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so i tell our t. serbian general rocco's not ensure arrives in the netherlands to be tried of the international criminal tribunal for genocide these latest pictures in but so after his appeal against extradition was rejected we've got the latest just ahead but most serbs love it won't get a fair trial in the hague which they accused of being biased against their country all the details from belgrade in just a few months. also the main suspects of the murder of russian journalist anna politkovskaya is being interrogated in moscow following his arrest in chechnya. you can call the european court of human rights the jepps accusations that russia's
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prosecution of jailed eggs all tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky was driven by politics. business schools in russia of basic your long term gas in the brics to germany as berlin moves away from nuclear energy on that in twenty minutes. hello this is our team from moscow it's ten pm choose the night here now my name is kevin in and first as i just mentioned a plane carrying from a bosnian serb general cold blooded has now landed in the netherlands is on his way to the hague to face the international war crimes tribunal that it's lost an appeal against his extradition from serbia will now be put on trial for allegedly ordering a massacre of was lives in one thousand nine hundred five the country now is out of the is in belgrade. the decision to extradite former bosnian serb general article
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luggage was confirmed by the serbian justice minister she said that i can now that she is already on the way to the hague and we saw a police convoy leaving the special court house where a lot of it has been ever since his arrest last week we also know that the entire highway to the airport was blocked off so that he and the police convoy escorting him could get to the airport and a minimum amount of time he will face the i.c.c. wire the international criminal tribunals for war crimes in former yugoslavia according to his lawyer and his family it will be live long enough to see the actual trial because of his due to rating health condition but despite their concerns the medical council here in the port a good judge of mr matechuk fit to be extradited to the hague and of course he will be there until the hague tribunal puts their case load together and actually begins the trial process most people in this country didn't want to see him lodge extradited in belgrade we had
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a large rally on sunday some ten thousand people gathering in belgrade of course those troops just turned violent briefly when you started throwing stones firecrackers and bottles at riot police riot police force forced to use their but hard rubber bullets to disperse the crowds we also know about a rally outside serbia took place in the bosnia and herzegovina in city of money luka thousands of people also gathered for a peaceful rally against the extradition over to the luggage lodge although those rallies have led to nowhere not come out it is now on his way to the hague but come on that will now have to wait for the crimes tribunal to put together all of their evidence before the trial can actually begin but even with that delay no one here in serbia believes that he will be able to get a fair trial because for them the hague war crimes tribunal is a political tool not a legal one bringing justice to the town. ns of victims that's one self-proclaimed
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success of the international criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia and it's ready to deliver some more serbia prepares to extradite former pastor army chief on line which. he's accused of crimes against humanity and what human one thousand nine hundred five massacred in the village of. 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 that one person we have spoken to police he will get a fair trial there certainly a lot of evidence to back up the serbs just trust of the i.c.c. why 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 hague tribunal and some of its record for instance because slobodan milosevic died in prison without a conviction then for us war criminals that are generally acknowledged as
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a war criminals here in serbia like are almost out of the night from course. muslim commanders have actually been acquitted after. saddam bethought witnesses or after the tribunals simply concluded that there was not enough evidence karajan there isn't but only means the only example take her in kosovo prime minister cautioned that she 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 it's happening it's a vampire for allegedly kind of throats of thousands of civilians he walks free cleared of all charges and former military leaders separate of each accused of mass murders during the balkan war of the one nine hundred ninety s. . entered politics i think also of water justice. this many suggest is
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a very clear indicator that the hague tribunal is being used as a political tool not only that one protocol it was of course the corner and present your trailer is it justice or something else or a sister events that happened in the balkans or the question of law geopolitics or someone else's interests i believe that all the former yugoslavia of victim of some kind of gives we let ourselves be involved in it all in the twentieth century when you're playing the sign for the sake of foreign interests and no one emerged as the winner of this the balkan crisis was created much earlier has long been unfolding before our eyes and it has nothing to do with law or justice and the law this tribunal is going to provide a cover for it europe's lady justice is accused of turning a blind eye just release opinions and has been for some time i'm not at all surprised because when the law of conflict was outed it the western media including
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the british media was far from objective. understand why the serbian people demonstrated against the rest of. it because of their custom to the fact that the western media always gave serbia a bad name during the conflict and the osun for myself a war crime in bosnia at a place called was onscreen 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 shipping up from the get off the trial will have the little to change quite a lot of serbs believe it stands firmly with. catherine as our r.t. belgrade serbia. so reckless will soon face the war crimes tribunal but
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journalist and balkans and story and a bunch of relics stabs that he'll get a fair trial in the hague we want to just part of the entire set of political and police and military leaders there a city wide this one trying to demonstrate that everything that happened in the eighty's was equally answerable in spirits so you're not really putting watching trouble putting all shirt and all should be and. all efforts to peace serbia is the aggressor any perpetrator for crimes you could justify contravention that. you will form a new community in one thousand and two when it recognize the breakaway republics of parisian seniors and states the problem is when. intervene in ninety five and in court against looking for the civil war in bosnia and when it came out all the bullshit all of those things build up as justifications you can we support and great interest because these are evil people will never repeat them as will people
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you have to put them on trial run or. and it's a spirit black and white philosophy back to one task like chance in your question see you have to have it and you know you're going to be the good guy yourself jonas the balkans the story in the voice of malik stalked her a bit earlier on about the upcoming trial of radko but it. russia could be a significant step closer to solving the murder of journalist anna politkovskaya the main suspect. was arrested today in chechnya there's no big question here in moscow are these people oliver has the details. prosecutors are convents that they're close to solving the murder of anna politkovskaya one of the most high profile slayings in recent russian memory. model of is accused of having fired the shots that killed her and after years on the run in belgium he was arrested in his home village in chechnya this is also possible to stomach one of the arrest was carried out with the help of belgian police or he had been hiding
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for several years we've been in constant contact with him and it was this cooperation that helped us capture the suspect knowledge and police triggered the manhunt and mark would have was forced to leave the country the investigators are currently questioning him in connection with the murder of anna politkovskaya mahmood of two brothers along with a former police officer who were acquitted of the murder in two thousand and nine due to lack of evidence but the russian supreme court and no verdict and ordered the investigation reopened. son told me the family hopes this arrest will bring them closer to finding out who killed his mother of course it's a very important step but we have to wait and see if. it will be proved but even that is not enough we have no clue who the mastermind of the murder is nor about the organizers it's a significant part of the journey but it's certainly not the end. an internationally renowned journalist anna politkovskaya was shot dead in october two thousand and six when she returned home to stay miss for investigative work
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particularly reports into human rights abuses former colleagues believe the duty of the close family ties of those accused of the murder there will always be some unknowns surrounding the crime as honestly as the point of it's hard to tell how many people are involved we have the three most brothers and their own call that he's a criminal bourse and could easily be the most wind of the murders of good riddance especially chechens unlikely to testify against one. opponent calls guy a murderer isn't the only high profile case to see recent breakthrough journalists need organic to think that this arrest along with the conviction of the killers of freelance journalist and a board of r. and human rights lawyer stanislav michael of chile these type of murders to get solved in today's russia this is definitely a landmark victory in the fight against impunity in passenger all this murderous not to strike but also human rights defenders lawyers. and we
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see that as a very significant step forward rostam mahmood of currently in moscow where his lawyers are preparing his defense while for the family and friends of anna politkovskaya their long wait for justice continues his role of aarti moscow. european court of human rights has ruled has nothing to prove russia's prosecution of former all magnetic mikhail khodorkovsky was politically motivated judges in style did however find that his rights were violated you're his arrest in two thousand and three the accent of all joy and you cos and once russia's richest man is currently in jail for embezzled want of money laundering and he says for a silly and brings us up to date on this case. in the decision of the european court of human rights a day in rejecting the appeal of course he and his lawyers claiming that the prosecution had been politically motivated the court cited the lack of incontestable proof which means that the a lawyers have got of course he had failed to provide sufficient solid evidence to
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back up these claims that has to be said though that if you thousand for me when he was arrested the kind of holes he had been financing opposition political parties now according to particles he and his supporters it was because of his political side that he was arrested in the first place and of course the a prosecution had denied these allegations from the very start now aside from having head of one of the biggest oil companies the acclaims of this political maneuvering has really made this story quite captivating but as of today being here he and court of human rights had dismissed these claims and had to put the matter to rest now on another issue kind of course he had also gone to the court claiming his rights had been violated this is the regard to being detained without justification prior to investigation and trial as well as the conditions in which he was held claiming that they were crimes as well as unsanitary well on these counts the court had agreed with of course he and they had ordered the moscow court to pay a fine of a twenty four thousand euros is equal to thirty five thousand dollars in damages to
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her called state the moscow court had reacted to that and said that they would appeal this ruling should they find grounds to do so on monday had a cause he did a file for parole and appeal for parole and the court asked today acknowledged that they had received it and that they will be reviewing it just to give the background what he was arrested in two thousand and three since then he had been convicted twice and of putting the a such as this a together he was scheduled he is scheduled to be released into the sixteen and according to his lawyers he has every right to appeal for parole to a request for this not the most the court has said that they will try to come up with a decision as swiftly as possible and we are expecting that in about two weeks' time . a lot more about that so long going story online at r.t. dot com if you want to furnish yourself with more information also there tonight a message to follow what americans are getting emergency from blizzards to terror threats sent straight to the phone find out why some say it's a case of big brother spreading panic among the public it's on. a special foster
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villages for orphaned children being created across russia to bring happiness to those deprived parental him got a story to. most was urging nato not to hamper attempts to organize talks between the libyan government and opposition russia's taking a mediating role in the conflict foreign ministers have a lavrov said no one especially those who overstep the original un resolution should stand in the way of a possible compromise meanwhile nato is not holding back on its onslaught bunker buster bombs from the u.k. ever arrived at mit tally an air base from where pilots will fly missions over libyan targets britain's ministry of defense says it will also deploy apache attack helicopters patrick paisley's from spiked online magazines a journalist there he told me that even with the alliance readying its bunker busters 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 kind of swoop in two months ago and basically
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bomb the country into the move into democracy they thought this was going to be quite a quick process where they could basically keep their hand you know keep it from a distance hold bombs into libya get rid of the ogre 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 this is you know they could bring about severe civilian casualties in libya and i think also reka best peroration they'll be making a lot of noise and for a lot of very expensive bombs 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
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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. russia is pushing hard for a joint european missile defense system with nato spearheaded by the u.s. but the alliance has been slow to take any concrete steps meanwhile a new agreement will see u.s. fighter jets deployed in poland as part of america's planned defense shield moscow says that's alarmingly close to russia's borders and once the two sides to begin work on a combined project washington wants to separate missile shields the head of the state duma's foreign affairs committee constant because the child explains what the
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two sides need to do now avoided me rahm's race. number one is not to take any practical steps immediately in order to create a future global in the cell system number two is to. make a legally binding agreements on the purposes of the future system and to be sure the of the american or the need to system will not be a crusher and to create these legally binding document is not a difficult task in case we really do not intend to threaten each other and number three of course is to start practical cooperation on exchange of information on the launchers on other potential threats and to introduce certain elements will for joint command on the future integrated system nobody believes that
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we will ever have a joint bottom to be pushed similar to enter slip by the two richesse supposed to have certain elements how we could coordinate our actions in an emergency situation and this is what we can start practicing immediately from the. sobering up there in some world news in brief syria's president bashar al assad has granted a general amnesty state television says it includes all members of opposition movements such as was the brotherhood all. criminal activity committed before tuesday will be covered in anson follows months of protests and vicious government crackdown which activists say is led to around a thousand deaths. a year of white alert after sixteen people died now after a think you compass can tell the cold i was with them or in germany breaks been linked to organic spanish vegetables that we did says it's still unclear where and when they were contaminated dozens of countries including russia have already
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banned spanish companies for the world health organization describing an outbreak has very large and very severe. in yemen the u.n. human rights office says over fifty people have been killed in demonstrations in the city of tire since sunday reports say hundreds more have been injured meanwhile intense fighting for a view of the capital some between tribal groups and forces loyal to president saleh the president refuses to step down despite three months of clashes against his long term root. they greeted like true heroes with patriotic fanfares cheers handshakes and hope of a new beginning but for thousands of u.s. troops coming home from war transition to civilian life is a painful one haunted by traumatic memories of his one important went to be one former soldier who struggled. 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
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a story she says is kept censored from u.s. citizens even people may know that it affects us i don't think that they understand the weight. and the toll that it takes on us and seeing the effects of war. the literal effects of the dead bodies that were made i couldn't figure out why why are we already doing again why are we why are we doing you know and it was this person's life or things jessica could bell's memoir shade it black details a traumatic and human account of war in two thousand and four good old spent eight months in iraq collecting cataloging 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
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would require us to you know. under a truck or call in the trucks or just as you said. you know you want to. watch this that you can get back to the feel like goodell 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 back so when we had unsub to you know as soon as you call back the flap and you see this head suit mediately you know look away i mean it's difficult to look at what you have to look at because you have to you know put them in their respective body bags or send them to their. like the family nearly 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
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a marine and that there for the millions who do make it home alive many like the joe are too limited by memories post-traumatic stress disorder depression and substance abuse i couldn't leave my apartment you know i didn't have friends to anybody. and a lot of it you can't deal with. you know in jail with 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 he tells says she's 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 glorify 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
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out what they're asking of us so i don't think that they're it's like this they're like. the clearing war is the prerogative of politicians over the decades us wars have resulted in a reported twenty three million american veterans many left struggling to adjust to life following the battle a shift from fighting enemies to fighting demons in a fortnight or r.t. new york. score just over fifty but it sounds like good news there too about the russian formula one driver who regulus least great with just minor injuries after a huge crash in monaco you will get more details about that one shortly but let's catch up with a business next to us here. thanks kevin hello and welcome to business our team now it's described in the german press
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as the energy equivalent of the fall of the burden of war over the next decade germany plans to phase out all its nuclear power over public concern about its safety but as our seas daniel bushell explains the move is as much symbolic as is economic. even before the fukushima accident germans were among the most resistant to nuclear power in the european union we saw people chaining themselves to railway tracks to stop nuclear fuel getting through in the country which means that only four of seventy nuclear facilities are actually working at the moment these remaining ones planned to be shut down in a decade one analyst told me they could actually shut down theoretically nuclear facilities to morrow the trouble is there's nothing to replace it germany has one of the biggest renewable power facilities in the european union in fact in the world with the government offering financial incentives for people to go green even
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green admit that they don't have the capacity to fuel germany's needs which means that many people are saying really the only realistic alternative is to turn to russia and russian gas. supplies of germany's needs with north stream pipeline which is being built from russia germany will increase those supplies it should also give a boost to russia's stream project last week of business also you reported how the european union and its energy commission of course belts on the south stream project at the presentation by gas probably last week but with these new do more arising from germany as a result of this announcement we do expect more possibilities for the sell stream project in the coming years look at the markets now oil prices are on the rise as fresh hope that europe is moving closer to a solution to its sovereign debt woes helped to prop up the euro versus the dollar
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light sweet therefore trading at just below one hundred three dollars a barrel brant over one hundred seventy. two starts in the u.s. they have kicked off the week after a long weekend on a positive note although stocks have lost a bit of their initial stephen this hour as disappointing. consumer confidence status was investors to be cautious. in europe the choose day session ended in positive territory as reports germany could make concessions on a new aid package for greece easing concerns over the euro zone debt then the dax is therefore up two percent at the close or much there moscow the r.t.s. m i six gain there to one point three percent and peculiar three of a kind bally's if you can see that let's take a look at something movers on the my sex oil majors are among the main gain of them in high crude prices where bank shares are also up supported by strong first quarter results profits russians because the double one billion dollars that's in
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part and this expectations. russia and china have finally sorted out a long running dispute over oil supplies that's according to them for the prime minister station following talks in moscow that details are not clear but enter facts news agency reports china will pay three quarters of the total two hundred fifty million dollars debt that it has to wards. and transepts previously beijing and refused to settle the contract saying the price is unjustified. because the south he will be back in fifteen minutes time for one final choose the business update.
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