of former prosecutor earnhardt reputation probing war crimes in rwanda and the former yugoslavia. but she suspects that the war crimes in syria are nothing like she's ever seen. the ongoing civil war there has left some three hundred thousand dead and has displaced millions. well that's what we're about that i'm joined in the studio by nadine hurries a syrian specialist at human rights watch thanks for being with us tonight. as we had day ahead double doses of this un commission is basically a cheap nothing during the past few days would you agree with that assessment. no i mean i think she's clearly frustrated but i think the un commission of inquiry has done a very good job documenting. all sorts of war crimes and crimes against humanity why i agree with her is that these reports. have not translated into the political action needed to create a tribunal to hold those responsible accountable. but i think in terms of. documentation the work was very important which she specifically pointing the finger at russia in your view russia which of course frequently holds up any acts in th

i would point out that from 1953 to 1961, we provided more economic aid to communist yugoslavia and to all of latin america. , this denial of economic assistance had immediate regional ramification. the dreams of latin american democrats vanished. in 1948, military officers overthrew new, popular governments in peru and venezuela. elsewhere, the pace of change and reform slowed dramatically. without economic support, without u.s. economic support, the progressive governments that had come to power between 1940 and 1946 could not find the promised social reform that would legitimize constitutional role. as the mexican foreign minister put it, economic corporation was the one way to provide the only sound basis for hemispheric peace. they were immediate ramifications of the denial of economic assistance. i'm not suggesting that the truman administration had any other choice. there is only so much money. there was the issue of western europe. the denial of economic aid took its toll on inter-american relations. after chinese troops crossed the yellow river and attacked u.s. forces in late

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the woman who prosecuted rwanda and yugoslavia has quit the u.n. commission on syria.ells a swisse magazine the investigation has had absolutely no success and she could no longer be part of a body that simply does not do anything. beenommission has reporting on human rights violations in syria six years. our correspondent has more. >> i am frustrated. i give up. reporter: former war crimes prosecutor carla del ponte had harsh words for the ewing commission on syria. >> this commission is useless. it is ridiculous. it has been seven years. what is the point? seven years of doing nothing. i'm going to do more for the outcry of help. in an interview with a swiss magazine, she accused the un security council of failing to hold war criminals in syria accountable. she also complains the commission was never able to enter syria. since it began in 2011 it has relied on interviews, photos, and documents, but such reports are useless, according to carla refusese, if the human to create a special tribunal for workers in syria. >> therein lies the responsibility. nothing happens.

more than two decades after the end of the bosnian war, which cemented the breakup of yugoslavia, its deadly legacy remains. there are over 100,000 landmines still buried under the ground in present-day bosnia and herzegovina. efforts to clear them have been hampered by floods and landslides shifting the locations of minefields, and by the government breaking promises on funding. meanwhile, the mines continue to claim the lives of ordinary citizens, or, like ermin, cause them life-changing injuries. >> participating in sports has helped ermin jusufovic resume a normal life. he's a paralympic volleyball player. 10 years ago, he stepped on a landmine, and lost the lower part of his right leg. >> sitting volleyball has become like a way of life for me. it not only provides an outlet for all the negative energy and thoughts, it's also an opportunity for me to meet my friends. and of course it helps me stay fit, so i benefit physically, mentally, and emotionally. >> the club, named "the sons of bosnia," was set up after the war for those maimed in the fighting or in landmine accidents. jus

being a first strike or being an aggressor look what they did to iraq in the look what they did to yugoslavia illegally look at the brutal hillary clinton engineered war on libya in two thousand and eleven look at how the united states more or less invented al qaida when they funded the mujahideen that was fighting the secular salvi it aligned government in kabul throughout the 1980's the list goes on and on we can look at cia coups against legitimate leaders from chile to iran so when it comes to the sheer statistics of america launching a war things don't look very good but luckily the since nine hundred forty five america house and dropped more nuclear weapons and we have to remember since we're talking about the starts and the figures that america is the only nation to ever drop an atomic weapon in war time so yes things are dangerous but with any hope china and russia and other responsible parties can implement their peace plan which calls for deescalation on both sides in any case though i can't see that these contraptions that people are buying from their local hardware shops and onlin

is employing a strategy because they have very astutely watched as iraq in libya of yugoslavia so. they want to different destiny for. their system they're trying to match the us with its might with with ensuring that then i afraid in an armed or in a nuclear north korea is a sceptical susceptible north korea to being invaded is all the countries that i mentioned have been the way to solve the crisis has to come from internally in the united states we need strong anti-war movement in it in fact there was only one korea one korean people one korean territory one korean language until the genocide a war that the u.s. weighed from one thousand nine hundred fifty to one nine hundred fifty three when the us divided north korea and bombed. in the rest of the cities of korea to smithereens so it's always been the korean people who have suffered the most because of this. these threats and would the korean people want the most of the people of the world one is peace and situating into his this evening here in r.t. international quick reminder as well if you like good news on social media yo

under this dangerous dynamic an accident happens, a serbian errorist assassinates an arcduke in yugoslavia. i have studied since i was in college. it is still unbelievable. the parties were not looking for a war with each other. how in the world did an archduke who was lonly emperor, at the end of this war, every one of the participants. he is trying to keep together his empire and he's gone. the russian czar and trying to back the serbians. kaiser rejecting his buddy in vienna. france. you look at this, they were given a do-over -- charlie: war happens over a wrong assumption or some triggered event that nobody expected. >> right. and that's the extreme danger. and today, i would say the thing that sounds the most dangerous jong un. is kim charlie: here's what the president said. i went to mar-a-lago and said to the chinese and said i'm passionate about trade and creating more jobs here, all i want is fair trade. i'm willing not to make the case if you'll help me on north korea. then three, four months later is they didn't help him at all, that, in fact, rather than trying to encourage no

under this dangerous dynamic an accident happens, a serbian terrorist assassinates the archduke in yugoslavia-- sarajevo. charlie: that started the war. graham: absolutely. i have studied this case since college. it is still unbelievable. the parties were not looking for a war with each other. how in the world did an archduke who was a lonely emperor, at the end of this war, every one of the participants had lost what he cared about most. he is trying to keep together his empire and he's gone. the empire is dissolved. the russian czar and trying to back the serbians. he was overthrown by the bolsheviks. the kaiser backing his buddy in vienna. you look at this. if they were given a do over, they would not have done what he did. charlie: war happens over a wrong assumption or some triggered event that nobody expected. graham: right. and that's the extreme danger. and today, i would say the thing that sounds the most dangerous like that is kim jong-un testing icbm's. charlie: let's talk about that. here's what the president said. he said i went to mar-a-lago and , said to the chinese and said i'

del ponte formerly served as a war crimes prosecutor in tribunals on rwanda and yugoslavia.he said "right now it looks as if president bashar al-assad will escape justice if we want to negotiate peace. but one day he will have to face justice. justice must do its work because without justice there is no real peace." unquote meanwhile, syrian human rights lawyer noura ghazi safadi has announced that her husband, prominent syrian palestinian internet activist bassel khartabil, was executed by the assad regime in 2014. the news of his death has sparked international outcry and mourning, particularly among internet activists. khartabil was open source software programer who fought for an open internet and helped people across syria evade regime censorship and surveillance. in 2012, foreign policy magazine listed him as the 19th most influential thinker of the year for "insisting, against all odds, on a peaceful syrian revolution." he was arrested by the syrian military in 2012 in damascus. the white house is considering an unprecedented plan to privatize the war in afghanistan a

one of those places was the former yugoslavia, a country that is falling apart and people were dyingicans are very generous about putting their treasure and lives on the line around the world. but we have to be very disciplined and very careful where we do it. >> when president clinton came into office, there was a reluctance to get american forces involve we were trying to figure out what is america'moral responsibility? if, in fact, people are being killed and we know about it. >> stunning news from somalia. the deadliest battle yet involving u.s. forces. >> the battle began after this jeep carrying americans was blown up. two u.s. helicopters was shot down. >> president george bush as his parting gesture sent in a humanitarian mission to rescue the somalis from this terrible famine. it turned from a humanitarian mission into a terrible military catastrophe. >> 12 american soldiers killed. >> why let the somalis drag dead g.i.s by ropes through the streets of mogadishu? >> we have gone way beyond what our original intention was in somalia and it's time to get out. >> after two days

one of those places was the former yugoslavia, a country that is falling apart and people were dyingicans are very generous about putting their treasure and lives on the line around the world. but we have to be very disciplined and very careful where we do it. >> when president clinton came into office, there was a reluctance to get american forces involved. we were trying to figure out what is america's moral responsibility? if, in fact, people are being killed and we know about it. >> stunning news from somalia. the deadliest battle yet involving u.s. forces. >> the battle began after this jeep carrying americans was blown up. two u.s. helicopters were shot down. >> president george bush as his parting gesture sent in a humanitarian mission to rescue the somalis from this terrible famine. it turned from a humanitarian mission into a terrible military catastrophe. >> 12 american soldiers killed. >> why let the somalis drag dead g.i.s by ropes through the streets of mogadishu? >> we have gone way beyond what our original intention was in somalia and it's time to get out. >> after two

covering conflicts in central america the middle east and was in sarajevo during the war in the former yugoslavia. there are moments when societies are pushed to such an extreme as was true for instance i'm sorry ava where they have to employ violence. in that city which was being shelled by the serbs day and night to. thousand shells a day constant sniper fire forty five dead a day two dozen wounded a day. was protected by trench systems we knew that if the serbs surrounding serve forces broke through those trenches a third of the city would be slaughtered in the rest would be driven into refugee and displacement camps and that was wasn't conjecture we were that what happened in vukovar adreno valley and all sorts of other places so at that point you know especially being shelled. nobody was sitting around in a basement arguing over pacifism but that doesn't save you from the poison of violence i think when you look at foreign occupation such as our occupation of iraq israeli occupation of gaza i used to work in algeria and land at the airport i would say welcome to our land of a million martyrs