omissions for. all of you. should. we stop stories here on r t former general modish calls the genocide charges against him monstrous as serbia hands of over to the hague but instead of clearing a path to the e.u. belgrade finds a great cheeriest list just thought longer. to levy an intervention lose altitude as nato eager to regain the initiative rolls out heavy gunships reigniting fears of an imminent ground war. health inspectors on a german restaurant a humble source of the killer. but it's a little relief for struggling spain after he was initially blamed for the outbreak

. the russians are you watching r t with josh you serbia has asked the hague to question the former general who's accused of genocide as a potential witness in their own investigation into what happened and balkans conflict lot of the period of war crimes court for the first time this week calling the charges against him monstrous abduction for a bosnian serb army chief has been indicted on eleven they're now this war crimes including the murder of eight thousand muslims and. the next police hearing will take place in a month lot of been on the run for sixteen years and was arrested in serbia just over a week ago as extradition was touted by the e.u. as a key objective for the country's membership fees country does all reports that you dream doesn't appear to be any clue. still waiting for the green light serbia's

arrest an extradition of former bosnian serb army chief and 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 go secure this you 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 a no go there so that is your. other steps remain to be taken your right to say to the rest of the political chief of croatian serbs go and had search is still in hiding electro legislation with full engagement in regional cooperation with neighbors preserving president boris tadic there is no task too challenging to take

on in the quest for e.u. membership. of the. rest mr harkins. and the next few weeks. this is a crystal clear the service of the metro stations while officials are prepared to jump through yet another euro who most wonder if the rest of conditions will ever and so now we have gotten hardly true as one of the serb leaders from the surprise in iowa saw one 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 to recognize its own province a possible before to really get into the e.u. so for somebody else is talking about the fact the serbia is very corrupt really as long as they choose a color and his party the list of demands will be groundless. so is the union

stalling on opening its doors to serbia or are its condition simply a way of angling for more control in the region i think there are very few illusions people in serbia the thing that there will not be a great deal many important conditions and what and probably won't be as important as the establishment of relations with possible will the whole whined about making new conditions probably won't stop recently still serbia hopes its corporation will be rewarded and continues to be a path to the e.u. or the officers of the e.u. delegation to serbia proudly display the flags of all of their member states and serbia really wants to join the group but the list of conditions for possible accession seems to be neverending and for official belgrade membership this is always visible and always out of reach catherine as our belgrade serbia welcomes political analyst. tribunals can be impartial towards general lot it's

because it's there to do america's bidding but the tribunal doesn't need him to. be actively engaged in his own defense the trial you'll need a tribunal needs to be seen to be sitting there for symbolic reasons he's sitting there the only people the world is focused on and all the accusations are the wall of noise is against this tribunal you should remember it is not a court it is a tribunal with all the dubious i talked quasi legal procedures that involved one ton of europe where people are held for years without trial waiting for trial when they're when they're born it is known you know advance in fact is even worse than the grandson of a bit of europe because at least there in the grandson of the judges know what the rules are at the hague tribunal is kangaroo court the rules are words are as they go along and always at the expense of the. but elsewhere the killing of civilians is going on punished as were reported later this hour. but with soldiers have been

cleared over the killing of innocent al gets including children due to a lack of evidence to support the war crimes case. and plotting a porous back to earth the moscow mars mission turns of year old chap of the progress of the first intensive planetary task from. now it's been an eventful we can leave here with nato intensifying its kind of virtual bombing campaign and the coalition voting to extend its intervention mandate in the north african country the un accuses colonel gadhafi of war crimes but admits the rebels are guilty of similar abuses meanwhile britain and france have the voice of low flying combat helicopters to the country the move has brought operations closer to the ground from big concerns over an imminent land base offensive as russia's foreign minister warns pushing the boundaries of the un mandate it may lead to future resolutions losing their impact. when we expressed our opinion over

this escalation 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 taken place are more than enough to think about the attitudes towards us decisions. colonel gadhafi claim to have from the outside that the libyan opposition were a couple of western interest peace activists chris says nato can see nails continuing bombardment of libya only gets credit studious claims back home. what they are effectively saying to get that is we're going to keep bombing you keep killing civilians keep bombing libyan towns and cities until you go it's entrenched because he from the start was saying that the popular movement in the east of the country was was a movement that was sponsored by the west and he used that to bolster his position the war has been lengthened the war has been deepened and it's actually

a good half is in. a strong if not stronger position now than he was when the west first got involved. as nader's intervention in libya drags on with our grades for colonel gadhafi is tactics of taking a dark turn his loyalists have begun using cluster bombs banned weapons that dispersed many mines which say after four decades and sarah first reports it's embarrassing for spain because the supply traces back to them even though the country's been banging the anti-war drum for years. which is one strike because the bomb can spread thousands of smaller explosives over wide areas fired into populated areas if they were in his right or recently he always guarantees civilian deaths one of the many reasons more than one hundred countries have fans their production the markings on the shells found in the libyan city belong to spanish company insta lovers and there were arms that one twenty s there are prohibited

that were purchased by gadhafi they were used against the they residential area in these about the and they were produced by a spanish company and financed bugs so just how did the forces come to acquire spanish made in arms in two thousand and seven as it made the most of the lifting of sanctions against libya as the tripoli regime fell back into favor with the west spanish company what a contract to supply get out these forces with their custom initiations give into two thousand and eight in spain signed up to the international convention banning the use. it with libya now once again the enemy and it is part of nato finds itself fighting a regime that it itself helped to arm and the trail goes back much further the spanish banks which provided the financial fire how it instead to make their deadly weapons of war we want to sabrin this link forward use this as kind of

a way to illustrates what link there is between a bank. civilians are. concepts without legislation there remains a direct connection between civilian deaths the weapon produces and the bands that finance and therefore to the banks customers transparency about what they are using the sievers money for so it's not that easy to find out a recent report by spanish and. reveal that as many as fourteen banks in spain unfold with funding weapons produces the p.v.a. is the spanish bank this being most active in financing producers of controversial weapons and it's exactly this kind of large scale financing they contain is now trying to rein in pushing for the development of all right first policies and chilled the bank held accountable many of the banks named in the investigation and now coming forward to say their policies on funding arms production are to change

with or without slave just lation but until that happens in the murky world of arms production all things of profitable business sarah firth artsy the curate. syria has seen its largest anti-government protest yet with more than three hundred thousand people rallying for president assad to kill the latest protest were labeled freedom for children friday honor of the seventy children killed since the uprisings began in the face of strong condemnation from the brutal state response president asad promised to bring forward democratic reforms but a number of nations have already applied sanctions while some including the u.s. and britain have not ruled out possible intervention and to have more activist brian becker told us that military action in syria would be devastating wiping out the chances of a peaceful conclusion. the assad government is seeking to find a resolution to the political crisis inside of syria and i think that

this upset some of the by those who seek to destabilize syria even further who seek to carry out regime change in syria from the point of view of the united states the argument will be made that the economic sanctions the pressure imposed by the west by the united states in particular are causing the assad government to bend and so the conclusion this summary that will be drawn from it is instead of releasing pressure on syria that there should be more pressure not less pressure so i don't think syria can really do anything under these circumstances to satisfy the united states the united states wants to put economic sanctions in use leverage against syria for its own purposes 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 over a lack of evidence the soldiers blamed for the weapons but afghans insist there is no excuse for innocent deaths. civilians killed and nato soldiers go free the same old story in afghanistan the threat and 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 the. civilians. because it. was. something. we. agree made mel functioned taliban target by five hundred

metres claims a shit ski but 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 they decide to open fire themselves or did they receive this command from a book but there is no doubt they were shooting at the village nearby hills and the defendant commanders ordered the attack and these should be the one standing trial activists while the conflict continues civilian deaths from nato bombing or inevitable will only rise you know the longer the war goes on and the war situation is so the answer is i think quite simple to withdraw troops from

afghanistan beginning of any process or stop it is ation of this country because their troops western troops doesn't bring stability gun. just the opposite as the toll goes up on both sides support for nato's mission plummets the 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 because while services are being called. the sort of old boys coming back in coffins is even worse leaving the death of civilians on . the weekends the case sustain afghanistan even the afghan president's turning against nato after the latest fourteen civilians were killed how many calls so i delivered his strongest words yet giving a final warning and threatening war if it's happened again. and last hour a look at the lingering effects of serving on the front lines our team is america

better instead of returned from conflicts around the world to hear how they are handling the post-war trauma that's now why their lives. and closing in on the mastermind of tension because it is charged with murdering top russian for human rights the analyst our broadcast here which could help police discover who ordered the telling. a german restaurant being investigated as a possible source of the deadly e. coli outbreak in europe germany have blamed spanish cucumbers that contain a mutated form of the very virulent bacteria which has killed nineteen people so far there and now reports on how the accusation is costing. some cucumber scale that much is clear and it's also become apparent that although germany blamed spain as the source of the e-coli it's not that's costing innocense spanish fruit and vegetable export is around two hundred million euros a week and it will spinster. overstatement sure an absolute lack of responsibility

what is happening today is in checkmate in the spanish imaginable and through industry. calling the european health watchdog discredited russia says it had no choice but to all fruits and vegetable imports from the entire european union a reaction in brussels called disproportionate. our colleagues from the european commission say russia's decision goes against the spirit of the w.c. oh frankly i don't know about that but the cucumbers to keep people out of eden that's not the kind of thing that raises your spirits. 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 produce to go unsold. all. the time.

not all. cynics say all this is just a 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 seven years until the end of two thousand and ten saw three hundred three people die 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 this. is from the. large pharmaceutical industry like they did with the swine flu they have something can protect people against. 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 relevance or storage sees it. after its prime minister criticize the european commission for not supporting that country enough particularly after the infection which proved not to have come from spanish cucumbers spain has a titan tosca head of its repairing its reputation as a reliable exports or a freesat in vegetables all over the new position essential to its ailing economy your avatar to brussels. spain is not alone in facing economic dissemination belle risk is spiraling downwards to its leading to panic buying into shops with some prices more than doubling as the economy stalls and the currency crumbles president lukashenko has asked russia and the international monetary fund for bailouts to keep his country afloat russia has lined up a three billion dollar loan but once to privatized state assets. as planes will cut

off foreign news outlets including russian ones might hamper the a deal the president accuses the media of stoking the economic problems and even waves go russians of wasting time for good instead of working longer. the european court of human rights has ruled out being conservation a former world can heal heart of cost it was not politically motivated but the judges did find violations of the detention and ordered the russian government to pay a small fine. and his business partner negative were jailed for billions of dollars of investment and tax evasion the case however became a rallying point for government opposition but while european business analysts told her to see that it's long since been blown out of proportion as they're just a media saga. in the sense i mean not completely but it close to infinite line under a stage in the holocaust so. you can call it has not ruled that he's

a political prisoner then the situation becomes a bit clearer you have to consider that he's only recently been convicted on the second charges and he's spent more time in prison so in that sense it's a bit of a strain asking for. you know both sides playing a bit of a show here that's the second charge is that kept him in jail for longer at the same time he keeps his name in the news as does what he does in this case is asking for parole that almost certainly be refused in the story as well and consequently the saga will continue for the foreseeable future. but you know if you live in moscow remember that you can give us your thoughts on the stories we're covering by having tortilla news and else updated every minute there and here's what's on line for you today. smartphones but paralysed with confidentiality of millions trust their devices with private data but one firm says it can unlock the treasure trove and sell your info for help to feed. a devastating blow to several villages in

a central russian republic as an ammunitions demo disaster lights up the night sky details video our dog caught. up hadiya spirits last respects to its late president so he gave a dark should died of moscow last weekend after major surgery i think it will ceremony in the capital city of tampa buys thousands of mourners before he was laid to rest in his home village prime minister vladimir putin was among those paying tribute to sixty two year old. for more than five years during his rule for public games after the palace which is recognized by several countries it's unclear who will replace him or when and why should will be held. its. madi meant to american liberty but not a few straws your stuff hundreds gathered again at the jefferson memorial to dance to the defense of their rights to freedom last time it happened for where arrested

including our t. america host adam kokesh our washington correspondent guided counted watched as a lot of fence to another light hearted. this is what i saw the crowd was dispersed sort of pushed out of the jefferson memorial but dozens of people really risked being arrested for just peacefully dancing at the memorial everyone had this fear that it could happen at any time to many it sounded like a joke because freedom you know the first amendment of the us constitution explicitly to protect freedom of assembly and actions that symbolically express a viewpoint if those actions are not harming anybody and one could think what could be more harmless than dancing people who took part in this dance for freedom flashmob say they do it to remind of their constitutional rights which they claim are being breached recently there was a court decision specifically regarding the thomas jefferson memorial that prohibited dancing there that's what triggered the movement if you will last week a small group of people protested the decision we just i like innocent and the

morial we were brutally oppressed think none of them was an iraq war veteran civil rights activist adam kokesh recently also has his own show on our t.v. just a week later thousands of people after the arrest in difference to us by the way not only washington d.c. joined him and others to say no to police brutality take a listen. to everything else after all the other oil reasons were for us or the trashing of the economy for everybody who suffered in this country under the boot heel of the blue streak it's come down to dancing that's really freedom we are looking going to come in and do it people we say are we believe in liberty with leaving these high ideals and then when it comes down to something like this and although some are divided on it the simple truth obviously for a lot of people this dance flash mob has turned into something very symbolic especially here in washington at the thomas jefferson memorial he is one of america's most revered founding fathers jefferson a visionary as a great quote and part of liberty liberty which is the thing we're saying today

americans are getting further away from with every other court decision it's not just about dancing in a public place of course there's a lot more serious stuff many here are talking about the post nine eleven patriot act that. curtail khamenei of their car to include freedom and other in new leap introduced laws as well so this they think flash mob is just one symbolic lot of people what they see is why lation of their rights. some of today's world news in brief now yemen's vice president is reportedly acting as head of state after the embattled leader flew to saudi arabia for medical treatment local t.v. says president saleh was injured in a rocket attack on a mosque by insurgents yemen has been verging on civil war since the president refused to step down three months ago it's led to over one hundred sixty deaths with repeatedly refusing internationally brokered deals to quit. a chain of volcanoes have started erupting in the southern chile prompting the evacuation of over three thousand people from nearby areas plumes of smoke and ash

are rising more than six miles into the air and there are no reports of injuries so far the volcanic chain has been dormant for decades and saw its last major eruption in one nine hundred sixty. i mean a 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 experiments and false six volunteers who are a lot. more of the are spending seventeen months which is how long a return trip to the red planet would take the joy of russian and european space experiments studying the psychological effects of long term isolation the crew have had no human content for a concept rather for eleven months and are now on their return leg having successfully completed a simulated landing dr patrick full access we can tell a lot about the crew's stamina. these guys have been locked away for for

a year they've still got five months to go and it's important to remember that i didn't actually have voiced concerns with the control center for eleven months know how that's rooted. 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 contact. well the brings us up today here in our team and al you back shortly whether it's have a topic source. in

one thousand nine hundred two dr ralph ben straight university of pennsylvania said what if i can take the gene responsible for growth in human beings and put it into a man's. gone all the main risk issues all genetic if there is a ninety five percent of all competent scientists in these fields are working

for the produces side and only five percent are really genuine the independents. there's not a lot of science that says transgenic fish is unhealthy for people to consume which is what the food and drug administration looks at there is a lot of concern about the environmental impacts if a transgenic fish escapes what kind of horrible impact will it have on the rest of the fish population we don't know what this might do to us or our children or our children's children in our congress here in the united states or our legislatures throughout the world we vote all these different laws tax laws and corporate laws what could be more important than deciding on the imminent genetic future of life on earth. or. wealthy british soil. that's not going to rise.