was it like eastern europe first? when you read the discussions, internal deliberations, before the london g-7 meeting, before gorbachev came, the u.s. position is to crack down on western europeans who want to reach channel -- re-channel western aid to the soviet union, but president bush says we have to help eastern europe first. you touched on that. is it too far if we call it eastern europe first and soviet union second? and phil, do you think gorbachev understood in 1991 that he would never get that much aid, and why -- massive western aid, and why he continued to behave as if he was? >> did he understand in 1991 that he was not going to get massive western aid? >> and if he did not, why do they keep acting like he did? >>i guess he understood after a while he wasn't going to get it. it took a great deal of determination and courage to ask for it in the first place. initially, i think it was other people around him who made numbers. gorbachev always put it more generally, if you spend x billion dollars in the gul

within eastern europe, that related to germany. they are as anxious about germany as they are about russia and the soviet union. i don't recall the particular facts you mentioned about supporting eastern europe as opposed to the soviet union. u.s.,ality was, in the and whether you think this is too narrow of a vision -- remember, bush did a budget deal only thehat time was big deficit, and ended up costing him reelection. the idea was, in the case of german reunification, we are willing to help, but we did not feel we should pay for it. we were very supportive of the germans paying for it, and in the gulf war, baker gets the saudi's to give additional contributions. there were not small sums of money put in by the imf and world bank. moneyinue to believe that alone, unless you get the fundamentals right, will not solve the problem. much hoped there would be structural reforms, but as bill said here, we worked then they sent another, and we walked away, so there was never really a good plan we felt we could invest in. it last point,

eastern europe was a big politicalfootball at parties... exactly.s a big political football at the time. they spoke to all of these people. if you were sensible about it, you always thought that maybe this diplomat is not a diplomat, or whatever. you would be a bit careful but you would listen to them. shall we move on? i think it is a bit of a nonstory. sorry! "yes, iwas a sex pest" confesses jo nonstory. sorry! "yes, iwas a sex pest" confessesjo cox's husband, this isn't quite what he admitted... it absolutely isn't what he says. he is clearly deeply embarrassed. he has resigned with immediate effect from the two charities that he was running, set up in the wake ofjo cox's murder. an astonishing tearful confession in the daily mail. he does not say that he was a sex pest. he says he knew that there were incidents when he was working with safety children that people feel uncomfortable and it made them feel uncomfortable. i think the story in itself is obviously, for him, a great fall from grace. a public figure with a great deal of public sympathy.

it was like eastern europe first. because when you read the discussions in terms of deliberations before the london g7 meeting before gorbachev came, the u.s. position was to crack down on those western europeans who wanted to rechannel western aid to the soviet union to gorbachev, and the position of president bush was, no, we have to help eastern europe first. you touched on it, but is that too far if we call it eastern europe first and soviet union second? and bill, do you believe that gorbachev understood in 1991 that he would never get massive western aid, and if he did, why he continued to behave as if he would. >> i did hear that. >> did he understand in 1991 -- did gorbachev understand in 1991 that he would going to get western aid? >> and if he didn't, why did he act as if he did? >> well, i guess he understood after a while that he wasn't going to get it. i mean it took a great deal of determination and courage to ask for it in the first place. you know, initially, i think it was other people around him who

the prospect of what would happen with germany was not only a matter for russia but eastern europe and a matter for western europe. i think if you feel over eight or nine months that that set of actions is a pause, then i don't know how well you would compare it with anything else in recent political history. what else matches that level? by november, over the first eight or nine months, you have the u.s. well positioned on nato, germany, u.s./e.c. relationships. baker talks about it as a way to be home by december. to compare that with today, i think we have a world where trump is ambivalent about alliances. i think the generals will generally hold him in line. trump prefers transactional policies. strong leaders of an authoritarian nature may be easier for him to deal with. one of the questions going back to the discussion about the wilsonian period, i wonder whether we might be moving back to a period more like 1900 or the 1920s where you have maneuvering of great powers if this system doesn't continue. fourth point, prudence and respect. bush and baker were not triumphant. bush's r

it was like eastern europe first. because when you read the discussions in terms of deliberations before the london g7 meeting before gorbachev came, the question was to crack down on europeans who wanted to rechannel the aid to gorbachev. and the position of president bush was, no, we have to help eastern europe first. you touched on that. is it too far that we call it eastern europe first and soviet union second? and do you think that gorbachev would never get aid and why would he continue if he would? >> i did hear that. -- i didn't hear that. >> did gorbachev understand in '91 that he was not going to get western aid? >> and if he didn't, why did he act as if he did? >> well, i guess he understood after a while that he wasn't going to get it. i mean it took a great deal of determination and courage to ask for it in the first place. you know, initially, i think it was other people around him who named numbers and gorbachev put is it more generally like if you spent x billion of dollars in the gulf war, can't you sp

the prospect of what would happen with germany was not only matter for russia, but a matter for eastern europe, for western europe. if you feel, over eight or nine months, that that set of actions is a pause, i don't know how you would compare it with anything else in recent political history. what else has government done in the first year that matches that level? by novemberse, within the first eight or nine or 10 months, you had u.s. well-positioned in nato, germany, even baker talks about the csce as a way to deal with the european coming home by december. to compare it to today, i think we have a world where donald trump is ambivalent about alliances. i think the generals would generally hold him in line. strong leaders may be easier for him to deal with. leaders of an authoritarian nature. one of the questions going back a little bit, to the discussion of the wilsonian period, i wonder whether we might be moving back to a period more like 1900 of the 1920's, where you have a newer bearing -- -- in maneuvering of great powers. fourthly, prudence and respect. bush and baker were not triump

logging in eastern europe is done mainly in winter there's a lot of more oil and they can only access the forests when the ground there is frozen and there's no swamp and they can get the machinery into fell the trees right now the ground won't support the weight of the heavy machinery. think of how it is lucky it can process locally sourced wood in its own sawmill that means it can compensate for the shortage of eastern european wood for now at least. germany has its foot firmly on the gas pedal after granting apartment for the north stream to natural gas pipeline from russia the first pipeline of the north stream runs along the bottom of the baltic sea from russia to mean in eastern germany. it's just a project running along. i will double capacity of the root which currently stands at fifty five billion cubic metres critics say it'll increase europe's energy dependency on russia ukraine is set to lose out most present over hof of russian gas exports to the e.u. pos through the country but for how much longer. by the time russian gas flows through these pipes it's already traveled t

united states pushed ahead with plans for a new state of the art missile defense system throughout eastern europe putin saw that as an unacceptable challenge to his quest for power. in june twenty twelve he confronted the western alliance at the g twenty in mexico and economic summit that brings together heads of state once a year. behind the scenes these summits

logging in eastern europe is done mainly in winter there's a lot of moral and they can only access the forests when the ground there is frozen and there's no swamp and they can get the machinery into fell the trees right now the ground won't support the weight of the heavy machinery. think it is lucky it can process locally sourced wood in its own sawmill that means it can compensate for the shortage of eastern european wood for now at least. deal may be better than a bad one that's the warning shot canadian prime minister justin trudeau has fired at the united states over nafta the north american free trade agreement he says he won't accept anything that doesn't benefit canadians that's the same tack us president of trumpets taking comments setting up at your leaders for a showdown. it's been one and a half weeks since the latest round of nafta talks between canada the united states and mexico concluded with the go shaders saying they're moving forward but with a very slow progress during a visit to the united states canadian prime minister justin trudeau indicated his government is w

in eastern europe is done mainly in winter there's a lot of. they can only access the forests when the ground there. frozen and there's no swarm on it and they can get the machinery into fell the trees right now the ground won't support the weight of the heavy machinery and must need to. think of how it is lucky it can process locally sourced wood in its own sawmill that means it can compensate for the shortage of eastern european wood for now at least . nearly four months off the germany's general election political leaders have finally agreed to form a coalition but for many german business leaders the devil is in the detail business had hoped to finally get that cotton corporate taxes which are among the highest in the world in germany this and they reject tighter restrictions on temporary job contract. planning federation industries says it will make it make it harder for them to react to the ups and downs of the economic cycle they say the coalition deal does not prepare the country for the future. so what will germany's new government bri

balkans the real cold start to set in this coming week will be frigidly arctic all the way from eastern europe right to the west attempts by day as a maximum are going to drop nine times could be really cold this is a late bit of really quite severe winter for europe. the weather sponsored by qatar and greece. facing realities growing up when did you realize that you were living in a special place the so-called secret city getting to the heart of the matter while activists to live in jail just because she expressed herself hear their story on talk to al-jazeera at this time. was. hard to take a look at the top stories here it out easier syrian government troops have launched a new ground and air offensive on the rebel held on klaver. which has been under heavy bombardment for the past week troops tried to enter the area just hours after the u.n. security council agreed a thirty day cease fire for syria. a controversial high ranking general is leading north korea's delegation for the closing ceremony of the china lympics kim. has been accused of ordering an attack on a south korean ship which k

we never made a commitment that we would not expand nato into eastern europe. we made a commitment that we would not station nuclear weapons on the territory of the former warsaw pact states. and we have kept that commitment. - [brzezinski] to say that we should freeze nato enlargement, would be another way to reward putin. to legitimize his polices. your basic meaning there would be a line of division. you will have countries who are not allowed to pursue their national interests because of russian dominion. - we urge russia to cease its destabilizing activities in ukraine and elsewhere. - [narrator] using sanctions on russia, some argue, would further integrate russia into the global economy. - our european friends understand that the more that we actually do economic business with russia that the more likely we are to have peaceful interactions that will make things better rather than make things worse. and they will not see that as a sign of weakness. - i think it's nonsense. honestly i don't see how removing sanctions, which would have the effect of acquie

hunting season is officially over but since the outbreak of swine fever in eastern europe fear is growing that the disease will soon reach germany too some fifty hunters are tracking wild boar hoping that a cull will keep the disease at bay satisfied name it ensures companies who know that wasn't a great shot will hear them in the conditions on great calls. that had already been shot you've got a bit too low down over. this thing i would give every here do my job came through the branches in the hopes i'd hit it from the six weeks so. as with. most of the huntsman tracking wild boar here and make him book have hit their target. they get twenty five euros per hog thanks to a regional incentive introduced to protect domestic pigs for now they're still healthy but african swine fever is threatening to creep into germany. and j.s. killing and his brothers keep about ten thousand pigs in a farm that's just sixty kilometers from poland where there have already been a few hundred cases of swine fever it's not dangerous to humans but the killings are worried that business will take a hit. that's

in fact it's new humans that play a major role in spreading the disease motorists from eastern europe could unwittingly bring it into the country a half eaten sausage tossed out of a car window and eaten by a wild boar would be all it takes. to spend the likelihood of the disease reaching germany's very high this is you know what the view of wild boar there ah the less likely it is the disease will spread avoided as hunters we have a responsibility to families and to societies actually the german farmers association has called an emergency meeting the killings are attending according to conservationists the expansion of corn production has boosted wild boar populations increasing the risk of swine fever the association president rejects the accusation is because it's not just corn production and this needs to be spelled out but a large number of conservation measures to help wild boar feel at home here. the farmers association has called for a seventy percent call of the country's wild boar population here. the forty one hog shot today we're all healthy. foods and tom we've got strict

they're not handled that well atoll well when the european union expanded their central and eastern europe they had provisions about minority rights and about concern about the structure of government and so on as soon as the country gets into the european union is no longer subject to the conditionality so there was a very confused response to the situation in scotland where one control became independent some european countries recognize that others didn't that they have a different response every time a crisis comes up and in the case of catalonia they just weren't present they just mouthed the slogans about it being an internal spanish matter when it's clearly something of greater international importance so there's a little bit done through the council of europe through the venice commission but at the european level there's a very weak capacity to deal with these things which are going to become a challenge to europe in the future if they are going to be a challenge taking the example of catalonia for instance you have a political crisis there that shows no sign of ending anytime soo

we have some numbers from one of the biggest lenders in eastern europe. e czech republic raise the rates. input one 3s 1.31 billion euros. they are the second largest lender in europe. we are getting ready for a confirmation in terms of eu policy or central-bank in europe. it is going to be interesting in terms of where they go next, because everything is set to change on the interest rate landscape if you believe the market reprice that you have their. we are going to speak to the ceo te group.s there are eight conservative party lawmakers that have backed an amendment calling for the u.k. to keep close ties to the european union after brexit, and attempts to reverse theresa may's policy. it could threaten her political survival. a number of lawmakers who want to -- want britain to stay in the customs union. ben gutteridge is in our studio in love -- london. divisions are becoming more apparent. today we are going to get the european response to the uk's brexit calls. if you read that, there is not much distance between eight and a fully fledged rebellion

communist east germany in one nine hundred fifty six a fresh wind is blowing across eastern europe but in hungary it's brutally crushed most. oh. i had caught. him on his bike and would not think that if i don't get in the last school class faces the consequences after her roic act of resistance. which it isn't but you just keep it. as the great thing about the story is that it's a timeless tale of youthful rebellion it's also a coming of age movie. that's here. last ones which is screening in a section devoted to young german filmmakers it is also a movie about growing up maria is a passionate organ player in lives with her sister and father in a provincial german town everything seems idyllic but this is a dark domestic drama. cancer. citigroup. the father has been sexually abusing his daughters for years even a justification. eventually the sisters leave together ending the cycle of abuse and silence the film seems especially timely given recent revelations in the film world. ok i'm still here with a festival cause like the movie world's been rocked over the past twelve months by re

a notorious piece of legislation those excluded from america included people from italy, eastern europe, japan, asia and jewish people. that was the immigration policy of the united states of america because of that bill in 1924 the last time this chamber has made such a dramatic cut illegal immigration to america it was a source of embarrassment for decades to establish quotas to say we want america to look a lot different than if other immigrants came to this country thankfully in 1865 it was changed those quotas that were criticized to be sensitive to the realities of world population of america now the trump administration wants to cut legal immigration main by 44% since the horrible bill passed in 1924. i will tell you what else it would do. the unaccountable slush fund of $25 billion for a border wall that mexico was supposed to pay for. $25billion i think that is more than the annual appropriation from national institute of health. $25billion the president wants no strings attached. with where and when and how he wants that is fraud and waste in invitation for money to be spent o

they go back two decades and existed during the cold war for central and eastern europe, the economic linkages and the intelligence networks. they already existed. they had that network to work with. as i said, this was part of encouraging a policy. we wanted russia to integrate with europe and the west. that was the big, bold 25-year plan. so it was encouraged. e.u. funds were going to support this. what began as a positive became a negative. those politicians in particular and they can be on the far right of the political spectrum. they can certainly be on the far left. the commonality they have is that they are against europe, the e.u. they are against globalization, immigrants, everything. they are very supportive of the kremlin. it is really not a political distinction. if far left actors support that, they will get support, and far actors will as well. sometimes they just get lucky that a politician that they had invested in comes and suddenly it is their moment, the politicses begpolitics begin to fracture and they rise and we are shocked to see what positions they are in. >> t

now, what religions were predominant in southern and eastern europe ? >> the reasons given and many of these will sound familiar. they won't assimilate very well. they are just different and their religions art, there are two different from the predominant protestant religions. also, we're going to admit criminals. maybe even communists and people with diseases. and finally, these people are not very well educated, they're going to become a burden on government. all of this sounds familiar. these arguments are being used today. instead of catholics and jews just substitute muslims and you get the same argument. this little girl, so moses is 11 years old although she looks much, much younger. she's a leading board distinction in bremen germany in 1946. all of her family was killed during the holocaust. but she was one of the lucky few who were allowed to come to the united states. it is a disgrace and harry truman pointed this out many times. it is a disgrace that we and switzerland, much smaller countries than the united states, took in more refugees fr

no one wants russia here to bomb eastern europe which is the. rebel against the mighty google news that matters. d.w. made for mines. it created movie milestone. it was an instrument of propaganda and persecution. it underwent a bankruptcy and restructuring. but it's still churning out films today. germany's biggest and oldest film company. a cinematic history from the german empire to the present one hundred or so. starting february he changed e.w. . move . move move move move move. move. move move. move move move. this is g.w. news live from berlin a passenger plane crashes in near moscow officials say all seventy one people on board were killed an investigation is underway to determine the cause of the crash . and the winter olympics continue with plenty of action and inspiring stories well find out why the snowboarding competition brought tears to viewers eyes and bring you the rest of the news from town chang.

also coming up education alone is not enough tens of thousands of young people in eastern europe are forced to leave their home to earn a living elsewhere. for business on the w m how you know i guess welcome to the program buyer is under pressure to perform sure shares in the german life sciences company tumbled more than three percent after it announced disappointing financial results for twenty seventeen buyer faces challenges on multiple fronts and some of them are out of its control. if by investors were hoping for good news on wednesday they didn't get much as if multiple delays in the approval of a sixty two billion euro tile with our chemical for monsanto weren't enough twenty seven teens consumer drug sales were stagnant. system and consumer. we're not satisfied with the development of consumer health. on the one hand competitive forces in the usa require extra investment in our brands. and then in twenty seven teens the unusual situation in china where several over the counter drugs became prescription only products. and. values problems are stacking up it's now willing to

a heartbreaking fate for tens of thousands of young people in eastern europe studying hard for qualifications in the countries they were born in only to have to pack up their belongings and leave friends and family living also on the program discounted diesel's we visited a used car lot after a german court ruled that cities can now ban diesel cars to cut down on pollution levels. welcome to business on christopher. first the bank has agreed to pay another two hundred forty million dollars to settle eight two thousand and eleven lawsuit in the united states accusing it of manipulating the lie bore benchmark interest rate germany's biggest bang is the third after citi group and barclays to resolve claims by investors including the city of baltimore and yale university denied any wrongdoing but settled to avoid the risks and distraction of the geisha and as it says in court papers georgia has already paid four billion dollars to resolve lives or claims libel or is used by banks to send rates on hundreds of trillions of dollars transactions. now a landmark decision is causing a lot of uncertaint

freezing weather stripping much of central and eastern europe with temperatures plunging to minus twenty celsius in some places even to several deaths the cold spell is it is expected to last through. syria a truce meant to relieve the suffering of eastern guta is being ignored war planes and helicopters resumed their bombardment of the procedure rebel on play with both sides blaming the other for the collapse of the truce russia's military says shelling from rebel groups means that people can't leave used to go to the rebel factions say they have not bombed the evacuation route route or stopped people from leaving. or care international's middle east regional coordinator is martin melius he joins us from amman in jordan welcome to d.w. what are you hearing about the situation in eastern tutor. so basically after nine days of unprecedented level of facilities people are tired they're hungry they're free and we have seen hundreds of people that have perished in the bombing campaign . and we know off around twenty four have facilities that have been bombed deliberately. and basically we ha

also coming up education alone isn't enough tens of thousands of young people in eastern europe are forced to leave their home and living elsewhere. i don't welcome to do business i want to get jones of berlin good to have you with us so here in germany commuters company's whole municipalities are grappling with yesterday's court ruling that opens the door to. banning diesel cars from in a city east of the move aims to no harmful emissions and improve their quality but small businesses in particular whose diesel powered utility vehicles are essential to keeping their operations running hoping for exceptions. the idea of small can normally conjures up notions of bustling capitals but lynn is just one of seventeen german cities notorious for breaking legal air pollution limits could city centers across the country soon be no go areas for millions of cars. over in frankfurt used car dealer marcelled l r ball is only too aware of the diesel problem his yard is full of cars waiting for buyers the main difference between them one type sells well the other doesn't. as an enemy at any price or the

has a brigade stationed in poland partly in response to concerns about people in some parts of eastern europe that after the events in ukraine there could be a threat to them as well so there he clear statement yes the u.s. is still here but it's in gauge what is different. a conference chairman volk on the issue said that the world had become a bold dangerous place one of the biggest risks that people that are talking about . indeed this year's conference is titled intitled to the brink. and some of the things that people worry could push us over the brink north korea we've heard both the u.n. secretary general the head of nato and others saying this is a serious threat of real nuclear confrontation and it's very very complex we have the entire security council on one page on this and yet it's very hard to see how we're going to get a breakthrough and then that conflict interlinked with the discussion about the nuclear agreement with iran and that egremont having been thrown into question among other things by the trump administration so increasing complexity in the sense that conflicts and

question is believed to boost in durance and increase recovery it was widespread in russia or in eastern europe before it was banned two years ago the latest potential doping scandal shocked many in the coaling community a sport where skill and precision come before brute strength i really don't think that in curling is useful i think in curling both is really important and it's like mansell and physical side so the doping is absolutely no excuse full at this aspect i don't really understand what what it would approve or what it would improve you and your game kind of things. i don't understand what it will do for you many of russia's medal hopefuls are of course missing at these games as they were not cleared to compete by a live picture if despite having no doping history and there were no big hopes for the olympic podium some young russian athlete still managed to not chop some victories as any of the trunk of reports. russia's top ski racers were made to sit out chang to any team their ski boots were big ones to step into but against the odds these judy years pulled it off all you need to k

it's the poorest who bear the brunt of the cold across eastern europe at least eight people have died in poland over the weekend officials are appealing for citizens to help the homeless find a warm bed in a shelter. the freezing weather is expected to hang around until the end of the week thursday should mark the meteorological start of spring but it seems winter isn't ready to let go of europe quite yet. well the german winter olympic team has arrived back home to a hero's welcome after their success in pyongyang their plane landed at frankfurt airport from south korea this afternoon the travelling contingent included more than one hundred fifty athletes and coaches the team finished second in the medals table behind norway when he fourteen gold medals and thirty one in total the most successful winter olympics in history congratulations to them. you're up to date with innings we'll see you again at the top of the i. think you're smart t.v. smarter with the d w for smart t.v. . what you want for what you want it up to date extraordinary. to decide yourself sunbelt more. cops more g.

question is believed to boost in durance an increased recovery it was widespread in russia and eastern europe before it was banned two years ago and the latest potential doping scandal shocked many in the curling community a sport where skill and precision come before brute strength. i really don't think that in curling is useful i think in curling is really important and it's like mansell and physical side so is absolutely at this aspect i don't really understand what what it would approve or what it would improve you and your game kind of things. i don't understand what it will do for you many of russia's medal hopefuls are missing at these games as they were not cleared to compete by live big chiefs despite having no doping history and though there were no big hopes for the olympic podium some young russian athlete still managed to knock up some victories as reports. but the russian ski racing star athletes love to sit out these games at home these juniors had some pretty big ski boots to fill but against the odds they did exactly that all you need to know about the performance of russia's