you know when you look at got a bunch of for me at the moment you know he was he was put into the crimea he was there for a few days he looks like he'd been there he was he was basically put out of business and then he comes back the coup fails but he ends up being the ultimate victim of the coup they tried to overthrow him. well that's true but i think a very important factor the beginning was to go but you offer a few as to be intimidated by the people who visited him they wanted him to give. him a say to what they were doing but in fact you know as general but any cough complained literally god which of us on parliamentary expressions took them so and he told them where to go and that was important what was also crucially important was that yeltsin had the legitimacy of having been elected president of russia just a couple of months earlier if they'd wanted to cool a year earlier it might have more chance of success what do you think about that nickel i mean the timing of it all here because the reform efforts weren't really yielding i mean maybe there was hope but the facts on the gr

had already been removed and detained in his villa in the crimea with motivated the plotters to overthrow the existing order was the new union treaty designed to decentralize political power within the u.s.s.r. and indirectly weaken the position of that all powerful communist party little did they know however the coup attempt would encounter strong resistance from many in the military as well as the general public who by that time had begun to save or change as often happens in russia's history when the when these reforms start accumulating from the top. there's a sense of disenchantment in society there's obviously the sense there's no way things are going to go back to the way they used to be it was in order to some control of the russian parliament building the committee ordered tanks to roll into moscow boris yeltsin then considered a political maverick and reformist led russian parliamentarians in opposition to the coup and that's what it clearly illegal all the decisions and decreased by the state of emergency committee. shortly most of the troops either decided to return to their

from the crimea, the site of odessa and that was equivalent to what peter did in the north. peter the great, by taking the baltic territorys from sweden. mo importantly, probably, was that she brought european culture. whereas peter had restructured russia administratively and militarily... >> rose: peter the great. >> peter the great. yes, not her husband. catherine... catherine's overriding purpose, ambition, was to bring europe and european culture, art, medicine, education to russia. >> rose: where did that come from? clearly it was added to by the correspondents with voluntary and everybody else. >> exactly. it came from youth. as a very young child she was tutored and well tutored by a groupf protestant tutors and a lutheran minuter? rmany where she was born. but shwas alwayscontentious. she challenged the tutors. she said "how can the scripture condemn men of antiquity, the great m prejesus christ when... for not being aware of salvation when they couldn't possibly have?" and the tutor couldn't answer. he said to the governness "we must discipline her, be her a little

elsewhere in the crimea that you guys are shocked nine hundred see flavia pennetta in three sets but patrick aliquid that's about is out after going down in three sets to four years on mentee eight for france. the n.f.l. now eli manning was the star of the new york giants stunned draining super bowl champions the green bay packers thirty seven twenty one both failed to win the n.f.c. divisional playoffs while the major upset didn't look on the cards with the game even poised going into the half time break but on the last play before the intermission manager picked up hockey sticks with a thirty seven yard pass to give new york a twenty ten lead all the home side then struggled to get back into the game and were guilty of giving away too many turnovers switched around effectively sealed their place in the n.f.c. championship game and manning threw a four yard touchdown pass to mario manningham to give the business a thirteen thirteen lead in the fourth thirty seven twenty is how it finished in new york the next day san francisco for a place in the super bowl. for me while the baltimor