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and. how. balloting has begun in kyrgyzstan as problem introductions with tight security after a budget which is hoped will bring peace to the troubled country and 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 second largest city or for stability has returned after months of one west. also this hour united in grief six months song on poland nor the april plane crash that killed ninety six people on board including the late polish president. also this week marks nine good students u.s.

troops and that got to stand in the so-called war against terror but some say american soldiers fueling the flames of violence as well as the town of bombed. out in the mission made possible the modernized to digital so you spacecraft carrying a new russian american dream successor an adult with the international space station. hello and welcome to also the burning new twenty four hour news life from moscow and you national public with the latest news and they have the week's top stories hope of the votes have been counted in kyrgyzstan and elections which will see the country become central ages fast parliamentary democracy the poll comes after months of political unrest and violent ethnic clashes in which at least two thousand died first preliminary results suggest that so far five parties out of the

twenty nine of running one seats in parliament politicians upheld see their posts in the interim government formed off the ex-president but he was an all star also to have performed strongly and over fifty percent of kyrgyzstan's electorate took part in the ballot and. spoke to our correspondents in kyrgyzstan still in largest cities he got this going off and the town and all the car. the security has been tightened throughout the curious capital bishkek no serious violations have been registered here in according to play really an image record still lection 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 showed up at this election will become the first central asian country to become a parliamentary state where prime minister has more power than the president and it's accountable to the parliaments 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 after he was overthrown temporary government or fair 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 a lot about this city showed the biggest voter turnout in the entire country of this is really unexpected since this city really went through a lot of really difficult in the hard times recently we last june there was a 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 by s.m.s. and posters. flyers distributed in other cities calling for despite reports by international observers to there were no serious legal violations or trouble security has been tightened to 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 roy 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 tell whether they are lections ground 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 not on the navicular and you go. on and. observe. the country's new leaders have plenty to prove. 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 is run will it be open government will it be good governance in the sense of transparency so that any

potential corruption is a stunt. 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 here those in the south or on dawson and but can leaving some instability there these are questions which really have to be to be answered maybe in a week or two this time 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 and it's been six months since the catastrophe to the lives of eighty ninety six people alice haven't reports now from the memorial service. a day for poland to remember and reflect it's six months since the two one five flying from warsaw and bound for russia 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 path now they've been on the way to a ceremony marking seventy years since the nine hundred forty cats in 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 not the way it happened and 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 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 polygamy together with the victims' families they inspected the salvaged remains of the plane itself before making their way down the runway is fought to the place where the plane crashed barely one 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 canteen massacre one notable absence was yet a slight kaczynski the brother of the late president and leader of poland's that

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 russia 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 balts 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 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 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 alice habits region. let's now take a look at the week's top headlines the u.s. led nato campaign in afghanistan has entered its tenth year with no easy end in sight 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 and are carrying out regular tox and 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 as aussies paula sleep in our reports some camera happy u.s. soldiers are helping the taliban when their propaganda war. house

goes up in smoke and with a 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 housed that can be easily used as a park or as a means of acting more young. religious students to go and joined 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 them the taliban. easily make. the us forces fail

to believe your clips you want. you want to hear. in some cases the us soldiers videos are prankish and childish other times they're dumb lot common. streaming 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 on line it's a lie the. internet cafe's of the buzz in downtown kabul

hundred have been has managed the small and overcrowded cafe for the past two years and although the connection is slow it's fast enough to keep people logged on. it's easy for people to watch these videos put up by the american soldiers because the most popular videos are on the first page of you tube also when one guy sees a video he told his friend. less than a decade ago when the taliban was in power home computers were banned there were only three places in kabul that had internet but now the global jihadists understand that sometimes an e-mail might just be myself then the sword followed once and me. and so a certain message by by a mobile phone. make value but a good video clips the word it seems always has a way of getting out of one people not to see disclosure of the internet because

everything you see is consumed in the. what the taliban picking up on a form of communication it once banned it now force on coalition troops to censor themselves pointlessly r.t. kabul. alleged russian alls traffic is appealing against the thai court's ruling that he should be extradited to the us weak to boost lawyers claim there's no evidence against him and then says the dr should question witnesses his family see is that he would be forced into making a false confession if extradited only wasn't really understanding that it's quite possible do extradite him just look him up on some 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 freeze to do these days starting. on tuesday they tie criminal courts dropped allegations of money laundering and fraud against

a great player in the way for his extradition and these charges could have delayed him being sent to the us which is supposed to happen by november the twenty fifth was arrested and by hawke turned 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 a former u.n. arms trafficking expert says that if it is extradited to the you ask him might not get a fair trial. i have concerns about what the victor will be going back to based on. 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 back into the courts he wasn't allowed to do so or not president i think it's

unlikely that his defense team will be able to bring into evidence the fact that he has on occasion been to the systems to the pentagon to us in nato countries in providing. i think it's unlikely that people who want deliberately to harm anyone but i think calm is sometimes done as part of the process but what people may see is getting good getting the truth out of somebody she my concern always has been not the sort of is necessarily innocent of all charges it but the sting operation is something he didn't do quite clearly just think operation he's not the merchant of death which the media portray him as well i would agree he's a merchant or some death and of course you can read. all our stories online. and his mind right. the race for the hot seat at home is with president considering a short list of four vying to become the costs. and also the

gold you could call. them this week cleaning out. problems in the country's forests. 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 china the head of the media organization which oversees america's international broadcasting says it nonstop its game to combat they rise of what he called media enemies including l.t. got at a chicken house mall 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 in merican enemies in the media which he identifies as you randiness well let russia and china we care allow ourselves to be 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 telesur 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 later 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 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 it up 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 an 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 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 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 shut down our t. washington d.c. . president dmitri medvedev has his house at his but the russian counterpart trying to make an enemy out of moscow in his video blog that have said alexander look at stepping up his russian rhetoric the russian leader things it's all to do with the upcoming presidential elections about the reason he's hoping to stay in power on the bed of says the belorussian leaders trying to distract voters from domestic problems a political union between moscow and minsk came into facts in the year two thousand but there has since been a steady decline in relations the dead have added that the current tensions should not affect the growth of the ties of the russian and by the russian people. the leader of the controversial freedom policy in the netherlands good to build has

stood trial this week of the charges of inciting hatred against muslims it's common that he's far right policy agreed to support the new minority government in exchange for concessions on immigration will do is on trial over cullen's where he compared islam to notice is meant cold for the qur'an to live beyond the trial has phase delays as well as exercised his right to remain silent and his lawyer cues the judge of diets he praises have to find or you jail if found guilty and. a member of the european parliament says that wilders shouldn't be the topic or 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 talking 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 is not compatible with western developed western liberal democracy and free slaves as we see now this whole thing is 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 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. let's now take a look at some other international news stories in brief at least eight people have been killed in suspected u.s. missile strikes in northwest pakistan the region where america believes the taliban

to be had altered a drone firing missiles targeting a tribal area north of aziru style thought to be a stronghold of the militant group blamed for time 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 islamabad reacted by closing a border post shutting a key nato supply route the crossing was reopened on sunday and doing an eleven day blockade. police clashed with hundreds of far right protests as a gay pride march in belgrade over sixty people were reported to have been allowed to divide those protesters try to break through you have a police cordons protecting the gay activists but well kept by by security forces the rioters also threw homemade explosives at the headquarters of the ruling democratic policies setting the buildings that go wrong on the far. side of north korea's ruler the country's air power and came to get drawn has made his mark on

the most high profile public appearance so far apart in massive celebrations of the sixty fifth anniversary of the country's ruling party adding to the nation used to be the next leader foreign diplomats and chinese communist party officials also attended recently appointed general is expected to be the third generation of his family's didn't ask to rule in the closed communist state. rally cabinet has approved a bill signed into law will force will force citizens to swear an oath of loyalty to the jewish state the move is seen as symbolic since few known jews apply for israeli citizenship but arms and palestinians fear it will diminish even further that legal rights and status in the country the nationalist move comes at a time when israel is already refusing to hold true settlements in the occupied west bank as u.s. sponsored peace talks remain deadlocked. the upgrade it so you spacecraft has

arrived at the international space station after lifting off from the by canoe cosmodrome on friday the current made up of two russian cosmonauts and the nasa astronauts will say that. they were greeted by three arsenals who have been manning the station since during the remarkably family ties assumed to become part of life says tom barton reports on the special bond of brothers beyond. twins in space within a few months scott kelly and his brother mark both astronauts will be in orbit together courses as kids growing up we never thought we would be in this. 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 was a human moments to go there yes there were smiles. and goodbye to his but when his brother mark joins him on the i assess in february it will be the first time

they've worked together very long time we have occasionally flown together in the navy as a test pilot but before that i think we always work at a dairy queen well over 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 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 brothers 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 in south . 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 them 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.