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counting has begun in parliamentary elections with tight security as for a budget which is hoped will bring peace to the troubled country which has implications for its central asian neighbors to. 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 in kyrgyzstan the second largest city or told for stability has returned after months of one worst. also the saudis united in grief six months on a run on poland normally a full plane crash that killed ninety six people on board including the late polish president. and also this week moments nine years since u.s.

troops entered afghanistan in the so-called war against terror but some say american soldiers fueling the flames of violence as well as the town of. they'd possible be modernized dish told so you spacecraft carrying a new russian american crew successfully docks with the international space station . hello and welcome to all see twenty four hour news live from moscow. with the natives news and in the crowd the week's top stories over a host of kyrgyzstan's electorate has voted in the ballot which will save the country became the central asia first parliamentary. prosy after months of political unrest and violent ethnic clashes in which at least two thousand died first parliamentary results of the ballots are expected within several hours while

exit poll suggests no party has won a majority giving them the power to govern how well a politician is held seen outposts in the interim government formed after ex-president but he was ousted also to have formed strongly and. spoke to our correspondents in kyrgyzstan's to the largest cities. and that. the security has been tightened throughout the curious capital bishkek no serious violations have been registered here in the according to play really an image records the election has gone rather smooth and it is indeed a landmark vote for the country because after the votes are counted regardless of how many people have shown 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 parliaments 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 after he was overthrown temporary government or care guest on has held every friend in 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 so what's the atmosphere like there in the city well that's right that's the biggest news from off about this city showed the biggest voter turnout in the entire country or this is really unexpected since this city really went through a lot of really difficult in the hard times recently last june 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 that's why there were fears that this violence could. as the voting is held but nevertheless the warning was held in the calm fashion 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. flyers distributed. so. despite reports by international observers to there were no serious legal violations or trouble 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 royds 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 are lections grant smoothly and we out of the people that we've spoken to on the streets many have said that they believe that many leaders of the political parties might get attacked. correspondents. nor reporting on the crucial votes from. the victims of the plane crash in russia in which the president of poland and many top officials died have been remembered at a ceremony at the site of the tragedy has been six months since the catastrophe it took the lives of ninety six people on this have it reports now from the memorial service. a day for poland to remember and reflect it's six months since the tuple 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 my way to a ceremony marking seventy years since the nine hundred forty katty massacre when over twenty one thousand 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 the way it happened and the 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 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 look by the family of the victims and i want to thank you for the order of taking part in this polygamous ranch together with the victims' families they inspected the salvaged remains of the plane itself before making their way down the runway is. 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 masika one notable

absence would get us live kaczynski the brother of the late president and leader opponents the largest opposition party he's been highly critical of the way in which both coalition russian authorities have investigated the crash on discourses while the polish military have conducted their own probe president medvedev appointed prime minister putin to lead a joint russia of polish investigation the last is 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 faults and collecting eyewitness accounts the commission has handed over its findings to the polish forty's they will soon be made public polish experts will say plans rex give it the crash site on the flowers and candles now mark the spot where lech kaczynski is presidential plane crashed on april the tenth balance 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. region. this is our c.n.n. coming up this hour that paul what's he behind the publicity. why don't some new delhi are skeptical about the growing commonwealth games. let's take a look at the week's top headlines the u.s. led nato campaign in afghanistan has entered its time of year was no ease and inside one of america's most drawn out military campaigns appears to be only deepening the taliban which u.s. officials believe to be headquartered in pakistan are carrying out regular attacks on nato forces twenty ten is the deadliest year yet of the campaign for the coalition forces but with civilian casualties spiraling the fighting is also taking

a heavy toll on the afghan people paula say in our reports some camera happy u.s. soldiers are helping the taliban when the propaganda war. goes up in smoke and where the 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 for 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 with 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 but i'll carry them the taliban. easily make. the u.s. forces fail video clips you won't hear. i don't have a care if you want to hang. out in some cases the very soldiers videos are prankish and childish other times they're down much 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 us so you'd sometimes home connection is so unreliable that every afternoon here watching videos that make him angry a lot of the only going on we see hundreds of videos about afghanistan nato and the

americans are talking about human rights you can see the proof for mine it's a lie so do you. 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. the radio. 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 to get in 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 followed once a name a male and so the taliban send message by by mobile phone and. make

body but a 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 that once banned it now thoughts on coalition troops to censor themselves points the r.t. kabul. the war is causing even more casualties outside afghanistan says the nato campaign started the number of drugs factories exporting to russia has tripled and according to russia's antidrug chief america is to blame. for that goes 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 you were

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 they're producing drugs for russia. and you can watch the full interview with a victim of an open about fifteen minutes time right here. alleged russian all's traffic a the payday against a thai court's ruling that he should be extradited to the u.s. the lawyers claim there's no evidence against him and says the judge should question witnesses his family fears that he would be forced into making a false confession confession if extradited only wasn't 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 their plane to fly is to do it these days starting with chemical sense psychological pressure. on tuesday the tycoon of course dropped allegations of money laundering and fraud against previous clearing the way for here expression these charges get delayed in a sense to be your eyes which are supposed to happen by november the twenty fifth was arrested in bangkok thailand he's a guy 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 it is extradited to the u.s. might not get a fracture. i have concerns about what effect it will be going back to based on

your new the person who in recent times has been convicted on a sting operation involving the fox the colombian rebels there's a man called monster all 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 unlikely that his depends team will be able to bring into evidence the fact that he has all my courage invaded assistance first of the pentagon to us in 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 assume he didn't do quite clearly just think operation he's not the merchant of death which the media portray of us or i would agree he's

a versions of some death. and you can read more about victimhood and all our stories online at all c dot com and here's a look at what's on the site right now. so that raising a bit more scenes have moscow city hall marris with president medvedev considering a shortlist of four vying to become the man of the capital city. on the grand old duke of the last minute super hero as big my cleaning out clamping down on the little problem in the countries for it's all down to noise and i'll see to. it. the u.s. might claim to be a champion of freedom of speech but noted seems if it's coming from russia iran

venezuela china the head of the media organization which oversees america's international broadcasting so as it must stop its game to combat the rise of what he called media enemies including l.t. going to check on how small 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 enemy. 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 tell a story and of course china is a launching international broadcasting twenty four hour news channels

correspondents around the world spence portably set aside six to ten billion dollars we've 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 a russia or archie 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 r t iran's press t.v. and then as well as their list or combined and maybe money does not really make zero 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 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 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 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 about 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 going to check on our t. washington d.c. . president dmitry medvedev has his child at his bell of russian counterpart while trying to make an enemy out of moscow and his video blog medvedev said alexander look at those stepping up to russian rhetoric they russian leader things it's all to do with the upcoming presidential election delegates well look at who is hoping

to stay in power and that if says the belorussian leaders trying to distract voters from domestic problems the political union between moscow and minsk came into effect in two thousand but there has since been steady steady decline in relations that have added that the current tension should not affect the brotherly ties of the russian and the russian people. let's take a look at some international news and grieve at least eight people have been killed in suspected u.s. missile strikes in northwest pakistan a region where america believes the taliban to be headquartered a drone firing missiles targeting a tribal area north waziristan thought to be a stronghold of a militant group blamed for at times on foreign troops in afghanistan the u.s. has been criticized for the strikes by just playing but coming to have its soldiers last week is long about reacted by closing a border post shutting a key nato supply route the crossing was reopened on sunday and doing an eleven day of located. police have clashed with hundreds of far right protesters as

a gay parade pride march in belgrade and almost sixty people were pushed into the violence protesters tried to break through having police cordons protesting because a activists they were kept by by security forces there was also through homemade explosives at the headquarters of the ruling democratic party setting of the buildings. the son of north korea's ruler and the country's air power and he. has made his most high profile public appearance so he took part in massive celebrations of the sixty fifth anniversary of the country's ruling party just by. relationship used to be the next leader foreign diplomats and chinese communist party officials also attended the recently appointed general is expected to be the third generation of his family's did not stay cool in a closed communist state. these radical cabinet has approved

a bill which have signed into law will full citizens to swear an oath of loyalty to the jurist state the move is seen as a symbolic says if you know interracial parent leave for israel apply for israeli citizenship but i robes and palestinians fear diminish even further their legal rights and status in the country nationalist move comes at a time when israel is already refusing to hold jewish settlements in the occupied west bank as u.s. sponsored peace talks remained deadlocked. the commonwealth games are given new delhi a platform to share a case it's rising prosperity but beyond the bride a billboards lies the shantytowns some residents say that the government money is spent on preparing the city for the sporting event would have been better used on the city slums our correspondent karen saying has more. across the board showcasing the commonwealth games have sprung up trying to hide the city's poverty but these

haven't been entirely successful here in boston for the heart of the slum is still visible most of its two thousand residents are not surprised by the action. the government considers its dirty it could give us a lot to relocate them instead of too high just to put a curtain up. and shouldn't be seen in our politicians take their votes but they stay in. 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 administration feels that these boards will help project the best face of the city wishing 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 and out through the gaps to avoid the long new route is another there's no water here this is the biggest problem for us there used to be one town close by but there's 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 today even would have been great for you or they could have opened a school in the slum and provided us with drinking water when the commonwealth games and the books will come down but for the slum residents life will continue to be tough for them long term life improving changes are needed not short term cosmetic ones got and seeing r.t. . the upgraded so you spacecraft has arrived at the international space station after lifting off from the baikonur cosmodrome on friday the current made up of two russian cosmonauts and

a nasa astronaut will say that. they were greeted by three astronauts has been manning the station since during remarkably family ties that seem to become part of life at the highest says he's told boss a report 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. unique privilege to musicians. is the 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 you know there were smiles. and goodbye tears 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 occasionally flown together in the maybe as.