surtees andrea to the e.u. faces more conditions following the arrest of its former army general previously seen as a key to the club. the cucumber has turned into now full of discord between germany and spain after millions of euros is lost in revenue following false accusations the spanish vegetable was the root of the deadly european. break. georgia buries the victims of a savage police crackdown that left hundreds of other protesters in hospital as human rights organizations from around the world demand president saakashvili accounts for the incident.

a.t.m. in the russian capital you're watching r t a marina joshie welcome to the program. the former bosnian serb general rock a lot it will make his first appearance in front of the hague tribunal later today his arrest an extradition have been touted by the e.u. as a key objective for serbia to gain membership to the club but critics believe the bloc will now simply widen the goalposts leaving the country still chasing the carrot on the stick. still waiting for the green light serbia's arrest an extradition of former bosnian serb army chief on luggage was one of the key conditions for a chance to get one for it and the european union store a potential membership could mean billions of dollars worth of grant aid and for struggling serbia it's a lifeline but what two official belgrade is

a step closer to the e.u. is actually no step at all and a go security issue this is very big news this is a very courageous decision by the serbian president this is one additional step for the integration of serbia into the european union one day is really i no go there so that is your big other steps remain to be taken your right to say to the rest of the political chief of croatian serbs go and had d.h. who is still in hiding electro legislation reform engagement in regional cooperation with neighbors only the elements will be taking into account when deciding to launch the discussion procedure with serbia. for serbian president boris tadic there is no task can challenging to take on in the quest for e.u. membership. next few weeks and. this is

a crystal ball for getting all the natural advantages but while officials prepared to jump through yet another year of hope most wonder if the list of conditions will ever and so now we have gotten harder each one of the serb leaders from the surprise one for a shot and then all of course some the officers are also talking about the fact that. serbia has to recognize the fact the recognize its own province a possible here as well before it can really get into the e.u. so you know and then for somebody else is talking about the fact that serbia. very corrupt until it stops being so corrupt and so. we can't get into the e.u. so really as long as the treason paul or and his party the list of demands will be endless so is the union stalling on opening its doors to serbia who are its condition simply

a way of angling for more control in the region i think there are very few illusions people in serbia the thing that there will not be a great deal many important conditions and probably won't be as important as the establishment's of relations with costs of a will of course it will lead to another another long story the whole point about making new conditions probably won't stop recently still serbia hopes its corporation will be rewarded and continues to beat a path to the e.u. or the offices of the e.u. delegation to serbia proudly display the flags of all of their member states and serbia really wants to join the group with a list of conditions for possible expression seems to be neverending and for official belgrade membership this is always visible and always out of reach catherine as are our team belgrade serbia. more to come for you during this half hour of news who wants dr ban to be lifted.

a u.n. cattle has deemed the war on drugs a failure and the solution they put forward is to legalize drugs will join me for the details in a few moments. before that spain may launch legal action against germany which prematurely pointed to its cucumbers as the cause of the fatal call i'll break the syria over spanish has crippled the country's farm exports and cost millions of euros in just a week and while the source of the infection is still fine critics believe the pharmaceutical industry may be the ones who benefit from the vegetable paddock. some cucumber scale that much is clear and it's also become apparent that although germany planed spain as the source of the code it's not that's costing innocence punish britain vegetable export is around two hundred million euros

a week and it will. let all this maneuvering all these statements show an absolute lack of responsibility what is happening today is a checkmate to the spanish vegetable and fruit industry it's absolutely unacceptable a useless weapon has been produced which will be of no use to anyone neither the germans and all those western offering from the disease and it will incur huge losses on this planet and culture calling the european health watchdog discredited russia says it had no choice but to ban all fruit and vegetable imports from the entire european union a reaction brussels called disproportionate russia says it was clear from the beginning the spanish weren't to blame here veneer. says if the accusations brought against the spanish cucumbers were unfounded this was always from the outset why because a screen was the source of the disease why is no one over there as it was of spain could hide the disease this isn't

a mild flu you can keep secret german health official still currency will cause the brick transfer far truth of the scenes and most importantly the situation is not under control it's of this created of the european health watched it's a very delicate time for the spanish economy which is teetering on the edge of needing an e.u. bailout this is decidedly not a good moment for one hundred fifty thousand tons of produce to go unsold it's also struck another blow to the already fragile relationship between germany and spain after the german chancellor implied spaniards would lazy and spendthrift in a speech earlier this month. because. so. you cannot all. cynics say all this is just the media whipping up its latest health hysteria

in two thousand and five the united nations warned the world that bird flu could kill up to one hundred fifty million people in reality the seven years until the end of two thousand and ten saw three hundred three people die more recently swine flu was a killer sixty five thousand people were supposed to die in britain alone only around three hundred sixty people did encouraged by pharmaceutical companies european countries spent billions of dollars on unnecessary vaccines as the world health organization announces this is a new strain of e. coli some c. farmers benefiting yet again i think probably will see very soon this. is from the. large pharmaceutical industry like they did with the swine flu they have something from a protect people against. screening so true. across europe so. i don't think it all justifiable degree of panic or all these health scares

adversely affected economies this looks no different and germany's baseless accusations may be what finally pushes spain into bailout territory spain will now seek reparations from the relevant austerities in europe after its prime minister criticized the european commission for not supporting the country enough particularly after the infection was proven not to have come from spanish cucumbers spain has a titan task ahead of its repairing its reputation as a reliable exports or a free salvage circles all over the you position essential to its ailing economy nor of its r.t. brussels. coming up i know about him in a style i'm here in r t after a year in simulated space it's the file home stretch for the man returning from mars. they've been one salons dishonest.

and here in isolation traveling a million miles a day. the men from mars are heading to earth. mars five hundred closer to the edge of possibility on our team. and major fire has broken out at a munitions storage hippo in central russia triggering explosions and injuring at least five military personnel decided local residents have been evacuated to safety that's around thirty thousand people officials say the explosions of artillery shells are likely to last at least a whole day however the intensity of the blast is gradually decreasing the incident comes just a week after another ammunition devil fire in a neighboring republic which injured twelve people and destroyed more than forty houses. and watching our team winning the war on drugs is no longer ago as it can never be one that conclusion was drawn by former world leaders and

politicians who instead propose legalizing certain drugs to decrease the number of batiks artist has or so he joins us now live for all the reaction to the report good morning to tessa so what is a more effective way way to fly drugs according to this report. this will be a global commission under drug policy has deemed the war on drugs a failure and they are now urging contraries to consider legalizing cannabis is well as other drugs in order to accomplish two goals which they think are very important one is to undermine organized crime of the second is to protect the citizens health now they are saying that the government should start experimenting with a new legal models of regulation to replace the current ones which they say is is simply strictly criminalizing the drugs as well as incarcerating drug users now they do cite an increased number of drug use that since one thousand nine hundred nine according to us it to six there has been

a dramatic increase in the use of drugs production as well as the sale of drugs and it is this that they do want to address and they're say the so-called repressive measures are not effective they say that politicians are important people should start acknowledging publicly what they have been doing so privately that the measures that. implemented for decades really are not working now in terms of trying to undermine organized crime they're suggesting that by legalizing drugs you're essentially opening up the market and making these drugs openly available albeit regulated and therefore bring the prices down which will hurt the businesses of the drug cartels on the part of the health of the citizens there saying that they the criminal sorry the a drug user should be seen as patients rather than a criminals so now this debate this argument certainly is not new it has been around for decades but now it is coming at a time when the drug use is certainly at a high they're saying that there are two hundred fifty million users worldwide of

illicit drugs so it is coming at this time that is critical for a lot of governments and is it is indorsed by an international body and coming from a panel of people a composed of former governments as well as influential individuals so this call is certainly drawing a lot of strong reaction from the different countries with various policies already in place and billions of dollars already spent on this war on drugs well speaking of their reaction let's talk about it in more detail now so what has it been so far and are we going to see the legalization of some drugs across the world now as a result of this. bill says the report has come out there has already been reaction from the u.s. they're definitely against the legalization of drugs according to the obama administration this will definitely not help in trying to keep people safe as far as russia is concerned it is a very big issue in this country and has been at the forefront of domestic policy for many years now and they're trying to fight the war here on two fronts one is

even president dmitri medvedev had said that there he's trying to propose that the drug users be. given a mandatory medical treatment rather than just penal measures to deal with this disease as some doctors would put it on the other hand and drugs chief of russia. wolf had already invested about seven million dollars in afghanistan to curb the production the source of these drugs because ninety percent of the drugs here in russia does come from afghanistan be routed to the country through former soviet states soviet countries that is and so the drugs war here in russia is definitely on full scale if the past statements is to be a basis on the reaction to legalization of drugs they had said before that they are not as before this measure but as far as alternative measures are could serve russia is certainly a look into a lot of different measures including drug tests at schools so debate is definitely up in the air here and if we get if you look to the past legalization it has to be

seen whether they will go as far as legalizing that actual drugs. thread has a thanks very much indeed for bringing us the sunday to source illegal they are. and always more on our website r.t. dot com here's what's lined out for you right now. the have nots saying while the have all smile russia has become fifth in the world in terms of super rich families and it blew me poverty statistics. also add arche dot com find out how an unborn facebook user from the u.s. managed to rack up over two hundred online friends. shock has given way to sorrow in georgia's families bury the victims of

a brutal police crackdown on protesters on the eve of the country's independence day the incident prompted a worldwide outcry with human rights organizations demanding a thorough investigation but as artie's sarah firth records there is little hope those responsible will be punished at all. last week in charge he turned out to demonstrates this week his friends and family are burying him the devastated and confused with no real idea of what happened. the condemnation for these scenes came from around the world and there are now growing calls for an investigation into police actions investigation. and i can say this is kong. because we had a situation a very close to. two thousand and seven where excessive force was used taking place for. the investigation was never started in all but it was just. the years

georgia has tried to move westwards promising reforms and citing treaties but despite being keen to align itself with the west this time it seems these government didn't feel that they had to play by the rules. for the talk. and are only after appropriate polish. personal on hand to witness the scenes we saw police surrounding the protesters all the exits appear blocks they had nowhere to go before to spread and the rubber bullet hits. this was during. the main street and we saw them chasing down some of the protesters to take it here in the cinema building that at the time all this classified was smashed we saw many of the people that were being led out being picked and hit with the police punch and as they exited

the building they were led away handcuffed wounded and bleeding you can see many of the people are old and even more shockingly it would be a long time for many of the any kind of medical or legal aid. number one was running from one side to another all the exits were caused by i was standing on and the rubble. one o'clock until some in the morning i was in the pollution before dark i could go on to the hospital. the opposition to you have come under criticism for their part to play in the maddening of the a failed to negotiate despite being offered another venue but he failed that's just the cation for the violence that in . cording to. the this is a crime this is the torture or. treatment to reach a crime and investigation should start. to

see the situation of as a georgian president claims that great as this didn't want freedom of speech. and victims and that is certainly what they call it's there for the tbilisi. now some more of the day's international stories we're covering for you this hour and the u.s. has been facing its worst year of four tornadoes since nine hundred thirty six the death toll currently stands at five hundred twenty three and the twister season still has a long way to go in the last two days four people have been killed as the storms ravaged the state of massachusetts the city of springfield was worst hit where hundreds of homes were destroyed. fighting in the yemeni capital has been escalating as government forces try to drive rebels out of the city soldiers loyal to the president and least heavy shelling of militants who support. maher the head of one of the most powerful families in the country the fighting in sanaa has raged for two weeks after the opposition turns to violence following unsuccessful

attempts to oust the president peacefully. nato forces have seen have unleashed more strikes on targeting the country's capital in areas in the north west government sources claim two policemen were killed in the bombardment of strikes also hit a tribal gathering camp near colonel gadhafi compound and bobbers easier meanwhile the u.s. house of representatives is set to vote on resolutions condemning american military involvement in the conflict. the u.s. president legally needs the approval of congress to fight a war for more than sixty days but levy is proving the exception so are there any limits of honest action to obama's actions there and is this a one off case or the beginnings of an empire complex going cross stuck for the answer is later today. the security council resolution for the united nations certainly means that the libyan intervention is legal under modern international

law but that doesn't change the constitution the constitution doesn't say the president can go to war whenever international law allows that the constitution has a separate procedure for american authorization to call it a kinetic military action is just a war william euphemism the fact that the united states does not have ground troops doesn't mean it's not a war under some december seventh one thousand forty one imperial japan did not send any ground troops into or why they bombed our military in the united states rightly recognized that as an act of war. well today marks a year since six lucky volunteer said auburn i'm president at seventeen month mission to mars of course the crew never really laughter of mars five hundred simulation as a scientific mission confined to scale mock up of a space ship but as we all are reports the pressure is faced by the astronauts very much real. nine hundred sixty seven the space race is in full swing three

men enter a secret simulation in moscow to determine the effects of long duration spaceflight on humans get a man might not serve was one of those who took part in the shoot your racial orbit the monotony it's hard i mean the regimen little things get to you in the beginning we had a steady temperature all the time later the temperature was fluctuating making it incredibly uncomfortable go to man and his two crew mates spent one year in a metal box twelve meters square with no private space the mars five hundred module with its seventy two meet a square living quarters as well as separate areas for conducting experiments looks like a five star hotel by comparison looking around the current experiment would be like another shot in isolation but the marriage heroes never again in my life not even with the same team but i often think about other options available to the team was

. one year into the mars five hundred project those on board have plenty to keep them occupied including a garden to allow them to grow some of their own food it's wrong to say that the current crew have an easy ride astronauts who have spent time in space for a real full of admiration for the things they're making do with out my missions for a lot of this. and that head over to you from the space station and i see you call talk to the families who are. telephone system. and pads must be the hardest thing to do here the end is in sight for the mars five hundred mission but what goes through your mind when you're on that final furlong the duration it's a very nervous period and it can easily burn you out during the last two weeks i was looking at my watch every five minutes to figure how much time was left we all

got rather tense. one year into their voyage the mars five hundred team are currently simulating their return journey to earth however it will be another five months before this door can be opened and they can step back into normality peter all over moscow. all brings us up to date here on araa to remember for more there is our website. right now though time take a look at what's happening in business with you. well in a very warm welcome to your business update no more spanish cucumbers or brussels sprouts russia will be on a diet of european vegetables until the government is sure they are free of e-coli not only will this make it more difficult to find your five a day could also make them more expensive if this lasts long enough this will create inflationary pressures there's no question about it the question is how long

this will last is this just a one off or is this a bigger problem that will last for longer. and i think this is a one off really and this should be very short because it's naturally not in anyone's interest and it's the last thing that the government wants is additional inflationary pressures. and this needs to merely to film the local producers but remember that if you look at the national operators national retail chains. source still very small percentage local and different reasons. russia's prime minister action plan includes twenty five percent of the country's railway operator the company used to find it difficult to attract international partners and investors but that's all changed according to the dimia call in the presence of russian railways. you know who do not have this kind of problems compliant those who would

like to work with energy there because the problem call you know. it hard to provide difference to it is for everyone who would like to work with us. to use the very attractive it gives everywhere from the united states of america to the far east of the globe. and from this point of view russian railways you know. i suppose i being presented as a very very interesting active do you know too wide to participate in the share category. but so have a quick look on the market prices have slightly recovered from their losses lights which is trading at about one hundred dollars a barrel mark and branch is that one hundred fifteen dollars in asia japanese nikkei is in the red as school just melted under the heat of affording u.s. dollar and hong kong's hang seng is also down with banking stocks among the main losers client on concerns of possible tightening over the coming long weekend as

chinese regulator announced interest rate and reserve requirement hikes such holidays. and here in moscow the markets also trading about two hours time both the r.t.s. and the my six marriage to get into post of church out their very own to thursday session after seeing losses during the day. looking ahead to friday's trade and into next week as a little data on the immediate horizon here in russia investors will be concerned about. today we're not expecting any substantial corporate or macro developments on the domestic front although we would expect a lot of clients to be looking closely at the weekly done flow data to determine whether or not flows from russia dedicated funds continue as has been the case over the past couple of weeks looking towards next week the corporate news flow is slowing down but we do expect numbers first quarter numbers from anyone katie and

also team katie and i think the market becoming less and less patient somewhat optimistic about some possible news on the world sector taxation front and also on the gas taxation front. but perhaps not the business bulletin more news and now it's time and you can catch up on all of his business stories and all that side archie dot com slash business.

in one thousand nine hundred two dr ralph ben street university of pennsylvania said what if i can take the gene responsible for growth in human beings and put it into a mouse. on all the main risk issues was that there is a ninety five percent of all competent scientists in these fields are working for the producers side and only five percent are really genuinely independent. there's not a lot of science that says train genic fish is unhealthy for people to consume which is what the food and drug administration looks at there's a lot of concern about the environmental impacts if a transgendered fish escapes what kind of horrible impact will it have on the rest of the fish population i don't know why.