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from the. top stories of today and all of this week. welcome to the program voting in a national election. people have cost the poll which will see the country become first parliamentary democracy despite your. ports by international observers that there were no serious legal violations or trouble security has been tightened up polling stations to protect the count earlier i spoke to our correspondents you go to piss going off in the rest of southern city of osh and italian of a cover in the capital bishkek. this is the landmark goal 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 a prime minister has more power than the president and accountable to the parliament traditionally central asian states are ruled by a will through tarion leaders and when former president bakiev was overthrown in april this year the khan she was wrecked in violence with dozens of people killed and many more injured people here were unhappy with the president's policies that have left many poverty and that was the reason why he was overthrown after he was overthrown the temporary government. has held a 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 and carry just on especially in southern regions not exactly well to say you go to prison officers are right now you're going to talk to

me what is the atmosphere like in auschwitz which is being rocked by violence this summer for the city of all just curious on the second largest city mean people you can call it the second capital and this is definitely one of the equations in the country in need of change and stability the more should be goes it's far too we've moved way during his and it was very can nationalize i last june the city saw a huge wave of violence and destruction of one armed gangs who had through and drive around the city destroying businesses and lighting up houses and so 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 fewer. this while in school you turn. your lecture in as it's. held and there have been reports

of threats. to the local population for years distributed both here and in other cities. some people wanted to stay home leaflets with various information have been spread people don't know whether they should believe the information and 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 but 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 there were actually and many of them where have quite similar political agendas so many people here are

very confused many feel very optimistic and have high hopes that this election will actually bring change and political stability to the country you know. we're living through a crisis here in kyrgyzstan this election will restore order and calm in this country and help its devastated economy see what we have and we 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 pockets like all previous militias didn't let us fear 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 power parties participating in the elections might get attacked however a local authorities have sad that security forces of the country are on full alert for any possible lot of rallies that may take place. entirely another couple right there well central asia expert reinhard says kyrgyzstan's 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 right now i think we have still seriously problems serious problems concerning the agenda. of 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 will see 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 alice who reports from

that region. today's memorial events took place at the request of the families of the victims on the tenth. one five forwards to. crashed as it attempted to land in dense to a fault disregarding the advice of local rounds past the melody advising them not to try to land the plane and then told her it's a bad fields they ignore that instruction and the plane it did crash killing all ninety six on board so within that one day one plane crashed lost its president its first lady and a number of its people a school and military personnel russia was quick to offer its condolences to the polish government and indeed two days of mourning ceremonies have been led by both the first lady. and. immediately onto the plane crash russia declared

a day of mourning and president medvedev appointed prime minister putin to head up a joint russia polish investigation into the course of the crash the polish michu as they conducted their own private investigation over the past four months that joint investigative committee has taken a very. good eyewitness accounts on the flight log and they concluded that on a two occasions almost fateful morning a little before eleven am on the tenth of april grounds of full stall thought these movements and crew did what i said trying to rule the crew on board that to get a plane not to attempt to land in that dense fog at all which they chose to ignore they've also confirmed that they did try to direct them to an alternative. investment has also confirmed that the plane itself was in fine work nor would it have recently been improved they've also ruled out the possibility of a terrorist attack or some sort of fire or explosion having happened on board crucially they've also confirmed that she no on the crew members were in the

cockpit at the time of the crash or the question as to whether that crew put under pressure. to land the plane in those conditions remains that all the reasons have been put forward as possible causes for the crash into the way in which the crew were trained especially their ability to violate an order which they may have believed to have been wrong for their part the political thorson say that they're very thankful and appreciative of the level of transparency and corp offered by the russians cheering this investigation and that joint committees says that they have now completed their investigations and they've handed a very wrong paperwork including eyewitness reports on the flight to the polish or tours he's in they say a detailed analysis on their findings will be had within the next few days they'll also be handed to the polish will towards the sea then say they will make it public in three days time on october thirteenth we also know that. will conducts an excavation all of the sites all of the plane crash trying to find any other

remnants of either the plane or any of the victims. and you know a rundown of the week's top stories the u.s. led nato campaign in afghanistan entered its tenth year with no went inside the longest war in america's history has turned into a vietnam like quagmire the taliban is still launching regular bomb attacks on coordinated assaults 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 and as artie's reports some camera happy u.s. soldiers helping the taliban win a propaganda war. else 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 housed that can be easily used as a tactic or as a means of acting more young. religious history with them to go and join the taliban and al qaeda and it seems to be working more and more islamic extremist websites are hosting direct links to videos put up on the web by the soldiers themselves in blogs and social networking sites it's the enemy who's now wanted to help in the taliban fight its cause they can easily be copied by al qaeda and the taliban. easily make. the us forces fail to build your clips 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 we see hundreds of videos about afghanistan nato new americans are talking about human rights you can see the proof online 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 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 that global jihadists understand that sometimes an e-mail might just be myself then the sword father wants an e. mail and said message was a mobile phone call it. make buddy buddy good loops the word it's always has a way of getting out. people not to see this kind of thing in the internet because everything you see is. the life but the time of then picking up on a form of communication is one spend it now falls on coalition troops since it themselves. brian becker the war coalition

coordinator believes a withdrawal of international troops from afghanistan will not lead to an increase in 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 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. now approaching quarter past the hour here in moscow you are with r.t.

and there's plenty more stories coming your way including why does the u.s. see our t.v. as an enemy we explore how america's overseas broadcasters are planning to expand while slamming their competitors that's coming your way shortly. alleged a russian arms trafficker is appealing against a thai court's ruling that he should be extradited to the u.s. victor boots 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 into confession and he 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 far as it takes to get it and i'm sure everyone understands they're playing to france to do it these days starting with chemical sense psychological pressure. tuesday the criminal court dropped charges

of money laundering and fraud against the brood clearing the way for his extradition the charges could have delayed his being sent to the u.s. 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 switchy 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 the victor 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 or counsel 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 president i think it's on life clear that he's depends teen will be able to bring into evidence the fact that he has on occasion been as assistance to the pentagon and to us in nato countries in providing or. i think it's unlikely that people would 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 sort of is necessarily innocent of all charges but the sting operation is something 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 merchant or some death. president dmitri medvedev has hit out at isabella russian counterpart for trying to make an enemy out of moscow in his video blog said alexander to look at is stepping up his anti russian rhetoric the russian leader

thinks it's all to do with the upcoming presidential election in bello groups where looking shanker is hoping to stay in power but if you had says the russian leaders trying to distract voters from domestic problems moscow and main scsi old political union in one thousand nine hundred nine would have since seen a steady decline in relations and it is that the current tension should not affect the quote brotherly times of the russian and bent of russian people. or 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 says it must up its game to combat the rise of what he called media enemies including our t.v. guy in a chicken 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 because 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 well launching international broadcasting twenty four hour news channels correspondents around the world spence reportedly 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 were 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 buzz word 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 as well as terrorists 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 an alert with some freedom of speech advocate. it's somebody says that truth is always on the united states side is a propagandist and not a. 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 and 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 of

how the world is supposed to work is not resonating it's not getting traction it seems washington is still getting used to the increasing volume for media voices giving fresh perspective on world issues kind of chicken r.t. washington d.c. . the leader of the controversial freedom party in the netherlands heard of builders stood trial this week of the charges of inciting hatred against muslims and comes out as far right party agreed to support the new minority government in exchange for concessions on immigration for all this is on trial over comments where he compared islam to not cism and call for the koran to be banned the trial has to face still a builder has exercised his right to remain silent and his lawyer accuse the judge of bias he faces a hefty fine or a year in jail if found guilty of gerard batten a member of the european parliament says that builders shouldn't be locked up for

expressing his opinion. 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 it's not compatible with western western liberal democracy and free speech as we see you know this whole thing is this is trial is the pressure of free speech what is he said he's actually talked about the ideology and the koran as a book and we're now having a trial because somebody has dared to criticize a book. 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. live from moscow and now to some other world news in brief for you 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 a stunning soldier's islam a bad reacted by closing a key border used as a nato supply the border was reopened on friday ending the eleven day blockade. police clashed with hundreds of anti gay protesters at a gay pride march so. sixty people were reportedly wounded in. the protesters try

to break through a heavy police cordon protecting the gate if it would work step back by security forces last year the parade was called off after the government said it could not guarantee the safety of the. evacuation of chile's thirty three trapped miners is due to begin on wednesday rescuers have drilled through the chamber where the men 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 must also test whether the escape tunnel is safe enough to prevent the risk of collapse the upgraded soyuz spacecraft has arrived at the international space station after taking off from the baikonur cosmodrome two days ago the crew are made up of two russian cosmonauts and nasa astronauts will stay there for half a year they were greeted by three astronauts who have been manning the station since june remarkably family ties are soon to become part of

a life of the i assess. reports on the special bond of brothers beyond. 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 but there were human moments to go there yes there were smiles. and goodbye to his but when his brother mark joins him on the i assess in february it will be the first time they've worked together for a very long time we have occasionally flown together in the navy as a test pilot but before that i think we always work at a dairy queen or a twelve years old mop the floor for the last year 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 glass so that they both know first time and what they're counting down. not what his brother flyaway 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 bored makes it even more exciting i've seen him launch three times now and it's pretty incredible thing to see when they both meet again on the international space station in a few months time it will become a family space station but just like his brother mark doesn't want to be too sentimental it's going to be 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.