quite. content has begun to mention actions with tight security are to a bird which is hoped will bring peace to the troubled country and which has implications for its central asian american nations to. the vote is considered to be crucial for the central asian state is going to change the way the country is ruled here introduced on the largest city or school for stability has returned after months of one worst. also the sound united in grief six months on russia on poland april plane crash that killed ninety six people on board including the late notice president. 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 but using the planes of violence as well as a ton about him. onto a mission made possible the modernized didn't hold so you spacecraft carrying a new russian american crew has successfully docked with the international space station. hello and welcome to all t. twenty following news live from moscow. with the latest news and a review of the week's events of the was have been counted in kyrgyzstan elections which will see the country become central asia is full of parliamentary democracy the poll comes after months of political unrest and violent ethnic clashes in which at least a thousand died fast burning the results jazz that so far five parties out of the

twenty nine running have won seats in parliament. held senior posts in the interim government formed off the ex-president but key it was ousted also to have formed strongly and over fifty percent of kyrgyzstan's electric took part in the bond. my colleague built on our correspondence and stayed on to settings it's going off and the tylenol they come up. with security has been tightened throughout the curious capital bishkek no serious violations have been registered here in according to play real name a 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 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 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 care guest on has held random during which it was decided to turn the country into a parliamentary state to the southern city of osh now you go 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 only expected since this city really went through a lot of really difficult in the hard times recently and last june there was massive ethnic clashes between the local population will be cured and 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 rearrange as the voting is held but nevertheless the warning was held in the calm fashion little people on the streets that we saw today in. despite the fact that previously the force of rats being sent out to the local population. and. flyers distributed in here and so cities calling for violence despite reports by international observers to there were no serious legal violations or trouble the 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 say out whether they are lections went 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 our correspondents not on a new vehicle and reporting their own being. but we are now 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 it's been six months since the catastrophe take the lives of ninety six people have it reports from a memorial service. a day for poland to remember and reflect its six months since the tuple 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 personnel they've been on the way to a ceremony marking seventy years since the nine hundred forty canteen massacre when over twenty one the towels and poles were murdered by soviet secret police april the tenth the 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 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

shared 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 am here at the side of the tragedy this commemoration could only have been look by the family of the victims and i want to thank you for. orna 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 smolinski airport 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 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 discourses while the polish military have conducted their own probe president medvedev appointed prime minister putin to lead a joint russia polish investigation the lasses findings suggest that two normal crew members were in the cockpit at the time of the crash the question as to whether the pilots were put under pressure to land remains open after four months of studying the flight recorder parts and collecting eyewitness accounts the commission has handed over its findings to the polish or forty's they will soon be made public polish experts will say pounds rexx give eight the crash site on october the 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 and united not only in their grief over what's happened in the past but also as they look forward to happier times ahead. this is coming up this hour the poverty behind the publicist to find out why residents of new delhi are skeptical about the ongoing commonwealth games. let's now take a look at the week's top headlines the u.s. led nato campaign in afghanistan has ended 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 believed to be headquartered in pakistan are carrying out regular tired so nato forces twenty turn 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 our policy in our reports some camera happy u.s. soldiers are helping the taliban when they propaganda war. 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 i accidentally a copy of the koran is housed that can be easily used as a park or as a means of. 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 fighters cause they can easily be copied them but taliban. easily make. the u.s. forces leave your lips if you want here. i want to hang. out in some cases the very 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 us 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 may turn the

americans are talking about human rights but you can see the proof on mine it's a lie so 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. very . easy for people to watch these videos put up by the american soldiers because the most popular videos are on the first page of you tube also when one guy sees a video he tells 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 saud father wants a knee mill and so a certain message why buy a mobile phone and. make money but

a good video clips the word it seems always has a way of getting out of one people not to see the spread of the internet because everything you see is consume news in the way but the taliban picking up on the form of communication it once banned it now forced on coalition troops to censor themselves pointlessly r t kabul. the war is causing even more casualties. as the nacer campaign started the number of drugs factories exporting to russia has tripled according to russia's drugs chief america is to blame. for the primitive guns 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 labs 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 he can watch the full interview with victor in about fifteen minutes time right here and i'll see. an alleged russian all appealing 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 of extradited on the was 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 they're playing to wheeze to do. starting with chemical sense psychological pressure. on tuesday they tie criminal court allegations of money laundering and fraud against pate clearing the way for his extradition these charges have delayed him being sent to the wise which has surprised to happen by november the twenty third was arrested in bangkok ten and a half years ago and has been behind bars of a sense action to nicky's as head of fueling terrorism and conspiring to supply arms to colombian rebels was hit in eyes a former u.n. arms trafficking expert says that if the if extradited to the u.s. 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 council 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 court he was in the larger do so or not presidents i think it's of life clear that he was depends teen will be able to bring into evidence the fact that he has on occasion been to the systems first to the pentagon and to us in nato countries in providing or. i think it's unlikely that people will 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 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 or i would agree he's a versions of some of the. and you can read more about victor bruce and all our

stories online at all so you don't own it here's a look at it also on the site right now. the race for the horse seated moscow city hall narratives with presidents dmitri medvedev considering a shortlist of four vying to become the mayor of the town that's. the grand old duke of pole the lantern superhero dad as picked by his cleaning up and clamping down on the litter problem in the country's forests all the time or else he. the u.s. might claim to be a trump and a 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 must stop its game to combat the rise of what he called me to

enemies including elsie got a chicken hospital 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 the randiness well let russia and china we care 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 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 take a russia or r t as an enemy and certainly did not mean to imply that there are 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 then as well as tell us or combined and maybe money does not really make how 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 not. 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 message they. call the world is supposed to work is not resonating it's not. getting traction it seems washington is still getting used to the increasing volume for media voices giving fresh perspective on world issues going to shit on our t. washington d.c. president dmitry medvedev has his how that has a valid russian counterpart of all trying to make an enemy out of moscow and his video blog that of said alex on the look of stepping up his on to russian rhetoric the russian leader things it's all to do with the upcoming presidential election and by the various well the question case hoping to stay in power and that it says the belorussian leaders trying to distract voters from domestic problems and

political union between moscow and minsk came into effect saying the year two thousand but that has since been a steady decline in relations but that if i did that the current tension should not affect the brotherly ties of the russian and by the russian people. let's now take a look at some other international news stories police have clashed with hundreds of. agape launching grade on the sixty people were reported to have been told of violent protesters tried to break through the supporters protecting the gay activists by one of by by security forces their wife has also three homemade explosives at the headquarters of the ruling democratic party setting the building's garage and fire. the son of north korea's the country's heir apparent. has made his most high profile public appearance so far he took part in massive celebrations of the sixty fifth anniversary of the country's ruling party as into speculation he 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 domestic rule in the close communist state. the israeli cabinet has approved a bill which have signed into law all citizens to swear an oath of loyalty to the true state to move this in a symbolic if you know on jews apply for israeli citizenship but arabs and palestinians fear it will diminish even further their legal rights and status of the country the nationalist move comes at a time when israel is already refusing to hold settlements in the occupied west bank as u.s. sponsored peace talks remained deadlocked. the call of the world's games has given new delhi a platform to showcase its a rising prosperity but behind the bride's billboards lies the shantytowns some residents say that government money is spent on preparing the city for the sporting

event would have been better used on this issue as slums our correspondent government saying how small. 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 three hard 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 trying. to hide just to put a curtain up. and shouldn't be seen or politicians take your votes but they stay in 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 even the station feels that these boards will help project the best of the city pushing away the reality that me exist 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.

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 delis infrastructure for the games yet slum residents such as the family believe this development has bypassed that. if the government had provided some amenities for us even to probe the houses for us today even would have been great for you or they could have opened a school in the slum and bided us with drinking water. when the commonwealth games and the birds 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 of cosmetic ones got and seeing. they upgraded so i guess spacecraft

has a rioting in that if the international space station after lifting off from the bike in a cause much traveling friday the crew made up of two russian cosmonauts and a nasa astronaut will stay there for half again they were greeted by three astronauts have been manning the station since during remarkably family ties that seemed to become part of life of the i assess also as 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 privileged position even to use the build up to scott's launch of russia's baikonur cosmodrome on friday was filled with technical question just that there was a human moments to go there yes there were smiles. and goodbye tears but 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 or a twelve years old mop the floor for the last year of the last job we really had that we worked together and then the time came marc said good bye it's going into the rocket to russia to meet everyone when it's only twenty minutes to go until the launch one brother is on the ground the other is preparing for glass so that they both know firsthand what they're counting down. not what's his brother fly away into space the trip he'd made three times and so. 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 a 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.