the communist party something makes their claim a week or so ago.s in the party from 1961, in a leadership at a very high level for many years, very close to slovo and others. none of them ever made that claim or statement that he had been a member, other than that he had been close and there have been some educational lessons in marxism. now maybe he had been. it is possible. but there's no documents actually proving that conclusively. so for me, it is not a question of wanting to cover up or be embarrassed whatsoever, it is that mandela never acknowledged it. and because there is no real proof, i think it has to rest. it doesn't really do very much. mandela had af marxist orientation, which he certainly did, i would say for some time, that was dispelled when he emerges from prison 30 years or so later, when he addressely in his first to our people, he commits himself to the socialist freedom charter and the clause that is quite emphatic but doesn't use the word nationalization that says that what we committed to is the control of the hearts of the

the communist party announced the policy change in november. it means couples may now have two children if either parent is an only child. beijing hopes the reform will tackle the problem of a rapidly aging population. but predictions are of a boom. 100 million births in the next 20 years. china still faces the problem of excessive pop loigs las vegas so we still need to focus on the policy for a long time. whatever policy changes may be decided in the future, this one comes too late for the couple. they're too old have any more children. >> there's no let-up in the violence in thailand. one man was shot dead during a protest in bangkok on friday. rescuers opened fire on demonstrators injuring several others. protests against a prime minister began in october after she proposed an amnesty for her exile brother. new elections have been set for february but the opposition says it will boycott the vote. a u.s. frazzled judge ruled the controversial n.s.a. spying program is legal. w york judge women pauly denied its request that the bulk telephone

people who were supposed to have had some kind of affiliation with the communist party or a communistt after all kinds of people that were supposed to have had some affiliation with the communist party or a communist party front or someone who leaned through the communists in the 1930's and 1940's and did a great deal of harm to a great number of people's careers and personal lives. and the reason that mamie would not invite him to the house entertainment is that she disagreed with the methodology that he used and the ruining of people's reputations and careers. >> this question is connected. she was a big fan of "i love lucy." did she try to help lucy in any way when she was being investigated? >> yes. lucy had been brought before the committee and of course she and desi arnaz are terrified that their careers and it's ike's birthday. it's ike's birthday and mamie invites lucy, desi and vivian vance and william fawley to the white house and she says to entertain. they do a bit of entertaining for ike's birthday but then mamie makes a point of having lucy and desi sit with her and ike

they thought it was like the soviets invading czechoslovakia or hungary to shore up communist party rule this was an extension of the brezhnev doctrine and what they didn't understand was that the soviets didn't really want to do this at all. they felt they were forced into it by the rapid deterioration of this situation there. they were extremely reluctant to do it and when they made the decision, they didn't even have a proper paper that they all signed. it was this very vague memorandum that didn't even say what they were going to do. >> host: just like vietnam. >> guest: just like vietnam. they really didn't want to be there and i'm not sure we understood the extent to which that was the case. we thought it was part of the grand design and didn't understand what an improvisation it was. >> host: that is really interesting when you think about the extent to which the united states was involved as a significant player in all of the stories in different ways and yet you have done something i think commendable. you have not put the u.s. front and center of the stories although they have

have meant the supremacy of the major force in vietnam at that time and today, which was the communist party. >> okay. best i can do in the allotted time. >> peter, not bad. >> thank you, peter. so i think we're going to wrap it up. i'd like to thank you all for coming this evening, and we'll be hanging around for a little while to have a chat if anybody wants to talk informally. thank you. >> thank you all. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> we'd like to hear from you. tweet us your feedback, twitter.com/booktv. >> host: we're here at the national press club talking with m.j. o'brien about his new book, "we shall not be moved." please tell us a little bit about how you got into this project. >> guest: i got this into project when i saw this photograph at the martin luther king center in atlanta in 1992. finish and realized that this photograph was an iconic representation of the sit-in movement. and i knew the woman at the center of that photograph. i had met her through her children 20 years before in arlington, virginia, when i was a playground director, and her kids came to the play

globally in western countries who felt that the anc was in fact an off shoot of the south african communist partyat it was affiliated with the larger com communist movement globally. i think they misunderstood history and they misunderstood the desire of black people across africa and southern after africa at the time to seek justice and equality for themselves on the same level. regrettably mr. will was wrong and as were a number of leading american politicians on the right who solved the anc as a communist organization. i would note just historically and it's very important fact that the anc which was established in 1905 predates by a decade and a half the establishment of the russian communist party. the struggle for equality based on the content of a person's character and not the color of his skin was the main driver for nelson mandela as it was for civil rights leader here in the united states. there is a join and conjunction there. i think people in this country as dr. hill points out, had a special afint afinty for nelson mandela. >> you saw that, dr. hill, first hand. your organization t

a lot of it was communist party. were not allowed to say anything nice about the communist party.hat's the rule. there were a lot of things wrong with it. i mentioned some of them good but there were some things right. one is that it overcame the amnesia talk about. it is always there. people remembered. somebody remembered how to organize demonstration. you met from the civil rights station to live or work something else. they had crazy, international ideas, but that is in the back of their minds. the distraction of the communist party was quite important, killed off the radical, continuing element that kept a lot of fluff traditions going. you know the reasons for this in the cold war. that was all there. as far as anarchists were earning him the place i learned about that was a reading. when i was a kid, i would go to visit my relatives. soon as i got old enough to get on the train about 11 or 12 years old at take the train to new york and stayed with my relatives, this then much of my time, those of you who know new york, union square used to be the place to the anarchists off

frankly, they are de facto communist party officials.re is a clear allegation or suspicion of quid pro quo. it is not an after-the-fact appearance of corruption in the united states and the revolving door. it is that they appear to be actual corruption. >> thank you so much. up, the 12 days of bitcoin. something cory knows a lot about. we kick off the series by the eying the currency live on the air in just a few moments. and the plot of a good mystery -- it is a true story about a family behind the glock pistols. stay "in the loop>." ♪ >> all day tomorrow, we will be inside ups. there is carol. this is the busiest time of year. carol massar will be at the companies complex in louisville, kentucky. >> don't we work her hard enough? >> we will have an interview with their ceo. that is expected to save them $50 million per year. tomorrow, all day long. i have a feeling she will get ripped over and over. but, she will get your packages delivered on time. the budget is on everyone's mind. including the omb director lew david stock in. he spo

progressively, with overtaxation, and with unions and the communist party played a very big negativee in this respect, effectively the repair zone was destroyed. >> reporter: said it is a dead zone. some passenger ferries put in, but not the ongoing fleet. local unions take a different view of this failure, they draw support from the greek communist party who's icon is joseph stalin and the managed economy. >> translator: the first and most basic problem is that no government had a strategic plan for ship repair. the second problem is that the repair zone doesn't have the proper tools. dry docks need reinvestment. >> reporter: in requisition, ship owners volunteered to trouble taxation for three years to help the government climb out of its debt hole. to be globally competitive, greek owners have to shop around. if greece wants a bigger piece of the shipping pie, it has to follow where the industry leads. >>> british scientist has been given a royal pardon nearly 50 years after he committed suicide. his skills helped britain win the second word war, but was homosexual which was inleg

for the first time since the 1970s the slate includes communist party.r distribution of the country's wealth but she has huge challenges ahead of her. joining me to talk about that is patricio navio. thank you so much for joining me. let's talk about what may be her largest competitor and that's abstention. why is it so few chilens have gone out glm think think she will win, some of her opponents will not even bother to show up and vote because they know that she is going to win anyway. so given that it is kind of a forgone conclusion many people didn't bother to vote. >> doesn't she need to show she has a strong mandating? mandate? >> if you don't bother to show up and vote then the claim that chilians want a popular vote will be weakened. you earned fewer votes this time around than the first time you were a candidate and you can't quite claim that chilians want radical response. >> we are seeing belong faces in her campaign headquarters where we are now. she has said while she was campaigning kind of jokingly that people have such high expectations of

we need to fight for the rights enjoyed only by the privileged class, communist party officials and their entourage. >> others say that china already has its nelson mandela, but he is behind bars. the nobel peace prize winner was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2009 after calling for democratic reforms and greater freedoms in china. some say china needs its own frederick a clerk -- fw dick .w. de klerk. two global gay rights organizations have launched the principle six campaign. they say if russia is to host the winter olympics in february, it must abandon its anti-gay laws. activists are calling attention to the international olympic committee's mission statement. the campaigning is gaining ground. the petition has already been signed by over 400,000 people and counting. it calls on the russian president to repeal the anti-gay legislation passed in june, a law that bans the promotion among miners of so-called nontraditional sexual relations of so-calledrs nontraditional sexual relations. a lot of athletes have already posted photos of them wearing the clothing to social networks. it

my parents were members of the communist party, card-carrying. which means they were part of a vast international conspiracy that was, indeed, orchestrated from moscow, and they were attempting to or their goal was to create a soviet america. of course, hay didn't call themselves communists -- they didn't call themselves communists, i never heard them use that word. they called themselves progressives. my mother was also a registered democrat. over the course of the last 40 years, the communist progressive left that i grew up in had moved into the democratic party. it started with the mcgovern campaign and today sits in the white house and runs the democratic party. now, i know when you say, oh, the democrats, they're communist s, people will look at you and say this guy is an extremist. he's a relic. actually, i was called a relic by a harvard professor in "the new york times" for noticing that there's an alliance between the radical left in america and the islamo-fascists that professor feldman is an apologist for them, not surprising. but it w

they show the uncle literally thrown out of a communist party meeting, and those photographs came along with a long statement read on behalf of the government, by state television, reporters, the statement said, in part, that jung song had been kicked out because, quote, he had improper relations with several women and was wined and dined in back rooms of luxury restaurants, ideologically sick and eyesle. he used funds and squandered foreign currency. what is not known is how kim jong-un has decided to do with his uncle. is he just removed and going to live a quiet, private, and hopefully peaceful life, or has something rather worse become of him. we don't know. >> how much of a power grab is this by a man who is very young, very inexperienced and about whom we know almost nothing. one thing we do know is they have nuclear weapons and there's a question of stability. where are we? >> that's the big question here. on the one hand you talk to experts on north korea, they say this is kim jung ewan making a very, very strong statement, sending a powerful message. he is singularly in charge

the communist party, yet as a president he was a close ally of south africa's capitalists. in other words, he was whatever served his purpose. he never lost sight of the basic purpose, which was ending south africa's fiendish brand of my new wordy role. point about what an astute politician nelson mandela was. byron, so many americans know the story of not long ago, in theaters, of the south african country, and he knew that he had the team thatport was not inclusive of the people of south africa, yet he supported the team and was sending a message. >> in south africa at the time, blacks loved soccer, but he understood to unite the nation, he had to find common ground. he found the common ground of sport. he cap a poll among the cell wall of his prison, the sixth i six space that he lived in, and while he was in prison, he was an incredibly disciplined man. he understood politics and human nature. as was a man who was a man who is born into royalty, grew up poor, he was the first black man to open a law firm in south africa. he was a well educated, sophisticated man. he kne

in shanghai last year, the the rulinglenged communist party by announcing his resignation from the staterun body that controls the church. he has not been seen in public since. from shanghai, here is our correspondent. this church on the outskirts of shanghai, they are preparing for the christmas pageant. despite the festivities, all is not well. where theplace tension between the catholic faith and the communist state is palpable. for almost 18 months, this nearby seminary has been used for the house arrest of the missing bishop. is a good man, this woman tells me. her friend stops her. seen as a direct challenge to the communist hisy, the bishop used ordination speech to resign from the government body in charge of the church. it was met with loud applause, but he has not been seen in public since. ironically, china's control of the church means the atheist spate -- state reserves the right to appoint and dismiss bishops. his ordination has now been revoked. to see the allowed bishop but friends of his told us he is allowed to come and go from the seminary but not to leave the shanghai

and the anti-apartheid movement was supported by the communist party. in fact, anc declared itself to be communist as you know. after i left office the reagan administration and others, not criticizing him, went back to a position that anybody who was a member of the african national congress was a communist and was later classified to be a terrorist pnl so i. so it was a time when everybody who was for communism was looked upon as eants american. my -- we did support the revolutions in south africa. >> how were you able to be different? how was it that prior to the '80s when again united states sort of said these guys are commune iforts, the -- communis, backed by communists. >> they were looking for basic human rights an freedom. they were for the majorities of the population of of south africa, they were oppressed horribly by the white minority. when i became president, almost every become government was a military dictatorship and we had always been in bed with the dictators. i went the other way and of course now they are all democracies there. we c

the currents conservative government's evelyn mate, center left coalition which includes the communist partyt the fact that there are so few people voting here, in this country's first election in which voting is not mandatory has a lot of people worried. >> translator: we had to sacrifice a lot to recover our democracy. so we all have to participate. >> translator: i think that voting should be mandatory. again not voluntary. because somebody has to lead the country. and it should be someone elected by the majority of citizens. >> at this hour all the political parties are urging chilians to cast their ballots. a low turnout certainly would mean a political liability for the winner particularly for michelle bachelet. if she wins with allow turnout, the opposition would say she has a weak mandate. sweeping political economic and social reforms in this country with the broad support of the people. >> being vice president joe biden says congress needs to offer the millions of immigrants living in this country illegally citizenship. he was making a speech on saturday. this is the second comment

you've got the head of the ku klux klan doing an interview with the head of the communist party do an interview. he also does a fascinating interview with margaret sanger, the pioneer of birth control. after this hour-long interview, she says that 80-year-old pioneer birth control to mike wallace, you know, i've never been a smoker and i'm 80 years old. i'm going to take up smoking. that she shows you how basically bought and sold people were this time. that's another theme of this book is basically there's virtually no part of american culture that's been smoke free. thousands and thousands of scientists have been paid to work for the tobacco industry. doctors, physicians can historians. people in my undisciplined. i was hired at stanford for someone who been working quietly for the tobacco industry. every university has people working quietly for the tobacco industry of litigation and consulting. i'm calling it the biggest breach of academic integrity since the virtually undiagnosed but mark of modern scholarship. >> professor proctor, how strong is the tobacco lobby today is suppos

consolidatinginue his power base which continues army ande's liberation he communist party of china, eighty million members strong and grandson's and grand daughters of the revolutionary elite. you have a an similar set of politics playing with a relatively new to power prime minister. ou have the reality of transitional politics which likely are playing some role in all of this. second, you have beijing under some new creating bureaucratic dynamics. establishing a new national no doubt ounsel which is ruffling some feathers with the military when they see more civilian over national security. i suspect there was some when ng along those lines they established without announcing to anybody else this defense identification zone. >> john huntsman, thank you for coming in. >> thank you. look at other news world. the lab knees military group says someone has been killed as he returned from work at about midnight. for his deathrael and accusation that israel denies. records of emergency calls made during the mass shooting at connecticut elementary school. were made public. 20 children and

as you have told we can of course see also the protests by the other side by had a ukrainian communist party by. members of the party over regions which are in the east and salt on balance of ukraine not only here in europe and united states as well we see only what's happening now we may have but we cannot see their reaction of other part of ukraine of the. eastern part of ukraine but it would seem that polish politicians were cheering protests is that and let's not listen to gather together would be to what was said just one quote. used to you or europe or huge. so european politicians taking part in antigovernment protests in another country will take on this. first and foremost i don't know if those politicians for of from poland the right to speak on behalf of poland and on behalf of the polish authorities because as far as i know no one neither the president neither the prime minister have entitled them to speak and voice the polish. polish of the sole opinion about the events in kiev second i don't know if mr prout i shave each had the right to speak on behalf of european parliament b

the communist party newspaper says cubans will no longer need government permits to buy new cars or motorcycles from state vehicles and the government will cancel a system requiring authorization for sales between individuals. two years ago, officials lifted restrictions on private sales of used cars before the 1959 revolution. >> translator: it's the best thing they could have done for us cubans. this way, everyone can have better transportation. >> observers say the latest deregulation measure is the latest step by the government to introduce market mechanisms in cuba, but some say only the wealthiest can afford new cars. they say the reform will widen the gap between the haves and have notes. >>> we're reporting this week about the ongoing effort to deal with the radioactive fallout from the nuclear accident in fukushima, japan. our latest story focuses on forests. they cover 70% of the prefecture. the government has yet to decide how to decontaminate them. nhk world's neil asami shows us how tainted the woods are and examines the impact of not cleaning them up. >> reporter: wawauchi is 20 k

what is being described as the highest level corruption investigation in the 65 years since the communist party came to power there. "the new york times" reports that the former head of the nation's security apparatus is being investigated and is now being held under guard at his home. the president has vowed to take on low and high level corrupt officials, officials he described as flies and tigers. the eu sustained sended talks about a deal to bring that nation closer to the east. ukraine has not signed the agreement because of opposition. 200,000 protesters filled the square demanding that the government move forward on the deal and joined by chris murphy of connecticut and john mccain of arizona. >> this is about the future you want for your country. this is about the future you deserve. a future of peace. >> iranian foreign minister said his country will resume nuclear negotiations with the west despite halting technical talks a few days ago. in a posting on facebook he said iran would return to the negotiating table despite unsuitable actions. on thursday, the united states blacklisted ad

millions and millions of people vote for the communist party he's a well known politician who has his own views although i don't share many of them. but some of them i deem completely realistic especially when it comes to foreign policy and some social issues as well mr zhirinovsky is also a well known politician and though he is really artistic he has put forward a lot of irrational ideas. for. some time ago i. brought sergei miron of to moscow and i believe that everyone will agree he has become a truly independent politician on the national scale. we have a leader in political party had by the nature of a tiff who is a really experienced politician who has dealt with the government issues and economic issues alike i have seen all kinds of approval ratings but let me assure you that these ratings are put together by pundits. so when. but reality is much more difficult than putting this approval ratings together. we so i wouldn't like to make it to simplistic you know there are new people coming up some of them are opposition politicians. and they are trying to grab. their leaders be

the booker was constructed with steel reinforced concrete walls in order to offer communist party members and military officials shelter in the event of a new clear attack the booker also acted as a base for intelligence services to keep an eye and gets in the hotel above the hotel mainly cater to foreign officials diplomats and journalists. the barker was kept in for years until the military finally repealed the space to the hotel in nineteen ninety eight and remain on view until last month when the hotel opened the museum. all i can treat the spirits as we welcome to planet hollywood resort and casino in a staged event kicking off the pop princess's to your life take its presidency of the executive's say that i can conceive of future top hats and can be extended if it's a success. spears will perform fifty shows each in two thousand fourteen two thousand. during the december twenty seventh in time for sin city's massive new years and most of the performances will be relatively small heater eye contact is recruiting people and bottle service. wearing a black cocktail dress to the mines t

some attack on qana predicting john donne has the execute it all the gods we need to and from a communist party meeting at it this week after which he was stripped of all official responsibilities in. no korean news agency kcna said he was executed immediately the ministry tribunals found him guilty of treason the sinking into a betray the study door. this is considered that they get the people in north korean politics is conjunct and succeeded his father to the leadership in two thousand and eleven then to media on the attacking french border. the latest place to be hit by the so called pitchfork anti government protests. the spot to gas and clashed with demonstrators on what was the fourth day of rallies. italian interior minister and getting off at oh one parliament. the unrest could lead to a style of rebellion against national and european institutions. in roma hundreds of students streak stopped at the university with government ministers were attending a conference. our university is the capital for those who had the stairs to credit and a box is sit ins and demos to place in other citie

they thought it was like the soviets invading czechoslovakia armory said throughout communist party rulethis was an extension and there are going back. what they did not understand was that the soviets did not really want to do this at all. they kind of felt that they were forced into it by the rapid deterioration of the situation there. they were extremely reluctant, and when they actually made the decision, they did not even have a proper paper, you know, that they all signed. it was as vague memorandum that did not even say what they were going to do. >> host: just like vietnam speech you just like vietnam, they split into it. they really did not want to be there. and i'm not sure we understood the extent to which that was the case. we thought it was all part of development. >> host: right. and, you know, it is interesting when you think about the extent to which the united states was involved, of course, has a significant player in all these stories in different ways, and get you have done something commendable, you have not put the u.s. front and center, whether they have a deep rel

chinese journalists, it's those journalists that are criticizing the government, criticizing the communist party, doing investigative reporting and your covering crux or bad government. those are the kinds of stories that many chinese officials don't want published. and the picture is very mixed. there are parts of china where there are some good journalists getting out good information. and there are other parts of china where things are very repressive. >> what about american reporters that are either missing or somehow being threatened overseas? >> well, the worst place to be a journalist at the moment is syria. that's been the case for the last couple of years because of the conflict. and there are a number of american journalists who have been taken hostage. some of them for the last year and a half. we have absolutely no news about them. we know that they're alive, or we think we know that they're alive. but this is a terribly distressing situation for their families and friends. >> robert mahoney, the committee to protect journalists, thanks so much for joining us. >>> thank you. >>> and

the leader of russia's communist party has drawn historical parallels what many considered dubious to the situation in ukraine is n developing along the same lines as events in the nineteen nineties. it's more the nineteen seventies when europe was seized by patches of woods. rather than showing the hundreds of gluing the other ukrainian plants on display. russian television footage focuses on the red and black flags says he did with the far right images of protesters top winds down to the landing date with russia's anti fascist rhetoric new review of the tunnel surprise radical elements and joined in demonstrations against nature. even city of extremists among them. it wouldn't do move please. at the end of the program the aim to deliver a punch below the belt he pointed to german foreign minister and feel best about it and suggested his support for the pro deer camp was due to his homosexuality. the anchor inclined attest to that let me have been influenced by the fizzy stuff. opposition leader telling klitschko. a former boxer its content rather than in the area ultimately it. russ

basic needs so considering that this policy has existed for so many years it's truly remarkable communist party leader xi jinping was able to convince government leadership to dismantle this oppressive system you see she's own father was sent to one of these labor camps for seventy years during china's cultural revolution and one of his main missions as general secretary has been to cut down the powers of china's massive state security apparatus but even if these camps are removed many human rights advocates are still concerned that the system will only be replaced with another less harsh method of a prison in political critics without trial for now this is a major step in the right direction and shows that although it may take decades brutal and humane and seemingly and movable systems can be changed. some of you might be familiar with the documentary trilogy splenda three parts the first of which explores the social constructs that keep humanity's consciousness stunted the next an exploration of our economic system proving its own sustainability of the current and third is an outline a bluepr

scary c word has just confirmed that he was indeed a member of the south african communist party at the time of his arrest and it's not too much of a shock when you consider how mandela equated poverty and inequality to slavery in apartheid as social evils same quote overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity it's an act of justice it's a protection of a fundamental human right the right to dignity and a decent life while poverty persists there is no true freedom. here's another tidbit that the mainstream media won't touch mandela never brought into america's never bought into america's war on terror not only was there a fervent critic of the bush administration and spoke out against the execution of prisoners about due process he even said this about bin laden he said the labeling of a some of bin laden as the terrorist responsible for those acts before you've even been tried and convicted could also be seen as undermining some of the basic tenets of the rule of law but bin ladin wasn't the only surprising figure that mandela spoke out about he also defended moammar gadhafi and fid

more than eighty six percent of japanese communist party supporters apart is the visit. the poll also showed about fourteen percent didn't support of maize cabinet in terms of diplomacy. and that's ten percent higher than the previous poll the approval rating from a bevy of this time to drop to more than forty seven aka his approval all the secrecy law and that was the most striking since he took office mafia. chinese americans chinese nationals and its goods in new york of held a seminar condemning kids the bases as i say it was a provocation to the international justice and the tramp playing on the conscience of humankind they're calling on the ave government to acknowledge and correct the mistake and take measures to eliminate the damage. this visit to the us increased run has a restitution and indignation of overseas chinese are the bits of holding such as salmon eyes to show i was stunned some the most support the attitude of the chinese government and people on the two minute tourism is a common enemy of the chinese and american people will say it the event is the

really can go on as per his uncle from the communist party leadership. it was the scene is the latest in a series of efforts to bolster his own house with great animation show to go on to embrace change and some thai officials in the town. he had been conceded the second nieces nephew in the house structure was the laziest and most significant exposure to condone and has made since assuming office two years ago promises big on disarming a rebel groups in the central african republic four days off to the un says that order must be restored. french forces say that there was a brief exchange of gunfire as that is the moments that about sixteen hundred french troops are now patrolling the capital bagley islamist militias known as silica had been terrorizing inhabitants of the two in march the interim president who rose to power in the two villages studio has admitted that he has lost control of his former support. business news now and the european aerospace giant eds has announced thousands of job cuts. order a structure by mobile phone is managing eastleig

into the two are said to have been executed on charges of plotting anti communist party schemes against the kingdom and the team. the cake is not only content and uncle. he has also been the strongest supporter at the north korean leader and oversaw the entire power succession process also as a vice chairman. at full control of the national defense commission the state's most powerful party. so why the sudden falling out although there are no clear answers the general consensus among political analysts is that he was filled with mr in a power struggle with vice marshal at him and for telling a major shift in north korea's power structure. today is probably one of the four members of the decision making the stadium at the central committee workers' party and vice chairman of the party central military commission south korean officials present. given the gravity of the matter back to tillman is behind all this. according to seoul's national intelligence service skin is breaking awarded the executions and feverish week conducting so called ideology execution fine we'll see. the sudden chan

have become more prosperous and the communist party knows that the rising middle class means stability. if five hundred million chinese are middle class then the country will be very stable then domestically it's stable that's the first priority therefore the beijing cannot do anything which would in fact harm that economic growth they don't want to get into a conflict with japan and have a military conflict face to face conflict they don't want to military conflict with the united states they don't don't want to see to be seen as the bad boys they want is seen as ok we talk to you and so on we're very polite and so on we don't want to lose face and so on the other thing is that china in fact is a country which figures that over the last hundred years or at least a hundred years before nine hundred forty nine it was treated very badly by the outside world and that's still right because that's still in chinese history textbooks chinese repeaters to the top but more things like that that still rankles with them and so on and so therefore they're working that out and they still haven't ac

volgograd region starting from today not just the first three days as was initially planned and the communist party of russia among others have actually turned with an official request to the first president to declare a state wide mourning period for the country or the horrible events in volgograd. from central moscow many thanks indeed for that we appreciate it and the reaction to the tragic events in volgograd has been coming in from across the globe international leaders have been offering their sympathy is german chancellor angela merkel said both acts of terror cause a feeling of indignation and disgust the u.s. state department stressed its solidarity with the russian people against terrorism of any kind the u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon expressed his deepest sympathies to the families of russia while the president of israel shimon peres said his heart is with the victims of the latest a horrific acts and he spoke about the international sympathy with. who's ever century in russian affairs for the british east and west center and he called terrorism the chiro of the world which should b