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west germany, we had to maintain that at all costs because without west germany, guess what? you don't have europe anymore. we did what we had to do to keep the germans happy, that included going easy on some of their senior ss officials. i think it is unforgivable. i am not a politician in the state department in 1947 trying to get the germans to allow us to put bases all over the country, you know. to your left again, alex. >> i have a comment and question. we pronounce the name of the famous university in maine as burden -- bowden. you have an interesting group of books you have written. how do you select the subjects you write on and what you have in mind for your next book? mr. kershaw: that is a very good question. it is getting hard now, tragically, which is why the museum's mission is so important because we can no longer rely on meeting people that were in world war ii. it is getting harder to find people. i am very much about forming a relationship and the human side of the war. not so much interested in strategy and tactics. i'm very interested in the human experie

people who want to travel further west, germany said yes, we will accept 800,000, the ability to actually register asylum seekers at some kind of european level. but kamal there are other problems as well, that was highlighted about the issues as well, on the one hand yes, there is a need to move these refugees, and sort this chaotic situation out. we have seen just recently how a gunman on a train would have carried out attack possibly had he not been stopped by a number of passengers on the train. clearly there are a lot of different and very complex issues facing europe here and they need to be sorted out in a way that will provide sanctuary for people who need it but also will provide security within the borders of europe. >> jacky rowland, thank you for that. we'll move to other news. the united arab emirates has declared three days of moirng for 4mourningfor 45 soldiers ki. their bodies have arrived in abu dhabi now. >>> thousands of demonstrators throughout the street of iraq for the sixth successive friday. demanding reforms, better basic services and end to corruption. zeina khod

all involve death, and all involve the badder mine off group. >> the red army faction in west germany a 1970s trend of moxist vanguard groups. the red brigade in the japanese red army, the weathermen in the united states. these were people who felt that the capitalist structures were unjust and needed to be destroyed and the only effective way of doing that was through violence. >> the german police have been waging a relentless war against the terrorists, capturing some, killing some. but the leaders of the group have often had more influence from inside prison than outside. authorities claim this man, andreas butter, continued to mastermind terrorist operations from inside prison, passing instructions through his attorneys. >> one of the bauder monoff gang said one of the most fantastic thing in the 1970s was not to be a rock star but to be a revolutionary. >> unlike the i.r.a. or other groups, the red army faction kills selectively, prosecutors, bankers, leaders of the society they wish so fervently to destroy. >> they thought the more high profile the assassination or kidnapping,

that was west germany at the time. migrants coming from yugoslavia and turkey. there were some extraordinary to helpsolidarity migrants, especially from austrians. the decision by hungry to allow the month -- hungary to allow the migrants to leave, the drivers drove further into hungary to pick up any stragglers. he had legal notices in case they were apprehended right police. one of the drivers said he was driven to act, or driven to drive, because of memories of europe's history. his jewish hungarian family always lived with a passport at the ready and a backpack for an emergency. beette: washington seems to stepping up. >> the obama administration will revamp its program to train and give intelligence to anti-islamic state militias because many of the previous ones have not been working. this comes after a large number of u.s.-trained rebels were attacked by al qaeda. the pentagon also faces the problem that few rebels are willing to agree to fight just the islamic state and not bashar al-assad's regime. annette: a fairytale story of iceland having made it to

emily: you were born kim schmitz in west germany. kim: that is right.mily: what kind of kid were you? kim: i was a naughty kid. my mother, i am so sorry. [laughter] i'm really sorry. i was a bad kid. once i had my first computer, everything changed for me. i just started questioning everything. why go to school? this is the future. this is what i want to do. emily: how did you become a hacker? kim: when i was in my teens and i had my first modem, i was so excited to be able to chat with people halfway around the globe that shared the same interests, hacking. it was so exciting to go into computer systems and find out things that you are not supposed to see. it's a bit of an adventure. emily: you said you hacked the pentagon, citibank, nasa. that you obtained top secret documents on saddam hussein, tracked down osama bin laden's bank accounts. kim: back in the day, after 9/11, which really affected me, i felt deeply unhappy about that. i was trying to do something, to be part of the effort to stop people from ever doing that again. emily: you did all tho

afterworld war 2, west germany accepted around 13 million people from soviet rule according to reuters. in the early 1990s, it took in more than a half million people displaced. nothing can erase the horrors of world war ii, modern germany is the most horrible example of culturures that can change and redemption is possible even for a nation soaked in blood. for more on this, go to cnn.com and read my "washington post" column this week. as you just heard, germany and a nation of 80 million people will take in an estimated 800 million asylum seekers. next you will meet a man who wants to take in 100,000. even 200,000 all by himself. >>> after many years flowing out of syria and the greater middle east, the world sat up and paid attention in recent days. the reason? the striking image of 2-year-old syrian boy who died while trying to reach freedom. my next guest has a noveled idea to help and the means to do so. now he wants to name that idea after the dead syrian boy. e land island is his dream. the egyptian teleconbillionaire with a net worth of around $3 billion sent letters to the pr

west collects the weapons you have brought us. i would like to ask you about the response in germany.chancellor merkel has been among the leaders opening up the country, your country, to a large percentage of the refugees that are coming in to also your mark billions of dollars in financial aid. but at the same time, there is still a strong and growing right-wing movement in germany, as in many other european countries, that is anti-immigrant. could you talk about what has been happening with this right-wing movement? >> yes, this is not a new phenomenon. but with the increasing, let's increasing,s and let's say, or high unemployment etc., etc., particularly, i must say in east germany, but also in west germany -- i don't to deny that at all -- and very, very concerned about this. and i hope that the police is now much more prosecuting the nazis than they did before. [indiscernible] our secret service makes of the extreme left and they call it for the worst enemy of the government, of the state. nazi movement was completely neglected. i must say i feel so ashamed that my friends not f

after world war ii, west germany accepted around 13 million people from soviet-ruled eastern europe accordingers. in the early 1990s it took in more than half a million people displaced by the balkan wars. nothing can erase the horrors of world war ii and the holocaust but modern germany is the most powerful example of the idea that people can change. cultures can change. and that over time redemption is possible, even for a nation soaked in blood. for more on this, go to cnn.com/fareed and read my "washington post" column this week. >>> as you just heard. germany, a nation of 80 million people, will take in an estimated 800,000 asylum-seekers. next on "gps," you'll meet one man who wants to take in a hundred thousand, even two hundred thursday, all by himself. big day? ah, the usual. moved some new cars. hauled a bunch of steel. kept the supermarket shelves stocked. made sure everyone got their latest gadgets. what's up for the next shift? ah, nothing much. just keeping the lights on. (laugh) nice. doing the big things that move an economy. see you tomorrow, mac. see you tomorrow, sam. just

thousands of migrants flowing west to germany in the worst refugee crisis since the end of world war ii. trains from the middle east, africa and asia arriving in austria before making their way to germany. many of the refugees are from syria where they're fleeing growing violence there. >>> he could have gone anywhere in the world, but el chapo may be back in mexico. joaquin guzman allegedly involved in a car accident and then taken to a hospital near the guatemalan border. police descending on the area, but he's already vanished. the hospital director denying that guzman was ever there. this coming just days after his son tweeted this photo. from costa rica. the man on the left looking suspiciously like the drug lord. >>> summer might be winding down, but hillary clinton feeling the burn. democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders is surging past hillary clinton in a new new hampshire poll. rich has more for us. >> senator bernie sanders has taken a significant lead in the polls in his neighboring state of new hampshire. a new poll says the vermont senator leads hillary clinto

belgium, netherlands, luxembourg, italy, the two ones really concerned was france and west germany.t now includes all 28 eu member states. in fact, when a new state enters the eu they must also exceed to the eruatom treaty. so it's an integral part of the european union. and its original key objectives is essentially they wanted to promote nonproliferation and the nuclear sector in the region. as this was starting at a time where nuclear power was in its infancy in europe so they wanted to promote joint research, joint industrialization of nuclear power, investment, a common market. they made this euroatom supply agency to guarantee the supposed polite of uranium. also in the '50s there was a perception that uranium was scarce and that perception has not held true. uranium, we've continued to find more rur uranium, more viable resources. at that time there was a thought to secure supply of uranium. the big thing on it was safeguards. this also was a time where the international atomic energy agency, which is the global nuclearguards body had just started and it'ses own safeguard was

i was born in '63, in west germany.t's kind of guilt, but not only guilt, it is to do something better. >> reporter: after the exchange, find a place to stay. as night falls, the makeshift camp empties out and there is a scramble. as a refugee, you're always rushing from one bare necessity to the next. families, women and children, get put on buses to army barracks or schools turned refugee centers. but the men tend to be left on the stoop. unless they find a volunteer host like this man and his family, one who put hundreds of people up. we joined them for breakfast. their 2-year-old son, mother is pregnant with number two, and their syrian house guests fleeing i.s.i.s. the family doesn't speak arab or kurdish, and the guests continue speak english or german, so table talk is a little complicated. >> six? 35. ah, 35. 26. 5. >> reporter: so here you have a little google history of the table talk. the german word for pregnant pops up, black tea, welcome to germany. what do you say to those people who say, i don't want to

first to unite germany after the wall came down, which required very large transfers of money from west germany to east germany to begin the long process of equalizing the economic opportunities on both sides of the former divide. second, to expand and strengthen the european union. he wanted all of central and eastern europe to come into the eu so that germany would be in the middle of europe, not on the edge where it had been a source of instability and conflict throughout the 20th century. third, he wanted to expand nato and strengthen the transatlantic ties to the united states because he thought that was important to building a prosperous democratic future for germans and for the rest of europe. and fourth, often forgotten, he became the most vigorous supporters of russia after the end of communism. its economic recovery, its democracy building, and its increasing cooperation with the eu and the u.s. it's hard to believe given today's headlines, but that was the order we were all trying to build then in the 1990s, and it worked for quite a while. in the beginning it worked very well. but t

conference in germany, germany of course during the cold war when it was divided into east and west germanyd been hosting both american and western germany and soviet nonstrategic nuclear weapons in eastern germany, and i did was with at have this workshop take place in germany and have a field trip and go and visit former american sites and a former soviet site. and that i just had a lot of interest in children into the wall posed by american commentator and chairman secretive procedures. we have yet to have those visits. so i think the workshop particularly in june we set let's focus on more modest and more achievable steps with regard to nonstrategic weapons but also in their current circumstances particularly with the big carrier ration that's taken place largely since the russian seizure of crimea and russia military action in eastern ukraine. what can we do and what is necessary. and the one area we focus on and this was to nonstrategic weapons was an urgent need to avoid accidents and miscalculations. and since early 2014, since the type of russia's illegal seizure of crimea, you had

s general strategy to crush and occupy germany, he also agreed to shift poland borders, the entire state, some 200 miles, westand, poland, and romania, but also open the door for soviet penetration into central europe. in the spring of 1945, stalin persuaded the pro soviet czech president to transfer the ,astern tip of czechoslovakia sometimes called eastern ravinia, to the soviet union. they would sign a treaty in june. the annexation of that small piece of territory gave the soviets a direct order on hungry timengary for the first and a position in central europe. suffice it to say truman was alarmed at the soviet union's expanding demands in europe would find similar expression in the far east. that is why in his first meeting on april 23, truman emphasized repeatedly a need for the mutual observation of agreement. good relations, he said, could not be a one-way street. commitment -- to the indignant reply he had never been talked to that when his life, truman replied keep your agreement and you will not be talked to like that. truman knew that they would flout the agreements made in the far east just as t

one thing folks have been pointing out about this crisis is if everybody heads west to germany and austriae countries not taking refugees. many are coming from syria and iraq, saudi arabia, kuwait, qatar. those countries are not taking a single refugee. we'll let you know if that changes. >>> two of the youngest victims of this crisis are remembered in the place they hoped to one day call home. this photo of the lifeless body of the 3-year-old shocked the world. he drowned with his 5-year-old brother and their mother off the coast. they were hoping to get to greece and eventually canada. family, friends, strangers packed in a small theater. they were ready to remember the victims in hopes they didn't die in vein. >> he woke up the world. his body on that shore is outcome of our silence. >> relatives released balloons over the water front in the boy's honor. the boy's aunt is hoping to bring what's left of the boy's family to canada. >> about 4 million people have fled syria since the civil war broke out in 2011. 1500 have been resettled in the u.s. u.s. does plan to take a few thousand mor

macedonia, serbia, and hungary-- to wealthier, more welcoming countries in the north and west, like austria, germany, and sweden. tonight, our team files this report about their journey and the people they met. it is presented by william brangham. >> sreenivasan: russia is >> the iraqis, afghans, north africans but most of the people here are syrian, fleeing their nation's four and a half-year-old civil war. people like the halabi family, saibi his wife, two young sons and 14-year-old malia. >> we are so-- everyone is traveling this way. so we decided to travel just like them. we've been traveling like two weeks ago. turkey, greece, macedonia, serbia and then we're here. >> hungary more so than almost any other european nation is doing everything it can to slow the arrival of these refugees. but the government just can't build fences fast enough. the police seem overwhelmed by the task at hand. the camps they build quickly fill to capacity, so this muddy field is where everyone else gets put. the results here are changing constantly. one day refugees can cross the path between the fields and another

west germany was one of the most socialist countries in the world. you have to go there.ou have to show up, as you guys know. when you show up, you learn stuff. look at him there with those people. he is meeting an america that he has never met before. an america here. the kids are just thrilled. >> thrilled. >> these kids will never forget. look at this crazy guy kissing him. this guy -- this is a cling-on. we've met them in public. we know what it's like. the guy who won't let go of you. the guy is introducing him. he doesn't need introductions. get away from me. >> chris was talking about past scandals with the church. it takes an extraordinary leader like this to move beyond. >> and i think that is part -- you mentioned it as part of the story, chris, but i think what his part in this story is, he came in and apologized for the sins of the church, the sins within the church, because we are all sinners, and made it a part of his narrative. i think the second wave that was electrifying about him was who am i to judge. >> i agree completely. >> bringing in those who are

comes as hungary has herded people into camps after they believed their trains were headed west toward germany the polish and slovak governments also said they would only accept christians. meanwhile, reuters is reporting that hungary and bulgaria have reportedly made inquiries about buying israeli-designed fences to reinforce their borders. the chairman of the united nations commission of inquiry spoke out about the refugee crisis in syria on thursday. >> civilians are suffering the unimaginable. without stronger efforts to bring back a compromise, current trends suggest the syrian conflict in the killing and carry for thell foreseeable future. amy: that was chair of the united nations commission of inquiry. the prime minister has spoken out about the migration crisis after reports that the three-year-old syrian boy and his family were seeking to reach canada when they drown in the mediterranean sea earlier this week. photos of the boy's lifeless body lying on a turkish or have gone viral. canada says it had not received the families of some desk asylum application the canadian prime minister

i was an army officer in west germany, a high school student, a local official. now as a member of congress i'm honored to cast votes for people i represent. my constituents wants the president to follow the lawal as is his responsibility under article -- law as is his responsibility under article 2 of the constitution. the president did not submit necessary documents as required under law. i and my constituents want to know what's in these side agreements. when we're going down this path of peace and war to trust the iaea with no documents, not being able to see that. our primary responsibility here is to protect our citizens against all enemies, foreign and domestic. this deal gives iran more money . they will remain the number one state sponsor of terror. they will continue to chant "death to america" and "death to israel." they will not free our citizens, so now we assure that iran will have nuclear weapons. the region will go into a nuclear arms race and the world and the u.s. will be less safe. this is a terrible deal, an embarrassing deal and one we will r

not all, trying to get into hungary, entering the country and then making their way north and west toward germanyweden. now, with this border fence up, that is being patrolled 24 hours a day, by soldiers and police, the flow has stopped. hungary says it will allow case by case applications, people who want to seek asylum here, but don't try to cut the fence, don't try and sneak in, those who go in legally, their requests will be considered. but hungary says unless they can make a very good case as to why hungary should take them, compared to serbia or macedonia or any of the other countries where they were safe from bashar al assad's bombs or the conflict in iraq, unless they can say why hungary in particular offers unique refuge, that hungary will reject their claims. so it's created an enormous amount of frustration, people who have gotten this far, most of the refugees and migrants have been on the road for weeks. they have spent thousands of dollars. in many cases, they've spent almost all of their life savings only two arrive here at this fence and are being greeted with a legal argument whi

put us in camps, but you're not going to allow us to continue with our journey going north and west to germany scandinavia, which is where they really want to go, then they say another solution must be found, that they cannot simply be left in the dirt out in the elements forever. some european officials are proposing what they are considering a solution, a quota system with the uk taking in 20,000 over the next several years, france 24,000, and germany 40,000. but that is really just a drop in the bucket, because germany says it will take in those 40,000 but at the same time says it expects 800,000 to arrive in germany just this year. so what happens to the hundreds of thousands of people in germany that germany says it won't process, will they be forcibly rounded up, will they be forted? where will they be forted to? will they be sent back to their home countries? all of these are unanswered questions. the hungarian government says its solution is to finish building a border fence. the border fence is supposed to be 12 feet high, 100 miles long and the hungarian prime minister was down in th

that is moving west, closer to germany. the picture will be the same. jonathan?than: odds nichols in berlin, thank you very much for making that down. the uk's opposition labor party announced its new leader on saturday. with a landslide victory, jeremy corbin, he received 60% of the vote. hasthe results, it triggered the partners. -- it has triggered departures. yeah -- we first must about what jami thinks about the world. we have this refugee crisis. at the same time, somewhat of a eurosceptic. svenja: the labour party hasn't always supported absolute membership of the eu is membership of the eu. told is that he would not guarantee campaigning in favor of staying in. they could be one of the many divisive issues that could split the labour party. jonathan: they're not they are sharing cabinets. what does it mean? man who makes some of corbin's policies moderate. removing the bank of england independence nationalizing the banks, re-nationalizing the railroad days he is a very controversial figure. he is a friend of jeremy corbin. his appointment is going to go o

west or north. they didn't care which, as long as it was to germany. the inhab tants of a border town had laid out food, drink, even a selection of secondhand clothing. in small, well-organized groups, families first, they were allowed on to a train, this one to vienna. in their excitement, some ran to the carriages, although in truth, there was little need. >> thank you. very, very happy. >> reporter: back in hungary, there are many thousands more still waiting to come. 100 buses have been promised. that may not be enough. this morning, not prepared to wait, another group set off to walk to the border, though this time they may not have to trudge as far. in munich, the first wave of this exodus stepped on to german soil with a wave and a smile, and no wonder. a journey that frequently started in syria took in turkey, greece, macedonia, serbia, hungary, austria, now at an end. >> stewart: newshour special correspondent malcolm brabant is covering the surge of migrants into northern europe and how neighboring countries are treating the crisis differentl

in eastern germany, 67% were positive, but not everyone agreed. 17% in both east and west said it had negative impact. we went on to ask several follow-up questions to find out just what sort of princes remained between east and west. here is more. >> a favorite spot for holiday shop -- holiday hotshots. remittance of the berlin wall -- remnants of the berlin wall. germany has spent 2 trillion euros on reunification. >> you cannot sum it up in marks or euros. we are happy to be reunited, no matter the cost. >> reunification cannot be expensive enough. we are glad to be reunited. we are from the east. >> when you see how negative the second buildings are here, it already costs too much. >> in western germany, about half the population think reunification has been too expensive. in eastern germany, that figure has been just 37%. but germans are proud of their piece or -- peaceful revolution in 1989. 82% think that germany is a role model for other countries. a large majority consider german reunification successful, if not fully complete. 64% of western germans think reunification is no

some of the refugees and migrants headed west in attempt to reach germany. croatia says nearly 900 people have entered the country. tourism operators in thailand say they are feeling the downward effects of last month's deadly bombing in bangkok. it comes as police still look for those they believe are responsible for the attack. officials for the tourism ministry say1.8 billion has been lost so far, and more than a million tourists cancelled their trips to the country. people working in the industry are worried about another act of terrorism. they say their businesses can't survive without foreign visitors. >>> crews finished repairs at the shrine, the site of the august 17th blast, and police are tightening security there. investigators arrested two men in suspicion of their involvement in the death of 20 people, but looking for 11 other suspects, including the person who left the backpack containing explosive, and trying to find an ethnic weeker of chinese personality who they think is the master mind of the development, and they are looking for an ethnic

mobilizing the military now presenting a problem for the migrants trying to make their way west to austria and germany. austria has suspended rail service with hungary. let's go to the serbia/hungary border. let's bring in correspondent arwa damon. arwa, what are you seeing there? >> reporter: good morning. austria is suspending rail service. that does not mean it shut its border down to those trying to make it through. it means they are walking across the border which is something we have been seeing them do in the past. take a look at the situation out here. the rain and weather has turned this holding area into a mud pit. there is still no organized aid. what you see is a lot of volunteers packing up trucks with much-needed warm clothing and boots. these people arrive here often soaked to the bone having walked under the rain for hours. then they sift through the various clothing that they can find and try to get dry clothes, but also warm clothes. the temperatures here are dipping significantly. you have the buses coming to pick people up arriving with more frequency than the past. the buses will

. >> right, they turn west to germany and other countries within europe.nd also maybe the united states. and i just want to run this by you. some republican candidates running for president are blaming president obama thr this cris -- for this crisis. >> this is a result of the president's weakness. the president stands up months ago and says if assad uses chemical weapons on his people in syria, we will take him out. he drew a red line as president of the united states. then assad used chemical weapons on his people and he said never mind. the united states is the leading country in the world for freedom and for liberty. and we can't permit this. i don't relish the united states being the world's policeman. that's not what i want. but we need to be the world's leader. >> do you agree? >> it's empty rhetoric. he's not suggesting what he would do. look, a crisis as big as syria and what's happening in iraq, a monster as big as isis has many, many fathers. there's a lot of blame to go around here. you can blame george w. bush. you can blame the obama adminis

about germany and about the west.eter: if your editor in chief had come to you and said, should we print the photos or not, what would you have said? ala: i would have said not. for that reason. one reason. i mean, we've seen children torn apart by bombs. we've seen -- and pictures weren't published. everything you said is true. i also think that, you know, the idea that possibly the parents of this china child could see the photo in the paper must be deeply disturbing. if it was my grandson i would not want it to be printed. but you might need to read the text. the text says, among other things, we need to ask ourselves, who are we, what are our values? and it is interesting. there are nate visits out there who think -- nativists out there who think too many foreign people coming in, refugees and so on, he they're going to dilute our german essence, if you will, we'll lose our culture. a newspaper in the country is saying, who are we, what are our values? we are our values. we stay true to ourselves, not by resisting

germany. on monday, hundreds try to make it to budapest on foot, heading west on a highway. >> we are going to western europe. actually, i'm going to germany. reporter: but the 200 kilometer walk was too much for them. later they gave up and headed back to the camp. now they hope the hung gary and -- hungarian government will help them and send more than one bus. brent: we spoke with the relief agency in budapest, and i began by asking why again europe and the u.n. seems surprised at the influx of refugees from syria, iraq, and afghanistan? guest: we are looking globally at the world and we are looking also at europe today -- we are also looking at europe. today, at this time, i am in budapest, hungary. we see a refugee crisis where europe has to come together dealing with these issues, and that is why i am saying there is not one german solution to it. there is no hungarian solution to it. the world has to come together to help these desperate people. they have been saying for million refugees at least are in the neighborhood of syria that needed care and proper protection. and what we have s

these were policies britain favored in west africa, even for germany joined at the league, britain not finding other buyers had sold the plantations in its part of cameroon right back to the german owners. now, germans went back and german firms rebuild their dominant positions in the african carrying a tray. but the commission went further than that. it became much more aggressive about combating annexation. the mandatory powers made three such moves between 1925-1933, and in every case germany tried to block them. first in 1925, belgium passed the law turning rwanda and burundi into provinces of the congo only to be forced by the commission to back down. in a second case, south africa tried to incorporate southwest africa's railways and harbors into its own system, but the mandates commission forced a revision of that law. finally, germany and league mobilization helped destroy british plans to amalgamate kenya, uganda and tanganyika. this was impossible, the commission said, for britain was not sovereign in tanganyika economic bring it into its empire. if necessary, the german gover

this would be similar in effect to our withdrawal from the territories west of the alps in germany. and overall, soviet gains in asia were actually looking pretty awesome. this is ironic. one of the reasons we went to war in the first place. now, from the pacific theater perspective, there is a consistent thread from '43 to '45 that we wanted the soviets to come in. this was not -- we were not trying to let the soviets or stop them from coming in. we wanted them to come in. we believed that russia would attack gentleman is pan after the war in europe was over. and we knew russia wanted a weak japan and control, dominant influence in china. none of this was a surprise. it was completely predictable what the russians wanted. and the war department recommended planning to prepare for that. and by 44 we -- as we were approaching japan, we wanted the soviets to attack and destroy the japanese army. but we knew that the soviets needed a lot of logistical support to do that. we kept asking the soviets for air bases in siberia we could use against japan. and we also suggested that the sovie

west. we have an initiative by the three countries, france, italy and germany, to try to get another solution by reforming the 25-year-old law on asylum and passports. but it's unclear as to what's going to happen. >> we are expecting a press conference sometime on this situation. we are going to go to that and bring out the news from that event. >>> china's president has pledged to cut the size of the military by 300,000 soldiers. he made the announcement at a ceremony in beijing. at the same time, china is upgrading its navel and air forces. >> a nation's pride and military might on display. a historic opportunity for the chinese to remember the millions who died during world war ii fighting japanese aggression. they haven't seen this sort of parade since 2009. it's only the fourth since 1960. 12,000 military personnel past and present representing the chinese armed services march to precision timing. more than 80% of the military hardware was unveiled for the first time, tanks on the vehicles, drone, and dozens of aircraft and detained large crowds. a huge security operation surrounds the