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close in kurdistan first parliamentary election correspondents bring you the latest from across the country. the vote is considered to be crucial for the central asian state is going to change the way the country is ruled here in kyrgyzstan the second largest city for stability has returned after months on west. remembering the tragedy of mourners mark six months since the polish president's plane crashed near the russian city killing. some. of you in 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 troops.

destination all but arrived at the international space station after friday's last call from the bank and. back at the past week's top stories and the latest developments this is. more than the hole for kurdistan's electorate voted in a ballot which will see the country become central asia first parliamentary democracy then action came off to months of political turbulence and ethnic violence exit polls suggest no party has won a majority allowing them to govern alone however politicians. in the interim government following former president bakiev forced resignation thought to perform strongly earlier i spoke to. and you go to. the voting from kurdistan's 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 bishkek abd the moment no serious violations have been registered here the average turnout throughout the country at this election has been about fifty percent in the according to play really been there a record still actually has gone rather smooth 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 barchi 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 off kyrgyzstan has held a referendum during which it was decided to turn the country into a parliamentary state to the southern city of now you go 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 you're eligible to vote children to the polling stations and cast their ballots this is really only expected since this city really won a lot of really difficult in the four times you so let me ask you there was a. of ethnic clashes between the local population will be cured and brick nationals

armed gangs be sure businesses 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 and this is despite the fact that previously there were reports of threats being sent out to the local population why s.m.s. and pollsters and flyers 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 a lot of people believe that this election in 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 say out whether they get the election it's been smoothly and we out of the people that we've spoken to on the streets many have said that they believe that the leaders of the political parties might get attacked. and you go to reporting on the crucial vote from kind of a stand and under a form the observer in kurdistan says the country's new leaders have plenty to prove after they assume power. somehow in the political culture it's felt that while the power is being taken away from the presidency towards the parliament to

get into the parliament nevertheless the prize is the presidency so that's a curious situation that that's being discussed even this very weekend the question is will there be a real cultural shift politically and in the way that government has run will it be open government will it be good governance in the sense of transparency so that any potential corruption is. or will it be the usual that for example a majority government will be the new regime which has just taken over the transition government and they were marginalized completely those who supported by there was an associate on dawson and but can and leaving some instability there these are questions which really have to be to be answered maybe in a week or two is time. the victims of the plane crash in russia they killed the president opponent or many of its top officials have been remembered at a ceremony at the site of the tragedy six months ago ninety six people were killed near the city of smolensk ortiz and his habits reports. a day for poland to

remember and reflect it's six months since the two pull of one point four flying from warsaw and bound for russia smolensk region 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 their way to a ceremony marking seventy years since the nine hundred forty canteen massacre when over twenty one thousand the 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 not 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 shad the grief and sorrow and during these hard times you were together with you were praying for those who died in the plane crash and we were asking the lord to give you strength to cope with this terrible tragedy. i cannot hide my emotions when i'm here at the site of the tragedy this commemoration could only have been looked at by the family of the victims and i want to thank you for the order of taking part in this polygamy much together with the victims' families they inspected the salvaged remains of the plane itself before making their way down the runway as. to the place where the plane crashed that 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 get us live 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 made a very of appointed prime minister putin to lead a joint russia of polish investigation the last is founding 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 prudential foresees they will soon

be made public polish experts will say planned to excavate the crash site on october the thirty flowers and candles now mark the spot where lech kaczynski is 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 and united not only in their grief over what's happened in the past but also as they look forward to happier times ahead alice habits. a rundown of the week's top stories now the u.s. led nato campaign in afghanistan entered its tenth year with no end in sight one of the longest wars in america's history has turned into a vietnam like quagmire the taliban is still launching regular bomb attacks and 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. reports some

camera happy u.s. soldiers helping the taliban win the propaganda war. f.l. schools up in smoke and whether justified or not tempers fly in the afghan capital the culprits soldiers who can be heard saying fantastic before posting the clip on the internet even if by burning the house accidentally a copy of the koran is that house that can be easily used as a tactic or as a means of acting more young. religious students to go and join the taliban and al qaeda and it seems to be working more and more islamic extremist websites are 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 want to be helping the taliban fight its cause they can easily be copied by al qaeda and the taliban. easily make. the us forces fail video clips if you want. you want to hang. out in some cases the u.s. 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 you can see the proof online it's a lot. internet cafes are the buzz in downtown kabul hundred have been has managed the small and overcrowded test say for the past two years and although the connection is slow it's fast enough to keep people logged on . varied and. it's easy for people to watch these videos put up by the american soldiers because the most popular videos are on the first page of you tube also when one guy sees a video he tells his friend. and 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 follows once a knee. and so the taliban send message by 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 is in the life with the taliban picking up on a form of communication it once banned it now force on coalition troops to censor themselves pointlessly r r t kabul. the number of afghan labs cooking up drugs for export to russia has tripled and according to russia's drugs chief the united states is to blame. for the primitive guns that when the u.s. says you cannot deprive farmers of their livelihood it actually sends a message to the afghan leadership as well saying they shouldn't do it because first this will destroy people's livelihood and second you push farmers into the hands of the taliban i think this is merely an excuse furthermore since u.s. special representative for central asia richard holbrooke first suggested this idea

that instead of eradicating drug crops the u.s. should target drug labs and traffickers which was almost a year ago the number of laps of producing drugs for russia has tripled a year ago we knew about one hundred seventy labs in afghanistan today we know of more than four hundred laps there producing drugs for russia. and you can watch the full interview with victor and all of in about fifteen minutes from now here on. an alleged russian almost trafficker is appealing against a toy court's ruling that he should be extradited to the u.s. has claimed 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 already understand that it's quite possible the extradite him and just lock 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 there are plaintiff ways to do it these days starting with chemical sense psychological pressure. on tuesday the criminal court dropped charges of money and fraud against police clearing the way for his extradition the charges could have delayed his being sent to the us which is supposed to happen point one hundred twenty the rest in bangkok turned off years ago and has been behind bars since the shooting accuses him of fueling terrorism and conspiring to supply arms to colombian rebels which he denies the former u.n. arms trafficking expert 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 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 unlikely that he's depends teen will be able to bring into evidence the fact that he has on occasion been to the assistance to the pentagon to us and nato countries in providing or. 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 soldiers necessarily innocent of all charges it but the sting operation of some he didn't do quite clearly just think operation and he's not the merchant of death which the media portray him as well i would agree he's a versions of some death. coming up this hour the poverty behind the public find out why residents are skeptical about the ongoing commonwealth games.

first person dmitri medvedev has hit out at his bell a russian counterpart for trying to make an enemy out of moscow in his video blog said alexander lukashenko is stepping up his russian rhetoric the russian leader thinks it's all to do with the upcoming presidential election and better reuss well look i was hoping to stay in power with the russian leaders trying to distract voters from domestic problems political union between moscow and minsk came into effect in the year two thousand but there has since been a steady decline in relations and have added that the current tension should not affect the brotherly time of the russian and the russian people. well 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. kind of 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. 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'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 think

of 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 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 as well as their list or combined so maybe money does not really make out 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 advocates somebody who says that truth is always on the united states side is a propagandist and that. 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 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 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 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 a fresh perspective on world issues kind of chicken or t. washington d.c. . we're not in some other world news in brief for you at this stage of the day at least eight people have been killed in suspected u.s. strikes in northwest pakistan a drone firing missiles targeted a tribal area north waziristan believed to be dominated by a militant group blame for attacks on foreign troops in afghanistan the u.s. has been criticized for the strikes by pakistan blamed for killing two of its soldiers last week as number reacted by closing a border post shutting a key nato supply route the crossing was reopened on sunday ending the eleven day.

police a clash with hundreds of anti gay protesters at a gay pride march in serbia around sixty people were reportedly wounded in the violence protesters try to break through heavy police cordons protect the gay activists who 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 eastern china at least seventeen people have been killed and dozens injured in a road crash in involved a collision between a bus carrying over fifty passengers and a cement truck truck then called for a rolled off the road investigators say could cause the accident. the commonwealth games has provided new delhi with a platform to showcase its rising wealth but behind the bright billboards lies the poverty of shantytowns residents say the money that went from keeping up appearances could have been better spent on improving the city's squalid slums our correspondent has more. across the early boards showcasing the commonwealth games

have sprung up trying to hide the cities but these haven't been entirely successful here in the heart of the slum is still visible most of its two thousand residents are not surprised by the action. the government considers dirty it could give us a lot to relocate them to hate us that could occur as if we are and shouldn't be seen our politicians. but this stain says the commonwealth games are supposed to showcase delis arrival as a world class city in this new avatar there is no place for the city slums no wonder then that the station feels that these boards will help project the best face of the city pushing away the reality that means just behind them people in the slum now have to circle around the whole barricade to fetch water from the other side children to have to squeeze themselves in through the gaps to avoid the long new roof is another there's no water here this is the biggest problem for us there

used to be one tap close by but that has been shut so we have to walk to get water from far away the government has spent at least four point six billion dollars on upgrading infrastructure for the games yet slum residents such as. family believe this development has bypassed that. if the government had provided some amenities for us even to proper houses for us to live in would have been gratefully or they could have opened a school in the slum provided us with drinking water when the commonwealth games and the birds will come down but for the only slum residents life will continue to be tough for them long term life improving changes are needed not short of cosmetic ones cut and saying. stories videos and blogs are online it. is an example of. the site right now the political future of the russian capital

becomes clearer. shortlisted to become the next mayor of moscow. the grand old. superhero. who's cleaning up and clamping down a problem in the country's force. dot com. the upgraded soyuz spacecraft has arrived at the international space station after lifting off from the baikonur cosmodrome on friday the crew made up of two russian cosmonauts and a nasa astronaut who stayed there for half a year they were greeted by three astronauts have been manning the station since remarkably to become part of life at the s.s. reports now on the special bond of brothers beyond. twins in

space within a few months scott kelly and his brother mock 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 to build up to scott's launch of russia's baikonur cosmodrome on friday was filled with technical questions but there was a human moments to go there yes there were smiles. and goodbye to his what is it with a mock joins them 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 a dairy queen was over twelve years old mopping the floor part of the last job of the last job we really had that we worked together and then the time came mark said goodbye.