twenty years ago largest country. sometimes it. was a good. judge of. where did it take. as the hague tribunal prepares for iraq a lot of just first appearance in court serbia finds that the arrest of its former army general is still not enough for entry into the much desired e.u. club. cucumber has turned into an apple of discord between germany and spain after millions of euros and revenues lost following false accusations the spanish vegetable was the root of the deadly european eco ally break. george of aries the victims of a savage police crackdown that left hundreds of other over tester's in hospital as human rights organizations from around the world the man president saakashvili

accounts for the incident. twenty five percent of russian railways will be flown into him in terms of the country's problems as ation how the company's going to attract investors we talked to the president that's in ten minutes. in the russian capital you're watching r t on marina joshie welcome to the program the former bosnian serb general walk the lot each 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 will leave 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 and luggage was one of the key conditions for a chance to get one foot in the european union's door 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 answer gratian of serbia into the european union one day is really a no go there sort of as your. other steps remain to be taken your right to say that the rest of the political chief of croatian serbs gurn had search is still in hiding electro legislation reform engagement in regional cooperation with neighbors believe elements will be taken into account when deciding to launch the discussion

procedure with serbia that seems closer been president boris tadic there is no task too challenging to take on and the quest for e.u. membership. rests. in the next few weeks and. this is crystal clear the service offering all nations but while officials prepared to jump through yet another year of hope most wonder if the list of conditions ever and so now we have gotten harder it was one of the serb leaders from the surprise and i am for a short and then all of course some of the officers are also talking about the fact that. serbia has to recognise the fact to recognise its own province of course it will. as well before it can really get into the e.u. so you know on them or somebody else is talking about the fact that serbia. very corrupt until it stops being so corrupt and so bad you can't get into the e.u.

so really as long as they choose and paul were then his party the list of demands will be endless so is the union stalling and opening its doors to serbia or 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 one cards it's probably won't be as important as the establishment's of relations with possible will of course it will lead to another and another long story we hope for and about making new conditions probably won't stop recently still serbia hopes its copper ration will be rewarded and continues to beat a path to the e.u. door 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 about our team belgrade serbia. more to come for you during this half hour of news who wants drug 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. and red sky at night no one's delight a major fire at an ammunition depot in central russia sets off a chain reaction over a teller a shell explosions. in spain may launch a legal action against germany which prematurely pointed to converse as the cause of the failure call i'll break the hysteria over spanish broady as has crippled the country's foreign exports and cost millions of euros in just a week and while the source of infection is still undefined critics believe the

pharmaceutical industry may be the one to benefit from the vegetable panic. some cucumber scale that much is clear and it's also become apparent that although germany planed spain as the source of the it's not that's costing innocent spanish fruit and vegetable export is around two hundred million euros a week could it not been so. little this maneuvering all these statements show an absolute lack of responsibility what is happening today is a check made to the spanish vegetable and fruit in the street it's absolutely unacceptable i use this reference has been produced who will be of no use to anybody neither the germans know those quests up there in from the disease and it will incur huge losses on the spanish agriculture calling the european health watchdog discredited russia says it had no choice but to ban all fruits 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 of in europe or when it was because it's as if the accusations brought against the spanish cucumbers were unfounded this was always from the outset why because the spin was the source of the disease why is no until near as was of spin could hate the disease this isn't a mild flu you keep secret german health officials still can't see what caused the a brick transfer factor of the disease and most importantly the situation is still not under control it's in the discredit of the european health wachtel 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 were lazy and spendthrift in

a speech earlier this month and. because of 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 the 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 spend 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 you very soon behind all this. from the. large pharmaceutical industry like they did with the swine flu have something to protect people against. screening so true. across europe so. i don't. justify the degree of panic 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 authorities in europe after its prime minister criticised 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 tightened task ahead of its repairing its reputation as a reliable exporter of fruits and vegetables all over the new position essential to

its a leg economy nor of its hearty brussels. coming up in ten minutes time here on our team after a year in simulated space as the file home stretch for the man returning from mars . they've been going since i was just. here in isolation traveling a bit you know the day. the men from mars are heading to. mars five hundred closer to the edge of possibility on our team. a major fire has broken out at a munitions storage depo in central russia triggering explosions and injuring almost thirty military personnel on the side of local residents have been evacuated to safety and that's around thirty thousand people officials say the explosions of

artillery shells are likely to last at least a whole day however of the intensity of the blast as a gradually decreasing incident comes just a week after another ammunition depo fire in a neighboring republic which injured twenty people twelve people rather and destroyed more than forty houses. winning the war on drugs is no longer ago as it can never be won and that's the conclusion of that was drawn by former world leaders and politicians who instead proposed legalizing certain drugs to decrease the number of addicts are he says are silly as has the details of the un backed report. the global commission on drug policy has deemed the war on drugs a failure and they are now urging countries to consider legalizing cannabis is well as other drugs in order to accomplish two goals which i think are very important one is to undermine organized crime and the second is to protect the citizens health now they are saying that the government should start experimenting with new

legal models of regulation so they do cite an increased number of drug use that since one thousand nine hundred nine according to u.s. statistics 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 saying the so-called repressive measures are not effective and they say that politicians are important people should start ethnology publicly what they have been doing so privately that the measures that have been implemented for decades really are not working now in terms of the trying to undermine organized crime they are suggesting that by legalizing drugs there is such a lee opening up the market and making these drugs openly available albeit regulated and therefore bring the prices down we sure hurt the businesses of the drug cartels on the part of the health of the citizens there saying that the drug user should be seen as patients rather than criminals says the report has come out there has already been reaction to us they're definitely against 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 has said that he's trying to propose that the drug users be given a mandatory medical treatment rather than just measures to deal with this disease as some doctors would put it on the other hand and drugs chief of russia is already investing about seven million dollars in. again this time to curb the production of the source of these drugs because ninety percent of the drugs here in russia does cover of a pianist the drug 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 for this measure but as far as alternative measures are concerned russia is

certainly a look into a lot of different measures including drug testers the rules and so debate is definitely up in the air here and if again if you look to the past beagle ization it has to be seen whether they will go as far as legalizing the actual drugs those are still you reporting there and remember that always we've got more on our a website r t dot com here's what's on the line right now. they have not sink while they have all smiled russia has become fifth in the world in terms of super rich families and it gloomy poverty statistics. also at r.t. dot com find out how and i'm bored 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 sara for a three ports there is little hope though those responsible will be punished at all . last week nick akin tried she turned out to demonstrate this week his friends and family of burying him 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 see this is causing strife there are because we had a situation a very close to two thousand and seven where excessive force was used.

for the investigation was going to was just. three years georgia has tried to me westwards promising reforms and signing treaties that despite being keen to align itself with the west this time it seems government didn't feel that they had to play by the rules. for the talk. are only after. personal and had to witness the scenes we saw police surrounding the protesters all the exits appear blocks they had nowhere to go before the spread and the rubber bullets hit. this was during the thing and states as the main streets we saw them taking down some of the protesters here taking shelter here in the cinema building at the time all the glass was smashed we

saw many of the people that were being led out being kicked and hit with the police punch and as they exited the building they were led away handcuffed and believe you can see many of the people or old even more shockingly it would be a long time for many of the any kind of medical or legal. one was running from one side to mother all the eggs that were caused when i was standing on the on the rubber. one o'clock and for some in the morning i was in the police before dark but i could go on to the hospital. the opposition to you have come under criticism for the parts of play and the i'm reveling in the they felt snick a shade despite being offered another venue and he filled that's just the cation for the guidance that it's according to. the this is a crime this is the torture or through treatment for crying and investigation

should start. there is no for the rockets dressing the situation up as a georgian president claims to create as they didn't want freedom of speech. and victims and that was certainly what they call it's. the tip of the. so more of the day's international stories we're covering for you this hour the u.s. has been facing its worst year for 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 were 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 unleashed shelling on militants who support shakes maher had

a lot of the most powerful families in the country the fighting in sanaa is raged for two weeks after the opposition turned to violence following unsuccessful attempts to oust the president peacefully. nato forces have unleashed more strikes in libya targeting the country's capital and areas in the north west government sources claim two policemen were killed and the bombardment nato strikes also hit a tribal gathering camp near girlhood alfie's compound in zia meanwhile the u.s. house of representatives is set to vote on resolutions. damning american military involvement in the league and conflict. the us 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 to obama's actions there and is this a one off case or the beginnings of an empire complex joint crossed up or the answers 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 orwellian euphemism and the fact that the united states does not have ground troops doesn't mean it's not a war on december seventh seven thousand nine hundred 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. today marks the years since six plucky volunteers set off on a president a seventeen month mission to mars of course the crew never really left earth the maurice five hundred simulation is a scientific mission confined to

a scale mock up of a space ship but as they are all reports the pressure is faced by the astronauts are very much real. nine hundred sixty seven when 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 tell part no you don't. get the monotony it's hard i mean the regimen little things get you in the beginning we have 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 and miles five hundred module with its seventy two me to swear 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 images never again in my life not even with the same team but i often think about other options available to other teams. one year into the mars five hundred project those on board have plenty to keep him 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 i had the opportunity from the space station and i should call it to the families through. telephone system. and that's possibly the hardest for them to do the end is in sight for the mars five hundred mission but what goes through your mind when you're on that final furlong of. 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 out how much time was left we all got rather tense. one year into their voyage the mars five hundred team a currently simulating never to journey to earth however it will be another five months before this door can be opened and they can step back in some normality peter all of the party must go well next some guy the latest from the world of business with. oh that's right time to catch up with all those business news 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 eco light not only will this make it more difficult to find your five a day could also make them more expensive. did this last 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 the thing actually 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 some of the local producers but remember that if you look at the national operators national retail chains. still very small percentage local credit for reasons. privatization include selling twenty five percent of the country's railway operates the company used to find a difficult international partners and investors but that's all changed according to the to me korean the president of russia always. you know who do not have this kind of problems to find those who would like to work with the editor there because

the problem oh you know to accumulate that whole cooper word difference to it is for everyone who would like to work with us. to use became a very attractive 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 are being presented as a very very interesting active do you know to buy to participate in the share category. let's take a look at the markets now oil prices have slightly recovered from earlier losses into the red lights which is trading at one hundred dollars a barrel and grant is that one hundred fifteen dollars. and in asia japanese nikkei is in the red as gains for its arms of the heat of the falling dollar and hong kong's hang seng is also down with banking stocks among the main losers in declined

on concerns of more possible tightening over the coming long weekend as china's speculating on interest rate and reserve requirement hikes during such holidays. finally here in moscow the markets will start trading in one hour both the r.t.s. and the is expected to get into parts of church very very understandably session after losses during the day. and looking at head to friday's trade and into next week as little data on the immediate horizon here in russia investors will be concerned. today we're not expecting any substantial corporate or macro developments on the domestic front although we would expect a lot of our clients to be looking closely at the weekly one full of data to determine whether or not flows from russia dedicated points 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 for many of

them kate and also team cave and i think the market although it's becoming less and less patient is somewhat optimistic about some possible names on the oil sector taxation front and also on the gas taxation front more business news in an hour's time and so you can catch out of all this is business stories on our website our two dot com slash business.

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