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polls closing 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 ruled here introduced on the second largest city or school for stability has returned after months of on rest. also the remembering a tragedy mourners mark six months since the polish president's plane crashed near the russian city of smolensk killing all ninety six. but also this week marks nine years since u.s. troops entered afghanistan in the so-called war against terror but some say it's american soldiers who are fueling the flames of violence as one of the tell of

a. destination all but street crew going to arrive at the international space station after friday's blast all from the baikonur cosmodrome. to. the back of the past week's top stories and the latest developments this is. so more than the whole five costanza electorate has voted in the ballots which will see the country become centrifuges first parliamentary democracy the election came off to months of political turbulence and ethnic violence exit polls suggest no party has won a majority to govern alone of a politician the supreme occupying syria posts in the interim government following former president bakiyev or first resignation i thought to perform strongly there are spoke to the town and. through all the voting systems to cities.

throughout the curious capital bishkek over the past couple of hours it has been rather quiet here there is 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 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 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 the. showed the highest turnout this sunday so what's the atmosphere like there in the city that's the biggest news from off the sun is the city showed the biggest voter turnout in the entire country around fifty percent of all the people all the locals here eligible to vote show down to the polling stations and cast their ballots this is really only expected since this city really went through a lot of really difficult in the hard times recently we knew there was massive ethnic clashes between the local population will be cured and back nationals armed

gangs destroyed businesses and destroyed homes 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 while unscrewed reemerge as the voting is held but nevertheless the warning was held in the calm fashion quite a lot of 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 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 in may be accompanied with a lot of riots and many people still believe that after the votes are counted that separated the rallies can still take place on the streets. so it's really too soon to say out whether they get the elections ballots 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. artie's correspondent. reporting on the crucial vote in kind of a stand well sort of game of the center for political technologies that's an independent russian think tank says that changing the political system in canada stan won't bring stability to the country or its neighboring states. or new

saints it's a parliamentary republic would be a better choice for kyrgyzstan than a presidential one and i think it only creates more instability in the parliaments might become a real mess. and more likely it would simply fail to rule the country or i have a feeling that those who suggest you to stand becomes a parliamentary republic and it is known that the new constitution was written by american specialists make us believe that maintaining imbalance in the country helps exerts pressure bring states such as it has external. and in future might affect the situation in china and other countries in the region so i believe this is planned instability under the pretense of democracy will have always been introduced in kyrgyzstan of other than democracy of. the victims of the plane crash in russia that killed the president opponent of 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. 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 types now they've been all my way to a ceremony marking seventy years since the nine hundred forty canteen massacre when over twenty one thousand the poles were murdered by solve it 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 in 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 through and during these hard times you were together with you were praying for those who died in the plane crash in asking the lord to give you strength to cope with this terrible tragedy. seems to me i cannot hide my emotions when i am here at the side 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 polygamy 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 kilometer away. a 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 discourses while the polish military have conducted their own probe president medvedev appointed prime minister putin to lead a joint russia 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 polish or forty's they will soon be

made public polish experts will say parents rex give eight the crash site on october the thirty flowers and candles now mark the spot where lech kaczynski presidential plane crashed on april the tenth ballads 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. in a rundown of the week's top stories the u.s. led nato campaign in afghanistan enters 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 are still launching regular bomb attacks and coordinated assaults twenty ten has already been 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. ortiz policy reports some camera happy u.s. soldiers helping the taliban win the propaganda war. f.l. schools 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 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. to you want to hang. out in some cases soldiers videos of prankish and childish other times they're downright criminal extremely provocative in this clip us soldiers burn the bodies of dead muslims facing mecca today in afghanistan the internet is becoming more and more popular but look around it's no surprise that in a place like this there's still only a few people who have access to us so you'd sometimes home connection is so unreliable that every afternoon here watching videos that make him angry one of the only calling we see hundreds of videos about afghanistan nato new americans are

talking about human rights. but you can see the proof on line it's a lie the. internet cafes are the buzz in downtown kabul hundred have been has managed the small and overcrowded cafe for the past two years and although the connection is slow it's fast enough to keep people 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 with one guy says a video he tells his friend. and less than a decade ago when the taliban was in power home computers were banned they were only three places in kabul that had internet but now the global jihadists understand that sometimes an e-mail might just be myself then the sword followed once a knee. and a certain message by by a 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 every time you see this can see this in the life but the taliban picking up on the form of communication it once banned it now thoughts on coalition troops to censor themselves policy r.t. kabul. and brownback an antiwar coalition coordinator believes a 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 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 caricature of them 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. an alleged russian arms trafficker is appealing against the thai court's ruling that he should be extradited to the u.s. for it to butanol his claim there's no evidence against him and insists the judge should question witnesses his family fears that if extradited he'll be forced to confess all he wasn't already unstable to it's quite possible the extradite him and just look him up on some eve craft carrier and force him to give whatever testimony the u.s. wants him to give i think he'll go as far as 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 thai criminal court to drop

charges of money laundering and fraud against it 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 eighth which was arrested in bangkok to here he is again and has been behind bars ever since washington accuses him of fueling terrorism and conspiring to supply arms to colombian rebels which he denies a former u.n. arms trafficking expert says that if boot is extradited to the u.s. he might not get a fair trial. i have concerns about what the verdict 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 count 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 on

life plea 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 or. she my concern always has been not necessarily innocent of all charges but the sting operation of some he didn't do quite clearly just think operation he's not of the merchant of death which the media portray of ours or i would agree. and you can learn more details about victim case at all website that's. along with other stories there now here's a taste of what else you can find that on line right now the political future of the russian capital becomes clearer with three men and one woman shortlisted to become the next man of moscow. and the grand old duke of pork in

superhero known as pig man is cleaning up in clamping. a problem in the country's forests all that and plenty of other features the stories that are to dot com. president dmitri medvedev has hit he's been a russian counterpart for trying to make an enemy out of moscow in his video blog medvedev said alexander lukashenko is stepping up his anti russian rhetoric the russian leader thinks it's all to do with the upcoming presidential election and. is hoping to state. that it says 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 since been

a steady decline in relations it added that the current tension should not affect the tongues of the russian but. 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 r.t. can 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 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 think 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 their 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 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 on all this the board spends more than seven hundred fifty million dollars and it's why. they more than the budget of r t iran's press t.v. and then 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 if that's the man 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 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 they still getting used to the increasing volume from media voices giving fresh perspective on world issues going to check on our t. washington d.c. . the leader of the controversial freedom party in the netherlands get 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 on trial over comments where he compared islam to knott's ism and called for the qur'an to be the child's face delays as he exercises right to remain silent and his lawyer accused the judge of bias faces to fine or a year in jail if found guilty jeremy button a member of the european parliament says that the 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 the west and western liberal democracy and free speech as we're seeing now this whole thing is this this 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 out now nobody frightened 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. when our two were some other world news in brief 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 in north waziristan believed to be dominated by and militant group

blamed 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 about reacted by closing a border post shutting a key nato supply routes across it was reopened on sunday ending the eleven day blockade. police have clashed with hundreds of anti gay protesters at a gay pride march in serbia around sixty people were reportedly wounded in the violence protest is trying to break through heavy police cordons protecting the gay activists but 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 eastern china at least seventeen people been killed and dozens injured in a road crash that involved a collision between a bus carrying over fifty passengers and a cement truck. rolled off the road there's a good to see a thick fog could of course the accident. 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 astronauts will stay there for half a year they were greeted by three astronauts to be manning the station since june remarkably family ties are soon to become part of life for the i assess artie's tom barton reports 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 use the build up to scott's launch of russia's baikonur cosmodrome on friday was filled with technical question just seeing that there was a human moments to go there yes there were smiles. and goodbye to his eyes when his brother mark joins him on the i assess in february it will be the first time they've worked together there's very long time that we have occasionally flown

together in the maybe as a test pilot but before that i think we always work at a dairy queen roller at twelve years old mopping the floor part of the last jet of the last job we really had that we worked together and then the time came mark said goodbye scott and to the rocket these two russian crewmates everyone went 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 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 tuesday but just like his brother mark doesn't want to be too.