and kosovo is moving towards different institutions, but kosovo can move towards different institutionshis recognition, serbia needs this recognition in order to normalize relations with kosovo. they have to come to terms with the situation that they lost kosovo as part of their territory and they have to accept that kosovo is now independent and can move forward, that is, to international institutions, in particular, the european union , the united nations, the council of europe, etc. therefore, i agree that this is for them, well, this is a decision that they already in fact, they cannot avoid it. but of course there will always be protests by those who are against uh, and that is understandable. the main thing is that it does not turn into some threatening protests about the european vector of serbia. they have changed some kind of political position regarding ukraine and, let's say, to the benefit of our country. i don't believe in the balkans. of course, they have people who support european integration and really want to integrate into the eu, but in recent years, in particular, l

and this family even donated to 28 kosovo jews. but still, this family was betrayed by someone, the germans lost this family together with the children and they are buried in our kursk orthodox cemetery. the great patriotic war is alive and these monuments speak about it. this is the mass grave erected in kosovo in memory of the dead partisans and the wars of the soviet army who died during the battle on august 2 forty-second, when kosovo was liberated by partisans and defeated by the german garrison and kosovo within a month was in the hands of the partisans. naya sympathizers imprinted the names of all residents of the city of kosovo who died during the patriotic war on the fronts. surnames first names those participants in the invalids of the patriotic war who survived and died have already left their native world. the head of the anti-fascist committee that operated in kosovo is buried here. here are buried other partisans who died in the battles for the coconut. and now the stella was also installed in honor of the fallen sold

and kosovo moves to different institutions, but kosovo can move to different institutions without thised. they have to come to terms with the situation that they lost kosovo as part of their territory and they have to recognize that kosovo is already independent and can move forward, that is , to international institutions and, in particular , the european union, the united nations council er, europe , etc., so yes, i agree that this is for them, er, well, this is a decision that they actually cannot avoid. but of course, there will always be protests from those who are against, and that is understandable. the main thing so that it does not turn into some threatening protests about the european vector of serbia, let's talk some more, mrs. maria, after all, this is against the background of the desire to attract even more funds , or have they changed some political position regarding ukraine and, let's say, for the benefit of our country, i do not believe in the balkans much - in fact, i studied them a lot, i have many acquaintances in the balkans, so i think that their financial intere

more than 3,000 kosovo jews are buried in this mound. they were taken here to this place from the ghetto, which was formed in obliquely during the war by the germans, they were taken here and shot here. this is scary. and god forbid that this ever happens again in our land. in our town, kosovo, in those days, before the war, more than 3,000 jewish population lived, when they came here, the germans during this 41st year already immediately formed. the kostovo ghetto, where they drove all absolutely jews? already after that. fully in every way they could support them and bring them food and bring them clothes and bring them water , some residents saved and buried in their homes. somewhere in some shovishcha such and here is one of the families of kosovo, a family of russets husband and wife and three small children. they also had their own business, a hump workshop. and that's where they kept these jews. and this family gave life to 28 jews of kosovo, but still, this family was betrayed by someone, the germans shot this family along with t

a metro visa, where the south is mostly populated by kosovo, albanians and the north by kosovo. serbs, you police got the bridge that connects the 2 parts on the albanian side. people talk about their fear and distrust. thus, for these cabinets on woman, i know that up when we don't have any kind of relationship with the people over there. now i'm not sure the daughter she thought and okay me. but what i'm, what i'm afraid to talk it through not yet that because i go over there often and they could do something to me. in the north, there are serbian flags everywhere. the only person willing to speak with us is a teenager almost doubled the boy in how to make it better. no idea. now, i mean they may be by kosovo, fully belonging to serbia, the commerce with it, but we don't go to the other side. nice that we don't have any friends there, so we stay here in the north and and serbia o, kosovo, and serbia have agreed to a proposal aimed at stabilizing relations. and although both sides have yet to sign, it is the 1st shimmer of hope in a long time. so most of the movement of what makes me

for now, the situation is calm and northern, kosovo. there's a chance to connect with the locals in the small town of little savage. on one of our local stabs at a restaurant found out that they are in a power outage. and so we're just trying to get a feel for how far the power outage spread and how it's like affecting the local population right now. at the local hospital. a doctor confirmed that there was an outage, but says they have emergency generators. a power outage here can have significance for the military. so the soldiers gather information whenever they can, before having the obligatory cup of coffee. some legal aid with kosovo, just celebrated 15 years of independence. but in that, the savage only serbian flags are on display. the defiant words splashed on the wall. read this as serbia have no fear. we are here to protect you. we try to keep a very neutral posture. we don't wanna look too aggressive for wanna cause that in a day. i mean, we're people to, we understand like the issues and concerns that they have as well. we f

to the streets in order to once again demand firmness on the kosovo issue from the authorities.solution of the kosovo issue is called by the west one of the most important tasks for europe, while belgrade insists on the creation of a community of serbian municipalities in the north of the province at a meeting and harm the reason they were obliged to start this process immediately, but at the same time, western politicians warn that the formation of a community should not result in in the creation of another rural republic, as in bosnia in the west, they are afraid of the independence of the serbs like fire. on koshevoy western diplomats come to space to see what the situation is. albanians are tense there. serbs do not tolerate each other unifications were bad relations committed serious crimes. then the same diplomats move east for 300 km into a bosnian look, the same is already between the serbs and being afraid of low muslims, but no one in the west shouts that the republic and the serbian need independence as they shout, kosovo, according to them, is completely different li

on arranging some sort of limited autonomy for the ethnic serb minority in kosovo. agreed. so i think what we're going to take away from this is things are still moving forward, but a lot is still in play and a lot still has to be explained to the people of kosovo and serbia by their respective leaders. in israel, protests against the government's plans to curb the supreme court's powers have entered their 11th week. tens of thousands of israelis have taken part in more nationwide demonstrations. opponents of the planned reforms have accused prime minister benjamin netanyahu — who is on trial on corruption charges — of trying to use the reforms to quash possible judgments against him. he has rejected the accusation. a doctor working in ukraine says bandages made at a factory in the uk are helping to save hundreds of lives. the dressings, which are coated with an extract that comes from shrimp, can stop intense bleeding. matthew hill reports. dr irnya rybinkina puts her life in danger every day in ukraine, helping the victims of the war. at times she has to treat ver

uh, it consists in , uh, taking away not in resolving the kosovo issues, but in order to shake up the the president of the vuchechka, who, uh, for all the communication with him westerners. he is as seen. uh, not quite satisfied with them is not, not being a puppet. have your own view and firm position regarding the sovereignty and national interests of serbia in kosovo, they talked for a very long time and discussed the 200th series. uh, questions that relate to bilateral relations. e that our plans will be realized contacts. er, based on that, i naturally won't reveal the details. it's uh, it's not necessary. the main thing is that this part of the conversation also confirms and shows that we are not moving confidently in the current conditions in the implementation of our tasks of strategic partnership. thank you very much for the interview, but we will hope that indeed, despite such increasing pressure from both the united states and the eu, relations between russia and serbia will develop in a good, productive , fruitful way, but i remind you that he is in direct contact with the

here it can be assumed that serbia most likely agrees not to block the entry of kosovo into the eu,now how this will be possible with the un because, of course , there are there are russia and china that can block this decision, so serbia is not completely here and can directly play this role. it is also alleged that the prime minister of kosovo has already been consulted on this decision, so it seems to me that the parties are coming to an agreement and to that these documents will be signed. of course, that is the position in serbia and it uses its opportunities to criticize by teaching what kind of decision that is not supported by a part of the population or in serbia there is such an opinion that kosovo is a part of serbia in general according to the constitution of kosovo and a myth - it is part of the tsarist state, that is why they have a very difficult time accepting this secession in general and a very difficult time accepting this independence of kosovo and therefore do not recognize whether the opposition will be able to influence some kind of change in the decision, i t

why is kosovo so important to us? statehood actually started with kosovo.ke a wound that you scratch every day because it comes down to kosovo. it's our territory for a thousand years and someone comes there and says this is our male fear of a possible genocide of kosovo led to the nato bombing and the independence of kosovo fuels anger in serbia in this context vlad sells t-shirts with z and mugs with putin it is a war between by russia and america and we give our support to this guy because we remember the bombing christopher gill the american ambassador he has been working with the balkans for a decade i spoke to the government souvenir dealer this morning he was selling t-shirts with zed or putin on the bear or mugs with putin i asked him why are you selling this his answer was not because we love putin his answer was because he is against america i don't think i can change vlad's mind but i think many serbs have realized that actually the usa is on their side without a doubt the bombing from the side of nato, what happened in 1999, for many it seems li

not accept kosovo's application to join the united will not accept kosovo's application tojoin the unitedtions. that's what he's saying and he's not saying there is a sort of compromise or change in that. as far as he's concerned, that's serbia position. so it doesn't sound particularly hopeful on that front. when that guy, think very much. guide alani, our balkans correspond theirjoining us from ljubljana. you can read more on the back another story on the website. and also the bbc news app. more analysis of the situation for you there. so the sour. the financial times is reporting that the country's biggest bank, ubs, has offered to buy credit suisse for up to $1 billion. credit suisse had been caught up in the market uncertainty triggered by the collapse, nine days ago, of america's silicon valley bank. that's a price tag that the bank has refused to confirm and the bloomberg news has reported that they are pushing back against this figure as the closing stock price for the bank on friday was 8 billion dollars. the swiss government could change the law to fast track this deal and it co

and kosovo was in the hands of the partisans for a month. naya, than the monuments imprinted the names of all the inhabitants of the city of kosovo who died during the patriotic war on the fronts. here are sacred the names of those participants in the patriotic war invalids who survived and died already gone to the guilt of the world, kosovo , the head of the anti-fascist committee that acted in kosovo, nikolai trend, is buried here. other partisans who died in battles are buried here. and that's what was also installed in honor of the fallen soldiers and partisans for liberation of the city named trends. if you have not yet come up with a dream trip, then we always have a couple of ideal options . the first point and my route, i chose a pond in the city center. pay attention to this observation deck, which is made in an unusual style in the theme of the signs of the zodiac with us. you will receive a charge of positive emotions. wow. that was very good. i feel like a queen, you will see the bright sights of our country a sightseeing hunter,

belgrade has not recognised kosovo's independence since it was declared 15 years ago.old a news conference in north macedonia that the deal would bring significant benefits for both sides. i want to stress that to open the path towards reaching the strategic objective ofjoining the european union, serbia and kosovo need to normalise their relations. there is no way around it. and this agreement and this annex, which is integral part of the agreement, it's an important step forward in order to make it a reality. and we will continue working tireless until we reach a comprehensive agreement on the normalisation of their relations. josep borrell talking in north macedonia on saturday. 0ur balkans correspondent guy delauney has been explaining the significance of these agreements. they're still going to have to carry on talking until kosovo and serbia reach this normalisation agreement. so it's not the end of the road. i mean, somebody was saying to me last night, this is a map to a road map to a direction towards an agreement. and it feels a little bit like that at the mo

kosovo is poles, all this is without kosovo, there is no serbia without croatia, they are bad scoundrels , but without croatia, there is serbia, but without kosovo, there is no russia, and without ukraine, there is no russia, yes, you found my opinion , it is true. no no no no i didn't try to compare these things because for me the balkans are always very different from ukraine, but it's true that they are similar in that approach and for some reason it is very difficult for the serbs to lose kosovo, although it is clear now that fighting for kosovo no longer makes sense in any kosovo after everything that happens, it will not become part of serbia, unless it will be some part there, i don't know. that's how i imagine that when they integrate into the eu, for example , it will be just separate countries that are members of the eu, but they will live somewhere in one community and so it is a similar situation with er from russia but to be honest - these are different things because kosovo really was the cradle of the er serbian state there, there are many serbian monasteries, if we are ta

the prime minister of kosovo said we have got de facto recognition.t of serbia saying there is no deal, and the prime minister of kosovo saying we have got de facto recognition, how can you possibly have any sort of agreement? there clearly isn't one. what's disappointing is we didn't really get any detail on the eu foreign policy chief last night, he didn't ask questions, and he did not tell us precisely what has been agreed, beyond a couple of outlines which the eu has published on its website, and which clearly have a lot of detail to be filled in.- lot of detail to be filled in. when we hear that _ lot of detail to be filled in. when we hear that serbia _ lot of detail to be filled in. when we hear that serbia 's _ lot of detail to be filled in. when we hear that serbia 's president | lot of detail to be filled in. when we hear that serbia '5 president is we hear that serbia �*s president is refusing to sign the eu proposal, has he said what changes he would need to see, or what he would like to see, before he is prepared to normalise relations? h

and the schols in munich, and to all major leaders, there can be no talk of recognizing and joining kosovo in the un. serbia had to justify itself after regular negotiations. the ring is closed in moscow launches a large metro circle line 70 km of tunnels and 31 stations were built in a record 10 years on hitbabaev. one of the first to go underground. donetsk that night turned out to be under the massed fire of ukrainian nationalists, militants shelled the city from artillery of multiple launch rocket systems , the main blow fell on densely populated areas, a girl died, seven more people were injured in several houses, the glass of the petrovsky district was knocked out by an explosive wave. again littered with forbidden mines petal. the sappers of the ministry of emergency situations have already eliminated more than 200 such shells. now demining continues the position of the militants. where do they fire on the civilian population of the dpr protect tanks and armored vehicles they are the target of our grenade launchers. fighters fire anti-tank missiles at enemy vehicles with controls. y

they are here only 600 years after the battle of kosovo.with the son of the murdered prince, stefan lazarevich, according to which the service became a vassal of the ottoman empire, and lazar khrebelyanovich himself was buried in pristina, after 2 years he was reburied in romanitsy, but in 1690, fleeing from the turks , the monks left the monastery and took away the relics of the prince in 1697. the holy relics found peace in the monastery in rodnik, which they called the new ravanets. there they stayed until 1942, when the monks saved them from the ustaše croatian nationalists. they were transported to belgrade only in 1989 the relics of the holy great martyr prince lazar returned to romanets. this happened exactly 600 years later. after his death in the battle of kosovo field, any monastery in 1388 was founded by the prince's wife. militia after the battle of kosovo, he became the residence, widowed books, at the same time and the law in this temple were kept royal jewels. but when the turks burned the monastery, the icon fell, the passag

it is not a new idea about kosovo army about the creation of course of army. they are thinking about it the last 2 to 3 years. simply they do not have had the cause. it is the path to the, the so called the consumer independence recognition commissioner, organizations is closed. so this is the, this is the alternative path. how do are legit demise position? of course of all in international relations for us and nato. to create a, in that sense, army forces of so called a public, the public of course. so it is a 1st interest of the united states of america and the 2nd and in that is used to secure to position of the nato about so one bruce out of me one bruce ali in the balkans is in the best interest of the united states and benito will an important question is, what will this mean for the serbian population in the region? and what response could we expect from belgrade? stuff it's. it's a tough question in this. in this moment, it is not in the serbian interest, of course is. so i think that serbia master take march, march, care about it. sally's about some o

how do legitimize position of kosovo in international relations for us and nato? for the u. s, which was the global hagaman at the debt, the time that you m frame, or it became too narrow, do that. oh, organizationally and the politically that the u. s. did not want to seek a brewer from russia, china, or european countries for the dimensions all around the world. in this context, context, the data going yugoslavia, it presented a president. net would then be used anywhere else in the case of the ukrainian crisis. it will of rather than to leave the do escalation, since it will not force the russian leadership to negotiate. on the contrary, it will leave the possibility for up, but as the process, the order one that is broken. asper, marking the anniversary of nato's bombing of yugoslavia, you can head over to r t dot com to watch her full documentary on the events of those years, shedding lie on the lives of people who came face to face with war. today our armed forces joined our nato allies and airstrikes against the serbian forces. ah, the glove with them for doctrine vis

washington was the one which proposed to take away kosovo from serbia. exactly 24 years ago, nato started its aggression with the goal in mind. in 1999 after serbian military and police forces withdrew the you and established its administrative presence together with its peacekeeping forces the u. s. and the so called collective west are working on building up costeo's independence. the nato alliance was rufus in 1999. for them everything was a legitimate target. civilian victims were simply called collateral damage. the ruthlessness was limited and the consequences of using forbidden weapons which contains depleted uranium are still being felt to day. unfortunately, generations and serbia will face more and more consequences in the years to come. serbia cannot stop a single process in kosovo, which has support from the u. s. and nato countries, especially now in serbia, doesn't have the full attention of the international community. so they're using this to finish everything they started in regards to forming cosello's independence . mocking the anniver

and earned reports at the special operation headquarters in rostov sailors on submarines serbia and kosovo agreed on a roadmap to normalize relations according to alexander vučić, it is necessary to make an agreement under pressure from the european union so vladimir putin made his first visit to the russian donbass in mariupol, he got behind the wheel and personally drove around of the district where residential buildings are being built, new hospitals and schools, the president talked with local residents about everything in more detail roman sobolev yes, i didn’t even expect it at all. you can at least say hello, thank you, we only saw on tv. well, it’s okay to start getting to know each other better, and it’s true that this meeting was unexpected for the residents of mariupol, someone said that he lingered in the yard of random fussing at his car, and then he saw the president at the entrance, and then the neighbors pulled themselves into a conversation, it turned out to be very emotional . thank you for victory. however, there are difficulties putin was told about the queues for obtai

to understand that serbia simply radically changes its position in our eyes, moreover, serbia and kosovo have a chance, in any case , direct negotiations have taken place and, in principle, they come to the conclusion that serbia will not be against kosovo's entry into international institutions, well, this is actually a recognition of the independence of kosovo, that is, this is the node who held the balkans on which russia played, it means, as it were, supporting serbia, where and screwing it up, which means that kosovo can still be returned and russia is ready to help them in this, in fact, of course, kosovo it is impossible to return and you will hit. he is a very pragmatic person. he is because kherson was such a wonderful moment for him. he said several times that kherson is let's look now, russia. he felt the glory of russia. he simply felt russia's weakness and made his choice. put him before a choice or you we continue european integration and continue to talk to you as part of the civilized world well then you should give up moscow or please go to moscow and be friends with the

washington has promised the self proclaimed republic of kosovo. it's full support and creating an army that will work closely with nato. that's according to the u. s . ambassador to the nation as serbia prepares to mark 24 years since nato led forces. bon belgrade, the u. s. fully support kosovo, secure to forces, comprehensive transition into multi ethnic professional nato. interoperable tutorial defense force proud of her continuous and excellent cooperation. following the bombing of serbia, the you and gave permission for a nato led international peacekeeping force to be formed in pristina, with the goal of providing stability to the war torn region. the mission consisted of both nato and non nato members, which organized several joint exercises with local security forces tasked with non military functions. however, in 2018 pristina announced its plans to change and transform the kosovo security forces into a fully fledged army. despite objections from local serbian residents law, so as long question, kosovo claimed independence and criticize t

she told how the albanians operating on the territory, kosovo, like these very the kosovo regimes areates. america abducted people in order to cut out from them now again a direct quote from carl del pont cut out the kidneys and hearts. in order to smuggle israel through europe to turkey to the appropriate customers. and there the king of delfont writes in this book, and she remembers this book in the public domain. just read it, that those who only had one kidney cut out. and now i really ask those who, well, are not sure about their health, maybe even you can even just step away from the screen for a second, because it’s really scary for those who have had one kidney cut out, as the prosecutor of the mtbuk tribunal for the former yugoslavia, carl del ponta, writes , they had to wait for a client for the next kidney. that is, they knew that they were already doomed and it is in her book, but hundreds of people. what do you think, who does not receive income from these cases within the framework of the mtbu, then she directly, says the future minister of foreign affairs of france , ku

according to did you agreement, serbia will not oppose kosovo to join international organization. also, serbia is insisting call on forming classification of serbian means the policy is in kosovo as a precondition for adopting called the sub plan. kosovo government government is analyzing 15 models, how these association should be established. and nigerians have returned to the polls to elect new governors in 28 states. you stayed assemblies are also being picked. this vote was delayed by a week as the electoral commission said it needed time to reconfigure electronic voting machines. following a disputed presidential election in february are madras reports from cono in northern nigeria. the vote has been largely successful and peaceful in many parts of condo state and many parts of the 20 states of nigeria. why voting took place? remember that are 36 states and 8 of them are not holding the governorship elections today because of court decisions or court rulings that's been like use and out of season for now. now basically the elections, according to officials, from most part of

serbia remembers those killed and injured as a result of the albanian pogrom in kosovo, and mitohi.n 2004. another large-scale rally is scheduled for today. blazing france the night in paris again turned out to be a restless area of ​​​​concord was tightened. with acrid smoke, dissatisfied with the pension reform, they burned the barricades and the image of french politicians to disperse the protesters, the police used sharpening gas and held a master class on detaining demonstrators according to all the canons of a european demonstration. siloviki and again dozens of people were detained, but the defenders of democracy are silent in a rag. let us recall the wave of protest in the country that provoked the pension reform, despite the dissatisfaction with the french , the local authorities passed a law on raising the retirement age without a vote in parliament. after that, two factions immediately began collecting signatures for the adoption. that's the mind of distrust to the head of the cabinet. a large-scale banking crisis broke out in the united states, about 200 american banks c

kosovo and bosnia and herzegovina, one of the leading warlords of the kostovo albanians, hashimtachi, elected president of the self-proclaimed republic of kosovo in 2016, she was left without attention to obvious war crimes recognized as such even by western human rights organizations, for example, the shelling of a passenger train by a nato plane in greece, where 14 people were killed the committee of the tribunal stated that the first blow was carried on the bridge, and the second on the battlefield or when may 7, 1999, allied aircraft targeted the chinese embassy in belgrade with precision-guided weapons, allegedly as a result of a designation error , killing three chinese media personnel in nato bombings from march to june, killing more than 2,000 civilians, including 400 children. and this is only according to official data yet. 1,000 people are still missing artyom krasulin anna pogonina together. the vtb team will offer a solution. open a deposit with a maximum yield of up to 9.5% in a bank branch right now. sberbank represents a profitable loan with the lowest rate over the pa

well , as the prime minister of kosovo said, the european plan for the settlement of relations in belgrade so far been abandoned, and within a month , the strange ones will be required to create a commission to monitor the implementation of the agreements reached. and if no one has violated the eu treaty before september, they will initiate a donors' conference, where they will discuss investments in the economy of serbia and kosovo valery georgiev and the mariinsky theater brought rim korsakov and his two famous operas home. this is a gift to the city of tikhvin for the composer's birthday without the assumption monastery, where the troupe arrived reportage by ekaterina fisenko a magical performance on the birthday of the great composer in his homeland is already a tradition. this year they give legends about the invisible city of kitezh and the maiden fevronia , the last epic symphony of roman-korsakov, very complex and such russian peasant chants and bell ringing in the small tikhvin of st. petersburg arrived even a belfry. back on ancient tikhvin there is a bell chime calling people to

in 2016, he was elected president of the self-proclaimed republic of kosovo, and obvious war crimes,nized as such even by western human rights organizations, were ignored , for example, the shelling of a passenger train by a nato aircraft in greece, where 14 people died, the tribunal committee said that the first strike was delivered on a bridge, and second in the heat of battle or when may 7 ninety-ninth 1999, allied aircraft targeted the chinese embassy in belgrade with precision-guided weapons, allegedly as a result of a designation error , killing three chinese media personnel in nato bombings from march to june, killing more than 2,000 civilians, including 400 children. and this is only according to official data yet. 1,000 people are still missing artyom krasulin anna pogonina news. immediately after the advertisement, we will tell you about how much russian international reserves have grown. economic news. the vtb team will offer a solution. open a deposit with a maximum yield of up to 9.5% at a bank branch right now autoteka makes buying a car on avito more transparent find o

to recognise kosovo's independence, since it was declared 15 years ago.southern province of el oro — and one young girl also died in northern peru, when her family home collapsed. the us geological survey says the tremor had a magnitude of 6.8. the effects were widespread — including the collapse of this building, a museum, which was mounted on a pier at the seaside. it had stood on the same spot for more than 60 years. the uk has sent a search and rescue team, as well as medical staff to malawi, in the aftermath of cyclone freddy. their support will provide emergency shelter and give access to safe drinking water. more than 400 people have been killed and thousands of homes destroyed in one of the worst storms to ever hit southern africa. doctors working on the front line in ukraine say thousands of lives are being saved, by an "anti—bleeding fabric", manufactured in somerset in southwest england. the bandages are coated with an extract taken from shrimp shells, which can stop heavy bleeding within a minute. matthew hill has been to see how they're made.

the eu has been trying to broker a deal, fifteen years after kosovo declared independence.ou're watching bbc news, now it's time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk from oakland, california. i'm stephen sackur. this city has long been a cradle of the struggle for black freedom and equality. black oaklanders know the reality of systemic discrimination. back in the 1960s, one response was the creation of the radical and controversial black panther party. it was founded by men. some of its key leaders were women. one of them, my guest today, ericka huggins. she spent two years imprisoned and she became a symbol of the black panther struggle. looking around oakland today, has anything really changed? ericka huggins, welcome to hardtalk. well, thank you! it's an honour to be here. it is a great pleasure to have you on the show. i want to take you back to your years as a leader in the black panther party. when you reflect on those years now, does it feel to you like ancient history, or part of a struggle that continues till today? well, it certainly doesn't feel like ancient histor

the eu has been trying to broker a deal, fifteen years after kosovo declared independence.e watching bbc news, now it's time for click. this week we're going flat out. spencer is on a building site to put up a house, although it looks like he's got away without doing any actual work. is there some banging at some point? yep. didn't even get my hands dirty. we also look into a crypto investment scam that seems to be evading the authorities. and paul victor's factory, but where all the drivers? completely happy with the fact that there is a very large, very heavy piece of equipment driving around autonomously. the cars can go from 0 to 100 in four seconds. they are made of 80,000 parts. the brakes can hit 1000 degrees. this is formula 1. well, this year's season is getting under way and it is jam packed full of tech, and it's notjust the cars. yeah, it's all about the data these days. they collect as much of it as they can from on and off the track to help make decisions which could change the results, and alistair keane has been given exclusive access to the alpine f1 team t

s. troops in kosovo, iraq and afghanistan eventually returned to the u. s. with respiratory or other health problems because of, of exposure to the burn pits. that is a gigantic number. but the problem that we've seen since 2010 is that the pentagon didn't bother to keep records of what was actually burned, where it was burned, how it was burned, and who was exposed to the smoke. as a result, the u. s. department of veterans affairs has been reluctant to admit that these diseases were service related. has that finally been fixed, or veterans finally receiving the care and the benefits that they deserve. a lot more better in the here. there's a pack that recently was a huge benefit, but again, the driver moves so slow, we're still seeing a lot of people being denied that we shouldn't be there. but it is turning around, it's getting better. it should have been better a lot faster. what happens with ages aren't, which is very similar to. ready as far as how we handle it, it took 27 years for this veterans from the army and were just seeing the same thing with t

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s. withdrew from places like iraq and kosovo, the victims continued to suffer and to die. our guest today is joseph hickman. joe hickman spent most of his life in the military 1st the marine. and then as a soldier in both the army and the national guard, he is deployed on several military operations throughout the world, sometimes attached to foreign militaries, the recipient of more than 20 commendations and awards. jo hickman was awarded the army chief met metal and the army commendation metal. while he was stationed at guantanamo bay, he is also the author of the book, the burn pits. joe, welcome back to the show. thanks john. read. joe, the problem of burn pit seems to be patently obvious. everybody knows that you can't burn plastic. everybody knows that you can't burn rubber or medical waste out in an open field. everybody knows you can't mix chemicals and equipment and food and just set it all on fire. how did this stupid policy begin in the 1st place? i began in the beginning, you're remembering trash and military years. decades where we we really started to realize