her home is being watched by the kgb at the moment.he has told us the coast is clear, for now. >> this is the mother of the alleged bomber's accomplice. i put to her whether the two men have faced a fair trial. >> the court has not a single piece of proof of guilt, not only of my son who was a drug into this, but also of dima konovalov. he was tortured. >> for her, it starts with the president. >> he said that the boys had been interrogated. by 5:00, they had already gone first. they were interrogated without lawyers. over that time, they were beaten. the boys had no choice. otherwise, they would have been beaten more and more and more until they confessed. >> the two men were operated on tv, confessing to their crimes from a psychiatric ward. >> he came back into the room with a plastic remote control in his hands. he pressed it a few times and gave it to me to hold. he said it was a detonator for the bomb. >> so why would anybody confessed to bombing they had no part in? >> in december 2010, elections were held. yet again, president

the kgb in the end awarded her a pension. and the red banner because she served so long completely undetected. when she was exposed in the 1990s she was an absolute gift for the media. there was a startled looking lady clutching a shopping bag totally unexpected and not at all the kind of spy the media, the novel's taught us to expect. she was a real hangover from the cold war. by the time the newspaper with their tongue in their cheek characterized her as the spy who came in from the co-op. [laughter] >> with her shopping bag and her car again. that is what she was. she was not a character in a spy novel. she with a true radical extremists. at the other extreme the james bond books give us radicals, extremists, whatever you like to call them of a glamor and evil. just true mindless evil. think of below field, inspector. he is plotting in a laboratory on the top -- conveniently in switzerland and has a laboratory up there and is plotting to spread botulism and swine fever and all kind of mother hideous diseases throughout the

crawl to bow the phantom of liberty is in heaven gay-pride sent to siberia in chains the head of the kgbtheir chief saint, leads protesters to prison under escort in order not to offend his holiness women must give birth and love virgin mary, mother of god, become a feminist become a feminist, become a feminist. >> that was jd samson friday on "democracy now!" for more, we go to moscow where we are joined by alisa obraztsova, a lawyer's assistant and member of the legal team defending pussy riot. she is in a bit of fallout cafe and moscow. thank you for joining s. can you talk about the significance of the conviction on friday and the sentencing to two years in prison for these three members of pussy riot? >> thank you very much for your interest in this case we wanted to tell from this process, the russian courts are not independent. sentencing the girls for two years is unjust. we are planning, of course, to appeal the court of appeals in russia, after that, european court of human rights. for us, this is the only way to reach justice. in russia, it is impossible. >> can you tell us ab

putin, a former kgb officer, has close ties to the orthodox church. opposition leaders say he's cracking down on dissent and free speech. though this happened in russia, it is getting worldwide attention. protests like this one in times square in new york are popping up all over the world. from london to sydney to san francisco, demonstrators dressed like the band members and performed to show their support. >> we're all pussy riot. >> reporter: dozens were arrested. >> this is a good way to open people's eyes to the unfair incarceration of people all over the world. >> reporter: celebrities including paul mccartney and madonna have called on putin to free the band members. the u.s. state department called the sentence disproportionately harsh. the husband of one of the band members says the title of the song they just released says it all. putin is lighting the fires of revolution. >> while the band's defense lawyers say they'll appeal the verdict, although they have little hope it will be overturned. they add under no circumstances will the women th

. >> the byelorussian kgb is investigating a criminal case on the grounds of an illegal crossing of the border on board a single-engined aircraft. >> belarus has been the target of eu criticism for its poor human rights record. this has ratcheted up the ongoing diplomatic crisis. >> it is a question that will be discussed at the next meeting of eu ambassadors. there are range of measures considered appropriate that the eu could adopt. >> with parliamentary elections in belarus just weeks away, it is likely that minsk has not heard the last of those swedish teddy bears. >> we are going to take a break. do not go away. just 60 seconds. >> see you soon. >> welcome back. as we mentioned earlier, the fighting in the syrian city of aleppo could be entering a decisive phase. government forces are pushing into districts controlled by rebels. >> the same happened in damascus last month. it seems the rebels are struggling to hold onto their gains in syria's most important cities. >> their firepower is no match for that of the government. where are they getting the arms that they have? >> some reb

i was also attacked by a head operative of the kgb in the papers. i found that, you know, very, very pleasing. i've always said that one must be judged by the power of your enemies. i at the cardinal, not somebody from the kgb. my list was grilling. my list was grilling. really, that experience in russia taught me was that the comparative history of abortion is really the history of our relations between the state and their female population. when installing made abortion illegal, you did that to populate russia to fight the germans. meanwhile, arian women would start to have aborted fetuses and could be punished with the death penalty. the battlefield is different, but the war is always the same. so my next-to-last chapter was entitled to a loaded gun. i started with, if you put a gun on the wall in the first act you must use it by the third. dr. david gunn was shot three times in the back by pro-life for michael griffin as he was arriving at a pensacola florida abortion clinic in march of 1993. he yelled to my don't kill any more babies, before en

it was soon after we finish the research and in fact by that stage the fsb and the old kgb -- make kgbtaken on the material by foreign historians and were beginning to get a little paranoid. just after 2000 they closed to foreign researchers. c-span: your former teacher has an opinion of what could have happened in world war ii. i want to run that and see what you think. >> had he developed a nuclear weapon and had either the cruise missile, the fee one or the rocket, the thief to -- v. two, he would have him bartered london and bombarded the invasion ports. d-day could not have taken place. he would have destroyed the american armies in britain. and having done so, he could have dictated his own terms eventually i suppose. the americans

putin, a former kgb officer, has close ties to the orthodox church. opposition leaders say he's cracking down on dissent and free speech. though this happened in russia, it is getting worldwide attention. protests like this one here in times square in new york are popping up all over the world. from london to sydney to san francisco demonstrators danced like the band members and performed to show their support. >> this is a good way to open people's eyes to the unfair incarceration of people all over the world. >> reporter: celebrities including paul mccartney and madonna have called on putin to free the band members. the u.s. state department called the sentence disproportion nately harsh. the husband of one of the band members says the title of the song they just released said it all. putin is lighting the fires of revolution. >> their defense team said they would appeal the verdict, but they vettle hope it will be overturned and they say under no circumstances do the women want to ask for a pardon. what i you're looking at now is not a scene -- wha

russian mobile operators even charge us for the calls they pay to provide also possible data on us to kgb you can see from the tape, i was watching every split of the action was recorded by numerous journalists' cameras that followed me in all these very dangerous moments. and i was unlawfully arrested. or maybe i would say abducted by people wearing police uniform. taken by -- by them into the police van. and when i tried to leave the van, because they never told me why i was arrested, on what grounds, they just repeated one word. order, order, order. when i tried to leave the van, i was badly beaten and thrown back into the van. and later at the police station, waiting for them to file the reports where they lied, you know, from a to z in every element of this accident, i learned that one of the police officers, he would accuse me of biting his either finger or hand. >> we're looking at that video right now. we've got a circle around that officer who you say hit you. and who's now saying that you bit his hand. did you bite him? >> absolutely not, maria. if i'm to taste human flesh, i wo

a colleague i used to work with said the meeting and eat kgb since i was 27, i am 41. i don't know why i have been getting it. i have no heart disease. my husband gets one too. i spoke with this person recently and she said i went and talked to my doctor and i don't get those anymore and the same with my husband because they are not medically necessary. here is another one. i get a chest x-ray every three month. don't have any underlying medical condition. next time i am going to ask him why. this came from a state legislator. i gave a talk at the council of state governments recently. the east coast regional conference. it was how we really have to address this issue of overuse if we are going to have a sustainable system and a house where everyone can live and he brought this up and he said he is going to go to his doctor and say why am i getting this? who is counting that? do you know how much it is? we are not tracking it and we probably should. here is another one. my knees were hurting and went to a well-known orthopedic surgeon. he said he could do surgery. he d

the kgb and the end awarded her pension because she has served them so long completely good.e was exposed in the 1990s, she was an absolute case to the media. there is this dark on lady in her 80s clutching a shopping bag, totally unexpected and not at all the kind of spy that the media and novels have taught us to explain, to expect. and the times newspaper with their time and that she cared or raised here is the spy who came in from the co-op. [laughter] with her shopping bag, that's what she was. she was not a character of a spy novel, but she was a true extremists. the other extreme, the james bond burkett is radical that we like to call it glamour and evil but eggs the elite. no character or motives analysis. the book on how much the secret service and the laboratory, which is conveniently born and he's got a laboratory out there to spread botulism and swine fever in all kinds of other hideous diseases throughout the united kingdom. this is a hugo track in mood breaker, aiming to destroy london with a nuclear missile. in goldfinger to steal the gold from fort knox in ord

seeds were planted and that is an extraordinary thing and i was also attacked by the alternative of the kgb in the papers and i found that very pleasing because i've always said one must be judged by the power of your enemies so my list was growing. but with that experience taught me is the comparative history is really the history of power relations between the state and their female population when stalin made abortion illegal he did that to populate russia to fight the germans and meanwhile they have a boarded their fee and a defeat of fetuses could be punished with death penalty. the battle was different but the war is always the same. i started with a quote he says if you put a gun on wall and the first act, you must use it to buy the third. he was shot three times in the back by michael griffin as he was arriving at a pensacola abortion clinic in march of 1993. don't kill any more babies before gunning the doctor down. he was the first provider to be killed in the war against abortion. when i heard the national coalition of abortion providers was ranging the memorial service the servi

one pandit accused the government of kgb tactics in treating manning this way and you can see what. is treatment does resemble the way soviet political treatments were treated when they were put into psychiatric prisons in the 60s and 70s. many first-rate journalists have written manning is being treated like an enemy combatants and the war on terror is now being turned inward against u.s. citizens. there is some truth to this but all of these statements are missing something fundamental. something very big. what these people are missing is manning's treatment is not so x sectional. it is 100% normal in the united states where solitary confinement is not something we as exclusively on an exotic national security threats. it is something be used routinely here without controversy. there are 70,100,000 prisoners in the american criminal justice system who are in some form of long-term solitary confinement and even free trial detection in solitary is not the norm. is something we do to prisoners often enough and usually without much scandal. the treatment of manning has been extreme an

putin never forget he is an old school kgb officer.nal pride in the soviet influence. putin is a big-time buyer in that. jenna: how does that change our strategy then? i know the strategy hasn't been precise at this point about what we're doing in syria. the question is a little bit more complicated than what we could probably answer right now but if russia has all of that influence in both of these countries, syria and iran, what is the play? >> you're being very diplomatic saying our policy hasn't been precise up to this point. you could argue in the cold war it was the soviets, it was the u.s. and there was a lot happening behind the scenes. if one was trying to influence a particular area the other was working just as aggressively to try to counter that. jenna: are we doing that here? >> no, we're not doing that here. in part because we've seem to have forgotten every nation, particularly rush shuns, the particularly the chinese, certainly iranians they act in their own best interest. we want to believe the u.s. acts according to t

the kgb and the end awarded her pension because she has served them so long completely good.he was exposed in the 1990s, she was an absolute case to the media. there is this dark on lady in her 80s clutching a shopping bag, totally unexpected and not at all the kind of spy that the media and novels have taught us to explain, to expect. and the times newspaper with their time and that she cared or raised here is the spy who came in from the co-op. [laughter] with her shopping bag, that's what she was. she was not a character of a spy novel, but she was a true extremists. the other extreme, the james bond burkett is radical that we like to call it glamour and evil but eggs the elite. no character or motives analysis. the book on how much the secret service and the laboratory, which is conveniently born and he's got a laboratory out there to spread botulism and swine fever in all kinds of other hideous diseases throughout the united kingdom. this is a hugo track in mood breaker, aiming to destroy london with a nuclear missile. in goldfinger to steal the gold from fort knox in or