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new hope for stability. votes in the country's first parliamentary election following a year of observers say the poll is going smoothly. said . a review of the week the war in afghanistan enters its tenth year making it the longest in u.s. military history and this year has been the deadliest year for foreign troops. and

a destination albeit three crew for the international space station after friday's blast off from the baikonur cosmodrome. we are running down the top stories of today and all this week you're with welcome to the program forty percent of all voters in kyrgyzstan have cast their ballots in an election to make troubled nation central a rather central asia first a parliamentary democracy and international observers say has been no serious legal violations or trouble despite fears that violence could erupt earlier i spoke to our correspondents are you going to push going off in the rest of southern city of and that's how in the in the capital bishkek this is the landmark ball for the crown. 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 accountable to the parliament traditionally central asian states are ruled by with three tarion leaders and when former president bakiev was overthrown in april this year the khan she was racked in violence with dozens of people killed and many more injured people here were unhappy with the president's policies that have left many from poverty and that was the reason why he was overthrown after he was overthrown the temporary government. has held their 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 in other cities in kyrgyzstan especially in southern regions most exactly

well today you've got a person offers a right now you're going to talk to me what is the atmosphere like in all sure you are which is being rocked by violence this summer for the city of all just curious on the second largest city in evil you can call it the second capital and this is definitely one of the courses in the country in need of change and stability the most because it's populated moved by his and it was a very can nationalize i 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 writing up houses and this while it lasted for several days until the authorities were able to take control of the situation mobilizing the army but unfortunately by that time hundreds of people were killed several thousand people had to flee their homes and several thousand more people were injured and there were fear is there a while and could return. the election as it's it will be held and there have been

reports of threats sent my s.m.s. to the local population flyers distributed both here and in other southern cities also calling for more violence however before the polls did open it and local time and many people are coming in and casting their votes however the atmosphere here is still extremely tense. some people wanted to stay home leaflets with various information have been spread people don't know whether they should believe the information or not but some people still want to fulfill their civic duty and cast their ballot. a lot needs to be changed in this country but first and foremost what has to change is people's way of thinking. as you can see the situation is very difficult but hope does that and i guess that's what many of the locals are thinking at the moment just going to the polls and placing their votes just about an italian now tell me how do people of capital feel about this vote do they

actually believe in change people here have rather mixed feelings about this election there's a record number of twenty nine political parties registered for their way action and many of them where have quite similar 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. 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 this real democratic election i wanted to go smoothly i want our leaders to think about people of need and not feel that pompous like all previous will is didn't let's hear right now here in the 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 local authorities have said that security forces of the country are on full alert for any possible lot of rallies that may take place until you know call reporting now central asia expert of reinhard crome says that a critical stands attempt at a power shift is a major challenge. 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 what i think we have still seriously problems serious problems concerning the agenda. the new government has to face i think the major problem all the central asian countries are facing is a power shift 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 gives the president in power will do everything possibly to avoid that and stay in power and that might be

a problem initiator of unrest so i won't exclude more unrest in the near future. a ceremony has been held to remember the victims of the plane crash in russia that killed the president of poland and many of the country's top officials six months ago ninety six people were killed near the city of somalians live now to our viewers alice cooper who has been following the ceremony so alison over to you was a massive tragedy for poland this tell me what is the mood like right there where you are at the site. today's memorial took place at the request of the families of the victims on the tenth. one five. crashed as it attempted to land in dense fog disregarding the advice of local ground. advise in the north the plain and.

fields they ignored the instruction and the plane it did crash killing all ninety six on board so within the one day one plane crash poland's president it's a number of political and military personnel russia was quick to offer its condolences to the polish government and indeed today's mourning ceremonies have been led by both the first lady. and. the day began the by the delegation viewing the remaining day free of the plane itself they then moved on to the actual site the plane crash where many was held and i believe that the delegation has now just arrived at the site of the king massacre where the remaining part of today's events will take place of course that plane was bound for the region as all on board would take part in the seventieth anniversary commemorative events of that county massacre in which nearly twenty two thousand

poles died at the hands of the soviet secret police one cousin you know to be is not here today is. the brother of the late president lech kaczynski he's been very vocal in his criticism of the way that the investigation off the crash has been carried out. on the plane crash and what's going on with today's ceremony but tell me more about the investigation into the plane crash. well of course that yet is not to. you don't get. the best occasion has been carried out immediately all through the plane crash russia declared a day of mourning and president medvedev appointed prime minister hussein to head up a joint investigation into the course of the crash the policeman who conducted the private investigation over the past four months investigative committee has taken a very low kids witness accounts on the flight log and they concluded that

two occasions on the fateful morning a little before eleven am on the tenth of april grounds of fools. did try to ruin the crew. to attempt. at which they. couldn't but they did try to direct them to it. because mitty has also confirmed that the plane itself was in fine. recently been improved they've also ruled out the possibility of a terrorist attack or some sort of fire explosion having happened on board crucially they've also confirmed that to know all the crew members were in the at the time of the crash or the question as to whether the crew were put under pressure to land the plane in those conditions remains that all the reasons have been put forward. causes for the crash including the way in which the crew which trained especially their ability. in the water which they may have believed to have

been wrong for that paul the british authorities say that they are very thankful and appreciative of the level of transparency and cooperation all. cheering this investigation and that joint committee says that they have now completed their investigations and they've handed a very wrong a paperwork including. to the. they say a detailed analysis of the findings will be had within the next few days that will be handed to the. then say they will make its. three days time when. the plane crashed trying to find any all the remnants of the plane or any of the victims. who were there reporting from the region thank you. the u.s. led nato campaign in afghanistan entered its tenth year this week with no end in sight the longest war in america's history has now turned into

a vietnam like quagmire the taliban is still launching a regular bomb attacks coordinated assault two thousand and ten is already the deadliest year of the entire campaign for nato troops and the fighting is taking a heavy toll on the afghan people with civilian casualties spiraling as artie's policy reports some camera happy u.s. soldiers are helping the taliban with this propaganda war. house goes up in smoke and whether justified or not tempers fly in the afghan capital the culprit's 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

history with them to go in and joined 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 behavior clips if you want. in some cases the us soldiers videos are prankish and childish other times they're downright criminal or extremely provoked. in this clip u.s. soldiers burn the bodies of did 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 going on we see hundreds of videos about afghanistan nature only americans are talking about human rights you can see the proof on line it's along the. 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. it's easy for people to watch these videos put out by the american soldiers because the most popular videos are on the first page of you tube also when one guy sees a video he 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 saud father wants a new. message why buy a mobile phone and. make what he what a good period the word it seems always has a way of getting out of one people not to see the spread of the internet because the little you see is 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 policy r.t. kabul. brian becker an antiwar coalition coordinator believes the withdrawal of international troops from afghanistan will not lead to increased violence the american government in its propaganda arm just as they did during vietnam trying to

paint a picture that there would be a terrible bloodbath if the occupation forces left but if the occupation forces leave that means drone bombing attacks of afghan and pakistan villages will stop it will mean that the level of violence instead of ask a lady in every month with more and more thousands and tens of thousands of foreign troops coming in troops who obviously don't understand the country don't speak the language don't understand the culture and are largely demonizing the people and have all sorts of racist characters 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. you always see you it's good to have your company today and there's plenty more story still ahead including why does the us see r t as an enemy. or how america is overseas broadcasters are planning to expand while slamming their competition that's coming your way short.

alleged russian africa is appealing against a thai court's ruling that he should be extradited to the u.s. victor lawyers claim there's no evidence against him and insists the judge should question witnesses his family fears that if extradited he would be forced to confess. he wasn't really understand that it's quite possible the extradite him just looking mark on some eve craft period and force him to give whatever testimony the u.s. wants him to give i think he'll do 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 tiny criminal court dropped charges of money laundering and fraud against bood clearing his way for extradition charges could have delayed his being sent to the us which is supposed to happen by november the twenty year bush was arrested in bangkok two and

a half years ago and has been behind bars ever since washington accuses him of fueling terrorism and conspiring to supply arms to colombian rebels would she denies a former u.n. arms trafficking exploit says that if it is extradited to the u.s. he might not get a fair trial. i have concerns about what's the big two will be going back to based on the only other person who in recent times has been convicted on a sting operation involving the fox the colombian rebels is a man called monster all counsel who was an arms dealer who strangely also was assistants 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 dependence team will be able to bring into evidence the fact that he has on occasion been is assistance to the pentagon to us and nato countries in

providing aircraft i think it's unlikely that people who want deliberately to harm anyone but i think harm 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 pictures necessarily innocent of all charges 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 merchants of some death. coming up for you here on r.t. promotion gone wrong graphic and shocking video to encourage people to save the environment is criticized as going too far showing climate change deniers being blown up. president dmitri medvedev has hit how it is bella russian counterpart for trying to make an enemy out of moscow in his video blog said alexander lukashenko is stepping up his anti russian rhetoric the

russian leader thinks it's all to do with the upcoming presidential election in bello where look at shanghai is hoping to stay in power. says the russian leaders trying to distract voters from domestic problems moscow and minsk sealed a political union in one thousand nine hundred nine but have since seen a steady decline in relations with the current tension should not affect the brotherly times of the russian belorussian people. while the u.s. might claim to be a champion of freedom of speech but not it seems if it's coming from russia iran venezuela or china the head of the media organization which oversees america's international broadcasting service it must up its game took about the rise of what he called media enemies including r t can each account reports 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 cost 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 is that freedom house report that reveals that today's autocratic leaders are investing billions of dollars in media resources to influence. 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 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 and 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 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 the alert with some freedom of speech advocates somebody who says that truth is always on the united states side is a propagandist and not a. journalist and i think that's bad it's a bad example for other countries on that when they say that because obviously other key. their perspective many times u.s. media is slanted toward the united states even the private media but 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 the 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 of

how 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 for media voices giving fresh perspective on world issues kind of chicken r.t. washington d.c. . a simulation of schoolchildren being blown up in front of their classmates may seem an unusual way of trying to convince people to reduce pollution but that's exactly what british campaign is did in order to promote the global eco day called ten ten and the producer of a four weddings and a funeral made a short film to spur people into reducing their carbon emissions by ten percent but is controversial screen killings generated anger rather than awareness it was pulled from cinemas just hours off the release of the film's director said it was always risque trying to be funny on a serious subject however environmentalist peers corp and believes it's not the way

to promote green issues so i. suppose these images were directed against any ethnic or religious minority like black people or jews then there would be absolute international in fact in this man wouldn't have even thought of making the film but somehow he thinks he can get away with it by attacking the children the people who happen to dispose of. even therefore to limit science and want evidence paysite 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 soilent and data behind them so they got no defense other than this emotional blackmail to styria and lawyers they are arrogant malevolent and dangerous people and they have to be stopped. now twenty five minutes past the hour here in the russian capital this is our let's check out some other world news in

brief right now and at least eight people have been killed in suspected u.s. missile strikes in northwest pakistan the drone targeted a tribal area in north waziristan believed to be dominated by a militant group blamed for attacks on foreign troops in afghanistan the u.s. has often been criticized for the strikes which last week killed two pakistani soldiers islamabad reacted by closing a key border used as a nato supply route the border was reopened on friday ending the eleven day blockade. son of north korea's ruler the country's heir apparent kim jong un has made his most high profile public appearance so far it happened during a military parade celebrating the sixty fifth anniversary of the country's ruling party among the guests were foreign diplomats and communist party officials from china recently appointed as a general is expected to continue dinner stick rule in the isolated state.

the evacuation of chile thirty three trapped miners is due to begin on wednesday rescuers have drilled through the to the chamber where the men are sheltering sparking celebrations across the country the top part of the shaft needs a steel casing which will take about a day and a half to assemble engineers must also test whether the a skate tunnel is safe and to prevent the risk of collapse. well all of our stories videos and blogs are online for you at r.t. dot com and here's what's waiting for you right now the political future of the russian capital becomes clearer with three men and one woman shortlisted to become the next mayor of moscow. and the grand old age do you call for the luck to be in superhero known as pig man who's cleaning up and clamping down on the litter problem in the country's forests.