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war on terror is getting out of its. established three cosmonauts reach the international space station we report on a. with the top stories of today and of this week you always auntie live from moscow well after six months of political. violence the people of kyrgyzstan casting their ballots for a parliament that will rule the country vote will take power away from the president and give it to m.p.'s in 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 now let's cross live to our correspondent who is in

the capital of bush for us hello to you natalia so talk to me why is this election so important. well this is the landmark pull for the country regardless of how many people are going to show up at today's election the election will still be valid and after this election kyrgyzstan will become the first country in central asia to become a parliamentary state where the prime minister has more power than the president and it's accountable to the parliament traditionally central asian states are ruled by all three tarion leaders and when former president by keef was overthrown in april this year the current she was wrecked in violence. dozens of people killed and many more injured people here were unhappy with the president's former president's policies that have left many to leave in poverty and that was the reason why he was overthrown after he was overthrown the temporary government all of kyrgyzstan has held there referendum during which it was decided to turn the

country into a parliamentary state and there were rumors that said these elections might bring even more violence to the streets of kyrgyzstan and other cities to the streets of bishkek and other cities in kyrgyzstan especially in southern regions from the taliban in the southern regions and that's exactly where our two you go to prison officers are right now you're going to talk to me what is the atmosphere like in or sure you are which is being rocked by violence this summer. well the city of altar scariest on second largest city need people you can call it the second capital and this is definitely one of the places in the country in need of change and stability the most because it's populated mostly by curing his and bacon nationals and last june the city saw a huge wave of violence and destruction and one armed gangs whipped around and drove around the city destroying businesses and lighting up houses and this

violence lasted for several days until the authorities were able to take control of the situation mobilizing the army but unfortunately by a bad time hundreds of people were killed several thousand people had to flee their homes and several thousand more people were injured and there were fears about this violence could return with the election as it would be held and there have been reports of threats sent my s.m.s. to the local population flyers distributed both here and you know other southern cities also calling for more violence however the polls did open an eight am local time and many people are coming in and casting their vote however the atmosphere here is still extremely tense. you're going so that is a situation in about an italian now tell me how do people at capitol feel about this vote do they actually believe in change. well people here have rather mixed

feelings about this election there's a record number of twenty nine political parties registered for the lection and many of them which have quite similar agendas of political agendas so many people here are very confused which party to vote for but out of the people that we've spoken to many feel very optimistic and have high hopes that this election will actually bring change and political stability to the country. certainly we're living through a crisis here in kyrgyzstan i hope this election will restore order and calm in this country and help its devastated economy see what we have recently at last with managed to live up to the three zero democratic election i wanted to go smoothly i want our leaders to think about people of need and not feel that pockets like all previous militias didn't win the us election well that most fear right now here in bishkek of the curious capital is rather quiet but we have heard rumors from the

locals that some of the leaders of the political polar parties participating in the elections might get attacked however a local authorities have said that security forces of the country are on food alert for any possible lot of rallies that may take place are natalia thanks for that let's turn over now so you go out of so you go to the region remains unstable but what's being done to provide security amid concerns of possible violence. well i like that title you just said security is very train across the entire country but especially here in the south police officers are present at each one of the eighty two polling stations across the city they're also patrolling the streets accompanied by volunteers i know that around fifteen hundred volunteers have been recruited for the job around five hundred swat like commandos have been flown in to watch from the capital bishkek and also the authorities have been previously holding various types of drools to be on guard in case of any emergency of course

we'll be monitoring the situation as he continues the polls will close at around eight pm local time and we are expecting to hear the first preliminary results at around midnight so of course will be forty more on that as the day continues right now t is that you can discover reporting from all. over that reporting from bishkek thank you bill. well let's get more details on this now with the ongoing voting kyrgyzstan i'm now joined by central asia expert right howard croom thank you for coming out today. so you just had a reporter speaking right there talk to me though do you think the current vote will actually bring around a long lasting change the people are looking for a kind of don't think the vote won't do anything at the beginning because that is just a start. after the vote if the vote goes well as we see right now i think we have still seriously problems serious problems concerning the agenda. of the new government has to face which is basically the division between south and north and

a lot of. domestic problems in politics that we're looking at a small piece of history here being made with this what will be a new system of a strong parliament and a weak president this is a first for the central asian region just how viable a system do you think this is if this will work out i mean we will have probably a coalition government after the vote and some of these parties are not in favor of a weak president yes the referendum has taken place but they will see only after a couple of week possibly months what the new government will do if it will be upon entry system that might definitely have some impact on the other countries but it's very slow progress will be made in central asia now the russian president dmitri medvedev has said earlier that this new political system in kyrgyzstan could bring extremists to power or course the collapse of state how well grounded of such fears do you think well i guess you might refer to what happened in the palestinian

territories when hamas came to power. i would like to say that to stress that central asia kurdistan is not afghanistan. has quite a different history also during the time of the soviet union so i think. of all the parties which were registered i don't think in the extreme. it will come out of there is something which one should look at that's the fardon of eylea that's where where the unrest happened. you have also part of the verge on the valley in. the start and that's always hard ones possibly already that despite ongoing efforts the situation in the region remains unstable there are constant fears of further violence but i'm always likely to see more unrest in the country do you think in the near future. i think the major problem all the central asian countries are facing is a power shift we have quite old presidents in. kazakhstan and

as we have seen twice now in kurdistan the minute the power shifts it's not only the person who goes it's the whole system which holds the president in power will do everything possibly to avoid that and stay in power and that might be a problem an initiator of unrest so i won't exclude more unrest in the near future or in central asia expert right thank you very much very much. ceremony in memory of the plane crash in russia that killed the president of poland and many of its high ranking officials is now taking place it's been six months since the tragedy took the lives of ninety six people near the city of smolensk let's get more now on this from our. live for us on location right now alex some of the families of the victims are at the site it's somebody who isn't. indeed

rory now underway today's commemorative events are being held at the request of the victims' families on the tenth of april twenty ten a little before eleven am to two point zero one five full crashed in heavy fog it did so coming in to land near the airport against the advice of air traffic controllers here all ninety six so i'm bored what killed tragically they were of course flying to his hand on the of us to remold king seventy years since the canteen the massacre in which nearly twenty two finals and polish person of those rules died at the hands of the soviet secret police the russian. government was of course very quick to offer their sympathy declaring the next day a day of mourning and indeed today's commemorative events all being led by the two first ladies get of and. today began with the delegation looking at the date we've got to explain itself they then moved on to

give something to the cracks just to my left shoulder. the ceremony there is still underway all through which they will then move on to the side to the cabinet masuka itself one person though who is not here is yet as kaczynski the brother of the former president he's been very vocal in his disapproval of the way in which the investigation into the crash has been carried out one the small silver lining though is that in the often month of this crash russia did concede in declassifying a number of previously considered secret documents relating to that massacre which they handed over to the polish government. region is known stranger to tragedy you tell us about the cuts in moscow we talk about the polish plane crash and what can you tell us about the investigation. well i mentioned that he had his love kitchen ski has criticized the way which the investigation has been carried out and of course he's not i mean diddly. all through the crash president advent of appointed

prime minister putin to head up a joint russian investigative committee into the causes of the crouse the polish military also set up their own independent investigation so over the past four months very detailed examination has been taken of the flight logs the flight recording balts eyewitness accounts etc wants a been confirmed is that out that plane came in to land in the morning of the tenth of april the controllers headed twice choice the room the crew not to attempt not heavy fall it's also been confirmed that the plane itself was in fine work your data only very recently been improved and renovated a terrorist attack has also been ruled out as well as any sort of fire explosion having taken place on the plane itself it's also been confirmed that at traffic controllers did alert the crew is to turn into the f. eleven which they could attempt to land crucially had been. that to know and the crew members were in the cockpit at the time of the crash so the question of

whether that crew were put under pressure to try to land the plane in those conditions remains open various causes have been put forward as to the reason for the crash was the crew properly trained particularly then their ability. to direct order that they may have believed to have been wrong also it was the plane sufficiently prepared for the flights for its part the plane discovered it says it's very thankful for the transparency and level of cooperation that's been put forward from the russian side that joint investigation say they have now completed their investigation they've handed over the materials including the flight will go over to the polish government and within just a few days they'll deliver the final analysis the report and they will then hound that saved to the polish government to then say that they'll make the results public and in three days. that. will conduct and it's give a shit of the crash site in which russian. just might also help.

the reporting from the region thank you. well 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 in recent days 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 and 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 artie's paula reports the online antics of american soldiers are not helping matters. as house goes up in smoke and with a justified or not tempers fly in the afghan capital 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 barren then that house that can be easily used as a tactic or as a means of acting more young. religious is true then it's to go in 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 wave 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 be the eclipse 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 us so i need some means home connection is so unreliable that every afternoon he's here watching videos that make him angry one of the only going on we see hundreds of videos about afghanistan nato and the americans are talking about human rights you can see the proof on line it's a lie. 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 locked down. 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 a new mail. message by by a mobile phone. make what do you want a good look at the word it seems always has a way of getting out. people not to see this kind of thing in the internet because everything you see is consumed is in the life but the taliban picking up on a form of communication it once banned it now forced on coalition troops to censor themselves policy r.t.

kabul. and i loathed a russian gun runner has appealed against the court's decision to extradite him to the us the lawyer for victor boot says there's no evidence against him and insists the judge hears statements from witnesses but with no indication of whether the court will accept the appeal boots relatives fear for his future and he was already unstable it's quite possible the extradite him and just look him up on some eve craft carrier and force him to give whatever testimony the us one seem 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 fleece to do it these days starting with chemical sense psychological pressure. on tuesday the criminal court cleared the way for boots possible extradition after dismissing charges of money laundering and forward citing insufficient evidence his claims of delayed his handover following an oldish two ruling confirming he was to be sent to the us the so-called merchant of death

denies accusations of terrorism supplying arms to colombian rebels he was arrested in an american led sting operation in march two thousand and eight anybody caught a former u.n. arms trafficking expert says it is extradited a u.s. court of might not allow all the evidence to be examined. i have concerns about it's was affected will be going back to based on the early years a person who in recent times has been convicted on a sting operation involving the fox the colombian rebels is a man called monster all counts who was an arms dealer who strangely also was of 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 presidents i think it's unlikely that his depends team will be able to bring into evidence the fact that he has on occasion baylor systems to the pentagon to within nato countries in

providing aircraft i think it's unlikely that people who want deliberately to harm anyone but i think how many 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 to lose necessarily innocent of all charges it but the sting operation of some he didn't do quite clear existing operation and he's not the merchant of death which the media portray him as well i would agree he's a merchants of some death. and still to come here on our space odyssey. you know i was working in derry we were twelve years old for probably the last year of the last job we really had that we work together we meet two brothers who said goodbye on the launch pad but who will reunite in orbit in just a few months. the queen of the netherlands this week the head of the liberal party to form a new government backed by the party of an anti islamist the minority cabinet will

have the support of head of hilda's who will remain outside government but the builders who is known for his radical ideas went on trial on monday for inciting hatred it stems from a speech he made where he compared islam to knott's ism and called for the qur'an to be banned however the court fail to move forward with the case builders exercised his right not to answer questions his lawyer also accused the judge of bias and requested that he be replaced if convicted builders could face up to a 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 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 is not compatible with western western liberal democracy and free speech as we're seeing now this whole thing is a suspicious trial is a pression of free speech what is he said he's actually talked about the ideology

and the koran as 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 and the 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 i said i don't agree with everything i said i think most of his criticisms are valid. you are with r t it's good to have your company today now let's check out some other 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 and you news 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 assemble engineers now also must test whether the escape path is safe to prevent the risk of collapse. the sound of north korea's leader kim jong il has made a rare public appearance alongside his son kim jong un it happened during a military parade celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the country's ruling party recently appointed a general younger kim is expected to succeed his father as head of the nation appearance is being viewed as a further sign over official confirmation 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 off on its way to lift the mania firefighting ships have been spraying the

stricken ferry with water to keep it from breaking up and spilling the one hundred and seventy tons of fuel on board. the two day journey on the upgraded soyuz spacecraft has ended successfully at the international space station two russian cosmonauts and astronauts will spend the next six months on board. the newcomers joined another three space men who are presently manning the station since they arrived in june and they will be remarkable where union in february now says a scott kelly will be joined at the space station by his twin brother mark another astronaut who will fly a shuttle mission. 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 are his kids growing up we never thought we would be in

a service you know unique in a 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 moment to go there yes there were smiles. and goodbye to his 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 maybe as a test pilot but before that i think we you know i was working in dairy queen well over twelve years old mopping the floor for 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 those two russian crewmates everyone went to it's only twenty minutes to go until the launch one brought us on the ground the others preparing for glass so that they both know firsthand what they're counting down. not what his brother flyaway 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 them 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 too 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 brothers is a great opportunity scott and mark on celebrity twin arsenal or so yet but it'll be a uniquely human moment when the hatch door the siblings meet in space tom botton ati. analyse dot com has a lot more in store for you here are some of what you'll find online are waiting for you right now exploring the arctic's frozen expounds on a chunk of floating ice russia's scientists meet in the middle of the ocean to share breakthroughs on there.