lastly vulnerable moments. in visible hands. slavery in the twenty first century. story december second on d w. this is state of the news live from berlin the outcome loutish known as the butcher of bosnia is guilty of genocide and war crimes and un tribunals sentences the former bosnian serb commander to life in prison for atrocities he committed during

the bosnian war also on the show a new day and a new leader for isn't bob way supporters of incoming president emerson gaga are lining the streets of harare to welcome him back home that's after robert mugabe stunning resignation on true state brought almost four decades of author tearing rule to an end god was due to be sworn in as the president of zimbabwe on friday. plus a change of heart lebanon's prime minister hits the pas button putting his resignation on hold so heavy made the announcement a day after returning home to beirut in just three weeks after he suddenly stepped down while in saudi arabia so what's behind this latest twist we'll get the details from beirut. and britain hikes funding for braggs it as it slashes growth forecasts for the next five years when you more and business.

thank you very much for your company. the former bosnian serb army chief accused of leaving some leading the massacre of eight thousand muslim men and boys has been found guilty of war crimes crimes against humanity and genocide charges at the u.n. tribunal in the hague have sentenced to life in prison here is what the presiding judge had to say as he read out the ruling earlier today the chamber finds. guilty as a member of first joined common enterprises of the following cones count to genocide count three persecution the crime against humanity while the atrocities committed by took place in the early to

mid one nine hundred ninety s. during the bosnian war let's take a look back at his role in that conflict. srebrenica the small town in eastern bosnia-herzegovina has gained infamy as the scene of a war crime in july in one thousand nine hundred five bosnian serb forces massacred more than eight thousand men and boys here they were acting on the orders of radical melodic the former army chief following the collapse of yugoslavia he made plans to create a greater sabria together with radovan carriage the bars political leader melodic and carried it divided the walk of war between them carried it gave the orders malott it carried them out former head of the british army and ex nato general some might jackson was at the time commander of the allied rapid reaction corps in the balkans and got to know all right cool melodic passionately. he was ruthless trowbridge. one of his. own hard pulling.

their scene is without a doubt the panicle of melodic just cruelty in july one thousand nine hundred five his troops forced to we enter srebrenica which had been declared a safe haven under u.n. protection in front of the cameras here sure bosnian muslims that nothing would happen to them. shortly afterwards his forces expelled the women and girls and killed the men and boys. and this appalled it came face to face with melodic summer as she was passed out of town as soon as he walked into the bus i covered my head like this. today she can only endure the trauma. during that last offensive my father and my brother were killed it seemed to me like my whole world collapsed apart from my children and my husband these two were the most important people in my life.

for survivors like innocent and their relatives this verdict has delivered the justice they've been hoping for and they didn't use a counter martens was at the i c t y covering the trial and after the verdict she spoke with pirates his chief prosecutor for the international criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia. as prosecutor off the i city by mr rahman it's. how much of a landmark is that trial today this is definitely one of the most important trials in the history of the tribunal courage and knowledge are both considered as the the architects of the large ethnic cleansing campaigns in the ninety's in the from because in particular in in bosnia herzegovina so it's definitely one of the most important trials which which ended today. why i took it so long to bring to

justice well how many reasons you know the international arrest warrant is from one thousand nine hundred ninety five he was on the run for sixteen years you know when i when i started in this office ten years ago everyone was very pessimistic about any chance of having carthage or arrested before the closure of the tribunal finally after sixteen years in two thousand and eleven he was arrested one of the reasons being that the european union put a lot of pressure on serbia with the conditionality policy you know linking the enlargement process with the full cooperation with our tribunal and when he was arrested in two thousand and eleven well the defense needed needed one year to get ready so they tried starting two thousand and twelve the trial took four years and one year to to write the judgment that's explanation but you know if we speak about this trial we speak about three years of siege of sarajevo where what in ten

thousand people have been been killed many children. by snipers we speak about the ethnic cleansing in many municipalities in bosnia even though we speak about the the genocide ensure when it i were in a few days' time more than seven thousand men and boys have been been killed we speak about one hundred twenty incidents which were proven before the judges more than four hundred witnesses testifying in total those are very complex and important trials and they take time. how much do you think will this help to bring a recount still to the rest on. you know this is a debate which is very much ongoing and i'm getting very often this question if i think that our work has a positive impact on a conciliation because many think that the opposite is the case because every time a judgment is coming out in the hague depending on the outcome one group will be

happy and the other group very unhappy so my position in this regard is to say that well. rick judgements alone accountability alone cannot bring reconciliation we conciliation has to come from within the society has to be initiated by victims communities perpetrators communities and by civil society in general and you need to responsible politicians to do so but what i want to say is that i think that prosecution accountability is a precondition to give reconciliation a chance i don't think that communities are ready to move forward together if they're responsible for the crimes to suffer to have not been identified the i.c.c. why a prosecutor there speaking to the w. all i want to bring you up to date now with some of the other stories making news around the world. the presidents of iran russia and turkey say they've agreed to keep working on the peace process in syria russia's vladimir putin is that the

syrian government is committed to a peace process and free and fair elections all earlier this year the three countries helped negotiate a partial truce between syrian forces and the opposition. heavy rains have triggered flash floods injured up stranding motorists and causing school council a sions in saudi arabia second biggest city dozens of people were plucked from vehicles trapped in the water and more heavy rainfall is still expected. in turkey the trial of eleven human rights activists on terrorism related charges resumed today in istanbul among the defendants is tatar killings the chairman of amnesty international in turkey is still behind bars eight of the other activists including german national better start there were released on bail last month all deny the charges against them. while in the midst of briggs it talks a highly anticipated budget plan in the u.k.

yes that story's been outlined late and it's also included the growth forecast for britain as well and i can tell you that britain as finance minister has no wit his country's a five year growth for cost us over that uncertainty surrounding the u.k.'s exit from the e.u. philip hammond made the comments you see on vale the autumn a budget includes plans to set aside three billion pounds for braggs it contingency plans the country's decision to quit the european union has resulted in a shop full in sterling and an increase in inflation. now google siemens toyota johnson and johnson they're all big players on global stock exchanges and these giant multinationals dominate their industries everyone's heard of them of course but what if you make products for a less high profile sector well some people here in germany call them the hidden

champions companies that are launching the unfamiliar to the public because they're often a family owned or unlisted on the stock market in germany or about one thousand five hundred of these so-called hidden champions the average company's revenues between fifty million and three billion euros it typically employs over five hundred employees most of them are specially trained now the majority of hidden champions are in technical fields forty one percent in mechanical engineering nineteen percent in industrial production and when it comes to plant engineering you can see it that takes percent moving on to some other news now in the has admitted that it suffered a massive data breach last year hackers stole the names e-mail addresses and phone numbers of millions of its customers around the world and to make matters worse open now says it paid off the criminals to keep everything quiet the firm says it's far too people over the incident regulators say that needs to be accompanied by

higher fines. the revelation that knew about the massive data breach but did not inform of already has left the right sharing company facing some tough questions confounding to me if you knew who the hackers were there why wouldn't you simply report them to the authority that's the question we're now has to answer is worth nearly seventy billion dollars making it by far the leading right sharing service in the world. the latest revelation has left some customers feeling uneasy. feeling comfortable for them now it's a little disappointing i mean as a consumer i mean i. had no idea. in the u.s. companies are required to disclose data breach information to the government so the ride share service could end up facing fines from the u.s. authorities and also other countries for hiding the information the revelation

could also potentially exposed to lawsuits from affected customers that could have a significant impact on its bottom line. all right back tonight and now for new developments on the political situation in lebanon very surprising developments because lebanese prime minister south had it he says he is putting his resignation on hold after the country's president asked him to reconsider and allow time for dialogue how did he attended in the pen his day celebrations in the capital after returning to lebanon late last night as nearly three weeks since he suddenly announced his resignation while in saudi arabia lebanese officials accuse saudi of forcing head eighty to resign but had it has yet to confirm those allegations. all right in the journalist frank alberts is in beirut frank why this change of heart. well our review postponing his resignation does not come as

a complete surprise to me i mean it's important to realize that lebanon has been a political crisis for four years in fact lebanon was without a president for almost three years and it was only after i really returned from saudi arabia which was as much a surprise as his resignation that and yet a compromise was reached and the new president's was elected and a cow government was formed at the end of last year and apparently are reviewed in the excellent job of keeping the government together and continuing lebanon smallest of disassociation with regional conflicts to the dismay of the saudis who had hoped that he would keep as bola in check now what have the reactions been to how did he deciding to stay on inside lebanon and in the region. i think many people have been quite quite relieved and that's at least the impression i got on the streets today here in beirut. and you know with the war in

syria ending regional balance of power is changing rapidly and. saudi arabia forcing every to design a send a signal to hizbollah iran but also international powers like egypt and even friends that they are concerned to be on the losing end and i think everyone has been been surprised at how much lebanese people resented the resignation. and. you may not be perfect but they still are prime minister does this mean that lebannon now has staved staved off a political crisis at least in the short term. i think the call for national dialogue that both president and tyree recall toward today. is maybe an indication that all players are realize that hariri is after all the best person to handle the current political minefield both nationally and internationally. and

i would not be surprised if i restate. temporarily in the no interest until these scheduled elections for me next year i have really heard any reaction from the law because they of course also play a very prominent role in lebanon and did not accept his resignation either i haven't heard anything yet but i would be surprised. if they have issued a statement it would have been along the lines that they are relieved and are happy to present and are a police supporting national dialogue and aren't supposed to supporting the campaign and frank alberts reporting from lebanon thank you. all right i want to take you to zimbabwe now where former vice president emerson gaga

has arrived home in preparation to take power after robert mugabe's shock resignation as president crowds have gathered outside the headquarters of the ruling zanu p.f. party to welcome god well well earlier he took a private jet from an airfield near johannesburg shortly after meeting with south african president jacob zuma and god well is expected to be sworn in as him bob ways head of state on friday. and joining me now is a member of zimbabwe's ruling zana p.f. party nick i'm gonna is chairperson of the u.k. chapter has joining us from london a good evening sir extraordinary events unfolding in your country and coming leader emerson he was mugabe's deputy does that make him the right man for this job yes it does make him the right man for his job. and.

he's a revolutionary yes but a lot of it has been a long history of doing things is on way. being used on man one of the examples that we give anybody is that. when the end reform happened between two thousand and two thousand and five and let in let's say is. every minister president is governance top government official including military ones to all funds from the white commercial farmers and muslim. so it's not just on mines you know needless previews where he is considered to be. where he lays his biggest wallets he used the one who protected a lot of white farmers leaders province. they use a lot of. daily. you know street wise because you've got one part of the white farmers one of the biggest under age. with president mugabe was because they

felt that he was pro s. and the west was. was chumming up to hear again when they all went political analysts say look it's a must remember was the we need everybody is a friends ok and then resell in recent history though he has been mugabe's right hand man he also played a role in repression in zimbabwe. is his history not tarnished i mean to make him now the president of zimbabwe when zimbabwe is at a crossroads and wants change i go to your country probably to history and you can also call it talk of what is used to go back to ninety eight but let me give you what was happening in one thousand eight hundred eighty we just come from the wall everybody literally in the use of your sense of it was a trained sense and we come from the bush was so then there was bush will you

be a sense of community people all day with pistols you know on their bodies and do it discuss matters there will be guns on the table that was the very thing that was preventing there and this is a local need to make decisions to say ok what you surgeons and let's fight. this is ok so basically what we want to hear what we want to talk twenty seventeen. and you hear from the chorus. of course has a very prominent role in zimbabwe in politics what's the way forward for us adults we have are you going to go through a transformation now. not knocked out of all that what will return from mission what do you lead now let's to get your direction do you believe that we have a good. relationship with most of what is was discussed and it's probably understood to me wendy to control of the country there is one.

statement that will you just petition and when you say you disposition it means we have to continually we want just been so it definitely wanted to be seen to date right now. yes custody in your way of doing things. a lot of not knowing is not going to be. a new way of doing things a new chapter first zimbabwe indeed nick i'm gonna is a member of the party and has the u.k. chapter thank you thank you bob. all right i'm back here in germany failed coalition talks have catapulted the country into major political uncertainty president a fun call to shine meyer has been meeting with the heads of the country's main parties to take stock of the situation steinmeier says he wants to meet with leaders of the far right populist alternative for germany as well as the left party

to find common ground. well the social democrats have ruled out entering into another grand coalition which chancellor merkel's conservatives but now some members of the party are calling for a different approach to the use christopher spring break met your highness cars from the conservative wing of the s.p.d. . mr cause is germany in a state of national crisis germany is never in a state of national crisis we have a government it's working we have a budget is there. it's working so we have no discussion how we will operate with their election results and that is something every democracy should have so no problem you are the head of should we call it the right wing of the social democrats or magic part of the social democrats. do you think the social democrats should reconsider their opposition to going into

a fresh grand coalition with chancellor merkel i think the social democrats sort reconsider what they want as president said that all parties have the duty to talk with each other before they go into another election and that's what we are going to do so we are talking about all the issues that we having there were parts of our election campaign and we're looking for partners and nobody knows where it will end if we have a new election a grand coalition or if you have if you tolerate some other coalition without a majority nobody knows but i taught thing going to democracy this discussions i would really as important you say this is what we are going to do to talk to is that mean the social democrats are going to enter into exploratory coalition talks with the conservatives with chancellor merkel's party i think we're going to talk with everyone because that's what the buddhist president said and we social democrats like this business president very much because he's one of us and he has

the gold because that's behind him the authority of our gold because this is something we do not take very loudly the basic law of the constitution basic law the constitution of this country so we're going to talk with everyone and we're talking about the issues that are important for us to you think that the social democrat should enter into a grand coalition with the conservatives. out of a sense of national responsibility i'm not there already i am think we should talk with everyone we should talk and consider all the possibilities and that may be a possibility new elections night may be a possibility or to tolerate black green color whatever i don't know but the bought there's lots of what is presented as talk to each other that's what democracy is all about but you definitely think it's wrong for the social democrats to exclude categorically any form of talks with a view to forming a potential government well on monday i would have given you

a different answer but after monday when is president when on television and on tuesday and i think we have a new situation now so i think yes we should talk with everyone one last question you mentioned the prospect of a minority government do you see any potential advantages anything that makes that prospect more attractive than the other ones without having talked to all the guys who are responsible was all having talked to all the parties in question i don't know but i'm willing to talk about it on his cause of the social democrats many thanks for talking to g.w. news no problem. in soccer it was a mixed night for the german sides in the champions league it was crunch time for dortmund but they needed a win on match day five and they took the lead against tottenham with returning striker america obama young scoring the first goal but tottenham hit back through a harry came and human sun to win two one all the result means dortmund go out of

the tournament although they may still go into the europa league. but it was a much better night for leipsic who also needed a win when they travel to monaco team of aaron or was. six here on the night he scored twice in the first half to help his side to a four one victory lap six are now level on points with second place porto in the group g. and the win in the final group game could see them progress to the next round. now if you remember when a fresh faced teenaged athlete firm germany became the youngest man ever to win the wimbledon tennis tournament this is going to make you feel old boris becker turns fifty today it was way back in one thousand nine hundred five when becker took his first wimbledon title his boyish face as you can see became that of a grown man and becker went on to win five more grand slam crowns among his forty nine career singles titles but has remained busy with coaching business and poker

interests while also generating occasional controversy in his retirement. happy birthday sam ok i want to remind you now of our top story right now. judges that are you in court have found the former bosnian serb army chief guilty of war crimes and genocide and have sentenced him to life in prison on a lot of just a command to serve troops massacre thousands of muslim bosnian men and boys and the town of seven and he saw in nineteen ninety five. supporters of zimbabwe's incoming leader emerson god why are out in force to welcome him back home from south africa he fled there after being fired by a former president robert mugabe earlier this month will be studying resignation on tuesday has paved the way for gaga to take power he'll be sworn in as the new president of zimbabwe on friday. all right only one rock in berlin on behalf of all

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