i don't want to be too soviet. in 1941, which at the time, i said at the beginning the vast majority of american reporters were not involved with espionage and that is true. that there was this time in 1940 and 1941 where it was like casablanca. there were people working in british intelligence. there were nazis. there were american fascists. there were reporters working for imperial japan in a quasi-telogen role. one was a german new service that was called german transocean news. was a front for propaganda and intelligence. they tried to do some of the same things that the british did but they were far less effective. persuaded an american newspaper publisher to print thousands of copies of the book that were cables of american diplomatic activities. in europe this was something theoretically captured in poland and it showed that the american state department trying to maneuver the united states into the war. then it was exposed as a fabrication and the whole thing blew up. one of the thick -- mark: one of the th

soviet intelligence because he was sympathetic to the soviet cause? that is hard to discern. there have been numerous soviet intelligence officers over the years who have close and friendly relationships with american reporters and use those relationships to gather information, but also to persuade them to report things in ways that were slanted to the soviet union. there were also more over at -- covert operations. the soviets had active measures. efforts to plant propaganda into american newspapers. one example that is much more recent was in the 1980's. they had success around the world in persuading people that aids was a result of chemical and biological warfare activities of the american government. i find that particularly reprehensible because it is a disgusting thing to allege one it is not true. one of the things that happened as a result of that is that people did not believe that aids was caused by the hiv virus. they did not believe that anti-retroviral drugs could extend people's lives and people died as a result of that. it also leads m

edwin: the soviet union, brezhnev was on his last legs. as ronald reagan said, when it came to whether or not he would need with a soviet leader, he says i would meet with them brezhnev was on his last legs. t they kept dying on me. in 1985 he got a live one in gorbachev. that was very important. because at that time, gorbachev was a diehard communist, no question about it. but he also understood the west that are than his predecessors. i think he realized the united states by the time he became general secretary, he realized the american military was going to be the most powerful military in the world and it was a force was enough so that the soviet union did not have military superiority, which they had until that time. peter: one more question about your years on the national security council. we read here, this book, that book, another article. to my understanding, it is a kind of impressionism. i want to ask you to fill it in. bill casey with the cia is making sure solidarity -- he is working with the afl-cio to make sure solidarity g

these were not just russians who happened to have a soviet form of government. these were countries that had been free before they had been taken over by the soviet movement. >> i want to go back to this point because it is so basic. it is the kind of thing that is likely to be forgotten. that is the extent to which ronald reagan, and holding these views and acting on them, stood out. richard nixon, henry kissinger, the order of the day was detente. when gerald ford became president after nixon resigned, he refused to meet alexander solzhenitsyn because of fears of offending the soviet union. jimmy carter gave a speech at notre dame in which he talked about overcoming our, quote, inordinate fear of communism. and then, this is absolutely the dominant mode of thinking in both parties. nixon, carter, then in 1977, ronald reagan is a former governor, he has not declared for president yet, they are talking about foreign policy, and ronald reagan says to dick allen, would you like to hear my theory of the cold war? my theory is simple. we win and they lose. the quest

now selves from soviet fool but we seem incapable of freeing ourselves from the soviet mindset. perhaps this is because the soviets infiltrated our georgian identity so completely. this memorial the chronicle of georgia just outside to be d.c. depicts heroic moments from our long history. emotionally as a georgian. i am still caught up in the power of its imagery. but it is in one human sanctioned by the soviet state. it was built to make us believe we were free when we were not. sometimes you have to look elsewhere for answers to your own problems there is another country that was ruled from moscow and at the same time had to come to terms with its own troubled past. berlin was the capital of germany during the rule off one of the twentieth century's other murderous totalitarian movements the nats. of germany's defeat in one thousand nine hundred five printing was split in half at the brandenburg gate. east germany was never officially a soviet state but it took its orders from moscow and brilliance bombed out streets where an ideal setting for stalin to express his architectur

> so stoned -- soviets? waso stone, he really revered journalist during early in his career, he was a man of the left, maybe he was a communist, i do not know up u.s. was a, but he certainly leftist and not make efforts to hide that. at one point, he had been recruited with a paid operative of soviet intelligence, and i write about the book and i think -- we do not know when hundred percent everything he did, but we know some of the things. they sickly, there are two ways flat -- that the journalist stone was-- like useful to the soviets. one way is that if you imagine you were a kgb officer and the united states -- it was not called kgb will call it that for convenience, you come to united states, you barely speaking was coming were working in the embassy washington, and your job is to recruit americans to spy on the united states. if you do not do it, you will suffer consequences. if you screw up, you will really suffer consequences. you screw up if the fbi catches you, or if you try to recruit somebody an

the soviet mindset.perhaps this is because the soviets infiltrated our georgian identity so completely. this memorial the chronicle of georgia just outside to be d.c. depicts heroic moments from our long history. emotionally as a georgian i am still caught up in the power of its imagery. but it is to mourn human sanctioned by the soviet state. it was built to make us believe we were free when we were not. sometimes you have to look elsewhere for answers to your own problems there is another country that was ruled from moscow and at the same time had to come to terms with its own troubled past. berlin was the capital of germany during the rule off one of the twentieth century's other murderous totalitarian movements the nats. often germany's defeat in one thousand nine hundred five printing was split in half at the brandenburg gate. east germany was never officially a soviet state but it took its orders from moscow and brilliance bombed out streets where an ideal setting for stalin to express his architec

competing with the soviet union in all arenas and promote the process of change in the soviet union toward a system in which the power of a privileged ruling elite is reduced. did that feel as aggressive at the time as it sounds today? it is interesting the way u.s. the question. -- you asked the question. this may be surprising. there was actually a kind of unity of purpose. agenciesven with other , that's not to say there were not battles here and there, but there was a unity of purpose. .t was breathtaking at the time it was something that mobilized us and guided us. , beautifulith me reflections by margaret thatcher on her view of reagan. one of them relates to what you just asked. she said his view that we should fight the battle of ideas for freedom against communism throughout the world and to refuse the concept, to accept the permanent exclusion of captive nations from being benefits of freedom. nsdd 75.rgirds 75r first question, nsdd underscores the first question. ronald reagan wanted to advance freedom, not accept the existence of captive nations worldwide, no less the so

and off soviet rule. georgia today is far from perfect but it has come a long way since one thousand nine hundred eighty nine and it seems inconceivable that people could still miss such a repressed and repressive past. in theory this occupation ended thirty years ago. in practice the occupation continues. i've never been here before and somehow nobody ever mentions this building and every time i traveled outside the city i saw you then i always wonder what it is. we tried to shut our minds to the existence of the soviet mournin some buildings but the reality is they still dominated our lives as there were meant to. be squashed on the hillsides of our towns and cities as if it waiting the return of their soviet masters. to give you the earring impression that our world is this temporary one and it is the soviet one that is permanent. but most of all it's the block's row after row street after street perhaps it seems strange if you have never lived in one but it is these blocks that have left the d.p. scar

>> the soviet union in the 1970s was on the march. it, it was involved in helping to bring about, communist takeovers in many countries around the world. you mentioned endo china, the soviets, were heavily responsible for the north vietnamese victory in south vietnam. and, their propaganda apparatus around the world was a huge part of it, the north vietnamese generals declaring that the fundamental reason, the principal reason, maybe the decisive reason for their tree, was the effect goodness of their propaganda and psychological operations against the united states. during the war. then, you had a group in south yemen, takeovers most of them, a near communist takeover in the -- there were soviet cuban subversions all over latin america much of this is documented, the grenada archive, which nobody studies anymore, but, these were the internal documents of the movement, when we invaded, when we invaded we got a hold of their internal documents, which had black on white, agreements, soviet and east german, and cuban military assistance,

soviet troops confined to bases in poland. and the civil government had ceased to function during the pope's five days there. i remember thinking, these people are in trouble. looking back, the pope did not call for a revolt, instead he turned the hourglass upside down and started the sand running out on that form of role. reagan could help, but he could not have done it without that happening. peter: could the pope have done it without the united states, without reagan? steven: that is a big question. i think the reagan casey bill clark thought of the vatican as a better source of intelligence and insight into what was going on. paula: on poland, i do not know how many people know this, but at the same time reagan said poland should be poland, he sent documents about the troops that were amassed on the border and made an appeal. his moral uplifting, involvement, engagement, i believe was vital. john: some little tidbits are part of this that have not been mentioned in this conference. there were regular briefings by cia direc

and off soviet rule. georgia today is far from perfect but it has come a long way since the one nine hundred eighty nine and it seems inconceivable that people could still miss such a repressed and repressive past. in theory this occupation ended thirty years ago. in practice the occupation continues. i've never been here before and somehow nobody ever mentions this building and every time i traveled outside the city i see then i always wonder what it is. we tried to shut our minds to the existence of the soviet mournin some buildings but the reality is they still dominated our lives as there were men to. squat on the hillsides of our towns and cities as if and waiting the return of their soviet masters. to give you the e.-ring impression that our world is this temporary one and it is the soviet one that is permanent. but most of all it's the block's row after row street after street perhaps it seems strange if you have never lived in one but it is these blocks that have left the d.p. scar on me. this blo

and of soviet rule.georgia today is far from perfect but it has come a long way since one nine hundred eighty nine and it seems inconceivable that people could still miss such a repressed and repressive past. in theory this occupation ended thirty years ago. in practice the occupation continues. i've never been here before and somehow nobody ever mentions this building and every time i traveled outside the city i saw you then i always wonder what it is. we tried to shut our minds to the existence of the soviet mournin some buildings but the reality is they still dominated our lives as there were meant to. squat on the hillsides of our towns and cities as if it waiting the return of their soviet masters. to give you the earring impression that our world is this temporary one and it is the soviet one that use permanent. but most of all it's the block's row after row street after street perhaps it seems strange if you have never lived in one but it is these blocks that have left the d.p. scar on me. this bl

that think that the soviet union is on the verge of collapse, are getting themselves. the second is ronald reagan addressing the british parliament also 1982, quote, in an ironic sense, karl marx was right, we are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, but, the crisis is happening on the west by the soviet union. ". >> how did ronald reagan of eureka college in illinois, miss what the great historian arthur schlesinger junior of harvard, and beg you, how did ronald reagan see what he was missing. one of the things is that ronald reagan went into the study of communism with an open mind. [ laughter ] and, was not determined by his ideology. as i suspect that mister's lesson jurors at least was somewhat missed chided -- misguided by his ideology. with ronald reagan, first of all most people do not realize that he was a voracious reader, he liked to study, he studied the founding he was very well- versed in the constitution, he was well-versed in the bible, he had an enormous repertoire of information that he uses, that is why the discussion was given this morning

the soviet bridgeheads are very small at first but the soviets are notorious for their ability to hold these bridgeheads, in spite of all german efforts to eliminate them and they are able to eliminate some of them but not all of them and the solves solves -- soviets begin to build up small bridgeheads, pack them with men and material, able to force themselves further out and to achieve an operational place to launch major offensive. they do this by the end of december, down here in the south. and as you can see the other southern fronts have closed up on the dnper all along the line. events move more dramatically up here in the north where the soviets are able to establish a bridgehead at bucrin and utish. they tried to make their initial breakout here but are stymied and even suffer one of their greatest defeats by making an airborne landing which is wiped out. so always resourceful, willing to try something new, the soviets shift their activities, moving an entire tank army north of kiev and are finally able to break out and capture the ukrainian capital. they get as far west as jut

from the soviet mindset. perhaps this is because the. it's infiltrated our georgian identity so completely. this memorial the chronicle of georgia just outside to be d.c. depicts heroic moments from our long history. emotionally as a georgian. am still caught up in the power off its imagery. but it is the more new man sanctioned by the soviet state. it was built to make us believe we were free when we were not. sometimes you have to look elsewhere for answers to your own problems there is another country that was ruled from moscow and at the same time had to come to terms with its own troubled past. berlin was the capital of germany during the rule off one of the twentieth century's other murderous totalitarian movements the nats. of germany's defeat in one thousand nine hundred five pretty soon were split in half at the brandenburg gate. east germany was never officially a soviet state but it took its orders from moscow and brilliance bombed out streets where an ideal setting for stalin to express his archit

to cut it off from the soviet union would strike a big blow indeed. for most of the soviet union the second world war was about fighting the invaders of their land. but it wasn't quite so simple for ukraine the truth is ukraine has never been a united country. when world war two broke out a large part of western ukraine's population welcomed the german soldiers as liberators from the recently forced upon them soviet rule and openly collaborated with the germans. the real scale of collaboration was not announced for many years after the war but we now know that whole divisions and battalions were formed by ukrainian collaborators such as s.s. c. and not to go and roll into battalions. just in the beginning of the war more than eighty thousand people from college cina region voluntarily enrolled into division s.s. galad seen in a month and a half notorious for their extreme cruelty towards the polish jewish and russian people on the territory of ukraine. members of these military groups came mostly from the organization of ukrainian nationalists the zer

so i think he felt a bit lost. >> the soviet people -- >> back home in the soviet union a progressionf economic crises were exacerbated by ronald reagan's determination to outspin the russians in defense and bring the ussr to its knees. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> the soviets and the kgb were reeling under tremendous strain and pressure from the west. >> soviet president mikhail gorbachev's attempts to reform the dying economy, glasnost and perestroika, were embolden's people behind the iron curtain to demand more liberty. for several years putin watched from a distance. in dresden. >> he missed out on perestroika. so the great breakthrough in terms of liberty is something he mentions, my wife and i saw this on television but we weren't there when it happened. >> but after the berlin wall collapsed in november 1989, putin soon came face to face with changes sweeping the soviet bloc. the following month he was inside dresden's kgb headquarters when protesters surrounded the building. >> putin takes a pistol from a security guard, he holds it up and makes clear he will sho

this is -- the soviet bridge heads are small at first. the soviets are notorious for holding beachheads. despite all german efforts to eliminate them. they are able to eliminate some of them. they do this by the end of december. down here in the south. other front down here has closed up. let's move a little more dramatically up here in the north. the soviets are able to establish a -- they tried to make their initial breakout here. they are making an airborne landing. always willing to try something new. the soviets moved in and -- an entire army tank. they are able to break out. they get as far west before the german -- driving them back. thought do i need to have a wheelchair on the ramp, we saw this guy wheeling his luggage coming up to the plane, he was a spark plug of a person. i got him in the car, he had nothing but great conversation and stories, i get him to his room and say okay that went well he can get a couple hours sleep. no. wanted to go down to the bar for a baseball layoff game . >> that was the start then through the co

. >> the end of the soviet empire shook him to the core. >> likes to tell that the collapse of the soviet union was the greatest tragedy of the 20th century. >> and paved the way for his rice to power. >> people who run afoul of vladimir putin don't just get their hands slapped, they get their hands cut off. >> of course i'm afraid of putin. that's the price you pay for what you do in russian politics now. >> vladimir putin is like the crime boss, the crime boss with nukes, this is a guy who is more dangerous than the world has ever seen. >> he's ruled the nation of 144 million people, for almost two decades, but even vladimir putin is sensitive to poll numbers. in mid 2018 after announcing plans to raise the pension eligibility age, he suffered a nearly 20% drop in his approval rating so the intimidating president appealed to his fellow russians in a very modern way. >> starring in a reality show. >> putin. featuring the man with the arsenal of approximately 7,000 nuclear weapons at his disposal kicking back with nature. >> of course, he's not the first tv star president. >> you're fired

the area my parents live in is dominated by soviet blocks. it's pretty great a salvage buildings were not designed to make people feel at ease. when the u.s.s.r. collapsed there was nobody to look os to this stairwells than the entrances and all the exterior of the building so we're still in there or is in the states. unfortunately when we open the door we still step into a soviet world. looking . for the. seven. my mom remembers the soviet union in a very positive way she was an engineer she was empowered once we got the independence all the soviet factories just closed down there were no jobs for even men let alone women so women had to just stay home and become housewives have soem meat. and if it's dominant in georgia and you see oh and this is some desert. no one makes it and every time i come we nicked it i guess so soviets nicked it from the french so it's our version of milk we call it not falling out. my father is very critical of the soviet era when he graduated he ended up working for the mayor's office here in the he was in charge

communist looking for the soviet union to help them. the world is comprised of only liberal democracies so this an and -- disenchanted people inside the democracy have no for an ally. as soon as -- liberal hegemony is all about. it's a highlight. [laughter] >> i think there are three big highlights. the first is the books doctrine. the bush doctrine is all about spreading democracy in the middle east. iraq was the first stop on the report. syria, iran, and so on. course, there is catastrophic failure. it's hard to describe. second, nato expansion and you expansion. their efforts of -- to take those two institutions, nato and eu, march them up to russia's doorstep. create a giant zone of peace and western and eastern europe. this led to the crisis, most americans believe russians responsible to be -- the crisis. united states responsible for the crisis of the ukraine. we thought foolishly, we were thinking like liberals, not like realist that we could actually march in alliance there was a moral enemy of the soviet union right up to russ

the area my parents live in is dominated by soviet blocks. it's pretty great a salvage buildings were not designed to make people feel at ease. when the u.s.s.r. collapsed there was nobody to look cost of this stairwells than the entrance system out the exterior of the building so we're still in there or is in the states. unfortunately when we open the door we still step into a soviet world. looking . for the. seven. my mom remembers the soviet union in a very positive way she was an engineer she was empowered once we got the independence all the soviet factories just closed down there were no jobs for even the men let alone women so women had to just stay home and become housewives have soem meat. and if it's dominant in georgian q.c. oh and this is some desert. no one makes it and every time i come we nicked it i guess so soviets nicked it from the french so it's our version of milk we call it not falling out. my father is very critical of the soviet era when he graduated he ended up working for the mayor's office here and he was in charge

but if we find out that the soviets don't want to talk about anything, and in vietnam, the soviet union feared that it is hurting us more than it is hurting them. so why should they talk about vietnam? they look at the mid-80s, -- mid east, the russian czars, they have a major presence in the mediterranean. why should they want to talk about that mediterranee? as far as castro is concerned, he calls the money, but look at all the problem he is causing us in latin america. but let's look at the soviet union position that we have in common. over on the east is communist china. also, the soviet union looked down the nuclear gunbarrel! gunbarrel at the time of the conflict. i believe that the soviets don't want a nuclear war, and i believe we have that in common. once we have reestablished our strength, the plan should be a carefully planned series of meetings between the president of the united states and the leader of the soviet union. that series of meetings should deal with all of these problems. you cannot settle them all, but picked them off one by one and having the effect that all o

it says hail to the soviet, which is the russian word for council -- these soviets were set up parallel to the provisional government, both laying claim to power, both not sure who had -- who had the say. clearly the soviets had the backing of workers who had gone on strike. the soldiers who had defected to the revolution. they felt they were owed something. the provisional government, again, the liberal elite of petrograd and moscow -- you can guess who won, if you didn't already know. the government said we're going to fight the germans even harder than before. this is how russians were fighting the germans even harder before. these are russian soldiers walking back from the front. there was a surge of desertions. russian soldiers on train cars. young russian soldier in a boxcar. soldiers could ride for free in the new democratic russia anywhere they wanted to. many went home. many just rode the rails. they wanted to see the world. they wanted to get away from the front. of course it wasn't long before this man, lenin established what was to become the soviet union. so by 1919, americ

the area my parents live in is dominated by soviet blocks. it's pretty great a soviet buildings were not designed to make people feel at ease. when the u.s.s.r. collapsed there was nobody to look os to this stairwells than the entrances and all the exterior of the building so we're still in there or is in the states. unfortunately when we open the door we still step into a soviet world. what . every five. seven. my mom remembers the soviet union in a very positive way she was an engineer she was empowered once we got the independence all the soviet factories just closed down there were no jobs for even men let alone women so women had to just stay home and become housewives have soem meat chicken and beef in georgian q.c. oh and this is something. hurt. no one makes it. or every time i come we nicked it i get so so obvious next it's from the friends so it's our version of we call it not falling out. my father is very critical of the soviet era when he graduated he ended up working for the mayor's office here and he was in charge of the sewage

union al-jazeera correspondent the soviet scar. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera turkish sources have told al-jazeera the search for the body of murdered saudi journalist. has ended this after traces of hydrofluoric acid were found that the residence of the saudi called general. twelve people have been killed in the u.s. city of after a former marine opened fire in a crowded bar popular with college students and democrats are demanding emergency hearings in the house of representatives to investigate president trump's remove all of attorney general jeff sessions warning that a constitutional crisis. the world food program says it's doubling the amount of food a day gives yemen to try to prevent mass starvation with yemen currently suffering the largest hunger crisis in the world the u.n. agency says it's aiming to reach up to fourteen million people the causes are almost exclusively manmade with the ongoing civil war creating huge economic and food supply problems syrian state media says the army has

/soviet relations. >> august the 5th was a high point.the representatives of other countries, and most notably the soviet union, were meeting to sign a nuclear test ban treaty. >> the keynote of cordiality established at the very first meeting -- >> and kennedy really believes in it. he believed in it from the day he became president. >> his move towards nuclear disarmament is a political triumph. but for jack, a more personal drama is unfolding. jackie is in cape cod, and she is eight months pregnant. >> the president was in washington then, the first week in august, when he got urgent word from cape cod that she had gone into an early labor. >> jackie gives birth to a boy, patrick. >> he said on the way, "i'm never there when she needs me." and the president arrives, the baby has been born by cesarean. but because he is so premature, it suffers from a lung ailment. >> they arrange very quickly to have him sent to the children's hospital in boston. >> arriving at logan airport, the anxious father found the sympathetic crowd assembled. >>

over on the east, the soviet union looked around the nuclear gun barrels. i believe the soviet leaders do not want a nuclear war. that we have in common. i believe when we have reestablished our strength, there should be a very carefully planned series of meetings between the president of the united states and the leader of the soviet union. and that series of meetings should deal with all of these problems. you cannot settle them all in one summit. take them off one by one, but all on thed they are plate. if the soviet union sees the danger of their continuing to support forces of aggression in the mideast, if they see the danger of a confrontation, they may hold back some, but they will not see that danger unless they hear it directly from us, in my opinion. i would say that in other areas, too. in other words, the soviet union 's interest in avoiding a world war is greater than their interest in expanding communism, as great as that is. we have got to make it very clear to them if they continue to probe in areas like the mideast or western europe, that t

cut off the soviet union completely. they were telling him little pieces of information he could put into his speeches. there was a certain glamour to meeting the offices at that time it was said to be some on the left people did. looking back on it he denied it. he flatly denied. i think the word knowingly is a bit of a weasel word. if you didn't know that there were office offices and he's dof meetings he was being stunningly naÏve. through most of the book i decided the tw that the two tere not mutually exclusive and i wonder do you assign either term or both to each of those? >> i assign both to both men. they are both in a way traders. the. i like the ambivalence in the title because yes they are both traders but they are different and distant transports. there is no equivalence. indeed no more than equivalence as you mentioned earlier. he was motivated purely by greed and it wasn't until he got his third jaguar. the consequences were enormous. there's no doubt he still was under execution order. he believed that he

from the early days of the soviet union films needed to be socialist high quality and display soviet superiority the politburo both supported and censored artists and the innovations of soviet filmmakers names like eisenstein . became known and celebrated the world over these days films no longer hold the media monopoly they wanted but that has not stopped the kremlin from taking an interest in shaping the country fanatic out. what russians are calling keenness gun dolly cinema scandals have grown all too common. be on your guard girl you got through. the two thousand and fourteen russian film leviathan won both a golden globe and oscar nomination at home the film was criticized for painting an overly negative picture of russia eventually a version with less explicit language was allowed to screen was. one that failed to get past the senses was a british film armando iannucci is two thousand and seventeen a satire of the death that started our general secretary is lying in a bottle of ingenue. who didn't make himself available for an interview with us because the film an insulting mo

we weren't trying to just beat the soviets militarily.were trying to beat them to new frontiers. >> this is the kennedy approach to life which is win at all the costs. it is not good enough to come in second. and that was what they were told by their father from the time they were little children. >> as jack projects the superiority of his country around the world, back at home a desperate struggle for civil rights is tearing america apart. >> if you're african-american in the united states in the '60s, you're not living in a democracy. you're living under an apartheid dictatorship based on race. >> we're still seeing intense violence. lynching is still the reality. >> if you were black, you couldn't vote. you couldn't buy property. you couldn't go certain places. >> i said i'm sorry, our management does not allow us to serve niggers in here. >> while jfk is looking at the moon and stars, you see real hypocrisy and contradiction. >> how can the united states be a democracy if its citizens are killing, are hurting, are hospitalizing its ot

from the early days of the soviet union films needed to be socialist high quality and display soviet superiority the politburo both supported uncensored artists and the innovations of soviet filmmakers names like eisenstein. became known and celebrated the world over these days films no longer hold the media monopoly they wanted it but that has not stopped the kremlin from taking an interest in shaping the country fanatic output and what russians are calling queue have gone dollie finished off candles have grown all too common ground zero. be on your guard girl you got through. the two thousand and fourteen russian film leviathan won both the golden globe and oscar nomination at home the film was criticized for painting an overly negative picture of russia eventually a version with less explicit language was allowed to screen. the. one that failed to get past the senses was a british film armando iannucci is two thousand and seventeen a satire to death that started our general secretary is lying in a puddle of ingenue. who didn't make himself available for an interview with us becaus

despair and suffered under soviet instruction. around the same time, ronald reagan was navigating his own challenges in hollywood, with communists in the screen actors guild. they wanted to use the movie industry for communist propaganda. he fought them from day one. he noted later in his presidency that he had the scars on his back from fighting communists in hollywood. through the leadership of reagan and pope john paul ii and the partnership between the u.s. and the holy see, the soviet union was confined to the ash heap of history in 1991. president reagan forged a strong personal relationship with pope john paul ii, and also an important diplomatic synergy between the u.s. and the holy see. this alliance continues today. although our governments are faced with different challenges, they are equally great and perilous. the necessity of our partnership did not end with the fall of the berlin wall. our work with the holy see remains critical to responding to humanitarian crises, to safeguarding human rights, and to mediating and

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union al-jazeera correspondent the soviet scar. welcome back a quick look at the top stories now three palestinians have been killed off the heavy exchange of rocket fire and shelling between israel and gaza israeli officials say two hundred rockets have been fired into israel one hitting abbas and another hitting house in southern israel the violence comes less than twenty four hours after a secret israeli military operation in gaza which left seven palestinians and one israeli dead funerals have been held for the palestinians killed on sunday all seven were members of hamas his military wing because some brigades. and the u.k. foreign secretary is saudi arabia to fully cooperate with turkish investigators over the killing of jamal khashoggi jeremy hunt is the first british minister to visit the kingdom since he was murdered in october. will for afghanistan now i suppose claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in the capital which killed six protest is that they were all members of the ethnic minority group the hazaar is a ral

new york times claims russia has been waging a fake news campaign against the west since soviet times. the pentagon fails its own budget toward a tough the spending millions of dollars to check spending on weapons and pets and now. and crowds and cabinets to man the chant german chancellor as resignation as i'm going to make or visit the city three months off the anti migrant riots she was hesitant and only showed up with massive police protection this is a show of how it is it took a long time for people to wake up she should have gotten her backside in games sooner and stepped down long ago.