the. omissions from. the isaf stories here on r t the former down a lot of calls the genocide charges against him monstrous as serbia and sent over to the hague but instead of clearing a path to the e.u. belgrade finds that word syria's list just got longer. levy an interview and still is out the feud as nato eager to regain the initiative rolls out heavy gunships weeknight in fears of an evidence ground war. health inspectors sell it on a german restaurant to heinz the source of the killer you call it but it's little relief for struggling spain after it was initially blamed for the outbreak.

ten am in the russian capital you're watching our team. 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 in the balkans conflict lot of period of the work crimes court for the first time this week calling the charges against him monstrous and obnoxious the former bosnian serb army chief has been indicted on eleven counts of war crimes including the murder of a thousand muslims at. the next hearing will take place and a month lot of 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 that's because we desire 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 that can lead it was one of the key conditions for a chance to get one foot and 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 they go security issues this is very big news this is a very courageous decision by the sudden president this is one additional step for the integration of serbia into the european union one day is really a no go there so that is your big other steps remain to be taken your right to say that the rest of the political chief is croatian serbs gurn had search who is still in hiding electrolytic slayton reform engagement in regional cooperation with

neighbors for serbian president boris tadic there is no task to challenging to take on in the quest for e.u. membership. in the next few weeks. this is a crystal clear the service offering all international again but while officials prepared to jump through yet another hero who most wonder if the list of conditions who have are and so now we have gotten harder it was one of the serb leaders from the surprise in the civil war and for a show and then all of course some are also talking about the fact that. serbia has to recognize the fact the recognize its own problems of course before it can really get into the e.u. or somebody else is talking about the fact that serbia is very corrupt really as long as the chism paul or and his party the list of demands. and less

so is the union standing on opening its doors to serbia 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 one cards it 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 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 r r t serbia balkans aspart market asif draws parallels between the hague tribunal at guantanamo

bay and where there is a danger of the motives running out over evidence but the tribunal doesn't need him to. actually engage with his own defense to trial you'll need a tribunal needs to be going to be sitting there for symbolic reasons he's sitting there the odium of the world is focused on him all the accusations of the wall of noise. against him with this tribunal you should remember it is not a court it is a tribunals with all the dubious i talk quasi legal procedures that involve the one time of most of europe where people are held for years without trial waiting for trial when they're when their verdict 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 . but alice worth the killing of civilians is going on punished as we reported

later this hour we're always soldiers have been we've heard over the killing of innocent afghans including children during a lack of evidence to support a war crimes case. and lot of course back to earth moscow mars mission turns a year old we chat on the progress of the first tense of interplanetary test. it's been an eventful week and libya was nato intensify its controversial bombing campaign and the coalition voting to stand its intervention mandate in the north african country the u.n. accuses colonel gadhafi of war crimes but admits the gravels are guilty of similar abuses meanwhile britain and france have the poit low flying combat helicopters to the country the move has brought operations closer to the ground prompting concerns over an evidence of a land based offensive and as russia's foreign minister warns pushing the boundaries of the red mandated levy may lead to future resolutions losing their

impact. would we expressed our opinion over distance 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 it actually choose towards us decisions. nato is own going escalation of the libyan conflict has long cast doubts over the coalition's claims that it's engaged in a humanitarian mission independent journalist james corbat believes the underlying motives are for better or worse favorable regime change. the surprising one on one end that gadhafi has held out this long especially given the the extent of the onslaught against him and the the attempts to assassinate him and the killing of his son and grandchildren and i think that was perhaps not foreseen in the original action that was approved but you know the idea of protecting civilians

by bombing civilian populations is it's on its face ridiculous in itself exposes that this is not about humanitarian intervention and that lie has been has been it thoroughly exposed i think by the fact that the no fly zone turned pretty much overnight into a bombing campaign which turned into a campaign which we were promised was not to overthrow the regime and to get gadhafi out of there so i think it's just been a lie after lie and i think that pretty adequately exposes the fact that this is not alternately about humanitarian intervention the nato powers will not stop until gadhafi has been. seated from power of the inevitable end here is regime change and i don't think anything is going to stop until that happens. as nato is intervention in libya drags on without a break through colonel gadhafi tactics have taken a dark turn his loyalists have begun using cluster bombs banned weapons that disperse many mines which stay active for decades as sara furthur it warts it's

embarrassing for spain because the supply traces back to them even though the country's been battling than say a war drum for years. just want to strike because the bomb can spread thousands of small explosives if a wide area is fired into populated areas if they were in his right to recently he always guarantees civilian death one of the many reasons more than one hundred countries the fans their production the markings on the shells found in the libyan city belong to the spanish company insta lovers and there were arms that one twenty are prohibited that were purchased by gadhafi that were used against the residential areas in these about the and they were produced by the spanish company and financed by spanish banks so just how did this get out the forces came to acquire spanish made. in two thousand and seven and some laws that made them based

of the lifting of sanctions against libya as the chip leader gene felt biking to favor with the west spanish company won a contract to supply get out these horses with because. if you until two thousand and eight when spain signed up to the international convention banning the us. with libya now once again the enemy played its part and nato finds itself fighting a regime that it itself helped to arm and the trail goes back much further to spanish banks which provided the financial firepower to instill laws and to make their deadly weapons who. want to bring this thing forward use this as kind of a way to illustrate what things there is between a bank and civilians are conflicts without legislation means a direct connection between civilian deaths for jesus and the banks that finance

their food to the banks customers bring some looks really transparent about what they are using the same savers money for so it's not easy to find a recent report by spanish and it's. and revealed that as many as eighteen banks in state. funding weapons produces the v.a. is the spanish bank this active financing produces of course a virtual fence and it's exactly this kind of large scale financing they can cain 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 to say their policies on funding and production are change we've now it's legislation and it's until that happens in the murky world of omes production will of course fixable. sarah artsy. a military court of war so 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 soldiers blamed faulty weapons afghans insist there is no excuse for innocent deaths. civilians killed and nato soldiers go free the same old story in afghanistan the threats and for a moment to be different polish soldiers are put on trial for deaths including a pregnant woman and a child. on the sixteenth of august two thousand and seven water shells that were fired by polish troops in the city afghan villages. as a result six people were killed 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 the south sudan was. forced to

sell something. and it was also a problem we both 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 only wrong and this is not logical . of them or could not make such a serious error with such a large distance the question is did they decide to fire themselves or did they receive this command from a but there is no doubt they were shooting at the village not the nearby hills the defendants their commanders who ordered the attack and they should be the one standing trial back to visit while the conflict continues civilian deaths from nato bombing or inevitable will only rise and the longer the war goes on the

war situation is so the answer is i think quite simple to withdraw troops from afghanistan beginning of any process of opposition of this country because their troops western troops doesn't bring somebody is a shrink. it's done just the opposite as the cold goes up on both sides support for . a majority in europe say opinion polls now think the conflicts going in. this was already unpopular in the hundred billion euro because while services are being called. the sorts of boys coming back in coffins is even worse leaving the civilians on the weekends the case to stay in 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 speech. and threatening war if you tuppence again shorty.

i will look at the lingering effects of serving the front lines in a few minutes to american parents who have returned from conflicts around the world to hear how they're handling the post war that's now live their lives. and closing in on the mastermind of chechen visited his target was murdering top russian for human rights journalist anna politkovskaya which could help police discover who ordered the killing. of german restaurants being investigated as a possible source of a deadly break in europe germany have waned spanish cucumbers that container mutated form of the very ones but which is killed nineteen people so far more ammo now reports on how the accusation is costing spain dear. some cucumber scale that much is clear and it's also become apparent that although

germany planed spain as was source of the eco 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 statement sure an absolute lack of responsibility what is happening today is a check made to the spanish 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 in brussels called disproportionate. share of. our colleagues from the european commission say russia's decision goes against the spirit of the w t o frankly i don't know about the cucumbers the people after the event 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 pussies to go unsold and we. all. cannot hold all the 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 fifteen million people in reality is 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 behind all this. garbage for. industry. you have something to protect people who are. creating such an. across

europe all these health 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 relevant all sources 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 has a tightened tosk ahead of its repairing its reputation as a reliable exporter of fruits and vegetables all over the new position essential to its a lake economy nor have it r.t. brussels. and here's your thoughts on the stories we're covering by heading to our web site r t v dot com news analysis updated our david every minute and here is what's there for you right now smartphone but perilous confidentiality millions

trust their devices with private data but one for a says it can unlock the treasure trove and sell your info for have to feed. and a devastating blow to several villages in the central russian republic as an ammunition steptoe disaster lights up the night sky the details and video are at our t.v. dot com. also this week russian prosecutors charged a traction man with murdering prominent russian journalist anna politkovskaya in a two thousand and six officials say they have enough evidence to prove the thirty seven year old was involved or 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 anna politkovskaya. mood of had been the subject of a wide ranging manhunt after spending years on the run in belgium he was arrested

by police at 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 knowledge and police triggered the manhunt of a market of was forced to leave the country the investigators are currently questioning him in connection with the murder of anna politkovskaya mahmood of two brothers along with a former police officer who were acquitted of the murder in two thousand and nine due to lack of evidence but the russian supreme court and no bad verdict and ordered the investigation reopened skier's son told me the family hopes this arrest 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 guilt will be proved but even that is not enough we have no clue who the mastermind of the murder is nor the organizers it's

a significant part of the journey but it's certainly not the end and internationally renowned journalist anna politkovskaya was shot dead in october two thousand and six when she returned home she was famous for her investigative work particularly reports into human rights abuses former colleagues believe that due to the close family ties of those accused of the murder there will always be some unknowns surrounding the crime was the playing 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. good riddance he was especially chechens unlikely to testify against one of. the pollock or skier murder isn't the only high profile case to see a recent breakthrough journalists need of things that. it's arrest along with the conviction of the killers a freelance journalist honest to see a border and human rights lawyer stanislav money a lot of children these type of mood is to get sold in today's russia this is

definitely a landmark victory in the fight against impunity in russian journalist murders not just journalists but also the human rights defenders lawyers. and we see that as a very significant step for. mood of currently in moscow where his lawyers are preparing his defense well for the family and friends about a part of the long wait for justice continues his role of a altie moscow. well there are greeted like true heroes with patriotic cheers and a whole new beginning but for thousands of u.s. troops coming home from war transition to civilian life is painfully haunted by traumatic memories are just very important former soldier who shared her struggle. thank you thank you very much into the infinite world of literature and here's this twenty eight year old x. marine an american who abandoned her weapon for written words to tell

a story she says is kept censored from u.s. citizens he will people may know that it affects us i don't think that they understand the weight. and the toll that it takes us and seeing if that were. the literal facts of the dead bodies that were made. jessica could dell's memoir shade it black details a tremendous 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 if it was a result of an explosion there could be several body cases so sometimes that would require us to you know crawl under a truck or crawl in the trucks or. just as you mentioned. you know what this thing

. was that you can get back to the family goodell 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 respective 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 right there for the millions who do make it home alive many white kids out 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 fox anybody and i suffer from flashbacks and nightmares and i might. process i had a really hard to make sense of it more than six years leader fidel 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 glorified soldiers as heroes but neglect to speak about the consequences of their service. that the government respects the trends. there is like that i don't think that they would send us to these places. carry out their ads you know. so i don't think that they're it's like this they're like. declaring war is the prerogative of politicians over the decades us words have resulted in a reported twenty three million american veterans many left struggling to adjust to life following the battle or shift from fighting enemies to fighting demons burning up or naya r.t. may work. and the next hour here in r.t.

the american freedom campaigner is dancing to a different view to the a lot. of people who say are we believe that he would leave these ideals and then when it comes down to something like this in the summer divided on something's wrong that i don't show your of moves i have the jefferson memorial because dancing jailable offense thanks to the time someone with already explained why. a major milestone in space travel was reached this week it's been eight years since a crew began practicing man's first flight to mars and all without ever leaving the ground the experiment involves six volunteers who are locked in a mark space ship we're spending seventeen months which is how long a return trip to the red planet will take the joint russian and european space experiment studying the psychological effects of our 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 full access we can tell

a lot about the crew 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 haven't actually 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 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 contract. it wasn't a coming to light from moscow at

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