community where you want lords corporation owning and building these people radio stations stations. you told me that that sounds like martian public opinion versus f.c.c. has moved more to. this week's top stories on our former bosnian serb army general right called large denies charges of genocide and mass murder in front of the hague tribunal while serbia waits to see him will do anything e.u. membership hopes. major deployment of a top helicopters in libya and a three month extension to the mission spots russian concerns that the military campaign could be moving its step closer to a ground operation. also in the program spain's already troubled economy takes another blow after a mistake in german accusations that spanish vegetables caused the deadly e. coli outbreak send the country's exports into

a nosedive. and the man suspected of the shootings a prominent russian journalist anna politkovskaya interest thousand and six has been charged with murder investigators claim they have enough evidence to prove the chechen fugitive pulls the trigger. hello and welcome to the program this is our view our thanks for joining us this week that it has made its first court appearance of behavior crimes tribunals after sixteen years on the run at the former bosnian serb general refused to enter a plea to eleven accounts of genocide and mass murder during the bosnian war in the one nine hundred ninety s. he claimed a long list of genocide charges against him were monstrous and have been options meanwhile process. heaters in serbia want permission from the tribunal to question

the large age as a pressure witness in their own investigation into crimes committed against. you said his extradition to the hague was keto belgrade's hopes for joining the union but as catarina as a lot of the reports this trail doesn't appear clothes are. still waiting for the green light to serve his arrest an extradition of former bosnian serb army chief outcome 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 to official belgrade is a step closer to the e.u. is actually a no step at all and they go. this is a very big 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 is really i know there are.

other steps remain to be taken your right to say to the rest of the political chief of croatian serbs and how d.h. illicitly hiding electoral legislation reform in creation 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 to rest mr hard. in the next few weeks. ago for us this is a crystal clear the surrogates are fulfilling all international obligations but while officials prepared to jump through yet another year of most wonder if the list of conditions ever some visuals are also talking about the fact that. serbia has to recognize the fact the recognize its own province of possible before it can really get into the e.u. as long as the trees and power. and his party the list of demands will be analysts

still serbia hopes its car ration will be rewarded and continues to be a path to the door of 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 a group with a list of conditions for possible expression seems to be neverending and for official belgrade number ship is always visible and always out of reach catherine as r r t belgrade serbia. and the balkans political analyst and me should have real of each claims they tribunals is not falling international and can be impartial towards it which. the people who actually try this is the judges so the prosecution not subject to the same rules as the accuse i mean the principle of all civilized countries will be go. will be used and all those who participate in the

legal process must be subject to the same laws and he was no one is above the law in 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 nine now sixteen people died as a result of the. way you explain. the tribunal never actually indicted anyone or without. and later in the program we'll look at why the deaths of innocent bystanders in afghanistan go unpunished polish soldiers controversially pre-clear decide the killing of civilians in their mistaken attire pointed out in village. plus don't miss this previously unseen video would rain planes deadly crash during an air show two years ago. this week nato intensified its bombing campaign in libya and agreed to prolong the mission for

another three months until september also on wednesday the u.n. issued a report claiming the rebels as well as colonel gadhafi have been guilty of committing war crimes in a while british and french attack helicopters have carried out their first strike so believe you're getting the nato campaign more muscle against colonel gadhafi the move has prompted concerns over women and. russia's foreign minister warns that pushing the boundaries of the you are mandate in libya they lead to future resolutions losing their credibility and. we expressed our opinion of it is an escalation of the military operation what's happening is a shift towards a ground operation would be very regretful because the violations of the security council resolution already taken place are more than enough to think you have to choose towards us decisions. colonel gadhafi claim from these stars that opposition forces and leave it will guest and puppets and peace activists chris says nato has

continued with god and gives credence to those allegations. what they are effectively saying take it that he is we're going to keep bombing you keep killing civilians keep bombing libyan towns and cities until you go it's entrenched gadhafi because he from the start was saying that the popular movement in the east of the country was was a movement that was sponsored by the way and he used that to bolster his position the the the war has been lengthened the war's been deepened and it's actually gadhafi is in. a strong if not stronger position now than he was when the west first got involved. during majors intervention and colonel could not ignore let's have been using cluster bombs things are banned weapons that dispersed many lines of a wide area with civilian casualties almost inevitable and as sarah furthur of course 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 balances the smaller

explosives even white areas fired into populated areas if they were in his right to recently he always getting teased civilians one of the many reasons more than a hundred countries the fans of the production the markings on the shells found in the libyan city belong to spanish company insta lovers and there were arms. that are prohibited that were purchased by the last few that were used against the residential area in these other and they were produced by a spanish company and financed by spanish banks it is how did the forces come to acquire spanish made armies in two thousand and seven and still hasn't made the most of the lifting of sanctions against libya as the tripoli regime fell back into the favor with the west spanish company won a contract to supply get out these horses with the speed. until two thousand and

eight and spain signed up to the international convention banning the use. we're living in now once again the enemy and it is ours and need to find itself i think 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 that deadly weapons if. you want to bring this thing forward uses as kind of a way to illustrate what think there is between a bank and civilian deaths in conflicts. without legislation means a direct connection between civilian deaths the weapon cookie says and the banks that finance their food to the customers bring some transparency about what they are using the saviour's money for so it's not easy to find a recent report by spanish and yes it's revealed that as many as fourteen banks in

state. funding weapons produces the b.v.a. is the spanish bank active in financing for 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 more robust 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 to change with or without legislation it's until that happens in the murky world of arms production wall things of course physical business sara artsy. at least twenty people are reported dead and more than three hundred injured after israeli security forces opened fire on propane and protesters on the syrian border thousands of demonstrators were in the area to mark the forty fourth anniversary of the arab israeli war. here was that he chose from tel aviv. hundreds of palestinians have

gathered on the syrian side of the israeli surreally border and every one midday today a group of about one hundred and fifty of them made their way to the border face we're being told that they were actually trying to cut that border face when israeli soldiers fired 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 a certain 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 call went out for palestinians from lebanon syria the west bank and gaza to make their way to the borders of israel and for today to try and cross those borders today's the forty 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 refer to as weak arab downfall of course human rights activists are criticizing israeli army within very quick to fire at demonstrators.

greets they receive the next installment of its one hundred ten billion euro zone in july athens has promised to implement treetop austerity measures to stabilize its economy a global experience to reach the farm public anger is nineteen over the cots with tens of from others of greeks protesting outside the parliament while opinion polls suggest a majority oppose the plans professor of political science fair game land claim was bailing out countries is a mistake and strategy. europe and the i.m.f. want greece to tighten its belt more and more so there's no. way greece by itself can get out of the crisis because 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 and harder for you to pay back your gets i don't see how this money can restart the economy if people stranded less and less i think suggested now there's

a real danger. greece will have to back out of the euro in order to be able to do their huge currency to have more tourists to sell more products and start originally when the euro was created left in europe was there much against it because you had a strong economy used a strong current to jean marc germany forming a monetary union with weaker economies and that is a recipe for trouble. and spain may be a step closer to any you bailout after germany wrongly said we can't risk you can because of course the europe's deadly e. coli outbreak claims have destroyed the country's fruit and vegetable exports while the thing is now being pointed at germany and it's been sprouts as a possible source of the contamination which has claimed twenty two lives and is in or energy reported meaning another round of global history. some cucumber scale 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 innocent spanish fruit and vegetable export is around two hundred million euros over. with all the 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 fruits and vegetable imports from the entire european union a reaction in brussels called disproportionate share of our colleagues from the european commission say russia's decision goes against. them frankly i don't know about that hugh commerce or kill people after the 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 approaches to go unsold.

simply because of. all. time we. cannot hold back 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 that very soon behind all this. pharmaceutical industry like they did with the swine flu. 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 relevance 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 come from 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 your avatar to brussels. and or and this continues to track down the latest on that situation in europe check out our twitter feed and her latest weed florists as the planet grows all vegetables are now under suspicion as a possible source of the outbreak for our twitter feed and hearty underscore calm

to be on the top of this for. this week's or a breakthrough in the investigation of anna politkovskaya assassination five years ago the main suspect a transient 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 peter all of a report on this latest development. this is the man investigators say fired the shots which killed anna politkovskaya. 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 just. as the rest was carried out in 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 cuti lack of evidence but the russian supreme court and no verdict and ordered the investigation reopened scares son told me the family hopes this arrest will bring them closer to finding out who killed his mother of course it's a very important step but we have to wait and see if. it 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 she was famous for her investigative work particularly reports into human rights abuses former colleagues believe the duty of the close family ties of those accused of a murder there will always be some unknown surrounding the crime upon as little as

the point of it's hard to tell how many people are involved we have the three mood of grubbers and their own color he's a criminal and could easily be the mastermind of the murder of the derivatives especially chechens unlikely to testify against one of. the political skier murder isn't the only high profile case to see recent breakthrough journalists of the things that. along with the conviction of the killers of freelance journalist understand seal the border and human rights lawyer stanislav mark a lot of children these type of murders do 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 from the rights defenders lawyers. and we see that as a very significant step forward. currently in moscow where his lawyers are preparing as the birds while for the family and friends of. their long wait for

justice continues his role of r.t. moscow. to poland now where a military court has cleared seven nato soldiers of killing civilians in a target and i'm going village four years ago where they planned the evidence was not sufficient to support why is charges saying all this mistakes are faulty and you nischelle might have been to blame but as our report is the verdict outraged many observers and fuel calls for troops to be withdrawn from afghanistan. that civilians killed and nato soldiers go free the same old story in afghanistan the threat 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 city afghan village of nine as a result six people were killed and three were severely wounded but the soldiers

were cleared of all charges one of the cues told r.t. it's all been a big mistake we didn't see more. accidents decides again it was because it. was. something. and it was also a problem we've got a grenade malfunctioned and missed it taliban target by five hundred metres claims a shit ski prosecutors alleged it was revenge for roadside form which killed another polish soldier earlier in the day experts say it's unlikely anything could go so catastrophic only wrong this is not logical the operator of the more 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 nearby and the defendants the commanders of the attack and they should be

the one standing trial activists while the conflict continues civilian deaths from nato bombing or inevitable will only rise in of the longer the war goes on and their war situation is so the answer is i think quite simple to withdraw troops from afghanistan is beginning and the process of stop is ation of this country because their troops western troops doesn't bring stability. done is done just the opposite as the toll goes up on both sides support for. a majority in europe say opinion polls will think the conflicts going wrong. this was already on popular in the e.u. there's the hundred billion euro of course this is being called. the sorts of old boys coming back in coffins is even worse leaving the civilians on the week of the

case sustain afghanistan even the afghan president turning against nato of the latest fourteen civilians were killed coming because i delivered his strongest words yet giving a final warning and returning war if you tappan zee again. and give us your thoughts on the stories we're covering by heading to r.t. dot com news and analysis updated every minute here are some of the stories lined up for you that the moment. you take a devastating blow to several villages in the central russian republic as a relations depo disaster lights up the night sky details and. also see how hundreds exercised their first amendment rights of the jefferson memorial in washington by dancing it's up to five people were arrested last week for a similar flash mob including an r.c. american presenter with police action criticized as aggressive and unconstitutional . and also you can read about how

a birthday party turns out to be almost an actual celebration sixteen year old girl posted an invitation to her party on facebook forgetting to make it private i doubt not it are called all the guesswork it was. around version of the tried and tested so you spacecraft has been towed into position ready for blastoff in a few days until carried three crewmembers to the international space station for a six month mission on board mankind most remote outpost in the francis of the baikonur cosmodrome. 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 earth and i feel like a lot of these guys are they're just they're just due to managed to get his job and now he's you know is going into space is going to school you know one of the things you notice about your dad being comes back from a trip up there where you know he's got 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 really we're going to come back i'll be up there for six months and his muscles will be weak it's going to be 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 only 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 they mocked up mission to mars and as its second here for the for the challenges faced by the participants of the largest of the longest ever space flight simulation to the red planet or hands back. shocking video showing and a grainy and military jet crash has emerged on the internet two years after the tragedy that footage was taken from another plane taking part in the military air show needs have run it captures the moment the aviation seventy six military plane tumbles out of control and explodes after a meeting air collision with a fighter jet also untrue members were killed in a crash and. europe today have a back with headlines after a very short break stay change. for

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