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tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join us for technology update on r g. parliament for peace kyrgyzstan is heading to the polls in a bid to bring stability to the state ravaged by repeated violent unrest. mourners are gathering in russia's city of smiley and remember six months after a plane crash claimed the lives of poland's president and many of its top brass. joy in the room is we travel to the sites all the traffic. and in our view of the week nine years of war with casualties in afghanistan ever on the rise critics say the campaign is rapidly spinning out of american control.

plus three new cosmonauts are in orbit on the international space station all the steps of their journey beyond earth's gravity. of the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina josh after six months of political turbulence and violence the people of kyrgyzstan are casting their ballots for parliament that will rule the country as a vote will take power away from president and give it to m.p.'s what would be the first such case in central asia it's also hoped to stabilize a region where hundreds of people died in brutal clashes in recent months and earlier i spoke to our correspondents and work is cut off in the rest of southern city of osh and the capital bishkek. this is a landmark election for the country and regardless of how many people show up at the election it will still be valid even once it's over kurdistan will become the first central asian country to become a parliamentary state where

a prime minister has more priority than the president and it's accountable to the parliament tradition essentially asian states are ruled by all three tarion leaders on in april when former president by key was overthrown the country was wracked with political violence that took lives of dozens of people and left many more injured people were unhappy with the former president's policies and many lives and see and after the president was overthrown temporary government held a referendum during which it was decided to turn the country into a parliamentary state there are still rumors however that more political of riots will follow this election is special in the country start in regions you go or so what is the atmosphere like in august which was rocked by violence the summer or so where we are now is just on the second largest city meaning people call it the second capital and this is a mall many places in need off the girl you know most in the country because first of all it's populated both ways cured years and years back nationals and last june

there were mass ethnic clashes in the city which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people and that's according to the most modest figures thousands of others were injured and thousands more had to flee their homes the city still recovering from violence and going to work for years there and this violence could return with the start of the voting in fact many people even feared going to the polling stations there have been reports of threats sent out to the local population where so many reports of wires and posters distributed and other cell going to use cities calling for violence but nevertheless polling stations did open at eight am and the locals are coming in and placing their votes to taiwan to go bad. now tell us how people in the capital feel about this well do they believe in change at all well we've spoken to quite a number of locals and people do have quite tight hopes for this election we also

visited several polling stations and people started showing up early in the morning a lot of people have showed up a record number of twenty nine political parties is registered for this election however many of them who are more or less similar political agenda there are still those who remain skeptical about this election we have heard rumors that some of the leaders of political parties may get attacked however the country's temporary government says that its security forces are completely ready to resist any at any political rallies that may take place during this election i would go back to you go for the region remains on stable we're hearing so what is being done to provide security and concerns of possible violence or security is tight across the whole country but especially here in the south police officers are present at each one of the eighty two polling stations in the course and are also patrolling the streets accompanied by volunteers i know that out around fifteen hundred volunteers have

been recruited for the job for you to see around five hundred swat like commandos have been flown in to or from the capital bishkek and also the authorities have been holding previously various drools to be on guard in case of any emergency so we will be monitoring the situation as the events unfold the polling stations are going to close at around eight pm local time or expecting to hear the first preliminary results around midnight and of course we will report on events here in or as the day goes on. those are going off in a time long ago i talked to earlier and ceremonies are to take place in memory of the plane crash in russia that killed president of poland and many of its high ranking officials it's been six months since the tragedy took the lives of ninety six people near the city of civilians families of the dead are planning a pilgrimage to the site that was hibbard is a small chance cretin. moral service is all being held at the request of the

families all the victims to separate ceremonies ology to take from a soldier remember the tragic plane crash on the tenth of april twenty seventh when all ninety six saluted the tupelo one of only pool. as they were making their way to be a seventieth commemorations of the teen amounts of these twenty tea towels and put this prison of rules were killed at the hands of the soviet secret police it was a tragedy on the unprecedented scale of this process within just the one day since president let's go to his wife maria and virtually all of its military top brawls that it was very quick to all think it's sympathy for the polish delegation will begin by going to the place where david rieff on the plane is being held and move on to the size of the actual crash where plant has been erected and all to move along to the bulwarks complex on the massacre itself however one person that will

not be attending at today's events is the brother of the kitchen scanned the needs of food in spain opposition party. kitchens he's been a very quick to criticize the handling of both the russian government and the who discovered the investigation of this crime in these if he in the almost a month of this tragedy president dead of a point of view said to head up a joint polish and russian investigation into the pools is all of the crash names of the polish few months they studied the flight recorders the flight old as well as will all the manner of materials available to the what they've managed to confirm is that out of the plane came in some. ten samantha. bald. head traffic controllers did fly so the crew members and notes to land it's also been confirmed that the plane was in good working order they've also ruled out the possibility of a terrorist attack or some sort of explosion or fire taking place all aboard. the polish military has to say for the conduct of the road this separate investigation

what's been confirmed from both sides of the normal crew members were in the cockpit at the time of coming into the hands of the question as to whether or not these pilots would put under pressure to land has not yet been confirmed but a number of causes for the crash have been put forward including the way in which the plane was prepared for the flight the willingness of the crew members to a refusal what is given to them and also the ways in which the crews were prepared for the flights colins now says that is very pleased with the way be investigations been carried out and have been very pleased with the transparency all foods from that the russian investigation and that joint interstate aviation the committee has now finished its investigation within a matter of days with the detailed reports to polish aviation experts and they

promise to make them public until three days polish all the colleges would conduct an investigation of the site within for any remaining playing days or victim daybreak. and this week the u.s. led campaign in afghanistan reached the grim milestone of nine years and there were even more losses of civilian and coalition troops it's a critical time for the u.s. effort as it struggles to turn around the fight against the taliban ahead of next year's expected withdrawal of international forces afghan officials continue to back the coalition's efforts but even they admit that after all this time there are still no tangible results in their teens post the reports the online antics of american soldiers are not helping matters. a false goes up in smoke and with a justified or not tempers flying in the afghan capital the culprits soldiers who can be heard saying fantastic before posting the clip on the internet. if by burning the house accidentally

a copy of the koran is that house that can be easily used as a tactic or as a means of practicing more young. religious history with them to go and join the taliban and al qaeda and it seems looking more and more islamic extremist websites are posting direct links to videos put up on the web by the soldiers themselves in blogs and social networking sites it's the enemy who is now helping the taliban fight its cause they can easily be copied by al qaeda and the taliban big. make. the us forces fail the video clips if you want here. you want to hang. out in some cases soldiers videos of prankish and childish othertimes down

much criminal or extremely provocative in this clip u.s. soldiers burn the bodies of dead muslims facing mecca today in afghanistan the internet is becoming more and more popular but look around it's no surprise that in a place like this there's still only a few people who have access to it so you'd somethin's home connection is so unreliable that every afternoon he's here watching videos that make him angry one of the only color we see hundreds of videos about afghanistan nato new americans are talking about human rights you can see the proof online it's alone than to do to. internet cafes all the buzz in downtown kabul hundred have been has managed the small and overcrowded cafe for the past two years and although the connection is slow it's fast enough to keep people logged on. related movements and it's easy for people to watch these. dio's put out by the american soldiers because the most

popular videos are on the first page of you tube also when one guy sees a video he tells his friends about the gang in the video and less than a decade ago when the taliban was in power home computers were banned there were only three places in kabul that had internet but now the global jihadists understand that sometimes an e-mail might just be marsha then the sword. wants a new image and so the message was by a mobile phone call it was. made for you but a good video clips the word it seems always has a way of now. going people not to see describe the thing in the internet because everything you see this can see this in the life but the taliban picking up on the form of communication it once banned it now falls on coalition troops to censor themselves point c r t kabul. and critics say what the us started in

response to the nine eleven attacks has turned out to be a quagmire like the vietnam war brian becker an anti-war coalition national coordinator believes i was drawled coalition troops from afghanistan will not lead to increased violence. the american government in its propaganda arm just as they did during vietnam tried to paint a picture that there would be a terrible bloodbath if the occupation forces left but if the occupation forces leave that means drone bombing attacks of afghan and pakistan villages will stop it will mean that the level of violence instead of ask a lady in every month with more and more thousands and tens of thousands of foreign troops coming in troops who obviously don't understand the country don't speak the language don't understand the culture and are largely demonizing the people and have all sorts of racist characters and then those forces when they leave the bloodshed will diminish that doesn't mean that we know what will happen in afghanistan but the american presence has escalated the violence the cycle of

violence throughout the country and throughout the region now they have rushes into narcotics agency says the years along us campaign in afghanistan has actually stole the fight against drugs. nine years of the military operation in afghanistan have demonstrated that the more fighting the reason the country the small of the chances are of destroying drug production there but that only a competent government that has the support of the people who can really control the country and take serious steps to destroy drug production which when the us 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 of all this will destroy people's livelihood and second you push farmers into the hands of the taliban i think this is merely an excuse. and again the full interview with the hat of russian and honor katic agency just fifteen minutes here on r.t.

. meantime an alleged russian gun runner has appealed against a thai court's decision to extradite him to the u.s. the lawyer for victor borge says there's no evidence against him and insists the judge here are statements from witnesses but with no indication of whether the court will accept the appeal books relatives fear for his future only was very understandable because it's quite possible the extradite him and just look him up on some aircraft carrier and force him to give whatever testimony the u.s. wants him to give i think they'll go as far as it takes to get it and i'm sure everyone understands they're playing to face to do these days starting with chemical sense psychological pressure. on tuesday the thai criminal court cleared the way for blix possible extradition after dismissing charges of money laundering and fraud citing insufficient evidence those claims have laid his hand over following in august really firming he was to be sans telling us the so-called merchant of death is ninety six ations of terrorism and supplying arms to colombian

rebels he was arrested in an american led sting operation in march two thousand and eight in bangkok a former u.n. arms trafficking expert says a boot is extradited a u.s. court might not allow all the evidence to be examined. oh i have concerns about what's the big two will be going back to based on the new the person who in recent times has been convicted on a sting operation involving the fox the colombian rebels is among the coal mines that all counts who was an arms dealer who strangely also was assistance to the americans on many occasions and when his lawyer sought to bring that into the courts he wasn't allowed to do so or not precedents i think it's of logically that he's depends move be able to bring into evidence the fact that the house on occasion being to assistance first to the pentagon to within nato countries in providing acra. i think it's unlikely that people who want the liberty to harm

anyone but i think calm is sometimes done as part of the process but what people may see is getting good getting the truth out of somebody she my concern always has been not the soldiers necessarily innocent of all charges but the sting operation of some he didn't do quite clearly just think operation well he's not the merchant of death which the media portray him as well i would agree he's a witness of some of the. and coming up in the program behind the glitz of a large sporting event you look at the reality of life for many in new delhi as a commonwealth games they're also. you know those who work at a dairy where you were twelve years old but for her it was just last job we really had that we work together now when the two brothers said goodbye on the launch pad but who will reunite in orbit in a few months. russian president dmitry medvedev has slammed the bell russian leader for calling moscow it's anime in his video blog have said president lukashenko

statements made during his reelection campaign were not only undiplomatic but downright indecent it follows a bell of russian leaders accusations that russian politicians are trying to tarnish his image and sponsor the opposition we have suggested focuses on domestic problems such as disappearances of many well russian citizens russia's president stressed the current tension must not affect the country's peoples and their partnership. the queen of the netherlands this week asked they had a liberal party to form a new government backed by the party of an anti islamist minority cabinet will have the support of gear will durst who will remain outside government but will those who is known for his radical ideas went on trial on monday in the hague for inciting hatred it seems from a speech he made where he compared islam to not isn't cold for the koran to be banned however the court failed to move forward with the case as well there's exercise his right not to answer questions his lawyer also accused the judge of

bias and requested he be substituted if convicted could face up to year in jail. this whole thing his whole argument. and i come from it from the same angle is we're not talking about muslims not talking about individuals we're talking about an ideology and a belief system and if you actually look at that belief system in detail you'll find that it doesn't it doesn't fit in with it's not compatible with the west and do believe. western liberal democracy and free speech as we see you know this whole thing is a suspicious trial is the pression of free speech what is you say these are actually talked about the ideology and the koran is the book and we're now having a trial because somebody has dared to criticize a book now recently here we've had professor richard dawkins had a whole t.v. program criticizing christianity and the bible and said you know equally strong things that it was it was a crime against humanity in the you want to arrest the pope i believe when he came over now nobody to kill professor dawkins i wanted to lock him up or put him on

trial and he is doing exactly the same thing he's arguing about a belief system this is not about individuals it's about what individual shrew choose to believe and what will this is doing is criticizing that belief system and i think that said i don't agree with everything he says i think most of his criticisms are valid and the commonwealth games in new delhi were supposed to provide india with a chance to show off its rapidly rising well the president of the international olympic committee says the nation has set a solid foundation for a future olympics a bit but behind the bribe billboards lie the poverty of shandy our correspondent karen singh has more. across their league boards showcasing the commonwealth games have sprung up trying to hide the city's poverty but these haven't been entirely successful here investment the heart of the slum is still visible most of its two thousand residents are not surprised by the action. the government considers us dirty it could give us land to relocate who'd have thunk them instead to hide just

to put a curtain up as if we were dirty and shouldn't be seen our politicians take their votes but they stay in policy is the commonwealth games are supposed to showcase delis arrival as a world class city in this new avatar there is no place for the city slums no wonder then that even the station feels that these boards will help project the best face of the city pushing away the reality that means just behind them people in the slum now have to circle around the whole barricade to fetch water from the other side children to have to squeeze themselves in and out through the gaps to avoid the long new route is another i mean there's no water here this is the biggest problem for us there used to be one town close by but that has been shut so we have to walk to get water from far away the government has spent at least four point six billion dollars on upgrading delis infrastructure for the games yet slum residents such as run the family believe this development has bypassed that it's

a bunny if the government had provided some amenities for us even to probe the houses for us to live in we would have been grateful or they could have opened a school in the slum and bided us with drinking water. when the government games and the birds come down but for the only slum residents life will continue to be tough for them life improving changes are needed not sure. got on scene. and are to dot com has a lot more in store for you here's some of what you'll find online right now exploring the arctic frozen expands on a chunk of floating ice russia's scientists meet in the middle of the ocean to share breakthroughs on their country's claims to the polar treasury. and made lobbyist super hero with the snout the pig man has vowed to clean up every piece of rubbish that's blighting the country's forests find out more.

now to some international stories from around the world an evacuation of thirty three miners trapped underground in chile for more than two months is due to begin on wednesday engineers have drilled through the chamber where the miners are sheltering sparking celebrations across the country the top part of the shaft needs a steel casing which would take about a day and a half to sample engineers now also must test whether these k. path is safe to prevent the risk of collapse. the son of north korea's leader kim jong il has made a rare public appearance alongside his son kim yano and it happened during a military parade celebrating the sixty fifth anniversary of the country's ruling party recently appointed to general the younger kim is expected to succeed his father as head of the nation the appearance is being viewed as a further sign of official confirmation of the succession. over two hundred passengers have been evacuated after a ferry caught fire in the baltic sea the fire was caused by a blast on the upper deck injuring twenty eight people the ship was near the german

island m.r. and on its way to us twenty firefighting ships have been spraying the stricken ferry with water to keep it from breaking up and from spilling the one hundred seventy tons of fuel on board. a two day journey of the greatest so you spacecraft is and it successfully and the international space station two russian cosmonauts and a nasa astronaut will spend the next six months on board the ice says the newcomers join another three space men who are presently manning the station so they arrived in june and there will be a remarkable reunion in february nasa scott kelly will be joined at the space station by his twin brother mark another astronaut who will fly a shuttle mission artista martin and watch the brothers say goodbye at the baikonur cosmodrome. twins in space within a few months scott kelly and his brother mark both astronauts will be in orbit together courses as kids growing up we never thought we would be in this. you know

unique in privileged position to be able to use the build up to scott's launch of russia's baikonur cosmodrome on friday was filled with technical questions but there were human moments to go there yes there were smiles. and goodbye to his but when his brother mark joins him on the i assess in february it will be the first time they've worked together for a very long time we have occasionally flown together in the navy as a test pilot but before that i think we always work at a dairy queen was over twelve years old mop the floor part of the last jet of the last job we really had that we worked together and then the time came mach said goodbye scott and to the rocket these two russian crewmates everyone went to it's only twenty minutes to go until the launch one brothers on the ground the others preparing for glass so that they both know firsthand what they're counting down. not what's his brother fly away into space the trip he'd made three times him self

. it's 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 him launch three times now and it's pretty incredible thing to see when they both meet again on the international space station in a few months time it will become a family space station or two but just like his brother mark doesn't want to be too sentimental it's going to be a busy busy fly but you know to get a chance to do that with my brother is is is a great opportunity scott and marc on celebrity twin oxen or so yet but it'll be a uniquely human moment when the hatch door the siblings meet in space tom botton ati. and shortly will be talking to russia's and an ark audix chief about the afghan drug threat of a back with a recap of our top stories in just. forty

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