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, lyudmila narusova, remembers r 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 offi

he was assigned to east germany and by the standards of the kgb that was not the he was a lieutenantolonel. he looked like he was not having any major career successes that would put him on the fast track. >> then we had the revolution of the 1989 throughout the communist world including in east germany. >> when the wall came down there was an incident that putin has experienced that had a big psychological impact on him. >> a big crowd in his surrounded the building with the soviet kgb is imprudent is calling to the commander of the local soviet army troops saying we need reinforcements here. >> what was surprising he could not get moscow. moscow was silent from that point on he decided that russia will never be again. >> after the fall of the iron curtain he made a career change. >> i left the kgb and went to work for the mayor of st. petersburg. >> there is a question of whether he really left the kgb or whether he was there man on the staff of one and there leading reforms of politicians. >> he stays and that until he loses his reelection bid in 1996. at that point he reaches out

yes, they were delivered to the former east germany. these are weapons that were also used in russian conflict with afghanistan back then in the days. so the very old but they are function initially we heard the defense minister lamp saying, look, we have to look what we even have, what we can give out. well, this now is part of a continuing list because we do expect there to be more that can be given to ukraine, always stressing that there is no direct handover. germany is not delivering these weapons physically. does that make a difference for russia? how is russia view? this is natal weapons being used against them? i'm sure they're going to have something to say about. well, these are specific, not weapons that i am up within nato contingencies. and this actually is a key point. we heard the and deputy foreign minister of russia yesterday stressing that and there's an increasing likelihood of misunderstandings of a direct contact between nato and russia, which fits into a russian narrative of actually nato being an active threat tow

it's not just russian and international energy markets that are intertwined, especially in germany's east. more than a few manufacturing companies have focused on trade with russia. the fast moving developments are seeing them having to change in a matter of weeks. what had taken them years to build. some are starting to drop contingency plans in a worst case scenario. the final test run. this machine produces high spec, middle wire, the equipment costs up to a 1000000 euros, and his purpose built to suit the customer specifications. until now, businesses been good. this mid sized company, based in the eastern german city of cabinet, is a global market leader. but see yo janski's will shine, doesn't know whether he can keep all his 45 employees. some of his top customers are in russia. the sanctions resulting from russia's invasion of ukraine are now complicating business of america. and what we're currently preparing a contract were several 1000000 euros over the next 2 years. and if the contract can't be fulfilled in its current form resolved, we will of course, need to look for alterna

it's not just russian and international energy markets that are intertwined, especially in germany's east. more than a few manufacturing companies have focused on trade with russia. the fast moving developments are seeing them having to change in a matter of weeks. what had taken them years to build. some are starting to drop contingency plans in a worst case scenario. the final test run. this machine produces high spec metal wire, the equipment costs up to a 1000000 euros, and his purpose built to suit the customer specifications. until now, businesses been good. this mid sized company, based in the eastern german city of cabinet, is a global market leader. but ceo janski's will shine, doesn't know whether he can keep all his 45 employees. some of his top customers are in russia. the sanctions resulting from russia's invasion of ukraine are now complicating business. i'm up to and what we're currently preparing a contract were several 1000000 euros over the next 2 years on if the contract can't be fulfilled in its current form resolved, we will, of course, need to look for alternative cu

it's not just russian and international energy markets that are intertwined, especially in germany's east. more than a few manufacturing companies have focused on trade, but russia, the fast moving developments are seeing them having to change in a matter of weeks. what had taken them years to build. some are starting to drop contingency plans in a worst case scenario. the final test run. this machine produces high spec, middle wire, the equipment costs up to a 1000000 euros, and his purpose built to suit the customer specifications. until now, businesses been good. this mid sized company, based in the eastern german city of cabinet, is a global market leader. but see yo janski's will shine, doesn't know whether he can keep all his 45 employees. some of his top customers are in russia. the sanctions resulting from russia's invasion of ukraine are now complicating business of america. and what we're currently preparing a contract were several 1000000 euros over the next 2 years. and if the contract can't be fulfilled in its current form resolved, we will of course, need to look for alterna

it's not just russian and international energy markets that are intertwined, especially in germany's east. more than a few manufacturing companies have focused on trade with russia. the fast moving developments are seeing them having to change in a matter of weeks. what had taken them years to build. some are starting to drop contingency plans in a worst case scenario. the final test run. this machine produces high spec, middle wire, the equipment costs up to a 1000000 euros, and his purpose built to suit the customer specifications. until now, businesses been good. this mid sized company, based in the eastern german city of cabinet, is a global market leader. but see yo janski's will shine, doesn't know whether he can keep all his 45 employees. some of his top customers are in russia. the sanctions resulting from russia's invasion of ukraine are now complicating business. i'm up to and what we're currently preparing a contract. we're 7000000 euros over the next 2 years. and if the contract can't be fulfilled in its current form resolved, we will of course, need to look for alternative cu

crimes, forced them to stay in the united states . who decided not to unify germany but to absorb east germanymunist leader of the soviet union no one collapsed against the wishes of the french against the wishes of the british against the wishes of the united states and now he's playing it. perverting absolutely speaking, absolutely false. and i was struck by his discovery of 140 oligarchs. who robbed and criminally made their fortune. just now discovered this. only because all of a sudden they still exist and in their opinion, they are all close to putin 140, and yesterday they were honest fluffy free entrepreneurs who carried freedom a few years ago. unfortunately, and why didn't we help with this money? oligarch so that they again remove putin as well as they did with our help. in the ninety-sixth year, the most corrupt elections, which were the dirtiest that were. this is for them the beacon of democracy, all these oligarchs, when they became at the time of revelry. democracy in the nineties, many more people left russia than now, but this is incorrectly said . americans and the west are

. >> (cheering) >> narrator: while he was in east germany, the soviet union would collapse. >> mr.tear down this wall. >> this protest movement may now be reaching a critical moment. >> ...will be a year remembered for communism's loss of influence in the world. >> here the feeling is the end of the cold war is at hand. >> for many people, there is a defining moment in their history, when all things after that moment refer back to it in some way. >> from abc, this is "world news tonight"... >> narrator: for lieutenant colonel vladimir putin... >> ...reporting tonight from berlin. >> they are here in the thousands, they are here in the tens of thousands. >> narrator: ...the berlin wall coming down was such a moment. >> ...eastern europe continues... >> putin sees that this thing that had always seemed to be glued together well, seemed to be impervis, that had gone from generation to generation of change in the top party officials, seemed to be a rock.... >> ...one battle in a nonviolent... >> it was starting to crumble before his eyes. >> 1989 will be a year remembered for communism

to hammers, chisels, and history, and a kgb officer still shy of 40 and stationed in dresden, east germanying military support as a crowd approached. we cannot do anything without orders from moscow, putin was told on the phone. and moscow's silent. in an interview appearing in his 2000 book, first person, putting recalls that dreadful silence. i got the feeling then that the country no longer existed, he said. that it had disappeared. two years after the wall went down, the union of soviet socialist republics did, to. a decade after, putin would ascend to power in russia, talking about a revival. on the first era vladimir putin's invasion of ukraine, he looked back to that formative moment when he was a kgb agent in east germany, and he said this -- >> >> and with that, completely wrong headed analysis about why the soviet union collapsed, still framing his thinking, vladimir putin seems to has marched into ukraine with the dream of some form of restoration of russia's control over the former soviet union which, as history shows, was a temporary imperialistic creation that was never reall

array, which is compromising material on almost the entire german elite and e from the former east germanyigantic amount of documents . no, they all of them practically pulled out all 85 to 90% of the information that was preserved. the fact is that the state was stormed in one day. and when they stormed it in the state, along with those stormers, there were, of course, agents of the united states of america and british and all other americans. it was taken out. it's famous. the story is called rosen holtz, rosewood. it was 37 years ago. well, firstly, not 38 years old, but 34 years old. yes. so what if 38 years old, several generations of new politicians have already grown up. the generation of those people who are in power today has grown up the generation of those people who are in power today, who were in power and whose children are coming to power today. and here they have this information, and with whom was er, schulze was. now i'll come to the seam, by the way, he used one of the most serious activists of the social democratic party, uh, peacekeepers, an anti-fascist, but in fact a

yes, they were delivered to the former east germany. these are weapons that were also used in russia conflict with afghanistan back then in the days. so they're very old, but they are functioning hardware and that is scarce currently in the german army. and after initially we heard the defense minister lamp saying, look, we have to look what we even have, what we can give out. well, this now is part of a continuing list because we do expect there to be more that can be given to ukraine, always stressing that there is no direct handover. germany is not delivering these weapons physically. does that make a difference for russia? how is russia view? this is natal weapons being used against them? i'm sure they're going to have something to say about. well, these are specific, not weapons that i am within nato contingencies. and this actually is a key point. we heard the and deputy foreign minister of russia yesterday stressing that and there's an increasing likelihood of misunderstandings of a direct contact between nato and russia, which f

. >> this is essentially what the soviets did in eastern europe during the cold war, in east germany. in czechoslovakia. in the other warsaw pact nations and what i'm suggesting is it won't work in ukraine. >> reporter: how russian forces handle the cities already under their control could provide clues to putin's end game for this in. early, theainian maeace has not shep >> g thanks. >>> there's another oblem growing more acute tonight in ukraine. finding enough food. jacob soboroff reports. >> reporter: the situation here is desperate. millions of ukrainians without a place to live and increasingly withfood to eat. irined from sumy she says thed there is bread and en that's rare the conditions especially dire in mariupol aid workers have called it apocalyptic. food is quickly running out, and humanitarian convoys haven't been allowed in t is cruel," t man says "my child is hungry. i don't know wto give to eat. geg supplies cities is grg more dangerous by the day this massive warehouse in kyiv used to hold 50,000 tons of food. it was hit not once, but twice. we find a different reali

he worked as a sign painter in former communist east germany and came to alan's home often in his youth. in 1992 he moved here for good just like his colleagues from back in the 19th century, he's inspired by the surroundings with frenzied us. can you understand that people were fascinated by the atmosphere here? the war facing and fan yardi? yes. you always read that they were inspired by the atmosphere in the fall is believe long above mission or girlish. oh and i'm always inspired to when i see the autumn sky that so unique here on the peninsula. she'll of, of him boss, and of official on the volume building the, the cloud formations are so clear and different every time, all different shapes. on both on the la foreman as among credited him, you could just paint the sky the shapes, and that would already be a picture. and you definitely feel in slide by looking at it. and that was what moved the artists back then to the world. and i'll, when i see you don't have so many clouds in your pictures, but how does that unique setting influence you and your craft? what effect does it have on

it's not just russian and international energy markets that are intertwined, especially in germany's east. more than a few manufacturing companies have focused on trade, but russia, the fast moving developments are seeing them having to change in a matter of weeks. what had taken them years to build. some are starting to draw contingency plans in a worst case scenario. the final test run. this machine produces high spec, middle wire, the equipment costs up to a 1000000 euros, and his purpose built to suit the customer specifications. until now, businesses been good. this mid sized company, based in the eastern german city of cabinet, is a global market leader. but see yo janski's will shine, doesn't know whether he can keep all his 45 employees. some of his top customers are in russia. the sanctions resulting from russia's invasion of ukraine are now complicating business of america. and what we're currently preparing a contract were several 1000000 euros over the next 2 years. and if the contract can't be fulfilled in its current form resolved, we will of course, need to look for alterna

it's not as russian and international energy markets that are intertwined, especially in germany's east, more than a few manufacturing companies have focused on trade. but russia, the fast moving developments are seeing them having to change in a matter of weeks what had taken them years to build. some are starting to drop contingency plans in a worst case scenario. the final test run. this machine produces high spec, middle wire, the equipment costs up to a 1000000 euros, and his purpose built to suit the customer specifications. until now, businesses been good. this mid sized company based in the eastern german city of cabinet, is a global market leader. but see yo janski's will shine, doesn't know whether he can keep all his 45 employees. some of his top customers are in russia. the sanctions resulting from russia's invasion of ukraine are now complicating business. i'm up to and what we're currently preparing a contract were several 1000000 euros over the next 2 years. and if the contract can't be fulfilled in its current form resolved, we will of course, need to look for alternativ

you'll recall that prudent used to work for the kgb in east germany and another is his press secretaryon this list of eight is somebody who used to train with vladimir putin as hisjudo partner. so all very close people, all very rich, all russian oligarchs and in addition to these eight, president biden also announced that a further 19 oligarchs and 47 members of their families would face a travel ban. but very importantly, said president biden, what's coming out of washington is this sense of being united with the rest of the world and also being united here in the us in the sanctions against president prudent and those close to him. so this strategy to put pressure on the russian oligarchs, people who are close to putin as he described it, what is the aim here with me if you're thinking in washington this will somehow manage to put pressure on vitamin prudent and influence his decision—making in this conflict? yes, in short that is it. the way they put it, his cronies to put pressure on him and say we are losing millions of dollars of business around the world, our private lives are

and some of the stories featured in your book, talk about refugees who fled from east germany, to west germany from mexico and central america. to the us from eritrea from syria . talk to us a little bit about the story called cling. it's about 2 other sisters from a different country. that's right. our story about cling is about 2 amazing syrian sisters who fled syrian 2015 in help keep their overloaded boat afloat. these were swimmers used for, and sarah martini, who reportedly saved 18 lives while escaping syria. yesterday made the 1st ever refugee olympic team in rio and the summer games in tokyo. i believe one or both of them are living in germany. now. both sisters, incredible humanitarians. talk to us a little bit about you. you mentioned why you wrote the book in because of your nanny and the story that she shared with you. talk about the timing now. we know about the various wars going on around the world. what made you write this book now? we wanted to share in the simplest and most humane way possible, the stories of escape stories that are unfolding in the ukraine in sudan

and some of the stories featured in your book, talk about refugees who fled from east germany, to west germany from mexico and central america. to the u. s. from eritrea from syria. talk to us a little bit about the story called cling. it's about 2 other sisters from a different country. that's right. our story about cling is about 2 amazing syrian sisters who fled syria, 2015, and help keep their overloaded boat afloat. these were swimmers used for, and sarah martini, who reportedly saved 18 lives, while escaping syria. used to have made the 1st ever refugee olympic team and rio and the summer games in tokyo. i believe one or both of them are living in germany . now. both sisters, incredible humanitarians. talk to us a little bit about you. you mentioned why you wrote the book in because of your nanny and the story that she's shared with you talk about the timing now. we know about the various wars going on around the world. what made you write this book now? we wanted to share in the simplest and most humane way possible, the stories of escape stories that are unfolding in the ukrain

once the wall fell in east germany we tried to turn the page and help the new slimmed down russia become an upstanding member of civil society. but a december'would emerge. vladimir putin. he poisoned and murdered anyone who got in his way. we tried to talk with reason to a brutal dictator as evil as hitler and stalin showed us they were. we are trying to reset, talk, we are still doing it, and appease which is what we are doing now. does that pattern sound familiar. i am going to ask you to go back to recent history and not repeat what we did wrong. that's why we should do everything to make sure the good guys win, the ukrainians. if they don't survive we'll be in this fight all over again, and the death and destruction will make world war ii look like a small -- small skirmish. joining me, general keith kellogg. here is the map. the red is russia. blunt areas ukraine is defending. what concerns you most from the ukrainian perspective? >> first of all, the ukrainians are fighting with incredible courage and leadership starting with zelensky. the russians have stalled out. my concern is

you have lived east germany. tell me how you will perceive how the germans will respond if mr. reduces russian oil into america? claudia: i hope he steps in as the freighter -- leader of the free world and where we needed europe will go. we have a war, crimes against humanity. germany knows what that means more than anyone. people will step up to the plate and we need policymakers to find ways come even after we cut russia off, to help get gas prices down. there are many ways we can do this. this is going to be a shared hardship but we don't have to make it harder than it has to be. i think we will rally but i don't know what people are waiting for. there are ukrainians being slaughtered. tom: on the inflation front, you are out of the michigan combine, where there is a huge study of inflation going back decades. what can a president do about inflation? claudia: we need to get creative . one thing that has not been talked about but certainly hinted at already in your opening is we need to get corporations, big oil and opec, lean hard on them to get supply going and stop gouging

uncertain future, germany has so far registered some 250000 refugees, but it wants the responsibility to be shared more across the u. s. special charter train arise and cut both in the east of germany. about $250.00 ukrainian refugees are on board. but this isn't the final stop. dash from hockey says she doesn't the way she wants to go. just a quiet place somewhere. over the world that passes wage outside the station ready to take them to other places across germany. a car was prepared for 1500 arrivals a day. only a few i'm in to stay. the aim is to distribute the refugees i. otherwise one city gets overwhelmed. i don't know. compass is already at the limit as many other towns in the eastern state of brandenburg and the capital berlin. that's why the interior ministers of germany's federal states want other e u. member states to play that part. me right, can planes could fly refugees directly from the polish border to other european states that way some of the pressure could be taken off places like brandenburg or the berlin area into into less than that. so saw the you hasn't adopted a finding distribution quota and ye agreements have been bilateral. france to set up d

. >> reporter: in the late '40s, the soviets controlled east germany. >> the united states, togetherch of nato territory. >> reporter: the key to nato is article v, an attack on one member nation is an attack on the alliance, and all nations must respond in common defense. that kept the peace for decades. in 1979, when the soviets invaded afghanistan, nato deployed nuclear missiles as a deterrent. when the berlin wall fell in 1 t 89 unified. then came 9/11. nato came to america's defense, invoking article v for the first time with natoce joining the u.s. in afghanistan for the next 20 years. >> this was an act of great friendship, in a time of great need. >> reporter: in 2004, nato added seven former soviet client states and has expanded since then, to its current size of 30 member nations. this expansion alarmed and infuriated vladamir putin, who saw nato, a defensive alliance, as a military and mitt call live at, one that might deprive russia of global prominence. >> i think it was the right decision to expand. >> reporter: kay bailey hutchinson was u.s. ambassador to nato during t

it shows that east and germany is an attractive location for high tech production and developmental so once. and the new factories could also help europe overcome the global chip shortage. while decreasing reliance on asian manufacturers . turkey has been in an economic crisis for years, and the country is set to suffer even more due to russia's war in ukraine. that's because tourism makes up a large sector of turkey's economy with many visitors coming from around the region . western sanctions against moscow have put a stop to their travels for now with its warm climate and sandy beaches. antalya seems like a place for your worried turkeys. mediterranean coast is one of the most popular tourist destinations for europeans, and has attracted visitors from russia for years with many staying in the areas more upscale hotels, some of their right now in fact, but they're far from relaxed. so when i'm here, so when a leaf in the, in the hotel, probably not need the, almost anything. that's why i problem. i don't need any money to to be spent. but if i would like to visit her cy, someplace i

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germany. the already controversial topic has become toxic, which also means those that had been banking on its operation need to readjust, like in lieu mean in the north east of germany. no day is like any other here in lieu mean. what the mayor long feared would happen, has now become a reality. germany, it's put the certification process of the completed nordstrom to gas pipeline on hold on route to his office. ox or folk drives past the pipeline. so close to going online, but now it's future is unclear. sitting on the, on the one hand, we are concerned about, there's an escalation in ukraine and put on the other hand, the fruits of years of work are now in question when it comes to ne dreamed to along our fight in augustine in flight. the twisting, the north stream one and 2 landfall facilities are in the mean. the 1st pipeline has brought one and a half to 2000000 euros of tax revenue annually into the resorts coffers the past 11 years. but now pro russian sentiment in the bean is crumbling in on that, we believe that any forms of violence that violates international or state law or human rights is never acceptable. diplomatic solutions must always be

germany was united, east and west. there were actually a lot of agreements that i've researched. were talks between secretary baker and the outgoing president, the first president bush, and german and russian leaders at that point, though it was never put in writing or ratified in a treaty, that nato would not expand eastward, and that is at the crux of this. host: what does that say about what is happening now? caller: what that says is that the united states, for a long time, since world war ii, has gotten solved -- gotten itself all over the world involved in being the world's policeman and it does us more harm than good back home. i think we are doing too much. we should really backoff in terms of our involvement all around the world. we pay a lot of money, lose a lot of lives. host: eric, with ukraine, do you think we are doing too much? caller: way too much. it should be left to europe, left to nato. they should foot the bill and deal with it. i don't see why we always have to be involved, and i would encourage you to do something with the minsk treaty, bring that into cont

in 1989 when the berlin wall fell and we were celebrating, he was in east germany, a kgb operative, literallyestroying the kgb files. later he called the fall of the soev yet union the greatest geopolitical strategy of the 20th century. think of this. tens of millions died in world war ii, the holocaust happened. and he called it the demise of the soviet yaunld it's the fastest. he called the ukraine little russians. he wants to re-create the russian empire, he wants to split nato. >> given your recent comments about sanctions being a declaration of war, his repeated invoking of the fact that russia has the largest nuclear arsenal in the ward. to what level of escalation do you believe him capable? do you think it's bluster when he touts the nuclear arsenal? >> it's a danks time. unfortunately he's extremely isolated. we see him in his scene listening through his gilded palace. others are looning from the scene. we have to be careful an itnd we need to be aware that we don't want to is ka late obviously to a nuclear leverage but we have to assume that in the long run, this country, which is a

east germany, west germany i think that's his style remains to be seen how much territory they can keep. negotiated settlement is a victory for the west, makes putin a weak leader and that's lethal in the strong man business a few weeks ago the main event was federal reserve. all the chroniclers told us that jpal would kill the economy to stomp out inflation. that's a possible but do you mind if we try to make money before it happens? big bad event when the fed laid out onerous path but after initial dip, the market started roaring back. rate hikes had been well telegraphed, just needed to get it over with big name strategists warned of a bear market. where the heck have they been? they ushered in the bear market in november. astounding that highly paid professionals went out of the way to caution you about something so far in the rearview mirror, we've been talking about that since november. bear market was here, unless you made a lot of money doing real things and returning money to the shareholders, it's bear. it has been. welcome the higher interest rates because inflation is eating

i remember back in '89, driving in my car, today east germany shuts down, today romania shuts down.s around it. i must say i was driving sunday morning around i had to do what i always have to do 6:00 sunday morning, i got to go drive and get mika's coffee. she taps me. she's still sleeping. i get in the card and i hear a speech from the german chancellor and he's saying, we're going to have to do more than 2%. i'm going to change the constitution. and then that afternoon i see on the news, we're not neutral. the swiss. who were neutral when hitler was sweeping across europe said, you know what, neutrality, not for us anymore. decades happened this past weekend andrea, even after this conflict, what's happened this past week is going to shape the future of europe in a dramatic way. >> i'm so glad you are saying that. because in other areas as well, everyone was saying, well, he's got these reserves, central banks reserves so there is no way we can affect that. he has been preparing for years, putin, preparing and saving and cutting consumer goods in russia and what did we do? this g

. >> this is essentially what the soviets did in eastern europe during the cold war in east germany inand the other warsaw pact nations, and what i'm suggesting is it won't work in ukraine. >> for more on this we turn to alex gonkhairenko, a member of the ukrainian parliament. we've entered a new phase when you are talking about kidnapping mayors. are you concerned about the warning that more officials in ukraine might be kidnapped by russian forces? >> definitely the new tactics of terror try to influence mayors and officials to work for russia by the threat of death, but not something absolutely new, unfortunately, because for example me personally in 2017 russian secret service was preparing my kidnapping and thanks to secret service of ukraine, that was stopped and then those who try to do this, were taken by russians, by putin in exchange of ukrainian war captives. so it's like the kgb tactics and putin is a kgb agent. he couldn't do anything with ukrainian army which is holding the ground, that's why he's terrorizing civilians and trying to make operations like kidnapping of offi