there is concern in the us to the degree _ dutch east germany? —scale invasion. i think certainly germany has lots of concerns when it comes to their energy supplies. that's something the biden administration has been recognising and trying to find a way to help germany meet its energy needs, including by working with qatar to increase statements. unfortunately i think emmanuel macron is trying to step into that gap, and i think we see from olaf scholz, the diplomatic efforts are a little too late right now and i think you should have been involved earlier in the process.— earlier in the process. andrew, thank you _ earlier in the process. andrew, thank you so — earlier in the process. andrew, thank you so much. thank - earlier in the process. andrew, j thank you so much. thank you. some breaking news out of the united states involving former president trump. something from reuters. ruled on thursday that former us president trump and two of his adult children must answer questions under oath in the state of journey�*s must answer questions under

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to work with them this week at the is to school after scholar school there covering communist east germany while wearing costumes as to i know you have a gun with you. yeah, yes i have a mac or of of so great. so of course these are just props, but they make the role plays more realistic. they have a different subject and a different role play each week from the vikings to the g d r. they're learning was by play. this learning method is new and unique and, and mother used to school after scholar is a boarding school where high school is graduate. after completing the 10th grade, the teacher, eli saunders, is german, and she was set on offering an alternative to conventional schooling. chatham, i now, by the fact that i had slee when i was writing my dissertation at the end of my studies to become a teacher, i wrote about how you can learn german differently than going over grammar rule or an unhappy dog or sheet and asthma, and asthma i wrote that you can use story lines and games or into assistant justice . and then when i ended up at, as tesco, i was in paradise. yeah. because it embodie

when it comes to angela merkel, that is someone who grew up in east germany, who spoke fluent russianthe two of them had an understanding. you could argue a lot of the problems germany and russia have are the making of angela merkel and the appeasement she pursued 14 years. but for vladimir putin, this is a test when it comes to olaf scholz. he does not know this man, does not know how far he can push him. he does not know what kind of reaction he will get from olaf scholz, who is under pressure. it is not accurate to say germans do not care about ukraine. public opinion has really shifted. lisa: meanwhile, what is the u.s. relationship with ukraine? annmarie: president biden spoke with president zelensky yesterday. the readout said similar rhetoric we had heard -- shift severe economic sanctions on russia. following the meeting, you heard from a u.s. official that this is not in the readout of my that they are looking at even more aid economic aid to ukraine. also, something not discussed in the readout, but the ukrainians came out forthright was that president zelensky invited presi

came to florida, then came medical and, and now we have sholtes who also has quite a history with east germany. for example. you know, i think germany has an interesting relationship with russia, shall i say, just nothing bad from my russian point of view because ross is a huge market. human is a huge economy, the huge potential investments with a huge money. so it's for me, it's normal. think germans to invest in the russian to try their luck in russia. this sounds as though germany is the country that invented the world. read the word reality. yes, this is not the best thing before the crime happened because the crimea happened because before the thinks were on this pragmatic approach between us, but even the warranties, the current crisis with ukraine and after 2014, i think jane, there were changes in german opinion because of no volley because of the murder in broad daylight areas. here. garton. yes. i think and age 17. i think that there is been a change in terms of how germans been russia even before during the put in speech in munich. a conference to 15 years ago. it was the 1st time.

one particular was a lutheran pastor in east germany in leipzig and he began standing up and talkingn his church, in his congregation against the communist party. against the german communist party. what happened was because he kept at it week after week after week , more and more people began coming to his church services. then more and more people began demonstrating so that within only as a matter of fact three months, 1 million people began collecting in east berlin and demanding an end to communism in east germany and it happened. the wall did come down. it is possible for people to speak out to ignite what i think is that innate desire for freedom that is within every single person of whatever background, whatever nationality that they are. they are there and we here in america as you've said must support them. help them, encourage them as much as we possibly can. >> i love this point because one of the stories that's coming out in the news today is the way the chinese authorities are suppressing the voices of dissidents inside of china. so i think we need to keep our eye on th

he studied art in east germany and fled to the west. he was a driving force in the post war at st. few artists have explored the myriad possibilities of painting as thoroughly as the multi talented gerhard great act, his expanse of approach to art has made him one of the most important contemporary german artists. which there has been influenced by both pop art and photo realism and his trademark is that he's constantly changed his style. in 2015, his work abstract painting, 599, sold for $46300000.00. setting a record for a work by a contemporary artist. honestly, physicist, i always feel like it's nothing just shoddy work. but on the other hand, oh it's better than the others. yeah, definitely. yeah. or something like that. ah, christos body of work is marked by disruption. he 1st gained fame in the 1960s with photo realistic paint x part of an art movement called capitalist realism. he painted blurred reproductions of newspaper photos. this via the tides one. at the time, the assumption was that painting had become irrelevant, superf

the authorities headed painted over half the flat, the former communist state of east germany in 1961 a fruit of the front of our english. he felt restricted him. there were things that he wanted to do, but he knew he wouldn't be able to show here. and that weighed on him idle by him. so he concluded that he wouldn't be able to do what he wanted to hear in the east, thus than that he would eventually have to leave his whatever kills. although vista continues to be an active artist, he does not paint any more. this abstract from 2017 is meant to be his last painting. it is also part of the exhibition portraits glass abstraction. the exhibition shows a wide variety of objects ranging from glass works color panels and a reflective skull. some 40 works, including many owned by, rich to himself, will be on display interest in through may the 1st great stuff there, if you can get along to it. that's it from us for now. i've mixed wild stories. looks at how form of poke benedict is under pressure over sexual abuse in the catholic church. there's plenty more for you on our website, that's d w

the authorities had had painted over half the flat, the former communist state of east germany in 1961. as soon as he sent off, and as he felt restricted here wanted more, there were things that he wanted to do. that he knew he wouldn't be able to show here. and that weighed on him idle by him. so he concluded that he wouldn't be able to do what he wanted to hear in the east thus, and that he would eventually have to leave his whatever kills. although i wish there continues to be an active artist, he does not paint any more. this abstract from 2017 is meant to be his last painting. it is also part of the exhibition portraits glass abstraction. the exhibition shows a wide variety of objects ranging from glass works color panels and a reflective skull. some 40 works, including many owned by rich to himself, will be on display interest in through may the fast. oh, that's a news update this. i will have more headlines for you at the top of the next hour . i'm rebecca, as, thanks holding ah, what people have to say.

of, of east germany and the typing regime. there were young athletes who given banned substances under the pretense that they were vitamin site. it clearly is an issue and, and the big problem really is again, russian typing is in the spotlight with a valley aver is found guilty or not positive. the reason why russia's ban was reduced. russia is not even competing under its own name, by the way, because of that, that'd be bad at the russian olympic cavity. part of the reason the band with regina was to protect a younger athletes to give a new generation of russian athletes. a chance to compete is very ironic. now isn't it that it is a young athlete is causing at all this controversy. johnson granted obvious bullets there in beijing for us. thank you. jonathan is a reminder of the top story we are following for you. germans also love shows is on his way to the ukrainian capital q f. m. it's growing fears of an imminent russian invasion is expected to offer ukraine more economic support of no weapons. the visit. com says o's, as

her 1st stop on a 3 day trip to the middle east. germany's top diplomat was there to commemorate the 6000000 jews murdered by the nazis. she is also scheduled to meet with prime minister natalie bennett, and then palestinian president mahmoud abbas in the west. bank voting has started in elections in several indian states, including its most populous with our pro fish there. the chief minister yogi at the gen up is seeking re election for his hindu nationalist b. j. p. party, which is also india's willing party and a national level victory there would boost the party head of national elections in 2024. canadian prime minister justin trudeau is standing firm in support of vaccine mandates as truckers blockaded a major trade ute route to the u. s. for the 3rd day in a row. the ambassador bridge carries 25 percent of all trade between the 2 countries. officials and both nations have expressed concerns about the economic effects at the blockade continues. and police and new zealand capital, wellington arrested more than 50 people, protesting against corona virus, mandates and restriction

and although she was someone who, it was clear, having grown up in east germany, she had no illusions about about russian power and about vladimir putin. she's a russian speaker. she, she was able to engage with him in a way that many others weren't. but she's phase criticism, even from one of her very close, is ally indirect criticism from someone could actually come about. who was germany defense minister under the last years of angular medical, she's actually the woman who, anglo metal at one point position to be her successor. and she put out a tweet yesterday saying, i'm so angry at ourselves for our historical failure of the georgia crimea. and don bass, we have not prepared anything that would have really deterred. and this came also after the head of the german army said yesterday in a linked in post that he was fed up because he was in a position that the army had been so starved investment that it had nothing that it could really offer to nato allies. in eastern europe to protect it in this situation. so macro on the defensive here, expressing her disgust of what has happene

ukraine. moscow hits airfields and fuel facilities, including a pipeline near huff keith in the east. germany says russia as war on ukraine has brought an era of peace to an end. in a wide range of speech, chancellor love shawl says it's time to get tough to defend freedom in europe. he calls for vastly strengthen military and energy security. and people take to the streets around the world to demand an end of the latter hooton's war. in berlin, tens of thousands take part our reporter is at the see ah, and warm reading to our viewers around the world. i'm michael. ok. we begin with 1st hopes of a breakthrough over the war in ukraine. president vladimir zalinski is off. it says it will whole talked with russian officials at the border with beller. russia says it's delegation has flown in for the talks. it's not clear when negotiate. asians might begin. in other developments president vladimir putin has put rushers, nuclear forces on alert, and an escalation of tensions with the west. the u. s. has accused him of manufacturing threats. fighting continues on the ground in ukraine. russian force

he served in east germany, really when east germany fell and the soviet union really fell apart in 1991as there. and i think he views that as almost a personal defeat. he grew up at a time in russia in the '50s, '60s, really at their -- really some of their strongest point, and i think that is -- he wants to restore russia really back to that, and he looks at ukraine right now as being occupied, almost, by a foreign country, and that foreign country being sort of the west's influence, if you will. >> well, here's what french president emmanuel macron said recently about putin, and it was reported in the "wall street journal." that mr. macron noticed a change in mr. putin's demeanor when speaking to him on the phone over the course of the pandemic. he tended to talk in circles, rewriting history, a close aide to mr. macron said. if you look at the video of putin talking to leaders across those long tables, there we see right there, what does all this suggest to you, the level of isolation that he has endured due to his paranoia about covid? >> i completely agree with that. that is one th

gorbachev by name to tear down the wall and into imprisoned east germany nightmare surveillance stateith no personalon information is off-limits to the government. the fbi was deeply engaged in that struggle, tracking soviet agents operating here in the united states has a history that the library has captured so well so i want to take a moment to thank the library to the curators of the exhibits thank you for telling the fbi story for the tour and for showcasing an hour people who i am proud and humbled to represent. thank you for allowing me to join you here this evening. also congratulations you ever came up with the name from al capone to al qaeda. [laughter] also the way the world has changed from that hero establishment in 19 oh eight. and the way that we have evolved as a law enforcement and intelligence agency to keep ahead of the changing threats we face. today in united states and the western world find ourselves in a very different struggle the chinese communist party. there are surface level similarities between the threat posed byhe chinese government and historical threa

it's like the surveillance nightmare of east germany combined with the tech of silicon valley. >> so,of what china does, with people here infiltring countries, but it says a lot of what it does is hacking. chinese hacking has more consequence in the u.s., that chinese do more of it than any other countries combined, chuck. >> pete, does that mean we're that far ahead of china technologically? this is why they're constantly trying to steal our stuff? >> yes, in many ways, there are specific examples here. for example, one of the cases that the fbi recently got a conviction on last november in ohio, at a ge aircraft plant where they make jet engines with turbine blades that are made of composite material. and the person who was convicted there was trying to get the secrets of how to do that smuggled into china. and eventually, they figured out what they was up to, fed in false data so they could track it and finally made the case. but, you know, there's so many other examples, the chemical that coats the inside of soft drink cans, for example, china was trying to steal that. the chemica

it's like the surveillance of east germany combined with the tech of silicon valley. i hope all of this gives you a sense for why the fbi is so focused on the threats from the chinese government. here the reagan library's fbi exhibit is a great place to talk about what we, our partners and our allies are doing about that threat. the exhibit not only shows how threats to the united states have evolved over the decades, but also how the fbi has evolved to stay ahead of those threats. 20 years after 9/11, the fbi is a very different agency in important and valuable ways, to deal with the threat of terrorism around the world. we shifted focus to disruption before danger can strike and we cemented a culture of working with and through partners of all kinds. today we use our intelligence collection, both what we developed and what we obtain from partner agencies here and abroad, to identify and disrupt threats early. like when we ran an operation to slam shut the back doors the chinese government hackers had placed on thousands of american companies networks in the microsof

it's like the surveillance nightmare of east germany combined with the tech of silicon valley. >> reporter: what about the criticism from asian america groups who say the justice department's china initiative has overreached with some chinese espionage cases collapsing >> we don't investigate anyone based on race or ethnicity or constitutionally protected activity in fact, in many cases chinese americans are some of the people most victimized by the chinese government's tactics that we're describing. >> reporter: wray also accuses china of going after secrets in other countries, but he says the u.s. is its number one target lester >> fascinating interview, pete. thank you. >>> in just 60 seconds, banning books in school libraries, under pressure by parents and politicians. our exclusive investigation. >>> back now with our nbc news exclusive and the growing effort to ban books from some school libraries certain titles disappearing from the shelves in texas in record numbers here's antonia hilton. >> reporter: iris chang remembers the first time she saw herself in a book. it was "the joy lu

that is why there was a german decision not to station nato troops on the territory of the former east germany. and to stop nato near the river. we will oriented towards moving very cautiously toward the eastern europe with the european community and towards cooperation with all of them. for this policy of germany in the european community in general was reversed by the famous wolf of its dock train in 1992. when hands deatrice kamesha had to leave as foreign minister the eastwood acknowledgement of night. so began since then we've been on the wrong track, contributing to the justified impression in the russian federation. at the west is doing everything to kick the russian federation out of europe to build a new wall between the baltic and the black sea. and to be interested in the destruction of russia and not in cooperation with this great country. okay, well let's go back to the ukraine crisis there because sense of people are being evacuated from the self proclaimed dumbass republics in east and ukraine after officials warned that he could attack them at any moment with both sides. report

he will now represent germany for another 5 years, addressing the tensions in europe's east. the consequences of the pandemic and what he called the biggest issue of our time climate change done and berlin, ala has made a name as the most political of all the major international film festivals. after a lukewarm started beginning to live up to that reputation over the weekend, the competition put women front and center, focusing the limelight on the fight for their rights and those of us others. bobby corners is a woman on a mission. one that might seem impossible that we'll see her take on the u. s. government. and when and last reasons movie robbie a corn us versus george w bush tells a romanticized version of a true story. that of a german turkish mother seeking justice for her son moved that innocently detained in guantanamo from an in guantanamo zits. as to when you're detained in guantanamo this no perspective kind of off in august, no hopeful, it's kafka, ask look. and so i was lucky to maint mirage, mother revere anna, and enchanting, wonderful, cheerful woman who is a

. >> reporter: putin was a young kgb officer, stationed in east germany in 1989, when the berlin wall came crashing down. putin saw the fall of the soviet union a short time later as the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 21st century. it was as if he himself had been humiliated. he took this all personally? >> yes, we all take it personally, but we don't invade countries as a result. >> reporter: putin was virtually unknown in 1999 when he rose to power. he quickly set about setting his image as a dynamic and charismatic leader. >> strength and power are everything to vladamir putin. every interlockular that comes to see him is made to wait three, four, six, seven, eight hours. that's all about this novel he's writing in his head about the great putin. >> reporter: he's gone toe to toe now with five u.s. presidents. all the while growing more uneasy of democracy. seeing it as a scourge, sweeping closer to russia's sphere of influence. any form of public uprising, no matter how small, he believed, had the west behind it pulling the strings, and that he was the ultimate target. >

the astonians want to send them these howitzers that were made in east germany. get approval for us to send them to ukraine. germany is not providing the approval. i hope they provide it soon and other approvals and we can all work together to avoid this terrible possibility, which is that, again, vladimir putin would make a bad mistake and go into ukraine. think of the lives that would be lost, the impact on the economies and the instability would cause europe and the message around the world in terms of a country coming in, an authoritarian county taking over a democracy. >> charles: especially as the west watches this. this is a sense of urgency. i want to switch gears here. you're introducing a bill to stop tsa from accepting arrest warrants issues to migrants as >> and someone comes across the border illegally, there may be an arrest warrant. we don't have a database to double check that, so it's not a good idea to rely on that as the real i.d., which they are requiring from the rest of us. i don't think this is a tough call. i hope to the tsa change their po