it's what sorrow into the question the very principle of which you are now discussing so if kosovo is declared as a somewhat an independent country. then. i can quite force the. international law they should become a province or a part of some federal arrangement with. i think the this would be. unacceptable to the government of serbia and i would hope it would be unacceptable to most of international community for the cost of a specialist court as a tribunals set up to investigate kosovo liberation army members of muses jury because like with serbia is in danger of the cosmopolitan and is considering suspending it says the prime minister the president of the palm and to his speaker are all former commanders sells k.l.a. do you saying there is foul play here i mean someone wanting to hush things down i

do hear from some of my friends who live in the indonesian that. close to the leadership or in some influential positions in kosovo they are still members of. the who in the last at least. strongly suspect it of having committed crimes during the minutes of a confrontation if this is the case they should be. i am a believer in the in the hague fault but. the problem is that not all people are brought to they some of whom have been brought in the past with a surprisingly. being. other people receive very high and long sentences so that creates enough most fear in which the whole question of a pick

a sion of justice is being set on into doubts and that is not good for the atmosphere of justice serbia's membership in the e.u. is resting on serbia's recognition of kosovo but for now i mean the public opinion in serbia want to allow that so serbia will never a joint the e.u. because it will never recognize kosovo independence. i am. just going to sion and i'm a strong believer in the european union and i do believe that both overall and said via should become members of the european union but i do believe they should become members soon would take the asli at the same time facing same conditions and same criteria of fulfillment of these conditions. the condition would fall that got in play by the european union to the so that they have to feel what i called my eyes the independence of kosovo before they could

join the european union. i'm very unhappy about it because it gives the impression of ultimatum of oppression of even a blackmail if you wish. this is unfair it creates. unfair position for said in comparison with the position of course of all so i do it in much hope that sensible politicians in europe in uni i'm. sorry sink this condition and look for a negotiated compromise between the base in kosovo and serbia compromise we should be adjudicated. ranged by the european union by the offices of european union and as you know at the moment still five member countries of the you know putin has not recognized most of all and i do believe that if such

a compromise is not the beach you will not have. you know a most knowledge moment of independence and membership of course so and you know if you need him by all member states all right we are going to take a short break right now when we're back we'll continue talking to young college former president of the the wrang general assembly and foreign minister of the czech republic discussing because of us prospects of becoming a member states. it's a global trade war imminent if donald trump followed through on increasing tariffs and ending existing trade deals it seems very likely after all this was at the very

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way back when young cotton former president al think un general assembly and acts foreign minister of the czech republic discussing the close of us aspirations for either membership list a comment like you said in the first part of our program do you recognize kosovo but lots of e.u. members didn't remain e.-a didn't graze didn't spain didn't how is brussels supposed to go about. talking about the future for casa well. in addition to countries you mentioned also cyprus and slovakia. didn't recognize the independence of kosovo and it's understandable if you look at those five

countries a common denominator between them. sizable minority is that they tories and therefore an obvious fia. that recognition of kosovo under the current conditions may in ca teach those minorities to follow their example and declare independence and i think spain today facing the problem of the only and maybe in the future also we busked. is fully. dangerous and may be one of the countries. pressurising but i suppose to find a mall i mean a bow and more acceptable way of discussing the future of kosovo at the moment i do not see. most countries would join the european union fulfilling the conditions put forward by you know puny in.

acknowledging the independence of course or something which i fully understand. is unacceptable to them and i agree with them because i'm not judging the met it's the case and the boston the mutual history of the two countries but the actual declaration of independence in my opinion was a volley of international law and i do not see why member countries will do you know puny and from said be all the way to my best friend slovakia. romania etc why they should accept. that volleys of international can take place in one part of europe and would be to let it sit and so it would be condemned in other parts of. example in asia. the what do you think made the u.k.

germany and france so enthusiastic about an independent kosovo what's in it for them. well that's a very good question but i think you should address such a question to the president that they've. found but it's and and germany. in the past of course germany. has been known to support the. but a couple for me because they've supported the independence of slovenia and croatia . maybe they do believe that. such you are not so declarations of independence is an expression of some of the principle of so does and many. which is an important international weapons but it cannot be. you'll have to justify.

other forms of vision of international law i think that. colonial formal call neo post like united kingdom and france. of difficult negotiations of independence of the former colonies should be. that. simplify. solutions can create problems. for the future major problems as we now see in syria and the middle east at that so i would appeal to those gun sees no to go for the easy simple solution which is to support you know through an accreditation of independence of kosovo. the e.u. was look warm to the idea of scottish and cataloging and independence even though they want about it the peaceful democratic way it rustles throws all its support

behind closed. why is that why is cause of us independence better than scottish or castle on. a very good question that goes back to what i said earlier it creates a precedent so you conseco that. something is good in kosovo or bad for barcelona. a bad fall for me. or whatever. i did the principle is good all the principle is bad has to be a apply equally and that is not being done this is what the protests today the number of. members of parliament of the checker of the czech republic and another prominent figures. at the moment signing a petition addressed to the czech government asking the czech government to denounce to us that decision of two thousand and eight to

recognize the. declaration of independence of kosovo let's go back to the negotiating table. let's drop all do preconditions and. find an acceptable compromise but it is. although me of course i've always been the region over that is independent but there's certain concessions to serbia. and so on it's very important not only focus of all but in my opinion also for the future of gazza lonia. i listened to the leaders of the the general government of qatar onya i fully see the government and i think the first response so despite his government by sending. it brutally suppressed peaceful demonstrations peaceful. expression of will over

they got their own means to. vote. could be the hope that those who decry the preference for independence but as a result of the brutal police action the support for the independence only increased this is not the way to fund a solution this is a way to create conflicts problems and tensions and that's bad not only for space it's bad for the balkans and it's bad for you know so the recent you western balkans strategy includes kosovo as a potential member but the cost of our president toci says terry's no clear path written out for his country this do you really want kosovo as a member. that's a very good question event much depends how you define the e.u. . the u.s. . entity of twenty eight countries they don't have

a consensual view on this question because as you know five member states have consistently there for you to recognize the independence of kosovo and therefore they would hold if a membership of course or in the european union under the got it going to shouldn't and as you know at the moment only a hundred and sixteen countries member states of the united nations have agreed to the independence of kosovo and even that took almost ten years for many years it was less than one and less than fifty percent of the membership of the un . so this is a major problem focus away and a future but it's also a problem for the utopian union european union should be honest and consistent and follow its own good idea. ranging from so rhythm a nation all the way to respect for international law respect for. united nations

security council decoration both what they fall and the respect for the final act of us thinking. had of a year rule of law mission and cost of the markham simmons recently resigned saying he doesn't want to take part in a farce now the mission has been there for ears but without much success in establishing the rule of law but care a foreign party really do that in any country no. foreign entity couldn't do that unless it's a foreign entity. representing some kind of buying power some kind of power which is stronger than the poem is sort of the government of that of that country. if the country is independent if it's truly is so it and then a foreign entity cannot impose its own perception of rule of law on the other hand

foreign entities. to help to establish rule of law. and should play a positive role in such procedure but only in cooperation with the government of the country but the parliament of the country in my own opinion also with major n.g.o.s another board is that at present in the public opinion i just wanted to tell you it strikes me like caso is being treated by the west as a little baby i mean their attitude is a little arrogant and they're like on a civilising missions for us the nato fought the war for it but it stayed to make sure cos the worst and misbehaved un mission ruled it then in back of the independence is still doing the legal work of the economic worth the security work for ca so i mean how long is caso going to be as toddler also teaching kosovo as a country if it should be. automatically loyal to those spoiled because of forces

which helped to. declare you know its own independence i reach help them to. be divided from from serbia. but as i believe that those are all. just let it be for no this is a time at the time of us minister of foreign affairs. what was called czech greek peace initiative which was aiming not only at the end to end the bombardment of former yugoslavia including kosovo but it wanted to create conditions for negotiated peace we should ensure stability in kosovo and the former yugoslavia and these let in fact will help to let there be not only to the ceasefire and declaration of peace it also led to the united nations security council twelve forty four and i think we should return back to the conditions expressed in that

in that the resolution which is still being violated and that means. that. differently from from serbia and that i think is wrong all right mr khan thank you for this interview we're talking to young former president of the un general assembly and foreign minister of the czech republic discussing whether kosovo has become a self-reliant states ten years after that clearing independence that's it for this edition of call see you next time.

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tonight an update on two important stories you're not seeing covered by the mainstream media. i'm holland cook in washington this is the big picture on our team america. despite a vote by the republican majority on the federal communications commission net neutrality isn't dead yet as court challenges and congressional action looms states are now stepping in to keep the internet playing field level the latest on that is coming up but first section one of the fourteenth amendment to the united states constitution reads no state shall make or enforce any law which

shell a bridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the united states nor shall any state deprive any person of life liberty or property without due process of law nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction equal protection of the laws yet in some places where you and after your arrested could depend on how much money you have quit definition of terms two words which many people eroni asli use interchangeably jail and prison prison is where convicts end up when found guilty jail is where inmates wait for their day in court if they cannot pay cash bail it's a system being challenged around the usa joining us to translate legal leads to english is my pappa antonio host of america's lawyer here on america thanks for

being here mike. thank you mike in harris county texas a young mother was jailed for several days on twenty five hundred dollars bail after being arrested for driving on an invalid license on her way to pick up her daughter my layman's understanding of the eighth amendment is that it prohibits excessive bail but the no inherent constitutional right for a defendant to be offered bail to begin with is that correct that's correct that's correct that what the there is it's a balancing test hall and what it is is they use part of what we call the police powers health safety and welfare balanced against all the other rights in most of the time you're going to fund that notion of a court's ability to always put health safety and welfare above issues like we're talking about here on bail and so certain aspects of bail and cried here that can

be used to set bail and there's no question that there's no guarantee that any bail has to be said that's simply the law the main reason that there's no guarantee of bail is to prevent in the logical reason the most violent criminals or people that are deemed to be flight risk from being released back into the general population that's the notion of why we have bailed to begin with but it doesn't always work out quite like that i guess not and reading up on this i came across the bail reform act of one nine hundred sixty six which requires courts to consider family and community ties employment history and the record of previous court appearances in deciding whether to detain defendants but the ability to raise cash bail is still that fork in the road isn't it. yeah cash bail out is really one of the biggest scams in our justice system it forces individuals to immediately fork over cash or

a credit card in some instances that they generally don't have so it's disproportionately affects people who don't have access to money the poorest of our society who are unable to pay and meanwhile there are plenty of other options available bail bonds a property bonds even cite out which are allows an individual to get out of custody without having to pay bail there are things like monitoring rings there are a whole host of things that can be done but study after study has shown that cash bail only ends up keeping individuals that are not a threat to society locked up while the people who are more likely to commit another crime are able to go free put it in this terms you know somebody is huge bringing in huge amounts of drugs across the country usually has huge cash and my. amazing when you take a look at for example some of the worst gangs out on the street they're able to make cash bail because they have actually put money back for that but this person

that you're talking about she has a driver in for a driver's infraction and has to stay in jail until somebody can kind of give her come to help which often does not happen at all so if effect is keeping more more of our poor communities in jail according to all the vailable studies that's just not me talking this they've looked at this ad nauseum and they've concluded that the really the poorest of our society in in jail because they can't raise that kind of money well you know jail isn't free number one and you also alluded to technology a minute ago if former trump campaign chairman paul man of ford who is now facing multiple counts of failing to report overseas cash flow money laundering and tax and bank fraud if this guy can stride around with not one but two g.p.s. ankle monitors why can't someone awaiting trial for a petty crime get an ankle monitor. well it has everything to do with the two

justice system i mean we sound like we wear that out when we talk about it but it's just absolutely the truth you know you can go back in the i'm more going on with the biggest cases in america right now the opioid case where we see the really the people who made the decisions to to get involved in legalized drug dealing should be at least in front of a christian judge somewhere and there should be some arrests made but if the arrest is made the chances of them actually spending any time in jail because they can't make bail is nonexistent one of the systems is for the rich and the other is for the poor and it isn't just in the bail system it also determines who gets prosecuted i think about all the criminal bankers as you point out in this country were allowed to avoid prison after they crashed our economy i mean they actually the opioid case they actually killed people you understand holland they this was a legal cabal of people of c.e.o.'s who made decisions to kill people through drug

addiction now that's a far far more serious problem than what we see people having to pay cash bails for but for us to ignore the fact that there's a two party system is absurd it's there i used to be a prosecutor i saw it there now handled cases against the largest corporations in the world i see it there so there's a stairs a fix there's a beginning of a fix that's taking place and that has to do with a system where there's at least. a profile it's a suggested profile that can be given to a judge would say it's a check system check these boxes in that'll give you an idea whether you're out of line with with what with what you're doing and bail and it's something that we're starting to see more and more it's a system that allows a judge who may not have a lot of experience you know a lot of these judges they're lek did they're on the bench they don't have the kind of experience to be able to determine who really is a big. risk to the public who's a safety risk is

a flight risk so they have systems that are technological systems that allow judges to make evaluations and it's just the beginning it's not say it's not this is the evaluation and you must do this is a mandatory system but we have to have some guidelines for these judges that a lot of times they simply they're affected by all those things that people are affected by they they see you know they experience prejudice they exchange favoritism they experience racism these these judges are human so you got to give them something to say at least this is the groundwork for how you want to go about . imposing bail yeah mike i got about thirty seconds but you mentioned racism the numbers don't lie police are more likely to are arrest people of color prosecutors or more likely to charge people of color judges are more likely to sentence people of color to jail because this risk assessment relies on prior criminal conduct to

predict behavior is racial bias baked into the process. racial bias is always going to be vague in the process you go back four decades it was there if you look ahead three decades you're still going to see it i mean it is it is the nature of of our human makeup fortunately and for if we believe judges are above that we're kidding ourselves and prosecutors the same prosecutors are going to typically go after the african-americans or minorities before they do their neighbor the judge is only human thank you mike papen tonio america's lawyer here on r t america. on december fourteenth a three to two republican majority of federal communications commission has passed what they called the reste oring internet freedom order translation despite public protests hundreds of of thousands.