if. fish. first. rocco but it sure is told the hague tribunal that he won't enter a plea to what he called the other noxious charges against him the capture of the former boss and you know general is proving though still not enough for belgrade entry to the much desired. spectacular explosions light up the night sky in the central russia that's a major fire i mean the post sets off a chain reaction of artillery shell explosions most of sixty people have been injured in the. anguish and tears replaced shock in georgia as families bury the victims of a savage police crackdown on the left hundreds of other protesters in hospital

sparked outrage from human rights organizations demanding an investigation. and offer a year in a simulator to space its final homestretch for the men returning from the arctic spells out the details of the trip. to russia's two largest banks p.c.p. and sarah brown have been coaching their annual shareholder meetings business artsy here prospering you the highlights what's being discussed that's in twenty minutes . a very warm welcome to you this is our to you live from moscow research now the former bosnian serb army general ratko bloody charles refused to enter a plea before the un that war crimes court it was a first appearance before the hague tribunal where he claimed that he is gravely

ill the former army commander said he needs more time to understand the charges that he's facing and you hear is now being set for the fourth of july he's indicted on eleven accounts of war crimes including the genocide of around eight thousand muslims he's been on the run for sixteen years. his arrest edition was touted by the e.u. as a key objective. measure for slapping but that he was going to bring us out of reports the goalposts say and why destroyed by the day has existed between still waiting for the green light service arrests an extradition of former bosnian serb army chief that can lead it 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 go security issues 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 my no go there so that is 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 look to legislate in reform engagement in regional cooperation with neighbors believe elements will be taking into account when deciding to launch the discussion procedure with serbia. for serbian president boris tadic there is no task challenging to take on in the quest for a new membership. arrest mr hardee. and the next few weeks. before. this is a crystal clear from the all the metro stations while officials prepare to jump

through yet another hero who most wonder if the rest of conditions ever and 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 visuals are also talking about the fact that. serbia has to recognize the fact the recognize its own province a possible. as well before it can really get into the e.u. so you know on them or somebody else is talking about the fact the serbia is very corrupt until it stops being so corrupt and so bad you can't get into the e.u. so really as long as the trees and power and his party the list of demands will be endless so is the union stoning and opening its doors to serbia are its conditions 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 possible will of course it will lead to another another long story where whole point about making new conditions probably won't stop recently still serbia hopes its copper ation will be rewarded and continues to be 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 a group with a list of conditions for possible accession seems to be neverending and for official belgrade membership is always visible and always out of reach catarina or about our team belgrade serbia. i know there's more to come for you during this half hour of news here on our t.v. and incumbents have become a couple of discord between in germany and spain after millions of euros in revenue lost following false accusations the spanish vegetable was the root of

a deadly european economy i outbreak. and russia accuses the global commission on drug policy of promoting narcotics are pretty issues a report calling for the legalization of certain substances and find out why sir. but a major fire has broken out. a storage depot in central russia triggered explosions and injured at least fifty seven people two elderly people have died from heart attacks brought on by the incident and still one person remains unaccounted for and i was having our joins us live for more details on this island we've seen some just spectacular pictures here on our t.v. and now it's been more than twelve hours since the fire broke out any sign of it is a beginning to die down or the situation has it's slightly improved at the size of the fire but it is still described as being very serious indeed of course they could spread across the central russian region of that moved here late last night

when a fire broke out at not hillary depo at around eleven fifty pm moscow time on thursday and now five installs multiple explosions at the depot which houses the mine is artillery boringly rocket shells he's fifty grad multiple rocket launching it systems thousands were evacuated from the surrounding area we do understand that some people are beginning to trickle back into the region and returned to their homes we've received report that dozens of people have been hospitalized and asked for medical assistance and also a very soundly be one hundred pools that some elderly people have suffered fatal heart attacks as a result of the stress that was on by the explosion we've also had reports the reality that several thousands. rules across the area have been very doubtfully at body damage there's also been reports of looting across the area and transport links have also been severely destruction throughout the region with trains and

roads being rerouted and emergency officials have also sent it on manned aircraft to monitor the situation now obviously it's hardly surprising about the extent of the damage considering the pictures that it looks like something out of a war zone obviously a massive effort is required to get this under control what's being done but a huge effort is being undertaken by emergency officials here to try and bring the blaze under control over five hundred firefighters have been battling the blaze since it took hold it's not just the scale of what's happening is that it is expected to rage on full at least another day a mobile firefighting machinery have also now been sent to the side on long side five pricing aircraft at the cools itself this blaze a still unknown it was initially filled with the cigarettes mike the start of the blaze this official is now dismissed that saying that said that could not have been the sole trick a facade chevrolets all of

a human in this state he says still thought to be the most likely cool spot a full recall would obviously be on detail in the moment that the place is a proton the controls we could probably expect that within the next forty eight hours or so but sadly this is not the first such place to happen out and i wanted to read depo in central russia only last week a similar plays at sea place in the neighboring republic of bashed here and she gives a go in november two thousand and nine another blaze happened to death in the city . neither of those two places were as serious as this current one but says sadly this is not the first time this or russia's central areas have been faced with such a blaze all right i was about that life and most like you. all right we'll have more details on more details on r.t. dot com of course now today marks a year since six volunteers set off on

a simulated mission to mars and they're going to certainly be tough things for has more now on the challenges they faced along the way. one year in to the mars five hundred project right now of a look at what daily life is like inside the module here in central moscow they they are simulating the way a journey to mars and a return journey there at the moment one year in they're currently simulating a 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 the. orbit the

monotony it's hard i mean the regimen little things get to you in the beginning we have a steady temperature all the time later the temperature was fluctuating making it incredibly uncomfortable to 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 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 for real are 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 actually call them on call to the families through a. telephone system very or the radio and their battles must be the hardest for them to go to 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 the duration mir 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 but. 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 into normal routine. 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 over it's really landmark day in their journey i'm now joined by dr patrick flick from the couple science connections innovation agency thank you very much for talking to us good morning from london thank you well i've spent

a year in there already got five months left to go how intense was the psychological pressure beyond. what i think we've just heard in this run down to home the psychological pressure is is really quite intense these guys have been locked away for for a year and they've still got five months to go and it's important to remember that they haven't actually had a voice contacts 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 year in the last year and that's really quite intense so it must be very very difficult indeed certainly going to be a bonding exercise at least but 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 mission to mars. yeah well cause i think 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. 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't imagine that you could lock yourself away under these circumstances without in some way convincing yourself that it was real the full that i could talk to you forever about this very interesting thank you very much you'd have to leave it there as dr patrick flick from me can be found i beg your pardon the capital 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. they've been doing solos discern. a year in isolation travelling a million miles a day. the men from mars are heading to. mars

five hundred closer to the edge of possibility. it's now a quarter past the hour here in moscow with r.t. now russia's anti drugs chief is slander according to narcotics by former world leaders and politicians as quote drugs propaganda to even off a state of the findings were designed to do rail the global fight against drugs and are supported by cartels parties to sausalito as martyrs. 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 and 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 before did not sit well with the russians anti drug because even north and he see 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. 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 directly or indirectly linked but the joint revenues amounting to about eight hundred billion dollars. as far as russia's efforts are concerned even off himself have reiterated earlier this year that russia is committed to expanding the 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 there's this fight will continue and here ideas are being thrown out such as perhaps a drug testing in school or replacing here with 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 be have to legalize drugs in order to

undermine organized crime by basically making the drugs readily available so that the prices will go down and therefore heard the revenues of this drug cartels and another point is to keep the citizens healthy intact to protect the citizens down on these grounds their suggestion is to simply legalize drugs even off also did raise the fact that a part of the paddle panel of who came up with this report includes the former u.s. 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 anon said leadership of the un it has been a failure so he doesn't think that this report i'm should be taken seriously he did dismiss it now with regard to the suggestion other 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.

according to bear in mind as always more on our web site that's dot com here's what's on the lot for you online right now but have notes saying quote i have all smile russia has become fifth in the world in terms of super rich families all of it gloomy poverty statistics. and the silence of the lambs or in this case gold scouts and any other ukrainian city has officially banned them from making noise might find out why the locals think your thoughts have gone. that's all that artsy dot com. spain may launch a legal action against germany which prematurely pointed to its q cup as does the course of the faithful. to the hysteria over spanish protrusions crippled the country's farm exports costing billions of euros in just a week while the source of the infection is still unknown critics believe the pharmaceutical industry may be the one to benefit from the vegetable public.

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 innocent spanish fruit and vegetable export is around two hundred million euros a week and it would all be over statements are an absolute lack of responsibility what is happening today is a check made to the spanish vegetable and fruit industry calling the european health watchdog discredited russia says it had no choice but to ban all friesen 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 your venue because of the world it's as if the accusations brought against the spanish cucumbers were francos this was always from the outset why because the screen was the source of the disease why is no one over there this was of spain could hate the disease this isn't

a mild flu you can keep secret german health officials still kind of see it will cause the a prick the transfer of photos of the scenes and 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 e.u. bailout this is decidedly not a good moment for one hundred fifty thousand tons of proteins to go unsold will. simply because. all the. time we. cannot hold back 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 east. one flu was the killer encouraged by pharmaceutical companies european countries spend billions of dollars on unnecessary vaccines probably will see very soon this. new declaration is from the. gorge pharmaceutical industry like they did with the swine flu they have something to protect people against. screen and 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 come from spanish cucumbers spain has a titan task ahead of its repairing its reputation as

a reliable exporter of fruits and vegetables all over the new position essential to its a lake economy nor at its heart to eat brussels and meanwhile prime minister putin has questioned whether russia's on all imports of e.u. vegetables is necessary as comes after the european commission requested immediate withdrawal of the. risk of some other international stories for you this hour here on r.t. seventy three year old man has gone on a shooting rampage in the u.s. state of arizona killing five before turning the gun on himself. shot dead a prominent local attorney in yuma county who had it represented his wife in their divorce police say the shootings were not a random act and all the victims were targeted. greece and the e.u. have reportedly agreed in principle to a new bailout package to further help the struggling country with its debt crisis though the exact sum that will be lent to athens has not been revealed it will

supposedly supersede the existing emergency loan of one hundred ten billion euros greece in return must target another six billion in austerity measures begin its ambitious privatization program. but shock has given way to sorrow in georgia families bury the victims of a brutal police crackdown on protesters that happened on the eve of the country's independence day the incident prompted a worldwide outcry with human rights organizations demanding a thorough investigation because of these error three ports there is little hope those responsible will be held to account. last week in triads he turned out to demonstrate this week his friends and family are burying him a 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. police officers.

and i can say this is kong to strike iran because we had a situation a very close to two thousand and seven where. excessive force was used. to restitution was now we're starting with the most pledged. years georgia has tried to move westwards promising reforms and signing 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 we probably should go. for the theaters talk of the territory and are only after. personal and had to witness the scenes we saw police surrounding the protesters all the exits appeared blocks they had nowhere to go before to get spread and the rubber bullets hit. this was during the status of the main streets and we saw

them chasing down some of the protesters be taking shelter here in the cinema building at the time or the last time was smashed we saw many of the people that were being led out being hit 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. one was running from one side to most all the roads that were caused by i was standing along and the rubber boot my one o'clock until seven in the morning i was in the pollution before dark. on to the hospital. the opposition to you have come under criticism for parts of play in the raveling of the vents a failed syndication despite being offered another venue with heathfield that's

justification for the guidance that it's according to. the this is a crime this is the torture or. treatment reaches a crying and investigation should start but there is an awful lot picts first in the situation after years of georgian president claims that great as this didn't want freedom of speech violence and the victims and that was certainly what they gots. to believe. so i dropped it on the news stories are our teeth our business. right to catch up with all the latest business news no more spanish cucumbers or brussels sprouts russia will be on a diet free of european vegetables until the government is sure they're free or. will this make it more difficult to find your five

a day of could also make them more expensive. 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 longer. and i think this is a one off really and this should be very short because if 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 from the local producers but remember that if you look at the national operators national retail chains. source still a very small percentage locally predicament reasons. and the e.u. is desperate for russia to lift the ban or it's against w to rules that could hinder russia's accession to the world trade organization but have a check on the markets branches hovering at one hundred fourteen dollars

a barrel like sweden has slipped below one hundred dollars with the world crude oil is seeing some upward resistance in the next meeting on the eighth of june may well see out the race to cap recent rise gave. non-farm payrolls data to out late in the day is also seen as critical in setting the stage for the price direction. that's a look at the markets are european stocks the mix though seem to be steadying after a sharp sell off in the previous two sessions following mixed showings overnight on wall street and in asia and finally here in moscow the r.t.s. in the mindset so low at this hour let's now have a look at some of the individual share moves energy majors are trading and the like of course next edging around half a percent is gold is on the rise and strong the metal crisis shares are also being supported by speculation about an upcoming merger with a world leading gold mine as far as the train thirty six point six is edging around two percent on the fruits will give us

a multimillion dollar loan in exchange for shares. so we have time for now you're up to date more news on our website or tweet of com slash business. the.