when art see a national hero award a war crimes fugitive serbian general. buckles moves to hand him over to the european hague tribunal with backing from crowds on belgrade streets despite the support of most serbs europe's most wanted man will most likely be extradited to the hague for the details from belgrade just a few moments. also in this news bulletin the british apache helicopters prepared to cruise the libyan skies but it's feared the attempt to put pressure on could go down that actually put nato personnel in the line of fire. and the u.s.

government plans to send terrorism whether disaster alerts directly to cell phones are posted saves just spreading panic not protection. live from moscow this is r t it's eleven pm here now you most welcome if you just joined this morning's kevin zero in and first europe's most wanted war crimes fugitive has lodged an appeal in a serbian court against attempts to have been extradited to the hague to stand trial for bosnian serb general ratko bloodied she is charged with ordering the murder of around eight thousand muslim men and boys in one thousand nine hundred five of his country in a zone of his own side the court in belgrade for us. and we know that the lawyer for the former bosnian war general has already posted his appeal now of course that is acceptable according to serbian law to send the appeal not to deliver it

file it at the courthouse or deliver it by hand but actually mail it through the post many here of course are believing that that is a delay tactic employed so that i can light it as an extradition could be delayed and once that appeal is received by the water in this particular of the three judges will have three days to determine whether to grant him that appeal or whether to approve his extradition not many here in serbia of course believing that that appeal will be granted those including his very own son who we managed to speak to a little earlier he told us that he believes the hague tribunal where his father may well be extradited by the end of this week is nothing but a political tool. for all of the common cause. there's no need for comment here the state of the system is clear is it justice or something else you vince that happened in the balkans with the question of geopolitics and someone else's

interests i believe that all the peoples of the yugoslavia of victims we let ourselves be involved in a war in the twentieth century for the birds time for the sake of foreign interests and no one emerged as the winner of the balkan crisis was created much earlier there's long been unfolding before our eyes and it has nothing to do with justice and the law of these tribunals is going to provide a cover for its political more that has been on the run for sixteen years and has suffered two strokes the sixty nine year old former general is in very poor health physically and mentally according to his lawyers and his family if and when he is extradited to the hague war crimes tribunal he may not even make it may not even live to see his trial as serbia is looking to meet. as to billions of dollars worth of grant aid should of course it be granted e.u. membership and capturing article modish was one of the key conditions for that of

course just prior to his arrest the leaked un report showed that. serbia you want to believe that serbia was not caught raiding in the search for afghan law and that immediately almost immediately after that the man himself was arrested and presented to the special court here in belgrade and will possibly be extradited to the hague war crimes tribunal we've already heard from various leaders presidents representative officials are all of them saying of this of course we'll give a new energy to negotiations with serbia and its potential accession into the european union but that's all for official belgrade but people that we've spoken to here in the country say that they believe serbia will gain nothing and will actually lose by entering european union and betraying that article by national hero to most people here in belgrade by selling him out for a chance an e.u.

membership is nothing but a betrayal from the from their president the people on the streets say they believe radical rubbish is a national hero and that arresting him is nothing short of treason on the side of the serbian president boris tadic that is exactly why they took to the streets of the serbian capital belgrade on sunday getting together some ten thousand people rallied just outside the serbian parliament that rally soon current violence when. i started throwing firecrackers rocks literally bricks huge rocks throwing them at riot police bottles sticks stones all of those things went flying at riot police having them on their helmets on their shields. riot police then of course decided to disperse the crowds doing that rather efficiently by separating people into smaller groups preventing them from regrouping in the center we saw

a lot of people injured according to officials information and nearly thirty people were injured in the protests we saw a lot of those people ourselves are walking down the street with their faces covered in blood presumably from those rocks that were flying overhead we know that are around a hundred eighty people were detained most of them youths under the age of eighteen which of course goes to show that it's not only the older generations that feel very strongly about this but pretty much everyone here in belgrade is very much against the arrest and extradition of the man they believe to be a national hero but once he's closer in a zone of a reporting for us from belgrade the rug was loitering time says he's no male the appeals court will review the plea before deciding whether the ship has climbed to the hague foreign policy a list of british told us that even if the knowledge does make it to the tribunal few in serbia have faith in the way it works. many process is there have been first

of all very long and we can talk about the efficiency of the tribunal the people have spent an enormous amount of time in the hague and a lot of people here in serbia are skeptical about some of the practices of the high hague tribunal and some of its records for instance. because slobodan milosevic the late president of yugoslavia and serbia actually died in prison without the conviction then four years war criminals that are generally knowledged as war criminals here in serbia like. from course. muslim commanders have actually been acquitted after. sudden death of witnesses or after the tribunal simply concluded that there was not enough evidence so basically but many serbs do not consider the hague tribunal to

be unbiased and fair and in the minds of those people. it is questionable whether whether this trial will be will be fair so sort of foreign policy on this boy or british big goose about how he thinks knowledge is trial in the hague is likely to turn. britain stepping up pressure on colonel gadhafi but deploying apache attack helicopters and bunker busting bombs in libya comes as nato is chief says the libyan leader's reign of terror is nearing an end result his lower emmott reports next case decision seems to be moving far beyond mere humanitarian objectives. an inexorable trend towards escalation that's what analysts are calling british involvement in the libya conflict as the u.k. prepares to send in apache attack helicopters. they can fly low they can fly slow so they can hit targets that force jets cannot hit from the air they also involve

the term out of risk. much more easily than a fast jet so the possibility of interpersonal be captured on the ground has just gone up the apaches which will be joined by a contingent of french helicopters can maneuver in built up areas and attack fairly small targets they'll make it easier to take out arms stored and target places where colonel gadhafi may be hiding it's part of prime minister david cameron strategy to turn up the heat in libya they seem to think that if they quote the u.n. resolution at the same time as the call for. change it's a kind of like. frankly they're involved in a civil war in. helicopters apache helicopters there intensive bombing of tripoli that's going on this is a war about regime training the helicopters markedly the latest escalation of this conflict following the no fly zone nato sent in advisors to train the rebels

introduce train patrols and by the first week of may a nearly six thousand strike sorties with tripoli subjected to the heaviest forming . a recent hugo hold for the sun tabloid newspaper showed less than half of britons now support the intervention in libya but that number is likely to plummets once you k. troops are in significantly more danger just white. people that happened. don't even think about it so the issue is we haven't dropped any blood yeah. but not one single one of the people is going to the. people who have marched against this it be a war here in the u.k. but in snowy numbers compared to the million that march that had to be invasive that rock helicopters bring the fighting place into the ground with

a high risk of death and angry up with this new government might be able to depend that is known as the new strategy makes rapid progress but it doesn't many z.d. net debt has troops on the ground in clear defiance of the un resolution that allowed the regional day flight day to be in full state in libya your enemies all see. crawford hayes as journalists from spikes online magazine he told me all the coalition has done so far libya is take the democratic events of the away from the people. if you are actually getting worse for the west in libya i think when they first thought they could kill a sweepin two months ago and basically borne the country into them into democracy they thought this is going to be quite a quick process where they could basically keep their hound you know keep it from a distance hold bombs into libya get rid of gadhafi and then everything will be all right now obviously that isn't the case and the introduction of these new bunker busting bomb from the apache helicopters are inevitably going to make decision

worse they could bring about severe civilian casualties in libya i think also reek of desperation but we're making a lot of noise and for a lot of very expensive bomb over the last couple of months but i think they've done very well they've ripped the democratic initiative from the libyan people and taken it into the hands of a small elite of western leaders if the no fly zone was implemented as soon as the decision was made by cameron by celko the by obama to intervene in what was effectively a civil war to basically just throw aside the whole idea of national sovereignty and say we're going to intervene on behalf of the libyan people the poor helpless libyan people who can't take their own matters into their own hands then really it was a very slippery slope from the offsets from the no no fly zone to. to potentially ground troops it's very hard to predict what's going to happen but by

no means should there be ruled out it could happen and it could happen very soon they're desperate to try and end this conflict but they don't really know how to do it so i think they're going to throw everything at it and see what sticks. a farewell ceremony has been held for the late president of cars here off his body was laid in state at the russian capital sort of a gap start of lung cancer at a moscow hospital on sunday many leading politicians including president medvedev came to pay their last respects of gas from sixty two lead of cars for the last six years during its struggle to retain independence from georgia because of sovereignty was recognized by russia in two thousand and eight for a good georgian military assault on another caucasian republics overset you got just bodies now being flown to have cars here is food will be held thursday. in america big brother has a mobile and please learn how to text on it the u.s. government now has a system of consent emergency alert to everyone from blizzards to terror threats the warnings will go straight to people's mobile phones but many feel it's creating

needless panic is artie's miniport. the country that created i phones. has more than three hundred million wireless users and in the name of national security the u.s. government will soon have a direct link to each and every handheld device it's like a piece of this is going to it's there for a good reason to hope that we never have to pull the trigger gathered at the scene of the september eleventh terrorist attacks federal in new york city officials joined the c.e.o.'s of the four largest wireless carriers to announce the nation's in new tech tools and alert system enabling the president and government agencies to blast every american with text messages warning of terror threats weather disasters and kidnappings the cell phone alert system will launch in new york city and washington d.c. by the end of this year expanding nationwide there are outer wireless users may

have the option of not receiving certain alerts but americans will not be able to opt out of messages sent by the u.s. president home and say politicians are promoting more fear while providing little protection now we have a system of mandatory and inescapable alerts to every cell phone in the land in the event that the government decides that something's happening that we want to know about but just as the introduction of the patriot act came right after nine eleven so this new kind of technological innovation comes to us without any public discussion right after the assassination of osama bin laden n.y.u. professor and author mark crispin miller says americans are living in an age of creeping authoritarianism and scare tactics the use of fear for any kind of government that create more control over people's wives and thoughts is that it

makes people malleable it makes them obedient i mean you go to any airport. and you can see this an actual good people are meekly taking off their. wedding they're getting groped under the auspices of airport safety babies senior citizens and everyone in between must now and or pat downs or pass through body scanners before boarding in the case of muslim americans that may not be enough sixty's following the killing of osama bin ladin for him moms on two separate u.s. flights were illegally kicked off planes for looking suspicious and you have a few hate mongers who who can conclude and. notions and people do they play on people's emotions to play on people's ignorance about islam and muslims you see and also this was created a climate of seeing you see if you see something suspicious in the parking lot or in the store say something immediately in december the department of homeland security began encouraging americans to report suspicious activity to the country's

largest food retailer wal-mart partnership with washington has been accused of perpetrating a climate of panic and subsequent need for more surveillance you need to create an enemy for people to rally behind analysts wars and the fact that we're spending over fifty percent of our taxes on war and our national defense when there's really no threat directly to this country and they need to keep it in this following the assassination of enemy number one and american lawmaker called for an increase in rail safety funding and the creation of a no ride list as u.s. officials warn of more terror threats following bin laden's death many americans remain concerned others are left wondering about the dangers of forsaking too much liberty for security. archie. and indeed for seeking liberty for security is very hard the next report just this month the u.s.

supreme court chucked out the case of an airline accused of providing planes with a controversial extraordinary addition program. that's the product and so of terror suspects allegedly being transferred to secret cia prisons abroad for interrogation some claim torture kill the cases from the sellers a peace and justice center to talk about this evening from moscow thanks we on the program first of all can you prefer give us an outline brief outline of what this case against the airline involved. this soon is a subsidiary of boeing gay allegedly providing logistical support for this extraordinary rendition flights in other words we're. delivering the detainees to the secret prisons around the world and. see how you soon might be out of detainees these. two thousand and seven. and that is why they went on its way through the courts and ultimately the ninth

their court decided listen to the argument the obama administration previously the bush administration had been making the same argument. should be cast doubt on abuses that it would violate state secrets. so of course so just to clarify i couldn't hear this because state secrets were involved but what has been used before to chuck cases out there is no is it just a cover up for torture and the existence of secret prisons do you think. well it certainly is because the existence of these prisons in the existence of the program has been acknowledged by first by the bush administration and later by obama administration but somehow these people who've been tortured and really been through terrible terrible situations do not get to have their day in court because the supreme court decided not to hear the appeal. you know your

organization is old a number of protests against the activity of gypsum data we're talking about just now so we're asking is this company still as far as you're concerned providing aircraft and crews used by the cia or was that all finished now we don't know do we even though or one bomb had to pass there is he promised transparency promised this is the administration would be open and above board and let people know what they're doing we really don't know what's happening so it's very possible that this program is continuing in some way or another i mean the u.s. war on terror proved successful i guess you could say in killing enemy number one labeled as a some of this is just a case of ends justifying the means you think. well now of the practice of torture is illegal it's immoral it's not completely forbidden by every

international convention including the geneva convention that the us is the first to be a party to this is illegal activity and by using the cover of. state secrets. will be revealed it's just a way of. continuing to allow it to continue to have accountability for this program and it is by the supreme court passing on even hearing it means that they are not living up to their constitutional responsibility to oversee what the executive is doing i just can't believe it could have been a program thanks for giving us your thoughts and just to tell us about the story. the san jose peace and justice center as you well. let's check it out see dot com tonight so we got there for you always a plethora of stories information pictures stuff to get involved with stuff that you'll say on tonight stories going a lot of clicks former russian tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky serving time for

stealing oil plans to request early parole but his lawyer says he's not going to admit guilt as his such a long running story we've got a lot of information online about it if you want to furnish yourself with more information is it r t dot com also the u.s. father of freedom with this is a distinct lack of liberty as r.t. america presents rather koka issues of property by police for the sake of the thomas jefferson memorial because the story got pictures online a firsthand account from him over what happened at r.t. . also making headlines tonight germany has agreed to shut down all of its nuclear power plants by twenty thousand to make the biggest industrial power to give up on atomic energy the reversal in government policy follows the prices that japan's fukushima plant a triggered mass protests across germany almost a quarter of the country's electrical power is provided by nuclear stations and the government's now seeking to turn its services. security forces and you have been

shot dead at least twenty protesters in the southern city of taiz police tried to storm the main square in the center of anti-government demonstrations president sell a refuses to step down despite months of protests and strong opposition from a king tribe in a country and then zinjibar meantime witnesses say yemeni warplanes have carried out air strikes on hundreds of al qaeda militants seized the city we can. at least forty two have been killed and dozens injured after twin bomb blasts in the afghan city of herat two suicide bombers attacked an italian run base while the number of other insurgents try to get inside the taliban recently declared a spring offensive in afghanistan the violence follows the recent nato strike in the country to kill fourteen civilians most of them children. if you will it's crosstalk examines whether it's time for the earth to call it a day that's coming up or an artsy after the latest business now with dmitri.

business r t russia central bank is raising the deposit rate and the effort to draw some of the cash out of the economy but at its regular policy meeting it decided not to raise the refinance rate the bank is struggling to keep inflation under control which is kind of the running at twice the european average give us what it is i want to from deutsche bank russia believes further tightening steps are. clearly the central bank is sending the signal that it can go an extra step to deal with inflationary pressures. i think however given the fact that inflation a significantly above the target level for the central bank which would be around seven percent for this year perhaps we will see additional measures by the central bank to tackle inflation later this year well i think until the end of this year the balance is likely to be towards

a strong ruble i think the central bank will have to rely on the strong will in order to tame inflation simply because the ruble is such a potent tool in dealing with inflation pressures we've seen it before and i think . we'll see it again in the course of this year. russia's finally lifting its a grain export droughts and flooding threaten crops from europe and the us where in the course of a look at what this might mean for local and international grain markets. farming is an unpredictable business in biblical times it was plagues of locusts and now days mother nature shows her wrath by sending floods and droughts last year was particularly bad in russia as for most contended with the longest dry hot summer for over a century the grain harvest was devastated this year the weather has been altogether more convivial the stores every film and the export ban lifted our domestic

consumption is estimated. sixty male and sounds. from the supply demand perspective we can exports around fifteen million sounds but a broad everything in the garden is not so rosy droughts and floods have afflicted parts of europe and the u.s. causing widespread crop damage and in the sphere of further hike and wheat prices which have already jumped almost eighty percent and the past year russia wants the second largest sweet exports are in the world could help turn things around. this will of course have an effect on the global market with russia is returning to the green export trade and has sizable resources to do so i believe global crisis will drop as a result of this although maybe not as significantly russia's reaction in the global markets may not solve grain shortages or rising food prices but it will play

a role and offsetting the damage marina costs are of our business r.t. now let's take a look at how the russian stock markets on monday on the obvious my tax matters moderate gains of the sentiment is that implied like ok and you ask mark it's a close one. public holiday sacred to some individual ship movers on the my six gas pump shares are up one percent now to news its close to finalizing a takeover feather's pipeline operator bell trance cast into rao is up five percent after posting a profit of two hundred ninety million years for the previous year much interesting call football said capital wraps up the base for. today's very indicative for the performance of the russian market as you know the u.s. isn't all the u.k. has also been told this significant chunk of the russian market participants i await. i think that you know the people who place in the market probably

a luxury dream boy futures for american market that would be cool prices but overall sentiment with russia has been oversold so this could quickly have a parade say to morals they have to morph from the negative news of the found in the shrewd the through the west and serving the people in the market saw was i wouldn't say that today is an indication of the beginning of recovery or i that's it from the business desk from malcolm x. so not seeing the headlines the status.

culture is that so much of the taxpayers' money i mean even ice is going to real money training issues of relevance and even legitimacy as the jostling continues as to who succeeds and now disgraced so many transcon. more than a month. to one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is and hard to duck and people have to be aware that they're far away from civilization sean thomas discovers what makes on started is so special and instructive for many wildlife in antarctica is a both an affront to. expedition to the bottom of the earth are seen. wealthy british scientists i.