find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look of the global financial headlines to cause a report. from a general aracoma lot of calls war crimes and genocide charges against him but not ships as he appears of the hague tribunal has captured doesn't appear to be speeding up serbia's e.u. membership. a fire is raging at an ammunition dump in central russia triggering explosions which of injured dozens and forced thousands from their homes. and russia's anti drugs chief condemns an international proposal to legalize a soft drugs playing into the hands of the narcotics cartels.

he with us he live from from my moscow is not just out of four pm i'm a recent shade welcome to the program now rocco blood which has made his first appearance in front of the hague tribe you know he didn't enter a plea but call the charges against him monstrous and of noxious his police here it will take place in a month the former bosnian serb army general is indicted on eleven counts crimes including the murder of eight thousand muslims are threatened it's a lot it's had been on the run for sixteen years and was arrested last thursday his arrest and extradition was touted by the e.u. as a key objective for serbia to gain membership and as aussies could read out about reports the e.u. has remained doesn't appear to be any closer. destroyed still waiting for the green light service arrest an extradition of former bosnian serb army chief outcome

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 insurrection of serbia into the european union one day is really by no go there so that is your big other steps remain to be taken your right to say that the rest of the political chief 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. preserving president

course targets there is no task too challenging to take on in the quest for a new membership. arrest mr hodges. the next few weeks. for us this is a crystal ball for going all the natural conditions but while officials prepare to jump through yet another euro hoop most wonder if the list of conditions who have are 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 new york officials are also talking about the fact that. serbia has to recognize the fact the recognize the four province of course will. as well before it can really get into the e.u. you know and for 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 the trees and power and his party 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 gotten hard it probably won't be as important as the relations with costs 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 corporation will be rewarded and continues to be a path to the e.u. door the officers 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 patronize

our party belgrade serbia. right now we can get more insight on the what is case from bolton's export market such the arrest of what is the final condition for so if you see you enter now they want another go to. see you really ready you think to accept serbia into its club. i think that we was not ready to accept so into the club as you put it i mean going to how do you choose a very minor figure in the tale of the yugoslav destruction of yugoslavia and so completely unimportant there are many other conditions in the w.b. you giving some of them quite reasonable about corruption in the judiciary and freedom independence of the executive from the judiciary and so on but in essence those conditions don't need to be met if the e.u. likes you. remain you who admitted for very obvious strategic reasons and didn't meet any particular conditions at all in so doing the real reason that serbia is

outside the e.u. club as it were is that the serbian secession is problems of course will. not be resolved that's a situation that still needs to be resolved and the e.u. prefers serbia to negotiate regarding that situation while on its knees which is a position that is the part it is very familiar with now where we've heard from one analyst recently who said that in the case of serbia trying to join the e.u. it would be the first case in history of a rap jumping onto a sinking ship but if we can for a moment turn our attention to the death toll figures are from strength and they've all been questioned how do you assess the way the tribunals interprets the evidence of eight thousand victims. well the tribune was there really to justify the journalistic headlines because really those original figures eight thousand came out it came about from these are bigger it is limited side they were prepared in advance. thousands of people were hidden soldiers and drafted back into

the. islamist forces without their families even being informed so there is certainly a great deal exaggeration in the figure that's not to say that people weren't executed that people weren't killed in battle his evidence of both of those situations true but for example here you have pictures of people people graves who were on the list in the streets. as it were and they've died in previous years or there are people here again who died in previous years who are on the loose the list of of missing presumed killed by the serbs i mean the only way an eight thousand figure can stick is if we include all the serbian victims that preceded the july ninety five events and the western media really needs to be asked why it's engaged in a conspiracy of silence about the great massacre that's at the heart of this story the beginning of all which is this systematic murder of women and children and people civilians not just men and boys wherever they were found by the forces of

mass or each now this is a matter of documented reality you have on the other hand general latif being accused of command responsibility. over the claims made for july ninety five even though international community the main main general said that in his opinion he said i don't believe that he all of the massacres but i don't know that is my personal opinion so so you're saying there's about thirty degrees or so does that there's a conflict in that the numbers you're saying a gross exaggeration in the numbers of the death tolls from stopping it so you mention this so-called conspiracy of silence about what it's now has to go through as you can imagine that thousands of pages of evidence here the process requires a quite an amount of time is this old man able to fully take part in this case do you think. no he's not that's was perfectly clear from looking at him but what the tribunal doesn't need him to. be actively engaged with his own defense the tribe

you'll need a tribunal needs we need him to be sitting there for symbolic reasons he's sitting there the overview of the world is focused on him all the accusations are the wall of noise is against developed tribunal is justify its existence it was set up by madeleine albright's to point an accusing finger at the serbs and so on hide the existence of the joint criminal conspiracy to destroy the state the serbs of form the state of yugoslavia over half a heart of the adult population of serbia died to form their own male population so he died the former yugoslavia which was destroyed by the western powers and their hatred you know is there is a point an entirely different picture that's what it's been paid to do and that's what it does very effectively we should also remember that hague well i'm just going to say let's take a broader step back here and i draw some comparisons because the intervention in libya parallels have now been drawn with that with the nato bombing of hugo slavia both to protect civilians and with calls on international courts to investigate

assumed crimes is the i.c.c. i just used to set a stage for military action. well one thing's for certain and that is that those american generals who bombed fallujah. in previous years killed tens of thousands of retreat in iraqi soldiers at the battle of gap or who killed three and a half thousand taliban prisoners that cougars near mazar e sharif will not in all probability be going to fall international criminal court certainly that's partly because the us doesn't signed up so it and as far as i know no one has libya so really it shouldn't happen the fact is the americans are perfectly capable of creating another ad hoc tribunal rather as they've created this tribunal for the former yugoslavia was this tribunal you should remember is not a court it is a tribunals with all the dubious ad hoc quasi legal procedures that that

involves it's the one ton of obey of europe where people are held for years without trial waiting for trial when they're when their verdict is known in advance in fact is even worse than the guantanamo bay of europe because at least there in the when some of the judges know what the rules are at the hague tribunal this court the rules are worked out as they go along and always at the expense of the serbs and in the for example the very first case that they ever had the prosecution was shown to have been doctoring the main prosecution witness and and. leading around the camp so he could pretend to have been there he claimed to terence was dead he claimed all sorts of things it was revealed to be false and yet they still found the defendant guilty because he was served well as you say and as you say you know your state can stage an ad hoc tribunals the i.c.c. all the while not being a member for it that's all we have time for balkans export market passage thank you . well before the intervention in libya started international companies didn't hesitate to deal with colonel gadhafi and later in the program here on our team

take a look at how bankers gladly accepted kidneys of billions and then never wasted. but one year into the longest ever space flight simulation on this land monday for the maoist five hundred crew takes a look at their journey to the red planet and back. there's a major fire at an ammunition storage depot in central russia it's triggered a series of explosions and injured fifty seven two elderly people have died from heart attacks said to being brought on by the incident thirty thousand people made up of military personnel and local residents have been forced to leave the area these are several times more. well the situation house is slightly improved at the size of the fire but it is still described as being very serious indeed of course how they spread across the central russian region all that moved here late last night when a fire broke out military depo at around eleven fifty pm most gay time on thursday

and now five and spawns multiple explosions at the depot which houses amalia's all teary moring the rocket shells east of the ground multiple rocket launching it systems thousands were evacuated from the surrounding area we do understand that some people all beginning to trickle back into the region and returned to their homes we proceed to pull the dozens of people have been hospitalized and all of the medical assistance and also very soundly beaten hundred proves that some elderly people have suffered fatal heart attacks as a result of the stressful was on by the explosion but a huge effort is being undertaken by c. 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 there that is expected to rage on full at least another day a mobile firefighting machinery have also now been sent to the sides alongside five

fighting aircraft at the coolest isn't this blaze a still unknown it was initially filled with the the cigarettes might have sons of the blaze this official is now dismissed that saying that said that could not have been the sole trick of hassan chevrolets but saudi this is not the first such place to happen as an artillery deco in central russia only last week a similar plays to place in the neighboring republic of bashed here and to two years ago and they then but you thousand and nine another place happened after a decade in the city all through the un all state 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 place. is allison right that while you can be on top of the story just check us out on not facebook that's where we've got a full length amateur video of the inferno and instant updates on the story just log on to facebook slash our team news to follow the sun of course many other

stories in detail. it's now a quarter past the hour here amongst our international bank instead reportedly wasted billions of dollars invested by libyan leader in the financial times says giants like goldman sachs were dealing with the dictator's investments when it needed to plug a hole during the crisis now most of the money has been lost but with what's going on in libya any repayment seems unlikely out international joins us live from

details on this and daniel it looks like the bank is in have any doubts about accepting money from gadhafi whatever. the whole it's emerged that western banks have been happy to invest and work with libyan dictator won't get their fee and picking up huge sums in the process as you say francisco city general was. to make a billion dollar bets on its own shares it told me to make a billion dollar bets on its own shares which then lost practically all their value by last year pocketing huge sums huge fees in the process american lending goldman sachs made a billion dollar investment for libya which then lost over ninety eight percent of its value and many of the western lenders have made dissolve investments for libya's national investment fund and now the interesting thing is that these banks

are claiming they won't have to pay any of that money back because the west's currency war with libya means that gadhafi is an illegitimate ruler now the economy is here in the also calling into question the integrity and professionalism of those banks because the libyan investments came just off the field so long cover a rogue trader within its own bank which run up huge losses and goldman sachs was been accused of making investments for people in europe which you would what are huge losses. indeed any bushel a convenience or brand could actually as an illegitimate ruler so i have to pay back vast sums of money and when i found him thank you. for today marks a year since six volunteers set off on a simulated mission to mars and it's been pretty tough going peter olcott has mana challenges they faced on the way. one year in to the mars five hundred project to

go have a look at what they life is like inside the module here in central moscow they they are simulating their way a journey to to mars and a return journey now 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 may 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 have a steady 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 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 but full of admiration for the things they're making do with out my missions for it all. and i had the opportunity from the space station and i call the call to the families through a. telephone system. and that's must be the hardest for them at the time of 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 how much time was left. of the tents. one year into their voyage the mars five hundred team a currently simulating never turned into earth however it will be another five months before this school can be opened and they can step back into normal routine . locked away from the outside world for one year already 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 they celebrate this really 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 you're in there already have got five months left to go how intense was the psychological pressure be on the.

well i think as 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 a for a year and they've still got five months to go 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 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 manned 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 are. really hard 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 oh dr phillip i could talk to you forever about this very interesting thank you very much but i have to leave it there as dr patrick fuller from meet the founder a big part of the couple cites connections innovation agency so one year in they still have five months left to go i'm not sure i could see that. they've been doing solos just. 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 or to.

just not earning a twenty three minutes past the hour here in moscow russia's anti drugs chief has slammed the proposition to legalize some not ix by the local commission on drug policy label it as propaganda so to even off says the report is designed to derail the global fight against drugs the commission is made up of well known and foremost statesman politicians and businessmen and artist whose are similar is the case. 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 as of this report did not sit well with the russia's anti drug chief 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 must be are actually discussing this with the so-called global

commission we should realize that we're dealing with a global. promotion this campaign is directly or indirectly linked with a joint news amounting to about eight hundred billion dollars. as far as russia's efforts are concerned ivanoff himself had 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 so alternative means of curbing this problem are also being seen now if we look at the actual record there basically suggesting that we have they have to the eagle eyes 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 now on these grounds their suggestion is to simply legalize drugs if we're not also did raise the fact that a part of the cattle panel of who came up with this report includes the former u.n. secretary general kofi annan as well as a former president of brazil mexico and colombia and he said that if we look at the drug policy during the course we are not leadership of the u.n. it has been a failure so he doesn't think that this report i'm should be taken seriously he didn't dismiss it. she's a celebrity amazing discoveries and mysteries of the russian capital coming your way in just a fine minutes but for now it's the business news with today. thanks for henri rushes to have you wear your chaps of banking have been holding that annual general meetings as burbank. recently posted strong results and have plans

for expansion more details i'm joined by marina cost of outsides but i have to go to the retailers are you now the shareholders of these two banking giants pleased with what they're hearing today. well they're not only pleased they're looking forward to next year already but let's start with twenty ten which proved to be a great year for the banking sector the total profits came up to twenty point five billion dollars which is three times as much as they made in two thousand and nine now the t.v. made one point five billion dollars and gave away two hundred fifty million dollars in dividends spare bank made six point two billion dollars and gave a great wealth percent of its net profits now this is a significant increase from the years before but they're hoping to get it to fifteen percent next year now spare a bank maybe to the top fifty banks in the world in terms of its net profit last year and this year they're hoping to become the leader in the local market and

credit card sales so i would say that shareholders have a lot to look forward to the rights of these banks are making such nice profits that are coming cash rich what are they going to do with cash. well p.t.p. ends burbank are currently seeking to exploit a europe where a bank has already confirmed its interest in buying votes bank international in austria and he is considering expanding its headquarters to develop local interests and celebrations over there but all in all given the profits and a forecast we see that russia is definitely moving ahead to reaching its pre-crisis levels all right marina course there thank you so much for that insight on those bags of beauty beads a shareholder meetings and you so much all right we have time to take a look at the markets now finally european stocks are mixed though they seem to be steadying for a sharp sell off in the previous two sessions following mixed showings overnight on

wall street and asia actually see right now is up by a notch index point four percent and moscow the l.t. has a nice six trying for a different picture there as he is down point four percent my six point seven percent secular to some in the individual movers energy majors are trading in the red right now is down a quarter of a percent though was trading positively before school is on the rise in stronger metal prices which is also being supported by speculation about one coming merger with the world's leading gold miner preferred shares of his burbank have jumped more than six and a half percent on reports that the bank may convert them into ordinary shares and this could boost their the critics you had of privatisation and also preferred shares in the first in line for getting to that. and that's all from the business desk this hour we will be back in fifteen minutes time with an update.

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