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don't come. just hours to go before voting begins in kyrgyzstan for the parliamentary elections with security forces and to ensure peaceful living up to political tuppence and ethnic violence. all candidates and now in the running to because. most good amongst the names are you surprised. what entrepreneurs are claiming that president saakashvili regime is it will sing them to give out their business.

hello and welcome to all c twenty following news live from moscow. before we go to code kyrgyzstan was thought the news for us with matters from outer space and are able to bring you some live pictures and we are thinking about their arrival of the latest version of the so used rocket to the new russian american crew at the space station so the spice craft is currently docking at the i assess and we're getting lives. pictures or what's happening there right now their rockets were blasted out from there by going to cause more drama in kazakhstan. lady and cosmonauts i was under clary and. the next six months was an additional twenty five. minutes joy joy into american astronaut douglas and we look. on the right you got an awful lot of your chicken little bit i don't want. manning the stations arriving

in june and this space and will remain together until late in november there's to be a remarkable reunion sue for invertebrates called kelly will be joined at the space station by his identical twin brother paul another not astronaut will fly a shuttle mission and it with a brother about it. so they returned to tell the rest of their family how they got on is shadowed for march next year right now the latest space crafts which delivered the crew has completely new in-flight. systems as well as god and. equipment and it's also. lighter and. it has improved construction just you know pictures from space space capsule docking with the international space station with the new russian american

crew with the latest that's but it has to do i did on this latest mission. and polar stations across kurdistan one due to open within two hours for voting which will great central as first parliamentary democracy security is being stepped up across the country or trusts in bloody ethnic clashes and political turmoil this year but it is also easy groups can offer pause fears of violence still remain. this is truly a crucial vote because it's meant to and instability and political chaos in the country for the past half a year or so kyrgyzstan has been plagued by violence and the seldom part of the country where we are now are among the most affected areas and there are fears that this violence could flare up once again during the election the former soviet republic has been struggling to achieve normality since former president. was overthrown from power in deadly street protests across the entire specially in the

capital bishkek violent riots left dozens of people dead and put the entire country in a state of chaos people were protesting policies which went to people living in poverty and failed to increase the quality of life in kyrgyzstan for years the interim government held referendum which voted to build a parliamentary republic which is a milestone not only for kyrgyzstan but for the central asian region since this election will be held successfully it will change the way. it's planned that the president's powers will be curbed well the prime minister will have more power than the formal head of state this is significant for central asia since traditionally countries in this region are ruled by authority leaders and this way. from such a political model for the first time in central asia twenty nine political parties

are taking part in this election which is an all time record for kyrgyzstan however there are genders are relatively similar to one another there is skepticism of all the ordinary people here in kyrgyzstan who say that this election won't we improve their lives because simply not ready for such a transition and probably won't be as effective apart from political unrest or just on there's also been suffering from ethnic violence in june. there were deadly ethnic clashes here in the city of course where we are now which is populated both by kyrgyz and can nationals and as a result hundreds of people were killed thousands were injured and thousands more had to flee their homes and at the moment peace is really fragile here in the south of the country and in fact at the moment meaning people fear even going to the polling stations on sunday there have already been reports of threats sent out to the local population of mess for many people at the moment the main priority is to

rebuild their homes and businesses after june is while it's rather then to vote for any politician but despite this the authorities are still calling for the people to go to the polling stations to take in this election promising that it will provide the long awaited stability of stories are on high alert across the entire country both police and volunteers are monitoring the streets of the city's international observers have already arrived at the region and authorities say that everything is ready for the vote on sunday. the selection of moscow's next to the final stages the united russia party has given its short list of contenders to presidents dmitri medvedev who now has ten days to decide who's to take charge at city hall in the russian capital is covering the story for us. the short list. for names that have been submitted by the united russia party to the president. on that list

includes the deputy prime minister. now he's considered a strong from manifold the position by many commentators so no surprise that he's being included in the list he's also considered a very close ally of prime minister putin having worked with him extensively during his presidency and his vote as prime minister so he's certainly a very strong constant but also on the list we have russia's transport and communications minister igor levitin and the governor. of valery have now he actually spent ten hours the former mellish deputy up until two thousand and five and to ninety ninety six when i. was running for that position and. was running for the position of vice and he was wounded in an assassination attempt against him after an explosion near his home which he survived the sudden you know interesting bit of background will not come to the only female of the group that mila did not

she is the current at the moment and her role actually includes a lot of the social issues such as unemployment and health care and she is considered one of the most experienced candidate having worked in the government since ninety ninety four and also in her position at the moment perhaps one of the best place to deal with some of the issues the president the fate of his already highlighted as will be some of the main challenges facing whoever will become the new. i think all four candidates are perfectly capable of becoming mayor of moscow the city's leader and be responsible for quality of life. issues carrying on the policies in effect and to dealing with future challenges the capital demands a series of new solutions which we will discuss with the new mayor. one of the main challenge. is it going to be nice a shoe reforms now muscovites going to be keeping it that some of the social

programs initiated and to pull the scope will be made things such as we travel on the most the pension is a benefit to teachers but there are certainly many issues that the new i will still be attempting to resolve issues such as police in the cool the cool to the headache muscovites which is the traffic problems that's an ongoing problem said that will be some of the issues facing now another major key role that the new face will be to gain the public's trust especially ahead of the parliamentary elections that will be happening at the end of two thousand and eleven knows this lack of trust of the cited as one of the main reasons that the full the dismissal of the new mayor will now have around a good to make an impact on the muscovite couple of the controversy surrounding this because he was always very good at bringing out a united russia votes from the muscovite the party going to be hoping that whoever

selected will have the same source of sway with the public ahead at the elections next year. you know we've got c.n.n. still to come later this hour the race to claim the. find out more russia has a story to support the country's territorial claims in the resource rich region. island by the south so a lot of the self-proclaimed super hero is squealing on litterbugs and keeping his eye on the country's war is. moving towards a european style democracy is a stated aim for the georgian president has proposed a new constitution is supposed to set the country on this course however many business messiah hail psycho shit is a violation of peoples of all is that all is with they experience that as well it's a hazmat entrepreneurs who claim corruption and kickbacks are the real forces in the country. the so-called patchwork baths and central police see is the perfect

place to relax and have your portal taken on the way out the historical building is now owned by a private company but if you years ago it was taken from its previous owner by the government getting gold has an issue really still fears for his life he says in two thousand and seven he was approached by government agents who claimed he used illegal schemes to purchase the baths allegedly through the use of threats the officials forced the man to give up his business going to court says get a goal was not an option. they said that they know where my son's school is and they could say tomorrow and bust him for drug possession but he said that they will make me sell everything and still it won't be enough to pay them are featured be begging for mercy i couldn't have done anything but they need my business to this day. immediately after seizing the property of the government sold it off since then great goal has been trying hard to get his business back. six complaints

asking them why they made me give up my business but the authorities are silent so we have not received a single response here why is it going to finance it. a human rights activist says this case is not unique according to the salient have been numerous cases recently where the georgian government has illegally seized buildings wound and other property from private individuals large and small companies. when neil thirty openly use police in the prosecutor's office to take away people's property there's no other way to cool it tara it's a kind of official racketeering aggressive and legal and purely criminal in its nature we can say directly to make our second team is responsible for terrorizing the business sector. some georgian entrepreneurs' blame the greed and political

ambitions of the country's leaders these businessmen say that in order to work safely and police see you have to make generous donations to the ruling party will are cheering the two powers who intrapreneur is in georgia make voluntary donations by paying off the government in june the elections all of them pay no less than fifty five thousand u.s. dollars these are official sums we can only guess how much they have to pay on official. goal feels betrayed by the government is still hoping to find justice for this man and many others who have seen for themselves so often president saakashvili his words differ from his deeds change can't come soon enough well georgian officials claim that they have created to corruption free to me to do also lost their businesses due to pressure from the state it's nothing but spin and even though only if you want to speak out it looks like the movement against such rickety hearing in tbilisi is getting stronger does. russia

norway denmark the u.s. and canada five powers in a race to claim the ice caps are vast untapped resources russian scientists are literally going to the end of the earth on a mission to support that nation's claims also as you can see in the wretch over join them on their icy endeavors. there is a perception that it's hard to find a living soul in the arctic but not today this is how members of russia's north pole expedition with their colleagues on board the academic break up the third group is the flagship of the northern fleet if you're chill floating lab or a tree around a hundred scientists have spent seventy days and beyond gathering evidence to support the claim that the man also region is part of russia's continental shelf the head of the expedition looks more than pleased with the results almost year but during today we're fully confirm the geological outline are

a leaf at the bottom of the long and awesome bridge we have recovered quality material that corresponds to international standards. russia's biggest evidence gathering weapon is a multi beam eco sound known as quantock spec it's hard to see and impossible to touch but it's talking to scientists from the bottom of the coldest ocean in the world. they can go as deep as twelve kilometers so it practically covers the whole spectrum of the ocean's depth there are no depths if we cannot measure. it brings it to our competitors are using similar equipment the american icebreaker hilly for example works with the same sound it is convenient to analyze and compared to collected by the same standards. russia is in a hurry to collect evidence for its implication to the un sheffield for twenty thirteen the same year another applicant canada comes up with the clays the russian

president's envoy to both poles says he's people are ready to work around the clock to fulfill the mission. pretty diffuse and some say the russians do an antarctic on a polar night we're not going to ask anybody water when we should do the arctic belongs to russia there were. and in accordance with international treaties and who will work day and night if necessary. and other deepwater eco sound will do its part of the job within the north pole expedition it will be installed on a movie. and gas information on the models of breach nonstop for the next year the arctic may be of ostend embassy in popular image a nation but it is thus to major that it contains a quarter of the world's untapped falso fields flotsam gold diamonds and other precious metals around sixty percent of total shock to gas lies in the russian exclusive economic zone so even without the models of reach being divided it seems

that russia has already won becoming grace it's in the pressure of our team from the island of view in the arctic. and let's not check some other international news stories. and village column tar has been evacuated due to the threat of a second deluge of toxic sludge is feared be weakened of all of the nearby a reservoir may collapse hungry declared a state of emergency after thousands of tons of waste flooded several villages this week killing seven however despite this large reaching the river danube a visual say there is little sign it has been significantly preclude. pakistan says it will reopen the case supply route for nato forces in afghanistan it was closed over a week ago at a protest at a nato helicopter attack which killed two pakistani soldiers the blockade caused tension with washington and left supply convoys stranded on their way to the border vulnerable to attacks in the latest incident

a suspected taliban militants armed with rocket set fire to twenty nine nato all time. the thirty three chilean miners trapped underground for over two months reached by a drill digging a rescue tunnel should any government engineers must now decide if the shaft is to be lined with steel to avoid the risk of collapse the bore the operation to bring the matter up one by one commences the country's mining minister said the rescue process should begin with a three to eight days earlier it had been thought of the men might not be reached until christmas. one man is holding responsibility for keeping his country's forests clean and he's keeping his identity targeting those who seek to turn the great our dogs into a pigsty was litter and exact his revenge or seized on bart and went to meet the twenty first century superhero who's taking no porkies from little bugs. a legend on the trot this is the pig man snuffling for some rather unpleasant

truffles he's the latvian state forest sun sir to one of its greatest problems rubbish well just look at this mess scoundrels how could they little like this this persona outed snuffling super swine's spends his days charging around latvia trying to clean up the woods and make the culprits squeal for mercy there's even a legend to accompany him if you will turn the forest he will turn into a pig and he's not just how mean it up this old bore isn't all on. board once a forest warden called us and said he'd found the remains of a car by the serial number we managed to find the owner and find him two hundred lots they're still out there off and it wasn't long before we found some potential literacy of our own there. but they were keen to show they were on pigments side it's

a no four problem. i love it all the way it's done this man and your campaign pass it i can't see any more. when he started his work six years ago latvia's forests had become a pig sty with fly tipping and littering rife since then pig man who like all superheroes refuses to reveal his true identity to save their bacon he works with police educate school children lobbies parliament and keeps on the hoof rooting out literacy and raising public awareness in fact he's become quite a lot being a celebrity. here where the world has for superheroes superman batman spider-man and the like the in superman pete man you can see how this forest is terribly littered who else but me can clean it so i will do this i will clear up the latvian forest i promise you meaning that if

you're planning to litter you might reply more than you sound big man could appear anywhere at any time so if i behave like a swine and do this. i'm soon going to have to clean up my act tom barton artie latvia. headlines in just ten minutes and no more than a third of exported african tribes their quote end of five billion here and ends up in russia everywhere that's according to the head of russia's and in our cortex eight a civic save i know and he spoke to ask him about the war on drugs and why under current circumstances it can be one that's coming up in just a moment. today

we're talking to the head of service. mr pena thank you very much for joining us today first off let's talk about afghanistan afghanistan is the number one producer all opiates in the world when we talk about the transfer of the drugs to russia what kind of amounts of drugs are we talking about. afghanistan produced about seven thousand tons of opium last year which is equivalent to seven hundred tons of heroin we believe that about thirty six of these tons end up in russia that's a lot about five billion doses and it's about thirty five percent of all drugs

exported from afghanistan because in fact afghanistan exports less than half of the drugs it produces as drug addicts throughout the world are unable to consume everything that comes out of afghanistan so afghanistan stores a huge amount of drugs russia and other countries estimate it's about thirteen to fifteen thousand tons of opium so even if drug production stops in afghanistan the country will still be able to supply the international market with heroin for another twenty or even thirty years. what about the main mode of transportation of the drugs could you talk about the roads or the countries to which the drug trade flows into russia. going over to see you there. is the northern route which is sometimes called the northern silk route after the seventeenth century trade route the reason the silk route is popular is because after the collapse of the soviet union new nations are merged and while their borders exist on paper in reality they're not even probably guarded so essentially there are no effective borders

between afghanistan and russia with such poor as a borders it's very easy for traffickers to transport drugs the biggest part of drugs flows through the stand and kazakstan and onward to russia another part goes through iran across the caspian sea and the caucasus ridge and ends up in the north caucasus or deeper in russia's territory by the way this provides a source of financing for terrorists and extremists in russia's caucasus because that's the hope of the americans that have got us and say that they cannot eradicate most of the poppy fields because a lot of danny's depend on their livelihood on these fields by producing the opiates what can be done about this is their solution to the problem. when the u.s. says you cannot deprive farmers of their livelihood it actually sends a message to the afghan leadership as well saying they shouldn't do it because first this will destroy people's livelihood and second you push farmers into the hands of the taliban i think this is merely an excuse furthermore since u.s.

special representative for central asia richard holbrooke first suggested this idea that instead of eradicating drug crops the u.s. should target drug labs and traffickers which was almost a year ago the number of labs producing drugs for russia has tripled a year ago we knew about one hundred seventy labs in afghanistan today we know of more than four hundred laps of producing drugs for russia does this not seem to be a paradox that when afghanistan was under the control of the taliban the production was significantly lower than it is now and it has risen dramatically after the u.s. invasion nine years ago what. what is the problem how is this fitting into the picture and the statements that nato is trying to fight the drug trade in afghanistan in your opinion there was later was this your right i had a meeting with my pakistani colleagues here in islamabad and they too were amazed

at this phenomenon there's only one way to explain it when the taliban sought official recognition for its kabul regime they took on president in measures to eradicate apia poppy crops they consistently took serious steps in one nine hundred ninety eight nine hundred ninety nine and two thousand when they introduced capital punishment for poppy cultivation as a result they succeeded in eradicating drug crop on ninety percent of afghanistan's territory all the provinces they controlled the only place they couldn't do it was a northern afghanistan which was controlled by the so-called northern alliance but then operation enduring freedom began and the situation changed drastically only a competent government that has the support of the people can really control the country and take serious steps to destroy drug production how can we talk about the military solution to the problem when also the poppy fields in afghanistan are located near in areas of the most intense fighting or where foreign military personnel are stationed where where is this listen to that. the nine

years of the military operation in afghanistan have demonstrated that the more fighting there is in the country the small of the chances are of destroying drug production there growing alternative crops is a risky proposition the risks are immense you can lose your crop at any stage opium on the other hand does not require any effort poppy grows all by itself and buyers come straight to the field and purchase the crop so it's obvious that you can destroy drug production this way the russian federation has developed a plan which is called rainbow two because it consists of seven points we presented this plan to the european commission the european parliament nato our partners in the. us in afghanistan and here in pakistan if the plan calls for a comprehensive approach first of all this huge problem should be officially recognized as a threat to international peace and security in other words this is a separate problem that kills more than one hundred thousand people each.