this is. one of the world's most wanted war criminals arrested in serbia bosnian serb general recommend outage and now faces extradition to the hague over charges of genocide. russia and the us agree upon the need for a missile defense system that meets both country's security demands present between if it holds talks of barack obama at the g eight summit in france. and moscow calls for an international investigation into georgia's on the crackdown in protest of the president's security resign.

international news and comment live from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day our top story this hour. the fugitive bosnian serb army general one of europe's most wanted alleged war criminals has been arrested he's been on the run from the hague tribunal for sixteen years after me accused of genocide and crimes against humanity well for more details from belgrade will be crossing live to marty's catarina zerafa she's there for us but i understand that we'll be talking to her a little later on in the meantime the serbian people have long been divided in their attitude towards men at each and all to correspondent. who was born in serbia and has spent most of her life there says his arrest could make this division even greater. i have to say that the role of. history books is very well defined

serbia is actually divided into two and something he was and he still is a national hero that. on the other hand there are a lot of people in serbia who want to join the e.u. and as. for the entrance for these people it's going to be a really nice as for myself i can see that actually when they first started searching for him he could still be seen on the streets of belgrade which means that maybe they knew. just where he is but they were just waiting for a right moment to catch him i also have to say that this will raise a lot of questions for the serbian president and unfortunately this could divide the people of serbia even more. serbian right on international of the hague tribunal to confront the true fugitive. capture.

obviously the prosecutors and the kagan will try to confront courage versus knowledge and i confidently expect their long term strategy would be to have one try to pin the blame on the other and in the end it will be a minus sum game in terms of prisoners dilemma model you know other words they will both be worse off which would be the best possible scenario for the having been to the hague both as a an expert witness and as a material witness i'm well aware of the fact that it is a highly politicized institution that has been used over the years to provide retroactive crazier a judicial verification of the political position of the western powers that the searches are indeed the main culprits for all that has come to cause in the former yugoslavia and mark my words over the next few days instead of applauding serbia

for finally catching loud if you will see the western media yet another. force of surface movie reminding everybody of srebrenica and. eight thousand dead it is knowledge is greatest alleged crime so instead of actually trying to bring serbia a step closer to normalcy this will be used yet again to show just how nasty those dastardly serbs are now if serbia does during the i think it will be the first time in history that a rat has jumped on to a sinking ship. other news now the e.u. and the euro zone's financial words will be among the things the scars by leaders at the g eight summit in the french town of burgle some turks have already been held on the sidelines the presidents of russia and the us met and agreed the need for a missile defense system able to meet the national security demands of both countries

possibly by twenty twenty artie's a new sonali has more from their. one of the big topics of discussion here at the summit is of course going to be the economy the crisis especially the one facing the euro and that's actually one of the first strong statements that we've heard come out of the g. eight from from in prague rocky who is the president of european council he said quote we will not let the euro fail now this is the most frank statement we've heard from a high ranking official on the euro in months now and it could be assumed that that means after this blunt statement that european leaders are scared that it is actually possible for the euro to fail they're going to be doing their very best to make sure that doesn't happen so we're going to hear a lot of discussion on how best to deal with the girl crisis of course there's a lot of criticism coming from people when it when you look at the fact that these spending cuts are being made at home and will be this money is being spent on military interventions in foreign countries but the one good thing about about the

g. eight that it allows for leaders to meet as a group of a bit also allows them to meet one on one face to face and discuss the issues that only focus really on their bilateral relationship with russia and the u.s. one of the hot topics for them now for years has been missile defense they signed the new strategic arms reduction treaty last april and that was a huge step forward but still russia has concerns that america is not as transparent when it comes to its plans are for a future of the sound offensive system and you were here at the russian border we heard some positive statements from both presidents they do seem to think that steps are being taken slowly but they are being taken president obama is saying that he believes dialogue could be intensified to make sure new approaches are found that both countries signed acceptable in terms of their national security and president madrid's are saying that he doesn't think an actual agreement will be seen until the year twenty twenty or something but he don't believe that now is the

time for him and obama to lay the groundwork for a job my friend iraq that is not even miss. defense question will be resolved in the future probably around twenty twenty so we have to lay the groundwork for future generations of politicians and the partnership of all countries in the future. so in general the meeting between obama and medvedev was optimistic a funny noting that often happens for some reason our way russ and america tends to sit down they tend to mix up the slack so easily see how to meet him if he did with the american flag behind him and rock obama with the russians like that once again happened today and also some positive words from brock obama on russia's accession to the w t l you believe taiwan that needs to be intensified and of course something that russia and the u.s. have always cooperated on that is terrorism in terms about afghanistan and also when you speak about one of the most wanted international terrorist doku umarov who is from russia said are responsible for some of the most horrific terror acts in

russet was announced today in fact that the u.s. is offering five million dollars for a philco marse that in itself is a very positive part of the us a u.s. reset. the first day of the g. eight kicked off with a fringe meetings in the main session is now underway michelle conlin an investigative journalist and author on international affairs earlier told me he thinks the g eight is meeting amid a new wave of colonialism with the u.s. and its allies losing global governance. there is a global decline of the u.s. economy because it's the state in by incredibly it's an economy in decline so why do you want to see is trying to do is to keep the initial more on the road good with the resistance of china with the emerging power of countries of the south like brazil and all those is more and more difficult for the us to keep the controls i think this is the key for the aggressivity i think assisting a sort of permission to recolonize the world the u.s.

. is trying to prevent the they don't want a democracy out of the countries in the middle east they don't from a democracy in africa you have to remind him that almost all dictatorships in africa and others. protect by deal with the lies so i think what they want is to keep their control of oil they want to keep the control room materials and they want to impede real democracy in the arabic and african countries. says the violent crackdown on mass protests in georgia is a blatant abuse of human rights and is demanding an international investigation thousands of taking part in five days of protests calling for president mikheil saakashvili to resign they were dispersed by armed policemen ahead of an independence day military parade dozens ended up in hospitals and almost one hundred in jail sarah ferguson the middle of events there. the day of independence

military parades going ahead day as planned. military personnel many of the civilians staying away the heavy military presence many of the races being blocked quite possibly not many of them wanting to turn out the violent clashes with. police try to disperse the crowd of demonstrators outside the main parliament building with a number of. the number of times they were firing into the crowd. my colleague who was with me at the time came away from the spanish palace i was hit by a bullet when. we were trying to find a safe place to continue covering the. different places. for sure something else.

without asking anything. in the crowd was dispersed and there's a lot. of just how violent clashes. it was held by the opposition that day to. the people. that he brought police moved in just minutes after midnight. from. the point that he was the captain for a little bit we got police call and got here with. the round. as the police closed in with the cannons with the crowd. rubber bullets and

gas seriously injuring bake them as traitors and. a police officer was killed when he was related by a car and a crate as the as the front of the pile in itself was the scenes of violence all the most shocking given the many of days in an older generation. we were standing peacefully when riot police keep me on to the ground and started beating me with my relatives also saw for they smashed one of my friend's face and left another one unable to stand and. you can see from my face the kind of force they used and i think i'm even alive these people don't value human life. it had been the silver revolution gita the older crowd they stand out demonstrating against lay pensions and rising food prices the five days they held and maintained

the building in tbilisi before taking their protest to the main parliaments that. high initial numbers a protest this is the weekend of its teeth among the opposition parties and so they will lead through the streets on wednesday the crowds once again and. the police go to use force. probably with through tears just welling to. demonstrate his will vastly outnumber the witnesses to the name then the two thousand and seven protests in which the hundred ranges this time around police presence was even greater and the. questions already being asked about whether the scale of use was justifiable. many were arrested and many more injured if it be on the streets in remnants of the clash. they

fessed up that main band from which the leaders of the opposition gave best speaking up enough they were on just the core of the fighting broke out with bank she would maybe be holding negotiations that didn't happen they wanted out if that's the price that the ending how it started and things that violent so. by the way you can follow the situation in georgia online and watch the latest videos from there on our web site that's r t dot com plus no forget the artes twitter feed and facebook that always keep you updated as the events unfold. but your top story this hour an hour to. the fugitive bosnian serb army general and one of europe's was once an alleged war criminals has been arrested he's been on the run from the hague tribunal for sixteen years old for being accused of genocide and crimes against humanity for more details from belgrade let's now cross live to auntie's catherine is out of a chorus what do we know about the details of today's arrest.

well as you can imagine it was a very much published event publicized event all the mass media descending of course upon belgrade trying to get more and more information out of the officials about the details of the arrest of rock on large and we know from various sources that he was arrested in a village called laws that which is just over sixty kilometers away from the capital of serbia belgrade so just a little over an hour drive we know that he was using a fake name and also that he was armed when he was detained he had two guns on him but didn't attempt to resist arrest or. fight back in any way we know that according to some information sources he didn't try to physically disguise himself he wasn't growing a beard or change gives the appearance anyway but some sources do say that he was

very pale which suggested to many that perhaps he would not have ventured outside a lot and stayed in the house most of the time some other sources quoted that he was one of his arms was paralyzed which suggested that it was that suffered from the stroke so his health was deteriorating we know that some sources have also quoted that he was staying in a house or very family member and that he was using a fake name this is when is this was the name that he gave to the officers who detained him and although it has been since confirmed by the serbian president boris tadic that it is in fact the former boys and girls and serb general about the luggage we know that d.n.a. expertise has also been ordered and that's expected to take around three days to finally confirm that this is indeed the man the hague tribunal has been how the house held at the top position of its most wanted list for war crimes for over

a decade well he's been for sixteen years in fact as you say well over a decade many people will be also. tell you can so long to get this. well there are different opinions of course on that some say that simply it's as simple as he was very good at hiding himself in this fight the fact that he did live and go great quite openly even after the arrest of the for me and for president of the bosnian serb republic. and even after his arrest he stayed in belgrade and only went into hiding in two thousand and five others say that perhaps there are those forces weren't looking for him as hard as they could have done and we know that the search for us and watch was stepped up just a few days ago the reward on his head was actually increased to a millions of euros for any information it was leading to his arrest some sources

actually say that the arrest of former president actually happened with eight of our own luggage and that was his attempt to sort of bribe the hague tribunal for from stopping. chasing him and trying to imprison him and basically sentence him for war crimes of course the hague tribunal has been calling him the most wanted criminal. for a number of years we know that he's wanted for crimes against humanity for committing genocide for participating and some even say masterminding nice they're getting it's a massacre which killed nearly ten thousand people thought other experts do criticize the tribunal as well saying that it despite the fact that it is seemingly representing all those who suffered during the bosnian conflict or the conflict in former yugoslavia so far the only people that have been prosecuted have been serbs milosevic i judged not on logic is also on the list to be extradited and tried by

the hague tribunal. and the albanians which also participated in that war have not been wanted by the tribunal so. many are questioning it's objectivity perfect remains is that officials on the ground here in belgrade say that the question of actually getting up on large will be decided in the next week i think of thanks very much indeed for that live update from belgrade artie's caterina there of that well for more analysis i can now cross live today boyce many cheese in washington he's a historian specializing on the balkans thanks very much indeed for joining us now before we started let's just listen to some of the international reaction to this arrest today. this is very big news this is a very courageous decision by the serbian president this is one additional step for

the integration of serbia into the european union one of the arrest of our canal it is a very important step towards full integration of the entire region in our or your atlantic community i know that people will also be thinking about serbia and its future in the european union what i know is that we will approach that we through new energy because of today so a chorus of praise from world leaders is that what serbia wanted to hear. so i was sure you wanted to hear it's what the syrian government wanted to hear of the government in syria because it there surely is surely about it. heard similar creasing two thousand each shortly after city power after to arrest a crowd of encourage each and that preserve that region being weak signal that was left was recycled world propaganda about how this major serbian conspiracy and the

campaign of persecution and genocide and all this. they didn't work propaganda that has stuck around it gets taken out of the closet every time there's an arrest and recycle and reuse just and so over the past twenty years you've got this challenge image of serious as murderous villains the nazis reborn and that the western media and you know if not certain government you need to do this well he was saying this is something that the serbian government want to hear all this praise what about the serbian people because many people are saying that this of course could open the way to membership is this whole interest of the seven government or to the pain of the serbia want to have that membership of the european union. even depends on who you ask the polling is notoriously unreliable and given that most of the serbian media on the ground is formed by the government or own by people loyal to the government would actually exit onto the t.v. screens and into newspapers this is censored by default. independent polling such

as it is has actually shown that. people close to the entry into the european union and this is without any sort of to be years and years and years of her you propaganda these sickly saying that as soon as serbia joins for even becomes candidate money will mean from discarded it will be no poverty and nobody will have to work hard to get paid basic privacy people have been on earth without moving a finger. even after all that the support from the e.u. it is is very indulgent digits so what about this this arrest today then what does it mean for. the serbian people we have heard that it could in fact create some sort of the vision has divided opinion there but generally in terms of the sentiment of the country how symbolically important is it the fact that we now have that each and heritage behind bars what does that mean for the future of the country and its people. and the future of serbia as it is right now is fairly grim actually want to be careful and just manage to do this one and its previous history

back in the early earlier in the decade that arrested mr milosevic and turned him over unconstitutionally at the time of his basically evil to the i.c.c. why to criminalize the entire political and military leadership of any serbs and former yugoslavia whether it's in. serbia in bosnia croatia and basically outlawed their entire war effort clearly in terrible effort criminal and this has been seized upon and used mercilessly by people people in the region who leak claim to. still as well as reduce issues such as nato that seeks to justify their own illegal behavior in one thousand nine hundred ninety and prior ok ok and the voice i would have to leave it there thanks very much indeed for joining us live there in washington the voice of manage thanks. well we can all speak to the lawyer of run of on candidate show another fugitive who's been on trial for three

years the last to say that peter robinson joins us now from the hague thanks very much for your time mr robinson now i understand that you have actually visited. today in prison how did he react to this news. well president kerry said that he was story that general audits had lost his freedom and that he hopes that they could work together when general melodic came to the hague and try to bring out the truth of what really happened in bosnia what does that mean that we can expect the revelations about the war we're going to get new information from these two. well i don't know new information is coming out all of the time and not to carry this trial and so it's very possible that with charitable audits in the hague that additional information will come out. an idea from you all point of view as a lawyer could you give us an idea of how the legal procedures will be taking place following this arrest what's the process. well first general malott it's will

appear before a judge and be asked to enter a plea of guilty or not guilty and then the chamber will make a decision as to whether or not he will have a separate trial or his trial will be joined with that of right of i'm card which and after that he'll have to start with the lawyers or by himself to review the two million pages of disclosure that exists in the case and start to prepare his defense should you think that could be a joint trial if you classic case how complicated could that process be. well the process here in the hague is complicated that even in a simple trial so it's going to be complicated no matter whether that case is a joint or not but rather encourage it has already been on trial for about a year and we've heard seventy witnesses so it will be complicated to join the cases and have to start all over again and your position your expertise will you be drawn into rep. i manage. well as

a criminal defense lawyer i am ready to defend anyone who i'm assigned to represent and to make sure that they receive a fair trial but in this particular case once you're engaged to represent one person in the case you can only be their lawyer and you would have a conflict of interest to represent more than one person in the same case you mention a fair trial of course is another charge about the hague being accused of having an anti bias just how difficult is it to put together a convincing case on such extreme political pressure. it's very difficult and there is a lot of difficulty that that someone faces when they're brought to the hague and have to defend themselves especially now when many trials have been held on the same events already and judgments have been made against people for the same about so it's very difficult you mentioned a little earlier just how complicated the whole procedure is there in the hague but so many people be all saying well how come it takes so long run of heritage she was

arrested three years ago the trial is ongoing we know of course he died before there was even a verdict he died in custody no doubt we're going to see it on the lengthy trial here when that is why does it take so long. it takes so long because the prosecutors want to prove everything that the person ever did so back to carriage which is charged with crimes for a period of four years throughout the country of bosnia ranging from ethnic cleansing in twenty minutes of calories to the taking of u.n. personnel hostage to benson. and the shelling in sarajevo so when you have so many of us that you want to prove in your case you want to call hundreds of witnesses it has to take time that's the choice that they make and that's the biggest reason why the cases take so long well thanks for your time peter robinson joining us live legal advisor to run and carnage talking to us from the hague thank you. well that brings you up to date for the moment the business news is next with kareena that's all for

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