but which is it will bring peace to the troubled country and which has implications for its central asian neighbors to. the boat is considered to be short for the central asian state as it's going to change the way to punch it is rooted here in just one second largest city watched it for stability has returned on were. united in grief six months on russia and poland more than a full 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 the palestine in the so-called war against terror but some say american soldiers were fueling the flames of violence as long as the tunnel. under the mission made possible been modernized digital so you spacecraft carrying a new russian american crew success when adults with the international space station.

russia and iran the world this is all see with me but thanks for joining us half of the votes have been counted in kurdistan elections which will see the country become central asia first but eventually democracy the poll comes after months of political unrest and violent ethnic clashes and which at least two thousand died saw a split in the results suggest that so far five parties out of the twenty nine running one seats in parliament politicians both held senior posts in the interim government formed after ex-president but he was ousted also to have to form strongly over fifty percent of kyrgyzstan's electorate took part in the ballot and then my colleague bill dodd spoke to our correspondents in kurdistan's to largest cities. and that's how they cut. the security has been tightened throughout the curious capital bishkek no serious violations have been registered here in

according to play really an image 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 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 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 or 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 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 really rich 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. fliers distributed in. cities.

despite reports by international observers to there were no serious legal 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 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 actually 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. correspondents not. reporting that on the. stand and under former serving

as the country's new leaders to prove out of their own power. 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 stand in the five star 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 those in the south are 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 is time moving on 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 to the lines of ninety six people alice have that 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 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 personality they've been all 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 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 shadd the grief and sorrow and during these hard times we 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 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 will get us live kaczynski the brother of the late president and leader opponents and 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 founding suggest that two normal crew members were in the cockpit at the time of the crash the question as to

whether the planets 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 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 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 coming out of the policy behind the publicity one residents of new delhi are skeptical about the only thing well ok. let's not

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 up military campaigns appears to be only deepening they tell about which u.s. officials believe today had quartered in pakistan i can bring out regular tax 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 pulis lir reports some camera happy u.s. soldiers are helping the taliban win the propaganda war. goes up in smoke and with a justified or not tempers fly in the afghan capital culprits soldiers who can be heard saying fantastic before posting the clip on the internet. 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 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 wanted to helping the taliban fight its cause they can easily be copied but i'll carry them the taliban they can easily make. the us forces fail be the eclipse you want. you want here. in some cases the u.s. 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 it so you'd sometimes home connection is so unreliable that every afternoon he's 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 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 connections slow it's fast enough to keep people logged on. 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 my shit then the sword fall it wants a new image and so. buy a mobile phone and. make what you want a good video clips the word it seems always has a way of getting out when people not to see the scope of the internet because the little you see is consumed in the. what the taliban picking up on a form of communication it once banned it now thoughts on coalition troops to censor themselves policy r t kabul and alleged russian ass traffic is appealing against a thai court's ruling that he should be extradited to the us week to birds 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 on he wasn't really understanding that it's quite possible the 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 they'll go as far as it takes to get it and i'm sure everyone understands they're playing to find ways to do it these days starting with chemical sense psychological pressure. on tuesday the thai criminal court trial tell occasions of money laundering and fraud against paid clearing the way for his extradition these charges they have to name him being sent to the u.s. which is supposed to happen by november the twenty eighth which was arrested in bangkok turned to hockey as a bad guy has been behind fast have a sense 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 thank you ashley might not

get a fair trial. i have concerns about what's the big two will be going back to a very strong girl knew the 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 of assistance to the americans on many occasions and when his lawyer sought to bring that into the court he was in the larger douceur or not president i think it's of largely that his depends chain we'll be able to bring into evidence the fact that he has on occasion been to the cisterns first 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 sort of is necessarily innocent of all charges but the

sting operation of some he didn't do quite clear existing operation and he's not the merchant of death which the media portray of us or i would agree he's a versions of some of the. and you can read more about victimhood and all knowledge stories online at ati dot com and here's a look at what's on the slide right now. in the race for the whole season most specific whole matter is this president that is considering a shortlist of four vying to become the male the council sitting. on the ground old you could pull the lever to a superhero known as pig mud is cleaning out the clamping down on the litter problem in the country's forests old awesomely to dot com.

the u.s. might claim to bat champion of freedom of speech but not the same as 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 they rise a war he called media and ways including getting a chicken has been 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 telos and of course china as well launching international broadcasting twenty four hour news channels correspondents around the world spence reportedly 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 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 buzz word 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 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 an alert with some freedom of speech advocates somebody who says that truth is always on the united states side is a propagandist and i. 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. 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 kind of chicken or t. washington d.c. . prison dmitri medvedev has hit out at his better russian counterpart for trying to make an enemy out of moscow in his video blog with that if said xander look at

stepping up his own two russian rhetoric the russian leader things that's all to do with the upcoming presidential election and whether it's well if he's hoping to stay in poa the bed of says that by the russian leaders trying to distract voters from domestic problems a political union between moscow and minsk came into effect in the year two thousand but that has since been a steady decline in relations that have added that the current tension should not affect the brotherly ties of the russian belorussian. let's not take a look at someone to national news in brief police have closed with hundreds of tests as a gay pride march in belgrade over one hundred people are reported to have been hurt in the violence most of them police officers protesters try to break through heavy police cordons protecting the gate to bits but were counted by by security forces there was also through homemade explosives at the headquarters of the ruling democratic party setting the building as governor and from. the israeli cabinet

has approved a bill which it signed into law will force citizens to swear an oath of loyalty to the church state the move a scene a symbolic since jews apply for israeli citizenship but arabs and palestinians feel it will diminish it went further than legal rights and state as in the country the nationalist move comes at a time when israel is already refusing to halt jewish settlers settlements in the occupied west bank as you are sponsored peace talks remain deadlocked. the son of north korea's ruler countries an apparent king has made his most high profile public appearance so he took part in massive celebrations of the twenty of the fifty sixty rather fifth anniversary of the country's ruling party adding to speculation who's to be the next leader of foreign diplomats and chinese communist party officials also attended recently appointed. is expected to be the third generation of his family's dynastic rule and the closed communist state. of the

commonwealth games has given new delhi a platform to share case it's rising prosperity but behind the bribe billboards lies the poverty of shantytowns some residents say that the government money spent on preparing the city for the sporting event it would have been better used on the city's slums our correspondent. across the early birds showcasing the commonwealth games have sprung up trying to hide the city's poverty but these haven't been entirely successful here in brussels the heart of the slum is still visible most of its two thousand residents are not surprised by the action. the government considers its duty it could give us a lot to relocate them too high just to put a curtain up. and shouldn't be seen our politicians take your votes but this stage 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 may exist behind them people in the slum now have to circle around the whole body gate to fetch water from the other site children to have to squeeze themselves through the gaps the longer. there's another and there's no water here this is the biggest problem for us there used to be one tap close by but there's been shut so we have to walk to get one. from far away the government has spent at least four point six billion dollars on of grading 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 to live in we would have been gratefully or they could have opened this school in this llama provided us with drinking water when the commonwealth games and the birds will come down but for the

only slum residents life will continue to be tough for them long term life improving changes are needed not sure but it once got unseeing argy you barely. know the emigrate it's like a 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 nasa astronaut will stay there for half a year and they were greeted by three astronauts have been manning the station since june remarkably family ties that soon to become part of life at the ice says tom boswell reports on this special bond of brothers beyond. twins in space within a few months scott kelly and his brother mark both astronauts in it 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 do this to build up to scott's launch

of russia's baikonur cosmodrome on friday was filled with technical questions just seen today with human moments to go there yes there were smiles. and goodbye to his eyes when his brother mark joins him on the i assess in february it will be the first time they've worked together there is very long time we have occasionally flown together in the navy as a test pilot but before that i think we always work in dairy queen well over twelve years old mopping the floor for the last jet of the last job we really had that we worked together and then the time came not 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 firsthand what they're counting down to 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 bored makes it even

more exciting i've seen him launch three times now and it's pretty incredible thing to see when they both meet again on the international space station in a few months time it will become a family space station tuesday but just like his brother 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 brothers is a great opportunity scott and marc on celebrity twenty knots an hour or so yet but it'll be a uniquely human moment when the hatch door the siblings meet in space from bottom potty. up to date on dolly back with a recap. the week's top stories in just a moment so stay with that.

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