putin was, as a kgb agent, based in dresden in east germany. he was basically involved with recruiting east germans who could basically pass at west germans and travel to the west and spy on nato. that was the main, the main nation putin and his fellow kgb agents wereta tasked with. he drove a better car than the east germans themselves. he was living at home, but what happens is that by the end, when the wall comes down, putin talks about this in his autobiography, he was at his station in dresden and after the wall came down, the station was besieged by east germans basically finally had decided they'd had enough of the russians and who they worked with, the east german state police, and there's a scene where putin and his agents are basically burning so many of their files they'd gathered on people, that the furnace burst, and he actually called the local division of the red army that was in a barracks nearby and asked them to come and defend him, and he never came. and he wrote that this was deeply shocking to him. that this country that he

at least in dresden, berlin, and munich -- the cobblestone streets make it extremely difficult for anyone with a wheelchair or a walker or even with a cane or just to has difficulty walking to get around. so sometimes we rail at the regulations we are forced to put up with here in the united states and in california and in san francisco, but when you see the difference in other areas of the world, you realize that perhaps we are quite progressive in that regard. and the other thing, although berlin and munich are flat, there are couple of slopes, there are no hills. tremendous bike usage. from talking to those who lived there for some time, greatly increasing to the dismay of cabdrivers. but they do a very good job once you get used to it of designating their bike paths. pedestrians do not walk on those paths. sometimes they are a part of the street. sometimes they are part of the wide sidewalk. they are relatively well designated either by color or marking and people observe them quite well. since that type of thing is coming to us, it was a very interesting to see how i got along. for t

. >> the film provides views from the north sea to the alps and from the church of our lady in dresden to a cathedral in cologne. >> the surface of the moon? guess again. this is an open cast mine in germany. these are images from a film called "germany from above." it gives viewers a whole new perspective on the country. the director had no shortage of ideas for capturing the unique images. >> we had cameras in fighter planes. we gave them to skydivers and been sued jumpers. and in the cockpits of stunt riders. we put one on a golden eagle. camera only way 100 grams -- the camera only weighed 100 grams. bamut is that more than 600 hours in a helicopter equipped with a special camera. a joystick is used to control the device which is mounted underneath. and after the first days of shooting, we noticed the pictures had an unusual is that equality and beauty. we could not improve them. in fact, we even tried to doctor the images of it to make them more attractive, but germany seen from above is simply beautiful. and some of those will be able to view germany from above for 110 minutes. t

. >> dresden was a technical university is new to the group here the funds are intended to make german universities more competitive internationally. drawing up the list is not an easy task. schools are judged on student performance as well as how much research they publish. >> but of course, a lot of universities by for the chance to get on to this important list. >> one of the universities that has missed out on this round of funding is strive board, but they have been on the list before. >> here is some of the research they are involved in. >> this is not something from a science-fiction film. it is basic research and action. the scientists are hoping to achieve what until now has only been possible in science fiction films. they want to move objects using thoughts alone, to use the nervous system to directly control technology. if there project turns out the way they hope, it will enable amputees to move their prosthesis' as if they were their own lands but -- limbs. >> our goal is to coordinate human movement with what is going on in the brain. there are devices known as brain mac

and i think the second thing was-- and it's very controversial-- after the war and the bombing of dresdenthat he seems to rerecoil from that level of destruction. maybe because the purpose was no longer clear to him. but the fact that he still had that dimension, that capability of sorrow, the sense of tragedy is very, very unusualvni. there was in that sense no brutal triumphalism. >> rose: no brutal triumphalism? >> the point about his character and power for me is that he's become very much a two dimensional figure. he's a symbol of british defiance, you have him with the cigar in his mouth. what i think is really interesting is the sense of the three dimensional character. a man quite complicated. full of complicated contradictory concerns but really incredibly powerful in all the things he does. i think you see more of his greatness than if you treat him as cotwo dimension. >> rose: and wasn't afraid to cry. >> afrayed to cry or show emotion. >> people said he was crying, they couldn't believe it. shed a tear. >> he's a larger-than-life character and that's something that needs to b