czechoslovakia like its heroes ben nish and marjoric, is dead.rn europe, in the words of winston churchill, an iron curtain has descended across the continent. behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of central and eastern europe. behind the iron curtain it is easy to express contentment with your lot and difficult and dangerous not to. but human freedom dies hard. uprising strikes in east germany and 1953 and in poland in 1956 are put down with local police, augmented by russian soldiers. in poland, concessions are made so that poland today, although indisputably communist, permits a degree of freedom unheard of in the other iron curtain countries. poles are permitted to criticize government decisions if they do so discreetly. an occasional political joke allowed, but loud laughter is not recommended. you might disturb your neighbor and he might be the law. budapest, october, 1956, these demonstrators are not anticommunists. in fact, many of them, hungarian students particularly, are communists who feel that as hungarians the

and he gave way over czechoslovakia because he thought it was right to give way over czechoslovakia andbecause he knew no one in britain was prepared to go to war 1938 to save to kosovar care. in advisedly one that had happened and chamberlain became a world-class hero the "new york times" lavished praise on him for saving us all for more 1938, he gave an unconscious guarantee to poland to protect them if they were attacked by germany even though it was already at her-- bs that polling was the next on his list. and hitler was convinced that chamberlain would never go to war if he attacked poland that. he said once in between discussions in 1938, political discussions in munich chamberlain attempted to make small talk with hitler by talking to him about dry fly fishing, a major interest of neville chamberlain's and not something about which hitler knew anything or cared and he came back from that meeting saying i know these people. they are spineless worms, worms in his mind because of the natural connotation with fishing and he probably never got the difference between dry fly fishing a

donald tusk really represented what i call the poorer countries, like poland, hungary and czechoslovakias decisive and ineffective. 0ther believes it is decisive and ineffective. other people have thrown their hands up in horror. he is right because what he is saying is right because what he is saying is to wake up and smell the coffee. he isn't racist or anti—immigration, he is just saying the system is wrong. i'm almost going to skip nafta. the only thing i would like to say on this, obesity is up from 6% to 20%. that is bad. that's your mcdonald's and coca—cola. 6% to 20%. that is bad. that's your mcdonald's and coca-cola. you can't blame everything on anyone in particular. that's quickly get to what has been our conversation for the day, which is giving your youngsters alcohol as a way of teasing them into it and making them responsible. it doesn't work, is the message we have been told. we've had a couple of tweets. there's one from someone in america who alcohol is the worst gateway in every culture but it is idolised in america and used as a centrepiece for every occasion. i think

have heard from czechoslovakia for example that it is considering moving its embassy to west jerusalemo the area that israel formerly controlled. you.: thank recep tayyip erdogan is in greece today for the first official visit by a turkish president in six decades. the trip got off to a tense start with the turkish leader repeating comments about the need to update the 1923 treaty that lines out the borders of modern turkey. let's bring in jasper mortimer. tell us about what happened today. before leaving turkey, president recep tayyip erdogan gave an interview to greek media in which he said that the treaty which is the bounding treaty of turkey needed a revision to update it. greece replied this morning that treaty was nonnegotiable. and very pointedly said that it hoped erdogan was coming to athens in order to build bridges, not build walls. back to a history of tetension between the treaties. there are partrts of the treaty that turkey has not fulfilled. forr insnstance, underer the try it is obliged to give the ficial mororities in turkeyy such as the greeks, the armenians and the

and czechoslovakia. you can't remember anything quite as wild as the campaign of 1968. >> this was a year that was full of them from start to finish. and lbj's surprise of deciding to drop out of the race, he had never announced -- an incumbent president would not have to announce his candidacy is just presumed that he will go to the convention without competing in any primaries and he will be nominated. without having ever announced a campaign, although there was one under way, lbj dropped out in the single most dramatic speech moment of the campaign. and no one knew he was going to do it except for his wife and a couple of other people in the white house. but his secretary of state, secretary of defense, they didn't know it was coming. they were as shocked as the rest of us. >> one of the things i want to give you props for, many at the side of their male candidates are often overlooked in the biographies of campaign years. did you not do that. you are the first person who introduced me to abigail mcca

what gave me a happy feeling — now england is leaving, poland is like a dictatorship, hungary, czechoslovakiataly, who is the strongest left? the germans. but germany today is a bulwark of moderation, of tolerance compared to so many messages coming from hungary or marine le pen or from so many people in so many corners. as long as our economy is great and as long as we make money, everything is very democratic. but let's wait and hopefully not see if we have five to ten years heavy economic problems and the swamp is a lake, it is a sea and we are swallowed again. i swear it to you. i don't trust it. it always makes me... thinking and feeling exactly wait a minute, there is something else. you can lead a happy life but there is something else around you. yeah, it hurts but, on the other hand, because i have had a really happy life. ask my grandchildren. niklas, what a nice way to end and we must. thank you for being on hardtalk. hello. friday starts with a number of wintry weather warnings from the met office covering many parts of the british isles. we have very specific concerns about the a

it‘s a tradition which began in 1989 after the fall of communism in what was then czechoslovakia.rowd led by professional conductors and soloists — with the main train station also turned into a concert hall for the occasion. the piece of music they‘re singing is by the czech composer jakub jan ryba. you can find out much more on that story and our other main stories, on oui’ story and our other main stories, on our website, bbc.com/news. the weather now with helen willetts. hello again. although it has been a mild run up to christmas and that will continue today on christmas eve, we will notice a change by the end of christmas day. it is set to get much colder. the snow risk will increase and some of us may yet have a white christmas and it could be windy in the next 48 hours. we had some brightness through the day on saturday. this was durham late in the day. we might not see as much brightness. there is an active weather front marching into the north and west of the uk now. we still have tightly packed isobars, so windy weather. they are coming from a mild south—westerly direct

it's a tradition which began in 1989 after the fall of communism in what was then czechoslovakia.'s become an altogether bigger affair with the crowd led by professional conductors and soloists with the main train station also turned into a concert hall for the occasion. chinese consumers are spending billions of dollars every year on pampering their pooches in a trend that has seen doggie day spas popping up all over the country. the rise has been linked to a cultural and generational shift in china, which has seen pets considered as part of the family. shuba krishnan reports. forfashion designer for fashion designer cow, no forfashion designer cow, no expense is too much when it comes to her classy canine, rue. she gets groomed, dressed in designer clothes, and her organic meals are made of the best cuts of meat. translation: before i used to get her dog food but now i cook for her myself, natural food, her dog food but now i cook for her myself, naturalfood, fresh things like different kinds of meat, and it is all organic, very good quality, vegetables, toys, clothes, watches,

it is a tradition which began in 1989, after the fall of communism in what was then czechoslovakia.athered on the steps of the bridge. since then it has become an altogether vigor affair, with the crowd led conductors and soloists, the main stadium also turned into a concert hall for the occasion. the piece they are singing is by a czech composer. a man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a woman working at an aldi supermarket in north yorkshire. neville hord, who is 44, was remanded in custody by magistrates in york. jodie willsher was stabbed to death in skipton on thursday. 0ur correspondent sarah walton sent this report. arriving at york magistrates‘ court, 44—year—old neville hord appeared in the dock charged with murder. he is accused of attacking 30—year—old jodie willsher at the aldi store in skipton, where she was working on thursday afternoon. she suffered serious injuries and died in the store. there were no relatives in court this morning, and mr hord, dressed in a blue t—shirt and grey shorts, spoke only to confirm his name, age, and address. he didn't ente

it's a tradition which began in 1989 after the fall of communism in what was then czechoslovakia.bridge. since then it's become an altogether bigger affair with the crowd led by professional conductors and soloists with the main train station also turned into a concert hall for the occasion. let's hear some more. all sing. don't forget you can get in touch with me and some of the team on twitter, i'm @benmbland. also plenty more news on our website whenever you want it. you can also download our news to keep up—to—date with all of the latest while you are and about. —— news app. this is bbc news. thank you for watching. hello again. although it has been a mild run—up to christmas and it will continue today on christmas eve i think we will notice a change by the end of christmas day. it is set to get much colder service no risk will increase. the first may get have a white christmas and it could be potentially pretty windy as well in the next 48 hours. we did have some brightness through the day on saturday. this was durham late in the day. i don't think we will see as much through

them, 90 news cbs news, czechoslovakia has been invaded.he was going to do a minute and a half thing. it was going to be a major story. they kept cutting it back. about one minute before air or two minutes before air, they got great fire footage from downtown little rock and nobody was hurt. it was just pictures of fire. and they cut his report back to 20 seconds. and he said, if they hadn't had the money to fight that fire, i would've had my minute and a half. it was clearly spent in my mind. mcneil always said that too. sassy, youoo fat and will do things that are not required. this way, when you are limited by money, you do what you must rather than what you kind of want to do. >> in radio, that is not true. what we are doing is opening doors all over the place. when we are living in a world where what happened in athens youcts your 401(k), done, need to have more international coverage rather the them less and more national coverage. goes toly, the money those very expensive foreign bureaus which are very difficult to do. i would argue

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stalin's rhetoric will not -- the czechoslovakia. and the berlin air lift in 1949/1950. were all signs that our relationships with the russians was going badly. a gentleman by it name of george kennen who wrote a very long telegram out of moscow outlined his had worries and fears and that really outlined american policy for the next 30 years. tilted the united states towards containment of the soviet union and became even more offensive in the 1950s when korea was -- when south korea was ifvaded by north korea. of course it domino theory was beginning to be explained for one of the reasons of the containment theory. the it government also started looking at rollback as a possible policy and rollback was nothing more than pushing the soviet union back to strip it of its eastern europe and european countries. roam in aia, yugal slav -- yug slavia, and the czech republic were all within it soviet sphere. and the british mi-6 or secret intelligence service began to run programs to actually turn those countries against the soviet union. as we all know most of them did not wor

he came here from czechoslovakia. the declaration of independence and constitution, he wanted to literally -- it was deteriorating. he wanted to literally re-created down to every smudge in detail. doing this with plates and negatives. it's a great piece. >> what is your best seller? >> we do a lot of clothing. a tremendous amount is outsourced and coming from overseas but there are many factors here who do clothing. we have a lot of innovative products. things that haven't made it to the big chain department stores yet. we tried to give small businesses the first step. >> how do you go about sourcing? every single element and ingredient is all made in america? >> there are government standards what you can call made in the usa and what you can't. for example, you can't find a flashing light made in the u.s. if you have a doll house and there's a flashing light, the entire thing is made in the u.s. except for that little piece, still considered made in the usa. >> isn't more expensive to make it in the usa? >> it depe

he was then sent to prague as the soviet ambassador to czechoslovakia who married his elder daughter's then teacher, a german woman whose daughter loved to hate. [inaudible] 1928 and about 1932 the soviet governments builds a new socialist states and at the same time built a house for itself, the house of governments. the house of government was classified as a building of the transitional type, halfway between communalism based on monetary zen boudoir housing organized around family apartments, which was a compromise. early soviet communalism was interchangeable individuals living transparent lives in public buildings. the question really was whether individual would be attached and multi- story public buildings, communal buildings or endless roads traversing this new center landscape. some people envision floating and flying with individual dwellings with each individual human being behaving. [inaudible] soviet collectivism and bourgeois individualism resided in families. of the points with a leap latter to the former on what they call the kingdom of necessity into the kingdom of fre

actions of the soviet union and poland and the czech republic, not yet the czech republic, but czechoslovakia in the late '40s. the berlin air lift in 1949, 1950, were all signs that our relationships with russians was going badly. gentleman by the name of george kennan, who wrote a long telegram out of moscow outlined his worries and fears. and that really outlined american policy for about the next 30 years. kennen's policy tilted the united states towards containment of the soviet union. and became even more offensive in the 1950s. when korea was -- when south korea was invaded by north korea, of course, the domino theory was beginning to be explained as one of the reasons for the containment theory. the government also started looking at rollback as a possible policy. and rollback was nothing more than pushing the soviet union back into its internal order. to strip it of its eastern european country. bulgaria, romania, yugoslavia, poland along with the eastern baltic states were all within the soviet sphere, and the cia and the british mi-6 or special secret intelligence service, began th

he takes it into the end zone for the touchdown czechoslovakia out the celebration here, jones and crewng tribute to the rockettes. >> very nice. keeping alive with victory. >> sixers off tomorrow. they are on the road to face the bulls, lost in triple over time to the thunder 119-117. sixers have now lost five out of six. and are one game out of the final playoff spot. >> game between drexel and temple, at the liacouras center, second half, always up by two, dragons with the ball, kirkly drive to the paint, kicks the ball out. drexel with the lead. >> game tide. temple, drivers, misses, he gets the rebound. scores. temple takes the leads for good. one last chance to tie the game. three pointer. just little short. temple holds onto beat drexel 63-60. >> and that's all for sports, this morning, i'm joe holden. have a great day. >> and still to come this morning, right here on cbs-3 " eyewitness news." a new home for the holidays. what this pet, and couple of others, are looking for, animal advocate carol ericson explains the pros and cons of holiday pet adoptions, that's when "eyewitness

the timeed to be at the russians invaded czechoslovakia, so we had a little excitement there. i went to vietnam and commanded in infantry rifle company. having completed a special forces course, i was able to transfer into an officer and special forces group. ,fter coming back to the states i had a number of different assignments. one of them was teaching military history at west point and at the army command and general staff college. i then went to fort bragg and the operations officer and the deputy g3 of the special operations command at fort bragg . , where i the pentagon served as a special forces force thelopment officer at pentagon developing future material for army special operations. phd, and and got a in early two thousand two, i went to afghanistan as an army armyact historian with the special operations command. i should mention that at the i became the g3, i had transferred to special forces up until then special forces had not been a branch. it had just been special. i took off my cross a arose as infantry put them on a special forces, and did that for the rest

in czechoslovakia, the villages are dying. in china, hunger, despite a good harvest. and in the united states, red lines and poverty. there's nothing new about this. the question here is soviet propaganda had a very low credibility. its effects in the west were actually very, very -- at the end -- no effect at all. but the soviet propaganda failed also to convince its own population later, in the late period of the soviet union. the situation with the russian propaganda is different. they're much more smarter. and this is, of course, the challenge. i'm not an expert in cyber on the technical part. the interesting thing is the hybrid operations, where information operations come in, e had a case which was quite exceptional or quite sensational in the fall of 2015. when all of a sudden the russians let third country nationalists without documents cross over to for thisway. 5,000 people crossed over -- to norway. 5,000 people crossed over. after that, 1,000 crossed over to finland. hey just distribute only reference you can make about this, they just could not resist pla

this happened to be at the time when russia invaded czechoslovakia. we had excitement there. i left there and went to vietnam, where i commanded an infantry rivalry company. i was able to then transfer into when russia invaded being a plans officer at the special forces group in nha trang. if you're coming back to the -- after coming back to the states, i had a number of different assignments. among them was teaching military history at west point and that -- and at the army command and general staff college. i then went to fort bragg and became the deputy chief g3 of the first special operations command. then, i went to the pentagon, where i served as a special forces force development officer developing future doctrine and materiel for special operations. i retired and went to ku and got a phd. in early 2002, i went to afghanistan as an army contract historian with the army special operations command. i should mention about the time i became the g3, i had transferred to special forces because, until then, special forces had not been a branch. it was just a specialty. i took

hitler had gotten something, had made a promise that he was ready to appease hitler by giving away czechoslovakia in reality, appeasement didn't work with adolf hitler in appeasement will work with vladimir putin in the world right now where putin is an extremely nasty man causing all sorts of trouble, bombing children in syria, doing a lot of that stuff and the only policy we can have truth to it than russia's one of appeasement.notme >> at the end of year the russian president as a marathon news conference. the headlines in the "washington times" are invented. c-span.org. here is the next. >> we'll all do respect for the opposition in the u.s. that's an object about gone. there have been some themes not been able to execute like a health care reform for national relationship, promise to improve relations with russia. even if he wanted to do that, he is not able, but does he still haveve this decision? you have to ask him. i really hope he has that desire because it's the threat of the russian and american nation that weat will overcome shared threa, terrorists, terrorism, environmental issues.

square that vaclav havel announced the collapse of the communist regime, and with it, the end of czechoslovakia. when we were in prague, back in the united states, this happened. on august 19, 15,000 people went into the streets of boston in a counter protest that effectively shut down another march by white supremacists less than a week after charlottesville. i'm seeing these pictures of crowds of protesters in boston on my ipad while i am sitting in wenceslaus square looking at a guidebook of earlier protesters in prague. some thoughts started swirling in my head. one more thing struck me. lenin wall.n as the for those of you who don't know, it is a political visual joke. in the 1980's, they painted over it with quotations from and pictures of john lennon. [laughter] the cultural protest was known as lennonism. [laughter] here's an early picture from the 1980's. you can see the picture of john lennon up there. if you can tell, there are quotations from the beatles songs "all you need is love," , give peace a chance. "i'm a loser" for some reason. [laughter] the wall is still there. partly as

. >> just spent a minute more on czechoslovakia. how did they find you and what did do they want you to do and what did you do? >> the acting board asked me to step in as a ceo. i happen to have some time. i was betweendo bruce and like r and that sixrd months availableo i i took the job and flew to prague. i think that's a story of a board the came in 1983 when the country were together, 1991, and decided that the job was to just investing anything and everything, in minority equity positions in a country with her is just no legal framework or cultural understanding of what a private equity investment was. it was just a mess. they lost about 75% of their capital in the first two years. and again, i've been in this business my entire75 life. i've made a lot of bad deals. you lose money if they lost it at a a rate that was beyond normal. >> kim, did it have a happy outcome? >> well, we close down the activity can put everything to slovakia and the did, they had a second go at it. i think they did some very good things. there's a lega

. >> so can you -- just spend a minute more on czechoslovakia. how did they find you, and what did they want you to do, and what did you do? >> so the acting board asked me to step in as the ceo. i happened to have some time. i was between sort of moves in my career, and i had six months available. so i took the job and flew to prague. you know, i think that's a story of a board that came in 1993 when the countries were together, 1991, and decided that their job was to just invest in anything and everything in minority equity positions in a country where there was just no legal framework or cultural understanding of what a private equity investment was. and it was just a mess. i mean, they lost -- i think they lost about 75% of their capital in the first two years. and, again, i've been in this business my entire life. i've made a lot of bad deals. you lose money. but they lost it at a rate that was beyond normal. >> kim, let me quickly jump in and say does visit a happy income? >> well we closed down the czech taitt, moved everything into slovak

. >> can you just spend a minute more on czechoslovakia? how they find you and what did they want you to do and what did you do. >> so the acting board act asked us to step in and i was between moves in my career and i had six months available so i took the job and flew to prague. i think that's a story of a board that came in that in 1993 and decided that their job was to invest in anything and everything in minority equity positions in a country where there was just no legal framework or cultural understanding of what a private equity investment was. it was a mess. they lost about 75% of their capital in the first two years. again, i've been in this business my entire life. you do lose money but they lost it at a rate beyond normal. >> does this have a happy outcome? >> we close down the check activity, moved everything to slovakia and they had a second go at it. i think they did some very good things, there is a legacy foundation there, it's unfortunate that we lost our ability to continue in the checkeczech republic but there is no addi

from madeleine albright's, the first female secretary of secretary of state, an immigrant from czechoslovakia, or that of joseph pulitzer, a hungarian i immigrant or albert i-stein, a german refugee. my grandfather was born in mexico, he crossed the rio grande to come to this country. he served in our military. , became a citizen, married my grandmother and he raised a family. and his son, my father, began his career as a parking attendant at the old las vegas dunes hotel. he worked his way up through the ranks to become the first latino on the clark county commission and president of the las vegas convention and visitors authority. my mom and dad worked all their lives so my sister and i could become the first in our family to earn a college degree. my family taught me that when someone opens a door for you, you hold it open for the next person coming along after. and that's what i'm here in the senate to do. to make sure that every american gets that same opportunity my grandfather had, that my parents had, and that my sister and i had. it's time to recognize that dreamers are americans, th

he thought hitler had made a promise and he was willing to appease him by giving away czechoslovakia.eality, appeasement didn't work with adolf hitler and it won't work with vladimir putin. putin is an extremely nasty man who is causing all sorts of trouble, innovating ukraine and bombing children in syria. the only policy we can have towards putin an russia is one of containment. host: at the end of the year, the russian president has a marathon news conference. he held one yesterday in moscow. the headline in "washington times," the meddling is invented. [video clip] >> we have all the respect for the opposition in the u.s. who opposed donald trump. things he been some hasn't been able to execute like the health care reform and foreign international relations, he's promised improved relations with russia. even if he wanted to do that, he's not able to due to specific restrictions. maybe he doesn't have it. you will have to ask him. hope he still has that desire because it's in the interest of the russian and american nations. issues, iaenvironmental hope we can work together on them