approach someone said grant sedona sweet. care of a. hotel in. hotels in the eighty's available in poland resort and spa. this week's top stories on our t.v. former general recommend outage denies charges of genocide in front of the hague tribunal was serbia finds handing him over has done little to speed up even membership. plato's extension of the military campaign in libya development of attack helicopters small arms concerns or ground operations in the country could be next. also spreading hysteria over killer cucumbers cripples european vegetable markets pushing spain approach early accuse of starting the outbreak to the brink of a painter. and the man suspected of shooting dead journalist anna politkovskaya as

officially charge pressed against claim they have enough evidence to prove the chechen fugitive pulled the trigger. on. the back of the main developments over the last seven days and the latest news this is the weekly edition from r.t. prosecutors in serbia want permission to question recommend that each as a potential witness in their own investigation into what happened in the balkans conflict back in the ninety's the former bosnian serb general is in custody at the hague where he's accused of eleven counts of war crimes including genocide. this week you made his first court appearance before the tribunal he did make a plea but told prosecutors the charges against him was a lot of stress and have been noxious for his next appearance will be in

a month that it had been on the run for sixteen years before being arrested in serbia just over a week ago and you said his extradition was key to hopes of joining a union is what is known as server reports the e.u. dream doesn't appear any closer. still waiting for the green light to serve his arrest an extradition of former bosnian serb army chief luggage was one of the key conditions for a chance to get one foot on 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 secure this it is very great news this is a very courageous decision by the serbian president this is one additional step for the integration of serbia into the european union one day is really i know go there

so that is your or your big big other steps remain to be taken your right to say that the rest of the political chief of croatian serbs go and had d.h. who is still in hiding a look through legislation reform in cage when in regional cooperation with neighbors for serbian president boris tadic there is no task too challenging to take on in the quest for a new membership. arrest mr hodges. next few weeks. for us this is a crystal clear the circus of fulfilling all international obligations but while officials prepare to jump through yet another euro hoop most wonder if the list of conditions ever some visuals are also talking about the fact that. serbia has to recognize. the fact to recognize it from province of course will be for him to really get into the e.u. as long as the trees and power and his party the list of demands will be endless

still serbia hopes its corporation will be rewarded and continues to be a path to the new door 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 a group but the list of conditions for a possible expression seems to be neverending and for official belgrade membership is always visible and always out of reach catarina r.t. belgrade serbia. welcome and it says he needs more than the official thirty days to study the charges against him but his son says no matter how much time is given he simply not able to take part in the trial. he can't even read he has to go through thousands of pages to be able to testify in court or but before that he simply unable to do that he has difficulties with speech to reach how will you consult with his lawyers it's impossible. and you can watch the full interview with dr

manage the son of former bosnian serb general reckon at each on the website ati dot com any time. this week nato intensified its bombing campaign in libya and decided it would last for at least another three months a u.n. report is accused colonel gadhafi of war crimes alleging the rebels are guilty of similar abuses meanwhile britain and france have deployed low flying combat helicopters to the country the move was brought up or asians closer to the ground prompting concerns over an imminent land based offensive because russia's foreign minister to warn that pushing the boundaries of the u.n. mandate in libya may lead to future resolutions losing their credibility. 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 did violations of the security council resolution already taken place i'm old enough to think about the

attitudes towards us decisions. colonel gadhafi claimed from the outset that opposition forces in libya western puppets peace activists chris nine and says nato is continuing bombardment gives credence to those claims. what they're affected. is we're going to. keep killing civilians. living in towns and cities until you go it's entrenched gadhafi because you from the start was saying that the popular movement in the east of the country was a was a movement that was sponsored by the west and he used that to bolster his position though the war has been lying. and it. is in. a strong if not stronger position now than he was when the west first got involved. during nato intervention in libya colonel gadhafi loyalists have been using cluster bombs these are banned weapons that dispersed many mines over a wide area with civilian casualties almost inevitable and sort of further bought

it's embarrassing for madrid because the money trail behind the weapons leads right back to spain. which is one striking cluster bomb can spread thousands of smaller explosives if a wide area is fired into populated areas if they were in misrata recently it always guarantees civilian deaths all of the many reasons more than one hundred countries and their production markings on the shelves found in the libyan city belong to spanish company instead. there were. twenty that are prohibited that were purchased by the other four that were used against the residential area. and they were produced by a spanish company and finance banished banks if you get out the forces come to acquire spanish made. in two thousand and seven mr larsen beat them based on the lifting of sanctions against libya as the tripoli regime fell back into favor with

the west spanish company one of contracts a supply get out these forces. into two thousand and eight in spain signed up to the international convention banning there yes. with libya now once again the enemy state 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 firepower to instill laws and to make their deadly weapons the people who want to bring this forward use this as a way to illustrate what the interest between a bank. conflicts without legislation means a direct connection between civilian deaths the weapon cases and the funds that finance their food to the banks customers banks i'm not really transparent about what they are using the savers money for so it's not that easy to find you know

a recent report by spanish n.g.o.s a ten revealed that as many as fourteen banks since they don't fold with funding weapons produces the b.v.a. is the spanish banks 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 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 arms production are changed we've without legislation until that happens in the murky world of arms production wall things of profitable business sarah artsy the curate. and while the profits of war in danger civilian lives in libya in afghanistan the deaths of innocent bystanders go on but even so we report on the controversial acquittal of

polish soldiers who killed a number of civilians in the state of attack on an afghan village. also there was this previously unseen video of an iranian planes deadly crash during an air show two years ago. and stories to come the first israeli security forces of open forum pro palestinian protesters who were marching on the syrian border reportedly killing twenty people and injuring hundreds syrian t.v. is also reported that thousands of protesters are staying in the border area for an open ended sit in. has the details now from tel aviv hundreds of palestinians have gathered on the syrian side of the israeli of syrian border and every long day today a group of about one hundred and fifty of them made their way to the border fence we're being told that they were actually trying to cut that order frames when israeli soldiers the five warning shots in the air now those one shots seem only to have inflamed the crowds because israeli soldiers very soon followed up with

actually taking aim at some of the protesters certainly this is a day that there has been preparing for several days now the country is in a state of high alert and has been ever since the hallway insults the palestinians from living on syria the west bank and gaza to make their way to the borders with israel and for today to try and close those borders today is the forty fourth anniversary of the one nine hundred sixty seven six day war now that was a war that is well done but it is a war that palestinians refer to as the arab downfall but of course human rights activists are criticizing israeli army for being very quick to fire at demonstrators. and as israel's relationship with its neighbors becomes ever more tense ality looks at the plight of communities on the egypt gaza border to israel's decade long blockade the civilian population has resorted to underground smuggling to stay alive to live only next to the border because egypt but also on the border of peace and war. they are responsible not only for themselves.

but also for their loved ones. they are ready to take any risk. to jump in the streets. greece may receive the next installment of its one hundred ten billion euro loan in july athens has promised to implement strict austerity measures to stabilize its economy a goal it's failed to reach public anger is mounting of the comps tens of thousands of great support testing outside the parliament professor of political science has told me earlier that he thinks that bailing out countries is a dead end. europe and the i.m.f. won greece to tighten its belt a more and more service no nowhere greece by itself can get out of the crisis is if

you tighten your belt more and more you create a recession and if you agree to recession this situation get worse and worse and it's harder and harder for you to pay back your debts i don't see how this money can restart the economy if people stand less and less i think the remedies suggested now are goes on there's a real danger that greece will have to back out of the europe in order to be able to do their you its currency to have more tourists to sell more products and stop origin leave you when you the euro was created the left in europe was there much against it because you had a strong economy used a strong currency the dean mark germany forming a monetary union with weaker economies and that is a recipe for trouble. and spain may be a step closer to an e.u. bailout are to germany wrongly said the country's q come visit cause europe's deadly economic break the claims of destroyed the country's fruit and vegetable exports and meanwhile the think is now being pointed at germany and it's been

sprouts as a possible source of the contamination which has so far claimed twenty two lives and has nor emmet reports it may mean another round of global hysteria. some q. cumbers kill that much is clear and it's also become apparent that although germany planed spain is the source of the it's not that it's costing innocence punish brewton vegetable export is around two hundred million euros a week could it more spinster but all the obvious statements are 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 fruits and vegetable imports from the entire european union a reaction in brussels called disproportionate use of our colleagues from the european commission say russia's decision goes against the spirit of the debate you know frankly i don't know about that but as you can kill people after that you know

that's not the kind of thing that raises your spirit 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. simply because. all. the time. and perishable goods 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 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 pharmaceutical industry like they did with the swine flu they have some. people are going. to be screwed and so true. 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 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 tight task ahead of its repairing its reputation as a reliable exporter of fruits and vegetables all over the u. a position essential to its a link economy nor ever its r.t.

brussels and durham it continues to track down the latest on that situation in europe you can check out our twitter feed from the first in her latest tweet she says that as the planet grows all vegetables and under suspicion as a possible source of the outbreak in front of your twitter feed r.t. underscore on top of that story. this week's or breakthrough in the investigation of. assassination five years ago the main suspect a chechen fugitive has been officially charged with the murder of the prominent russian journalist and police say they have enough evidence to prove that the thirty seven year old was the one who did pull the trigger. of the reports now on this latest development. this is the man investigators say fired the shots which killed an impala called skier. had been the subject of a wide ranging manhunt after spending years on the run in belgium he was arrested by police in his home village in chechnya on tuesday and later charged with the

murder. of the rest was carried out with the help of belgian police who 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 a market of was forced to leave the country investigators are currently questioning him in connection with the murder of anna politkovskaya mahmud of two brothers along with a former police officer who were acquitted of the murder in two thousand and nine q to lack of evidence but the russian supreme court no verdict and ordered the investigation reopened protocol scales son told me the family hopes this arrest will bring them closer to finding out who killed his mother after course it's a very important step but we have to wait and see if mahmud off skilled 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 and

internationally renowned journalist anna politkovskaya was shot dead in october two thousand and six that 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 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 call he's a criminal boss and could easily be the mastermind of the murder and relatives especially chechens are unlikely to testify against one of. the politkovskaya murder isn't the only high profile case to see a recent breakthrough journalists need of yarn of the things that. this arrest along with the conviction of the killers of freelance journalist understand the border and human rights lawyer stanislav michael surely these type of murders do get solved in today's russia this is definitely a landmark victory in the fight against impunity russian journalist

murders not just journalists but also human rights defenders lawyers. and we see that as the barest significant step forward rostam mahmood of currently in moscow where his lawyers are preparing his defense while for the family and friends of. their long wait for justice continues peace roll over r.t. moscow. to poland where a military court has declared seven nato soldiers of killing civilians in an attack on an afghan village four years ago a panel ruled the evidence was not sufficient to support war crimes charges honest mistakes or faulty ammunition not to be to blame but as artie's daniel bushell reports the verdict outraged many observers and field calls for troops to be withdrawn from afghanistan. civilians killed nato soldiers go free the same old story in afghanistan the threats 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 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 people. we were accidents decides to cause a. song or something. and . we've gotten a grenade mell 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. to

them or could not make such a serious error with such a large distance i question is did it is safe and 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 defendants their commanders ordered the attack and these should be the one standing trial activists while 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 so the answer is i think quite simple to withdraw troops from afghanistan beginning of any process of supposition of that country because their troops western france doesn't bring somebody is asian to have got. just the opposite as the 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 a hundred billion euro of course services are being cut a hole the size of our boys coming back in coffins is even worse leaving the death of civilians on punished for the week of the case to stay in afghanistan even the afghan president's turning against nato after the latest fourteen civilians were killed how many calls lloyd delivered his strongest words yet giving a final warning and threatening war if it happens again don't you go sure. well give us your thoughts on the stories we're covering by heading to r.t. dot com news and analysis updated every minute there on our website and here's what's there few to discover it's a day a devastating blow to several villages in the central russian republic is an ammunitions depo disaster lights up the night sky the details and the spectacular video party dot com. you can also see how hundreds exercised their first amendment

rights of the jefferson memorial in washington by dancing after five people were arrested last week for similar flashmob including r.t. america presenter with police actions described as aggressive and constitutional. revenge version of the tried and tested so you spacecraft has been towed into position ready for blast off in a few days to carry three crew members to the international space station for a six month mission on board mankind's most remote outpost lucy francis at the baikonur cosmodrome for arctic. the twenty eighth expedition to the international space station blast off in just under three days from here at the baikonur cosmodrome so far everything is run according to plan very smooth indeed we've got three people heading up into space from here russian cosmonauts sergei volkov japanese astronaut such food and american astronaut mike fossum and with us is

mike fossum son he's going to give us a little inside story as to how it's been living and preparing for a space expedition with an astronaut what is it like actually living with an astronaut day in and day out he's just a normal guy you know we were just talking a minute ago about how he seems like a nice guy and he really is he is really down to earth and i feel like a lot of these guys are that this is just due to managed to get his job and now he's going into space it's going to go to the things you notice about your dad being comes back from a trip up there where you know he's kind of a macho man and so you know he likes to think that he's going to be ok when it comes back but we'll see because you know if they're really weak when they come back will be up there for six months and his muscles will be weak and supposedly weak so we'll see if he if he takes that wheelchair like so many of the other astronauts do or not thank you so much for talking with us all right guys this rock is being put into position to hold steady upright for the next three days until

launch until then we'll be keeping a close eye on the operations seeing how everything is going to make sure that it is smooth sailing for blastoff on june eighth. well more space stories coming your way in the next hour as the knocked out mission to mars enters its second year we look at the challenges faced by the participants in the longest ever space flight simulation to the red planet and back. some other news in brief from around the world government of attack the presidential compound in southern yemen killing four soldiers president ali abdullah saleh has also suffered injuries and has left the saudi arabia for treatment as now speculation over whether he will return the country has been hit by an rest for three months with at least one hundred fifty killed in the government crackdown. a chain of ok knows have started erupting in southern chile causing thousands to flee from the area plumes of smoke and ash are rising ten kilometers into the air and have been no reports of injuries so far the

volcanic chain has been dormant for decades and saw its last major eruption in one thousand nine hundred sixty. will stay with r.t. for in-depth coverage of natural disasters because later on in the program going to be a russian oceanographer he says the phenomena are here to stay. previously unseen video footage has surfaced online showing the crash of an iranian military jet at an air show two years ago the haunting video was filmed by the crew of another plane flying in the show just outside tehran captures the moment an seventy six military plane falls to earth and explodes after a midair collision with a fighter jet seven crew members were killed in the crash. that sort of brings up thought for the moment i'll be back with the headlines for you and about to turn off minutes from now stay with us life in moscow i'll be back

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