former bosnian serb general ratko melodic faces the hague court he's accused of war crimes during the yugoslav war in the one nine hundred ninety s. . up next we hear from rod com a lot of his son darko to find out why some serbs still regard the former general as a hero stay with us. dark beach sun over serbian military leader accused of war crimes in the former yugoslavia thank you very much for your time and for being with us today thank you so your father of. seventy as of now you more than once stated that he is in poor health we know that former serbian president slobodan milosevic died while being tried by the international criminal criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia in the hague will your father be able to stand there tribunals proceedings i cannot comment. a lot about this my father of course has some. issues regarding his health we are already quite certain about that and especially. based on the turban or. we're going to read the works of man hours we feel is the need for help. since he is not only seventy years old the but has some medical concerns of course. the facts tha

and crimes against humanity prosecutors say in lodge led an ethnic cleansing campaign during the yugoslav war in the one nine hundred ninety s. a lot of his son has been talking with r.t. he explains why some in his homeland regard his father as a hero stay with us. dark live each son of rocco not a serbian military leader accused of war crimes at the former yugoslavia thank you very much for your time and for being with us today. thank you now your father. seventy as of now you more than once stated that he is in poor health one of the former serbian president slobodan milosevic died while being tried by the international criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia in the hague will your father be able to stand the tribunals proceedings i cannot comment. a lot about this my father of course has some. issues regarding his health we are already quite certain about it and then especially. based on the third. everything we're going to hear read the works of man hours we feel a bit. further even to judge his health since he's not only seventy years old that has some medical concerns of course

and crimes against humanity prosecutor same wattage led an ethnic cleansing campaign during the yugoslav war in the one nine hundred ninety s. . changing children who are taught to hate a school in israel stands out in class by teaching jewish and arab kids both sides of the story but it's a tough battle to surmount generations of stereotypes that have previously filled the textbooks. up next to a portrait of an american jewish academic and political firebrand who sees himself as a beacon of moral truth in the israeli palestine conflict that's coming up next. you know the famous joke. a journalist goes around them asks a russian of oh and it's really the same question he first goes to the russian excuse me what's your opinion of the meat shortage the russian says what's in the pinion. the reporter then goes to the pope excuse me what's your opinion of the meat shortage the pogos what meat. you gave goes to the israeli excuse me what's your opinion of the meat shortage these really replies what's excuse me. norman finkelstein speaks for no one but himself and a handful of people who have

latifa sikovska lost her career as a professional football player when the yugoslav state fell apart. her determination and perseverence helps many roma families escape isolation. >> skopje capital of the former yugoslavian republic of macedonia. with more than half a million residents, it's the country's largest city. it's divided into ten municipalities, one of which is uto orizari. more than 22,000 people live here. most of them are roma. they fled to macedonia during the kosovo war and they've remained in uto orizari. 30-year-old bajramsha selmani is one of them. she shares her small house with her husband and seven children. no one in the family has a job. ljatife sikovska is herself a roma, but she refuses to accept the situation her compatriots are in. so she's founded an organization that informs roma about their rights. lack of education and social marginalization are among the reasons why roma don't have access to jobs. without work they lack the money for important official documents. so they can't even register the births of their children who then can't attend school or g

and former yugoslav and serbian president slobodan milosovic died in prison in 2006 before a verdict was reached in his case. a short time ago i spoke to author and journalist michael dobbs, who's currently a fellow at the u.s. holocaust memorial museum. he covered the bosnian war and has return to the region to interview mladic's victims. today, he was inside the courtroom at the hague. michael dobbs, welcome. so this all goes back many years now. u we in the courtroomoda what was it like? what was the atmosphere? >> well, there were a lot of spectators in the courtroom who been victims of the war in bosnia. they were filling about half the courtroom. and there was some back-and-forecast, not orally but visually between them and ratko mladic. when mladic came into the court, he waved at these spectators, did a thumbs-up. some of them waved back. others cursed him. he seemed to relishbeinin the presence of people who could be described as his victims. >> brown: so, take us back in time to what this is all about. this was a horrific war in so many ways. what made srebrenica in particu

>> reporter: his country, yugoslav yugoslavia, was a killing field in 1992.thnic cleansing. he could either fight for a cause he didn't believe in or flee. he escaped to new york. he chose it not just as refuge, but as renaissance. >> if god had not given me some nice appearance, has given me a head, has given me a heart, and i can better myself. >> reporter: he started at the bottom, cleaning bathrooms, but these were ivy league bathrooms. he chose a janitor's job at columbia university because it came with 14 free credit hours a year. >> i do believe education, good education, it's very important not just for individuals for themselves but for society as a whole. >> reporter: first, he had to learn english. with his full-time job, it took seven years. then he enrolled in columbia's classics programs, studying greek and latin by day, scrubbing toilets by night. >> he's a remarkable human being -- >> reporter: garrison williams taught him and supervised his thesis on the roman philosopher seneca. the professor saw a man dedicated to knowledge. >> he would ask

and crimes against humanity prosecutor same wattage led an ethnic cleansing campaign during the yugoslav war in the night. and changing the children who are taught to hate school and israel's standing out in class by teaching jewish and arab kids both sides of the story but it's an uphill battle to surmount generations of stereotypes that have previously filled the textbooks. in enjoying those with all the latest sports news and plenty of talking points after the announcement of england's football squad for euro two thousand and twelve exactly right phil rio ferdinand versus joel and terry debate all of us being put to bed more and not just the second. your company this is sports and a plenty ahead over the next ten minutes or so including all this. final comment on chelsea receive a boost diva louise and gary cahill return to training head of this weekend's champions league decider with byron munich. on truck they had to be international part of a limp committee says he's impressed with soft cheese progress two years before the world games kick off. on top gear we catch up on russian re

bosnian serb general arrived home a lot of faces the hague court he's accused of war crimes during the yugoslav war in the one nine hundred ninety s. . next peter lavelle and cross talk guests have a heated debate stay with us. please. continue. to. follow and welcome to crossfire kind of all falling out of love is this what is happening to american jews in the relationship with israel american jews may indeed be more liberal than the politics of their peers in israel but does it really matter and what is the relationship connecting american jews and the israeli lobby . if you. start. to cross talk relations between american jews in israel i'm joined by norman finkelstein in new york he is a political analyst and author of the new book knowing too much why the american jewish love affair with israel is coming to an end in washington we have daniel pollack he is the co-director of government relations for design this organization of america and in amman we have rabbani he is an independent writer an analyst specializing in policy in affairs and the arab israeli conflict all right gentlemen cross

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melodic is standing trial at the international hague tribunal he's charged with genocide during the yugoslav war in the one nine hundred ninety s. among his alleged crimes the massacre in the town of cyber needs where eight thousand muslims were slaughtered and the deaths of more than ten thousand civilians during the siege of sarajevo sixty nine year old was a arrested by serb forces near belgrade last year his defense attorney had asked for the trial to be's be postponed saying the prosecution had failed to provide evidence on time they also accuse the judge of bias is still viewed as a national hero by some serbs in an interview with r.t. his son told us why. i am proud of his role in the most now war not because i think that he's guilty of anything but because. that he was doing his job to support and primarily objective or. was to protect our people from. being exposed to genocide and again. i think that the only friend supporting my father and this is me didn't the soviet people this saying there isn't for me is a. terrible outcome for us because only. defending ourselves from being ex

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who faces eleven charges of genocide and crimes against humanity during the yugoslav war in the one nine hundred ninety s. lot of he was arrested by serb forces near belgrade last year he's accused of the deaths of more than ten thousand civilians during the siege of sarajevo and for this ferber needs a massacre where more than seven thousand muslim men and boys were killed but some serbs still view as a national hero later this hour his son darko tells r t why or where his father's public support comes from. i am proud of his role in the war not because i think that he's guilty of anything but because i know that he was doing his job to support and primarily our objective or. our society was to protect people from. being exposed to genocide and again. i think that the only part of supporting my father and is that in the so many people this isn't for me is a. terrible attack on the first because. defending ourselves from being exposed to genocide and my father has succeeded in this task and i'm proud of. all of his you know in the war. it's often hard to see a way out for israelis and pa

right comal he faces eleven charges of genocide and crimes against humanity during his role in the yugoslav war in the ninety's blodgett was arrested by serb forces near belgrade a year ago he's accused of the deaths of more than ten thousand civilians during the siege of sarajevo and for this robbery needs a massacre where more than seven thousand muslim men and boys were killed but some stir serves as a national hero and the next hour his son darko tells our team where his father's public support is coming from. proud of his role in the war not because i think that he's guilty of anything but because of. that he was doing his job to support and primarily our objective or. was to protect our people from. being exposed to genocide and again. i think that the only person supporting my father and as. is that in the serbian people this. is. terrible for us because. defending ourselves from being exposed to genocide and my father succeeded in this task of. in the war. it's often hard to see a light at the end of the title for israelis and palestinians still deeply at odds over their history and

yugoslav war including the srebrenica massacre of more than seven thousand muslim men and boys and the siege of sarajevo that killed ten thousand civilians. north korea has detained three chinese fishing boats with twenty nine crew members aboard and demanding payment for the release they were seized more than a week ago by a korean gunboat in the yellow sea border area no word yet from pyongyang china and north korea are strong allies but the north is deeply reactive to what it sees as territorial infringements. finally in the news block thousands of mexicans packing for home after finding less opportunity in the united states than they'd hoped discovering a fragile economy in a weak job market many illegal immigrants are headed back south of the border reversing a decades long trend or he's medina coaching over reports from los angeles. three inhospitable terrain to trigger happy border guards crossing illegally from mexico into the united states is a pearl is journey which for many desperate for a new life was always thought to be worth the risk but times and more importantly condom

the highest profile yugoslav war crimes suspect is accused of responsibility for the killing of nearly 8,000 bosnian muslim men and boys in 1995. the largest mass slaughter in europe since world war ii. he was captured a year ago, and that was after 15 years in hiding. however, his attorneys are actually pushing for a delay in the trial now. they want the presiding judge disqualified arguing that he is biased. >>> check this out. the first solar eclipse visible from the united states in 18 years. it will be one week from today. nasa has a cool video out about how it works. it's called an annual ar eclipse. the thin outer ring of the sun will not be covered. the moon's shadow will begin in east asia and cross the pacific and end in the western u.s. so some folks from around the world will be flocking to california, nevada, utah, arizona. nasa says keep this in mind, an annual ar eclipse is not safe to watch without taking special precautions. lots of information up for you about all this and more at my page, josh levs on cnn on facebook and twitter. to stay on top of what's happening ev

>> reporter: his country, yugoslav yugoslavia, was a killing field in 1992.thnic cleansing. he could either fight for a cause he didn't believe in or flee. he escaped to new york. he chose it not just as refuge, but as renaissance. >> if god had not given me some nice appearance, has given me a head, has given me a heart, and i can better myself. >> reporter: he started at the bottom, cleaning bathrooms, but these were ivy league bathrooms. he chose a janitor's job at columbia university because it came with 14 free credit hours a year. >> i do believe education, good education, it's very important not just for individuals for themselves but for society as a whole. >> reporter: first, he had to learn english. with his full-time job, it took seven years. then he enrolled in columbia's classics programs, studying greek and latin by day, scrubbing toilets by night. >> he's a remarkable human being -- >> reporter: garrison williams taught him and supervised his thesis on the roman philosopher seneca. the professor saw a man dedicated to knowledge. >> he would ask

an immigrant from the former yugoslav yugoslavia, he escaped the war-torn country in 1992 for a chanceom my country, leave my country, the best place to go is the united states. >> reporter: he landed a janitor's job at columbia because it came with 14 free credit hours a year. his title, heavy cleaner, included mopping floors and taking out the trash. >> it was always in my head to finish college. >> reporter: first he had to learn english. with his full-time job, it took seven years. then he enrolled in columbia's classics program. studying greek and latin by day, scrubbing toilets by night. >> he's a remarkable human being. >> reporter: professor williams taught him and supervised his thesis on roman philosopher seneca. >> he would ask one question, then another question, then a third question. he was so vibrant in the classroom and so keen to learn. >> reporter: he may finally have his degree but his school days aren't over. >> there is a saying like seneca said, while you teach, you learn. >> reporter: he plans to return to his night job and hopes to enroll in graduate school and