hard to explain let's go. to the car. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy is a report on our team. this week's top stories and i'll see you forward luggage denies charges of genocide in front of the hague tribunal well serbia waits to see handing him over will do anything for e.u. membership pogues. majors extension of the military campaign in libya and deployment of a ton of helicopters sparks concerns a ground operation in the country could be next. also spreading his spirit over killer cucumber scruples european vegetable markets pushing paper maturely accused of starting the deadly bugout break to the brink of a bailout that. the president shooting dead journalist on the college costs case

officially charged investigators planing to have enough evidence to prove that trenchant used to pull the trigger. welcome to the program this is our view thanks for joining us this week it has made his first court appearance at the hague a war crimes tribunal after sixteen years on the run but the former bosnian serb general refused to enter a plea to eleven accounts of genocide and mass murder during the in the ninety's it claimed a long list of genocide charges against him or monstrous and of noxious men while prosecutors in serbia want permission from the who are the tribunal to question largely as a potential witness in their own investigation into crimes committed against serves the you. he said his extradition to the hague with skates about great hopes for

joining began but is country now as got a report this train doesn't appear because they're. still waiting for the green light services arrest an extradition of former bosnian serb 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 a no step at all and they go. this is very big news this is a very courageous decision by the serbian president faces one additional step for the integration of serbia into the european union one day is really my no go. the other steps remain to be taken your right to say to the rest of the political chief of croatian serbs and had d.h.

is still in hiding literally legislation with engagement in regional cooperation with neighbors for serbian president boris tadic there is no task too challenging to take on and the quest for a new membership sure that we are going. in the next few weeks. for us this is a crystal clear the service of fulfilling all international obligations but while officials prepared to jump through yet another euro who most wonder if the list of conditions ever some e.u. officials are also talking about the fact that. serbia has to recognise the fact recognise its own problems of course before it can really get into the e.u. as long as the trees in power and his party the list of demands will be less still serbia hopes its corporation will be rewarded and continues. passed to the

door of the offices of the e.u. delegation to serbia proudly display to 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 catarina is r r t l great serbia. and balkans political and its mission of the villa which claims the tribunal is not falling international no one can be impartial towards marriage. the people who actually try this is the judges who are prosecution not subject to the same rules as the accused i mean the principle of all. civilized countries all legal morals are will be accused and all those who participate in the legal process must be subject to the same laws as he was no one is above the law is the state well here everybody but everybody is above the law other than the accused let's consider for

example the one being afraid your television serbia in belgrade on the twenty third of april one thousand nine hundred ninety now sixteen people died as a result of the nonbeing which happened by a u.s. plane and the tribunal never actually indicted anyone without. and later in the program we'll look at why the deaths of innocent bystanders in afghanistan hunnish polish soldiers controversially war three clear describe the killing of civilians mistaken as time on an advantage. plus don't miss this previously unseen of the year on a rainy and plains deadly crash during an air show two years ago. this week nato intensified its bombing campaign in libya and agreed to for a longer mission for another three months until september also on wednesday the ground issued a report claiming the of rebels as well as colonel gadhafi have been guilty of

committing crimes meanwhile british and french type helicopters have carried out there but the strikes of the lead they're giving the nato campaign more muscle against colonel gadhafi in ruthless prompted concerns over the imminent land based offensive russia's foreign minister warns that pushing the boundaries of the you on monday in libya may lead to future resolutions losing credibility and when we expressed our opinion over this coalition of the military operation we think what's happening is issued it's towards a ground operation this would be very regretful because the violations of the security council resolution already taking place are more than enough to think about got to choose towards us decisions. and claimed from the start that oppositional forces in the lead there were western puppets and peace activists chris nato says nato is continuing and is quick. credits to those

allegations. what they are effectively saying to gadhafi is we're going to keep holding you keep killing civilians keep coming live in towns and cities until you go it's entrenched peter i think is he 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 way exist and he used that to bolster his position the the war has been lengthened the war has been deepened and it's actually a good half is in. a strong if not stronger position now than he was when the west first got involved. during meetings intervention and colonel gadhafi loyalists have been using cluster bombs these are weapons that despite many mines over a wider area with civilian casualties almost inevitable and. reports from madrid because the money trail behind the weapons leaves right to spray. just one strike

a cluster bomb can spread thousands of smaller explosives they go wide areas fired into populated areas if they were in his right or recently he always guarantees civilian death one of the many reasons more than one hundred countries the fans the production the markings on the shells found in the libyan city belong to the spanish company insta loves and there were arms one twenty's that are prohibited that were purchased by the last few that were used against a residential area in these rather and they were produced by a spanish company and financed by standish banks so just how did the forces come to acquire spanish made armies in two thousand and seven mr larsen made the most of the lifting of the arms sanctions against libya as the chip leader sheen fell back into favor with the west spanish company won a contract to supply get out these forces with because. until two thousand and

eight when spain signed up to the international convention banning the use of realty and now once again the enemy spain is part of nato finds itself fighting a regime that it itself helped to arm. and the trail goes back much further than the spanish banks which provided the financial firepower to instill laws and to make that deadly weapons and. wanted to bring this thing forward uses as kind of a way to illustrate what things there is between a bank. civilian deaths in. without legislation means a direct connection between civilian deaths cases and the banks that finance their food to the banks custom is transparent about what they are using the save money for so it's not easy to find a recent report by spanish n.g.o.s a ten bill that as many as fourteen banks since they have been funding weapons

produces the dva is the spanish bank this being active in financing 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 all right past policies to ensure the banks are held accountable many of the banks named in the investigation and now coming forward say their policies on funding of production are changed with or without legislation it's until that happens in the murky world of alms production wall of profitable business sarah artsy the curate. at least twenty people are reported dead and more than three hundred injured after israeli security forces opened fire on protesters on the syrian border of demonstrators were in the area to log the forty fourth anniversary of the arab israeli war oh she's put a scare at the details and there. are hundreds of palestinians have gathered on the

syrian side of the israelis to remember and every long day today a group of about one hundred and fifty of them made their way to the border face we've been told they were actually trying to cut that a lot of flames 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 started 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 of high alert and has been ever since the call went out for palestinians from lebanon 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 israel won but it was a war that palestinians and so too as the arab but of course human rights activists are criticizing israeli army being very quick to fire at demonstrators. so give

us your thoughts on the stories that we're covering by heading to the dot com and near the analysis is updated every minute of the stories lined up the moment. a devastating blow to several villages in a central russian republic has an ammunitions draft and life like details and media started up. a hundred and five that amendment right at the jefferson memorial in washington by town think well it's out of five people were arrested last week for a similar functional meeting and are here now to prevent or police actions described as a breath of. greece may receive the next instalment of its one hundred and ten billion euro learn in july athens has promised to implement a strict territory measures to stabilize the economy a dollar bail to reach that far public anger is mounting over the car turns of

thousands of grief protesting outside the parliament professor of political science here at greenland things holding our country's ever dead. europe and the i.m.f. one greece to tighten its belt more and more so there's no no way 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 the situation gets 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 suggested now there's a real danger that greece will have to back out of the euro in order to be able to do the new its currency to have more tourists to sell more products and all regionally when you the euro was created less than 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 after germany of the country's cucumber and caused europe's deadly e-coli outbreak the claims have destroyed the country's fruit and vegetable exports meanwhile the thing is now being pointed germy and they've been sprouts as a possible source of the contamination which has claimed twenty two lives and there's a lot easier and it reported maybe mean another round of global hysteria. some cucumber scale that much is clear and it's also become apparent that although germany planed spain as the source of the eco it's not that's costing innocent spanish fruit and vegetable export is around two hundred million euros a week could it not been so. 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 calls disproportionate use of our colleagues from the european commission say russia's decision goes against this. frankly i don't know about that cucumbers are killed people actually eat them 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. because of. all. disruption. you cannot. 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 the 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 those. large pharmaceutical industry like they did with the swine flu they have some. 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 or storage fees 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 conference spanish cucumbers spain has a titan task ahead of its repairing its reputation as a reliable exporter of fruits and vegetables all over the you position essential to its ailing economy nor at it or to brussels. and lure him it continues through trying to sound the latest on that situation in europe with our twitter feed and the latest tweet laura sounds at the rows of all vegetables are now under suspicion as a possible grade twitter feed at r.t. underscore on the top of this story. it's weeks or a breakthrough in the investigation of anna politkovskaya is assassination five years ago the grain suspect attraction if huge to have 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 the tone of a report on this latest development. this is the man investigators say fired the shots which killed anna politkovskaya 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 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 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 of a market of 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 cutin lack of evidence but the russian supreme court and no bad verdict and ordered

the investigation reopened but of course guys 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 a stilt 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 as she returned home to spain a small investigative work particularly reports into human rights abuses former colleagues believe the duty close family ties of those accused of the murder there will always be some unknown surrounding the crime as long as it's hard to tell how many people are involved we have three more brothers and their own call that he's a criminal and could easily be. could relatives especially church and unlikely to

testify against one of them. but i am murder isn't the only high profile case to see a recent breakthrough journalist and you know beyond of the things that. along with the conviction of the killers of freelance journalist understand the border and human rights lawyer stanislav michael showed these type of murders to get solved 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 rights defenders lawyers. and we see that as a very significant step for mahmud of currently in moscow where his lawyers are preparing his defense while for the family and friends of ana porter the long wait for justice continues this roll over r.t. moscow. to poland now where a military court has cleared seven nato soldiers of killing civilians time on another village four years ago the panel ruled the evidence was not sufficient to

support crimes charges saying honest mistakes or forty ammunition might have been to blame but is daniel bushell 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 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 up this accident or was it because. it was.

something you. were also a problem. and a grenade mell function and taliban target by five hundred metres claims the shits but prosecutors alleged it was revenge for the roadside form which killed another polish soldier earlier in the day experts say it's unlikely anything could go so catastrophic really wrong and this is not logical. 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 command from it but there is no doubt they were shooting at the village nearby hills to defend their commanders who ordered the attack and these should be the one standing trial activists while the conflict continues civilian deaths from nato bombing or inevitable will only rise and the longer the war goes

on the war situation is so the answer is i think quite simple to withdraw troops from afghanistan as beginning of any process of stop ization of the country because their troops western troops doesn't brinks that was a shame to. he's done just the opposite as the death toll goes up on both sides support for nato 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 the hundred billion euro of course was service is being called a slice of old boys coming back in coffins is even worse leaving the death of civilians on punished the weakens the case sustain afghanistan even the afghan president's turning against nato after the latest fourteen civilians were killed how me because i delivered his strongest words yet giving a final warning and threatening war if it happens again don't you push your party.

around version of the tried and tested so you spacecraft has been towed into position ready for blast up in a few days it will carry three crew members to the national space station for a six month mission on board mankind's most remote outpost and. i can cause much. 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 the is really down to earth and i feel like a lot of these guys are they're just they're just due to managed to get this job and now as i was going into space it's. one of the things you notice about your job and 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 he comes back but we'll see because you know if they're really weak when they come back will be a proper six months and his muscles will be weak and supposedly weak so we'll see if he if he takes that wheel chair like so many of the other astronauts do and i thank you so much for talking with us we will all right guys this rocket 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. and more space stories coming your

way next hour as the mission thomaz enters its second tier of the challenges faced by the baathist benefit of the longest ever space flight simulation of a red planet. previously unseen video footage has surfaced online showing the crash of an iranian military jet at an ash two years ago the home thing be due was filmed by the crew of another plane flying in the show just outside to run its batteries the moment and he all seven just six military planes also took us on to explode after a media collision with a fighter jets seven crew members were killed in the round. here today to go back with the headlines after a short break stage. are

killing innocents here or is it all this of course and that's never ever so. long michelle obama's call to me i think of it every day. that's throughout the flight from memory. ah ha so much so long tom

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