hundred and i can tell your story in july one thousand nine hundred one. government delegation came to russia and they came to what was there their head of the government and they said we stayed on you we don't believe these democrats we think you are a serious person a few people remember that i am sorry to do and i think it shows you all the level found at the time ok alex go ahead jump in. like a friend is a yeah but it's very difficult to get this. great sense of this russia want to be treated in the early one nine hundred ninety s. both as a cove victor a victor against communism sort of self imposed to victory and therefore be treated as a part and also to be given this kind of economic aid which would be expected of a defeated power it would be to be in a war so at that one of the same time they wanted to be treated as equal victors and also to be bailed out and helped to recover as defeated powers and that was a very difficult pair of conceptions to get people's minds around in the west don when you think about that that's a very interesting to hea

eighty nine already there was a lot of talk about it and by one thousand nine hundred the the process was almost complete i would remind you of that in march two months before the election. seven republics although fifteen did not take part in the referendum on the reform of the soviet union so the process has already gone very very much for it and yeltsin of course when the soviet union was just virtually collapse and in some one thousand one thousand vonne he didn't shed tears he started building the russian federation of the use to say it's employment if i go to you in washington from a russian perspective in two thousand and eleven that was the good yeltsin ok the else and they did the right thing ok because right now in two thousand and eleven most people in this country are very pleased that the soviet union is gone there's still a small minority that regret it but yeltsin was seen as a great banner to bring the end of a system that wasn't working for the people anymore so yeltsin twenty years ago what kind of character do you sense some to be. i have some looking back i'm very

hundred twenty nine so by one nine hundred thirty two when f.d.r. came in the american people finally had enough to kick the republicans out of. office and as roosevelt said it is not alone a war against want and destitution and economic demoralization it is more than that it is a war for their survival of democracy we are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world. to roosevelt our democracy hung in the balance in one nine hundred thirty six and he referred to the enemy trying to destroy us to destroy our democracy as economic royalists they were the banks toure's the corporations the industrial giants of agriculture and machinery they were the forces that screamed that roosevelt's new deal with the things like social security were communism yes they literally called social security was communism and they fought to stop the development of a middle class through the union movement they explicitly wanted a nation made up of the very rich and the working poor these economic royalists even recruited a few h

ninety nine percent is even higher at six hundred thirty nine six hundred thirty nine dollars. total the average wealth of republicans is even higher than that more than eight hundred thirty four thousand dollars and then there's the tea party caucus those sixty lawmakers many of whom were propelled into office by what looked like a grassroots movement of average americans in two thousand and ten who claimed to be representing the nine hundred ninety nine percent the very best turns out there the richest of the rich the average net worth of a tea partier in congress is a whopping one point eight million bucks one point eight million bucks and six of the tea partiers are worth more than twenty million bucks and these are the people average tea party republicans think represent their interests well fact of the matter is they don't and here's the dirty little secret they never have from the very beginning the tea party was a big ruse the prominent tea party group the tea party patriots says the movement started one month after obama was elected with a rant by c. and b. c. talking

and this was in the mid one nine hundred sixty s. if that were to happen in one nine hundred sixty s. it would create a lot of pressure in city politics and in city finances because a lot of these people were african-americans there was a lot of racial tension building in the cities and the cities were also financially stressed but the cities were also very important blocs in the national democratic coalition so national democratic politicians would want to do something to relieve the political conflicts and the fiscal stresses in the city and what would they do well they could reform welfare they could make it a national program instead of a grant in aid program that put large fiscal burdens and ultimately political burdens on the cities and on the state governments in industrial states well we weren't so wrong about that because. in. after when even nixon after he won the presidency in one nine hundred sixty eight proposed a guaranteed income program of a sort of fat up program and ultimately he did take the initiative in federaliz

on millionaires and billionaires back to where they were during the clinton ministration to thirty nine percent as norquist said obama can sit there and let all the tax cuts lapse and then the republicans will have enough votes in the senate in two thousand and fourteen to impeach again grover norquist is calling for the impeachment of the president of the united states just for making millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share in taxes making millionaires and billionaires pay just thirty nine percent in taxes instead of thirty five percent taxes so one of two things is going on here either norquist in the oligarchy works for are comparing raising taxes by a mere three to four percent to treason against america or norquist in the oligarchy he works for or telegraphing their plans to stage a corporate coup against president obama since we get enough votes in the senate to kick him out of office. i'm frankly not sure which is more frightening but if it is indeed the latter and norquist is calling for a coup it wouldn't be the first time in our nation's history and so when such an

it's nine pm in moscow.good to have you with us here on our team our top story the united states government and the country's entertainment industry have come under attack from a group of computer hackers known as anonymous they took down web sites belonging to the f.b.i. the department of justice and the universal music group the group says its largest ever attack is in response to the shutdown of a major file sharing service mega upload which is affected about fifty million daily users with sites with losses have been arrested now facing prison sentences for copyright infringement u.s. lawmakers are currently debating new bills aimed at curbing illegal downloading which have been attacked as an attempt to censor the internet thousands of sites including wiki pedia went black in protest this week patrick hayes a reporter for online magazine spiked thinks the proposed us legislation might make might make the web as we know it seems to be. we could see multiple regular occurrence the.

and one thousand and two thousand two thousand and nine the end of two thousand and nine with announced in the beginning of two thousand and ten with the president obama just being selected as president beginning to articulate a policy of your first model with the rest of the world a lot of excitement in the rest of the world about a new american leader that we could somehow makes have some breakthroughs in arms control and climate change and on the basis of a lot of expectation and the kind of euphoria that was part of our life our world and particularly this country in two thousand and nine we decided to move the clock back from five minutes to midnight to six minutes that night and of course what's changed is fed to move it by living with as we did the stock taking yesterday the question we asked ourselves as is the world and the world realize this hope of having substantially reduce the dangers of nuclear war first of all climate change as well. in a way that we had hoped would be going on in the. period just two years ago and the feeling of the group was on balance we have lost gro

the los angeles clippers have beaten the memphis grizzlies their side jumped out nine twenty nine seventeenlead after the first quarter grizzlies opened the second with fourteen of their own cutting the difference to just one point where half time and then there was a tight battle all the way to the final minutes clip is better mentally williams was the most out of their nine of his eighteen points in the final quarter his partner griffin i did nothing during the last twelve minutes but top scored for the house with twenty points overall ninety eight to ninety one to that california. latics way some of the world's elite runners suffer powell and veronica campbell brown are already looking ahead to the twenty twelve london olympic games and above all else taking first place is once again the number one goal for the jamaican sprinters. olympic year because in my you just move those forces me so different to put you in the next or you know and. you know to run indoors you know working on the star. is fifty meters was you know room for me the other time but i didn't stop. to think of the other

in summer ninety nine hundred nine the situation became even more menacing for days detectives with cars were in front of smiters driveway following him onto the fields and observing his every footstep. and we found out afterwards by taking license numbers that they were people hired by monsanto and also monsanto representatives himself they didn't even stop by the field they would even drive into our yard here and i don't know if it was just. a myth. have intimidation or whatever but these are things that happen. he did everything to bring a stone financially elementary and that's what they're doing is to mentally and financially break people. the are totally ruthless they have no ethics they have no morals it's the bottom line. and. i had a trust fund to help pay for some of my legal bills and some time ago i get a phone call from the manager of the bank saying they were going to close out that account and they wouldn't give me no explanation so i went to see the bank manager which was a lady and i asked her why do you want to close out this account you have to give me a reason even un

shirt is similar to the one thousand nine hundred eighty nine album unknown pleasures but uses mickey's silhouette so here you can see the images side by side the one on the left is the mickey mouse t. shirt and the one on the right is joy division's album cover now disney originally said that it was quote inspired by the iconic sleeves. but the disney store website now contains no reference to the band well let's introduce a new personality to our role gal gallery of terrorists and kleptocrats bob iger our c.e.o. of does they just announce fifty million dollars compensation for the air bob iger are is to to copyright terrorism what blankfein and diamond are to financial terrorism and disney of course is the company that every single time mickey mouse is due to enter the public domain they lobby congress to extend copyright most famously with bondo bono bonnie bono bono yes cher's ex-husband who got extended by another twenty years to create what lawrence lessig calls perpetual copyright and gives them cooked a crowd of powers to do this a that we know we're violating copyright law but

with twenty one truthful nine hundred ninety one clipper shot finished the winners moved to nine wins two losses at home. over in european action turkish side gala tusker i have claimed the narrow victory against olympiacos in the euro league meaning russian side in the only on beaten side in the group e. olympiakos taking advantage of a shallow start by khalid tosh drive but at the end of the first quarter the game was tied at fifteen piece the turkish fisheries but then find the rhythm moving fourteen points ahead by the time. still not giving up the final cost the stupas but the shot of the t. here his three pointer sending the game into overtime and it was in the extra period that the hosts finally managed to take care of their gritty greeks edging perceiving seventy it seventy seven. barcelona who pushed the best defensive record in tournaments trouble to get be the visitors i played in the opening quarter time but came back well in the second with the game tied at twenty nine each half way through the initiative in swinging and the couple on giant. favor resentment getting point

meanwhile the forty nine ers are in the n.f.c. championship game after reading new orleans thirty six thirty two in a post anything playoff in san francisco and it was the home side who took a very neat however the site it back in themselves took the lead in an action packed fourth quarter to greece finally darren sproles rushed the forty five yards and twenty four twenty stories ahead. forty nine ers hit back but just thirty seconds later the visitors pension funds once again for easter next week give a great sixty six down touchdown to the saints in sight in the tree but with nine seconds left on the clock alex smith won the game for san francisco forty nine ers quarterback farming fourteen hours past the vernon davis in wednesday to give the home side is thrilling thirty six thirty two victory for the saints. staying in america and to the n.b.a. where memphis held off a late surge by the new orleans hornets to win one hundred ninety ninety nine and change their second straight victory the grizzlies were cruising as they managed

gave it was very clear from the beginning that in a sense the coalition would not simply abide by nine hundred seventy three implications of one thousand nine hundred seventy three but that the regime change was very much part and parcel of. collective durgan i could say with you wasn't that an abuse of the resolution resolution one hundred seventy three. well i think there are many people that argue that indeed what the coalition then they went far beyond demanded that nine hundred seventy three allowed for them and therefore i think your question about whether the responsibility to protect still can still work is indeed a very good one libya indeed was a very unique case and part because of the language that was used by the regime and so on and so it becomes much more difficult remember in libya you had the arab league on board very early on you had the fact that russia and china were willing to abstain or rather than veto nine hundred seventy three i think that becomes much more difficult in a case like syria where particularly russia has a more direct interest it doesn't make it im

hundred eighty nine after seventeen months of work. another russian legend spent a considerable length of time in italy was the composer tchaikovsky he came to florence in the year eight hundred seventy eight to write quietly in a villa overlooking the city situated on the beautiful street via the sun live another twenty minutes outside the city it has a completely different feel to the center of florence it was stated that tchaikovsky called florence the city of dreams for him it was one of the best locations in the world as he enjoyed the architecture landscapes and soul of the area he said it was one of the most inspirational places to live and to work he wrote the famous russian opera the queen of spades here in italy in eighty ninety and back in russia to celebrate his beloved city he wrote the piece souvenir to florence. from the art world in florence or oligarchs and their glamour shots on the island of capri the prism of russian influence and connections in italy and vice versa isn't it too apparent and not just here but it is

basing the euro survival efforts as nine e.u. countries are downgraded by credit rating agencies standard and poor's over continues international worries that the blocks huge debt troubles are far from under control. plus destination unknown russia's mas pro food was groomed for its mission went astray before circling that has finally plunged into the ocean two months the treats launch but it's not yet clear if it's landed in the pacific on atlantico. and up next as promised the also of the dictatorship to democracy speaks to us said jean sharpsburg is described by some as the blueprint for nonviolent revolution can now asks whether his concept is realistic. i'm sitting down with jean sharp his book from dictatorship to democracy is seen by many as a guide on how to carry out a revolution through nonviolent means it's often referred to as the bible of color revolutions dr sharp looking at how revolutions and forward in the arab world do you see it as transition from dictatorship to democracy. in the. absence of bringing down the

identical now here in the united states to just before the stock market crash of one thousand twenty nine or is it is this discussion of inequality the result of the ninety nine percent movement occupying davos in their igloos. well considering that the occupy davos guys in there haven't been made into the forum i don't know how concerned people in the form genuinely are about what their thoughts are i think that inequality really ranks and is becoming part of the agenda in so far as they've seen the political discontent that has forced changes to political leadership as a result of that and some of the arab spring nations and i think that that is what's brought inequality to the center of the debate and then that we've seen that in western democracies or the occupy movement is i think what makes the global one percent need to be more aware of it i think in so far as it threatens their position is why inequality has become really part of the agenda very interesting what's up with the occupy movement there what are they doing we see the clips of the igloos but what else yeah i got to tell

founded in paris one nine hundred twenty four by prince felix you suppose and his wife marina the niece of the last russian saw me collide the second and says she clothing range tasseled european and american customers but the prince has a little business sense and two years after the nine hundred twenty nine a street crash ruins his most prosperous clients do you suppose he's forced to shut up shop. almost eight decades after the original house of his face close stores all the struggle has restored the branches for glory. to our next location now and in a city known as the cradle of the renaissance surrounded by terra cotta roofs a cluster of onion domes each topped with a tall cross is certainly not what you would expect to see in the florence skyline less than a mile from florence is dromo these brightly colored domes of a different kind marked the surviving history of russian immigration to italy and florence the russian orthodox church of the nativity of christ's. there's been a russian orthodox church on the site since my team three built by the russian community in foreign time t

they did not seem to understand that this was that this was a replay of the one nine hundred thirty s. kind of situation and they completely missed it let's let's let's hope they catch it the next to me too but if they don't they're screwed i mean i'm with you thomas thanks so much for being with us my pleasure as always your new book i'm looking forward to reading your your writing is brilliant always really is very kind of you . coming up later tonight the occupy movement squared off with police this weekend in oakland and washington what happened and how does it affect the movement's efforts going forward also the california state legislature voted friday on a single payer health care or medicare for all bill how they will go are there any surprises and what does the result mean for similar efforts around the nation and mortgage giant freddie mac. is betting on your economic failure what are you doing and how did a once public agency turn into a monster. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right now. i think. even one well. whenever the government says they're going to

in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven as a result of a simple discovery life changed dramatically for the seventy year old farmer a power line runs along the edge of percy schmeiser was probably as usual the power company had the surrounding vegetation controlled by applying the herbicide round up but in spite of this powerful chemical volunteer canola plants continue to thrive among the we this can know it was sprayed with four times their normal rate that you would spray. or. and yet it has not died so it's a very powerful. resisting canola to round up so it's definitely monsanto's seed that is here we've created our real big frankenstein. the pesticide roundup produced by the multinational concern monsanto is the most widely sold spray in the world monsanto made its canola resistant to round up this means round up kills every plant without exception only monsanto's genetically modified canola remains alive. it was introduced without really much testing being done and i think even at that time when it was introduced in the middle of the ninety's that even the governments were ta

fights with just nine seconds left on the clock alex smith won the game the san francisco forty nine is what a bank pouring a full team your past the vernon davis in the end zone to give the home side a freezing of thirty six to thirty two victory the saints. well staying stateside in the n.b.a. memphis of late surge by the new orleans hornets to a second straight win for one hundred eight ninety nine picturing of a group grizzlies were cruising is very managed to open up a double digit lead in the second quarter while the sole managing to finally get the ball into boston is sort of third attempt to memphis would pull clear in front of the break. much as seventeen points in front of us are struggling one inside. oh new orleans weren't giving up and they managed a deficit just two points in the fourth jason smith jumper making it ninety three to ninety one members over it on a twelve call runs which sealed the big three. through to get a three pointer hundredweight tonight's line. worth kobe bryant scored forty two points chris paul netted thirty three of his own clippers on the battl

meanwhile the san francisco forty nine ers in the n.f.c. championship game to edging out new orleans thirty six the perfect two it was the home side who took the early lead of the saints hit back to take believe themselves early in the action packed fourth quarter drew brees line and darren sproles rushed through yardstick of new orleans into a twenty four to twenty three lead before the niners were would hit back just thirty seconds later the visitors would want to go get him going from brees connecting with jimmy graham for a sixty six yard touchdown of the sentence signs of victory but it's with nine seconds left on the clock alex smith won the game the san francisco recruit in a school tonight for the team yard pass the vernon davis in the end zone to give the home side a fairly new thirty six separated to victory but the saints. were staying stateside in the me n.b.a. memphis held off a late surge by the new orleans hornets to their second straight win following a hundred eight to ninety nine victory grizzlies were cruising as they man

crisis in one thousand nine hundred six it cost the nation eighty seven billion dollars. on the other hand he put about a thousand banks to his in jail so it's interesting in one nine hundred eighty six he granted amnesty to three million illegal immigrants not exactly a model for the hardline anti immigrant stance of today's republicans he tripled our national debt with the trickle down economics adding more debt than all the presidents from washington to carter come behind not exactly a fiscal conservative right he was rocked by scandals he had the iran contra scandal the cocaine and honduras the october surprise but there were a few things reagan did even though they were few and far between that would make today's republicans eds totally explode he bucked his advisors they begged him not to talk to gorbachev of about this but he went to gorbachev and said hey let's get rid of all the nukes both our countries are bishops a good idea it sounds like appeasement to me to a lot of the republicans these days and he raised the capitalist against tax you know the one that rom

so sad news now canadian freestyle skier sir burke has died nine days after suffering a crush during a training run burke fell onto her head while training for an event in newtown january tenth the twenty nine year old had been in critical condition since then burke was widely considered the pioneer for her main sport of freestyle lobbying aggressively to have it included in the winter olympic program where it will eventually debut in russia in twenty four to learn number one. looking for me finally the russian cat stable are celebrating their first cycling win of twenty twelve spanish veteran oscar ferry confidently taking stage four of the tour down under his first event with detain overnight leader on recreate pull off his lead to eleven seconds by winning the first intermediate sprint of the day things going downhill fast for the german from there on in with the two time champion eventually finishing a hugely disappointing fifty fifth ferry though still had plenty of strength left in his legs after three hours in the saddle the thirty five year old showing just why he's one of th

stuart the shank about zero point zero nine points calling it is best career i think to date twenty nine. performing a quadruple jump two to nailing the would probably cost in the lead. with the opportunity to secure gold in sheffield with a solid outing in the men's free skate on saturday. the los angeles clippers helping the surprise package of the n.b.a. season thus far the california fed remaining top of the pacific division following victory over memphis on thursday the host jumping to a twenty nine seventeen lead after the first quarter but the grizzlies opened the second with a fourteen zero run of their own cutting the difference to just one point by halftime it was then to and fro until the final few minutes trippers bench one more williams the most instrumental late on knocking off nine of his eighteen points in the final quarter his partner in crime blake griffin didn't onto his tally during the last dozen minutes but was top scorer for l.a. with twenty thousand children all ninety eight ninety one clippers finished the winners moved to nine wins two losses at home. over in eu

since the nine hundred seventy s. when the late palestinian president yasser arafat visited our nation's have enjoyed good relations it's not only the result of the role that russia plays in the region but also russia was a great power a member of the united nations security council and a member of the quartet of middle east mediators. relations and why we expect russia to play a positive role. in the quartet took a number of steps calling for negotiation. position with. other countries to get an understanding of where palestine stands what it should do and what it shouldn't. we visited the u.k. germany and have now come to russia we hope that the talks with israel currently underway in jordan will result in a positive outcome but if they fail we would need to have a list of further steps to be taken together we want to listen to the opinions of the countries i mentioned earlier and russia in particular. said that. these meetings revealed a lot of contradictions in our positions those were talks just for the sake of t