the stasi's manual for collecting data.after the fall of the berlin wall coming east german citizens stormed the headquarters of the secret police. many files were destroyed, but much worse still intact. this was a civil rights activists in east germany. now he heads the commission for rustagi documentation. >> getting chosen for this job was a signal that we will continue to account for the history the east german dictatorship. i see myself as a kind of lawyer for the victims. >> more than two million applications had been received from people who want to see their old files. many people must wait years to read about themselves. the files still hold many secrets. it will take years to work through the archives and the history they represent. >> italy is taking new steps to bring down its debt, but it is still not enough. >> the debt rattle -- battle rages on. it is hard to cut debt when growth is coming to a grinding halt. the government has been selling off some of that debt is government bonds to raise funds, but investo

the legislation that enabled the stasi to go in black bag somebody and get rid of them just because they commit so-called belligerent acts it's charlie thank you so much for weighing in on that that was found there out wide awake news dot com tom mcgrath. well after the break we'll get some insight from a former classmate of can john on about his personality his school year is and what might be in store for north korea as the next step cam takes center stage. pepper spray that just burns your eyes right right i mean it's like a derivative of actual pepper it's a food product essentially. most. it's stronger than anything you buy a lot of sort of these is thousands of times we're stronger than any kind of ever put you know. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear see some other part of it and realize that everything is ok if you don't i'm sorry welcome is a big issue. and what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through it's already been made who can y

the legislation that enabled the stasi to go in black bag somebody and get rid of them just because they commit so-called belligerent acts it's charlie thank you so much for weighing in on that that was found there alba wide awake news dot com tom mcgrath. well coming up after the break we'll get some insight from a former classmate of kim jong un about his personality his school years and what might be in store for north korea as the next of can take center stage. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here see some other part of it and realize that everything is ok you don't i'm trying hard is a big issue. and what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through it's already been made who can you trust no one who is you can be you with the global machinery to see where are we heading state controlled capitalism is called fascism when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more. well north koreans will finally lay their late leader to rest on wednesday but the

next up on one of my favorite shows of the film the stasi cosmonaut training facility originally secret ample space we ventured off to russia's only school. and then i was put through a whole range of training procedures underwater weightlessness zero gravity i'm being spun around inside a centrifuge. it really pushed me to my limit. the program also highlighted how american astronauts from she calls from the us now what you call missions so she's the international space station project. to celebrities in twenty eleven now and many analysts just around the world have made their way to the russian capital to film premieres concerts in private policies moscow sees many of the world's top activists saying it's impossible to come here every week. pushing crowds love them and they didn't seem to be impressed with the city honestly there's an energy in the city. even more than when i was here two and a half years ago. very vibrant kind of this is under the surface you feel. a really positive energy. where anything can happen the possibility is there we went to the museum that houses the faber

so we're at stasis. we're at where we were yesterday. although since then, the senate minority leader who had been the president's arch enemy all year has sided with the president and called on house speaker boehner essentially to cave and agree to a shorter term deal. the key here is minority leader mcconnell asked the speaker to agree to an extension. and in the president's remarks, he asked the speaker to agree to a shorter term deal. what we're not hearing is two-month deal. so maybe they're giving him a little wiggle. >> maybe a little wiggle room with this stasis of which you speak. jessica yellin at the white house. thank you. let's head to capitol hill to congressional correspondent kate bolduan. urging him to pass, this is where the wiggle room comes in. a short term extension. what can we extrapolate from that? >> reporter: we're told that was intentional. they left it intentionally vague in this carefully crafted statement from the statement minority leader. for a couple reasons, for one, more of a technical reason. we're told

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lacking basic knowledge of foreign affairs it seems the general public is following suit as artie's on a stasi churkin to discover. it's three agencies of government when i get there that are gone commerce education and the what's the third one there let's see he's looking to to actually fire tens of thousands of federal workers and eliminate an entire cabinet level position and he can even remember its name asked me who is the president of you beki beki beki beki stan stan i'm going to say you know i don't know do you know it's not the fact that he doesn't know it's the fact that he doesn't think he should look it up you agree president obama live in. the basic knowledge of those attempting to spearhead a country can leave much to be desired would be this leave americans choosing their politicians and their country's potential future let's find out see. borat for some reason i don't know anything about libya do you know what is back of sam is no i do not know what the pakistan and pakistan. do you know the us is an airbase there. nor do we know about libya. you know dispel libya yes yes do yo

correspondent ana stasi a church going to take a look at the movement itself what it stands for and how it's evolved. these are the images of america over the last three months that cops are must beat themselves in the forehead because they've given such life to this movement not welcome by authorities a movement against wall street wealth inequality and government corruption exploded in new york and spread all across the us the nexus of all of our grievances was the the profit motive the fact that. the corporate sector dominated by the financial sector has our ostensibly democratic politics in gridlock and owns it. occupy wall street has just watched its three month anniversary what we fall into on september seventeenth with this moment this moment of frustration and anger with the bankers this time now i think that we've kind of injected the idea of economic inequality and see the public discourse where occupy wall street started that it would not last long enough to deliver any significant message but three months it was the biggest nationwide movement the west has seen in years it's

officers today are we seeing a military is a nation of the police force are the correspondent on the stasi a churkin a takes a look at how police tactics against protesters have grown more fierce over the recent months. america's fight to promote democracy abroad looks like this. images like this get applauded but a similar uprising with the new west turns into a crackdown on that same gem of pride if you will. is the us now in new york on its own territory against its own people for basically our entire history i'm a good imperialist states i think it's only a matter of time before entry alyson a bride starts acting individual liberties at home the methods being used to and civil disobedience in the us have been increasingly women making sure we were told there is a lot of casualties so you could say it's a war zone peaceful students pepper sprayed while seated. demonstrating americans beaten until they believe what you're hearing from the new war veterans injured into unconsciousness our police forces have been militarized they are working more in cooperation with the pentagon their well

try to keep warm this is not a third world country this is new jersey and argy correspondent on a stasi a church going to has been there several times now but in her most recent visit she discovered something that may surprise you there are more people there now than ever. tent cities of outrage popping up all across the u.s. over the last months list visible to the public eye and much quieter. this tent city of hopelessness around for half a decade this is our third time at the village tucked away in the woods in about two years the number of homeless turning to the camp for hospitality keeps growing these days the population of tent city has tripled compared to when it was first set up the place is home to about seventy homeless people who have nowhere else to go a third are women there shame to leave their tents in the presence of a camera the mood here has become increasingly politicized over the last year the politicians and the government has not protected the american people they've allowed outsourcing to run rampant you know and it's benefiting companies. corporations are making

those voices continue to be ignored artie's on the stasi a church takes us to new york where the gap between the rich and the poor is wider than anywhere else in america. diamonds worth millions of dollars apiece the earrings are four hundred to six hundred thousand and the necklace is two million to three million cheaper deals at pawn shops for those slightly less well off. shoppers with big wallets allude in by the most glamorous items and ninety nine cents stores for customers count pennies. this is a change i'm thinking i don't know why pay me and i give them in the state of new york is home to around nineteen million people it's worth three hundred eighty thousand millionaires and seventy billion as live meanwhile three million people on food stamps new york city is split into two different worlds the richest and poorest districts in the united states are right here. prosperity and poverty brushing by each other on a daily basis although many seem to be blissfully unaware it's been promulgated by our new leader obama and i think it's a tragedy that he's making and we miss you in

it's going to be pure stasis. >> we have some polling on this which is overall voters are trusting obama and the white house more to handle taxes, to handle the economy. shis polling numbers are going up. this seems to be working well for them. it's ironic that no matter what if they pull out a one-year payroll tax cut plan it could be seen as a victory for the white house. if they do a two-month extension the democrats get to keep talking about this come groundhog day. if you're a republican congress, i guess the question is how do you not see the writing on the wall? sasha, you said you're not quite sure the american public carries about congressional maneuvering but i feel like the sausage making on this one is out there in the open. >> i think one of the things that boehner needs to start wor iing are about as congressional districts are redrawn, is the closer it looks like there could be a change of control in the house or really tough margin the more he's going to be worried about the leadership vote that takes place after november. if he's been running scared because of where his

he was a liaison officer between the russian kgb and the east german stasi, the intelligence service.etersburg, where i was born -- we were born almost in the same block, mr. clinton and i -- mr. putin and die. -- and i. it was revealed on the internet some of the ugly things from his personal life. i'm not going to say about that. he made for the first time an opening to the west and he found a friend, and probably kind of a mentor or so with president reagan. that was something of a great event in the history of the two countries. i recall in the early 1980's when president reagan publicly mentioned the star wars program, the soviets were in dismay. we have to do everything to get rid of him. as it turns out, president reagan was a really pragmatic guy who had his own ideals and wanted to finish this ration system without a single shot. the soviet union fell apart without a single shot, and president reagan played a crucial role in bringing down the soviet system. as i mentioned, there is a growing restoration of the soviet ways in current russia. this is what you have to bear in mi