>> constantine didn't care which side won this debate.ristianity because he wanted a unified empire, and he wanted to christianity to help him unifiy his culturally diverse empire, so he wanted christians throughout the empire to agree on major theological issues. >> in the year 325 a.d., constantine called the world's bishops to the small town of nicaea outside the imperial city of byzantium to grapple with the essence of christian belief. >> what we now call the nicaean creed, "i believe in god, the father almighty and heaven on earth." those tenets of faith come down from the 4th century and are still the bottom line of christian teaching today. >> in the heart of the nicaean creed and christian faith is the jesus was both god and man. >> the earliest communities were already giving jesus the worship that could only be given to god. this is happening 30 years of jesus' death, but to find a philosophical language in which to say it, in which to formulate it, that took 300 years. the council of nicaea was not called in order to decide wh

it was another roman emperor, constantine, who came to the rescue.tle a miracle, or just smart politics to pacify a growing faith? >> mighty rome was in trouble, threatened by war-like tribes i've been taking a multivitamin for years. centrum silver. both of us actually. our pharmacist recommended it. and that makes me feel pretty good about it. and then i heard about a study looking at multivitamins and the long term health benefits. and what do you know? they used centrum silver in the study. makes me feel even better, that's what i take. sorry, we take. [ male announcer ] centrum. the most recommended. most preferred. most studied. centrum, always your most complete. >> before the battle, he had a vision in which he saw a sign of the cross in the sky, and the words written over it that said "by this conquer" he didn't know what this meant, so he called in some dream interpreters, and they told him this meant that it was the cross of christ that would allow him to be victorious. and so he arranged to have the image of the cross painted on the shiel

constantine and his associates favored the option of integration. >> constantine was a consummate pragmatistate politician. and i think he gauged well the upsurge of interest and support christianity was... was receiving, and so played up to that very nicely and exploited it in his own rule. >> when constantine came into power and started to favor christianity, he did do many things that plainly showed a support for christianity. he gave money for the building of churches, money for the copying of scriptures, he exempted clergy members from having to perform civic duties on town councils, that kind of thing. >> the bishops are able to take advantage of constantine's mood and his curious intellectual interest in things like christology and the trinity and church organization. they're able to have bibles copied at public expense. they're finally able to ve public christian architecture and big basilicas. so there's a comfortable symbiotic relationship between the empire and the church. >> all that certainly stands in favor of his true christian commitment. on the other hand, he did retain the

let's bring in our body language expert, susan constantine, to help us.e want to start with house speaker, john boehner. he was saying on wednesday he was optimistic about a deal. >> republicans are committed to continuing to work with the president to come to an agreement to avert the so-called fiscal cliff. optimistic that we can continue to work together to avert this crisis and sooner rather than later. >> very next day, boehner is suddenly grim, talks having accomplished a thing. >> no substantive progress has been made in the talks between the white house and the house over the last two weeks. this is not a game. jobs are on the line. the american economy is on the line. and this is a moment for adult leadership. campaign-style rallies and leaks in the press are not the way to get things done here in washington. >> all right. susan, you're looking at the monitor and looking at his body language. what is it telling you? >> well, he's an intense guy to begin with. but when he's emphasizing a point, you see his eyebrows flash up, a quick little flash.

and he looked hard at the work of contemporary artists like constantin brancusi, whose radical reduction of the human form would help to define the path of moore's sculpture. he found a kindred spirit in an older contemporary, the american expatriate sculptor jacob epstein, a passionate advocate of truth-to-material and the bold forms of tribal art. moore had his first one-man show in 1928. it won him favorable reviews and an important friend, the influential critic herbert read, who admired moore's direct carving and the organic evolution of his forms. later in 1928, another coup: the architect of the new london transport headquarters selected seven sculptors to decorate the building. one of them was jacob epstein, moore's mentor. epstein recommended moore, who completed west wind in january of 1929. later that year, moore created his first masterpiece, bringing together his disparate sources in a single powerful work. it signaled a preoccupation that would consume him throughout his working life: the reclining female figure. i think what we see most clearly in that figure from leeds is

also points to an abuse of power in dispersing street demonstrations constantine dog off the foreign ministry's commissioner for human rights explained to us at r.t. the reason behind moscow's targeting if you. weigh the european union because the european union positions and most of its members position themselves as. works of democracy as certain yardsticks by which the international community absolutely must measure its own record wreckers in the field of human rights and nobody disputes by the way the fact that european union is in the european quite a number of its members not all but quite a number of its members develop democracies but what we see is there despite those effects there are some other effects there that are very serious challenges and problems in the european union and the in each and every or its member countries in the field of human rights. full interview with the russian foreign ministry's commissioner for human rights in the next hour here on out tonight still ahead he was well yemen's president attempts to break away from the political heritage of the count

violations are on the up in europe that's russia's foreign ministry commissioner for human rights constantine they'll go for a short break on tuesday was. the legacy no one should be proud. of scrap nationally touring pristine arctic landscape building stilton over their foundation pipes spewing black smoke over the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the spitzbergen archipelago don't make a pretty picture if the guiding principle here is the worse the better locals like to tell the story that back in soviet times when norwegians were visiting barons were they also an expressed amazement. at how prosperous this stuff was well times have obviously a change when they saw it lags they still attracting a region tourists are barons work i would then cons much needed cash that's why when business bad there ruining our goal is common as was uncovered here a few days ago instead of throwing it away the local administration decided to paint the bin you and put it at variance work central square that in the nine hundred eighty s. daryn's work was a burgeoning mining commu

from the grassroots level then russian football stars could start shining sooner rather than later constantine part of our team. now the russian women's curling team clinch gold at the european championships with a six five victory over scotland their new trainer is swiss coach thomas lips and as richard ample of late discovered lip service is working wonders. the disappointment of a two thousand and ten vancouver olympics seems a long way away for russia's women's curlers the victory of the recent european championships has given them renewed confidence as baby the reigning olympic gold medalist on their route to make sure ain't going to see that over the skin and a lot of the headlines for her displays and rightly so however their head coach thomas philips has also played a major part in getting his team to realize their potential. in the beginning to learn from. just how do a mention how the game should be but also. what kind of people are there. spoken a lot together and i think the way to where that how to work with and. it was really i think it's a question of didn't each other that i th

thrilling finale at oldham a jew swimming meetings and especially the fans' favorites the olympics constantine brought up of r t. now from the pool to the dojo as a japanese i kid our instructor recently held a master class here in moscow to inspire students of the martial arts which promotes peace and harmony because my childhood sports. joshing for nike is a modern martial arts not usually practiced competition but rather to develop and strengthen the body and mind i keep those derived from the summer of fighting techniques of ancient japan and has started to extend its global appeal over the past two decades students are told to use their attackers aggression and power against them this is done through the use of the frozen joint look some pins to your chicken style has the second largest arcade organization worldwide on and is often called the hostile because of its tough training methods here she can't emphasize this self-defense techniques and is one of the martial arts taught to the tokyo police. so despite its physical demands the aim of your she can is not about attacking your opponen

million euros russia's federal investigative committee has a stablish that allegedly he of and constantine should show from faire russia and the commies prospectively promised for a fee to get a businessman on to their party's electoral lists giving him a spot in the lower house of the duma the investigators have forwarded the state duma an official request to strip the two m.p.'s of their parliamentary immunity and you're darn right they better street have their parliamentary immunity stripped i mean what's worse than government corruption some people in the government being so corrupt they can actually sell the government itself to someone for a fee so positions in parliament corruption on this high of a level needs to be punished severely breaking rocks in siberia or worse sounds pretty good to me tolerating flagrant corruption does not a great civilization make but that's just my opinion. wealthy british style. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy with. the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser report. twenty four. it's already a twent

most likely go down to a thrilling finale with little to choose between tezuka m g and the need constantine but out of r.t. . so after all that action let's look at the best of the rest from the past week in the world of sport. on monday let's stay in russia as defending champions need hosted angie in the last top flight match before the winter break but if you watch this from the battle as it was played behind closed doors and she took a first half lead through zhao call us though the home side levelled in the second sensitives young off and one one it finished and she stay second zuni third with scott being the real winners as they stay top. choose day blade runner oscar pistorius proved once again these the fastest man on no legs after the six time paralympic champion out ran from grace force the arab start was called maserati but the sports car named didn't help the beast in the one hundred fifteen meter dash pistorius pulling off another victory to promote disability sport the south african also made history this summer by taking part in the london olympics was. that on wednesday forme

leaks has spoken for the first time since his arrest at a pretrial hearing bradley manning says constantine's id attacks made him consider suicide during his two years in detention he went through the longest pretrial detention of a u.s. soldier since the vietnam war as he was held for more than nine hundred days chase made our lawyer and author of a book on manning says even members of the military are supporting the prison and private. oh the kid in the military and intelligence and law enforcement is quite divided about this i'm not going to lie most people in the military have a very strict by the book attitude towards many of the rules not all the rules but many and would like to see many convicted but i have talked with infantry one of whom who is caught on camera at that infamous collateral murder how a cup your video who sees bradley manning is hero who sees the leaks of the iraq war logs including that helicopter video as an unqualified good because now americans can finally see how that war is actually going in ditto for the afghan war logs. there are also people in the f.b.i. who t

helena the mother of the emperor c constantine built the first church here.s restored in 529 ad and enhanced later on by the crusaders. >> i have also heard the idea behind the door was to make people bow down. >> be humble. >> not impossible by any means. >> once inside this ancient building visitors see a sight drastically different from the humble stable of the bible. greek orthodox main altar. >> very around nate. >> extremely around nate. you see the choir for the most. this is where literally every sunday every day in fact. >> the original church was an octagon built over the cave. it is now below the altar in the grot el of the nativity. father o'connor took us there. >> there are two altars this is the brothel of the nativity scene. if you put your hand through the whole you can touch. on this side this is the altar of the manger. >> even in this paceful place there are long running disputes. the altar of the manger belongs to the monks the other alter in greek orthodox. the other christian groups is the arameanian orthodox. >> there is splits every w

. >> we visited the church of the nativity built by the emperor constantine in iv century. >> why go a baby? well, luke tells us they laid him in a manger because there was no room in the inn. greek word is cataloma and that the guest house is full no, privacy. rather than give birth if guest room they take hor to the cave where things are quiet. >> many scholars believe jesus was born in nazareth. >> can anything good come from nazareth? jesus is from nazareth. the statement can anything good come from nazareth assumes he's from nazareth. >> that didn't make sense. they remind the readership he was born in bethlehem. >> book of luke says in the pregnancy, mary and joseph travelled to bethlehem to register for roman census. and angel reassured joseph he should take mary as his wife. joseph followed the angel's advice and saved her from ridicule. in the ancient world you acknowledge paternity by naming the child. you are stoned to death if they catch you in adultery. >> mary conceives by the power of the holy spirit so there is something special about the child. >> tremendous expectat

chris constantine sees more opportunity in the international market compared to the united states marketsding into the new year. they both join ugh us to break it down for us. john, we're all marveling in washington right now. >> the best deal would be if they got a deal that did something to correct the structural problems. but i think not going over the cliff is probably not good. it wouldn't have been that bad anyways. it would have gone back a day or two into the new year. >> what do you make of the market the fact it's up 140 points now and we don't have a deal yet? >> i think it's because the cliff talk was a bit like a magician's left hand. when he's doing the trick, he's distracting you with the left hand. i think things have been getting better internationally and domestically and we missed that because of what's going on with the cliff in washington. >> chris, what is it about the united states that makes you prefer international over domestic ones? >> first of all i agree with john that the u.s. market remains fairly attractive. the thing about international is a couple things.

we do not want to constantine a wire off america off from the world. our challenge is to strike a balance between the necessity of the mission, available resources, and tolerance for risk. we've talked about this on this committee. we had hearings specifically about the design of our embassies, the danger of becoming a fortress america, and we need to be safe, but we also need to send the right message to the people we are trying to reach. i remember feeling and seeing the difficulty of this in vietnam. villages would examine us suspiciously and give us a stare, an unmistakable stare raising more questions than we're ever able to answer. in iraq and afghanistan, i have revieted that -- revisited that stare as you pass through villages with guns and big armored personnel carriers and him view -- humvees and the look of confusion from iraqis or afghans who do not understand why we rumble there their streets that way is unmistakable. every diplomat feels this tension and worries about the misimpression our security footprint creates in the very minds of t

and he looked hard at the work of contemporary artists like constantin brancusi, whose radical reduction of the human form would help to define the path of moore's sculpture. he found a kindred spirit in an older contemporary, the american expatriate sculptor jacob epstein, a passionate advocate of truth-to-material and the bold forms of tribal art. moore had his first one-man show in 1928. it won him favorable reviews and an important friend, the influential critic herbert read, who admired moore's direct carving and the organic evolution of his forms. later in 1928, another coup: the architect of the new london transport headquarters selected seven sculptors to decorate the building. one of them was jacob epstein, moore's mentor. epstein recommended moore, who completed west wind in january of 1929. later that year, moore created his first masterpiece, bringing together his disparate sources in a single powerful work. it signaled a preoccupation that would consume him throughout his working life: the reclining female figure. i think what we see most clearly in that figure from leeds is