well a total of one hundred sixty one people have been indicted for war crimes in the former yugoslavia since the tribunals began atrocities were committed by all sides party to the conflict but longer sentences have been given to serbians and montenegrins counting up the total time of those jail terms been authorities to suggest nearly one in our fathers' and years were given to its nationals and that's in contrast to three hundred croats in just fifty years for the former yugoslavia republics however the un court has never investigated nato's involvement in the war including the use of depleted uranium munitions some of the cases have been so lengthy that several defendants have died while on trial at the hague yet or in chief of the news website the duran dot com says the tribunal set up was flawed from the very start. the major criticism of the tribunals is that it is not being impartial if was set up in the in in the one nine hundred ninety s.

you're mainly at the instigation of the western powers out a time when the western powers are criticizing serbia and its government and the people the serbian people of bosnia for the war in bosnia now that is a problematic step to it because when the same people instigate the setting up of the tribunals after they have already identified who they think is responsible for a war it becomes very difficult to expect that tribunals to act impartially. now also this week the french president tabled a new plan to combat human trafficking in libya that involves military action but a man your man crimes proposal is drawing a lot of criticism to you is the previous french led intervention in libya left the country in ruins is it against the explains. slavery and human trafficking

of violent offenses sadly common now in libya but no need to fear president macron is here he has the solution for libya's problem send in the troops sitting in city zones we are proposing police military action we are not waging war but this is a country in a political transition political transition he calls it does sound better than as savage civil war more politically correct nevertheless a number of african and e.u. states are ready to help fight this war or rather not really a war says macron but a military operation still round two for france in libya. today were intervening in libya we are intervening in order to enable the libyan people to choose their own destiny it must not be deprived of its rights by violence and

terror the fact that slavery is so rampant in libya is because the country's army and political order were obliterated under nato bombardment six years ago since then libya has been stuck in a brutal and bloody political transition as president macro calls it or absolute chaos and anarchy as anyone out call it as long as it is a failed state the problem will come back as a failed state because the regime of cut off the top was not a mass regime nobody says that was destroyed by the french and british together in two thousand and eleven. so here's a look then at how modern slavery is spread around the world at the moment africa has actually come out worst with seven point six people per thousand just below them we have asia and the pacific and then in third place is europe and central asia interesting enough there france itself is apparently become

a key human trafficking hub to at least according to reports by the u.s. state department does list the country as a destination and trend transit point for men women and children subjected to forced labor and also sex trafficking this week we spoke to mrs senter the former libyan leader moammar gadhafi but. here chaired the eight billion dollar libyan african investment portfolio and manage the gadhafi family's private funds to this is what he told us. the home from hard it's not right to see gadhafi better to see the libyan government the libyan government left about two hundred billion dollars in various banks abroad and the u.n. has frozen the money in accordance with the security council resolution and when it comes to the money inside the country those who came to power after because after he claimed there were one hundred sixty tons of gold billions of dollars in libyan

dinars in the central bank when gadhafi moved from tripoli to search he took nothing with him. an accomplice of the older than i was government official now it was how i dealt with sarkozy as an official the french media pie and other media outlets claimed that some people met with me and then there was a decision taken to be fifty million i said i have nothing to do with that. a lot. of nothing is known about that the record after statements and sarkozy's statements now better believe could actually. a lot of i don't know this person and i never met him if he says he would recognize me if he sees me that's a lie if he's taken money from someone he should reveal from whom exactly but anyway that's a french problem not libya's. now the thirty two nations who will battle it out

for the fee for world cup in russia next summer discovered their opponents on friday is the draw was made for the group stages in moscow here's how the aid groups look kicking it all off on june the fifteenth will be russia against saudi arabia there at the capital's newly refurbished luzhniki stadium group b. meanwhile sees perhaps the most anticipated tie of the round pitting rivals portugal and spain against each other there are russia would also welcome some deadly since two to the biggest sporting stage with iceland playing argentina in their first ever appearance at the world cup we did catch up with some of the managers taking the teams into the tournament. think we've got a group of players that. contrie over eleven million to produce these sort of footballers are something to be proud of the biggest job we have to be able to see the players working hard for each other but enjoying the responsibility of been seen as one of the best generations of belgian football has ever had.

we have of course belgium who we know everything about them so. i think that game will capture everybody's imagination at home we feel an exciting to a team that are only going to get better but we are a team some experience of those big matches. we have to give. you know we are very proud to be qualified for the world we know it will be very difficult. but we are not going to do all good just to stay on the bridge and to say you can go straight to the next round. we'll have to make the best decisions we can during the tournament starting with the game against portugal there's no such thing as a good or bad opponent will have to have a victory against the teams we've been drawn against the match against portugal

will be a great event while in total russia is expecting more than half a million fans to come and support their countries next summer close to three million people did apply for tickets when the first batch went on general sale ahead of the draw supporters have already sample to the atmosphere some of the venues for the event early this year at the confederations cup. when so much mexico russia we thought maybe they were like going to have to be one that's completely off topic they were still playing police friendly russian people

are so friendly friends that still need to meet you was a beautiful guy there from people who would come back from work. maybe and. make them with. you watching the weekly pay or not say still to come feed is sad to see big coin is hit yet another record high in case you don't know how it works either but trying to explain after the break. there is no center in the united states political discourse it's all center right ever since the clinton people came into power the center right has become the right and there is no peace party that exists in my country and i don't see any evidence of it except this third party that is so criticized the the green party.

global war hawks selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles that. new socks for the tell you that will be gossip to the public eye for her. mother talking about her eyes and telling me you are not cool enough to buy. these are the hawks where we all will walk. again now the cryptocurrency coing has been hitting record highs the price of one corn is over eleven thousand dollars at the moment amounts up around one thousand

at the beginning of the year now in case you don't know what his are attempt to expect. in. the. well earlier this week neil harvey discussed the risks of investing in bitcoin with r.t. financial host max kaiser and also economics professor steve case. it's such

a huge right across encourage people looking at the ceiling of go to be there the entry cost is certainly less than buying a house and hoping the house model appreciate so people are dogging in because the process is rausing but that's one of the definitions of a bubble bitcoin is not a bubble the us dollars in a bubble they feel that currency world is in a bubble stocks and bonds you could argue are in a bubble something that's not a bubble would be a big coin you've got the dollar that is crashing in a hyperinflationary crash against bitcoin isn't there a really strong argument that it's being used speculatively as a store of value but actually where can you actually use a bit going to want to many places that come on you can actually spend it and isn't there a danger when people realize that the pony can sell that story value it's being a it's a there are hundreds of thousands of transactions now a day hundred thousand emergence accepted going to the real estate market being operated by pick on you can buy high end of properties went bitcoin but again the

timeline here has to be considered the travel from being a store of value to a means of exchange is going to take another few years because even though you can boil those things with it you'd be immediate to buy those things now because if you wipe ten weeks you can botch washer as many go through each obs as many so it's a process to stabilise now my worry is when it stabilizes what will happen to that process i don't think it's going to necessarily reach the stratosphere at one hundred thousand dollars and then stay there if you get to the stage where the only returns you're getting out of big coin mounting of the transactions then i think the process to fall dramatically and you have gold as a case study gold is used takes a lot of energy to produce gold gold is used as a means of exchange as well as a store of value it's been around for quite some time because it is gold to point out the mother load it's still taking over the global finance in this way but if you have money out of business and the bankers on wall street are running scared jamie diamond is literally you know peeing in his pants at this point because he knows he's going to be out of a job in five years we don't need the jamie diamond of the world ripping us off we

don't need wells fargo stealing money. of accounts just b.c. funding drug lords in mexico to the tune of billions of dollars we don't need those bad actors in society and because it gets rid of all those financial terrorists and it's about time somebody stood up and did battle because the government start doing it the academics are doing it so we have to do it. greenpeace activists did break into a french nuclear power station on tuesday to highlight what they say is weak security at the site. on the kids like you see now you have magic johnson family delusion well i've. just told i am pascal a greenpeace activist we decided spontaneously to enter the chris nuclear power station we succeeded in getting into the cooling.

when in fact it is a stunt that greenpeace has conducted before in france and it is part of a campaign to show that all fifty eight french nuclear reactors have serious security issues france is deeply reliant on them as they do account for seventy five percent of its electricity the country has the second highest number of nuclear plants in the world and in a report published in october a number of international experts did assess the risks posed by nuclear plants and they highlighted security shortcomings in france and in europe generally pointing out that most plants were built before modern day terrorism emerged france recently replaced its two year states of emergency with tough anti terror legislation to help it deal with the threat posed by terrorists while the state electricity company that looks after the sites confirmed the intrusion but said that no threats

were posed to the plant safety former british army intelligence officer chris hunter told us that greenpeace still succeeded in highlighting a real danger. in the number of power plants in france and across europe of course there has to be a review of security and certainly there's 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 alarm when there's any sort of intrusion this incident in particular tells us quite a lot about the level of security you know getting over one fence is apostle. but i think they managed to get quite close to the area where the spent fuel rods stored and that is quite a concern there are a significant number of power stations across france that of 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 voss

threats from al qaeda and isis so that was the weekly here in our three things become pany don't forget you can keep across all of the nice stories of the day and . join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. elliston is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos remember wolf it was dismissive to do it you like it this isn't my cup of tea is going up to study hall maybe you know chalk it up to. the only palestinians who gets the most help from its jerusalem counterparts i

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