well the north stream pipeline travels directly from russia to europe bypassing ukraine its role as a transit state has been a fractious in recent years resulting in disputes between moscow and kiev ukraine is struggling to pay its gas bill and wants a discount of the previously agreed price even threatening to take the issue to court whoever the country's prime minister promised to stick to the courage agreement until a new deal is signed. well let's take a quick look at some news making headlines around the world today swedish police have arrested four people in the city of gothenburg on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack hundreds of people were evacuated from the city's art center of paul revere rats however the sooner she critical east decided not to raise the terror alert level which has been at the elevated mark since more ever officials have not yet released any further information regarding the suspected plot. the tanzania region of zanzibar as we go on three days of mourning for the victims of a ferry disaster that claimed as many as two hundred forty lives and many more are

still missing well after losing power in rough seas the ship began taking on water eventually capsizing survivors say it was overloaded with both cargo and passengers many of whom were children meanwhile rescue teams are pushing their search but hopes of finding more survivors are fading by the hour it's the country's worst maritime disaster in fifteen years. tropical storm nathan's reach mexico's gulf coast where officials have opened shelters as a precaution but forecasters say the guild force winds haven't strengthened as expected and chances of it becoming a hurricane were reducing meanwhile an intensified air and sea search field supply ten or rig workers and went missing and there was no word for those of fishermen who disappeared aboard two for big boats and much of the u.s. east coast is still recovering from last week's hurricane irene which left more than fifty. now this very question mark is seventy years since the

beginning of the leningrad blockade the deadliest siege of the second world war in the city you know noticing petersburg survive almost nine hundred days of terror starvation arden's meter all over listened to that should exist or is of those lucky determined enough to survive. cancel and take it to the brink of starvation people arcade of lead in grass modern day sink petersburg by nazi troops was one of the most destructive sieges history of warfare when the german army encircled the city it wasn't the shells and bombs that be and how sims feared the most but was hunger. a good thing far worse when the famine strad there is nothing much terrible than to be the or when your nearest and dearest starve to death. those trapped inside the city had to resort to whatever means necessary to survive a horse slipped on an icy street and collapsed immediately people rushed out of their houses to chop it up our dad went out with an axe he managed to get something

like a hoof the whole family lived off it for a week sometimes they meet and we saw people take drastic action barker unusual grown you there were days when i would step outside my house and see dead people lying in the snow with their buttocks severed for meat this isn't something we should try to cover up with heroic stories that would be unfair to the history of the siege and the people who endured it as it mated learning ground is one of his major objectives and from august nineteenth forty one the german army's north set about tightening the noose on the key baltic port this is where the blockade began on the eighth of september nineteenth forty one german troops arrived here occupying the city of. the last land connection to leningrad cutting off the city's supply of food and military equipment with the city close off from the land the only way to get aid. to leningrad it was across the lake. and me short summer

months both were used but in the winter the frozen lake became a makeshift highway known as the road of life. was one of those who worked on the ice helping to funnel valuable supplies into the besieged city the perils of living on a frozen lake maple were dangerous enough without the constant german bombardment with us at one time a drive in from the mainland came to bring us breakfast he noted that one of our cans with thinking come out come out two doubles you are about to drown he shouted to the driver touched attention to the truck and pulled it out under stolid ice many of the vehicles bringing in supplies didn't make it across some of those have now been raised from the bottom of the lake in can now be seen in the road of like a museum to seventy years on the sacrifice is not forgotten and kids are never that interested in photographs but actually seeing a historic relic of their own eyes they always ask is this thing authentic and when

we tell them yes it is that's when their eyes widen it's thought more than a million civilians died in the brutal eight hundred seventy two day blockade which finally ended in the it's a cold january nine hundred forty three many of those who survived went straight into the fight to drive the germans back their experiences during the siege spurring them on. after we were evacuated we joined the army to take revenge for what the nazis and come to our people in a city so many civilians lost their lives through hunger and shelling so we proudly joined the red army to take revenge on the nazis he'd rather r.t. . the recap of this week's top story shortly to say goodbye astronaut. if.

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. journey. to look people in the. moscow. welcome back here's a recap of today's top news and the week's top stories on our take america marks a decade since the tragedy of nine eleven but she writes of a nation but brought about two of the bloodiest war of the twenty first century. russia out of the sports world say goodbye to the country's top national hockey team wiped out in the blink of an eye forty three people died on wednesday when luck about c.b.s. novels plane crashed on takeoff. moscow calls on the international community not to take sides in a serious internal violence as president get of says negotiation is the only way to

peace while the arab league announces it has reached an agreement with damascus on long promised reforms. now former boston serb general. is standing trial in the hague on charges of genocide in the nineteen nineties during the balkans conflict but many in serbia see him as a national hero well next our special report looks into the controversy surrounding . in late may two thousand and eleven the small serbian village of law as it ever shot to fame leading newspapers in many countries splashed its name across the front pages it was here the serbian police arrested general ratko luggage on it this is the place where it happened. the worldwide manhunt for him lasted fifteen years serbia had promised

a one million euro ward for his capture. the general's arrests triggered acts of protest in many serbian towns. some of the serbian people are worried because the hague and international media are smearing our hero is. something not it is a war criminal others believe he's a victim and many events of his life especially in recent years are still shrouded in mystery. the small village of laos it ever is situation in central serbia a repair shop and a couple of cafes are one and the church a cemetery and a school or the other the village looks like many others in serbia. graph comb luggage the general of the serbian army spent the last few days before his arrest

hiding here in the house of his brother in law branco. almost there no more being on friendly terms with branco for six years in his garden every three but never saw the general people here are not in the habit of walking the arcades and homes but some time ago breaker began doing just that thought why do you lock the door as on prank or are you hiding your brother. he simply laughed off my question it. has in many villages all the people in labs or ever know one another everything is out in the open here and yet even neighbors did not suspect this an internationally wanted man was saying in a nearby house. i didn't know that's not it was hiding here before the media broke the news otherwise i would have invited him to my place but never been found here.

read come that it's commanded the army of bosnian serbs during the civil war in the ninety's in the slavia the international tribunal for the former yugoslavia at the hague charged with genocide and the murder of both prisoners of war and civilians during the conflict in july this year try. the small village of the john of the chief when luggage was born is situated on a mountain pass and both now. most of the houses a shed by his close and distant relatives work with wrecker was born in this house i was born here myself a little later with or not we lived together until i moved into a house i built on my earth now one of our relatives lives there. pitch. holidays are not a common thing for country folk the mountains of serbia are especially rigorous. if they want to survive peasants need to tell the soil much harder than in the lower

limbs. course is not over that our first cut grass with roger when i was eight years old when i know he was the best moa here and i learned the skills from him what i thought was the now on the best it was a place. of the three and. in accordance with the patriarchal traditions of peasant families the oldest male is supposed to care for the family. that it was born in one nine hundred forty three during world war two his father died in battle when rucker was still a child. from then on he was the man of the house. subcommittee who is how one sell to hard working people the word lazy people always got a dressing down on a field we almost always a piece is whenever i try to get out of my chores here the nature of work in the field and school very seriously who is was at the top of his class in military school and we were all very proud of him with whatever the. recommended school

janel his career as an officer in the yugoslav army is incorporated all ethnic groups live in both comes. after world war two in this land there was a multi-ethnic federation that was made up of states was different ethnic populations. they were all officers of the former yugoslavia were yugoslavs as far as their convictions were concerned these may be concerns or threat only after the breakup of yugoslavia or of the area that broadcom love each was one of those who believed in yugoslavia he believed there was still a chance so for evolving it and he changed his views in one thousand nine hundred three after seeing the muslims murdering serbs they were trying to create an islamic country in an area populated by serbs with where he himself had been born. a vicious civil war broke out and he was last republican posner in ninety ninety two about half of the people here follow his call. sells both muslims

a little more than a third a catholic croatians but should first support the serbs but ultimately side muslims . in april nine hundred ninety two the serbs surrounded the bosnian capital sarajevo muslims made up of the door to the city's population. the siege of sarajevo lasted for days. traces of the siege can still be found on the streets of sarajevo many locals lost relatives and. i'm your daughter for me i was away at work on october the tenth and i did not a four point zero one hundred twenty five millimeter shell hit my house my son and daughter were critically wounded twenty eight days later they died in hospital and find me greatly to see their suffering i really wish they died right there and then

they wouldn't have suffered so much. according to the hague tribunal the siege of sarajevo resulted in more than ten thousand deaths. approximately fifty thousand people were wounded. these figures were cited in one of the gray vist indictments of russia come at it. a rather to the war in sarajevo started when muslim terrorists attacked the serbian wedding. boiled but when muslim terrorists attacked a column of the former yugoslav peoples. of all it just street where muslim terrorists were shooting at civilians and soldiers the muslims did everything to involve the world community especially the nato packs here but to fight on their saw it for their goals by staging the various terrorist tactics as. he did.

during the war bosnia was divided into two countries. the muslims called their part the republic of bosnia and herzegovina all the serbs called for public service go right of encourage previously a practicing psychiatry became leader of the serbs as well as president he was also formally known as only commander in chief. of. red encouraged didn't have the right skills to command troops he had a thoroughly humanitarian frame of mind because of his character and occupation for running a parliamentary public service good took that into account when it elected dropcam lot it's the army's chief of staff. the president and the chief of staff for public soaps has been on the easy relationship the two men played according to their own. little. run for been under pressure by the international community card has signed

a plan to divide those now between muslims and serbs america and europe had guaranteed peace and all sides involved had promised to lay down their arms if the plan was signed but not it showed a map to members of parliament making clear what the serbs with louis was divided in that way in the payment as a result of parliament refused to ratify the plan it turn it down as it were kurdish had three nouns the signatures. by the end of the war tensions between the president and the chief of staff had reached an all time high rather than courage signed a decree forcing luggage to resign. in july of ninety ninety five the hague tribunal indicted both on similar charges crimes against humanity and genocide. delusional some but i have heard those accusations of the hague tribunal against me yes i am a person who belongs to my people. just like my ancestors my people with the

first to start. well char don't recognize any trolls except the troll of my own people here goes through evolution need to defend myself because these idiotic accusations come from places which have been churning out law is true creo publicly . were the results. in one nine hundred ninety six nato demanded that carrot it should not it should be handed over to the hague tribunal. that same year both bosnian serb leaders disappeared from bosnia. when the carriage was on the wanted list he had no contact with any of his relatives he rented a flat in belgrade posing as dr dragon which. long hair and beard and more thick rimmed glasses as a disguise. courage openly appeared on the streets and even found employment. he often went shopping and frequented the cafe near his house where he spent time

sitting amongst pictures of himself and rock. of freedom for a camel image. today serbian patriots regarded as cafe as a veritable mecca of young people are taken on a going to tour. the cafes owner we shall read it was on friendly terms with both courage which bound not to catch the word of distributors to kurdish on rec i'm a bitch with this wish them a fair trial an early release because they are not guilty of what their shows with israel i hope that they can join us here soon as possible and we can drink together . rather than carry this was on a wanted list for twelve years before he was arrested and extradited to the hague in two thousand and eight. nottage was in hiding for fifteen years serbian police

arrested him on may twenty sixth two thousand and eleven. ratigan lightish could have stayed in hiding much longer had he not used a cell phone and had he not been in touch with relatives even distant ones that's when you're cut off from all sources of financing you have to turn to people you know given you the trouble though is that they may already be under surveillance that's how you get because this is news. the police are in no hurry to disclose the details of how he was able to evade arrest for fifteen years but rumors leaked to the press claim he frequented his brother in law's house in the village of last of ever many times. while each was in the room behind the second window he saw and heard the rumble of the police custody told me what i was supposed to do during his arrest the audition was carrying two pistols and by the way this is what he said to them that i could have killed you in your times over but i didn't do it because you are not guilty of anything definitely. come laddish was extradited to the

hague in early june two thousand and eleven according to his lawyer the former general had suffered three strokes and a heart attack while he was on the run at the hague tribunal ruled that about could luggage was fit to stand trial. to the us for the same i am not on the estimation you in any way i hear better in my left ear and my head is cold let me put my cap on. my body is not functioning fourth. of july fourth two thousand and eleven sorry the capital of the muslim republic of bosnia and herzegovina this rally has gathered on the square to watch a live broadcast from the trial of rock i'm not it's at the hague more than anyone else these people blame radko nottage for the deaths of their husbands brothers and children.

the same day the s. and p. thirty nine t. knowing some movement held one of its regular protest actions in serbia's capital belgrade. some still. we are not out to vandalize buildings or the city this is a political act that would be normal anywhere else for the growth of s.n.p. thirteen eighty nine supports them to fans are heroes racoon lavish and relevant carriage of the officer base and of the serbian people on their own soil out of it so we founded our organization to help protect our heroes from the slander campaign of the hague tribunal out of. public opinion poll more than half of the so population were against traffic knowledge being handed over to the hague tribunal. but nearly a quarter of the country's population accuse the government of deliberately dragging their feet of the search some of which.

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client provincial town of srebrenica is one of many in bosnia only the walls of several buildings pockmarked with bullets and shells serve as a reminder of the bitter fighting between serbs and muslims. even though there are many serbian villages around. the town has a predominantly muslim population. what was later called a massacre took place here in one nine hundred ninety five according to different sources anywhere between two thousand and eight thousand people were even killed all went missing. the main blame for the killings is on russia co-manage. three finalists all three of my sons the northern and silenced my husband. what can i say about it just look around at oh these people were guilty of anything.

back in ninety ninety three trowbridge so was a muslim enclave on the territory of a self declared entity called republika srpska. trowbridge that was surrounded by i'm not inches troops but muslim troops led by now so all the church who are in control of the situation inside the term. generally the seventh is christmas for the orthodox church on that day in one nine hundred ninety three storage his troops launched a massive attack on nearby serbian the logis. the village of cravats as fifteen kilometers from. christos three on of each a serb has lived here with his family since his birth. on january the seventh one thousand nine hundred three he was on the front line and the afternoon he and fellow soldiers were told that the muslims had captured cravats after attacking it

from. the serbs were all the true or treat. so then this is. i could be in there too crowded somewhere troops liberated a village something for two days after there was a hairy stench of burnt flash in the village i found the body of my father a hundred meters from the house. had been stabbed in the gut her head got out his face. this footage filmed by police shows serbs massacred in villages around strip. various estimates put the number of serbian villages ruined by not storage his troops during the war a more than one hundred. the names of three thousand two hundred sixty two casualties are now being established. post mortem reports make it clear the most of the people were tortured before they were killed.

service minister for public health zoran stankovic worked at the institute for forensic study history in the war he witnessed the inquest into the deaths of the serbs and examinations from mass graves in bosnia august third from a we saw the bodies of captives military men with their heads chopped off one served for example had been hit on the head with a blunt object and his eyes had been cut out moreover it was clear that his eyes were removed when he was still alive many of the bodies bore signs of a very cruel method of murder we informed the hague tribunal about it and supplied it with all of a little records vestiges of. one of the most popular theories concerning caesar a stripper an example i'm not of just troops is that it was an act of revenge against muslims. nine hundred ninety three un resolution called on peacekeeping forces to disarm the combat formations that had entrenched themselves instrument so

the muslim enclave was declared a demilitarized zone. the dutch the talent of group the race was dispatched to monitor the cease fire. well most of those now given in this one instead of disarming the muslim formations as they had committed themselves to under the agreement on srebrenica signed by me and general more your united nations forces turned those safe areas into terrorist and fundamentalist bases from where of elitism towns were attempted to shift a little bit starting from nine hundred ninety three we haven't taken a single action against reverend just by watching how the muslims saw it was being on this sometimes they even used helicopters to airlift weapons from iran and they . deserve a waited for the disarmament of just all riches troops for nearly two years before wrath come luggage decided to storm trooper needs in the summer of one nine hundred ninety five.