clothes the movie the medicine. others but they for just. captured an encore general lightish waits to hear if you will be sent to the hague but he's arrested on genocide charges sparks anger over a one sided war time which runs. the g eight leaders asked russia to mediate an answer levy in conflict as an annual summit of the top industrialized nations anders its second day. and leading georgian opposition figure cries foul after police release an allegedly doctored tape calling for an anti-government uprising just a day after a brutal crackdown in a rally protesting against corruption. last in business in russia and to become the fifth largest economy in the world within the next ten years we're

bringing more on this story in around twenty minutes time. it is now i am in the russian capital you're watching our joshua welcome to the program fugitive bosnian serb army general rock a lot of has appeared in court in serbia he was arrested on thursday after sixteen years on the run the international war crimes tribunal wants him on trial over the genocide of seven and a half thousand muslims and nine hundred ninety five and other atrocities lot of his now in belgrade files already seek his extradition to the hague his lawyer said the judge did not question him because of what's described as law just poor state of health services authorities have tightened security in the capital with many.

and a lot of his arrest because they consider you know your time hero. as our bodies and build great. we know from various sources that he was arrested in a village called laws if you go 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 and anyway we know that according to some information sources he didn't try to physically disguise himself he wasn't growing a beard or change gears 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 gloated he was one of his arms was paralyzed which suggested that he was good suffered from

a stroke so his health was deteriorating we know that some sources have also noted that he was staying in a house or very family member and that he was using a fake name this was when the this was the name but he gave to the officers who keep tame him and although it has been since confirmed by the serbian president boris tadic that it is in fact the former boss of the nobles and serb general of our own lives 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 the house held at the top position of its most wanted list for war crimes for over a decade we know that he's wanted for crimes against humanity for committing genocide for participating and some even say masterminding nice nobody needs a massacre. presidents are their belgrade based political analyst alexander pottage says that if a lot of speaks out in court new details about yugoslavia break up will emerge

which the west doesn't want to reveal. the hague tribunal record does not promise any sort of a fair trial but at least. they will use it as in the arena to voice their side of the story and this side of the war has been neglected by the western media think the main the main revelations will have to do with western involvement and the breakup of yugoslavia and 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. being imported into bosnia to fight on the muslim side against. the presence of bin ladin and. then the real story about seventy two which has been totally twisted and even if you later 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 as much as they possibly can r.t. has been hearing how in some minds a lot of his arrest is more about political ambition down war crimes just a surrogate international affairs writer sara trick of excess state controlled media is pushing to persuade people the country needs to join the e.u. . instead of applauding serbia for finally catching wild which you will see in the western media yet another. reminding everybody of srebrenica and the alleged a thousand words that his mother chooses the greatest alleged crime the serbian media nor tightly controlled by the government had ever been under milosz and all of the media repeating in unison. the e.u. is some kind of panacea to lose all the problems now if serbia does during the i think it will be the first time in history that a rat has turned on to

a sinking ship. after some the war crimes court has already made up its mind bulk of the story an average of marge says judges declare any was in a war after its criminal justifying nader's actions. what the gentleman just managed to do build this one in it's true sister back in your early earlier in the decade that arrested mr milosevic and turned him over unconstitutionally of the time his music leaves the i.c.c. lawyer to criminalize the entire political and military leadership or any service he's somebody whether it's you look at serbia in bosnia croatia and basically their entire war effort it's clearly in terrible record criminal and this has been seized upon and use mercilessly by keep people in the region who are really clean. you can still as well as worried as you should such as nato that

seeks to justify their own illegal behavior and if you know if you know in a trial. that was historian of ours or moderate in washington and plenty more on the way could in the paragons arguable man's. our record of predicting where we will use military force since vietnam is perfect we have never once gotten it right the man in charge however justifies spending more than any other country on the pants by frightening financially struggling americans over keeping them safe. the g eight partners want help and mediating the libya crisis and are turning to russia which strongly opposes nato led military campaign there are quest came during a series of french talks at the summit in france as a main reading anders its second day artie's and he said now it 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 i am 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 trying 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 of a different sense had a chance to sit down with brock obama they of course poke about libya they were a little bit vague about it mention that they exchanged opinions to quote them precisely but they also talked about ms sound defense now of course russia and the us signed the strategic 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 out offense they do think that work can be done more intensely each time to come up with new approaches to the solution to one friend iraq that is most needed missile defense question resume feature probably around twenty twenty so we have to lay the groundwork for future. generation the politicians or the president will continue some bilateral

meetings on the second day of the sun may have been sitting down with german chancellor angela merkel and also with the japanese prime minister there of course this issue ation in fukushima is far from forgotten in the future of nuclear energy expected to be at the top of the talks in that meeting. and he's in our courting there well russia is here to agree to take on the role of media mediator but middle east expert dr ouattara says moscow's unique position here is the. realizing that on the ground the process of weakening in ventura eliminating because after forces while the opposition in libya is not ready to actually associated solve and the overthrow of that regime so for those these reasons western leaders have russia which by the way stood very firmly in the security council not to give more power legal power to the allied or to the nato forces to change their 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 pharmacy dimension remember that it's extreme will 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 they are at his peril of l. grills his cross dog s. so were the g eight effectiveness and whether it's warship bandwidth and crucial political platform. as leaders of the group of even friends more and more question the usefulness of this elite club of countries is it just a talking shop could it really didn't lose the global agenda like it once did and should the g eight be abandoned in favor of g twenty. and is.

a leading georgian opposition figure says she's being framed by security services who've released a recording where she seemingly calls for an injured style uprising you know gordon odds are denies the tapes validity and says her awards have been very factual. judy it's hard to say when and in what context the presence in this state percent but there is one thing i know for sure i never said that i accept the possibility of saloons being victims as for civil war not only did we do everything we could to prevent it but to do to prevent it. the tape was released by georgian police following an eye of mass opposition protests in the capital which were brutally dispersed just hours after the crackdown president started feeling declared a government and dying support for free of speech during

a military parade marking georgia's independence day hundreds of demonstrators were beaten arrested and detained for protesting against leadership corruption actually sarah ferguson reports from tbilisi. with thousands of on the police closing in on all sides and we protested letting out war cries out the main street in tbilisi became a battleground. the main parliament building now a very different thing to the one that saw boiling clashes a rock thing on the streets as police try to disperse the crowd a protest. then gas filled the street as police quickly moved amongst the disorientated crowds. and throwing people into the grounds a police officer take aim at our camera man realizing in time he's from the media but others would not say lucky keating my colleague diego who was caught up in the

confusion the policemen appears ok he was very aggressive with it people started it all the people they don't make any sense with nothing and then suddenly being sold. and i'm realized he could meet with some bully this kind of believe this would be in the evening in itself. with police vastly outnumber increased. yes that is the operation was fast and severe as the dust settles the struggle continues many are left searching the hospitals for relatives and friends then meeting resistance. gear is the. only scandalous. we told them we came to find fifty million aged between twenty and forty people there and we don't know where the our country is hospital but they wouldn't let us in and they wouldn't give us any information telling us to ask the police. even ninety people have now been placed in what's called administrative

arrest it carries a penalty of up to two months in prison. and leader of the rally they managing to escape the mayhem in a convoy. to fight to the end now 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 safe. at the military parade for independence day president saakashvili spoke of supporting freedom of speech for all georgians but many protesters paid a high price for trying to have their say. tbilisi. around five minutes from now sean thomas reveals how south pole scientists stay on top of the world. when the research of exploration is done the guys here have to have something to do and i'm john thomas in antarctica and coming up on our team we

explore the daily life around billing cells in the station. before that america knows it's got a big debt hole to fill and when looking out of the box world's biggest fans project looks right by the fan secretary robert gates was due to leave a paragon next month warns that cards would limit u.s. military role in the world are tea parties kalen ford 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 dollars deficit the defense budget is not because 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 gusher has been turned off and will stay or use his last weeks in office to warn that too many cats could spell danger for the united states and it is important that we not repeat the mistakes of the past where tough economic times where the winding down of the military campaign leads to an unwise reductions in defense gates also warned against closing some of the u.s. has more than one thousand military bases worldwide our 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 of grenada panama the first gulf war. the balkans a. global 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 of greece and turkey which had 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 outgoing fact. 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 will always possible because it's a political hot potato but nobody bats an eye one hundred thousand contractors school work for 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 us interests he also recognizes that. pentagon is big business in the united states as robert gates prepares to hand the reins of the pentagon over to leon panetta at the end of june he says quote all of 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 illinformed r. t. washington d.c. also take a look at some of the stories from around the world and sounds of high school and university students have clashed with police in chile's capital some periodically are demanding better schools and more investment and education police used water cannon to disperse the crowd which thirty students were arrested.

drug gang violence in mexico has seen another mass murder just on a convoy of cartel cars was ambushed killing twenty nine in a shootout the bodies of military uniforms were then dumped on the roadside. vehicles the country is plagued by surging fighting between drugs parents with several thousand deaths in the past few years. two astronauts are undertaking the final spin. to ever be conducted by nasa shuttle crew they installed a fifteen meter pole to the international space station to help repair damage caused by tiny rewrites it's still the last mission for the endeavor shuttle but there is one more a flight for the fleet before it's retired. not everyone would reply to a job that manned working in a year round subzero temperatures in an office that it's as far away from your home and family as you can gather but it's granddaughter to the russian scientists who

are devoted to discovery john 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. when you know antarctica you have to have a well developed instinct of self-preservation instincts of kamerad or e. if you don't have that you will be able to help each other because in critical situations here people are more open more kind and they're always helping each other but there's a lot in 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 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 the daily life and everything else we renovate all our buildings

and machinery is getting newer and we hope the new people in the team get used to it. every person living and working in antarctica have to earn their can plan house or whether you're a scientist or researcher a mechanic or even a journalist. and if they hired both of 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. initializations i always have something to do when i need to relax i enjoy playing pool well we don't have a still here it's my alcoholism and i have my hubby here that i can always get busy with i still have some unfinished work so i set to go for myself to finish them. and as billings hausen is a true russian station wife here wouldn't be complete without a traditional daniel. but not only does the tellings housing crew keep each other company. when there is

a need for even more culture there is outreach to the other stations as well. actually. station russian station it does go than it is a wrong which to get crazy to get you know mad about being lonely. because here we have lots of it due for international international activity and with all of our training. and friends career and friends all of them trying to keep one big family and many people working together to make their home at the bottom of the planet seem more comfortable in antarctica sean thomas r t. well there is more from sean tomorrow when he concludes our tease antarctic expedition join us for that. within a month. one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is

a and people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization. discovers what makes antarctica so special and attractive for many. parts of. the sun's. expedition to the bottom of the earth. all time now take a look what's happening in the world of business katrina is here. my . hello and thanks for joining us here for artie's business bulletin russia is

aiming to become the fifth largest economy in the world within a decade and a move away from resource dependency is among the main objectives but finance minister says the oil and gas sector has will remain vital to the budget for some time yet. if you can through other possible ways of revolution or treason the minute catch on or. not as quickly so far we have not found any that's why you have to get traction however the question is you. let's have a look at the markets now oil is on the rise on speculation that the global economic recovery will sustain them but the demand for crude stops at the g eight said the world economy was strengthening with a weaker dollar boosting the appeal of commodities j.p. morgan expects opec to increase production quotas to meet global demand w.t.r. is close to one hundred one dollars a barrel while great is trading at more than one hundred fifteen dollars a barrel this hour. in asian stocks are mixed the hang seng is trading higher

almost ever since not true petro china is adding almost four percent on reports its parents company plans to raise its stake in the oil producer gays in the red with a strong the year weighing on exporters bits of issues down more than one percent so only also losing more more than three percent after posting a mess of annual loss and here in moscow the market's not trading in around an hour's time they closed mixed on thursday with the r.t.s. finishing around half a percent up the my stake so fell half a percent breaking two days of gains energy majors were among the main losers due to lower crude prices lukoil ended in the red despite posting a seventy percent increase in profit in the first quarter of the year shares of m m k lost almost two percent the major minor received a lawsuit from the federal entity monopoly service climbing i mean kerry has violated competition law meanwhile after first getting that saw news it's

considering not paying out dividends as year instead using the money for investment . after russian stock markets went into correction load this week alexander kind of . capital doesn't think friday will see much further improvement. it seems to me that the activity will be lower. why's that because there will be banking holiday or i'm on the for u.s. and u.k. both and people are fighting the long weekend for just getting out of the country side i'm going to a lot of people are really eager to have the long russian position for the long weekend with special thinking and they killed with the balance of from the political front and they get it from news recently skewed to the negative side. it seems to me that some. of the week will become. mondale will be the same but then we will be in the. forefront of the news that we will be fading

from most of europe china and the us the place text us our resilience right now. we understand that they can know the islands for us stability if there will be a risk of war from the world right. well that brings you up to date from business i'll update you here again in just under an hour's time stay with us for headlines with marina next. to.

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