"prague winter: a personal story of remembrance and war from 1937 to 1948." in it, she tells of prague in one of its darkest chapters, the breakout of world war ii, when at just 2 years old, she was forced to flee czechoslovakia with her family. hearse is an immigrant story like so many others, including my mother's and fathers. whose birthday, my father's, will never forget. you've got a really good memory. she's the author of the new memoir of "prague winter: a personal story of remembrance and war from 1937 to 1948." this book is amazing. >> and speaking of the brzezinskis, you know, it's amazing how much dr. brzezinski's life was shaped by the fact that they fled warsaw right before the uprising and mrs. brzezinski, of course, had to flee czechoslovakia, just like you. and you actually talked about in a debate that rose up about colin powell and his view of the world, polilus -- versus your v of the world, how your view was shaped by your childhood. >> there's no question it was. one of the big issues was munich. how was it possible for this small country

, like all the capitals of the ancient states of central and eastern europe -- baltimore, berlin, prague, budapest, belgrade, bucharest. all of these famous cities and the population around them lying in rubble -- lie under the soviet sphere. >> why did you want to talk about this? >> i was inspired in my first spoke -- book, and while this is in no way a sequel it represents thoughts i had. one thing i got interested in is the question why no people went along with it. what is the mentality? what are institutional pressures? why do camp guard do what they are told to do? i decided to write about this period right after world war ii, because it was a time the soviet union had reached a height, there was an apotheosis of stalinism. it was reinforced by the experience of the war. by 1945, it was a fully developed system with an economic theory and a clear ideology, and it was at this moment the red army marched into central europe and began imposing that system on the central european states, so you can see how from scratch -- what did the soviets think their system was? what did they thin

i got an urgent call a week later for the first pride ever in prague. and the president of the czech republic, this is 2011, said, ask the people, president class, to rise up and put down the lgbt pride to stop -- to stop the promotion of homosexualism and deviancy. and i went. and when i was picked up at the airport, they said that they were struggling with one of those street-long rainbow flags, but they had reached out across central europe and there was a young man who heard their call and was taking a nine-hour overnight bus to bring them that street-long pride flag. his name was malan rosa. i said, i want to go pick him up. he had no place to stay. he had to scrounge up the money. but this is the type of courage that we see following harvey and george around the world. he had just buried his father who blamed his suicide on his son. he was weary and bruised, yet he still got up and did what needs to be done. extraordinary individuals. so, let me just say that for malan's story, i have the honor next month -- i had been invited to the white house,

. >> prague was the only government to vote no on the palestinian bid to gain non- member status. >> chancellor angela merkel has sought to reassert -- reassure the party's traditional wing. >> chancellor merkel's party conference went just the way she scripted it. was reelected chair with a record vote. there was no doubt criticism of her -- no loud criticism of her. >> our discussions here, especially on the outline we put forward, show that the christian democratic union is a foundation for a strong germany, a journey in which everyone gets a fair chance -- a germany in which everyone gets a fair chance. >> the party has rallied behind her ahead of next year's election, including traditional conservatives who have been could assert -- critical of her positions at times. >> we would be foolish not to take advantage of the recognition that the chancellor and joyous -- chancellor enjoys. >> the party did make some changes to the line up behind the chancellor with a re- shuffle of the executive board. >> there are a lot of new faces, women, people with immigrant backgrounds. i am happ

ten weeks after he was inaugurated in 2009, he traveled to prague and laid out his vision in front of0 people. >> as a nuclear power as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the united states has a moral responsibility to act. we cannot succeed in this endeavor alone, but we can lead it. we can start it. so today i state clearly and with conviction america's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons. [ applause ] i'm not naive. this it goal will not be reached quickly. perhaps not in my lifetime. it will take patience and persistence. but now we, too, must ignore the voices who tell us that the world cannot change. we have to insist, yes we can. >> that was in 2009 just weeks after he was inaugurated. the following year in 2010, president obama convened the first nuclear security summit in washington. more than 40 heads of state got together to discuss among other things how to best safeguard the nuclear material that already exists around the world. that same year president obama signed a new stark treatment. an agreement between uni

prague secretary of state hillary clinton reiterated a strong warning to the syrian government to not use its chemical weapons she said quote i'm not going to telegraph in any specifics of what we would do in the event of credible evidence that the assad regime has resorted to using chemical weapons against their own people but suffice it to say we're certainly planning to take action now her comments came just as new reports surfaced that israel had twice approached the jordanian government with a plan to take out many of these weapons and while israel can do it alone the report argues that this was an attempt to ask permission from jordan country what sits at the fault lines of these chemical weapons sites all this issue and many more were addressed today at a special media roundtable with the foreign minister of jordan nasser judeh and here to break down some of what was discussed including jordan's role in syria and palestine i'm joined by our to producer america david hi thanks for coming on and thanks to the may be a round table because i'm going over there and i'm actually so t

prague has always been beautiful... germany... the irish civilization...f... no trip to this city of art is complete without a visit to its greatest museum. when the medici family ruled florence from this palace, their offices, or uffizi, were next door, connected by this skyway. today, these offices hold the finest collection of italian paintings anywhere, the uffizi gallery. the uffizi's collection, displayed on one comfortable floor, takes you on a sweep through art history from the 12th through the 17th century. these altarpieces are gothic. being pre-renaissance, they simply tell their story through symbolism rather than realism. the gold-leaf sky isn't realistic, but it implies a rich and holy setting. the angels are stacked, like a totem pole. on this altarpiece, these panels tell the story of the crucifixion, but they don't create any sense of depth. yet artists were trying. to show jesus' head leaning out, it actually does. giotto, often considered the first modern painter, is still gothic, but notice the progress. a more realistic setting places

give them to the credible and i will years especially the prague create service to them for the discussing this issue with i deem it was not either serious to injuries or this is not too great. difficulties for them we need to provide all kinds of assistance to them financial and technical assistance prepared to deal with the necessary forms that i think we should meet but we should do is the same thing that other countries do we need to provide technical and sometimes even financial assistance but i'm going to introduce this new measure at the same time within the common economic space we will have this same in the regime that we have to do to. facilitate a regime for crossing our borders and staying within the customs union only common economic peace here in the it is very important issue for social institutions to play a role and i think national autonomy is good just really good we should provide grants for programming that's the mana social adaptation we get from the mining green stuff we tell you and this has proved it here effective practice and in some countries also we're speaking

gotten larger six is also on the joins over fifty servers jailed by the hague to prague. antivirus software pioneer john mcafee has been deported to the u.s. from guatemala where he had been detained immigration officials i was called to the millionaire to the city airport where he will board a plane to florida you was arrested are we good for immigration violations operating entered the country from laboring release of already exists or to question him about the murder of his neighbor. russia's president took a tough stance on corruption in the country promising a crackdown on all of fish ills suspected of breaching the law that emerged putin was addressing the country's federal assembly of focusing strongly on resolve in the country's domestic issues alessio he has more on what president putin had to say. several years ago when former president medvedev addressed russia's lawmakers this signaled major constitutional changes for the country with the presidential term being extended to six years this time when president putin delivered his first annual address after retur

. >>> the prague zoo is attracting thousands of visitors. there last sunday, the fourth born to the 19-year-old mother. zoo keepers are keeping their distance, so the sex is still unknown. for now, the mom and child are spending their time bonding and sleeping. a name will be chosen for the new addition in the spring. best to find out if it's a boy and girl before you pick that name. >> yeah, i agree. i concur. >>> still ahead on news4, trouble on the ice. >>> a bad turn of events for a man trying to rescue hi dog. he ended up needing rescuing himself, but this dog's tale has a happy ending. >> reporter: he's an 11-year-old walker hound name bart. if dogs could talk, he would have quite the story. >> i kept my eyes off him for just a second. >> reporter: just hours ago he was fighting to survive. he wandered away and fell through the ice. his two front paws kept him from sinking in. >> i tried to walk around and it was just too deep. i just couldn't get to him. >> reporter: waist deep, jim swaysie called 911 and then called his cousin lance.

e are ds this morning," margaret brennan, prague. >>> in japan this morning at least nine people are dead after it's unclof a highway tunnel collapsed. it's unclear why those massive concrete slabs broke away from the tunnel walls on sunday. smoke an lucy craft reports smoke and wi dust are interfering with rescue operations at that tunnel about 0 mimles west of tokyo. >> reporter: surveillance grimas inside the tunnel relayed the grim conditions inside. eteestimated 270 concrete toning panels, weighing one ton hech, scattered across the road stface like match sticks. rescuk hours before rescue crews could venture into the scene of horror and devastation to reach the victims of three cars crushed beneath the wreckage and burned after the vehicles caught fire. i saw flames shooting out of one of the cars, says this firefighter. a few of the victims escape t the smoke filled tunnel. a suddenas aching, says this lurvivor. as of the sudden i realized half my car was gone. the unnel's owner, central nipon expressway, said the tunnel had passed inspection the a few months ago. but the comp

members and officials have written books including colin powell, madeleine albright another book "prague winter" and the late senator arlen specter had a book out in april 2020 -- 2012 "life among the campbell" and arnold schwarzenegger "total recall" . how did that do? >> guest: it did not hit expectations. sanders and he had an interesting profile piece. >> i could interview the oven governor author if you have forgotten after he left the governorship, and governor schwarzenegger had an affair with his housekeeper who fathered his son that led to his wife, maria shriver, a piece of kennedy, that is involved in everything. he comes out with 600 pages everything he has ever done growing up austria, bodybuilding fame, it this an incredible american immigrants story. he comes to america to become a movie star. he does. then governor of california. need while the affair with the housekeeper is five pages of the book. he deals with it. he made a mistake. he regrets it. it is what people say in those situations. i interviewed him on the phone the friday before he already agreed to be on "60 m

to underscore his personal commitment to it, to reaffirm his vision that he expressed in prague in hisirst speech as president that this is important to him and he did it at the national defense university with his entire nuclear security team in front of him. this was as much a message to the bureaucracy as it was to the american people in the world. this is important to me. i intend to see this through. >> his personal commitment on this issue is something that's made it an issue to watch since he first became president. frankly, since he first became senator. how do you judge his first term in terms of keeping his promises or aimed toward the things he wanted to get accomplished in this field? >> he's kept almost all his promises in this field. there's a fact checking site that ran the numbers down today and judged that in most cases, he kept his promises. he did a treaty with russia. he did increase and speed up the work to secure these nuclear materials. he made it harder for other countries to try to get these. he faced resistance particularly in russia and in political opponents

behind that line, like all the capitals of the ancient states of central and eastern europe -- berlin, prague, vienna, budapest, belgrade, bucharest. all of these famous cities and the population around them lying lie under the soviet sphere. >> why did you want to talk about this? >> i was inspired in my first book, and while this is in no way a sequel it represents thoughts i had. one thing i got interested in is the question why no people went along with it. what is the mentality? what are institutional pressures? why do camp guard do what they are told to do? i decided to write about this period right after world war ii, because it was a time the soviet union had reached a height, there was an apotheosis of stalinism. it was reinforced by the experience of the war. by 1945, it was a fully developed system with an economic theory and a clear ideology, and it was at this moment the red army marched into central europe and began imposing that system on the central european states, so you can see how from scratch -- what did the soviets think their system was? what did they think was importan

our secretary of state hillary clinton in prague today issued this warning. >> we have made our views red line for the united states. i'm not going to telegraph in any specifics what we would do in the event of credible evidence that the assad regime has resorted to using chemical weapons against their own people, but sufficed to say, we are certainly planning to take action if that eventually were to occur. >> in response to that warning, syria's foreign ministry is denying plans to use chemical weapons, but intelligence officials say there are worrying signs that suggest otherwise. >>> israel's decision to move ahead on 3,000 new jewish settlements in the west bank and east jerusalem is being roundly slammed in the west. today britain called in the israeli ambassador to protest, and there are reports that france and sweden are doing the same thing. the e.u., the u.s., and the u.n. are all warning that expanding israel's foot print in palestinian territory will only put a two-state solution that much farther out of reach. it was just last thursday, you'll recall, that the palestinian

syria since we evacuated our embassy, and the czech foreign minister who hosted hillary clinton in prague warned that one of the rebel groups in syria could obtain the chemical weapons and he called that "a danger" as well. defense secretary panetta spoke in september about increased activity being discerned at the same sites. >>shepard: and now the managing director for the washington institute, michael singh. the moving of the weapons, we have discussed this before, is a problem. >>guest: sear -- syria has the chemical capable missiles and shells, as james noted. the fear is this is a regime that has killed 40,000 people already and now we cannot put it past them to use the chemical weapons. that could have an effect not only in syria but on the region. >>shepard: losing track, michael, of where they are, it sounds like it is a problem, at the very least. >>guest: very problematic. i don't know that the regime is close to using weapons. any kind of movement, anything that suggests the weapons could be further dispersed or prepared for use is of tremendous concern for the united states b

." >>> 100 mile east of prague are the moravian island. # considered the green heart of the nation interestinghland consist of small villages like this. population 420. an almost equal number of men live right next door in this medieval castle. mirov prison. >> filming in mirov was extremely difficult in the sense that everywhere you turn there is a beautiful shot and you want to stop and go oh, there's another one. get another shot. we didn't have that kind of time. we had other elements in the story to capture and different people we wanted to talk to. but you could spend all day, two days, three days, just shooting these beautiful, incredible architecture type shots. >> the nation's oldest prison, it was billed in the mid 13th century to protect the land holdings of a local bishop. it was first used as a prison in the 14th century. today, it is a maximum security institution that houses the czech republic's most notorious criminals. it has been called the czech alcatraz. >> translator: that's just because of the type of convicts that we have here in this prison. that means convicts in maxim

including colin powell's it worked for me in life and leadership, madeleine albright, another book, prague winter, personal story of remembrance in war, the late senator arlen specter has a book, life among the cannibals and finally former government -- governor arnold schwarzenegger, total recall. how did total recall do? >> as far as i know it did not live up to expectations. a very interesting answer to this, i understand there's a quite interesting profile piece by the former governor. >> i got to interview the governor, for those who have forgotten, after he left the governorship, governor schwarzenegger had an affair with his housekeeper who fathered his son and that lead to his wife, maria shriver, the kennedys are involved in everything, filing for divorce. comes out with 600 pages or so, everything all schwarzenegger has ever done from growing up in austria, body building, pages and pages about bodybuilding. is an incredible and in some ways incredible american immigrant story that he comes to america, this is his dream, to become a movie star and he becomes a movie star and then

secretary of state hillary clinton is in prague today and she issued this warning. >> we have made ouriews very clear. this is a red line for the united states. i'm not going to telegraph in any specifics what we would do in the event of credible evidence that the assad regime has resorted to using chemical weapons against their own people but suffice it to say we are certainly planning to take action if that eventuality were to occur. >> sir why's foreign ministry issued a statement on syrian tv saying they would not use chemical weapons against syrian people. cnn's pentagon correspondent barbara starr live in new york with us. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> how much faith can we put in the syrian government spokesperson and suggestsiing tt the people of syria are safe from chemical weapons. >> there is a new wrinkle here. in the last couple of days u.s. intelligence has got information that the syrian regime is moving its chemical weapons around. that basically, it looks like what they're trying to do maybe combine them with the missls, the rockets, artillery shells. the wor

madeleine albright, another book, prague winter: a personal story of remembrance at work. the late senator arlen specter had another book at april 2012, life among the cannibals and former governor arnold schwarzenegger, total recall. sarah weinman, hottie total recall two? >> guest: as far as i know it did not live up to expectations. that said i understand he had a quite interesting profile pieces of the former governor. >> guest: if you remember, with those who have forgotten after he left the governorship, this is right, he cannot but governor schwarzenegger had an affair with his housekeeper who had fathered a son. and that led to his wife, maria shriver and president kennedy involved in everything. i think filing for divorce. city comes out with 600 pages or so. if everything arnold schwarzenegger has ever done from growing up in a time australia and the bodybuilding. pages and pages about hottie building. it is incredible -- and some is an incredible american immigrant story. he becomes a movie star and then becomes governor of california. meanwhile, this is an affa

>> keeping the investment pub lig and keep prague fegsal investors and people participating interested and confident under this market. right now whether you are in europe or the u.s., you don't have that opportunity. you are concerned about what the future has. we don't know what is going to happen going forward. >> as an invest over, are we living in a more risky environment now than ever? we grew up thinking america was the top of the world, best credit in the world, reserved currency. are things changing with regards to that? >> yeah, i think it is. i think the mind-set has changed. >> do you keep your money here or move it elsewhere. >> i think the u.s. is one of the most attractive places to invest in the world. it continues to serve us. i see the united states as being a great opportunity for invest many going forward and i continue to see opportunities around residential real estate. it'll continue to be that way. we are continuing to recover. >> when will the australian economy completely crash? i only did that because of her clear anti-american sentiment, by the way. >> i hav

. >> that was secretary clinton speaking in prague today but keeping it vague as you saw shep as to whatton might do about it. >> this isn't the first time that the president and the secretary of state have drawn this red line. >> no, it's not. and critics of the obama administration warn that setting such a high bar to greater u.s. involvement in that conflict, namely the waging of chemical war by a nation against its own citizenry could be sending the assad regime the wrong message. >> it sort of suggests or implies that anything up to this red line we're not going to take action. and i think it will be disheartening for that reason to the syrian opposition because as we said, shep, 40,000 people have been killed and i think they will will look at this and say, well, you know, how many more people would need to be killed before the international community decides to take action putting aside the question of the chemical weapons. >> now, the fighting in syria has gotten so bad that the united nations announced today it is withdrawing all of its nonessential personnel. about 25 of the re

behind that line lie all th the-- of the-- warsaw, berlin, prague, vienna, buddha pest, belgrade bucharest and-- all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what i now call the soviet sphere. >> this is a convenient trial balloon forth administration when there is a lot of complaint a lot of protests in new york, when churchill comes, truman can stand back a little and say nothing to do with me. but actually churchill has helped to change the weather and that is important. the other thing about the iron curtain speech is the reminder of the power of words. churchill coined some of the most important sound bite its there, you know, modern diplomacy, iron curtain that is a phrase that is not unique to him but he popularizes it. special relationship, that is another churchillian phrase which has become a general term. >> at the time it is a main novelty. >> the other someone summit, the term sum sit foreone that churchill uses because of course although we think of him as the iron curtain man, about confrontations with the russians, he also says what we want is to parlay at

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highest ranking of the officials speak out publicly is america' top diplomat who made her comments in praguee made our views very clear. this is a red line for the united states. i'm not going to telegraph in any specifics what we would do in the event credible evidence that assad regime has resorted to using chemical weapons against their own people. but suffice it to say they are certainly planning to take action if that eventuality were to occur. >> reporter: the united nations afound it's withdrawing all of its non-essential personnel with 25 of the body's 100 employees. megyn: breaking developments involving an nfl player and his girlfriend. the medical examiner's office ins -- offersin kansas city san the bodies are complete and the bodies have been released back to their families. but the autopsy result won't be ready for 6-8 week. belcher shot and killed his girlfriend before he drove to the football station and committed suicide in front of his coach. last night nbc's bob costas made the story bigger when he used the understand dengt during prime time to deliver a gun control lectur

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my friend and i were standing in the middle of nowhere between prague and budapest.> like superman. >> trains in europe actually leave on time. 8:01, you missed the train. >> i've learned that lesson the hard way as well. thanks, peter. >> happy new year. >> same to you guys. >>> speaking of buddy, buddy guy has been called one of the most inspirational musicians. he's also a kennedy center honoree. we'll hear his guitar magic, there he is, coming up next on "cbs this morning." >>> in the late 1950s, chicago blue guitarist buddy guy introduced a unique sound, loud and distorted that inspired many musicians to play the guitar the way he did. earlier this month, the kennedy center recognized guy for cultural influence and he talked to gayle king about his place in music history. >> there's that thing i woke up playing that night. ♪ >> reporter: this is the first song buddy guy learned as a child. john lee hooker's "boggie chillen." now 76 he sounds as good as ever on acoustic guitar. ♪ but the magic happened when guy is amplified in front of a crowd. a showman, all blu

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