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voting for stable state kyrgyzstan is casting ballots for a new parliament people hope it will put an end to the violence which directs the country. mourners gather in russia city of somalia lavery adds the side where the plane of polish president crashed six months ago. join me alice it was in the old sea the truth was we travelled to the sites all the logic. in our review of the week nine years on of ghana's dance casualties are mounting critics say the u.s. war on terror is getting out of its hands. plus or a bit established because minutes reached the international station we reported on

a sky high journey. watching r.t. coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshua welcome to the program after six months of political turbulence and violence the people of kyrgyzstan are casting their ballots for parliament out will rule the country the 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 the region where hundreds of people died in brutal clashes in recent months earlier i spoke to our correspondents going off in the rest of southern city of osh and i tell you i would go 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 pro or 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 if you go or so what is the atmosphere like in august which was rocked by violence the summer or 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 of the good you the most in the country because first of

all it's populated both by curators and was very compassionate and last june there were mass ethnic clashes in the city which resulted in the death 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 still recovering from violence and there were fewer verify this violence to return would restore 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 americans who were. foreigners and who use it in order to sell the interview cities calling for violence but nevertheless polling stations did open at eight am and the locals are coming in and policing their votes to go bad. to you now tell us how people in the capital feel about this well do they believe in change at all but 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 of any political rallies that may take place during this election i'll go back to the region remains on stables we're hearing so what is being done to provide security and concerns of possible violence or security is trying to 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 were trolling the streets accompanied by volunteers i know that around fifteen hundred volunteers have been

recruited for the job for you 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 we are expecting to hear the first preliminary results around midnight and of course we'll report on events here in office as the day goes on and those who are oftentimes i talked to earlier activist peter is on my from the eurasia democracy initiative says switching to a parliamentary republic is vital for care sam. this form of government is being touted as the only viable alternative for kyrgyzstan following the serial failure of strong presidential power which resulted each time or you could see nepotism or

piece of corruption there and finally and most tragically under strain bloody violence so what bob or we could start is the peace they need reconciliation between the title a nation that is and the large ethnic minority in the south. wash they need more transparency and accountability in the way that the government operates especially as it really goes that rights would run to the u.s. military base and as it seeks obviously to balance that with russia's military presence and russia's interests in the region and in the in. income from the red marks but it would benefit the welfare of ordinary to the start. ceremonies are to take place in memory of the plane crash in russia that killed president of poland 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 swan and families of the dad are

planning a pilgrimage to the site ellis hamburger is a response region. this is all being held at the request of the families all of the victims to separate sorry been zoology to take place the will to remember the tragic plane crash on the tenth of april twenty eighth when all knowing she's six children with the tupelo one not fully full. as they were making their way to be a seventieth commemorations of the teen amounts of these twenty two thousand was the brewers were killed at the hands of the soviet secret police it was a tragedy on the unprecedented scale this process within just the one day since president the spittoons gave his wife maria and touch me all of its military top brawls that it was very quick to alter its sympathies the fullest allegation will begin the by going to the place where daily brief on the plane is being held and

move on to the size of the crash where plant has been erected and all to move along to the roof complex only to be seen a massacre itself however one person that will not be attending today's events is the brother of the kitchen scanned the. policy that. has been a very quick to criticize the handling of both the russian government and the prudish governments the investigation of this crime immediately in the halls of this tragedy president dead of a point of committed to head up a joint petition russian investigation into the pools is all the crash known for 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. bald. headed traffic controllers did fly so long to 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 on a full night taking place all aboard. the polish military has to say for the conduct of the road 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 hands of the question as to whether or not these pilots what was 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 refuse orders 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 investigative and joint interstate aviation the committee has now

finished its investigation and within a matter of days will one day a detailed reports to polish aviation experts and they promise to make them public and in three days polish oncologist would conduct an investigation of the site with him for any remaining plane day to day three. 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 out 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 is still no tangible result as are two spotlessly reports the online antics of american soldiers are not helping matters. a small school is up in smoke and with a justified or not tempers fly in the afghan capital the culprits soldiers who can

be heard saying fantastic. before posting the clip 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. religious history with them to go and joined taliban and al qaeda and it seems to be working 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's now i want to be helping the taliban fight its cause they can easily be copied by al-qaeda and the taliban. really make. the us forces fail to build your clips if you want here. you want to hang.

out in some cases the us soldiers videos are prankish and childish other times they're downright 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 sometimes home connection is so unreliable that every afternoon he's here watching videos that make him angry one of the only calling we see hundreds of videos about afghanistan nato new americans are talking about human rights you can see the proof online it's alone so the. 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 connection is

slow it's fast enough to keep people logged on. or they didn't. 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. 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 probably wants a new email and so the taliban send message by by mobile phone and. make body but a good video clips the word it seems always has a way of getting out of 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 a form of communication that once banned it now falls on coalition troops to censor themselves point c. r t kabul and they had of russia's anti-narcotics agency says the years long u.s. campaign in afghanistan has actually stole the fight against drugs. report of the nine years of the military operation in afghanistan have demonstrated that the more fighting the reason the country the smaller the chances are of destroying drug production there 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 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 i think out the full interview with the head of russia's enter narcotics agency in just fifteen minutes here on our team. at alleged russian gun writer has appealed against a thai court's decision to extradite him to the u.s. and a lawyer for victor borge says there is no evidence against him and says the judge hear statements from witnesses but with no indication of whether the court will accept their appeal both relatives fear for his future on the was already understand that 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 hard as it takes to get it and i'm sure everyone understands they're playing to face to do. starting with chemical sense psychological pressure. on tuesday the time criminal court cleared the way for boots possible extradition after dismissing charges of money laundering and fraud citing insufficient evidence those claims have delayed his handover following and

august rule confirming he was to be sent to the us the so-called merchant of death denies it positions 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 buddha's extradited a u.s. court 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 news a person who in recent times has been convicted on a sting operation involving the fox the colombian rebels there's a man called monster all counsel 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 president i think it's of life clear that he was depends teen will be able to bring into evidence the fact

that the house on occasion been to assistance to the pentagon to us and nato countries in providing acra. i think it's unlikely that people who want the university 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 sort is necessarily innocent of all charges but the sting operation is some he didn't do quite clearly just think operation and he's not the merchant of death which the media portray him as well i would agree he's a versions of some of the. you're with are still coming up later this hour is r t america's anime as us overseas broadcasting seeks to pump its in once we explore whether other countries are going on an information course aid and. you know his work at a dairy queen which was sold by the floor for it was just last job we really had that we work together. we need two brothers who said good bye on the launch pad but

it 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 innovative president lukashenko statements made during his reelection campaign were not only under formatted but downright indecent it follows a bell russian leaders accusations that russian politicians are trying to tarnish his image and sponsor the opposition it is suggested focuses on domestic problems such as the disappearances of many valid russian citizens russia's president stressed the current tension must not affect the country's peoples and their partnership. a simulation of blowing up school children and front of the your classmates may seem an unusual way of trying to convince people to reduce pollution but that's exactly what british campaigners did ahead of a global and cold day cold ten ten the producer of four weddings and a funeral made

a short film to spur people into reducing their carbon emissions by ten percent but it's bloody images led to complaints that it was gory and needlessly violent it was pulled from cinemas just hours after release the film's director said it was always risky trying to be funny on a serious subject however environmentalist piers corbyn believes it's not the way to promote ecological friendliness. it's early chapters by and i suppose these images were directed against any ethnic or religious minority like black people or all jews then there would be absolute international uproar in fact in this month wouldn't have even thought of making the film. he thinks he can get away with it by attacking the children the people who happen to disbelieve even therefore to learn science and want evidence i saw it i mean it is utterly unacceptable the message is a lawyer they can only get it across by this sort of nonsense the fact is this

photo choice of data behind them so they got no difference other than this emotional blackmail hysteria and laws they are malevolent and dangerous people and they have to be stopped for us my claim to be a pioneer of freedom of speech however it seems the tolerance and want to comes to news from iran venezuela china or russia is going to check our reports on whether america's international broadcaster is calling on information of course aid it's a common belief on capitol hill that the best way to raise money from congress is to scare them walter isaacson the head of a government agency that manages u.s. international broadcasting apparently wants a lot of money the cars to fight america's enemies in the media which he identifies as he ran venezuela russia and china we can't allow ourselves to be out communicated by our enemies. there's that freedom house report that reveals that

today's autocratic leaders are investing billions of dollars in media resources to influence the global opinion you've got russia today iran's press t.v. venezuela's telos and of course china as a launching international broadcasting twenty four hour news channels correspondents around the world spence portably set aside six to ten billion dollars we've got to go to capitol hill with that number to expand their overseas media operations to me it sounded like a declaration of information war but later mr isaacson backtracked i don't take a russia or r t as an enemy and certainly did not mean to imply that they're an enemy so that's just not right maybe mr isaacson really did not mean to offend russia or china it's all a pitch for more money from congress which he's trying to kind of appeal to by saying that other countries are spending more on international communications gear

is really the buzzword that's used to try to generate money for the defense department a cia intelligence agencies and now for international broadcasting but getting the u.s. message across this costly there goes that mr walter isaacson is heading is called broadcasting board of governors it includes radio stations voice of america one of them and a fairly unpopular middle eastern t.v. channel on all this the board spends more than seven hundred fifty million dollars and it's way more than the budget of our t.v. iran's press t.v. and then as well as their list or combined and maybe money does not really make zero for global media clout mr isaacson says that it's truthfulness that will make the difference and in the and the truth is on our side and it's that statement that raised an alert with some freedom of speech advocates somebody says the truth is i was on the united states side as a propagandist and i. journalist and i think that's bad it sets

a bad example for other countries when that when they say that because obviously other countries have their perspective many times u.s. media is slanted toward the united states even the private media the credibility of the broadcasting board of governors was under even more scrutiny when reports came out about the white house influence on the b.b.c. reporting after iranian presidential election and some experts say american broadcasters that once used to be a powerful voice in the international media are now facing a crisis the problem that they are facing is that the messages they have. called the world are supposed to work is not resonating it's not getting traction it seems washington they still getting used to the increasing volume from media voices giving fresh perspective on world issues kind of chicken or t. washington d.c.

. arky dot com has a lot more in store for you and here's some of what you'll find online right now exploring the markets 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 needle obvious superhero with us now to the paid man has vowed to clean up every piece of rubbish that blighting the country's force right now more at r.t. dot com. now to some international news in brief the evacuation of thirty three miners trapped underground 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 country the top part of the shaft needs as you casing which will take about a day and a half to sample engineers now also must test whether the skate path of say to prevent the risk of collapse. the son of north korea's leader kim yong nail has

made a rare public appearance alongside his son kim ya know it happened during a military parade celebrating the sixty fifth anniversary of the country's ruling party recently appointed a general the younger cam is expected to succeed his father as head of the nation the appearances 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 fairmont on its way to. finding ships have been spraying the stricken ferry with water to keep it from breaking out and from spilling the one hundred seventy tons of fuel on board. a two day journey out of the great so you spacecraft as and it successfully at the international space station two russian cosmonauts and a nasa astronaut will spend the next six months on board the ice this. newcomers

join and now there are three space men who are presently manning the station since they arrived in june and there will be a remarkable way union in fabby henri now says scott kelly will be joined at the space station bias twin brother mark another astronaut who will fly a shuttle mission artist on bart 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 of course is his kids growing up we never thought we would be in this. you know unique in privileged position to be able to do this to 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 you know there were smiles. and goodbye tears 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 maybe as a test pilot but before that i think we you know i was working in dairy queen over twelve years old bought them for us for the last year the last job we really had that we worked together and then the time came mark said goodbye scott and to the rocket with his two russian crew mates everyone went to it's only twenty minutes to go until the launch one boat is on the ground the other is preparing for glass so that they both know first moment what they're counting down. not what's his brother fly away into space the trip he'd made three times himself. 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 a 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.