order. >> order. >> yesterday, the president of romania made a speech which lasted for six hours, and it was punctuated by a number of statements. it has been an honor to have been asked to make this speech. it will be a matter of relief to the house and the person who will be asked to do so on a subsequent occasion. >> hear hear. >> you are watching live coverage of the british house of commons on c-span. you this and know that at any point in time, the house of representatives might come back into session and in dripping our coverage. until then, we want to talk about what the viewers are seeing. we are pleased to have the four chief political reporter for panorama and a television reporter. >> this is fantastic. television in britain has been going for 50 years. for the first time, it is now in the house of commons. they were talking almost in latin. you could not believe that 600 grown man could do this sort of thing. it was a very good speech. many jokes would be difficult to understand immediately for an american audience. here was a man who began by saying how much he hated the

speaker, yesterday, the president of romania made a speech in bucharest which lasted for six hours. and which was punctuated by six or seven standing. >> order. >> order. >> it is order. >> customary to give a fair hearing. >> yeah. >> and yesterday the president of romania made a speech in bucharest which lasted for six hours and which was punk waitsed by 67 standing. i was not asked to move a vote of thanks to him but it has been -- but it has been an honor to have been asked to make this speech. it will be a matter of relief to the house. to know there's no precedent for the person who was with the address being asked to do son 00 -- on a subsubsequent occasion. >> mr. david samba. >> and you're watching live coverage of the british house of commons on c-span, as the house of representatives has gone into recess for the -- for the pending -- pending the call of the chair. we're able to bring you this on the main network, c-span. we know at any point in time the house play come back into session and we'll leave our live coverage of the british house of cove commons for that. until

there was a chance for agreement in italy and czechoslovakia and romania. the each have their own financing schemes. as the financing situation became more dire in europe then it went back to austria or europe we will then set up more transfer agreements to set up good use because you must remember there is a very important statement and i will quote a phrase that you know, . the world is divided into two places. those places where jews cannot live and those places where the jews cannot go. most people think that evian is just water but the evian is conference is what to do with hundreds of thousands of refugees were the door was shut and palestine was the only door open. they were not allowed into most nations of the world. the transfer agreements have the possibility to transfer hundreds of thousands of jews from romania most hungarian jews were wiped out in transports and organized by one of the members of the board of directors of ibm. imagine if these jews came by the boatload literally into jewish palestine. what happened? of the war. economics stoppe

these transfer agreements have the possibility to transfer hundreds of thousands from romania, hungary, the most fun point* jews were wiped out. and transports organized and hungary by one of the members of the board of directors of ibm. imagine of the jews had come by the boatload literally into jewish palestine what happened? the war. economics stock and international trade became ill the go. the zionist were not able to continue transferring these moneys out in the effective and meaningful fashion. the war caught up with the transfer agreement before it could catch up with the genocide. >> one professor and the author of many books on ethics who is also a scholar who fuller first told about the agreement i recall what i told you about it in the '70s you found it hard to believe it happens now after all of your research and writing and thinking do still find it hard to believe that it happened? i did not believe that it happened because i was not smart enough for wise enough. i rarely had been out of chicago. the march 10 question in the skokie march was just outside. if i was presen

romania was going to get a nuclear weapons program. the leader of the romania decided the best person to run his nuclear weapons program would be his wife who took chemistry in college and did quite well. there was nobody who had tried to do it besides the japanese cult. they had a uranium mine and so forth. they had a lot of money, too. and they gave up. then they went to biological weapons and as i mentioned, those failed, too. so then they went to chemical weapons which by far and they released gas in a subway in tokyo and killed 11 people and then they were shut down and i don't want to trivialize the 11 deaths but that's what i characterize. they may have tried to get some uranium at one time. in the training camps in afghanistan, people took a course in explosives. and when they got in there they found a bunch of notebooks that these guys had had. and so these various things and the last page is about nuclear weapons. and so that was like the last lecture so they had like one lecture presumably on how you make a nuclear bomb and

romania. if you like ski. go where the europeans know where the cool spots are. you can get rooms with lift tickets for 50 bucks a night. not bad. >> do they have wild dogs? >> we're not talking about trantran sell vein i can't. thailand a great destination for all sorts of places. phenomenal experience and totally affordable. >> and really slammed since the tsunami. >> but they recovered fast because tourism is such an important part of their economy. they had to fix it fast and they did. >> another great destination that people may not think about, go to moroccmorocco. >> the king has decided tourism will save this cup and they've rebuilt everything. one little word i have to give you, kreally have a great time. >> i talked to people who have taken great camel caravans. last but not least, the open seas. >> law of supply and demand. so much excess k35s. we're seeing western cruises for $399, long foreabout for about . and norwegian, about 80 bucks a night. >> and everything included. could y

somewhere between tiananmen and romania this probable falls. this regime is much more ruthless in dealing with its own people than the shah was. it's clear now. does that deepen the resistance? i think so. >> the tone has changed. clearly identifying with support for the protesters and afrming our traditional role as kind of a voice in support of individual liberty. i think the question they're asking, in the long run, does the internal pressure on the iranian government make them more or less likely to work with the west? in the long run, it may provide opportunities for pressure. >> the more pressure that the u.s. puts on, they might feel that a confrontation with the u.s. mightdy strakt from the issue. >> let's get back home. on december 24th, the most important issue was the health care bill. there was already political talk in hawaii about this. rush limbaugh went to the hospital. he said this after he left. >> the treatment i received here was the best that the world has to offer. i -- based on what happened to me here. i don't think ther

we later expanded romania, poland, croatia, hu ngary, germany. i want to conclude my remarks by saying it few words from the cases. the most famous case really on like all of the others was the case of dr. albert who was a most wanted nazi war criminal in the world. he was the only case which was known to us that was made the targets of "operation last chance" because he was a doctor and a notorious, he was called dr. debts he would kill inmates by directing the knoll directly into their hearts castration he would keep body parts as souvenirs comment no anesthesia and a horrible person. he was about to be arrested by the west germans in 1962. he was working as a gynecologist be better not. in one of the most beautiful places in germany and he set up a successful than a logical practice and they were about to arrest him and he was tipped off and disappeared into thin air. simon wiesenthal was one of the people who was looking for him. he always used to stress this case. make up the west of most wanted and make sure dr. robert is on the list. in 19

one in economics and another in sociology from universities in his native romania and he also has a ph.dfrom political science where he studied with this year's nobel prize winner eleanor oststrum. and paul is in europe this week and couldn't be here for the event. but by way of biography let me tell you a couple of things about paul. give you some insight as to why this book was important to him and why these themes are important. paul, who's romanian by birth, was a victim of centralized planning and communism in europe. and he brought about market reforms in post-communist europe in part because of his own personal background and his innate curiosity. he's dedicated much of his personal life to understand the role of intellectual politics. he's co-author -- a number of important books, a volume on international development, a volume on neoliberalism and post-cold war in europe and the impact of eleanor osttrum and vince osttrum his political advisors at indiana university and a volume of prophesies of doom and scenarios progress.w3+ which is an important book that appeared a couple of

in romania there was a somewhat messy fall, as we saw in romania and albania.i will also talk a bit about -- i only have a few slides. i will talk a bit about the challenges we face, some lessons we should take from the german experience. no question that the german experience was very, very different from what we will face in korea. looking at a cost of unification, and the consequences of a unified korea. the first section of my paper is looking at the scope of the challenge. when the berlin wall fell in 1989, most south koreans said, "we are next." every korean president gets their own stamp on inauguration. kim il-sung step as a picture of him -- stamp has a picture of him -- he had the expectation that during his term, korea would be unified. but this anticipation gave way to apprehension, and actually, i unification allergy. -- a unification elegy. no one wants it to happen soon, because it will be so expensive and traumatic. we have seen in the case of germany that cost them at least $2 trillion. east germany is still only at 70% of the income level of w

years ago, and then on and noticed a couple of friends of mine who grew up in the soviet union and romania, each week to broadcast for radio free asia and cory in and it's wonderful to your career and with russian and iranian accents. when i was asked to review their radio broadcasts. but the don't do it for the money. the dewitt because they themselves were listening to the voice of america in 1980 is when they were living in the soviet union and romania they made a difference for them and they know some north koreans, we all know exactly how many are listening so to the colin it comes to video broadcasting. and finally the fifth area of capricious would need to jointly press north korea on its treaty commitments that is the signatory to covenants and treaties related to human rights, so it's not over in a u.s. standard, it's modeled in a standard for human rights, it's holding up north korea to the standard which they themselves have signed on to and a variety of human rights treaties and charters whether it is international covenant on civil and political rights or the rights of the chi

witnessed a very sudden and messy fall as we saw in romania and albania.o i'll talk today -- if you could i only have a few slides. the next slide gives me -- so what i'll do is talk a bit about the scope of the challenge we face, some lessons i think we should take from the german experience. no question for the german experience is very very different than what we will face in korea but i think there still is useful lessons. looking at the cost of unification and the consequences of a unified korea. so the first section of my paper is looking at the scope of the challenge. when the berlin wall in 1989 cell most south koreans said we are next. in fact, being a philatelist and inflicting korean stamps every korean president gets his own stamp upon an adoration and a stamp issued in early 1993 has a picture of him next to the symbol of korean and he really had the expectation that during his term korea would he unified. that south korea and north korea would be next. but this anticipation gateway to apprehension and actually an allergy unification allergy e

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speaker, yesterday, the president of romania made a speech in bucharest, which lasted for six hours andd by 67 standing ovations. >> order. order. it is customary to give a fair hearing. >> yesterday, the president of romania made a speech in bucharest, which lasted for six hours, and it was punctuated by 67 standing ovations. i am saddened that i was not asked to move a vote of thanks to him, but it has been an honor to make this speech. it will be a matter of relief for the house to know that there is no person and response being asked to do so on a subsequent occasion. >> you are watching live coverage of the british house of commons on c-span. as the house of representatives have gone into recess pending the call of the chair, we are able to bring you this on the main network. we do know that at any point in time the house of representatives might come back into session, and we build lead our live coverage of the british house of commons for that. we wanted to talk a little bit about what our viewers are saying before some of the main speakers get up to speak, and we are pleased to

additional troops leading with our host country, the united kingdom but including italy, germany, romania and we are also grateful to all of those who made their contributions known today. there are other countries such as russia, kazakhstan and izz beck stan who are providing air space rights and other assistance but as important as our military mission is, we know that force alone cannot achieve our goals. last week i released the afghanistan and pakistan restabilization strategy. its goal is to transform and strengthen their own society and ensure their own security. as we heard a lot today, starting with prime minister brown and president karzai and many others. the dwole goal is to have an afghan-led and owned strategy. we are seeing that translated into reality every day. president karzai laid out an ambitious agenda for reform at his inauguration last year. there has been a number of plans put forth and afghanistan has moved forward on preparation for a conditions-based transition to take responsibility for its own security and an agenda for development and governance, which is cri

that have committed additional troops beginning with the united kingdom and also including germany, romania. we also are grateful to all of those who made their contributions known today. there are other countries such as russia, as it stands, is in pakistan providing transit assistance. -- such as russia, khazhakstan, . there is a goal to transform and strengthened the society and insure their own security. as we heard a lot today starting with prime minister brown and president karzai and many others, the goal is to have an afghan lead and an afghan owned strategy and we are seeing that translated into reality every day. president karzai laid out an ambitious agenda for reform at his inauguration last year. there has been a number of plans could fourth and afghanistan has moved forward on preparation for a conditions faced transition to take responsibility for its own security and an agenda for development and governance which is critical to the future. among the decisions made today was to establish a priespeace reintegration and trust fund. a plan to draw disaffected taliban into societ

speaker, yesterday, the president of romania made a speech in bucharest which lasted for six hours. and which was punctuated by 67 standing ovations. >> order! order! it's order! it's customary to give a fair hearing to the member -- >> yesterday, the president of romania made a speech in bucharest which lasted for six hours. and which was punk waited by 67 standing ovations. i'm thankful that i was not asked to have a vote of thanks for him but it has been an honor to be asked to make this speech. it will be a matter of relief to the house to know that there is no precedent for the person who has moved the address being asked to do so on a subsequent occasion. >> you're watching live coverage of the british house of commons on c-span. as the house of representatives has gone into recess for the pending of the call -- of the chair we're able to bring this on the main network, c-span. we do at any point of time the house of representatives might come back into session and we will be leaving our live coverage of the british house of commons for that. we want to talk a little bit about

this includes greatÑi britain, italy, spain, romania, poland.butions will continue to grow in the next few weeks as we get closer for the conference on january 20. this reflects our recognition security is threatened and reflects our efforts to strengthen our alliances. having served in nato, i think nato has shown much more cohesion and much more recognition that this is the strategic moment in which all nations, all contributing nations must come together to better harmonize security efforts, governance, and rule of law in afghanistan and also economic development. so as a result, we'll accelerate handing over responsibility for afghan security by july of 2011, some u.s. troops will begin to come home. this is probably the most discussed and perhaps most misunderstood part of the strategy, so i want to be clear with regard to what this means and what it doesn't mean. july 2011 is not a withdrawal date, it is the beginning of transition to -- of responsibility to afghan authorities and forces. as the president said, and i quote, just as we've d

this includes great britain, italy, spain, romania, poland.our all)es will be contributing nearly 7,000 more troops and trainers. the sum total of those contributions will continue to grow in the next few weeks as we get closer for the conference on january 20. this reflects our recognition security is threatened and reflects our efforts to strengthen our alliances. having served in nato, i think nato has shown much more cohesion and much more recognition that this is the strategic moment in which all nations, all contributing nations must come together to better harmonize security efforts, governance, and rule of law in afghanistan and also economic development. so as a result, we'll accelerate handing over responsibility for afghan security by july of 2011, some u.s. troops will begin to come home. this is probably the most discussed and perhaps most misunderstood part of the strategy, so i want to be clear with regard to what this means and what it doesn't mean. july 2011 is not a withdrawal date, it is the beginning of transition to -- of

then i noticed that a couple of friends of mine who grew up in the soviet union and romania commit time every week to broadcasting for radio free asia in korean. it's wonderful to hear korean with russian and romanian accents. .. there are a whole range of treaties and conventions that north korea has already signed on to. the sixth area that i would recommend is to upgrade the human rights discussion at the six-party talks. now we know that the six-party talks are rightfully focused on the nuclear issue but human rights have always been a part of the six-party talks. and that's taken the form of japan raising the issue and its working group with north korea on a regular basis. but it should be multilateralized instead of bilaterally being raised only by japan. the seventh area that i would propose is that over time that we try to transform the six-party talks in the helsinki process. there's several people that have been trying to -- and jim goodby has lead the effort and rebecca. it worked with the soviet union to try and, you know -- to bring together security and humanitarian and hu

that committed additional troops, leading with our host country the united kingdom, but including romaniaul to those who made their contributions known today. there are other countries, such as russia, who are providing airspace rights and transit assistance. as important as our military mission is, we know that force alone cannot achieve our goals. last week, are released the u.s. afghanistan and pakistan regional stabilization strategy. its goal is to support afghan, -- afghan-led efforts to transform and strength than their own society and insure their own security. as we heard a lot today, starting with prime minister brown and president karzai and many others, the goal is to have an afghan-led an afghan-owned strategy and we are seeing that translated into reality every day. president karzai laid out an ambitious agenda for reform at his inauguration last year. there has been a number of plans put forth and afghanistan has moved forward on preparation for a conditions based transition to take responsibility for its own security and an agenda for development in a government which is c