intervention in kosovo you might remember followed a whole string of un resolutions telling the milosevic regime in belgrade to stop killing the albanians in kosovo he ignored it the intervention when it eventually came and i just refresh my memory about the resolution was voted for by the security council including russia and china provided for un military intervention for nato military intervention and occupation in effect of kosovo it set out the terms of it all and incidentally it riffraff runs the runway accords which provided for a conference to discuss self-determination within three years stop the killing in kosovo it allowed most of the cost of us to go back home when they've been thrown across the border so i think kosovo was successful but carried out in the wrong way it shouldn't have been done by bombing they should have actually threatened ground troops at the beginning and milosevic would have surrendered ok bush i know you know i know you don't agree on the whole i think resolution one thousand seven hundred three very clear nine hundred seventy three and i don't want you

the kind of relationships that scary strong lation choose not meet around for instance had with milosevic and richard holbrooke which we have some very interesting connections between holbrooke as a banker and milosevic in his in one nine hundred seventy s. continue on in the one nine hundred eighty s. and one nine hundred ninety s. kind of these mis messages or a misinterpreted message is that often that often evolved into the point where it got to the point of no return where did the abuse of the perception that i should i have a green light to deal with my problems in a violent way or i you know i have been encouraged him in libya to deal with with my our opponents and we called it could our feet was caught reading with the cia for until couple of months before the uprisings and then ghazi in the east so there is some complicity there are some serious problems we have to raise about about how the international community and this includes russia and china how they how they interact with with many of these british eams that cars can cause events on the ground to transform very rapidly we

in our bombing campaign and nineteen ninety nine milosevic did not capitulate and just a few days as we had anticipated and we bombed for seventy eight days we bombed oil refineries resulting in a mile long oil slicks that extended down the danube through remaining into the black sea. we've bombed have troll chemical plants and fertilizer factories spreading mercury. other carcinogens on the landscape and into a canal that lead into the danube river it will take the eco systems decades to recover. forests are among the ecosystems that are most poff and damaged or destroyed in combat itself the main reason for that is because they're very useful for guerrillas trying to find concealment from forces with superior firepower forty years ago when the united states was trying to prevail in vietnam and its enemies the viet cong were using the forests for concealment the american forces tried through fire and chemical defoliants to clear large parts of the forests of vietnam. not invulnerable. to think of them so close wrong underpay are probably have bases. they fly seven days in the week f

military officials on trial in the hague former president of serbia and yugoslavia out slobodan milosevic having died in custody of the international criminal tribunal for former yugoslavia has been criticized for convicting serbs and giving milder sentences to former boss here and military officials. australian police are to go shady grove a man holding a child hostage outside a court in a sydney and surrounding area is sealed off and witnesses say the suspect claimed he was carrying a bomb in a backpack well according to some reports the captive may be the man's eleven year old daughter. scuffles broke out between protesters and police outside a courthouse in a car row where the trial of former president hosni mubarak regime and hundreds of demonstrators attempted to break through the main gates and gave access for senior police officers testified against mubarak that the hearing which was held behind closed doors with the ex leader is charged with corruption and ordering the killing of protesters during the february uprising the top ten. and there's plenty more on our top stories at r.

ethnic serbs military officials all trial in the hague ex-president of serbia and yugoslavia slobodan milosevic died while in custody while the international criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia has been repeatedly criticized for jailing serbs all giving dollar sentences to boston officials. former executives from news international says james murdoch knew about the phone hacking which brought down the news of the world tabloid the son of media mogul rupert murdoch runs the business and has always denied knowledge of illegal phone interception of the paper was shot in july after it emerged that the voice mails were half of a murdered schoolgirl war veterans and senior politicians dozens of news international employees have been arrested over the scandal while senior police have quit over collusion. the danish royal family has arrived in russia bringing top business people with them and while the broker sealed regal deals the marquis's planned a busy schedule of cultural and significant visits as a fall you know because of us and finding out. poe's is not good first time when margaret the

serb military officials on trial in the hague the ex-president of serbia and yugoslavia slobodan milosevic died while in custody the international criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia has been repeatedly criticized for jailing serbs while giving milder sentences to boston officials. former executives from rupert murdoch's new news international have said his son james knew about the phone hacking which brought down the news of the world top award the media mogul son runs the business and has always denied knowledge of illegal phone interception of the paper was shot in july after it emerged voice mails were hearts of a murdered schoolgirl war veterans and senior politicians dozens of news international employees have been arrested over the scandal while senior police have quit over collusion. now the danish royal family is on their first official visit in almost forty years now the official part of the trip is focused on trade and energy cooperation but they will also be visiting a number of cultural venues found out. well this is not the first time margaret the second comes through

gene which was supposed to be so easily lasted longer than milosevic in one thousand nine hundred thirty banks in kabul in two thousand and one then set them in one thousand nine hundred two thousand and three and of course then holland belgium and france in one nine hundred forty so i don't thing you know it's such a great victory and i don't know if it's wise for nato to be too cheerful about the idea of having no legitimize all kinds of intervention maybe they will that i don't think it's a and i see i mean it's not clear the herbalism them in their friends who have or because they were there when agenda which agenda they have i don't know but libya is a different country paracho might have to leave it there thanks so much your time jumper going to little rock a place there in brussels joining us live thank you thank you you thank. well it's pretty common to program this hour including random reporting for the countrymen ongoing violence the growth of the just a few reports coming from syria. and russia commemorates the painful seven front of us. that shocked the country in the world

ethnic military officials on trial in the hague the ex president of serbia and yugoslavia slobodan milosevic died while in custody balkans political expert michael gast it gives us more perspective on whether mrs coupled with him why there are market good seats a night now the court said that this is the first conviction for war crimes committed in bosnia and herzegovina if he was an army leader does this give us an indication of how the other high profile trials will conclude i'm thinking of bosnian serb leader radovan carriage and its army chief what's your take on it. well we know how those trials are going to go because the script for those trials has been written in advance but i think we need to look actually take a look at the real picture here of what parish church was accused of doing because he was accused in effect of crossing. illegally declared borders borders that had been declared by the theists by the diktats of western governments particularly germany running the e.c. at the time and subsequently by the us of a these these governments declared that yugoslavia borders would n

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officials on trial in the hague with the former president of serbia and yugoslavia yes slobodan milosevic having died in custody while the international criminal tribunals for former yugoslavia has been criticized for convicting serbs and giving milder sentences to former military officials. there's plenty more on our top stories at r.t. dot com and you can look at what's a lot about the web site right now not exactly criminal behavior however a lawsuit out of chicago alleges six year old school kids were handcuffed simply for taunting him class want to argue dot com to find out more plus. in a bid for the guinness book of records moscow celebrates its birthday with a spectacular for the light show that up to eight hundred thousand people getting the chance to travel from sea to the stars in just a couple of minutes. the official. from the. video. and. in the palm of your. comb. dimitri is here now with a business update. welcome to business r.t. and it's a big day for the russian gas industry as it has started filling the new nine billion euro undersea pipeline to europe gas deliveries t