warrior nomads who make sure their most important weapon was in order a robust whip called the malia georgie receives the bulk of the quest for whips from both professional jockeys and local shepherds. through long all cattle raising nomads used whips mainly to keep cattle moving ensure the comic which is different in that it consists of several sections making it more effective because on the also it looks like a braid rather than a pattern something that the cows are whip has for example. there is a saying in kalmykia a man would only put his with a side the proof is still in an arm called but. on weekends many people leave towns and villages to attend local fairs traditional wrestling fights a regular feature such events. the rules are simple when contestants need to force any part of their opponent's body to the ground going for the legs is not allowed but the combatants are allowed to grab the trousers of the south. up until the eighteenth century cow mick wrestling was a rigorous martial art fight as frequently caused heavy injuries to one another i today it is a national sport practic

. >> georgie anne geyer's newest book is "predicting the unthinkable, anticipating the impossible" thank you for being on booktv. >> thank you. >> .net, booktv interviews rick bragg while touring birmingham, alabama as part of our cities tour of the king of the landscape of the southeastern cities. airports are not workers of the foothills foothills of north alabama. >> those people in the cover her workers from kind of the dark ages of the cottonelle in my hometown. those are folks who had survived the 20s, 30s, 40s and into the 50s when it is a brick oven and summertime, when the air was safe pick with fine cotton, that would fill their lungs with cotton favor. they would hang out the windows, trying to get a breath of air. kids would read by in cars and wagons and he is and it would scare them death. these were people that lost their thinkers, hands and arms to the machines and work for it. they had to work because they came down out of the mountains, walking barefoot, came down with other children and mine. and hired men and women in the bbs because the children were valuable. their

georgie anne geyer, what is this book about? >> welcome in this book is a scintillation since the first soviet communism. i have thought for many years that what we have to do as those of us in the current field have to anticipate and predict them. and that's what this book is trying to show. >> throughout your years as a foreign correspondent, wherever your travels taking you? order to retrieve the most exciting places you can situation dependent? >> i've been all over the world. egypt, israel, vietnam, cuba was fantastic. and really almost everywhere. i can't think of places now. >> so people sit down to read "predicting the unthinkable, anticipating the impossible," what will they find in their? what would you like them to take away from the book? >> there is a method of thinking and making anticipate what's coming. we have great diplomats and military men and journalists. but it never a good to the white house and the state department. >> so if you were to travel today, where do you see a future problem or future situation w

is not our only correspondent in honolulu for instance updates from the asia pacific summit georgie's of twitter streams. ahead of a meeting between the russian and u.s. presidents our correspondent on the boat the tweet that obama says russia's entry into the w t o would create opportunities for american business there's also plenty more at audrey's and facebook and you tube pages as well. if you go. to. the end of an era in italy as the country's charismatic prime minister silvio berlusconi steps down and comes out. the lower house of parliament gave its final approval to a vast new austerity package which was a precondition for his resignation the p.m.'s though won't remain vacant for long with a veteran euro crowd mario monti looking to take the baton from berlusconi the public reaction so far has been mixed with some celebrating berlusconi's fall while others are wary of the future our correspondent in italy sir further details. that of stairs he will finally say oh silvio berlusconi's fate and he stepped down as prime minister of the country now for better or worse he was certai

inspections to basically poke their nose into all areas of countries or to seem to be suspicious of georgie they're poking their noses in thought i would say political appear to be political reasons rather than for any reasons of security concerns at its current time and i think it's very telling they're choosing to do this at a time when the uprising for taking place what they're trying to do is to kind of effectively use other things as kind of modes of fro at the situation to try and affectively build up a narrative which they can use should they necessarily want to intervene in the future i mean certainly syria is being recast in this situation as one of the one of the countries that needs to what's you know one of the countries that for example a new actually sort of evil or something along those lines so i think it is being used for strategic reasons the only thing that's really where it is actually is if the syrian people are left alone without any western intervention without their you know kind of their lackeys or kind of bodies like the international atomic energy agency poking th

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. >> it's like georgy and buddy, camaraderie, guys.ve to me. >> what it was it about jorge that moved you? >> he's sacrificing his own life and time and to include his family every night through rain and through snow and the coldest nights. those people wait for him. the minute i saw the story, anderson, i was all in. i love this guy, seriously. >> to me, it's such a great example of what heroes is all about. they do whatever they can and however they can. >> absolutely. >> i heard you had tried to slip him an envelope with some money. >> i gave him $5,000 the last time. i asked him to take care of his family, to take them on a trip someplace. i'm not sure what he did. i'm going to ask him. >> you're going to surprise him tonight? >> i am. i've been trying to go out there and see his face. i've been trying to surprise him. i'm very excited about that. thank you so much. i appreciate it. this is my buddy, horhito. it's great to see him and surprise him. it puts everything in perspective with everything that's going on in the country. on

. >> it's like georgy and buddy, calm raud reguys. he's impressive to me.ugh rain and through snow and the coldest nights. those people wait for him. the minute i saw the story, anderson, i was all in. i love this guy, seriously. >> to me, it's such a great example of what heroes is all about. they do whatever they can and however they can. >> absolutely. >> i heard you had tried to slip him an envelope with some money. >> i gave him $5,000 the last time. i asked him to take care of his family, to take them on a trip someplace. i'm not sure what he did. i'm going to ask him. >> you're going to surprise him tonight? >> i am. i'm going to see his face and surprise him. i'm very excited about that. thank you so much. i appreciate it. this is my buddy, hohorhito. it's great to see him and prize him. futs everything in% tif going knot country. on the rainy nights in new york when it's cold, the weather is starting to change, you want to make sure you feed people and they're not hungry. is that the door right there? >> yeah, that's the door. >> it smells deliciou

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host: georgia on the democratic line from california -- georgie. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i appreciate the congressman mentioning reagan. he was president of sag. then he busted the air controllers. you have people that are going to school to work in the film industry, but they are not making the money because all of these places are not union. they're working 15 and 16 hours a day but they are not getting the benefits that older you and people are getting because they are not joining the union. host: what you mean are you a part of? caller: international alliance of stage and screen employees. of course i do not work anymore. i grew up and my family helped to organize the union. i grew up in a union family. the strongest unions we have today are the longshoremen. the: let's go to college on republican line from new jersey -- colleen. caller: hello? good morning. i have two questions. a caller mentioned that a representative who is either sitting in prison or charged with felonies still collects a full-blown pension, and the sapper and had no