the next day, german troops occupied prague and the rest of czechoslovakia.r rode through the streets triumphant. hugo meisl was ten years old. do you remember the germans coming into czechoslovakia? >> hugo meisl: not only do i remember, i personally saw hitler standing up in the car. and the children were expected to say "heil hitler" and so forth. i remember as if yesterday. >> simon: it wasn't long before violence against jews, property confiscations and forced labor that began in the sudetenland spread throughout czechoslovakia. but the nazis allowed winton's trains to leave in keeping with their policy to "cleanse" europe of jews. hugo meisl's parents decided it was time to put him and his brother on one of the trains. >> meisl: i remember that they told us that we were going to england, maybe two or three months. it would be a holiday for us. and that they would join us very shortly thereafter. >> simon: and you believed them. >> meisl: absolutely. >> simon: were your parents emotional when they said goodbye to you? >> meisl: no, i re... i've asked mys

we report from prague on what lessons can be learned from that example. >> prague, seat of kings, emperorsdents of ten centuries, a stage set for many a historical drama and meeting point between east and west. since 1993, the capital of a much reduced country. >> at the stroke of midnight on december 31st, 1992, czech slovakia ceased to exist. astonishingly the decision to divide it without a referendum had been taken just five months earlier leading the talks for the czech side prime minister and later president klaus. >> it's very easy to divide a country. >> not so easy. there was a dispute over the gold reserves. >> no, no. this is exactly now you are using the wrong argument argume. it is very easy to divide the country. number of people in czech republic and slovak republic is two to one. everything is divided two to one. >> but that simple equation couldn't be applied everywhere. the temporary currency union collapsed after six weeks. the slovak currency devalued massively. despite the rocky start, the slovaks have caught up. >> in time of division, slovak was 62% of czech's break

reporting on now, that would be a man called -- >> a little check village between the capital of prague and -- and there is one topic of conversation that keeps coming up. >> he takes care of lots of animals. i cannot say much more about it. >> he loves animals. he wants to rescue them all. if someone has a sick animal they take it to him. >> he never lets an animal down. >> when it comes to animal rescue he is the only man for the job. it is more than just a hobby for the pensioner. >> i have 1500 animals here. storks, llamas, keys, dear, heron. animals live in the wild but humans destroyed. on a tree gets not down baby chicks get knocked out of their nest. who takes care of them? no one. i take them home. >> keeping them cost him 600 euros a month. he and his wife live for the animals. they have been taking care of these buzzards for six months. now it is time to set them free. >> they are back in the wild where they belong. >> the people love him for his work and even if they do think he is a little crazy. they feel more confirmed when he expanded his menagerie. >> i took in the king

terrorism is a prague that does not differentiate when it spreads between developing and developed societies. terrorists come from the societies. they are not bound together by any true religious faith. this is why it is imperative that we all intensify our corporation coordination efforts to end the support provided to terrorist organizations that enable them to continue pepper tating crimes pursu pursuant to the charter of the united nations. mr. president, ladies and gentlemen, the problems that our region faces emanating from the forces of extremism as well as the state of polarization that often turns into division becomes a danger that threatens the very existence of the state and exposes it's identify. it has produced a third round of terrorism to grow influence. in a sense the crisis facing some countries in the region can be the result of the two-prong approach. one, the application of the principles of equality over all citizens, and respect for the rule of law based on a social credit on a national consensus while enjoying the rights of development, safeguard societies from exploi

going with the flow takes you to my favorite stop in the czech countryside outside of prague, cesky krumlov. the enchanting town of cesky krumlov, buried in the hills of bohemia, lassooed by its river, and dominated by its castle, feels lost in a time warp. its delightful old town of shops and cobbled lanes, characteristic little restaurants, and easy-going canoeing options makes it a favorite with tourists. and there's no shortage of accommodations. our home is the castleview apartments. plush and thoughtfully equipped, my room is typical of the work locals are doing, as even medieval lofts are being renovated to meet the needs of the growing number of visitors. open beams, a handy kitchenette, and, as its name promises, a castle view, make this a fine temporary home. with a natural moat provided by the vltava river, it's no wonder this place has been a choice spot for ages. the 16th century was the town's golden age when cesky krumlov was a cultural power, hosting artists, scientists, and alchemists from all over europe. the town's many tourists set their sights on the mighty castle of th

. >> they are not flying to prague. >> no.hey may put you in the bin. >> probably another prague in a country. they are not flying to new berlin in pennsylvania. >> hopefully no one reclines the seat in front of you. >> i mean, that was something. that was another great story. airlines. >> yes. well, right now there's debate whether seats should go back or not or whether you pay for the privilege or paid for not giving up the privilege. >> right. do you buy delta thinking that, well, this reverses itself because ukraine is maybe talking to putin? that's the way things are going to do. i shouldn't sell because i was waiting for delta to come down, and now i have to buy. hast hard for me. go to situations where you don't think every minute whether putin's talking or not. >> we got housing news today. >> we did, in fact, toll brothers reporting profits more than double its third quarter, ahead of wall street's estimates. revenues above consensus, up 53%. the home builder said it sold more homes at higher prices. that is the way i

. >>> 100 miles east of prague are the moravian islands of the czech republic.onsidered the green heart of the nation, the highlands consist of small villages like mira. 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, mirov was built 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 hav

they were beaten 2-1 in prague. the winning goal scored in stoppage time. >> gareth bale scored twice as wales came from behind, pulling off a major shock in bosnia, croatia joining italy at the top of group h. brazil continues a win, second spell as head coach. the 5-time world champion returned after a world cup showing. after a 1-0 win. >> david ferrer's president will step down next month after 23 years in charge. montezaro joined ferrari and denied he'd go anywhere. global sales were going strong. the formula 1 team struggled. they haven't won is constructors championship since 2008. they have been involved in a number of public disagreements with the head of fiat, who own ferrari. >> the united states is one step closer to defending their world basketball crown. the star-studded team are through to the semifinals after a dominant victory. by five points, they wept on a 27-10 run. clay thompson top scored in a 119-76 victory. they'll face lithuania, booking their spot in the last four with a 73-61 victory over

pastor born in 1822, certainly, if they can recognize our test prague seed urs now, we've got work to do to ramp it up, i think. and that's the whole, by a similar debate, and the genetic markings and all this other g gnome stuff that's going on, so i'm very, very excited. also, i've been involved in helping along with following dr. gangry's lead. and i look forward to working with gene in the next congress and we are having discussion dose that. so you have the same questions, right, from us. so i think that what we really want to do and we'll hear from the next panel, is let's get a handle on this risk and reward. and i'm not so adverse to innocentadvising the private sector, in going through the process and helping them do that. than they taken a then go and, you know, and places that no one else is going to go. >> mm-hm. >> so one of the first questions was, as you have seen companies leave the field of antibiotics, are they small, medium or large? how would you classify them? >> well, i would say that the larger companies, most of them, have left the area for bet are pastures, so

iran is facing similar problem and i think that, you know, a great job is being done in prague. thank you for your service. thank you. >> i'm a consultant to apec. i know this is not the main focus of this particular meeting, but i would very much appreciate hearing from the members of the panel what you think will happen with nuclear talks. >> with nuclear what? >> nuclear talks. >> this thing with the talks, ali, why don't you begin on that? >> unlike many people in washington, i am not so much concerned that here you have somebody who just lies, you know, who is just deceptive, who just makes promises that this person is not ready to keep. i actually think that there are three different approaches in iran when it comes to nuclear issue. all of them strategically agree that, you know, that the nuclear bomb is desirable. mr. rouhani believes that and his cabinet. that group, they believe that. the supreme leader share this is belief. however, each group has a different approach. they employ different tactics to achieve the strategic goal. mr. rouhani's goal is it to achieve it

they lost to the czech republic prague.sults: >>> brazil continues their winning start to the second spell as head coach as they played ecuador in a friendly. the five-time world champion continued their return after a poor world cup showing with a 1-0 win. williams with the goal. >>> ferrari president will step down next month after almost 23 years in month. he joined as an assistant back in the 1970s. and three days ago he denied he was going anywhere. but the formula one team has been struggling in recent years. they haven't won a championship since 2008, and in recent months he has been in the public having disagreements of fiat who own ferrari. >>> the united states are one step closer to defending their world basketball crown. they are through to the semifinals after a dominant victory over slavania. klay thompson was the top scorer. >>> next to lithuania who booked their spot in the semis with their win over serbia. >>> mare ran -- mare incilc isn't letting go of his hardware. >>> and there's more on our website. che

in western germany and was able to set up in 1915 which established a courier service into product pragueere was a lot of cross-border commerce and they would bring back a lot of information. he conducted his most important operations out of italy and against the austrian hungarian empire. italy,fore he came to czechoslovakian deserters set up with the help of an italian army using line crossers and bringing out military information for sympathetic units of the austrian army which turned to him and also this riveting propaganda -- and also distributing propaganda. voska arrived, he was running these efforts with the help of the americans. he found the austrian army was right with revolutionaries. the austrian army organized its units into ethically-based units. there will be a polish regiment, and that regiment. and tired units were vulnerable to revolutionaries. much needas not to distribute propaganda because it was so ripe with these units. he also helped the italian army raise a czech legion which also grew to the size of a corps. o in october 1918, austria was coming apart. the emper

. >> just one goal give the americans a 1-0 victory in prague. >> england scored a penalty to give them 1-0 win over norway. >> brazilian club banned from the country's cup competition after fans racially insulted an opposing player. i explained of being called a monkey in brazil. the tribunal fined $20,000. the referee has been suspended for 90 days for failing to include the accusations of racial abuse in the match report. >> players and spectator's unharmed when a roof collapsed at a badminton tournament in vietnam. the umpire had cleared the players off the court after a small bit of the ceiling had begun to fall. the stadium in ho chi minh city had been involved in renovation. >> the palestine national football team are playing their first match since the ceasefire in gaza. it's a long way from home in the philippines. the players have struggled to prepare for next year's asia cup. we report from manila. >> and it is national team without a country, yet for these palestinian players, qualifying for the first asian cup means more than being able to play football abroad. it has to do

gets off at charles degaulle, cough a little more, spreads it to a few more people oneu- goes to prague nw york, one to l.a.ment you get the picture. that's the difference between blood-borne and asia. that's very -- and airborne. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. >> ever won -- why all these americans are joining isis? so is the u.s. government. he says he could save them an expensive study. just do something we're too politically correct to even consider because beau says we quit playing games or we're going to die trying. new york state is jump-starting business with startup-ny. an unprecedented program that partners businesses with universities across the state. for better access to talent, cutting edge research, and state of the art facilities. and you pay no taxes for ten years. from biotech in brooklyn, to next gen energy in binghamton, to manufacturing in buffalo... startup-ny has new businesses popping up across the state. see how startup-ny can help your business grow at startup.ny.gov ♪ i thought it'd be bigger. ♪ ♪ (dad) there's nothing i can't reach in my subaru. (

>>> a british boy who was taken from a hospital in the uk against medical advice is on his way to prague with his parents. for treatment for a brain tumor. the 5-year-old has been at the center of an international legal wrangle. they are offering protein therapy, which they believe will do less harm than the treatment british doctors prescribed. >>> the 75-year-old khamenei is doing well. rouhani visited him in hospital after the procedure. >>> now back here in the uk, the duchess of cambridge and her husband prince william have announced they are expecting their second child. the couple's office have said the couple and their families are absolutely delighted with the news. their first child prince george was born in july 2013. sarah campbell has more. >> reporter: the new baby will have a tough act to follow. from his first photo outside hospital, prince george has behaved impeccably for the cameras. >> very emotional. >> it's very emotional. such a special time. i think any parent will know what this feeling feels like. >> reporter: his mother may have been a picture of health after g

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and i think that a great job is being done in prague. thank you, sir. thank you. >> i'm a consultant to apac. this is not the main focus of this particular meeting, but i would very much appreciate hearing from the members of the panel what you think will happen with a nuclear bomb in iran? >> the thing in the talks. ali, why don't you begin on that. >> unlike many people in washington, i am not so much concerned that here you have somebody who just lies, who is just deceptive, makes promises that this person is not ready to keep. i actually think there are three different approaches in iran when it comes to the nuclear issue. all of them strategically agreed that the nuclear bomb is desirable. you know, mr. rouhani believes that, his cabinet, that group, they believe that. and so does the supreme leader khomeini. however, each group has a different approach. they employ different tactics in order to achieve the strategic world. mr. rouhani's goal is to achieve it in the longer term, because they believe right now iran is on the verge of bankruptcy. san

there's a video of all the 26 for our helicopter partnership the prague will stem from the manufacturersikely to fail in the same fashion or safety officials grounded all the cards will affect the wheels and is hard to remain out of service as a new will then be put on them. >> reporter: a hit and run crash caught off the balance to the victims and to kron 4 knows the victim to pay to us like to know it on for yours. he hit the other lady in the back bumper cargoes and then he ran into our car. >> reporter: their lives in the dead as you the accident happened you to see once allies listed in the job site has been that it is great. she suffered minor injuries. this is is that their daughters in the backseat the girls found it's a very scary mondays starting cry my daughter was on the side that he hit with a relief for it out. >> reporter: that woman and child inside the victim did not appear in good but the car was damaged the suspect vehicle also suffered damage. the hall from the college like a logical off monday denied has said he going. >> reporter: the call 911 and out of place for o

as someone who recently flew delta to prague, i know the ancillary markets have take an hit by the boomt resides away from our shores. this is the kind of news i fear most. for example, we have terrific auto numbers this morning, numbers so strong, talking about selling more than 17 million, maybe 17.5 million cars in this country this year. that's just an out-and-out domestic auto boom. but other than for the perennially hot tesla, the u.s. is only part of the puzzle. buying gm or ford off of just the united states numbers is something that simply hasn't worked for ages and it won't work now because of international weakness. far moment, lit's contrast these global stocks with your next-door neighbor, cvs. the company that just gave up $2 billion in revenues by giving butts the boot in a landmark decision that allows the 7700-location drugstore change to change its names from cvs care mart to cvs health and mean it. a company willing to surrender huge tobacco revenue to other players including competitors walgreens and rite aid and the dollar stores. what did the stock do today? it hit

warsaw, berlin prague vienna budapest belgrade bucharest and slot via. all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what i must call the soviet -. c-span: why did you want to write about this? >> guest: i was in a way inspired by my first book. this wasn't my first book but my previous book which was the gulags system and although this is in no way a sequel it represents a continuation of the thoughts i had after writing that book. one of the things i got interested in writing about the gulags was the question of why people in along with that and why do people go along with totalitarian regimes? what's the mentality and what are the institutional pressures? why did camp guards do what they were told to do and why does it happen? i decided to write about this period which was the period after world war ii because it's a time when the soviet union was then, if it reached the kind of height. there was apotheosis of stalinism that was created throughout the 1920s and 30s and then it was reinforced by the experience of the war and by 1945 it

pastor born in 1822, certainly, if they can recognize our test prague seed urs now, we've got work to do to ramp it up, i think. and that's the whole, by a similar debate, and the genetic markings and all this other g gnome stuff that's going on, so i'm very, very excited. also, i've been involved in helping along with following dr. gangry's lead. and i look forward to working with gene in the next congress and we are having discussion dose that. so you have the same questions, right, from us. so i think that what we really want to do and we'll hear from the next panel, is let's get a handle on this risk and reward. and i'm not so adverse to innocentadvising the private sector, in going through the process and helping them do that. than they taken a then go and, you know, and places that no one else is going to go. >> mm-hm. >> so one of the first questions was, as you have seen companies leave the field of antibiotics, are they small, medium or large? how would you classify them? >> well, i would say that the larger companies, most of them, have left the area for bet are pastures, so

that he must do what he could to help avoid a repeat of budapest 1956, prague '58 and recent events oftiananmen. cole grasped the opportunity to reunite germany and realized a united germany had to be embedded within super national institutions. and mitteron pressed ahead with his championing of the monetary union. he understood that it was a prerequisite to co-opting prospective german power and to reassuring germany's neighbors. most of all, we should honor gorbachev. he embraced new norms of conduct. reconceived the meaning of security for his country and understood the priority of domestic reform even if he did not know how to bring it about. sixth and last, we should acknowledge the complex interactions between human agency, structural developments like globalization and the communications revolution and contingent events like a spokesperson misstating the conclusions of a politburo meeting. we need to strive for synthesis and complexity as a precondition for accurate lessons and appropriate meanings. as we reassess we can also acknowledge that the leaders made mistakes. we can ac

osha king left the hospital for prague, his parents seeking proton treatments doctors wouldn't providen britain. >> a federal appeals court is set to hear arguments today on gay marriage bans in idaho, nevada and hawaii. at least 32 states have called on the u.s. supreme court to settle the issue of gay marriage once and for all. >> police in memphis now are searching for who was behind a violent mob attack at a supermarket. >> a group of teens brutally beat three people saturday night. john henry smith is here with more. what happened? >> witnesses estimate that around 100 kids were part of the mob, one witness caught it all on her cell phone camera. a kroger employee is on the ground in the fetal position. the mob kicked and stomped him and threw pumpkins at the employee. the mob targeted a 25-year-old man when he was walking to his car. two employees, 17 and 18 ran in to help, but the mob turned their wrath on to the two good samaritans, knocking them unconscious. witnesses couldn't believe what happened. >> why? my first reaction was why? why does anybody deserve it and why act lik

but with that said, whether he go through under this president's stated plans a vet prague sess that will try to find those -- vetting process that will try to find those people that are sack lar, that are not less -- secular, that are not islamic jihadists, in order to create this force that they're talking about. mr. speaker, this will not be in all likelihood the last time we'll come to this chamber and discuss the fight against radical islam or this fight in syria. those discussions may very well be, as general dempsey said today, involved in the deployment of u.s. military asset others than just fighting this thing from the air. i want to be able at that point in time to say to the american people, we've explored every other opportunity, every other way of getting at this, of creating that ground force in syria, short of sending american troops into harm's way again. i think it's what we deserve. we clearly want to train the syrians to be able to defend their own country. that's the most successful model. we've had a long experience with doing that, a checkered past in some inst

guest: prague mattism is good. ou want to not give up your principles and as they say remember the ones that brung you to the dance. that's the people in your district. lot of hner heard a cats. not an easy job. wouldn't wish it on anybody. supported him. if i were voting again, i would think that john would do a very good job. hope he does run for speaker in the 114th congress. witnessed that? that people get co-opted by congress after a couple of years. it's a political issue. weekends there so i don't lose my accent. if you're going to stay here, folks d to make sure the you represent know what you're doing. if i'm doing something in cob that i can't show a benefit of district, i probably shouldn't be doing it. that's why on health care, policy up here. to expand the access. host: scott, you're on the air. caller: thank you, thank you for call.g my i would like to discuss the antibiotics. the you're going to the doctor once but ice a year if that, you're eating meals three times a day. he chickens, they're injec

and then gave this prague mt.ic -- pragmatic answer. also spent a lot of time really going hard at de klerk for creating and nurturing black-on-black violence between 1990 -- during that year. and they piped in, they piped in the head of, to ask a question. so what i'm saying, it was a total set up. and then at the end about 45 minutes in, ted koppel came back to wanting to talk about us -- talk about israel. and mediba in a very stern voice after he had talked about de klerk, he had used the quote your enemies are not our enemies, and he said -- i'm going to read paragraph, and then i will be dope. i think it's -- i will be done. i think it's him at his best. he goes: apparently, mr. koppel, you haven't listened to my argument. [laughter] if you had done so, you have not been serious in examining it. try to picture ted koppel, okay? [laughter] i have replied to one of our friends here that i have refused to be drawn into the differences that have existed between various communities in the united states. you have not commented that i'm

carelessly absent although we know there is the institutional atmosphere that will create extreme prague -- extreme bodily harm or death of poor people in these communities. yet we stand by and do nothing. so we should be charged. leave their room and stop being carelessly ignorant and woefully involved. then we're all at fault. on that note of a black president tillman to close this out. [applause] >> good afternoon first of all, of a leg to think the panelist for your thoughtful insights on this issue. i attended michael brown's funeral. i personally was affected by the fact this young man was shot. as a president of a national organization remembers would say we need a statement. i didn't want another statement we did make a contribution to the funeral and were one of several individuals because it wanted the family to know they were drugged into a situation they did ask for now another set is on the two were to let them know their son was killed unjustly. that is why we are here today. i was affected by that. i had the opportunity to meet with a family that your son's death will not