live. bringing you the latest in science and technology from around. but we stop stories from our t.v. former general live it calls the genocide charges against him monstrous serbia hands it over to the hague but instead of clearing a path to the e.u. belgrade finds the criteria's list just got longer. believe intervention the loses altitude as nato eager to regain the initiative rolls out have a gunship three night in fears of an imminent ground war. health inspectors zone and obama in a zone in on a german restaurant to hunt the source of the killer you call it bog but it's a little relief for struggling spain after he was initially blamed for the outbreak

. and am in the russian capital this is our joshua today to take a look at the top stories of the week serbia has asked the hague to question the former general welcome rod it's who's accused of genocide as a potential witness in their own investigation into what happened in the balkans conflict lot of shapira to the war crimes court for the first time this week calling the charges against him monstrous and noxious the former bosnian serb army chief has been indicted on eleven of the council of war crimes including the murder of eight thousand muslims at srebrenica the next week hearing will take place in a month law that had been on the run for sixteen years and was arrested in serbia just over a week ago his extradition was touted by the e.u. as a key objective for the country's membership but as

a country does are reports that dream doesn't appear to be any closer. still waiting for the green light. serbia's arrest an extradition of former bosnian serb army chief 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 answer gratian of serbia into the european union one day is really i know there are. other steps remain to be taken your right to say to the rest of the political chief of croatian serbs go and had such is still in hiding electro legislation

reform engagement in regional cooperation with neighbors preserving president boris tadic there is no task too challenging to take on in the quest for a new membership. arrest. next few weeks. this is a crystal. ball in the metro stations paul officials prepared to jump through yet another hero who most wonder if the list of conditions who ever and so now we have gotten harder each was one of the serb leaders from the surprise so for a show and then all of course some of the officers are also talking about the fact that. serbia has to recognize the fact the recognize that some province of course will be forth and really get into the e.u. so for somebody else is talking about the fact that serbia is very corrupt really as long as they choose

a color and his party the list of demands will be endless so is the union stalling and opening its doors to serbia or aren't. dition simply a way of angling for more control in the region i think there are very few illusions people in serbia the thing that there will not be a great deal many important conditions and probably won't be as important as the establishment of relations with possible will the whole point about making new conditions probably won't stop recently still serbia hopes its carte ration will be rewarded and continues to be a path to the e.u. or the officers of the e.u. delegation to serbia proudly displayed of 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 this whole responsible and always out of reach catherine r r t l certainly. balkans ask mark us which draws parallels between

the hague tribunal and guantanamo bay and where there is a danger of the role of winning out over ramadan. but the tribunal doesn't need you to. actually engage with his own defense which of you need a tribunal needs to be you seem 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 it because this tribunal you should remember is not a court it is a tribunals with all the dubious i talk quasi legal procedures that involve the one time obey or bureau where people are held for years without trial waiting for trial when they're when they're going is known in advance in fact is even worse than the guantanamo bay of europe because at least they're in the guantanamo bay the judges know what the rules are at the hague tribunal this kind of court the rules are worked out as they go along and always at the expense of the

serbs. but as for the killing of civilians this is going on part of as we reported later this hour told the soldiers have cleared away the killing of innocent afghans including children due to a lack of evidence to support the war crimes case. and saudia course back to earth the moscow mars mission turns a year old kept out of progress of the first intensive interplanetary test run. it's been an eventful week in libya with nato intensifying its controversial bombing campaign out of coalition voting to expand its intervention mandate in the north african country the un accuses girl about the of war crimes but admits the rebels are guilty of similar views as meanwhile britain and france have the cord low flying combat helicopters to the country the move has brought operations closer to the ground prompting concerns over an imminent land based offensive as russia's foreign minister warns pushing the boundaries of the un mandate in libya may lead

to future resolutions losing their impact. we expressed our opinion over the stance collation of the military operation we think what's happening is a shift towards a ground operation this would be very regretful because the violations of the security council resolution already taking place i'm old enough to think you should choose to let us decisions neighbor hoped for a quick fire result in libya but that never happened as a word journalist patrick hayes says that means it could only lead to plan b. bombing the regime into submission. the situation getting worse for the west in libya i think when they first thought they could kind of swoop in two months ago and basically bomb the country into the move into democracy but i thought this was going to be quite a quick process where they could basically keep. it from a distance bombs into libya get rid of gadhafi and then everything will be all

right no obviously that isn't the case and the introduction of these bunker busting forms from the apache helicopters are inevitably going to make this region worse they could bring about civilian casualties in libya and i think also reka desperation but we're making a lot of noise and for a lot of very expensive forms over the last couple of months without have done very well they've ripped the democratic initiative from the libyan people and taken it into the hands of a small elite of western leaders. there's intervention in libya drags on without breaks for colonel cut out these tactics have taken a dark turn his loyalists have begun using cluster bombs band of weapons. many mines which have for. sara first reports it's embarrassing for spain because the supply traces back to their own even though the country's been banging their answer war drum for years. just one strike it cost

a bomb can spread thousands of smaller explosives if a wide area is fired into populated areas if they were in misrata recently in all these guarantees civilian deaths there are many reasons more than one hundred countries and their production markings on the shells found in the libyan city belong to the spanish company instead. there were. twenty prohibited that were purchased by gadhafi that were used against the residential area and these are and they were put in company and financed by spanish banks security. forces come to acquire spanish made arms and in two thousand and seven mr larsen made the most of the lifting of sanctions against libya as that ship leaves back into favor with west. spanish company won a contract to supply get out these forces with their quest to be missions did until

two thousand and eight when spain signed up to the international convention banning the yeast. with libya now once again the enemy spain is part of nato finds itself fighting a regime that it itself helped to own and the trail goes back much further to spanish banks which provided the financial fire how it insta loss and to make the deadly weapons of war we want to bring this thing forward use this as kind of a way to illustrate what link there is between a bank and civilian deaths conflicts without legislation through means a direct connection between civilian deaths the weapon produces and the chance that finance them and therefore to customers not really transparent about what they are using the sievers money for so it's not that easy to find a recent report by spanish n.g.'s a ten revealed that as many as full teen banks since they own filled with funding

weapons produces the b.v.a. is the spanish bank that's been most active in financing producers of controversial weapons and exactly this kind of large scale financing they complain is now trying to rein in pushing for the development of more robust policies to ensure the banks are held accountable many of the banks named in the investigation and now coming forward to say their policies on funding and production are to change with or without distillation but until that happens in the murky world of arms production wall remains a profitable business sarah firth artsy with. a military court in warsaw has cleared seven nato soldiers of an attack on an afghan village which killed several civilians including children four years ago the charges were dismissed a real lack of evidence soldiers blames faulty weapons afghans and sisters no excuse for innocent. civilians killed and nato soldiers go free the

same old story in afghanistan that threatened for a moment to be different polish soldiers were put on trial for deaths including a pregnant woman and a child. on the sixteenth of august two thousand and seven mortar shells that were fired by polish troops hit the afghan villages. as a result six people were killed and three were severely wounded but the soldiers were cleared of all charges one of the accused told r.t. it's all been a big mistake we didn't see more. accidents. because it's a. problem we. agree made mel functioned taliban target by five hundred metres claims a shit scheme prosecutors alleged it was revenge for

a roadside bomb which killed another polish soldier earlier in the day experts say it's unlikely anything could go so catastrophic leigh wrong this is not logical operators could not make such a serious error with such a large distance the question is did it is say job and fire themselves or did they receive this command from above but there is no doubt they were shooting at the village nearby hills the defendant's commanders ordered the attack and these should be the one standing trial activists warm while the conflict continues civilian deaths from nato bombing or inevitable and will only rise the longer the war goes their war situation is the answer is i think quite simple to withdraw troops from afghanistan beginning and a process of that is ation of this country because their troops western troops doesn't bring stability to have gone. just the opposite as the death toll goes up

on both sides support for nato as mission plummets a majority in europe say opinion polls now think the conflicts going in the wrong direction. this was already unpopular in the e.u. there's the hundred billion euro of course while services are being called. the sort of boys coming back in coffins these evil worth leaving the death of civilians on the week of the case sustain afghanistan even the afghan president's turning against nato after the latest fourteen civilians were killed him it caused delivered his strongest words yet giving a final warning and returning war if you toppings again don't you push your party. we walk out the lingering effects of serving out the front line in a few minutes here in our tea. party needs american veterans who've returned from conflicts around the world to hear how they are handling

a post-war trauma that's now why in their own lives. and close here are the mastermind of church and theater as charged with murdering top russian human rights journalist. which could help police discover who ordered the killing. of german restaurants being investigated as a possible source of the deadly e. coli outbreak in europe germany had spanish cucumbers that contained a mutated form of the verlander tyria which has killed nineteen people so far now reports on how the accusations cost. some q. cumbers kill that much is clear and it's also become apparent that although germany planed spain is for source of the it's not that's costing innocent spanish fruit and vegetable export is around two hundred million euros a week and it would all be obvious statements show an absolute lack of

responsibility what is happening today is a check made to the spanish a vegetable and fruit industry. calling the european health watchdog discredited russia says it had no choice but to ban all friesen vegetable imports from the entire european union a reaction brussels called disproportionate. our colleagues from the european commission say russia's decision goes against the spirit of it w t o frankly i don't know about that because you can lose the people after them that's not the kind of thing that raises your spirit but 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 poor g.'s to go unsold. time. cannot hold all.

cynics say all this is just the media whipping up its latest health hysteria in two thousand and five the united nations warned the world that bird flu could kill up to one hundred fifty million people in reality is seven years until the end of two thousand and ten saw three hundred three people die and more recently swine flu was the killer encouraged by pharmaceutical companies european countries spend billions of dollars on unnecessary vaccines probably will see very soon behind all of this. from the. large from. industry like swine flu but have something to protect people against. screen and social unrest across europe all these health adversely affected economies this looks no different and germany's baseless accusations may be what finally pushes spain into bailout territory spain will now

seek reparations from the relevant or storage fees in europe after its prime minister criticised the european commission for not supporting the country enough particularly after the infection was proven not to have come from spanish cucumbers spain had to tighten task ahead of its repairing its reputation as a reliable exporter of fruits and vegetables all over the you position essential to its ailing economy nor at its hour to brussels. give us your thoughts on the stories we're covering by heading to r.t. dot com that's our web site there's an analysis of data every minute here's what's there for you to discover today. smartphone of a careless with confidentiality millions trust their devices with private data but one firm says it can lock the treasure trove and sell your info for have to feed. a devastating blow to several villages in a central russian republic as an ammunitions depoliticize lights up the night sky

the details and video are at our team dot com. also this week russian prosecutors charged the chechen man with murdering prominent russian journalist anna politkovskaya in two thousand and six officials say they have enough evidence to prove the thirty seven year old was involved are just bitter all over reports on how police are one step closer to finding out who ordered the killing. this is the man investigators say fired the shots which killed an impala called skier who. had been the subject of a wide ranging manhunt after spending two years on the run in belgium he was arrested by police in his home village in chechnya on tuesday and later charged with a murder. the rest was carried out with the help of belgian police where he had been hiding for several years we've been in constant contact with them and it was this cooperation that helped us capture the suspect belgian police triggered the

manhunt and market of was forced to leave the country investigators are currently questioning him in connection with the murder of anna politkovskaya. two brothers along with a former police officer who were acquitted of the murder in two thousand and nine cuti lack of evidence but the russian supreme court verdict and ordered the investigation reopened put it cost her son told me the family hopes that the rest will bring them closer to finding out who killed his mother of course it's a very important step but we have to wait and see if mahmud off kilter will be proved but even that is not enough we have no clue who the mastermind of the murder is nor about the organizers it's a significant part of the journey but it's certainly not the end an internationally renowned journalist anna politkovskaya was shot dead in october two thousand and six as she returned home she was famous for her investigative work particularly reports into human rights abuses former colleagues believe the duty close family

ties of those accused of a murder there will always be some unknown surrounding the crime as on as well as the point of it's hard to tell how many people are involved we have the three mood of brothers and their own called he's a criminal boss and could easily be the mastermind of the murder and relatives especially chechens unlikely to testify against one of. the politkovskaya murder isn't the only high profile case to see a recent breakthrough journalist of the things that. this arrest along with the conviction of the killers of freelance journalist understand the border and shimon rights lawyer stanislav michael of show that these type of mood is do get solved in today's russia this is definitely a landmark victory in the fight against impunity and russian journalist murders not just journalists but also human rights defenders lawyers. and we see that as the barest significant step for those mood of currently in moscow where

his lawyers are preparing his defense while for the family and friends about a quarter of the long wait for justice continues his role of oxy moscow. belarus is witnessing a panic buying in the shops was some prices more than doubling the country's economy has stalled and its currency spiraling down wards needs an emergency bailout to keep this country afloat russia is ready to help and has lined up a three billion dollar loan wants to promise high's state assets bellerose is also asking for a loan from the international monetary fund. they're greeted like true heroes with patriotic sounds fair cheers and a hope of a new beginning but for thousands of u.s. troops coming home from war the transition to civilian life is painfully haunted by traumatic memories archies marine corps that a former soldier who share her struggle. with the things you believe very much into

the infinite world of literature and here's this twenty eight year old ex marine an american who abandoned her weapon four written words to tell a story she says is kept censored from u.s. citizens even though people may know that it affects us i don't think that they understand the way. the poll that it takes us and seeing the facts or. the literal facts of the bodies that were made. just goodell's memoir shade it black details a traumatic and human account of war in two thousand and four good old spent eight months in iraq collecting cataloging bagging and boxing the bodies of dead marines at the mortuary affairs unit and experience no u.s. president who's declared war has ever endured it was a result of or an explosion there could be several body cases so sometimes that would require us to tell crawl under a truck or crawl in

a truck or just as you mentioned. you know what it. was that you can get back to the family pieced fallen soldiers back together after receiving body bags filled with limbs it's difficult to look at but you have to look at that because you have to you know put them in their respective body bags or send them to their it's like the family nearly four thousand five hundred u.s. soldiers have returned from iraq in caskets more than fifteen hundred flown in from america's other war in afghanistan that was a marine and that right there for the. millions who do make it home alive and many like adele are tormented by memories post-traumatic stress disorder depression and substance abuse i couldn't leave my apartment you know i didn't have friends and talk to anybody and i suffered from flashbacks and nightmares and i i couldn't process that i had a really hard to make sense of it more than six years later could tell says she's

still searching for reasons to justify the damage and death caused by the u.s. war in iraq as a marine she did what she was told as a civilian she questions why u.s. leaders glorify soldiers as heroes but neglect to speak about the consequences of their service. that the government respects the trends. there is that i don't think that they would send us to these places. to carry out what they're you know. so i don't think that their respect is there from the get go . declaring war is the prerogative of politicians over the decades us wars have resulted in a reported twenty three million american veterans and many left struggling to adjust to life following the battle

a shift from fighting enemies to fighting demons. r.t. new york and our next hour of the american freedom campaigner is dancing to a different tune to the law. people who say oh we believe in liberty with leaving these high ideals and then when it comes down to something like this and all the summer divided on it something's wrong don't show your moves at the jefferson memorial because dancing's are jailed all fans next to the country's civil liberties explain why. a major milestone in space travel was reached this week it's been a year since the crew began practicing. man's first flight to mars and all without ever leaving the ground the experiment involves six of our tears are not marks but they are standing seventeen months which is how large a return trip to the red planet would take a giant russian and european space experiments studying the psychological effects of long term isolation the crew have had no human contact for eleven months and are

now on the return leg having successfully completed a simulated landing dr patrick thought says we can tell a lot about the crew's stamina. these guys have been locked away for for a year and they've still got five months to go and it's important to remember that they have no she had voice contact with the control center for eleven months now and that's really quite intense so it must be very very difficult indeed i think they really must be at this point counting down the days and wondering what it would be like to reestablish human contact they've really had to imagine themselves into the situation they've really had to convince themselves that they're doing this for real but there's a huge amount that they're learning during this that of course the data that they collect will support scientific studies for many months at least if not years to come obviously the primary aim is to understand the impact upon future long term

space travel but clearly there are other implications for people in long term isolation away from conflict. well brings us up to date here on artsy and their recap of our top stories of the week will be coming your way shortly statements. to.

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