the bucharest headquarters has many of its products made in romania. the international forest stewardship council monitors logging operations but only a small percentage of them. >> only 12% of the supply from romania is certified. there's is another 8% that is controlled. m a 80% of the process has no seal. it is no secret that logging is rampant. he has some hard-hitting criticism of the authorities. he can personally testify to the deforestation of an entire mountain ridge. >> at the time it was my duty to report to the police. they were in cahoots with the timber thieves. the police were never able to catch the guilty parties. they must have had some incentive to sit on their hands. the only way we can get anywhere his act on our own. acting on their own became dangerous. we had to arm ourselves with rifles and pistols. the thieves carried arms. we were out to bring down their operation. under pressure from criminal gangs he had to quit his job as a forrester but he is still working to save the forest. her young romanian colleague has an idea how p

the bucharest headquarters has many of its products made in romania. the international forest stewardship council monitors logging operations but only a small percentage of them. >> only 12% of the supply from romania is certified. there's is another 8% that is controlled. m a 80% of the process has no seal. it is no secret that logging is rampant. he has some hard-hitting criticism of the authorities. he can personally testify to the deforestation of an entire mountain ridge. >> at the time it was my duty to report to the police. they were in cahoots with the timber thieves. the police were never able to catch the guilty parties. they must have had some incentive to sit on their hands. the only way we can get anywhere his act on our own. acting on their own became dangerous. we had to arm ourselves with rifles and pistols. the thieves carried arms. we were out to bring down their operation. under pressure from criminal gangs he had to quit his job as a forrester but he is still working to save the forest. her young romanian colleague has an idea how p

. >> a media frenzy in front of the anticorruption authority in bucharest. the president's brother is being questioned by police in a bribery case. >> i did not ask for any money, nor did i receive any. >> but the investigators did not believe him and took him into custody. his brother appeared before the press. >> my brother got mixed up with people he should never have gotten mixed up with. >> this woman launched the investigation. for the head of the romanian anticorruption authority, the case is a preliminary climax in the battle against bribery, and it is personally gratifying for her. >> everyone is equal before the law. the fact that the president's brother or any other people we have investigated are involved plays no role for us. >> the investigators fight against shady clans is a tough one. the clans have been making money with crime for decades. the heartland of this dubious society is here. the people are hoarding millions , and it is from here that judges, police, and politicians are bribed. not far from here are the headquarters of this man. hi

there was one human study from bucharest where there were children in orphanage.age and they dent get that cuddling and grooming. those who were brought out before age 2 showed resiliency. if you bring them out after age 2, they never recover. we make the mistake that kids are resilient but it's if you don't invest in the front end we pay in the back end. >> we are paying with higher rates of crime, more prisons and generations stuck in poverty. why is it that we invest the most at the university level where the impact is the least? i suspect one reason is the aversion to big government telling us how to raise our kids. and another is con desession to impoverrished parents. but another reason why these sorts of early intervention programs are only available to 3% of the population that could benefit from them is that children, babies, they don't have lobbyists and they don't make campaign contributions and can't vote. someone has to be their advocate, their voice. it's on us to speak for them, to fight for them and not succumb to cynicism. 50 years later, the war

warsaw, berlin prague vienna budapest belgrade bucharest and slot via. all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what i must call the soviet -. c-span: why did you want to write about this? >> guest: i was in a way inspired by my first book. this wasn't my first book but my previous book which was the gulags system and although this is in no way a sequel it represents a continuation of the thoughts i had after writing that book. one of the things i got interested in writing about the gulags was the question of why people in along with that and why do people go along with totalitarian regimes? what's the mentality and what are the institutional pressures? why did camp guards do what they were told to do and why does it happen? i decided to write about this period which was the period after world war ii because it's a time when the soviet union was then, if it reached the kind of height. there was apotheosis of stalinism that was created throughout the 1920s and 30s and then it was reinforced by the experience of the war and by 1945 it