it turns east germany into a pressure cooker. there's a series of like to take leadership the lens why. if you live under dictatorship you basically have three choices as to how you conduct your life. those our loyalty, exit, or voice. loyalty, exit or voice. what that means is you can be loyal and put up with it and not complain and stay quiet which have happened during long periods of east german history, or you can exit, tried to flee. when the border opened between hungary and austria, exit became an option. when the east german regime sealed off these germany exit was withdrawn and loyalty was no longer tall there will. the only remaining option was voice of protest. or start a massive protest, particularly in the southern part of east germany a region historically known as saxony. people had been trying to get to czechoslovakia or hungary just got stuck there. a huge number of people who'd put everything taking everything they can ensue cases their children and they're fed up and not going to go home. you start to see in th

quarter of a million soldiers as it continues to strive to put down a separatist rebellion in the east. germany is hosting negotiations to find ways to the escalade the situation. >> their foreign ministry of germany, ukraine france. this comes against the backdrop of renewed fighting. ukraine says that russia is sending regular soldiers to support separatists. >> thousands of soldiers will be sent into the conflict region. casualties have been reported including civilians. >> tanks rocket launchers and other heavy military equipment. this is a pro russian rebel convoy. fierce battles are raging here and around the other rebel stronghold. ukrainian government says is not just troubles doing the fighting. tf maintains that 10,000 regular russian troops have been sent in secret to support them. on tuesday ukraine lost a massive mobilization. >> the government has submitted a law to parliament to increase the size of the ukrainian army to 250,000. that is an increase of 68,000 troops. >> moscow denies it soldiers have entered eastern ukraine. the foreign minister said that the rebels have agreed t

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petersburg from his posting in dresden, east germany, and he was looking for work. he would eventually find it at st. petersburg's city hall. his former law professor anatoly sobchak had just been elected mayor. sobchak's widow, ludmila narusava, remembers her husband's response when his former student insisted on telling him that he'd been working for the kgb. >> (translated): my husband was shocked by the candor and asked what his job was and he said he had worked in the german democratic republic in east germany, and he said "well, i just happen to be looking for people that know europe, that know the languages in order to work on foreign economic relations. they wouldn't have hired an idiot to work in reconnaissance, so i hope you can manage it. go work." and it needs to be said that according to my husband, he never regretted it. >> narrator: putin would soon be deputy mayor of the city and crucially, chair of the committee on foreign economic relations. >> he was the linchpin. he controlled which foreign companies could register their offices and receive offic

east germany as we know, from the stasi.ad-- what he had witnessed, the dictatorships, it is a form of control. you control dissent. and you control what people can say and freedom of expression, all those kinds of thing. that when governments start to do this internally, these are forms of censorship and dleelcontrol that do threaten. that once government turns surveillance powers inward, you squash basic freedoms of a society. and then we have sort of history -- in the u.s., there are what we know where they were going in and -- people engaging in legitimate defense. you know the civil rights movement et cetera. >> the ultimate question that people are still wrestling with is whether or not edward snowden is a whistleblower whether or not he's a traitor. i raise that and want to get your take on that. i think i know where you're going, but i want to ask you either way. i was on one of the sunday shows some months back. and i was actually surprised at all of the drama that i created by making -- what i thought of a pretty s

>> i was born in east germany, and east germany means you will never go out.ak down. and say wow, you will go! >> i haven't seen anything of this country yet, but what i read was the world's backwater filled with bombed-out banks that had been looted. institutions that didn't work. everyone carried a gun. it was like the wild west but poorer. it's not like that any more? >> a bit of this is true. i myself got a .45 on my head last week. that's really common for me. >> seldom in the history of the world where you have one after another the most maniacal, insa insane, suicidal group of dictators century after century. >> you are right. even in stressful times, the better part of paraguayans was behind it. paraguayans are very, very easy to influence. and this is, i believe, unchanged until a short time ago. now there is a growing middle class, better education than before, and that makes the people say no. >> how was the soup? >> i liked it, yes. was the way my wife cooks it. i like it better with chicken. but chicken is more for saturday. simply type in a name

east. with the cease-fire there in tatters, germany is looking to find ways to de-escalate the situation. > the meeting comes against the backdrop of renewed fighting. ukraine says russia sending regular soldiers to support separatists in the east. >> organizing thousands of soldiers to be sent into the region. thousands of casualties hve been reported, including civilians. >> this is a pro-russian rebel convoy. fierce battles are raging here and around the other rebel stronghold don't. but the ukrainian government says is not just rebels doing the fighting. kiev maintains that almost 10,000 regular russian troops have been sent in secret to support them. on tuesday ukraine launched a massive mobilization to call up more volunteers and reservists. >> the government has submitted to parliament to increase the size of the ukrainian army to 250,000. that's an increase of 68,000 troops. >> moscow denies it soldiers have entered eastern ukraine. russia's foreign minister said the rebels have agreed to withdraw heavy arms from a previously agreed demarcation line. >> as i've artie said, we will w

it was one of the most feared and hated institutions of east germany's regime. stasi was seen as a fortress of a cold war of the berlin. now 25 years old it is now a museum. giving people an idea of what it was like. we went to take a look. >> a featureless facade in the head germany's feared secret police. in its upper floors, preserved is the inner sanctum. this is the moisture of erich meilke. >> execute and if necessary without a court verdict. >> from his desk he ordered a ruthless clamp down on dissent. these are the faces of those conscripted, often against their will into spying on their neighbors and their friends. >> this is a stasi training video with instructions on how to gather evidence and make an arrest. behind each one of these doors is an interrogation chamber. the entire system was give over to one thing, making a prisoner confess. in the early days they would use sleep deprivation torture but later they would perfect operative psychology. >> they found out in their own secret service university they would get more information not from beating

for that >>> mexico's government says the students that went missing last sent are dead >>> >>> east germany's dark past - we tour around the headquarters of the secret police. >>> now, earlier on this week we heard the news that one japanese hostage held by i.s.i.l. in syria had been killed. video was released of another japanese hostage, alongside him, pleading for his life. his mother made an emotional plea. we are getting more from jordan from the foreign minister saying "you will hear good news. we have information that al-rishawi will be released within hours" that is a woman held since a failed bombing attempt. i.s.i.l. said if you release her, we may release some of those we hold hostage. we'll get news but japanese hostage kenji goto jogo who is being held by i.s.i.l. as part of the deal we understand also that a jordanian pilot could well be part of the negotiations. that's all we know at the moment. we'll bring you more as soon as we get it. continue with the fight against i.s.i.l. syrian kurds replaced. kurdish forces recaptured the town of kobane from i.s.i.l. fighters. they are y

thousands have turned occupant for antiislam demonstrations in east germany. chancellor angela merkel urged germ answer to turn their backs on them. >>> overflow of gambia's president, president yahya jammeh. clashes broke out on the first anniversary of controversial elections. sheik hasina has accused opposition leader of trying to create anarchy. >>> the united nations has stepped in to stop the execution of 54 soldiers in nigeria. they have been sentenced to death for disobeying a direct order to recapture three towns from boko haram. the u.n. says they didn't get a fair trial. boko haram killed dozens of civilians and soldiers, after they seized a town over the weekend. only nigeria troops are stationed there. meanwhile residents of the border town of nubia returning home after it was held for six weeks by boko haram. mohamed idris reports a warning you may find some images in his report disturbing. >> on the outskirts of mobi left it attended for two months when boko haram fighters overran the town. they now have lost a substantial amount of the produce.

. >> east germany's dark past took a tour around the once feared secret police. >> let's stay with the developing story. israel soldiers has been hit by a rocket fired from southern lebanon. the attack happened in the disputed shebaa farms area. on the border with lebanon. there are reports that it hit farmland close to the border. a confusing picture. let's bring in nicle johnson. she has the latest from beirut. talk us through what you are hearing about the attack. the initial response what have you been hearing. it's a confusing picture at the moment. >> that's right. the most significant thing from the lebanese story that hezbollah claimed responsibility. they came out and said they had no information. in the last 10 minutes they claimed responsibility. they have said that they carried out this attack in retaliation for the attack in syria, which happened a little over a week ago. this ratchets up the pressure and the tension between israel and lebanon. now, sources on hezbollah media - they are saying that nine tanks have been destroyed and a number of israeli soldiers killed and

. >> reporter: on an anonymous street a facade conceals the former headquarterers of east germany's fearedt police. on its upper floors preserved in its original condition, is the intersanctum of state repegs presentation. >> all of that dribble about no execution and no death sentence. nonsense execute, and with necessary without a court verdict. >> reporter: from his desk he ordered a ruthless clamp down on decent. these are the faces of those conscripted often against their will into spying on their neighbors and friends. this is the southeast surveillance training video, with instructions on how to gather evidence and make an arrest. behind each one of these doors is an interrogation chamber. the entire system was given over to one thing, making the prisoner confess. later they perfected the art of something called operative psychology. >> translator: they found out in their own secret service university that to get more information not from beating people but by fooling them into thinking they would be treated better. >> reporter: gilbert was arrested and jailed for producing subversi

the people who go there are mostly from a region in germany in the south of former east germany. if you look at the highest number of participants it is in the city of dresden the capital of the state of saxony. you now have more than 20, 25,000 people showing up. no other city in germany has a similar event. the city outside of duress dren wasdren -- dresden was leipzig. spot as a religion phenomenon focused on that city of saxony. especially in the city of dresden. demographics, it is a mix of younger people. there you could see quite a few who might fit the description of a far right protestor that you see elsewhere in germany and older people also couples more women than normally on far right events are with retired people or middle class people. who join the group. it is a mixed bag, there is a tendency that far right activists are mingling with the more normal folks worried about islam as a religion as worried about asylum seekers and immigration? >> that's hard to say because many of these people do not want to talk to journalists or social scientists. they have been two s

one of the most hated and feared institutions in what was east germany was the gestapo the secret police. now after the fall of the we are berlin wall, germans can visit a new museum. >> on an anonymous street, the headquarters of east german's feared secret police. on its upper floors preserved in its original condition is the inner sanctum of communist state oppression. this is the voice of eric milker head of state security. >> all that dribble about no executions. nonsense execute and if necessary without a court verdict. >> from his desk he ordered a ruthless clamp down. these are the faces conscripted often against their will into spying on their neighbors and friends. >> this is the surveillance training video with instructions on how to gather evidence and make an arrest. >> behind each one of these doors is an interrogation chamber. this entire system was given over to one thing. making a prisoner confess. in the early days they would use sleep deprivation beatings, torture, and later perfected the arrested of operative psychology. >> they found out in their own secret service u

east. it is in germany. these fields have never seen modern technology. and in the russian supplies of energy, take many years to play out it is your responsibility. thank you very much. [applause] >> i am here to take any questions. >> coming around, thank you. >> how do you see the impact of international efforts on controlling global warming on the affects on the hydrocarbon fuel markets both gas and oil and will it change this overall picture? >> unfortunately it won't. let's take germany which is trying to be the world leader in green energy for the last five years, year over year the electricity costs increased 25% to the point that is not economic without government subsidies. as a result in manufacturing in germany, leading germany, and they have increased their dependence on former soviet oil by 52% over the last decade so you look at the numbers, about 100 years away from it. it is great political lit service but a politician as grand ideas and fabulous ideas and we are years away from the enemy of solar being night. i finance the largest geothe

. >> the informant program that's so vast, in the muslim community today, it is like east germany thed war and cuba, where people are on the street corner spying on neighbors and family members and it's just multiplies, it's actually completely just out of control. >> but the lawsuit was killed by the u.s. attorney general, eric holder. the government argued that allowing it to move forward would reveal state secrets and significantly harm national security. the justice department declined al jazeera's request for an interview, stating there was no upside to discussing the issue. operation flex has undermined the relationship between federal law enforcement and the muslim community in southern california. >> i feel very betrayed personally because i was one of the most vocal proponents of strengthening a relationship with the fbi. we expected the fbi is there to protect us, protect our community from criminals. not to go and hire criminals to actually come into our mosques and put our youth at risk. >> you can't really trust the fbi anymore. i mean period. you cannot trust the fbi any

. >> in addition you identify fourth amendment concerns and actually went to the former east germany and found out what the styles he knew about its citizens. how much more less? >> well there were a couple a couple of people on whom they had dozens of binders they they measured surveillance and binders. but average files were 20 to 50 pages, handwritten not as robust as a typical facebook profile. nowadays the timeline dates back several years. they years. they did not no how to be repressive. i always want to be cautious with this. we are better better at surveillance but not as good as repression. >> does it work? you tell the story of one of the people who the government has offered as an example of someone caught through surveillance, and yet it is not clear that the surveillance itself was the cause. >> the one the government uses most often to defend the ms a bulk surveillance ever since the snowdon revelation, a guy who wanted to blow up subways. and they identified him because he had written an e-mail to someone overseas who was a known terrorist. they caught that through th

this isn't east germany.n't keep an entire population under daily surveillance from fear they're going to do something violent. on the other hand you see the result of doing it. these are deep questions tied with the nature of having liberal thin. >> rose: thank you for coming. >> thank you. >> rose: back in a moment. stay with us. >> rose: steven brill is here his 2013 "time" magazine cover story was widely praised for sign ag light on the astronomical cost of healthcare in this country. soon after the publication brill himself became a patient. he was diagnosed with a life threatening aortic aneurism that required surgery. that experience helped shape the narrative of his new book. the book is called america's bitter pill. it chronicled the affordable care act. i was conceived and implemented. also considers what impact it will havep< on the healthcare industry going forward. i'm pleased to have steve brill back at the table. welcome. >> thank you. always good to be here. >> rose: tell me about what happene

own sense of national identity, particularly as we see the rise of anti-islam movements in the east of germanyularly in the city of dez dresden. >> all right neave thanks very much brinking us the latest from berlin where the chance her is addressing. >>> now, two climb nurse california have made history by scaling the peak of yosemite national park's el captain rock without losing climbing tools they cheered with joy after rink the top of what many consider the world's most difficult rock climb. the summit is higher than the world's tallest building in dubai. they were free climbing. meaning they only used harnesses and ropes in case of a fall other, wise they had to rely on their own strength to climb the nearly vertical wall. >> really i would say relief is stronger emotion than pride. i have been proud of him for a long time. you know, the whole world is just learning about the person that i have known for his whole life. so i have always been proud of him. >> as a matter of fact, one of the guys, his finger was sawed off, used to be a carpenter so he's actually only climbing with nine fin

amendment concerns you identified fourth amendment concerns and you actually went to the former east germany and found out what stasi knew about his citizens. how much more are listed stasi know then you? >> the stasi if they really wanted there were couple of people on whom they had dozens of binders. they measured their surveillance inviter so some people had -- but i looked at average files which were 20 to 50 pages longhand written. that was translated by stasi experts and they were not as robust as a typical facebook profile. nowadays the timeline dates back several years. that's not to say they didn't know how to be repressive. they were far more repressive and guys want to be cautious with this. we are better at surveillance but not as good at repression we want to make sure we keep it that way. >> you tell the story of the saucy hugh is one of the people who the government has offered as an example caught through this prism surveillance and it is not clear as the ravens itself was the cause of it and he might have been caught without it. >> the saucy case the government uses to defen

let's look at the most recent operable transaction, the one between east and west germany. ll for rebuilding the country cost the west about $2 trillion. when the wall fell, the west german economy was about 10 times the size of the east. that is where the problem lies when we consider korea the lack of reliable information. we don't know a whole lot about the north. pyongyang has an released official gdp data since 1965. the best estimate is from the south korean central bank, which puts its northern neighbor's economy at about $30 billion, making the south about 50 times larger. how much would it cost? just to show you how much in the dark everybody is estimates range from $50 billion to more than $3 trillion. the financial services commission put out an estimate of $500 billion to be spent over 20 years. even the chief admits he is embarrassed about how unreliable their calculations are. while he can barely make a rough estimate, we do know it won't be cheap and it won't be simple. south korea's 50 million people enjoy one of the world's highest living standards. many of

let's look at the most recent comparable transaction, east and west germany. ll for rebuilding the country cost the west about $2 trillion. when the wall fell 25 years ago the west german economy was about 10 times the size of the east. that is where the problem lies. the lack of reliable information. we just don't know a whole lot about the north. pyongyang hasn't released official gdp data since 1965. the best estimate perhaps is from the south korean central bank which puts its northern neighbor's economy at about $30 billion, making the south about 50 times larger. how much would it cost? just to show you how much in the dark everybody is, estimates range from $50 billion to more than $3 trillion. the financial services commission put out an estimate of $500 billion to be spent over 20 years. even its chief admits he is embarrassed at how unreliable their calculations are. while he can barely make a rough estimate at the moment, we do know it won't be cheap and it won't be simple. south korea's 50 million people enjoy one of the world's highest living stand

let's look at the most recent comparable transaction, the one between east and west germany. bill for rebuilding the country is one piece cost the west about $2 trillion, and when the wall fell, the west german economy was about 10 times the size of the east. that's where the problem lies when we consider the two koreas, the lack of reliable information. we just do not know a whole lot about the north. pyongyang has not released official gdp data since 1965. the best estimate perhaps is from the south korean central bank, which puts its northern neighbor's economy at about $30 billion, making the south about 50 times larger. so how much would it cost? just to show you how much in the dark everybody is, estimates more from $80 billion to than $3 trillion. the south financial services commission recently put out an estimate of $500 billion to be spent over 20 years following the handshake, but even its chief admits he is a bit embarrassed at how unreliable their calculations are. while we can barely make a rough estimate at the moment, we do know it won't be cheap, and it .on't

he drew the link to the rising intolerance we see in germany and demonstrations in the east, and in much of europe, anti-semitism. we have to remember what happened here to make sure that it does not recur within that context. we heard in the ceremony from the problem team president referring to a generation gap that many say it is try to draw a line under this, saying we don't hold the young germans responsible, but we are all responsible for remembering that our nation perpetrated them. we were part of the process. only five remembering kamman make sure that the -- only by remembering that can we make sure the past is not repeat. >> thank you. >> melinda told us the president of germany's parliament said to germans today do not share the responsibility but do have the responsibility of remembering the past. >> german politicians reminding germans of their responsibility to be open and tolerant towards people seeking refuge. >> the ceremony, nina caught up with norman. >> i'm joined by the president of the german parliament. in your speech in this ceremony, you mentioned one of the last

. ♪ ♪ >> by the beginning of november 1944 the defeat of germany appeared imminent. to the eastian armies pushed their way through poland in the balkans. to the south angelo american forces were moving relentlessly up the italian peninsula. to the west, allied armies having advanced through france and the low countries now gather add long the borders of western germany. >> good old m-1 rifle. semi-automatic, breach loaded. seems a lot heavier than it did 20 years ago. my name is john shaw. i was with the 84th infantry division as a buck private during world war ii. i was one of these astp boys, 3,000 shipped down to the 84th division in april before we went overseas, 1944. and we were trained hard and sent overseas in september and were in england for a while. then we caught the red ball express and then before we knew it, we were right on the edge of the line, ready to go into combat. we were, all of us kind of wondering what things were going to be like. we could see the shells going off. we could hear them. and we were all sort of nervous, but i don't think anyone was really

. >> looking at 18,000 people marching in germany in the east in support of what is called an academict basically means people united against the influence of islamization. very loose and inadequate comparison to the tea party. do not see the neo-nazis. this is a completely different trend. week after week him a this is growing. -- week after week, this is growing. this is where the wall came down. you people in the east marching. it is growing. the never reaction in the west. volkswagen, for example, has a plant near used dresden were went dark in protest of the protest. >> angela merkel talked about this in a new year's speech. >> quincy krosby you're nodding your head. >> i read the speech. it was the focus of her speech, that we need -- >> it is amazing. such an important topic in germany to have the chancellor saying, we need to avoid -- >> but across all of europe with what we learned from hans nichols and from you every day is the european impatience with elites six years in with the german 10 year yield stunning .47%, i mean, it is a must protest against a japan-like moment. >>

the summit involving russia ukraine, germany and france must lead to a de-escalation of a conflict in the east. dozens have been killed or wounded as fighting escalates in eastern donetsk or luhansk. >> translation: the meeting must bring results leading to the result of the situation and establishment of steps, and we'll determine the time frame of a meeting. >> along the way the role into iraq war will not be published until after an election in may. the probe was announced in 2009 to vet the justification and the duct of the war. the inquiry was expected to be released in 2010. it has been slowed by an agreement in communications. between former prime minister tony blair and bush >>> the mayor of paris says she'll sue fox news after it branded some areas of the french capital no-go zones for non-muslims. she tweeted that paris's image had been insulted. a fox anchor made the comments after a series of attacks in the capital. slander is a criminal offense in france. so fax will either have to -- fox news will either have to settle or fight in court. fox apologised for its mistake >>> 40 head

germany, france and china. japan has set up a consortium of seven companies, including east japan railway and kawasaki heavy industries. they'll urge the project's leaders to adopt the shinkansen system. bidding is expected to begin as early as this spring. california authorities want to decide on a contractor by next year. >>> the people who run japanese electronics maker hitachi are seeing their rail cars thrive in a different part of the world. they've landed a major deal to supply trains in the uk. and they're also eager to drive their products into new markets. nhk world's mitsuko nishikawa has that part of the story. >> reporter: hitachi executives and officials celebrated on wednesday a first for the company. these rail cars will leave their factory in yamaguchi prefecture and arrive in the uk in march. they say it's one of the largest contracts ever awarded by britain's railway system. >> it's a fantastic day for us to ship the first class 800 series train from our mother factory here. >> reporter: the company has seen a lot of business from england come their way in the last three years. they won a contract t

western europe mostly france, u.k., germany and belgium have about 5,000 men mostly men, who have returned from the middle east having fought there having been trained there and now live in western europe. we have maybe 150. that threat is closer. it's more mixed in. but i think with the attacks over the last week in paris, like the attacks in ottawa, canada australia last year have proved is that the west is united in one thing, and that is a decade or so after 9/11, there's still no really coherent or successful strategy yet for dealing with islamic terror whether you're in the united states or europe. we have tried massive military invasions and that hasn't worked very well. we tried trillion dollar nation building. and that has been frustrating. we are currently engaged in much less expensive, assassination and campaigns in yemen and elsewhere, that hasn't been all that satisfying so far as we saw in paris. and we also pulled out of some places and created voids for terrorist groups to move in. while there are united to some extent in purpose, they also share this problem, which is they have not been able

who went from their home country, call it brussels or france or great britain or germany into this calderon in the middle east came back and then could come over here on the visa waiver program. it's a concern and i know in reading reports about what's going on in france, it was a question of resources. they had so many people to watch it was a question of making the decision. now as you point out, somebody will be revisiting that decision but it's a question of how many cops do you have and how many people can you put in this kind of situation? we don't have as many people from our country going into this area and coming back but it is a concern and one that i know that our counterterrorism center, the fbi, local police this is a classic case where we have to have full cooperation and coordination in order to must torre sources nationwide to keep an eye on these people. >> well, that's also the thing, senator, which a lot of people may not realize is that u.s. intelligence relies greatly on french intelligence british intelligence to maintain contacts and gather information on suspects in western europe and

east that some corners were there. there is a discrepancy against what the father believes and what the son believes. the behavior of the far radical right in places like germanynce, that has a real effect on the family table conversations happening in the middle east. >> the families are scared for themselves. in other words what isis n.what they have capped into. the west has failed us. they promised to help us with democracy and economic progress they have failed us. our own leadership have failed us, which is true. now, we are going to take control. we are going to return our own people to a golden era of islam, which all of us in the middle east studied the same history. once upon a time we had a golden era where we were progressive and dominant. they are tapping on emotional psychology that every muslim grew up with. when you have youth in the region 60% of the region is under the age of 30 they are university graduates and they are unemployed and the governments do not have jobs for them. >> economics is a huge part of this in europe. when we look at pew ten andutin and the rising, how can you think they will control zenaphobia? >> it is a familiar and

who want to kill us and thousands of europeans have again to meddle east to join isis, and if they come back to britain, france germany, all bets are off. major if the terrorists in france two weeks ago -- they trained in yemen by the way. imagine if they just bypass france and tried to come here to the united states? now, they were on a terror watch list, which is great, but our systems is not full proof. now that europe is a major front in the global jihad we need to review this visa waiver program and fast. >> what about just the no-fly list. some success with that here. at least the bad guys can't get in here once they're on the list. they free in other countries who we don't share information to the degree we should, to do god knows what. it's tough if you're on that list to get here. >> it is. that's the great thing. our no-fly list is solid. it's not perfect. nothing is perfect. one problem with the series a waiver program is we're relying on foreign governments to vet these guys before they leave. maybe britain, france germany they're great in many ways their security services and their airline security, but l

east of havana. high-end hotel resort properties promoted by companies in europe frequented by tourists from great britain, germanyof a booming construction business on this end of the island. >> the people are friendly. and, you know it's fun to end all that you know the embargo. >> reporter: when our correspondent gabe gutierrez visited just yesterday, he actually found an american tourist from boston in fact who used his swiss passport to get here. >> i think, yeah it's good. for the country, for the people this place is sort of stuck in time. >> reporter: this life is out of reach from most of those who live in cuba. and cuba's critics say money like this will only keep the regime in power. the golf club is next to the estate once owned by the dupont family. and many who are here enjoying it all, taking it all in get the distinct feeling that by being here now they're beating the rush. >> want to come back in ten, 15 years and see how it's changed, how much has changed. a lot of people we've spoken to have good thoughts and bad thoughts. it will be nice to see how it actually works out. >> reporter: so much ch

and the middle east or there as well, but also right here within our own societies, within europe. >> yes. actually to come back to what you said, i interviewed a young islamist in germany. and muslims. some were more radical than others. the less radical said -- it is actually a movement in the muslim world. at schools. at university. they see even educated muslims, they see this radicalization among young germans and muslims and there is a real separation now among the young muslims in germany between the radicals and the others. what they said, these measured muslims is that it is actually a problem of youth which wants to radicalize. they want purity. they want something to be perfect. and it could be anything. so now it is religion. but if there wouldn't be the religion, it would be something else. >> so what i'm hearing is two marginalized groups, one group on the right, people who feel that they are losing out in the modern economy. another group within the migrant community. muslim background but not only who feel that they too have been pushed to the side within our societies. martina sabra, looking forward politically speaking, would you expect to see the thre

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today's violence prompted foreign ministers from germany and france to cancel peace talks set for this week. >> there has been an escalation of conflict in the east. but the bus has been the worst of it and a tragic outcome to the cross fire. the people's hubble of donetsk is denying that it's forces were involved. but the ukrainian military are pointing the finger, a and they're saying what effectively happened are operatist fighters aimed rocket launchers at a military checkpoint at a place 22 miles south of donetsk and this civilian bus was passing through the area at the time and took a direct hit. the figures are a little bit up in the air. we've seen one report that 61 wounded. and i've seen another report that 10 dead and 15 wounded. but the reality is this bus was effectively blown apart. the windows from blown out. large pool of blood by the doors of the bus and a degree of panic ensued. this is a small 30-seater inter city bus. it appears that an ultimatum may have been issued, that the separatists have offered an ultimatum to pull out of the airport or they will be obliterateed. the events on monday seem to follow that direction. >> de

it's friday january 16th 6:00 in the east almost at least 20 sleeper cells ready to strike in europe. up to 180 jihadists poised to launch attacks in france germanynetherlands. in at least two countries, this is being called an imminent threat? >> and major developments in france more arrests in paris connected to last week's attacks. several media websites in france this morning are dark. taken offline by hackers. all of this as chilling new video emerges of three suspected isis militants calling for a fresh round of carnage. stoking fears all over europe and here at home. we have every angle of the story covered for you. the way only cnn can. so let's begin with fred pleitgen he is in brussels for us. give us the latest on the massive raid in belgium. >> massive raid part of it was really violent. alisyn. one raid in the town verviers 40 miles outside of brussels two people killed in the raid. a massive minute-long shootout that happened with weapons fired. there were raids all across belgium. and belgium is one of those countries where the authorities just said half an hour ago, that the threat was and is indeed imminent. they said there was a