what does it say about the other german crimes in eastern europe? they killed more than 3 million soviet prisoners of war. the second largest german war crime. in general this is mentioned very briefly or sometimes not at all but in my view it is important to understand the holocaust and even if i am wrong about that, it strikes me if one were concerned about german war crimes we would want to bring in all of them to check to see if there is some kind of a relationship. the final difficulty has to do with comparison. what i have been edging toward is the argument one has to understand eastern europe and the soviet union to understand the crime germany committed which i like to think is an obvious place but i am afraid it is sent. one of the things that has held us back is comparison to different ways. on the one hand there is a strong tradition of comparison that begins that these regimes are both totalitarian. i have a lot to say about that if it interest you but the problem to note is the totalitarian school you look at soviet society and the nazi

and this is crucial because this place is eastern europe and the various hortense imagine if geography the nazis have. if it's a particular ukraine between hip and installing in a way which is going to become crucially important. the first chapter is about the same in. the famine in the ukraine in 1932 to 1933. what is striking here is that i felt i was coming to power in germany, who's making a let girls be just about famine ukraine. he has seen the feeling in ukraine joseph arcs of them coming to. of course by marxism he means communist the social democrats and in fact different who disagrees with them come up in the into one bag. but the interesting thing is the famine is going on in the background and is known about in germany as filter comes to power. in the soviet union, the statement is of course the realities. in the fall of 1932, having already deported, having already enforce collectivization and taken away land for millions of ukraine and other peasants throughout the soviet union, stalin takes a series of particular decisions, which we cannot document rather carefully from

but for central and eastern europe it is going to be another cold day. all right.e's your extended forecast now. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> once again, our top stories at this hour, in new zealand a magnitude 6.3 earthquake caused widespread damage around christchurch in the country's south island. police have reported multiple fatalities. the u.s. geological survey says the quake struck shortly after midday on tuesday near christchurch at a depth of five kilometers. local media reports show heavily damaged buildings and cracked roads strewn with debris. people who fled to safety are staying away as aftershocks continue. the quake is causing blackouts, and phone lines are out. christchurch airport has been shut down. the new zealand government has launched a task force to deal with the situation. christchurch was hit by a major tremor only five months ago. we can see from this video footage of a local tv station that many shops have collapsed along streets in christchurch. there appear to be many people injured and others trapped under rubble. a cathedral in the city, in the cent

and then as we head to eastern europe, frigid weather. minus 6 in warsaw. hard freeze warnings abound. 3 degrees in berlin, as well as vienna, and over towards the west, double digits, 12 in london and paris, and 20 degrees in lisbon. here's your extended forecast. >>> once again the top stories at this hour. international search and rescue operations are continuing in christchurch, new zealand, where 113 people have been confirmed dead after tuesday's earthquake. police say only six of the victims have been identified so far. they believe identified remains may include some of the roughly 200 people listed as missing. friday marked the passage of the critical 72 hour period since the earthquake, after which the chance of survival for anyone trapped in the rubble is said to fade rapidly. in central christchurch, japanese rescuers, australian troops and others are working around the clock to remove debris from the collapsed canterbury tv building. it housed a language school attended by foreign students including japanese. many people are thought to remain b

and invading khadafi look we didn't need to invade eastern europe to have eastern europe fall what we needed to do was to be very confident about our democratic ideals and our democratic values and to demonstrate that they also represent the strength of our society after nine hundred ninety when the soviet union fell i was following very closely all the press in the middle east and i read article after article in egypt even among palestinians who were saying that one of the reasons why israel and the united states were one so many times was because they were free and they were asking themselves why not us and if you ask i think the most important period where we dropped the ball i really do believe it's from about one thousand nine hundred ninety to about one nine hundred ninety five when we really had a chance to champion the idea of democracy especially in some of our allies like egypt it would not have been seen. as a slam to american power it would have been seen as an extension of american values after having won the cold war and yes even the palestinians many palestinians were w

were saying days limits are not the majority give us a chance why did you support democracy in eastern europe and not in our part of the world we know that with the islamist arm of the nobody listened and nobody cared to listen to day with tunisia and egypt they are reassessing this situation but they did not think of this scenario that's why when you say they are unhappy to see a dictator leave because they didn't. they never imagined that one day it would be regular people who would take to the top because. democracy is running a democracy it's really quite again pathetic here i'd like to ask all three on the panel and i to go to villa first i mean again let's clarify here because i think this is i don't want to get c.n.n. and ask here just because there are democratic movements going on and it needs to be developing and when the countries that we're talking about expression egypt it doesn't necessarily mean they're going to be lovey dove the liberal regimes are going to be one to get in bed with the americans again considering what the americans and their allies have done to them for decad

very different uprising from the manufactured ones that we have seen elsewhere in the world in eastern europe in some cases so one can compare it to that what i compared this to is not nine hundred eighty nine i compare this to the wave of uprisings in eight hundred forty eight which travelled all over europe that is what we are seeing in the arab world now the eight hundred forty eight uprisings. against the all strong garion emperor and the czar of russia and the equivalent of that today is the president of the united states and these uprisings sensually are directed against the people who the united states put in these countries to run but do you think it's possible to establish democracy in egypt and what are the tools that you think will be needed to do that. i think two things need to be done one we need a new constitution in egypt i think the egyptian democrats the gyptian nationalists should say we need a new constitution which to truly limits the power of beyond me to defending the country from outside attack beyond me should have no power in running the country in my opinion secondl

we're seeing a rapid succession of events which to some extent recalls as i say what happened in eastern europe in one thousand nine hundred nine how much managing do you think is going on i'd like to talk a little bit more about that driving force that many critics say is coming from abroad. well there's no doubt that a lot of the as i say technicians of regime change have been active i've mentioned this serbian group or i've mentioned gene sharp gene sharp as an american political scientist to written what many consider to be the bible of nonviolent regime change and we know that these people have been active and i'm no doubt that their influence has been very considerable after all although of course they are officially non-governmental organizations organizations like got poor are in fact one hundred percent funded by the american state and in the case of egypt and as in the case of the other countries the interest of the united states is to preserve is to present the appearance of change while maintaining political control that is what the americans are about revolution to legitimize a con

women are lured to the port of odessa from all over the struggling countries of eastern europe with promises of badly- needed work abroad. many are unaware of what the traffickers have in store. the production team has set up cameras here. >> we knew that if we wanted to get inside the story that we had to be in a place where it was so prevalent that everybody would have an example or know people who were trafficked. and that's what brought us ultimately to odessa. >> narrator: frustrated with an inability to chase the traffickers overseas, the ukrainian secret service has given us a tip about a suspected sex trader who regularly brings girls through here. across from the port, on the famous odessa steps, we secretly film as she traffics young women to turkey. we've been asked to call her olga. >> the secret service said that she runs a legitimate business as a cover, and she basically takes women from moldova and ukraine to work as domestics in turkey. and amongst these women are some younger women who she sells to traffickers and pimps in turkey. we wanted to answer some fundamental questi

the enormous immigration from eastern europe, southern europe, asia, some latin america also, but especially the european immigrations that had people saying, good lord, what is it to be an american? and that's exactly the point at which the war comes, and we say we're all american, we're all one ethnic group. what? and how do you define that? what does it mean, then, to be an ethnic, to be an american? we all, i don't know, maybe believed some of the same things or we all -- it's what, you know, there's this wonderful book about imagined communities that some of you may know, benedict anderson's book. and benedict anderson talks about modern states. our imagined communities in the sense that they represent a kind of fantasy of unity which tries to bring about, tries to realize itself in practice. so it's not just a fantasy, it tries to realize itself in practice. but especially when it's first announced, it's a fantasy. then you get world war ii, and then you have the fantasy of the classless society. i mean, that -- the country had just gone through something very close to a revolution in

supposedly friendly to the west and friendly to israel but of course as you have seen russia seen in eastern europe if your friendly government that unpopular then in the end it turns against you because the people are against you in the government and they're being overthrown and that's what's happening now so you know you can call them extremists if you wander there's nothing you can do about it with real disease these so-called extremist by supporting our own extremism because why isn't it extremist to support a government which is vastly unpopular as mubarak has been for many years and why isn't it extremist to support israel as we have been doing for so many years which is not accepted in the region and doesn't care to try to be accepted in the region . to some of the news that now and still to come in the program a moment in history russia and us are finally set to shake the symbolic city back three minutes made i couldn't it costs to then there are some. u.s. lawmakers are pushing for a renewal of the patriot act which allows security agencies to go through private telephone and e-mail recor

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. >> 2011 could be to the middle east was 1989 was to eastern europe. a desire for human freedom. desire for accountable government is something that is universal. and while the transition to democracy in egypt and other middle eastern countries could be rocky and many ways i see this as the best thing that could happen in terms of america's interests. >> he said when people can express their grievances and work to change, they're less like to be attracted to extremist ideologies. >>> egyptians living in the bay area are celebrating this day in their homeland, even from afar. the emotions are clear. abc 7 is in the newsroom with that part of the coverage. >>> we visited a mosque today. the sheik says fears egypt could become a religious state are unfounded. he says people want freedom and democracy what. streets have been saying. it's a victory dance at san francisco's crave city. the owners include a taste of their homeland, egyptian pizza on the menu. >> excited and very happy. like all of the people, millions came out and changed everything in just one week. exciting. >> this 24

close to the church or the processional of our friends or deat are expens >> across germany and eastern europe you're looking at spending a lot of money. >> reporter: for a quick walk you're looking at a quick buck. (music) here we are buckingham palace. it only took five minutes. nobody wants to stay during wedding week. hotels' stock, says that searches for the u.k. are spiking. they are welcoming visitors. you can stay with @ red than villager on their couch. >> is an opportunity for people to come and stay to see what the royal wedding is a bit. how big is it. >> reporter: once your room is booked all you have to worry about is transport strikes. the >> coming up next is the uprising in libya. and it, shoplifter is caught in active stanley roberts. the >> that his stanley roberts. stanley >> as >> >>stanley: these three men tried to enter the store but were denied access because they had made. the manager declared warnings. while the police were getting into this story the store manager was on his self fun. there was a woman that was angry. >> relax! the >> don't touch me! >>stanley: at on

this i fully believe is the 21st century's equivalent of, for instance, the revolutions in eastern europe in 1989, an old system collapsing and being shown simply not to be relevant to the world any longer. what happened here is young people, this is the internet generation. it's grown up, and expecting to have freedom of thought and not -- simply not accepting it when that freedom of thought is being prevented by an old, outdated, outmoded government. i think that this has a real significance beyond this country. i think if i were the colonel of libya, or the president of syria, or ahmadinejad of iran, i don't think i would be sleeping very well tonight. and i think all this honking and hooting in the streets would be echoing in my dreams. >> our world affairs editor john simpson there. let's bring you the scenes once again in tahrir square at the moment. here they are. it's coming up to around half past 4:00 in the morning. after a historic day during which the egyptian president hosni mubarak resigned after more than two weeks of protests against his authoritarian rule. his powerers ha

when we look at the revolutions in eastern europe, w had new pelewept to the surface, a lot of clergymen and physicists. they are not necessarily the worst politicians. why not include popular figures in the negotiations? they seem to have a real fellowship in tahrir square. >> thank you so much. and thank you for joining us. u forget it. yourself, so don't fall. u forget it. now he tells us. how far am i off the floor? about twelve inches. twelve whole inches?

he also says there will be even more attacks all in pursuit of an independent muslim state in eastern europehechen rebels have been behind several incidents in reach years, including last year's moscow subway bombing that killed 40. >>> this morning's washington post reports america's courts are reaching a crisis point because of an alarming number of vacancies of federal judges. according to "the post" federal judges have been retiring this year at a rate of one per week. the empty post has numerous consequences, including delayed trials. since president obama took office, vacancies have nearly doubled. there are 101 of them. 46 deemed judicial emergencies. experts blame republicans delaying tactics, slow white house nominations and a dysfunctional senate nomination system. >>> it may not be much consolation to steelers and packer fans, but the 400 ticket holders who had to give up their super bowl seats because of installation problems will now get a free ticket to next year's game in addition to a refund triple the ticket's face value. an nfl executive admitted yesterday they knew there w

eastern europe will be seeing dry but very chilly conditions again.ally heading into south africa, the south of africa, that is madagascar looking at more wet weather again today, and this is going to be a continuing trend for the next couple of days still, especially coastal areas looking to receive upwards of 250 millimeters or more of rainfall. that's been an ongoing story since this week, so lots of rain piling up here. that real raises the risk of flooding and landslides and mozambique, too, looking toic pick up on the heavy rain as well. that's a look at your weather for now, and here is your three-day outlook. >>> taking another look at our lead story. tension is rising in iran as the government and conservatives are poised to crack down on protesters. supporters of iran's reformists have held protests in various parts of the country this week. in the capital tehran thousands of protesters clashed with the security forces. reports say that at least two people were killed, and 150 have been detained. on tuesday security forces continue to be dep

now, while much of central and eastern europe has been enjoying quite pleasant and mild conditions much of the week, things are going to change as we head into friday. see this system here, right over scandinavia, very gusty conditions, ice, sleet, snow, that is all involved with this. this is going to be tracking its way further into continental europe, bringing that moisture with it. perhaps bringing that snow into parts of germany, poland, the baltic region as well as western russia. to the south, we remain very dry. a bit too dry. let me point out near the pyrenees where we're seeing a lot of not snow. look at this. in france, it's going to be very dry. lots of problems in terms of ski season. very high temperatures. lack of the white stuff is leaving it a bit deserted. that's a bit of a shame. temperatures across the board are warm in the iberian peninsula. 13 for madrid. paris getting up to 14. 11 in london. a little cooler as we head further east. 8 in berlin. 3 in warsaw, cold in moscow, minus 11 for your high. here's your extended forecast. >>> that's all for now on "newsline."

this is not eastern europe in the sense that the people who stood in the squares of warsaw and prague were quoting jefferson and lincoln and kennedy and, yes, ronald reagan. these are not the leaders being sounded by the people in cairo. >> the government has fomented over time it appears anti- semitic, xenophobic, anti- foreign, and right now that is playing out -- >> at you have to say that mubarak -- any time that anybody push came to be more democratic, he would say, oh, the terrorists will take over if i am not here. >> the unrest is spreading to jordan and yemen and elsewhere. >> egypt has historically been a bellwether of the middle east. in the 1950's, when the military overthrew the monarchy, it spread all to the middle east. you had a generation of the military in charge. here you have uprisings -- it started in tunisia, but it is now in yemen and jordan. even in sudan. there might even be demonstrations in syria, of all places, which is a hermetically sealed a police state. there is a wave happening here. it is generational, and it is also technological. 60% of the egyptian

s growth, but i think that growth in places like china, india, indonesia, vietnam, eastern europe and so forth are likely to grow twice or three times the u.s. growth rate, nine to 10% versus three, three.75% in the u.s. >> tom: back on july 30th the last time we spoke with you marshall, we liked a couple of big banks, multinationals out there. bank of america up 1%. j.p. morgan chase had a nice rally, 16%. do you still like these two? >> yes, we do. many of these bank recommendations were based upon milestones, positive milestones that peas banks would -- these banks would achieve over the next year or two including a significant improvement in their credit situation. and now dividends are being talked about actively among some of the best banks including j.p. morgan. so we see the prospects for banks continuing to be good as the economy expands and their credit picture heals. >> tom: okay. how about disclosures tonight. do you or the clients own positions. >> we have bank of america, we have j.p. morgan among other banks and we have substantial holdings in industrial companies that

large, this, i fully believe, is the 21st century's equivalent of for instance the revolutions in eastern europe in 1989 and an old system collapsing and being shown simply not to be relevant to the world any longer. what's happened here is young people, this is the internet generation, that's grown up, and expecting to have freedom of thought and not simply not accepting it when that freedom of thought is being prevented by an old outdated, outmoded government. i think that this has a real significance beyond this country. and i think if i were colonel qaddafi of libya, for instance, if i were president assad of syria, or ahmadinejad of iran i don't think i would be sleeping very well tonight. and i think all this honking and hooting in the streets would be echoing in my dreams. >> and with me here in the studio is dr. mustafa, a leading member of the egyptian community here in britain. welcome to our studios. you met mubarak at one point, didn't you? are you surprised that this has come to -- the end of his career now? with him having to resign like this? >> i'm not surprised at all. because h

europe in the us a talking about handing over billions of dollars to the middle eastern mediterranean to countries torn apart by revolution and on rest and despite the opposition in the u.k. there also you saw him he believe it's the duty of developed countries to help those in trouble with lucky to have a democracy. democracy. i think the middle east needs our help that's going to. question transition that's the moment. to despise our problems are told we can't just close up we have to look at the world we live in but it may not be as simple as that unlike europe after the second world war egypt and. they're developing economies going through revolution and it's very unclear at this point who is going to end up in charge and who would take receipt of any aid package the governments made extensive attempts to build relations build up regimes which now being destroyed by revolutions whether we're looking out over the years to egypt who are looking out for big deals tony blair was shaking hands on just a few years ago in libya was gadhafi so we need to be really careful particularly whe

time europeans are offended by look at shan could because he they expected people in europe of eastern europe expected. to have a deal with him but it didn't warrant saw. sanctions or rather symbolic so there are noise konami. pressure on the question yet unlike united states by the way we should be imposed just economic sanctions the european union preferred to be just political ok you are saying that the sanctions don't work and you're also saying the opposition is weakened bellary so what chance do we see of democracy ever winning in that country. in the short term perspective i don't see a big chance for that because position is weak and of course the position is heavily heavily damaged by a recent wave of repressions at the same time i don't believe that in the middle of europe. heart. of the retire in the rule can last for for a long time saw in a couple of years time. situation availability will change thank you very much for your. editor in chief of russia in global affairs magazine thank you. now a unique admission replicating a return trip to mars reached an important milestone this

chris: during the eastern europe thing, during hungary and you guys don't report this stuff. i was talking to a hungarian official, a professor at karl marx university said how is this going to work over here? he said freedom is contagious. we all watch television and watching yeltsin fight the soviet power forces over there. and everybody in the middle east is watching this thing. the people our age, younger, they're all watching this. and just a political person you have to figure they're all talk over coffee or whatever. we have to do this thing. >> and this is why the u.s. allies in the region are so terrified. they are looking and saying we are next. and why they've been critical of the obama administration for cutting mubarak loose and worried about a reshaped region. the big story coming out of this for the next month is going to be the obama dimension is going to have to recon feg its middle east policy across the board. and not just in israel but across the board. and going to have to be done on the fly and heading into a totally new world. chris: israel has always b

immigration being concerned about population levels in different countries but then also in central eastern europe you see far right groups focusing in on the roma population the indigenous ethnic minority within their countries and not really looking at muslim immigration a tool from home and if i can go to you and me in britain do you come across. british muslims that are tory and you know and then others that are labor i mean you're not the same population i think it was but pointed out a very good thing is to do more views within the larger community too i mean you can't be buttonholed so easily. well traditionally the british pakistani and british muslim community have been aligned with the labor party here tony blair and gordon brown's political party but since the war in iraq people have been looking more to the conservative party and to the liberal democrats which is a third party here in the united kingdom what it really says to you peter is that british muslims are actively involved in politics we have over twenty seven ethnic minority members of parliament we have i think six or eight m

growth one of the highest figures in eastern europe was the year before that the country's economy was devastated by a fourteen percent slump. the crane was among the country's worst affected by the global recession and while experts say it has not yet fully overcome the blow raise fears of the economy saw a double digit growth in twenty term with the industrial sector being a leader in the export we registered a thirty percent growth to avoid financial damages this year exporting our products is what can save our economy now in the current crisis year a company exports up to eighty percent of what we produce in the russian market is our priority. as ties between q. and more school moved from strains to warmth demand from the russian market increased industrial production increased by more than one percent there was an increase in demand for christmas from russia at all the major the terminal for the. very impressive growth in machinery more than thirty percent of these all saw gives us. basis to expose strong performance for the economy in the current year the government still has a l