open haim was an adventurer and archaeologist but was also involved in planning the route of the ballonto baghdad railway. the german government wanted to build the line to compete with the british to give them access to oil and bring the region under stronger influence. nothing unusual about the fact that siemens who was then the director of the dogshit bank which was largely in charge of the financing of the border into baghdad really should contact him about the extension of the line from a low. to muzzle as fought that particular strange and he asked him if he would do some prospecting and advise them on what was the best route and he wrote about all the advantages that the best and most efficient relying to follow for the railroad and all the advantages that would accrue from following this route rather than that route. after troubleshooting for siemens at deutsche bank he'd made a historic archaeological discovery in northern syria in one thousand nine hundred nine. it was in a certain sense by accident that he made the greatest discovery of his career that you discovered tell how

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the moment what do you think is that haim is it is it he's like a mask of. portraying himself as someone who appreciates putin but then you know behind the doors he does whatever he does or is it really he's helpless and he has to do what that ministration tells him to do. well i guess i've been following the first soviet in a russian american relations for nearly forty years i don't put a lot of weight or importance on whether the two leaders like each other or not the real question is do they see in the other a partner a partner for their own politics a partner for their own national security that so for whatever reason trump thinks it's extremely important to have a detente like relationship with putin now remember one thing it's forgotten here the three major episodes of the time and in the twentieth century were all done by republican presidents correct eisenhower nixon and reagan trump is a republican president maybe a strange republican but a republican so he's in the republican tradition on the other hand you have been in washington today i think mor

four years he was kidnapped by human traffickers with the help of her ex-husband and his family in haim a sprawling metropolis in eastern china the authorities have said that with chen will be returned to her but they've broken their promise before and she fears they will again. is on her way to court with her younger son yet. she's asked authorities for help on numerous occasions but she's never received any on the contrary she's convinced there was a cover up. a year ago tenting ging discovered that her son with chen was sold to a village in shandong province she thought he was living with a family there was no have you seen this child. i know you know and i can tell you that the villagers we fused to give her information. this child is mine my mother in law sold him. i've been searching for him for three years who's seen him. the story began in an outskirt of han where tung dinging lived with her husband. a court summons has brought her back here the authorities have promised that she will be allowed to pick up with chen. filming in court is forbidden tending jenas told the family ha

itself independent from russian gas but what it can do is diversify its a lot and we spoke to ikea haim publisher of the the channel five business newsletter who says there are economic reasons behind germany's push for russian gas the american guest already a source with the l.a.p.d. liquid natural gas is far and spencer and there is really little need in. the liquid natural gas that we have got the natural gas transported here by our pipelines to germany or euro from russia although it could do they could postpone it they could never stop that americans are quite charming with that they say well you know of course of course so that all those who oppose this let you start out get out of line but if you do it it's your whole you don't have to i mean it's natural that we don't want to. and washington is ramping up the threats on an official visit to e.u. member hungary the u.s. energy secretary warned europe the danger of using russian gas russian federation. has historically use energy. as a coercive weapon we should no longer allow the kremlin to you enter as a weapon the solution is a

meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election the white house rejects those allegations particle haim has more. a day after losing one of the houses of congress the president was a man on the defensive i keep hearing about. investigations now facing investigations on two from special counsel robert mueller looking into potential russian collusion and obstruction of justice and in january a democratic controlled u.s. house of representatives looking into pretty much anything it chooses to. do with them it's a dramatic move his attorney general fired replaced by matthew whitaker a man close to the president in tweets and articles he's made. clear he thinks the moeller probe should be limited whitaker will have tremendous power over the investigation now not just the scope of it but under law he has the ultimate say as to what happens to miller's findings he could simply shred his final report but the midterm elections makes that less likely that the democrats will in fact invite. special counsel mauler to testify before the committee and testify in public about what were the findings in

investigation into alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential action article haim reports from washington. mobbed by reporters michael cohen said nothing leaving the court but inside a guilty plea he lied to congress now admitting that he was trying to arrange a real estate deal in moscow during the time it was clear donald trump would be the republican candidate the cohen was in fact going to travel to russia to work on the deal and that now president trump knew about it all things cohen had previously denied bruce fein worked in the justice department and he says this is a big deal so this is a time where we have a criminal information that identifies the president himself secondly it also indicates that president trump or then candidate trump felt vulnerable if it was known that he was dealing in russian enterprises or because he would need to curry to favor of mr putin nothing happens in russia of important without mr putin's approval the president dismissed the news in his usual fashion badmouthing his former top aide he's a weak person. by being weak not like

in haim care and work -- in home care and community health and partnership. i just warrant to say i don't want to be on welfare for the rest of my life. i work full and part-time. i qualify for welfare because they know i don't make enough. it is embarrassing. i want to be like an independent woman and make my baby proud to have a uniform on when she goes to work and take care of people and help society. it is embarrassing i have to carry the food stamp card to the market. it does nothing for my self-esteem. i appreciate the government for assisting people that don't have enough money. i want to transition off welfare , and i am not ability to no matter how much i make. i still get the food stamp card. there is no pride to walk into the market with my nursing scrub s on -- i do in home care so i do wear scrubs. it is it is no pride in walking out pull out my food stamp card because i can't afford to buy my baby food. that is because -- am i done? at $15 per hour i can't afford to buy my son food. it is heartbreaking. i want to be like that independent woman.

open haim returns to excavate laugh in one thousand and seven and discovered a city built in six thousandb.c. . the bell into baghdad will be took thirty seven years to complete by which time europe would be at war again. still to come the devastating impact of the war on greater syria and its people. we think about world war one we think about the british and french and the germans but really the ottoman empire suffered far more than any of the continental powers . the terror. facts of the ottoman repression of our of nationalists. delusions along the way. and a modern greek city and eight story of one of the founders of israel. and jordan centuries of ultimate all of this was mainly the jewish city it was called the jews a limb of the baltics. after one of greece's deadliest forest fires turned a blissful coastal town into a bloody hell people in power asks whether the flames will find point institutional incompetence the number one responsibility. is protecting the citizens was not an accident it was a crime for many the fire is the real symbol the three suspects up to take a bit of st