you know isolation traveling of the you miles a day. the men from mars are heading to. mars five hundred closer to the edge of possibility or to. rock a lot of has appeared in front of the hague tribunal for the first time where he stands accused of war crimes but it turns out the arrest of a foreign bosnian serb general is still not enough for serbia's entry into the much desired club. rats cry at night no one's delight a major fire at an ammunitions depo in central russia sets off a chain reaction of artillery shell explosions. cucumbers become an apple of discord between germany and spain after millions of euros in revenue are lost following false accusations the spanish vegetable was the root of the deadly

european a call i break. anguish in tears replace shop in georgia families very the victims of a savage police crackdown that left hundreds of other protesters in hospital sparking outrage from human rights organizations demanding an investigation. one pm in the russian capital you're watching r t m arena joshua welcome back a lot of has made his first appearance in front of the hague tribunal claiming he's gravely ill a former bosnian serb army general said he needs more time to understand the charges he's facing and refused to enter a plea he's indicted on eleven counts of war crimes including the genocide of around eight thousand muslims lot of have been on the run for sixteen years he's arrested. tradition was touted by the e.u.

as a kid objective for serbia to gain membership to the club. 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 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 a no step at all and they go see him this year 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 high no go there so that is your. 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 believes elements will be taking into account when deciding to launch the discussion procedure with serbia because preserving president boris tadic there is no task too challenging to take on and the quest for e.u. membership. in the next few weeks. this is crystal clear from the natural conditions but while officials prepare to jump through yet another year of hope most wonder if their list of conditions will ever end so now we have gotten harder it was one of the serb leaders from the surprise and i am so warm for a show and then all of course some the officers are also talking about the fact that. serbia has to recognize the fact to recognize that some problems the possible . as well. before to really get into the e.u.

so you know on them or somebody else is talking about the thought the serbia is very corrupt and until it stops being so corrupt and so bad you can't get into the e.u. so really as long as the chism follower and his party the list of demands will be endless so is the union stalling on 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 probably won't be as important as the establishment's of relations with cost of a will of course it will lead to another and another long story with a whole wind 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. 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 accession seems to be neverending and for official belgrade membership this is always visible and always out of reach catherine are keen belgrade serbia. not just supporters may have hit out at the serbian government for handing him over about foreign affairs author and expert serge drift coverage believes the former army general may have gone voluntarily to the hague. the rumor has it in belgrade and actually got a. reliable source on the big overnighted from belgrade a lot of it. because of martin very serious health problems he had actually made a deal with the serbian a colleague who secured the painting. a

an undisclosed sum of money who apparently to continue paying the requirements. in return so he was reading this would be. a possible explanation but he was careful to close with the same name who presumably would have been under constant supervision in the period. when on the ground to cause him to. and more to come for you during this half hour of news after here in simulated space it's the final homestretch for the man returning from mars joiners he's here all over as he spells out the details of the trip so far. before that russia isn't a drugs chief has slammed the report into their car express for a worley years and politicians as drugs propaganda victory about off states the findings were designed to derail the global fight against drugs are just as are

silly as has the details of the un backed report so tessa why is the report coming for such criticism from russia isn't a drugs chief. well first of all it has to be said that here in russia the issue on the war on drugs is a really a big deal it has been at the forefront of domestic policy for some time now at about thirty thousand russians are documented to die each year here so it is a subject that is close to heart and so this you went back to port did not sit well with the russians anti-drug chief because he's been off and he c believes that this . is just propaganda as he said he thinks it's a ploy to simply divert attention of the international community from what really has to be done let's listen in to what he had to say. to be discussing the report of the so-called global commission we should realize that we're dealing with a global p.r. campaign on drugs promotion this campaign is going directly or indirectly linked with the joint revenues amounting to about eight hundred billion dollars. well

as far as russia's efforts are concerned ivanoff himself had reiterated earlier this year that russia is committed to expanding be anti-drug effort in afghanistan which is the source of ninety percent of drugs coming into russia now it just in two thousand and ten russia had spent seven million dollars alone so he says this fight will continue and here ideas are being thrown out such as perhaps a drug testing in school or replacing here with methadone to alternative means of curbing this problem are also being seen now if we look at the actual report they're basically suggesting that we have they have to the allies drugs in order to undermine organized crime by basically making the drugs readily available so that the prices will go down and therefore hurt the revenues of this drug cartels and another point is to keep the citizens healthy intact to protect the citizens on these grounds their suggestion is to simply legalize drugs of course this does not

sit well with governments who are spending a lot of money on the anti drug effort now if we're not also did raise the fact that a part of the paddle a panel of who came up with this report includes the former u.n. secretary general kofi annan as well as the former presidents of brazil mexico and colombia and he said that if we look at the drug policy during the coffee and i'm sorry leadership of the u.n. it has been a failure so he doesn't think that this report should be taken seriously he did it dismiss it now with regard to the suggestion. the reports are looking into alternatives sure russia is certainly doing that and has been doing that but it is unlikely that the country is going to go as far as legalizing the actual drugs. right ted thanks very much for bringing us the latest on this. and a major fire has broken out at an ammunition storage depo in central russia triggering explosions and injuring fifty two two elderly people have died from

heart attack said to have been brought on by the incident military personnel at the side and local residents have been evacuated to safety and that's around thirty thousand people are always had word has the details. comics spread across the central russian republic all the more to last night when the fire broke out at knox hillary depot right around eleven the fifty pm most cases time all day and not five and should get a number of exclusions that could see which houses among itself the no rocket shells intended for russia's grad multiple rocket launching systems and emergency services have been backing the glazes throughout the night which is expected to rage for at least another day such is the scale of thousands of people have already been evacuated from the nearby area on the number of injured dells continues to rise out of the pools all of the fire is still north yet known initial reports that

yes at the disagree rhett's was to blame but now officials say that that couldn't also have been the sole trigger for a blaze of this scale however they do say that human error is the most likely cause for the coolest a full investigation room the newest once this place has been full sound control almost week in the neighboring as central republic fibro countless similar remissions. before seen yet by houses were destroyed more than two thousand people had to be evacuated from the area and such if the explosion that high caliber rounds landed as far as we could know mrs away from the actual site all of the fly before exploding is honking huge a forest fire is runs up to twelve people were injured in that particular fire and then if we look back to see you years ago in november of two thousand and nine in the very nearby central with a city over the gallon else the fire broke out in the mission. at least two and

naval personnel were killed as a result of that explosion and eight servicemen so you know this explosion is not with us it's kind out of munitions depot in russia now is hibbard for. in there well today marks a year since six volunteers set off a simulated mission to mars i am going is certainly been tough we're now joined by our it is peter oliver from war on the challenges that face our on the way. well yes war here in to the mars five hundred project look now at a look at what daily life is like inside the module here in central moscow they they are simulating the way a journey to to mars and a return journey there at the moment one year in they're currently simulating that journey back from the red planet back home to earth now mars five hundred certainly unique due to the the length of time they're spending in this isolation but it's not the first time that these type of experiments have taken place as i found out

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 orbit the monotony it's hard i mean the regimen little things get to you in the beginning we had to study temperature all the time later the temperature was fluctuating making it incredibly uncomfortable. good man and his two crew mates spent one year in a metal box twelve meters square with no private space to mars five hundred module with a seventy two meter square living quarters as well as separate areas for conducting experiments looks like of pi star hotel by comparison it's wrong to say that the current crew have an easy ride astronauts who have spent time in space a real full of admiration for the things they're making do with out my missions for

this. and i had the opportunity from the space station which is of course to the families through a. telephone system. and that's must be hardest for them to do that the end is in sight for the mars five hundred mission but what goes through your mind when you're on that final furlong. 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. the tents. one year into their voyage the mars five hundred team are currently simulating never to journey to earth whether it will be another five months before this store can be opened and they can step back into normality peter oliver r.t.

moscow where locked away from the outside world for one year already and must be very very stressful on those people who are inside to find out a little bit more about the mars five hundred project and this of it is really a landmark day in their journey i'm now joined by dr patrick fuller from the capital science connections innovation agency thank you very much for talking to us good morning from london thank you well spent a year and there already have got five months left to go how intense was the psychological pressure be on the. well i think as we just heard in this rundown the home the psychological pressure is really quite intense these guys have been locked away for for a year and they still got five months ago and it's important to remember that they haven't actually had voice contact with the control center for eleven months now and they've still got another four months before they're back in voice contact with

them so the only human real human contact they've had is with each other during the last during the last year and that's really quite intense so it must be very very difficult indeed i think they really must be at this point counting down the days and wondering what it would be like to reestablish human contact again but certainly going to be a bonding exercise at least that and of course this is a simulation it's a very realistic simulation but how close is it to the actual mission that they could one day take part in a manned mission to mars. you know well of course the crucial thing is that we've got gravity here on the surface of the earth so that's part of it but the psychological aspects of it i think are. they've really had to imagine themselves into the situation they've really had to convince themselves that they're doing this for real i've never done anything like this but i can imagine that you could lock yourself away under these circumstances without in some way convincing

yourself that it was real otherwise knowing that home was effectively just a few centimeters away outside that wall would be really quite difficult to cope with so i think actually the protocols that the scientists have developed have really been designed to help them get into this process the whole virtual reality experience is helping them to imagine themselves there so i'm quite sure that for them this is a really ninety nine percent real experience as a scientist yourself how much does the information that can be gleaned from r.'s five hundred how much does that impact not only upon the science of space travel but also in other aspects of the scientific world. sure i mean that there's a huge amount that they're learning during this that of course the data that they collect will support scientific studies for many months at least if not years to

come if you look at the studies that they're carrying out there are the obvious psychological studies on the way that teens in ice at the team in isolation interact with each other because studies into the personal values that the individual members of the teams of god and how those are affected are also studies relating to isolation and the way in which the interactions between two members affect the cardiac response of the individuals the way their individual health is affected by changes in hormone levels they're looking. and rhythms and the color of light to help reset people security and rivers and help them to maintain a twenty four hour cycle there's a great deal that's being learned here obviously the primary is to understand the impact upon future long term space travel but clearly there are other implications for people in long term isolation away from contact for example submarine crews have to feel it i could talk to you forever about this very interesting thank you

very much we'll have to leave it there was both the patrick flick from the founder a big part of the couple side's connections innovation agency so one year in they still have five months left to go i'm not sure i could do that difference is. why i don't know maison but yet very tough experiment there a fascinating to watch that thanks very much for bringing us the rolls in there peter are there. two other stories now spain we'll launch a legal action against germany which prematurely pointer to converse as the cause of the failed eat cholera outbreak but history over spanish projects has crippled the country's foreign exports costing millions of yours in just a week and while the source of the infection is still unknown critics believe the pharmaceutical industry remained the the one to benefit from the vector to prepare . some q. cumber 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 brewton vegetable export is around two hundred million euros a week. but all these all these statements are an absolute lack of responsibility what is happening today is a check made to the spanish imaginable and threw in the street. 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 group or will it was because of the world looks as if the accusations brought against the spanish cucumbers were unfounded this was obvious from the outset why because the screen was the source of the disease why is no one will their sources of spin could have a disease this is a mild flu you can keep secret german health official still can see it will cause

the oprah transfer factor of the disease arms most importantly the situation is under control it's a very delicate time for the spanish economy which is teetering on the edge of needing an aid you bailout this is decidedly not a good moment for one hundred fifty thousand tons of produce to go unsold. because of all. this time we. 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 the. killer encouraged by pharmaceutical companies european countries

spend billions of dollars on unnecessary vaccines probably will see. this from the orange pharmaceutical industry like they did with the swine flu they have something to protect people against. screen so true across europe 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 conference punished you cumbers spain has a titan task ahead of its repairing its reputation as a reliable exports or of fruits and vegetables all over the new position essential

to its ailing economy nor at its hearty brussels which will shock has given way to sorrow in georgia as 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. sara first reports there is little hope those responsible will be punished at all. last week it's been tried she turned out to demonstrate this week his friends and family of burying him devastated and confused with no real idea 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 to strike iran because we had a situation very close to two thousand and seven. excessive force was used to.

be restitution was never started but it was just a. few years georgia has tried to move westwards promising reforms and signing treaties that despite being king to align itself with the west this time it seems government didn't feel that they had to play by the rules. of polish. interest talk. and. personal but had to witness the scenes we saw police surrounding the protesters all the exits the blocks they had nowhere to gave spread and the rubber bullets hit. this was during being demonstrators not the main streets and we saw them chasing down some of the protesters who take it also here in the cinema building the time

all the blast rob was smashed we saw many of the people that were being led out being picked and hit with the police function as they exited the building they were led away handcuffed and police 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 legal. one was running from one side to the mother of all dogs that were caused by i was standing on the rubber ball and one o'clock and for some in the morning i was before dark. on to the hospital. the opposition to you have come under criticism for their part to play in the m. raveling of events a fair negotiate despite being offered another venue heathfield that's justification for the violence that it's according to. this is a crime this is a porch or is through treatment crying and investigation should start

but there is no follow up here because in a situation after the georgian president claims the protest is didn't want freedom of speech violence and victims that was certainly what they call it's there for the police the. time now for the business of date with jojo. that's right time to get the latest of the world of business everyone welcome russia's two largest banks holding their annual shareholder meetings on friday and spare bank we should be are discussing a wide range of issues including dividends and the election of new board of directors arches reports from headquarters. to banks are holding their annual shareholder meetings and there's a lot to talk about the spare bank will be relaxing its c.e.o. grooming graph for another four year term the supervisor borders on the current

radical changes one third of the seats will be taken up by new people will there be less government officials and more independent directors who will also be discussing their private isolation plans which include a share buyback program and also we're just hearing that the sperm bank is planning to become the top seller of credit cards this year oh so that's marcy t.b.'s concert there but this does multibillion dollar deals with bag of moscow as well as a potential go on with the transcriber bank now both of these companies are currently seeking so expanded in europe this program has already confirmed its interest in buying a bold spiny it all straight out and d t v is considering developing its headquarters in vienna to attract local customers and given the profit of last year and the forecast for this year and the saying that russia is definitely heading to pre-crisis levels. and a quick check on the markets in asia japanese nikkei finished in the red as gains

for exporters smelter which under the heat of pulling u.s. dollar and hong kong's hang seng was also down with banking stocks among the main losers they declined on concerns the chinese authorities will soon be raising interest rates around. their appeal stocks seem to be studying after shots on goal from the previous two sessions following mixed showings overnight from group street and in asia where the investors' low. just a cautious head of another important indicator of the health of the global economy that's the latest u.s. jobs report. and here in moscow they are just in the minds of some edging higher this hour let's have a look at some of the individual show moves energy may just outraising in the black with also left edging a role one percent gold is gold is on the rise a stronger metal prices shares are also being supported by speculation about an upcoming merger with the world's leading gold miners pharmacy chain such a six point six is as ignorant two percent of reports her front will give it

a multimillion dollar loan in exchange for its. ok to date more news in time. the close up team has been to build a brand reach thank you all the turning point zero nine more to. this time party goes to the region where half of the harry.