i've met president tadic. i think he felt that this all has been a stain. i think he does want to cast his lot with the europe union. i think most of t serbian people also want to be when they have a choice they want to be a part of europe. and you know what'so interesting, chlie, itas actually first president bush who said we wanted to see a eupe whole and free. president clinton worked on that basis and i think that it was the right assessment that we thought that the people that livein the balkans wanted to be part of the region, wanted to be part of europe. and i think that will continue tootivate president tadic and his people that are around him. >> rose: just a bit of history. there was, in some people's eyes, a delay in the west coming to the aid of the people there. why did it finally come to the fact that everybody understood what was going on and began to act? >> i do think that as the facts were coming out-- and, believe me, it was unbelievably frustrating to sit in the united nations and hear a number of the facts that were coming out about at

i've met president tadic. i think he felt that this all has been a stain. i ink he does wan to cast his lot with the europe union. i think most of t serbian people also want to be when they have a choice they want to be a part of europe. and you know what'so interesting, chlie, itas actually first president bush who said we wanted to see a eupe whole and free. president clinton worked on that basis and i think that it was the right assessment that we thought that the people that livein the balkans wanted to be part of the region, wanted to be part of europe. and i think that will continue tootivate president tadic and his people that are around him. >> rose: just a bit of history. there was, in some people's eyes, a delay in the west coming to the aid of the people there. why did it finally come to the fact that everybody understood what was going on and began to act? >> i do think that as the facts were coming out-- and, believe me, it was unbelievably frustrating to sit in the united nations and hear a number of the facts that were coming out about at was

tadic has been speaking to my colleague, becky anderson. here's what he said. >> 16 years ago ratko mladic has been accused and after that, a few years after that, we had democratic changes in october of 2000. and within the first two years of the mandate of the democratic government, they were trying to capture all detainees including milosevic. but this government has been working on arresting ratko mladic from the beginning of that term that was 2 1/2 years ago. and at the end of the term of this government. >> okay. my question was who has been protecting him? >> i don't know exactly. i don't know exactly. i mean, from the beginning of that process, i'm totally sure that people from the armed forces had been protecting him. but after that, he changed, the people that were protecting him. and at the end of the day, he was protected by a very small group of the people from his family. but we'll check everything. we'll investigate everything. and we'll announce what happened in the past 16 years. >> do you believe the military may have bee

international officials like the secretary general of the united nations of course the president boris tadic various members of the european union and russia has also commented on the arrest saying that it hopes that should be extradited to the hague tribunal he will be able to receive a fair trial. actually the clearing out of our reporting right there will have more on the arrest of ratko largess will not trying to cause a scene cause a charge fewer heads the russian parliament's foreign affairs committee and he says the hague tribunal makes nato's actions in the balkans legitimate. but i believe that the last hears of the latest here is of the tribune all started here's the guardian beach here's one. option to justify the previous intervention by nato forces in this conflict and supporting the courts in this court could but no it serves so now the basic idea may be to prove the serbs in serbia sort of circus in bosnia-herzegovina and elsewhere are the main criminals are of the nation being responsible for the tragedy of the former yugoslavia and they can not accept it as proof for a fair

this crank president boris tadic for selling his people. his defense team said to appeal against is a traditional monday saying his health is too poor and for a first right to surge through coverage says that it is unlikely to get a fair trial when he gets to the hague anyway. having been to the hague both as an expert witness and as a material witness and well aware of the fact that it is a highly politicized institution that has been used over the years to provide retroactive. additional verification of the political position of the western powers that the serbs are indeed the main culprits for all that his country in the former yugoslavia and mark my words over the next few days instead of applauding serbia for finally catching lavage you will see in the western media yet another. serbia phobia reminding everybody of srebrenica and the alleged eight thousand dead because march is greatest alleged crime the serbian media more tightly controlled by the government today than they had ever been under milosevic and all of the media repeating

recognizing kosovo and if you also take into consideration that the serbian government led by boris tadic has announced that e.u. membership for serbia does not have an alternative and say that something doesn't have an alternative that means that it should be attained at any cost and i think eventually when serbia is asked to recognize course all that government will not will not be afraid to do so what you seem to be speaking. voice that you're not so keen to see because of i recognize you as a so joining the e.u. it seems very much it's a government initiative from the serbian point of view to join the e.u. to the people of serbia want to join. i think that the people of serbia largely don't even know what the european union is and i think the government is much more keen on convincing them that this is good for them and this is really interesting because something that is good for the people of serbia it should be felt by the people of serbia automatically it shouldn't take such big efforts by the government to convince them that this is the right thing for serbia so i think the serbi

officers who detained him and although it has been since compromised by the serbian president boris tadic that it is in fact the former boys and girls and sort of general it out alive if we know that d.n.a. expertise has also been ordered and that's expected to take around three days to finally confirm that this is indeed the man the hague tribunal has been part of the house held at the top position of its most wanted list for war crimes for over a decade we know that he was wanted for crimes against humanity for committing genocide for participating and some even say nice reminding me stabbing it's a massacre which killed nearly ten thousand people. a reporter covering those are votes will be a little earlier well the serbian people have long been divided in their attitude towards record without which a military correspondent you know blue suits who was born in serbia and spent most of a lawyer says he's a risk could make this division even greater. i have to say that the role of. history is very well defined serbia is actually divided into two and something that he was and he is a natio

but they still need to do major reforms etc the arrest about the ambitions of serbian president boris tadic couldn't have been spelled out any clearer but his european farsightedness has caused him to overlook what's happening in his own country he's a serbian we deserve human blood he's our name he's our general right. he's the biggest criminal. these feelings have already cost protests to erupt across the country and judging from past experience namely the arrest of i don't care i get another war crimes suspect serbia spark of hope but certainly to a large scale fires like congress catching us are about our team belgrade serbia. looking ahead within the next fifteen minutes. we're going to have a president for the middle east peace. both israelis and palestinians. plus. when the research and exploration is done the guys here have to have something to do i'm john thomas in antarctica and coming up on r t we explore the daily life around billings thousand station. we do indeed next though georgia's independence day was supposed to celebrate liberty but there was little freedom of speech for

still need to do major reforms that the arrest of accommodates the ambitions of serbian president boris tadic couldn't have been spelled out any clearer but his european farsightedness has caused him to overlook what's happening in his own country he's a serious being with his serbian blood he's our man he's a general right it's. hard to choose he's the biggest criminal in the city these feelings have already caused protests to erupt across the country and judging from past experience namely the arrest of iran and other war crimes suspect be a spark of hope could certainly lead to large scale fires of public unrest catherine as are about r t belgrade serbia. coming up how the fear of terror attacks is keeping americans in check. and makes people valuable it makes them obedient and. terrorists rights the us government plans to keep everyone nervous with something that they're full of details and you know. first the motto of protect and serve rings hollow for some of america's boys in blue a group of activists in washington than the rest of this weekend dancing at the jefferson memorial well pr

construction site a project sponsored by the european union it was visited by the serbian president boris tadic and of many other e.u. officials and local officials so it's very ironic that the man that all of those people have been searching for for nearly two decades was all this time right under their noses many of his coworkers are very shocked to find out that this was in fact the once famous general ride none of them recognizing him some of course commenting that he looked like the man but not as of course denying any such similarities here in serbia many people he was as a national hero and had been whole ready at protests in various cities across serbia including the old. and the city where i was arrested we know that there has been a massive international reaction of course sell newspapers carry in quotes from various international officials russia has also commented on the arrest saying that it hopes that should be extradited to the hague tribunal he will be able to receive a fair trial. coming out of our reporting right or wrong meantime constantine he's the head of the russian parli

construction site a project sponsored by the european union it was visited by the serbian president boris tadic and of many other e.u. officials and local officials so it's very ironic that the man that all of those people have been searching for for nearly two decades was all this time right under their noses many of his coworkers a very shocked to find out that this was in fact the once famous general none of them recognizing him some of course commenting that he looked like the man but not as a force denying any such similarities here in serbia many people as a national hero and the whole ready protests in various cities across serbia including belgrade and the city where a lot this was arrested we know that a lot of people took to the streets hundreds protesting against the capture and the potential extradition i would actually love it. constantine calls the job he's the head of the russian parliament sporran affairs committee and he says the hague tribunal exists to legitimize nato's interventions in the balkans. i believe that the last hears of the latest here is of the tribune all starte

the officers who detained him and although it has been since confirmed by the serbian president boris tadic study is in fact the former pows in both in sort of general about a lot of these we know that d.n.a. expertise has also been ordered and that's expected to take around three days to finally confirm that this is indeed the man the hague tribunal has been how they have held at the top position of its most wanted list for war crimes for over a decade we know that he is wanted for crimes against humanity for committing genocide for participating and some even say masterminding nice there but it's a massacre. that syrians are reporting there are you watching r.t. and plenty more on the way including the pentagon's arguable she demands. our record of predicting where we will use military force so. is perfect we have never once got it right the man in charge however just by spending more of that any other country on defense by frightening financially struggling americans a word people say. the v.a. partner is one help and mediating the libya crisis and are turning to russia which strongly op

the officers who detained him and although it has been since confirmed by the serbian president boris tadic that it is in fact the. a former boss of the new business or general of our from logic for you know that i d.n.a. expertise has also been ordered and that's expected to take around three days to finally confirm that this is indeed the man the hague tribunal has been that the house held at the top position of its most wanted list for war crimes for over a decade we know that he is wanted for crimes against humanity for committing genocide for participating and some even say masterminding nice there but it's a massacre. because readers are reporting their goal belgrade based political analyst alexander pottage says that if large speaks out in court new details about yugoslavia as break up will emerge which the west doesn't want revealed. the hague tribunal is a record does not promise any sort of a fair trial but at least. they should use it as in the arena to voice their side of the story and the side of the war that has been neglected by the western media think the main the main revel

serbia's western-looking president, boris tadic, said the arrest marks a turning point. >> today, we close one chapter of our recent history. >> reporter: but for anyone who witnessed that history, the arrest of ratko mladic opens up a long-sealed box of unhappy memories-- of the fear; of the bodies; of a woman named knita fokac, whose husband had been killed by a shell and who only carried on because of her child. do you have difficulty, day to day? do you cry sometimes? >> yes. very often. my pillow knows the truth. >> reporter: and memories of what bosnian doctors called the sarajevo syndrome. they're calling it passive suicide, where people who simply can't take it anymore go out into some of the more dangerous parts of town hoping to be shot or shelled-- a hope ratko mladic was only too willing to fulfill. mladic's court appearance today was suspended because his health is being described as very poor- - his actual condition, perhaps, or maybe the first hint of the defense strategy. harry? >> smith: mark philips in london tonight. thank you. earlier today, i spoke with retired g

officers who keep tame him and although it has been since confirmed by the serbian president boris tadic that it is in fact the former boss of the nobles and serb general of our own lives we know that d.n.a. expertise has also been ordered and that's expected to take around three days to finally confirm that this is indeed the man the hague tribunal has been the house held at the top position of its most wanted list for war crimes for over a decade we know that he's wanted for crimes against humanity for committing genocide for participating and some even say masterminding nice nobody needs a massacre. presidents are their belgrade based political analyst alexander pottage says that if a lot of speaks out in court new details about yugoslavia break up will emerge which the west doesn't want to reveal. the hague tribunal record does not promise any sort of a fair trial but at least. they will use it as in the arena to voice their side of the story and this side of the war has been neglected by the western media think the main the main revelations will have to do with western involvement a

construction site a project sponsored by the european union it was visited by the serbian president boris tadic and of many other e.u. officials and local officials so it's very ironic that the man that all of those people have been searching for for nearly two decades was all this time right under their noses many of his coworkers are very shocked to find out that this wasn't the once famous general none of them recognizing him some of course commenting that he looked like a man but worse than nine any such similarities here in serbia many people as a national hero and already protests in various cities of cross serbia including belgrade and the city where this was arrested we know that a lot of people took to the streets hundreds protesting against the capture and the potential extradition over our. reporter. head of the russian parliament's foreign affairs committee says that the hague tribunal exists only to. those interventions in the balkans. i believe they're the last hears of the latest here is of the tribune all started put act as they had no idea. here's one one option to justify the

going back to the rest of night it's now the serbian president boris tadic said he believes that knowledge is a rest will help to bring the region a step closer to reconciliation do you think that really is the case. i think it probably will be because of course the serbian government has been told by the european union for some time that. if we collaborate. go to war criminals or alleged war criminals. will make it easier for it if your new european community. so i think probably yes i hate cold wearing former chairman of the all party british yugoslav poetry group many thanks speaking to us. britain is stepping up pressure on that colonel gadhafi by deploying apache attack helicopters in libya armed with bunker busting bombs well it comes as nato is chief says the libyan leader's reign of terror is nearing an end but as artists or emmet reports the case decision seems to be moving far beyond mere humanitarian objectives. an inexorable trend towards escalation that's what analysts are calling british involvement in the libya conflict as the u.k. prepares to send in apache attack helicopte

that member of the patriotic movement thank you so much for being here you know the president boris tadic has hailed the arrest of general moderates as a great thing for serbia as a very important accomplishment to the people of the country i actually agree with the most majority of serbian people disagree with our president. we believe that the rest of germany you know the mother. is deeply against serbian national interest. we cannot understand how could it be good for a country to betray its best men. now we know that the arrest of roskam lodge was one of the key conditions for serbia for a chance at e.u. membership and all the as the official belgrade really wants that but what about the people of this country do they care do they want to be a part of the european union. personally i don't believe that serbia will ever become a member of you because brussels officials don't want that's right they want serbia to become a part of. some kind of new bottom of empire and that is one of the good turkey and you lead and grow on the boldness which means yes for serbia and certain nation . and

the ambitions of serbian president boris tadic couldn't have been spelled out any clearer but his european farsightedness has caused him to overlook what's happening in his own country he's a serious being with his serbian blood he's our name he's our general right. now this is. the biggest criminal in the serbia these feelings have already cost protests to erupt across the country and judging from past experience namely the arrest of i don't project another war crimes suspect serbia spark of hope but certainly a large scale fires of public unrest catchiness r r t belgrade serbia. coming out of the fear of terror attacks is keeping americans in check. it makes people valuable it makes them obedient airport. types and the terror attacks by the u.s. government plans to keep it normal nerds with some think there are details in a few minutes. but first the motto of protect and serve rings hollow for some of america's boys in blue a group of activists in washington the web nine hundred and the rest of this weekend who don't sing at the jefferson memorial and president bush was among them he was

major reforms that set or for the arrest of at home a lot it's the ambitions of serbian president boris tadic wouldn't have been spelled out any clearer but his european farsightedness has caused him to overlook what's happening in his own country he's a serbian with the serbian blood he's our name he's our general right. robert says he's the biggest criminal in the studio these feelings have already cost protests to erupt across the country and judging from past experience namely the arrest of i don't care another war crimes suspect be a spark of hope but certainly to a large scale fires like kathleen as are our team belgrade serbia several people have been arrested in washington d.c. for dancing at the jefferson memorial among those held was already america presenter adam coke talk with my colleague kevin owen earlier he believes the police were there for public safety but instead to control the population. you can see from the video footage that what we were doing was entirely peaceful we were expressing ourselves through dance the police force in america does not exist for public safety i

construction site was a project sponsored by the european union it was visited by the serbian president boris tadic and many other he was officials and local officials so it's very ironic that the man. all of those people have been searching for for nearly two decades was all this time right under their noses all the little newspapers hearing all this from various international officials like the secretary general of the united nations and force of the president for the stylishly various members of the european union and the hague tribunal former. prosecutor carla del ponte also commenting russia has also commented on the arrest saying that it hopes that should be extradited to the hague tribunal he will be able to receive a fair trial. here in serbia many people as a national hero and behold ready protests in various cities across serbia including belgrade and the city where i was arrested we know that a lot of people took to the streets hundreds protesting against the capture of the potential extradition of luggage to the hague tribunal because of course many people view him as nothing but a nati

hero and that arresting him is nothing short of treason on the side of the serbian president boris tadic that is exactly why they took to the streets of the serbian capital belgrade on sunday getting together some ten thousand people rallied just outside the serbian parliament that rally soon current violence when. i started throwing firecrackers rocks literally bricks huge rocks throwing them at riot police bottles sticks stones all of those things went flying at riot police having them on their helmets on their shields. riot police then of course decided to disperse the crowds doing that rather efficiently by separating people into smaller groups preventing them from regrouping in the center we saw a lot of people injured according to officials information and nearly thirty people were injured in the protests we saw a lot of those people ourselves are walking down the street with their faces covered in blood presumably from those rocks that were flying overhead we know that are around a hundred eighty people were detained most of them youths under the age of eighteen which of course go

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past many going as far as to say that the real criminal in this situation is current president boris tadic for selling his people roast dodge. for the jews believe he used the biggest clue in the studio he's a serbian we deserve human blood he's our man he's our general right we couldn't very start each visit parachuting into heat with a team a team or. if the people who hate. the ear of the give to give get in the way credits to money you know what i mean so far belgrade has reacted quietly to the news of the munches arrest and potential extradition to the hague war crimes tribunal but a large rally is scheduled for later on tonight we are expecting thousands of people to gather outside the parliament building in the very heart of the serbian capital belgrade and of course looking back remembering previous rallies when a former leader of one project was arrested and extradited to the hague thousands of people took to the streets of the capital they were forced violently dispersed by riot police and many are fearing that this situation could repeat itself if the if is in fact extradited to

bishan that serbian president boris tadic couldn't have been spelled out any clearer but his european farsightedness has caused him to overlook what's happening in his own country he's a serious being with his serbian blood he's our name he's a general right. for the jews he's the biggest clue all. these feelings have already caused protests to erupt across the country and judging from past experience namely the arrest of i don't project another war crimes suspect serbia spark of hope but certainly to a large scale fires of pop icon are just catching us are about r t belgrade serbia . coming up how the fear of terror attacks is keeping americans in check. it makes people malleable it makes them obedient. and terror attacks how the u.s. government plans to keep everyone in the summer here with details in a few minutes. but first to them all too often protect and serve some of america's boys in blue a group of activists in washington when that handled the rest of this weekend don't sing at the jefferson memorial center was among them he was a wrestler the ground troops. he says accounts

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do a major reforms etc with the arrest of a calm law which the ambitions of serbian president boris tadic couldn't have been spelled out any clearer but his european farsightedness has caused him to overlook what's happening in his own country he's a serbian with the serbian blood he's our name he's our general right. the biggest criminal in the studio these feelings have already cost protests to erupt across the country and judging from past experience namely the arrest of that one cartridge another war crime suspect serious spark of hope but certainly reach a large scale fires up public hearts catchin as our team belgrade serbia. just ahead in a program a controversial curb on illegal drugs russian vigilantes waged their own unconventional war on narcotics people saying that the authorities are doing enough to report on that coming up but also for you on our team tonight. science and research in antarctica is not only done in the laboratories in fact most of it's done out here in the field or in this case the ocean i'm john thomas in antarctica coming up we will get the lives of the sci

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the officers who detained him and although it has been since confirmed by the serbian president boris tadic that it is in fact the former boys and girls and serb general about the luggage we know that d.n.a. expertise has also been ordered and that's expected to take around three days to finally confirm that this is indeed the man the hague tribunal has been how the house held at the top position of its most wanted list for war crimes for over a decade well he's been for sixteen years in fact as you say well over a decade many people will be also. tell you can so long to get this. well there are different opinions of course on that some say that simply it's as simple as he was very good at hiding himself in this fight the fact that he did live and go great quite openly even after the arrest of the for me and for president of the bosnian serb republic. and even after his arrest he stayed in belgrade and only went into hiding in two thousand and five others say that perhaps there are those forces weren't looking for him as hard as they could have done and we know that the search for us and wa

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what boris tadic said was that what needs to happen first is that the serbian security forces need to investigate the situation and only then they will tell us how it happened, where it happened and what exactly went down in belgrade today. the thing here to remember too is that this is a man who is wanted by the hague for genocide, crimes against humanity. he was able for years to hide in belgrade under everybody's noses. it is believed that he had a small hard core group of loyalists that protected him and moved him around. we are going to wait for more details about what happened. belgrade has been under a lot of pressure to find this guy and hand him over. carol? >>> did the united states have any role in this, zane? >> the united states definitely has an interest this outcome. you are going to hear one word a lot today and that's sleb ber neat za, where a massacre happened of almost 8,000 men and boys in 1995 much the commander in charge was ratko mladic. the u.s. was getting all this satellite data. they realized what was going on in srebrenica. that's when the former president

we have worked under the leadership of president tadic really hard on reconciliation in the region. we, i think, took a lead in the region, and we're calling on all the countries in the region to deal with war crimes, to deal with people that were doing such atrocities. and i think this arrest is really a big step forward in to that band of reconciliation. a number one priority for all the countries in the region to join the european union. >> ambassador vladimir petrovic, general wesley clark, thank you both for your time this morning. >> thank you. >>> and now jeff glor is at the news desk with a check of today's other headlines for us today. jeff? >> chris, good morning to you. erica, good morning. good morning to everyone at home as well. and secretary of state hillary clinton called her talks with pakistani leaders frank and constructive. this morning clinton became the most senior u.s. official to visit pakistan since the raid on osama bin laden's compound. she spent six hours on the ground. her unaannounced visit was designed to repair relations. but she also pressed the paki

just moments ago that serbian president boris tadic has confirmed the arrest of ratko mladic. here is ha he said a short time ago at a news conference. >> on behalf of the republic of serbia, we announce that we have arrested ratko mladic. extradition process is under way. this is the result of full cooperation of serbia tribunal. we've always believed in our strategy and the work of everyone involved in this process. >> mladic was the highest ranking war crimes suspect still at large from the balkan wars accused of leading the bloody siege against sarajevo and the attack against srebrenica killing 8,000 muslim men and boys. >> the west had a tough time getting in there to confirm the reports of the mass murder. there were elements saying that the west had created this out of thin air, that there were no massacres. >> it was considered a safe zone. the u.n. was supposed to be protecting -- >> it was supposed to be protecting. >> serious lapses in judgment and mistakes that led to that -- that allowed that massacre, the largest in europe since world war ii. >> mladic has been l

yesterday, serbian president boris tadic announced the capture and arrest of mladic in serbia. he will be extradited and face trial before the international tribunal at the hague. >> the 69-year-old mladic spent last night in a jail cell in belgrade, serbia. he looked frail in court yesterday. he was reportedly unable to address the judge. his lawyers claim that he's a ruin of a man after two heart attacks and three stroke. serbia's president says he expects the ex-general to be transferred to the u.n. war tribunal in the hague in the next couple days. >> the next guest is the war crimes [ inaudible ] david shepard joining us live from chicago this morning. thank you for joining us. does the arrest of mladic send a message to perpetrators of genocide, say in the congo and sudan and elsewhere, that this will not be tolerated by the west and that eventually these people will come to justice? >> oh, i think, christine, it sends a very powerful message. but we have to be patient. many of these warlords and atrocity lords particularly in the situations in africa are not necessarily