need tell our kids. bush you could be interested by our lives. this 303030 proofreading news each scene there champ. and you watching the news live from berlin more news at the top of the next hour. it's all happening much of it a fairly. sure link to news from africa the world or links to exceptionally stories and discussions anyone will come to their view suffocating program learn from foreign agenda meet for more news it's easy to our website d deputed called smash africa join us on facebook j w africa. in

the late 1970 s. the world was in turmoil never before had so many people taking to the streets millions of demonstrators demanded more democracy greater freedom higher wages and world peace and across the globe women were calling for equal rights. but all these hopes seem to take a back seat in a world shackled to the ongoing confrontation between the united states and the soviet union. there appeared to be little alternative to the 2 political blocs the cold war had the world firmly in its grip. on. the west was still feeling the after effects of the oil crisis of the early 1970 s. economic growth had slowed. and unemployment was steadily rising and the post-war

boom had come to an end. in britain james callaghan's labor government came under pressure from its financial obligations to the international monetary fund but also from a seemingly endless series of strikes that have paralyzed the country. in eastern europe poland remained under soviet rule the polish economy was in crisis and the country was still scarred by the harsh the pression of the workers strikes of $970.00 but the election of a polish cardinal cardinal as pope in 1978 kindled fresh hope. china was drained after 30 years of oppressive rule in december $978.00 the chinese communist party entrusted the face of the country. who was already in his seventy's . in iran the brutal western

oriented dictatorship of the shower was under huge pressure from demonstrations that with tipping over into revolt although u.s. president jimmy carter still so we ran as an island of stability hundreds of thousands of iranians would challenging the security forces and the army on the streets of tehran demanding an end to the shah's rule. at the dawn of $979.00 it seemed the world was ready to be rocked. but the fall of the leaders of the major western nations the united states france the united kingdom and west germany appeared unconcerned as they met on what to do in the french antilles they were unaware that the location of their meeting was only a few kilometers away from loss of the air a small. officially

the 4 heads of states gathered in waterloo quit preparing for the upcoming g. 7 summit in tokyo smiling reassuringly for the cameras in their shit sleeves. in reality the mood was fun less sabrine. any run the situation had become untenable as international protests condemned the shah's dictatorship the country was sinking into chaos and oil production had almost completely stopped france was eager to be rid of an embarrassing guess they had been hosting for several months the exiled iranian cleric ayatollah ruhollah khomeini the voyages of state came to a decision the shah would have to resign and leave iran and the aging cleric who they knew little about would be allowed to return to stabilize the country and preserve the economic interests of the west. and i heard about that why the

conference putting it was there that they decided that if the show goes on for a new car it's not such a disaster for the west. all of the sudden the mainstream of. this started talking about khomeini as a big shot at the big actually fight over the shah which it was not. a lot of money. there was this great propaganda strategy and the european media fell into the trap because that image was really too idyllic almost like a garden of eden.

khomeini khamenei never failed to state that everything he did will be determined by islam soon apparel islam he had always dreamt of you know state in this sharia law would rule a very important part of it was the rights of women the family law and everything that was why he had been sent into exile because he had object it to the right of women to vote. on french television khomeini was asked who would really run when the shah was gone are you. sure you. know no it won't be me i will choose a council and in this council there will be a parliament elected by universal suffrage. but the big lie he did but the majority

. between all part of the society together for changing the system i. think to show if there were people out on the streets with. carts saying. sure the show has gone shot the show has left and everything i mean it was just an expression of. we were in a group we were always in the streets the streets were absolutely packed and there was a huge sense of solidarity all this had quite a euphoric in fact i sampled. here.

meeting. and i was standing outside university with some other people in a lie to watch this and then this man sits standing next to me a working class man and stretched out his hand and held my hand and he said now we are one and this pick. that's what the spirit of getting for. christmas is still poured into. me to police on the secret police i'm not there. there was. no power from imposed on the population so it was total

freak everybody was so. friendly to each other everybody was helping him everybody was killing for a dog and this. excess. you know that you might not pick up from what we shot in the name of god now after 4 months of living in france. i am leaving here to serve my country. cynicism it's also necessary to express my gratitude to the french government and people for providing me with security measures and freedom of expression.

to express you. here. while i attend a khamenei was taking off from paris 9000 kilometers away another plane had another cleric on board the newly elected pope john paul the 2nd he was on his way back from his 1st papal visit abroad in mexico the pope had unequivocally rejected the in his eyes marxist content of the liberation theology that was challenging the catholic church in less than america but he was careful to avoid revealing to the media that he planned to launch his true crusade against communism in his native country of poland. told him it's a denying people have no hope it was. because of many years after the war but

communism had been around for so many years the shops were empty life was hard everything was approved. kind of. you had very few believers in the communist momentum or in france. poland because people have no illusions. but rather feel that even though it became a big mind to overcome. but still ultimate force. it kept this is tonight most intermediation linked to the soviet union. there are only 2 programs in the polls. i think we all listen to the news at 7 30 in the evening i think. this was a common a strong you know state run company so propaganda machine. so you're listening to

it just with one ear and i never believe tough and then something in the middle of the news they said that. opposed to being sort of chosen as the pope. and that's what i mean my ears pricked up and i thought oh this book i think their main impact was not so much for the religious it was nationalist national he was received in poland this is my impression of as a leader of the conflict. but as the most prominent people. in there were the thought. we had the party membership card but each of us was also in our soul a pole. and all of a sudden you know it was unprecedented appalled to become pope and would sit on the throne of st peter. it was extraordinary and we had such a feeling of pride. but there was also a sense that this would become a big problem for the leadership. to. do.

on the other side of the world a giant was beginning to awaken from it slumber. done shopping have been a fellow revolutionary of mouth they don't he had been arrested during the cultural revolution but was now taking control of the chinese communist party when i arrived in beijing in the apartment which my family and i occupied looked out on to the great multi-lane highway of the avenue of eternal peace and every morning i would watch. men and women going to work. like so many people in china living a zombie like existence. once don't become. paramount leader he never took the position of prime minister he wanted to be the palm behind the throne but nobody could doubt that he was the

supremes rule of china. by the late 1970 s. the party slogans no longer revolved around communism the new slogan was the 4 modernizations meaning national defense industry agriculture and science and technology this modernization was intended to appeal to the chinese people. yes when the chinese people were no longer interested in communist ideals deng xiaoping knew this and understood the party had to offer something to unite people that's why he announced this modernization catching up with the west he also east political tensions with the u.s. and the west that formula was a way to preserve the communist party's rule. you're. done shopping as a pragmatic nationalist wanted the strategic strength and a lot and friendship of the united states in case the soviet union try to

use its superior military to intervene in chinese politics u.s. policy toward the soviet union after world war 2 was basically formulated by george kennan different assigned to the u.s. embassy in moscow. his can scan theft of containment was that if the serviette union or walled off and left to its own devices its system had so many defects that it would ultimately collapse and so we began a process that led to a decision on our side to normalize relations with china the united states of america and the people to public of china have agreed to recognize each other and to establish diplomatic relations as of january 1st 1979. the united states recognizes the government of the people the public and china as

a so legal government of china both believe that normalization of sino american relations is not only in the interest of the chinese and american people but also contributes to the cause of peace in asia and in the world i am pleased to announce that dr premier. accepted my invitation. and would visit my work. again. hat. i. hat. and early 1979 britain was suffering one of the coldest winters in its history even

worse with a protracted strikes that were undermining the government of prime minister james callaghan. superclusters i suppose you know quite a very important thing is that this really was margaret thatcher who'd become leader of the conservative policy for years and now intended to take advantage of a neighbor policy in disarray so if you ask whether the next conservative government will cut controls and regulations and keep interference in people's lives to a minimum final answer is yes that's exactly what we should. be called fell right in the general election of $179.00 because in the winter of $17879.00 all these strikes all came together under a labor camp. there was a perfect position for her to be able to say this call to order to move because of a country like.

winter and the speeches were for called my nation in march through march loosely called the british with its organized. with me refuge in the street. public sector workers were clearing dust where we refuse to think they would hospital porters standing at the gate so possible that if people were told they were helping. and the government could let them know they

have and still get elected they get. the. most dramatic of all is that. the bodies of the dead couldn't be about it because the crippled workers are on strike i think from that moment the election of a conservative government has to stop a bull she did always want to be prime minister but she thought if she said it everyone would laugh at her because it just seemed too remote a possibility when she was a young woman the most famous definition of democracy is government on the people by love people for the people not government office section of the people by a section of the people for a section of the piece. one of the most impressive things about margaret thatcher

is you never saw her and i think except the most immaculate. condition and it was that men don't really have to think about this you know we've all read our suits and. have and that's about it but for women it's a totally different she understood that the men were a club and they would support one another if they did something stupid. but the women weren't and if they did something stupid they were out she saw it all as a battle she said there's no 2nd chance for a woman bloody hard to find an example of margaret thatcher ever letting go she was wrong you don't admit it you've changed your mind you get on with it change your mind but you never give any ground chairs that was a definite view of how you can be a leader and she was 2 people really there was very guts thatcher which reacted

in a very typical way sort of the british citizen and there was the thinking thatcher took a bit of time to get past the 1st one to address the 2nd one but you had to learn to. look through say a thing in her eyes that was missing was the understanding not society's not entirely composed of achievers and there are 203035 percent of people who are not going to be very happy or not enjoying their jobs and generally able to cope and who need the help of a society which is generous towards those who are less advantaged that was her weakness saying you know the answer is simple in cabbage them to work harder and they will encourage them to produce the right sort of goods and they will and then we too will be able once again to join the 1st division of nations don't just hope

for a better life vote for one. on his return flight back to iran ayatollah khamenei surrounded himself with journalists a strategy that would ensure worldwide coverage of the event and help safeguard him from attack by any remaining royalists to the shah. who would. after 15 years in exile khamenei was eager to finally accomplish a plan he had concealed from the wider world. i didn't know anything about khamenei really we wanted the revolution to continue its course for us it was a huge moment in history that i was interested in the enormous welcome he received . and i was hoping he'd go back to calm and stay there for us that

was me instead of people going to his copy of the way they were as much these people i think as things might be. i guess part of the religious that you have to remember that a large number of them went and welcomed him because of what he had promised he had promised coaches democracy to a blow for me it was in one effect he had come so what. was in the name of allah the gracious

the merciful in the beginning was the name of allah. but allah rejects the corruptible. happy is the true believer. to the enemy of all its people and the religion of allah. can't keep up a little there was a great deal of laughter because his persian was not very good or maybe it was his own version. he blended it with language from the qur'an food he was shaping his own image and perhaps that was really who he was. for us at least it was very exotic that was our impression of him and in a way it also showed us what the people were like to what they look to see he has told them he will give the country freedom of course he won't give the country freedom and then these people will turn against him exactly as they turned against the shah you know that experience was there so fresh in our mind so we

have hope for. we were sad cassock thorsten that was a fatal mistake little by little happened that khomeini and islamic actually people they came to the public like bush met the left was not demanding democracy. and for various reasons this rejection of democracy was the same spirit that made it easy for the islamists to gain power you get your 1st one more look but. then we saw in all of the demonstrations from certain time of calming the women also. like door and also like a scarf on something like that with. this sawing or talking to everybody for the unity of the struggle the women have

to wear the hit show and they offered them also in this 3 so the chair on into them a station we were to sit for the veil worn by these women it seemed acceptable since they were all women of the people it was as if the veil had become something belonging to the women of the people and that was a disaster going catastrophe i think everybody was aware that there would be a confrontation but we were almost convinced were not almost definitely convinced that leave with the victors. because we where the revolution. in the case of course was the international women's day the women's the most ration

was not called on by any political organisation it did not belong to any one it was its demonstration of women 1st planned to celebrate the night before they see of march i think i heard it on the 9 o'clock news khomeini's said that women should not go to work naked. nature meaning without the fear more lonely didn't take him seriously i thought he's crazy he's out of his mind of it among ourselves we laughed and said another random statement coming out of nowhere but we were wrong minnow the fact that women should go to work there was like a slap in the face. there have also been martyrs among us women we fought with the veil and without it for our freedom and that of the people and if khomeini

continues like this i who am a true muslim will leave my religion. but we're not allowed to speak for women the islamic government has the only word we women are not allowed to speak. was the e.u. was i believe that over in really on women that they came to the streets if the will for me was very important to know why they are out and all of them they said that if we don't will go back we want to talk of more freedom i think as a more hit job that you were calling for equal rights with men our thinking is if we don't speak to each other now when the constitution is written they will not give us anything more we're demonstrating not only because of the veil but because

of a whole range of far more important things. the passion based not to have peace john holmes through the instead of from the west nor from the east this universe was especially from the 2nd day. the mob. armed with chain they came against our demonstration they really did a lot of their to do this said a lot of their towards to development that in the most ration and also distort to attack us with change they have pushed them to blind alleys. and against the wall it's taken out their.

penises and heading in to them telling them you want freedom come and get it but the women answer to them was very strong were. odd were an odd. accompli they brushed it off by saying none of this matters the a mom never said he was going to impose this women need to calm down it's a royalist demonstration things like that and the left called on women to stop. that was the. the moment when this part of the population realized. that they had to contract with nutrition. after months of tough negotiations the polish authorities welcomed john paul the

2nd to the country of his birth the pope knew that this 2nd trip of his pontificate with be an extremely delicate affair he arrived in poland not only as the leader of the church but as a political figure leaving the church in an intended reconquest of the european countries still under the soviet. ok actually poland was not a religious institution. was sort of on that independent national institutions independent from the portal. and i would say many people were going to catch up necessarily because they were the eve of. barks they expressed. their thank you towards the system and also. there was an attempt on the part of communist party in poland to suppress the chants the son extends a section of the socialist base on the cocteau political governance and on the city

police. team. we went in a group on a bus early in the morning and arrived in warsaw at about 7 in the morning and yeah . we want to play muckers i've been on that's where before at the time it was called victory square. it was the 1st time it seemed so big to me sort of more palatka. loses really euphoric situation and be really really piece of news or something they could never have believed to have happened even the pope visited an independent country that he would not be sought. they're wired into the warm that received and they still can believe it i think when the pope actually right there could still hardly believe that he was in poland as far as the poles go.

but. say said we waited i don't know 6 hours and then he arrived and the mood changed. i. was appalled. if all so many soon sent over whether the sun. by the pool well this is i thought understandably given up on the despair from the earth about 1st of all our history and our opponent's position in 1979. i. took over sort of in the course knew they had to show the visit because it was obvious that they could say no but it was also all due so they

were going to try and play down the whole thing and to make sure that the crowds weren't too big and so on so it was maybe a long lens and sure less people really looked. at least always the possibility to see old people empty places and pull it out. just. eat. i left it. at the end of the homily he prayed to the holy spirit. e d. u d e v. j v

it was a very clear in my opinion poll little message that peace you have to fling unification and you have to opens it. will have to open limits which are divide the worth and people. as opposed to worse the photographer based behind. truck driver just looks like a like a profiteer you think it's not even people but them when you look closely this is the right way and i just really can't imagine if i had to stand in the crowd in the sun for 4 hours and hours but they love to come in there just for there was. anything they could show the hatred for the system these are slogans we saw in book i was means we even got. not sure the right that nowadays puts those those as a form of protest against the current government is

a strong. serdang yes. even a year to nourish he she will soon know each tonight yet new yorkers. thank you she's asked them to stick me washed stage is. all me was. the story when you're on your spats a feature. what i stand of you know oh me a nice suit a christian yeah gene you're not old. when you of any of us share. her most every kind whenever there's a contradiction it should have some. country of the national specifics of it and the politics could be very disparate to strong given the history. of the main

independent institution attracted people not only because of that religious views and also because some people through all to national. war yet nanya on the ends and. yes. yet here aspect of anya raph koster going out albeit yes paul said that she wished him but i want no east nang out or asked paul samo style of janja. it was for him important saying that europe which was divided. it was. how to say way leading to nasty cell phones or digital 1st of all he was sinking probably not only in poland but iraq as a center which should not be divided like it was still his election.

you're not going to mean. in your small reach for years now new orleans you know that. the good you look at the leeches when it comes to catholicism in our ideology there are also points of contact areas of shared ground. some even say that jesus was almost a communist in his views with that if you didn't stop seeing those images of people praying we realized they were not really communists you know they were radishes right on the outside only and we stopped being afraid to touch it they visited. sick on this visit we saw poland falling to its knees. and not before us. not before ideology by the before the pope is going to. upset but

here's a. john deduced john paul the 2nd was the ruler of their song. called when you sing your play communists didn't let us assemble or acknowledge our numbers the pope gathered us together saw us saw that we were many and then many others were joining us. to do about it. or temper to call them through and beyond their wildest expectations. i also apart from them because i see so it's only from within the system can you you can try to change it if you're so young the soviet union would not disappear to the logical conclusion. even without the pope communism would have fallen but much much later and the end would have been bloody he helped ensure that the struggle ended without

bloodshed but somehow so young economists inform our group of them younger people who work hard how to improve socialism and the main purpose of. extent of economic freedom. politics of. basically the pope gave the word and we the workers working poles turned it into the body of victory which are. never going to. have been spent but you know americans did not understand is going to get started so i do think. this was a terrible thing seriously think it could have been. the 1st sort of guarded movement came into being can expect a call over since september of 98 to there was a great demand for proposal

a coming from society into the 3rd round that there. in the long computers i never liked capitalism but i had no choice. about sort of each new how to introduce it that's why i supported it you. know it's a comic book isn't about that that's just not for them and help breaking into 2 theaters that's not it is the shredder most children use this result was a little thought oh my 1st conversation would like violence of years gone by form and i said that mr truman our human torch or florence economy took responsibility and we did do it i never said yes this is a band that's program but this was a compliment bump its program. but necessary he was the man who actually carry through the revolution i did the political part but he did the practical part of the practice some things are a. gift. and there is a brief period which i have called the period of extraordinary politics so people

tend to be more waiting to know not to accept our standards but it's kind of got us more than 4 years. one in 12 so you have to be you move very fast to comp this you just created by history you cannot fabricate this this was a psychological and political argument for moving very fast or iran up or are going not to the irony was that the proletariat had to support capitalism and establish it there is a member has got to talk is the focus great opposer throat acting behind the scene . i try to enlist the support of leaders including the pope so i met with the most important purpose was on my call to inform hence what is going on in poland in order to involve the criticism most response because there are many people saying that carter stalled shaktar after the. unemployment.

fortunately he was not critical. you've been watching needs kids to see that salt. intake dentist cat. jumped into an e-mail from. the church please. can teach you. all full of german children and their christmas wishes to your christ child. in 15 minutes t.w. . because. research projects on climate protection

students from 20 countries involved in a scientific expedition need to child supposed to collect samples from to devise the same time in the good sense of this temperature this morning the project will help them to spread environmental awareness. he wants to share that there's a lot that we can be cold comfort. to 90 minutes on w. people. the be. up. above. christmas time. double.

oh. this is deja news live from billy post-process irby it all be addressed speak on to office his annual christmas blessing to the city at the world rome as he appeals for peace around the globe also to have enough. a wildfire destroys dozens of homes in chile laurentiis evacuated thousands from the city off to the lab. that is sold as the planes trains to residential areas. and.