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what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join us for technology update on r g. voting for a stable staying here to stand casting ballots for a new parliament people hope it'll put an answer to the violence which wrecked the country. mourners arrive in russia city of small and still a reason at the side where the plane of poland's president crashed six months ago. the exact site where the plane crashed in family members of the victims would just be getting somewhere right for the memorial service is joining me now is that in just a few moments. and our review of the week nine years on afghanistan's casualties are mounting while critics say the u.s.

war on terror is getting out of its hands. plus orbit established three cosmos reach the international station by recording the sky high journey. what you are going to live from moscow won't be i'm here marina joshua welcome to the program after six months of political turbulence and violence the people of kyrgyzstan are casting their ballots for parliament that will rule the country the vote will take power away from president and give it to m.p.'s and while will be the first such case in central asia it's also hoped to stabilize a region where hundreds of p. . people died and brutal clashes in recent months earlier i spoke to a correspondent at work is cut off and the rest of southern city of osh and the time in the capital bishkek. this is a landmark election for the conscience 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 if you go or so what is the atmosphere like an arch 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 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 when 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 american reports wires and who used to be under saddam. are you 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 back to you 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 registered for this election however many of them have 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 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 course and are also patrolling the streets accompanied by volunteers and 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 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 austin as the day goes on. now a ceremony set to start in memory of the plane crash in a rush to kill president of poland many of its high ranking officials it's been six months since a tragedy took the lives of ninety six people near the city of civilians now more

on this from our correspondent alex hibbard tell us how the families of the victims are at the side it's a somber setting as. well today's commemorative events are being held at the requests of the victims' families who was just beginning to make their way to this memorial site on the tenth of april twenty ten that two people one five four crashed in heavy fall killing all ninety six on board ignoring the advice of air traffic controllers here warning not to land in the dense fog very sadly they were of coals on their way to the seventy one of those three of the the massacre in which some twenty thousand poles lost their lives at the hands of the soviet secret police so within that one day that one plane crash poland lost its president lech kaczynski his wife maria and a number of senior polish military and political personnel russia was very quick to offer its condolences and sympathy declaring the following monday

a day of mourning. and. and of course today is very symbolically being led by the two first ladies together. and. and so the order of today's events is that families have just been looking at the day three of the actual plane they're now making their way to the select of the crash itself after that they'll then be moving on to the site of the counting massacre one very small silver lining out of all of this is that in the following month in the may rational thought is did finally concede and declassify a huge number of documents previously considered secret relating to the county massacre which they handed over to the. one person though who notably is now. today is yet to stop kaczynski the brother of the former president lech kaczynski he's been very vocal in his criticism of the handling of the investigation into the crash well it's thanks very much indeed for bringing us all the latest from the summer occasion as hibbert's reporting there. to other stories now here in r.t.e.

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 results and as artie's posed earlier reports the online antics of american soldiers are not helping matters. house goes up in smoke and whether 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 here if by burning the house accidentally a copy of the koran is housed that can be easily used as

a tactic or as a means of practicing more young. religious students 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 not want to be helping the taliban fight its cause they can easily be copied by al qaeda and the taliban they can easily make. the us forces fail video clips. 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 us 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 going on when we see hundreds of videos about afghanistan nato new americans are talking about human rights you can see the proof online it's a lonely. 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. 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 told his friend. 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 i'm in a mail and sort of message by by a mobile phone. make for you but a good video clips the word it seems always has a way of getting out when people are not to seem disposed of in the internet because the people you see us as consumers in the life with the taliban picking up on a form of communication it once banned it now forced on coalition troops to censor themselves. or r.t. kabul critics say what the u.s. started in response to the nine eleven attacks is turn out to be a quagmire like the vietnam war and brian backer an anti-war coalition national

coordinator believes that was draw of 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 relating 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 caricatures of 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 and coming out of the program behind the glitz of

a large sporting event we look at the reality of life for many in new delhi as the commonwealth games kicked off here also. you know it was work at a dairy we were sold off the floor it was just less. really had that we work together we need two brothers who said goodbye on the launch pad but who will reunite in orbit in a few months. and alleged russian gunrunner has appealed against the thai court's decision to extradite him to the us a lawyer for victor boot says there is no evidence against him and insists the judge hears statements from witnesses but with no indication of whether the court will accept the appeal but it's relatives fear for his future. and it's quite possible the extradite him and just look him up on some craft carrier and force him to give would have a testimony of the u.s. once he gave i think he'll go as far as it takes to get it and i'm sure everyone understands they're playing to fleece 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 mine laundering and fraud citing insufficient evidence those claims have delayed his handover following up on all this ruling confirming he was to be sent to the us the so-called merchant of death denies accusations 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 book is 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 new the person who in recent times has been competitive on a sting operation involving the fox the colombian rebels there's a man called months at all counsel who was an arms dealer who strangely also was

a 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 his depends team will be able to bring into evidence the fact that he house on occasion being the assistance to the pentagon to us and nato countries in providing acra i think it's unlikely that people who want to do their brutally 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 of is necessarily innocent of all charges it but the sting operation of 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. russian president dmitry medvedev has slammed the bell russian leader for calling moscow it's anime in his video blog devoted said president bush and statements made during his reelection campaign were not only

undiplomatic but downright indecent it follows the bill of russian leaders accusations that russian politicians are trying to tarnish his image and sponsor the opposition but if it is suggested look at shankar focuses on domestic problems such as the disappearances of many belorussian citizens russia's president stressed the current tension must not affect the country's peoples and their partnership. the queen of the national once this week asked the head of the liberal party to form a new government backed by the party of n and his lamas a minority cabinet will have the support of. who will remain outside government but wilderness was known for his radical ideas went on trial on monday in the hague for inciting hatred it stems from a speech he made were he compared islam to night isn't cold for the qur'an to be bad however the court failed to move forward with the cases wilders exercised he's right now to answer questions his lawyer also accuse the judge of bias and request that he be substituted if convicted welder's could face up to year in jail. this

whole thing his whole argument. and i come from the same angle is we're not talking about muslims are 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 does it doesn't fit in with it's not compatible with western western liberal democracy and free speech as we see you know this whole thing is a suspicious trial is the pressure of free speech what is you say these are actually talked about the ideology and the koran is the rule 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 and the want to arrest the pope i believe when he came over now nobody to kill professor dawkins or wanted to lock him up or put him on trial and he's 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 the commonwealth games in new delhi were supposed to provide india with a chance to show off its rapidly rising wealth the president of the international olympic committee says the nation has set a solid foundation for a future olympics a bit but behind the bright billboards lie the poverty of shanty homes correspondent karen singh has more. across the early boards showcasing the commonwealth games have sprung up trying to hide the city's poverty but these haven't been entirely successful here investment for 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 a line to relocate who'd have thunk them instead to hide just to put a curtain up as if we are dirty and shouldn't be seen our politicians take your

votes but they stay in palaces the commonwealth games are supposed to showcase belize arrival as a world class city in this new avatar there is no place for the city slums no wonder then that the administration 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 longer new route. and 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 the infrastructure for the games yet slum residents such as rugby davey and her family believe this development has bypassed the. if the government had provided some amenities for us even to proper houses for us to live

in we would have been grateful or they could have opened a school in the slum or provided us with drinking water when the commonwealth games and the birds will come down but for the only slum residents life will continue to be tough for them long term life improving changes are needed not short of cosmetic ones got in saying r.t. new delhi. and i see that kong 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 flowing ice russia's scientists meet in the middle of the ocean to share a breakthrough on their country's planes to the polar treasury. and we'll obviously here all with us now to take man who has vowed to clean up every piece of rubbish that's why the country's force more. a simulation of blowing up schoolchildren in front of their classmates may seem an

unusual way of trying to convince people to reduce pollution but that's exactly what british campaigners did ahead of the global 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 complains 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 corben believes it's not the way to promote ecological for an illness. that was by and i suppose these images were directed against any ethnic or religious minority like black people or gays or all jews then there would be absolute international uproar in fact this man couldn't have even thought of making a film but somehow 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 by science 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 failed soylent data behind them so they got no difference other than this emotional blackmail hysteria and lost they are arrogant malevolent and dangerous people and they have to be stopped. to other stories now 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 ship needs a steel casing which would take about a day and a half to assemble engineers now also must test whether the skate path is safe to prevent the risk of collapse. the son of north korea's leader kim jong il has made her way or 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 of the younger kim 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 thousand tourists 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 on its way to firefighting ships have been spraying the stricken ferry with water to keep it from breaking up and from spilling one hundred seventy tons of fuel on board. a two day journey of the great so you spacecraft 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 says to new comers joined another three space men who are presently manning the station since they arrive in june there will be a remarkable reunion in february nasa scott kelly will be joined at the space

station by his twin brother mark and now the rest will fly a shuttle mission to mars 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 do this the build up to scott's launch of russia's baikonur cosmodrome on friday was filled with technical questions and the day when human moments to go there yet there were smiles. and goodbye to his eyes 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 and we have occasionally flown together in the navy as a test pilot but before that i think we always work at a dairy queen laura 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 mark 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 boat is on the ground the other is preparing for a blast so that they both know firsthand what they're counting down to not watch 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 up so you know 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 tuesday but just like his brother mark doesn't want to be too sentimental it's going to be 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 time bottom potty. and just a few minutes we focus on the human cost. the war in iraq in our special report and i'm back with our top stories in.

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