Facing the most serious charge on the planet genocide. Here in belgrade, his wife protests his innocence. Who does she think was responsible for the thousands of forced deportations and the mass murders, and does she expect her husband one day to come home . Mira markovic, welcome to the programme. When you saw your husband recently, in the hague, and you celebrated his birthday, did you tell him that everything was going to be ok in the end . What did you tell him . Has he accepted his fate . Whatever the International Criminal Court Decides it to be, will he accept it . But he is going to be tried by the tribunal, isnt he . Whatever Public Opinion has to say about it. But you would accept that the court has been set up with the authority of the un security council, and your husband accepted that under the Dayton Agreement, which he signed in 1995. Why does he now say that the court is illegal . Mrs markovic, why is that a lie . What he actually signed up to, which is in the Dayton Agreement, is that the parties agreed to co operate fully with all entities, including those authorised by the un security council, in investigating and prosecuting war crimes and other violations of International Humanitarian law. He signed a document which included that provision. So why is the court, i ask you, illegal . I am puzzled by your answers. I understood that you wanted to do this interview and you wished to reply to the questions that we, In The Name Of the bbc, are putting towards you, am i not right in that understanding . Can we go back to the time in march, when your husband was arrested. How worried were you for his safety when he was arrested . He had a gun with him at the time, were you afraid that he would use it on himself . And hes quoted as saying things like, you will think differently of me after im gone. There was no danger that he was going to commit suicide . How much did you influence your husband politically . Dusan mitevic said that you were the one with ambition, you inspired him, he only wanted to be great in your eyes, is that true . Its not true at all . No, but these are friends. General stefan markovic, he said that you write the speeches, and that your husband memorises and repeats them. Is that true or not . Let me ask you about a quote that was attributed to you in the magazine globus, saying you were angry with your husband at the elections he should have asked for guarantees of safety. Slobodan didnt ask for anything, it seems. Did you say that, were you angry with him that he didnt ask for guarantees after the election . This is a quote in globus magazine, attributed to you. So you dont recognise any of these statements at all . Tell me, mrs markovic, was your husband under the impression that he had made a deal with richard holbrooke, he would not be prosecuted by the International Tribunal . And he never shared his impressions of any of these statesmen with you . Not even when he met clinton, at the signing of the Dayton Agreement . Did he always believe that it was possible to make a deal with western countries, and avoid the bombing of yugoslavia . Not his policy of having a Greater Serbia at any cost, which is what the west says about him . That is how his policy was seen in the west, wasnt it . But he started off by supporting Radovan Karadzic and ratko mladic, didnt he . He supported them and he helped them with funds. He has admitted to that. So why did he fall out with karadzic and mladic . Why did he stop supporting them . Mrs markovic, what do you say to those people who dont accept your truth . Who look at the trail of blood across the balkans over the last few years, look at the mass murders, the forced deportations, the rape, the torture and dont believe you, what do you say to those people who dont believe you . The west is responsible for all the bodies, mrs markovic no, isnt the west responsible . Mrs markovic, dont you accept any responsibility . So the west is responsible for the mass graves, the the west is responsible for the places of internment and torture, the west is responsible for the rape, the west is responsible for the forced deportations of Tens Of Thousands of people across the balkans . People are not going to believe you, mrs markovic. People are not going to believe you. They have seen the pictures. They have seen the forced deportations of people, for the First Time Since the second world war. Didnt those pictures touch you, ass a human being . Did they touch you . Serbian investigators themselves are talking about the discovery of more than a thousand bodies shipped to serbia in refrigerated trucks, from kosovo. These are not bodies that go back a long way. These are fresh bodies, victims of the war in kosovo, whose existence was meant to be covered up. These are being investigated now, by serbian investigators. So why are mass graves turning up in batajnica, a suburb of belgrade, of petrovo selo in Eastern Serbia . If this is all manufactured, why are these graves turning up here now . Mrs markovic, these are vital questions. Even the president says he is ashamed of some of the things that serbs have done. You dont share his shame . Your husband. Mrs markovic. Your husband, mrs markovic, faces some of the most serious charges on the planet, the charges of genocide. Why are there no members of the United Nations who are protesting at these charges, no members of the security council, russia is not protesting, nobody is protesting that he is held illegally . Only you and your husband. Why is that . The serbian prime minister, mrs markovic, says that you too are under investigation, and it is possible that you may be arrested at some point. What would you say to that . Some people are suggesting that instead of denying everything, history would look more kindly on your husband if he was to accept some responsibility for the trail of blood that started across the balkans, the trail of blood that left hundreds of thousands of people without their homes, left people raped and tortured and murdered, that history would look more kindly, if he accepted at least some responsibility for that. What would you say to those people . You think hell prove his innocence at the hague . Do you not also realise that he is regarded as evil by many, many people around the world, who blame him for the trail of blood that led across the balkans . Are you not aware of that . People who have seen the pictures of the forced deportations, of the mass murders and the rapes. These people are not going to believe what you say. Do you believe he will come home from the hague one day . Why not . Thank you very much indeed for being with us on the programme. No, im asking questions that are of interest to the public. Hello and good morning. We just had the warmest day of the year in Northern Ireland. 20 degrees in county teroan. A lovely day in the sunshine. We also had some similar temperatures in the south west of scotland. Again nice and warm sunshine. The best of the weather over the weekend will probably be across Western Scotland and Northern Ireland. We have more cloud coming into Eastern Scotland, north east england, low cloud and these are the temperatures by the time we get to early tuesday. Seven or eight degrees typically. A little mist and fog towards the South West After The Rain on monday. The showers that we had, some lively have headed southwards into the near continent that is where the front here could spoil things a bit, coming in off the southern north sea. A mishmash in the morning with sunshine and areas of cloud a few showers coming in off the north sea into more central and southern parts of england. For much of the day, the south west is likely to be dry as well as wales, warm in the sunshine but feeling cooler under this cloud, especially as the wind picks up. Showers will be like that there could be a few heavy ones in south east later on. Showers as far north of northumberland, to the west it is likely to be dry. And temperatures not quite as high across Northern Ireland and scotland as they were on monday but 80 ireland and scotland as they were on monday but 18 degrees is the likely. Cool for Eastern Scotland under the cloud that they should wake up. Showers heading to wales and the south western and they fade away and then we see, after a brief respite, more showers coming in again from the southern north sea. A lot of cloud to england and wales, perhaps further north is scotland and Northern Ireland but again on chilly side in the highlands. As we head into wednesday, these showers and cloud thickening, mainley from the humber southwards into south west of england, there will be some sunshine at times but the sunniest weather developing after a bit of a cloudy start for scotland and Northern Ireland and again we will find temperatures here in the west into the high teens. Another lovely day to come. Not the sort a weather for dipping your toes in the north sea, perhaps, that where the temperature will be eight or nine degrees. Starting to warm up at this time of year. The temperatures are significant because the wind is coming in off the north sea. This High Pressure dominator whether it is typical of this time of year but in strong winds later on in the week. A lot of dry weather through the rest of the week. There will be sunshine around as well but it is always going to be cooler in the east near the east coast in particular. More sunshine and higher temperatures further west. This is newsday on the bbc. 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