you. recently stop stories and i'll see you forward army general radicalizes denies charges of genocide and mass murder exeunt of the hague tribunal while serbia wait to see you handing him over will do anything we'd see your membership hopes. they just didn't want to attack helicopters in the media and a three month extension for the mission sponsor russia concern for the military campaign could be moving a step closer to obama's going to operate. also in the program spain's already troubled economy takes another blow after mistaken joy and accusations that the spanish measurable cause the deadly e. coli outbreak and the country's exports rose died. on the

mild suspected of shooting a prominent russian journalist on a political screen just thousands of takes after charged with murder investigators claim to have enough evidence to prove their freshman featured pulled the trigger. hello and welcome to the program this is clear of you. tom a story now this week of ron's could not it has made his first court appearance so behave when crimes tribunal after sixteen years on the run but it's full of business general refused to enter plea to eleven counts 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 obnoxious meanwhile prosecutors in serbia want permission from the grand tribunal to question the logic . i blush

a witness in their own investigation into crimes committed against sabs the news that his extradition to the hague was keep about great hopes for joining the e.u. but it's katrina our reports dozens are. still waiting for the green light services arrest an extradition of former bosnian serb army chief dot com law that 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 secure 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. is really my no go there so that is your goal but other steps remain to be taken your right to say to the rest of

the political chief of croatian serbs go and had d.h. who is still in hiding electrolytic. 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 to rest mr hodge. 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 year of hope most wonder if the list of conditions we have for some the officers are also talking about the fact that. serbia has to recognize the fact the recognize its own province of course little before to really get into the e.u. as long as the trees and power and his party list of demands will be handled.

still serbia hopes its corporation will be rewarded and continues to be the path to the e.u. 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 the group but the worst of conditions for possible accession seems to be neverending and for official belgrade membership is always visible and always out of reach catherine as our r.t. belgrade serbia. says he needs more than their fair share of thirty days to study the charges against him but his son says no matter how much time he's given it his simply not able to take it on the track. you can't even read and has to go through thousands of pages to be able to testify cool to the police simply unable to do that he has difficulties with speech too how will you consult with his lawyers it's impossible. and you can watch the full interview with dark of luggage that son of

former bosnian serb general that's coming out a try now what. this week nato in terms of on its bombing campaign in libya and agreed to prolong the mission for another three months until september also when state run issued a report claiming the rebels as well as colonel gadhafi has been guilty of committing war crimes meanwhile british and french are tied helicopters have carried out their first try so the lead there getting the nato campaign against colonel gadhafi to move has prompted concerns over that in and land based that russia's foreign minister warns that pushing the boundaries of the un mandated levy or may lead to future resolutions losing their credibility. when we expressed our opinion over the six collation 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 taking place are more than enough to think

about the attitudes towards us decisions. and nato hoped for quick results in the air but that never happened before journalist patrick that means plan b. is like putting the regime to submission if the u.s. is getting worse for the west in libya i think when they first thought they could pull a swoop in two months ago and basically bomb the country into the move into democracy they thought this was going to be quite a quick process where they could basically keep their hound you know keep a bit of a distance hold bombs into libya get rid of gadhafi and then everything will be all right now obviously that isn't the case and the introduction of these do you think of us think forms and they're actually helicopters are inevitably going to make decision worse they could bring about severe as a billion kind of casualties in libya and i think also reka desperation maybe making a lot of noise and for a lot of very expensive bombs over the last couple of months but those who have done very little else they've ripped the democratic initiative from the libyan

people and taken it into the hands of a small elite of western leaders. during nature's intervention indeed there is no it's have been using cluster bombs these are weapons that dispersant many mines over a wide area with so we don't casualties almost inevitable. reports from a trade because that money train behind the weapons ride back to spain. just one strike it cost a bomb can spread thousands of smaller explosives over wide areas fired into populated areas if they were in his right or recently he always guarantees civilians one of the many reasons more than one hundred countries bans their production the markings on the shells found in the libyan city belong to a spanish company in still loves and there were arms that once twenty's that are prohibited that were purchased by the lassie that were used against

a residential area in these rather than they were produced by the spanish company and financed banks so just how did the forces come to acquire spanish made. in two thousand and seven and still ours and made the most of the lifting of sanctions against libya as the tripoli machine fell back into very bad with the west spanish company won a contract to supply get up these forces with us. until two thousand and eight in spain signed up to the international convention banning the use. with libya now once again the enemy and it is part of nato finds itself i see 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 and. we want to bring this forward users are kind of

a way to illustrates what link there is between a bank and civilian deaths in conflicts without let. islay sion means a direct connection between civilian deaths the weapon produces and the bands that finance them and their food to those customers burn some not really transparent about what they are using the saviors money for so it's not that easy to find a recent report by spanish n.g.o.s a ten revealed that as many as fourteen banks in spades this funding weapons produces the b.v.a. is the spanish banks that's been active in financing for the 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 rate 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 to change we've all

without legislation until that happens in the murky world of arms production things of profitable business sarah artsy. twenty people are reported dead and more than three hundred injured after israeli security forces opened fire and prayed police protesters on the syrian border thousands of demonstrators were in the area tomorrow forty fourth and a bus realtor our purpose for a new war. on television for us. hundreds of palestinians have gathered on the syrian side of the israeli syrian border and ever on the day today a group of about one hundred fifty have been made their way to the border fence we're being told that they were actually trying to cut that order phase when israeli soldiers fired warning shots in the air while 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 they have been preparing for several days now the country is in a state of high alert and has been ever since the fall when told the palestinians were living on syria the west bank and gaza to make their way to the borders with israel and for today to try and cross these borders today is the fourth anniversary of the one nine hundred sixty seven six day war now that is a war that is well run but it is a war that palestinians referred to as we arab down forward but of course human rights activists are criticizing israeli army we've been very quick to fire at demonstrators. and peace activists and attorney you told us here that israel's actions are provoking and knew. it sounded like there was no disapprobation or using live ammunition they were just civilians an armed civilians who were just marching towards the border and i think that's the major question is what would be israeli army do this coming through after the u.n. group recognize the 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 i think they did today and then we'll see dozens of people being killed and that would be the start of another war another intifada . and later this hour we'll be lingering effect observing at the front line r.t. needs american veterans to return from conflicts around the world to hear how they're handling the post-war poor that's right all their lives. and also more than a year in space while sato we're live at the challenges raised by the participants of the long established space flight to the red planet. greece may receive the next installment of its one hundred and ten billion year alone in july has promised to be implemented strict authority measures to stabilize

its economy a goal it failed to reach that found public angry is now saying i would account for tens of thousands of greeks are protesting outside the parliament and political science poor girl alone bailing out a country that is a. 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 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 be back you don't i don't see how this money can restart the economy if people stand less and less i think suggests it now goes on there's a real danger that greece will have to back out of the euro in order to be able to do that you its currency you have more troops to sell more products and stock originally when the euro was screeches left in europe was there much against it

because you had a strong economy used a strong currency that demarche only forming a monetary union with weaker economies and that is a recipe for trouble. and again maybe a step closer to ten e.u. bailout of a different kind after germany of lonely blame to keep him from the country have because of your absurdly quiet outbreak accusations have destroyed paying three conventional exports they think it's now been pointed at german bean sprouts as a possible source of the contamination which has claimed twenty lives and chair next but all fell obligation and find out that this care could spark another round of international heathy where when something goes wrong it is only human nature to try and put the blame on somebody else and germany is very powerfully accusing the poor innocent spanish cucumbers of being the cause of the e-coli al green now nevertheless i think that there's probably more subtle adjourned to be highly all

of this 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 fractures powerful break ups we just heard in the previous nodes that if greece doesn't find its way around it's all its financial crisis their money might put a lot of the european monetary mechanism the euro very often one can even imagine the german leader many germans and many powerful people in derby are probably wondering why they haven't got themselves into europe to begin with so i think that it's not it's it's rugby league to just jump to the first obvious conclusion of a piece of news that we will pay because we must try and find other layers of truth and reason that might like to get the media to respond to specific powers will be assure all those advertisers or the 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 then two days later the alleged killing of osama bin laden and now everybody seems to be going hysterical overly concerned about the e. coli outbreak. well aris is witnessing panic buying into shows with some prices more than doubling the country's economy has stalled on its currency parting downwards president bush needs an emergency bailout to keep his country's float russia's ready to hold on has lined up a three billion dollar loan told smolensk to privatize state assets overseas also asking for a loan from the international monetary fund. and we ask you to give you your sort of thoughts on the stories we're covering by heading to altie dot com these are and analysis on david that every minute here are some of the stories lined up that we have involvement. in a devastating blow to several villages in the central russian republic as a nation step a disaster lights out the latest in the night sky these tales and video but also

don't. see how hundreds exercise that first amendment rights that the jefferson memorial in washington by dancing is up to five people were arrested last week for some of the flash mob including and i'll have mary presenter with police action described as aggressive around our constitutional. and also how a birthday party turns out to be almost a national celebration a sixteen year old girl from germany posted an invitation to her party on facebook forgetting to make a profit right out on r.t. the home begad for accommodated. this week's or breakthrough in the investigation of an apology nation five years ago but many suspect attraction fugitive has been officially charged with the murder of the prominent russian journalist police say there have been enough evidence to prove the thirty seven year old was the one who pulled the trigger to all of the reports in this latest development. this is the man investigators say fired the shots which killed

anna politkovskaya. 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 a murder. 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 for 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 putin lack of evidence but the russian supreme court an old bad verdict and ordered the investigation reopened. son told me the family hopes this arrest will bring them closer to finding out who killed his mother and yes of course it's

a very important step but we have to wait and see if our skilled will be proved but even that is not enough we have no clue who the mastermind of the murder is nor 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 they do to the close family ties of those accused of a murder there will always be some unknowns surrounding the crime. it's hard to tell how many people are involved we have three movement of brothers and their uncle he's a criminal and could easily be the mastermind of the good riddance of suspicion the chechens are unlikely to testify against one of. the bullet called sky a murder isn't the only high profile case to see recent breakthrough journalists need or beyond of the things that. this arrest along with the conviction of the

killers of freelance journalist i understand see a billboard of the human rights lawyer stanislav michael show that these type of murders do get solved in today's russia this is definitely a landmark victory into fights against impunity and 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 on a. long wait for justice continues his role of an oxy moscow. they are greeted like true heroes with partiality found fractures only hope when you pertaining to thousands of u.s. troops coming home from war the traditional to civic the transition or rather to civilian life is painfully haunted by a traumatic memory. russia former soldier who shared history. thank

you thank you very much into the infinite world of literature and here's this twenty eight year old ex marine an american who abandoned her weapon for written words to tell a story she says is kept censored from u.s. citizens he will people may know that it affects us something that they understand the way. and the toll that it takes us and seeing the effects or. the literal backs of the dead bodies that were made. jessica dels memoir shade it black details a traumatic and human account of war in two thousand and four good old spent eight months in iraq collecting cataloging bagging and boxing the bodies of dead marines at the mortuary affairs unit and experience and no u.s. president who's declared war has ever endured if it was a result of or an explosion there could. the several body cases so sometimes i

would require us to you know crawl under a truck or crawl in the trucks or. just as you mentioned. you know. what is it you can get back to the family could tell pieced fallen soldiers back together after receiving body bags filled with limbs it's difficult to look at what you have to look at because you have to you know put them in their respective body bag or something to the effect that family nearly four thousand five hundred u.s. soldiers have returned from iraq in caskets more than fifteen hundred flown in from america's other war in afghanistan that was a marine and right there for the millions who do make it home alive many like joe are twelve mentored by memories post traumatic stress disorder depression and substance abuse i couldn't leave my apartment you know i didn't have friends and talk to anybody and i suffer from flashbacks and nightmares and i i couldn't

process that i had a really hard to make sense of it more than six years later but tell says she still searching for reasons to justify the damage and death caused by the u.s. war in iraq as a marine she did what she was told as a civilian she questions why u.s. leaders glorifies soldiers as heroes but neglect to speak about the consequences of their service i don't feel that the government respects veterans because if there is like that i don't think that they would send the city's places. to carry out what they're asking of us so i don't think that parents like this there from the get go. declaring war is the prerogative of politicians over the decades us morris' have resulted in a reported twenty three million american veterans and many left struggling to

adjust to life following a battle a shift from fighting enemies to fighting demons very important iowa r.t. new york. i would look at some other news stories from around the world thousands of protesters in yemen portal to the streets to celebrate the departure of president saleh to saudi arabia with medical treatment he's being treated there for chest injuries suffered in a tire on his personal presidential compound on friday it remains unclear whether the dictator will return to the country has ruled for over three decades and continue to mass protests or three months demanding he resign is repeated refusal to accept internationally brokered deals to step down has led the country to their word of civil war. and now some spectacular pictures for you lighting provided at doesn't display of an erupting volcano has been shooting out of nasa a cloud of smoke ash under rocks up to ten kilometers high for almost two days

thousands have been forced to flee the area but there have been no reports of injuries chile has around five hundred considered active. a major milestone in space research and future interplanetary travel has been part of this week and it's now over a year since a crew of six began a simulation of post a manned flight to mars and all without ever leaving the ground six volunteers that taking part in that seventeen month mocked up mission the length of a return trip to mars looked inside a capsule with russian and european scientists studying the psychological effects of long term isolation the crew is now on the return leg successful simulated landing and talks with patrick fluke told its challenges lie ahead. 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 themselves 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. shocking video showing an iranian military jet crash have emerged on the internet sea is also the child state that footage was taken from another plane taking part in a military attaché an air to run which captures the mother and the illusions seven

to six military plane trundled out of control and explodes after meet a patient with it fine to check all third crew members were killed in the crash. while we're up to date our recapping our top stories in a few moments stay with us. all .

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