you're a. good little. military commander. dies after taking poison at the war crimes court in the hague. to regain control of the sea after reporters without borders tries to cancel a press event that was critical of the syrian group their request was rejected by the hosts of it as an attack on free speech. very disappointed with. the international olympic committee banned for life three more russian athletes preventing them from competing in the upcoming winter games it takes the total now to sixteen.

my name is neil harvey you're watching r.t. international first this hour former bosnian croat military commander slow but done prior died after taking poison at the war crimes court in the hague as the verdict was being read out at an appeals hearing in expected to produce the small bottle and drank from it in front of the judge for the euro to. stop. the. order of proof. has taken poison. dramatic scenes in the courtroom at the hague the judge announced that slobodan

play the former bosnian croat military commanders twenty year sentence for having taken part in war crimes would be upheld and he would be returned to the cells once the play act produced a small bottle from his jacket said that he was not a war criminal and drank from it we understood that he then collapsed into his chair the video feed cut out he was rushed to hospital and it was confirmed later that he died in a hospital yack had been convicted in twenty thirteen for his role in the destruction of the mob star bridge now the courted ruled that this caused disproportionate damage to the muslim civilian population in the region it was just last week that the international criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia handed down a life sentence to ratko melodic the former bosnian serb military commander was convicted

on charges of war crimes crimes against humanity and genocide and the appeal hearing of slobodan pray yack was actually going to be the final hearing involving the c.t.y. it's supposed to be wrapped up next month following eighty three convictions and sentences being handed down by the court since it was first started back in one thousand nine hundred three at the height of the conflict in the former yugoslavia in the time it has come in for criticism most notably for the handing down of sentences disproportionately to those from the bosnian serb side of the conflict. controversial white helmets group is again causing divisions after reporters without borders urged the swiss press club to cancel a conference that was critical of the syrian activist that request was rejected by the head of the organization as being modern day censorship. we were challenging

our support for this conference with the name of our organization appearing on the list of media members we turn only dissociate ourselves from disadvantage and do not wish to be associated with the conference we invite you to abandon this project which will damage the image of this wrist press club it was very surprising and very disappointing to see the journalist association asking for the kind of censorship that was my first reaction and so i decided to reply writing your letter and asking them to respect the freedom of the speech constitution artie's my guest there who previously conducted his own investigation into the white helmets while on the ground in syria he has more details now on what caused that split between the journalist organizations. you can't talk about that imagine

what will happen to your reputation said the journalist how far the profession has fallen when one of its biggest unions tries to censor a simple discussion we are accustomed to to get the pressures from everywhere in the world and mainly from dictatorial. dictatorial countries but what which was very surprising was to do gets such pressure was from a drama is the association so it's the first time in the twenty years of the existence of this response that we received such demons from original nerdiest association which is supposed to support two to support the press freedom so far almost everything you've been told about the white helmets is stuff from their press releases and video productions not from locals or civilians no know from white helmet sponsors and p.r. agents that's great and all but let's at least hear from the people they say they

say ving shows them helping the people but they only help the rebel fighters they really those close to them the last thing they cared about was civilians targeted and whenever food aid was brought into the white helmets and rebels were taken after themselves to give us nothing not even bread and he to us what there were many people buried alive helmets would come to save them and if they found civilians killed and they might not know that's a huge surprise what a shocker the white helmets aren't perfect who would have thought they were just regular people with their own shortcomings their own agenda just like everyone else so why on earth would reporters without borders want to censor this absolutely obvious fact. calling it russian propaganda i think it was the topic which was

this disturbing this disguise now having described. as an. organisation they cannot admit they were wrong and yes they didn't even admit to here are the people who are criticizing the white tournaments has it was a taboo to speak about that that's impossible for a serious journalist or simply honest person to admit such. for whatever reason it is taboo no one in the mainstream media or in western governments says anything remotely critical of the white helmets you remember ever hearing anything unflattering. reporters without borders has all but taken sides let's not forget in two thousand and sixteen they named

a syrian rebel activist and the journalist of the year he is taunting syrian conscripts buried under rubble he says he wants them to taste a slow death the swiss press club has made a point not to judge for me i cannot see myself in the mirror or if i am good big censorship or deciding you have the right to speak you have not the right to speak because you are representing the the supposed bad part and it is paid off they've received an outpouring of support internationally and they vow to continue doing what they do irregardless of pressure i also received many people criticizing russia from garry kasparov. business is named silva who frequent this is criticizing russia so i am open to

everybody event to the people who are supporting russia and nobody criticizing that's i think the goal of the real press club and not the politically correct. association. international limping committee is handed lifespans fifty three more russian athletes the move comes less than three months until the start of the winter games in south korea kate partridge discussed the decision early wrong with my colleague nicky aaron. i have to say that this isn't is not really a surprise if you look at what the particular discipline that these athletes compete in their bobsledders and also the key bobsledder alexanders of course has also been sanctioned by the i.o.c. so it's not particularly a surprise but the bones they come at a crucial time because it's ahead of the decision on whether or not russia will be allowed to compete at the winter olympics in south korea well as we know now the i.o.c. were looking at the numbers earlier and it looks like they've now sanctioned twenty

two russian athletes and we spoke to alexander's of card r.t. spoke to him about how he feels now that he's been stripped of his gold medal that he won in sochi and also he's now banned for life for competing in the olympics because that's the still there is no proof i'm still not receiving on what grounds this indictment has been built we clean athletes are now trying to defend ourselves from accusations of the things we've never done there is no evidence we hear something like you know this or that person said this or that i respond ok i don't even know these people give me their phone number of something but we never see these people mccarron can't appear anywhere we only see lawyers how is it possible what are my cues dogs of something i've never done well the key words that we heard there from alexander's of cars were all about the evidence that had been pretty ganz to him but also about the report and this is the key issue here this was based in twenty sixteen and it was based upon the particular premise that russians had been doping and mclaren said it was they sponsored doping and then in the second

part of his report he alleged all the different athletes that he thought were implicated and at that point we're looking at about a thousand across all different sports and this was based on the evidence from a man called chang coffee used to run the lab here in russia well it's an interesting point here because rod chunk of said there was state sponsored doping he elaborated on this scheme apparently that had been instigated whereby there was messing around with the samples or apparently some scratches on bottles or so that the f.s.b. the security services were involved in this great conspiracy and it depends whether or not you believe in large chunk of. now wander the world anti-doping agency they don't particularly believe in anything that he said they think is evidence is open to question and a lawyer for the athletes also was inclined to believe them at circle because that was the asked for the evidence provided by rupturing cough well it was he who was the original and only source of the so-called proof against russian athletes this evidence has been grossly overvalued and in this case we can say we are seeing the

results of a proper legal process it's a question of faith to believe in course or not it looks more like a religious inquisition also wider admitted about the reports they said that the alleged use of doping by russian athletes and that's also look at the wording here is not sufficient to bring successful cases is something the i.o.c. has set themselves well again this is all about questioning of the evidence and who do you believe but in the meantime this then of course affects the athletes the i.o.c. is decision is on the fifth of december on whether or not it will allow russia to compete in the winter olympics and of course that doesn't really give them long if you look at the dates when the olympics are knights the twenty fifth of february to prepare and also it's a basically a sword of damocles hanging over them meanwhile russia will find out next week with the i.o.c. is banning the entire team from the winter games but the international ice hockey federation has expressed its support for all clean athletes to take part in the games in south korea emphasising the unfairness of a potential blanket ban followed

a letter from the canadian swedish finnish czech and swiss hockey federations all backing russia's participation in the hockey tournament is what the swedish federation had to say. this really sharky association supports the international ice hockey federation over the participation of russian athletes in the winter twenty eighteen olympics from our viewpoint is in just to judge all the athletes by the actions who are few individuals especially without presenting any legal evidence youngsters from hockey club has the right across russia showing their support for russian athletes by organizing a flash mob online chanting we want to go to the olympics.

north korea has successfully tested a nuclear capable intercontinental ballistic missile it is the hermit kingdom first such test since september minutes after the launch south korea's state its own missile exercise. with. a precision strike launched by seoul took place near the northern limit line separates the two korean republics in the east sea and while north korea's missile was still in the air president trump was briefed on the matter is how he reacted. to a missile was launched a little while ago korea will. take care of it it is a situation that we. and donald trump's also tweeted that he has discussed the launch with the president of china and that the two leaders have decided on more sanctions against pyongyang and he's checked in vigor explains how north korea's

military capabilities have changed over the past two months. early wednesday north korea suddenly broken over two month pause in weapons testing and showed a significant bump in their capabilities the missile is believed to be north korea's most powerful projectile to date let's break down the details during a flight the rocket reached an altitude of up to four thousand five hundred kilometers to put that in perspective that is more than ten times the height of the international space station and while that number does come from a statement from north korea it is in line with estimates released by both japan and south korea the missile splashdown off of japan's west coast but it has been reported that if missile had been fired on a standard path it could reach a target almost anywhere in the world including any part of the u.s. but with higher frankly any previous. research and development effort on their part the building to look for that could threaten. everywhere in the world they should play something likely to increase now reignited tensions is the fact that in

less than a week the u.s. and south korea will again conduct drills on north korea's doorstep a practice that p.n. yang sees a blatant threat that they will not leave unanswered. i . russia and china have called for the maneuvers to be paused numerous times and life of the less than friendly climate but those suggestions have been ignored along with pleas to restrain from the back and forth name calling and aggressive rhetoric between the u.s. and north korea that has been a trademark of this year this is all culminated in north korea possessing a nuclear bomb and a missile to deliver it anywhere allowing them to probably announce the conclusion of their nuclear program it looks like diplomacy may never be given a chance. british prime minister to reason may is in the middle

east seeking to reinforce trade ties as brigs it looms and as part of the visit you'll meet with saudi officials and raise the issue of the humanitarian crisis in war torn yemen where a saudi led blockade is put millions of people a risk of hunger and disease and auntie's bullyboy who explains now what other interests bind the u.k. to its middle eastern partner. and there is a big focus on yemen right now to resume may's foreign secretary boris johnson held a pretty important meeting last night where the foreign ministers of saudi arabia the united arab emirates and oman. and they were talking about trying to find a solution to the crisis in yemen take a listen to what the foreign secretary had to say this is for us and for many people around the world now the number one impending humanitarian catastrophe and we really have to work together as an international community to virtue what

antiwar campaigners say is that the politicians expressed concern for starving children and unnecessary civilian deaths is pretty hard to square with the nature of britain's relationship with saudi arabia or its close as relationships between countries go and it is also extremely rich lucrative thanks to the weapons sales from london to riyadh since the saudi led intervention began in yemen over two years ago britain has licensed over four point six billion pounds worth of weapons exports to saudi arabia that's things like. any sorts of weapons tanks helicopters anything you need really to conduct a war and this is a war in which saudi arabia has been accused of committing crimes against humanity and last year human rights groups accused britain of blocking either you push for

a u.n. investigation into saudi arabia's alleged war crimes in yemen and just remind the viewers the whole reason saudi arabia is in yemen is because they're trying to overthrow the she who see rebels who have seized parts of the countries. hence the bombing campaign hence this military blockade but that in thailand has taken a terrible toll on yemen's civilian population and take a look. greenpeace

activists have broken into one of france's nuclear power stations in a bid to highlight security concerns. on the good luck. now you have magic johnson. my. first job he told pascals a greenpeace activist we decided spontaneously to enter the chris nuclear power station we succeeded in getting into the cooling. but it's not the first time greenpeace activists managed to enter

a french nuclear site with fifty eight reactors fronts as the second highest number of nuclear plants in the world the country's deeply reliant on them as they account for seventy five percent of its electricity now in a report published in october a number of international experts assessed the risk posed by nuclear plants and they highlighted security shortcomings in france and in europe generally they pointed out that most plants were built before modern day terrorism had most recently replaced its two year state of emergency with tough antiterrorism legislation that would help deal with the threat posed by terrorists the state electricity company said though that no threats were posed and despite the pictures that we just showed you insisted the activists failed to access the cooling pools for british army intelligence officer chris hunter though believes that greenpeace still succeed in highlighting concerns. given the number of power plants in france and across europe of course there has to be a review of security and certainly they've got to be multiple layers of security

whether that's what they call physical security the electronic surveillance the you know fences and mortars that actually when there's any sort of insurgent this incident in particular tells us quite a lot about the level of security you know getting over one fence is a possibility but i think they managed to get quite close to the area where the spent fuel rods are stored and that is quite a concern there are you know. a number of power stations across france that have nuclear power plants those facilities were built long before there were threats from al qaida and isis they were built to protect against every day threats security definitely has to be tightened given the number of these facilities and you know that the number of vast threats for al-qaeda and isis. has written to our top story this hour former bosnian croat military commander slobodan pryor has died after taking poison in the war crimes court in the hague we can discuss this now with john bolton each political analyst in the. incredibles joking as well seems

that the court why do you think we saw this why would the bosnian military command take his own life in this way. first of all general. will you call him boss and croyde but he was actually a croatian deputy minister inside the country of croatia and was operating on behalf of croatia in austria. general probably was convicted had no chance of winning his appeal. i think he realized that it was a death sentence to the man was in his seventy's twenty years imprisonment meant a death sentence in effect and he saw no chance of having a hearing in the hague court most of the people who have been brought there have found to be the case if you look at the three sides in the war. the grounds for conviction were were never fair if you were found to be serb and breathing you were

going to be convicted if you were found to be croat and having killed some of america's favored muslims you were going to be convicted and if you were found to be a muslim with a beheaded head and with a cut off head in your hand you had a chance of being convicted and that's the way the court operated nobody got a fair trial neither the serbs nor the croats nor the muslims. and some people took their lives into their own hands rather than become a puppet players in a play scripted directed and run from washington so they could cut this region up and call and eyes it ysaye that nobody go to trial just curious about a survey conducted back in two thousand and eleven it was by the belgrade center for human rights and the results would be forty percent of serbians believe that the purpose of the trolls was to blame seventy three percent of people thought the current coup was biased against do you think there was anything in the. i don't

think there's anybody who who is on is it's hard to find an honest person in this world today who is doing anything in politics but i don't think there's any honest person who would say that this court was not primarily aimed at the serbs the serbs were the target because the serbs were the strongest force on the ground they had the best soldiers and they managed to defend their territory and hold it in the serbs were farmers they had lived there they were the. paper people of the region they defended their own farmland and as farmers they controlled about seventy percent of the land on the ground the croats and the muslims were more centered in the urban centers and therefore head less territory and ended up with lester territory at the end of the fighting. when we talk about the whole war itself the united states government tried to force the croats and the muslims to become allies of course they did not want to be allies they fought each other but whenever the

muslims in the croats fought each other america sided with the muslims and you'll see that this croatian general is one of the victims of america's policy of muslims first everybody else later i'd like to point out that this man was primarily convicted for blowing up a bridge and the bridge has since been reconstructed and if you went to the site you'd never know the difference but the same general and the muslim generals in the area ethnically cleansed one hundred percent of the serbs in that region and nobody was convicted for that crime so it seems that even a bridge will get you convicted but by ethnically cleansing serbs there is no conviction the. case is still being considered why is this taken so long. first of all the purpose of the court was to set these three brother nations

against each other in perpetuity so that you could divide and conquer the region what has america achieved here america has impoverished serbia which is the largest part of the former yugoslavia it has left montenegro as a mafia state run by a clan led by the president for life or leader for life mellowed you kind of each it has turned boss the into a disaster zone in which internationals should be making thirty or forty thousand dollars a year for the rest of their lives croatia itself is now a colony of germany with american supervision slovenia is a nonexistent state and what we've got is a mess and of course we go to cost of o. the province of the serbian province of cost of oh you've got a terrorist state run by people who provided the biggest per capita contribution to isis and that is the net result of america's meddling in the former

yugoslavia america has made billions of dollars they have justified the expansion of nato from a defensive alliance into an aggressive war machine and everybody is happy in the west the people here have all been enslaved and crushed there is no winner in the balkans the people who were told to go to war the american ambassador told the muslims to go to war they expected to be supported they did not get the support the american ambassador told the croats to go to war and they have had their economy and their country crushed the serbs defended themselves in this village. we'll just have to wrap things up though we have run out of time on. john bolton is my guest political junkie and i did a quick by see you at the top of the hour. hey everybody i'm stephen bob. taft hollywood guy you suspect every proud

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