Lone Karadzic finally appears

Trial Chamber 3 at The Hague is a small, almost intimate courtroom.

But there was little warmth as Radovan Karadzic squared up to the prosecution team at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Mr Karadzic entered the chamber seven minutes before the scheduled starting time.

He looked like a man in a hurry rather than someone accused of dragging out this trial.

Wearing a pair of small reading glasses, he peered at the documents he had brought with him.

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