The family of Ratko Mladic say he's a sick man, who needs an independent and urgent medical assessment in Belgrade, but that claim has failed to convince the Serbian president. Speaking to the BBC, President Tadic said that despite attempts to

lodge

an appeal against the extradition, Ratko Mladic will be transferred to The Hague to face charges of genocide and other war crimes, and that those who are found to have protected him during his years in hiding will be

prosecute

d too.

Crash investigators say the pilots of an Air France jet struggled for almost four minutes to regain control of their plane before it plunged, tail first, into the Atlantic Ocean two years ago. With more details, here's Mark Lobel.

The French officials said the pilots of flight 447 were guided by false readings from airspeed indicators as they tried to control the plane through turbulent weather. In the confusion, the pilots were unable to maintain the aircraft's speed, and the plane stalled. As the crew struggled to regain control, the plane dropped 38,000 feet in just three and a half minutes, tail first, killing all 228 people on board. The safety investigators, who will publish an

interim

report within the next few months, said the crew followed the correct procedure and that the weight and balance of the aircraft and

responsiveness

of its engines were satisfactory.

Russia, until now a fierce critic of military action in Libya, has joined world leaders in urging Colonel Gaddafi to stand down. At the end of a G8 summit in Deauville in northern France, the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said the world no longer saw Colonel Gaddafi as the Libyan leader, so he should go into exile but not in Russia.