his name did not appear anyway it was soviet leader nikita khrushchev the one. with our spotlight is certainly. the earth and the waiting for american and other sputniks to show up side by side with it before commonwealth of sputnik's. i. won bronze attempt to launch the first u.s. satellite ended in the vanguard to explain. when you. called my father to tell him that he should launch another sputnik in time for the anniversary of the one nine hundred seventeen october revolution which was close at hand but people had gone on vacation and had to be summoned back. khrushchev wanted something more than just another sputnik he wanted something entirely new. given less than a month to invent one there were neither blueprints no quality control the whole enterprise depended on trust throughout his career was always looking for people willing to forgo food and sleep and work through the night. is a psychologist from russian space research center star city he used to work under a kind of. he was a great man it was enough for him to look at you and you got a wealth of i

that the conquest of space was one of the main goals for the soviet union and the u.s. during the cold war special report now looks at who was behind the rivals in orbit that's up next stay with us. that was in the sixteenth century. once there lived a chinese nobleman by the name of one who is most cherished ambition was to go to the moon using the resources available seven powder cakes to a bamboo lawn chair then he put on his best clothes and ignited the bowels. when the smoke cleared after the explosion there was neither a trace of nor of. history is rich with ill fated attempts to get into space but in the twentieth century two remarkable men did come to the skies but this time around they used rocket engines rather than exploding armchairs to propel them into. their names then. they were the architects of the american and russian space programs. eternal rivals in the battle to reach out to space. made their first attempts to reach for the stars in their childhood as a boy in the soviet union so gay designed simple gliders but as time went by he came up with a more

i really believe that the soviet union drove the us to the moon. in our day and we did that in the sixty's and i think it was because there was serious competition between the two countries. didn't get to see strong take the first step on the lunar surface he died in one thousand nine hundred sixty six during summer. his anonymity died with him and his identity was finally. triggering a wave of. streets with. monuments and failed in his own even. after reading. that he never realized the work could be done by just one person. my father liked to say that people can travel into space and issued by train he was absolutely sure that outer space was not empty and people must live and work there he said. could. see americans and russians in space together. nine hundred seventy five the so he. put an end to the space race. i'm approaching so use. less than five meters. i like. most of all like the trickle of chocolates along this. part of the project and visit this museum he remembers every minute of his mission the food they talked about and how they wel

made their first attempts to reach for the stars in their childhood as a boy in the soviet union so gay designed simple ideas but as time went by he came up with a more sophisticated. craft as for venice at the age of twelve he created a prototype rocket by equipping a crate with fireworks he also. built a walking wagon that he launched in his hometown and apparently this wagon in the ad had. rockets he had made on it and it. ran down the main street of his hometown and. who was von braun's long time private secretary says venet attracted police attention many times for firing things into the air nowadays buckbee often takes people on a tour of the space museum in huntsville where each exhibit is related to von braun . but the best storyteller of. exploits is his only daughter natalia she wrote about him in three volumes of memoirs simply titled my father. with this this is a picture of the first soviet rocket it was launched on august seventeenth one thousand nine hundred thirty three though it spent only eight hundred seconds in the air in the quiet altitude of four hundred meters it

i really believe that the soviet union. the us to them. in our day and we did that in the sixty's and i think it was because there was serious competition between the two countries. who. didn't get to see strong take the first step on the surface. with him and his identity was finally. triggering a wave of. his own even. though he never realized. just one person. from my father liked to say that people can travel into space on doubters issued by train butin and he was absolutely sure that outer space was not empty and people must live and work there he said. could hardly have been magine seeing americans and russians in space together the film brought in one hundred seventy five the so you support their project put an end to the space race. i'm approaching so use. less than five meters. three meters. i like chocolate smallest of all like the circle of a lot of chocolates a look. cosmonaut valeri could bounce off was part of the soyuz apollo project and often visits this museum he remembers every minute of his mission the food what they tal

soviet people made up one third of the door of prison population. nervy to me once were unique weapons because these were the only weapons where more people died building them then people died by using these weapons. half of the six thousand rockets made to the underground plants during the eighteen months of his existence were faulty the inmates did all they could to make sure the weapons remained on the ground they breached production ruse and to use defective components. thirty five thousand inmates died during the plant's lifetime . cost six human lives. without doubt venom von braun paid several visits to the facility when he went down into the tunnels he saw hundreds of dead inmates but apparently. did not seem fazed much later his face appeared on the cover of time magazine he shook hands with president kennedy and was awarded medals his impassioned glorification of american democracy came much later too but in may nine hundred forty five the s.s. major was faced with a choice. did have a choice so. he was reflecting with his colleagues what

the soviet leaders didn't quite know what to do with his remains. so they hit on this demise of moving him out of the lenin/stalin mausoleum, incinerating him, and just putting his ashes below the kremlin wall. >> i am going to put on the screen the chart that we made up based on your books, so. >> go ahead. >> go ahead. >> we could get some idea of the time period. you can see on the screen at the top are the years, 1870 in 10-year increments all the way up to 1950. and then you have lenin, who was born in 1870, right below that trotsky born in 1879, and below that stalin in 1878. across you go to the 1917 period there where lenin was 47, trotsky 38, stalin 39, and then you can see on the chart that lenin died at age 53 in 1940. trotsky died at age 60, well actually my eyes are deceiving me, lenin was 1924, trotsky was 1940 and then stalin in 1953 at age 74. talk about those, the deaths of those three men. what were the circumstances around lenin? where did he die and what caused it? >> well lenin had very severe chronic health problems. in fact to

was it called the soviet union? >> no, it was the former russian empire and it covered 16 of the world's earth's surface -- one sixth of the world's surface. it allowed the germans to concentrate forces on the western front against the british, the french and the americans. even more importantly, it brought into existence a totally new way of running society. it brought in to see -- into existence a one-party society that depended on state terror. brought into existence a system of rule that penetrated not only politics but the whole of the economy and the whole of culture and all of social life. it removed civic freedoms from anyone associated with the old days, with the old ways. >> did that include the ukraine and kazakhstan and all that? also, georgia and those states, were the all included in the governing unit? what's when the war happened in 1918 through the early 1920's, first the communists took over russia and then they took over the ukraine again. they did not take over estonia, with u.n. and others, but

to save it from the soviets. five hundred tons of gold bottoms dozens of characters six hundred fifty millions in czarist room and. a train that is still a way to have their lives station. a century long away. the mystery of the golden train on. how do i well come to business on creating a can good to have you with us engineering giant siemens has put flesh on the bones of russia's modernization drive a huge deal to provide the country with state of the art technology trains and wind turbines president dmitry medvedev and chancellor angela merkel noted and yet they didn't vote that business was booming between the two countries daniel schorr parts . siemens fixes its position as one of the top foreign investors in russia it will build two hundred trains in the country to replace creaking regional stalk europe's biggest engineering group will help to produce wind turbines cutting the country's dependence on oil and gas siemens also agreed to join russia's new silicon valley being built at school near moscow the mu

to have the charges dropped warning that such attempts at censorship could lead to the return of soviet era constraints dictated by conservative and politically powerful church this prefers most likely is an attempt to apply censorship to art it's a field where things are allowed it doesn't home the public if anyone disagrees they're free not to watch and despite rush's cultural minister insisting the artist did not cross the red line of law the judge disagreed finding the pair guilty and fining them around twelve thousand dollars today the court discovered a new type of ideological crime one that criticizes the church where the us state is a secular one an exhibit of art works where religious symbols are used in a non-religious context expressing other ideas is banned the judge in the case called the artwork a gross and of sense of humiliation to the viewer a sense of human dignity that she came short of handing down a prison sentence for the pair still they impose five have so wondering if artistic freedoms will be replaced by a church imposed danders so stevens r.t. . and the us bank

hidden among the trees still holds many secrets and the story of german scientists behind the soviet union's very own project manhattan is just one of them . r t a cause. now this week a new bollywood comedy is a features in a solemn bin laden local like was banned in pakistan pakistani censors worried that depicting the world's most wanted man in a comic way could trigger a terrorist attacks are his current singer went to ask those behind the comedy if the world is really ready for post nine eleven humor. this could well be the biggest scoop of my career interviewing the wanted terrorist however this man does not have a twenty five million dollar reward on his head in fact he's not osama bin laden but an actor in a bollywood bin ladin or without you lot in but just in case you think this is a movie glorifying a terrorist it is a general sort of. 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 below the. using it's not intended to vote offensive in any way and anybody from anybo

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of the soviet union's push for new class supremacy. it was the culmination of the men had brought jackets the first american nuclear explosive device nicknamed the gadget went off in new mexico just weeks before devastating the japanese city of hiroshima many including the godfather of the j. robert oppenheimer were terrified by the power of the deadly mushroom cloud. the blast carried fall beyond the atlantic and the soviet union experiments with nuclear energy were on the way too but just like the us in this research institute on the black sea coast the main rules were played by german scientists. this used to be a top secret nuclear facility but aside from these lions the entrance was guarded by soviet soldiers the lab was hidden deep inside a subtropical paradise. three hundred germans top nuclear physicists their assistants family members and even personal chefs were brought to this clue's compound and up cause by the order of joseph stalin in one nine hundred forty five the nazis were famous for their highly developed nuclear res

the echo of that blast carried far beyond the atlantic and the soviet union experiments with nuclear energy were on the way too but just like the us and this research institute on the black sea coast the main rules were played by german scientists. this used to be a top secret nuclear facility but aside from these lines the entrance was guarded by soviet soldiers the lab was hidden deep inside a posse a subtropical paradise. three hundred germans top nuclear physicists their assistants family members and even personal chefs were brought to this clue's compound in a pause by the order of joseph stalin in one nine hundred forty five the nazis were famous for their highly developed nuclear research programs so after world war two moves german physics and chemistry professors at almost no other option but to work for either moscow or washington if fierce competition between the us the saw in america to get hold of nuclear weapons was on and even though the us were the first to successfully carry out a nuclear test their rivals caught up pretty quickly chess if your party of the bullets a

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had won the race to produce a nuclear weapon but soviet scientists harnessing the destructive power of the atom went far behind testing where obama just four years later and their success shaped global politics to this day that is polaski expose the relics of the u.s.s.r. push 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 city of hiroshima many including the godfather of the atomic bomb j. robert oppenheimer were terrified by the power of the deadly mushroom cloud people . cried both people were. the echo of that blast carried far beyond the atlantic in the soviet union experiments with nuclear energy were on the way too but just like the us and this research institute on the black sea coast the main rules were played by german scientists this used to be a top secret nuclear facility but aside from these lines the entrance was guarded by soviet soldiers the lab will see it in deep inside up cause a subtropical paradise. three hundred ge

the entrance was guarded by soviet soldiers. deep inside the a subtropical paradise. there claimed a russian conductor and pianist to help like no others in thailand to appear in court over child sex abuse charges earlier this month tied these accuse him of the statutory rape of a fourteen year old boy which he denies his arrest followed the detention of a thai citizen suspected of involvement in a prostitution ring the grammy award winning russian was freed on bail tarring him continue a world tour with his orchestra and must return to thailand however every twelve days if found guilty he would spend twenty years in jail. so trying to embitter is in a record breaking heat wave that has forced a state of emergency in almost twenty regions across russia as crops are shriveling the abnormally dry spell is turning usually rich farmland into little more than a desert forcing farmers to see government support our correspondent sean thomas reports now from the republic of to russia just one of the many regions ravaged by the heat. a natural disaster is taking place in centr

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spalls the battle between the soviet union to develop a topic when. it's more than three months now since the deadly plane crash in the small and scrooge and killed polish president lech kaczynski and many of the country's top officials the russian investigation has been completed but rumors and conspiracy theories remain but despite the fact that polish authorities have declared themselves satisfied with the findings he's a really good report. the sounds of this crash were heard around the world when the plane carrying polish president lech kaczynski and ninety five other state officials came down and smolensk region killing on board russian poland united in mourning moscow showed it was willing to go out of their way to make sure investigation went openly and swiftly but some took the tragedy a lot more personally than others the progress of the investigation is to say the least minimal it is stalled polish investigators have received important documents was happen from russia yet this situation causes suspicion however specialists in flight safety

now on this very day in one hundred forty five the leaders of the soviet union the united kingdom and the united states gathered in the german city of potsdam danger up a new map of europe from the end of nazi occupation during world war two leaders from the three allied nations having secured the unconditional surrender of nazi germany sat down together in an attempt to establish a post-war order as a result germany was divided into four zones and controlled by the forces the conference which discussed the possibility of soviet forces joining the allied fight in the far east started just weeks before the us dropped the atomic bomb on japan. that is on the director of the world history institute says the conference marked the last time the allies work together before the cold war they also showed how partners can put aside their differences in pursuit of a common goal. to convince a growing with the main purpose of a portsdown conference was to draw a final line on the war was the last time the allies were working together and not engage in the cold war it also showed that as in every

plane that can fly she'll stay with a water surface find out more about the iconic soviet craft it all to dot com. a new bollywood comedy has been the band in pakistan because it features on the fall of the lookalike the film was released on friday in asia and europe of pakistani censors a warre comic betrayal of the world's most wanted man could trigger terrorist attacks charan singh means the people behind the indian film and else if the world is ready for post nine eleven. this could well be the biggest group of my career interviewing the worst more dead of this however this man does not have a twenty five million dollar reward on his head in fact he is not or some of bin ladin but an actor in a bollywood for their new bin ladin or without you lot in but just in case you think this is a movie glorifying a terrorist it is a. biography it's a film which is. beloved and happens we get it and this is a bin laden. using it's not. in any way anybody from anybody is going to enjoy this from i can guarantee you that. young journalist is fixated with going to america and he decided to stick

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the soviet government had never revealed details of the accident on grounds that they were top military secrets. the sub had been kept off limits since the accident. dismantling work will continue until november, but the reactor, which is still highly radioactive, will remain sealed and kept at a nearby facility. >>> now for a business update with ines matsuyama. ines? >> thank you very much, catherine. >>> the u.s. central bank says the american economy has continued to grow overall but the pace of growth has slowed in some districts. that's a slight downgrade from the bank's previous assessment. the federal reserve released its latest beige book survey of business sentiment on wednesday. it shows economic activity slowing in june and july in 2 of the 12 federal reserve districts in the country. they are the midwestern region of chicago and the southern region of atlanta. by industry the report says activity in residential real estate was sluggish in most districts due to the expiration of a tax credit for home buyers. it says manufacturing activity slowed or leveled off in some distri