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incident. hero or villain day after supporters of radko mass in belgrade his lawyers file an appeal against his extradition to the hague claiming he's likely to die before a trial gets underway. despite the support of most serbs europe's most wanted men will most likely be extradited to the hague all the details from just. the u.k. steps of military pressure on the khadafi regime deploying apache attack helicopters amid concerns the move could lead to nato. and washington wants to send text warning. text messages warning people of extreme weather and possible terror
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attacks a move some analysts say will make the population fearful not until. two am in moscow i met très agreed to have you with us here on r t our top story former bosnian army chief. has mailed an appeal to a serbian court against his extradition to the hague to be tried for war crimes is accused of ordering the one thousand nine hundred five needs a massacre in which about eight thousand muslim men and boys were killed or he's covering those are reports from belgrade. 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 and deliver it file it at the courthouse or deliver it by hand and actually mail it through the post many here of course
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believing that there is a delay tactic employed so that i cannot it is 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 to grant him that . 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 oprah cormorant program. there's no need for comments here the state of the system is clear but is it justice or something else the events that happened in the balkans were a question of law geopolitics or someone else's interests i believe all the peoples of former yugoslavia of victims we let ourselves be involved in
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a war in the twentieth century for the first time for the sake of foreign interests and no one emerged as a winner for 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 its outcome or this has been on the run for sixteen years and a sufferer 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 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 their accommodation is a national hero that is exactly why they took to the streets of the serbian capital belgrade on sunday are getting together some ten thousand people rally just outside
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the serbian parliament that rally soon turned violent when a youth started throwing firecrackers rocks to literally bricks huge rocks throwing them at riot police 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 the only thirty people were injured in the protest. reporting from belgrade foreign policy analyst boyan but believes that if. makes it to the tribunal you and serbia have faith in the way the system 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 to spend an enormous amount of time in the hague and a lot of people here in serbia are skeptical of. some of the practices of the hague
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tribunal in some of its records for instance. because slobodan milosevic the late president of yugoslavia and serbia actually died in prison with the conviction then for us war criminals that are generally acknowledged as war criminals here in serbia. but i mean i from close of all like some muslim commanders have actually been acquitted after. the tribunals simply concluded that there was not enough. basically but many serbs do not see either 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 commentary from foreign policy analyst boy talking about how he thinks it's
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trial in the hague is likely to go. britain's ministry of defense has said it will deploy apache attack helicopters and longer buster bombs in libya the warheads each wing that have already reached an italian air base from which pilots will fight missions over libyan targets britain says it's following a u.n. mandate into protecting civilians as are these laura amid reports some say the alliance may be pursuing a different agenda. 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 evolve the term out of risk they can be shot down 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
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small targets they'll make it easier to take out arms stalls 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 un resolution at the same time as they call for regime change it's a kind of like a guarantee. frankly they're involved in a civil war. helicopters there the intensity. on this is a war about regime change the helicopters markedly the latest escalation of this conflict following the no fly zone nato scented advisors to train the rebels introduce train patrols and by the first week of may have to play nearly six thousand strikes thought he's with aaa subjected to the heaviest bombing. a recent
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hugo pull for the sun tabloid newspaper showed less than half the britons now support the intervention in libya but that number is likely to plummets once you k. troops are in significantly more danger just why. god forbid. 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. but not one single one of the people has. the game and. people have marched against the libya war here in the u.k. but in small numbers can. the million that marched ahead at the base of it wrong helicopters bring the fighting closer to the. fire risk to bring up with this. the government might be able to bend that is known as the new strategy to make progress but it doesn't many see that that has troops on the ground in complete
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defiance of the u.n. resolution that is allowed. to be in false statement libya your enemies r.t. . well the alliance prepares to employ its bag of journalist patrick he's from spiked online magazine tells our tea that libya might still be a hard nut to crack the situation is 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 democracy they thought this was going to be quite a quick process where they could basically keep their house 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 bunker busting bombs in the apache helicopters are inevitably going to make decision worse they could bring about severe civilian casualties in libya and i think also rican desperation maybe making a lot of noise and suffering
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a lot of very expensive bombs over the last couple of months but i say 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. stay with us here on r.t. still ahead tonight cia travel agent for sure we were appalled by the case against an airline accused of making money from flying terror suspects or cross the globe has been dismissed. and the gloves come off the world's biggest emerging economies demand a break from the tradition of putting a european in the top job at the international monetary fund. but first the u.s. government now has a system that can send emergency alerts to everyone from blizzards to terror threats the warnings go straight to people's cell phones but many fields creating a needless panic as artie's marine important. the country that created i phones. has more than three hundred million wireless users and in the name of national
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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 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 the messages sent by the u.s. president holden say politicians are promoting more fear while providing little
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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 is 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 invasion 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 people are meekly taking off their shoes and moving to get in groped under the auspices of airport safety babies senior citizens and
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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 sixty's following the killing of osama bin ladin for him mom's on to separate us flights were illegally kicked off planes for looking suspicious and you have a few hate mongers who who can continue and rouse you know you've obeyed notions you know nothing of 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 fear and you see if you see something suspicious in a 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
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entity 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 calibrating 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 for seeking too much liberty for security here in a fortnight artsy new york. and for seeking liberty for security is the heart of our next report this month the u.s. supreme court dismissed the case of an airline accused of providing planes for the controversial extraordinary rendition program as the practice of terror suspects allegedly being transferred to secret cia prisons abroad for interrogation and some claim torture director of the institute for policy studies phyllis bennis tells our
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team why she things the latest decisions by the government and the court pose a threat to the u.s. justice system. this is a very serious and very damaging decision that the supreme court has just issued by refusing to hear this case they leave in place a ruling that essentially says the federal government whenever they choose can stop a lawsuit on the grounds of what is called state privilege or state security without any judicial oversight it's very dangerous private corporations private contractors are playing a far greater role in the wars in afghanistan and iraq and elsewhere as well as at home in issues that once belonged solely to the government and this is a huge problem because it means that not only do we have legal decisions such as this new decision the supreme court the new decision by congress but we also have a situation where when the carrying out of these decisions is done by private
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corporations like the boeing corporation there is even less accountability there are even greater barriers between getting information about who is responsible holding them accountable bringing them to justice this is a serious attack on the justice system of this country forward you can always check out our team here's what's on the line for you right now. former russian tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky serving time for stealing oil plans to request early parole his lawyer says he's not going to admit guilt. and us father a freedom witness is a distinct lack of liberty as archie america presenter adam cole catch is throttled by police for dancing at the jefferson memorial for a first hand account. also in the news this morning germany has agreed to shut down all of its nuclear power plants by twenty twenty two making it the largest industrial power to give up on atomic energy the reversal
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of government policy because the crisis in japan. triggered pro. across germany almost a quarter of the country's electrical power is provided by nuclear stations the government's now seeking alternative sources. security forces in yemen have shot and killed at least twenty protesters in the southern city of tire yes police tried to storm the main square in the center of the anti-government demonstrations president ali abdullah saleh refuses to step down despite months of protests and strong opposition from a key tribe in the city of zanzibar witnesses say yemeni warplanes have carried out air strikes on hundreds of all kind of militants that seize this city over the weekend. more than two hundred demonstrators have been injured during clashes with police the crowd armed with sticks and stones were marching against the government's proposed pension reforms police to use tear gas and but tons to quell the protests but was ordered to live ammo and demonstrators and broke into
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a police station. a race to run the international monetary fund is not so much about who but where the candidate comes from europe traditionally decides who gets the post in the e.u. is already pushing for its preferred choice making it hard for others to get a look in but the five leading emerging economies say it's someone else's turn or he's a really good reports of how the bric countries brazil russia india china and south africa are refusing to take no for an answer. it's a change they don't believe in with the former director dominic stores can out of the financial picture they're going to say she is looking for a suitable replacement and while the current financial situation in europe may suggest a new approach is needed to solve the problems by looks of it the i.m.f. will go in the other direction the weaker position and also the fact that there has been a longstanding deal between the united states and europe the u.s. will have the world bank and europe has the fun i'm sure the europeans would.
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all leading thinkers on the matter but at this juncture you still need someone familiar with the problems of the runner up is the french finance minister christine lagarde and while europeans heal her is one of the strongest economists in the euro zone some remain skeptical about her progress christine legarde comes the next. i think the short run i want. more of the same as long as they can sustain it it's not obvious you know greece may be a. default. perhaps even leaving europe so they may not be able to maintain these policies but the trend is for them to continue to try greece's debt just want to see what you've got are too far ahead and sick to find themselves in a very similar situation. person asking why must there be anything else and what happened to promises of fresh faces some at first seem to help their families i
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think that if christine does get the job i think it will be a betrayal of the i.m.f. . if you remember germany extra only a few months ago had said that there should be a change in the global order specially since india and china over the last three or four years have been the world's largest economies and it's india and china that have. really the world out of the economic slump that it has been in the last few years one of the world's most powerful organisations the international monetary fund has the power and the literacy countries to plunge them into despair kick russia for example some say their conversation played a crucial role in bringing about the default of one thousand nine hundred eight which left thousands of people penniless and just grit i remember when the soviet union broke up and and the rest of the g seven prescribed economic advice to the
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new russia and it was completely disastrous this complete third of the russian economy at the time completely destroyed russia in several ways and i think that's what the i.m.f. has done to several other economies bailing out greece and i was you know bailout for portugal italy and spain are also on the cards sex scandals broken pledges deepening debt as europe attempts to untangle itself from its fiscal chaos it seems clear that a new approach is vital to stay afloat but the international monetary fund seems to focus more on keeping rising economies out of the picture and on solving the many problems it now faces in those r.t. and zero zero pushes is preferred to take over the i.m.f. other countries argue that a non european should get the job one man catching rushers are in the head of the head of kazakhstan's rational bank. has been talking with r.t. about his ideas for reforming the powerful financial institution he introduced
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coming up. and then. going out and of his candidacy for the automatic top dog team just as big of a surprise to him as to the rest of financial community are they going to march in could quickly garner the support of a number of east european countries including russia and is now ready to take on the role of not only a surprise candidate but also surprised when are we going to march you could the
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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 will be a bit of the default to financial set for the president. several messages for mobile prime minister and from what i understand there was a decision to have to put some patients through the medium or for. prime ministers of serious countries in. and i wasn't part of the discussion after the session i was immediately sort of. differently it came as a surprise but i definitely appreciate support for sure you could say it's come through speaking about your own cabinet to see what do you think you can bring to
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the table personally and as part of the c.i.s. countries first of all i had my practical. three week training program the department of monetary and the center for is a name to mentor for this is a very different from a lot of european politicians who do not really know. functions and also another big difference is that kazakhstan was a. program of only from one to mentis and actually when i received it. when i became the governor for the first time in one thousand mentioned i am a mayor for all of them the eleven years ago we were the first serious country to sleep in my faith and to exit the program but that's a lot of difference from developed countries who are always more on the giving and the situation changes only recently and as you know all countries like portugal greece and ireland all bought very substantial packages from. now one of your
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strongest rivals is the french finance minister who is neither a banker and nor an economist she's actually a lot more 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 for the very highly differently she's a very impressive for a 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 of indonesia that i think and becoming the first for a man's female finance minister in that very big muslim country is i would say even
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a bigger achievement because i mean here. if you will finance minister in a little over from. her comments is very nice 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. have already. probably they do not go far enough do you think the emerging economy. countries in particular should rally around one single candidate does it make sense. and yes not necessarily i mean. i don't put my trying to pursue if there is someone again it's not clear no two beautiful interest in the world someone being but what i thought or more detail nightengale having a better program it's more involved who is electable and if somebody else is electable
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or more like the people there myself that's fine it's not about me it's about developing countries throwing for our serve themselves and trying to change the sound fair system maybe it was free in one nine hundred fifty s. and ninety's sixty's but different when it's not fair anymore if you are a laptop. what sort of policies would be on top of your agenda for a description of what the us. 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 what i would be very much like could be for the rich. department and i might because they've been producing some excellent sort of papers in the last fifteen years by the fortune of the not getting as much of the open ready to as much could because they deserve i think that i am ethanol this sixty five years ago for
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a master tremendous amount of knowledge you have this knowledge is not always group . or. by the police and makers in different countries and i think that would be. a very important objective fourth quiver he's the managing director of lima thank you very much for your time sir and good luck with your kind of my pleasure. not only next to the border but come up in egypt but also on the corner of peace and war. they're responsible not only for themselves. but also for their loved ones . they're ready to take any risk.
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