in war-torn bosnia for four years already. because remember the boston or started in force in about 1992 -- the bosnia war. and gersony doesn't get there until late 1995. the aid workers he's dealing with our people who stayed the course and what he called the rand corporation of humanitarian aid for bosnia. that's the kind of expertise he was giving. and what he discovered was the dayton accords were, they stopped the war, but the situation was so fragile it would not take much to restart the war and make dayton seem to have been a failure. so it was a fragile situation, number one. and some of what dayton recommended was impossible to implement at the moment. specifically dayton wanted minority return which is a fancy washington word, for instance, if you have a city, a village of 300 croats and the reform act muslim families, those four muslim families had to go home with the 300 croats and be accepted by them, have their school age children accepted by them and have nothing bad happened to them, get their home back because

he'd like to see bosnia phase out coal power more quickly. growing national museum reason is you our problem is that we're surrounded by waste disposal dumps we live between 2 coal ash dumps and a thermal power plant source and we know those in the church the church we're hoping for a change in the government so that the west can have some influence clearly at the moment the government is only acting in its own interests and doesn't care about the people here. wish to do that pushed on some sort of. in. the rail corridor or that begins at the greek port of piracy and travels by in belgrade is meant to end one day in budapest it will become the delivery route for many chinese goods coming to the you. hungary's close ties with china go back decades we come to meet garrick a shallow and expert on china and its policy. change taking us through budapest's china town. from here chinese goods go on to be distributed around europe it's all started in $1009.00. 180 and for some reason hungary and china. raised in agrement about not requiring visas fro

protected without 1st dose bosnia herzegovina is tightening restrictions as it struggles with a record number of deaths it's still waiting for vaccines to be delivered not 0 or higher as reports cemeteries are filling up fast morgues are crowded with bodies awaiting burial and hospitals are its maximum capacity. bosnia's capital sarajevo's facing a new wave of current virus infections and it's said it could be far worse than the 1st more interesting the highest number of drone deaths in the country since the pandemic started you know paula say there were around the clock to cope. for the show which at the 1st we're going to know about if it goes on like this at the end of march we'll probably have more deaths in these 1st 3 months of the year than the entire last year bosnia has one of the highest rates of deaths in the world for its size of population the number of funerals of course to some the horrors of the bosnian war in the ninety's ninety's kids who gave some good sometimes i tend to funerals on the same day so many people died my friends and family this reminds me of the war pe

he goes to bosnia and then would spend three months. workers who had been on the ground for worn tour in bosnia for four years already. the bosnia war started in force in about 1992. he does not get there until late 1995. the aid workers he is dealing with are people who stay the course and the humanitarian aid for bosnia. that is a kind of expertise he is getting. they stopped the war. but, if the situation was so fragile, it would not take much to restart the war and make dayton seem to have been a failure. it was a fragile situation, number one. some of what dayton recommended was impossible to implement at the moment. he wanted minority return which is a fancy washington word for instance. if you have a village of 300 and there were four muslim families, those four muslim families had to go home and be accepted by them. have their school-age children accepted by them. if nothing bad happened to them, get their home back because that is what dayton intended to do. rip up this whole legacy of interactive war in the region. after inter

that is exactly what happened in the long-running crisis over bosnia. at first, the supporters of the european foreign policy and a european defense identity declared the former yugoslavia europe's crisis and asked the united states to keep out. the united states was glad to do so, but the european union's farcical involvement only made matters worse. after a while was effectively abandoned. then the united nations became involved and asked nato to be its military agent in its peacekeeping operations. finally, when the united nations nato personnel were taken hostage, the united states intervened, employed nato air power with real effect, forced the competents to the conference table and for better or worse imposed an agreement on them, and heads a large nato contingent that is enforcing it. in the course of stamping its authority on events, the united states also stamped its authority on the european members of nato. and since the logistical supply chain goes through hungary, it drew the central europeans into nato operations in a small way. whether na

that is what happened in the long-running crisis over bosnia. at first, the supporters of the european foreign policy declared former yugoslavia europe's crisis and asked the united states to keep up. the u.s. was glad to do so. the european union only made matters worse, and after a while , it was abandoned. then the united nations became involved and asked nato to be its military agent in peacekeeping operations. finally, in united nations nato personnel were taken hostage, the united states intervened, employed nato airpower and force them to the conference table and impose the agreement on them. in the course of that, the united states stamped its authority on the european members of nato, and since the supply chain goes to hungary, it drew the central europeans into nato operations in small way. whether nato will apply the logix of this in future strategic planning remains to be seen. but for the armchair theory of a divisive nato, bosnia has been no end to a lesson. these failures -- if we look ahead further to the end of the 21st century,

bosnia has been a lesson. these institutional failures, are in their own terms and on our own times, if we could move further to the end of the 24 century. however, an alarming and unstable future is on the cards. consider the number of medium to large states in the world, that are now involved in a free market revolution. china, possibly russia, add to these the present economic great powers, the united states, and japan. and if the federal get their way, a european superstate, with its own independent and foreign defense policy, perhaps an amicable to the united states. what we see here as, in the year 2096, is an unstable world, which there are more than half a dozen great powers, always as -- all vulnerable if they stand-alone, all capable of increasing their power and influence, if they form the right alliance, and all engaged willy-nilly, in perpetual diplomatic maneuvers, to make sure that their situations improve rather than deteriorate. in other words, 2096, might look like 1914, played on a somewhat

the combined effect of interventions in bosnia are somalia and indeed rwanda. has been to shake the self-confidence of key western powers and to tarnish the reputation of the united nations and now a dangerous trend is evident. as the haiti case shows the security council seems single prepared to widen the legal basis for intervention. we are seeing in fact that classically dangerous combination a growing disproportion between theoretical claims and practical means. compare this hubris with the failure to active effectively against the proliferation of nuclear chemical and biological weapons and the means to deliver them. as i have already argued he's a falling into dangerous hands. given the intellectual climate in the west today. it's probably unrealistic to expect military intervention to remove the source of the threat as for example against north korea except perhaps when the offender invites us to do so by invading a small neighboring country. even then as we now know. says in destroying saddam's nuclear and chemical weapons capability was limited. and we

yes, i was deployed to bosnia ie the early 2000s as part of the s nato peacekeeping force. one of the things we do in the military, we talk about bottom i line up front.ng so i'm going to answer your last question first.in the m the biggest lesson learned that i tookso away from those 18 mone there is that the veneer of tha civilization is very fragile, and that once ruptured it's very difficult to piece it back together. as many people may not realize,k is that of what were the six provinces in the former yugoslavia, bosnia was the most heterogenous one. the civil war between the serbs andnd the bosnian muslims, but s they all were slavs.we it really, really was snian eye-opening and shocking to everyone. with regard to civic education, this was also at the time lord robinson was the secretary general of nato.also and lord a robinson was committ to taking bosnia from civil war to european atlanta integration. and so a lot of time and effort was spent both by our e.u. allies as well as nato on democraticization, trying to build capacity in the central u government. yes, edu

with a shortage of vaccines bosnia's been unable to stop the mass inoculation program is sort of more than 2000000 vaccines under the global kovacs increased population of 3500000 but to move rees have been delayed the government says it's disappointed it is only received $50000.00 doses so far. in sarajevo there's been a lack of social distancing and mask wearing. rising cases and deaths the government announced stricter guidelines on friday cafes and restaurants now closed to. all protests have been held across europe calling for corona virus restrictions to be lifted in germany that were minor scuffles with police as several 1000 people gathered in the city of purcell to oppose the current measure is what it can and will also use to break up the crowd while in the u.k. and he knocked down protesters here we're seeing clashing with police in central london 13 people have been arrested mostly for breaching restrictions. well professor jeffrey lazarus is a researcher at the barcelona institute for global health he joins us now from copenhagen how do you explain the surging infection n

countries like bosnia and kosovo have not started their vaccination programs at. limited vaccinations from serbia for health care workers, but it is severe. sarajevo has been in a lockdown. people are warning the situation could get worse. even serbia, a success story on the vaccination fronts, has problems as well. it has been able to source vaccines from china and russia, as well as pfizer and astrazeneca. they have vaccinated more people than anyountry, apart from the united kingdom. the 14 day incident rate is pushing to 900 per 100,000. even if you do have vaccines available, it is not necessarily the end of the story. serbia has entered a semi lockdown until next monday. anchor: italy is holding a national day of remembrance for victims of the pandemic. flags were flying at half mast in rome and elsewhere. they passed a threshold of 100,000 dying. this time last year they were the country hardest hit by the first wave. it is a year ago today, where these photos in bergamo were shared. military trucks are carrying bodies, leaving for cremation. this is bergam

tell us about your experience when you served in bosnia as part of the jag corps. what did you learn about specific education needs of that country and frankly, our own as well from that experience? >> well, thank you, dean parker for putting on this discussion and inviting me, i appreciate it. yes, i was deployed to bosnia in early 2000 as part of the nato peacekeeping force, you know, one of the things we do in the military we talk about bottom line upfront and i'm going to answer your last question first. the biggest lesson learned i took away from 18 months there, was that the ven near of civilization is very fragile and once ruptured is difficult to piece it back together. as many people may not realize of what were the six provinces in the former yugoslavia, bosnia-herzegovina, was the most-- for the civil war between the slavics and the bosnian muslims, but they all were slavs was eye opening and shocking to everyone. with regard to civic education this was also at the time lord robinson was the secretary-general of nato and lord robinson was committed to ta

and in rwanda where we had the terrible genocide it started with words in bosnia it started with words in my country at the moment the demonization of asylum seekers and migrants has become so frightening that i wouldn't be surprised if there will be even more violence directed against them using the same words the cockroaches they are vermin this was used in germany it was used in rwanda it was used in bosnia and not lean it was used by the powerful and the powerless yes and we often see cries of censorship coming from conservatives but some of the harshest rhetoric to suppress free speech and threats to the media come from the right how do conservatives sort of thread the needle how do they square that circle. because they're horrible hypocrites and put it not talking about is free speech what they're talking about is approved free free speech which is what i wrote my call and they don't want free speech at universities which criticizes israeli politics or you know holds tony blair to account properly although he hopes we forgotten what he did in iraq. they did they not keen on that

bosnia has been able to obtain — at all. obtain some limited supplies of vaccines from serbia for its essential health care workers, but otherwise. — essential health care workers, but otherwise, the situation is severe in the _ otherwise, the situation is severe in the capital has been in a lockdown— in the capital has been in a lockdown situation and people are warning _ lockdown situation and people are warning that the situations could -et warning that the situations could get worse — warning that the situations could get worse there. even serbia, which has been _ get worse there. even serbia, which has been something of a success story— has been something of a success story on— has been something of a success story on the vaccination front, i've -ot story on the vaccination front, i've got problems as well. it's been able to source _ got problems as well. it's been able to source vaccine from china and russia _ to source vaccine from china and russia -- — to source vaccine from china and russia —— have got problems as w

yes, i was deployed to bosnia in the early 2000s as part of the nato peacekeeping force.nd so, one of the things we do in the military, we talk about bottom line up front. so i will answer your last question first. the biggest lesson learned, that i took away from those 18 months there was that the veneer of civilization is very fragile. and that wants ruptured is very difficult to piece it back together. as many people may not realize is that, of what's where the six provinces and the former yugoslavia, bosnia herzegovina was the most heterogeneous one. and so, for a civil war to erupt between the slobs -- de serves who were slavitt, and the bosnian muslims, but they were all were slobs. it really was eye-opening and shocking to everyone. with regard to severe education, this was also at the time lord robinson, the secretary general of nato and lord robinson was committed to taking bosnia from civil war to european atlantico integration. and so, a lot of time was spent both by our eu allies, as well as nato on democratization, trying to build capacity in the central gove

carolina: neven stanise de 23 aÑos de edad, tratando de salvar su vida, sus padres huyeron de bosniao reparando la mÁquina, y allÍ perdiÓ la vida. borja: susan lafontaine, de 50 y tres aÑos, era actriz de teatro, y daba los necesitados a conseguir medicare. con su espazo tenÍa un lugar de mÚsica en vivo. carolina: [informaciÓn en pantalla] de 62 aÑos, directora de fotografÍa, trabajo en revista como cosmopolita y glamour. el dÍa de la masacre estaba en el supermercado haciendo una orden de mercado. borja: jhonny wather de 55 aÑos era dueÑa de una tienda de ropas para mujeres y niÑos. carolina: esos pechos acusados de matar a 10 personas en ese supermercado en boulder, colorado, fue hallado culpable de un delito menor cuando estaba en secundaria. borja: la policÍa en un suburbio de denver dijo que ya habÍan hablado con Él previamente, por un reporte de travesura criminal. pero hay muchos mÁs detalles de su perfil, y hablaremos con aihen del toro para que nos cuente un poco mÁs. aileen: la familia cree que Él pudo haber sufrido una enfermedad mental, Él emigrÓ con ello a estados unidos

soldiers stationed in bosnia. there are over 16000 people in this camp alone most are women and children. they have made temporary homes for themselves but some have been here for over a year and a half. in october 29 teams 22 people died here even large aid organizations cannot meet demand and a measles epidemic had broken out. the turnout by the. way you're going to get these are conflicts this is a brutal war that. was stuck together now mean course that both he and in this war those attacking us are our neighbors the lendu declared there is. no one feeling. whether there were others with them we can't be sure about that because when we were attacked we immediately fled as you can in this a little just doctors. uniform what we experienced when massacre was that the platoon might just as you do must suck. out nothing left play mama i've lost everything all of that but it was the night that i burned everything i had. for someone to explore what's going on and run through our lives with their children is what it i

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although with a shortage of vaccines bosnia has been unable to stop the mass inoculation program it's ordered more than 2000000 vaccines under the global kovacs increase population of 3500000 deliveries have been delayed the government says it's disappointed it is only received $50000.00 doses so far. in sarajevo there's been a lack of social distancing and more squaring the rise in cases and deaths the government not stick to guidelines on friday cafes and restaurants now closed for 2 weeks. al-jazeera marking lance is a professor at the university of loven and the rigor institute for medical research he says most people are complying with the lockdown measures no matter how unpopular. i think europe and many other countries around the world are or at least the population perceives that they're in an endless cycle of epidemics going up and then it's going down and that cycle as a company and of course then by lockdowns and subsequent relaxations there is that that puts a lot of pressure on the population to keep the ma it's it's not easy to do in these in these circumstances and i th

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equivalency between what serbia did through a state sponsored apparatus, and notjust in kosovo, but also in bosniae, and what certain individuals might have done after the war. madam president, let serbs speak for themselves. and we do have serbian representatives on this programme, and we try to hold them to account, just as now we've got you on the programme. and we want to discuss with you accountability in kosovo. you are president of kosovo. it's in all likelihood going to be confirmed that you're going to have a five—year term in the next few weeks. so the question for you is simple. if hashim thaci is found guilty of these very serious crimes, would you support him being locked up for a very long time? first of all, i have to speak for the crimes that were committed by serbia, because they were committed against the people... that's not the question i just asked you. i'll answer. i'll get to that. but in order to understand my answer, i need to speak about what actually happened in kosovo. i'm speaking about the families of the victims. i speak on their behalf, on behalf of all the families

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one months out of the many people suspect could run much longer recession just 0 paris well swear bosnia has tightened its code restrictions as it deaths in the capital reached record numbers all spittles in sarajevo warning they don't have the capacity for the rising number of patients the capital's night curfew has been lengthened to start at 9 pm and all hospitality is now closed for 2 weeks to combat the spike in infections and then ukraine has reimposed straight coronavirus restrictions in its capital kiev markets shopping malls museums cinemas they've all been closed now 1000 infections in ukraine reached the highest level since the month of november on thursday prompting he have to impose a lockdown on yeah are just the shots jokes presidential people will become more frustrated that will be the biggest change it one achieve anything else there won't be a reduction in infections people will continue to infect themselves like before because they will continue to mate in enclosed areas houses apartments and parks. well protests have also been held across europe calling for those res

or bosnia has tightened its covered restrictions also as deaths in the capital reached record numbers all spittle in sarajevo warning they don't have the capacity for the rising number of patients the capital's night curfew has been lengthened to start at 9 pm and all hospitality is now closed for 2 weeks to combat the spike in infections. or protests have been alex cross europe calling for coronavirus restrictions to be lifted in germany there will minus scuffles with police as several 1000 people gathered in the city of cosell to oppose the current measures or to kind of also use to break up the crowd while here in the u.k. anti lock down protesters was seen clashing with police in central london 13 people have been arrested mostly for breaching covert restrictions. and brazil has reported nearly 80000 new cases of the coronavirus and close to 2 and a half 1000 deaths in the last 24 hours restrictions to curb the rapid rise in infections as forced rio de janeiro's iconic cope with on a beach to close the city of 6700000 people has already been under a tight nighttime curfew now beac

soldiers stationed in bosnia. there are over 16000 people in this camp alone most are women and children. they have made temporary homes for themselves but some have been here for over a year and a half. in october 2922 people died here even large aid organizations cannot meet demand and a measles epidemic had broken out. in the town and by the. way your community these are conflicts this is a brutal war if i hear that in. the south the good amount mean course that goes beyond in this war those attacking us or our neighbors the lendu deported. no one feeling. whether there were others with them we can't be sure about that because when we were attacked we immediately fled as you can in the syllabus that is. you know for what we experienced where massacres of course that the platform i just as you do marsac. that. i have nothing left planned i have lost everything all of that i think it would mean that i burned everything i had. to some to their own what's going on or run for our lives with their children is what it

hosting ukraine in paris followed by a long trip to play kazakhstan on sunday and then a stop—off in bosniasewhere were rejected. the possibility of the springboks touring the uk and ireland instead — because of covid restrictions — was ruled out. and so was the notion of playing on neutral territory in australia. the lions will play five warm—up matches in south africa — before a three—test series against the world champions, starting on 24thjuly. you can get all the latest sports news at our website — that's bbc.com/sport. but from me and the rest of the team, that's your sports news for now. russia's entrant for this year's eurovision song contest has spoken of the hatred she's received after bring selected to represent the country. manizha sangin, who is originally from tajikistan in central asia, has come in for a barrage of abuse from nationalist politicians and commentators. she was speaking with our moscow correspondent steve rosenberg — they met for an interview and an impromptu jam session. one, two, three, four. it is russia's — one, two, three, four. it is russia's eurovision -

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ethnic cleansing was taking place in kosovo, and i thought we'd been kind of slow on dealing with bosnia, but now i was secretary of state and i one of the hard parts frankly is the secretary of state can say many things but has no airplanes and so we had to persuade the pentagon that this was a good idea to do obviously president clinton wanted to do it. otherwise we wouldn't have done it, but just to tell you it was not an easy decision the day the airplane started flying the president called me in the middle of the night and he said we're doing the right thing madeline, right? yes, absolutely. we are doing the right thing madeline, right? absolutely mr. president. so then the weather was bad the serbs put out decoys and all of them i come back into my office and my exec assistance says sit down. i said what he said just sit down i said, what is the matter with you? and he said we just bombed the chinese embassy by mistake. so they called it when everything was going wrong madeleine's war then when we won they called it something else but but one of the things when i gone back there is

region in europe chinese on supporting into highway bridges in montenegro a coal fired power plant in bosnia and a giant sea port in greece that may yet become the largest in europe. and you can see signs that these investments can translate into political influence like at the united nations human rights council where china won a show of support last year for its controversial suppression of freedoms in hong kong 4 out of 5 countries backing china has signed up to belton wrote these efforts to shape global perceptions come right from the very top china's president xi jinping was the opening speaker at this year's virtual davus meeting exuding confidence and positioning beijing as the world's greatest champion of global cooperation there is a strong desire to shows up here and already are you a chinese. too said to give. examples that show why perhaps in the 20th century democracies were huge and useful and good but now for the 21st century vienna only systems that are really suitable face the challenges of this century are systems that are closer to the chinese. u.s. president joe biden has

europe chinese funds of poor ring into highway bridges in montenegro a coal fired power plant in bosnia and a giant seaport in greece that may yet become the largest in europe. and you can see signs that these investments can translate into political influence like at the united nations human rights council where china won a show of support last year for its controversial suppression of freedoms in hong kong 4 out of 5 countries backing china had signed up to belton wrote these efforts to shape global perceptions come right from the very top china's president xi jinping was the opening speaker at this year's virtual davos meeting exuding confidence and positioning beijing as the world's greatest champion of global cooperation and their strong desire to shows up here and already are you know the chinese. too said to give. examples that show why perhaps in the 20th century democracies were huge and years well and good but now for the 21st century be only systems that are really suitable face the challengers of the century are systems that are closer to the chinese. u.s. president joe bide

that ethnic cleansing was taking place in kosovo, and i thought we had been slow on dealing with bosnia, but now i'm secretary of state. and one of the hard part frankly, a secretary of state, you can say many things, but has no airplanes. so we had to persuade the pentagon, that this was a good idea to do. obviously, president clinton wants to do it. otherwise we would not have done it. but just to tell you, it is not an easy decision. and the day the airplanes started flying, the president called me in the middle of the night and he said, we are doing the right thing madeleine right? and i said yes we are doing the right thing. and i said absolutely mister president. so the weather was bad, and the serbs put out decoys, and all the sudden i come back into my office, and my executive sistine says sit down. he said sit down. i said what is the matter with you. he said we just bombed the chinese embassy by mistake. so when everything was going wrong they called it madeleine's war. but one of the things, when i had gone back, there was a whole generation of little girls from kosovo, whose