available hender serbian capital belgrade including a bookstore behind me which belongs to the ministry of defense these books don't just do well with the average sir the country's politicians including those in government are big fans too in a cobra last year the publishing arm of serbia's defense ministry took to belgrade sheerly book fair to promote its newest release mercyful angels embrace the multi-volume wartime die. written by former army general in the bush up of code beach who is currently serving a 22 year prison sentence for crimes against humanity details his experiences in the kosovo war another prominent spot at the fair was reserved for alleged war criminals. after 11 years in detention cesure has returned to serbian politics and going by the name of his publishing house greater serbia there's little question as to what his books are about puff of each and shush presence at the prestigious fair doesn't speak to the quality of their literary work rather it speaks to the popularity of the nationalist message the narrative that 18 years after the end of the war is still actively endor

the british ministry of defense has launched an investigation into why and how a trove of top secret documents and probably ended up in a trash bin in london it comes as an embarrassment for the u.k.'s top secret chemical weapons facility porton down from where the thousands of files originated go live now to london and are probably break up polly this is all a bit awkward isn't it. it is one man's trash another journalist's treasure in this case it is quite an extraordinary story the daily star newspaper is called big splash on it today they say they were alerted to this trove of documents found in a bin by a member of the public last week and this secret files were dumped in a north london we leave in a receipt killing bin to be precise the kind that sort of stands out on the street outside a residential building or a commercial one and people will waste inside it except that this wasn't wasted it was a massive hole thousands of pages reportedly detailing the past and home address of one. details of the patrol offices duties there at porton down and the newspapers quoting all sorts

the ministry of defense has already responded to the story with a statement take a listen we take the protection of personal data very seriously and we have a range of procedures in place to do so including complying with the data protection act we also expect 3rd parties who legitimately hold data to apply similar strict protections we can confirm that an investigation has been launched into the alleged incident. now the reason this is causing such raised eyebrows is because porton down is a top secret government chemical weapons research facility it's the front line of the fight against biological and chemical weapons it was set up during world war one it's where the government conducts top secret research into all these very dangerous substances and it was actually the all thora tea that determined the substance that was used in the poisoning of sergei and. last year so the fact that any documents from this tall were found in a london we'd been 70 miles away will be of concern to say the least to the ministry of defense and to intelligence services here in the u.k. and i think port

available hender serbian capital belgrade including a bookstore behind me which belongs to the ministry of defense these books don't just do well with the average sir the country's politicians including those in government are big fans too in a cobra last year the publishing arm of serbia's defense ministry took to belgrade sheerly book fair to promote its newest release mercyful angels embrace the multi-volume wartime die. written by former army general in the bush up of code beach who is currently serving a 22 year prison sentence for crimes against humanity details his experiences in the kosovo war another prominent spot at the fair was reserved for alleged war criminals pushed off show after 11 years in detention cesure has returned to serbian politics and going by the name of his publishing house greater serbia there's little question as to what his books are about puff of each and shush presence at the prestigious fair doesn't speak to the quality of their literary work rather it speaks to the popularity of the nationalist message the narrative that 18 years after the end of the war is still

were fired several 100 warning rounds of machine gun fire from those korean aircraft the japanese have lodged their own complaint and now the south korean defense ministry has hit back saying that any protests from japan are not even worth noticing because of course the doctorow islands are very much south korean war and he now has the view from beijing. on wednesday morning the chinese government finally responded to the incident that took place on choose day the response coming at an event to release the latest white paper into the chinese military the ministry of defense spokesman saying that they strictly observed international law referring to tuesday's incident and the exercises do not target any 3rd party and these joint patrols between russia and china will continue outfitting that they talked about 3rd parties that was very much one of the themes of the release of the white paper saying that the chinese defense forces are about promotion piece they do not seek expansion or germany they are really focusing on protecting china's interests overseas and protecting china's sovereignty it was inevitable therefore that the issue of taiwan would come u

have ended in contrast rifi they were commenting there are calls for an inquiry now and the ministry of defense has already responded to the story with this statement take a listen we take the protection of personal data very seriously and we have a range of procedures in place to do so including complying with the data protection act we also expect 3rd parties who legitimately hold data to apply similar stricter protections we can confirm that an investigation has been launched into the alleged incident and the reason this is raising eyebrows is because porton down is a top secret government chemical laboratory is at the front line of the fight against biological and chemical weapons and the government conducts extensive research that. into all sorts of substances it was in the news quite a bit last year because it was the all story see that determined what the substance which substance it was that was used in the poisoning of the gay and script how that was a huge scandal which so the british government accused russia of orchestrating the attack against the double former double agent and his

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kabul where that attackers were managed to explode one of the logistic department of the afghan ministry of defense which is outside of the ministries building there managed to get to that point and they exploded a truck full of explosives the rest of that there because they managed to go on the rooftops of the nearby buildings where they can take the position to interrupt the security forces the mischief indeed it also told us that. special forces arrived at the at the scene cordon down the area and they took the positions against these these attackers it is really here here and that's the question before the to the people of afghanistan here not only here in kabul but also other provinces that taliban limiting their attacks says this attacks are also claimed by the taliban and they said that to reclaim the responsibility for this attack. turkey's government has announced that 6 of its citizens held hostage in libya have now been released earlier ancora warned of serious consequences for the warlord khalifa haftar whose forces were holding them up as eastern administration cut all ties with turkey

were fired several 100 warning rounds of machine gun fire from those korean aircraft the japanese have lodged their own complaint and now the south korean defense ministry has hit back saying that any protests from japan are not even worth noticing because of course the doctorow islands are very much south korean away and he has this you from beijing. on wednesday morning the chinese government finally responded to the incident that took place on choose day the response coming at an event to release the latest white paper into the chinese military the ministry of defense spokesman saying that they strictly observed international law referring to tuesday's incident and the exercises do not target any 3rd party and these joint patrols between russia and china will continue outfitting that they talked about 3rd parties that was very much one of the themes of the release of the white paper saying that the chinese defense forces are about promoting peace they do not seek expansion or germany they are really focusing on protecting china's interests overseas and protecting china's sovereignty it was inevitable therefore that the issue of taiwan would come up p

defense minister christian conservative template ition. a medical doctor and mother of 700 lion joined america city you party in the ninety's she later headed to ministry of family and women before serving as minister of labor. as germany's 1st female defense minister funded lyon has aimed to revamp the country's armed forces but recently she has to earn criticism for poor management in the ranks and several scandals including revelations of far right extremists in the german military equipment failures and deadly military plane crashes have plagued her tenure. a european at heart fluent in both english and french fundamentally and has long been seen as a possible successor to america last chance at 0 or more recently after next secretary general of nato. but now it looks more like the belgian born politician maybe tough to head the e.u. commission if so she would be different schoolman defensive players. correspondent here in berlin thomas sperry joins us on the side thomas we just got a little window there into the left on the line is the current defense minister what do you find to be the most important points about that was that one of what we shou

messages and narratives for instance only or have commissions books that are promoted by the ministry of defense off a blow by blow accounts of the nato bombing during the kosovo all however they are met the crimes committed by the serbs that these books are an attempt to completely ignore the albanian victims to keep war crimes silent and to present the nato bombing as a hostile attack by international forces in which only innocent serbs were killed the only medicine is the skin i don't when it comes to some of the books as he has published we know that for instance alexander which is the current president of serbia wrote a couple of forwards to some of the editions now if you have a legitimate representative of a country you know write a forward or books. analyst work and we all that is a huge issue. what i think that tells you a lot about just how far. you know the current political structures will go in order to push this narrative on to the public forum issues more to scrub corners from the crisis losing serbian media play a significant rule in bolstering location this narratives in a count

however the tanks were delivered to the ministry of defense for tight on the listed person only took receipt of the arms on behalf of the ministry of defense he did not receive them personally of the one cretin so from a legal point of view what no violation of the e.u. embargo restrictions actually took place being. the us with no criminality involved in the investigation had to be discontinued. but that's absurd but it is hard to understand frank decided discontinued his investigation into home and shipping company c.e.o. neal stolberg. over to you for the world of public prosecutor's office in raymond ought to try and reopen proceedings with fresh alone and really exert pressure on the federal chancellor unfortunately it doesn't have the same operative possibilities as italian public prosecutors revenge who were always brazen enough to enter secret service headquarters and seize papers. the charges against holman from the b. n. d. are serious according to the customs investigation report one shipping company employee told the public prosecutor that holeman approved the arms consign

the narrowest point in the strait is only 40 kilometers wide the british ministry of defense said the incident took place near the island of abu mussab it says this for get turned away raining speedboats stuff are threatening the british oil tanker the u.k. foreign minister has responded by calling for calm obviously very concerning developments but also very proud of the royal navy and the role that they played in keeping british assets british shipping safe we'll continue to monitor the situation very very carefully the fear is that this latest incident will escalate becomes days after british authorities seized an iranian tanker off her claiming it was violating sanctions by delivering oil to syria. earlier this week iran also started enriching uranium beyond the limits set down the 2050 nuclear deal it signed with international powers iran says the confrontation never happened its foreign minister mohammed serif has called the british accusations worthless iran's farce news agency quote sorry for saying they are seeking to cover up their weaknesses with such claims as tensions in

the ministry of defense announced that this accident happened on monday one day earlier and soon after their president putin rescheduled his appointment and met with the minister of defense. who he actually ordered to go immediately to the base over a mosque where the northern fleet is based and also with his deep sea water vehicle that basically was object of this accident has been taken back to the minister is ordered to oversee the investigation and give the president for us hand reports on how that is going it's still not clear what type of submarine was in that area and was having this fire reports here in the russian media have sat it wasn't a as 12 it's called the lasher rick it's a deep deep sea water nuclear submarine which is also used as a spy submarine it's not very clear it's very secretive for a submarine it's not very clear what it can do but it's sad that it can also disrupt a very important internet traffic and all kinds of communications between countries in case of a global conflict the united states has expressed its concerns of the use of this kind of sop and rain

south korea's ministry of defense is reporting that north korea has fired 2 short range missiles from its east coast into the say this is going 1st missile test leader kim jong un and president trump agreed to revive nuclear talks last month they come before planned joint us south korean military exercises. to britain now where prime minister boris johnson's cabinet is meeting for the 1st time this morning with a host of new faces around the table now that he's in number 10 downing street johnson has replaced most of the cabinet naming ranks and hardliners to top posts and casting opponents aside. is also due to address the house of commons and present his plan to take britain out of the european union by 31st no matter what. thanks in his new prime minister is walking into a bridget mess partially of his own making on his 1st day at downing street boris johnson promised he could fix this. the doctors the do still has the glooms does they are going to get it wrong again and they're going to fulfill the repeated promises of parliament to the people and come out of the e.u. a look over

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the face of racism and hatred among the memorial took place in the courtyard of the federal ministry of defense the same location where the main conspirators were executed on this day in 1904 the men had taken part in operation valley a daring attempt that came very close to killing hitler and changing history. it was the morning of the 20th of july 944 ad of hitler entered the wolf's lair headquarters there he met with generals for a strategy briefing colonel klaus shank calf on staff and berg was also present and in his bank he was carrying an explosive device at 12 42 pm the bomb exploded killing several people but hitler the target of the attack was only slightly injured the coup had failed the failed puts against hitler has gone down in history in germany the 20th of july is an important anniversary for german chancellor angela merkel the conspirators remain important role models for the present day of the of the boy today we also have the responsibility to confront attempts to destroy democracy including right wing extremism frenched often berg was executed that very night in the wake of

. $1000.00 boes in support of eliminating saddam hussein to meet at the ministry of defense the pentagon. they all began asking questions about how long can we continue this policy aimed at keeping saddam under control and the conclusion they came to was not much longer the day after the meeting at the pentagon president bush addresses congress. it is a historic moment the nation is united bush names the culprits osama bin laden al qaida the to. ban regime in afghanistan our enemies are radical network of terrorists and every government that supports them. no mention about iraq but he warns our war on terror. begins with al qaeda. but it does not in there. tony blair the british prime minister and guest of honor applauds symbolic of the unwavering alliance between washington and london. the taliban are quickly driven out of kabul and al qaeda is dispersed. some of bin laden disappears. in washington bush appears eager to move on to another war i stand by those words afghanistan is still just a beginning if anybody harbors terrorists or terrorist if they find a terrorist or terrorist if t

kabul where the attackers were managed to explode one of the logistic department of the afghan ministry of defense which is outside of the ministries building they managed to get to that point and they exploded a truck full of explosives there the rest of the attackers they managed to go under moved out of the nearby buildings where they can take the position to entrap the security forces the mischief indeed it also told us that. special forces arrived at the at the scene cordon down the area and they took the positions against these these attackers we were also told by the minister of interior that 10 people were killed in this attack so far until now and the minister of health also confirmed to us $65.00 other were injured including 9 children it is really a year here and it's a quick question before the to the people of afghanistan here not only here in kabul but also other provinces that taliban letting their attacks is this attacks also claimed by the taliban and they said that we reclaimed responsibility for this attack the south declared republic of northern cyprus says an object that hit i

russia's president has ordered an inquiry after 14 sailors died in a fire on a navy submarine of defense ministry says it was a deep sea research vessel based in several more sc which was carrying out a survey of the sea floor near the arctic at the time about to be putin's someone the defense minister for a briefing on the fire and ordered him to fly to the naval base defense ministry says the deaths were caused by poisonous gases from fumes it's the deadliest incident involving a russian naval submarine since 2000 when 2 explosions on a nuclear powered kursk killed all 118 men on board steadfast in has more from moscow. the ministry of defense announced that this accident happened on monday one day earlier and soon after their president putin rescheduled his appointment and met with the minister of defense. who he actually ordered to go immediately to debase over a mosque where the northern fleet is based and also with his deep sea water vehicle that basically was object of this accident has been taken back to the minister is ordered to oversee the investigation and give the president for us ha

available hender serbian capital belgrade including a bookstore behind me which belongs to the ministry of defense these books don't just do well with the average sir the country's politicians including those in government are big fans too and a cobra last year the publishing arm of serbia's defense ministry took to belgrade sheerly book fair to promote its newest release mercyful angels embrace the multi-volume wartime die. written by former army general in the bush. who is currently serving a 22 year prison sentence for crimes against humanity details his experiences in the kosovo war another prominent spot at the fair was reserved for alleged war criminals. after 11 years in detention cheshire has returned to serbian politics and going by the name of his publishing house greater serbia there's little question as to what his books are about. beach and shush presence at the prestigious fair doesn't speak to the quality of their literary work rather it speaks to the popularity of the nationalist message the narrative that 18 years after the end of the war is still actively endorsed by those in pow

the ministry of defense is looking at future provision and is looking at the future provisions of theding of those support ships. in the future we of course maintain our position on building the ships of the royal navy. mr. bercow: george freeman. mr. freeman: this weekend our george freeman. winners and mr. freeman: this weekend our sporting heroes, winners and losers, inspired a new generation. science can also inspire. 60 years ago, jfk electrified the world and united a divided and fearful nation with the inspiring apollo moonshot program, which also helped to defeat the soviet union and laid the foundations for u.s. technology leadership. would my right honorable friend join me in saluting our pioneering scientist astronauts helen sharman and tim peake, and agree with me that brexit can and must be a moonshot moment for british science innovation to tackle global challenges? pm may: can i thank my honorable friend for raising this issue. friend for raising this issue. i am very happy to congratulate and salute our pioneering u.k. astronauts, helen sharman and tim peake. one of th

russia's defense ministry says the fire broke out while the sailors were carrying out a survey of the sea floor the deep sea research vessel is based in several at russia's northeastern edge the defense ministry says the deaths were caused by poisonous gases from fumes russian media reporting a submarine was nuclear power and a step back in is live for us in moscow. well or in the formation is still pretty sketchy after the ministry of defense announced publicly that this accident has happened yesterday on monday basically what happened is that the president immediately after that announcement made public also that he had canceled his previous schedule and has had an emergency meeting basically with the ministry of defense with go and now after this meeting the president announced that he has ordered the minister of defense immediately go to the location the base of the northern fleet to oversee the investigation and look at a closer look at what acts actually has happened with this deep sea vehicle which has been used for this what they call a survey of the sea bottom but it's all ve

ministry of defense says it's seeking urgent clarification urgent information to try to clarify to exactly what has happened to this ship the stener imperio and its owners stead of a northern marine management have also issued a statement saying that 1500 g.m.t. it's vessel was approached by a number of smaller unidentified bethel's and a helicopter and it is now moving towards the north of iran and they have lost contact with that ship now of course that is going to cause a great deal of alarm here it is not entirely unexpected the u.k. government had been saying to its ships operating in the straits of hormuz that they must be on their guard for any potential attack yeah man we're just getting news as well that the operator of the oil tanker that it's unable to as you were saying actually the operator of the oil tankers as it's unable to contact of the ship when it was approached by helicopters and vessels in the straits of hormuz talk to us about the the recent tensions between the united kingdom and iran particularly in the strait of hormuz. well the u.k. had raised its level to critic

i have been here myself with the british ministry of defense. there were conflicting opinions. , look, if the president would like more research and more briefing, i'm certainly happy to help with that. you could probably round up a couple of former intelligence officials from within the u.s. administration to who have looked at this. and we could certainly, i'm sure, you know, get people afraid who are not afraid to think the unthinkable and ask the people what if questions. but whatever happens with u.f.o.s, it may happen on president trump's watch. we may get with the current radio telescopes, certainly with the next generation telescopes we might get absolute confirmation that the other civilizations are out there. therefore, it might happen on president trump's watch. he will be the one who has to make an announcement. what an historic announcement that would be. "my fellow americans, people of the world, we are not alone." so i'm glad to hear he is open-minded and thinking about this. there has been an up-surge in the sightings and who knows what the future will bring? >>

ministry of defense for further information on this. this comes as u.s. president donald trump issued another threat to iran over its nuclear program he tweeted iran has long been secretly enriching in total violation of the terrible $150000000000.00 deal made by john kerry and the obama administration remember that deal was to expire in a short number of years sanctions will soon be increased substantially but it was only an earlier this week that terror on announced it would be exceeding the limits on uranium enrichment set out under that 2015 nuclear deal which the u.s. pulled out of last year has more from tehran. as the 2050 nuclear deal continues to fall apart the task of trying to save it now falls to france in meetings in tehran the french president's top diplomatic adviser walk the line between american economic pressure on iran and iranian diplomatic pressure on europe to ignore u.s. sanctions if they want to keep the nuclear deal alive but if emanuel baan had hoped he could convince iran not to continue reducing cooperation with the joint compre

ministry of defense that it was urgently looking into the incident now obviously they are convening that emergency meeting so we'll have to wait and see what comes out of that in the u.s. meanwhile the white house has also confirmed that it was aware of the incident and it would be working with its allies to defend against iran should anything happen and this isn't the only incident in this region i mean this comes at a time of rising tensions there is this just a new level now of escalation it certainly looks that way at this stage i mean you know as you say rising tensions they've been ratcheting up over the last few weeks months even since the u.s. obviously rejected the iran nuclear deal they've been calling for iran to say so all uranium. and richmond which iran has said it will not do it consistently refused in fact and they have been several incidents in recent weeks in july a british warship intervened to drive 3 iranian military ships that were there to try and intercept a u.k. tanker and then 6 days before that an iranian tank was detained and it's being held because it was tho

>> well, if you look at the state of government, not just the ministry of defense, the ministry of educationnistry of justice, because of brexit, we have got a lot of ministerial real, and it meant that work with those departments hasn't really been done. so i'm not a big fan of militarism by any stretch of the imagination, but one example is you look at the amount of investment in the royal navy. the royal navy is the most significant of the armed forces for dealing with this conflict with iran. and some of britain's military capability for sininging into my donald trump and ratcheting up tensions, we have really -- we can't put our money where our mouth is. it's really does not help that are less defense secretary got sacked for leaking highly confidential information from the national security council, and then his replacement was only in place for 85 days, i think it was, before she had to resign because of boris johnson coming in. there is a huge amount of governmental dysfunction across every layer of the government, every single department. and then you go to the business of the no do

during rush hour has wounded at least $65.00 people with fatalities huge explosion target of the afghan defense ministry the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack and syrian state media say 4 civilians have died after israeli jets attacked military positions near the capital damascus and the western city of homes a footage shows the syrian military responding to the attack by firing surface to air missiles another 21 people were reportedly injured in the assault. now european union leaders have suspended talks after failing to agree on who will fill the top jobs following a new parliamentary election 6 weeks ago now in the run up to the summit france and germany a creature to support a common candidate for the key post of commission president of the dutch at social democrat friends timmermans but their choice says met some stiff opposition after all night discussions failed talks will resume on tuesday. and he. is standing by in brussels for us max we hear now that we're going to have to wait until tomorrow for some decisions but we thought that they were getting pretty close so we might eve