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start on t.v. . polls closing credits turns first parliamentary election correspondents bring you the latest from across the country. the vote is considered to be crucial for the central asian state as it's going to change the way the country is through the war and join me later in the program live from bishkek where that will to be counted here in kyrgyzstan's second largest city hope for stability has returned after months on rest. also remembering a tragedy mourners malk six months since the polish president's plane crash near the russian city of smolensk killing all ninety six. review all the way the war in afghanistan enters its tenth year making it the

longest in u.s. military history and this year has been the deadliest yet for foreign troops. and destination but recruitment arrive at the international space station after friday's blast off from the baikonur cosmodrome. with a look back at the past week's top stories in the latest developments this is r.t. here in moscow more than half of kurdistan electorate has voted on a ballot which will see the country become central asia is first parliamentary democracy election came after months of political turbulence and ethnic violence exit polls suggest no party has won a majority allowing them to govern alone however politicians who've been occupying senior posts in the interim government following forced resignation are thought to

perform strongly earlier i spoke to auntie's natalia not because you've got a piece going off who are following the voting from cricket stands to largest cities. the security has been tightened throughout the curious capital bishkek over the past couple of hours it has been rather quiet here there's a lot of police patrolling the streets of bishkek at the moment no serious violations have been registered here the average turnout throughout the country at this election has been about fifty percent and according to play really been there a record still actually has gone rather smoothly it is indeed a landmark vote for the country because after this election after the votes are counted. regardless of how many people have showed up at this election 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 in a pro this year when president bakiyev was overthrown. many people were killed and many more were injured and people were unhappy with the former president's policies that have led many to live in poor verty and this is the reason why he was overthrown and after he was overthrown temporary government or kyrgyzstan has held a referendum during which it was decided to turn the country into a parliamentary state to the southern city of osh now you go it showed the highest turnout this sunday so what's the atmosphere like there in the city that's the biggest news from auschwitz sunday is the city showed the biggest voter turnout in the entire country around fifty percent of all the people who locals here eligible to vote children to the polling stations and cast their ballots this is really unexpected since this city really won a lot of really difficult in the four times recently the last june there was

massive ethnic clashes between the local population will be cured and commercials armed gangs be sure. and destroyed and as a result hundreds of people were killed several thousand were injured and several thousand more had to flee their homes the city basically is still recovering from those several days of while and back in june that's why there were fears that this violence could reemerge as the voting is held but nevertheless the warning was held in the calm fashion quite a lot quite little people on the streets that we saw today in this is despite the fact that previously there were you course of threats being sent out to the local population by s.m.s. and posters and fliers distributed in here and in other cities of kyrgyzstan calling for violence despite reports by international observers that there were no serious legal violations or trouble the security has been tightened at the polling

stations to protect the count so is there still a perceived threat well indeed the security has been tightened just two hours before the polls have closed the police started patrolling the streets and there was a lot of police and a lot of people believe that this election may be accompanied with a lot of riots and many people still believe that after the votes are counted that political rallies can still take place on the streets. so it's really too soon to sell whether they be elections granted smoothly and we out of the people that we've spoken to on the streets many have said that they believe that some many leaders of the political parties might get attacked. and reporting on the crucial vote. well central asia expert ron howard says the poa shift kind of a stand he's going through is a major challenge. the vote won't do anything at the beginning because that is just

start. after the vote if the vote goes well as we see right now i think we have still seriously problem 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 goes and 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. the victims of the plane crash in russia that killed the president of poland and many of its top officials have been remembered in a ceremony at the site of the tragedy six months ago ninety six people were killed near the city of smolinski just habit has this report. a day for poland to

remember and reflect it's six months since the two of one point four flying from warsaw and bound for russia's men's group jet crashed a little before eleven am ignoring the advice of local air traffic controllers to divert to another airfield the crew attempted to land in dense fog all ninety six on board and in one day poland lost its president its first lady and a large number of its top military political and religious personality they've been on the way to a ceremony marking seventy years since the nine hundred forty katty massacre when over twenty one thousand poles were murdered by soviet secret police april the tenth twenty ten has come to mark the beginning of a new chapter in this strange russia polish relationship but tragically the way it happened around half a year on and it's the families of the victims of that plane crash who called for

sunday's memorial commemorations they flew in from poland to pay their last respects the morning was led by the wives of the russian and polish presidents both emphasizing their shared sense of loss and grief boy he scored the whole of russia shadd the grief and sorrow through and during these hard times you were together with you were praying for those who died in the plane crash and you were asking the lord to give you strength to cope with this terrible tragedy. i cannot hide my emotions when i am here at the site of the tragedy this commemoration could only have been look western by the family of the victims and i want to thank you for the order of taking part in this polygamous church together with the victims' families they inspected the salvaged remains of the plane itself before making their way down the runway as smolinski airport to the place where the plane crashed kilometer

away. large stone marks the spot where they prayed and laid flowers respects were then paid at the nearby memorial complex marking the site of the county massacre one notable absence was yet a slap kaczynski the brother of the late president and leader of poland's largest opposition party he's been highly critical of the way in which both coalition russian authorities have investigated the crash and its causes while the polish military have conducted their own probe president medvedev appointed prime minister putin to lead a joint russian of polish investigation the lasses findings suggest that two normal crew members were in the cockpit at the time of the crash the question as to whether the pilots were put under pressure to land remains open after four months of studying the flight recorder parts and collecting eyewitness accounts the commission has handed over its findings to the polish or forty's they will soon be

made public polish experts will say planned to excavate the crash site oct thirteenth flowers and candles now mark the spot where lech kaczynski presidential plane crashed on april the tenth but the hope is that today's memorial ceremonies led by the two first ladies together can be taken as a symbolic gesture that russia and poland united not only in their grief over what's happened in the past but also as they look forward to happier times ahead. region. of the week's top stories now the u.s. led nato campaign in afghanistan and to the tenth year with no end in sight the longest war in america's history has turned into a vietnam like quagmire the taliban is still launching regular bomb attacks in coordinated assaults two thousand and ten is already the dead this year of the entire campaign for nato troops and the fighting is taking a heavy toll on the afghan people with civilian casualties spiraling. reports some

camera happy u.s. soldiers are helping the taliban win the propaganda war. 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 here if by burning the house accidentally a copy of the koran is barren and 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 and join the taliban and al qaeda and it seems to be working more and more islamic extremist websites are posting direct links to videos put up on the web by the soldiers themselves in blogs and social networking sites it's the enemy who's not i 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 if you want. 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 going on we see hundreds of videos about afghanistan nato new americans are talking about human rights but you can see the proof online it's

a lot. internet cafes are the buzz in downtown kabul hundred have believed 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. very. 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 and me emily and so. by mobile phone. make very very good video clips the word it seems always has

a way of getting out of one people not to see this kind of thing in the internet because everything you see is consumed in the life with the taliban picking up on a form of communication it once banned it now thoughts on coalition troops to censor themselves pointlessly r.t. kabul and brownback an antiwar coalition coordinator believes that would draw all of international 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 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 and the alleged russian arms trafficker is appealing against a toy court's ruling that he should be extradited to the us for it to 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 to confess he wasn't ready and still it's quite possible the extradite him just look him up on some eve craft period and force him to give whatever testimony the us wants you to give i think he'll go with her is it takes to get it and i'm sure everyone understands there are plain to find ways to do these days starting with chemical sense psychological pressure on tuesday the top criminal court dropped charges of

money laundering and fraud against clearing the way for his extradition the charges could have delayed he's being sent to the u.s. which is supposed to happen by november twentieth who 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 which he denies. trafficking expert says that if it is extradited to the u.s. he may not get a fair trial. i have concerns about what the victor 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 monsoreau accounts 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 on the president's i think it's unlikely that his depends 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 getting the truth out of somebody she my concern always has been not because of this necessarily innocent of all charges but the sting operation isn't 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 versions of some death. president dmitri medvedev has hit out at his bella russian counterpart for trying to make an enemy out of moscow in his video blog new video said alexander lukashenko is stepping up his russian rhetoric the russian leader thinks it's all to do with the upcoming presidential election in belarus is hoping to stay in power that have says the will of russian leaders trying to distract voters from domestic problems

a political union between moscow and mints came into effect in the year two thousand but has since been a steady decline in relations been invited that the current tension should not affect the brotherly times of the russian and but of russian 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 says it must up its game to combat the rise of what he called media enemies including us going to churn has more 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. intel national 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 care 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 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 leader mr isaacson backtracked i don't take a russia or artsy 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 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 they don't say 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 their list or combined so maybe money does not really make up 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 says that truth is always on the united states side is

a propagandist and not. journalist and i think that's bad it's a bad example for other countries when that when they say that because obviously other countries have their perspectives 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 get the builders stood trial this week over charges of inciting hatred against muslims it comes as his far right party agreed to support the new minority government in exchange for concessions on immigration bill this is all i'm trial over comments where he compared islam to nelson and called for the qur'an to be banned the trial his face delays as the exercise his right to remain silent and his lawyer accused the judge of bias and expresses a hefty fine or a year in jail if found guilty carol boughton 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 a western developed western liberal democracy and free speech as we see now this

whole thing is this the trial is a pression 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 fretting 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 tom now for 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 two pakistani soldiers islamabad reacted by closing a key border used as a nato supply route the border was reopened on sunday ending the eleven day blockade. mr clash with hundreds of anti gay protestors at a gay pride march in serbia around sixty people reportedly wounded in a violent protest is trying to break through heavy police cordon protecting the gay activists that were kept back by security forces last year the parade was called off after the government said it could not guarantee the safety of participants. in china at least seventeen people have been killed and dozens injured in a road crash involved a collision between a bus carrying over fifty passengers and a cement truck the truck then called fire and rolled off the road. thick fog could have caused the accident. the opera graded soyuz spacecraft has arrived at the

international space station after taking off from the baikonur cosmodrome two days ago the crew made up of two russian cosmonauts and a nasa astronaut will stay there for half a year they were greeted by three astronauts you've been manning the station since june remarkably family toys are said to become part of life at the i assess. reports now 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 of course is his kids growing up we never thought we would be in this. you know unique in privileged position to be able to use 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 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 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 work together and then the time came mach 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 brought us on the ground the others preparing for glass so that they both know first hand what they're counting down. not what's 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 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 tuesday 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 oxalis yet but it'll be a uniquely human moment when the hatch door the siblings meet in space time bottom . just to remind you all our stories videos and blogs are online at home is on the website right now for you the political future of the russian capital becomes clearer with three men and one woman shortlisted to become the next mayor of moscow. and also in the grand old pool that's been superhero known as pig man who's cleaning up and slapping down on the litter problem in the country's forests all that plenty more of the features and stories for you all the time.