if you. come from some stupid. stunts on t.v. don't come. two thirty pm in moscow these iraqi headlines political turmoil in greece threatens to crash the hopes of a united euro zone despite the german chancellor and the new french president vowing to battle with crisis together austerity is keeping them at odds. thousands of police marched to demand their rights as a massive number of officers will soon be given the boot in the u.k. . former serb former bosnian serb general ratko melodic faces the hague court he's accused of war crimes during the yugoslav war in the one nine hundred ninety s. . up next we hear from rod com a lot of his son darko to find out why some serbs

still regard the former general as a hero stay with us. dark beach sun 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 so your father of. seventy as of now you more than once stated that he is in poor health we know that 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 there tribunals proceedings i cannot comment. a lot about this my father of course has

some. issues regarding his health we are already quite certain about that and especially. based on the turban or. we're going to read the works of man hours we feel is the need for help. since he is not only seventy years old the but has some medical concerns of course. the facts 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 so last time you saw him while we. are. many times in recent years the last time i was

a monthly gold there. he was more for proof. he's healed and guarding his influence he's preparing his lawyers and i hope. that. he will have enough time to do these preparations since we have something problems from god being disclosure of the materials from prosecutor's office 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 means we have. a condition i go against him. for the pulled off. we think that he's

wrong on a lot of these charges. actually produced by water propaganda from the start of the war and unfortunately they. managed to do or in media. in diplomacy one of and one time. all the. difficult situation here we all are giving our best to help. you slice several of russia's subordinates have already been found guilty how can your father be innocent we don't know more about to pursue been since. did not follow all these other trials so i cannot comment on this. i can comment on my father since i know who he is as you can imagine because you are working in media.

in this case there is a bitch one is the one 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 talking to media i know that we western media have labeled your father but you're of boston it's a similar label they put on it i didn't cut out each do you think that black media p.r. can impact judges impartiality well i hope not but. as you. already know more the defense team has filed a motion to discredit of this qualified deciding judge. scenes.

be assured some bias in this case. and regarding the media story. it's funny that. after these events have happened. the same things that i want to learn. about genocide hundreds of thousands of dead and so on all 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 specially from the companies which were involved here only on the other side in. helping them waging a war against us. they still. start the story which was german so i didn't know people before anything happened i expected to

suspect that this. produced even before to the war started there's widespread belief that you know these hasn't been proved yet that your father is directly responsible for srebrenica 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. but. since we hear of a. lot of bomber arguments that's it will be difficult for us. but i hope it's not impossible your father's trial also coincides with the one overriding law got obvious 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 another one kind of the. 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 our objective or. our side was to protect our people from. being exposed to german say that again i must remind you if you know the serbian people was. the people who was suffering from genocide in the second world war from the forces. from all sides and in this war made the report clear this is we are fascist this particular soldier to say and this isn't for me is

a. terrible truth because only. defending ourselves from being exposed to genocide and my father has succeeded in this. round of. these are all of his even 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 the plan started in this short time but. i think that the only support my father had

and has is that he didn't the so i mean 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 we're in for some of you is that it was this side to side the importance of you know from. your support from diplomatic support and from the military support and at the end of the war we clearly got better. military engagement. fortunately the other side didn't come in for. probably. some joint plans we are going to side in this conflict. but. as you can see the libyan i 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 yr 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. almost. and. the problems in serbia will not be sold not sold with his extradition 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 what if there are yes or no do you think your father will get a fair trial i hope to humiliate

a fair trial but. you see we have different experience. united nations envoys during the war i. hope to live up to this time that is. claiming they came but. i would like to remind you that through simply mr rules give an interview in which he said i think i 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. impartiality. i fear. this kind of impartiality would not lead to a fair trial. point i came upon sort of. dark a lot each song of largest thanks a lot for being with us today thank you.

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political turmoil in greece threatens to crash the hopes of a united euro zone despite the german chancellor and the new french president vowing to battle with a crisis together but austerity is keeping them at odds. thousands of police marched in the u.k. to demand their rights as a massive number of officers will soon given the boot. the former bosnian serb general ratko melodic faces the hague court is accused of war crimes during the yugoslav war in the one nine hundred ninety s. . pauls up next with sports stay with us here on r.t. . thank you very much my welcome to the world of sport here's what's coming up. time

a boost chelsea received some positive news is definitely 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 welcome before andy murray returns to winning ways with a hard fought victory over david nalbandian in rome. and high five champion alexander let's zero in on russia's stop and talk to me to return home after claiming five gold medals at the world championships in italy. the first chelsea have been given an injury bush to have this weekend the champions league final with byron munich defenders of gary cahill and david louise have returned to training after both recovered from hamstring problems there he's been out of action for exactly a month while cahill missed the final five matches of the season to make a timely return for interim manager roberto di matteo has without captain john terry defender branislav event of h.

and midfield param a resin round the relish because of suspension admits he may struggle to name seven experienced players on the bench a difficult task made even tougher by the german club's home advantage. maybe. the. pressure. of the eighteen months and forty four rounds of matches the russian premier league finish with zen eat as champions well spots are now taken tom go down but who's in the champions league the europa league and the relegation play off places let's find out now when goals goal. live

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now elsewhere in ice hockey the quarter final lineup is complete to the championship taking place in sweden and finland russia will face norway in the last eight nice pictures on wednesday will be played as they. will be strengthened by the arrival of two alexander's of educated and seaman who meets up with the national team on choose de. take on the usa on the czech republic respectively the writing and could champions come into play slovakia. now to tennis where there were second round wins for andy murray and world number one novak djokovic actually rowing 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 always returning to action after missing the madrid masters with a back injury however he showed no signs of sluggishness early on against arjun time david nalbandian as he dominated the first set taking it six one but the former wimbledon finalist forced a third under siding set birthday boy then broke his thirty year old opponents in the tenth game of the final set he was there for the match six one four six seven five the final score. 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 so they can west was top scorer for indiana with only sixteen points meanwhile in the west san antonio taking a one zero lead in their series against the l.a. clippers following a comprehensive one hundred ninety two when in game one tim duncan with twenty six points that. down to the world of mixed martial arts and russian challenger gulf

has weighed in over seven kilograms lighter than m 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 all good show in the russian capital dawna won the title after defeating another russian inclusion in october stepped into the limelight after a couple of knockout wins against alexei only alexander and maybe an anchor last year fights for light middleweight titles will also be on the cards. now finally russia's pentathlete being 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 top of caught up with the russians very dream team. mission accomplished they returned with a total of why world championships with the world number one alex on the list all

coming back as the new world champion the icing on the cake for the man who are fast becoming the dream team of the. best if there was the fighting soldiering i mean 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 and there are four world champions in our squads in the world but 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 man's individual event no one was going to add a berth in addition to listen on the other sport went to two time olympic champion and a me save who claimed silver at the world championships. in the morning i didn't have the olympics in mind but i always give it my best so emotionally and physically the olympic games in the world championships are the same for me it was an economic

competition between thirty two year old me see it and twenty four year old list soon and before the final run really soon who was born in belarus was second just twenty three seconds behind his teammate but he managed to squeeze past world champion and sprint to his made in gold. letters all of us about it was a tough championship and it was really hard to be to my seo we 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 individually van to 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 an exhausting championships we were pitted last his results so we're satisfied and optimistic about the london games. russia are one of the heavenly nations in the

sport and their dominance at these world championships bodes very well for podium finishes at the london olympics because they about that of our team. well that is all the sport for now you know will be here in a little under two hours time to join in that.

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