to make a wish list and it's to take his place now the new leadership team was formed just after curtin unveiled sweeping changes to russia's political system where. that didn't has a new government ending a 3 month power vacuum triggered by mass demonstrations against the country's ruling elite a new prime minister and his cabinet must urgently come up with a plan to tackle lebanon's deep financial crisis is led to soaring inflation and banks restricting access to cash but the new hezbollah backed government may find itself having trouble winning support both at home and abroad months of protests left rudderless without effective leadership but now lebanon finally has a new government prime minister has sunday announced his cabinet chosen after intense wrangling by shiite group hezbollah and its allies getting a handle on lebanon spiraling economic crisis is the most urgent issue at hand or intifada i salute the uprising that pushed for this path to be taken lebanon has one this is a government that meets the aspirations of the protesters across the country after more than 3 months of

within 2 months communist dictatorships from the baltic to the black sea where i stood there and curtin was gone and europe appeared to be on the brink of a brighter future. but these hopes were dashed perhaps nowhere more so than bulgaria a country which despite the propaganda enjoyed one of the most repressive communist dictatorships. when the red army marched into bulgaria in the dying throes of world war 2 it began a reign of terror that lasted 46 years some little bit that there's a part of it then yup a whole mess it's better to put it so they but then are says their listeners and i said that he said here. everyone was targeted intellectuals peasants and iris to cry at. one of the 1st victims of communism was king simeon the 2nd you ascended the throne aged 6 after the mysterious death of his father's boris the 3rd he was reportedly poisoned on hitter's orders for refusing to send bulgarian jews to nazi death camps. the thing that struck me was that all of a sudden my father's a.d.c. addressed me as your majesty which of course he only used for my father and that's where i suddenl

it was parts of the iron curtin. and i still have the one that i was given. it's a piece -- some of the barbed wire that represented the iron curtain. so that had happened a little bit before, but no one really anticipated the events that occurred on november 8th and 9th. >> do you have any sections of the wall? >> we have sections -- i have a section of the wall. i'm speaking to you from the baker and james baker institute at rice university, and we have a big section of the wall right outside our building here on the campus of rice university. in fact, i was -- we had an event here not long ago with the foreign ministers who were serving at that time for great britain, france, and the united states and germany, i think. one of the most moving things for me, john, was when the day after this all happened, i got a call from the west german foreign minister. i answered the phone and said hello. before he could come on the line, his secretary said mr. secretary, i have minister gensher for you. before i put him on the line, may i just say to you god bless ameri