he. was. captured and in court general a lot of waits to hear and he'll be sent to the hague but he's arrested on genocide charges sparks anger over a one sided war time which hands. the g eight leaders asked russia to mediate and a levy in conflict as the annual summit of the top industrialized nations and its second day. of georgia's independence day marred by conflict as hundreds of opposition members find themselves in hospital or jailed for speaking out against government corruption.

it is eight am in the russian capital you watching r.t.m. arena joshie welcome to the program fugitive bosnian serb army general dr large has appeared in court in serbia he was arrested on thursday after sixteen years on the run the international war crimes tribunal once you're on trial over the genocide of seven and a half thousand muslims and nine hundred ninety five and other atrocities lodges now in belgrade while authorities seek his extradition to the hague is a lawyer the judge did not question him because of what's described as large as poor state of health services the words have tightened security in the capital manny angre acknowledges arrest because they consider him a wartime hero. is in belgrade. 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 of belgrade so just a little over an hour drive we know 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 changing his appearance in any way but some sources do say that he was very pale which suggested to many that perhaps he did not ventured outside a lot and stayed in the house most of the time some other sources and he was one of his arms was paralyzed which suggested that he was that suffered from a 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 he was using a fake name this is what this was the name but 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. a former boss of the new business or general of our from logic for you know that i 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 that the house held at the top position of its most wanted list for war crimes for over a decade we know that he is wanted for crimes against humanity for committing genocide for participating and some even say masterminding nice there but it's a massacre. because readers are reporting their goal belgrade based political analyst alexander pottage says that if large speaks out in court new details about yugoslavia as break up will emerge which the west doesn't want revealed. the hague tribunal is a record does not promise any sort of a fair trial but at least. they should use it as in the arena to voice

their side of the story and the side of the war that has been neglected by the western media think the main the main revelations will have to do with western involvement in the breakup of yugoslavia in starting the civil war in helping muslim fundamentalists get the upper hand in bosnia and actually take over bosnia and western support in terms of the dean being imported into boston to fight on the muslim side against the serbs the presence of bin laden and. then the real story about celebrities which has been totally twisted and manipulated in the western media i mean those are actually very big news items very big issues and it won't be comfortable for the western media and i think they will try to ignore it as much as they possibly can. largely has been hearing how in some minds a lot of his arrest is more about political ambition than war crimes justice

serbian international affairs writer trick of age says state controlled media is pushing to persuade people the country needs to join the. instead of applauding serbia for finally catching wild which you will see in the western media yet another orgy. reminding everybody of thread and the eight thousand words that his mother chooses the greatest alleged crime the serbian media nor tightly controlled by the government could ever be under the law for all of the media repeating in unison. the e.u. is some kind of tennessee are the clues are all the trouble it's now if serbia does during the think it will be the first time in history that a rat has joint on to a sinking ship for some the war crimes court has already made up its mind bulk and

historian average your mileage says judges declare any wasn't a war efforts it's criminal justify nato's actions. what the government has managed to do bookish one in its previous history back in your early earlier in the decade . arrested mr milosevic and turned him over unconstitutional at the time he has basically. said he wanted to criminalize the entire political and military leadership any sure. whether it's you look at serbia in moscow relations and basically their entire war effort including terrible record criminal and this has been seized upon in huge mercilessly by keep people in the region who are. playing to michigan territory you can still as well as you are using should such as nato that seeks to justify their own legal behavior in one thousand nine hundred ninety try to. play more on the way here in our team quoting the pentagon's

push to keep its hands on a military money. our record of predicting where we will use military force since vietnam is perfect we have never once got never write the name of the man in charge justify spending more than any other country on defense by frightening financially struggling americans over keeping them safe. for the day it's part of various want to help and mediating the libya crisis and are turning to russia which strongly opposes nato led military campaign there their requests came during a series of french talks at the summit in france as a main meeting and its second day artist any sonali tells us what lies ahead. a joint declaration is expected from leaders as the g. i will wrap up later today but first the biggest fashion of the summit will take place and this time around there are some new gas delegations from tunisia and egypt will be taking part for the first time there of course the situation in north

africa is going to be spoken about very intensely we're hearing also of course the situation in libya is a very big issue the first day of the summit allowed leaders to meet on the sidelines in bilateral meetings and there libya came up in many of those bilateral meetings between very different leaders and in fact russia was asked by g. eight leaders to be a broker in the libyan crisis and russia did come to the summit with the intention to try to influence these global powers about the situation in the war torn country they did not veto the resolution to intervene in libya but they have raised concerns about the fact that they think that in one way or another the resolution has been manipulated and it's become not just a mission about protecting civilians another issue that was brought up was the fact that there's a euro crisis that spending cuts are being made across europe protests are happening yet hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent on this this

operation in libya and in some of those bilateral meetings president very different since had a chance to sit down with brock obama they of course spoke about libya they were a little bit vague about it mention that they exchanged opinions to quote them precisely but they also talked about missile defense now of course russia and the u.s. signed this is a change of arms reduction treaty a new version of the treaty last april but russia still has concerns that america is not as transparent as it could be when it comes to miss our defense they do think that work can be done more intensely each time to come up with new approaches to this illusion to boyfriend iraq that is more needed missile defense question. probably around twenty twenty so we have to lay the groundwork for future. generations of politicians present as it will continue some bilateral meetings on the second day of the summit he'll be sitting down with german chancellor angela merkel and also with the japanese prime minister there of course this issue ation infrequent shima is far from forgotten and the future of nuclear energy expected to

be at the top of the talks in that meeting. and is now reporting there all russia's yet to agree to take on the role of libya mediator but middle east expert dr wald far as says moscow's unique position gives it the edge. realizing that on the ground the process of weakening and eventually eliminating because often forces while the opposition in libya is not ready to actually associate itself and overturn of that regime so for those these reasons western leaders have asked russia which by the way very firmly in the security council not to give more power legal power to the allied or to the nato forces to change that regime so the result now is that russia is in a position a unique position between the nato leaders and the regime in libya to do that mediation but again russia is also very interested for its own national security not just because of the the promise of the dimension remember that it's extreme it

would take over for example in syria or in libya or eventually in other places you know they could influence terrorism against russia so russia has a keen interest in making sure that democratic elements will come in and not you know a security threat against its own national security. and later today our team is peter all of the al grills and he's crossed our guests over the g eight to practice and whether it's more shake bank with that crucial political platform. as leaders of the group of even france more and more question the usefulness of this elite club of countries is it just a talking shop can it really influence the global agenda like it once again and should the g eight be abandoned in favor of the g twenty. in.

a leading georgian opposition figure says he's being framed by security services who have released a recording worship errantly calls for an agent style uprising you know we're going to answer tonight is the tapes of all of it he and says her words have been manufactured. it's hard to say when i didn't want to contest the presence in this state percent but there is one thing i know for sure i never said that i accept the possibility of civil and stream victims as for civil war not only did we do everything we could to prevent it but to be deeds prevented. the tape was released by georgian police following a night of mass opposition protests in the capital which was brutally dispersed just hours after the crackdown president saakashvili declare the government's undying support for freedom of speech during a military parade marking georgia's independence day hundreds of demonstrators were arrested and detained for protesting against leadership corruption as the center

for reports from tripoli. with thousands of on the police closing in on all sides and we protested letting out war cries the main street into the lisi became a battleground. well outside the main parliament building now a very different thing to the one that saw boiling clashes erupting on the streets as police try to disperse the crowd a protest. then gas filled the street and police quickly moved among the disorientated crowds firing rubber bullets and throwing people to the grounds a police officer takes aim at our camera man realizing in time he's from the media but others were not so lucky getting my colleague da da who's caught up in the confusion. in their peers ok v. was very aggressive we did people start it all the people gave don't make any sense

with nothing and then suddenly being told. and relate it needed some kind of it kind of politicize the building and he gave me a selfie. with police vastly outnumber ink a test is. the operation with fast and severe and as the dust settles the struggle continues many are left searching the hospitals for relatives and friends then meeting with this. here is the least they don't always one list. who told them we came to find fifty million aged between twenty and forty when looking for them and we don't know where they are country hospitals but they won't let us in and they won't give us any information telling us to ask elise. even ninety people have now in place and what's called administrative arrest carries a penalty of up to two months in prison. the leader of the rally they managing to

escape the mayhem in a convoy. to fight to the end they're bringing a little holiday to. me. i can't trust anyone anymore i'll never come to a protest rally again i just want to be. at the military parade for independence day president saakashvili spoke of supporting freedom of speech for all georgians that many create esters ok the high price of trying to have their say sarah first party tbilisi. around five minutes from now will shine thomas reveals how south pole scientists stay on top of the world. when the research and exploration is done the guys here have to have something to do i'm john thomas in antarctica and coming up on r t we explore the life around feeling sounds and station. america knows it's got a big debt hole to fill and when looking at the books the world's biggest of fans

project looks ripe to plunder but the fan secretary robert gates is due to leave the pentagon next month warrants that cuts would limit u.s. military role in the world are to scaling for it explains. from another trip as robert gates winds down his time as secretary of defense. he isn't as eager to wind down america's six hundred ninety billion dollars a year in military spending even as the u.s. faces a one point five trillion dollar deficit the defense budget is not the cause of the deficit and debt problem that we have as a country. once the secretary who denounce no bid contracts and redundant military spending in the war on terror the attacks of september eleventh two thousand and one opened a gusher of defense spending that nearly doubled the base budget over the last decade the gusher has been turned off and will stay off he used his last weeks in office to warn that to many cuts that spell danger for the united states it is

important that we not repeat the mistakes of the past were tough economic times when the winding down of the military campaign leads to. reductions and he also warned against closing some of the us is more than one thousand military bases worldwide are record of predicting where we will use military force since vietnam is perfect we have never once gotten it right. there is there isn't a single instance in grenada panama the first gulf war. the balkans haiti. alone military spending increased by twenty point six billion in two thousand and ten and nineteen point six billion of that was the us alone other countries are closing deficits by reducing their defense dollars the united kingdom for instance has started the process that started the process greece and turkey which is a long time rivalry have had discussions about mutual reduction. virtually all the

countries in europe face this problem. but the pentagon budget continues to grow. the secretary outgoing. defense also called for a continued u.s. presence in iraq even as president obama's timetable mandates a total withdrawal by the end of the year i hope they figure out a way to. and i think that the united states will be willing to say yes when the former defense contractor michael o'brien says the gap is likely to be filled by defense contractors who want to keep the number of soldiers possible because it's a political hot potato but nobody bats an eye one hundred thousand contractors school to the same fear of operations. some analysts say america's military spending is too powerful for any defense secretary to control whether he heads into the private sector to it's part of this revolving door culture that we have or not

so i think feels protective toward these interests you also recognizes that. underground business in the united states as robert gates prepares to head the reigns of the pentagon over to leon panetta at the end of june he says quote all the low hanging fruit have not only been put they've been stopped and crushed but they think that's across the board many americans say they want to see the pentagon tighten its belt as well healing for our t. washington d.c. . also go get some other stories from around the world thousands of high school university students have clashed with police in chile's capital santiago they are demanding better schools and more investment in education police used water cannon to disperse the crowd which thirty students were asked. a suicide bomber has killed at least thirty three people and one of fifty six near a group of government buildings in northwest pakistan he detonated around four hundred kilograms of explosives from inside

a pickup truck to add more shrapnel to the blast the pakistani taliban took responsibility for the attack it's the latest violence in retaliation for the death of osama bin ladin in a u.s. special forces raid three weeks ago. drug gang violence in mexico has seen another mass murder this time a convoy of core tell cars was ambushed killing twenty nine in a shootout the bodies in a fake military uniforms were then dumped on the roadside or in the or bullet holes in the country's plague because he's played by surging fighting between drug barons with several thousands deaths in the past few years. not everyone would reply to a job ad the man working in the year around subzero temperatures in an office that's as far away from your home and family as you can get but it's bread and butter to the russian on top of the scientists who are devoted to discovery artie shaw and thomas joined them on shift. billings townsend station it is one of seven

permanent russian research stations in antarctica but it's not just the location that makes this place special life here is anything but ordinary. people and you know antarctica you have to have a well developed instinct of self-preservation instincts of camaraderie if you don't have that you won't be able to help each other because in critical situations here people are more open or kind and are always helping each other that there's a lot and each summer around forty people call this place home and only sixteen people live here year round each day is run according to a strict schedule of business hours are between eight in the morning and ten at night where researchers work in their labs and in the field while the rest of the crew work around the clock to keep the place running. every year is getting better and better their daily life and everything else we renovate all our buildings and machinery is getting newer and we hope the new people and team get used to it. every person living and working in antarctica have to earn their house

or whether you're a researcher of mechanic or even a journalist. and if they hired a fans gathered together. long hours added responsibility and isolation from civilization certainly can take its toll on a person. so finding time to relax in antarctica is just as important as the work. inefficiently of i always have something to do when i need to relax i enjoy playing pool well we don't have a store here it's my alcohol it's relaxing i have my hobby here that i can always get busy with i still have some unfinished works and i've set to go for myself to finish them. and as billings hausen as a true russian station like here wouldn't be complete without a traditional banya. but not only does the tellings housing crew keep each other company. when there's a need for even more culture there is outreach to the other stations as well.

actually. russian station is goes and it is the wrong place to get crazy to get you know mad about being lonely. because here we have lots of different international international hockey related with all of our trainees and friends career and friends all of them trying to keep one big family many people working together to make their home at the bottom of the planet seem more comfortable in and tried to push on thomas r.t. . now there is more from sean tomorrow when he concludes artie's antarctic expedition help you'll join us for that. with them on. one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is antarctica and people have to be aware that they're far away from civilization. thomas

discovers for makes antarctica so special that attraction for many. parts of. the. expedition to the bottom of the earth. more hospitable habitats in a few minutes one mosque unlocks the secret side of the capitol social scene but now it's the business news with katrina. thanks maria hello and welcome to our teas business russia is aiming to become the fifth largest economy in the world within a decade and a move away from resorts dependency is among the main objectives finance minister says the oil and gas sector has remained vital to the budget for some time yet. and we've been looking for other possible ways of increasing revenues down trees and

mining tax on oil are increasing. so far have not found any that's why you have to increase the tax however the question is you know. let's take a look at the markets now oil is on the rise on speculation that the global economic recovery will sustain the demand for crude that's after the g eight so the world economy was strengthening with a weaker dollar boosting the appeal of commodities j.p. morgan expect opec to increase production process to make global demand the blue ceiling is close to one hundred one dollars a barrel while brains is trading at more than a hundred fifteen dollars a barrel. in asia stocks are mixed this hour hang saying it's trading higher petro china adding almost four percent all reports its parent company plans to raise its stake in the world producer rick perry is in the red with a strong yen weighing on exposes but submission is down more than one percent it's only losing almost three percent after posting and posting a massive and more loss. and here in moscow the markets got trading in around two

hours time they closed mixed on thursday with the r.t.s. finishing her up the my six felt half a cent breaking two days against. and here are some of the market movers on the my six from yesterday's trading energy majors were among the main losers juicer lower crude prices lukoil ended in the red despite posting a seventy percent net increase in profit for the first quarter of the year shares of m.m. k. lost almost two percent the middleman who received a lawsuit from the federal federal ends in the not only service claiming m.k. has violated competition law meanwhile after the first game that saw news it's considering not paying out diffidence this year instead using the money for investment. after russian stock markets went into correction mode this week alexandra kirk has go every day since capital doesn't think friday will see much further improvement. it seems to me that the activity will be low.

rise that because there will be buying from holiday or monday for u.s. and u.k. both people are on five in the long weekend just getting to the countryside i'm going to a lot of people are really eager to have the russian position for the long weekend with especially three things they can live with but also for the police and for them and they get it from news recently skewed something negative side. it seems to me to. think that we will become. more and will be the same but then we will be in the. forefront for the news that we will be fighting for most of europe china and us that the six years are resilient right now. we understand that they can know all the islands all for us the beauty if they will the risk of course from the world right. and there's finance news online anytime

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