breaking news this hour one of the world's most wanted it war criminals is arrested in serbia the fugitive a bosnian serb general. faces charges of genocide. russia and the u.s. agree upon the need for a missile defense system that meets both country's security demands president to be tryna get a hold talks with barack obama at the g eight summit in france. moscow calls for an international investigation into georgia's armed crackdown on protesters demanding that president saakashvili resign. this hour as well native v.b.

fall by the wayside turns to sell for the joint exploration of russia's and gas rich arctic shelf journey for a full business politics making it. just after five pm here in moscow you with our team welcome to the program and we start with breaking news here the serbian president has confirmed the arrest of a bad cold blooded the fugitive bosnian serb army general accused of war crimes he's been on the run from the hague tribunal for over fifteen years after being accused of genocide and crimes against humanity. arrest was one of the conditions for joining the e.u. analyst and historian to join laughlin says there is some a political posturing behind this case will be absolutely the right state is as it were the price which serbia has been asked to pay and which is. now paid for it

will improve your chances it's difficult to say because of course a lot of people will create will draw the conclusion that because he's been in. somehow been responsible. in any case i'm absolutely skeptical. but e.u. membership is for very soon i think serbia will have to wait a long time whatever happens. because the price demanded and the price that has been paid and i think that the political mates are really a bit of this incitement personally think that it's part of justifying the european or the west. over the last twenty years approach has been very hostile and aggressive serbia has been very mean taking the main blame for the breakup of yugoslavia and sort of the uncivil war in my view unfairly and of course the west has created a number of institutions most notably the hague tribunal whose very existence

depends on proving very serious serbian guilt. so it really is my understanding of why they are so tenacious in pursuing him but try for more on what it is a rest on how the serbian public may greet the news with our correspondents you know and that will ensure one itself and i spent most of her life. what kind of reaction should we expect you think that people are. well first of all i have to say that the role of the body in our history is to look very well defined and i have to say this quite divided into for some people was and he still is hero a national hero the fourth where you get on the other hand we have a lot of people in serbia want to be part of european union and as this is one of the main conditions for the essence of european union i think that for them this is really going to be a good news and the right really think that this is going to leave the lot of

questions for syrian government for syrian president and it can even divide people of serbia even more. hard party cost one of the millage that you. say you want a euro zone. financial woes will be among the things discussed by leaders at the g. eight summit in the french town of the some talks have already been held on the sidelines the presidents of russia and the u.s. met and agreed on the need for a missile defense system able to meet their national security demands of both countries possibly by twenty twenty years and you know it has the latest. missile defense has always been a tough issue for the u.s. and russia and from both presidents today what they said during their briefing to the press after they met face to face was basically that they are going to work together but they don't think that any kind of solution will be able to be reached within the recent future. but one friend iraq that is might need

a missile defense question will be resolved in the future be around twenty twenty so we have to lay the groundwork for future generations of politicians of partnership of all countries in the future of course last year a new strategic arms reduction treaty was signed and basically the differences on the way they see the issue is that the u.s. is constantly trying to persuade russia that one of its missile defense systems previous plans have been just outside their borders is that it isn't directed at russia russia finds this hard to believe and feels that america despite signing the strategic arms treaty that it's very vague that they both signed the treaty but they hope will have different ways of analyzing what actually the words in it mean for the future of miss south defense we know that the u.s. is continuing to try to build defense systems in europe and russia of course has very many concerns about that they also spoke about russ' accession to the w t o this is something that the country has been trying to do for for years now

president obama mentioning that dialogue needs to be intensified on that and of course the situation in libya was brought up of the two presidents on that it has to be said for quite vague at least when speaking to the press they did mention that with each other they were very frank and basically they exchanged opinions it's no secret of course that russia and the west have very different approaches to how to deal with the situation in north africa well one of the statements that most stood out to me was about the european economy and about the euro it came from come and gone from people was of course the president of the european council and it's probably the strongest statement we've heard about the euro in a long time i just want to quote him saying we will not let the euro fail we'll be trying to. speak to analysts about what exactly that means throughout the day but it could be assumed that if back kind of strong statement can be made that it is very possible that the hero could fail and therefore european officials like we've been hearing throughout the day are going to do their very best to make sure that doesn't happen china or russia have very different views on how to deal with getting involved in the internal affairs of

a sovereign nation than the west does that's going to be really a hot topic over the next twenty four hours here in france at the g. eight and speaking of france of course the host this year the theme of new world new ideas and that is especially the case when it comes to france and its tails on global politics. the g. eight has gone full circle the last time the summit was held in france eight years ago the agenda looked almost the same. war the economy and somewhere in the middle ages africa on the table then iraq and boosting the euro now it's libya and saving the euro. two thousand and three france had a very different stance on global politics than it was staunchly opposed to the u.s. invasion of iraq french fries quickly became freedom fries after france u.s. relations soured despite summits miles but with a new french president came

a new friend turquoise he has rejected entirely the possibility of france playing a constructive role in a multi multi polar world and has aligned himself with the single superpower the united states nowadays france is barking much louder with more soldiers involved in foreign military conflicts of brawn then ever before it's a globalist more than call it it's not just the friends it's a whole. global plan to change governments as they want. france played a central. well when ivory coast's bloody presidential stalemate and is considered the unspoken leader of the intervention in libya this. vote is to participate and to be one of the first. ruler western ruler to to go there and just for his political agenda critics say this new global policy was

meant to wean over french voters but hasn't worked france is a kind of small united states with many interventions that are very costly and very little thinking about the relationship between rhetoric and the cost and cost is the killer european countries are facing more and more protest over huge spending cuts in an attempt to lower taxes it and save a drowning euro and at the same time spending hundreds of millions forcing their way into the libya conflict they don't see eye to eye but they going to try to regroup around. the idea that it's a humanitarian intervention and the u.n. resolution a resolution that china and russia didn't veto but have claimed has been manipulated to suit western interests perhaps there will be an appearance of greenman but if there is an appearance of agreement in my mind it will only be an appearance

appearance at the g eight is hard not to notice the venue is usually some exclusive resort town where you can't hear protest over the euro and it's easy to forget bombs are falling in libya this year france is beautiful normandy was chosen to house leaders as they sit down to debate some of the world's ugliest problems and once again are faced with the question of whether the g eight can regroup on splitting its years and he's now a r t v france. one of world leaders gather in france to deal with the new world in greece and parts of the old world threatening to collapse. the chances not greece to exit the eurozone mountings by the day as of thousands expressing outrage over austerity measures we ask how likely is it that greece will drop out of the euro zone that's coming your way in just a few minutes here on out. of moscow says the violent crackdown on mass protests

in georgia is a blatant abuse of human rights and is demanding an international investigation thousands have taken part in five days of protests calling for president mikhail saakashvili to resign they were dispersed by armed police and the head of an independent state military parade doesn't end up in hospitals and almost one hundred in jail after itself earth is in the middle of the events. well the independence military parade is going ahead. with a speech that he was talking about freedom of speech georgian people. talk comes on the back of a show extreme force from his police forces last night as they disperse the protesters gathered at the main parliament square now he also. said he was going to defend the country from external forces and the protesters yesterday didn't want freedom of speech they wanted was a victim of violence well whatever the case that certainly happened we saw filing

clashes breaking out the dispersal happening very very quickly indeed also a very sadly some people dying in the violence as it break out that we were actually at the sink throughout the whole lot of as it was happening one of our correspondents actually got hit by one of the rubber bullets because they were firing water cannon shooting gas and rubber bullets into the crowds and we can tell you more now about what happened that violence and. it was held by the opposition is the day that we did turn in judges teacher instead this approach has ended ousting president saakashvili engine by lens and large. peach pools of riot police moved in on the crowd just minutes after midnight on judge's day of independence. then she should let police seems to be right to fight everyone on the clapham familiar shun them

a bit we've got to leave that in the back and we've got one on the other side to be done to say to the surrounded as the police closed in water cannons were fired into the crowd rubber bullets and gas all eight seriously injuring demonstrators and journalists a police officer was killed when he was run over by a car. protested in front of the parliament building the scenes of violence all the more shocking given that many of those involved were of an older generation. or we were standing peacefully when riot police keep me on to the ground and started beating me my relatives also suffered they smashed one of my friend's face and left another one on mobile to stay. you can see from my face the kind of force they used and i think i am even alive these people don't value human life. it had been this silver revolution due to the older crowd they turned out demonstrating

against lay pensions and rising food prices so five days they held a chill outside the main t.v. building into police say before taking their protest to the main parliament that. high initial numbers a protest this is the weekend of this piece among the opposition parties and. that is they will lead through the streets the wednesday the crowds once again turned out police to use force. program streeter's. demonstrators were vastly outnumbered and witnesses to the name then the two thousand and seven protest in which six hundred were injured say that this time around police presence was even greater and the full say yes' just this is the western so already being asked about whether the scale of tools used was justifiable. many were arrested and many more injured they did great on the streets

in remnants of the violent clash. they set up but main fan from which the leaders of the opposition gave us a new look at you know the earlier on just before the fighting broke out was saying she would maybe be holding negotiations that didn't happen they wanted to oust the to really instead the price that the ending how it started and things the violent so i'll see. what georgia's president has already blamed external influence namely moscow instigating the rest of the political analyst we heard a lot of south office told us he regards you that it's a favorite blame game and it's getting up. there's a little excuse so really since two thousand and six gold is fine some are foreign or foreign interference in your internal situation i thought you remember this obvious those military. russian military personnel that was stationed in georgia in

those days he was a shim them off so it's clear now then floor to door with all the gal months under this where that several opposition figures where arrested and then two thousand and seven and not graham but when he cast another meeting of the same experience it was a given band now again. i know you can follow the situation in georgia online and watch the latest video as well on our website of course r.t. dot com so forget those artes twitter feed and facebook. as the events. if.

you would aren't seen live from moscow somewhere greece is threatening to turn into a tragedy the country's a u commissioner thinks that membership of the single currency is under threat this is the first time a senior european official has admitted as much that's coupled with the latest mass protests in athens expressing outrage at austerity cuts economist alexander law says greece is heading for the euro exit door. the chance is not greece to exit the euro zone of mounting by the day the ritu ways out so is it let's just be very frank about this the first way out is the way out where you go down way say where greece is we call it a new austerity measures are we because something's got to give are we going to default on our debt and leave the euro area if not the only other solution is be extreme fear about. european countries agree to bailouts. indefinitely

each and every country which has got problems is in fact in effect a fiscal union and for that we need what what do we need where we need the country from northern europe to say we accept to pay for us of the neighbors that however appear to be extremely unlikely so i think that the issue of greece exiting the euro is probably going to be. an outcome which is going to happen. if you would r.t. let's check out some other world headlines for you in brief this hour an explosion rocked yemen's capital killing twenty eight people supporting forth already is that the opposition says the cause was government troops bombing residential areas it comes as fighting rages for the fourth day in the capital during which time over seven thousand people have been killed humans leader refuses to sign a deal to step down despite the escalating violence. in the call the police and protesters have clashed just outside the country's parliament after failing to agree with you constitution legislative body is said to be dissolved by the weekend

leaving the country with no government five years ago the country's communist rebels renounced the revolution to start a peace process but the country is still in touch with just a few hours of running water polo week being one of the main problems. but a quarter of the world's jail population is incarcerated in the united states with more locked up every day there are even accusations that some judges are cashing in by putting teenagers behind bars for minor offenses he's got a check on reports from washington. to pennsylvania judges have made a killing out of juvenile prisons mark ciavarella and michael conahan were convicted of receiving kickbacks for more then two million dollars from the developers of several private the kenshin centers but the real crime according to the parents is that these judges then sent more than five thousand children to

those various facilities for crimes as small as fighting on a school bus or posting a parody of their teacher on the web my. size i know sandy fonzo seventeen year old son edward was evolving student and sports. when he was arrested at an underage party judge ciavarella locked him out for six months shortly after he got out edward committed suicide eric stefanski was twelve when judge ciavarella sent him to jail for two years for scratching his mom's car while joy writing for this young man who was a teenager was locked up for months for throwing a piece of steak it is mom's boyfriend so i really cannot believe that being accused of something like through a stick was all that was needed to be for the way the case of the two pennsylvania judges in bed with local private prisons could be just the case of the iceberg

a recent report revealed america's largest prison corporations poor hundreds of thousands into the campaigns of governors state legislators and judges in the hope of advancing their agenda and it seems to be working the number of private prisons in the us is growing rapidly all their money every penny that is a taxpayer dollar that they get from the government and so what they do is they get bigger put money from the government the house prisoners and later around and and spend some of the back of the politicians push the was and the policies we did were people grocery war people being course rated persons so it's almost a money wandering your tax dollars with the number of prisons goes the number of prisoners the u.s. has around two point three million people behind bars seen prison populations pretty consistently over the last three decades move up a couple percent

a year and you know unfortunately as a citizen that that's not a nice too exciting statistic however when you look at it from a business model perspective for the private operators it's clearly good news the good news for the prison business turned into a nightmare for thousands of under-age victims of the two judges in pennsylvania this so-called half the kids casey as opinion just. reverse incentives can be and raise the question with judges actually interested in sending people away for a longer term thing to keeping their benefactors private prisons for what justice can one count on i'm going to check out reporting from washington. and so now twenty three minutes past the hour here in moscow you with oughts he will have more on this week's hot spot for global politics of course the g. eight summit i thought he talks to russians our presidential debate is now in the spotlight just about ten minutes away from us no it's occurring with the business bulletin after a short break. zero

of the charcoal ski international film festival in the front of the russia from may twenty third to twenty ninth featuring two hundred films from forty eight countries thirty five russian premiers and fifteen tries winners from the burley in china to venice film festivals appearances by ray fines hundred carville and give dozens of forums discussions and workshops the circle of international film festival fine cinema for a demanding audience. very welcome to our business report here on r.t.e. this liberation of russia's oil and gas rich arctic shelf is back on track as all major b.p. falls by the wayside state run ross knapp is in talks with shell about the coming their new partner the nail in the coffin of the bt deal came with the russian

energy minister saying the strategic alliance between rosneft and b.p. is unlikely to be revived after the split rosner has been looking for a new partner with active thrilling experience but unlike b.p. shell says a shuswap deal with rosneft is not an option so already holds a stake in the gas can lead to projects in russia's far east. russia seeing money slipping through its fingers thirty billion dollars have left the russian economy since the beginning of two thousand and eleven that's more than hopeful but it lost within the whole previous year surprisingly the money flight is fueled by rising oil revenues. crush nicola basically is not able to digest the money in the months supply which is available at the moment so soon that russian banking system the same with that system with a chip would assume that you know well bought responder's it so it didn't have the flood zones but it seems that doing this in the local demands is looked at as foss

is expected and as a result for a few companies as you did the moment just doing too much to be the reason to wish your investment pulled and sold maybe just a little bit of business and thus a museum in the increase of their revenues is the way he is to have more money into basically all this money abroad to diversify their business. look at the markets crude prices have given up their early gains and are continuing to focus our light sweet as currently trading above one hundred dollars a barrel while brands are one hundred fourteen dollars a barrel now your it is mix the sell the footsies hiawatha dax's percent in the red markets being pulled down by the we could prove price on the other hand given broad support is the news that china is interested in buying portugal's bailout gongs in the auction next month kiran lost to the markets and also makes the r.t.s. is in the black while the nozick says down point seven cents nothing two days of things here are some of the market moves on the isaacs energy majors are among the main losers due to lower prices causing the reds to spike posting

a seventy percent net increase in profit in the first quarter of the year shares of m.m. k.-r. also down the metal nine-a has received a lawsuit from the federal and you know police service claims m k has violated competition law bucking the trend is off the boss that's on news it's considering not paying out to victims this year instead using the money for investment. but isn't for a huge prime minister great ambitions for the country for attention he's been outlining his plans to make russia the fifth largest economy in the world by two thousand and twenty one having tried to post the economy before this time and says the country can't rely on raw materials alone. russia's budget comes from just seven hundred companies which is risky and the export of raw materials isn't enough to drive growth even with higher prices we need an economy that's

technically independent and you industrialization of russia will be able to officially use a high quality workforce. or heading to the russian caucasus france is due to agree to a deal which with the best minds in the troubled region newspaper says the country may set up a joint venture to build new resorts but the deal comes with conditions russia will have to greater safety from terrorist attacks french president nicolas sarkozy's to sign an agreement to develop the caucuses the g eight summit. that's the latest business for now we'll have more for you in less than one hour journey that.

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