanistan is to have more security on the heroin routes going across central asia into russia and on into western europe because there is no military reason other than to present a staging area against china's future. activities as well as russia so the afghan war itself the the idea of the american soldiers or nato soldiers are going to bring anything stable to afghanistan is absolute rubbish and i think a better name for it would be a little trickle because i think this is something fabricated at convenience whenever the us is having trouble reading other countries up for the war on terror which is really. a war for full spectrum dominance well let's talk about the impact on the stability of the global instability in fact this is all caused and speaking the threat itself washington was warning of a possible commando style attacks in european capitals and as we saw in mumbai now

we as a citizen if i go into a european capital and warn of such an attack that could be imminent i feel pretty hopeless to be honest i don't really know what i should do about it so what about european governments i mean how can they prevent such attacks how should they be reacting to these sort of threats. well there's there's no one hundred percent preventing of an isolated terrorist attack if it's going to happen but. intelligence experts around the world agree that most terrorism is state sponsored terrorism so you have to ask which state is benefiting kui bono from the constant warnings about al qaeda attacks here and there and it seems very convenient that just when europe is expressing grave doubts about the nato mission in afghanistan that these these warnings come well at these new attacks and the only sources we have are u.s. intelligence interrogators and it's exactly for that reason a top nato commander says that the terror alert for europe actually underlines the need for the efforts in afghanistan that of course as it has become very unpopular

in many in many countries who are involved in this fighting in this conflict so in some ways you've got a point that has any well i think it's the opposite the sooner that nato pulls out of afghanistan the less you would have justification for that if that were even the case but i think the needle commander is pushing a certain agenda and it's the pentagon agenda that's that's one that has very little to do with the taliban or al qaeda if it even exists there is of course talk of well there's a promise of a gradual or start of a withdrawal imminently in the next year what do you think the consequences would be if we do see a gradual military withdraw or indeed a complete withdrawal from afghanistan what the will become less safe or what would it be safer without a military presence there which is according to many actually provoking this violence and actually causing the terror threats around the world. well i think the latter is more like the. appropriate answer the presence in afghanistan has done

nothing to make the world more secure and it's certainly done nothing to make afghanistan more more stable i have afghani friends who tell me inside reports of what's going on with the u.s. soldier presence there and we are propping up nato is propping up a government the karzai government which is the largest opium warlord on the planet ninety three percent of all the heroin and that's developed since the us occupation in two thousand and one so one has to ask when the official u.s. policy is no interdiction and destruction of opium fields in afghanistan which the taliban actually did. what's going on here is this another vietnam where the cia's running drugs to finance terrorism and spread the war in to laos and cambodia is that what we're doing in kyrgyzstan and manas air base and so forth and these are some very serious questions that ought to be looked at it when you mention the cia in the form a cia off official has recently said u.s.

troops will leave afghanistan by the twenty twelve u.s. election because it's actually the only way for obama to stay in office so we're really talking about u.s. political interests at stake here rather than afghanistan's interest in the long term. well i wouldn't place too much stake on political analysis of anyone from the cia but i don't think a miracle of the second coming of jesus could bring obama into a second term so i don't think the troop withdrawal is going to have any effect on that but it won't happen the pentagon will have the troops permanently stationed behind something like fifteen permanent bases built around the country and most of those are air bases aimed at china. central asia and russia kazakhstan the pipeline just finally can i go back to the subject of these security threats so european security officials have been very critical of the us issuing these threats i mean what do you think do you think it's really helpful and useful to issue such

security threats around the world that some people may start thinking well this is a case of crying wolf get complacent and take no interest at all and not take not all seriously i mean are they worth carrying out these these warnings well i don't think they really bring much of anything because there are so vaguely formulated and frankly the european patience is beginning to worry a little bit thin with washington's cry wolf as you call it so i don't think they're particularly helpful very interesting here we have to say german american store an f. william angle joining us live there in frankfurt here in r.t. thanks very much for your time. well the u.s. led campaign in afghanistan has done little or nothing to stem the flow of drugs coming from the country as we mental was actually mentioning a little earlier there russia's top anti drug enforcers says if anything it's made things worse. clear. the nine years of the u.s. campaign in afghanistan shows more fighting equals less chance to destroy the

narcotics business only the government capable of ruling the country based on the population supports can solve the drug problem when americans say you can't leave the peasants without their only way of income big giving a sign to the afghan authorities to keep out of the opium business because those left without cash will turn to the taliban for support but this is just an excuse to get those you. wish to enter by the way you can see the full interview with the head of russia's narcotics agency on a website that r.t. dot com will also be broadcasting it on sunday. a nuclear powered russian icebreaker bound for the north pole is involved on a year long expedition scientists on board are searching for an ice floe where they can conduct research it's hoped the study will help russians claim to the territory that is a country which over went to meet the crew preparing for a lonely and dangerous mission. and now they're

on affairs at the top of the world nothing new for the likes of arctic veteran russia's. he's lost count of times he's traveled to both poles the rug there's a new lonely cold possibly dangerous adventure lies ahead for these young man two weeks aboard an icebreaker is a last chance to have fun and get to know new correlates but as soon as they get to that why don't destination it will be hard work and survival. if you just carries a present girlfriend it's sterilized as an old travelers book with drawings and layers of the transmitter a german impressions interesting stories but isn't it a tiny i will write in turn your betters. twenty five year old ocean ologist andre is one of a fifteen strong team will be left to fend for themselves for a year whatever food mattson equipment they need has to go with them now because

they'll be out of reach and there have to keep an eye on ice cracks dangerous storms and paula back on the hunt also hiding north of the ship is a veteran from the sunny russian republic of korea although he won't be staying behind this time he says he's family aunt exactly happy with his career choice you know. my parents who are against their expedition to worsen relation with parents who caucuses is a serious thing i came back home for six months to build a house for my sons and move to st petersburg in order climate as. has been looking forward to reuniting with his best friends while he's been on leave dean and dick spent a year on the island most of it outdoors scientists tell stories of how they feel as he chased back into the sea gullies seen them grow from poppies into courageous

explorers but they can never had to warmer climes scientists believe in the bees island for more than a year at a time harsh weather conditions and real local bass makes for a significant danger to the explorers the biggest threat to these animals to these drugs lies not with the optic but outside it but in the north which is almost clean of viruses these dogs simply wouldn't make it in the cities that's why they're moved from one station to another in other words there and cut. the rest. of the street. today's a special day for me i can't express it with words i'm overjoyed i took a pipe from the. two to students in a dive i would have been less absurd if my wife would have fallen service but when my dog dialogue if you couldn't eat and sleep for a week that starts. now the docs are up and ready for

a new paula joy any leaks plain standard way that warrants you have to make them love you he says make them part of the team you need all the friends he can get alone in the arctic. to integrate our team from the island of these in the arctic. a russian rocket with a u.s. astronaut and two russian cosmonauts on board has blasted off successfully for the international space station it's the first flight for the modernized soyuz spacecraft and it's due to reach its destination in a couple of days from now on bottom was at the baikonur cosmodrome for the launch. baikonur has been the site of rocket launches for about fifty five years this year its anniversary it's also been the site of soyuz launches for decades it garnered three from here and now this soyuz rocket is an advance upon a long line of previous ones one thing that hasn't changed over all the decades is the people of flying the humans crews that go inside it the three men in this crew

had been training for two years long an extensive training period the captain alexander kaleri experienced cosmonaut this is his fifth trip up into space script. another of flight engineer on board this is his first trip into space on the third of the u.s. astronaut scott kelly it's his third trip into space and interesting extra detail about him quite astonishingly his brother also in astronauts mark kelly is here watching him later on he will be flying up with a u.s. space shuttle possibly even the last u.s. space shuttle to the international space station and working with his brother for a short period that you know it's incredible to watch any rocket launch and all my brothers are board makes it even more exciting i've seen him launch three times now

and it's pretty incredible thing to see the pieces now starting up and we're just going to stand back and take a look at the launch the culmination of all the preparations that have gone into this long. that rockets going up now to the international space station on its journey up there and rockets like that after a few months may be the only link with the international space station meaning that baikonur will be humanity's gateway up to space. tom barton reporting that one a little later in this week's in moscow alex will follow presenter martin andrews on a glamour tour from facials to the top headdress is here in the russian capital that's coming away and less than ten minutes from now in the meantime we've got the latest from the world of business with you.

hello time to have a look at what's going on in the world of business russian regulators have intervened over plans by the european bank for reconstruction and development to buy ten percent off the russian stock market r.t.s. they demanded legislation to require approval for stakes of more than five percent saying any purchase could impact plans to merge r.t.s. with russia's other stock market my six eby argy insists it will support the move. there were reports that the potential buyers were willing to support the consolidation of my six years in my view this raises even more questions because i know the position of most r.g.s. shareholders who are cautious about the merger and that's why i don't fully understand how a new shareholder which there will be four will take a different point of view also it is directly there's little clearer and most important neither investors nor the stock market seem to have a clear idea how this will end. and here is how the markets closed in russia

down for a second day as persian meshal spices spell or else take over and we're all cutting among the main losers setting more than two percent of my six gas problem is the only gain on the r.t.s. from top of the cent. despite a strong start to the week for global stock markets driven by optimistic forecasts for the year and almost all gains were raised by friday positive into cesc explains and the last couple of days of actually have seen the markets give up almost all of the gains by general early in the week as the new worries have resurfaced about the outlook for two thousand and eleven the jobless situation in the states the fairly high level commodity prices and the markets have pulled back i mean overall we closed the week about one of the have two percent higher for all the major global in this is and the russian market as well fears of a currency war will top the agenda of the i.m.f.

the world bank they swear can't governments from the u.k. to the japan have been cutting interest rates to lower their currencies most experts also worry that the world has moved from a credit crunch to an excess of liquidity. liquidity is very significant that's what the central banks have been doing to try to pump the world full of liquidity whether that turns into inflation depends on whether that liquidity is used at the moment it's not been used banks are hoarding it consumers are being very cautious and saving it one day in the future that caution will disappear and inflation could arrive but at the moment i actually still feel that we're fighting fighting more of a deflation threat than an inflation threat in the major countries. russia may sell its bonds denominated in europe next year that's according to deputy finance minister dmitry punkin the country will seek to raise up to five and a half billion dollars in april of russian soldiers fast international since the

default of nine hundred ninety eight it aims to fill the gap between government income and spending. the future of russia's largest mining company is to be decided in a special general meeting being held in two weeks now has been to base a dispute between shareholders. at the time and interest so even with a bit of a has the details. the shock waves are still spreading from nearly annual meeting back in june interest with a twenty five percent stake gained four seats on the board while you sell with a slightly larger stake managed to get honest we then broke a truce in which the two shareholders had agreed not to attempt to gain control of the valuable nickel producer since then there have been claims of voting and regulations legal action and proposals from both sides to buy the out there out. also want to see middle management is too close to interest specifically they want

a bigger dividend payout to shareholders and if you can't invest in your projects you have to return the money to the shareholders there's no reason for the management to. enjoy the big cash pile that is sitting on the balance or that has to put it onto the show whole those tours are going to invest in new projects themselves if the management is not able to do so very simple corporate governance professional management that what we stand for and we do believe those issues also preserve while there was a company from current sorts a bit until sixty billion dollars at least twice for the next eighteen months no risk denies it's involved boardroom the company says it needs the money to start which will put on hold. dark. moments in a straight carry not fun calculation works for that one decision is not you know we're quite sure we have some. interest in russo.