often for people from outside china, like how is it that this government that used to be all about atheismis now sort of very friendly towards at least a schedule of religions, particularly the traditional cultural religions like buddhism and taoism and confucianism? and the fact is that the communist party is observing that tens of millions of people are becoming more religious, and they're realizing that this might actually be an opportunity for them to kind of encourage these religions to be environmentally conscious and to support that side of the religions, because that will help people become maybe a little bit less materialistic, a little less oriented towards consumption. i think the government realizes that the era of kind of, you know, 13% growth every year is coming to an end. pollution is going to be an issue that's going to take 10 or 20 years to sort out. so they really need to kind of encourage a culture, or at least to be supportive of a culture that is less oriented toward consumption, placing less value than always on material gain, because those material gains aren't goi

from the soviet union that was promoting atheism in god we trust the national motto and eisenhower signed that bill. kimberly king, news 13. >> darcel: it's cold out there. >> tammy: it is. lots of beautiful sunshine, jason but that didn't do it. >> jason: it was cold, windy. if you didn't have a lot of wind today, consider yourselves pretty lucky. most of us did. here's your leicester carpet sales news13 sky cam network from hendersonville looking north and west. 37 degrees. not as much wind there as earlier today. same thing down in franklin, 44 degrees. a lot of blue skies. that's not a wild fire. someone's burning something. not sure what. we have low 30s in boone, upper 30s in newland. 40s mixed with a few 50s down in the upstate. they were warmer today, which is typically the case. the wind was much stronger earlier in asheville. nine miles per hour sustained wind. ten miles per hour in hendersonville. and 10 in morganton. chills diminish. upper 20s by 9. mid 20s by 11. upstate, areas of frost overnight. 40 at 7. 34 by 11. when i see you again in a few minutes, we'll talk about even

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lives grew up in a countryry that encouraged atheism perhaps are catch the fine poiois between catholicism and russianrthodox church. certainly they rea lood today that this was a very important event. an event that was literally hundreds of years in the making jievment unrelate bud still a big deal in cuba today speak of flights now betweenhe u.s. and havana are a go. any reaction from the cuban people on the island patrick? >> >> reporter: interests a lot of sky. we've been bhearg this for some time. really one of the first points of norma la daition between the united states and cuba that would you have for the first time a really since the revolution regular flights service rather than charter service. so cubans have the expectation that this will lead nor flights. cheaper flights we're talking about. between the susm and havana. another 90 flights a day 20 u.s. and the rest of the island and major air carriers like american airlines and jet blue saying that want to fly a lot of those fligigs and have said that the flights could become significantly cheaper. ride now just to fly to mia

and others that is definite one of the community assets it is architectural history and community atheismve the fact that 4 you've seen the photographs of the murals that was built as a community living room i read the history report they speak about the design of that to be the neighborhood health center to be welcoming and it is literally built and we basically want those buildings back as neighborhood assets the board of supervisors has been working with the mayor's office and the office of economic workforce development to re vials those to be health and social services we building that landmark status is part of this process of reactivating the building we've been the supervisor will say he's been impressed and inspired by the community outpouring for the rerelocating location of those buildings those are important leaders but many, many more people we got letters from are represent by this work it is an important building the community so i urge to support it. >> thank you very much. >> is there anyone else who wishes to speak on this item? >> hello, i'm desiree with the san francis

he would then start talking about atheism and -- >> evan: and infuriate the very people who thought they found a kindred spirit. >> thomas: so he remained very much himself in other political respects. >> evan: right. but of course he comes across as the other characters you've invented in this book come across. he comes across as quite real. >> thomas: i hope so. >> evan: yeah. >> thomas: and he -- i mean, there are even a couple of lines that, you know, i remember him saying in life, expressions he had -- >> evan: yep. >> thomas: -- that i wound up having him deploy, you know, in the course of this novel. he was tremendously witty and a fierce debater. and because he was so good at debate -- i remember when he debated a rabbi one time about the existence of god. and the rabbi said to him, "and mr. hitchens, i didn't interrupt you". and hitchens turns to him and says, "you're not quick enough". [laughter]. >> thomas: but because he was so good at that, i think that one thing a lot of people did not know about him was how gentle he could be. >> evan: yeah. >> thomas: christopher was a lo

schools, sent rabb and teachers to jail and and tried to convert everyone to their brand of materialist atheism. announcer: then came the nazis. between 1941 and 1945 soviet jews were savagely persecuted. subjected to every possible pain and humiliation and murdered in mass executions. eckstein: this is babiyar tside of kiev here in the ukraine. one of hundreds of killing fields from world war ii's holocaust throughout the former soviet union. there is a traditional memorial prayer of the dead that is recited when we come to visit this site. (speaking hebrew) lord full of mercy, remember those who died here. (singing hebrew) it was here in 1941 hundred thousand jews were killed here by the nazis. holocaust survivor: they were all brought to babiyar and they were all undresd, everyone, and then they were killed. you can't, you can't even imagine, a lot of people can't imagine. announcer: those who managed to survive the nazis then suffered the post world war ii persecution, indoctrination and anti- semitism of the counists. jews were forbidden to practice their faith and were denied education an

and others that is definite one of the community assets it is architectural history and community atheismve the fact that 4 you've seen the photographs of the murals that was built as a community living room i read the history report they speak about the design of that to be the neighborhood health center to be welcoming and it is literally built and we basically want those buildings back as neighborhood assets the board of supervisors has been working with the mayor's office and the office of economic workforce development to re vials those to be health and social services we building that landmark status is part of this process of reactivating the building we've been the supervisor will say he's been impressed and inspired by the community outpouring for the rerelocating location of those buildings those are important leaders but many, many more people we got letters from are represent by this work it is an important building the community so i urge to support it. >> thank you very much. >> is there anyone else who wishes to speak on this item? >> hello, i'm desiree with the san francis

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and do anything to help enhance those features we'll be incredibly supportive we have a good job atheismnot been in agreement with everyone about is hard to do in san francisco on affordability stand point you know some people say there is precedent for a junior high school level we've seen that in 5 m and mission rock rocking about this is in upper market we saw it in another plays 12 percent in 2011 and envelope this project has been the work for two to three years we have to respect the law thank you. >> my name is silvia johnson you know i'm looking at your instructions that there's no table i've been looking mission street to you know do this process i've been really sick but getting better i've been feeling a whole lot better those promotions that muni agreed on we rebuilt as far as the law but it is included on the policies and we need to have more politicians put on the policies to insure that the context were more building construction during other you know procedures open other contracts and i think that is that the reason why smooth those projects on market street has been had

and do anything to help enhance those features we'll be incredibly supportive we have a good job atheismt been in agreement with everyone about is hard to do in san francisco on affordability stand point you know some people say there is precedent for a junior high school level we've seen that in 5 m and mission rock rocking about this is in upper market we saw it in another plays 12 percent in 2011 and envelope this project has been the work for two to three years we have to respect the law thank you. >> my name is silvia johnson you know i'm looking at your instructions that there's no table i've been looking mission street to you know do this process i've been really sick but getting better i've been feeling a whole lot better those promotions that muni agreed on we rebuilt as far as the law but it is included on the policies and we need to have more politicians put on the policies to insure that the context were more building construction during other you know procedures open other contracts and i think that is that the reason why smooth those projects on market street has been hadn'

and others that is definite one of the community assets it is architectural history and community atheismve the fact that 4 you've seen the photographs of the murals that was built as a community living room i read the history report they speak about the design of that to be the neighborhood health center to be welcoming and it is literally built and we basically want those buildings back as neighborhood assets the board of supervisors has been working with the mayor's office and the office of economic workforce development to re vials those to be health and social services we building that landmark status is part of this process of reactivating the building we've been the supervisor will say he's been impressed and inspired by the community outpouring for the rerelocating location of those buildings those are important leaders but many, many more people we got letters from are represent by this work it is an important building the community so i urge to support it. >> thank you very much. >> is there anyone else who wishes to speak on this item? >> hello, i'm desiree with the san francis

and others that is definite one of the community assets it is architectural history and community atheism the fact that 4 you've seen the photographs of the murals that was built as a community living room i read the history report they speak about the design of that to be the neighborhood health center to be welcoming and it is literally built and we basically want those buildings back as neighborhood assets the board of supervisors has been working with the mayor's office and the office of economic workforce development to re vials those to be health and social services we building that landmark status is part of this process of reactivating the building we've been the supervisor will say he's been impressed and inspired by the community outpouring for the rerelocating location of those buildings those are important leaders but many, many more people we got letters from are represent by this work it is an important building the community so i urge to support it. >> thank you very much. >> is there anyone else who wishes to speak on this item? >> hello, i'm desiree with the san francisco

and tried to convert everyone to their brand of materialist atheism. announcer: then came the nazis. between 1941 and 1945 soviet jews were savagely persecuted. subjected to every possib pain and humiliation and murdered in mass executions. eckstein: this is babiyar outside of kiev here in the ukraine. one of hundreds of killing fields from world war ii's holocaust throughout the former soviet union. there is a traditional memorial prayer of the dead that is recited when we come to visit this site. (speaking hebrew) remember those who died here. (singing hebrew) it was here in 1941 that in a period of five days over a hundred thousand jews were killed here by the nazis. holocaust survivor: they were all brought to babiyar and they were all undressed, everyone, and then they were killed. imagine, a lot of people can't imagine. managed to survive the nazis then suffered the post world war ii persecution, indoctrination and anti- semitism of the communists. jews were forbidden to practice their fai education and they lived in fear of the soviet people rid