former general of rocco bloody refutes all charges against him as he appears of the hague tribunal with many experts saying the number of those killed in its revenue was fabricated to accuse him of genocide. fire and ammunition dump in central russia has triggered explosions which of injured doesn't stand for thirty thousand people from the us. and russia says an international report which calls the war on drugs a failure is playing right into the hands of the narcotics card. just

after six pm here in moscow you without seeing a very warm welcome. chinese made his first appearance in front of the hague tried you know he didn't enter a plea but called the charges against him monstrous and of noxious is a plea hearing will now take place in a month the former bosnian serb army general is indicted on eleven counts of your crimes including the murder of eight thousand muslims abstract and it's a lot it had been on the run for sixteen years and was arrested just last thursday his arrest and extradition was touted by the e.u. as a key objective for serbia to gain membership president sort of analysis of the strength of the evidence being brought against him. the village of servants in bosnia-herzegovina where we are right now features prominently in the case against former bosnian serb army chief currently on trial in the hague despite the claims

of eight thousand murdered men and boys here instead of doing it so many of those who have studied those documents say that most of the reports actually concern body parts they also say that there is no discernible way to determine which of those people died as a result of the balkans war here you have pictures of people people graves who were on the list in the search for evidence of. previous use although people here again who died in previous years. certainly for a list of. killed by it's impossible to talk about so that it needs not mention all of the other atrocities that took place here this is that i need to just a few miles out is the village of privates where a bosnian muslim general nasir audit literally lights out the entire village throughout two years and i said oh it's tore through the region of serbia needs to

destroy at least one hundred fifty villages and massacring. over thirty five hundred people so the case against knowledge as many here believe does seem to be somewhat biased some people in serbia believe is a national hero others believe he is a work criminal and should be tried for what he was responsible for but the one thing that we have found most people share that one idea is that that trial should not be held by the hague tribunal and many people that we've spoken to believe that that is a bias that the hate crimes tribunal is being used as a political tool and not a legal one very prominent cases that it has held of course concerned mostly serb generals previously mentioned nasser but it's the general many believe is responsible for equally atrocious war crimes during that time was cleared by the hague tribunal of all charges so these fears of the hague inability to be objective

do seem to be substantiated. he's covering us out of our reporting right now before the intervention in libya started and international companies did not hesitate to deal with colonel gadhafi a little bit later in the program here r.t. we take a look at how bankers have gladly accepted their fees billions and then turned around and wasted. that was a major fire and ammunition storage depot in central russia has triggered a series of explosions and injured at least fifty seven. people have died from heart attacks said to have been brought on by the incident thirty thousand people made up of military personnel and local residents have been forced to leave the immediate area partings alice said it has details. well the situation house is slightly improved at the size of the fire but it is still described as being very serious indeed of calls panic spread across the central russian region all that moved here late last night when a fire broke out at military depo at around eleven fifty pm most cases time on

thursday and not fired in spawn's multiple explosions at the depot which houses amalia solitary moring the rocket shells used for the crowds multiple rocket launching it systems thousands were evacuated from the surrounding area we do understand that some people were all beginning to trickle back into the region and returned to their homes we've received report that dozens of people have been hospitalized and also medical assistance and also very soundly we have reports that some elderly people live suffered fatal heart attacks as a result of the stress goes on by a explosion but a huge effort is being undertaken by sea i fish hills here to try and bring the blaze on the control over five hundred firefighters have been battling the blaze since it took hold this is just the scale of what's happening with that that it is expected to rage on for at least another day move all firefighting machinery have

also now been said to decide on long side five high seeing aircrafts at the coolest isn't this blaze a still unknown it was initially filled with the cigarettes maija still most of the blaze bissett officials now dismissed that saying but said that could not have been the sole trick of the sancerre blaze but sadly this is not with us such place to happen at an artillery deco in central russia only last week a similar plays at sick place in the neighboring republic of passion here and she years ago and made them to two thousand and nine another place happened down to death in the city of neither of those two places were as serious as this current one but it says sadly this is not the first time this or russia's central areas have been faced with such a blaze. it is on a separate reporting right there what president has said that despite your stories claiming i thought i had been contained evacuees could not be returned to their homes until it was completely put out addressing the defense minister he added that

those responsible for the accident must be punished and the world as it will receive him to military people for a single span of two weeks. you say merge the defense minister must report who will answer for that and harmless to certain people feel to draw conclusions we will have to strip them of their shoulder straps. you can be on top of this story by checking us out on facebook have a look at your screen right now and so we've got a full length amateur video of the inferno and instant updates on the story i just got onto facebook slash our team news to follow this and of course many other stores.

and with r.t.d. live from moscow now today marks a year since. the volunteers set off on a simulated mission to mars that is being rather tough you know in our history has more on the challenges they faced all along the way. one year in to the mars five hundred project with no other look at what bailey life is like inside the module here in central moscow they they are simulating their way a journey to head to mars and a return journey though at the moment one year in they're currently simulating that journey back from the red planet back home to earth now most five hundred certainly unique to to the the length of time they are spending in 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 them on my nerves was one of those who took part needed to. get the monotony it's hard i mean the regimen little things get you in the beginning we had a steady temperature all the time later the temperature was fluctuating making it incredibly uncomfortable go to man and his two crew mates spent one year in a metal box twelve meters square with no private space the mars five hundred module with its seventy two meter square living quarters as well as separate areas for conducting experiments looks like a by 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 a real full of admiration for the things they're making do with out my missions for

a lot of this. and for to you from the space station and i sort of call them the families through a. telephone system. and that's possibly the hardest but i think. 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 how much time was left. rather tense. one year into their voyage the mars five hundred team are currently simulating their return journey to earth however it will be another five months before this door can be opened and they can step back into normal ety. 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 this other it is really landmark day in their journey i'm now joined by dr patrick flick from the capital 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 it's 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 a year and they've still got five months to go and it's important to remember that they haven't actually had 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 during 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. because 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 cause 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 our. favor really have 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 productive full of i could talk to you forever about this very interesting thank you very much we'll have to leave it there was dr patrick pollock

from neatly found a big part of 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. the sun. you know solution traveling a million miles a day. the men from mars are heading to. mars five hundred closer to the edge of possibility on our team. it's only quarter past the hour here in moscow you with artsy now international bankers reportedly wasted billions of dollars invested by libyan leader colonel gadhafi the financial times says giants like goldman sachs were dealing with the dictator's investments when they needed to plug a hole during the crisis most of the money has been lost but with what's going on in libya any repayment seems unlikely that he's done a bushel has more from berlin. that western banks have been happy to invest and

work with the libyan dictator while we get their feet and picking up huge sums in the process as you say for us this city general was. to make a billion dollar bets on its own shares it told khadafi to make a billion dollar bets on its own shares which then lost practically all their value by last year pocketed huge sums huge fees in the process american led the 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 this all stress investments for libya's national investment fund 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 current war with libya means that gadhafi is an illegitimate ruler. that is daniel schorr

right there the military action in libya is raising a lot of questions in the u.s. senate with some voices suggesting that american involvement is illegal and that's being discussed today in the latest edition of cost talk. kind of a little bit surprising that a legal scholar would be willing to put all military interventions in the category of war without the frame 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 decided to sever seven thousand nine hundred forty one imperial japan did not send any ground troops in hawaii they bombed our military and the united states rightly recognized that as an act of war. because. you can

watch cross talk about an hour and a quarter from now russia's anti drug chief has slammed a proposition to legalize some narcotics by the global commission on drug policy as propaganda victory or even off the report is designed to do rail the global fight against drugs the commission is made up of well known for most states when politicians and businessmen. are syria has more from moscow. 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 report did not sit well with russia's anti drug chief because even north and he see believe 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 campaign on drugs promotion this country is directly directly linked with the joint revenues amounting to about eight hundred billion dollars. as far as russia's efforts are concerned even off 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 the 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 illegalize 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 these 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 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 with during the coffee and leadership of the u.n. it has been a failure so he doesn't think that this report should be taken seriously he didn't dismiss it. right there well i mean i'm on our web site r.t. dot com we are asking you if soft drugs should be legalized let's look at how the opinions that if i were there right now and a third of respondents believe that it will stop drug lords from cashing in from hard drugs the majority however thinks that the move will not affect the use of hard drugs like twenty five percent of the opinion that legalizing drugs will boost their use and no one is for the all out that not want to watch the dot com and you

can join in the debate as well. now the european commission has criticized russia's decision to ban imported vegetables from europe in the wake of the eco light operate but prime minister putin says people's lives are more important. to you and me she was good at our colleagues from the european commission say russia's decision goes it is this spirit of the w t o frankly i didn't know about that but the cucumber is the key people of that it made them that's not the kind of thing that raises your spirits we are waiting for all partners to at least name the contagion as the themselves don't know what's going on we can't expose our people for the sake of some kind of spirit i will of course review the legitimacy of our public health service decision but nevertheless we are waiting for updates from our european colleagues in. the meantime spain may launch legal action against germany for prematurely pointing out its cucumbers as the

cause of the fatal break the hysteria over spanish produce has crippled the country's foreign exports and cost millions of euros and the source of the infection is still unclear but critics say the pharmaceutical industry may be in for a windfall from the vegetable pack. some cucumber scale that much is clear and it's also become apparent that although germany playing spain is the source of the it's not that it's costing innocent spanish brewton vegetable export is around two hundred million euros but 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 in brussels calls disproportionate it's a very delicate time for the spanish economy which is teetering on the edge of needing an bailout this is decidedly not a good moment for one hundred fifty thousand tons of foot used to go unsold.

simply because of. all. destruction at this 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 the bird flu could kill up to one hundred fifty million people in reality is seven years until the end of two thousand and ten saw three hundred eighty three people died more recently swine flu was the killer encouraged by pharmaceutical companies european countries spend billions of dollars on unnecessary facts scenes probably will see very soon behind all of this. from the. large pharmaceutical industry like they did with the swine flu they have something to protect people against. screening. 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 rest. it's all star season europe alter its prime minister criticize the european commission for not supporting the country enough particularly off to the infection was proven not to have come from spanish cucumbers spain has a tight task ahead of its repairing its reputation as a reliable exports or a freesat in vegetables all over the e.u. a position said so too it's a link economy no rather it's how it's brussels. searching out some of the headlines from around the world in brief for you now there are conflicting reports the president of yemen. has either been killed or wounded the government denies the president has with a leader said to give

a press conference shortly it comes after the opposition attacked his residence killing at least four people in and injuring a senior official the country has been in a state of virtual civil war since president saleh refused to step down from power three months ago. greece has agreed in principle to a second bailout package from the european union the international monetary fund the government off the debt ridden country has wrapped up negotiations over new austerity measures the tough rescue measures have sparked nationwide protests with hundreds taking to the streets a major anti customized ration is also expected tomorrow in the things. nuclear rabbit has sparked online panic in japan and much of footage shows an airless mutant rabbit on the person who made the video claims it was a shot just outside the exclusion zone near japan's crippled fukushima plant a clip it's given rise to fears the radiation threat in the area is far worse than

previously thought funny money because an online frenzy predictions that babies in japan may soon be born with haitians. are now it's time for the business with. and then a warm welcome to business r.t. the markets are all heading lower following worse than expected jobs data in the u.s. this has raised yet more concerns that the recovery in the world's biggest economy is stalling the uncertainty has been compounded by generally poor data in europe and asia coupled with recurring debt problems around the world chris we from all said says the question now is what is there to drive the markets higher. we've had a series of disappointing or weaker than expected economic data points in major economies from the u.s. europe and china and that's certainly on your mind you know expectations and

economic growth will accelerate this year so you know where we're at right now and what we see in the markets is just reflecting the fact that optimism for even faster growth community two thousand and twelve is now giving way to a more sobering reality that we're going to we're still struggling to kind of stay just above the positive like your stupid discussion about the ending of the quantity of easing in the u.s. this month and whether or not as a third of easing may even be required to propel you can move forward but that's the big question mark that economists and investors are looking at saying you know what is there to drive this market higher. so you get the markets now and we start with commodities and the world is heading down on worries about the sustainability of economic growth in the united states and therefore the global demand for crude we're seeing right now is light sweet below one hundred dollars a barrel close to ninety nine percent is a round one hundred fourteen dollars barrel down one dollar sixty cents. it's moved

to the stock markets now and in the u.s. they opened down almost a percent as the employment rate in the world's largest economy has risen to nine point one percent with the fewest jobs added in may for the past eight months then there's that down point eight percent european stocks up also down though not as much as wall street investors here are closely watching one issue it's about coming greece bailout package coca-cola p.c. is up five percent not great for citi group. in moscow the r.t.s. in my sex will be closing friday's trading around twenty minutes time they are now down around one and a half percent said look at some of the individual stocks energy majors are taking a beating with gazprom down two and a half. the said quote is gold is slightly better than the other stocks and much better than the markets down by just a notch shares are supported by speculation about an upcoming merger with a world leading a gold mine a preferred shares of suburban now that's

a good investment today they've jumped more than a six percent on the ports that the bank may convert them into ordinary shares that of course they have first in line for dividend payments which are going to come in very soon. russians to have you a chance of banking i've been holding their annual general meetings about bank of b.c. do you both recently present strong results and have plans for expansions for more details let's listen to the course of the. shareholders are ready looking poets' next year but let's start with twenty ten which proved to be a great year for the banking sector the total profits made were twenty two point five billion dollars which is returns as much as they made in two thousand and nine i l d t v russia's second largest lender made one point five billion dollars in net profit and gave away two hundred fifty million in dividends this bird that makes six point two billion dollars and gave away twelve percent of that in dividends

which is a significant increase compared to those in the past couple of years and very often the next year they'll be able to drive that up to fifty percent this year they're also hoping to become a leader in credit card sales here in russia scarified at this meeting also we like the c.e.o. group on growth for another four year term shareholders also the style surprise for privatized stations which include it as share buyback program now also some make over and the supervisory board the less government officials and more independent directors now over a b two b. shareholders talked about their future plans which included the lowering of bad debts in their loan portfolio from eight percent to four percent in the next four years now both banks are currently see concerts and in europe those burbank has already confirmed interest in buying last response by international and b two b. is considering using its headquarters in vienna to attract local customers now given the profits off last year and the forecast for this year analysts say that

russia is that really heading to pre-crisis levels. not in the culture of the reporting for business see the headlines the next statements. dump the official key application your i phone the i pod touch for me i choose not .