than serbia's ancestors. opportunity. you prepared to reach out to him? we are interested to sit at the table, and to finish what is left between kosovo and serbia. that is the recognition. they are part of the forgiveness. not to forget but forgiveness. not to forget but forgiveness. i believe it is the time to do so. we are prepared for that but this is not a trade of territories. this is not... you are categorical about that. some people talk about a land swap that you could give territory to the serbs and they can give territory to you which is majority kosovo albanians. the borders in the balkans, and today the territories are a result of some wars from the past. if we open that question it is a never—ending story. we still have rules, after the last tragedies. we don't want to forget that. you talk about wounds and tragedies. another element of kosovo moving forward is your nation truly accounting for the recent past. this raises the issue of justice. recent past. this raises the issue ofjustice. for cr

so they won't need persuading except for serbia itself so serbia is the key to this because serbia is the only country on the list which really needs persuading and the reason why it needs persuading is because the price of even bishops for serbia unlike the others is incredibly high serbia would need to be persuaded into allowing its profits will cost around the time he has been converted into a second albania and no serbian politician would want to be responsible for that which is why the serbian politicians want to farm the decision out perhaps to the people having loaded the old in favor of a vote for membership but that said there is no clear indication of what the population would really vote for if they were asked it is a very tricky question for them the fact is yeah i wanted just to to get your thoughts on another issue the balkan expansion plan has been linked to country russian influenced does this incident if it exists really pose any threat to the e.u. markel. it's not so much a question of the russia posing a threat to the e.u. . the west in general wanting to make sure

nately, pushed back in serbia, unfortunately, sometimes, they are beaten.re also sleeping rough through the winter. serbia provides accommodation in asylum centres to those who register, but many others say they have to take their chances outside the system, like this man who did not want to show his face. outside the system, like this man who did not want to show his facelj live who did not want to show his face.” live in the jungle, who did not want to show his face.” live in thejungle, i am a jungle man, i had to do something. if i go back i know my life is in danger. it is better for back i know my life is in danger. it is betterfor me back i know my life is in danger. it is better for me to live in the jungle somewhere. i will try to keep on crossing the border. he is not likely to succeed, but like the others you will keep trying because the reward is deemed to be worth the hardships. for these men people of the eu remains irresistible. guy de launey, bbc news, sid. stay with us on the briefing. also on the programme: and can these canine casanovas fi

stroke western bloc serbia is the key to this because serbia is the only country on the list which really needs persuading and the reason why it needs persuading is because the price of e.u. membership for serbia unlike the others is incredibly high serbia would need to be persuaded into allowing its profits of course are on the front here to be converted into a second albania and no serbian politician would want to be responsible for that a lot of the serbians realize very clearly that. in essence the e.u. is offering serbia the chance to lose good relations great trading relations with many economic blocs in return for having good relations with just one. an iraqi violinist who risked his life by playing music while living under islamic state says he was trying to inspire most school residents to resist i mean mokdad lived for two years in the terrorist controlled city composing and making records despite a complete ban on music he was the first musician to play in liberated mosul and we spoke to him about his experience. yeah i did go to my city. to visit the doctor all the time to tur

membership for serbia unlike the others is incredibly high a lot of the serbians realize very clearly that the in essence the e.u. is offering serbia the chance to lose good relations great trading relations with many economic blocs in return for having good relations with just one and so i mean we should recognize that serbia has several suitors on the global stage it's got china it's got russia it's got japan it's got the arab world it's not just about the e.u. and survey has been doing very well well for more on these and plenty of other stories to get to r.t. telecom otherwise i'll be back in just over half an hour but the headlines see that . local blogs sell you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battle. to do stocks credit tell you that because it's exactly the same. as the tell me you pull it out and it's like. these are the hawks that we all have our good. when lawmakers manufacture come sentenced to public wealth. when the room in clusters protect themselves. when the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent.

is offering serbia the chance to lose good relations great trading relations with many economic blocs in return for having good relations with just one and so i mean we should recognize that serbia has several suitors on the global stage it's got china it's got russia it's got japan it's got the arab world it's not just about the e.u. and survey has been doing very well. russia's envoy to the united nations has told a security council session that moscow believes the process for investigating chemical attacks in syria has been sabotaged with the latest from new york. the u.n. security council convened a meeting of the fifteen member body to discuss investigations into chemical attacks in syria the russian ambassador took the floor and emphasized that these investigations shouldn't be politically motivated and there shouldn't be any presumptions of guilt or he also emphasized that throughout the entire investigation the syrian government was fully willing to cooperate with the investigators but their willingness to cooperate wasn't really taken into account come up a. little syria has

in return for having good relations with just one and so we should recognize that serbia has several suitors on the global stage it's got china it's got russia it's got japan it's got the arab world it's not just about the e.u. and survey has been doing very well. washington is facing a growing backlash from the international community over its plans to modernize and diversify its nuclear arsenal both germany and china have now joined russia and iran in condemning the initiative the us defense department published its nuclear posture review last week is asserts the united states sees its nuclear weapons as a deterrent against both nuclear and not nuclear attacks the document also claims that china russia and north korea represent a unique and complex threat to the u.s. and its allies but some of washington's partners are raising concerns about the program the decision by the us government in favor of new tactical nuclear weapons shows that the spiral of a new nuclear arms race is already underway as in the times of the cold war we in europe are especially endangered. we hope the unit

serbia and montenegro . or andrew symonds joins us live now from pristina and course of us andrew what are the prospects there for full recognition of kosovo now. well how some you could tell from the political temperature of two interviews there how much things are hotting up with this landmark event this tenth anniversary but it is of course nearly two decades since the war and still no formal recognition from serbia and i like sound of the president of serbia on the eve of the celebrations which has yet to take a take place starting quite soon did warn of a frozen conflict in his words he spoke of the need for compromise he spoke of the need for political goodwill for hear from pristina as well as from serbia it's very likely there will be a referendum. the way that they would make a decision on whether they would concede in order to get e.u. membership and this is the key area whether serbia will make concessions in order to get e.u. membership but there are so many other aspects to this many complicated

a decade ago the republic of kosovo declared its independence from serbia after a bloody war leaving ethnic albanians and serbs trying to figure out how to live side by side despite this the e.u. hopes that by proceeding with a session for both serbia and kosovo all of this would change but the recent murder of prominent kosovo's are politicians all over again of it in the city of nature feature has been a setback for these hopes all reporter went to nature beach or to see how the people there live with the tense piece the bridge over the river ybarra in the course of a city of me tributes is supposed to connect the albanian dominated south and the serbian north of town. but ten years after constable became independent the bridge is not help to bring both sides together and e.u. funded construction project for a meeting point on the bridge is stalled one year ago the serbian side even erected a barricade in protest which was later removed again and so far an e.u. funded roundabout is only finished on the albanian side. are due to how it honors an albanian student who grew up amid the

ten years ago the small european country of kossovo unilaterally declared its independence from serbia europe's youngest country was once part of the former yugoslavia a union of different ethnic states that tensions between those states eventually grew and that led to a series of wars in the one nine hundred ninety s. and the breakup of yugoslavia now serbia and initially retained control of the majority ethnic albanian territory of cost of zero but kossovo began pushing for independence serbia responded with a military crackdown and that in turn triggered nato military intervention serbian forces subsequently pulled out of kossovo after more than two months of nato bombing now on february seventeenth two thousand and eight cost of those two million people declared independence most western countries recognize the new state but serbia and russia condemned the move and still do not recognize kossovo as an independent country. more than half of the population in kosovo is under thirty that includes. the cost of dany and is about to finish a bachelor's degree now this young country is ce

the serbian flags were put up by the north's mayor he follows the party line of neighboring serbia. but attempts have been made to try to bring both sides together he wanted to bridge the divide only by evanovich a moderate nationalistic politician of the kosovo serbs then in late january he was killed in front of his party officers in a drive by shooting. this is back to perpetrators serbian criminals nationalists or books. the assassination came as a shock to me those who lubavitch a social worker trying to bring young serbs and albanians together before it's not safe place to say diddy's lots of incidents you know is innocent of the problem because it's a big issue because they have not justice in both cases the judiciary stopped working years ago and the murder of moderate serb evanovich occurred in a de facto legal vacuum you know impression on people that if you can be killed like you can then i ordered one citizen what can i expect. in the northern half a metre of it so there is a pervasive feeling of insecurity and fear of crime. the police are present most cars don't even h

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kosovo has been marking ten years of independence from serbia prime minister. so the country's break from serbia two thousand it meant a new beginning for its ethnic albanian majority one hundred seventeen nations have recognized kosovo but serbia continues to dispute kosovo statehood. pope francis has renewed the mandate of a vatican panel established to protect children from sexual abuse by priests francis has faced criticism for his handling of scandals involving pedophile priests he named nine new members to the panel which includes abuse survivors its initial three year term ended in december. and the gems of this year's european cinema are in the spotlight as star studded annual filled best of all gets into full swing sarah harmon has been taking in the days films for us and she joins me now live from the red carpet sara what have been the day's highlights. well for fans who would stroll stood the freezing cold berlin weather the highlight was probably catching a glimpse of french actress isabel pair here on the french carpet now she's not a household nam

hundred seventeen nations have recognized kosovo but serbia continues to dispute kosovo statehood. pope francis has renewed the mandate of a vatican panel established to protect children from sexual abuse by priests francis has faced criticism for his handling of scandals involving pedophile priests he may know i new members to the panel which includes abuse survivors its initial three year term and did in december. according pakistan has sent its a man to death for the rape and murder of a seven year old girl her murder sparked violent clashes between angry protesters and police prosecutors said the attacker confessed to killing eight girls in total . and the gems of this year's european cinema are in the spotlight as star studded annual filled best of all gets into full swing sarah harman has been taking the day's films for us and she joins me now live from the red carpet sara what have been the day's highlights . well for fans who would stroll resisted the freezing cold berlin weather the highlight was probably catching a glimpse of french actor is isabel pair here on the french

but it's still not recognized by others including serbia russia and china kosovo's prime minister says that has to change all those investments military political financial they are all listening gave them and makes it is very rational to keep it still unfinished business so we have lost a lot of farms. today it's a dog tomorrow is it on but we don't have any more years for this because your last two decades on this topic. andrew simmons is following the story now he joins us live from pristina so a significant anniversary milestone for the country any plans or initiatives to you know encourage more recognition of kosovo as a country. well you heard the prime minister speaking to was there he really was showing the level of urgency of this landmark occasion the tenth anniversary of independence has focused political minds in the direction of what next because it is nearly two decades since the war ended in the nato involvement which definitely influenced the situation against serbia here and gave effectively a pathway to independence and now we have this situation whereby there is this

two years ago this camp in serbia on the hungarian border was badly overcrowded it had no electricity or water only fifteen refugees were allowed into hungry through the hardest checkpoint per day hoping to provide some relief aid organizations and the serbian authorities moved the refugees to camps with better living conditions and further back from the border where it was easier to monitor them. at the same time hungry built a fence and made it harder to cross the border. pay man and ferry decided to stay here in one of the tents left behind. and they've taken responsibility for informing their fellow refugees in case the border opens. they describe how the procedure works. for. the family from the ten to eight am and they wait here another hour then the hunger ariens call them and they can enter the country legally. but a few weeks ago the authorities stopped working together with these two refugees without explanation. once a week visit his family in the camp in sabbat it's a twenty kilometers away his little daughter nine years overjoyed to see her father again about a hundred re

and four of them are in the balkans montenegro albania serbia and macedonia and then there is turkey where negotiations have stalled two more balkan states bosnia and herzegovina and kosovo haven't formally applied but they are still potential members even as those nations hope to join the bloc they're also looking to avoid mistakes of their balkan neighbors already in the e.u. still at odds over border disputes. fishing in troubled waters every time a zero jump ship heads out to sea the gratian fisherman is met by police forces from neighboring slovenia. in brazil but what about because we're always accompanied by the croatian police so that the slovenian police can't do anything can't arrest us. when we cross over this border. were threatened with fines of up to forty thousand euros. slovenia and gracious have been at odds over the maritime and land border in the peer run bay area ever since the dissolution of the former yugoslavia in the one nine hundred ninety s. after they joined the e.u. an international court of arbitration was supposed to settle the route but its decision tha

until recently families would have to wait in various holding camps here in serbia for a year. now things are much worse for the last three weeks hungary has only been allowing one person a day one family a week to pass through. that increases three or four layers. of people here are pressed they are gradually going crazy from having to wait so long. nobody knows when they can go. two years ago this camp in serbia on the hunger in border was badly overcrowded it had no electricity or water only fifteen refugees were allowed into hungry through the hard cash check point per day hoping to provide some relief aid organizations and the serbian authorities moved the refugees to camps with better living conditions and further back from the border where it was easier to monitor them. at the same time hungry built a fence and made it harder to cross the border. pay man and ferry decided to stay here in one of the tents left behind. and they've taken responsibility for informing their fellow refugees in case the border opens. they describe how the procedure works. we pick up the family

serbia and montenegro . while correspondent anderson is joining us live from pristina for more on this so what are the prospects and awful recognition of a call so i now. well that is a very big question certainly know that a matter of days or even months more likely years perhaps but the pressure is now at a point of very very high energy in terms of serbia pragmatism could come to the fore because serbia wants membership of the european union and the european union although its words a slightly ambiguous says that if there is recognition all of a course of that membership could take place that could set off a whole chain of events with russia then falling into line going along with the security council china to on full recognition taking place so very much a political focus going on here as you heard in our interviews before you came to me but there's also a look back a look back on the war that all cost the big losses on both sides and also the initiative taken to get nato involved what actually caused th

but it's still not recognized by others including serbia russia and china all those in russian military political financial or loosing gazer and. it is very rational to keep it still unfinished business so we have lost a lot of farm soul but. today it's the dawn tomorrow is a dawn but we don't know any more years for this because your last two decades on this topic. andrew symonds joins us live now from pristina and so a significant anniversary milestone that for the people of kosovo but any fresh emissions have in terms of recognizing the country. will not really maryam you heard our interview with the prime minister in which he was pressing home the point that there had to be more immediacy to the issue of recognition by serbia or we've heard from alex on the church the serbian president on the eve of this as you describe a landmark event is reference to a frozen conflicts of the dangers of that perhaps this was posturing but he was certainly a wanting more compromise from kosovo in order to get any progress in serbia she recognizing the possibility of recognizing kosovo and that woul

serbia and montenegro said our lender simmons has more from pristina. for this landmark event the pressure is certainly mounting for full recognition of kosovo the european union is key in all of this it has made a slightly ambiguous statement suggesting that when serbia finally pushes forward for full membership of the e.u. a condition will be recognition of course of now that would set in train its thought russia or agreeing in the security council for un recognition of membership of the un this country does have all the traits of a state it has membership of organizations from fee for all the way to the i.m.f. but it doesn't have that cherished situation of being a member of the european union which it really does need to see a whole raft of things to take place so the focus politically on those developments but also this tenth anniversary sees people looking back at the cost of independence the lives lost on both sides and great check was where so many developments started to trail towards nato getting involved in the conflict which was a crucial mo

the standoff between cost of serbia over a prominent mining company. and the obesity rates in mexico has tripled in the last two decades detail why health officials are blaming us. from a fresh breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. hello there it's mostly dry forests in eastern parts of china at the moment there's not a great deal of cloud showing up on our chart for monday but things change as we head into choose day because the winds are all feeding up from the south bringing in a lot of moisture and that's giving us quite a bit of wet weather across the central belt of our chart and further south there's been a lot of rain here over the past day or so and that's thanks to this weather feature that's making its way across the philippines has given some of us some very heavy rain and it all sort of drawings up to what's going on a bit further south for some of us in borneo we're also seeing some heavy rain too that's gradually trying to push its way towards the north as we head through monday and into tuesday but for now it's not q

is currently visiting countries that have been giving the prospect of becoming the new members or serbia one challenge those countries are facing is bringing their economies up to speed which is hard when many of their brightest minds prefer to leave this is no simple change of address from marina stefano the twenty five year old serb isn't just moving down the road she's heading abroad to austria she's finished her training as a vascular surgeon now she wants to turn her qualification into money. first i want to go in america. first from. grads so they are free to come back when i finish my studies graduate marina's packing her portrait along with her german dictionary it's a past tens of thousands in the region of taking unable to find work at home they go abroad once working there they support their families back home their remittances are astounding lehi making up as much as ten percent of serbians g.d.p. it's similar in neighboring bosnia highly qualified young people are attending german classes here they want to head out as well two thirds of under twenty four year olds have no jo

going to be different still to come here on al-jazeera at all it's the standoff between kosovo and serbia over a prominent mining company. hello there the rain is finally beginning to move over parts of north america being with us for a good while now stuck in place across this belts here giving very heavy rain but it's not only been the rain that's causing us the problem that rain is falling on snow and the snow is melting so a combined problem of heavy rain and also snow melt has given us quite a bit of flooding that system those funny cleary moving down towards the southeast still with us on monday and then eventually as we head into tuesday it will continue its journey southeast woods and break up as it does so so most of us that will get away with a dry picture towards the west it's a little bit different to areas of cloud here and these could both be giving us some fairly heavy outbreaks of snow before the tour to south of them most of us across the caribbean is fine and dry but over jamaica they could be one or two showers during the day on monday also for nicaragua and costa rica

in croatia many commemorate the departure in the bus station one in serbia the journey into a new life often starts by train south eastern european countries on just losing a few young people then losing pretty much an entire generation. there is good news for german pharmaceuticals giant buyer the european commission has dropped hints that its proposed takeover of u.s. rival monsanto could get the go ahead after a wait of more than a year the deal has been making regulators around the world nervous. the u.s. food and drug administration has threatened to take buyer products off the market there the regulator says production processes of buyers older medications have been substandard since january two thousand and seventeen c.e.o. band of oman is tackling the problem but buyer has have to set aside several hundred million euros to cushion the effects of any sales or production shortfalls the company is also spending a fortune buying up u.s. herbicide and seed manufacturer monsanto the deal came with a price tag of fifty five billion euros to be funded largely from equity and bond issue

and kosovo has been marking ten years of independence from serbia prime minister. saying the country's breaking in two thousand and eight enter a new beginning for its ethnic albanian majority one hundred seventeen nations have recognized corsa five but serbia continues to dispute its status as an independent state. turning to some culture now the berlin film festival turns its attention today to the plight of refugees in the shape of this year's first german entry transit is based on a novel about exile during the second while or written by german writer zeke us the film's director christian pet salt has transformed the plot of that novel to modern day must say. director christian petzold is almost a fixture at the balland film festival has a film in the competition for the fourth time this go around he's based his movie on his favorite bit on a seekers transit of his would be. his on the run from the nazis in march say he goes into hiding. hoping to catch a ship to mexico before the city falls to the approaching fascist. he falls in love with marie also on the ru

in croatia many commemorate their departure in the bus station one in serbia the journey into a new life often starts by train south eastern european countries on just losing a few young people losing pretty much an entire generation. that's your business update for me and the team of thanks for keeping us company. entered the conflict zone the government of sudan is often accused of being one of the world's greatest the violators of human rights just as often it denies the charges the man who conveys many of those denials is the country's foreign minister ibrahim guy who is my guest in music does he care if anyone believes. next on. earth the home worth saving googling to goes tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world ideas the protect the climate and boost green energy solutions to inspire people to take action global ideas on. unimpeded access to education and knowledge and the same opportunities for every one's a central goal of the global community but what's the reality on the ground education for d w s multimedia special rates personal stories and hi

of the european commission john claude a yorker is currently visiting countries like macedonia or serbia and montenegro south east and european nations that have been given the prospect of becoming you member us one challenge they are facing is bringing their economies up to speed and that is something hard to do when many of the brightest minds prefer to leave this is no simple change of address from marina stefano the twenty five year old isn't just moving down the road she's heading abroad to austria she's finished her training as a vascular surgeon now she wants to turn her qualification in to money. first i want to bring america. first from. grads so they are free to come back when i finish my studies graduate marina's packing her portrait along with her german dictionary it's a past tens of thousands in the region of taking on able to find work at home they go abroad once working there they support their families back home their remittances are astounding lehi making up as much as ten percent of serbia's g.d.p. it's similar in neighboring bosnia highly qualified young people are at

but it's still not recognized by others including serbia russia and china. joins us live now from prishtina and andrew what are kosovo's leaders calling for on this important milestone. well as you say it's an important milestone a landmark asian on its concentrated minds about how long it's taken for the key issue of serbia recognizing this independent country in order to allow a chain of events it would appear that it would mean that serbia if it did so would be able to join the e.u. and ensure kosovo would be able to join the would mean a far better situation all round for both countries i put this situation to call suppose brahmanism was it a question of when or if at all serbia would recognize goals from. all those in russian's military political financial are all loosing gazer and. it is very rational to keep it still unfinished business. so we have lost a lot of time so that. today it's the time tomorrow is the time but we don't have anymore the years for this because the last two decades on this topic. so challenges ahead but this seems to be an upda

as a means of fighting use unemployment bought the mining firm is steeped in controversy because serbia says its owns it andrew symonds reports now for mature of it sir. show used to be one of the former yugoslavia is biggest companies mining plentiful minerals with good profits and thousands of jobs kosovo's war change that you don't have to look far to see damaged buildings and the conflict two decades ago decimated this business now the few miners who remain a part of a dysfunctional company that's cut into these a kosovar albanian miles and we've recently been celebrating their country's tenth anniversary of independence not far away is the other half of trips run by the minority cause of all serbs they're more likely to listen to serbia's government than their senior management at the firm's headquarters on the south side of mitchell pizza leave. that to your need according to the law should be governed by one single executive management and they should be unified as we stand now neither us nor they can be developed it shouldn't be divided more than twenty two thousand people work

it's yet to be recognized by serbia russia or china. to stay with us inside stories up next on that. thirteen russians have been accused of interfering in the us presidential elections to sway the vote in favor of. these indictments do not mention collusion and moscow says the charges are irrelevant but the broader investigation is far from over so what happens next this is inside story.

where the check is in that firm will look at how the standoff between serbia and kosovo is holding backa once mighty mining company. hello his note quite a lot this winter in japan in particular where i'm pretty sure records being broken the is not as cold now but the wind directions the same so snow showers are still being born and formed and blown across but they're not in abundance as you can see temperature wise we see temperatures rising if you look at the korean peninsula nine in seoul red to fourteen in beijing emits a rapid rise in temperature even the cold air is minus five five inventive allstar minus seven back in mongolia so the coldest to ravish is not migrating although to be honest surprise minus three in and up to zero is still pretty cold you can see there's the snow there not for any longer in holland shoot tokyo's eleven degrees reflects a slow warming trend as you might expect as we slowly approach spring now is a while away yet it feels quite warm the rest of china as well shanghai is thirteen hong kong is where it should be at twenty one but once more we start to f

it has yet to be recognized by serbia russia or china. or causeways confronting increasing lawlessness in a serb dominated region a political leader was killed last month in the town of michel bits are under simmons spoke to journalists and politicians who say they now face constant intimidation. it's a daily ritual lighting candles and paying respect to a politician murdered a month ago in this lawless city all of the event of a leader of a minority cause of our party spoke albanian and have been trying to foster better relations with the government in pristina he was shot dead and no one seems to know who did it organized crime is rampant here and there are suspicions there could have been a political motivation the simple get out in the movie you can see in people how unsafe they fail and they are if you talk about it but what concerns me the most is that many of all of his friends and my friends have left micha pizza and more considering at. this journalist whose office still bears the evidence of intimidation nearly three years ago a

mostly ethnic albanians today one hundred ten un member states do recognise kosovo as a country but serbia and its russia ally its ally russia still refused to along with china india and crucially five e.u. states as well which means the future requires some compromise serbia must normalize relations with kosovo before becoming an e.u. member and kosovo did also agree to give areas with a majority ethnic so population a degree of autonomy as well but the mutual suspicion between the albanian majority and the serb minority goes on kosovo in fact faces a growing epidemic of lawlessness in the northern dominated region that is where andrew symonds is the divided town of where serb political leader was gunned down in the last month. it's a daily ritual lighting candles and paying respect to a politician murdered a month ago in this lawless city all of the event of a leader of a minority cause of a party spoke albanian and had been trying to foster better relations with the government in pristina he was shot dead and no one seems to know who did it organized crime is rampant here and there are

well the european commission keeps talking about serbia montenegro as being the regional frontrunners. will probably open membership talks quite soon. your highness handy enlargement commissioner is going to travel to belgrade in the coming days so only serbia montenegro which i think sense the wrong signal to the region which is that unless you're one of the frontrunners you you will be bait to wait and that's very discouraging for costs of war and for abbas and herzegovina in particular which are both have their own problems to deal with toby we already mentioned that the e.u. also has its own problems to deal with you're talking about resentment over the migration crisis brags that and not least a rise of populism an anti european movement why is the e.u. thinking about getting bigger at a time when it's struggling to stay together. well to some extent enlargement really is the only policy that the european union has towards the western balkans it feels it needs a policy because this is a region that's surrounded by e.u. member states it's a region that poses its very particular ch

around as a small pacific nation prepares to host the first major summit how the standoff between serbiaand kosovo is holding back a once mighty mining company and we'll hear from the golden gown of the olympics after her precedented ski and snowboard coming up on child in sports. from brisk nose and fuel. to the woman trying to this of southeast asia. color rain in qatar is always a news worthy event we just had some of the western windy night and you might get an idea of that happened because of this pool of clouds it went right into western society and has now gone east was the sun's out at the moment and to be honest the figures we're talking about are not great you know thirty millimeters just up from there on the coast of qatar but through side five in riyadh fourteen in medina that might seem a bit more reasonable obviously these really are desert nations nothing much falls out of the sky so we haven't got more than the fed reaffirmation of the average itself could be wildly changed by from one year to the next to the big pool nevertheless at forty minimum his sporting four times

and many european countries recognize their independence serbia russia and china still have not because of us prime minister has told al jazeera that has to change all those investments military political financial they're all listening gave them and makes it is very rational to keep it still unfinished business. so we have lost a lot of dogs so that today it's the dog tomorrow is that on but we don't have any more years for this because your last two decades on this topic what's going to happen you know in the future depends a lot of on cause as leaders and they have to make a bigger focus on things like remove law. dealing with the unemployment rate and having better relationships with their neighboring countries. serbia and montenegro cetera i understand it's joins us live now from pristina so andrew what's happening there right now. well right now we're seeing celebrations something very different to the political heat heat you heard in our interviews there are people actually celebrating and dancing bands playing in the start up of these celebrations which will go on for actually t

well turkey really has been frozen that process but the balkan states are much closer specially serbia and montenegro because they have already initiated accession talks and those accession talks are ongoing and for the first time the commission has mentioned a possible accession date for those countries which is twenty twenty five although you have to be very careful with that and even the commission representative acknowledged as much because there are still huge problems in those countries corruption for example as we just saw in that report those kind of border disputes exist of course all over the balkan and of course you also have problems with the economies that are slacking there despite huge investments by the european union and some of the parliamentarians that we talked to here also said they're very concerned for example about media freedom in serbia so even if we have a possible date now which is not at all an automatic day but a possible day there are still huge obstacles to those countries actually being part of the european union and these obstacles max at a time when t

it's yet to be recognized by serbia russia or china. to stay with us inside stories up next on that. thirteen russians have been accused of interfering in the us presidential elections to sway the vote in favor of. these indictments do not mention collusion and moscow says the charges are irrelevant but the broader investigation is far from over so what happens next this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program today with me peter davi russia's alleged interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election in the united states is long plagued donald trump since he took office and now a federal grand jury has concluded the russians did play a role on friday thirteen russian nationals and three russian companies were indicted for meddling in the presidential campaign quotes russia says there is no evidence to support that but the u.s. special counsel robert muller says an attempt was made to sway public opinion and to promote republican donald trump's campaign ahead of his democratic rival hillary clinton did it have an impact

but it's still not recognized by others including serbia russia and china because of a prime minister says that has to change all those investments military political financial or or loosing gazer and makes it is very rational to keep it still unfinished business so we have lost a lot of farms so that. today it's that on tomorrow is that i'm but we don't have any more years for this because your last two decades on this topic when massacre of kosovo albanians in rich aqua's one of the major events in the civil war as yugoslavia split apart under simmons has been to town to see how it's fed in recent years. it's a war he's grown used to over the years. still can't comprehend why he lived and his brother died no other men had been fighters they were kosovar albanian and that was a death sentence for those buried here young and old. this happened within the reach of unarmed european observers but the serbs blocked their access roma shabani and others had been rounded up in this yard. pretty hard to stop or to talk to you know who as you can see first of all they threw grenades and opened