serving troops captured the city on july the eleventh. according to another theory the governments of bosnia and herzegovina simply caister brits or away to the serbs . passionate in this ritual there was a law in one thousand nine hundred three myself and other public figures from trigger needs met with me as president i liaise it to give it should sarah a year or so so this is what he said to us if the serbs enter trouble and something like five thousand muslims die that would create a good excuse for nato invasion and nato forces would then stop the modding serbian units and others not on us of is not. thousands of dead bodies on both sides. of us without children wives without husbands. distrust and hatred between those who wants neighbors. that is the outcome of the standoff.

that ties working with the friends were committed by both sides most of the muslims were shot and killed the muscular political tests shows that they were killed from a distance with me for this may mean that some of them died in battle trying to put it to the crimes against serbs were not perpetrated to firearms they were simply murdered in cold blood or their heads or chopped off. the mobile with. the hague tribunal gave the commander of the group of muslim troops massed already two years in prison after a second trial he was acquitted earned for in courage new york your claim in two thousand and eight he was arrested by bosnian police for extortion and unlawful possession of. today the former commander feels comfortable in his home and the person in town of close let. the both people in my country serbia

feel very bitter about the rulings of the hague tribunal simply because they reflect double standards the pertinent question is whether the expertise of the tribunal was high enough there are also questions about the professionalism of those who do little the gills of the accused or for the world. although right candidates was already on the wanted list up until two thousand and three to no special precautions to go into hiding syria's government had not even stripped him of his bodyguards. in the ninety's when i've come that it's lived in belgrade in the house where his son now has an office for his small firm from two thousand on woods serbian police began regular round up some searches in the homes of knowledge his closest relatives it is still unclear where the general was at that time. i don't

think i need to talk about my father's life even today it is the subject of too much speculation i will not say when i saw him last before his arrest i can only say that we stayed here together during the one nine hundred ninety nine bombardment of belgrade i did see my father after his arrest but i'm not allowed to talk with the media about anything relating to the hague tribunal got us on the pitch. the syrian population was angered by rep come out and she's arrest they were actions in support of the general in many cities in serbia. demonstrators demanded that the government resign because they felt it was betraying the nation's heroes. in belgrade one such protest resulted in a clash with the police. this is a poster from a demonstration we held several years ago calling from lot it's to be handed over to the hague tribunal it reads our years are not for wasting

a lot of to the hague. activists from the serbian youth organization want all people who committed crimes in the former yugoslavia to be handed over to the hague tribunal this petition campaign is just one example of the frequency activities on the streets of belgrade to support the movement. these young people make no distinction between muslim and criminals they feel tensions in the both will die down one soul was wanted by the hague tribunal a brought to justice. country in the territory of the former yugoslavia has its own version of history each of them has its own heroes and criminals if you think this is a very bad situation it is a breeding ground for future conflicts. with. serbian government has now handed over all the main serbs wanted by the hague tribunal in

the proceedings in the quran had judge the last suspect on the wanted list was captured on july the twentieth two thousand and eleven with the european union want serbia to meet quite a few conditions before it can become an e.u. member but so far we're going to enable to comply with all of them so the rest of carriage at it should have each has paved the way for talks about a possible entry into the year of. syrian society is split over the prospect of merging with great to europe more than half of serbs polled distrust the new. war rather than carriage which was still in hiding from the police the phrase rather than courage it street was written on the house ways lived . and after the rest of ratko adage a growing number of images of him might be seen appearing on the streets of belgrade.

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the world's ice hockey community united in grief after russia's lokomotiv team were almost entirely wiped out in a plane crash in the city of yaroslavl the commemoration ceremonies been held tonight right in the place where the team was supposed to be playing with sportsmen and fans all in teams we've got more of that just ahead tonight. also in the program on r.t. the u.k. government faces legal action is doctors demand a new inquiry into the shady death of an arms inspector he was the man who revealed britain knew iraq had no weapons of mass destruction head of the invasion. in the

middle east build up palestinian start of peaceful campaign for statehood head of the u.n. vote in israel tensions grow as police clashed with protesters calling for a better government. closes r.t. it's now ten pm thursday the eighth of september the names kevin and first a night we start with what's being called i saw his darkest day and the worst disaster affecting supported russia's recent history let's take a look at these pictures from the very state even minsk where indeed the locomotive team should have been playing a little earlier on tonight but of course what we're seeing here is a very different picture a very different event. people have gathered for instead of a game we're looking at a commemoration ceremony now for the forty three people killed when their plane

crashed yesterday on takeoff in yaroslavl one player and a crew member survived in our men's would have been locomotives opponents tonight they've been symbolically scoring own goals as a mark of respect or in a ceremony said it was crowded with people holding banners and scarves bearing the names of those who perished i think sean thomas most to speak of the soul player who didn't board faithful flight. the famous bells of jaroslav ring out for a community grieving a chilling reminder of the tragedy the country with the lives of some of the city's brightest stars. i knew many of the boys personally what can i say they were scenes i can say this about many of them they were joyful people they loved life and they wanted to live they brought so much joy into our lives. thursday

marked the start of a three day mourning period as fans of yours live a locomotive gathered and one of the city's sinful cathedrals i can't describe how i feel it's a very serious loss to me the only thing worse than that would be to lose my family they were like family to me. but as a support group of thousands work through their grief together one man maxime's is dark and is going through his own personal nightmare he is the only member of the team not on board the fateful flight his coach told him to take the rest and meet the team for the next game in moscow. this is very terrifying for me the hockey team is like a family i lost a family of forty people people i was close to for such a long time. now maxine is supportive of rebuilding the locomotive franchise but is torn by survivor's guilt. i haven't met their families yet i can't imagine how

that'll be this is horrible for me i wasn't thinking about whether i was lucky or not but i wasn't on that plane. and now he must rely on his community sharing in the grief process so that they healing can begin and as a steady stream of mourners continue to come to this central church in your saddle to show their support it is clear that this is not just about an accident or a plane crash but it's about the loss of a teammate something very important to a community if they will remember forever. sean thomas. because for most of the go we know there were two survivors on board the fateful flight they are in a critical condition still tonight in hospital will be closely monitoring the progress. of the accident on the first day of the new season of the kontinental hockey league many of those and perished played for their countries and the real stars of the game i suppose we're going to cape partridge joins me now to talk about some of that but before we talk about the sporting side let's just talk more about the pictures we're seeing on our screen there is

a really solid ceremony watching it for the last hour or two happening tonight in the by the russian capital of minsk looking a demon. there aren't we were a little more to this is the point they were supposed to be playing the seasoning season opening game. the nice news that has come out of this a little bit a little glimmer is the second so as we look at that stadium it's packed as ticket sales the nations from movie going to the families are going through such an awful time at the moment for the people that the last of those players the coaching staff who has died they're all being remembered they're missing the main players the main stars of the tamer all stars but you know the main names the big names lined up there on the ring can't wait it's absolutely and we can see some of the portraits of some of those players that be coming out now i mean as we've said before there were ten different nationalities within the team but it was very poignant for the

local mintz crowd is the portrait of this man or stansell a thirty six the better russian kept by the russian caps it and defended it played in the n.h.l. with. an author russian he was thirty three runner up last year and been a junior world champion with russia only fancy young malik because of the czech squad that was on the world championships last year and along with a lot of us escape the cattle neck and also trying to another check as well as use it russia shekh he was only thirty again czech republic it spent most of his n.h.l. career at the carolina hurricanes in a world champion in two thousand. names and big names of course it must be because we said last. you know a lot of the rest of the much younger again some journalist twenty any plane crash again you can't over stress it is a tragedy it's always around us but specially when young people involved young chaps in this case absolutely i mean we've mentioned before trial i mean even in

junior chantry is looking at some of the. where of the day for actually playing in the junior league and part of the n.h.l. there were two players who were just twenty years old again tragic loss of life i mean we only sporting loss by definition people are younger anyway i mean some of the senior players were only in their thirty's and it's tragic and when we know we're removed from the explosive event of words thirteen of the bodies of those who perished of the forty three it's still very early days to be looking ahead i have to say but you know life has to go on it's a fact of life that life has to go on i mean i guess people are really talking about what's going to happen now to lokomotiv club or they're going to try and rebuild it it's early days but it's early days but what they have done is they've already names then you coach who is he was the you start this process but of the old he had been he would also he'd like to be the sites to win the russian championship before he retakes up the reins so that was an announcement that came

through yesterday but what more than not there's a there's been a kind of a collective will in trying to rebuild this clark alexander method of who is the k k h l chief we're going to be hearing from him soon he said about maybe volunteer in place to come through but as we can hear from that is like three chariclea i saw the federation president the idea the will of to bring players to make change is coming forward immediately. the icehockey family mourns the loss of one of the best teams it was a multinational t. with a unique group of players and the international sports community sharing our grief which was an outstanding team and our priority will be to build and you lock my teeth. on the soft calls was a true thirty. five calls for the players which are a do towards the well from what you think it will be so if you're a bird you heard. there are no more of you over there was a decided where is the field of so-called. religious all those of the clubs given

a good cause as a really good person who is for the record you figure there's a history of yugoslavia where it's you will not stop. exactly was the same way for example medved if they're saying that people are coming forward players coaches wanting to rebuild this club this tragedy has still only hours old and yes there is a there is a will from the whole. community to move forward mark the tragedy and move forward and rebuild what was a powerhouse in russian i. mentioned just just now that thirteen dollars have been identified as new information is coming thirty five of those forty three have been identified as a terrible time for the friends and family business but how important you can see the grief on the friends and the family in the family is there. in the crowd but what is the key main in russia people tuning into this station from around the world might not be hockey fans are the world hockey fans i mean how important you

can see the grief but it's difficult to describe how much it's been more here isn't it absolutely i mean football is the world game and it's still very much is in russia but hockey is very much the russian sport that is making its way back it had a bit of a lull and it's definitely on the rise again and there and you have a city like alice level which is basically a hockey city so anything any tragedy that effects that wipes out a whole team affects us. soul city but also what we know it's this well with some of the tributes that are coming in from former players who've gone on to see to head up leagues in their own countries that have played it in this particular city are saying they can empathize with just what a tragedy it must mean how devastating it must be felt as we can see from some of these pictures within the city and absence. of so much of you give us a bit more perspective on this awful event. or for more details emerging about the last moments of the plane is on board take a look at our web site but these are also some of what. i love you they were the

final words one of the players got to say to his wife and baby son just minutes before the crash and also among the youngest player of the team who despite being disqualified wanted nothing more than to play with his sporting brothers and course that was a decision at the end of the day that cost him his life we've got war human stories and the timeline of this whole awful event on our website as i say at r.t. dot com. and i mean we've read of his visit to the crash site and laid flowers in tribute to the victims of the plane disaster jaroslava at the site the russian president said the number of airlines in russia speak reduced dramatically he also was at the transport ministry to pay special attention to pilot training in russia's civil aviation said this a those not up for the job must be sacked and bad of out of the entire industry was going to go serious changes the russian president also disciplines for the international policy forum in jaroslav also visit the site of the crash but late is

did arrive to address the global gathering our correspondent missing now is there and she's got more about that for us a little bit later in the program. but let's look at some more of tonight's top stories before we catch up with mr though in the british government faces court action from a group of doctors over the death of weapons expert david kelly back in two thousand and three they're pushing for a new inquiry after the first reached a verdict of suicide kelli was behind a report showing that britain knew there were no weapons of mass destruction in iraq before joining the invasion and was artie's lauren but found out the evidence in the case isn't as clear as previously thought. more than eight years since the death of u.n. weapons inspector talked to david kelly and still no inquest following his own masking as the source of a report saying tony blair's government knew iraq have no weapons of mass destruction before person invaded the country kelly was found dead in woods near

his home a verdict of suicide was recorded despite what many see as conflicting evidence no one's ever said questions under oath about kelly's death and all medical and scientific reports relating to it were secretly classified something which has never been legally explained but it hasn't gone away this week talked to david how pain is demanding that the question of holding an inquest be reopened he's challenging a decision by attorney general germany green who ruled out holding a coroner's inquest in june citing what he called overwhelming evidence that the u.n. weapons inspector committed suicide but david help and a group of other doctors are distinctly underwhelmed by the evidence. which. is what. crossed my. mind yeah you know. the police. would. become pain

has popular support readers of the daily mail newspaper have to natives around fifty six thousand dollars in just a week to help finance the appeal how pain and his campaign is hope this will lead to a full inquest into kelly's death many suspect foul play i just subsequent governments coverup. president barack obama has to speak before the u.s. congress to tackle the ongoing job crisis gripping america follows reports that no new jobs are being created in the country during august that's one of the news for a nation with twenty four million class as an employed or underemployed get more insight into a bomb as proposed jobs act and find out what it might entail for new york and talk to max fred wolf is senior analyst the great press capitals get that right very good even should see it a mere promises aren't going to cut it this time are they what's your. well i think

that the public is sort of fed up with promises and rhetoric and this is where the rubber meets the road you're seeing a president in president obama whose numbers keep going down and in fact in the latest polling that we got just a few days ago have reached new and troubling lows especially before what's guaranteed to be increasingly hot and divisive and nasty and expensive presidential cycle that really has already begun but will shift into high gear in the near future we saw as zero jobs created so no loss no creation in august in two thousand and eleven august that's the only the second time that's happened in the last time that happened was nine hundred forty five we have youth unemployment in the united states at eighteen percent official rate or twice the nine point one percent overall rate so not only are we not doing well by the citizenry writ large we're not really setting up for a particularly fortuitous future where we see that the youth levels of unemployment are even higher than are troubling we elevated overall unemployment level. proposals isn't it deja vu in the way you think about it it seems that many of the

solutions offered for these prices seem to stem from what was done to conquer the great depression back in the thirty's if you read the history books and all of the similarities there. there are similarities with the great depression unfortunately in many regards we're seeing more similarities to the hoover response than the f.d.r. response which is unfortunate given that the response had a much less positive outcome for the country i think we are going to see an extension of the payroll tax deduction which will be helpful i think we'll be seeing it sold as a new program when in fact it's kind of an extension of an existing program we're going to see a grab bag of some other programs that looks like including a special outreach for putting construction workers back to work to fix the country's beleaguered and really kind of dilapidated infrastructure that's a good idea although i think this might go into the daily dollars short file it is a good idea and addition to which i think we're going to see some direct program attempting to address the forty two percent of americans who are unemployed right

now who are what we call the long term unemployed because they've been out of work for twenty seven weeks or more and that really begins to be chronic it's harder to reenter the labor force and we know that those prolonged periods of unemployment are highly correlated with home foreclosure personal bankruptcy psychiatric and community problems of a very severe nature is spending a one as that of course is cut so many others know these ongoing cuts still being pumped through the u.s. government massive cuts if you kind of compare with what's being done in greece and a much smaller scale cuts that didn't work the country still buried in debt was going to work in america. i think both the i.m.f. and the united nations have warnings that the austerity route to economic recovery has a lot more pitfalls than it does ramp ups to success and so if we do follow that we're likely to have the result that we've seen approximately six times that eight or three times out of four over the last thirty years when any country has tried that we should keep in mind too that the president is likely to announce tonight

a grab bag policy with three hundred billion dollars over two years which sounds like a lot of money but it actually amounts to about one percent of g.d.p. per year over two years or a commitment over two years of about half what we committed to suring our financial sector a few years ago and while i think we needed to secure our financial sector if we're trying to secure mean streets three years later for half the money that's twenty five million people across fifty states involved then we run that significant risk that we keep trying to fill a large and growing hole with a peg or a stop that's much smaller than the hole and the longer we wait the larger the hole gets much grief if you can it's not all bad news though is it does look on the bright side it would be wrong to say there's been no economic recovery in the states after all mega-corporation the banks they're posting record profits was a lot of money going. yes we have seen some recovery so the top twenty percent of americans have done pretty well they've made most of the recovery we see the stock

market has doubled off its lows reached in march two thousand and i or had until recently sort of started having aggressively back down again across the month of august and late july we have seen lots of recovery we're technically not in a recession we have low growth but not zero or negative overall growth and i think that there is a little bit of an overstatement of the proclivity of a double dip recession my guess is it will continue to have the kind of quote unquote recovery that you need a microscope to tell the difference between that and a recession or flat period but we may not double dip down into recession or rather make that choice for us as a policy decision or are there much couldn't quite get a bite on that last question but thanks for your input is there much fred wolfe senior analyst a green capital thank you. palestinians who started a campaign for statehood ahead of the september twentieth vote in the united nations and he carried a letter to the local u.n. mission in ramallah saying they are peaceful demonstrations will continue until palestine becomes a member state and result is pulis lee reports next the whole region is in

a state of build up to the. well the palestinian authority officially launched its campaign for statehood today thursday and in a formal written to the un secretary chief banking really it urged the international body to recognize palestinians in just a minute and what we understand is that the campaign will involve a series of events in the run up to the opening session of the un general assembly on september the trains here it has been drugs the national campaign for palestine state one hundred and ninety three and to launch it some one hundred palestinian high ranking officials and activists gathered today for his day at the u.n. headquarters in ramallah for a short ceremony now both the israeli government as well as the obama administration is against the stipulation and the u.s. has named a formal request to the palestinian president mahmoud abbas asking him not to go ahead with it but a bus has rejected because we are hearing some rumblings behind the scenes that

israelis and palestinians have been meeting informally and in secret to discuss the possibility of possibly postponing this declaration that we have no confirmation of this what we've witnessed here particularly in the last two months is a build up of anger frustration and discontent within the israeli public particularly leveled at him it's on yahoo government these have been the largest protests in this country's history protesters clashed here in tel aviv with police a number of the wrists were held people accuse the police of treating them brutally and all of this was because the government has started removing tins from the streets of several cities so what protesters are saying here is that they really cannot trust the government and there's also the concern that as the government turns its attention to what is happening externally visibly september twentieth it will no longer even listen to the concerns being addressed here within the israeli society. and try to get crushed. overshadowed of a political event taking place in.