:00:12. > :00:15.The former Bosnian Serb military commander makes a disruptive
:00:15. > :00:20.appearance at the International War crimes Tribunal in the Hague.
:00:20. > :00:26.Ratko Mladic was removed from court after arguing with the judge and
:00:26. > :00:32.refusing to answer charges of genocide and war crimes. The court
:00:32. > :00:39.orders that you be removed from the courtroom. Could security police
:00:39. > :00:49.escort Mr Mladic out of the court room? This is not a court! Who are
:00:49. > :01:00.
:01:00. > :01:06.you?! You were not allowing me to A welcome to GMT. I am Naga
:01:06. > :01:12.Munchetty. Also in the programme, divisions of Libya in the spotlight
:01:12. > :01:15.as Russia and NATO hold talks. Poised to become the first female
:01:15. > :01:23.Prime Minister of Thailand, Yingluck Shinawatra announces her
:01:23. > :01:26.plans for the country. It is 12:30pm London, 6:30pm in
:01:26. > :01:29.Bangkok and 1:30pm in the Netherlands where the former
:01:29. > :01:33.Bosnian Serb Butler military commander Ratko Mladic has appeared
:01:33. > :01:36.in front of the International War crimes court in the Hague. But --
:01:37. > :01:42.military commander. It was a brief appearance as he was removed from
:01:42. > :01:49.port after -- removed from court after disrupting proceedings and
:01:49. > :01:54.refusing to enter a plea. The International Criminal Tribunal
:01:54. > :02:02.was now in session. From the outset, the judges were in for a difficult
:02:03. > :02:09.morning in court. Remove your cab, please. Not for the first time,
:02:09. > :02:14.General Mladic tried to insist on wearing a cap in court. Mr Justice
:02:14. > :02:21.Alphons Orie was having none of it. Could Mr Mladic be assisted in
:02:21. > :02:25.taking off his cap? Thank you very much. General Mladic was also
:02:25. > :02:30.reprimanded for communicating with the public gallery. Mr Mladic, if
:02:30. > :02:40.you continue to address the public gallery, rather than the chamber,
:02:40. > :02:40.
:02:40. > :02:46.as I said before, matters will be taken. TRANSLATION: Mr Alphons Orie,
:02:46. > :02:53.I am not underestimating you in any way. I hear better in my left ear
:02:53. > :02:57.and eye and called on my head. Let me put my cap on. Half of my body
:02:57. > :03:04.is not functioning. I'm not underestimating you in any way. I
:03:04. > :03:12.want to communicate with their in a humane way. You were trying to
:03:12. > :03:17.impose impossible conditions on me. A lawyer I do not want. I'm just
:03:17. > :03:21.going to look at you. The Attorney appointed by the court to represent
:03:21. > :03:25.Ratko Mladic had been told he was not wanted. TRANSLATION: This
:03:25. > :03:28.morning, when he came to the tribunal, General Mladic refused to
:03:28. > :03:33.communicate with me and he did not want me to be present here this
:03:33. > :03:38.morning. General Mladic said he wanted to appoint two Attorneys
:03:38. > :03:42.himself. TRANSLATION: Know, no, I am not going to listen to this.
:03:42. > :03:46.atmosphere became more heated when he refused to listen to the judge.
:03:46. > :03:56.TRANSLATION: You were talking in vain and I will not listen to this.
:03:56. > :04:02.Mr Mladic, Mr Mladic... The court orders that you be removed from the
:04:02. > :04:07.courtroom. Could security police escort Mr Mladic out of the court
:04:07. > :04:13.room? It was a session of extraordinary legal confrontation.
:04:13. > :04:19.One that was not totally unexpected. TRANSLATION: This is not a court.
:04:19. > :04:24.Who why you? Ratko Mladic was taken out of the Court and later pleas of
:04:24. > :04:28.not guilty were entered on his behalf.
:04:28. > :04:33.Some of the other stories making headlines around the world today, a
:04:33. > :04:36.British soldier has gone missing from his base in Afghanistan.
:04:36. > :04:40.Military sources say he left the base in central Helmand province
:04:40. > :04:45.alone on Monday morning at his disappearance is described as
:04:45. > :04:50.highly unusual. The soldier's family has been informed. More on
:04:50. > :04:56.this from the Afghan capital. Quentin Sommerville is in Kabul.
:04:57. > :05:01.What has happened here? As he said in the introduction, this has been
:05:01. > :05:05.described as highly unusual. A soldier left the base this morning
:05:05. > :05:09.in the early hours of darkness. He left the base alone and soldiers
:05:09. > :05:13.never do that in that part of the province, where there are still
:05:13. > :05:17.many Taliban surrounding the area. It is a very dangerous area.
:05:17. > :05:23.Soldiers always go on patrol together. Certainly, they never
:05:23. > :05:27.leave alone. It was an unplanned departure from the base. He
:05:27. > :05:34.disappeared. There is a major search and rescue operation using
:05:34. > :05:38.for the soldier. At the same time, the Taliban in the area have told
:05:38. > :05:42.the BBC that they have captured a foreign soldier in this vicinity
:05:42. > :05:46.and that he was killed in an exchange of gunfire with
:05:46. > :05:51.international troops. The Taliban often make exaggerated claims and
:05:51. > :05:57.we have had no confirmation of that incident from the international
:05:57. > :06:00.security mission. They are saying that they are looking for the
:06:00. > :06:03.soldier and that the family have been informed of his disappearance.
:06:03. > :06:09.Authorities have not been able to confirm if any gun battles took
:06:10. > :06:15.place with the Taliban? They have denied that a gun battle took place.
:06:15. > :06:19.One military source here says that soldiers do not behave like this,
:06:19. > :06:26.they do not just wander off in hostile territory in the middle of
:06:26. > :06:32.the night. There is confusion as to what he is -- has taken place here
:06:32. > :06:37.and where or why the soldier left, twice he decided to leave alone at
:06:37. > :06:42.this time. As I said, his family have been informed but beyond that,
:06:42. > :06:48.there are few other details. The MoD has been confirming that he is
:06:48. > :06:51.a British soldier. From sources in that part of the province, we have
:06:51. > :06:55.heard that there is a large operation going on, that the
:06:55. > :07:00.international mission is throwing everything they have at trying to
:07:00. > :07:09.find the soldier. Even Afghans sources, the army is involved in
:07:09. > :07:12.the search. -- Afghan sources. The European Union is sending
:07:12. > :07:18.almost $15 million worth of emergency food aid to North Korea,
:07:18. > :07:21.where it says more than 500,000 people are at risk of dying from
:07:21. > :07:24.malnutrition. The European Commission says that it has agreed
:07:24. > :07:28.unprecedented right to monitor how the food is delivered, including
:07:28. > :07:32.unrestricted access to make random checks.
:07:32. > :07:38.The Burmese pro-democracy leader on sand shoes she is making her first
:07:38. > :07:44.trip outside the main city of Rangoon since her release last year.
:07:44. > :07:48.-- and San Suchi. She's making a trip to an ancient temple city who
:07:48. > :07:55.has -- with one of her sons, who has described the trip as a holiday.
:07:55. > :08:02.In theory, and San Suchi is free to travel.
:08:02. > :08:07.Reports from the City of Hamma in Syria say that tanks have moved
:08:07. > :08:12.away from the city. Residents say the tanks are moving war -- moving
:08:12. > :08:16.north towards the province of Idlib. Dozens were arrested in Hamma on
:08:16. > :08:21.Sunday, two days after the largest anti-government demonstration in
:08:21. > :08:25.the city. Still to come:, the latest on the
:08:25. > :08:30.winner of Thailand's general election. Also... TRANSLATION: If
:08:30. > :08:36.we destroy the forest, there will be no shade. There will be wind and
:08:36. > :08:39.the ground will overheat and burn up. That is my fear. A warning from
:08:39. > :08:44.Amazonian tribes people as the Brazilian government assesses a
:08:44. > :08:53.Fforest code designed to protect its great rainforest. -- a forest
:08:53. > :09:01.code. Time for the business news with Aaron Heselhurst. Greece,
:09:01. > :09:04.perhaps(!)? Lot of development. UN officials have made -- given the
:09:04. > :09:09.thumbs-up for money to be released to Greece. That means that Athens
:09:09. > :09:13.can pay off some of its debt over the summer. However, there is a
:09:13. > :09:17.spanner in the works, possibly, because Standard and Poor's, the
:09:17. > :09:22.global credit rating agency says that the current rescue package, in
:09:22. > :09:26.their eyes, would be deemed as a default. Eurozone officials have
:09:26. > :09:29.been trying to avoid a word. They're talking about the plan to
:09:29. > :09:33.rollover debts, meaning that instead of collecting the money
:09:33. > :09:38.owned -- odes to those banks, they would put it back into Greece for
:09:38. > :09:44.longer term debt. How significant is his warning? Unfortunately, it
:09:44. > :09:48.is pretty significant. Effectively, it scuppers the plan. It is back to
:09:48. > :09:51.the drawing board for the European politicians and their banks, to
:09:51. > :09:59.come up with a plan that would not cause a default. The problem with a
:09:59. > :10:03.default, the classic creditor situation, when these agencies, out
:10:03. > :10:06.with this term, it has lots of repercussions. And we know as those
:10:06. > :10:10.report -- and we know those repercussions. Greece will not be
:10:10. > :10:14.able to borrow money. Back to the drawing board. We will be talking
:10:14. > :10:21.about this for longer. When we do chat, I get upset with our phone
:10:21. > :10:25.bills. You and the rest of us. People who go on the Continent use
:10:25. > :10:27.the phones and come back to face bills of hundreds or thousands of
:10:27. > :10:33.pounds. We know that European officials have been working at
:10:33. > :10:36.bringing those prices down. In the last four years, Robin -- roaming
:10:36. > :10:41.charges have dropped by 60% but it is still three times more expensive
:10:41. > :10:46.to use this abroad than at home. This week, a big announcement on
:10:46. > :10:49.European officials, how to shrink that gap. We are expecting a double
:10:49. > :10:54.whammy hits against the mobile industry. They will continue
:10:54. > :10:59.regulating prices but they have a new trick. The price caps have been
:11:00. > :11:03.successful to a certain extent. we do not think we're going to be
:11:03. > :11:08.able to bring down the prices sufficiently through regulating the
:11:08. > :11:13.prices. Ultimately, in order to bring prices down significantly and
:11:13. > :11:16.in a sustainable way, we need to have more competition in the market.
:11:16. > :11:20.Just to say, they're looking at a proposal about when you go to
:11:20. > :11:25.France, subscribing to a local French company using your telephone
:11:25. > :11:29.number. The markets are all up around the globe off the back of
:11:29. > :11:39.those great manufacturing numbers, rebounding from the United States.
:11:39. > :11:41.
:11:41. > :11:51.We want to hear what do you think. Get in touch. The best way to do
:11:51. > :12:02.
:12:02. > :12:08.You can watch highlights from the You're watching GMT. Here are the
:12:08. > :12:12.headlines: Thrown out of court, the former Bosnian Serb leader Ratko
:12:12. > :12:21.Mladic is ejected from the War crimes Tribunal in the Hague after
:12:21. > :12:25.he refused to plead and continued to interject.
:12:25. > :12:28.The deadlock on the battlefield and Libya has prompted countries
:12:28. > :12:34.outside the NATO led coalition to look for a negotiated solution to
:12:34. > :12:38.the conflict. Moscow has been one of the more out spoken advocates of
:12:38. > :12:43.negotiations. The Russian President and the head of the NATO alliance,
:12:43. > :12:48.Anders Fogh Rasmussen, are discussing the Libyan conflict at a
:12:48. > :12:53.summit. Jacob Zuma, who has been trying to find a diplomatic
:12:53. > :12:57.solution and the country, has also been invited for a meeting with the
:12:57. > :13:04.Russian president. We can speak now to Dmitri Babich, who is in Moscow,
:13:04. > :13:09.a political analyst at the Russia Profile magazine. Russia is
:13:09. > :13:15.accusing NATO of going beyond the UN mandate. What would the Russian
:13:15. > :13:20.government like to see from NATO? think Russia does not want to
:13:20. > :13:26.create a precedent when other countries decide for a sovereign
:13:26. > :13:30.country its future fate. Russia has no sympathy for Colonel Gaddafi,
:13:30. > :13:34.president Medvedev has called him basically a criminal a number of
:13:34. > :13:38.times. But Russia also does not want to see other countries
:13:38. > :13:44.intervening directly in Libyan affairs. The recent acknowledgement
:13:44. > :13:50.by France that it provided weapons to the Libyan rebels was very badly
:13:50. > :13:55.received in Moscow. Russia will probably try to look for a
:13:55. > :14:00.negotiated solution, and that is what the Russian envoy in the
:14:00. > :14:08.region is trying to achieve. What evidence is there that negotiations
:14:08. > :14:15.with Libya are working? Well, it's so far, we have not seen anyone
:14:15. > :14:21.doing any serious efforts to get the negotiations on course. The
:14:21. > :14:27.rebels have rejected all negotiations. Mr Gaddafi has a
:14:27. > :14:32.reputation, but we're not dealing only with him. A large part of the
:14:32. > :14:36.population, especially around Tripoli, does not want to live
:14:36. > :14:41.under the opposition so hastily recognised by France and Britain.
:14:41. > :14:45.Probably these people should also be listen to. What is Russia
:14:45. > :14:49.fearing when it comes to the current NATO action? What do they
:14:49. > :14:54.think will happen? Is it possible that the rebels will gain a victory,
:14:54. > :15:03.and what will happen next? Russia has its own experience with civil
:15:03. > :15:09.war. We know they only end with negotiated solutions. If just one
:15:09. > :15:13.side wins, as it was in Russia in 1818 and 1920, then the civil war
:15:13. > :15:19.will continue in a covert form. That is what Russia basically fears
:15:19. > :15:24.for Libya. All civil wars should end with its associated solutions.
:15:24. > :15:30.Obviously, the position should also be a little more open about plans,
:15:30. > :15:37.and personnel. We do not know the names of all the members of the
:15:37. > :15:40.transitional council. Does Russia accept that without NATO action,
:15:40. > :15:47.there are civilians who were being wounded and victimised by a
:15:47. > :15:56.Gaddafi's forces and without NATO, this would have continued? Well, it
:15:56. > :15:59.is a problem from the past. We will not know -- we do not know what
:15:59. > :16:04.would have happened if NATO had not intervened. Russia is very
:16:04. > :16:12.concerned about the plight of civilians and that is why Russia
:16:12. > :16:17.voted, basically abstained during the vote on Resolution 1973. But
:16:17. > :16:21.Russia does not want the same situation to happen in Syria, and
:16:21. > :16:26.Russia is afraid that obviously NATO is going beyond what was
:16:26. > :16:32.agreed in that resolution, that Russia and China basically
:16:32. > :16:42.abstained during the vote. They did not vote. Dmitri Bavidge, thank you
:16:42. > :16:46.
:16:46. > :16:50.Within the next few months, the Brazilian government is going to be
:16:50. > :16:54.considering relaxing the forest code. Farmers and businesses want
:16:54. > :17:00.to be allowed to cultivate more of their land. But environmentalists
:17:00. > :17:06.say the code should be strengthened, not weakened. The lungs of the
:17:06. > :17:10.world, where millions of trees absorb carbon dioxide and save the
:17:10. > :17:15.planet from more dramatic changes to weather patterns. The forest is
:17:15. > :17:18.home to countless species. But years of deforestation have left
:17:18. > :17:28.them vulnerable, as farmers clear the land to provide pasture for
:17:28. > :17:35.their join and to grow cash crops. The indigenous tribes here say
:17:35. > :17:39.their traditional way of life is and a threat.
:17:39. > :17:47.TRANSLATION: Today, everybody is destroying the forest all round. I
:17:47. > :17:51.do not want this. I told many people that if we destroy the
:17:51. > :17:56.forest, there will be a great wind and a ground will overheat and burn
:17:56. > :18:01.up, that is my fear. This gives you a good idea what deforestation
:18:01. > :18:06.actually looks like. Over there, as far as the eye can see, virgin
:18:06. > :18:10.rainforest. But right here, next to the road, land that has been
:18:10. > :18:15.cleared illegally. If what has happened around here is anything to
:18:15. > :18:20.go by, within the next few years, those cattle will have gone, all of
:18:20. > :18:27.this will be used for growing soya. Some big multinational food
:18:27. > :18:31.producers work close to the Amazon. Cattle produced beef, soya and corn
:18:31. > :18:36.produce food for cattle. More than a third of the world's meat exports
:18:36. > :18:41.come from Brazil. People are producing more Cotton, because of
:18:41. > :18:45.the demand of countries which are growing and do not have enough food.
:18:45. > :18:52.Brazil has land, it has the technology, and of course, we're
:18:52. > :18:56.going to take advantage of that. is corn harvest time now, and with
:18:56. > :19:01.food prices at record levels, farmers want to expand, to grow
:19:01. > :19:07.more. The world needs more food, and they're more than happy to
:19:07. > :19:13.provide it. The forest code says that here, close to the Amazon,
:19:13. > :19:18.farmers can cultivate only 20% of the land they own. The other 80%
:19:18. > :19:22.has to be left untouched, to protect the forest. That's what
:19:22. > :19:26.they want change. There is talk of an amnesty for farmers who have
:19:26. > :19:34.illegally cleared their lands. They will be required to buy forested
:19:34. > :19:37.land somewhere else and leave it untouched. I feel cheated, because
:19:37. > :19:43.80% of my money is tied up in protecting the environment for the
:19:43. > :19:49.rest of the world, but I don't get anything out of it.
:19:49. > :19:53.Environmentalists want the laws to be strengthened to protect all this.
:19:53. > :19:57.But there is enormous pressure from business interests, who want to be
:19:57. > :20:01.able to develop the land. The government says it will veto any
:20:01. > :20:06.proposal which threatens the rain forest. But the next few months
:20:06. > :20:14.will be a crucial test - can Brazil, with its booming economy, really
:20:14. > :20:18.protect the environment? To Thailand now, where Yingluck
:20:18. > :20:23.Shinawatra is poised to become the first female Prime Minister of the
:20:23. > :20:28.country. The 43-year-old is the youngest of nine children. Her
:20:28. > :20:34.brother, Thaksin, is the former Prime Minister. Up until now she
:20:34. > :20:39.has been a managing director of several firms. She has never held a
:20:39. > :20:44.government post before. And she has never run for office before
:20:44. > :20:49.yesterday. It has led to some critics questioning her experience.
:20:49. > :20:55.Our correspondent has been covering the election from the thyme capital,
:20:55. > :21:02.Bangkok, and she sent this report. This is history in the making in
:21:02. > :21:07.Thailand, the country's first female Prime Minister. She is the
:21:07. > :21:10.youngest sister of are arguably the most divisive and influential
:21:10. > :21:16.politician in the country, Thaksin Shinawatra, the former Prime
:21:16. > :21:20.Minister, a man ousted by a military coup in 2006. For her
:21:20. > :21:25.supporters, this is the moment they have worked hard for. Thailand has
:21:25. > :21:29.seen a turbulent few years, and it wants to put the problems of the
:21:29. > :21:34.past behind it. TRANSLATION: She is like a nice
:21:35. > :21:41.person, a person who can accept both sides. It is like she can help
:21:41. > :21:44.calm down the political situation. But trying to do that could be
:21:44. > :21:50.tough, if Yingluck Shinawatra allows her brother to return to
:21:51. > :21:54.Thailand. He is living in self- imposed exile in Dubai, escaping a
:21:54. > :21:59.corruption conviction for which he could face two years in jail. There
:21:59. > :22:06.are concerns that Thaksin might use his sister's victory to stage a
:22:06. > :22:16.comeback. I am not in a hurry to go back. I
:22:16. > :22:17.
:22:17. > :22:23.want reconciliation to happen first. If there is reconciliation, and I
:22:23. > :22:27.am part of the solution, I will be there. Any return of Thaksin
:22:27. > :22:30.Shinawatra to Thailand would almost certainly be unacceptable for the
:22:30. > :22:35.Democratic Party and for the military. It could make an already
:22:35. > :22:37.tense political situation even worse. That would only make it
:22:37. > :22:41.harder for Thailand's new government to get on with the job
:22:41. > :22:51.of bringing this nation back together again and healing
:22:51. > :22:51.
:22:51. > :22:55.Thailand's when did democracy. -- wounded democracy. We can speak
:22:55. > :23:03.now to Voranai Vanijaka, of the Bangkok Post. Do you believe
:23:03. > :23:08.Yingluck Shinawatra is qualified to lead the country as Prime Minister?
:23:08. > :23:12.I believe she is. A lot of people have said that she does not have
:23:12. > :23:19.the political experience, it is true, she is a novice in politics.
:23:19. > :23:24.However, should be surrounded by a lot of veteran politicians, who can
:23:24. > :23:29.handle a lot of policies for her. Her opponents have said adamantly
:23:29. > :23:36.that she is not very bright in the first place. Whether she is or not,
:23:36. > :23:43.we cannot say. However, what she does have is perhaps what Thailand
:23:43. > :23:52.needs right now, the magic of a leader. She looks pretty, she
:23:52. > :23:57.symbolises a kindness and gentleness. It has helped the party
:23:57. > :24:03.to become very popular in the past two months. She is able to reach
:24:03. > :24:09.people, and the people seem to warm to her. That is one reason why the
:24:09. > :24:15.party has won by a landslide. This could be a good thing for Thailand.
:24:15. > :24:22.She could be a leader who can pull everyone together. How do you think
:24:22. > :24:28.she will be received internationally? It depends on whom
:24:28. > :24:33.she chooses as her Foreign Minister. So far, in interviews with the
:24:33. > :24:37.foreign press, she does find. Of course, there are accusations of it
:24:37. > :24:41.being scripted, which of course is true, but that will come with
:24:41. > :24:49.experience. Again, she's surrounded by people who know what they're
:24:50. > :24:58.doing. And of course, the most important foreign policy issue in
:24:59. > :25:03.Thailand right now is our conflict with Cambodia over the region. But
:25:03. > :25:08.we all know that her party has a special relationship with that
:25:08. > :25:14.country, so that conflict might work out in a way which the Thai
:25:14. > :25:19.people would accept. What about the fact that she's leading a coalition
:25:19. > :25:25.government - what problems might that cause? I don't think that will
:25:25. > :25:33.be a problem. The party got an absolute majority, but she's going
:25:33. > :25:39.to find smaller parties to make a coalition with. There is a
:25:39. > :25:47.political move. She's going to pull in some other parties to push the
:25:47. > :25:56.opposition into a corner. But how party by itself, it already has an
:25:56. > :26:01.absolute majority. Is the appointment of Yingluck Shinawatra
:26:01. > :26:08.seen as a fresh start for Thailand? There has been much talk about the
:26:09. > :26:18.so-called Tideland Inferno, can people put this behind them?
:26:19. > :26:19.
:26:19. > :26:24.Thailand. It is still fresh in people's memories. However, since
:26:24. > :26:28.we are here, the fact that her party won by a big majority, that
:26:28. > :26:32.does a lot to help the situation. It means that they have been given
:26:33. > :26:38.a mandate by the people. The people have spoken, and they have spoken