streets of one large. russia should have a stake in the missile shield in europe for obama spells out his idea while visiting poland which is set to house part of a system that used to be a couple of discord between moscow and washington. soviet divided over russia cold blooded years arrest stand and looming extradition on a war crimes charges will bring you a firsthand account from live religion where the former general was captured in. the u.s. as they department calls on the georgian authorities to investigate the army crackdown on protests that led to several deaths while the opposition still claims its supporters remain its very talkative. and easing isolation egypt opens

a border crossing with gaza partially ending the four year blockade of the palestinian terms. because. this is our see a live from moscow where it's not just after four pm i'm a reception i welcome to the program of former bosnian serb army general ratko bloody choose waiting for his fate to be announced on monday in serbia a few have been left in different by his arrest with reaction ranging from jubilance to outrage when i thought about visited the serbian village where it was finally called we cannot get a first hand experience and cross over to her. cathy hello to you so if you managed to speak to any of the people who actually live side by side with russian luggage. well we did manage to talk to some of the people of course it was

saturday and quite early in the morning when we made our trip to the village itself was credibly small very sleepy lots of people gardening and basically the only thing that was odd it was the large amount of journalists and a number of policemen that were standing outside the house where a former bosnian general russell what it was actually arrested and you could feel that the people of that village were not very happy with the amount of journalists present they were very keen to talk to them but we did manage to speak to one woman who was one of a lot of his neighbor and said that she knew that milan just brought their a very well but had absolutely no idea that the general himself was living practically in the next door house. which was arrested no one had the slightest idea he had been there his brother leafs in this

house and they know him very well ten days ago when you manage the house he was wearing a cap and a military jacket and was moving with difficulty as though he'd had a stroke we had no idea who the man was until the police arrived. many people shared that experience the whole of them saying that nobody had any idea that i could live it was actually living in his uncle's house with his brother with his family and it is of course somewhat strange because according to a police officials they kept contacts and kept tabs on every single one of his relatives or close contacts and actually visited that very house a number of times and all of the years that of course he has been a wanted man so the timing is one other thing that could be considered somewhat skeptical in this situation bhatia from what we could understand in the village of

la city by itself it was a shock to the people that live there so thank you so you're saying it was a shock to the people who are living the coming absolutely by surprise when you talk about the reaction of people that we're hearing reports from jubilation turned out rage oh what's the mood on the streets of belgrade and what all the attitudes are towards on the rest of his arrests. both from the laws of itself why it was we got the feeling that nobody there was happy with the fact that law that was arrested if there was a sense of outrage you know we we expected to see some sort of graffiti tabs on the walls or banners flyers any kind of or at least a sense of resentment but there was no such thing and here in the capital in belgrade there's also not exactly a large amount of outrage at the or at jubilation sorry at the fact that a lot has been arrested and to talk a little bit more about what his arrest means for their serbian people i'm joined live by mr alexander who is a political analyst here in belgrade thank you so much for talking to us now what

is his arrest what does it mean for the people of serbia are they happy about it or are they not happy about it i think most people are not. because they don't first of all the considerable others they've been up on here all somebody to protect the serbs from another genocide like really the world war two and the second thing. as they don't think that any of those promises made to this government will actually come into play roulette should be realized so it's just another sort of a national humiliation so they think tangible being done in return a mission promises that they are presuming you're referring to the promises of e.u. membership that was given to serbia but of course the officials want that very badly i mean billions of dollars worth of aids grants and all that but for the actual people living in belgrade working in serbia at making their money making a living just even membership really matter what it might have several years ago

the thing is it's just become an old and tired story and that the more people. listen about it here about the less they're actually enthused them to be actually believed because all they're seeing is any money that comes in from the outside winds up in the pockets of a very few people mostly the politicians so pro e.u. is they say so i think people realize and opinion polls show it's actually support for membership was constantly dropping just like support for in large was consistently above sixty percent more than sixty percent even in the wrinkles here were against his being extradited to the hague. and now you mentioned public support for my d.h. and i when you were talking earlier you said that when a cottage was arrested there was a huge amount of protest rallies people were not happy do you think we're likely to see a repeat of that scenario. well i think you will is there the thing is people have been so disappointed about the outcomes of all these different demonstrations and

unfortunately serbia that there's no lots of reasons that demonstrate over the years that the floozie has missed dropping a little bit so i think millions of people are actually on helping but they don't really trust anyone who actually calls them out to street the. to demonstrate that they're also actually worried that the government should provoke them arrest in order to make it easier so this will be the strength of the russian war that it already is so for that reason it's hard to say the enthusiasm is there but there's a lot of mis a lot of mistrust even for opposition. he also mentioned the hague tribunal of course i understand that many people here in serbia are very dissatisfied with the tribe you know and don't actually believe it can be objective absolutely everything that's been has been done so far shows it actually was a tribunal just set up claim exclusively one side bad guys were picked twenty years

ago they were the serbs and that they could be you know was there to justify western policy here banks actually hide the real culprits because in the statute of the hague tribunal there actually left out a really important thing as to crimes against peace slash lee if that was in there we would talk about people who actually hold the crowds in the slovenians in the moslems to separate from yugoslavia who illegally recognized success secessionist republics and this was against international law so these are things there can be not talked about in the hague and that's one of the reasons why people absolutely don't trust the hague at all. in all lot of problems here and el grade and a lot of people are feeling unhappy really for speak keeping you updated on this story letting you know if and when our luggage will be extradited to the hague but for now rates back to you in the studio right now as i live for us in concord thank

you. so hard one on our facebook page you can find the latest updates on the stories and first hand accounts from our correspondents but remember we're always interested in your opinion on the stories we're covering such as the arrest of a lot of what's your take on that just log on to facebook. dot com slash the news and have your say. it's. in the. corridor just turning some minutes past the hour here in moscow you will see now the u.s. state department has urged georgian authorities to investigate the violent crackdown

on anti-government protests that left several people that it took place two days ago but the opposition claims a witch hunt remains in full swing with those speaking out against president saakashvili being detained or disappearing now so far he's been covering the events in the party now joins me live here in the studio good to see you sir we'll get to the details of what you saw in just a moment but you're just now apart from tripoli see what's going on in the georgian capital just staring at the name of the struggles continuing really the opposition have taken to the streets again this time that may take is it allows things like a silly protesting against the violence that was used when states crack so so so first the protests against the government corruption now a new wave of protests against the violent crackdown as you saw exactly yes that's exactly what's happening. but it's about see on wednesday night the early hours of thursday a lot of people questioning asked about it and whether excessive force was used as

he said at the time the deployment of the place didn't come as a surprise to any of us here that when they leave the main parliament area we knew that there was going to be some cold intervention it was the scale of the police operation that was really you talk about the scale of the police operation in one of your earlier reports you said that there was there were many more police and there were protesters outside. discrepancy in numbers was he there were protests in the thousands and many of them were peaceful and also it was dubbed the silver evolution this is an older generation and then the states this year they're fighting against the lead panties and i see the places and when the police operation turned up and they were in the. very very quickly very very so if you think you think the police it was a premeditated attack on the protesters perhaps because of the large discrepancy a dog was many more police than protesters and as you say violence ensued with the police preparing for such an event you think i think everyone's question now was the operation was justified whether it was just. that amount of force certainly

many people on the ground we all felt that it was that it was very chaotic a lot of injuries were sustained it's very hard to gauge an accurate figure on these numbers as he said the protesters taking to the streets again because they're deeply unhappy with the way the situation was handled and the ensuing events lastly arsenal of so when you talk about the chaos that ensued what did you see police wielding batons or was it based or spray or what were you saying well they turned up and i said at the time it really felt like witnessing a moderate muslims a bustle saying they lined the streets on both sides. of the main parliament building so they had the protesters the police surrounded and there were thousands of them they had their own which they were beating on it was very very aggressive and in the space of a couple of minutes here on top of the tunnel in front of ideas about possible negotiations a couple of minutes later they were in the crowds and i like i said has and see those everywhere there were rubber bullets flying in center because i didn't you say one of the early reports of one of our colleagues marty espanol was a victim of the volley yes just punish correspondent has it me at the time he got

hit by or the bullets as he were trying to get out of that scene and many of the journalists were in fact injured a lot of the georgian colleagues so the chances of getting injured in this but when you talk about the methods or violence being used by the police what kind of injuries were ok or sustaining it was this very aggressive they were walking into the crowds and just basically. i think anyone that they kid that was in front of them in the genocide be warned here in that area when when it kicks off you know they're pretty sharpish because they're not going to see this going to you know a young journalist protestor they were just in there and it was extremely chaotic say now let's talk about this new wave of protests because originally it was a bit about the corruption in the government high level widespread corruption now people are protesting about the methods of the crackdown so two different ways of protest but also there of course now for the international community to get involved absolutely as you said one of the really really concerning issues is the fact that it's hard to gauge accurate information is a lot of people still trying to track down relatives and friends and family that they think they need turned out demonstration and they're not able to find where

they are not the figures that are coming out the amount and. it's very hard to get an accurate reading on who they're witnessing it it seems extremely low the numbers that many say we need to rest this thing the numbers of people in hospital in those cities but yet we saw many more injuries than not certainly the number of people who don't see as much certainly good to have you back here in moscow in one piece i do surf of covering the events and i thank you very much. you can always a follow how the events in georgia are unfolding do so on our web site now online the story of how a protester who threw a chocolate bar at president saakashvili was sentenced to three months in jail as this and much much more article.

all right quarter past the hour on this saturday here in moscow russia should be part of a missile defense shield in europe so says the u.s. president he was speaking in poland it's a country said to host some of the missile systems its words come two days since he promised the g eight summit in france to try and agree on a system that suits both their security interests artie's and you've got this one office and was all for us and now joins us live band hi to you god so a lot of positive signals would you say for russian what else but also insight. well barack obama outlines that the united states and russia have managed to reach a new steeple a level of friendly relations and reassure the polish president that such close ties between washington and moscow are in in no way a threat to central europe and to eastern europe and this comes off the back of a barack obama's meeting with the russian president at the g eight summit in france

where of the two also discussed the future possible joint anti missile defense system in europe and seem to agree that it should work in the in the interests of all sides now this is quite an important issue for russia since agreed immediately for the russian president has said that if an agreement on this issue is not reached then the world to me see another arms race by twenty twenty now in the a.m.d. issue directly concerns for instance eight me hell some of its elements for example an air base and short range interceptor missiles by twenty eighteen actually would be george bush administration which initially went to be elements of the system here in the country but to be by my administration scraps at least twenty since this issue. cause still quite of concern in russia actually was one of the biggest stumbling points for several years with moscow saying i'd be saying these are most right here in its neighborhood would create

a direct threat to snatch. security so now many analysts are saying that there is a positive tendency on this issue between russia and the west but they're stressing that it's a washington passed to provide legal guarantees to russia that such a system would not be aimed against it. at this point they're talking about sharing early warning information and other radar information which would be a step forward but before they can get there before they can get to a shared system russia needs to be reassured that the system is not aimed at you and again the nato and the united states need to make a joint statement to russia saying that this is them is not aimed at you this is them is no danger to you it's focused on dangers and threats from middle east not from russia. so far both president obama and president komorowski have said that it is a very possible that russia and nato meet cooperate all of this joint anti missile defense system but so far they haven't provided any concrete plans so there's

definitely a positive tendency when it comes to words it's just important whether i want to come to action this tendency will continue right through europe is going to live for us in seoul thank you. rather missile defense system was a one of the issues discussed at the recent g eight summit in france the charters over un resolution on syria like the operation in libya much much more were outlined in president of the speech there you can find it in full on our website r.t. dot com. now gaza's blockade has been eased after four years of total dr in terms of crossing for pedestrians giving a gateway to the outside world for one and a half million palestinians the crossings are accessible to anyone except men aged between eighteen and forty who require visas for border was closed after hamas seized power in gaza with israel hoping the blockade would help force the group

human rights groups inside the massive humanitarian cost from food shortages to the sick being unable to leave the simple treatment those are things paula reports of a new lifeline for palestinians is a real headache but. this is egypt's border with gaza a place where for years the gates was shut off and then opened only the most extreme humanitarian cases were lived through which meant no more than three hundred people a day the volga was not one of them last year she died from cancer of the stomach she had tried desperately for months to leave gaza for chemotherapy treatment abroad but was never able to get the permission she needed to leave. then i went to the hospital here and they give me some linen and the paint in there and the borders are closed this is the reason for. the new egyptian foreign minister says the decision to close the border was shameful on saturday his promise to open buffer permanently without the israelis is coming true no more we're in agreement

drawn up six years ago between the not opposed to gyptian president hosni mubarak the united states the israelis and the europeans be in place that agreement gave e.u. monitors access to the crossing and allowed television supervise and monitor security camera. from a far. points and checkpoints so that it was the same interest of both countries. the permanent opening of rougher terrifies israeli citizens especially those who live on the whole i was just eight hundred meters from the israeli gaza border ever since the kibbutz was established nearly sixty years ago it's been on the receiving end of endless rockets and snipers from gaza city to our scale then i mean it's very near the first misinforming down we have to one and take their place somewhere i said though we thought i thought port authority over the keyboard cells there for everyone in his whole area. just last month a sixteen year old boy was killed when

a kid some rocket hit the school bus he was traveling home in people who live here are afraid that what will happen next is that move weapons will find their way into the hands of palestinian militants and ultimately be used against the jewish state place sure. if the border will be open for really a lot within your nation really cute. the hamas is already the old it is in unison. where we have much more people occasions of which are becoming clear about a day and some some eighty five kilometers away from gaza but already a grad missile fired from there has hit the outskirts of the city israeli army is warning that in the next major conflict tens of thousands of rockets will hit tel aviv this means is that daily life was raining is living not far from gaza is fast becoming part of this radio life across the country will see our team tel aviv.

right now through i discussed this story father we're joined live from gaza. from the al to be association for human rights let's talk to him right now. hello to you so the opening of a pedestrian crossing is being held as a as a massive humanitarian victory but is it enough do you think to end the humanitarian crisis yet i cannot deny all of the gazans going to this. decision. especially when we. look because of the borders and because the restrictions are going to be for the palestinians but i believe that this is not enough because because we expect there from the egyptian government to facilitate the life and more of this decision to expand the decision

to cover all of the palestinians we go to an invitation to open the border when you're running for one of the day sitting days a week without any imitations like what what is going right because the majority of the gazans are under forty and this means that they should go to where it would be egyptian security. not all of the did these people can find the xs to reach this so you're saying you're saying the accessibility the accessibility is not enough although some are heading this is a humanitarian feature you're saying a small passageway is not enough and a lot of people need more accessibility here but let's talk about israel's up point of view here israel is terrified this move will make hamas stronger and more times will be launched on its territory do you believe what israel is saying here are the fears grounded. as rain old was suspect to any

any. way it may facilitate the life of the palestinians they want to continue on posing. more. militant decisions again as the people in the gaza to continue to see which is according to the international law was a crime against humanity but. they. were true to the changes in egypt and the new. policy that i want to be but but but i didn't think i think that israel. is a true to. such awareness to the international community and the big of the egyptian government is in part to conduct. i believe that israel will. be the new was among the international community to. be

injected in the sense that they already started this would be american administration but hopefully the georgian government with its subject would be subject to the israeli pressure and the advocate in persia and with the new opening bid because in the fall be in this tomorrow we have seen a reconciliation between palestinian factions fatah and hamas we think unity government and help for the resulting humanitarian situation for palestinians. for me right this moment we have not seen any real estate on the ground after deciding to go be a reconciliation just. from my point of view of the only thing any consideration is the the raising me that i have like in gaza hamas if you like it was where it was but concerning the other. for example the

political detainees the. detail of the employees many many complicated spies they have not started to this obit. simply because they did not agree right now to. know the prime minister becoming his prime minister. this is i think. the imposition of the gazans to be expensed many people who started this just because i was a somali you know saying the unit was a really good at that a unity government between hamas and fatah is more rhetoric than actual action but so that's all the time we have for today i thank you very much for joining us kill our model from the alderney association for human rights. but we'll be getting to sorry to continue here with the news nazis we check out some of the headlines from all around the world this hour and an american citizen who was detained by north

korea six months ago one specify charges has now been released. jong suit has front back to the u.s. accompanied by a delegation from washington the details of his arrest were never given but reports suggest he was accused of illegal and missionary activity north korea officially guarantees freedom of religion but authorities sometimes crack down on missionaries see them as a western influenced threat. i mean to spain and see all started protests have turned violent as police clash with demonstrators over one hundred people injured countrywide rallies of a sweeping cuts start of about a fortnight ago after two years of recession the country is now faced with the highest unemployment rate in the eurozone and a major that. ok are on the money is next so do stay with us for that but i'll be back with the headlines first in just a few minutes.

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