in each. instance began a journey. where did it take them. in the. country to and including general motors show waits to hear if you'll be sent to the hague but his arrest on a genocide charges a solid sangar of a one sided war time which. russia is willing to mediate over the resignation of colonel gadhafi if it helps secure a cease fire in libya the decision made of a g. eight summit and also so leaders agree to spend twenty billion dollars on a egypt and between syria. and leaving a georgian opposition figure cries of foul off the police release an allegedly doctored tape calling for an anti-government uprising it's just a day after a brutal crackdown on a rally that was protesting against corruption. and then business in t n k p p r

looking to spread their wings its opponent trying a refinery that's happening here they're not join us for the full story around twenty minutes time. it is just off the three pm here in moscow you without see a very warm welcome to the future of a post new units of army general. has appeared in court and so yes he was arrested on thursday after sixteen years on the run what it is wanted by the international war crimes tribunal over the genocide of seven and a half thousand muslims in one nine hundred ninety five and other atrocities. is following developments in belgrade. a lot of just currently in the building behind us which is the special work here in belgrade in the serbian capital we know that

our his questioning was put off because. officials said these health condition was so badly deteriorated that question he could not continue and we do know that his questioning and of course the issue of his extradition to the hague is put off until today all of the local newspapers have got his picture on his front page that's him after he was arrested of course that's him in his older days he was armed when he was detained but did not offer any resistance when he was arrested he himself said that he did not want to harm the two young boys that were sent to detain he looks very pale and very weak he did not venture outside of his house much we know that according to information law that was working at a country a construction site many of his coworkers are very shocked to find out that this was in fact the ones famous general none of them recognizing him some of course

commenting that he looked like the man just a very specific construction site was a project officer by the european union it was visited by the serbian president boris tadic and of many other e.u. officials and local officials so it's very ironic that the man that all of those people have been searching for for nearly two decades was all this time right under their noses but of course here in serbia many people as a national hero and already protests in various cities across serbia including belgrade and the city where a lot is was arrested hold a little newspapers carrying quotes from various international officials like the secretary general of the united nations of course the president boris tadic various members of the european union and russia has also commented on the arrest saying that it hopes that should be extradited to the hague tribunal he will be able to receive

a fair trial. actually the clearing out of our reporting right there will have more on the arrest of ratko largess will not trying to cause a scene cause a charge fewer heads the russian parliament's foreign affairs committee and he says the hague tribunal makes nato's actions in the balkans legitimate. but i believe that the last hears of the latest here is of the tribune all started here's the guardian beach here's one. option to justify the previous intervention by nato forces in this conflict and supporting the courts in this court could but no it serves so now the basic idea may be to prove the serbs in serbia sort of circus in bosnia-herzegovina and elsewhere are the main criminals are of the nation being responsible for the tragedy of the former yugoslavia and they can not accept it as proof for a fair trial. let's get some more insight on this and talk to john laughlin from

the institute for democracy and cooperation in paris so what are the charts you think if indeed record is extradited one of the chances you think you'll get a fair trial. he'll definitely be extradited and there are absolutely no chance at all that he will get a fair trial it's a very important point the earlier convictions that have been handed down over srebrenica i'm thinking particularly of the conviction of a man called general constituent two thousand and one specifically says that general nottage committed genocide and had genocidal intent in july one thousand nine hundred five in other words general knowledge his guilt has already been ruled upon by the hague tribunal and so if this were proper tribunals which it isn't. his appearance there could be very short he could simply say here is where you convicted me in two thousand and one there is obviously no presumption of innocence in this court and the proceedings would have to come to an end so that's not what

will happen. i'm sorry so what you're saying and what is will not get a fair trial that it's already over before it's begun but how do you think this arrest could influence the case of former so we need another one candidate currently in the hague. well obviously the two men were jointly accused the indictment against them was issued at the same time they were both in fighting together in one thousand nine hundred six and so ideally they would defend themselves together they would adopt the same strategy of defense i can't say what that defense is going to be in the issues case encourages his case we know that is of course to deny the charges and i think they are on strong ground here because while it is definitely true that a war crime was committed that separate it so there is no reasonable doubt about that there is on the other hand very serious doubt about what the nature of that crime was and in particular whether or not it was genocide and the bottle of course

whether or not it was ordered as is alleged by the leadership of the botany bosnian serb army so i assume that they will defend it not it's like courage which will defend himself on the merits of the case and so that they are not in fact guilty as charged so i let's let's address the issue of timing here why do you think it took serbia so long to find blood it was a possibility of the authorities already were aware of his location for perhaps quite some time. i don't think so i don't think they have any interest at all from their point of view in hiding him i think on the contrary as we've already seen with the arrests yesterday people are wondering how it is that he could have possibly been living in his cousin's cottage for undetected for so long this doesn't reflect well on serbia if it wanted to hand him over as the price of entering the european union had every interest in doing it as quickly as possible and the government which came into power in two thousand and eight should have done it then and they would have done it and i'm sure if they'd known where he was so i

think that quite simply they cannot have known where he was that was it's totally counterproductive for them to have hidden him and that's why i conclude that they literally didn't know where he was right so the authorities did not know where he was but. a few moments ago about serbia's quest to join the e.u. where does that stand now do you think. well basically it is in a better position than it was twenty four hours ago because the dutch in particular were making light of his extradition to the hague an absolute condition of. being allowed to become a candidate country and eventually joining the european union in holland as you know this reference or issue is extremely sensitive because the government falls and because dutch troops had been protecting the safe haven at the time in july ninety ninety five so that obstacle has now been removed on the other hand e.u. membership can take an awfully long time and i'm not convinced that e.u. membership is going to happen for serbia in anything like the short or even the

medium term certainly the obstacle has now been removed the principle obstacle or one of them but i still that i still think that serbia will have to wait five or ten years before it joins and who knows what the european union will look like in that time jonathan from those who for the microscope and cooperation live in paris thank you. plenty more on the way including the pentagon's arguable achievements. 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 i would justify spending more than any other country on defense by frightening financially struggling americans over keeping them safe. now russia says it's ready to mediate in getting a libyan leader colonel gadhafi to resign if indeed it helps to secure a cease fire in the country those details were coming out of the g.

eight summit as it draws to a close in france where the world's wealthiest nations are once again called on khadafi to withdraw immediately a little bit later here on r.t. we will be talking to our correspondent and he's in our who is there at the site well a leading georgian opposition figure says that she's being framed by security services who have released a recording where she seemingly calls for an egypt style uprising you know a bird's a nazi denies the tapes realty validity rather and says that how words have been a manufactured. it's hard to say when in what context and in which conversations i said what is included in that tape but there is one thing i know for sure i never said that i accept the possibility of people being victims as for civil war i never thought of any civil war and we did not let it happen. why georgian police following a night of mass opposition protests in the capital which were brutally dispersed hundreds of demonstrators were beaten arrested and detained for protesting against

leadership corruption but worried families are still looking for loved ones in hospitals and jail cells with security forces accused of killing hotels in that way for reports from troops. with thousands of on the police closing in on all sides and we protest is letting out war cries the main street into belief became a battleground. well outside the main part of the building now a very different thing to the one the saw by link clashes a rock thing on the streets as police try to disperse the crowd. then gas filled the street with police quickly moved among the disorientated crowds firing rubber bullets and throwing people to the ground a police officer take aim is our camera man realizing in time he's from the media but others would not say lucky keating my colleague diego who's caught up in the

confusion the policeman appears ok he was very aggressive we did people start to keep all the people be making any hands with nothing and then suddenly being told. and realized he needed some kind of this kind of bullet is the bullet and he gave me and i started to run with police vastly outnumber ing playtest is the operation was fast and severe let the dust settles the struggle continues. many are left searching the hospitals for relatives and friends and then meeting with this. guy that. they don't always tell us. who told them we came to find fifty million aged between twenty and forty. and we don't know where they all come to but they won't let us in and they won't give us any information telling us to ask the

police. even ninety people have now been placed into what's called the ministry to arrest carries a penalty of up to eighteen months in prison. the leader of the rally they managing to escape the mayhem in a convoy. to fight to the end winning a little holiday to me i was a little bit bigger so 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 all georgians and many protesters paid a high price trying to have their say they're going to beat. you with r.t. live from moscow but russia says it's ready to mediate in getting libyan leader colonel qaddafi to resign if it helps secure a cease fire in the country those details are coming out of the g.

eight summit as a story to a close in northern france of course where the world's wealthiest nations are to address many issues one of the. few to withdraw immediately and he said no way i was coming for us that i mean so so it seems that the pressure is piling up on the libyan government at this point. it is i should say that i have the declaration in my hand the exact words in it he must go which is quite a strong thing if you think about these declarations which usually are very dark soft spoken in general basically saying that they believe that he has lost all legitimacy. one way or another libya cannot be a freedom democratic country if gadhafi remains its leader with that said they did on the five lines after russia come in and broker a cease fire we are speaking to diplomats here and getting lots of info in fact russia is going to agree to that they are going to agree to be a fair approach for achieve a cease fire we're also hearing though from diplomats that they don't want to go

stations to just take place with the staff if they want to speak to the people who are continuing to sort it out and in general russians are very different approach to issues that concern getting involved in the internal affairs of another country perhaps that's why it was asked we don't have confirmation yet from the president but he most certainly will be asked that question when he gets the news conference here in tokyo as the g eight wraps up. all right auntie's and he's an hour and a lot from the summit thank you oh in around five minutes from now sean thomas reveals how south pole scientists stay on top of the world. when the research in exploration is done the guys here have to have something to do on sean thomas in antarctica and coming up on our t.v. we explore the daily life around the links house and station. america knows it's got a big debt hole to fill in and we're looking at the books of the world's biggest defense budget looks right to plunder defense secretary robert gates who is due to leave

the pentagon next month and he warns the cuts would limit the u.s. military role in the world can and for experience. from another trip as robert gates winds down his time as secretary of defense. he gives it as eager to wind down america's six hundred ninety billion dollars a year in military spending even as the us bases 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 open the gusher of defense spending that nearly doubled the base budget over the last decade gusher has been turned off and will stay on his last weeks in office to warn that too many cats could spell danger for the united states it is important that we not repeat the mistakes of the past where tough economic times

were the winding down of the military campaign leads to state and wise reductions in defense 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. home 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 and united kingdom for instance and 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 us and i think that the united states will be willing to say yes when the time comes for a defense contractor michael o'brien says the gap is likely to be filled by defense contractors who want to keep the number of soldiers low as possible because it's a political hot potato but nobody bats an eye one hundred thousand contractors were to the same fear of operations. then analysts say america's military spending is too powerful for any defense secretary to control whether he heads into the private sector to lobby it's part of this revolving door culture that we have or not and so i think feels protective toward things interests he also recognizes that. pentagon

is big business in the united states as robert gates prepares to head 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 up and crushed but they think that's across the board many americans say they want to see the pentagon tighten its belt as well heel and ford are at the washington d.c. meanwhile hillary clinton's arrived in pakistan and it's another country where america's military presence is under the spotlight secretary of state is in part on an unannounced visit to try to calm the water with pakistan which is angry being kept in the dark over america's unilateral action to kill osama bin laden the action was condemned by the country's or for use as an attack on pakistani sovereignty. to action also undertaking the final space walk to ever be conducted by a nasa shuttle crew they installed a fifteen meter pole to the international space station to help repair the damage

caused by tiny meteoroids it is the last mission for the shuttle but there's one more flight for the fleet before it is retired. well and not everyone would reply to a job working year round in 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 so the russian and south excited to a devoted to discovery sean thomas went to join. the building 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. but i think it goes on you know antarctica you have to have a well developed instinct of self-preservation instincts of camaraderie if you don't have that you will be able to help each other because in critical situations here people are more open we're kind and are always holding each other. each summer around forty people call this place home and only sixteen people live here year

round and 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 they do the life and everything else we renovate all our buildings and the scenery is getting newer and we hope the new people and team get used to meet. every person living and working in antarctica have to earn their keep somehow so whether you're a scientist or a researcher i plan accordingly been a journalist. and if they gathered together i clean up the bank. 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. i always have something to do when i need to relax i enjoy playing pool well we

don't have a store here to buy alcohol to me i have my hobby here that i can always get busy with i still have some unfinished work so i've set a goal for myself to finish them. and as billings hausen is a true russian station life here wouldn't be complete without a traditional dernier i would not only does the buildings 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 to go then it is the wrong place to get crazy to get you know. about being lonely. because here we have lots of different and international it with all of our trainees 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.

. the business news with katrina. thanks rory hello and welcome to the business news for this hour russia is aiming to become the fifth largest economy in the world within a decade we're going to supposin outline one of the main objectives was to move away from raw material dependency analysts are stressing this means adding value by exporting refined products. i don't think russia is any different than a lot of other countries that have an abundance of crude oil they didn't build refineries and now they find themselves in a position of saying do we want to go to invest billions of dollars to to build these refineries because we want to be able to sell the crude bits of we want to be able to put the crude into those refineries and get the higher value polyps out of them and put it into the world market right now there are other countries that are actually doing that refining and taking

a piece of the profits and i think i think russia's forty rabia vietnam was looking at i think they're all looking at it is a way for them to increase their portion of the take of the crude oil that they're producing. tearin k.b.p.s. looking to buy into one of the largest oil refineries in poland it submitted a bid to acquire around fifty percent in lotus stake is worth half a billion euros to n.k.v.d. has no assets in europe and is trying to get better access to consumers there analysts say it's the right time for a deal as a profitable if you boil prices in europe is rising let's have a look at the markets now oil continues to rise on speculation that the global economic recovery will sustain the demand for crude that's after the g eight says 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. around one hundred dollars a barrel for brant is just under one hundred fifteen dollars

a barrel. in europe higher commodity prices have given the markets a healthy boost the footsie is up around point eight percent and the fences around point three of a percent up. here moscow the stocks are trading in the black help why the strong oil price however uncertainty over the european debt crisis is limiting gangs both the r.t.s. sorry is up one point seven percent to my six one point six percent is our carry some of the market movers on the my six energy majors are among the main gain is as crude prices improve james a rosneft also supported by the news the company made jointly explore the attic with shell banking stocks are on the rise with d.t.p. cain gaining over one percent is out. although russia's equity markets remain undervalued investors say they're still cautious and i'm not rushing to buy. the russian market has no critical in the defense of the mains. that's why it's very difficult to her. any kind of party for one right now if

you believe that the several friends or as you would buy for us that still means maybe some banks a special community that starbuck will be issuing the post the receipts by the end of june there which will supports the. swedish mobile operator tele to has announced plans for a significant listing in russia the company has about ten percent of the russian market it was restored so. we want to we want to play sports here in the uk it's that was kind of. solution. was to build a resource a couple friendships first the women service officers city. leaders who were the regional station in russia with a small percentage and it's a fair bit sister for restructuring. different interest groups in terms of the fortune of riches and that's all the business news for now kareena who will be here

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