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parliament for peace kyrgyzstan is heading to the polls in a bid to bring stability to the state ravaged by a repeat of violent unrest. mourners are gathering in russia's city of small asked to remember six months after a plane crash claimed the lives of poland's president and many of its top brass. join me alice it was in the arts the truth was we travel to the sites all the tragically. 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 we follow the steps of their journey beyond earth's gravity. watching r.t. coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshie after six months of political turbulence and violence the people of kyrgyzstan are casting their ballots for a parliament that will rule the country the vote will take power away from president and give it to m.p.'s and what will 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 earlier i spoke to our correspondents who are just going off in the rest of southern city of osh and become in the capital bishkek. this is a landmark election for the country and regardless of how many people show up at their lection 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 power 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 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 stars and regions hugo 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 second largest city meaning people call it the second capital and all new places in need of the girl you the most in the country because first of all it's populated both by curators and was back in the nationals and last

june when 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 have to leave their homes the city is still recovering from violence and there were few years there of this violence to return to 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 the mass reports of flyers and posters distributed in other sovereign care to cities calling for violence but it nevertheless polling stations did open at eight am and the locals are coming in and policing 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 high 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 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 and any political rallies that may take place during this election let's go back to. the region remains on stable we're hearing so what is being done to provide security and concerns of possible violence well 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 borscht and are also trolling the streets accompanied by volunteers i know that 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. emergencies 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'll report on the balance here in austin as the day goes on. those who are gorgeous can often tell you know we got talked to earlier to other stories now 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 smolensk families of the dead are planning a pilgrimage to a site that was hibbard is a small and screeching. moral services all being held at the request of the

families all of the victims and to separate servants ology to take place the will to remember the tragic plane crash on the tenth of april twenty seventh when all ninety six olympics of the to one of the only pool. as they were making their way to be a seventieth commemorations of the protein amounts of co when these twenty two thousand to 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 that speech and see his wife maria and that to me 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 under a move on to the size of the crash where plant has been erected and all to move along to the bulwarks complex on nights of the massacre itself however one person

that will not be attending at today's events is the brother of the kitchen scanned the leader of pollutants main opposition party that's. 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 most of this tragedy present in the dead of a point of view said to head up a joint commission russian investigation into the pool says all of the crash names of the polish few months they studied the flight recorders the flight as well as well with all the manner of materials available to the what they've managed to confirm is that out of the plane came in some. tense amount of. bald. head traffic controllers did myself move the crew members and not 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 that conducted the raid this separate investigation i want spin confirmed from both sides that the normal crew members were in the cockpit at the time of coming into the answer the question as to whether or not these pilots are 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 with 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 the investigation has been carried out and have been very pleased with the transparency all foods that the russian investigative and that joint interstate aviation the committee has now finished its investigation within a matter of days where hyundai detailed reports to polish aviation experts and they

promised to make them public and in three days polish only colleges would conduct an investigation of the site within for any remaining plane daybreak or victim daybreak. and this week the u.s. led campaign in afghanistan reached the green 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 fire 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 and as archie's policy reports 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. on the internet even 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 is through them to go and join the taliban and al qaeda and it seems to be working more and more islamic extremist websites are hosting direct links to videos put up on the web by the soldiers themselves in blogs and social networking sites it's the enemy who's now i want to be helping the taliban fight its cause they can easily be copied by al qaeda and the taliban. easily make. the us forces fail to build your clips. in some cases soldiers videos of prankish and childish other times they're

downright criminal for extremely provocative in this clip us 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 us so you'd somethin's home connection is so unreliable that every afternoon here watching videos that make him angry one of the only calling we see hundreds of video is about afghanistan nato new americans are talking about human rights you can see the proof online it's alone so do you. internet cafes are the buzz in downtown kabul hundred have been has managed the small and overcrowded cafe for the past two years and although the connections slow it's fast enough to keep people logged on. related movements and it's easy for

people to watch these videos put up 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 friend to get 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 myself then the sword followed once a knee mill and so. message by by mobile phone. make value but a good video clips the word it seems always has a way of it's now. one people not to see this kind of thing in the internet because everything you see is consumed is in the life with the taliban picking up on the form of communication it once banned but now thoughts on coalition troops to censor themselves point c r t kabul. and meanwhile britain's ministry of the fans has

admitted that electronic records of its soldiers day to day activities in combat are routinely wiped from computers the disclosures were made at a public inquiry into the death of a hotel receptionist in iraq but how most died from multiple injuries while in the custody of british soldiers in two thousand and three investigations being made harder by a lack of actual records were to come from commanders orders or who wasn't position at the time and all the statements to inquiry said there are gaps information because i t systems are routinely why when returned from deployments one lawyer has already said it's max of a cover up. it's imperative that all the electronic communications and particular the e-mails between iraq and london and the joint headquarters in london are disclosed in the two inquiries that are now going on the first and the moose

and corey and the second is an inquiry into an alleged massacre in may two thousand and four that's called the swedish inquiry now in that case the court has already heard that critically important emails and photographs on two laptops with thrown by a relevant intelligence officer of cross-channel ferry into the sea thus destroying them the minister of defense have tried everything in their power to cover all of this up in every in every way they could including just refusing to disclose any relevant material it's a court case is. it's coming to light now because those efforts were of the most defense to cover these are are being uncovered themselves and we're now beginning to find that we are getting hold of key documents and we can now see what was really going on in iraq and as you said. my practices are action for hundreds of

iraqi ministers. there are an untold number of iraqis who have been killed just like by most was whilst inside military facilities with u.k. forces no one knows how many because the ministry to french refused point blank to answer questions are the from my team of lawyers or from the newspapers here the minister of defense now say look we're terribly sorry we've lost all the training materials prior to the invasion of iraq very sorry about we're very sorry that that meant that interrogates is. who were being trained in informational techniques involving coercion we we won't really know exactly how though they were being trained. they say that they're sorry that i detailed in the directive which would have told interrogators what they could and couldn't do it was never issued so they admit. a whole range of systemic problems of now being covered that lead up

to the death of. so we do we know some but we don't know a great deal because they refused to disclose any of the documents so for example they say that hoarding was banned from after the death of. well forty or fifty of my clients say well actually they were being hooded in two thousand and six two thousand and seventy even two thousand and eight. coming up later in the program no room for change as hate crimes against migrants persist many say the u.s. is no longer a society of tolerance and. you know it was work at a dairy queen twelve years old but the for her it was the last job we really had that we work together when we two brothers have said goodbye on the launch pad who will reunite in orbit in a few months. at alleged russian gunrunner has appealed against

a thai court's decision to extradite him to the u.s. the lawyer for victor boot says there is no evidence against him and insists a judge hears statements from witnesses there was no indication of whether of the court will accept the appeal books relatives fear for his future only was very unstable to it's quite possible the likes of 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 time criminal court cleared the way for blix possible extradition after dismissing charges of money laundering and fraud citing insufficient evidence those claims have delayed his handover following and august ruling confirming he was to be sent to the us so-called merchant of death denies accusations of terrorism and supplying arms to colombian rebels he was arrested in an american lads sting operation in march two thousand and eight in bangkok a former u.n.

arms trafficking expert says it's extradited and u.s. courts might not allow all the evidence to be examined. i have concerns about what's the big two will be going back to based on the new the person who in recent times who's been convicted of 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 of assistance to the americans on many occasions when his lawyers sought to bring back into the courts he wasn't allowed to do so or not president i think it's of last plea that he's depends she will be able to bring into evidence the fact that the house on occasion being the assistance to the pentagon to within nato countries in providing. i think it's unlikely that people who want to you know brutally to harm anyone but i think home 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 sort of is necessarily innocent of all charges it but the sting operation of some he didn't do quite clearly just think operation he's not of the merchant of death which the media portray him as well i would agree he's a merchant so some death to many of us is losing its status as land of the free known for being open to all races and religions a spike in and say muslims hate crimes and protest against a mosque at ground zero show not everyone is welcome marina fortnight explores the reasons for this growing xenophobia. america is supposed to be a nation of tolerance. but bleeding through her stars and stripes. and ugliness incapable of masking protests against the construction of new mosques illegal immigration and economic reform point to a fear and frustration. an emotional climate

experts say where many americans are swapping patriotism for nationalism definitely is a phobia it's a fear of the other zina phobia is defined as an unknown reasonable fear or hatred of the unfamiliar especially people of other race or religion muslim associated with bill that's everybody knows there's no fly in these there's ninety nine names most of them sorry sacks created what he calls mobile art aviation a missile decorated with signs equating islam to terrorism at the front a mannequin dressed as an arab there is no display there is no sex drives this display all over new york this. is the out of ramadan is the executive director of the council of american islamic relations his new york office repeatedly receives hate mail like this picture of a burning korans there's been a spike and obvious by. hate crimes and islamophobia

correct and attacks on mosques throughout the country from temecula california to sheboygan wisconsin to tennessee these are crimes that are motivated by. hate or intolerance or bigotry a rage that amnesty international believes is being exploited not tempered by politicians all across america and now she's going to have the right to put up a sign next to the holocaust museum in washington. never serves the japanese good enough to show you next to pearl harbor i do is no reason for us to show be modest actually were outraged at tea parties around the country frustrations over taxes and joblessness are aimed more directly at us president barack obama this is go you think you know most look you know what i don't know what the what is i cannot make up what the president is but the reason to suspect it is because talking like what

stop talking like that. according to the f.b.i. obama has garnered more death threats than any other american president in the us immigrants have also become the other arrested and detained in arizona beaten and bruised in new york were racial tensions have erupted in some low income neighborhoods unfortunately most of the attacks most recently been by blacks against mexican violence many attribute to the struggling u.s. economy if you're a mexican immigrant right and people think that you're a threat maybe third job or something like that we're going to throw a saw in one basket that's the bottom line anything who looks different all the sudden becomes bad an alarming downturn in america's mood clearly illustrates a frustrated and divided public but this leaves many asking if the land founded on freedom is becoming a land and soon i hate. fortnight party new york. and r.t.

dot com has a lot more in store for you and here's some of what you'll find online right now exploring the arctic frozen expanse 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 meet lobby a superhero with us now the pig man has vowed to clean up every piece of rubbish that's blighting the country's four's find out more at r.t. dot com. let's now take a look at some of the stories from around the world on the evacuation of thirty three miners trapped. on the ground in chile for more than two months is due to begin on wednesday engineers have drilled through to the chamber where the miners are sheltering sparking celebrations across the pond the top part of the shaft the the steel casing which would take about a day and a half to sample engineers now also must test whether the scape have the same to prevent the risk of collapse. the son of north korea's leader kim jong il has made

aware public appearance alongside his son kim yano and it happened during a military parade celebrating sixty fifth anniversary of the country's ruling party recently appointed the general the younger kim is expected to succeed his father as head of the nation 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 people the ship was near the german island of from on on its way to us waiting for our fighting ships have been spraying of the stricken ferry with water to keep it from breaking up and from spilling the one hundred seventy tons of fuel on board. now a two day journey and all of the greater so you spacecraft has and it successfully at the international space station two russian cosmonauts and a nasa astronaut will spend the next six months on board the i.c.'s the newcomers join another three space men who are presently manning the station since they

arrived in june and though there will be a remarkable reunion in february nasa scott kelly will be joined at the space station by his twin brother mark and other astronauts will fly a shuttle mission and watch the brothers say goodbye at the baikonur cosmodrome. in space within a few months kelly and his brother mark both astronauts will be in orbit together. as. brutes. position to be able to do this the build up to scott's launch of russia's baikonur cosmodrome on friday was filled with technical questions but there was a 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 over a twelve years old bought the war for the last year 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 brother is on the ground the other is preparing for glass so that they both know first time and 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 bored makes it even more exciting i've seen oh my 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 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 scansion mark on celebrity two i'm not sure so yet but it'll be a uniquely human moment when the hatch door the siblings meet in space. now later join peter live on his gassin crosstalk and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a couple of minutes.