europe's most wanted war criminal drug crime that it is battling against trial at the hague tribunal supporters in serbia say the former army chief would get a fair hearing in the netherlands. financial bombshell an investigation into spanish banks from fields that have large numbers of cashing in on the shady business or even. american soldiers who've witnessed the harsh realities of western song with the court proceedings just what the government is up to. and russia has

banned the import of spanish and german vegetables at the deadly outbreak. in europe problems spain is seeking compensation as the country's imports more in business in ten minutes. you're watching r.t. all the news that matters twenty four hours a day welcome to the program where we start with serbia where a former army chief charged with ordering the massacre of up to eight thousand muslims in one thousand nine hundred five awaits a decision on his extradition appeal. is expected in the hague any day now but his supporters believe justice won't be on his side in the evidence teams catherine who's been in belgrade since the former generals arrest has more. bringing justice to thousands of victims that's one self-proclaimed success of the international

criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia and it's ready to deliver some more serbia prepares to extradite former bosnian serb army chief that unlike each. he's accused of crimes against humanity and already in the one thousand nine hundred five massacre in the village of slipping. despite living on the run for sixteen years and having suffered two strokes the sixty nine year old general has been deemed fit enough to stand trial audience that's a lot it will most likely leave this special court house in belgrade and be transported to the hague war crimes tribunal but not one person we have spoken to police he will get a fair trial there surely lot of evidence to back up the serbs distrust of the i c t y so what do the people here based their judgment on a lot of people here in serbia are skeptical about the some of the practices of the high paid tribute on some of its record for instance because slobodan milosevic

died in prison without the conviction then for us war criminals that are generally acknowledged as war criminals here in serbia like around most of the night from cos of all like some muslim commanders have actually been acquitted after saddam bethought witnesses or after the tribunals simply concluded that there was not enough evidence how do you know it isn't by only means the only example take credit course of a prime minister caution toci has been accused by the council of europe of being in charge of an organ trafficking group and still remains in his post in general nothing or h. was known among the serb residents of the district at seventy so after the vampire for allegedly cutting the throats of thousands of civilians he walks free cleared up. chargers and former military leaders said crowley live each accused of mass

murders during the balkan war of the one nine hundred ninety s. enter politics having also avoided justice. this many suggest is a very clear indicator that the hague tribunal is being used as a political tool not a legal one. is it justice or something else events that happened in the balkans with a question of law geopolitics or someone else's interests i believe the former yugoslavia of late two nights and probably if we let ourselves be involved in a war in the twentieth century and her time for the sake of foreign interests and no one emerged as a winner of the balkan crisis was created much earlier is long been unfolding before our eyes and it has nothing to do with law or justice for the tribunals is going to provide a cover for its. that doesn't believe his father will get a fair trial but at the very least the hague will offer him better treatment so.

you don't need to be an expert is one that stands out for my father is in a very poor condition you can't even read so he has to go through thousands of pages to be able to testify in court or what but he simply unable to do that he has difficulties with speech to make up our will he consulted with his lawyers it's impossible with barneys got problems with his memory or that he may remember things that happened long ago for purposes of same time he can remember what happened yesterday or the day before yesterday when a person we have these health problems appear in court or probably are used as. i.c.t. wise men to ask for more than just good medical care and the upstate justice is accused of turning a blind eye just read these opinions and has been for some time i'm not at all surprised because when the law of conflict was at its height the western media including the british media was far from objective. well understand why the serbian

people demonstrated against the rest and allowed. because they're accustomed to the fact that the western media always gave a bad name during the conflict and i've seen for myself a war crime in bosnia at a place called ski blood which was completely ignored by the media. and we got photographic evidence of the massacre. of civilians in the town serbia's ministry of justice is called the ministry of truth if it reached the ship or the logic of the trial that's likely to confirm what a lot of serbs believe its stance funny. cashiers are about our team belgrade serbia. on the way in the program keeping a lid on government seat. us judges brush aside a case to uncover the truth behind the cia terrorism if we look at why the courts

are helping to keep the public in the doug. e. fresh explosions have been heard early on tuesday in the libyan capital tripoli ok me just hours after colonel gadhafi signaled he was ready to accept a cease one and talk to the south african president nato is not holding back on its own stock which is a ministry of defense says it's to deploy the attack helicopters and bunker buster bombs the warheads have already arrived at an italian air base where pilots will fly missions on the libyan targets but journalist patrick hayes from spikes online magazine told r.t. that while the alliance readies its bunker busters libya might still be a hard nut to crack. if you are actually getting worse for the west in libya i think when they first thought they could swoop in two months ago and basically bomb the country into the move into democracy they thought this is going to be quite a quick process where they could basically keep their hound you know keep a bit of

a distance hold on the 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 forms in the apache helicopters are inevitably going to make this in worse 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 bones over the last couple of months but actually they've done very little 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 affectively 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 pay their own matters into their own hands then really it

was a very slippery slope from the offsets for 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. but as more nato bombs rained down on libya it's come to light that one nato member has been supplying bombs and they've been leader several large spanish banks are reported to have been saying about a fracture was a cluster bombs. around since two thousand and eight. as the story. just one striking cluster bombs can spread thousands of smaller explosives a very expensive areas often failing to explode children mistake the controversial devices something to play with these in toys fighting to populated areas as they

were in misrata recently they almost guarantees civilian deaths that's why more than one hundred countries have banned their production and markings on the shelves found in the libyan city belong to spanish company instead. there were arms. that were purchased by gadhafi that were used against residential area in these about that and they were produced by a spanish company and financed by spanish plans to just how did duffey forces come to acquire spanish made arms in two thousand and seven installers and make the most of the lifting of the arms sanctions against libya as the tripoli regime fell back into favor with the west spanish company want to contract to supply kit these forces with one twenty weapon and did so until two thousand and eight when spain signed up to the international convention banning custom emissions. but with libya now once again the enemy spain as part of nato finds itself fighting the regime

itself helped to arm and the trail goes back much further to spanish banks which provided the financial power to the larger to make their deadly weapons of war minus a bring this thing forward uses as kind of a way to illustrates what being there is between a bank. civilian deaths in conflicts because to me missions convention planning the production and use of cluster bombs has seen many countries including spain sign up but there's a loophole there is one article in the cross mission convention article one see that speaks about. and a lot of country countries have already into this article as also containing investments strain has not yet gone so it means that well since the laws they can no longer produce and sell cluster munitions spanish banks can continue investing

in their manufacture spanish n.g.a. said tens investigations have uncovered spain alone had fourteen planks involved in financing nineteen makers of cluster bombs b b v a is the spanish bank that's been most active in finance think produces a controversial weapons and it's exactly this kind of large scale financing they complain is now trying to rein in pushing for the development of more robust policy to ensure the banks are held accountable but without legislation there remains a direct link not only between the weapons produces and the banks that finance them but between the banks and the customers. really transparent about what they are using the saviour's money for so it's not very easy to find out any of the banks named in the investigation and now coming forward to say their policies on funding and production are to change but until that happens in the murky world of dance

production wall remains a profitable business. r.t. . one of us has been cornering it's dead soldiers the government is being accused of failing to help troops and we came back from war and live that's marines are left with just a life after service themselves are struggling to make sense justify the. war in iraq. that's one former soldier whose account of her grueling. lives on the whole life. yes the thing here is a very much into the infinite world of literature enters this twenty eight year old ex marine an american who abandoned her weapon four written words to tell a story she says he's kept censored from u.s. citizens he will people may know that it affects us i don't think that they understand the way. the toll that it takes us and seeing the effects or.

the literal effects of the bodies that were made i couldn't figure out why why are we ordinary doing again why are we why are we doing you know and it was this person's life or things just goodell's memoir she did black details a traumatic and human account of war in two thousand and four spent eight months in iraq collecting cataloguing bagging and boxing the bodies of dead marines at the mortuary affairs unit and experience no u.s. president who's declared war has ever endured if it was a result of or an explosion there could be several body cases so sometimes that would require us to you know crawl under a truck or crawl into trucks or just as you mentioned. you know you want to. flush this that you can get back to the family pieced fallen soldiers back together

after receiving body bags filled with limbs on one occasion a bag she process was carrying only the heads of her comrades we didn't know what we were seeing when we had opened up the bag we didn't know what was in the bag. when we had gotten that particular body bag so when we're done zip to you know as soon as you call back the flap and you see that it's head suit mediately you know look away i mean it's difficult to look at but you have to look at that because you have to you know put them in their respective party bag or something to their. like the family and your lea four thousand five hundred u.s. soldiers have returned from iraq in caskets more than fifteen hundred flown in from america's other war in afghanistan that was a marine and i think that there for the millions who do make it home alive many like adults are tormented by memories post-traumatic stress disorder depression and substance abuse i could leave my apartment you know i didn't have friends and talk to anybody. and

a lot of it you can't deal with. you know until it's you know i suffer from flashbacks and nightmares and i i couldn't process that i had a really hard to make sense of it more than six years later could tell says she still searching for reasons to justify the damage and death caused by the u.s. war in iraq as a marine she did what she was told as a civilian she questions why u.s. leaders glorified soldiers as heroes but neglect to speak about the consequences of their service i don't know that the government respects the trends because if there is like that i don't think that they would send us to these places. to carry out what they're asking us to so i don't think that that sex is there from the get go. declaring war is the prerogative of politicians over the decades us morris have resulted in

a reported twenty three million american veterans and many left struggling to adjust to life following the battle a shift from fighting enemies to fighting demons are enough for nine or r.t. mainak. it was not just body bags or a u.s. government is keeping it hidden from the public the u.s. supreme court has rejected an all suit against an airline accused of helping the cia transfer detainees to secret prisons where they were allegedly tortured court officials to turn down cases that could expose government secrets. mr place in this told r.t. the situation puts fundamental american values in the firing line and 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 a very dangerous and particularly in light of the decision by the congress to approve the very contentious parts of the patriot act that allow a wide expansive level of surveillance that wire taps etc by the government this is a very very difficult very challenging environment for the rights of people in this country our constitution guarantees us the right of free speech the right of free association but all of those things now are threatened by this kind of ruling. or meanwhile american judges have continued to cover of washington's darkest secrets even after president obama promised in the press and the. that's the view of peace activists sean casey where you see us courts are failing in

a duty to uphold the system of checks and balances. torture is illegal it's in morally. and legally permitted by every international convention including the geneva convention in the us that is that goes beyond party into this is illegal activity and by using the cover of. seeing that state secrets would be. would be revealed it's just oh well you know it's about continuing to allow it into new i not to have accountability for this program and it's deemed by the supreme court shastri in law and even hearing it means that they are not living up to their constitutional responsibility to oversee where the executive is. now if you want to learn more of the stories we're covering here in r.t.i. you can log on to our website rotten dot com it's just a selection of what we have on life you right now one of russia's richest media

tycoons said to create the unsupported by merging is a recent episode and called to the newspaper pendant for the russian paper a. special villages created for all from children are free to cross russia to bring happiness to those deprived of parental affection. and that's not all folks that's a first ever comics department opens at a mosque university to make the class again check out the cartoon capers that's our website r.t. dot. let's move to some other world news that we have for you this hour but it's rejects have pounded us something that many town killing at least thirty people came a day after three hundred militants seized zinjibar but they came to those two

important well trance. right opposition leaders say they only present could have internationally surrendered control to the gun show help pay article without it hundreds of people have been killed or else through the months and violent clashes between government forces and protesters the president out. in turkey thousands of march first verse three of the drugs raid assault on a chip for guards or nine people were killed in the raid which led to a great party and really strange ties between television history. turkish aid to them as being ready to deliver supplies and second june israeli military officials say troops have been training for months to intercept any ships against of comes to use different tactics this time. a leaked u.s. government report claims haitian authorities significantly exaggerated the death

toll from last year's devastating earthquake documents as for use with six times higher than they should have been haitian governments claimed more than three hundred thousand were killed the country has already received two billion dollars in aid from international organizations and governments but it says it needs another eleven for reconstruction. during her latest visit to pakistan u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton pressured islamabad into taking more decisive action against militants as it was supposed to be a candle ties between the two countries and suffered a setback after the us forces covertly killed the son of a nod in pakistan partings contributor says the goal was not achieved because it's not about these outsmarting russians and. one of the men explanation the stop officials latest visit to pakistan as expected didn't result in any

positive development in american pakistani relationship could be told to explain by the u s a c d c policy towards pakistan because it's alternates blackmailing and could joining the pakistani generals who ruled the country because figure out long time ago how too many to wade through their own advantage american interests in the region as a whole every time washington tried to push islam about into their corner to extract more concessions and more commitment regarding their fighting against international terrorism and pakistani military leadership calls the american bluff and the whole situation rolls back to square one so if washington wants to alter the behavior in islamabad it has to completely reevaluate the basic assumptions that are underlying the relationships between these two countries.

that will have all of us that sort. of. how is a very warm welcome to a business update fears of a nuclear safety after the earthquake in japan have pushed germany to review its energy program the country will phase out all of its seventeen reactors within the next eleven here natural gas is likely to be main cule that will fill that gap. to my view gas usage will increase the government indicates that we want to have a new bridge technology replacing nuclear as

a bridge technology and that is gas for the first time. there is gas explicitly mentioned in the six point action plan that was released a month ago and now the ethics commission also mentions gas as one falls out of fuel as a bridge technology will russia play a more important role in of course russia is the most important gas exported to germany the new pipeline projects will to my view support. importance of russia for the european. gas market. let's take a quick look at the markets well prices bounced back from other losses on tuesday that europe is moving closer to a solution to its severus sovereign debt woes helped to prop up the euro against the dollar and the lights which is trading at around one hundred one dollars a barrel while brant is above one hundred fifteen dollars a barrel. moving on to asia japanese stocks advance to meet signs that industrial

production may improve tech majors were among the main gainers of the nikkei hong kong's hang seng is also seeing gains chinese energy producers are on the rise after beijing allowed a modest increase in electricity rates to alleviate a severe power shortage in some parts of the country. and here in the r.t.s. minimize its top posting significant gains in early trading what now had a look at some of the individual show moves on the mice it sort of may just among the maintainers of meet high current prices per bank shares are also supported by strong first quarter results profit has doubled in three point one billion dollars coming in a bar analyst expectations. of the summer months were typically a time for consolidation and corrections on russia's stock exchanges but it seems that capital believes there are still success stories that could drive the market up. among the most liquid names.

would continue or perform. i would worsen it quickly point to stories for workers were they for example as you know the government of. the political groups or names they deserve from the ever before and the force of the form in the short term. overall i think the whole book ex-wife would continue to believe in those results and has been the best performing name among the best performing in europe of. those because the. performance of the frozen for eleven pickups. is through again it's for us. and russia has been for import of german and spanish vegetables for a link of deadly outbreak of e. coli in europe that covered the whole of vegetables including tomatoes cucumber and

sun it however sanction may be applied to all european countries of the situation doesn't improve meanwhile reports claimed the deadly strain has already killed up to fourteen people in germany and made three hundred seriously ill. russia's eyeing plans to bore its largest amount in eight months on the domestic market the move comes at the same time as its debt costs are rising following rate rises by the central bank so thought a state has sold global bones equivalents to over sixteen billion dollars since the beginning of a year and that's markedly different to another of the so-called marsh economies brazil where boring is seven times higher you can find more business stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business and more in an hour's time.