it had to be crucial to the central asian state as it's going to change the way the country is doing here in kyrgyzstan the second largest city for stability has returned. also united in grief six months only russia and poland mourn the april plane crash that killed eighty nine 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 are fueling the flames of violence as well as the taliban and . the mission made possible they modernized digital so you spacecraft carrying a new russian american crew successfully docked with the international space station.

and welcome to our c twenty four hour news live from moscow i need you there with the with the latest news and a review of the week's events over eighty percent of the votes have been counted in kurdistan in the election which will see the country become center ages fast parliamentary democracy people comes after months of political unrest and violent ethnic clashes and which of these two thousand died first preliminary results suggest that so far five parties out of the twenty nine running one seats in parliament politicians who 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 michael of those killed spoke to our correspondents in kyrgyzstan's two largest cities he is going off at the time they know because. the security has been tightened throughout the curious capital bishkek no serious violations have been registered here in the according to play really been. image record still action has gone rather smooth and it is indeed

a landmark vote for the country because after the votes are counted regardless of how many people have shown up at this election will become the first central asian country to become a parliamentary state where a prime minister has more power than the president and it's accountable to the parliaments in a pro this year when president bakiyev was overthrown many people were killed and many more were injured and people were unhappy with the former president's policies that have led many to live in poor verty and after he was overthrown temporary government or care guest on has held every friend in during which it was decided to turn the country into a parliamentary state to the southern city of osh now he 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 and 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 reemerge 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 posters and fliers distributed in here and in other cities of kyrgyzstan calling for violence despite reports by international observers that. there were no

serious legal violations all trouble security has been. polling stations to protect the count so is there still a perceived threat will 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 tell whether they be elections grant 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. his correspondence nine hundred navicular and reporting there on the crucial vote from kyrgyzstan now the victims of the plane crash in russia and wished 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 lies of ninety six people on its head but reports now from the memorial service . a day for poland to remember and reflect it's six months since the two of one point four flying from warsaw and bound for russia some amends group 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 all my way to a ceremony marking seventy years since the nine hundred forty canteen massacre when over twenty one thousand poles were murdered by soviet 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 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 shed 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 side of the tragedy this commemoration could only have been look western by the family of the victims and i want to thank you for the order of taking part in this pilgrimage together with the victims' families they

inspected the salvaged remains of the plane itself before making their way down the runway as smolinski 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 massacre one notable absence will get us live kaczynski the brother of the late president and leader of poland's and largest opposition party he's been highly critical of the way in which both coalition russian authorities have investigated the crash 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 founding 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 also plan to excavate the crash site on october the thirty flowers and candles now malk the spot where lech kaczynski is presidential plane crashed on april the tenth but 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 take a look at the week's top headlines the u.s. led nato campaign in afghanistan has ended its tenth year with no is end in sight one of america's most drawn up military campaigns appears to be only deepening they taliban which u.s.

officials believe to be headquartered in pakistan are carrying out regular types of nato forces trying to tan is the deadliest year yet of the campaign for the coalition forces but with civilian casualties squiring the fighting is also taking a heavy toll on the afghan people as a policy there are reports some camera happy u.s. soldiers are helping the taliban and when the propaganda war. f.l. schools up in smoke and weather 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 tactic or as a means of practicing more young. religious history of them 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 i want to be 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 the video clips you want. you want to hear. in some cases the us soldiers videos are prankish and childish other times they're downright 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 it so you'd sometimes home connection is so

unreliable that every afternoon here watching videos that make him angry a lot of the only calling we see hundreds of videos about afghanistan nato new americans are talking about human rights you can see the proof online it's a lot. 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 out by the american soldiers because the most popular videos are on the first page of you tube also with one guy sees a video he tells his friend. and less than a decade ago when the taliban was in power home computers were banned there were only three places in kabul that had internet but now the global jihadists understand that sometimes an e-mail might just be myself then the saud father wants

a new mail and so. by mobile phone. make what do you want a good video clips the word it seems always has a way of getting out of one people not to see this kind of thing in the internet because everything you see is consumed in the life with the taliban picking up on a form of communication it once banned and now thoughts on coalition troops to censor themselves. r.t. kabul meanwhile brian becker an antiwar coalition coordinator believes it was draw of international troops from afghanistan it will not really increase the violence. the american government in its propaganda arm just as they did during vietnam tried to paint a picture that there would be a terrible bloodbath if the occupation forces left but if the occupation forces

leave that means drone bombing attacks of afghan and pakistan villages will stop it will mean that the level of violence instead of ask a lady in every month with more and more thousands and tens of thousands of foreign troops coming in troops who obviously don't understand the country don't speak the language don't understand the culture and are largely demonizing the people and have all sorts of racist characters of those forces when they leave the bloodshed will diminish that doesn't mean that we know what will happen in afghanistan but the american presence has escalated the violence the cycle of violence throughout the country and throughout the region. and the alleged russian arms trafficking is appealing against the thai court's ruling that he should be extradited to think you have to do is 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 if extradited and he was very unstable it's quite possible the extradite him just look him up on some eve craft period and foo seem to give

whatever testimony the u.s. wants you to give i think he'll go as far as it takes to get it and i'm sure everyone understands there are plain to fleece to do these days. so on tuesday retired criminal courts dropped allegations of money laundering and for against period clearing the way for his extradition these children transcript have delayed him being sent to the us what are suppose to happen by his them to the twentieth was arrested by hold tea and a half years ago and has stayed behind bars and a serious 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 it is extradited to think you actually might not get a fair trial. i have concerns about what's the big two 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 there's a man called monster all counsel who was an arms dealer who strangely also was of assistance to the americans on many occasions and when his lawyer sought to bring that into the courts he wasn't allowed to do so or not presidents i think it's of largely that his depends teen will be able to bring into evidence the fact that he has on occasion been to the 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 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 ficta birds and all our

stories online at home and here's a look at what's on the site right now. in the race for the home seat of most recent poll narratives with the president's main event of considering a short list of four vying to become the male the capital city. on the ground old you could call the latin superhero known as his mind is getting up and clumping down on the list of problems in the countries for its all that had much more at all to you know. 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 or china the head of the media organization which of the seas america's international broadcasting says it must top its game to combat the rise of what he

called media enemies including aussie getting a chicken house and. it's a common belief on capitol hill that the best way to raise money from congress is to scare them walter isaacson the head of a government agency that manages u.s. international broadcasting apparently wants a lot of money the cost to fight america's enemies in the media which he identifies as he ran venezuela russia and china we can't allow ourselves to be out communicated by our enemy. there's that freedom house report that reveals that today's autocratic leaders are investing billions of dollars in media resources to influence the global opinion you've got russia today iran's press t.v. venezuela's tell us 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 leader 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 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 as well as their list or combined so maybe money does not really make out 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 in the lurch 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 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 of 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 shit on our t. washington d.c. . president dmitry medvedev has hate his russian counterpart while trying to make an enemy out of moscow in his video blog and that of said xander look at schrenker he's stepping up his arm to russian rhetoric the russian leader thinks it's all to do with the upcoming presidential election but others but he's hoping to stay in power and it says that by the russian leaders trying to distract voters from domestic problems to

a political union between moscow and minutes came into effect in the year two thousand there has since been a steady decline in relations that have added that the current tension should not affect the brotherly ties of the russian or the better question people. the leader of the controversial freedom party in the netherlands get welder's stood trial this week over charges of inciting hatred against muslims it comes as his far right paul said greed to support the new minority government in exchange for concessions on immigration well it is all trial over coleman's way compared to now it says a cold for the koran to be done and the trial has faced delays as well has exercised his right to remain silent and his lawyer he's the judge of vias he faces a hefty fine or a year in jail with found guilty and a member of the european parliament says that he 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 the 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 time now to have 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 region where america believes the taliban to be headquartered a drone firing missiles targeted at tribal areas north waziristan thought to be a stronghold of a militant group blamed for times on foreign troops in afghanistan the u.s. has been criticized for this trying to buy pakistan but killing two of its soldiers last week islamabad reacted by closing a border post ashanti a key nato supply route because it was reopened on sunday ending and eleven tape located. 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 violence most of the police officers protesters tried to break through have a police cordon is protecting the gate and so it's bound by security forces the rioters

also threw homemade explosives at the headquarters of the ruling democratic policy setting the buildings garage and so on. the sound of north korea's ruler the country's and apparent team drunk has made his most high profile public apparent so far he took part in massive celebrations of the sixty fifth anniversary of the country's ruling party adding to speculation he used to be the next leader foreign diplomats and chinese communist party officials also attend also attended recently appointed general is expected to be the third generation of his family's disaster rule in the closed communist state. the israeli cabinet has approved a bill that would have signed into law will force citizens to swear an oath of loyalty to the church state the move a signal symbolic since few known jews apply for israeli citizenship but arabs and palestinians fear it will diminish it when further their legal rights and status in

the country the nationalist move comes at a time when israel is already refusing to hold your settlements in the occupied west bank as u.s. sponsored peace talks remain deadlocked. upgrade it so you spacecraft has arrived at the international space station after lifting off from the bike into cosmodrome on friday the crew made up of two russian cosmonauts and a nasa astronaut will stay there for health yet they were greeted by three astronauts has been mined the station since june remarkably family ties that soon to become part of life says his tone bottle reports on the special bond of brothers beyond. twins in space within a few months scott kelly and his brother mock both astronauts and you'll be in orbit together courses as kids growing up we never thought we would be in this. you know 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 question just seen that there was human moments to go there yes there were smiles. and goodbye to his eyes what is but a mock joins him on the i assess in february to be the first time they've worked together first 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 well over twelve years old mopping the floor for the last jet of the last job we really had that we work together and then the time came mark said goodbye scott and to the rocket these two russian crew mates everyone went it's only twenty minutes to go until the launch one brought us on the ground the others preparing for glass so that they both know first hand what counting down to not watch his brother fly away into space the trip he'd made three times and self. 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 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 mark 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 we're so yet but it'll be a uniquely human moment when the hatch door the siblings meet in space from bottom potty. and out the back with every count of the week's top stories in just a moment stay with that.

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