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extradition to the bottom of your courtroom. the week's top stories here are two former general rock a lot of calls of genocide charges against him monstrous while serbia finds that extraditing him to the hague is not the fast track into the e.u. it's hope for. missile helicopters roaring to levy a sky as nato aims to break months of deadlock sparking fears that a ground invasion may already be in the works. stay in waynesboro lane for pushing years to the brink of a bailout by prematurely accusing it of starting the deadly e. coli outbreak investigators are now homing in on a german restaurant. one
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pm in the russian capital you're watching r.t. it was me reading josh welcome to the program serbia has asked the hague to question the former general who is accused of genocide as a potential witness in their own investigation into what happened in the balkans conflict lot of period of the war crimes court for the first time this week calling the charges against him monstrous and of noxious during the former bosnian serb army chief has been indicted on eleven callus of war crimes including the murder of eight thousand muslims as. the next believe hearing will take place in a month's lot of have 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 of jeff therefore the country's membership card as question was are reports that dream doesn't appear to be any closer. still waiting. for the greenlight
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serbia's arrest an extradition of former army chief on 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 instagram of serbia into the european union one day it 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 such ill 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 and
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the quest for e.u. membership. rests. the next few weeks. this is a crystal. ball the metro stations while officials prepare to jump through yet another hero who most wonder if the list of conditions will ever end so now we have gotten harder each one of the serb leaders from the surprise and i am so worn for a show and then all of course some visuals are also talking about the fact that. serbia has to work the lies the fact the recognize the full province of course before it can really get into the e.u. so for somebody else is talking about the fact that serbia is very corrupt really as long as the trees and power and his party the list of the mans will be countless so is the union stalling and opening its doors to service. or are its condition
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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's of relations with possible will the whole point about making new conditions probably won't stop recently still serbia hopes its compilation will be rewarded and continues to be the path to the e.u. the offices 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 with a 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 l great serbia well then split it all analyst says the tribunal can be impartial towards general because it's there to do america's bidding. the
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people who actually try this is the judges of the prosecution not subject to the same rules as the accused i mean the principle of all civilized countries will legal. will be used and all those who participate in the legal process must be subject to the same laws as you he was no one is above the law is the story here everybody but everybody is above the law are going to accuse and let's consider for example of being afraid your television. third of april ninth one thousand nine and now sixteen people died as a result of the. u.s. plane the tribunal never actually indicted anyone without. but elsewhere the killing of civilians is going on punished as we reported earlier this hour. all the soldiers have been cleared over the killing of innocent outguess including. silver due to
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a lack of evidence to support of war crimes case. air flight of course back to earth moscow mars mission turns a year old chap on the progress of the first test of interplanetary test for. it's been an eventful week and levy a with nato intensifying its kind of virtual bombing campaign and the coalition voting to expand its intervention mandate in the north african country if you want accuses colonel gadhafi of war crimes but admits the rebels are guilty of similar views has been while britain and france have the poor and low flying combat helicopters to the country the move has brought operations closer to the ground think concerns over an imminent land base the bouncer at his russia's foreign minister warns pushing the boundaries of the un mandate in libya 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
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security council resolution already taking place i'm old enough to think about the attitudes towards us decisions. later isn't going escalation of the leave in conflict has long cast doubts over the coalition's claims that it's engaged in a humanitarian mission in japan a journalist james believes the underlying motives are for better or worse a favorable regime change. might be surprising on one end that he has held out this long especially given the extent of the onslaught against him and 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 provided you know the idea of protecting civilians by bombing civilian populations is on its face ridiculous and in itself exposes that this is not about humanitarian intervention and that lie has been has been it fairly exposed i think by the fact that the initial north fly zone
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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 intimately about humanitarian intervention and powers will not stop until gadhafi has been. seated from the inevitable end here is regime change and i don't think anything is going to stop until that happens as nato intervention in libya drags are without breaks for colonel gadhafi statics have taken a dark turn his loyalists have begun using cluster bombs than the weapons that disperse many mines which say after four decades sara first reports it's embarrassing for spain because the supply traces back to them even though the country has been banging the anti-war drop for years. which is one strike it cost the bomb can spread thousands of smaller explosives if the white area is fired into
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populated areas if they were in his right or recently they always guarantee civilian deaths one of the many reasons more than one hundred countries and their production and markings on the shells found in the libyan city belong to spanish company instead there were arms that one twenty s that are prohibits all that were purchased by gadhafi that were used against the residential. area and these are the and they were produced by a spanish company and financed pastrana spags did you see how did the forces come to acquire spanish made arms in two thousand and seven and still loves and made the most of the lifting of sanctions against libya as the tripoli regime fell back into favor with the west. spanish company won a contract to supply data these forces with their custody missions. until two thousand and eight and spain signed up to the international convention banning they
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use. it with libya now once again the enemy saying it is part of 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 fire how it instill laws and to make their deadly weapons of war we wanted to bring this thing forward uses as kind of a way to illustrates what things there is between a bank and civilians are conflicts without legislation there remains a direct connection between civilian deaths the weapon produces and the banks the finance and therefore to the banks customers current and looks really transparent about what they are using the savers money for so it's not easy to find a recent report by spanish and years to ten revealed that as many as fourteen banks since they don't fold with funding weapons produces the p.v.a.
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is the spanish banks in most active financing producers of controversial weapons and it's exactly this kind of large scale financing that containers are 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 are now coming forward to say their policies on funding arms production are to change with or without its latest lation but until that happens in the murky world of arms production all things of profitable business sarah firth r.t. . syria has seen its largest anti-government protests it's worth more than three hundred thousand people railing for president asad to go the latest protests were labeled for. for children friday in order of the seventy children killed since the uprising began and the face of strong condemnation for the brutal state response president promised to bring forward democratic reforms but
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a number of nations have already applied sanctions some including the u.s. and britain have not ruled out possible intervention anti-war activist brian becker told us that military action in syria would be devastating wiping out the chances of 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 plans by those who seem to be stabilized 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 and by the united states in particular are causing the assad government to bend and so the conclusion the summary that will be drawn from it is instead of releasing pressure on syria that there should be more pressure not
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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 and use leverage against syria for its own purposes and military courts and war so has 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 faulty weapons but afghans insist there's no excuse for innocent deaths. civilians killed 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 including a pregnant woman and a child. on the sixteenth of august two thousand and seven water 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
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were cleared of all charges one of the accused told r.t. it's all been a big mistake but we didn't see people. that's against this accident was because. there. was. something. 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 and this is not a logical the operator of the water 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 above but there is no doubt they were shooting at the village not the nearby hills the defendant commanders ordered the attack and
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these should be the one standing trial back to the conflict continues civilian deaths from nato bombing or inevitable and will only rise and the longer the war goes on their war situation is the answer is i think quite simple to withdraw troops from afghanistan beginning of any process of supposition of that country because the troops western troops doesn't bring step is a shame to have got. just the opposite as the death toll goes up on both sides support for nato its 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 a hundred billion euro because while services are being called. the sorts of old boys coming back in coffins is even worse leaving the civilians on the week of the
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case to stay in afghanistan even the afghan president's turning against nato after the latest fourteen civilians were killed how many calls i delivered his strongest words yet giving a final warning and threatening war if it's happened again don't you push your party. and next hour we'll look at the lingering effects of serving on the front line our team needs american veterans who've returned from conflicts around the world to hear how they are handling the post-war trauma that's now driving their lives. and closing in on the mastermind a chechen fugitive is charged with murdering top russian human rights dramas. which could help police the scholar who ordered the killing. i gem restaurants being investigated as a possible source of the deadly e. coli outbreak in your germany have blamed spanish cucumbers that contain a mutated form of tyria which has killed nineteen people so far or am at now
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reports on how the accusation is costing spain dear. some q. cumbers kill that much is clear and it's also become apparent that although germany planed spain as the source of the code it's not that's costing innocence punish 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 for what is happening today is a challenge of the spanish imaginable and industry calling the european health watchdog discredited russia says it had no choice but to ban all fruit and 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 the w t o 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 spirit. it's
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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. and cannot hold all the 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 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 this. is
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from the. and the large pharmaceutical industry like they did with the swine flu but they have something to protect people against. screening so true. 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 authorities 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 tightening task ahead of it repairing its reputation as a reliable exporter of free sam vegetables all over the you position essential to its ailing economy your avatar to brussels. spain is not alone in facing
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this nation will resist spiralling downwards to its leading to panic buying in the shops with some prices more than doubling as the economy stalls in the currency crumbles president lukashenko is asked russia and the international monetary fund for a bailout to keep his country afloat russia has lined up a three billion dollar loan but once millions to private eyes status it's also says the planes will cut off foreign news outlets including russian ones might hamper the a deal president accuses the media of stoking the economic problems and russians are wasting time queuing for goods instead of working longer. the european court of human rights has ruled out the incarceration of former oil tycoon we have heard of coffee was not politically motivated but the judges did find violations in his detention and ordered the russian government to pay a small fine at a cost in his business partner partly because of were jailed for billions of dollars of investment and tax evasion case however became
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a rallying point for the opposition but one who appeared business analyst told r.t. that it's not. since been blown out of proportion and is now just a media saga. in the sense i mean not completely but it draws from that line under a stage in the holocaust so. european court has not ruled plays a political prisoner in this situation becomes clearer you have to consider that he's only recently been convicted of a second churches and he's sent to spend more time in prison so in that sense it's a strange time to be asking for parole. you know both sides are playing a bit of a show here that's. certain charges 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 and then that will be a story as well and consequently the saga will continue for the foreseeable future . give us your thoughts on the stories we're covering by having to use analysis is
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updated every minute here is was there for you to discover today. smartphone but careless with confidentiality millions trust your devices with private data but one through the firm says it can unlock the treasure trove and sell your info for half defeat. a devastating blow to several villages in central russian republic as an ammunitions dafoe disaster a white stop a night sky details and video are. played its last respects to its last president should died in moscow last week and after a major surgery a farewell ceremony in the capital so who was attended by sounds of mortars before he was laid to rest in his home village prime minister while the record was among those paying tribute sixty two year old bogart showed a lot of hardly ever more than five years during his rule the republic gained the fact over the paris which is recognized by several countries it's unclear holder
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placed him a world where no action will be held. it's a monument to american liberty but not a few straw to your stuff hundreds gathered again at the jefferson memorial to dance to the defense of their rights to freedom less die of it happened four were arrested including r.t. america host adam kokesh our washington correspondent guy watched as the law to go off took offense to another lighthearted dan'l. 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 view point if those actions are not harming anybody and one could think what could be more harmless then dancing people who took part in this dance for freedom flashmob say they do it to remind of their constitutional rights which they claim
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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 which was silent and innocent and then we were able to see were brutally oppressed the one of them was an iraq war veteran civil rights activist adam kokesh who is who recently also has his own show on our key just a week later thousands of people after the arrest in different cities by the way not only washington d.c. joined him and others to say no to police brutality take a listen. after everything else after all the of the relations were pretty much of the trashing of the economy you know for everybody who suffered in this country under the boot will decrease to it's going to be dancing that's you know is freedom we have local going to come in and do it for people who say oh we believe in liberty with leavings high ideals and then when it comes down to something like this and although some are divided on it sometimes really obviously for
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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 is america as a great quote and part of liberty liberty which as 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 has curtailed many of their constitutional freedoms and our very new leak introduced laws as well so this they're using flash mob is just one symbolic drop you get in this kind of what they see is while ation of their rights. reporting there some of today's world news in brief now a bomb is blown up a passenger bus in northern pakistan killing six people and wounding eleven others it's thought the explosives were detonated by remote control you know once you get admitted to the bombing but the most recent attacks have been claimed by the taliban in revenge for the death of osama bin laden. crowds have spilled into the
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streets of yemen after news spread that their president had left the country ali abdullah saleh is in saudi arabia for treatment after being reportedly injured in a rocket attack on a mosque by insurgents the country's vice president takes over in the meantime yemen has been verging on civil war since president refused to step down three months ago it was over one hundred sixty killed in the ensuing violence. of. the year old american boy has floated into history by becoming the youngest ever person to fly solo in a hot air balloon bobby bradley to offer alongside three other balloons one of which was piloted by his father who set dozens of ballooning records and self a youngster prepared for his moment of sky high glory for almost five years and was cheered on by a crowd of supporters including stanley and friends. now a major milestone in space travel was reached this week it's been
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a year since the crew began practicing man's first flight to mars and all without ever leaving the ground experiment involves six volunteers who are locked in a box spaceship worthier spanning seventeen months which is how long a return trip to the red planet will take joint russian and european space experiment to study the psychological effects of long term isolation the crew have had no human concepts for eleven months and are now on the return leg having successfully completed a simulated landing dr patrick thought excess would tell of not about the crew's stamina. these guys have been locked away for for a year now they've still got five months to go and it's important to remember good voice contact really. 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 will be like to reestablish human contact they've really had to imagine themselves into the
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situation they've really had to convince themselves that they're doing this for real but there's a huge amount but 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 but obviously the primary aim is to understand the impact on future long term space travel but clearly there are other implications for people in long term isolation away from contact. and the report from the tunnels which see vital supply smuggled into gaza that's after we kept our top stories in a few months. later
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than a month. one of the most extreme environments on the climate this is and charged and people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization sean thomas discovers what makes antarctica so special and attractive for many. the wildlife in antarctica is both illegal and a frontal. expedition to the bottom of the earth on our team.
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