last russians are nicholas the second and his family the deaths ended three centuries of rule by the roman of dinner parties talk to historian helen rappaport about her book the last days of the romanovs on the tragedy and its mark on the country's history a special interview next on r.t. . today i'm in oxford with helen rappaport she's an expert on the russian imperial family particularly the last days of that arm on us who were assassinated in a classroom by a jury in the bolshevik revolution helen rappaport thanks very much for talking to r.t. now you focus on the last thirteen days of that amount of slides in your catron but why did you choose that period well when i looked at the stories of. the end of the dentistry i suddenly realised that although we knew the broad span of nicholas's rain and the overall story no one had looked at any great detail in those final few days particularly new culture in berg and the main reason for that was because until the collapse of communism there was no access to some of the important eyewitness testimonies by the guards and your coffee or ski who

some of their old retainers while the retainers were intensely loyal they volunteered to go with the roman australia culture and it was very uncertain what was going to happen to them they might must have had some sense that it might all. and horribly so they're intensely loyal particularly dr port king who i think of all of them had a sense that this might end in something dreadful he was very pragmatic very realistic and one of the last letters he wrote from the house an unfinished letter said basically i don't expect to get out of here alive but what was interesting was that when the romanovs first arrived there was an obvious in intensely hostile attitude to them from the guards many very young local factory workers who volunteered what they considered was an honor to guard in this bloodthirsty tsar and his family and as time went on a strange thing happened some of these young guards began to develop a sympathy for the family especially the girls and especially alexei who was very very sick but interesting lee although they could empathize with the children especially and came to like

tracks and he he never ever took responsibility for anything as controversial as the merger of the roman arts but he said categorically we must not have a living banner we must not have anyone surviving from the family around whom a counter-revolution could could gather and gain a you know gain gain power so the decision was made in moscow during meetings with gul a short in a man from the pattern book soviet he went back and forth quite a few times to moscow now got a shock and was very good friends with the arc of spirit love who was lennon's right hand man said lapham had worked as opposed to tape for a new country but he knew the city he knew the bolsheviks there and i think fundamentally a tacit agreement was given by lenin that when the time came and the judgment of when that time came was left to the culture bolsheviks when they knew that the game was up and the city was going to fall to go in and kill more i mean. forward to the present day what would you say is the abiding legacy of that armada family to me the most interesting thing i found when i went to russia when i went to

. >> millions of roman shades have been recalled as strangulation has yards. today, a million more were added to the list. a child nearly died. smith and noble recalling 1.3 million of these roman shades and roller shades following a scary incident in which a 5-year-old boy was nearly strangled on the cord of a roller shade. the shades were sold on the smith and noble web site. and i've post that had link on our web sites well. just click on 7 on your side. >> so important to be aware of that. thank you. >> and the best have been showing their stuff inside of the golden gate today. national championships for the sport. and looks like good winds are blowing out there. >> yes. and this is not enough, they've just ended it for the day. saying they'd like more wind to ride waves this, is a big deal. and take a look. there are 44. this is the slolum course. there is men, women, young and old. a race took them to treasure i'll yanld. wind surfers come from hawaii, brazil, france and australia. one of the champions lives in sydney and says longevity is one of the key

sings almost like the roman days roman gladney it would people want to see the lions eat up to this life. and so. you know my spin on the road i've never liked or will never have like to really feel the cause of death because it's almost like people come to see you in your midst. it's important. to put their life. and time zones and they're inside their premier octal would love it and for it they don't have prison rodeos that any of the prison in louisiana been in goa why because angola is the only place where people are serving life sentences with no hope of parole no chance of ever getting out these guys who participate in the rodeo have pretty much exhausted every remedy possible they know they're not going anywhere so what do they have to lose nothing you know in the prison is taking advantage of that fact you know the prison knows full well that it in any event there's going to be a certain amount of guys and you know going to get severely hurt possibly killed but that's ok after all they're not human beings as it relates to the rodeo they're just convicts and that's why they dress

thousands are protesting, led by the roman catholic church and other religious organizations. our correspondent has been telling me how controversial this law is proving to be. >> it is in deep. the upper houses are debating whether to reject this bill on same-sex marriage. it is going to be a very tight votes. it with lots of opposition from the roman catholic church and other interest groups as well, and with many senators representing the most conservative provinces, if they are very likely to vote against this bill that has already been approved by the lower house. it is very tight its will take at least -- is very tight. it will take at least 10 more hours before they reach a decision. >> which way do you think it is going to be out? in december, a couple in buenos aires was the first to undergo marriage in latin america. >> there have been a few weddings' between same-sex couples already. they are finding holes in the law. the situation at the moment is that same-sex marriages only allowed in mexico city, the capital of mexico, but not in the rest of the country. civil u

the other one is to convey this new role that the roman catholic church has not had in cuba in a half century. >> warner: ms. lopez, so what explains then-- if this was all a really concerted, orchestrated rollout-- that suddenly fidel castro pops up on television last night, doesn't say a word about this. these are people he had had arrested in the first place. what does that say? >> well, the timing of fidel's speech is really indicative of how it does relate to the political prisoners being released. most importantly for fidel castro personally, many people viewed these 75 political prisoners which are now 52 after some have been released over the years since 2003, many people viewed them as fidel's prisoners. they considered them to be ... that they would serve out the rest of their sentences unless something were to happen to fidel. this was kind of fidel's way to send a message to the cuban people and to the international community that he's still around . in his narcissism, i don't think that he is fully aware of how elderly and how confused he can sometimes come across. when h

we do not call of the roman catholic church for nothing.he headquarters of the institution are still in rome. we need to understand the social realities that they are to be a cross on their way to work every morning. this gives you another study. when they do is every 10 years. a round to a selection of nations around the world and they ask people to talk about their values and one question is always how important is religion to you. they can respond very important, somewhat important, etc. they said religion are very important indonesia, which is the world's largest moslem nation with a population of about 310 million, 98% muslim. we will not get to islam, but let me just say that one of the analytical mistakes often mistake is we only see it to the prison of arab culture. bear in mind that only 25% of the moslems are actually era. it is the same problem seeing catholicism in america. 95% said that religion is very important. in nigeria, the world's largest mixed christian-muslim population, 150 million people split down the middle between

. >> if you think back, the romans came up with a system of plumbing that allowed us it use water to transport waste away from the hub of civilization, which enabled cities to grow. . >> you have a large bowl, a drive motor and another motor with a planetary gearbox with differential pressure inside there. the large mass up there spinning separating the solids from the liquid. we have to prevent about once a month, we go in there grease those, change the oil, check the vibration levels. the operators can tell just by the hum of that machine that it's a harmonic noise emitted that it's out of balance and the machine needs to be cleaned. it will start vibrating and we have vibration analysis machines that will come over here and check the levels. so it's kind of an on-going thing that you have to stay on top of on a daily basis. >> handled properly, you take organic residuals, as we call them, that are leftovers of our society and turn them back into some energy. and we have another ability to take that sludge and get a nutrient value for crops there. we actually are running a kind of

the new symbol is a combination of the roman letter without the stand. the symbol will come into use within six months in india. it will take 18 months to come into use in the international market. >>> hi there. i'm here with your world weather update. let's look at our typhoon. it continues to bear down on hynen is southern china and has waves across parts of thailand and into vietnam and laos and cambodia. as it makes its way further in a northwesterly direction, the winds are waves and very, very strong. look at the country figures right now. sustained winds are 125 figure right now. sustained winds are 12 figures right now. sustained winds are 12 figures right now. sustained winds are 12 figures right now. sustained winds are 12 figures right now. sustained winds are 12 figures right now. sustained winds are 12u figures right now. sustained winds are 12r figures right now. sustained winds are 12r figures right now. rightig kilometers per hour. we're really worried about the rain as well. it's been a very, very active rainy season across so as this st

the roman candles. >> they were involved enough in their insanity that we could be like, jungle habitattside. >> jimmy: a wild animal safari. only more dangerous. it really was. and you get inventive. we had some kids on the block who would make their own fireworks, using like duct tape and, like, you duct tape like 300 roman candle sticks together. >> so you were the guys i was watching when -- >> jimmy: i really wasn't. because i wasn't allowed -- my mother did not allow me to have any fireworks, so i would just kind of stand back and, like, sometimes they would say, help break firecrackers to pour gun pounder in this bomb. and so i would sit there and do it and pretend to be cool, but -- did your mom let you -- >> no. i have a brother, but i would always worry that he was going to get into trouble. >> jimmy: and he didn't? >> no, he was fine. >> jimmy: were you good kids? >> yeah, yeah. >> jimmy: if you survived the fourth of july, what would your family do for the summer in brooklyn? >> once we survived that mayhem? we would go upstate and we had a little, a place from when i was a

the vatican has revised roman catholic law to make women as priests a grave crime. the new rules are being seen as a message after a few days after the church tried to ordained female bishops. says theiroups changes are not robust enough. >> this person is ordained as a priest in the income churchlike several thousands of others. several catholics taking part in a ceremony will be guilty of a grave crime against the fate. it is an announcement that cannot be any clearer. in the case of the women, excommunication. many anglicans will see it as a slap in the face. it is based on the determination to ordain women as priests and bishops. there is a rift between the churches. groups campaigning for catholic women priests are in despair. >> i think it is appalling. obviously, they do not understand women at all. it is a great crime that they have not ordain women. >> just three days after they voted to ordain women as bishops, the vatican says the same action would constitute a grave crime. they will save if they will pray with the archbishop of canterbury. it could be in

prisoners who arrived in spain with their families under a deal brokered between the cuban government, the roman catholic church, and the spanish government. news the obama administration does not appear willing to be flexible over immigration and it comes at a time in the process that could delay further releases. some have relatives already in the u.s. and are keen to end up there. others said they do not want to leave cuba. they can stay if they want to according to the head of the cuban parliament. he indicated the government is ready to release almost all the political prisoners currently in cuban jails. now would be welcome news for the family of a jailed dissident who was serving a 20-year prison term. he is one of 100 political prisoners not included in the original deal. >> the venezuelan president hugo chavez says his government obtained a minority share in the pro opposition television station. he says he will put a government representative on that board after a bank which partly owns the station was taken over. the television station takes a consistent anti-government stand. a cold

obrian, the editor of the times of cuba and in the cuban roman catholic church, father moynihan, no relationship to my grandmother, loved for his kindness and great sense of humor. born in the 20's in havana were of irish descent. they were fran emilio. he was entirely blind by the age of 13 but learned gerschwin's rhapsody in blue by using braille scores. he was also one of the major instrumentalists of the feeling -- many of you recollected remember -- the thrilling sound of the 50's that blended the latin bolero with the latin sound. the second was chico, we like always to put these little names to people. my name is carlotta but my real name was charlotte and they called me carlotica, little charlotte. he moved to new york city in 1948, where benny goodman hire him and he became very famous in new york at the time and he died in new york in 2001. one of the pieces of my ticket to ride is how many cubans of irish ancestry are there. because this connected to my family, that's why i wanted to read it to you. in the 40's, my father moved to new york in search of his destiny. he learned to make

had requested switzerland extradite roman polanski. the los angeles courts say no, and that was a key factor in switzerland not approving the extradition. >>> a mistake nearly caused an east bay couple its lives. the warning sign of this devastating lifestyle. >>> that's what you are going to stab me now? and then i heard her scream. >>> friends describe the terrifying moments that unfolded in a south bay apartment complex as a feud turns fatal. san jose police are investigating the attacks by a man who neighbors say stabbed one woman and then fatally shot another. ktvu's robert handa is live now at that apartment complex with the very latest on this story for us, robert. >> reporter: healther, there are still a lot of questions remaining about this stabbing and shooting incident that took place at this san jose apartment complex last night including the motive. but many residents call the suspect a walking time bomb and some neighbors say they saw him go off. >> i saw a man stab a lady, then turn and shoot another lady. >> reporter: r

. >> glor: roman polanski was seen in public today for the first time in nine months. polanski was at a swiss jazz festival after being freed from house arrest last monday. swiss officials refused to report him to the u.s. where he's wanted for a 1977 child sex case. still ahead on tonight's "cbs evening news," the military changes tactics in its fight against suicide. a completely blocked artery, >> glor: officials in afghanistan today reported the death of five nato soldiers, including two americans, one killed by a road siem bomb in eastern afghanistan, the other in the south. a record 60 americans were killed in afghanistan last month. and the military's also grappling with an equally devastating problem, suicide byer service members. >> reporter: june was not only the worst month ever for american combat deaths in afghanistan. it was the worst month ever for suicides in the army. a total of 32 soldiers, both active duty and reserve, took their own lives in those 30 days. so far this year 145 soldiers have committed suicide compared with 130 during first six months

phone for that having knowledge of sexual abuse cases of failing to take action both protestant under roman catholic churches in germany are battling dozens of education's of sexual abuse by clergy. nineteen fifties. at least two people have been killed by typhoon concentra swept across southern china authorities have evacuated around forty thousand people head of the storm which has already killed dozens in the philippines this month heavy flooding caused by terentia already much . less. but as china suffers from storms and flooding europe is getting prepared for another has it while the current heatwave may be good for holiday makers who can also spot the outbreak of devastating fires the most effective tools used for extinguishing those summer blazes are russian helicopters and the global demand for these choppers is growing rapidly as artie's reflection reports. it's every year hundreds of thousands of have terry's of spanish flies disappear the reason fire and. the combination of the hot dry climate and human negligence often creates an unstoppable force resulting in a national catastr

, which is dealing with internal opposition and armed -- and all of those uprising that go to the romans or persian empire. there is a concept where you take best practice social science, best practice behavioral science, economics, all the sort of modern academic understanding of how traditional societies work and you try apply that to the problemses of how you solve these kinds of rebellions and uprisings. you can see why it is a controversial issue. it is complex and a lot of people in the social science community are not real comfortable with what we know about tribal populations being used in that way. tavis: your best example of how counterinsurgency has worked. the worst example. where our efforts of counterinsurgency has back fired on us. >> are in the book i go through about 380 instances. one of the interesting things a comes out of that is that there are two really big factors for success in counterinsurgency. the first is fighting in your own country. be able to understand the environment because you're from there. the second one is be willing to negotiate. if you look at it,

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allegedly having knowledge of sexual abuse cases but failing to take proper action both protestant and roman catholic churches in germany are battling dozens of allegations of sexual abuse by clergy dating back to the nineteen fifties. and you bollywood comedy has been banned in pakistan as it features an osama bin laden lookalike pakistani senses are worried that depicting the world's most wanted man in a comic way could trigger terrorist attacks on his camera saying when to ask those behind the comedy in the world is really ready to post nine eleven humor. this could well be the biggest school. doing the worst. just. does not do five million dollars reward on his head in fact is not also about bin ladin but in that. there. or without you lot in but just in case you think this is a movie glorifying a terrorist it is a. sort of film. biography it's a film which is on the post nine eleven world of which bin laden happens to be a very important character and this is a fair number of feet bin laden and that's how he using it's not insensitive or offensive in any way and anybody from anybody is

. >> couric: the roman catholic church put out new rules today to deal with sexual abuse cases involvingriests. they extend penalties to those who abuse mentally disabled adults and double the statute of limitations on all of these cases. but the new rules don't force bishops to report abuse to the police. now to our highways and byways where mesh cars are passing the competition. today j.d. powers said domestic cars as a whole outperformed imports for the first time in 13 years. ford, g.m., and chrysler did it by updating popular models and scrapping poor sellers. here in new york, construction workers at the world trade center site have uncovered a piece of history: a wooden ship from the 1700s. archaeologists believe it was buried in a landfill more than 200 years ago. they're busy trying to study and document it before exposure to air and sunlight causes the delicate wood to crumble. and another long-forgotten piece of history has surfaced. a 1914 film called "a thief catcher" in which charlie chaplin makes a cameo as a keystone cop, displaying the mustache and mannerisms of his famo

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rocked by allegations of sexual and physical abuse of children by a crease in both the protestant and roman catholic church. in turkish police detained twenty nine people with suspected links to al qaida the arrests took place during a pre-dawn swoop across the country the latest in a string of raids against al qaeda suspects police have been on alert in the facts since the turkish cell of the terrorist group carried out suicide bombings in two thousand and three killing sixty people in istanbul. sixty five years ago a mushroom cloud of the new mexico desert showed that the u.s. had won the race to produce a nuclear weapon but soviet scientists harnessing the destructive power of the outer world far behind at the time either they were testing their own bomb just four years later and their success shapes global politics to this day r.t. today's blog explores the relics of the u.s.s.r. push for nuclear supremacy. it was the culmination of the manhattan project the first american nuclear explosive device nicknamed the gadget went off in new mexico just weeks before devastating the japanese cit

state has to take some steps to provide guarantees that it will not happen even with two companies the roman opry and mortgage agency dropped from the privatization program will be the biggest such initiatives since the early one nine hundred ninety s. as you know diverted for reports. if you want some of the russia's blue chips well general snifter of the largest banks bear bank now is the time some call it the biggest privatization since the ninety's but it's not huge clear which by the government targets therefore we're talking. with minorities and this is much different from what we have seen the in russia taking place in mind his or group of disease. in the general tso's because usually when we're talking about truth they should. say or persons for strategic investors so i think that in russia's case now we're really talking wild government convention think with flu proof lord of the state their own company is only months ago some said russia no longer deserved its position as a leading emerging market and you inflow of foreign investment could change that perception but the government

that, um, organized crime or crime was a big problem going back to the middle ages, going back to the roman empire and posed significant problems for governing entities to control populations and to enforce laws. >> you keep using the phrase, "non-state actors". who are we talking about? >> well, we can talk about anyone from insurgent groups such as the taliban or the farc in columbia to, ah, terrorist groups like al-qaeda, ah, to crime groups. >> what's happing in mexico, for instance. >> mafia or the drug trafficking organizations in mexico like the sinaloa cartel, the gulf cartel, the zetas that are the enforcers, ah, for one of the cartels, but increasingly, possibly and independent trafficking organization themselves. >> but just briefly, is there any organized crime that you would put in the category of "state actors" who are engaged in it? do governments engage in these sorts of activities? >> take the afghan government. the guy in charge of drugs for the afghan government told us, off the record-- and now he's no longer with the government, so i guess we can talk about it-- said ev

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national security let's get more on this cross to washington correspondent christine romans live for us christi the only likely to hear any further comment than from the white terms of this incident hey there kevin i am having a little bit of trouble hearing you but i'm pretty sure you are asking me about the latest from the white house as laura sort of pointed out the white house today both criticizing and downplaying the release of these documents the national security adviser jim jones saying that anything that is published that would put the lives of americans and our partners in danger the white house condemns this but he's also downplaying the significance of it he says that these reports come from a period of time between january of two thousand and four and december of two thousand and nine and during this time as you know of course the former president george w. bush was in office he says december two thousand and nine also significant because that is the time that current president obama essentially change strategy in afghanistan and this doesn't document that another thing

neighborhood has become the stage for the debate over mosques in america and the board of trustees of a roman catholic church on staten island has formally rejected a proposal to sell a vacant convent to a muslim organization the plan to use it as a mosque now neighbors that opposed to its claim of the mosque might become a front for terrorism so in the wake of nine eleven do we see this as a full on assault on islam in america an act of ungrounded prejudice and fear or should this be a real concern or joining me here in the studio is will you his rap artist and representative of the palestine center in washington and in our new york studio i have pamela geller executive director of stop islam say islamization of america and editor of the blog alice rags thank you both for joining me now we'll start with you you see right here. so there's been a lot of debate lately about the fact that they wanted to build a mosque expand its exotic center near the site of nine eleven and i understand that could be a little touchy for people but here this isn't a nine eleven that decided nine eleven this isn'

meanwhile in the savings as the site supervisors have approved a landmark great roman project in thebay view hunters point the proposed site for a new stadium if they decide to stay incidents as to that decision was made late last night the proposed 700 a. project would add more than 10,000 residential units and the one-third of its would be developed. it would add more than 300 a. of parkland, opens his commercial and transit improvements as well citizens as the mayor gavin newsom says it would raise millions of dollars for the city increased summer in the neighborhood of 12,000 jobs. we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments. here's a live look of sight as we go any shot of the bay bridge for was about 80 just a handful of headlights. he never know which you might find other guards that kron4 is vicki libya office gives is across the some dusty negatives that could potentially be worth hundreds of millions of dollars and the lucky guy to run them. >> target march of find a box full of famous for orders he came looking for somethin