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me as a different country and bosnians are foreigners. and yet fresh graffiti can still be seen on the wall of the house where dr dubrow just left it says radovan carried it straight.

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he's the former bosnian serb leader accused of war crimes by un court coming up in our special report our team looks at right of encourage. belgrade become people of serbia in two thousand and two dr drug which a specialist in alternative medicine settled here nobody knew where he was from or what his occupation had been before. one instant popularity in the medical community he gave lectures i'm cured people of diseases we see him as someone who helps people and people love him. in one thousand nine hundred six run of on carriage leader of the bosnian serbs was put on an international wanted list for charges of terror and exterminating people in his home country. a five million dollars reward was offered for information on his whereabouts. forty four months. carriage directed a campaign of terror against a civilian population. was arrested only in two thousand and eight when he was brought before the international tribunals at the hague. during the thirteen year long manhunt for him nobody not even friends and close relatives knew the carriage which where the same person. the small t

was funny to speak a little bit of english, a bosnian, german.lt like a big part of the world. so you felt ok, it is not a bosnian movie. i am doing an international movie. because it is a world topic. >> one of her favorite spots is were the market performers from the villages sell their produce. everyone here knows her these days now that she is famous abroad. >> first, you have to, you know, become somebody abroad, and then you come home and people here say, oh, you're somebody, so you work. >> she has already won five international prizes and has three new roles lined up. right now, she is preparing for the european film awards gala. but even if she does not win the award, she still has enough reasons to celebrate. >> two of the films in the running for the european film prize are german productions that look at the country's debate about immigration and islam's role in society. that debate was fueled by a book by a former member of the german central bank. in a, he argues that islamic immigrants are placing a financial and cultural strain on

was funny to speak a little bit of english, a bosnian, german.lt like a big part of the world. so you felt ok, it is not a bosnian movie. i am doing an international movie. because it is a world topic. >> one of her favorite spots is were the market performers from the villages sell their produce. everyone here knows her these days now that she is famous abroad. >> first, you have to, you know, become somebody abroad, and then you come home and people here say, oh, you're somebody, so you work. >> she has already won five international prizes and has three new roles lined up. right now, she is preparing for the european film awards gala. but even if she does not win the award, she still has enough reasons to celebrate. >> two of the films in the running for the european film prize are german productions that look at the country's debate about immigration and islam's role in society. that debate was fueled by a book by a former member of the german central bank. in a, he argues that islamic immigrants are placing a financial and cultural strain on

holbrooke, 69, is best remembered for having brokered the peace agreement between warring bosnian factions in 1995. we'll go to jill dougherty live at the state department for more. >> reporter: well, the latest confirmed by a senior administration official that ambassador holbrooke did die today. remember that it happened last week. here at the state department. and he has been in the hospital over the past weekend and today numerous surgeries. in fact, about 20 hours of surgery. but eventually he did seccumb. we're told by people who were with him that he put up a very, very good, strong fight but in the end this extremely strong man and one of the giants of american diplomacy has died. the coincidence was that here at the state department today, you know, they had a holiday party, president obama here, secretary clinton, and both of them making very strong and heart felt comments about dick holbrooke and his 50 years, nearly 50 years in diplomacy going way back to the vietnam war and then to the dayton peace accords. a man who is able to sit down and really take it to the person on the

sheer tenacity kept the bosnians alive.if it were not for him, i don't think bosnia would have survived. and he's remarkable. could we show the picture on the other side? this one, yeah. this picture is taken on the morning of october -- of november 31st. this is warren christopher with his back to the camera watching president clinton making the announcement on television from the rose garden. i'm there. and this is tom donlin, secretary christopher's chief of staff, who's an indispensable part of the process, a brilliant part of the team. c-span: how important are friendships like you mention quite often your friendship with talbot, the depp isty over at the state department. >> guest: well, they're very important. you know, you come to the government with prior relationships, sometimes they're forged in iron and they hold under tension. other times they crack apart. you sometimes find a person you weren't close to that you become an ally of. i'll say one thing, brian, you do not know how people are from dinner tables as

and recently,-bosnian peace plan, and he was known for a feisty, forceful style. he was 69 years old, and was sick and fauna, taken to hospital and had surgery and was sick--on friday--and he died today at a washington hospital. >> pam? >> san francisco has a deadline of friday. to host this yacht club, and this letter says the key changes must be made to the original agreement that could cause financial risk to the american cup event of 40's. the yacht club is hosting the yacht club event-the yacht club is hosting the american cup and switching the venue from the source southern waterfront, to the northern waterfront--and pleasing that billionaire crowd. >> we think it is a great idea for the people of san francisco and a good opportunity for the people of san francisco. and i think bmw/oracle is a good profitable deal for them. paris themselves. >> any notion that this should be a sweetheart billionaire should be e evaporated. as far as we are concerned. the authorities could it possibly consider italy with the middle east if san francisco cannot be agreed upon.

he would stand up for the mistreated in sudan, the bosnians we've talked about. so hi spent an incredible amount of time... >> rose: he was on this program talking with me about the floods in pakistan. you've got to the do something about this. we have got to make the world more aware of the stakes. >> he had that moral imperative. >> but was he... was this guy more a doer than a thinker? was he more a man of action? >> he was both. >> that's an interesting question because he was both. he was a doer but he couldn't get done what he did without being a real thinker, without being a real intellectual. and understanding people. >> rose: what influenced the way he thought about things? first of all, there's history early on. >> that was his main thing. he could yes cite more history than you would ever want to hear. >> in one conversation. >> you could go for a car ride... you could go on a car ride with him for a couple of hours through germany sometimes and he would tell you everything that went on in that valley as you were going down. and this is an incredible s

nepal's former crown prince has been detained for allegedly firing a gun in a drunken that ended the bosnianar. more recently, he had been the president's special representative in afghanistan and pakistan. the bbc now looks back at his life. >> peace negotiator and a veteran troubleshooter, richard holbrooke served as envoy to more than one u.s. democratic president. besides obama, he was a point man on many overseas problems, pakistan and afghanistan. a familiar face in kabul, he was famous for his blunt speaking behind the scenes, despite the handshakes and careful courtesy in public. >> with president karzai, i carried a personal message from president obama. >> his active interest in a just and his career as a diplomat. he made frequent visits during his tenure of -- as u.s. ambassador to the united nations. he started his career as a vietnamese specialist on the delegation at the paris peace talks that ended the vietnam war. but it was his role in ending europe's war in bosnia, at the siege of sarajevo that first made him famous. in the unlikely surroundings of dayton, ohio in the amer

e played a key role in the afghan peace effort and brokered a peace agreement between the warring bosnian factions. >>> michael steele plans to run for a second term as the head of the republican national committee. this will be one of the toughest fights of his political career because five others want the job. steele kep the decision secrets until a conference call last night. a lot of members of the gop are unhappy with the fund raising efforts as well as management style. >>> dramatic video caught on tape. >> yeah. police officer stops to help an accident victim and when he is hit by a car, we will show you what happens. >>> and the slow moving storm that brought bone chilling cold and dropped heavy snow moves out to the midwest. and we will show you all the problems it caused. >>> time for a look at trains and buses throughout the metro area. good morning kurt. hope you are warm this morning. >> reporter: yes, once i got in the building. that's good thing. we have of course warm bus and trains out there moving folks along and a delay on the light rail northbound running about 20 minu

ambassador holbrooke is also being remembered as an architect of the 1995 bosnian peace plan. holbrooke was 69 years old. >>> right now, family and friends are paying their final respects to the slain swimsuit designer, sylvie cachay. her body was discovered last thursday inside of a new york city hotel. police have charged her exboyfriend, nicholas brooks, with murder. he's accused of strangling her. sylvie cachay was a native of mclean, virginia and a graduate of mary mount university in arlington. today's funeral service is taking place in vienna. >>> lawmakers have overcome the first key hurdle on a bipartisan bill to extend bush era tax breaks. the senate is moving forward and could vote on it as early as tonight. joel brown reports that democrats in the house are calling for major revisions. >> washington, d.c., december 14th. >> reporter: the senate started its debate on the bipartisan tax plan overwhelmingly approved in a test vote overnight. final passage in the senate could come later today and then it moves to the house where it faces opposition from democrats. swee

he is also remembered as the architect of the 1995 bosnian peace plans. he was 69 years old. they are celebrating an overtime victory in charm city. josh wilson picked off a pass and returned it 12-yards for the game-winning touchdown in  the ravens win over houston. the win moves the ravens in to a tie with the jets for the two afc wild card playoff spots. >>> one of the most anticipated free agent signings in major league baseball is now over. pitcher cliff lee has inked a five-year, $100 million contract with the philadelphia phillies. combining three leigh with roy halladay gives them the most powerful pitching rotation in all of baseball. >>> a final vote in the senate could send president obama's tax cut proposal to the house as early as tonight. the measure passed a key vote on monday. it i includes an extension of bush-era tax cuts for all americans and unemployment benefits. president obama says it proves the two parties can work together. when the bill goes to the house, its future is less certain. >>> the obama administration plans to appeal a federal judge's rul

he was best none for helping to broker the dayton peace agreement which ended the bosnian conflict. his most recent role was as obama's special representative in pakistan and afghanistan. we look back at his life. >> peace negotiator and veteran troubleshooter richard holbrooke served as envoy to more than one u.s. president. he was point man on probably america's most troublesome overseas problem, averages and -- pakistan and afghanistan. he was famous for blunt speaking behind the scenes despite the hand shakes and courtesy in public. >> with president karzai, i carried a personal message from president obama. >> his active interest in asia spanned his career as a diplomat. he made frequent visits during his tenure as u.s. ambassador of the united nations, like here to china. he started his career as a vietnamese specialist on the delegation at the paris peace talks that ended the vietnam war. but it was his role in ending europe's war in bosnia with its siege of sarajevo that first made him famous. in the unlikely surroundings of dayton, ohio, he more or less forced the warring s

>> david managed to get himself captured by the bosnian serbs in the middle of the deyton process and we decided to just stop the negotiations until he was released and i remember milosevich saying you are crazy enough to stop an entire peace negotiation for one journalist who should not have been where he was? i said, yes, we are. my wife, was then the chairman of the committee of journalist and she went out and after three days got him out. but my most visit memory is the last time i saw david and kristin before activity, it was at the wedding of a friend of ours and he and kristen had not yet been married, they were engaged and he said i am going back to afghanistan and i said jokingly, don't get yourself captured again. he said, no, no, that will never happen. so then, as david recounts in his articles and books, he tried to -- quite an interesting story. he tried to explain to the taliban that he was to be regarded in a different way because he had tried to expose the atrocities of bosnian serbs against muslimss at stress the need some -- at srebenica. but they googled him and wo

agenda in the balkans during the bosnian war the dayton agreement much praised by america for ending the conflict is one of his best known achievements but political writer diana johnston says the accord was orchestrated by holbrooke using questionable tactics. the reality is that the united states helped start the boston war in one thousand nine hundred ninety two by encouraging is a big of it's the boston muslim leader to pull out of an agreement that was made between the three f. think parties that would have prevented the war and then in order to finally stop it. had to turn to slobodan milosevic who desperately wanted to make peace in order to get sanctions lifted from serbia so in fact the united states he used most of it to make peace and hold us on account of that makes it quite clear that it was mostly refuse save the peace accords. making great compromises at the cost of us in service most of it we didn't get any credit for that but in fact was in close of owen hall book land and set down in the tent of the albanian separate is just so he combined this dynasty with the next

agenda in the balkans during the bosnian war more recently he became barack obama's special envoy to afghanistan and pakistan and to talk more about his role in afghanistan we're joined by ots michu contributor kind of getting who shall thank you for joining us here in the studio richard holbrooke's role in the so-called winning of hearts and minds in afghanistan he was you know as general betray is famous for being the father of a surge in iraq and later in afghanistan richard holbrooke used more famous as the father of purge purging out all the diplomatic intelligence and law enforcement community in the united states against those who were supporting actively american the only positive side of the american foreign policy a robust counter-narcotics policy from his predecessor george bush from the previous administration so he wiped out the whole generation of american politicians and generals and diplomats and ambassadors who was actively who were taking the active active stance to be the focus on education in afghanistan and after richard holbrooke came in he started he made it he

agenda in the balkans during the bosnian war more recently he became barack obama's special envoy to afghanistan and pakistan but artie's military contributor colonel uganda herself says american foreign policy in afghanistan especially in the fight against drugs was itself in its. he wiped out the whole generation of american politicians and generals and diplomats and ambassadors who were taking the active stance to be the focus on. afghanistan after richard holbrooke made a complete overhaul of u.s. policy from counter narcotics to. effectively promoting the u.s. pows is that the u.s. drug store policy in afghanistan leading lose all the beings and drug lords that's resulted in in effect. the criminal drug trafficking in afghanistan keep personae fight the trail of the historical us counter-narcotics approach you know afghanistan just for the benefit of the elite service preventing their so-called friendly farmers from going to tell about the united states of the drug enforcement administration together with the state department have by default opportunity to reset and jump start t

nine iraq nine hundred ninety one somalia nine hundred ninety two haiti nine hundred ninety four bosnian one thousand nine hundred five cost of zero nine hundred ninety nine afghanistan two thousand and one in iraq two thousand and three. the united states spends nearly as much on military hardware fixtures and training as all other countries combined we see at a time when there's twenty five to thirty million people who are unemployed or underemployed where forty seven million americans can't go to a doctor when they're sick there's limitless funds limitless resources for the war budget the military budget is hardly ever questioned downtown that is dominated by its industrial complex. advertisements lined the metro. commercials showcase the latest hardware and politicians cave into the lobbying campaigns and you can see it by the budget figures that the united states is in fact a warfare state it's addicted to militarism its addicted to war spending and it's addictive the war profits this is where the war profiteers are headquartered tearing over the pentagon this place is known as cont

ambassador to germany and the united nations, holbrook's greatest achievement was working out the 1995 bosnianace accord. just prior to holbrook's death tonight, president obama praised him for his years of service to the country. >> richard holbrooke has been serving this nation with distinction for nearly 50 years. he is simply one of the giants of american foreign policy. >> couric: richard holbrooke was 69. meanwhile, swindler bernard madoff sent word today through his lawyer he will not ask to be let out of prison to attend his son's funeral. the decision, he says, is out of consideration for the privacy of his son's wife and children. mark madoff committed suicide over the weekend, the latest casualty of his father's massive ponzi scheme. here's anthony mason. >> reporter: mark madoff was said to have been despondent that he'd never find another job. it's a fear many former madoff employees have had to face. when you heard the news about mark this weekend... >> it was devastating. >> reporter: clive brown, who drove for the madoff family for 12 years remembers bernie's first words when h

heart surgery he's best known as the chief architect of the dayton peace agreement which ended the bosnian war more recently became barack obama's special envoy to afghanistan and pakistan credits include being nominated for the nobel peace prize seven times praised by president obama as a giant of american foreign policy is often unrelenting style ending the nickname the bleeders or. iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad has dismissed the country's foreign minister manouchehr mottaki from his post the news came unexpectedly while the minister was on a state visit to senegal on a spot speculation of a power struggle the country's top nuclear official last sunday he has been real money interim replacement the move comes as ron struggles on the heavy sanctions aimed at curbing its nuclear enrichment activities. joining the world trade organization would help boost europe's economy as a whole and especially that of its neighbors that's the view of the president of finland taria holland and the full interview is coming your way very shortly but here's a quick preview. because we have worked at