let. me. this week's top stories of the former general not common knowledge denies charges of genocide in front of the hague tribunal well serbia finds handing him over has done little to speed up the e.u. membership. nature's extension of the military campaign in libya and deployment of attack helicopters sparks concerns a ground operation in the country could be next. also spreading hysteria over killer cucumbers cripples european vegetable markets pushing spain prematurely accused of starting the deadly bug outbreak to the brink of a bailout. and the man suspected of shooting the journalist anna politkovskaya is

officially charged first to get his claim they have enough evidence to prove the chechen fugitive pulled the trigger. with a look back at 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 him about it as a potential witness in their own investigation into what happened in the balkans conflict back in the one nine hundred 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 he made his first court appearance before the tribunals he didn't make a plea but told prosecutors the charges against him are worth monstrous and button options his next appearance will be in a month when not it should be another run for sixteen years before being arrested in serbia just over a week ago the e.u.

said his extradition was key to serve hopes of joining the union but as catarina server reports the e.u. dream doesn't appear any closer. still waiting for the green light services 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 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 is very great news this is a very courageous decision by the serbian president this is one additional step to be integration 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 that the rest of the political chief is croatian serbs and had speech still in

hiding electro legislation with engagement in regional cooperation with neighbors preserving president boris tadic there is no task too challenging to take on in the quest for a new membership. of the. rest. and the next few weeks. for us this is a crystal clear the sort of the framing all international obligations a lot of pressure was prepared to jump through yet another year of the most wonder if the list of conditions who ever and some new york officials are also talking about the fact that. serbia has to recognize the fact the recognize its own province of course before it can really get into the e.u. as long as hard it is in power and his party the list of the mans will be endless still serbia hopes its corporation will be rewarded and continues to be

a path to the unity 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 worst of conditions for a possible obsession seems to be neverending and for official belgrade membership is always visible and always out of reach catarina as our belgrade serbia. recommended 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 he's given he's simply not able to take part in a trial. you can't even read he has to go through thousands of pages to be able to testify in court with the police simply unable to do that he has difficulties with speech to how will you consult with his lawyers it's impossible. you can watch the full interview with documented it's the son of former bosnian serb general recommend i bitch on a website party dot com. 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 and immoral britain and france of record low flying combat helicopters to the country that we were brought up aeration is closer to the ground prompting concerns over an imminent land based offensive because russia's foreign minister warned of pushing the boundaries of the un mandate in libya may lead to future resolutions losing their credibility. with the world 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 matter choose towards unions decisions. colonel gadhafi claimed from the outset that opposition forces in libya western part of its peace activist chris nolen and

says nato is continuing bombardment gives credence to those claims. we're going to. keep killing civilians. libyan towns and cities and you go to gadhafi because he from the start was saying 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 the the wall has been lengthened. and it's out of the gulf is in. 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 burned weapons that dispersed many mines over a wide area with civilian casualties almost inevitable and the syrian photo reports it's embarrassing for madrid because the money trail behind the weapons leads right back to spain. just one strike it cost the bomb can spread thousands of

small explosives if the white areas fired into populated areas if they were in misrata recently it always guarantees civilian deaths and many reasons more than one hundred countries than that without the markings on the shells found in the libyan city belong to the spanish company instead. there were. twenty s. that are prohibited that were purchased by their fear that were used against a residential area in these other and they were produced by a spanish company and financed by spanish banks it is. the forces trying to acquire spanish made arms in two thousand and seven hours and made the most of the lifting of sanctions against libya at the tripoli machine back into favor with the west. spanish company won a contract to supply get out these forces with their cluster munitions. until two

thousand and eight when spain signed up to the international convention banning the use. the word 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 firepower to instill laws or to make their deadly weapons of war who want to bring this thing forward use this as kind of a way to illustrates what things there is between a bank and civilian deaths conflicts without legislation to means of direct connection between civilian deaths the weapon produces and the banks that finance and therefore to the banks customers really transparent about what they are using the saviour's money for so it's not very easy to find a recent report by spanish and. revealed that his money is full of eighteen banks

and stayed over the funding weapons produces p.v.a. is the spanish bank has been most active in financing producers of controversial weapons and it's exactly this kind of large scale financing they complain is now trying to rein in pushing for the development of more robust policies to ensure the banks are held accountable many of the banks named in the investigation are now coming forward to say their policies on funding and production are to change with or without legislation that's until that happens in the murky world of arms production wall means of course it's a good business sarah firth r.t. the curate. and all the prophets of war in danger civilian lives in libya in afghanistan the deaths of innocent bystanders go unpunished and later this hour we report on the controversial acquittal of polish soldiers who killed a number of civilians in a mistaken attack on an afghan village plus don't miss this previously unseen video

of an iranian planes they're really crashed during the show two years ago. the story still to come first israeli security forces of open forum pro palestinian protesters were marching on the syrian border reportedly killing twenty people and injuring hundreds syrian t.v. has also reported that thousands of protesters a staying in the border area for an open ended sit in all these port a slit has the details from tel aviv hundreds of palestinians have gathered on the syrian side of the israeli syrian border and every one midday today a group of about one hundred and fifty have been made their way to the border fence we're being told that they were actually trying to cut that border flames when israeli soldiers fired warning shots in the air now those one shots seem only to have inflamed but 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 the

stage and has been ever since the whole way insults the palestinians and even on syria the with bank and gaza to make their way to the borders look israel and for today to quiet in class these movies today is the fourth anniversary of the one nine hundred sixty seven six day war now that was a war that israel won but it is a war that palestinians the folks see as the arab downfall but of course human rights activists are criticizing israeli army has been very quick to fire at demonstrators. peace activist an attorney if it solo told r.t. that israel's actions risk provoking a new war. it sounded like there was no justification for using live ammunition they were just said billions on armed civilians were just marching towards the border i think that the major question is what would be israeli army do in this coming september after the u.n. group recognize a palestinian state tens of thousands of palestinians will be marching towards the

fences in the west bank and the big question is whether the israeli army would decide to shoot as it did today and then we'll see dozens of people been killed and that will be the start of another war another intifada. greece may receive the next installment of its one hundred ten billion euro zone in july i think has promised to implement stricter austerity measures to stabilize its economy a goal it's failed to reach so far public anger is mounting of the cuts tens of thousands of greeks are protesting outside the parliament professor of political science peer gun and told me earlier that he thinks bailing out countries is a dead end. europe and the i.m.f. one greece to take spelt more and more are certain is 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 create

a recession this situation get worse and worse and it's harder an art of you to be back in debt i don't see how this money can restart the economy if people stand less and less i think suggested now 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 new its currency to have more tourists to sell more products and so are the regionally when you the euro was greeted her left in europe was there much against it because you had a strong economy used a strong currency that demarche 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 of a different kind of to germany wrongly blamed comes from the country as the cause of europe's deadly e. coli outbreak the accusations of destroyed spain's fruit and vegetable exports and meanwhile the thing is now being pointed at german bean sprouts as a possible source of the contamination which is claimed twenty two lives

a different solution he's an expert author on globalization and finance told me here in r.t. that he thinks the scare could spark another round of international hysteria when something goes wrong it is or human nature to do that's where i'm going on somebody else very boldly accusing poor innocent spare. to congress of being the cause of the e-coli outbreak now nevertheless i think that there's probably a more subtle generally highly all of these that is closely related to the fact that there are increasing centrifugal forces within the european union that already made a lot of people's talk about partial fractures partial break up so we just sort of look review's nodes that if greece doesn't violence way around it's cool it's financial crisis their money might put a lot of the european monetary mechanism the euro very often one could even imagine that germany home of the germans are really powerful google and are we are probably wondering why the ever got themselves into europe to begin with so i think it's not

it's it's rather good to just jump to the first obvious conclusion of a piece of news all real people so we must try and find all those layers of truth and reason that might like to be it the media do respond to specific powers will be the sure all those advertisers or people who actually control the media there is a tendency to push specific stories only one month ago the entire planet was just watching a royal wedding because who days later the alleged killing of osama bin laden and now everybody seems to be going hysterical over concern about the e. coli outbreak. and or and it continues to track down the latest on that situation in europe you can check out our twitter feed on that and the latest tweet she says that as the panic grows all vegetables are now under suspicion as a possible source of the outbreak in front of our twitter feed party underscore come to be on top of that story and others. this week sort breakthrough in the investigation of anna politkovskaya assassination five years

ago the main suspect a chechen fugitive has been officially charged with the murder of the prominent russian journalist police say they have enough evidence to prove the thirty seven year old was the one who pulled the trigger on these people all of the reports now on this latest development. this is the man investigators say fired the shots which killed an impala called sky was dumb 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 the murder. of the rest was carried out with the help of belgian police where he had been hiding for several years we've been in constant contact with them and it was this cooperation that helped us capture the suspect belgian police triggered the manhunt and mark rudolph was forced to leave the country 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 verdict and ordered the investigation reopened but of course because son told me the family hopes this arrest will bring them closer to finding out who killed his mother in your heart of course it's a very important step but we have to wait and see if off kilter will be proved but even that is not enough we have no clue who the mastermind of the murder is nor about the organizers it's a significant part of the journey but it's certainly not the end and internationally renowned journalist anna politkovskaya was shot dead in october two thousand and six that she returned home to use famous for investigative work particularly reports into human rights abuses former colleagues believe their duty close family ties of those accused of the murder they will always be some unknown surrounding the crime as long as it's hard to tell how many people are involved we have the three movement of brothers and their own called he's

a criminal boss and could easily be the mastermind of the murder but relatives especially chechens are unlikely to testify against one of my. opponent cause i am murder isn't the only high profile case to see a recent breakthrough journalist of the things that. along with the conviction of the killers of freelance journalist border and human rights lawyer stanislav michael of chile these type of murders to get solved in today's russia this is definitely a landmark victory in the fight against impunity and journalist murders not destroyed but also human rights defenders lawyers. and so we see that as a very significant step forward mahmud of currently in moscow where his lawyers are preparing his defense while for the family and friends of. their long wait for justice continues this role of aarti moscow. to poland where

a military court has cleared seven nato soldiers of killing civilians in an attack on an afghan village four years ago the panel ruled the evidence was not sufficient to support war crimes charges saying honest mistakes or faulty ammunition lot of it to claim it was already done a bushel reports the verdict outraged many observers and fueled calls for troops to be withdrawn from afghanistan. civilians killed and 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 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 in 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 before. we were accidents. because

it. was. something. and it was also a problem we thought a grenade mel functioned taliban target by five hundred metres claims a shit ski but prosecutors alleged it was revenge for a roadside form 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. 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 above but there is no doubt they were shooting at the village up in nearby hills and the defendant's commanders who ordered the attack and these should be the ones standing trial activists while the conflict continues

civilian deaths from nato bombing or inevitable and 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 of the position of this country because their troops western troops doesn't bring stuff it is a shame to have them. just the opposite as the tall goes up on both sides support for plummets a majority in europe's opinion polls will think the conflicts going in the wrong direction. this was already unpopular in the e.u. there's the hundred billion euro of course. being called. the sort of our boys coming back in coffins is evil worth leaving the death of civilians on promised the week of the case to stay in afghanistan even the afghan president's turning against nato after the latest fourteen civilians were killed because lloyd delivered his

strongest words yet giving a final warning and threatening war if it happens again. r.t. . well you can give us your thoughts on the stories we're covering here on the screen on our team heading to our web site is r.t. dot com news and analysis updated every minute and here's what's their feed to discover today should you log on right now a devastating blow to several villages in a central russian republic as an ammunitions depo disaster lights up the night sky the details and video spectacular video of that incident are available right now at r.t. dot com. also bear in mind you can see how hundreds exercised their first amendment rights at the jefferson memorial in washington by dancing it's up to five people arrested last week for a similar flash mob including an r.t. america presented with police actions described as aggressive and unconstitutional . a major milestone in space research and

possible space travel has been reached this week it's now every year since a crew began a simulation of a first manned flight to mars and all without ever leaving the ground six hundred years of taking part in the seventeen month mission that's how long the return trip to mars would take a look inside a capsule with russian and european scientists studying the psychological effects of long term isolation the crew is now the return leg of a successful simulated landing patrick flick told us what challenges they're facing on the way. 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 their

souls 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 and 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 and the space stories coming your way in the next hour as preparations for the next blast off to the international space station are in full swing we'll bring you the latest from the launch pad of the baikonur cosmodrome where we also talk to the son of one of the astronauts soon to head into orbit. time now for a brief look at some other news in brief from around the world government attacked the presidential compound in southern yemen killing four soldiers present only

a dollar sign it has also suffered injuries and has left for saudi arabia for treatment is now speculation over whether he will return the country has been hit by an arrest for three months with at least one hundred fifty killed in a government crackdown. several volcanoes are started erupting in southern chile forcing thousands of people to flee from the area of smoke and ash are rising ten kilometers into the air no reports of injuries so far the volcanic chain has been dormant for decades with its last major eruption in one thousand nine hundred sixty. and stay with r.t. for in-depth coverage of natural disasters in the next hour we interview a russian oceanographer who says the phenomena here to stay. previously unseen video footage has surfaced online showing the crash of an in rain in military jets at an air show two years ago but one thing 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. well that's it brings up state for another but with a summary of all main news stories for in about three or four minutes from now meantime what in fact all of that will be reporting on how life has changed in armenia in the decades since it stopped being something at republic that will be after that make up what top stories for you in a few minutes from now. twenty

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