so our second commentator is andrew rotter who is the charles a. dana chair in history at colgate university where hi has taught since 1988. his most recent book is "hiroshima, the world's bomb" and he's at work on a study of two empires, the british and india and the americans and philippines and the five senses. professor? >> thank you. thank you for coming thank you professor masuda for inviting me to comment on your book. i'll begin by saying that this book is a paradigm rattling study. a couple months ago i had a conversation with a colleague i'd identify him, david angerman of brandeis university in which he said, i thought too casually, that within a generation or less historians would no longer see the cold war as central as a useful category of analysis. i really was stunned to hear him say that and i pushed back and while i think professor masuda would agree with me that the cold war remains an event, a thing with which historians must continue to come to terms, he has so thoroughly problem lem tides it had concept of the cold war as to m

police arrested david rotter in bridgeton yesterday and his brother steven disappeared in december 2011. authorities say this month they got information that led them to the missing man's remains. they say they found body parts buried all over vineland. >>> the chef and co-owner of pitcher restaurant, capasso has been arrested on child porn charges last month. they say he sexually abused a 5-year-old girl and shared photos of her online. they also say he talked about his desire to abuse his own soon-to-be born daughter. >>> two police-involved shootings in philadelphia within a 24-hour span and latest in germantown where police arrested five men. they say the officers fired several shots last night around 9:30. sky force 10 was over the scene after that gunfire. no one injured but five arrested there. >>> yesterday morning, we brought this story as breaking news on "nbc 10 news today." an officer shot a suspect after responding to a robbery call in cobbs creek. investigators say the suspect refused to drop his gun and he is still in the hospital. >>> china's major stock index closed ove

so our second commentator is andrew rotter who is the charles a. dana chair in history at colgate university where hi has taught since 1988. his most recent book is "hiroshima, the world's bomb" and he's at work on a study of two empires, the british and india and the americans and philippines and the five senses. professor? >> thank you. thank you for coming thank you professor masuda for inviting me to comment on your book. i'll begin by saying that this book is a paradigm rattling study. a couple months ago i had a conversation with a colleague i'd identify him, david angerman of brandeis university in which he said, i thought too casually, that within a generation or less historians would no longer see the cold war as central as a useful category of analysis. i really was stunned to hear him say that and i pushed back and while i think professor masuda would agree with me that the cold war remains an event, a thing with which historians must continue to come to terms, he has so thoroughly problem lem tides it had concept of the cold war as to m

the european commodity producers trading at the lowest level against rotter markets since 2002.e case in europe following the emerging markets, which have of course fall into four-year lows. all 19 industry groups falling on this wednesday session. interestingly thomas china devalued its currency last tuesday, miners and automakers have stuck 10%. as you know, that is a correction. one market did rise on wednesday. the athens stock exchange, germany rubberstamping the third greek bailout in five years. areat is over to the new for rubberstamping. at least part of the $86 billion bailout so that greece can pay the central bank 3.2 billion euros. that is the next important deadline. the big move is on the european stock market already, the worst performer this year, down 9% today at a record low. boss -- thenaire billionaire boss says that he this sharpased on slowdown in china. years,gest drop in four a profit warning with quarterly earnings missteps claiming .lunging in russia cost savings in western europe. the second-biggest lender in eastern europe has second profits growing