and sunday marks twenty years since nato starts its so-called humanitarian campaign in then yugoslavia many locals see the military offensive in which thousands were killed as a regime change operation. a warm welcome you watching the weekly here on r.t. international all the latest headlines and a round of the stories that shape the week our top story president trump's team did not conspire with russia to win the twenty sixteen u.s. election that's the key finding of a special counsel robert miller two year investigation the president's house called it complete exoneration well earlier i discussed the story with artie's donald quarter. the mainstream media for one has been harping on this investigation for months they've been saying just let's just wait for the results from the miller investigation it came out and the government is twenty five million dollars almost three thousand subpoenas and over five hundred search warrants deep with little to show for it if anything now the main thrust of this investigation was to was basically to find evidence that donald trump was colluding wit

on sunday marks twenty years since nato started it so cold humanitarian campaign and then yugoslavia and he that was the the military offensive in which thousands were killed as a regime change operation. very welcome you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international with me making our top story this hour the president trying to team did not conspire with the russians to win the twenty sixteen u.s. election that is the key finding all the special counsel robin the two year investigation the president has called it a complete excellent ration let's bring it out he's done on course to discuss this further now don thanks for coming in could you tell us more about these findings yeah absolutely well nicky the mainstream media has been harping on this russian collusion stuff for months now telling us all just to wait for the outcome of the muller report and now a few hours ago it just came out in the government is twenty five million dollars almost three thousand subpoenas and over five hundred search warrants deep with basically nothing to show for it the main thrust of this investig

today marks twenty years since native started this bombing campaign against then yugoslavia what nato claimed was a humanitarian operation to help the country separatists local soras a regime change campaign in which thousands were killed nato became involved in yugoslavia march one thousand nine hundred nine after sectarian tensions between serbians and cos of an albanians became violent the alliance backed the latter without any un mandates nato bombed yugoslavia for almost three months in a row leaving many parts of serbia devastated. for the sunday people took to the streets of belgrade the former yugoslav capital they condemned the nato bombing that ended rule over a territory that many who gathered still view as their nation's historic heartland america correspondent alex because of its has more now on the anniversary of the conflict. this was serbia twenty years ago. on march twenty fourth one thousand nine hundred nine ruthless nato campaign against the small balkan nation began i was there at the time so i'm going to take you through a bit of a personal journey at the time i

very little there was initially a move by the the yugoslav federal republic of yugoslavia governments of serbs. i want an eager at the beginning to sue nato for the ecological environmental humanitarian and financial catastrophe it created throughout the region so nato response was to create a coup a color revolution in serbia and bring its own puppets to power who probably signed everything they wanted including an extra further ten billion dollars given away by a poor country to the rich nato countries of the world and that and that and they also abandoned the lawsuit against the nato countries we need the world community to really take nato to task if serbia is too weak to do it we need other countries to take an interest because this if what if it's if they don't defend serbia. they'll be their borders next that nato will become for instance the thoughts of international affairs come to market many thanks mark. and for the news now german politicians of call for the expulsion of the u.s. ambassador richard grenell it came after he openly criticized berlin's plan to reduce defense

humanitarian campaign in yugoslavia many local see the military offensive in which thousands were killed as being a regime change operation. welcome it's midnight here in moscow you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international first this hour no collision no obstruction of justice those are the conclusions of the long awaited report which has been investigating whether the campaign conspired with russia to influence that twenty six the presidential election. auntie's don't cause he joins me in the studio if they broke within the last sifting through this four page report from the attorney general what do we know at this point well like you said a couple hours ago the u.s. attorney general released this full summary of mahler's report now twenty five million dollars later almost three thousand subpoenas and over five hundred search warrants all after this investigation is concluded and the u.s. department of justice as they found basically nothing now the main thrust of this investigation of course was to prove that the trumpet ministration in some way colluded with russia in the twe

on day two nato bombed yugoslavia for almost three months straight in many parts of serbia devastated. this sunday people took to the streets of belgrade the former yugoslavia and capital that condemns the nato bombing that ended in serbia's rule over territory that many who gathered still view is the nation's historic heartland r.t. america correspondent alex mahela vich was has more on the anniversary of the conflict. this was serbia twenty years ago. on march twenty fourth one thousand nine hundred nine ruthless nato campaign against the small balkan nation began i was there at the time so i'm going to take you through a bit of a personal journey at the time i was living here serbia's third largest city northeast side which seemed to be a million miles away from the battles in kosovo that very evening i was chilling out on the couch watching t.v. with my dog when suddenly the earth started shaking and the sky turned bright red warning the airstrikes had begun for the first explosion a ran down the stairs trying to get out of the house not knowing where the next phone was going to h

we spoke to dr william novick who was working in yugoslavia with a team of u.s. doctors and nurses in march of one nine hundred ninety nine about his experience on the day the bombing started. every signal started going off not long after sundown and the bombs started dropping within a few minutes after that we were at a very critical juncture when operating on the schild and i had looked up from the child's chest and said listen you know. my country for whatever reason is bombing your country tonight a number of your countrymen are going to die but this child that is on the table that is ten days old is not going to die tonight we're going to take this safely downstairs and then all of you can go home to your families. i want to tell you that. that was one of the most horrific nights. that i've experienced. in the children's intensive care unit is on the top floor and there's a balcony that goes about seventy percent of the way around the building and i went outside with my coffee and i saw a number of fighter bombers as well. and i found a reminder of our break

sunday marks twenty years since nato started its quote humanitarian campaign in then yugoslavia many local see the military offensive in which thousands were killed as a regime change operation. that's a joining us this evening you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international we will start this hour with breaking news that's just come in the long awaited miller report in the united states has concluded that the charm campaign did not conspire with russia during the twenty sixteen election the findings of the reports were only given to congress members just a few minutes ago the attorney general is quoted. he quotes the reporter saying that while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime it also does not exonerate him it only general also said that the evidence gathered was not sufficient to prove president truck committed an obstruction of justice so that's the latest just come through it will bring you more details and no doubt analysis on this breaking news story a little later this hour. moving on to other news now up to a million people marched acros

court for his role in the civil wars that gripped the former republic of yugoslavia in the early one nine hundred ninety s. at a bank heritage saw his forty year war crimes sentence extended in the hague's appeals court five judges of how the verdict given in twenty to sixty in the mass killings of civilians in the conflict covered it argued that there was no evidence of him committing the crimes findings now seventy three years old carriage had been on the run for twelve years before he was finally arrested in two thousand and eight he was found guilty on ten counts including overseeing the siege of sarajevo which is now the capital of bosnia and herzegovina the appeals court now confirmed his guilt in what's been described as the worst massacres since the second world war including the massacre which left thousands dead in one thousand nine hundred five . the yugoslav was the bloodiest conflicts in european history since the second world war. tensions between a complex mix of nationalities forming the state of yugoslavia erupted into a visit civil war originate yugoslavia included

so they march the twentieth anniversary since nato still to this bombing campaign against yugoslavia well nato claimed was a humanitarian operation to help the country separatists and local saw a regime change campaign in which thousands were killed. became devolved in march of one thousand nine hundred nine after sectarian tensions between serbians and cost of an albanian stone violent alliance backed the latter without any u.n. mandate. for almost three months straight leaving many parts of serbia devastated. the sunday people took to the streets of belgrade the former yugoslavia capital they condemned the nato bombing that ended service rule over territory many who gathered still view is that nation's historic. correspondent alex kotlowitz has more on the anniversary of the conflict. this was serbia twenty years ago. on march twenty fourth one thousand nine hundred nine. needle campaign against the small balkan nation began i was there at the time so i'm going to take you through a bit of a personal journey at the time i was living here serbia's third largest city which seemed to

to niger they took goes into action against yugoslavia it is indeed tragic that diplomacy has failed and nato is now intervening in a war in a sovereign country. and. nato air campaign conducted a number of operations one to mine the military capability over the boat. to this day the u.n. special court is still investigating war crime cases from the home flicked we discussed want characters increased sentence could mean for the balkan region with belgrade based european studies research stuff and got rich i think that he hopes he'll. stay sickly for historical reasons so that there is a trace of him feeling and i think that he is still acting as the first president of. the hague tribunal was a political court that was set out to. convict serbs even if you look at the basic statistics more than seventy percent of all people who are into were from the search site and sort of more all the political leaders were trials and convicted while the undersides were not there. the president of brazil has become known as the trump of the tropics for both the likeness in his person and his policie

war originate yugoslavia included six republics with different nationalities and religious groups. the communist revolutionary and statesman tito who established the federal republic of yugoslavia managed to suppress nationalism. to his death in the one nine hundred eighty s. relations among the republics quickly deteriorated with each of them seeking their own independence as soon turned ugly old saw in. the nine hundred ninety five genocide in tripper needs it is one of the bloodiest pages in yugoslav history the massacre of more than eight thousand muslim both the acts perpetrated by units of the bulls. resulted in that c'mon there ratko manage being jailed for life by the un special court in november twenty seventh. procedural cities happened over old sites in one thousand nine hundred three sixty nine so been civilians were killed by balls and herzegovina army forces in the scale and a massacre to the north the docs church in a cemetery bugs in the ground. over all despite much evidence of war crimes conducted similar tenuously by different forces the cia eventually declared s

agency and i was stationed in the former yugoslavia the impact of the bombing itself and what led up to the bombing was you know there were a multitude of battles and wars going on between what was at one point the socialist federal republic of yugoslavia when that the left part what was left were two states or republics serbia and montenegro they were what was left of yugoslavia the other countries had broken off and that lasted about two thousand and three until it's changed its name to serbia and montenegro in two thousand and six that finally fall apart now we have the states of serbia and we have montenegro so this was basically an effort from the very beginning just a fracture or balkanize where better of a word for the country in the balkans the balkan nation and that's exactly what the west managed to do for nato their excuse in one thousand nine hundred nine of going in and bombing was that there was ethnic cleansing going on in cos of all by serbs of ethnic albanians now prior to that there was apne cleansing going on of serbs by ethnic albanians so you know this is a long

cruise missiles used against yugoslavia that night after by hundreds of fixed wing bombing operations well nato feel to destroy most military targets it was effective when it came to killing civilians this is the city of nice in southern serbia it's the location of one the most serious bombings of the nato campaign event happened may seventh nine hundred ninety nine cluster bombs dropped fifteen people dead in the middle of the day one of those bombs killed a twenty seven year old woman who was seven months pregnant earth. did you see that it happened on the girdle it's a bridge on april twelfth one thousand nine hundred nine nato planes targeted a civilians. passenger trade not once but twice at least nine people died in the incident some say the number could be as high as sixty today the bridge where the attack occurred has been rebuilt walking around the site which has become a monument to the dead you can't help but reflect on the horror that happened here . as william nothing who was working in yugoslavia with a team of us talked to us and says in lots ninety nine about his exper

(jet engine roaring) (loud explosion) >> yugoslavia, a country at war with itself.d slovenia declared their independence, a nation of six republics is being dismantled by apparently unchecked force. now it's feared thatuffer republic of bosnia herzegovina could become t next theater of conflict. (gunshot) >> violence has broken out in the republic of bosnia herzegovina after its population voted at the weeke for independence from the rest of yugoslavia. 43% of the republic's population are muim. 31% are serbs and 17% are croats. the muslims and croats support independence, e serbs are fiercely opposed to it. >> last night the serbs proclaimed areakaway republic inside bosnia, and today their leader radovan karadzic said they'd have to make their serbian state whatever t cost may be. (explosion)th e is chaos and anarchy, no functioning central authority, and the united nations headquartered here is apparently werless to intervene. (explosion) what remains of the bosnian government has dlared a state of war. (explosions)en >> enter geral mladic. ar>> he's the scourge

day march twenty fourth nineteen ninety nine where warrior when the bombs started falling on the yugoslavia i was in my place in belgrade and the bombing started. for march. expected because. we have a process was finished with. the preparation for war. by the government and i made yes we did expect. to see what you said a moment ago that you saw it coming and yet i read somewhere that because of the tide state control over the media in the weeks prior to the offensive very few ordinary people expected to boeing or that it would be as massive as it was most of the people hold that a diplomatic deal with be made was it perhaps because you were a part of the government that you were better informed people at large. as a matter of fact it is a difference between. being unbelievable. bomb being. public because i mean rationally speaking nobody expected to the bombing by the end of the twentieth century but for everybody now her. objections are best in countries particularly neat and usa and good you spend expect this scenario those aries did bring flood but on the loss of each into compliance h

first military operation without the approval of the un security council italia week bombing off yugoslavia was celebrated as a turning point in the history of warfare proving a conflict can be won by air power alone to take it on does it still seem like a victory all to discuss that i'm now joined by slobodan some are professor of political sciences at the university of belgrade professor march's good to talk to you thank you very much for its time. first of all let me ask you what do you remember of that day march twenty fourth nineteen ninety nine where warrior when the bombs started falling on the yugoslavia i was in my place in belgrade and the bombing started. for march. expected because. we have a process was finished with. the preparation for war. by the government and by media so we did expect. to see what you said a moment ago that you saw it coming and yet i read somewhere that because of the tide state control over the media in the weeks prior to the offensive very few ordinary people expected to boeing or that it would be as massive as it was most of the people hold that a dipl

first military operation without the approval of the un security council the talent bombing off yugoslavia was celebrated as a turning point in the history of warfare proving that a conflict can be won by air power alone to take it on does it still seem like a victory to discuss that i'm now joined by a. professor of political sciences at the university of belgrade professor some good to talk to you thank you very much for your time. first of all let me ask you what do you remember of that day march twenty fourth nine hundred ninety nine where warrior when the bombs started falling on the yugoslavia i was in my place in belgrade and the bombing started late afternoon on the fourth of march. expected because. we have a process was finished with. the preparation for the war. were very frightened. by the government and by media so we did expect that. to situation that you said a moment ago that you saw it coming and yet i read somewhere that because of the tide state control over the media in the weeks prior to the offensive very few ordinary people expected to belonging or that it would be a

tonight and they took goes into action against yugoslavia it is indeed tragic that diplomacy has failedand nato is now intervening in a war in a sovereign country. and eventual nato air campaign conducted a number of operations to undermine the military capability of the ball seems to me . to this day the un special court is still investigating war crime cases from the conflict. were discussed what crowds such as increased sentence could mean for the balkan a region with historian stefan gosh it. i think that he hopes he'll stay sickly for historical reasons so that there is a trace of him feeling and i think that he's still acting as a politician as the first president of. the hague tribunal was a political court that was set out to to convict the serbs even if you look at the basic statistics more than seventy percent of all people who are indicate were from the search site and sort of more all the political leaders were trials and convicted while the undersides were not their. president of brazil gyre wilson r.-o. was in washington this week on his first official foreign visit and do

nato became involved in yugoslavia in march nineteenth. tonight to say tell us as well said the cost of going out and violence the alliance back without any u.n. mandate. almost three months straight. after state it america correspondent alex has more on the anniversary of the conflict. this was serbia twenty years ago. on march twenty fourth one thousand nine hundred nine. needle campaign against the small balkan nation began i was there at the time so i'm going to take you through a bit of a personal journey at the time i was living here serbia's third largest city which seemed to be a million miles away from the battles in kosovo that very evening i was chilly out on the couch watching t.v. with my dog when suddenly the earth started shaking and the sky turned bright red warning. to go through the first explosion ran down the stairs trying to get out of the house not knowing where the next floor was going to hit. and second i stopped at the store. looked up in the sky and there was a cruise missile flying over the house over there secon

court for his role in the civil wars that gripped the former republic of yugoslavia in the early one nine hundred ninety s. rather than current itch saw his forty year old work try and sentence extended in the hague's appeals court five judges upheld the verdict given back in twenty sixteen for the mass killings of civilians in the conflict card which argues that there was no evidence of him into committing crimes hostages she's now seventy three years old courage which had been on the run for twelve years before he was finally arrested in two thousand and eight he was found guilty on ten counts including overseeing the siege of sarajevo the capital of bosnia and herzegovina the appeals courts. also confirmed his guilt in what's been described as the worst massacres since the second world war including the massacre which left thousands dead back in one nine hundred ninety five. well for further insight in there somehow to say stephan guy it's joins us live a researcher at the institute for european studies in bell grade did the appeal courts this isn't surprised you. no it didn't com

and i welcome to the program i met klug when yugoslavia broke up in the early one nine hundred ninety s. it triggered a three year conflict that led to the worst atrocities in europe since world war two the leader of the bulls in serbs back then was read of encourage he planned the nine hundred ninety five srebrenica massacre where almost eight thousand men and boys were killed in a campaign of genocide against poles noone was when on wednesday the seventy three year old lost his appeal against a forty year sentence u.n. court in the hague increase that to life behind bars survivors of the massacre celebrated but many both still regard courage as a hearing on your gig are reports now from the hague. the faces of the dead of the strip it's a massacre remembered by their loved ones victims of the genocide perpetrated by bosnian serb leader radovan cottage which it has taken nearly twenty five years for justice to be realized a painful journey often bereft of hope. but the wait has finally come to an end cottage listened intently as the court listed his grounds for appeal and rejected th

and to do this they also work with other artists sometimes from other parts of former yugoslavia. they need to talk about new projects in their small office space they keep receiving more commissions from the city as well as organizations and private individuals right now they're working with the school and at the former olympic stadium. the artists ethnic origins are not an issue. because a korean issue an old machines humanity look at our name. our group is multi-ethnic and colorful in every way. they have of us an option that. the artists of over you know hope that more art on the streets of sarajevo will help make the world a better place with fewer divides between different ethnic groups and religions more arts for less hate. this is d.w. news coming up next a day did d.w. news i think that will make the crappiest touching a punch in kenya as i tackle the culture of fright but one of the country's most dangerous slums. on the women who mean business you'll hear from the creators of she leads africa a platform helping young african women achieve their professional trips. chris

when the germans had yugoslavia the two groups that suffered the most in terms of maybe mistaken but i think i think the serbs had the worst casualty rate of all percentage wise of the popular and i think it's i think it is very close to that parable of the ok everybody and they're going to go back tomorrow i would say by the way i mean i mean this is just huge book when they say that we defend duis people they give they ideological allies when you have jewels opposing their globalism opposing their outre neighbor and so suddenly these jewels become rank extremists you know populists whatever and only the jewels who support their the war against iraq who supported. that these are the radios and jeremy corbyn don't you just say that this is that message from the markets i want to shift gears here. trump's new budget is going to be coming out and one of the things that we hear is that he has an interesting formula he wants to charge five hundred six hundred percent on countries that are hosting american troops and and when i'm thinking right now of japan and germany the interesting thi

and i welcome to the program i met klug when yugoslavia broke up in the early one nine hundred ninety s. it triggered a three year conflict that led to the worst atrocities in europe since world war two the leader of the bulls in serbs back then was right of encourage he planned the nine hundred ninety five srebrenica massacre where almost eight thousand men and boys were killed in a campaign of genocide against poles noone was thems when on wednesday the seventy three year old lost his appeal against a forty year sentence u.n. court in the hague increase that to life behind bars survivors of the massacre celebrated but many both still regard courage as a hero son your gager reports now from the hague. the faces of the dead of the strip it's a massacre remembered by their loved ones victims of the genocide perpetrated by bosnian serb leader radovan cottage which it has taken nearly twenty five years for justice to be realized a painful journey often bereft of hope but learn excellent but the wait has finally come to an end kind of listened intently as the court listed his grounds for

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and war crimes and given a 40 year prison sentence for his role in the bloody conflict that tore yugoslaviapart. the case is one of the last remaining from the war in the 1990's. bosnians and bosnian serbs remain divided over his fate. >> guilty of the following counts. inwhen he was convicted 2016, he accused judges of conducting a political trial. he was found guilty on 10 counts genocide,mes and including the four-year seizure of sarajevo. and of another city, when bosnian troops murdered 8000 men and boysenberry to them -- and buried them in mass graves. continues to divide bosnians who lost family and the conflict and bosnian serbs who see him as a hero. >> we expectct he will get the punishment he deserves, that the court will confirm the verdict. freed and peace and dialogue in this region will be possible if that happens. his 40 yearealing sentence while prosecutors are seeking to give the 73-year-old life in prison. as well as a second genocide convention -- second genocide conviction. the case has been a tricky one. >> it is sensitive.e. it challenges the judges. it also impacts h

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