police in serbia arresting a man suspected of being former serbian military commander ratko mladic. this according to b-92 radio station. mladic is the highest ranking war crimes suspect still at large from the 19 0s. he s wanted on charges of genocide, extermination and murder. wanted by the international tribunal for the former state of yugoslavia. police are performing dna tests to confirm if this is indeed ratko mladic. knick rob nic roberts has been covering this story for years. he s been searched for for probably 15 years now since the end of the war in bosnia. he s the last remaining and the
a spa and gym. we ll take you inside on this american morning. good morning to you. thanks so much for being with us on this thursday, may 26th. welcome back. what a whirlwind few days it s been for you right there in the heart of what s going on joplin, missouri. it continues. and more bad weather. another night of meteorological mayhem as tornadoes wreaked through the region. from louisiana to the great lakes. oklahoma s governor declaring a state of emergency in 68 counties hit by tornadoes. this video taken by storm chasers is about as close as you can get. 16 people were killed in the latest round of storms. in memphis tornado warnings ringing out again last night, the sirens sounding. you can hear them there as the sky grows darker by the minute. an ominous sky, a funnel cloud that was in the distance. the national weather service warned people in memphis as well as nashville to take shelter and in some cases to evacuate. right there, you got it. we ve got a
a genocide in europe and circumstances where the europeans were helpless and so many in the u.s. government didn t want to do anything. so his greatest achievement was not only negotiating the end of the war in bosnia but also getting our own country to want to do something about it. you know, peter, it is so important you re raising these aspects of his personality because secretary clinton s statement that she issued this evening about ambassador holbrooke reads in the first sentence, tonight america lost one of its fiercest champions and most dedicated public servants and the fierceness and energy and determination that he brought to every controversy and every effort of diplomacy is often what garnered the attention that the humanitarian purpose underlying it which jamie also has been focusing on is really what motivated and kept him going with the energy that really dominated his personality and it s just so critical that we remember that as he was a diplomat who did everything
was a big skeptic of the strategy that is now being followed and certainly, and the thing that he was skeptical of is that the strategy requires an afghan partner and he had gone to afghanistan many times before undertaking this assignment, again as a private citizen. he sought early on that karzai, hamid karzai was corrupt, ineffective, incapable of reform. he wanted to do much more about the fraudulent presidential elections but in the end was overruled by higher ups in the obama administration and he, like what any good diplomat should, he carried out the instructions that he was given. peter, before we let you go, what has the united states lost in its diplomatic efforts, impacts in afghanistan, with richard holbrooke no longer there? the relationships he had, the credibility he brought, who can replace that wealth and depth of knowledge and determination?
obligation as a diplomat. and so he would his style would be to express his views forcefully in the internal processes of the u.s. government but then to carry out the decision. but there is no doubt that he was a big skeptic of the strategy that is now being followed and certainly, and the thing that he was skeptical of is that the strategy requires an afghan partner and he had gone to afghanistan many times before undertaking this assignment, again as a private citizen. he sought early on that karzai, hamid karzai was corrupt, ineffective, incapable of reform. he wanted to do much more about the fraudulent presidential elections but in the end was overruled by higher ups in the obama administration and he, like what any good diplomat should, he carried out the instructions that he was given. peter, before we let you go, what has the united states lost