the first to had been trained in belgrade.e lit the fuse bomb, threw it at the arch duke and hit him in a cheek. bounced off of his face. it grazed him. he was wounded, not seriously. it wife was wound, as well. detonated behind the staff car behind and luckily nothing else happened. everyone else survived, they dusted themselves off and the 20th century proceeded along its course. the third balkan war broke out between turkey and greece, the russians desperate to keep the straits from being closed again, cut off greece, brought the war to an end, the concert of europe was effectively revived. wait a minute. that's not what happened. what did happen? well, what did happen is they actually proceeded along i keep hitting the wrong button here. we have to go back. here we are. they proceeded along to the town hall, they went along with the program. franz ferdinand gave his own remarks, the mayor welcomed him and said as you can see, we citizens of sarajevo salute you and welcome you with your great warmth of heart, and he said th

about 10 hours too late, because that afternoon they had begun shelling belgrade.ly, but there you are. that same night, wednesday, july 29, interesting, barbara tuckman has this great seen in "the guns of august." the russians are in a panic. what will france do? will they stand with us? they wake up the french in the middle of the night. goddamn these russians. they are worse insomniacs. she puts on friday, july 31. it happened on wednesday, july 29. not friday, july 31. and here's why it happened. it happened because russia's ambassador to paris received a telegram from russia's foreign minister, who had learned earlier that evening that austria hungary had begun shelling belgrade. he then got the czar to sign the order for general mobilization on july 29. he sent off then a telegram to paris, due to our inability to exceed to germany's desire that we cease mobilizing, wex/4t now regard war as imminent. and that is why on the same night that he was panicking and trying to rescind the blank check, france and russia resolved on war. now could it have been averted?

nato allies started bombing belgrade. i was at a bar and let's just say that some punches were thrown. and it didn't go particularly well. i remember hearing something about serbian blood bothers -- blood brothers in kosovo. i guess part of it is the semi - mythical ties of blood and religion. russia had something of relation with clients. indirectly, you could say the independent serbia was, in that sense also forged by russian , arms when russia invaded turkey in 1877. all that said, in the balkan wars the russian position was conflicted. wasome extent, he conducting a rogue foreign policy. he was not necessarily on board and not particularly belligerent during the wars. heartfig almost gave a green light. in the second war, when everyone gained up on bulgaria, the russians basically left them out to dry. which is why bulgaria went the other way in the world war. i suppose it's mostly a matter of prestige. that is to say that for the russians you have here this kind potashoxy for russia status as a great power. my own a

the first to had been trained in belgrade. he lit the fuse bomb threw it at the arch duke and hit him in a cheek. bounced off of his face. it crazed him. he was wounded, not seriously. it wife was wound as well. detonated behind the staff car behind and luckily nothing else happened. everyone else survived, they dusted themselves off and the 20th century proceeded along its course. the third balkan war broke out between turkey and greece the russians desperate to keep the straits from being closed again, cut off greece, brought the war to an end, the concert of europe was effectively revived. wait a minute. that's not what happened. what did happen? well, what did happen is they actually proceeded along i keep hitting the wrong button here. we have to go back. here we are. they proceeded along to the town hall, they went along with the program. franz ferdinand gave his own remarks, the mayor welcomed him and said as you can see, we citizens of sarajevo salute you and welcome you with your great warmth of heart, and he said the

this is belgrade. capital city of serbia. less than two miles from the city center, serbia's largest and most infamous prison. centraini zatvor. known locally as cz. >> my parents are from belgrade so there was a bit more emotion going to a prison in serbia than say other prisons around the world. cz has an ominous reputation for serbs. it's where inmates went in, and then you'd never see them again. >> cz opened its doors in 1950 and has housed countless political prisoners, including opponents of the late serbian president slobodan milosevic. many were still there when milosevic himself was incarcerated here in 2001, while awaiting trial for corruption and war crimes. today it houses some of the nation's most dangerous criminals. including the assassin of a former serbian prime minister. >> translator: they have committed all kinds of criminal offenses. basically every criminal offense on the books. these include organized crimes, war crime and other serious criminal offenses such as homicide. >> like american prisons, cz f

the first to had been trained in belgrade.he lit the fuse bomb, threw it at the arch duke and hit him in a cheek. bounced off of his face. it crazed him. he was wounded, not seriously. it wife was wound, as well. detonated behind the staff car behind and luckily nothing else happened. everyone else survived, they dusted themselves off and the 20th century proceeded along its course. the third balkan war broke out between turkey and greece, the russians desperate to keep the straits from being closed again, cut off greece, brought the war to an end, the concert of europe was effectively revived. wait a minute. that's not what happened. what did happen? well, what did happen is they actually proceeded along i keep hitting the wrong button here. we have to go back. here we are. they proceeded along to the town hall, they went along with the program. franz ferdinand gave his own remarks, the mayor welcomed him and said as you can see, we citizens of sarajevo salute you and welcome you with your great warmth of heart, and he said t

violent history the return of one of the nationalist threatens to inflame old tensions, barker in belgrade will not cut the oil prices and saudi arabia, kuwait and opec member states are meeting because of the falling prices have had a huge impact on on other countries to keep their countries afloat and erica reports. >> reporter: the biggest exporter of oil and accounts for 13% of the world's supply and six months of falling prices have dented the profit margins. at a meeting of oil ministers saudi arabia has blamed non-opec countries for the fall, the saudi minister said oil producers outside the block lacked cooperation and are oversupplying the market due to greed. >> translator: we do not know what can happen in the future but what we know for sure is those who have the most and best production will control the market. >> reporter: gulf ministers said they are confident the market will stabilize again and soon but refusal by opec to drop the supply of oil around 30 million barrels a day could hurt other economies and those inside the block and crude has dropped from $111 in june to no

belgrade. >> oil-producing countries in the gulf rental sai region said they won't cut prices. >> reporter: saudi arain is the world's biggest exporter of oil, and accounts for 13% of the world supply. six months of falling prices have dented the profit margins. at a meeting of arab oil ministers in abu dhabi, they blame non-opec members for the fall. they say oil producers outside of the bloc with lack of corporation and greed. >> we don't know what will happen in the future. but what we know for sure those who have the most and best production will control the market. >> reporter: gulf ministers said that they're confident that the market will stabilize again and soon. but it's dropping of oil production to 30 million-barrels a day could hurt some countries. venezuela, who relies heavily on oil revenues, struggles to balance the books. >> this is not the first disaster. this has happened before. we're just at a short-term of oversupply. this over supply will be fixed because the market is strong. >> reporter: some analysts say another factor in the volatility of the prices is a rise of s

. >> neave barker, al jazeera, belgrade. >> manufacturer airbus delivered the plane to qatar airways,ch becomes the first airlines to fly the carbon composite airplane. >> they have waited eight years, and it would not happen again in another decade. the unveiling of a new airplane, the a-350 picks up on something that the american manufacturer, boeing, picked up on. 53% carbon composite. is that a good return for $15 billion invested? airbus thinks so. >> we tested a lot, we went through a lot of simulations also, much more than we used to do in the past. but whether we started the gs process, we had almost no problem. >> the launch customer at qatar airways, famous for exacting high standards, to the point that this delivery was delayed by a week. >> an aircraft delivered by airbus, completed, but all the equipment put inside, especially the seats the galleys, is not manufactured by third parties. >> qatar airways are talking about new comfort on the airways. let's face it, economy is never going to be that comfortable. but maybe it is a bit of improvement. >> as the page in economy

we met with him in belgrade. >> it is a gift i received from my friend saddam hussein. >> reporter: he is one of the last political strong men of yugoslavia's civil wars. after being text rarely released by the hague tribunals to receive cancer treatment vojislav seselj is back at work. >> translation: in the last 12 years the hague tribunal failed to prove any link between me and any atrocities. this is the siege that ended in the massacre of hundreds of crow at. he's accused by the hague of the persecution of serbs, murder, imprisonment and torture. this comes at a tentative time for serbia as it eases towards e.u. membership. there are those that are concern itted will lead to a lose of sovereignty and be damaging to its ties with russia. vojislav seselj made no secret of his desire to unit serbia and russia. >> interrupting the interview, vojislav seselj's mobile phone. the russian national anthem - his ring tone of choice. >> translation: all of our traditional members are e.u. members. russia is a friend and ally. e.u. countries bombed us in 1999. they bombed kosovo. russia, thro

we met him in belgrade. >> this is a gift which i received from my friend saddam hussein. >> reporter: he's one of the last political strong men of yugoslavia's civil wars. after being released by the hague tribunal to receive cancer treatment he is back at work. >> translation: in the last 12 years the hague tribunal failed to prove a link between me and any atrocities. >> reporter: this ended in the massacre of hundreds of ethnic crow at. he's accused of the persecution of non-serbs, murder, imprisonment and torture. the return comes at a tentative time as it edges closer to e.u. membership. there are those that are concerned that membership will lead to a loss of sovereignty and be damaging for close ties to russia. he has made no secret of his desire to create a pan slavic region, uniting russia and serbia. >> interrupting the interview, his mobile phone. [ ♪ music ] >> reporter: the russian national anthem - his ring tone of choice. >> translation: all of our traditional enemies are e.u. member. russia is our traditional friend and ally. e.u. countries bombed us in 1999 and grabb

neve barker, al jazeera, belgrade. >> spain's princess cristina will be tried in march. >> spain's princess cristina, the king's sister has been indicted by a judge to face trial. she could be convict -- could be jailed if she is convicted of tax fraud. her husband a former olympic medalist. he is accused of embezzling $8 billion in public money. he was already due to go on trial. his wife expecting just a fine. now they will face charges together and she will become the first member of the royal family to appear in court since the monarchy was restored 40 years ago. >> translator: we have to remember that one is innocent until proven guilty. justice will resolve this. what we ask is that she gets a fair trial and that the law is respected. >> the presiding judge seen here earlier this year adamant that the royal family is seen to be fully accountable before the people of spain. and these are people who are increasingly unhappy with the royals. the image of former king juan los was already suffering. spaniards, struggling, when pictures emerged of hu him on an elephant safari. more than 60%

belgrade's road to e.u. membership remains uncertain, china offers an attractive alternative lifeline. >> chinese construction on that new railroad is expected to begin in mid 2015. >> the white house is promising a proportional response to the hack attack on sony pictures. officials say evidence points to north korea as the culprit and the obama administration is considering a range of options, if jim jong un's government is proven to be connected. it may not have acted alone. experts say it could have gotten help from iran, russia and china. >> peter is a allow and ethics professor at georgia tech, a former member of obama's n.s.a. review group with a focus on cyber security. he joins us from atlanta this morning. thanks for being with us. >> glad to be here. >> a representative said: this is not just a corporate security issue, it is an act of aggression against the united states by a foreign government. what would a proportional response to a cyber attack like this look like? >> well, first thing to noti

touring the grounds of zebala, a maximum security prison located in the serbian countryside outside belgradeerywhere. all you could hear were the sounds of birds, birds, birds, birds. that was very surprising to me. you couldn't escape it. >> the prison's garden-like grounds and collection of birds, including peacocks, are part of a renovation project. prison officials felt a relaxing natural environment could help their rehabilitation efforts. >> it did actually have a calmer feel than i expected. the buildup was pretty big. serbia's biggest, most notorious prison, then here i am with peacocks and birds and cats wandering around. >> in fact, when we wandered into the prison's shoe factory where inmate workers make dozens of shoes per day, the scene was more reminiscent of a disney film than a prison. >> this is our pet. >> this shoe shop was a pretty unique area that we got to film in. and just the fact that all the shoes were being made by hand. and then, we're in the middle of a conversation with a guy. and a parakeet comes and lands on the guy's shoulder. it just -- everything combined i

they were signed by slobodan milosevic in belgrade and someone else. the only bosnian to sign them was the muslim bosnian leader. what we basically had done was given ourselves cover because the neighbors signed it. but we didn't want to deal with the local war criminals. at least as a government. i, however, was in a position where i dealt with indictables, as we called them, all the time. and a number of them were later indicted and ended up in the hague which, in most cases, was a richly deserved location for them. but in other words, we had a structure -- we, the united states. we, the so-called peace implementation council which was the u.s., plus canada, plus the european union, plus russia, and and turkey, representing the organization of the islamic conference, to put together a country which did not exist. and so we didn't have to worry much about purpose. the purpose was to, we in this country tend to call it nation building. i prefer to call it state building. to build a viable state. as for empowerment, the state department led the process.

that is the hand that dropped the bombs on defenseless rotterdam, brussels, belgrade.he hand that destroyed the cities, villages, and homes of russia. that is the hand that held the whip over the polish, yugoslav, french and norwegian slaves. that is the hand that took their food. that is the hand that starved them. that is the hand that murdered, massacred greek, czechs, jews. that is the hand that killed and crippled american soldiers, sailor, marines. don't clasp that hand. it's not the kind of a hand you can clasp in friendship. >> but there are millions of germans. some of those guys must be okay. >> perhaps. but which ones? just one mistake may cost you your life. trust none of them. some day, the german people might be cured of their disease. the super race disease. the world conquest disease. but they must prove that they have been cured beyond the shadow of a doubt before they ever again are allowed to take their place among respectable nations. until that day, we stand guard. we are determined that their plan for world conquest shall stop here and now. we are

supporting the 1996 taiwan strait crisis, the 1999 accidental bombing of the chinese embassy in belgrade, the downing of a u.s. aircraft on hainan on the island in 2001 and in 2001 he was awarded the u.s. department of state superior honor board for outstanding support especially for aiding the office when chinese leadership changed hands in 2012. to my right here is someone who has become very well-known and recognized for his knowledge of china. evan osnos is a writer for "the new yorker." he covers politics and foreign affairs and is the author of a recent book about china the age of ambition chasing fortune through fame and new china. it's based on his experience of living in china for eight years. he was also before he joined "the new yorker" was a member of the "chicago tribune" team that won a pulitzer for investigative reporting in into my left ear to former ambassador jon huntsman. he of course was ambassador to china from 2001 and of course before that he was governor of utah for two terms. he began his career in public service as a staff assistant to ronald reagan, served each

policymakers during ,he 1996 taiwan missile crisis the 1999 bombing of the chinese him -- embassy in belgrade, the downing of the u.s. aircraft in the, in 2001 he was awarded u.s. department of state's said. honor award for outstanding forort to the secretary aiding the office when chinese leadership changed hands in 2012. is somebody who has become well known and recognized for his knowledge of china. he is a writer for new yorker and he covers politics and foreign affairs. he is the author of a book about ambition:ed "age of chasing fortune, truth, and faith in china." for eightn china years, and before he joined the new yorker, he was a member of the chicago tribune team the 20 --nts are for investigative that one a pulitzer for reporting.ve jon huntsman, ambassador to china from 2001. before that, he was governor of utah. he began his career as a staff assistant to ronald reagan, and he served each of the four presidents since then. his roles include a bit -- ambassador to sing for -- and most recently, ambassador to china. as governor over utah, he focused on economic reform and brought

they were signed by slobodan milosevic in belgrade and someone else. the only bosnian to sign them was the muslim bosnian leader. what we basically had done was given ourselves cover because the neighbors signed it. but we didn't want to deal with the local war criminals. at least as a government. i, however, was in a position where i dealt with indictables, as we called them, all the time. and a number of them were later indicted, and ended up in the hague. which, in most cases, was a richly deserved location for them. but in other words, we had a structure, we the united states, we the so-called peace implementation council, which was the u.s., plus canada, plus the european union, plus russia and turkey, representing the organization of the islamic conference, to put together a country which did not exist. and so we didn't have to worry much about purpose. the purpose was to, we in this country tend to call it nation building. i prefer to call it state building. to build a viable state. as for empowerment, the state department led the process. worki