in the. general a rough go blooded she waits to hear if you'll be handed over to the hague on charges of genocide after his arrest in serbia so limits theories he was sacrificed to e.u. membership. he must go g eight leaders agree on two counts the end ausra such a broker a cease fire in the libyan conflict companies now i join me at the g. eight for more. and warnings of a further antigovernment protests in georgia as the opposition accuses the old core of the use of playing down the number of victims and of those missing after the arm dispersal of crowds.

worldwide news live from moscow this is what's called a fugitive a bosnia and so on the general of russia cold blood which is if you appear in a belgrade court for extradition hearings is arrest on thursday was a key condition for. entry and some are suggesting he was finally given up in exchange for the membership party's occurring outside of his outside the court in belgrade where a lot of shoes due to appear. in lot of just currently in the building behind us which is the special war court here in belgrade in the serbian capital we know that his questioning was put off because the official said these health condition was so badly deteriorated that questioning 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 and 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 we know that according to various sources who are he was armed when he was detained but did not offer any resistance when he was arrested and according to a quote given by the blitz newspaper he himself said that he did not want to harm the two young boys that were sent to detain him he looks very pale and very weak and that many believe is due to his or her health conditions he did not venture outside of his house much obviously could not go to the doctor's for medical help to get any assistance we also know that his right arm was paralyzed and many believe as a result of a stroke we know that according to information like this was working at a construction site a project sponsored 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 many of his coworkers are very shocked to find out that this was in fact the once famous general ride none of them recognizing him some of course commenting that he looked like the man but not as of course denying any such similarities here in serbia many people he was as a national hero and had been whole ready at protests in various cities across serbia including the old. and the city where i was arrested we know that there has been a massive international reaction of course sell newspapers carry in quotes from various international officials 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. coming out of our reporting right or wrong meantime constantine he's

the head of the russian parliament's foreign affairs committee says that the hague tribunal exists only to legitimize nato's interventions and. i believe the last hears of the latest here is severe. here's one. option to justify the previous intervention by nato forces in this conflict and supporting our the force in this corner. the basic idea. to prove the. sort of service in bosnia herzegovina and elsewhere are the main criminals of the nation being responsible for the tragedy of the former yugoslavia and they can not accept proof for a fear of. another fugitive bosnian serb leader arrested three years

ago has now spoken to us here at r.t. robinson says that his client is looking forward to a rifle in the hague so they can act together. president kerry just said that he was sori that general mulattoes had lost his freedom and that he hopes that they can work together when general mulattoes came to the hague and tried to bring out the truth of what really happened in bosnia new information is coming out all of the time and not to carry just this trial and so it's very possible that with general melodic in the hague that additional information will come out first general melodic to 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 for his trial will be joined with that of radovan 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 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 the case is a joint or not. the balkans political expert. told us or at all see why he thinks the western powers so enthusiastic and targeting. why do we believe. mr carter did some of the show and mr milosevic had to carry dollars so. these war crimes in fact what is the actual crime that if carried out and for many secrets or all were obvious which is the resistance towards the takeover offer the country and the replacements of these an existing government by the government and by the united states and by the nato powers and the e.c.u. of joining the european union has been used for the last ten years as a kind of incentive like the let's buy low priced series.

and your minds. national goods by western companies and organizations he will be able to get into the european union let's do a little so-called war criminals and that again is going to help you get into this so-called richmond's club but as we can see the rich once club that once was always having great difficulty is that itself. it would r.t. live from the heart of the russian capital and still to come for you this hour will the change of pentagon chief change the pentagon's spending look at why despite america's huge national debt there's such a strong opposition to cutting the country's bloated defense and tortured. us what it's like to live and work on the planet's coldest consonant prove our secret rather continues its exploration of antarctica today would be the russian research is going all about their daily business. russia says it's ready to

mediate efforts to get libyan leader colonel gadhafi to resign if it helps secure a cease fire in the country the agreement came out of a g. eight summit in france where the world's wealthiest nations once again called on could our feet to step down immediately are things and he said now we has more from the resort of the me. i should say that i have the declaration in my hand and there it is the exact words in it he must go which is quite a strong thing if you think about these declarations which usually are very soft soft spoken in general basically saying that they believe that he has lost all legitimacy and that one way or another libya cannot be a free time and democratic country if gadhafi remains its leader without said they did on the front lines after russia was to come in for over a cease fire we are speaking to diplomats here and getting lots of facts 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 she says to just take place with the staff if they want to speak to the people who are continuing to support kentucky and in general russia is a 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 a news conference here in tokyo as the g eight rough stuff really the important work gets done at these kind of summits takes place behind closed doors and we've heard from many different officials that the dialogue here was harsh and frank but getting to the road the declaration it's titled the new commitment for freedom and democracy for stopping talks today summit was the situation in north africa and of course in libya for the first time delegations from tunisia and egypt took part in the dialogue they were actually promised some twenty billion dollars in aid but questions are rising by contrast like egypt and tunisia and libya are getting so

much support when places like bahrain and saudi arabia we're seeing similar types of revolt are not getting very much at all and in fact in terms of syria which is mentioned in the declaration in leaders there basically calling on the syrian leadership to stop using for. and intimidation against the syrian people we're hearing from the russian foreign ministry that russia has stated that it will not sign any kind of resolution about interference in syria we've heard from russia pretty harsh statements about how they feel the resolution on libya has been manipulated has not because it has become much more rather than a mission to just protect civilians so this is some of the dialogue that happened in terms of the middle east and of course still a lot of work to do in terms of missed sounds of fans russia sees any kind of missile defense system near its borders as a threat to its national security and the u.s. keeps insisting that it's not directed towards russia so it's going a little bit back and forth you of course saw russia and the u.s.

signed a new strategic arms reduction treaty last year although they have very different interpretations of what that means russia needs something that's legally binding presents me you may think you've said that he thinks that will happen sometime in the year trying to twenty so not very soon but that both presidents right now are doing a lot of works trying to lay the ground so that they can help in the future politicians . are now either working from the french results out of the video and in about an hour and a half we'll have a news conference you mentioned live so if you stay with us for that. georgia's opposition says it's ready to hold protests despite the authorities cracking down on peaceful crowds on thursday they claim to call with such bodies government is underplaying just how many people were hurt in the violence dozens are still in hospital and many including some talk of assertion figures missing. following the events in the capital tbilisi she sent this report. with thousands upon the police

closing in on all sides and we protest is letting our walk rise the main street instability became a battleground. well outside the main parliament building now a very different thing to the one that saw violent clashes a rock thing on the streets as police try to disperse the crowd a protest. then gas filled the street with please quickly need to monkey disorientated crowd firing rubber bullets and throwing people around the police officer to take aim and talk camera man realizing in time he's from the media others would not say lucky feeding my colleague diego who's cool talk in the confusion the policeman appears ok he was very aggressive with the people and they started to keep all the people they don't make any sense with nothing and then suddenly being told the. stomach and realized it needed some

kind of this kind of bullet is probably going to give me a name i started to run with police last the outnumbering playtest is the operation was fast and severe. the dust settles the struggle continues many are left searching the hospitals for relatives and friends if anything resisted. the fact that. they don't always tell us that. we told them we came to find sixty million aged between three until. we don't know where they all come to the hospital but they wouldn't let us in and they won't give us any good mention telling us to also believe it's going to even nine hundred people have now the case that he was wounded minister to read carries a penalty of up to two months in prison. a leader of the rally they managing to escape the mayhem and the convoy. to fight to the end i am going as will fall later

. with i can't trust anyone anymore i'll never come to a protest rally again i just want to be safe. at the military for a friend attended day isn't such a nice paper supporting freedom of speech people judeans many greatest is ok to fight quite. trying to have a bad day. to be a. president really accuses moscow of instigating the rest until you see where the georgian media has been quick to report the same but as. a former georgia local representative told r.t. such accusations are nothing new and they are totally groundless this is typical. of. sarkozy sure south across rule he always tries to find a scapegoat he always the third powers crossing the border of my country and tries

to stop the lies situation of the mystical in georgia which is wrong. the most dangerous. factor of. the country and he is the one who needs to be blamed for but watch it. more analysis on the situation in georgia on our website also their first impressions from the violent crackdown on protesters you can find out in a sarah ferguson blog and of course our facebook accounts see the video of the brutal to sponsor the protesters it's filmed by our crew who were caught in the mayhem and so much more out of facebook dot com slash. is.

it's now a quarter past the hour here in moscow with r.t. now america knows it's got a big debt hole to fill and the world's biggest defense budget looks ripe for the plunder but defense secretary robert gates who leaves the pentagon next month is warning again that cuts would limit the u.s. as the military role in the world are to use killing forty six 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 us bases 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 denounced 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 or use his last weeks in office to word that to 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 when the winding down of a 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 in grenada panama the first gulf war.

the balkans haiti. no 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 had a long time rivalry. i've had discussions about. virtually all the countries in europe face this problem. but the pentagon budget continues to grow. the outgoing sex. kerry of 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 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 was possible because it's

a political hot potato but nobody bats an eye one hundred thousand contractors school over to the theater 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 and still i think feels protective toward its 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 stopped and crushed but they've been cuts across the board many americans say they want to see the pentagon tighten its belt as well healing for an hour at the washington d.c. . just taking over twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow let's check out some other world headlines for you at the u.s.

secretary of state hillary clinton has announced that american pakistani relations are at a turning point it happens as she has to come to pakistan on an unannounced visit ties between the two countries were strained after the killing of osama bin laden almost a month ago the operation carried out by the u.s. forces was condemned by pakistan's leadership as a breach of the country's sovereignty. like recorders from an air france plane and reveal details of a deadly crash two years ago a captain that was not in the cockpit when the plane began its fatal three and a half minute descends into the atlantic off the coast of brazil and hit the ocean surface and nose up. everyone onboard was killed in this tragedy the black boxes were recovered from the ocean almost a month ago. the president of south sudan has posed with the north to remove troops from a disputed town tension has flared between the countries over the oil rich borderline region of thousands of residents of florida concerns are that the strain may

shatter the peace deal seal that six years ago which put an end to the longstanding civil war. well you think that the having a life and articulate research station right in the antarctic is one of a lonely seclusion with loved ones being thousands of kilometers away however scientists are working in the planet's coldest climate have a different story these are transformers enjoyed a warm welcome. within a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is antarctica and people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization sean thomas discovers what makes antarctica so special and attractive for many life in antarctica. the. expedition to the bottom of the earth. billings thousands 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 in antarctica you have to have a well developed instinct of self-preservation instincts of kamerad three if you don't have that you'll be able to help each other because in critical situations here people are more open more kind and they're always helping each other. 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 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. but it will be a little every year is getting better and better ideally 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 to

earn their house or whether you're a scientist or researcher on a comic or even a journalist. and if they are both of gathered together to clean up the. 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 and 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 the month and it works and i've set the goal for myself to finish them. and as delhi's hausen is a true russian station life here wouldn't be complete without a traditional banya. but 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 there 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 activity and with all of our training. and friends career and friends all of them are trying to keep one big family many people working together to make their home at the bottom of the planet more comfortable in antarctica sean thomas r.t. . so on it's almost as expeditions to antartica continue to more i think join us for that but for now that's a cross over to the business bulletin with the current. have all come to that hearing r.t. as a means of the fifth largest economy in the world within

a decade promise to quit an alkali one of the main of cats was to move away from raw material dependency analysts are stressing this means adding value exporting was like 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 build these refineries because we want to be able to sell the crew did or we want to be able to put the crude into those refineries and get the higher value products 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 those profits and i think i think russia's forty radio vietnam was looking at i think they're all looking at it is a way for them to increase their portion of the tape of the crude oil that they're producing it. and thank you b.p. is looking to buy into one of the largest oil refineries in poland it has submitted a bed to ply around fifty percent a lotus the stake is worth half

a billion euros thank you b.p. has no assets in europe that is trying to get better access to consumers that analysts say it's the right time for a deal as the profitability of all processing in europe is rising. now let's take a look at the markets whoa continues to rise on speculation that the global economic recovery will sustain even mog crude that's after the g eight said the world economy will strengthening with a we could go all the posting the appeal of kanada teams j.p. morgan expects opec to increase production quotas to meet global demand the one hundred dollars per barrel log brands is trading over one hundred fifty dollars but obviously. if you're a pike and already prices have given the market's a healthy boost it would seem is up on board eighty percent of the dax is point four percent and here in moscow the stocks of the stocks are trading in the black held by the strong or by uncertainty over the european debt crisis is limiting gains both theology has and i'm isaac's around are up around two percent. now

here's some of the markets movers on the march sixth energy majors among the main game is as crude prices improve as a roast now after also supported by the news that the company may join explore the politics with shell banking stocks song arise as well would really be getting over one percent this summer. now although russia's equity markets remain on the value investors say there's still cautious and i'm not rushing to. the russian market has no practical in the defensive for mains. that's why it's very difficult to. any kind of particle in the right well if you believe that the sell off is all work as you would buy for instance steel mains so maybe sun paints a special treat them or take care of that will be issuing orders to receipts to by the end of june there which will support store house

latest. plans for a significant listing in russia the company has about ten percent of the russian markets it was restored since. we want to we want to play sports here markets are just kind of really unique situation sort of close to one didn't resource the friendships or stephen service officers. needed for the role of the original extension of the international summit or something it's a figure of six kind of restructuring of the financial markets mr bush urged. and that's what the business is the null state was for headline news with henri up next .

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