in the meantime, a second burial was held in warsaw. >> the family was not present when the body wasdentified. mistakes are always possible. i can only express my deepest sympathy with the family. now they have to cope with the exhumation and second burial. >> he does not have a clue. he lies morning, noon, and night. we are fed up with the allies. >> for the first time in years, the civic platform is the longer the strongest party. >> a mass grave would have been better. many of the dead were beyond recognition. a symbolic of what have been better. this is a very sensitive dispute for poland. it cannot be resolved discreetly. the politicians are using it for their purposes while the families suffer. >> some say one case may have been more painful than the others because the person in the wrong grade was a sprightly old lady that everyone in poland new. in the 1980's, she was a crane operator at the lenin shipyard. she helped found the solidarity trade union and led the strikes which took poland to freedom. many attended her funeral, but after prosecutors expressed their doubts, her

even without the soviet union and to incorporate the countries of eastern and central europe the former warsaw pact countries into an american sphere of influence through the medium of nato and so i think what the what the troop deployment the creation of more bases there already for. the corp of this as part of the nato strategy is one a threat to russia a threat to the national sovereignty of the people of bug area because they have foreign military bases and it incorporates both gary and makes it more secure as part of an american political and economic as well as military formation so as they say this is to boost regional security this is in effect then boosting ball gary is security i mean is ball gary in a location that justifies u.s. assistance. well there's really no justification at all i really think we have to understand nato in the creation in development of u.s. military bases which are always done under the pretext of security whether it be american security or regional security or global security what that really is is a method by which that country and its economy and its polit

we have been blessed to have that work produced in new york, going on to the edinburgh festival, the warsaw theater festival. to me, those are great things when you can watch artists who think there is nowhere else that might be interested in you being a woman of color and telling your story and then getting excited about it. that is our biggest accomplishment. having artists have become better artists. what is. sheri coming back to brava, here you have this establish, amazing writer who has won a clue -- slew of awards. now she gets to director and work. even though she is this amazing, established writer, the truth is, she is being nurtured as a director and is being given some space to direct. >> the play is described as ceremony and -- where ceremony and theater me. in the indigenous tradition, when you turn 52, it is like the completion of an important era. the importance of the ceremony is to say, you are 52. whenever you have been caring for the first 52 years, it is time to let it go. really, here, they have given me carte blanche to do this. i think it is nice for me, in the sense

. >>> located nearly 75 miles to the southwest of warsaw lies poland's third largest city, lodz. the edge of town is the nation's newest penal facility. built in 2003, it holds 619 inmates, including some of the most dangerous in poland. >> i mean, you walk through those gates, you're surrounded by just everything latest, greatest, high tech security, pretty amazing, actually. most high-tech facility i've ever been in. they were very proud of it. very proud of the technology. >> even our crew was subjected to the prison's stringent security measures. scott is our audio technician. like all visitors, he must first pass through a state-of-the-art x-ray scanning machine used to prevent smuggling. >> translator: this device is used on persons visiting dangerous inmates and inmates that were before incarceration exposed to drugs. this device is very accurate, but also very safe. it detects organic and nonorganic objects hidden on a person and inside the person, money, cell phones, drugs, in the hair, on the body, in natural cavities. we had an incident where a woman was trying to smug

warsaw. >> how old are your kids? >> my kids are 15 and 12. >> where do they live? >> they live also some of the time in warsaw and sometime in london. >> what does your husband do? >> my husband is a polish foreign minister. he was not a foreign minister when i met him. he was a journalist in 1989 when i met him. he came to report on communism in eastern europe. i met him, and we drove to berlin on the november night when the wall fell and spent the evening sitting on the wall taking added with a chisel. i got married to him a year later. >> what did it mean at the time? what did it mean when you were sitting there one that wall came down? when was it? >> 1989. people have forgotten how much fun it was. it was a very exhilarating time in history, but they have also forgotten how nervous people were. i remember sitting on the wall, and it was 4:00 in the morning, and everyone was awake, but there were hundreds of people sitting on top of the berlin wall, and there was a wall and then no man's land. they were standing there very nervous. at 4:00 in the morning everyone has drunk champagne, and th

documents, some of which have been published or made available in the 1990's which were not available anymore. there is a wonderful collection in warsawt 1991 or 1992. the polish military archive sent a researcher and a couple of machines to moscow, and they'd xerox all of the archives that had anything to do with the red army's liberation of poland in 1944 and 1945, and is an encounter with the resistance. it is all the rocks. -- all xeroxed. there is a tremendous amount of material available. in a way my problem was what not to use. i spoke to people as well. >> where do you live? >> i now lived in warsaw. >> how old are your kids? >> my kids are 15 and 12. >> where do they live? >> they live also some of the time in warsaw and sometime in london. >> what does your husband do? >> my husband is a polish foreign minister. he was not a foreign minister when i met him. he was a journalist in 1989 when i met him. he came to report on communism in eastern europe. i met him, and we drove to berlin on the november night when the wall fell and spent the evening sitting on the wall taking added with a chisel. i got married to him a year later

collective security treaty organization this is sort of what filled the old soviet space after the the warsaw pact and so it's russia kazakhstan and some others why not have. peacekeeping troops from the collective security treaty organization go in and separate the contenders inside inside syria it would be a way of saying recognizing the fact that syria belongs to the russian sphere more or less in terms of the end of the division of the world the other thing though is if you look at who's destabilizing syria you see saudi arabia. qatar now the thing about those places or jordan similar is that these are futile monarchies these are absolute monarchies of a type you don't find anywhere else in the world they were about four or five hundred years behind the time. when rights abusers absolutely article in the washington post today that one fourth of the people in saudi arabia live in poverty so you maginnis a parasitical royal family of thousands of princes and princelings who live in the lap of luxury and still with all that oil money they can't have a decent standard of living for four or fi

but vladimir putin isn't trying to create the warsaw pact. to read the limited invasion of georgia is about all he can muster. russia lacks the military band with. swedish banks are hookin' bull tisch with a british military developing yes the russians are trying to acquire electricity grids and other infrastructure in banks and syrup now that the e.u., the and european union waxen financial capacity. so, russia is not coming back as the former soviet union. for the negotiation and arming our allies. and particularly why do the polls and the romanians go along with us on missions in iraq and afghanistan? the forces in sub-saharan africa not because they support everything we do. it's because we, the polls and the romanians and the others know that. yes, in the first row, please. >> [inaudible] >> i.t. dewitt like a microphone because this is being recorded in the broadcast. >> department of geography. the first question to you is the has been some territorial disputes of china, japan, south korea, so what is your feeling, what is meant to have

war even without the soviet union to incorporate the countries of eastern and central europe the former warsaw pact countries into an american sphere of influence through the medium of nato and so i think what the what the troop deployment that we creation of more bases there already for. the corp of this as part of the nato strategy is one threat to russia a threat to the national sovereignty of the people of boggy area because they have foreign military bases and it incorporates buggery makes it more secure as part of an american political and economic as well as military formation egypt's public prosecutor has resigned less than a month after being appointed by president morsi the opposition is celebrating the move as a victory for the independence of the judiciary most of the country's judges are critical of morse's recent policies many refused to see the referendum in egypt's new draft constitution which forced the government to split it into two stages this weekend's first round ended in favor of the president of arkansas comment according to an unofficial counting data the vote is howev

even without the soviet union and to incorporate the countries of eastern and central europe the former warsaw pact countries into an american sphere of influence through the medium of nato and so i think the troop deployment the creation of more bases already for. the corporation this as part of the nato strategy is one threat to russia a threat to the national sovereignty of the people of the area because they have foreign military bases and it incorporates makes it more secure as part of an american political and economic as well as military formation. protests as in spain have been getting creative with opposed to one red cuts will be with the guillotine later on financial experts next cars and states you have discussed whether the trend could pick up. but madrid is open the first storm acts of getting throughout europe where you can find this tool in solid pine with a height of two meters and the motto is cuts are necessary they encourage people to get one for their home for their living room for the bar and perhaps in the public square right well you can cut all become u.k. more cuts. an

even without the soviet union and to incorporate the countries of eastern and central europe the former warsaw pact countries into an american sphere of influence through the medium of nato and so i think what the true. deployment the creation of more bases there already for. the incorporation of this as part of the nato strategy is one threat to russia a threat to the national sovereignty of the people of area because they have foreign military bases and it incorporates buggery it makes it more secure as part of an american political and economic as well as military formation. syrian rebels say they've delayed the execution of a ukrainian journalist in october question of his kidnappers threatened to kill her last thursday but one of the free syrian army commanders said they'd given the freelance reporter one more chance reports as suggested the rebels were seeking a fifty million dollar ransom from ukraine whose foreign ministry says they're doing everything possible to secure the release the armed opposition in syria also claims to have control of a palestinian refugee camp in the capital w

even without the soviet union and to incorporate the countries of eastern and central europe the former warsaw pact countries into an american sphere of influence through the medium of nato and so i think what the what the troop deployment the creation of more bases there already for. the incorporation of this as part of the nato strategy is one threat to russia a threat to the national sovereignty of the people of area because they have foreign military bases and it incorporates both gary makes it more secure as part of an american political and economic as well as military formation. all right into the r.t. world out there we go now starting with heavy clashes between the syrian government and rebels as anti assad fighters say they are making major advances in the battle for the country and the armed opposition claims to have taken control of a palestinian refugee camp in the capital which was earlier shelled by syrian warplanes activists in sr more than twenty were killed in that attack damascus said the camp was assisting terrorists loyal to opposition forces hundreds of palestinian refuge

even without the soviet union and to incorporate the countries of eastern and central europe the former warsaw pact countries into an american sphere of influence through the medium of nato and so i think what the troop deployment the creation of more bases there already for. the incorporation of this as part of the nato strategy is one threat to russia a threat to the national sovereignty of the people of the area because they have foreign military bases and it incorporates makes it more secure as part of an american political and economic as well as military formation. well let to bring us up to date with a moment i'll be back with more international news with the news team in about ten minutes from now in the meantime we have a short break stay with us this is all to you live in moscow. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. which is softly and often knows that to

behind that line lie all th the-- of the-- warsaw, berlin, prague, vienna, buddha pest, belgrade bucharest and-- all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what i now call the soviet sphere. >> this is a convenient trial balloon forth administration when there is a lot of complaint a lot of protests in new york, when churchill comes, truman can stand back a little and say nothing to do with me. but actually churchill has helped to change the weather and that is important. the other thing about the iron curtain speech is the reminder of the power of words. churchill coined some of the most important sound bite its there, you know, modern diplomacy, iron curtain that is a phrase that is not unique to him but he popularizes it. special relationship, that is another churchillian phrase which has become a general term. >> at the time it is a main novelty. >> the other someone summit, the term sum sit foreone that churchill uses because of course although we think of him as the iron curtain man, about confrontations with the russians, he also says what we want is to parlay at

as far as temperatures, though, things remain rather cold here off towards the east. warsawh minus 2 here for your high, kiev only at 1. and also, across much of the north, actually below-freezing temperatures are going to be expected here, accompanied by those snow showers. now, all that is pushing towards the south, some severe weather even off there towards athens. 16 here for your high on your thursday. now here's a look at your extended forecast. >>> we'll be back with more updates in 30 minutes. i'm gene otani in tokyo. from all of us here at nhk world, thanks for joining us. have a great day wherever you are. tavis: good evening. smiley. -- from los angeles, em tavis smiley. tonight, a conversation with 14- time grammy winner alicia keys. "girl on fire" features many artists, including john legend and bruno mars. our conversation with alicia keys starts right now.

the ymca in poland. >> they did have a building in warsaw. it was one of the few buildings to exist. very soon after the war people began to move into it. they have resources from outside. they were able to do things like bring in clothings and from the west and to feed people and set up soup kitchens. because of a shipment of jazz records that arrived at the ymca, it became the center of social life, and it was a place you went to go to parties in 1947 and 1948. you imagine a city where everything is rubble and there is almost nothing standing. the ymca, this poses such a threat and such a problem that at the highest level the communist leaders right to one another, we must do something. we must destroy the ymca. they close it up, and in a tragic moment, the communist youth group is sending to smash it, because anything that is a spontaneous organization is seen as a potential threat to the regime. >> of one. you mentioned -- at one point you mentioned sartre and p icasso. what role did they play? >> sartre was a philosopher of the time. picasso was one of the great modernist painte

the polish resistance. so it's all xeroxed and you can read in warsaw. i don't even know if we documents are excessive on moscow. there was a tremendous amount of available and in a way my problem was what not to use. in addition to the archives, i -- as well. c-span: where you live do you live now? >> guest: i now live in warsaw although i spend a lot of time here. c-span: how old are your kids? >> guest: my kids are 15 and 12. c-span: where do they live? >> guest: they live some of the time in warsaw and from the time in london. my husband is a polish foreign minister. c-span: how did that happen? >> guest: he was a foreign minister when i met him. he was a journalist which was what i was in 1989 when i came to report on the collapse of communism in eastern europe. we drove to berlin on a november night when the wall fell that i think sitting on the wall chipping away at it with a chisel. we got married a year later. c-span: what did that mean at that time? what it did feel like when the two of you were sitting there in that wall came down? was at novem

russians as part of this so-called magnitsky law let's now get the data the latest details from artie's tom boston hello tom so warsaw the reasons for this exchange of accusations and punishments then. hi there yulia yes barack obama has signed into law the american magnitsky bill which blacklist certain russian officials having been accused by the us of involvement in surrey game magnitsky is death so the magnitsky was a lawyer who allegedly uncovered massive corruption in russia involving russian officials his friends and colleagues have said that he was then set up by those very same russian officials in two thousand and nine he died in prison having been imprisoned on what his supporters say were trumped up charges they also say that he was denied medical care and may have been beaten to death which led to this piece of u.s. legislation russia though has for a long time now railed against this legislation saying it is rank hypocrisy and that if the magnitsky bill was a part was passed it was attached to a piece of trade legislation then retaliation would come but a move putin has spoken out calling the new legisl

most of the video is around warsaw. that looks festive to moe. >> look at the line of traffic driving so slowly top. >> it drives slowly like that here in the sunshine you know. >> testive. >> it's festive that's right. very very festive. all right a live look outside. it is our michael & son weather camera. and it's festive outside too. temperatures are still mild down to 50. dew points low 30s. winds still west northwest at 14. and the pressure is continuing to rise at 29.73 inches of mercury. which indicates a little better weather heading our way. and the good news is it's still going to be mild in the wake of this cold front. that's been the pattern so far. we get a cold frt and it just stays mild behind it. going to break that pattern i think by the end of week. last hour 30-mile-per-hour wind gusts at national. 18-mile-per-hour wind gust still in frederick and leesburg and down to fredericksburg and a 23-mile-per-hour wind gust at andrews at the west. in the 40s for temperatures. if you're going out you need a jac

moscow says it can only handover day brief from the two thousand and ten polish presidential plane crash to warsaw when the investigation is complete well that's after poland said it hopes for a speedy transfer of the wreckage stalling would cast a shadow over the relations between the two countries moscow said it was wrong to establish artificial deadlines in this case president lech kaczynski many of them top politicians died when their plane. in western russia. was later blamed. for more news with me in the news team to come a little later in the meantime we got the latest business update for you after this short break stay with us. a mission free accreditation free transport charge is free coming from inside the free risk free studio types free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free media oh don the r t dot com. courageous and creative. elegance and full and those public speaking. for. a few european bodybuilders against millions of weak immigrants. may not seem so serious now. but this could be a real threat to more. european extremists. on policies. download

moscow says it can only handover date from the two thousand and ten polish presidential plane crash to warsaw after the investigation is complete and that's after poland said it hoped for a speedy transfer of the wreckage saying stalling would cast a shadow over the relations between the two countries but moscow said it was wrong to establish artificial deadlines in this case president lech kaczynski and ninety five others many of them top politicians died when their plane crashed in smolensk in western russia pilot error was later. that's it for the moment about the news team with more news when about thirty five minutes from now in the meantime our weekly roundup of the top sporting events is coming your way off to just a few minutes from now stay with us this is all to eat in moscow. admission and free accreditation free cause for charges free the maintenance free risk free studio types free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and a freebie deodato harty dot com. courageous and creative. elegance and full and both public speaking. that's. a few european bodybuild

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norman finkelstein, the son of parents to survive the warsaw ghetto is a political scientist and author of numerous books including image and reality of israel/palestine conflict and his recently published "knowing too much" which has provided us the topic of today's discussion and came to prominence in the 1980s with his critique of joan peters's widely praised from time immemorial, highly selective use of ottoman demographic records, claimed palestine's arab majority is not indigenous that had been attracted to palestine by opportunities created by jewish settlers. thanks to the forensic critique that book is understood to be work has credible as holocaust revision. led a time when descend on israel was rare and harshly punished norman was willing to stay with the others and a heavy price for continuing to speak his mind and made it easier for others to do so. and deal with matters of tone rather than substance that deep respect for his work on palestine and want to pay tribute to his courage and commitment and the ethical vision that underlies his work. [applause] >> our other distin

we're around the freezing point in warsaw, as well weather minus 3, and moscow getting to minus 5, and kiev as we were just looking at there. out towards london, 4 degrees with 6 in paris. so do wrap up if that's you in the affected area. i'll leave you now to your extended forecast. ♪ >>> we'll be back with more updates in 30 minutes. i'm gene otani in tokyo. from all of us here at nhk world, thanks very much for joining us. have a great day wherever you are.

brzezinski's life was shaped by the fact that they fled warsaw right before the uprising and mrs. brzezinski, of course, had to flee czechoslovakia, just like you. and you actually talked about in a debate that rose up about colin powell and his view of the world, polilus -- versus your v of the world, how your view was shaped by your childhood. >> there's no question it was. one of the big issues was munich. how was it possible for this small country, czechoslovakia, to basically be betrayed by major powers and deals made over their heads and not standing up to evil. and so, i did, in fact, be -- i was affected by what people called the munich syndrome, which is basically to stand up to things, when evil is being perpetrated. >> and that is for our viewers, 1938, i believe, neville chamberlain goes to munich and appeases hitler. >> and what the story really talks about, much more than i ever knew, even at the time was how many deals were made to appease hitler, to kind of feed the beast and to see whether it was possible to just keep giving in to him, so that he would not carry o

. >> the former used bookstore manager from warsaw is now a hermit, an eccentric, a human who loves nature above all else. he and his 22 dogs have taken up residence in an old cat and on the edge of the forest. his nearest neighbors are several kilometers away. he is a keen collector of simple folk art, but his real passion is monotony. >> monotony is my passion. i love monotony. i liked the monotonous. i live monotonously. i do not know if it is really the monotony. maybe it is the experience of being alone with nature. to me, it is a kind of lifestyle. >> it is 12 degrees celsius in his cabin, but only after he has fired up his would burner. we are his first visitors for over a week, and to celebrate the occasion, he cranks up his gramophone. >> if i went out into the woods right now and got eaten by the wolves, i would be happy. that is the circle of nature. i hate the idea of being buried in cemeteries. i want to die in the forest. i have bought a spade so when i am about to die, i will go out and bury myself. that is my plan. >> but if he lives to be 100, he's got some time to go yet.

it was the same with east germany and west germany, the collapse of warsaw and the soviet empire. it was economic issues. i think the same today with the palestinians. it is impossible to be a non- democratic country if you have real gdp per capita of $10,000. you cannot explain what is democracy to a country like yemen with gdp per capita less than $1,000. half the population is completely illiterate and you have two hundred tribes. explain to them who is full terror and a jean-jacques terror and a jean-jacques rousseau and what is the great

. >> we came up with the idea that our ambassador in warsaw should walk up to the chinese ambassadort social event in which they were both present and ask for a meeting. and say we wanted to talk. >> this is like a spy thriller. >> absolutely. so there was a fashion show. our ambassador walked over to the chinese and our ambassador chased him down the hallway and finally cornered him long enough to say we wanted to talk. two weeks later, a chinese car flying a chinese flag arrived at our embassy and the ambassador said okay, i'm ready to talk. >> but the meetings led to little progress. in the summer of 1969 with lower bureaucratic channels broken down. kissinger and nixon devised a plan to go straight to the top, right to chairman mao. during a trip of pakistan, they asked yaya kahn to arrange the chinese connection. >> nothing happened for six months, then we got a message from the chinese via pakistan and basically it said we should start talking, but in a very convoluted way. between each of these communications there was about three months because they were hand carried, handwri