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he starts on t.v. dot com. runs out for politicians to win hearts and minds before sunday's election the president of the central asian republics says the poll will go ahead and the tight security and civil rights. polls protests the construction of a new fairing that could be used to foster extremism in the country but the muslim minority same thing other victims. are also reporting this hour castaways by choice fifteen russians involved on a year long journey of complete isolation aboard a floating chunk of ice.

live from our studios in central moscow this is all to do with you twenty four hours a day the president. has offered reassurances that the country is ready to hold parliamentary elections this sunday just a few weeks ago. suggested the vote could be postponed if there was evidence of illegal activity or extremism during the campaign well to get of no reports 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 the stun 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 will stop people from leaving economies going to stability and the economy to start working that's what

we mean. 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 or 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 party has to pass the five percent mark in order to get into parliament. 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 and the two clashed in a massive burst of violence on the 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 head. my house was burned down i don't have anything the only food i can get is from the red cross maybe if you are the upcoming boat could attract more violence on thursday police arrested a man sending threats to locals trying to make them vote for a 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 offices 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 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 austin it seems the authorities are ready both in terms of the organization and security but the phrases 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 spin off 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 foster radicalism and terrorism and the saudis alexian a chef he's been finding out there are fears ethnic tension could erupt into violence. mohamed moved from egypt to warsaw several years ago

however he says it's been hard to settle in. 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 but 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 sarkar sware 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 blue brains 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 to stop what they call islam isolation of the country the man behind the rally says it is the fuel for terrorism that draws people to the streets we believe that this is going to just. which is going to build this mosque. 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 organisation which are members of. the notion of going just a few of. our own in western europe from the right because that's my frances and we

fixed it was from connection to terrorism the rally gathered several hundred men and was a little surprised 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 french cities few days 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 salute a fuse for a time bomb. also of a new fall for now the city college rages more or less counted 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 a norm paul has already gen but with more immigrants coming to poland the anticipated

brighter future with the european union could be clouded by worries of ethnic tension. ski r.t. reporting from warsaw in poland still to come this hour for an r t blastoff but 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. but first the governor of the northern afghan can do this province and at least forty more people have been killed in a mosque blast 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 and it's already the longest in america's history and the violence continues to escalate with two thousand and ten already the deadliest year

for the coalition since the conflict began. where european intelligence officials and senior pakistan diplomats accuse the u.s. of crying wolf after issued a terror alert for europe earlier this week the u.k. has guardian newspaper goes on to allege the actual purpose of the unit was to justify a recent increase in drone attacks inside pakistan while american german historian f. william angle says the timing of the terror alerts has led to a questioning of u.s. motives. 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 need or mission in afghanistan. that these these warnings come about these new attacks are. the only sources we have are u.s. intelligence interrogators the presence in afghanistan has done nothing to make the

world more secure and it's certainly done nothing to make afghanistan more a more stable i have afghani friends with tell me inside reports of what's going on with the with the u.s. soldier presence there and that 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 u.s. occupation in two thousand and one so one has to ask when the official u.s. policy is no interdiction and destruction of 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 spread the war into 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 i think. and as the historian f. william engle mentioned there the drug trade remains a massive problem for afghanistan and the neighboring countries russia's top anti

drug and forces says the u.s. led campaign has only made the matter worse. news of the u.s. campaign in afghanistan shows 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 the only way of income giving a sign to the afghan authorities to keep out of the opium business because those little without cash to the taliban for support but this is just an excuse. and by the way you can see the full interview with the head of russia's anti narcotics agency on our website that's r.t. dot com online all the time and that will also be broadcasting going to be in full on sunday and by the way the more stories we all learn as well in about fifteen years you might not recognize the russian capital as a city is to get a modern make over by the year twenty twenty five. the bieber fever that the u.s.

capital surrendered to an invasion of the furry pets authorities in riga decided not to fight them and i've come up with a cunning plan instead you can find out more on that by simply logging on to website dot com. a nuclear powered russian icebreaker bound for the north pole is involved in 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 russia's claim to the territory and. went to meet the crew preparing for a lonely dangerous mission. yeah man.

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 or rather has 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 colleagues but as soon as they get to their final destination it will be hard work and survival. to give you his diaries a present my girlfriend. is an old chargers book with drawings and layers of the. impressions interesting stories but it isn't a tiny i will write in tiny letters. 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 or cloths they need has to go with them now

because they'll be out of reach and their have to keep an eye on ice crags dangerous storms and paula back on the hunt also having north on the ship is a veteran goalie 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 which are worse in relation with parents in the caucasus 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 well. in the warm galley has been looking forward to reuniting with his best friends while he's been on leave huskies dean and dick spent a year on the island most of it outdoors scientists tell stories of how they feel. chased bass into the sea gullies seen them grow from poppies into courageous

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

a new paula joy any explains the born 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. sit in the car chill the r. t. from the island to these in the arctic. now to some other world news this world updated the death toll from a toxic chemical spill in hungary has risen to at least seven people it comes as experts say they've reached a critical stage in their attempts to stop the sludge from spreading further emergency workers are pouring clay and acid into streams to neutralize the alkali which has reached the danube countries downstream from hungary including croatia serbia and romania are drawing up in the agency plans. is ready troops and killed two senior hamas militants in a raid on a house in the west bank city of hebron the israeli army said the militants were wanted for their involvement in a tie. it's against israelis last month four israeli settlers were killed when palestinian gunman opened fire on their carnage hebron meisters military wing has

issued a statement to avenge the deaths the operation has raised tensions as peace talks remain in difficulty over israeli settlement building. a top north korean official has made the first public statement indicating that the son of the leader kim jong il is likely to eventually succeed his father as the next ruler kim jung il took over as north korea's ruler in one thousand nine hundred four when his father died in what became the first really three succession communist world and it comes as the country begins celebrating the sixty fifth anniversary of its workers party officials claim the celebrations will be the biggest of their kind in the nation's history. in chile thirty three miners trapped deep underground for more than two months could be reached by saturday rescuers have already drilled through over five hundred meters of rock and just ninety meters left to go engineers will then check how safe the shaft is before they bring the men surface chile's mining minister says once the drill breaks through it could

take anywhere from three to ten more days to pull all the mines out. fun in our world update this early two thousand and ten nobel peace prize a spot controversy with beijing strongly denouncing the award given to the prominent chinese dissident liu xiaobo it says the move will damage diplomatic relations with norway and it's also threaten to block international news broadcast the law barack obama's call for the immediate release from prison of shareable the pro-democracy activist and the tree critic was sentenced in general to an eleven year term for inciting a recent version of state power. a russian rocket with a u.s. astronaut and true russian cosmonauts on board has blasted off successfully from thought the international space station it's the first flight for the modernize soyuz spacecraft and it's due to reach its destination in a couple of days from now well arty's tom 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 with garren 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 threat engineer on board this is his first trip into space and the third the u.s. astronaut scott kelly it's his third trip into space and interesting extra detail about him quite astonishingly his brother also an astronaut mark kelly is here watching him later on he will be flying up with a u.s.

spy shuttle possibly even the last u.s. space shuttle to the international space station and working with his brother for a short period dan you know it's a credible to watch any rocket launch and all my brothers are board makes it even more exciting i've seen a launch three times now and it's pretty incredible thing to see the bruces now starting up which is going to stand back and take a look at the launch the culmination of all the preparations that have gone into this launch. 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 bachman reporting there will

time now to check out the world of business that's 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 artists with russia's other stock market my six e.b. r g insists it will support the move. there were reports that the potential buyers were willing to support the consolidation of my six and yes 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 they're waiting for will take

a different point of view this 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 fell or else think oh and we're all cutting among the main losers setting more than two percent on my six gas problem is the only gain on the r.t.s. off 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 erased by friday positive into cesc explains and the last couple of days ago 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 holding 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 might sell its fast bones denominator to europe's 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 ralston a co has been to base a dispute between shareholders. at the time and interest so even with a bit of a house the details. the shock waves are still spreading from nearest 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 on if we had brokered 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 from both the new regulations legal

action and proposals from both sides to buy the out there out. also want to see management it's 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 on to show all those tours that can invest in new projects themselves if the management is not able to do so very simple corporate governance professional management that's what we stand for and we do believe those issues also cruise a 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 the board the company says it needs the money to start which will put on hold. we are working. carrying out fun calculation works for that final decision is not your money we are

quite sure we will have some. interest and will put aside their differences then the depths of the global financial crisis but metals prices are rising again generating attractive cash flows something that debt heavy could certainly use the room for compromise is shrinking as the emergency general meeting draws near then we did a business r.t. . russia's third largest retailer ok has been valued at around three billion dollars ahead of its upcoming i.p.o. in london the crowd to raise up to five hundred million dollars in order to sink its short term debts but share ok sales thirty three percent to more than two billion dollars retail chain owns more than fifty shops throughout russia. that's all the business news for now you can get more stories from our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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