of 10 regional branches of the governing zanu—pf have passed a vote of no confidence in president robert mugabe, following a military takeover on wednesday. they also want his wife grace, who was apparently planning to succeed him, to quit the party. the lebanese prime minister, saad hariri, has left saudi arabia for france on his private plane to meet president macron. he's been in the kingdom since tendering his resignation two weeks ago. the president of the european council, donald tusk, has warned britain's prime minister theresa may that "much more progress" is needed on brexit talks, before discussions can begin on a future trade deal. the irish prime minister leo varadkar also wants a guarantee there'll be no physical border with northern ireland after brexit. a military dog who helped save the lives of british and afghan troops has received the animal equivalent of the victoria cross. mali was seriously wounded in 2012,

when he entered a building in kabul under fire, to sniff out explosives and insurgents. our reporter chi chi izundu has the story. this is mali, the eight—year—old belgian mellonwah, who's been awarded the dickin medal, the highest honour for an army animal. in 2012, he was helping british troops in afghanistan when they came under attack. while searching for insurgents, mali came under direct fire as he sniffed out explosives and searched for a safe exit. his special forces handler during the operation is anonymous for security reasons. from operations that we had been on previously, he had really sort of shown his bravery and built a reputation amongst all of the guys. by the time we launched onto this operation, we really felt that we had a guardian angel among us. the mission lasted 7.5 hours. mali's contribution to its success is undeniable. the amount of noise,

the dust, the smoke, you know, he must have had really overloaded senses. he received blast injuries from two grenades that were thrown down the stairs on him. he received multiple injuries to his face, body, and his hips, but again, still carried on after that. the military uses around 500 dogs in a variety of roles, from sniffing out explosives to hunting down insurgents. mali's made a full recovery. as for the medal, he'll get a miniature version two wear around his collar, so that in his newjob, teaching other dogs and their handlers about their roles in the military, he can pass on his heroic stkills. now on bbc news, our world. the war crimes judgement in the case of bosnian serb commander ratko mladic is due to be delivered next week in the hague. mark urban looks now at the legacy of the man known as the ‘butcher of bosnia'. a warning that some viewers may find

parts of this programme upsetting. in the 1990s, terrible things happened here. and even now, bosnia's earth guards its secrets. gunfire. but in order to escape its past, this country was confronted again with the imminent verdict on general ratko mladic, whose list of war crimes led him to be dull but be butcher of bosnia. —— dubbed the butcher of bosnia. —— dubbed the butcher of bosnia. —— dubbed the butcher of bosnia. in an old factory in central bosnia,

the human cost of the war is still being measured. for it is here that unidentified corpses from mass graves are being delivered even today. and the families of 30,000 still missing search for answers. this is, um... 0verwhelming, in a certain way. there are pictures of the missing. there are human remains pretty much everywhere here, by the hundreds. and then, at the end there, there are scraps of clothing and other things that have been recovered with them. and this place is the main hope that a lot of the families of those missing have for discovering what on earth happened toa discovering what on earth happened to a loved one who just disappeared all those years ago. having covered

the war 25 years ago, i've come back to explore the impact is that one particularly malign man had on the lives of thousands. ratko mladic commanded serb forces in the bosnian war. he is now facing a verdict on an enormous catalogue of war crimes, including genocide. it has taken six years to try. four days ago marked two decades and is ratko mladic became the commander of the main staff of the army of republika serbska. 0n the main staff of the army of republika serbska. on that day he assumed the mantle of realising, through military might, the criminal goals of ethnically cleansing much of bosnia. this woman was a judge

herself in the north—western town of pre— adore when serbian troops took it over in may of 1992. she was fired and became one of thousands of muslims sent to a nine or planned that would come in from this is a camp where, in a few months, 700 inmates died. —— sent to an iron ore plant. she was the product of what was

called ethnic cleansing, driving non—serbs out of much of bosnia. 37 women were used to serve in the camps dining hall. during the day they could hear torture going on in their nearby dormitories. night brought its own anguish. i have to admit, somewhat ashamed to admit it, but i was a little sceptical of some of the reports that initially emerged in 1992 about what was happening to people in these camps. but pretty quickly, it did become clear that terrible things were happening. and actually, it was the human suffering caused in that initial phase of the neck cleansing and murder and rape that went on in the north—west of bosnia here that caused the international criminal court of also be formed and set in train the whole process of

international justice that will culminate in the sentencing of general ratko mladic. —— ethnic cleansing and murder. 0urfilming was stopped by security guards. what's the problem? he is saying that we are not allowed to film the factory. the iron plant is now in action again under a foreign firm. but it is a measure of the sensitivities that 0marska still generates. please rise. early on, the hague tribunal tried several of the 0marska guards. 0ne tribunal tried several of the 0marska guards. one of those trials featured miroslav. a policeman at the start of the war, he was described in court as the deputy commander of the camp. then, as now, he portrays himself as someone who saved his muslim wife's relatives from the horror of the camp. because of the isolated acts of

kindness to some prisoners, do not absolve any individual crimes which may have been committed. the court said he was culpable ofjoint enterprise. he knew what was going on. the chamber finds you guilty of the crime against humanity, persecution, and the war crimes murder and torture. in the war, we used to travel into surrey are though via this mountain. —— sarajevo. we a re though via this mountain. —— sarajevo. we are here again. this

place, reminiscent of the winter 0lympics, became a battleground as the focus of the war shifted from the focus of the war shifted from the area around prejidor to bosnia's capital. and in that long fight, a whole new chapter of war crimes began. very quickly after the war started, the bosnian serbs were driven out of most of surrey are though. —— sarajevo. they held a couple of suburbs on that flank. 0ther couple of suburbs on that flank. other than that, they were in the surrounding hills, pouring down sniper fire and artillery fire on the people below. ratko mladic began a siege which was to last more than three years. and of course, those events now form a central part of the indictments against him. from the indictments against him. from the beginning of the conflict, ratko mladic brought to bear the serb army's superiority in artillery. and

as this intercepted conversation showed, used it against the population of sarajevo. so, you would come out of the flats that morning? mia was a seven—year—old living on the street. how did the vibe change in the war? it must have been a big, big change? it must have been a big, big change? it was a shock. the siege had just started and she was brought out by a rumour of ice cream. we are heard this extremely loud or whistle, and suddenly, the earth began to shake. i went flying up in there. —— in the air. and another few seconds, all

hell broke loose. screaming. i could see everybody lying on the street, people in pieces, a lot of light. —— bullard. —— blood. pieces, a lot of light. —— bullard. -- blood. in those dreadful moments in which 20 people died, a cameraman ca ptu red in which 20 people died, a cameraman captured this fleeting image of mia being carried. she survived shrapnel wounds. her mother lost a leg in the blast. together, the family and neighbours in view of the following three years, during which at times, 1000 shells a day would fall on the city. we were submitted to shelling, and sniper rifles, no water, no electricity, no food. so we were

like mice in a cage, pretty much. while the world awaits the ratko mladic verdict, it has gone on so long some convicts have done their time in prison and could choose where to be released. a few years ago, jubilant crowds turned out to meet him as he returned. he was the speaker of the serb parliament. he accepts people on his side were guilty of war crimes as well. for much of the war, the bosnian — serb leadership successfully kept the outside world that day,

sometimes intimidating un troops, at others, firing on or even taking them hostage. but across in the east of the country, events reached a tipping point in the final year of the war. the genocide indictment against ratko mladic divides his crimes into various phases. the early pa rt crimes into various phases. the early part of the war around north—west bosnia and then the siege of sarajevo at the centre. and then finally the enormous catalogue of crimes that took place in this place in 1995, srebrenica. the un declared the enclave to be a safe area. but as the capture was planned, the

dutch troops had been abandoned by their commanders. ratko mladic savoured his triumph, and recalled past defeats of the serbs by the 0ttoman turks. srebrenica was overrun, and more than 20,000 frightened muslim women and children crammed into the dutch base. rob was one of the soldiers there. still, any time i walk in this door, a split second, a split second, i smell and see the people. dead people, davies, everything

together. thousands of people. —— babies. you cannot imagine it. as srebrenica fell, one woman gave him her woman to look after. how desperate do you have to be, a baby, just born, you must be so proud of it, to give him to someone because at that moment it was the best thinking for her to give the best for her baby. he passed the child on to medics and it survived. ratko mladic guaranteed the women and children safe passage. but meanwhile, his troops hunted the man of srebrenica. —— men. when captured, they were taken to places

like this school. soon after the war, we visited it, checking reports that men had been held here in shots fired to keep them under control. —— here and shots. 0ur information came from this man who went back to the school with us for only the second time. there, he had seen ratko mladic personally supervising what was to happen next. the men, already terrified, were packed into trucks and taken to a nearby field where mass murder began. he is survived by playing dead among

the corpses. and then at night, he escaped over the mountains to government territory. when we came here in 1996, the main mosque had actually been blown up and the minaret was lying in the streets. it has been restored. and over the years, a good many people have come back. muslim people, not as many as were here before, but a kind of muslim bosnia clive has been reconstructed in this town. he is haunted by the loss of his father, brother, and numerous cousins, and also by the fact he still recognised as serbs around here from those

killing fields. in the place he returned after the war, there are also reminders everywhere. some men who were never convicted, others who have served their sentences, who she now encounters on the streets. taking labouring jobs ends his return, he is unable to leave the past behind or get over what he regards as an injustice. it is pointless quibbling for him

with a sentence he has already served. he is done with raging against the hague. he believes that politics as to leave its sectarian bickering behind. this remains a divided country in which sectarian politicians play on

national fears. which sectarian politicians play on nationalfears. and for which sectarian politicians play on national fears. and for that reason, as the trials and in the hague, the pursuit of war crimes will go on in bosnia itself. hello. saturday morning not quite as cold as monday, frost not as widespread and it will change things around the start of the weekend. on friday, it was sunshine but heavy heavy showers in scotland with the best of the sunshine on friday in southern england. but a cloudy day ahead in southern england but scotland is where we will find the best of the sunshine during saturday. but the isobars indicate still a brisk and chilly wind. but cloud and some patchy rain will feed in across parts of wales, the midlands and southern england during saturday, so we will lose any

early sunshine we have. still some blustery showers in the far north of scotland but actually here and into northern england by the afternoon, the lion's share of saturday's sunshine. here's a look at things at 9am, though, a frost still to some, particularly the hills in scotland, but there will be a lot of fine, sunny weather away from the showers in the far of the northern isles. expecting a mainly dry day in northern ireland but a fair amount of cloud around. just a few showers spreading south across northern england to begin with but behind those will have the sunshine coming out. frost and sunny spells for east anglia and south—east england, not lasting long. mild for some for wales and into south—west england to begin the day, but cloud and some patchy rain, and that is going to extend eastwards across other parts of southern england and a few spots perhaps into east anglia. but brightening up in northern england, keeping the sunshine in scotland but the blustery wind and showers in the far north, wintry on the hills and a lot

of cloud in northern ireland but mainly dry. some of us technically milder than wales and the south—west, not feeling that way perhaps with the cloud and heavy rain but most of us, it's another single—figure, chilly day. saturday evening, saturday night, the rain becomes confined to far south—west of england. elsewhere, clearing skies. temperatures drop away again and the frost will be more widespread going into sunday morning. as ever, temperatures are lower than this in rural spots. but where you with that frost, you'll have some sunshine and it will continue for much of the day, we think, across scotland, northern and eastern parts of england. whereas for northern ireland, wales, south—west england, heading into the west midlands too, a lot of cloud around and a bit patchy rain. and temperatures again in single figures for most. a cold —feeling day. cloud and rain extending north—eastwards as we go through sunday night and into monday, but as that happens, what we are doing is taking moisture into cold air so a risk of snow for some to start monday in scotland, perhaps not just on hills. we will keep you updated.

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