an. on our national hero of war crimes fugitive serbian eternal drug battles with them over the european tribunal he's backing from crowds on both great streets. like the support of most serbs europe's most wanted man will most likely be extradited to the hague all the details from belgrade just a few months. also british approaching helicopters prepared to cruise the libyan skies but it's feared the attempt to put pressure on gadhafi could actually put makes a person in the line of fire. on the u.s. government plans to send terrorism and whether disaster reverts to regular cell

phones but critics say it's just spreading the protection. hello live from moscow this is r t it's midnight here now my name is kevin zero in on our top story for 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 redcode love it she is charged with aldrin the murder of her own eight thousand muslim men and boys of nine hundred ninety five at his country of his in belgrade force the lawyer for one large 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 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 there 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 court then a panel of three judges will have three days to determine whether took around. from that appeal or whether to approve has 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 protocol it was a programming note for gordon brown there is no need for comment here the state of the system is clear is it justice or something else events that happened in the balkans were the question of law geopolitics or someone else's interests and i believe that all the peoples of former yugoslavia of victims we let ourselves be involved in a war in the twentieth century for the third time for the sake of foreign interests

and no one emerged as a winner of the balkan crisis was created much earlier it's long been unfolding before our eyes and it has nothing to do with law or justice and the law of this tribunal is going to provide a cover for it's a hot commodity has been on the run for sixteen years and 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 serbia is looking to gain access to billions of dollars worth of grant aid should of course aid be granted e.u. membership and capturing article modish was one of the key conditions for that the people on the streets saying that they believe that the law this is a national hero 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 of the serbian parliament that really soon turned violent when the youths just

started throwing firecrackers rocks literally bricks huge rocks throwing them at riot police riot police and 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 protest. it was artie's katrina czar of reporting from belgrade knowledge his lawyer says he's now mailed the appeals of the cole review the plea before deciding whether to ship it climb to the hague for a policy analyst boy in british told us so even if knowledge does make it to the tribunal through and we have got faith that works well 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 enormous amount of time in the hague and

a lot of people here in serbia are skeptical about the 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 a conviction then for us war criminals that are generally knowledged as war criminals here in serbia. but i deny from course of all like some muslim commanders have actually been acquitted after. sudden death or witnesses or after the tribunal simply concluded that there was not enough evidence so basically 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 that was foreign policy and as well in british talking about how he thinks knowledge is trial in the hague is likely to go . britain stepping up pressure on colonel gadhafi but deploying apache attack helicopters and bunker busting bombs in libya it comes as nato chief says the libyan leader's reign of terror is nearing an end result is the remnant reports new place 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 fast jets cannot hit from the air they also involve the fair amount of risk. much more easily than a fast jet so the possibility of these are personal 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 that 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 they call for. regime change it's a kind of guarantee. frankly very involved in the civil war in the helicopters apache helicopters there the intensive bombing of tripoli that's going on this is a war about regime training 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 it flew nearly six thousand strike sorties with tripoli subjected to the heaviest bombing. a recent you gov

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 u.k. troops are in significantly more danger just why. and god forbid. that happened we. don't even think about it so the issue is we haven't dropped any blood yeah we've dropped tens of millions of pounds which we haven't. not one single one of. the. people have marched against the libya war here in the u.k. but in small numbers compared to the million that march to head the invasion of iraq helicopters bring the fighting closer to the ground and with the high risk of death and angry up with this now the government might be able stick bent back as long as the new strategy makes rapid progress but it toughens many z.d.

net debt has troops on the ground in clear defiance of the un resolution out the regional day flight day to be enforced in libya you're episode see none to. protect hayes a journalist from the spy told told me all the coalition has done so far in libya is take the democratic movement and away from the people. if you are actually getting worse for the west in libya i think when they first thought they could sweep in two months ago and basically bomb the country into the into the more quickly they thought this is going to be quite a quick process where they could basically keep their hands you know keep a bit of 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 bunker busting bombs and the apache helicopters are inevitably going to make this is universe they could bring about severe civilian casualties in libya and i think also reek of desperation maybe making a lot of noise and for

a lot of very expensive bonds over the last couple of months but i see they've done very little else they've ripped the democratic initiative from the libyan people and taken it into the hands of a small elite of western leaders soon as 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 save 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 bombing to potentially ground troops it's very hard to predict what's going to happen but by no means should that 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 this is

r.t. for moscow still ahead. a travel agent for future we report on why the case of an airline accused of making money from flying terror suspects around the globe has been dismissed. farewell ceremonies been held for the late president of cars here after his body was laid in state in the russian capital so good gaps died of lung cancer at a moscow hospital on sunday many leading politicians including president preventive came to pay their last respects the gaps was sixty two years old and it led carson if the last six years during its struggle to retain independence from georgia because his sovereignty was recognized by russia in two thousand and eight following the georgian military assault on another caucasian republic south of setia we have his body has now been flown to have cars here will be held on thursday. in america big brother present and he's learned how to text on it the u.s. government now has got

a system that can send of merge and see alerts to everyone from blizzards to terror threats the warnings will go straight to people's phones but many feel it's creating needless panic because artie's miniport frowned at. 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 it's there for good reason but we 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 join the c.e.o.'s of the four largest wireless carriers to announce the nation's 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 after 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 opponents say politicians are promoting more fear while providing little protection now we have a system of mandatory and inescapable alerts through every cell phone in the land in the event that the government decides that something's happening that we ought to know about that 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 and why you professor and author mark crispin miller says americans are living in an age of creeping authoritarianism and scare tactics they use fear for any kind of

government that craves more control over people's lives and thoughts is that it makes people malleable it makes them obedient i mean you go to any airport today. and you can see this in action that people are meekly taking off their shoes moving to getting groped under the auspices of airport safety babies senior citizens and everyone in between must now endure pat downs or pass through body scanners before boarding in the case of muslim americans that may not be enough six days following the killing of osama bin ladin forty 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 can can evoke emotions you know enough people bill 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 fear 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 entity for people to rally behind 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 validating 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 that lot and death many americans remain concerned while others are left wondering about the dangers of for seeking too much liberty for security. archie new york. well for sake of liberty for security reporter as well just this month the u.s.

supreme court shot the case of an airline accused of providing planes with a controversial extraordinary rendition program products and some. terror suspects allegedly being transferred to secret cia prisons abroad for interrogation and some claim torture him i've been told was a u.s. military attorney washington eric thanks to the program that you've defended detainee's the one time of day before we'll talk about your ongoing it ok for the moment let's just talk about this airline place i've been mentioning first of all how do you outline for us what this case against the airline was. well essentially there have been several attempts to go after of the administration through you know various legal avenues this one is trying to call up the private company is being in the legal operations with the u.s. government and the u.s. government's permanent defense to this is the state secrets but that's and that's

again why this case has been chucked out. the core of this is that the ministration we're boller instructions adopting what is. president bush previous position that if they allow these lawsuits to go for it will or reveal state secrets such as intelligence and neck and isms and how old are looting and where and that's risky to national security so the suit can't go forward so what's your view on that think it's a justified defense. well you know there are ways to adjudicate matters behind closed doors i mean there have been many cases that you know states of tried were classified material has been presented to release issues have been addressed and certainly. should issue a rendition of classified information and so i don't understand exactly what the administration is trying to resolve here

a certain extent superstition area the other people the big picture here have been many reports over the years of the so-called cia black sites talking all over eastern europe women is there any remaining doubt as you see it over whether they exist existed well what happens in them. well i think the most sensitive issue here is the cooperation between the u.s. government and other governments in this and it's somewhat symptomatic of what we can the next scenario that happened earlier in the u.s. is not interested in revealing it's cooperation with various nations some of them which if they did reveal their cooperated with us we create their own internal problems so i think this is more a matter of diplomacy as i was to you know legal position we talked about the state secrecy defense i mean so far none of the victims of the rendition program had their day in court if correct you yourself apparently defending the youngest guantanamo detainee mohamad jalen he's suing the u.s.

army and navy with your help i mean do the victims of any of the various anthing tara techniques used by the u.s. ever have a chance of seeing justice. well i think that the jewel case group presents a unique set of circumstances for would addition standpoint rather one of the facts as you have on classified information about the torture we have on classified information that has moved on classified information about the state department's involvement in that classified information about his removal from afghanistan so we are in a position where many of the other detainees are not in that almost everything that we need to go forward in the lawsuit it's already been declassified so he may be the first one that successfully moves forward and can at least pass the initial attempts at this missile because we have ready access to the information. again looking at the big picture what are your thoughts about the recent killing with some of been loved you think it's not given the u.s.

the justification it needed for the method employed allegedly in conducting the war on terror. well i would say you know one has nothing to do with the other you know this was deliberate and it was investigation close to ten years in the making and it culminated in you know somebody coming forward in the. intelligence aspect in france so i don't think that any lawyer or any you know technique is unique in this particular circumstance it was just a matter of little detective work somebody wanted to come forward and offer information which was going to be an island and they were going to lead it and were successful when i accidently. is removed so you know i don't see this is different from any other successful operation that we've conducted and past years and i just fear that you know we start associating you know loss with successes when that's not you know particularly the cation chandra or wish correlation it's more

a coincidence you know we are a leader freedoms and liberties are certainly eroding over time and we have to keep the. u.s. military here joining us from washington thank you for being on the program is pushing it. let's check it out t. don't call me gotta catch your interest maybe it's a taste as was plenty online from us well tonight from a russian tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky to serving time for stealing oil plans to request a role but his lawyer says he's not going to admit guilt this is a long running story lot of information on our website about if you want to finish this up with some more information also the us follow the roof of the witnesses that this thing or lack of liberty as america to present for there is out of code throttled by police for dancing at the thomas jefferson memorial what do you think about this story for a firsthand account of what he says happened it's all captured on camera go to wate

dot com. next is europe pushes its preferred candidate to take over the i.m.f. other countries argue that no one european should get the job one man whose country russia is i right now is the head of cuz it stuns national bank. and he's been talking to what i think about his ideas for reforming the powerful financial party . then outside of his candidacy for the automatic top dog seemed just as big of

a surprise to him as to the rest of financial community but to be born in march you could quickly garner support of a number of its european countries including russia is now ready to take on the role of not only a surprise candidate but also a surprise when are we going marching could the current chief of kazakstan central bank joins us now on our team thank you very much for your time sir you told reporters previously. you learned about these announcements through the s.m.s. message how did it come about. during the. meeting or we've got a deal almost a summit to board the financial sector or the present for several messages from all the prime minister and i mean from what i understand there was a decision to come out of the concert patients during the meeting well for. prime ministers of serious countries in it and i wasn't part of those discussions after

the session i was immediately sort of by the reporters. differently it came as a surprise but i definitely appreciate support for russia ukraine another serious company speaking about your own account of the sea what do you think you can bring to the table personally and as. representative of the c.i.s. countries first of all i had my practical. three week training program and department of monetary and exchange affairs in one thousand nine hundred is very different from a lot of european politicians who do not really know. functions and also another big difference is that time was a money saving. program with a myth maintain my interest and actually when i receive through i would know i became the governor for the first time in one thousand nine hundred in the mayor fulfill them of the eleven years ago we were the first sort of serious country to

sleep a month and drugs of the program but that's a lot of difference from developed countries who are always more than a giving and the situation changes only recently and as you know all the countries like portugal greece and ireland all but very substantial packages from. now one of your strongest rivals is the french finance minister who is not either a banker and nor an economist she's actually a were trained in the united states what sort of masses do you think her cabinet this sounds. the rest of the financial community especially to the bric countries i think she's a very good candidate so i do not know her personally but everybody speaks very highly differently she's a very impressive for the first sort of business lady and the minister and she was voted by several newspapers and magazines as the best sort of finance minister in

europe and she deserves a lot of credit for becoming the first female finance minister. in europe but at the same time you have for instance former finance minister haven't been easier to write you know and becoming the first frame mounts female financial minister in that very big muslim country because he is. i would say even a bigger achievement but because i'm a dear and i will never feel finance minister in a little over thirty but this speech. i'm going to see is very much a message that the developed countries and the european countries would like to maintain the status quo which is not necessarily fair and i think that changes when they might have already. probably they do not go far enough do you think the emerging economies and bric countries in particular should rally around on single candidate doesn't make sense. but not necessarily i mean.

i don't see if there is someone again it's not clear motive you can contest on the vote someone being but so far or more to come i think we're having a better program it's more involved who is elected and if somebody else is electable and more electable than myself that's fine it's not about me it's about developing countries thriving through our search themselves and put on projects the sound for your system maybe it was free in one nine hundred fifty s. and one nine hundred sixty s. but different for here anymore if you are elected. what sort of policies were on top of your time greatest have you shown us what this process because all that i just started european debt crisis because this is a really big issue. or the situation in the us economy and also i would be very much like to be for research. department in the i.m.f.

because they've been producing some excellent papers in the last fifteen years by the unfortunate event not getting as much popularity to as much credit as they deserve i think that i methanol this sixty five years ago for remember some aren't . which is how this knowledge is not always properly distributed it's a war on allies thought by the policy makers in different countries and i think that would be a. very important objective for cueva is the man in a better program thank you very much for your time sir and good luck with your kind of it's my pleasure. to live not only next to the border with gaza and egypt but also on the border of

peace and more and they are responsible not only for themselves. but also for their loved ones. and they are ready to take any risk. i will jump in the streets on our.