lithuania democracy, soviet tv blocked all tv transmissions from and within lithuania. nearly 4,700 miles away there was a fax machine in the museum humming a lifeline for the lithuanian resistance, allowing the freedom defenders to tell their story to the world and in return to learn that the world stood by their side in defense of their cause. that fight val connection to the outside -- that vital connection may have influenceed the soviet's decision to retreat. in january of 2011, i addressed the lithuanian parliament as a free and independent republic. i turned to stanley and his daughter-in-law to help translate my speech in lithuanian. he wasn't just my friend. he was my teacher. in the mid-1980's it expanded its vision to become a place where chicago's many ethnic communities are celebrated. stanley never stopped thinking about how to create goodwill and understanding. one of his last projects was to turn a small vacant lot near the park which he christened love and respect park. at the center of it is a young tree grown from a cutting taken from a 1,500-year-old

name biz after being closed for nearly 3 months tourists from germany czech republic slovakia and lithuania can now enter the country border controls we know in a unite as are also being relaxed greece is preparing to admit foreign visitors from monday with its economy heavily reliant on tourism but flights from the coronavirus hotspots such as the u.k. will not be allowed in india has reported its biggest single day rise in corona virus cases nearly $12000.00 infections were recorded within just 24 hours taking the total to more than 300000. russia's coronavirus cases have now surpassed 520001 friday president vladimir putin has made his 1st public appearance in weeks at a russia day ceremony in moscow he did not wear a mask and shook hands with others critics say potent has not taken the pandemic seriously enough now more people are questioning the country's reporting of the coronavirus crisis. and death toll remain significantly lower than in other countries despite citing the 3rd highest number of infections worldwide and some family members of people have recently died and now calling

neighbors after being closed for nearly 3 months tourists from germany czech republic slovakia and lithuania can now enter the country border controls with non a united as are also being relaxed grace is preparing to admit farm visitors from monday with its economy heavily reliant on tourism but flights from coronavirus hotspots such as the u.k. will not be allowed in india has reported its biggest single day rise in corona virus cases and 12000 and fictions were recorded there within a 24 hour period taking the total to more than $300000.00. brazil has now overtaken britain to become the country with the 2nd highest coronavirus death toll standing at nearly 42000 the government is largely opening up the economy despite warnings from experts that the country hasn't yet reached the peak of the infection spread. brazilians continue to dig mass graves to bury their dead in mud now the largest city in the brazilian amazon the rows of crosses are a visual reminder of the heavy toll of the coronavirus has taken in the country brazil now has the 2nd highest covered 19 death toll in the world and th

a number of the european countries involved in the renditions italy poland romania macedonia and lithuania i declare all the public hearing on the admissibility and merits in the case of enough of them god this is it. today most european countries involved admit what happened. only remaining it continues to deny involvement. 12 years after the publication of the 1st dignity report its accuracy and foresight is no longer in doubt. chickies was to make it use an overcorrection a single day with the water no purer pay him a racist and so on. are you discouraged by the fact that there are still secret prisons. doesn't this suggest that ultimately it's all a bit pointless. man sat. there cheering a lot of. us in the e.c. . he said to accomplish it. it's a group if it is good the name then we chatted it in that it in an essay to quote is cheap to subpoena door key. and he said no been pocock he set it that's also sequel looking for an energy set up in question isn't it i'm equipped to joke with cause so sequel ok don't know about doing this with most of the i doubt that it that it is. one to cau

i believe lithuania was one of the first cities to open its streets for restaurants and other small businessesnd restaurants to continue businesses outside and that is something we are seeing u.s. cities across the country start to adopt is a policy. a lot of denmark and sweden and norway have really great active transportation first polities where they prioritize and invest in infrastructure for bicycles and walking over private vehicles. that is something that transportation planners have been looking at for years. and we are seeing them lead the way again right now so there are plenty of cities that have great examples for us to follow. >> so, molly, great ideas but let's talk about where the rubber hits the road. we are in a massive deficit in this state. $54 billion in deficit and the federal picture is not looking great either. what real likelihood is there of funding these projects and these ideas? >> well, i think, first of all we can prioritize projects that are not as expensive, creating bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure is a pretty affordable transportation investment, a lot mor

afghanistan and lithuania poland and scuse me and romania where the torture rendition allegations are there all state parties to the i.c.c. and the allegations are that american and other individuals took part in crimes on those terror territories of those state parties testings the united states supported many prosecutions by the i.c.c. but the pay is seems to have questioned its very credibility. is that what what's your reaction to the us well 1st of all the rome statute as he said is the founding treaty of the court this was something that even though the u.s. did not vote in favor of this room statute they did vote in favor and consensus on all the other documents that the u.s. fingerprints are all over i.c.c. is governing statutes and laws and procedures so certainly and also our allies like germany france and other countries so that certainly all these countries have lended its credibility and legitimacy to this and certainly as you just noted the united states has supported almost all the cases before the i.c.c. including transferrin of suspects so this argument is i would say

afghanistan and lithuania poland and scuse me and romania where the torture rendition allegations are there all state parties to the i.c.c. and the allegations are that american and other individuals took part in crimes on those terror territories of those state parties testings the united states supported many prosecutions by the i.c.c. but pump a seems to have questioned its very credibility. is that what what's your reaction to the us well 1st of all the rome statute as he said is the founding treaty of the court this was something that even though the u.s. did not vote in favor of this room statute they did vote in favor of consensus on all the other documents that the u.s. fingerprints are all over i c c's governing statutes and laws and procedures so certainly and also our allies like germany france and other countries so certainly all these countries have lended its credibility and legitimacy to this and certainly as you just noted the united states has supported almost all the cases before the i.c.c. including transferrin of suspects so this argument is i would say a straw man

it investigates alleged crimes that took place and other member countries including afghanistan lithuania poland and romania as is what's happening in this case here so jesse what do you think about sanctioning the i.c.c. staff well 1st of all we need to understand something our current president has never met a convicted war criminal that he doesn't like the part used them or maybe undertake it from. the united states never commits a war crime really what about lieutenant karalee in vietnam but then again you know we don't seem to want to be subjected to any type of jurisdiction whatsoever when it comes to our military to use their own so i highly doubt the international court is going to have much of an impact on the united states of america because we do our own saying and we don't give a damn about the rest of the rest of the world really. on monday the supreme court ruled that title 7 of the civil rights act of 1964 protects a gay and transgender people from discrimination in the workforce conservative justice neil gorsuch who was appointed by president donald trump surprisingly cont

during the war in afghanistan and at cia interrogation facilities in countries including poland lithuania and romania all who are i.c.c. member states. following this precedent the u.s. could also be investigated for similar crimes in iraq and for assisting saudi arabia and its brutal yemen campaign currently the i.c.c. has $123.00 member countries including major u.s. allies such as the united kingdom france and canada even with friends on board the latest investigation seems to have irritated the trumpet ministration to the point where it's lashing out trump administration is taking the following actions. first we're authorizing the imposition of economic sanctions against i.c.c. officials directly engaged in i.c.c. efforts to investigate u.s. personnel or allied personnel against that allied states consent and against others who material support such officials activities and 2nd the u.s. is imposing visa restrictions on officials involved in the investigations and their family members although the trump administration may insist that americans are not subject to the court since the u.s

but before we get to that that's a look at where we have had some nice warm sunny weather up into lithuania's how much is having in the high twenty's low thirty's and there's been some very nice sunshine is the more typical to see showers and thunderstorms on a lightning like this over the skies in istanbul the 4 calls there as well and still these eastern areas is where we're going to see some pretty heavy rain is to go through sunday particularly across areas of poland to the east up into the baltics right the way down into the balkans not cheap out across central europe a fair amount of cloud still a few showers across areas of the west but as i say things all set to change of high pressure beginning to build across the southwest of europe said the next system coming in from the sick diverse has pushed across up into the north of the u.k. but fine and dry elsewhere but still we've got all this rain these thunderstorms even. really trading right the way across these eastern regions and this again is where we could see some heavy downpours we could even have some localized flooding but look

ambassador to lithuania during the obama administration, deborah mccarthy. she is now producer of the general and ambassador podcast series. ambassador, thank you, very much, for joining us. i covered the 2016 campaign and there were a lot of these sorts of letters that were written and signed by a lot of current and former respected generals and ambassadors, national security experts, lawyers, et cetera. they didn't do anything to keep donald trump from -- from getting voted into office. do you think that this is something different? >> thank you for asking that because, as the numbers keep rolling in, and we're now at 434, including former secretary defense perry. it includes diplomats, generals, senior intelligence officers, former other seniors. and they're doing so out of concern about what is happening in our country. but, most importantly, about the potential misuse of our military. that we have served with overseas. and the key points are -- is to use our military to end legitimate protests, undermines our founding principals, our values. but, also,

ambassador to lithuania during the obama administration, deborah mccarthy.oducer of the general and ambassador podcast series. ambassador, thank you, very much, for joining us. i covered-l the 2016 campaign a there were lots of these letters that were written and signed by a lot of current and former respected generals, ambassadors, national security experts, lawyers, et cetera. they didn't do anything to keep donald trump from -- from getting voted into office. do you think that this is something different? >> thank you for asking that because, as the numbers keep rolling in, and we're now at 434, including former secretary defense perry. it includes diplomats, generals, senior intelligence officers, former other seniors. and they're doing so, out of concern about what is happening in our country. but, most importantly, about the potential misuse of our military. that we have served with overseas. and the key points are -- is to use our military to end legitimate protests, undermines our founding principals, our values. but, also, it also undermines our glo

system in places like armenia, azerbaijan, the baltic states like let the weenie, estonia -- like lithuania, estonia. pretty soon, russians themselves argued for major reform. russia was one component of a larger soviet system. a new man emerged by the name of boris yeltsin, who challenged gorbachev to allow real elections, real democracy. by december of 1991, the soviet union was gone. gorbachev peacefully signed the document ending the soviet union as we know it. this is not a victory for the u.s., this was an openness to change, encouraged by the united states and courageously sought by those in the former soviet union. reagan did not make this happen. at some point, he made it more difficult. he did play a crucial role. his role was to embrace the possibility of change, to push forward, and support it. it was his willingness to go she it, to adjust -- to negotiate, to adjust, and use his legitimacy as a tough guy to sell a more cooperative policy that made this moment more possible than it would have been otherwise. our initialk to image of reagan. he did offer americans a fresh start.

cuba, djibouti, estonia, greece, iceland, jamaica, jordan, kosovo, latvia, lebanon, liechtenstein, lithuaniamontenegro, new zealand, slovakia, slovenia, south korea, taiwan, thailand, tunisia and finally vietnam. >> seth: wait, wait, wait. slow down. hey, honey, what would you think about moving to mauritius? you always said you like the sand you like the sand, honey sounds like a list of countries jay leno would ask a bunch of spring breakers to find on a map. "where's djibouti? "right here baby there's djibouti." we even did worse than iceland, a country that has a penis museum, and where, and this is true, people still believe in elves. the only mythical creatures we have are pasta goblins "finish your rotini, anthony, or the pasta goblin will come and steal your neck. yeah, that is a callback to yesterday's "closer look." i mean, i'm guessing it's the same people who watch every night, right anyway, if this is your first "look," welcome aboard we used have to have an audience america could have been like one those countries. in fact, some of them have been able to restore the cultural ma

a change all of the cars but before we get to that look at where we have sunny weather up into lithuania's haemorrhages have been in the high twenty's low thirty's and this means of sunshine is a more typical to see. this over the skies in istanbul for calls there as well and still these eastern areas is where we're going to see some pretty heavy rain is to go through sunday particularly across areas of poland to the east up in the baltics right the way down into the balkans not cheap out across central europe a fair amount of cloud so a few showers across areas of the west but as i say things all set to change with high pressure beginning to build across the southwest of europe said the next system coming in from the. up into the north of the u.k. but fine and dry elsewhere but still we've got all this rain the sun. ready trading right the way across eastern regions and this again is where. we could even have some localized flooding but look at these temperatures for the next few days in paris the average is 22 up 230311 wednesday on a similar pattern in london sunny skies of the hive. ir

nationalist uprisings throughout the soviet system in places like armenia, azerbaijan, georgia, lithuania latvia, estonia, these societies and groups of people who had long been imprisoned in the soviet system were getting their freedom. pretty soon, russians themselves argued for major reform. russia was one component of a larger soviet system. a new man emerged by the name of boris yeltsin, who challenged gorbachev to actually allow real elections. real democracy. 1991, the soviet union was gone. gorbachev peacefully signed the document ending the soviet union as we know it. this is not a victory for the united states, this was an openness to change encouraged by the united states and courageously sought by those in the former soviet union. reagan did not make this happen. made it mores, he difficult, but he did play a crucial role. embraceial role was to the possibility of change, push for it, and supported. it was his willingness to negotiate, his willingness to adjust, and his willingness to convince americans using his legitimacy as a tough guy to sell a more cooperative policy that

area in western ukraine, but if you look at what has happened until recently in poland, even in lithuania, there have been attempts. first of all to talk about the fact that these countries, before world war ii, work countries that had many minorities that were part of their culture over a long time in poland, in warsaw, where the jewish ghetto was, there is now a vast, beautiful museum which is about polish-jewish coexistence for thousand years. that is educational. the problem is poland has a new nationalist government that does not want to talk about that anymore and sees it on -- sees it as an attack of the good name of poland. in western ukraine, there are far fewer attempts. ukraine is a country in trouble, as you know, for a variety of reasons. it's torn between east and the west and the way it sees itself. is more nationalist and the east associates with the soviets and the russians who are -- there is much more russians spoken there, and it is a poor country. it is a country deeply mired in corruption. trying toa few people do it, mostly funded from outside, but there have been a

canada or two metres but other countries who use one metre, china, france, singapore, hong kong, lithuania, use tracing, use public health measures which we know are very effective. look at the trajectory of the back of this lockdown, the amount of virus circulating has plummeted, it's been very effective so what we now need to do is move into a situation where we aggressively monitor and screen and when we see evidence for outbreaks happening, then we go in with heavy measures to control it at source with heavy measures to control it at source but we let everyone else try and keep their business as normal to the greatest extent possible and that seems, to me, to be a safe way to do this and at the moment it's summertime, people doing their own natural social distancing anyway because they are out and about and most of the transmissions we have seen are most of the transmissions we have seen are from droplets drifting on the air which transmit most effectively endorse stop when winter comes it may be different but at the moment, let's get the experience of this while we can and do it safel