what do you think was the impact of the helsinki accords on the cold war? >> i think that was a -- i think that's one of the most significant accomplishments of president ford and that it's -- it's really been underreported and underappreciated. the helsinki accords gave everyone who -- who wanted to support freedom for captive people, captive people of eastern and central europe or elsewhere in arab countries, gave them the -- the -- gave them a chance to argue for freedom and human rights and individual freedoms for people because that's some of the things that were contained in the helsinki accords. as i told you when we were touring the exhibits, one of the things that was in the accords though that has been observed by -- by its breach is a provision in the helsinki accord saying borders will only be changed through peaceful means. that was one of the problems we had in the breakup of the former yugoslavia. these countries wanted slovenia, croatia, some of them wanted to declare independence, seize the border posts around them, and i went over to belgr

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again there's a lot of violence anyway i think there actually should be a neighborhood wide sort of helsinki style conference to try and improve. regional to try and reach regional agreements on major issues like transit trade on regional issues like narcotics trafficking and regional issues like nuclear proliferation on issues like trade this is a this is a region that. has tremendous opportunity from an economic standpoint to advance if it could just put placate some of these crises that have been going on for decades india pakistan is one and the afghan conflict is another these are really slowing this region down it's a i think it's again it's a real tragedy that we can the international community not just nato can come together at the diplomatic and at the political level and try and get something but that's where i think i agree with christian that's where i believe the failure has been at the political level it's not been there have obviously been some appalling military blunders and certain aspects of the military strategy that i disagree with deeply however the broad scale i would s

dissuades in morgan helsinki. let's shift gears and take a look weather hasn't been fun? i remind the rain. >>> credo for our grain we have plenty of overnight now we continue to see some showers and release them for the downpours from some of these cells dickensian the north bay some yellows and oranges watch out for the rain it tapers off as we head for the afternoon skies go just a little bit with showers becoming more widely scattered temperatures in the fifties will see some upper 60s toward san jose and low 60's in santa rosa not that the ranges that all up will catch a break on thursday and friday think therein lies is live for others in north and as a better chance of rain for everybody toward saturday in san settled into the first part of the next week. >>> these lawrence. we were once a judge of the sierra. the got a fresh powder their chain requirements of your heading up toward atoll area and interstate 80 and highway 88. in the meantime closer to home this is the golden gate bridge she confirms there is, of this morning and you consider * air- traffic camera

the european union's foreign policy chief, catherine ashton, made the announcement in helsinki, finland. >> on behalf of china, france, germany, the russian federation, the united kingdom and the united states of america, i have also resumed talks with iran. we hope that we will be able to now pursue with iran constructive engagement with the purpose of addressing the international community's concerns about the nuclear program. >> sreenivasan: there was no word on a date or venue for the nuclear talks. eight women are suing the u.s. military, alleging they were raped, assaulted or harassed while in service. the plaintiffs are all current or former members of the navy and marine corps. they say they suffered retaliation after reporting incidents to their superiors. their federal lawsuit, filed today, accused military officials of showing a "high tolerance for sexual predators." five top members of the computer hacking group known as lulz-sec were charged today in federal court in new york. the f.b.i. said the ringleader, hector xavier monsegur, pleaded guilty to various charges last yea