state corruption brings thousands of young protesters onto the streets of bucharest it's a completely different story in per capita warsaw. this is independence day it started as a small event with just a few 100 people but over the years in groups and in the last years it had about $200000.00 people which makes it the biggest far right gathering and they were and i think the. the growth. of this one event in new straits and the social acceptance of the core nationalist ideology especially among among the younger people. poland is governed in old books named by generous tribes kocinski of the lauren justice party which won power in 2015. others took the office of prime minister and president but no one is in much doubt about who is in show much. kocinski swished the cemented his government's authority by purging national t.v. of independent journalists and pushing for state control of the judiciary. they get are usually the only other not limited to lot of hard into yet another plan are selling all the large cards all players get some of that setup he doesn't even hear you got some wh

here an equally dog story is still a merging a nondescript complex on the outskirts of the capital bucharest as is the archive of the security remain use feared secret police during communism demeanor and a cache has been sifting through the files since they were opened to the public in 2005 the condition for remaining is entry into the e.u. . this place to put it matter for italy. is valuable for munster. the most sinister library you can imagine it's a naval library actually. there nowadays it's a documentary file with the letters written from the prison on the bed sheets one of the ladders is addressed to the united nations we ask the united nations organization to defend the human rights fear are there or are there we are masters of the romanian nation and he thought which is not according to the line of the party. it means our imprisonment isolation andar. one of communisms most infamous dictators nicholai ceausescu turned rumania into europe's closest equivalent to north korea. coming to power in 1965 church s.q. developed his own personality cult. the cheering crowds masked as a regim

apologies to the reporter in bucharest, romania.ncredible reporting in "the new york times" about the attack on soleimani. we made arrangements to get a studio in bucharest. but that shot dropped. for those who protested the march toward iraq in 2003, there is the last few days, a horrifying sensation of deja vu. images of iraqi celebrating after general soleimani's death being used as right wing propaganda. the vice-president attempting to pin some part of the 9/11 attack on soleimani which is false. that tweet has not been taken down despite widespread coverage of its inaccuracies. there have been all kinds of explanations about that intelligence that led to the killing of soleimani, but no formal presentation of evidence to the public. the trump administration has been doing this kind of thing on iran for a long time. back in 2018, lieutenant colonel lawrence wilkerson chief of staff to colin powell in the run up to the iraq war, saw what the trump administration was doing to iran and wrote this "the new york times" op-ed. i help

is everywhere illegal logging is a national plague sister period on the way to bucharest and that's why thousands of people take to the streets more than 20000000 cubic meters of timber disappear every year. in the world if that is good enough or that the situation is out of control and just like everywhere else in romania they steal the forest which is supported controlled and encouraged by the authorities. are severe you says no matter who is currently ruling the country the forest makes a few rich and many angry and sadly romania and corruption go hand in hand. or. poland is the country where during the holocaust the nazis carried out their terrible crimes that auschwitz and other death comes so it's interesting to note that the same country is now home to was described as one of the fastest growing jewish communities in the world and as many around the world to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz and 945 we've been talking to michael should reach the chief rabbi of poland about whether or not people have learnt the lessons of the holocaust. holden's chief rabbi

stalin said, sorry, you are going to bucharest, budapest.it was either you agree with stalin or nothing is going to happen. he said, it made no sense. i can reach these targets from italy. why all this difficulty if i could have just gone from italy anyways? they agreed. the first mission was led by someone who was perfect for the mission. he was tough, experienced. he had no illusions about the russians. he said that stalin did not want them bombing targets in the north because he did not want americans to take any credit of those. the first missions seemed to be fine. a huge sort of welcoming party had been set up for them. there with his daughter and various others from the u.s. military mission in moscow. various press. pravda, red star, others. the americans put on a good show. 64 flying fortress's landing, than the same thing repeated in the other two bases. it was a positive experience. the great success also led to a very friendly and cooperative relationship. there were all sorts of cooperation and fraternization was allowed. there

stalin said, sorry, you are going to bucharest, budapest. you are going to that region, thank you very much. fast and furious. it was either you agree with stalin or nothing is going to happen. he sort of reluctantly agreed, but he said it made no sense. i can reach these targets from italy. why create these huge airbases and all expenses of difficulty if i could have just gone from italy anyways? nevertheless, they agreed. the first mission was led by someone who was perfect for the frantic missions. he was tough, experienced. he had no illusions about the russians. he said that stalin did not want them bombing targets in the north because he did not want americans to take any credit of any successful bombing raids. he was pretty cynical from the beginning. the first missions seemed to be fine. they took off and they dropped their bombs over hungary and then landed on the bases. a huge sort of welcoming party had been set up for them. this was very exciting. various others from the u.s. military mission in moscow, and generals have been bro