counting has begun in kurdistan as parliamentary elections with tight security after a vote which is total bring peace to the troubled country and which has implications for central asian neighbors to. the boat is considered to be crucial for the central asian state as it's going to change the way to country is ruled here introduced by the second largest city for stability has returned after a bold step one worst. united in grief six months on russia and poland nor the plane crash that killed ninety six people on board including the late polish 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 who have fueling the flames of violence as well as atomic bombs. allan mission made possible modernize digital so you spacecraft carrying

a new russian american crew successfully docked with the international space station. and welcome to all sea bringing you twenty four hour news live from moscow. with the latest news and a review of the week's events hopeful the votes have been counted in kyrgyzstan and elections which will see the country become central asia democracy the poll comes after months of political unrest and violent ethnic clashes in which a place to thousand died first but in the results of that so far five parties out of the twenty nine of running one seats in parliament politicians senior posts in the interim government formed off the ex-president book a of was ousted also to have performed strongly over fifty percent of kyrgyzstan's electorate took part in the. and then my colleague bill dulles spoke to our

correspondents a good distance to the largest cities he could offer and that i don't know because . the security has been tightened throughout the curious capital bishkek no serious violations have been registered here in the cording to play really minimally records the election has gone rather smoothly 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 the 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 just 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 city showed the biggest voter turnout in the entire country or this is really only expected since this city really went through a lot of really difficult and 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 in this. despite the fact that previously the force of threats

being sent out to the local population. and posters and fliers distributed in here and there are several cities calling for violence 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 say out whether they are lections 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. assays correspondence nine hundred novick of and your piece can offer a portion of that on the crucial vote on kyrgyzstan and andrew mccain a former see observer in kyrgyzstan says the country's new leaders have plenty to prove after they assume power. in the political culture is 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 just going to fight and start or will it be the usual that for example majority government will be the new regime which has just taken over the transition government and they were marginalized completely those who supported

by those in the so sort and option and but. leaving some instability there these are questions which really have to be to be answered maybe in a week or two is time 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 has been six months since the catastrophic to the lives of ninety six people alice have it reports now from the memorial service . 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 personnel they've been

on the way to a ceremony marking seventy years since the nine hundred forty canteen 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 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 with led by the wives of the russian and polish presidents both emphasizing their shared sense of loss and grief boy he scored the goal of russia's shadd 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 am here at the site of the tragedy this commemoration could only have been look worsted by the family of the victims and i want to thank you for the order of taking part in this polygamy much together with the victims' families they inspected the salvaged remains of the plane itself before making their way down the runway as smolinski airport 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 canteen massacre one notable absence was yet a slap 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 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 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 plans rex give ate the crash site on october the thirty flowers and candles now mark the spot where lech kaczynski is presidential plane crashed on april the tenth ballots 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. 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 these end in sight one of america's most drawn out military campaigns appears to be only deepening they turn about which u.s. officials believe to be had in pakistan are carrying out regular taksin 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 slip reports some camera happy u.s. soldiers are helping the taliban when their 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 accidentally

a copy of the koran is housed that can be easily used as a park or as a means of. more. religious is to them is to go in and joined taliban and al qaida 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 find its cause they can easily be copied them the taliban. easily make. the u.s. forces fail to build your clips if you want. to you want to hang. out in some cases the u.s. soldiers videos are printed and childish other times they're done lots of criminal

. 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 and 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 nato and the americans are talking about human rights you can see the proof online 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 locked down. very very. easy for people to watch these videos put out 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 sword probably wants a name. and some. message by by a mobile phone. make value but it got 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 and see this in the life but the taliban picking up on the form of communication it once banned it now falls on coalition troops to censor themselves police here are to kabul. alleged russian arms trafficking is

appealing against a thai court's ruling that he should be extradited to the u.s. weeks to boot lawyers claim there's no evidence against him and then says the judge should question witnesses his family fears that he would be forced into making a false confession of extradited. and he was already unstable it's quite possible do extradite him and just look him up on some eve craft period and force him to give whatever testimony the us 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 it these days starting with chemical sense psychological pressure. on tuesday they tie criminal court dropped allegations of money laundering and fraud against barrett clearing the way for his extradition and these charges could have delayed him being sent to thank you us which is supposed to happen by november the twenty first was arrested in bangkok turned a half years ago and has been behind bars ever since washington accuses him of hearing terrorism and conspiring to supply arms to colombian rebels wish to deny

a former u.n. arms trafficking x. that says that is but it's 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 counsel who was an arms dealer who strangely also was assistance to the americans on many occasions and when his lawyer sought to bring that into the courts he was in the larger douceur or not president i think it's of largely that is depends chain will be able to bring into evidence the fact that he has on occasion been ill assistance to the pentagon to us and 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 isn't he didn't do quite clear existing operations and he's not the merchant of death which the media portray him as or i would agree he's a versions of some death. and you can read more about vick to boot and all our stories online at home but here's a look at what's on the senate right now. the race for the hold seat at moscow city hall narrows with president medvedev considering a place to four vying to become the male the capital city. on the ground all paul de la terms of a euro note is picked by his cleaning out the company down on the little problem of the country's forests over to noise are called.

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 what is' ation which oversees america's international broadcasting says it must stop its game to combat the rise of what he calls media enemies including elsie. 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 in america's enemies in the media which he identifies as he ran venezuela 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 telos and of course china as well launching international broadcasting twenty four hour news channels correspondents around the world spence portly 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 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 that mr walter isaacson is heading is called broadcasting board of governors it includes radio stations voice of america one of them and a fairly unpopular middle eastern t.v. channel and all this the board spends more than seven hundred fifty million dollars and it's way more than the budget of our t.v. iran's press t.v. and as well as their list or combined and maybe money does not really make for global media clout mr isaacson says that it's truthfulness that will make the difference and in the and the truth is on our side and it's that statement that raised an alert with some freedom of speech advocates somebody who says that truth is always on the united states side is a propagandist and that. journalist and i think that's bad it sets a bad example for other countries. and 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. call the world are 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 chicago r.t. washington d.c. . president dmitry medvedev has hit out at his russian counterpart for trying to

make an enemy out of moscow in his video blog that if said alexander lukashenko is stepping up his own to russian rhetoric the russian leader thinks it's all to do with the upcoming presidential election in belarus. hoping to stay in power and if that if says the russian leaders trying to distract voters from the domestic problems of political union between moscow and this came into effect in the year two thousand that has since been a steady decline in relations with that it added that the current tension should not affect the brother may ties of the russian front that the russian. the leader of the controversial freedom party in the netherlands scared to builders stood trial this week of the charges of inciting hatred against muslims it comes at his far right party agreed to support the new minority government in exchange for concessions on immigration builders' is on trial over comments where he compared islam to narcism and calls for the koran to be banned the trial has faced delays as world has exercised its right to remain silent and his lawyer please the judge of

buyers and its price is have to find oil here in jail if found guilty and gerard batten a member of the european parliament says that will this shouldn't be locked up for expressing his opinion. this whole thing his whole argument. and i come 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 western the western liberal democracy and free speech as we see you know this whole thing is the trial is a pressure 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 or 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 take a look at some other international news stories in brief at least a species will have been killed in suspected u.s. missile strikes in northwest pakistan the region where america believes the time about to be headquartered a drone firing missiles targeted a tribal area north waziristan thought to be a stronghold of the militant group blamed on foreign troops in afghanistan the u.s. has been criticized for the strikes by pakistan blamed for killing until but soldiers last week islamabad reacted by closing a border post trying to make a major supply route the crossing was reopened on sunday and the eleven day

blockade. police have clashed with hundreds of protesters at a gay pride march in belgrade over one hundred people are reported to have been hurt in the van as most of them police officers protesters tried to break through have a police cordons protecting the gay activist but were kept back by security forces there was also three hundred made explosives at the headquarters of the ruling democratic policy setting the buildings in far. the son of north korea's ruler and the country's heir apparent. has made his most high profile public apparent sort of thought he took part in massive celebrations of the sixtieth anniversary of the country's ruling party adding to speculation he's to be the next leader of foreign diplomats and chinese communist party officials also attended recently appointed general john is expected to be the third generation of his family's dinar stick in the closed communist state. these radical but it has approved

a bill which if signed into law will force citizens to swear an oath of loyalty to the jury state the move is seen as symbolic since few known juries apply for israeli citizenship but our ups and palestinians phase will diminish even further their legal rights and state as in the country the nationalist move comes at a time when israel is already refusing to hold the jurors settlers settlements in the occupied west bank as u.s. sponsored peace talks remain deadlocked. the upgraded so you spacecraft has arrived at the international space station off to lifting off from the by going to calls one dr on friday the current made up of two russian cosmonauts and a nasa astronaut will say that again they were greeted by three astronauts who've been mounting this station since june remarkably family ties as soon to become part of life but the i says don't bargain reports on this special bond of brothers beyond. twins in space within

a few months has got 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. you know unique in a privileged position to be able to do this to build up to scott's launch of russia's baikonur cosmodrome on friday was filled with technical questions but there was 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 for a very long time and we have occasionally flown together in the navy as a test pilot but before that i think we you know i was working in dairy queen for 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 mark 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 boat is on the ground the other is preparing for glass so that they both know firsthand what they're counting down. not what his brother flyaway 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 it will become a family space station tuesday but just like his brother not doesn't want to be too sentimental it's going to be a busy busy fly but you know to get a chance to do that with my brother is is is a great opportunity scott and mark on celebrity twin oxen or so yet but it'll be a uniquely human moment when the hatch door the siblings meet in space time bottom potty. and i'm back with every count of the weeks tops. our isn't just

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