former general of light is refutes all charges against him as he appears at the hague tribunal with many experts saying the number of those killed in scotland was fabricated to accuse him of genocide. and ammunition dump in central russia has triggered explosions which of doesn't stand for thirty thousand people from their homes. russia says an international report which calls the war on drugs a failure is playing directly into the hands of narcotics cartel. and off the weak u.s. jobs for the month of may russia's not going stay good to end friday's session one

point three percent lower raising all gains for the week more on the markets and the latest business news in an hour bulletin twenty minutes. with r.t. live from moscow i'm received a very warm welcomes here. as i made his first appearance in front of the hague tribunals he didn't enter a plea but called the charges against him monstrous and noxious his pre-hearing one i'll take place in a month's time the former bosnian serb army general is indicted on eleven counts of war crimes including the murder of eight thousand muslims and seven it's a lot it should be on the run for sixteen years and was arrested just last thursday his arrest and extradition was started by the e.u. as a key objective for serbia to gain membership artists and i thought about an hour after

the strength of the evidence being brought against. though it's there but and it's in bosnia and 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 and it's many of those who have studied those documents say that most of the reports actually concerned body parts a leg bones thigh bones femur bones and they've basically done a basic count of those they also say that there is no discernible way to determine which of those people died as a result of the politicians who are here you have pictures of people people graves who were on the list in. previous years older people here again who died in previous year is on the surface of a list of. presumed killed by it and it's impossible to talk about so but it

needs to not mention all of the other atrocities that took place here this is the brain it's a just a few miles out is the village of cravats where bosnian muslim general nasir ordered a literally wiped out the entire village throughout two years and that's it or it's tore through the region of sort of it 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 a lot of it as a national hero others believe he is a war 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 hague 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

general. previously mentioned that's what it's the general many believe is responsible for equally atrocious war crimes during that time with cleared by the hague tribunal other all charges so these fears of the hague inability to be objective do seem to be substantiated. as our reporting right there now before the intervention in libya started international companies did not hesitate to deal with colonel gadhafi a little bit later in the program here on our t.v. we take a look at how bankers gladly accepted conduct research millions and then placed it . there's a major fire i mean a storage depot in central russia has triggered it just a series of explosions and injured at least fifty seventy two elderly 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 all been

forced to leave the immediate area and it's alison it has all the 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 course how they spread across the central russian region all that moved here late last night when a fire broke out at an artillery jack-o. at around eleven fifty pm most cases time on thursday and now five and spawns multiple explosions at the depot which houses amalia's all to reach boringly rocket shells used to be crowds 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 to return to their homes we proceed to pull the dozens of people have been hospitalized and also medical assistance and also a very soundly beaten hundred pools that some elderly people have suffered fatal heart attacks as a result of the stress pulls on by the explosion when a huge effort is being undertaken by only emergency officials here to try and bring

the blaze under control over five hundred five pride has it been battling the blaze since it took hold is not just the scale of what's happening there that it is expected to rage on full at least another day a mobile firefighting machinery have also now been sent to the sides alongside five high seeing aircraft that the coolest is of this blaze a still unknown it was initially full of the the cigarettes might just start of the blaze this official is now dismissed that saying that said that could not have been the sole trick of the sancerre blaze but soundly this is not the first place to happen at an artillery depo in central russia only last week a similar plays had to place in the neighboring republic of bashed here and she years ago and they then the two thousand and nine another place happened after decades in this city all over the yard all scared neither of these two places were

as serious as this courage one that says sadly this is not the first time visitors . russ's central larrys have been faced with such a place now it is on a separate right meantime president said that despite the authorities claiming the fire had now been contained evacuees could not return to their homes until it was completely put out addressing the defense minister he added that those responsible for the accident must be punished on the water as it was resistant to military people for a single span of two weeks. you submerging the defense minister must report who will answer for that and how some certain people feel to draw conclusions will have to strip them of their shoulder straps. you know you can be on top of this story by just checking us out on the facebook that's where we are for a full length amateur video of the inferno of course and updates on the story i just want to work facebook's last hour to use to follow these and of course all of

our other stories. it is nearly ten minutes past the hour here in moscow now today marks a year since the volunteers set off on a simulated mission to mars and it's been tough going. but now has more on the challenges they faced all 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 to mars and the return journey that we're 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 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 them on my nod serve was one of those who took part in one of the jury should orbit 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 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 a five 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 full of admiration for the things they're making do with out my missions for a lot of this. and that head of the you know from the space station and actually call them the families through a. telephone system. and that's possibly the hardest for them that they cannot 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 how much time was left we all

got rather tense. one year into their voyage the mars five hundred team a currently simulating their return journey to earth however it will be another five months before this store 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 of the 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 spent a year and already have 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 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 certainly going to be a bonding exercise at least but because this is a simulation it's a very realistic simulation but how close is it to the actual mission that they could take part in and manned mission to mars. you know will cause the crucial thing is that we've got gravity here on the surface of the earth so but part of it but the psychological aspect 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 talk to feel that i could talk to you forever about this very interesting thank you very much but i have to leave it there as 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 see that. these billboards around the sun. you know isolation 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. nearly quarter past the hour here in the russian capital you are with artsy now international bankers have 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 we needed to plug a hole during the economic crisis most of the money has been lost with what's going on in libya any payment seems unlikely he's going to show has more. western banks have been happy to invest and work with libyan dictator while we get there for you 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 to make a billion dollar bets on its own shares which then lost practically all their value by last year and pocketed huge sums of future fees in the process american limit 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 dissolves trysts investments for libya's national investment fund and now the interesting thing is that these planes are claiming they would have to pay any of that money back because the west's current war with libya means that gadhafi is an illegitimate ruler. it's not eternal bush or the world 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 in the latest edition of cross talk that's coming your way in about fifteen minutes time. find it a little bit surprising that a legal scholar would be willing to put all military interventions in the category of war without defining 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 under subset or seven thousand nine hundred forty one imperial japan did not

send any ground troops into hawaii they bombed our military in the united states right we've recognized there is an active war. you can walk across talking about fifteen to twenty minutes time from russia's drugs chief as a proposition to legalize some narcotics by the global commission on drug policy as simple propaganda victoria even off says the report is designed to de rail the global fight against drugs commission is made up of well known former statesman politicians and businessmen. small from sco. 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 the russia's anti drug chief because he went off 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 this with the so-called global commission we should realize that we're dealing with a global campaign on drugs promotion this campaign is going directly or indirectly linked with the joint revenues amounting to about eight hundred billion dollars as far as russia's efforts are concerned even off him self have 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 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 report there basically suggesting that we have they 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 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 if we're not also did raise the fact that a part of the cattle 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 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 did it it dismiss. reporting for well on our website r.t.

dot com we're asking you if a soft drugs should be legalized let's check out the opinion to see how divided they are right now but a third of respondents believe that it will stop the drug lords from cashing in from the hard drugs the majority however thinks the move will not affect the use of hard drugs twenty five percent are of the opinion that legalizing drugs will boost their use but no one is for people out why not log on for yourself r.t. dot com i did join. the european commission has criticized russia's decision to ban imported vegetables from europe and the wake of the outbreak but prime minister putin said that people's lives are more important. to you but again these issues good in an. extremely european commission say russia's decision goes against the spirit of the w t o frankly i don't know about that you think you can lose the people of the a.b.m. that's not the kind of thing that raises your spirit we are waiting for all parties

to at least name a 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 which i will of course review to the liberty of our public health service decision but nevertheless we are waiting for updates from our european colleagues. meantime spain made the launch legal action against germany for prematurely pointing at it as the course of the fatal outbreak but hysteria over spanish produce has crippled the country's farm exports and cost millions of euros the source of the infection is still unclear but critics say that the pharmaceutical industry may be in for a windfall from the vegetable public. some cucumber scale that much is clear and it's also become apparent that although germany playing spain is the source of the e. coli i it's not that it's costing innocent spanish fruit and vegetable export is around two hundred million euros which calling the european health watchdog

discredited russia says it happening 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 e.u. bailout this is decidedly not a good moment for one hundred fifty thousand tons of cookies to go unsold. because of. all. this time. you 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 warns the world 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 die more recently swine flu was the killer encouraged by pharmaceutical companies european

countries spend billions of dollars on unnecessary back scenes probably will see very soon behind this. large pharmaceutical industry like they did with swine flu but they have something to protect people against. screening such as. across europe all these health scares arabs bursley 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 rather. it's all storage fees in europe after its prime minister criticize the european commission for not supporting the country enough particularly all to the infection was created 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.

position essential to its a link economy nor at its hour to brussels. party is coming to you live from moscow and in just a few minutes dimitris here with business news personality check out some other world news headlines for you there are conflicting reports that the president of yemen. has been either killed or wounded the government denies the president is set to give a press conference shortly it comes after the opposition attacked his residence killing at least four people and injuring a senior official in the country has been a virtual civil war since president saleh refused to step down from power three months ago. greece has agreed in principle on a second bailout package from the european union and the international monetary fund comes as the government of the country wrapped up negotiations over new austerity measures the tough rescue initiatives have sparked a nationwide protests with hundreds taking to the streets another rally is expected

tomorrow. a rabbit with no ears has sparked an online in japan there for talk of a claims he shot this video just outside the exclusion zone near the crippled fukushima nuclear plant. robert has raised fears that the radiation threat in the area is worse than previously thought there's now a frenzy on the internet with dire predictions that babies in japan may soon be born with mutations. are not out of the business news with victory that's coming your way. then a warm welcome to business r.t. russian markets ended the week in the red following worse than expected job states in the u.s. on friday this raised yet walkin the recovery in the world's biggest economy stalling the uncertainty has been compounded by generally poor data in europe and

asia coupled with the recurring there problems around the world chris we've heard from the world's he says the question now is what is there to drive the markets for them. we've had a series of disappointing are weaker than expected economic data points in major economies from the u.s. europe and china and that's certainly undermines you know expectations that 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 the museum for even faster growth coming into 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 love discussion about the ending of the concept of easing in the u.s. this month and whether or not it's a third of easing may even be required to propel you can't move forward but that's a big question mark that economists and investors are looking at saying you know what is there to drive this market higher. figure could be in markets now brant is

hovering at one hundred fourteen dollars a barrel like sweet is below one hundred dollars this is as weak jobs report came out for the month of may give the united states causing for years about some of these a state ability of the u.s. economy and therefore global demand for oil. trying to stock markets in the u.s. and they are down almost one point seven percent as the unemployment rate for the world's largest economy rose to nine point one percent with a few as jobs added in the past eight months european stocks however are recovering after the greek finance ministry said a review of what's implementation of reforms by the e.u. european central bank and international monetary fund concluded quote positively critical h.b.c. is up five percent after an upgrade from citi group. and in moscow stocks took a dip after the us jobs report a raising all gains for the week the r.t.l.

standard friday down one point three percent of my six one point five percent we look at the major movers you'll see the energy majors will take them. the team with gas from down two point six percent is gold was better than the market down just point two percent shares are supported by speculation about an upcoming merger with a world leading gold mine a preferred shares of his burbank now that was a good investment today it was up six point one percent at the close on reports that the bank they can but them into ordinary shaz and this could boost that liquidity ahead of privatisation michael rubenstein from what i've seen metropole wraps up with a straight. this week was a interesting way because their volume is a bit lower than usual certainly we are in the beginning of summer but on the other hand anticipation this wait for their. labor board our united states we cherry came out to be quite disappointing. but in the course of the week it was

the dynamics were mixed and the good news that was working in the market was the expectation that greece is going to get this second bailout package approved the bad news or rather then dissipated of bad news was building out to their worse than expected numbers which we did so on friday so we are seeing we're closing down and . after the fall in the next week we're closing down and for the whole week we're going to be down. all right that's it from the business desk this hour we will be back in fifteen minutes time with nothing ruiz next with the headlines stay with us for that. the.

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