welcome to the big show. thanks for joining our team at half past the hour here's a quick recap of your headlines a balancing act at the top of the e.u. the german chancellor and the new french leader vow to battle jointly against the crisis but euro zone belt tightening and budget rules are keeping them at odds. thousands of police marched to demand their rights as a massive number of officers will soon be given the boot they're demanding the government reverses the move saying street safety would suffer as a consequence. of the former bosnian serb general rothko modish is to face the hague court he is accused of war crimes during the yugoslavia war in the one nine

hundred ninety s. . next re speak to his son to find out why some serbs still think the former general is a hero. dark beachside over serbian military leader accused of war crimes in the former yugoslavia thank you very much for your time and for being with us today thank you for your father of. seventy as of now you more than once stated that he is in poor health one of the former serbian president slobodan milosevic died while being tried by the international criminal criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia in the hague will your father be able to stand the tribunals proceedings i

cannot comment. a lot about this my father of course has some. issues regarding his health we are really quite certain about it and especially. based on the turban or. we're going to read the works of man hours. for an hour there is help. not only seventy years all of the. medical concerns of course. fox that some of the people that died. still more concern for us have you met your father while he was preparing for a tribe you know when still last time you saw him while we tried to.

many times in recent years the last time i was four months ago there. he's more for proof. he's healed and guarding his influence he's preparing with his lawyers and i hope. that. he will have enough time to do these preparations since we have something problems from oregon being disclosure of the materials from prosecute postoffice doco you are the son of a man who now stands trial for genocide war and other crimes but you know the other side of the story do you think you will ever see freedom again where we are going to fight for his freedom all of us we share every means we have.

against him. for the whole nothing. we think that is wrong with. a lot of these charges. actually produced by water propaganda from the start of the war and unfortunately they. are. managed to do it in media. and in the diplomacy for a good and long time. although. difficult situation here we all are giving our best for helping to. deny the slice several of racoons subordinates have already been found guilty how can your father be innocent well more about to pursue been since i'm not a lawyer and did not follow all these other trials so i cannot

comment on this. i can comment on my father to see inside know who he is as you can imagine because you are working in media. in this case there is a mark which one is the outcome of the media product which is finally from the channel so as he. and somebody who knows him. i am perfectly confident that he's not guilty of these charges while talking to media i know that we western media have labeled your father but your of boston it's a similar label they put on it i belong to each do you think that black media p.r. can impact judges impartiality well i hope not but. as you. may already know all the defense team has filed a motion to disclose of this clearly forty percent of the judge. since.

he only be assured some bias in this case. and regarding the media story. it's funny that twenty years after these events happened. the same things that i want to learn. about genocide hundreds of thousands of dead and so on own leave. this to the media although. sources are already picturing very different picture and. as far as i see. these twenty years of the media from especially from the companies which were involved here only on the other side in. helping them waging a war against us. they still. start story which

was german so i didn't know it could pull before anything come up and i expect to suspect that this. produced even before to the war started you know there is widespread belief that though these hasn't been proved yet that your father is directly responsible for schreiber and it's a massacre and that he masterminded this massacre which took lives of about eight thousand people who can prove the opposite are there means to prove the opposite well i hope there is is there. since we hear of a. lot of bomber arguments that's it will be difficult for us. not to i hope it's not impossible your father's trial also coincides with the one overriding along this your father's former chief and

a close ally once he's off course accused of similar identical crimes for many it would look like a show trial over they two men but i mean how much guilt do they carry really. the criminal and other one kind of it's about. regarding my father. proud of his role in the war not because i think that he's guilty of anything but because i think. that he was doing his job in this war and primarily your objective or. our side was to protect our people from. being exposed to german say that again i must remind you if you don't know the serbian people was. the people who was suffering from genocide in the second world war from the fascists. from all sides. and in this war many report

clearly this is we are a fascist particular genocide and this saying there isn't for me is. terrible for us because only. defending themselves from being exposed to genocide and my father not succeeded in this. round of. these and all of his in the war on the contrary. if i know that he's guilty of some of the these charges i would not stand by him there's a believe that serbian authorities actually allowed to stay at large change serbia for almost sixteen years after the tribunal indictment what happened has he lost the support of the powerful people that could be helping him to avoid detention. they could do it you know. situation about this is

a very different and. it's too complicated to plan so in this short time but. i think that the only support my father had and has is that he didn't the soviet people you know critics point out that the tribe you know has never issued an indictment for nato officials involved in balkan wars is that a fair claim what do you think well for me that some of us did not know it was this side to side the importance of you know from. the support from diplomatic support and from the military support and at the end of the war we clearly got better. military engagement or. fortunately the other side didn't confront and. probably they have some joint plans i mean. other side in this conflict. but.

you can see that clinton was not interested in investigating any of these plans it's no secret to anyone that your father's arrest was a turning point in serbia's beat to join the e.u. this year ten months after the arrest european council granted serbia official candidate status for you membership do you feel like your father was sort of a pawn in serbia's political game and no i don't think that he was upon he was probably. some kind of tool for pressure. and. the problems in serbia will not be sold on or not sold with his extradition to this was of course i don't have an actual i'm going to ask you a question and if you can try to answer me with if there are yes or no do you think

your father will get a fair trial i hope to he will get a fair trial but. you see we have different experience we. united nations envoys during the war i. hope that they will live up to this time that is. claiming they him but. i would like to remind you that through simply mr powell's. view in which he said i think you have been given see in the war the intermediate is to be are going to the serbs looking the other way for parents and helping the muslims. if this is. to share with you. i fear. that this kind of impartiality would not lead to

a fair trial. point try to move on to. darken lot of thanks a lot for being with us today thank you.

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it down. sing act at the top of the e.u. the german chancellor and the new french leader vote to battle jointly against the crisis but euro zone belt tightening on budget rules are keeping them at all it's. thousands of police marched to demand their rights as a massive number of officers will soon be given the boot they're demanding the government reverses the move saying street safety would suffer as a consequence. of the former bosnian serb general rothko blog which is to face the hague court he is accused of war crimes during the yugoslavia war in the one nine hundred ninety s. . more news in fifteen minutes but first it's sports with paul. thank

you very much kyra and welcome to the sports headlines here's what's coming up time we bring chelsea received some positive news is diving louise and gary cahill returned to training ahead of this weekend's champions league final with bind munich. back on track after missing the madrid masters with a back injury while number four and imari returns to winning ways with a heart for win over david nalbandian in rome. high five champion alexander less than russia's star pentathlete to return home after claiming five gold medals at the world championships in italy. the first chelsea have been given an injury boost ahead of this weekend's champions league final with buying munich defenders gary cahill and david luis have returned to training after both recovered from hamstring problems their wings have been out for exactly

a month while cahill missed the final five matches of the season that you would make a timely return for interim manager roberto di matteo who is without captain john terry defender branislav ivanovic jan midfielder pavel ramirez and raul morale is because of suspension di matteo admits he may struggle to name seven experienced players on the bench for the clash with munich a difficult task made even tougher by the german clubs home advantage maybe. elsewhere after eighteen months and forty four rounds of matches the russian premier league finished with zennie as champions will sponsor and tom go down but who's in the champions league the year. playground the relegation play offs find out now in cold so.

now and i saw katie quarterfinal line up complaint to the world championship taking place in sweden and finland russia will face norway in the last eight their own fictions on wednesday still ties will be played on day. and will be strengthened by two alexander's. main him a top with the national team on top with the national team on tuesday co-host sweden take on the usa. in the czech republic respectively the reigning olympic champions of canada play slovakia. now to tennis where there were second round wins

for andy murray and world number one novak djokovic the rome masters the serbian top seed comfortably beating bernard tomic in straight sets six three six three however it was less straightforward for mari the world number four was returning to action after missing the madrid masters with a back injury however he showed no signs of sluggishness early on against argentina and david nalbandian as he dominated the first set taking it six one but the former wimbledon finalist forced a third third and deciding set birthday boy murray then broke his thirty year old opponent in the tenth game of the final set he was then out for the match six one four six seven five the final school. now in the n.b.a. indiana have tied the eastern conference semifinals against miami after the paces secured a narrow seventy eight seventy five away winning game two david west was top scorer for indiana with only sixteen points bron james out of twenty eight for the heat

meanwhile in the west san antonio had taken a one milliliter in their series against the l.a. clippers following a comprehensive one hundred eight ninety two winning game one tim duncan led the hosts with twenty six points. now on to the world of mixed martial arts and russian challenger malakoff has weighed in over seven kilograms lighter than n one champion kenny garner ahead of the heavyweight showdown in moscow later on wednesday the americans interim crown will be at stake with both fighters promising a good show in the russian capital gone and won the title after defeating another russian maxime christian in october one malakoff stepped into the limelight after a couple of knockout wins against alexey olynyk and alexander and maybe an ankle last year fights for light and middleweight titles will also be on the card. now finally russia's pentathlete have been compared to the barcelona football team after picking up five medals at the world championships in italy including gold in

the men's individual event closer to top of course up with russia's dream team. mission accomplished they returned with a total of fly world championships mantles with the world number one alex on the list soon coming back as the new world champion the icing on the cake for the man who are fast becoming the dream team of the bandar clone. and i'm really happy i finally achieved what i've always dreamed of the world title with now i can say i'm part of a world class team that are there are four world champions in our squads and we have a very strong squad i heard our men's team is being compared with the barcelona football team so it's hard to compete with us and inside the team competition is high there were four athletes at the world championships competing for two places on the olympic team in the men's individual event no one was going to add a berth in addition to listen the other sport went to two time olympic champion and

a me save who claimed silver at the world championships. but i didn't have the olympics in mind i always give it my best so emotionally and physically the olympic games of the world championships are the same for me it was an economic competition between thirty two year old me see and twenty four year old masoom for and before the final run i soon was born in bella ruse was second just twenty three seconds behind his teammate but he managed to squeeze past world champion may save and sprinting his made in gold that it was all the noise and it was a tough championship and it was really hard to beat tomorrow say you were close in every discipline but i managed to cloy this important victory and i'm so glad that it was the first time in a row russia finished with the gold and silver in the manse individual event at the world championships as well as adding another two silvers and the bronze in different disciplines. with more than forty countries taking part it was. so some

championships which in the repeated last year's results so we're satisfied it's in the optimistic about the mountain games. russia are one of the headingley patients in the sport and their dominance at these world championships bodes very well for podium finishes at the london olympics because they about the above. well that is all the sport for now more and a little under two hours time they are not saying.