thousands of people were killed during the balkan wars of the one nine hundred ninety s. but cemeteries like these with entire families of murdered serb civilians only get visited by the very few remaining survivors but only comes here all the time his entire family lives here he says and bosnian muslim general is responsible so you know i was only nine years old when i said ody everything i had in light of verse to kill my mother then my father and brother i was wounded and taken captive they held me for fifty six days and only god knows how or why i survived. but even though gonna survive his loss just like that thousands of people here is being ignored. each was at the hague tribunal and i was supposed to be a witness in his trial but in the end me and about thirty other witnesses were simply cast aside they didn't cause didn't ask what happened to our families and the tribunal only gave him two years in prison. the balkan war so he miss atrocities visited in all sites and perpetrated by all players but the version most often propagated by western media is rather one s

facing charges including the genocide carried out in the balkans war. cuse the hague over a one sided just. a very warm welcome to you this is live from moscow i'm. chief has expressed hopes that russia and the airlines could reach an agreement on missile defense by next may however however the russian side has warned that donald is moving too slow in the meantime. has more on the talks that have already been held and it has been russia's concern for a very long time now russia doesn't want and the arms race and if nato is to place its enzyme missile defense shield in europe and then trying to sell defense shield that's going to be covering a big part of russian russia's territory and then of course an arms race is exactly what's going to happen according to present the data if we could see it starting by as soon as two thousand and twenty and russia and the united states have signed strategic arms reduction treaty specially for the purpose of preventing an arms race and this seems to be an apple of discord at exactly going to do the opposite. we never

charges including genocide carried out in the balkans war. one sided justice. worldwide news live from moscow city center this is r.t. . russia and nato have failed to reach a consensus on a missile defense plans in europe with the alliance standing. and it stands says it's against a joint missile shield and doesn't find it necessary to provide russia with legal guarantees that the shield won't be directed against it. joins us live from russian city of sochi where the talks have now a drawn to a close hello to you natasha it seems that russia and nato have a long way to go to overcome divisions over plans in europe. well indeed it still seems like there is still a long way to go the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov described talks on missile defense shield in europe as long and not going as smoothly as it was expected why at speaking at a separate press conference secretary general of nato rasmussen has said that nature never promised those stocks will simply happen overnight he also explained that the reason why sectoral anti-missile defense shield with

that it faces charges including genocide carried out in the balkans war. accuse the hague of one sided justice. international news and comment live from moscow this is good to have you with us this hour russia and nato have failed to reach a consensus on missile defense plans in europe with the standing firm on its position nato says it's against a joint shield and doesn't find it necessary to provide russia with legal guarantees that the shield won't be directed against it. because it has more from russia city of sochi where the talks have now drawn to a clue. russian foreign minister sergei lavrov described talks on a missile defense shield in europe as long and not going as smoothly as it was expected while speaking a separate press conference secretary general of nato rasmussen has said that nato never promised those stocks will simply happen overnight lover ups explains that the reason why a sectoral anti-missile defense shield with participation of russia is impossible is because nato cannot delegate the security of nato countries to a third party ru

all that was balkans expert diana johnstone giving her appraisal. what will come out of the trial now heroin addicts in russia are turning to a cheaper deadlier alternative and its ingredients are all too easy to get hold of the drug cocktail is known as crocodile and its main element is the painkiller coding which the government now wants to restrict the sales of that i've never ports on the lethal narcotics increasing the use and you may find some of the images upsetting. if they call the crocodile because its users skin turns scaly before it falls off virtually unknown ten years ago it's a mixture of petrol solvents phosphorous and most importantly cheap medicines containing the painkiller code it's now become rich the second most popular drug the heroin to which the cheaper more easily available alternatives injecting this lethal cocktail will rot a user's flesh in months most die within three years i have been to be using it for two months i wish i never started. the government's come up with a simple solution for now i can still buy code being

was balkans expert diana johnstone giving her appraisal of what will come out of the had a trial. how diverse have recovered all the bodies from the russian a pleasure boat that sank in the volga river two weeks ago now out of the two hundred one people on board the ship one hundred twenty two were killed the bulgaria has been raced from the riverbed and has been told to shallow waters where investigators can piece together the ship's final moments to discover how the tragedy happened but will then be destroyed so that no part of it can ever be used again another bulgaria went down in just three minutes and only seventy nine people managed to escape and the captains of two vessels that sailed by the sinking ship face criminal charges for passing by without stopping to help. and warm more world because that is in brief for you this hour the syrian government's stop to the law to allow political parties other than the ruling baath party opposition crew. had been the ballot for almost half a century now a multi-party political system is a key demand of the anti-government protesters

membership janet johnstone has written extensively on the balkans war says the hague court was set up to bring only one side to justice. the tribunal that it is indeed set up may need to to back the natal version of the yugoslav crisis as being the responsibility of a syrian joint criminal enterprise i don't think there are areas more corrupt and other countries are already and militants of the e.u. but i think the thing is is this really in the benefit to the benefit. if you listen to what the europeans are saying they're saying up another hurdle has been crossed they're not saying the last hurdle there is saying an important hurdle and the other hurdles remain namely is that the recognition by serbia of the rip off of its problems of kosovo i think that most return to the group that is in power which is the group that is backed by the united states and the european union is in fact ready to give away everything it can be given away it's only a question of how they can formulated in order to get it has the syrian borders. all that was balkans expert janet johnson giving her appraisal

appeared in court goran hadzic faces fourteen charges including crimes against humanity during the balkan us war in the one nine hundred ninety s. well serbian officials hope that his arrest will clear the way to e.u. membership this hour for reports many serbs remain skeptical as to whether it's worth joining at all. they tried deal has indicted one hundred sixty one people most of days have been serbs and there's been a fair amount of criticism for certainly from the public opinion here he'd hate tribunals starting with political and not necessarily legal interest there's also strong public opinion here it will do the government very much looks to the west that people have really didn't feel anymore like joining the e.u. is necessarily going to be in their school their country's interest they only have to look to greece to italy to spain to see that joining the e.u. membership is not the answer to the country's problems in fact in many cases it could quite potentially bring many more and yet is something that we still see the serbian government really pushing for now a lot of people say

was balkans expertly anna johnstone giving her appraisal of what will come out of the trial. the syria's government has approved a law to allow the formation of political parties other than president assad's ruling baath party opposition movements were bad when it came to power in one thousand nine hundred sixty three but it's part of a series of reforms promised by assad to try and twelve months of protests against his regime meanwhile the e.u. is calling for more u.n. pressure on syria pledging to pursue its policy against a mask just for the crackdown on protestors that are enmities journalist our hearts countries are prioritizing their own interests. what do you interest. the interest. is in getting rid of. a minority control group in the country because they are here since the relationship with iran and i with you the british and american policy. they want series of iraq not completely. so i was interested over. the west use. that somehow this will be to the end of the alawite until the end of this minority. just in syria and work on iran. for more on the events unfoldin

from the balkan conflict is captured as serbia rests its fugitive about to go ahead it should have been to join the e.u. . and tripoli will not consider gulf a stepping down that's the position revealed by libya's foreign minister at a meeting with his russian counterpart here in moscow. in business news stock markets are taking a breathing pause as president barack obama announces progress has been made in raising the debt ceiling for the united states more than twenty minutes out of business for. nine pm here in moscow my name is kevin zero in this is r t and our top story tonight rumors abound saying that russian billionaire alexander lebedev would like to revive britain's news of the world and use paper recently shut down by rupert murdoch the ex k.g.b. agent has some experience of the u.k. paper business to owning both the independent already and the london evening standard that he's there and it's in the u.k. capital to bring us up to date on this developing story what we know tonight how likely is it now that leverage they have could be getting his hands on yet another high profi

balkans expert things going on r.t. tonight. still to come up in the program as well the former left out in the cold. i was told you know too much the way they treat me now is that. they force me to run away and now they spit on my face i meet a former south lebanese soldier who blames israel for forgetting those who helped fight hezbollah over a decade ago we got his story coming up also. georges which for alleged spies gathers pace as the photographers charged with espionage for russia plead guilty but local journalists say those confessions were forced to send a clear message to the rest of georgia's media community to tell them of story. tripoli refuses to negotiate over colonel gadhafi stepping down the news was revealed by libya's foreign minister during a meeting with his russian counterpart in moscow let's go live now to our. forests moving story what else is being said in moscow today what do we know. well according to russian officials it was actually the libyan side that asked for this meeting which gives diplomats in

. >> the trial of the last major war crimes suspect in the balkan conflict has opened in the hague. goran hadzic let serbian forces during the war in croatia in the 1990's. he has been charged with 14 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. the european union has insisted that serbia and arrest all wanted war crimes suspects before the country is granted candidate status for membership. >> goran hadzic's appearance is the end of the 18 year hunt for those involved in war crimes in the balkan conflict. he is the last of 161 suspect to go on trial. >> it sends a strong signal to the world that international criminal justice is achievable. his arrest confirms the extraordinary success story that is the icty. the era of impunity is over. >> goran hadzic declined to enter a plea before the tribunal. the former warehouse worker became leader of the self- proclaimed republic of serbia krajina during the 1990's. he faces charges of murdering hundreds of croats and expelling tens of thousands more. this includes the killing 267 hospital patients in vukovar. he went into hiding to a

in the balkans conflict to this be a reference to border on how they could fall back on for his latest attempt to promise tickles to even membership. george and janet simply use the old dollars use of false impressions from prince charles and spine program so they claim is to send a clear message to the rest of george's media community. now with the u.s. shuttle program winding up in a tough economic situation straining space research some say the american dream of reaching out for the stalls is a one month still believes the weather that will goes away robert williams one of those behind the launch of the hubble space telescope things humankind will still make its way into space our interview next. mr williams thank you very much for being with us today it's an honor sir my pleasure said the beauty of hubble's energy security basically its funding and its place in science to fund a beautiful you have a better chance of being successful president that is there aren't that pretty. no i would say well it's always nice to look at beauty. but in fact it is far as the scientific value of hu

guilty plea on his behalf and faces charges including genocide carried out in the balkans war. accuse the hague of. justice. we talked to a british antiwar activist about his personal attempts to break the blockade of gaza. today i'm talking to dr david how payne who says he's dedicated his life to fighting for justice in the treatment of others he's very many opposed to the wars in iraq and afghanistan and in two thousand and three doc to help in filled a boat with food and medical supplies and sailed it to gaza selling his own house to pay for it to help in that voyage was a success in news made subsequent trips to gaza since then has the situation improved at all. bottle you know that eighty percent of the people live below the poverty line to find does one point six dollars per head per day and fifty percent are unemployed a big factor in that is no port so they cannot change goods and. they were building building a porch the french with saudi money on the stand in about and in two thousand that was bombed just as it pulls bombed on iraq the same time as the start of the se

for another diana john starr who's written extensively on the balkans war thank you for joining us today we've seen some generals try for the hague is it all that clear cut off suspects from all sides. accurate because general this. was tried in actually connecticut and there is a rose enormous protest in croatia under correlations who have been led to believe quite rightly i think there could be an reset on their to have against terrorism and find it quite outrageous that one of their own correlations should get into trouble tribunal that is indeed a name need to go back to the needle groups and out of the yugoslav process as being the responsibility of the syrian joint criminal enterprise and that person seems to be a lot of frustration on both sides of the fence here but foreign minister has said that his country hopes this final arrest will open the doors of the u. is this perhaps the last hurdle. well that's what some of the serbian leaders in belgrade are saying but if you listen to what the europeans are saying they're saying up another brutal cross they're not saying the last thr

and in london we cross to me should i be all that she is a political expert on the balkans all right gentlemen crosstalk rules are in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want me schiff i can go to you first today is the sixteenth anniversary official anniversary of events that occurred in seventy two are you satisfied mainstream media portrays those events and we can use tragic events or i can you can use whatever you want but how do you feel that the description of that anniversary is being understood understood today. well i've been hoping for the last sixteen years the way that it has to be represented lead to start out with its description of the worst the war crime in europe since the second world war the worst war crime in the second world war was the crime of aggression by nazi germany against a neighboring state that was not decided by meat was decided by the nuremberg tribunal that action has been repeated in europe by the bonding of the federal republic of yugoslavia by nineteen nato states led by the united states that is the worst war crime for me and this war c