and actually take over bosnia and western support in terms of. being imported into bosnia to fight on the muslim side against. the presence of bin ladin and. then the real story about seventy two which has been totally twisted and even if you later in the western media i mean those are actually very big news items very big issues and it won't be comfortable for the western media and i think they will try to ignore as much as they possibly can r.t. has been hearing how in some minds a lot of his arrest is more about political ambition down war crimes just a surrogate international affairs writer sara trick of excess state controlled media is pushing to persuade people the country needs to join the e.u. . instead of applauding serbia for finally catching wild which you will see in the western media yet another. reminding everybody of srebrenica and the alleged a thousand words that his mother chooses the greatest alleged crime the serbian media nor tightly controlled by the government had ever been under milosz and all of the media repeating in uni

conspiracy and none of the other people who were indicted by the court from croatia from bosnia from kosovo they've all been charged with very specific things and individual crimes rear jesus's. immediate bit of command responsibility and then they will be acquitted. only the onus should be the political leadership and military leadership and police leadership would be in charge of membership in this camp experience and so you're not really putting watching trouble putting all and all syria on trial because we know the serbian government wants become part of the e.u. with a big backdrop a abut the use of. been accused of viewing belgrade as the sole aggressor in the war what does it appear that only so big. and well again all efforts to peace serbia's the rest or any perpetrator for crimes you know to justify the intervention that the newly formed e.u. committed in one thousand and two when it recognize the breakaway group of sufficiency news and states that germans are urging there was one of the first acts of the european union in four months or fixation a fact was. said to have be

. >> how deep for the divisions today in bosnia, due to what happened in the 1990's? >> after the peace agreements, the country divided. mladic encouraged the plan to deny bust -- to divide bosnia in at two. he might be in the hague. i feel at the moment quite a lot of cynicism and unhappiness about the current situation. it is political. it has to do more with serbia and bosnia itself. >> are you saying that is because of the way the two communities tried to coexist? this may further inflame tensions, this arrest. >> definitely. i do not personally believe we will have again war. but it has divided the country economically. it has divided it nationally. the ethnic cleansing has been done. the people have moved. you can see the terrain has been divided. very few people returned back to their previous homes in the federation. that is what is in reality. has saidsudan's leader he will not lead his people back into conflict with the north over the disputed region of abyei. it was seized by northern troops over the weekend but is also claimed by the south, which is destin

and actually take over bosnia. you with o.t. and of us plenty more on the way in including the pentagon's arguable achievements . our record of predicting where we will use military force since vietnam is perfect we have never once got near right the man in charge of a justifies it spending more than any other country on defense by frightening financially struggling and so keeping them safe. a twenty billion dollars fighting fund for egypt and tunisia and yet another call for libyan leader colonel gadhafi to step down they're all among the issues of the g. eight and j. partners are discussing them now the rule included in that final declaration as a summit does not talk to a close. when i was covering this full force in northern france and. being made there any agreements set in stone at this point. you know by this declaration which i actually have in my hand at least i draft up it is usually seen as a formality really the important work gets done at these kind of time it takes place behind closed doors and we've

and actually take over bosnia. well arty's been hearing how in sound minds a lot of his arrest is more about political ambition than war crimes justice serbian international affairs writer sarah trish kind of says state controlled media is pushing to persuade people the country needs to join the e.u. instead of applauding serbia for finally catching wild which you will see in the western media yet another. sort of reminding everybody of srebrenica and. a thousand serbian media more tightly controlled by the government then they had ever been under milosz and repeating in unison on their turf the e.u. is some kind of panacea to lose all the problems now if serbia does join the e.u. i think it will be the first time in history that a wretch has joined on to a sinking ship. well plenty more on the way here in our team including a panel gonz arguable its events. our record of predicting where we will use military force since vietnam is perfect we have never once gotten it right. the man in charge however justifies spen

we owe him everything. >> two parallel bosnias there are now. this woman lost her husband in the massacre. i asked her whether her serb neighbors acknowledged what happened here? >> no, she said, i still haven't met one who has even come here to express remorse or to say i'll bring my child to see what happened. whenever we had the chance to question ratko mladic during the war itself, he always said the same thing to us. everything i do i do before the eyes of the entire world. so how can it be criminal? for three years, the world watched bosnia in anguished indecision, three years in which atrocity became common-place and immunity the norm. >> remembering a terrible, the pilots struggled for a terrifying four minutes to regain control of their aircraft as it plummeted thousands of feet into the atlantic ocean. details have emerged from the last moments of the 1kwr69 crash which occurred during a flight from rio to paris. everyone onboard was killed, but the black boxes have recently been recovered from the sea bed. richard scott has more. >> i

worldwide news live from moscow this is what's called a fugitive a bosnia and so on the general of russia cold blood which is if you appear in a belgrade court for extradition hearings is arrest on thursday was a key condition for. entry and some are suggesting he was finally given up in exchange for the membership party's occurring outside of his outside the court in belgrade where a lot of shoes due to appear. in lot of just currently in the building behind us which is the special war court here in belgrade in the serbian capital we know that his questioning was put off because the official said these health condition was so badly deteriorated that questioning could not continue and we do know that his questioning and of course the issue of his extradition to the hague is put off until today and all of the local newspapers have got his picture on his front page that's him after he was arrested of course that's him in his older days we know that according to various sources who are he was armed when he was detained but did not offer any resistance when he was arrested and according to a

also, listening all the time to what was going on in bosnia on a dailyasis as u.n. also dorr was terrible and wanting the americans to take a position which we ultimately did and then charlie, the thing i did was to get declassified the photographs of what wagoing on in srebrenica. we had pictures that showed... had been an empty field, then a field with people,hen a field with rats as the people dippeared ani took that to the security council and i think it opened the way for us then ultimately to take action. and then i went to srebrenica afterwards and really saw there were bones sticking out of the ground and people who denied that any of that had happened and basically it was a few hundred feet from a major rd. so we knew the horrors that karadzic and mladic were perpetrating that milosevic was behind and it was personal in many ways and the important part about this justice and something that i talked about a lot that we all did was that it was very important to assign personal guilt so that there would not be collective guilt. this is not the fault of all the

also, listening all theimeto wh was going on in bosnia on a dailyasis as u.n. also dorr was terrible and wanting the americans to take a position which we ultimately did and then charlie, the thing i did was to get declassified the photographs of what wagoing on in srebrenica. we had pictures that showed... had been an empty field, then a field with people,hen a field with rats as the people dippeared ani took that to the security council and i think it opened the y f ushen ultimately to take action. and then i went to srebrenica afterwards and really saw there were bones sticking out of the ground and people who denied that any of that had happened and basically it was a few hundred feet from a major rd. so we knew the horrors that karadzic and mladic were perpetrating that milosevic was behind and it was personal in many ways and the important part about this justice and something that i talked about a lot that we all did washat it wasery important to assign personal guilt so that there would not be collective guilt. this is not the fault of all the serbian p

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back to carriage which is charged with crimes for a period of four years throughout the country of bosnia ranging from ethnic cleansing in twenty minutes of calories to the taking of u.n. personnel hostage to benson. and the shelling in sarajevo so when you have so many of us that you want to prove in your case you want to call hundreds of witnesses it has to take time that's the choice that they make and that's the biggest reason why the cases take so long well thanks for your time peter robinson joining us live legal advisor to run and carnage talking to us from the hague thank you. well that brings you up to date for the moment the business news is next with kareena that's all for a short break stay with us for that. for the. we've got. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. in st petersburg oh she's available in hotels a story of a militant ambassador in a small school to kowtow to triplets return to the true school toto gold new gold and live until sunset pelvis you still dostoevsky live in a sea of polish column if you visit. now welcome to busines

intervene in ninety five and in court against looking for the civil war in bosnia and when it came out all the bullshit all of those things build up as justifications you can we support and great interest because these are evil people will never repeat them as will people you have to put them on trial run or. and it's a spirit black and white philosophy back to one task like chance in your question see you have to have it and you know you're going to be the good guy yourself jonas the balkans the story in the voice of malik stalked her a bit earlier on about the upcoming trial of radko but it. russia could be a significant step closer to solving the murder of journalist anna politkovskaya the main suspect. was arrested today in chechnya there's no big question here in moscow are these people oliver has the details. prosecutors are convents that they're close to solving the murder of anna politkovskaya one of the most high profile slayings in recent russian memory. model of is accused of having fired the shots that killed her and after years on the run in belgium he was arrested in his

forces in bosnia. he says mladic's capture is long overdue. >> british soldiers went in this april 1993. my interpreter, who was there, was talking to a woman and there was shell fire. the woman started screaming and the interpreter suddenly felt something warm. to his horror he discovered the warmth was the baby's blood and the baby had lost its head. i take this personally. this man is a war criminal and it's taken a long time to get him. >> for the first five years, mladic lived openly free. new mexico 2002 mladic was still an official member of the serb military. he drew his army pension for a full decade. mladic was viewed by many nationalists as a great hero, protected by key politicians and intelligence figures. he was finally arrested in this house in northern serbia. so only now will the man held responsible for the deaths of thousands face justice. why has it taken so long? last month ratko mladic's wife went on trial in belgrade, accused of possessioning weapons she said were his and his wer

wars were stopped by outside military intervention bosnia kosovo sierra leone liberia. and now libya i mean thank god nato went into libya i mean there would be thousands and thousands of civilian deaths in cities like in gaza if the outside world it's simply stood back the way we did in rwanda so we stood back and watched a powerful government slaughter its own citizens so you know i'd much you're i am able to be impartial my bias if you will is that civilian suffering civilian death is a bad thing and so with afghanistan you know i was there in the one nine hundred ninety s. the civil war that eight hundred ninety s. and as bad as things look now in afghanistan it is nothing compared to the ninety's four hundred thousand afghan civilians died in that decade of the ninety's since nato has been in afghanistan thirty fifth highest estimates are thirty thousand civilians have died so you know for me from a humanitarian perspective. as bad as this is it's a huge improvement over what i do fifteen years ago there so but is it not a doubt in your mind that you think that the

between bosnia and fremont -- fairmount, there's a water main break. moving from 795, no problems out of owings mills. south on 895, seven minutes from 95 to the harbor tunnel. five minutes down to the fort mchenry. 11 minutes from the beltway tacoma 32. and azariah at wilkins ave. -- a nice ride at wilkins ave. 11 minutes from the beltway to 32. >> police have confirmed the death of phylicia barnes was a homicide. >> the parents are preparing for the funeral of the north carolina teenager. there are questions that still remain. >> good morning. the case has officially been ruled a homicide by the state medical examiner's officer. the north carolina teenager's body was pulled from the susquehanna river two weeks ago, four months after she disappeared. she had been visiting her sister in baltimore over the christmas holiday wednesday went missing. the cause of death has been determined, but they are not releasing that information because they don't want to compromise the investigation. >> there is certain information that sometimes is only known by the

it can drive through other parts of bosnia, especially the serbian part. there are also people who even like mladic. and that's one of the rotational presidents of bosnia which talked about. let's listen in to what he had to say. >> some persons considered him as a hero, as a person, or as a national hero. that man was ready to order killing of thousands of innocent men and boys. and after that, he was -- he wasn't ready to face the justice. he was hiding himself. and he allowed to be arrested in this way. and it is helpful for those who considered him as a hero to understand which kind of man was general mladic. >> reporter: and, of course, zain, one of the things that people keep saying is that internationally they keep hearing the word "closure" when it comes to talking about the case of ratko mladic. and quite frankly, most tell us they have not been able to find closure since he's been arrested because, of course, even if he is put into jail, even if he's put on trial at the hague, many say it won't bring them their families back. i can tell you prett

and mladic turned bosnia into the worst killing ground since world war ii. christiane amanpour, abc news. >>> secretary of state hillary clinton paid an important visit to islamabad this morning. she addressed strained relations with the pakistanis. and of course, ties between the u.s. and pakistan have been very tense since the raid that killed osama bin laden. for the first time, pakistan is allowing the cia to inspect osama bin laden's compound. agents will search for any intelligence materials the navy s.e.a.l.s missed during their raid. >>> president obama signed a bill to extend parts of the patriot act that were set to expire at midnight. the bill allows the government to track terrorism suspects using wiretaps and searching buzz records and allows agents to monitor lone wolf suspects, even if they have to clear ties to terror groups. congress approved the extension late last night. >>> now we turn to missouri, where order is beginning to emerge from the chaos of last sunday's tornado. power lines and telephone poles are going back up there. >> and in

world war after atrocities of the nazi regime. 600,000 serbs were ethnically cleansed from bosnia or croatia. the capture of general mladic is the contribution of democratic serbia for lasting regional reconciliation, a way to reach to the innocent victims and to their families for justice to be made and those who are culprits to have a name and responsibility not to fall on an entire people. >> are you saying this is really the responsibility, then, the fact that he evaded capture for so long, is totally the the milosevic of government? i was interested to see today that the health minister, a friend of general mladic, visited him for an hour in prison. it suggests this is a small community in which mr. mladic had friends still in government. >> i think the capture and serbia has been working on it for the last three years with british and american services, and i think the important moment is that justice will be made and is the credibility of serbia, demonstrating that it does what it says it will be doing and now it's the turn not only of serbia to do its part but also, for insta

used notably in the first gulf war in bosnia. in one nine hundred ninety nine and subsequently very extensively in iraq on all those occasions they denied the usage of them and it only became evident afterwards they had indeed been years so we do not have confidence in the current assurance that the a tends to ploy in that they are using depleted uranium and we know the terrible consequences for the health for the environment as a result of depleted uranium usage it's a radioactive weaponry form there is great instance sharp increases of birth defects of cancers particularly brain cancers lymphomas and so on in in iraq and those are the places as a result we've heard time and time again that these airstrikes are designed to protect civilians but even the potential use of pieces uranian gives the license actually well absolutely because depleted uranium is a weapon of indiscriminate effect because of the impact what happens is that when the share of the round hits its target explodes and it has what's been described as a kind of a

civil war in helping muslim fundamentalists get the upper hand in broadening out and actually take over bosnia and western support in terms of their being imported into boston you know to fight on the muslim side against the serbs the presence of bin ladin and boss you know then the real story about celebrities which has been totally twisted and manipulated in the western media and he goes are actually very big news items very big issues and it won't be confortable for the western media and i think they will try to ignore it because much as they possibly can can you explain what you mean by this twisting of facts concerning the need. people on tonight if i'd known that massacre of over seven thousand boes and muslims didn't happen either. well actually a massacre did take place the thing is there were mass the principal sites the first dispute has to do with the numbers themselves the number of seven to eight thousand is actually never been ascertained even by the hague tribunal so far actually for the forensic data tell a whole different story but that has never been fair forensic data have p

it was kosovar that followed bosnia when the world acted before the genocide. >> there is rwanda. there is darfur. we said, there will be wars but genocide will stop. we weren't going to forget. we haven't figured out how to prevent genocide. we know how to but we have not figured out how to get the will together to prevent these things. are we smarter today? would this happen again today? >> i think not. after the horror we saw in '95, this happened after rwanda. >> president clinton evoked that. >> and later admitted this was the policy in which he had the most regret, that he didn't act. if you track the world since sechlt rbernica and rwanda, first, you have kosovar where he decides to act early. an outside expert says it is the only case where genocide was presented before it was going to happen and you bring it all the way to libya and although libya is not now arguably a successful operation, the fact that people considered doing it, the fact that president obama and the european leaders invoked the fear of mass slaughter, convinced them to act and arguably, there would hav

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this part of eastern bosnia suffered some of the bloodiest crimes of the war. where muslim men were murdered and muslim women were raped in a campaign of genocide labeled ethnic cleansing. the widows come here every year, but this is special. because they say the murderer is finally behind bars. now a frail old man, ratco mladic was captured in serbia this week, a far cry from the war time commander who held so many at his mercy and his whim. on monday, mladic already indicted on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity will be taken to the international court in hague to face those charges, including those stemming from the most notorious massacre of the war at srebrenica. after mladic's men stormed that small town in the summer of '95, he and his soldiers entered afterwards and handed out candy to the children and promised their mothers that there was nothing to fear. the men and the boys they were told were just going to be taken away for questioning. but when the cameras were turned off, women were raped and the men and the boys, more than 7,000 of t

and actually take over bosnia and western support in terms of the dean being imported into boston to fight on the muslim side against the serbs the presence of bin laden and. then the real story about celebrities which has been totally twisted and manipulated in the western media i mean those are actually very big news items very big issues and it won't be comfortable for the western media and i think they will try to ignore it as much as they possibly can. largely has been hearing how in some minds a lot of his arrest is more about political ambition than war crimes justice serbian international affairs writer trick of age says state controlled media is pushing to persuade people the country needs to join the. instead of applauding serbia for finally catching wild which you will see in the western media yet another orgy. reminding everybody of thread and the eight thousand words that his mother chooses the greatest alleged crime the serbian media nor tightly controlled by the government could ever be under the law for all of the media repeating in unison. the e.u. is some kind of te

it is a huge moment for bosnia that he has now been picked up and will go to the tribunal. it will bring some closure for some people. it will never he'll the pain of all the families that did lose loved ones. we can expect to see this serbian authorities following the letter of the law in serbia to make sure he has no comeback for his extradition to the haig, the international criminal tribunal, cautiously making sure he has no legal loopholes to get out of the charges. >>> thanks. >>> an hour and a half from now, officials in joplin, missouri, will release a list of people unaccounted for after sunday's tornado. the death toll stands at 125. the governor has ordered more state troopers to joplin to help with the search. at this time yesterday, we told you that joplin was in the danger zone for another tornado. consider this a near miss in scientific circles. the massive funnel cloud you see there appeared about 30 miles from the devastated city. th >>> jobless numbers are up, 424,000 americanss filed for the first week of benefits. it is the seventh straight week that fir

western media always behaved about name during the conflict and i've seen for myself a war crime in bosnia at a place called people odd which was completely ignored by the media over the legal photographic evidence of the massacre of. civilians in the town serbia's ministry of justice is called the ministry of truth shipping out on the beach after a trial will have to little to change what a lot of serbs believe that it stands for anything. r t l great story. well let's bring you this live event now you're seeing the pictures from the airport as the helicopter can tell you right now that she's off to take a short hop to the hague. earlier on we saw the serbian government jet carrying a former yugoslav army commander. landing in the netherlands where he said could be tried by a u.n. war crimes tribunal the plane carrying him touched down in airport just hours of course after judges and we've been reporting a great rejected new deal today is extradition and the serbian justice minister authorized this handover to the general knowledge is a lawyer posted to appeal monday but it was overturned

. >> reporter: the prisoner today, a far cry from the general i met in bosnia so many years ago. he would insist he was only defending his own people. in the early '90s, while yugoslavia was splitting apart, mladic was the architect of a policy that became known as ethnic cleansing. determined to kill or expel muslims and carve out an ethnically pure serbian state inside bosnia. i covered his brutal bombardment and siege of sarajevo and other towns and villages. from the hills, mladic's forces would fire down on innocent men, women and children. peter jennings was there, too, in the aftermath of the bombing of the sarajevo marketplace. >> the worst attack since this war began. >> reporter: then came the massacre at srebrenica in the summer of 1995. serbian cameras followed mladic and his soldiers as they handed out candy to terrified children and told them not to be afraid. but there was much to fear when those cameras were turned off. the women and children were separated and the men and boys were cruelly gunned down, executed in cold blood. in the end, more than 7,000 bosnian m

war without undergoing some of the risks that people stuck in the war after undergo the civilians of bosnia afghan civilians or soldiers american soldiers is just that's there's no other way to get the information that is that they use the reason you're there do you think that it's a bit of a thankless job i mean you know i think if people look back they might even remember why a certain conflict may have begun at it probably they remember less so the journalists that risked their lives and maybe even lost their lives you know in order to cover that conflict and to bring the truth from the ground meanwhile everybody will remember the latest sex scandal. and you know that you don't really slews of in the public consciousness i think. and you know of the reporters that i know they do the work because it's very very gratifying to find exciting some of them probably got into it because they thought it was kind of romantic. and you know i think there is a kind of a high status attached to attest to doing this work that draws a lot of people it is dangerous people do get killed but everyone under

in bosnia, and the president of serbia made that announcement today. here is the news. christiane amanpour is going to come back to cnn today and talk to me about that. as you remember, when she used to work at cnn, she was so involved in our coverage in bosnia and kosovo, the balkans. all of our viewers will remember. >> of course. >> the heroic work she did covering the story for us. so i have invited her to come into "the situation room" and talk to us today. i want her to reflect a little bit about what it means that they captured this war criminal so in years later. i think that will be good. and i'm looking forward to that. >> fantastic. i would love to hear from her back on our own air. let me just ask you about this, wolf. we know the patriot act is set to expire by midnight tonight. i was talking to dana bash earlier who said there could be changes among the republicans here. what do you make of freshman senator rand paul is really lashing out against republican leadership. what do you make of that? >> he is a libertarian, and he is a very strong, strongly opin

>> there was a time when i was working in bosnia, living in a refugee camp working with kids. i remember there was a man who told me about the terrible things done to his family. horrible things done to his wife, his brothers. he said to me, i don't want you to misunderstand me. he said i appreciate the shelter here tr my family, i appreciate the food but if you really cared about us, you would be willing to protect us. i recognized then that sometimes it takes the heart and 9 fist. you have to respond to people with compassion but just like anything we love you have to be willing to protect people, useç your strength to a good purpose. >> stephen: here is one of the issues with the navy seals. we'll take the guys who took out bin laden. i can't know who they are. how then can i "biography" them a -- can i buy them a beer? how do i identify them at a bar? should i throw a punch at every person and the guy who -- [laughter] >> people talk about being the tip of spear. >> stephen: that is the most sensitive part of the spear. [laughter] >> yes. >> stephen: go ahead. >> i think

the--couple of articles have been written about you that you took some chance when you went over to bosnia. when did you go there the last time? >> guest: i've been there several times. i went two--i went two winters in a row, '93, '94, which were the tough winters. i don't think i took any other--any more chances than any other reporter who went. it was kind of important to go. not a lot of people wanted to go. c-span: what is it about you that makes you want to go do that? >> guest: i think it depends where you go. sometimes i want to go just because i want to see. sometimes i want to go because i've never been there before, and i've traveled a lot. in the case of bosnia, i didn't--i didn't want to look back--i have--i have fairly young children--teen-age children. i didn't want to look back 10 or 15 years from now and have them say, 'what did you do during that war, dad?' i know that's kind of corny, but i didn't want them to ever accuse me, as a lot of people could've been accused in the early stages of the bosnian war, of paying no attention to this human--some would argue the worst h

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we hav turkey, bosnia, serbia trilateral mackisim in and we're active in balkan affairs. we are very active in middle eastern issues. recently the arab spring we have enacted in order to help the process of change to a peaceful transformation in caucuses, south a a. so all these regional issues we want to contribute to political dialogue, economic interdependency and cultural interaction. >> rose:ome have sd that you believe in turkey exceptionalism and that you are the sort of philosopher of turkey greatness. >> (laughs) >> rose: is that fair? >> nibble my country's potential. if you say turkish greatness. but it doesn't mean that we are seeing us greater than other nations. >> rose: not superior? >> not spear superior at all. but our geography and historical background necessitates some sort of active foreignolic for example, the for a bosnian issue, bosnian issue for a european or asian country is foreign policy. but in turkey, if there's a crys any sis in bosnia it's getting at a domestic issue because we have more boss knee yaks living in turkey than in disease. (ina

. >>> the former military commander known as the butcher of bosnia is expected to appeal a judge's order that he faced trial for war crimes. the judge ruled that ratko mladic is physically and mentally healthy enough to face charges of genocide. ivan watson has more, including mladic's strange request in detention. >> reporter: this is the courthouse where the most wanted war criminal in europe is currently being held. and on friday, the debate was about the medical status of the man who's been on the front page of all the serbian newspapers. the defense and the prosecutors offering die met trickily opposing views and opinions about his health. first,his son -- >> he's in very bad shape. his health is very deteriorat g deteriorating. we are asking the court to send him to the hospital. >> reporter: but court officials ruled on friday that ratko mladic is fit for extradition to the hague. >> translator: we have an official statement by doctors that he has a list of chronic diseases, but he is medically capable of attending the hearing. after the hearing, the court delivered a opinion that

christiane amanpour was the cnn correspondent during the bosnia ma wars and saw firsthand the results of mladic's orders. many who remember the bosnia wars of the 1990s who remember the atrocities, maybe remember the name. you're one of the few who have met the criminal and seen the cold stare of a murderer. tell us what that was like. >> exactly right. we lived and we reported the war, the siege of sarajevo, the bombardme bombardment, we saw men, women, and children who were not spared the monstrous that were rained down on them for three long years, 3 1/2 long years. i met him several times. he was a very cold man. he would smile and talk and try to be genial. but the eyes were very, very cold. and he was determined -- he believed in what he was trying to. do he believed that it was right to just kill or expel muslims from that part of boonz, that they wanted to keep it as an ethnically pure statelet so many years after world war ii. >> help us understand the chapter we're closing or hoping to close here. milosevic is dead. karadzic on trial in the hague and now mladiv apprehended.

party and was involved in a joint criminal enterprise to remove the non- serb population of serbia and bosnia. he recruited, trained, and indoctrinated paramilitary with his extremist ideology. he had comments such as "you should not kill croats with knives, but scowled out to rise -- but gouge out their eyes with spoons." he says that was not to be taken seriously. we will hear later on today as they continue deliberations whether they accept his request for acquittal and whether his trial will end prematurely. >> thank you. astonishing pictures coming to us from japan. the company that operates the fukushima nuclear plant in japan has released this new video showing inside of the number one reactor and at the plant. the video was captured by a u.s.-made robot. the footage confirms that electricity cables are safe and there are no water leaks inside the reactor. radiation levels were higher than expected, though. you can get more on the website, bbc.com. >> hello and welcome. >> see the news unfold, get the top stories from around the globe, and click to play video reports. go to bbc.com/new

most wanted man in europe who has been on the run for 16 years, the former bosnia military commander appeared at a and hearing following his arrest on charges of genocide. the court judged him to be in poor health. doctors will decide on friday whether or not to resume the hearing. he is accused of orchestrating the killing of thousands. our special correspondent has the story. >> he was fanatical and mersless. for three and a half years in the early 1990's his mens watched down the barrels of their guns. targets, easy to select. 12,000 died in the bombing and the sniping. he commanded the men who did it. once serb leaders protected him. today the impunity that granted him evaporated. i announce that today we arrested him. >> his forces thought to establish an ethnicly pure serbian state. hundreds of thousands were excelled from their homes. it came to be known as ethnic cleansing. he was there in person to reassure the terrified muslim population that they were safe. they were not. 8,000 muslim men and boys were murdered in the space of a few days. >> here was a bombastic thug who h

. >> his forces hoped to establish an ethnically pure state in bosnia. thousands of non serbs were expelled from their homes. it came to be known as ethnic cleansing. he was there in person to reassure the terrified muslim nation that they were safe. they were not. 8000 muslim men and boys were murdered in the space of a few days. >> here was a bombastic thug who had no sense of the rules of warfare. if he did, he ignored them. >> 18 months ago, i went back. they were still fighting and burying the dead. close to 1000 died in a hail of gunfire at this warehouse. >> the man who pulled the trigger and threw the grenade stood right here. >> the hague will have to prove that they were acting on his direct order. there is no doubt for them. their satisfaction is tempered by anchor that it has taken so long. >> i am not that happy. i was disappointed so many times by the work of the hague tribunal. serbia protected him for so long. he enjoyed by for too long. he should have been arrested years ago. >> i feel a small satisfaction in my soul. it is proof that th

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and nato began its bombing campaign against bosnia and serb military targets. and the croatian military push also helped to, you know, bring the serbs, the bosnian serbs to the position where they actually had to go to the negotiation stage. >> warner: let me get back total was door quickly before we have to end. meanwhile these other high profile trials at the hague have not gone swimmingly. i mean milosevic used it as sort of to grandstand for five years. and then died in jail. before it was over, karadzic it has been three years and he is still in trial. is anything going to make this proceed more expeditiously and more business like way than those? >> well, i think the international courts have learned less ons on-- lessons on how to do these cases. however when yous prosecute people at a very high level that have been involved in massive criminal acts, and when you provide them with a defense to challenge every part of it, you can expect a long trial. but the karadzic case just began last year and is moving forward to a conclusion. this case will begin. we

and nato began its bombing cacampaign against bosnia and serb military targets. and the croatian military push also helped to, you know, bring the serbs, the bosnian serbs to the position where they actually had to go to the negotiation stage. >> warner: let me get back total was door quickly before we have to end. meanwhile these other high profile trials at the hague have not gone swimmingly. i mean milosevic used it as sort of to grandstand for five years. and then died in jail. before it was over, karadzic it has been three years and he is still in trial. is anything going to make this proceed more expeditiously and more business like way than those? >> well, i think the international courts have learned less ons on-- lessons on how to do these cases. however when yous prosecute people at a very high level that have been involved in massive criminal acts, and when you provide them with a defense to challenge every part of it, you can expect a long trial. but the karadzic case just began last year and is moving forward to a conclusion. this case will begin. we