alexander cooper is a master photographer with thirty years of experience a brief workout and a glass of hot tea helping keep warm in the wind the temperature here is twenty degrees celsius below zero or minus four degrees fahrenheit alexander has everything he needs in his tent a bottle of water a gas burner and a kettle he also has access to the internet and even a solar battery he needs them for his work. and yes just. since i was a child i live by them you say though i love them so much i see nothing extreme about being here i don't feel the rig is a fly from this place here i've got electricity a notebook and everything i need it's like an important. this is the right place for alexander's tent this vantage point opens up a breathtaking view of the surrounding rocks alexander takes pictures of sunrises and sunsets he's about to start a new book about the question i ask he is still a nature reserve to be illustrated with amazing pictures taken from the mountaintop . contains some thirty thousand pictures of this nature reserve because i want to share them with people who can't cli

we are pleased to have hudson alexander here today. lamar alexander and needs no introduction.amar alexander needs no introduction. he is a senior senator from the set of tennessee. he served as governor of tennessee, as president of the university of tennessee, as u.s. secretary of education, as a businessman, and also as a hudson institute fellow. for a few hundred votes in the new hampshire primary, he would've been the republican nominee in 1986. -- 1996. the senator has treated his signature red flannel shirt for the more muted suit of it u.s. senate. he is a leader who takes ideas seriously. in recent years, we have worked with him on numerous issues, including the assimilation of immigrants. he and his colleagues will tell you the same. he is one of the most well- liked members on both sides of the senate. that is in part because he has never forgotten his small-town tennessee roots. back in 1994, in the days of strong republican resurgence in congress, former gov. alexander, along with then-hudson senior fellow, promised a new hudson project funded largely by our friend

see how differently people saying cool alexander solzhenitsyn was. we're not asking russians who folk know well as. i guess we could have received many similar answers do you know russians know solzhenitsyn and his legacy how important is it to them. think it's an option hopelessly i actually am not the right person to answer this question because i no longer consider myself a young person but i know to works by solzhenitsyn one day in the life of on denise rich and maturing this place they are now part of the school curriculum. children read them in the ninth tenth or eleventh grade it's up to the teacher to decide when the from this year and a bridge version of the gulag archipelago was introduced into the school program to alexander solzhenitsyn asked me to prepare it a short version has existed for a long time in the us and other countries but the material for bridge meant and the way how it was done are different from what edward erickson did in the u.s. so from now on this book will be studied in comprehensive schools. while in specialist schoo

mean while alexander finishes the preparation for jumping. ropes checked properly seventy five meters and sharp rocks and stones. can do this many other people to try it free. will. is one of the most famous nature reserves in russia. not only for. similar. it is famous not only because of. the nature reserve it is a. city that has resulted in a place where. people who take pride in calling themselves. did i kill innocent kid a was it a face of course and that's never answered. the song from the skull spoke with me i think of it every day. the flashbacks from the memories. of so much so long time i'm just here trying to tell. i was. i was ashamed that i didn't. i was ashamed that i hadn't been a hero why i got my legs. in the mine. when i went to vietnam i was a boy to the. what i was going on once or i think. that i was a good soldier. but now most soldier on the other side and i think i'm just in a good. in some petersburg oh she's available in hotels a story of a little ambassador in a small school to kowtow to trip on his hotel a true sto

to work with alexander solzhenitsyn which i remember being published. reaction to perestroika that is the sole relevant today. unfortunately and i mean it it's very relevant unfortunately you know none of what she feared was a voyage. of his warnings were she added so what we have now is twenty five million compatriots from russia in kazakhstan. and other places and they're still barely treated in russia and here wrote about it. he wrote about the system of education we will lose several generations he wrote and we did land ownership elections he wrote on so many topics but things do not improve only get worse and make no headway that the article was not read by the government but people did read it at least twenty seven million copies of it were sold in the can someone is coprime of the newspaper published by them over here. no i mean it was later it's not so important that time it was like a bomb you could see people read news everywhere the newspapers editors called us environment and told us that within a week they got two thousand and they planned

minus four degrees fahrenheit alexander has everything. a gas burner and a kettle he also has access to the internet and even a solar battery he needs them for his work. since i was a child i live by them. i love them so much i see nothing extreme about being here i don't feel the riggers a fly from this place i've got electricity a notebook and everything i need it's like. this is the right place for alexander's tent this vantage point opens up a breathtaking view of the surrounding rocks alexander takes pictures of sunrises and sunsets he is about to start a new book about the. nature reserve to be illustrated with amazing pictures taken from the mountaintop. contains some thirty thousand pictures of this nature reserve because i want to share them with people who can't climb rocks they can see the beauty of this place so i want my book to show it to them and tell them about its history i think i owe a debt of gratitude to the reserve. alexander is fifty three years old he went on his first rock climbing expedition when he had just turne

mean while alexander finishes the preparation for jumping. ropes checked properly seventy five meters and. do this like many other people to try it. is one of the most famous nature reserves and. it is famous not only because of. the nature reserve it is a. city has resulted in a place. for. people who take pride in calling themselves. it's the secret incursion into the country. it's the invasion. of. the us to compete. are still. going on in the. two of the so-called break nation cement trade ties russia and india secure multi-billion dollar deals on a trip by president medvedev. nuclear defense and three just some of the key agreements signed today join me. in a few moments from the. prime minister putin urges football fans to be on the lookout stream is saying russia cannot eliminate radicalism without their help. plus conspiracy theories run wild in poland warsaw rejects moscow's airport to the plane crash that killed the polish president and ninety five others aviation experts say the russian probe was an open and thorough meanwhile the

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in the truth essentially alexander solzhenitsyn was one of the most famous russian writers and communist regime he passed away in two thousand and eight at the age of eighty nine leaving behind a rich heritage novels and historical works after being ousted from the u.s.s.r. by the communist regime the true freedom loving patriot lived and worked abroad until finally returning to russia in one nine hundred ninety four his wife has always been his best friend and his sister now often writes is that she manages the foundation how is she promoting her husband's ideas today here's the presidents are the foundation not the. novel but it's on the social need some of the gulag archipelago tells of the repressive machine russia communist leaders try to prevent the book from being published abroad but in nine hundred seventy three the gulag archipelago was printed in paris the following year. established a fund to help victims of the soviet regime and their families the u.s.s.r. . eighteen years ago the soldiers from the foundation moved to russia today they continue helping former political priso

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this, alexander, is not your tongue. your tongue is muteulated, it's gone, rotten in your mouth along with the silence of the days where you became invisible you bad copy cat. despite the rage and the disappointment of your own kin. thank you. [applause] >> this is a scene from my novel [inaudible]. it seemed like a great opportunity to get to do this here. okay. what time is the first reader anyway? i didn't like bars this crowded. someone elbode me in the back. when i turned around i didn't know who the elbow belong said. relax. i didn't expect there to be this many people i thought they would be at the bar with the travel writers. i thought they the be with the hip sters i guess we are not hip sters we can't guess who they are into. we lessened the hipster intimidation factor and picked out the smart guy. this year we selected postmen pausal writers on the meaning of life. here i was, the city never fails to surprise me much the crowd was quieting. people were pointing toward the stage. i woman of 60 clamored on to it

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alexander was a year older than me when he died he was thirty one. he suffered from a mental disease called bipolar affective disorder i had a son a young boy of my. she showed me this tattoo. and i just felt that i wanted the ground to open up the loo and swallow me out. it was so tough. i just put my hands over my mouth and couldn't say anything. she came up to me to take back the photobook. the photos were scant but i told him no sir i'm strong enough to look at them. and disappeared from the neighborhood. at about four pm. he was killed the following day eleven hours later at about five am. it was found about one hundred sixty kilometers away when. he left me the photos and i kept looking at them. they'd put an old rifle beside him. and i noticed he had a white t. shirt and a jacket that had given him. alexander was mentally ill he was never in the army he didn't know a thing about weapons and their place to machine gun beside a really powerful weapon. next to the other boy they put a less powerful gun even though he was good with weapons. he kne

alexander is a master photographer with thirty years of experience a brief workout and a glass of hot tea helping keep warm in the wind the temperature here is twenty degrees celsius below zero or minus four degrees fahrenheit alexander has everything he needs in his tent a bottle of water a gas burner and a kettle he also has access to the internet and even a solar battery he needs them for his work. since i was a child i live by them. i love them so much i see nothing extreme about being here i don't feel the rigors of fly from this place here i've got electricity

when we met he told me alexander had died on september seventeenth at five am. in chief. during a clash with the army. i think it's part of what i once called the tater ship of the positive within the police forces . by that i mean that the instrument the barometer to measure the effectiveness and the results of the police forces is the number of positive all. the cases we have registered between january two thousand and seven and june two thousand and eight are five hundred thirty five unlawful executions reported to our organizations. at first there was a decree known as the cap to create relating to rewards for operations of national importance. and that. in other words troop members were given significant sums of money if they shot individuals who were thought to be guerillas . what the country wasn't told is that the when the decree was revoked a secret directive was issued that kept the same rewards for every enemy shot. the soldiers have to achieve results their careers are c'est according to performance if they've got nothing to show and they have to be created. i

hello again and welcome to spotlight the show partly i'm al green of entry my guest is alexander. president medvedev has signed the country's budget for the coming year as a top priority the document sees modernizing the economy for the four years the so-called national projects have been the main tools for raising living standards in a rush today's guest is the man responsible for the implementation of this project as well as for the work of the international olympic committee how are the projects doing we'll be asking deputy prime minister alexander. the national projects were introduced by. their objective was to boost the development of vitally important sectors of the economy like health care and education but with a little news on this project the media is speculating the work has stalled but the man responsible certainly hasn't been in charge of sports development looks on the brink of a successful abroad the twenty eight thousand football world cup to russia. thank you for coming to our studio oh let's start with the high priority national programs they were the center of

maybe let me kick off this discussion beginning with senator alexander's remarks. you include, senator, a promising agenda. when you raise the question comparing this moment based on reelection results last month with what happened 15 years ago, you remind us that like then, we are looking for an intellectual context for the latest antiwashington surge. i think bill reminded us unlike 1994, i think the tea party at least about vieses have to some -- activists have provided that. they are serious about returning washington to its limits, and i think that's extremely promising. what better intellectual context for what we would all like to see happen, and it's internal more of a battle cry, rallying cry than smaller steps it seems to me. it's such an organizing worthy principle. i wholly agree with chris, and in fact, i propose beginning a list, another revolution betrayed if the ban on ire con december lent lightbulbs is not repealed. i have one i might add is modifying reforming student loan programs a very generous loan forgiveness to students going to public serv

alexande-- alexander lukashenko. the founder of wikileaks says that many more leaks are to come but that the u.s. is trying to extradite him. mothers forced to abandon their babies. it is the reflection of the new tensions and one of the world's pressure points, the recent military buildup in north korea and china has raised such alarm over security that japan has announced a major reconfiguration of the defense forces. they describe to p'yongyang as a great source of instability. the chinese -- the japanese foreign minister has responded to the criticism and has affirmed that they are not a threat to anyone. >> they are affirming the shifting balance in asia. they are standing their forces in the south closer to the growing might of china. the defense will also be strengthened to guard against an unpredictable north korea. >> we have been able to perform a defense policy which includes troops with mobility. that is appropriate for the tough security environment and the new era. >> when a chinese trawler collided wit

the international olympic committee how are these projects doing we'll be deputy prime minister alexander. the national projects were introduced by. their objective was to boost the development of vitally important sectors of the economy like health care and education but with a little news on this project the media is speculating the work has sold but the man responsible certainly hasn't in charge of sports development alex on the brink of a successful abroad the twenty eight thousand football world cup to russia. and thank you for coming to our studio in the hello let's start with the high priority national programs they were the center of attention a few years ago and the newspapers and t.v. were talking about them they were discussed everywhere both officials and deputies paid a lot of attention to them now they're not so what has happened to national programs do they still exist. they do exist and despite the crisis seen two thousand and nine which was a tough year for our economy for many reasons as well as the budget issues the financing of the national program has been increased b

and finally, senator alexander's coeditor, checker fan is joining us.rce on k-12 education. he's a senior editor of the outstanding to inform education maximum adjunct fellow here at the hudson institute. for 40 years, it trained first at the beginning of national debate on school reform. the other 19 books and innumerable articles and he holds undergraduate degree in history, masters degree in social studies, teaching and adapted in education all from harvard university. with that, i'll turn the program over to chris demuth for his initial remarks and then bill chambra, bill kristol and checker finn. >> okay, thank you very much. realizing the new promise of american life, as described in senator alexander and checker finn's book of 1995, involves many political -- i'm sorry, am i not on? it involves many political and cultural challenges described in the book. it also involves challenges as emphasized in bill kristol's essay in that volume, that are primarily at additional. that is how well or poorly are legal and political institutions do the transla

in moscow and the next president about a rule says alexander lukashenko it's only a prelim result but with all except polls suggesting the currently to receive more than seventy percent of the votes in sunday's election it's unlikely to change well let's get the latest on that election which is just ended from. katrina we understand that police used stun grenades to disperse.

better reasons dealing with the all of them all the ball in protest position to alexander lukashenko when in the presidential election hundreds of people were arrested including a number of presidential candidates who claimed the vote was enraged meanwhile over fevola superdome on the golf there's only arrests and regular hours and. north korea calls also to reach the south or reckless military provocation involved val's to refrain from retaliation and to find previous threads moscow house and warm souls accountable the war games to avoid. battling with a neighbor of an eagle immigrants on the treadmill shows no sign of slowing down even though they come from pole central asian states the north doing valdosta bathroom in this country. poor living conditions and with no paid jobs. ok kate salt negs with the. way. hello and welcome to the sports news thank you for joining me and other top stories weather champions russia finished the china one cup as they can witness after thrashing finland six two. keeping up a ten man rail madrid thinks of a a one meltdown within two points of law le

regarding alexander's case we have always asked the state for transparency and justice. my mother says that over time she doesn't want her son to be remembered as a criminal who died fighting. because that's not the truth it wasn't a criminal. i don't understand why the government picks people and passes and all as positive as knowing that these people have a family what is safe to go out there and look for the real gorilla man and if you want a medal earned it by this went off your brow not just by killing the first guy you come across to be can bold before the colombian people i'm against that and they've got no idea of the pain they're cause into their relatives so if we don't reconsider the armed conflicts and the excessive militarization of the country and if we don't go for a new democratic order we will never get out of the sad stage of extrajudicial killings in our country. countries like britain the us france and germany. are sensitive to the fact that or any aid colombia receives. should respect human rights standards. that's why i was in favor of what the nort

[laughter] i am sure the lamar alexander highway was not an earmarked.as not an earmarked, it came out of a pool of money. [laughter] i am sure the governor is not an earmark/ . i think it is stimulating. i very much agree with the appeal of the bush era regulation banning the incandescent light bulb. i think that should be second on the republican agenda after the defunding of npr, which i have a personal interest in. that will fail in the house. then you can do the light bulb. and let me say something about the whole step-by-step question. let me offer a qualification. this is on the question that was asked of lamar that he deflected to the panel. conservatives can do both the step-by-step and can't -- and comprehensive reform. conservative comprehensiveness is a different from a liberal or progressive comprehensiveness. it is an abstract formulation. it will have to be worked out. progressive is central planning, basically. there is no thinking about the arrangement of institutions or the arrangement of incentives. to have sensible public policies and

officials have already condemned the violence but as with the observers president alexander lukashenko simply told everyone to mind their own business but. sometimes the o.s.c. forgets that it came to observe the election not to control it when it comes to gas it's not for them to evaluate. europe's last dictator as he has been dubbed in some western media did receive some praise from observers they've all agree this election was much more democratic than the previous one in two thousand and six the relative freedoms given to opposition candidates in the run up to election day was marked as a positive sign the e.u. promised billions of euros if there are signs of free and fair elections whether look cool be able to collect some cash from the e.u. while enjoying a fourth consecutive term in office is the question many are asking alex on the question go promised his people political changes but no change in power he's already made good on one half of that promise but here on the once again quiet streets of the capital minsk not many believe the political changes are happening any time so

peter alexander confirming that from inside the courtroom. a lot of contributors have come to his aid, $300,000 they had raised and they also said that they are willing to give him a place to stay very near the courthouse and his lawyer had argued that he so recognizable now all around the world that the chances of him being able to flee are slim and none. the judge bought that, he is going to be free on bail and we're going to continue to follow that story as soon as peter is able to come outside of that courtroom, we will find out exactly what the reaction was in there and what this means going forward. we're following that breaking news out of london for you. >>> also, president obama's health care law is in for a big legal headache that could be throbbing for years. federal judge henry hudson who was appointed by george bush decided that requiring every american to have health care is beyond the government's reach. two other rulings by clinton appointees this year upheld the president's reform. the republicans were very happy with what ha

n so that today, if you want to write a new biography of alexander hamilton, your firstss step is to buy the 27 volumes f the collected papers ofve alexander hamilton that have been announced with systems fron people you're at theal national archives. if you want to write a back seag of johon jay, you go back and from the 19th century stuff in c 20th century stuff and spent a lot of time in tquhe archives. and the question is also partly one of personality.ust jay is just not as colorful as exander his friends what alexander hamilton who died in a dual or thomas jefferson who we know police look with one of his slaves. and so, he doesn't grab people as the likely subject for a biography the way some of his contemporaries do. i could go on all night talkinge about jay, but i know that a lo of you here have comet with questions and i'd like to pause there to start to take them. >> if you're just joining us from home tonight, we are at the theater at the archives in washington d.c. with william hai stahr, author of "john jay:s one founding father." if you are in the theater withd me, we

peter alexander was inside that courtroom, literally standing next to julian assange. peter, good morning. what's going on there in? >> chris, we want to give you a better sense of what happens right now. it is really a work in progress right now. we have just heard that the swedish authorities have said