find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines going into gaza reporting on r g. former general regulated cheers of the hague tribunal saying the charges against him of noxious some experts suggest the number killed in the massacre was fabricated. a fire it's an ammunition dump in central russia has triggered explosions which it injured thousands and forced thirty thousand from their homes. accusations of flying is histeria around a new bog that's crippled the european vegetable market gathers pace. and a weak u.s. jobs for the month of may as for the investors to worry about the sustainability of global economic growth and of course russian markets to plummet one and

a half percent on friday more on that in our business but with an announcement you know. international news and comment live from our studios here in central moscow this is the reckon without it she made his first appearance in front of the hague tribunal he didn't enter a plea but called the charges against him monstrous and obnoxious his plea hearing will take place in a month the former bosnian serb army general is indicted on eleven counts of war crimes including the murder of eight thousand muslims that's for a minute so that it should be on the run for sixteen years and was arrested last thursday is arrest an extradition was told to by the e.u. is a key objective for serbia to gain membership preserve it looks at the strength of the evidence being brought against different sniping and privilege of setting some bosnia-herzegovina where we are right now prominently. in the case against former

bosnian serb army chief on law it's currently on trial in the hague despite claims of eight thousand murdered men and boys here instead of the need so many of those who have studied those documents say that most of the reports actually concerned body parts a leg bones died bones or 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 balkans war where you have pictures of people people graves who were on the list to serve. in previous years although people here again who died in previous years is only serving for a list of. killed by it and it's impossible to talk about some of it needs that i'm 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 said what it literally wiped out the entire village throughout two years and that's it or it's tore through the region of seven needs at destroying 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 that it is a national hero others believe he is a worker mental and should be tried for what he was responsible for but the one thing that we 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 that sort of audit that general many believe is responsible for equally atrocious war crimes during that time was cleared by the

hague tribunal of all the charges so these fears of the hague inability to be objective do seem to be substantiated. well we can get more insight on the men that each case from rob blind sees deputy editor of the online magazine spike lee joining me there in london rob could see thanks for joining us here on r.t. now the chairman of the international criminal tribunal is turkish muslim is that a fair choice of the judge for this trial you think. well i don't think there's anything. fair about this trial at all about the whole process. or what's what's happening it is that because the outcomes have been. subtle already it's a bit of a show trial i think. i did as a result i think it's very much about the west's position making the west look like it's the free defender of justice. the largest has already been set up as

the bad guy in this i'm not for a remote think. wonderful human being but the crimes on all sides are not war and to pick out one side has been worse than the other but if the evidence is strong and i have suggested that the evidence is strong enough to accuse this man of the massacre of thousands of people surely he should be brought to account. well i'll be either you hardly but you know you have it equally on all sides but i personally think that this is a civil war and civil wars are notorious for being. terrible for there to be of atrocities for the actions that would be beyond the power leave it to regular war. to try and to meet you know long after the event we're going to carnally try to judge you are the standards of normal society i think it is wrong we have to accept the certain the civil wars happen but there's wrong i'm sure that there's many

things large it's. very wrong but i think the whole essence of the war crimes tribunal is the other side to the ball for the position of the west rather than to to really give people a sense of justice and as you said a little earlier this wasn't the only atrocity of course atrocities and karen in situations like this and of course some were committed by muslims suspected atrocities committed by muslims such as the massacre in the village of. interesting of the hague tribunal acquitted the man behind that what do you make of that. well i think that right throughout the yugoslav war there was a very clear division as far as in terms of the western coverage of the war the serbs were bad. across the bosnian muslims were the were the good guys. and so it was a nice black and white picture. of painters of the nazis and so therefore it was

a little bit of a rerun of world war two the idea of a of a just war is in fact the situation was much murkier there were opportunist nationalists politicians on all sides and some fairly brutal people behind them as well. but the fact that one side gets acquitted and the other side of the car is on trial just reflects that original black and white version of yugoslav war but justice must surely be pursued and interesting enough of course we've seen the intervention in libya and the call for good that fate to face war crimes we're seeing that obviously there are similarities there but it is surely important to have an international court to investigate assumed crimes and there's obviously no doubt about it that there are people who should be brought to account of being suspected of committing atrocities for example get out free of being accused of killing his very own people so surely people like that should be tried and it's got to be an international court has no. well this isn't it was very peculiar form of

justice where explicitly removes the idea that americans could ever be hauled up in front of it and certainly i would be very surprised if any western european was of our hold up in front of that court either despite the fact that they clearly have been some pretty terrible things done by americans and europeans of various theaters of war and over the last couple of decades so it's be a very one sided version of war and i think that what we're going to do with war but with political conflicts the best solution is a political solution rather than attempting to after the events justify these things like education just very much one person side of idea of what's a war why what's your book very very briefly and finally the sentiment of all this so many people are saying this arrest and now and that it's going to trial this will now bring a sense of closure this will be a chance for serbia to move on and that is a valid argument isn't it just very briefly it's a very symbolic incident as happened this arrest. no i think i think that this is

just going to get all up or go i don't think there is going to be a sense of closure with this at all i think it's going to reinforce the divisions that were created by the war were made known science very much with the assistance of the west thanks very much indeed rob lime stepped out of the online magazine spiked joining me live in london well a not a man wanted in the hague as i've already mentioned is a libyan leader colonel gadhafi but as financial not great comebacks kaiser's says the man is for the victim to the international bankers. later in the program we take a look at how bankers gladly accepted get their fees billions and wasted it. that's still to come for you but first a major far and ammunition storage depot in central russia has been raging for over twenty hours and has triggered a series of explosions and forced tens of thousands out of their homes and left over sixty people injured two elderly people have died from heart attacks said to

have been brought on by the incident and sivits has the details. well the situation has a slightly improved at the size of the fire but it is still described as being very serious indeed of close can express 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 cases time on thursday and not fired and spawns multiple explosions at the depot which houses oh ma it's all tillery worryingly rocket shells he was to the grad multiple rocket launching it systems at thousands were evacuated from the surrounding area we do understand that some people all beginning to trickle back into the region and return to their homes we've received to pull the dozens of people have been hospitalized and also medical assistance and also very soundly beat i had reports that some elderly people live suffered fatal heart attacks as a result of the stress calls on by xplosion when

a huge effort is being undertaken family 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 thought fighting machinery have also now been sent to the sides alongside five fighting aircrafts at the coolness is of this blaze a still unknown it was initially filled with the cigarettes maija stars of the blaze pacific chills 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 deco in central russia only last week a similar plays at zouk place in the neighboring republic of bashed here and said she would years ago in november two thousand and nine another blaze happened after death in the city all through the olive oil skin neither of these two places were

as serious as this courage one that says sadly this is not the first time this or russia's central areas have been faced with such a place. and the said reporting and present inventive says despite the authorities claiming that far has been contained evacuees shouldn't return to their homes until it is put out addressing the defense minister he added that those responsible for the accident must be punished and the world as opposed to people for iris in a span of two weeks if you see merging the defense minister must report who will answer for that and harmless but some certain people feel to draw conclusions we'll have to strip them of their shoulder straps. well you can follow this story by checking us out on facebook you can follow all the latest developments there and we've got a full length and lots of video of the inferno and instant updates on the story when asked what in the center of the disaster pictures brought you by on land

drones and just log on to facebook slash our teams to follow this and other stories in the town. today marks a year since six volunteers set off on a simulated mission to mars and it's been tough going all of these people of as more in the challenges they faced along the way. one year in to the mars five hundred project right now a look at what daily life is like inside the module here in central moscow they

they are simulating the way a journey to to mars and a return journey there at the moment one year in they're currently simulating the 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 a man might not serve was one of those who took part no need to remember. that the monotony it's hard i mean the regimen little things get to 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

a mars five hundred module with its seventy two me to 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 the real appeal of admiration for the things they're making do without so my missions were not at all. and i had the opportunity from the space station and i see you call talk to the families through . telephone system or the radio and that's must be the hardest for them to do or 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 but. one year into their voyage the mars five hundred team are currently simulating never ten journey to earth however it will be another five months before this door can be opened and they can step back into normality. 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 it's over it's 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 we've spent a year in there already got five months left to go how intense was the psychological pressure beyond. what i think as we just heard in this rundown to home the psychological pressure is really quite intense these guys have

been locked away for a for a year and they still got five months to go and it's important to remember that they haven't actually had voice contacts with a 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 have 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. 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 but dr phillip i could talk to you forever about this very interesting thank you very much but i have to leave it there was dr patrick flick from me could be found a body part of the capital side's connexions innovation agency so one year in they still have five months left to go i'm not sure i could do that. these billboards alone decide. you know my solution traveling a million miles a day. the men from mars are heading to. mars five hundred closer to the edge of possibility on fourteen. international bankers have reportedly wasted billions of dollars invested by the

libyan leader colonel gadhafi financial times says giants like goldman sachs were dealing with the dictator's investments when it needed to plug a hole during the economic crisis where most of the money has been lost but with what's going on in libya any repayment seems unlikely artie's daniel bushell has more for us now from. western banks have been happy to invest and work with the libyan dictator while we get our feet and picking up huge sums in the process but as you say for us this city general was. to make a billion dollar bets on its own shares it told him to make a billion dollar bets on its own shares which then lost practically all their value by last year and pocketed huge sums huge fees in the process american lender goldman sachs made a billion dollar investment for libya which then lost over ninety eight percent of its value and many of the western. may dissolve investments for

libya's national investment fund now the interesting thing is that these banks are claiming they would have to pay any of that money back because the west's war with libya means that could duffy is an illegitimate ruler. there with all of these financial markets kaiser thinks it's another case when markets have been used as a weapon. but i'm hearing is that frederick day they see society general lloyd blankfein c.e.o. goldman sachs and tony blair have all been marked for death by liberty and assassins as a campaign to rectify what libya perceives as a blatant disregard for their sovereign wealth fund and libya is experiencing what many people in america and around the world are experiencing financial rape by bankers whether it's comics or at the i.m.f. or whether it's lloyd blankfein or whether it's frederick who did everyone's

getting financially raped by these bankers and we can only guess as to what the outcome might be of course this all goes back to two thousand and four when tony blair was in libya and doing deals with moammar gadhafi even at that time my understanding is that he was setting banks up in the west to swoop in and start to pick apart the sovereign wealth fund and of course when tony blair left number ten downing street it took a position with j.p. morgan he went right to j.p. morgan and he started setting a libyan for these deals immediately and they just was throwing blood to the sharks of goldman sachs worked in the side of general swoop and now they've all been marked for death because they use weapons of mass financial destruction so they use the markets as a weapon and this is what they're telling people to america right now give us more debt so they can finance more specular bets we can go into more foreign countries we can load up more countries and then of course that'll force those countries to put their folks into austerity like we're seeing in grace again lloyd blankfein

c.e.o. of goldman sachs and john paulson hedge fund manager were in greece two years before the recent austerity measures plotting the take down of greece and the car broke of those assets again who in the world has the balls to take these bankers down to the chopping block and can get rid of gold like they did back two hundred years ago that's the only solution and mexico is going to be a little earlier. the military action in libya is raising a lot of questions in the u.s. senate with some voices in. yes and american involvement is illegal that's been discussed in the latest edition of cross talk don't miss it that's coming your way in about two hours from now here on r.t. the. european commission is criticize russia's decision to ban imported vegetables from europe in the wake of the outbreak but prime minister putin says people's lives are more important and valuable to him he says should good our colleagues from the european commission see russia's decision goes against this spirit of the w t o frankly i don't know about that but the cucumbers the people at it that's not

the kind of thing that raises your spirit well waiting for our partners to at least in a new contagion there's 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 the validity of our public health service decision but nevertheless we are waiting for updates from our european colleagues. i'll pray because so far eighteen lives most of them in germany german public health officials were quick to blame spanish cucumbers as the source but they've now backtracked and admit it is not clear where the outbreak originated spain says it may launch a legal action against germany for that mistake countries vegetable exports have been crippled costing millions of euros and i think he's a chief editor of the daily bill dot com told me earlier that mainstream media has contributed to the gathering hysteria. i don't believe that we have enough information at this time to be able to determine whether or not there's going to be a real serious break here that's going to cause serious you know human casualties

beyond the numbers that we've seen to date but certainly the mainstream media is having you know their normal run at trumpeting this to be another grand hysteric situation that needs to be dealt with quickly of dealing with it in a responsible way i don't i don't believe that that's necessarily the true nature of the w.h.o. so so to talk about them dealing with in a responsible manner i think that's what the mainstream media's job is to try to do is to you know prop up the importance of these sorts of international organizations similar to how the i.a.e.a. was propped up by the mainstream media is to try to help find solutions for the japanese crisis the w.h.o. is and has proven to be in the past a spokesperson for or supposed spokes group for the various interests that are interested in developing one world type of governance and basically the mainstream media is there is there is there and there are active propaganda machine at least the western mainstream media so i wouldn't expect them to do anything more than continue to trumpet these these headlines in a way that will cause more and more hysteria and drive more more people into

believing that these organizations like the w. h. o. are actually there to do something about it. a recap of our top stories coming your way in just a few minutes from now with me here on our team the business news with me pretty. thanks very much bill russian markets ended the week in the red following worse than expected jobs in the u.s. on friday this raised yet more concerns the recovery in the world's biggest economy installing the uncertainty has been compounded by generally poor data in europe and asia coupled with recurring debt problems around the world here's chris weaver's take on the problem. we've had a series of disappointing or weaker than expected economic data points in major economies from the us 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 mizzen for even faster growth coming into those 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 the discussion about the ending of the quantity of easing in the u.s. this month and whether or not this third easing may even be required to propel you can't move forward but that's the big question market economists and investors are looking at saying you know what is there to drive this market higher. the markets now and how they are reacting and in the u.s. they are still down low recovering some likely on this unemployment rate growth to nine point one percent and the view was jobs for the past eight months. european stocks managed to recover by the end of friday's session after the greek finance ministry said a review of its implementation of reforms by the e.u.

the european central bank the international monetary fund concluded that something . was up five percent after an upgrade from citi group. and in moscow stocks took a lot of u.s. jobs report raising. by the way the r.c.s. on the friday down one point three percent of my six one and a half percent energy majors were taking a beating with gazprom down two point six percent polish called was better than the market on stronger metal prices and shares were also supported by speculation about an upcoming merger with the world's leading miner but shares still went down by knowledge preferred shares of this burbank outstanding performers of the day they jumped more than six percent on reports that the bank may convert them into ordinary shares this could boost their liquidity ahead of privatisation. business out see we'll be back in fifteen minutes time with an update but you can always catch the latest business news out of. business headlines are next stay with us.

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