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me personally i wasn't in surrey brilliance during this. sad case but i have information from my colleagues and from historic calls from belgrade from. that it was a crime and to personally order to kill this innocent people. would you agree to what the west generally believes that that the serbs beer the lion's share of responsibility for for the atrocities and and for the crimes committed during the bust in war. to be fair i must say that there are no side of the conflict was very humane neither syrups not creations not muslims it was the war but i am sure that the late president of serbia dictator slobodan milosevic and his visit from zagreb former president of grace for a new man. the share the most of the blame for initiating the long and bloody war i met with them several times i had some interviews with both of them and. they i know personally they agreed on their plan to divide and herzegovina so since so this is the main thing and if we get back to the atrocities you had to you had to report as a journalist. on the on the atrocitie

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the surrey river is rising in minot, north dakota. a quarter of the city's residents, about 10,000 people, have been told to evacuate. >> barricading and putting dirt in front of all of the basement windows, clay, trying to get everything shored up. sealed up as far as the basement goes. hopefully the water doesn't go any higher than the main floor. >> dakota officials warn the flooding threat is likely to last for weeks. >>> turning now to the economy, wall street is coming off its roughest day in awhile. it was driven down by a rash of bad news on jobs, home prices and consumer confidence. ashley morrison here in new york with that and more. ashley, good morning to you. >> good morning to you, terrell. the asian markets picked up where wall street left off. tokyo's nikkei lost more than 1.5%. and other exchanges were also sharply lower. the bad news on the economy is starting to pile up, analysts think we're in what they call a soft patch with stocks being just the latest signs. the free-fall wiped out more than a quarter of the mar