turn and heading back to their homeland artie's priya sridhar went to find out why . ten years ago k.j. saying would have never imagined that he'd be back in india going overseas for higher education was something that the guys who did well in academics that was the first preference there weren't too many jobs in india. in the private sector and so i followed this trend lead saying to a ph d. a job at a prestigious research institute and ultimately the skills to start his own company but living the american dream wasn't enough the attraction for occurred. it is only when you're sort of doing. and you're sort of pushing to be on the open for whatever you're doing and that really is synonymous with gort if you're looking to sort of. this is that a place to be and this place is bangalore india. the city of six million exports more than thirty billion dollars of i.t. products every year amidst the hustle and bustle of congested roads and street markets is this so by jazz mean a tranquil gated community tucked in the corner of india's silicon valley many immigrants who hav

market of lot of cads thursday morning it killed seventeen and injured more than one hundred sixty artie's oksana leak ochoa reports on how people there are still coming to terms with the grief. cries louder than sirens but no fear just the time eleven twenty four on the watches of those who perished in the central market in logic of course it was and so as day when a suicide bomber drove his silver car to its entrance gates he was said to be come during a routine check of the car but reluctant to open the trunk but a security guard as long big clear insisted. he put the key in the trunk lock turned it maybe once or twice the key broken his hands iceland big had the man turned to go around and move away from the crowded entrance a minute later a powerful explosion shook the area icelandic heard the cries and rushed to the scene. i saw a lot of cars blown to pieces and a lot of bodies i had no real fear i just felt sorry for the people who died or got injured especially a young mother with her child i saw them just before the explosion a young girl was coming in with a kid a little kid as s

since but despite that tens of thousands americans decided to become muslims after the tragedy artie's preassure went to find out why. it's the call to prayer and it's answered by more than a billion muslims all over the world including caitlin billings a twenty two year old american who was raised christian converted to live here my mother she was crying a lot fought that i was returning her by changing my religion back track almost a decade ago to nine eleven today our fellow citizens our way of life are very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist attacks president bush waged a war on terror targeting extremists muslims who were labeled as terrorists you know i was fourteen when september eleventh happened so i didn't really know what was going on if that really was you know people thought it was so i believe that just like everybody else but as billings got older she decided to find out for herself and her investigation led her to the mistah a center a mosque just outside of washington d.c. that has become a haven for many americans like billings wh

experts say the actual number of the dead of deaths is likely to be much higher and continue to grow artie's marine important has met some of the emergency workers who say they're still suffering the horrific health. albums as a result of their work at ground zero. gary white was an american hero in two thousand and one did you actually get diagnosed as being directly since the nine eleven in two thousand and ten the nine eleven first responder represents an exploding health crisis u.s. officials have failed to address its wholly across the page cost enormous all coma gall bladder cancer liver cancer the retired n.y.p.d. detective spent six months sifting through world trade center debris and clouds of toxins later resulting in asthma sleep apnea post neurological problems and two strokes the first one is massive. i was paralyzed i lost command of my speech. i had to learn to walk and talk again the police department denies that illnesses are linked to nine eleven yet the soffits i'm leaving the twenty three year veteran with mounted on medical debt this form wants fourteen hundred fifty thr

or at artie's caterina's are over thanks for that report. well we are getting details of late breaking details that polish police have detained off meds a high of one of the most wanted terror suspects in russia and we'll bring you more those details as the story develops. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe japan's prime minister and i autopilot has reshuffled his cabinet which could include the appointment of a new foreign minister official say condit is seeking to put a new step on his administration and party leadership after surviving a challenge for his job earlier this week contact the post of finance and defense but change ten of the seventeen members the new members will be sworn in by emperor akihito. in buenos aires thousands of students and teachers have hit the streets demanding more funding for education protesters cited severe conditions in schools and universities and accuse argentina's top politicians of neglecting free public education critics say most of the country's school facilities haven

have lauren mr artie patterson new jersey. time now to take a journey as the r t team continues its close up series exploring the varied and inspiring regions of russia. travel with us now to russia's sakhalin a region in the country's far east it's famous for its serenity beauty and unique wildlife and also noted for boasting large energy resources rich in oil and natural gas the area is of particular interest to the country's energy giants the r. t. crew had a chance to experience the riches of this island firsthand up along with our teas alexei our chefs he is your guy. just like most women scientists not likes to receive flyweights but this time the red coat of nations serves as the victim of an experiment. she puts the flour into a liquefied gas where it immediately freezes. and with a loud crack natalia breaks it on to our cameras lens thus she demonstrates what liquid gas the phonology is all about. when an object like this balloon is put into liquid gas of cryogenic temperatures it massively decreases in volume in fact

artie's tom bart reporting. a former u.s. sergeant who served in iraq secretly planted grenades in the cars of iraqis at checkpoints for a prank he found himself and the reaction of the driver is a joke and posted it all on you tube but as artie's policy reports most iraqis see nothing funny about life in a conflict zone. manning a checkpoint all day must get boring which is perhaps why sergeant dunson and his partner admit they passed the time playing jokes on unsuspecting drivers in the future to posting done some describes how they planted a grenade in an iraqi man's car a few seconds of confusion all's explained and the perplexed but very relieved driver is sent on his way. you know because. our our it was just one of those things where you know it happened. on a guy like that on but for most iraqis this is not fun and life here is very far from being a joke. i think it's only for them to laugh for us it's not funny but very scary. we're used to car bombs explosions research is happening every day but if someone did this

by the mainstream media these reports can not on the internet can quickly find a global audience as artie's catarina as our reports on how russian bloggers are helping stop crime corruption and bullying. parents and students said this man had children on more than one occasion because he was the head of the local administration people were afraid to speak out desktops laptops phones and p.t.a.'s internet and russia is becoming much more available and much more than just meant for many it has become a virtual speaker's corner where their voice will not only be heard but is guaranteed to echo across the country within hours this particular video which brought about his dismissal is a clear example of how the internet has transformed russia. russia biddies in there's an orphan a master chess player a math genius and guaranteed state benefits he's missing the start of the academic here due to the demands of a construction company that helps fund the school. i want to be an i.t. specialist but the school said that if i want to study here and live in that holes of residence i have to study to be

approach the problem as artie's garnett kyon reports. this time russian the u.s. seem to be on the same page the u.s. state department said the terrorist attack in gaza as you mentioned is part of international terrorism and those who are responsible for it are international terrorist and they have connections to al qaida they also said it's a common goal for russia and the u.s. to work together to fight those terrorist groups but washer and the u.s. had it always been on the same page like that for years russia tormented by a number of horrible attacks had been saying it's a common danger of these guys are international terrorists and we need help to find them to fight them but a while ago the common understanding of the common wisdom among many in the west was that those attacks are just part of separatist movements in russian caucuses and russia kept saying those terrorists are getting funding from abroad and a number of them. were trained abroad but internationally it had been treated like some sort of a domestic fight against insurgents while now things seem

mainstream media their reports on the internet can quickly find an audience and possibly go global artie's caterina's are reports on how russian waters are helping stop crime corruption. and even bullying. parents and students said this man had children on more than one occasion because he was the head of the local administration people were afraid to speak out what desktops laptops phones and p.t.a.'s internet in russia is becoming much more available and much more than just meant for many it has become a virtual speaker's corner where their voice will not only be heard but is guaranteed to echo across the country within hours this particular video which brought about his dismissal is a clear example of how the internet has transformed russia. russia biddies in there's an orphan a master chess player a math genius and guaranteed state benefits he's missing the start of the academic here due to the demands of a construction company that helps fund the school. i want to be a ninety specialist but the school said that if i want to study here and live in that halls of residence i have to stud

sanctions on iran artie's that's all they know because the has the details. people that russia is not anymore going to ask three hundred and so i misspelled defense systems do iran i do to the recently imposed by the un security council sanctions against the country's nuclear program and the extensions suggest that any sale of the. country including military planes helicopters tanks and we're going to take this nuclear defense shield now then you should be even going to run the lines back in two thousand and seven when launches leaflets tell you that the world has begun to play to the country you know they didn't have to be heard but a point you want people out there they're going this one check to be canceled all together will depend on iran's actions we're still waiting to hear how the runs going this decision the launch of the thirty's russia has already once was food delivery will get things done but missed out to iran last winter and the decision was not at all balkans in iran so it is unlikely that would be welcomed at this time but she was asleep on th

that's ready to take off for the isis and bring the stranded crew safely back to earth not only the arty kind of moscow region. elite terror killing teams run by america's intelligence agency of no take in the u.s. led war beyond afghanistan those are the claims in a new book called obama's wars by veteran journalist bob woodward he reveals the secret are we are some three thousand afghan fighters sent to hunt al qaeda and the taliban of no infiltrated pakistan was talk more about this without one of. those towns capital kabul tonight for us paula hi there the fact that the cia has been managing a covert army in afghanistan has never been a particularly guarded secret though is it. now kevin it hasn't i mean u.s. officials for some time have been talking quite openly and brazenly about secret armies operating here although these officials speak anonymously some of them have gone so far as to actually brag and boast that some of their most effective counterinsurgency efforts have been thanks to groups like this now in a book that will be released next week and titled obama's wars written

still ahead for you in the program as the euro gears up to kick butt on from a still wooden wallets artie finds out whether the baltic state is ready for the change. a martial arts champion who escaped from a russian psychiatric hospital has turned up in norway where he's pleading to be allowed to stay extreme nationalists. has a history of violence and was off when he showed up to immigration officials takes up the story. rand decided he could no longer hide not long after his escape from the psychiatric facility in st petersburg. six has emerged in norway where he handed himself david to authorities asking them to grant him political asylum that i think you've been. fighting with and there were a. day as well as highs of the first part of the service. grabbing the attention. wearing a t. shirt with a swastika and carrying a loaded gun he turns himself in he makes a rat equinox calling for the ugly to die and praising his slavic god for a party members have openly supported his escape. when he called me several hours before that video was made and said he was going to turn himself in i r

is willing to help russia in its fight against terrorism in the region artie's guy nature to kyon has more from washington. this time russian the u.s. seem to be on the same page the u.s. state department said the terrorist attack in gaza as you mentioned is part of international terrorism and those who are responsible for it are international terrorist and they have connections to al qaida they also said it's a common goal for russia and the u.s. to work together to fight those terrorist groups but washer and the u.s. had in always being on the same page like that for years russia tormented by a number of horrible attacks had been saying it's a common danger of these guys are international terrorists and we need help to find them to fight them but a while ago the common understanding of the common wisdom among many in the west was that those attacks are just part of separatist movements in russian caucuses and russia kept saying those terrorists are getting funding from abroad and a number of them were trained abroad but internationally it had been treated like some sort of a domesti

know you share your very carefree lauren lyster artie patterson new jersey. stay with us here on our t.v. plenty more coming your way. our team looks at the vast oil and gas reserves of the soco an island in russia's far east as we embark on another journey to uncover the country's hidden and unique gems. first though a suspected russian criminal mastermind is being treated in a moscow hospital after an attempt on his life nicknamed grand saan he's thought to have fallen victim to a gangster war right in the center of the capital are going off has more from the scene of the crime. of incident happened at around eight pm moscow time on thursday evening when i slung on also known as grandpa son to be a major criminal lord in russia i arrived at one of the buildings on a street in the very center of moscow it's reported that he wanted to visit his son who lives here in the neighborhood and asked grandpa assad and his bodyguard were approaching the entrance to the building several shots were fired the bodyguard went down first then according to some reports from

-turn and heading back to their homeland artie's appreciate or want to find out why. ten years ago k.g. saying would have never imagined that he'd be back in india going overseas for higher education was something that the guys who did well in academics that was the first preference there were too many jobs in india. in the private sector and so i followed the trend this trend led sing to a ph d. a job at a prestigious research institute and ultimately the skills to start his own company but living the american dream wasn't enough the attraction for it is only when you're sort of doing news and you're sort of pushing the on the open whatever you're doing and that really is synonymous with gore if you're looking to sort of grow. this is that a place to be and this place is bangalore india. a city of six million exports more than thirty billion dollars of i.t. products every year amidst the hustle and bustle of can just good roads and street markets is the soba jazz mean a tranquil gated community talked in the corner of india's silicon valley many immigrants who have l

and prime minister vladimir putin's speech was one of the key events of the day of the forum artie's nicholas full was listening in and he brings us this assessment from sort. there's a palpable sense of optimism here at the sochi economic forum it's slightly smaller than the last year with five thousand delegates attending their representatives from companies both foreign and domestic the theme for the forum was set during the prime minister putin skeen of stress on the challenges of modernization and improving the investment climate the highlight of his message was that russia off the first twelve ground for investors both big and small but he's going to make about the russian economy still not spoiled by the attention of investors neither foreign nor local ones the russian business climate is claimed to have problems sometimes these claims are justified sometimes not we know our problems really well and we will solve them the key factor for the russian government will be a measured and rather conservative macroeconomic policy. the optimism about the prospects for the economy was s

could have been behind nine eleven attacks artie's and associates explains. well the u.s. mainstream media has largely been focusing on barack obama building him up as the host the united states running the show it's still been mahmoud ahmadinejad really stealing the spotlight being the main leader in world headlines throughout these last couple of days addressing the united nations general assembly debate in his speech he said that he believes that americans were behind the events of september eleventh and he actually said that he believes that most of the world knows this and this is something that got the u.s. delegation outraged they left the assembly hall and surprisingly it took a little while for barack obama to react to these comments when he did a deal later he said that they're hateful many were thinking that maybe the iranian president's words sort of calmed down a little bit but he spoke later at a press conference where he stuck to his opinion take a listen. when i raised is a very clear discussion a precise one and event occurred and under the pretext of that

for that was artie's you got there you know good reporting from the international arctic forum in moscow and we'll have more coverage on the disputed area throughout the day so do stay with r.t. . the largest a forum of world leaders is culminating with a nearly two hundred nations rounding off the un general assembly and it's been dominated by hitting poverty goals but with many eyes on the middle east and iran suspect nuclear program now let's get more from artie's see it right now in new york hello there now what can we expect from the a political marathon at the u.n. session. well you know tessa in the last couple of days we have been reporting the madness that has really overcome new york city in these last couple of days and today is the day when the frenzy really takes another level because this is the day when the big international speeches begin at the united nations general debate session today the big speech is barack obama's giving speech out mahmoud ahmadinejad will be giving a speech and so on and interestingly there's been lots of traffic outside thousands of police many s

separate attacks across the country while there are also been rocket attacks in kabul and jalalabad artie's paullus leader has a way to us from the afghan capital. since the polling stations opened in the early hours of this morning a grim picture here in afghanistan in terms of security it was a massive explosion here in the capital city of kabul hours before those first stations opened no reports of injuries we're also hearing no reports of injuries regarding the rocket attacks in the south in the city of kandahar and there has also been a direct hit on a polling station in the east in jalalabad we are now hearing him in any reports of a rocket attack in the north we're hearing that one person there has been killed but as of yet we've been unable to confirm this so certainly a grim picture in several problems around the country and this is just a few hours after the potence station is opened tens of thousands of afghan police and security forces are in the streets manning those polling stations they are back to not want myself the foreign forces of us morning we drove several polling stat

detained by polish police upon arrival in the country moscow is calling on warsaw for his extradition artie's has the latest. according to the polish side has been leased to us today that may not spend the next forty days and detention behind bars well however spending and all that is prohibited from leaving the country pending that decision concerning his extradition to russia of course the russian prosecutors have put forward an extradition request saying that this man the one of the most wanted men in the country has been internationally wanted and that warrant has been out for his arrest for nearly a decade and of course they're very concerned this man comes back to russia and stands trial in the polish side to change him. the prosecution did put forward a motion to arrest him thirty days and the extradition hearing that was later to die by the polish court but of course the extradition hearing is still a very long way away and that decision may not know what it's. going to the prosecutor general tells me that they have no choice but to start the extradition procedures but these procedure

thousand lives but the actual number of deaths caused is likely to be much higher and continues to grow as artie's maria porton has met some of the rescuers who say they're still suffering the horrific health effects as a result of their work at ground zero. gary white was an american hero in two thousand and one did you actually get diagnosed as being directly since the nine eleven in two thousand and ten the nine eleven first responder represents an exploding health crisis u.s. officials have failed to address its toll the across the page carcinoma saw a coma gall bladder cancer liver cancer the retired n.y.p.d. detective spent six months sifting through world trade center debris and clouds of toxins later resulting in asthma sleep apnea post neurological problems and two strokes the first one is massive. i was paralyzed i lost command of my speech. i had to learn to walk and talk again the police department denies his illnesses are linked to nine eleven so for leaving the twenty three year veteran with mounting medical debt this form once for three hundred fifty three and a daily dose of fiftee

know you share your very characteristic lauren lyster artie patterson new jersey. also this week israeli and palestinian leaders met for two days in sharm el sheikh and jerusalem for another round of middle east peace talks the meeting was overshadowed though by israeli warplanes attacking gaza twice in response to palestinian rocket and mortar fire the main issue for discussion was israeli settlements in the west bank palestinian president mahmoud abbas had threatened to pull out of negotiations if israel extended the settlement building but abbas said the talks have to continue as there is simply no alternative former negotiator for israel alan baker says you shouldn't sit down if they go shooting table if you're not prepared to compromise. the palestinians have blown up this whole issue of settlements out of all proportion it's one of the negotiating issues so you it's not a zero sum game you can say well we'll only negotiate if you already given on one of the major points of negotiation peace according to the former agreements between the israelis and the pales

will always stand out courage and resourcefulness of the two men who brought it safely to thomas and artie hospital. serbia's dropping a challenge to kosovo's independence at the united nations belgrade to remove a section of a un resolution that called kosovo's a session unacceptable european officials proclaim it to be a useful compromise author diana johnston though has a different point of view the present text that i have seen and i have here it's not really a compromise i would call it an unconditional surrender to the european union this was not a compromise because from what i've understood the european union did not. in exchange for this they gave nothing as usual and they'll just be asking for more as they have been for many years serbia is now really very much in the position of france. it's not quite an occupied country but it's surrounded and it's sort of occupied and any leader or policy party which would really openly take into consideration serbia's interests is condemned by the western media as nationalists look what they heard look what happened because live close to me i

spreading across the country an increasing number of people are at risk of losing their properties artie's at a star say churkin are reports on how a camp outside new york has become a place that some people call home. america the prosperous america the traditional and america the broke the picture perfect homes and these homes are a twenty minute drive away from one another but how did i end up here probably through my own mistakes in life r.t.e. revisits tent city a homeless camp talked to wait in the woods of new jersey there are at least forty people whose tragic destinies have led them to call this place home. since we were here last time in the winter things have changed more tense have appeared some people have come and gone but many of the people living here have been here for months if not years and the question that many of them ask themselves over and over again is why are we still here are there really no other options left for us no remarks has been a newspaper handler for most of her life while i work for the new york times and i have one of the power in a brain aneurysm in t

but despite that tens of thousands of americans decided to become muslims since the tragedy artie's priya sridhar went to find out why. it's the call to prayer and it's answered by more than a billion muslims all over the world including caitlin billings a twenty two year old american who was raised christian right converted last year my mother. was crying a lot of thought that i was returning her by changing my religion backtrack almost a decade ago to nine eleven today our fellow citizens our way of life are very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist attacks president bush waged a war on terror targeting extremists muslims who were labeled as terrorists you know i was fourteen when september eleventh happened so i didn't really know what was going on if that really was you know people thought it was so i believe that just like everybody else but as billings got older she decided to find out for herself and her investigation led her to the mistah a center a mosque just outside of washington d.c. that has become a haven for many americans like billings w

summer many fear the elections show the country is far from stable and still plagued by corruption artie's paullus leader is in the afghan capital for us. by and large this was certainly not a successful day for afghan democracy there was an extremely voter turnout with some polling stations reporting that less than a quarter the number of people turned out today compared to the number of people casting their ballot last year during the presidential elections the first results will come in next week wednesday with the final tape tally been tabled at the end of october but these certainly will be elections associated with violence more than a thousand polling stations where i'm able to open the doors particularly in far flung rural communities where the taliban has strong control we've also heard some of the electoral complaints commission and it says it throughout the course of the day it received numerous reports on irregularities some of the complaints were by people saying that they saw election officials accepting bribes some of the reports were about the fake voting cards and also rep

central market of lot of cars thursday morning killing seventeen injuring more than one hundred sixty artie's axon a leak which over reports now on how people there are still coming to terms with what happened. cries louder than sirens but no fear just the time eleven twenty four on the watches of those who perished in the central market in logic of class it was a thursday when a suicide bomber drove his silver car to its entrance gates he was said to be home during a routine check of the car but reluctant to open the trunk but a security guard muslim big player insisted. he put the key in the trunk lock turned it maybe once or twice the key broken his hand as long big had the man turned around and moved away from the crowded entrance a minute later a powerful explosion shook the area icelandic heard the cries and rushed to the scene. i saw a lot of cars blown to pieces and a lot of bodies i had no real fear i just felt sorry for the people who died or got injured especially a young mother with a child i saw them just before the explosion a young girl was coming in with a kid a little kid as

thousand and one in new york and washington but nine years on the number of victims is still growing artie's moreno porton i spoke to some of the first responders who say their health was ruined it ground zero and i think government has failed to help. gary white was an american hero in two thousand and one did you actually get diagnosed as being directly sits in the middle of in two thousand and ten the nine eleven first responder represents an exploding health crisis u.s. officials have failed to address its tolly across the page costs an illness or call my gall bladder cancer liver cancer the retired n.y.p.d. detective spent six months sifting through world trade center debris and clouds of toxins later resulting in asthma sleep apnea post neurological problems and two strokes the first one is massive. i was paralyzed i lost command of my speech. i had to learn to walk and talk again the police department denies his illnesses are linked to nine eleven so for leaving the twenty three year veteran with mounting medical debt this one wants fourteen over fifty three and a daily dose of fiftee

across the country while the while there have also been a rocket attacks in both cowboy and jalalabad artie's paulus leader has the latest from the afghan capital. well since the polling stations opened in the early hours of this morning a grim picture here in afghanistan in terms of security it was a massive explosion here in the capital city of kabul hours before those first stations opened no reports of injuries we're also hearing no reports of injuries regarding the rocket attacks in the south in the city of kandahar and there has also been a direct hit on a polling station in the east in jalalabad we are now hearing in the reports of a rocket attack in the north we're hearing that one person there has been killed but as of yet we've been unable to confirm this so certainly a grim picture in several provinces around the country and this is just a few hours after the potence station is opened tens of thousands of afghan police and security forces are in the streets manning those polling stations they are back to what i said the foreign forces drove past several polling stations here in kab

central market of lot of cars thursday morning killing seventeen injuring more than one hundred sixty artie's excitedly touch over reports now on how people there are still coming to terms with what happened. cries louder than sirens but no fear just the time eleven twenty four on the watches of those who perished in the central market in logic of course it was and so is day when a suicide bomber drove his silver car to its entrance gates he was said to become during a routine check of the car but reluctant to open the trunk but a security guard as long big clear insisted. he put the key in the trunk lock turned it maybe once or twice the key broken his hands iceland big had the man turned around and moved away from the crowded entrance a minute later a powerful explosion shook the area icelandic heard the cries and rushed to the scene. i saw a lot of cars blown to pieces and a lot of bodies i had no real fear i just felt sorry for the people who died or got injured especially a young mother with her child i saw them just before the explosion a young girl was coming in with a kid a little kid

miraculous escape when the plane overshot in a bad an airstrip on tuesday and slammed into the trees artie's tom barton has details. first we just heard that there had been a crash landing these new details revealed an astonishing story in the air really the flight the two full of t. one five four was on a six hour flight from the far east of russia into moscow for four hours into that flight at the height of thirty thousand feet ten thousand meters a huge electrical failure struck the plane which knocked out its navigation systems its communications systems the fuel pumps taking fuel to the difficult time for the engine and also the flight brakes the flaps on the on the wings that left the pilots with a very difficult job finding and have faced down very quickly. they have looked around in the kone region where they were currently over in northwest russia and they found an old disused airstrip they then circled three times to try and get the right approach using only their engines with no electrical assistance and then managed to put the plane down on the runway the runway being too short f

for artie's close of team on a journey that explores the ethnic diversity of the subaltern in russia's far. more middle east peace cutting nuclear weapons and the un's own make over should have been the highlights of thursday's general assembly session but the iranian president again a stole the show and that's the spite sending key v.i.p.'s of the audience marching for the exits let's now get more from mark and that's the spiritual cannot who's in new york hi there well i suppose it was no shot that the iranian president would deliver a highly charged speech but it's just the content as it were that was a surprise wasn't it. doesn't you're absolutely right obviously president mahmoud ahmadinejad has earned himself a reputation over these last couple of years and is known to traditionally come up with theatricals when he addresses the united nations general assembly but yesterday's speech was in fact a surprise this was the first time that the really and president mentioned the events of september eleventh and the underlining message that he sent to the international community was some

that was artie's posterior reporting their. innocent foreign policy expert from the cato institute says the election is falling short of standards of democracy and exposes deeper problems within the country. given the amount of insecurity and instability in the fact that there are flawed voter registries there's been voter intimidation voter bribery there's a great deal of uncertainty as to what's going to happen and despite the fact that there are twenty four hundred candidates. forty of them are women you have to really understand that the complexity of all this means that there really won't be what we would define as a liberal democratic electoral process what's interesting is that there's sort of a paradox with u.s. policy in u.s. policymakers in particular especially regarding this election and they're placing so much emphasis on these processes on the fact that you know these are elections that allow the voice of the afghan people to speak to the world that this is shows that they're on the march toward a democratic proce

know you still you very carefully lauren lyster artie patterson new jersey. to afghanistan now where at least fourteen people were. killed in separate bombings on the countries on the day of the country's parliamentary elections officials claim the taliban launched more than thirty attacks across the country in an attempt to disrupt the poll authorities say the turnout was low with just over a third of eligible voters casting ballot counting is now underway and eliminating results will be announced next month the poll was also marred by allegations of fraud and widespread irregularities former presidential candidate. has told our t.v. election demonstrated the failure of the ruling government. as i had put it to be fooled the presidential election is lost but that if this same situation frontin you this situation can only do tell you date this is exactly what we are with this too in terms of governance issues of corruption rule of law and justice and security and as a whole so this is a these sort of sliding down the downward turn lead to an absolute failure

behind bars and now they seem to have some help from the united states in that in that fight right artie's got it for us in washington thanks for that report. politico political analyst dmitri babich says north has often been a target for as long as militants with links to international terror groups. say there has been a terrorist attacks for a long time i would like to remind you of that. when he was alive told malta said russian good recent close because. the only ethnic group in the north caucasus besides russia which is predominantly also the explosion so the market especially invited us about a very very often used in the past i would remind you that evolved over the last terrorist attacks in the ninety s. was also an explosion at the market the logic of cos. they used alarmist terrorist in north caucasus had connections to al qaeda they didn't make a secret out of it the western press doesn't report that very well from the cage and that you also hear stories that some way in afghanistan. people. reason the. camp was destroyed people from north caucasus were also present their own fo

elections the vote counting is under way amid fraud allegations and reports of some irregularities artie's correspondent paula sleep has more from kabul. overnight the afghan capital was quiet and there have been no incidents of violence reported although as you say at the close of election day saturday at least fourteen people were confirmed did the taliban carried out more than thirty bombing attacks in a statement it e-mailed it said it had targeted and hit some one hundred and fifty polling stations around the country we're hearing from afghan officials that little more than a third of the voting population turned out to bridges to their vote and we were also hearing from the free and fair election foundation of afghanistan that they recorded some two hundred and twenty four incidents of serious intimidation they seem to have been problems particularly in the eastern provinces of afghanistan where there were virtually no female electoral staff and as a result women particularly in conservative communities were unable to come forward and cost of their ballot in addition to the more than

that was artie's marina for now reporting pramod york and later this hour all right hard was also out and about in the big apple people's thoughts on the economic situation. just so you think that the middle class is kind of disappearing in this country i think it's definitely it's definitely. not so much disappearing but it's definitely not as big as it used to be i mean you know growing up my parents always said that the middle class was a lot bigger times were a lot easier. and there's one number young lovers in india can call when they need saving from the are outraged parents and honor killings. and after making inroads in sweden europe's far right parties are focusing their efforts on austria for sunday's provincial elections the country's free of art he's hoping to win votes through a controversial and a muslim campaign which sparked outrage among manny. reports. was the buy by mosque game is as simple as its message they came and shoot down as many new mosques as you can as they rise relentlessly above asters alpine skyline if you're not quick enough the country is islamicized

servicemen is convinced extra terrestrials are interfering with nuclear weapons as artie's citric moon explains. perhaps few things say normal or routine more than a daily dose of coffee a cup of calm in what can on any day be out of the ordinary. out of the ordinary like a nuclear holocaust out of the ordinary. let's say there's an attack from where it doesn't matter it could be north korea iran pakistan. if that were to happen if nuclear payback wouldn't happen. but. that's a claim made by the men in this room are missiles began going into what's called a no go condition or on launchable essentially they were disabled detailed in this report full of court sanction sworn affidavits the witnesses have described these craft s. disc shaped or cylindrical shape or spherical if you think what's being said inside this building is completely ridiculous you might want to consider something my name's robert hastings thank you for coming these are men who might know what may have gone on their former air force missile launch officers missile base officers who say u.f.o. spaceships flying saucer

a speech concentrating on democracy he said those who say russia isn't democratic have bad memories artie's academy graduate has been following the discussions. the bottom line. presently bet of speech was that time has come not just to talk not just to criticize each other but time is to find global solutions three main topics dominated today's discussions democracy modernization and efficiency very simple things very simple ideas but how to achieve them there is indeed no consistency on that and the question is whether there should be consistency over that every country should go its own way russia's president russian president dmitry medvedev take on that is that nothing is very straightforward these days and this is what the forum is about as for the central top big democratization and democracy experiences around the world diversified experiences the heated argument was about what is democracy in the first place and where it can be described with some adjectives and indeed many like young which were open democracy and democratic institutions are intensively developing and russia and pr

had a miraculous escape when the plane overshot in a bad airstrip on tuesday and slammed into trees artie's tom barton has the details . new record kilis that's was experts from passengers a calling the crash landing of this plane in the russian taiga without anyone injured we see no pool so we learned in the streets and ended up in the woods emergency crews arrived to find two week everything was fine as to the still to this to mislead people if you want the professionalism of through here you would not be standing here. the tupolev one fine full was flying at ten thousand meters on its way to moscow from russia's far east when there was a massive electrical failure the plane lost all to mattick navigation and communication its fuel supply and wing flaps were crippled meaning i had to land quickly. that higher than normal speeds even the lights in the cabin and cockpit went out by sight alone the pilots found an abandoned their strip in the depths of the forest a managed to land on the third attempt but the look never brought of course has not been used for what it was intended because it'

rhetoric becomes reality or that we're just going to have to wait and see next year or at leicester artie's. well taken the rostrum of the un general assembly many participants talked about mutual obligations of democracy and human rights but some critics say the host nation should take a closer look at domestic abuses before preaching to the rest of the world. as world leaders gathered at the united nations today we must. be living up to our mutual responsibility the voice of america took to the podium in the universal declaration of human rights. we recognize the inherent dignity rights of every individual yet three miles south from barack obama's lecture on moral principles one woman languishes in this federal jail behind me stripped many say of all her dignity allegedly at the hands of u.s. officials. pakistani born u.s. educated a neuroscientist mother of three and the doctor us mainstream media jobbed levy. a so-called terrorist never charged with committing an act of terror i mean i think his story is really just a symbol of a broader problem which has gone largely unnoticed which is

finger squarely a failed investment bank lehman brothers and say its demise drove the country into debt artie's out of stasia churkin explores the impact of that event. two years have passed but is anyone wiser the u.s. marks the second anniversary of the largest bankruptcy in its history investment bank lehman brothers holding six hundred billion dollars in assets fell to its knees becoming the tipping point of the financial meltdown in panic attack mode the u.s. stock market went through the biggest points fall in one day since the attacks of nine eleven it was sort of a crescendo at the same time it triggered off a number of other events you had ripples throughout the global financial system apart from losing its dignity and credibility wall street went unpunished. where do you see anyone getting one hundred fifty year sentence if you have learned any real lessons are they more frightening than worried yes are they more careful yes can they afford not to take risks again no for more than a year now unemployment has remained at more than nine and a half percent however most analysts say that

sanctions on iran artie's natalia has the details. earning a russian people that russia is not anymore going to sell its ass three hundred and i mr defense systems to iran jus to the recently imposed by the un security council sanctions against the country's nuclear program and there was tension is suggest that any sales rep in the country including military planes that military helicopters tanks in accordance to missile defense shield now then you shouldn't be going to run the sign back in two thousand and seven when you launch it we live by that counseling and it's up to the countries now they do not have to be heard but according to the russian people doubt whether this contract will be cancelled all together will depend on iran's actions we're still waiting to hear the phone or on this decision old the russian the thirty's russians who are the ones who move the delivery will get things done but miss out to iran last winter and to the decision was not at all the balkans in iran so it is unlikely that it will get this time but you k

turn and heading back to their homeland artie's preassure door went to find out why . ten years ago k.g. saying would have never imagined that he'd be back in india going overseas for higher education was something that the guys who did well in academics that was the first preference there were too many jobs in india. in the private sector and so i followed this trend lead sing to a ph d. a job at a prestigious research institute and ultimately the skills to start his own company but living the american dream wasn't enough the attraction for that it is only when you're sort of doing news and you're sort of pushing to be on the open for whatever you're doing and that really is synonymous with go if you're looking to sort of grow. this is the right place to be and this place is bangalore india. the city of six million exports more than thirty billion dollars of i.t. products every year amidst the hustle and bustle of can just did roads and street markets is the sober jazz mean a tranquil gated community tucked in the corner of india's silicon valley many immigrants who h

fifty years the small island nation has increased its territory by more than twenty percent but as artie's rough a national reports it seems a new singapore is benefiting from the shifting sands. saying that who has one of the world's most prosperous and fastest growing economies the tiny island one of the smallest twenty nations in the world is growing fast to. the key global shipping hard its vast port complexes have been expanding relentlessly in the sea by land reclamation. we have been taking sail from our hills and then when there are no more hills then we have been raging sand from from the sea. have a lot of. more thought it is being imported from neighboring country. singer who is today the world's biggest importer of sand literally the foundation of a tiny state extraordinary economic growth singapore has been importing sand for years and its territory has increased by over twenty percent in the last hop a century but with other countries in the region such as malaysia indonesia vietnam and can border mending sand experts require mean more land has become a difficult task for thi

thank you sir you're very kind lauren lyster artie patterson new jersey. it's a very real pictures there of course of how some forty three million americans are currently living below the poverty line well let's talk more about the economic situation in the u.s. we're joined live now by a columnist max profit studio in new york thank you for talking to us mr frog wall the biggest number of americans in fifty years and you're now unemployed what do these figures reveal about the state of america's so-called recovery from recession . well seeing numbers this large one in seven american adults living in poverty in just about one in four to five american children shows us that the sheer numbers and the percentage of americans who are being systematically failed by the american economy is now in its fourth year of significant increase and it gives you a little bit of a taking of the temperature of just how severe the pain is in so many households and so many neighborhoods and so many cities so many states so many towns at the same time president obama is sugges

you know you serve you they count lauren lyster artie patterson new jersey. just now turning twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital this is all to you let's go to some other world news now in brief for you twenty five people have been killed and scores more injured as containers with explosives blew up near a police station in eastern sri lanka authorities say the blast was an accident the explosives intended for roadworks were being stored next to the police station for security. reasons sixteen officers are among the dead. five men have been arrested in london over a potential terror plot against the pope benedict the sixteenth is on a four day visit to britain the men aged between twenty six and fifty were seized in the center of the capital they are not british nationals it's unclear whether the threat was against the pope. now the papal visit has guarded much controversy in the u.k. following a string of sexual abuse accusations against the clergy. by the president or russia and ukraine have decided to swap their usual state cars for so

coming up next artie's martin andrews and his team sample some of moscow's best cuisine from the far east japanese and vietnamese food well you can find it all here in the russian capital. of japanese thai. cuisine the theme for this week's. asian food. some still haven't even tried it but here the ever changing culture muscovites means more diversity when it comes to eating. starting in. three hollywood actor robert deniro invited japanese chef neighbor matthew he's a sensible restaurant and tried back. into the ship to critical acclaim today from las vegas to london and dubai nobu has dozens of locations around the world truly is as famous as the brand itself from his signature dish which is black . to sushi tasting many millions of people around the world have enjoyed no dismounts. dishes sitting down and presented with the menu it was cheap but it is worth every penny or in this case. i think i'll go with sea bass sushi. it's from friends. if you. are. you know useful so she. picks up the ball. but you can teach and you can see jackie shops. because she's flown in every morning n

government and orthodox church which is keeping the prejudice alive among their fellow georgians as artie's or english cricks plains a mix of old fashioned thinking on political manipulation is leaving them out cold . i need to spend five years of working in george's police force and got fired for being a woman. nigger is transgender and says he is not accepted for wanting to live in a man's body he claims gays lesbians and transsexuals are considered perverts by most georgians should. they say we should sit in our homes and not show up on the street what am i not a human being or they say get the hell out of georgia is this not my country. the georgian orthodox church is one of the strongest opponents of gays and lesbians in the country. opposition should be stored but we must also remember that their sick people society the government and the people must do everything they can to help them heal but nico who is an orthodox christian himself disagrees. with. if this is an illness where is the cure i feel fine nothing hurts except for my soul because i'm being mistreated which. knickers cars