one could argue that the soviets did not actually help warsaw resist the notches. one soldier alone weighs around 4.5 tons. -- one could argue that the soviets did not actually help warsaw resist the not cease -- the nazis. third time lucky. >> bravo. bravo. >> last but not least on the list is the branch monument. the german chancellor made history when he dropped to his knees before the monument to the warsaw ghetto. not a chance. >> it's like sport. you do not win every time. there is no actual opponent here, so this is basically a contest between sport and history. it's fair enough that sometimes the monuments when -- win. >> the weightlifters have 15 goes, but eventually, they concede the feet -- defeat. some history is lighter than others. >> spain set a personal record this year. more taurus than ever before came to spain this summer on vacation. the main reason was that other destinations on the mediterranean like egypt, turkey, and tunisia are currently less popular because of ongoing political tensions. greece has also benefited, or to be more precise, th

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

my son-- when i had a son-- studied briefly at the university of warsaw. they were friends. tomasz came to england and joined the raf. he flew 40 missions. he was as brave as any of them. but then one day-- i don't judge him but nor do i excuse him-- something snapped. and he deserted. since then, he has been in something of a limbo. he has no id, no ration book. he could be arrested at any time. i have been trying to help him with food and money because of the friendship he had with my son. this is my fault. i came to him. i should never have done that. (tableware clattering) how did it go? who was that man? who? just now. i saw you with him outside. have you been drinking? who was he? his name's eric. he lives three doors down. he comes in now and then to help out. the fuses; that sort of thing. did he "help out" whilst i was a prisoner of the japs? don't be absurd. answer me! yes. he came in. he's a neighbor. sometimes it helped to have a man about the house and eric was there. what was he, then? a conchie? no, he was wounded. he was invalided out. he didn't look injured t

i cannot do it without first discussing it with the warsaw pact. at the beginning he called a meeting of the top people the top leaders of the world in moscow and he said, you make your proposal -- proposal. the warsaw pact leaders said looked, we agree you have to stop the refugees but you cannot have a peace treaty because the chancellor of west germany would impose an economic embargo and they cannot afford an economic embargo. mr. khrushchev is unprepared to support our economy and khrushchev said no i cannot do that. khrushchev gave group issued instructions to stop the refugee flow and he said to him not one millimeter more. then he sent marshall to berlin to keep an eye on the situation and probably particularly to control mr. rubin should as well as watching the situation. on august 13, 1961 at 2:30 a.m. i got a phonecall and somebody said to me it was the duty officer at the mission. there something going on in east berlin. would he go take a look back site got into my car which was a 190 sl convertible. the best way to look at what is goin

ahead of the system, 24 in warsaw with plenty of sunshine. and in the west, seasonal temperatures in london will continue throughout the week. in the iberian peninsula, quite hot, 29 degrees for you in madrid. here's your extended forecast. >>> and that's all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. do stay with us. we'll be back with more at the top of the hour.  - coming up, a refocusing of american politics. - what i want to do is restore two basic balances-- one is a balance within foreign policy, amd one is a balance within national security between the foreign and the domestic. - council of foreign relations president richard haass argues for a recalibration of america's domestic and foreign policies. it's just ahead on "global ethics forum." - mr. haass, as many of you know, is the president of the council on foreign relations. before he joined the council, he had a very distinguished career in government, having served in 4 presidential administrations, most recently in the bush administration as

it was the culmination of four days of demonstrations in warsaw. n mexico city, police disbursed thousands of striking teachers with tear gas in and water can options. the force ended a three-week protest against the country's educational reform. anna rainy reports. >> the beginning of the end of a month-long protest. thousands of riot police cleared the plaza on friday. their move was steady, quick and efficient: in the lead-up to the confrontation, many wielding makeshift weapons said they would stand their ground. >> we will not let them take the plaza away from us. the plaza is ours. it belongs to the people. >> but the police had given the teachers an ult i am atum. leave peacefully or be removed by force. >>> we spoke to one of the leaders before the police swept in. >> the laws were imposed, unjust laws. they did not take into account the opinions of teachers and parents. >> the clock was running out for the teachers. mexico kicks off independence days on sunday and the government promised celebrations would take place. the teachers mainlied

meanwhile up to one hundred thousand people have marched through the polish capital warsaw to voice their anger over low wages and unemployment the march marks the fourth day of protests with unions accusing the prime minister of ignoring them people are also frustrated at the sharp downturn in the economy that was witnessed over the course of the year unemployment in poland is stuck at just over thirteen percent and in other parts of europe it's even higher greece has seen a steady rise of jobless numbers in recent years while in spain over twenty six percent of people don't have work but it's the imminent election in germany which could decide how europe deals with its problems these last match points. it could be make or break for the euro as the german election approaches europe's the region's still stuck in recession with outbreaks of social unrest and some believe the outcome of the election could be a catalyst to the chains i've been speaking to vats of klaus the former president of the czech republic a capital markets conference here in london he compares the european project to c

protesters are expected to fill the streets of warsaw, poland now through saturday as they rally for higher pay. the demonstrations are said to be organized by unions claiming businesses are exploiting workers. government leaders in poland recently re-worked the pension system -- which was not popular with the middle class and raised taxes which is being protested by corporate business owners. the u.s. postal service is turning to "renting" vans to deal with its aging fleet of vehicles. the agency is soliciting bids to lease mini and cargo vans to carry mail. the usps estimates repairing its 185 thousand vehicles could cost six billion dollars. congress is requiring the postal service to make annual five-billion dollar payments for future retiree benefits which is causing a financial strain. as we mentioned earlier-- a blockbuster bond sale is happening in the market.. verizon is selling an historic $49 billion dollars in corporate bonds. the telecom giant will use money raised in the sale to help pay for its $130 billion dollar acquisition of verizon wireless from vodaphone. accordin

. >> reporter: with news from europe including drumming up support, the 100,000 people protest against austerity in warsaw. >> an agreement at last, russia and the united states have reached a deal to rid significant i can't of its arsenal weapons. it took three days of talks in geneva, but secretary of state john kerry and his russian counterpart foreign minister sevgey lavrov. >> russia and united states agree with a plan to put syrian chemical weapons out of use. secretary john kerry said he wasn't under any illusion, but the job can be done. >> the world will expect the assad regime to live up to its commitments. as i said outside of these negotiations, there can be no games, no room for avoidance, not anything less but full compliance from the assad regime. >> reporter: what if he doesn't comply after three days of talks with secretary of state john kerry, foreign minister sevgey lavrov watered down the u.s. agreement. >> we understand that the decisions we have reached today is only the beginning of the road. >> reporter: these are the key point of the u.s.-russian plan. syria must submit a former l

. >> in poland, solidarity movement thousands jam the streets of warsaw. rchers protest against the polish government labor policies. many carry signs demanding better pay and better jobs. it was four days of demonstration in the capital. >>> one of america's great lakes, lake erie, i. >> lake erie is choking an expanding forest. >> it is out of control. and very little is being done. it's toxic to most animals in large concentration. so fish will avoid it. it's a gooey green slime without much benefit to the natural system. and so it decays, etc. it is totally disgusting. >> fertilizer from north ameri america's richest farmland washed into the rivers by spring rains has overfed the algae. each summer if blooms, sucking up oxygen, killing fish, it is growing and growing worse. >> even on the beaches you see it rolling over, and it's a foot deep of algae. you never saw that before. you see a layer on top. now it's getting chicker and chicker, and more sea weed-like. >> this is the best vantage point to see the problem. and with heavy spring a rains biologie

travels a lawmakers in dos to talk so with the taliban last week in a bid to end the deadly decade long insurgency. you know warsaw tens of thousands have been running against changes to labor laws poland's government recently raise the retirement age to sixty seven and relaxed rules on maximum working hours demonstrators carried banners calling on prime minister donald tusk to resign the protests have been escalating in the capital for the past four days. security forces dispersed demonstrators in turkey on the fifth consecutive night of protests following the death of a young man reportedly killed by police the twenty two year old was allegedly hit by a tear gas canister shot from an empty ride vehicle at a rally a case as really with a wave of mission like anti-government protests first seen earlier this summer. just outside pretoria a statue of a man considered the father of a party overlooks the town which bars a number why visitors unless they have a special pass this isn't some sort of open history museum it's a very real and is self-sustaining community art is policy it took a look at inside the disturbing

entire annual average rainfall in the past week alone while flash floods i expected in the coming days. in warsaw tens of thousands have been rallying against changes to labor laws poland's government recently raise the retirement age to sixty seven and relaxed rules on maximum working hours demonstrators carried banners calling on prime minister donald tusk to resign the protests have been escalating in the capital for the past four days. after the landmark merril election in the russian capital sort of gays or beyond in has been sworn in for his second term at a grand ceremony in moscow's vocal on a hill now the opposition candidate x. in of all the has filed a lawsuit demanding a rerun of all me came in second securing almost a third of the vote he claims there were multiple violations during the ballot allegations that have been rejected by the central election committee on monday thousands attended a mass rally in central moscow in support of the opposition front man. the french government has called on consumers to be more patriotic by buying from domestic producers but that's intended as a

i cannot do it without first discussing it with the warsaw pact. at the beginning he called a meeting of the top people the top leaders of the world in moscow and he said, you make your proposal -- proposal. the warsaw pact leaders said looked, we agree you have to stop the refugees but you cannot have a peace treaty because the chancellor of west germany would impose an economic embargo and they cannot afford an economic embargo. mr. khrushchev is unprepared to support our economy and khrushchev said no i cannot do that. khrushchev gave group issued instructions to stop the refugee flow and he said to him not one millimeter more. then he sent marshall to berlin to keep an eye on the situation and probably particularly to control mr. rubin should as well as watching the situation. on august 13, 1961 at 2:30 a.m. i got a phonecall and somebody said to me it was the duty officer at the mission. there something going on in east berlin. would he go take a look back site got into my car which was a 190 sl convertible. the best way to look at what is goin

of the entire annual average rainfall in the past week alone flash floods i expected in the coming days . in warsaw tens of thousands have been railing against changes or to labor laws poland's government recently raise the retirement age to sixty seven and to relax the rules on maximum working hours demonstrators carried banners the calling on prime minister donald tusk to resign protesters have been escalating in the capital for the past four days. security forces disperse demonstrators in turkey on a fifth conservative night of protest for in the death of a young man reportedly killed by police the twenty two year old was allegedly hit by tear gas canister shot from an empty ride vehicle at a rally the case has renewed the wave of nationwide antigovernment protests first seen earlier this summer. just outside of pretoria a statue of the man considered the father of a party it overlooks a tunnel which only lets in number why visitors with the special parts but this isn't some sort of open a history museum but a very real self-esteem community out as well as they are got inside the disturbing time

entire annual average rainfall in the past week alone more flash floods are expected in the coming days. you know warsaw tens of thousands have been rallying against the changes to labor laws of poland's government recently raise the retirement age to sixty seven and relaxing the rules on maximum working hours demonstrators carry to barriers barriers calling on prime minister donald tusk to resign the protests have been escalating in the capital for the past four days. security forces disperse demonstrators in turkey on a fifth conservative night of protests following the death of a young man reportedly killed by police the twenty two year old was allegedly hit by tear gas canister shot from an end to ride vehicle at a rally the case has renewed the wave of nationwide antigovernment protests for a scene earlier the stem. just outside pretoria his statue of a man considered the father of a party overlooks a town which bars number one visitors unless they have a special parts there isn't some sort of open air history museum it's a very real and self-sustaining community art is policy it's a good look insi

the east. moscow only 6 degrees. 11 for warsaw, but temperatures will be steadily warming up as we go into theouth. 29 degrees in madrid. and across munich, where oktoberfest is taking place, nice comfortable conditions into the weekend. here's the extended forecast. >>> and that's all for now on this edition of "newsline." i'm yuko aotani. thank you very much for joining us. tavis: good evening. from los angeles, i am tavis smiley.tonight, the conclusion of our conversation with linda ronstadt. voice has been silenced due to parkinson's, a loss that she feels every day. she just published a memoir called "simple dreams." we are glad you have joined us, coming up, right now. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. linda ronstadt's impressive career has taken her from the small stage atoubadourd broadway. she has written a book about her life and musical journey, simple dreams. and it informed her collaboration with artists from dolly parton to willie nelson. andone of her great friends heroes, smokey robinson. ♪ ♪ tavis: how great songwriter is smokey robi

floods and temperatures will be mild and cool across the west. 16 degrees in london. 18 in both paris and berlin. and vienna going up to 29 degrees. warsaw, it was 24 yesterday but going back to the teens on tuesday. here's your extended forecast. >>> that's all for this edition of nhk. i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. thank you very much for joining us. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> i see some repeaters in the audience. this is the fourth event of five that we are hosting to celebrate the centennial of woodrow wilson's inauguration as president in 1913. we had a dinner last night at wilson house, which included an interview with the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, ed royce.

the plane was flying from toronto to warsaw when it's automatic air identification system failed. it comes a day after norwegian air shuttle asa grounded another 787 over an apparent technical problem. >>> back to back storms trigg triggering record downpours. more than a month's worth of rain came down in less than 24 hours. shattering records across the area. seattle and several other cities are wrapping up one of the wet ets septembers ever. >>> it will be nice across most of the country. some thunderstorm activity along the gulf coast from florida into south texas. >> temperatures above normal in the eastern u.s. temperatures in the 80s in the rockie rockies. higher elevations will see inches of snow. the cascades will see feet of snow. >>> still ahead, your money. a closer look at what the shutdown threat is doing to the stock market. and what happened to your 401(k) the last time this happens. >>> and abandon ship? the people on board are describing their escape. >>> plus, back on trial. amanda no talks about her life after leaving italy after as the >>> and welcome back. th

the temperatures here. berlin at 15. also warsaw at 14. moscow, 17. they'll be down to about 12 degrees on your friday.ow, let's move over to mexico where coastal flooding has still been occurring here, and it looks like it will be pounding the reasonable with more heavy rain to come. man well once was a remnant low and became a tropical depression status again. 36 hours later. now looks like it will become a hurricane status as it approaches western coast of mexico, and we've got hurricane watches posted there, but they were around this area. will be pounded with very heavy rainfall. another low pressure system will be redeveloping again into a tropical depression. likely we have 70% chance of that, which is making things very wet across much of the southern areas too. lots happening in mexico. severe weather will be in the northern plains today, and we cannot rule out the fact that it could spawn tornadoes. very hot here across the south. houston at 33 degrees. our extended forecast. >> breess are carrying out an operation that tasz place once every ten years. the replacing the materials in a giant l

be quite mild and relatively cool across the west. 19 -- excuse me, 16 degrees in london. 18 in both paris and berlin. but vienna going up to 29 degrees. warsaw it was 24 yesterday and go back to the teens on tuesday. here's your extended forecast. >>> and that is all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobiyashi in tokyo. thanks very much for joining us. >> ifill: on television and on capitol hill, president obama launches a wide-ranging campaign to win public and congressional support for his plan to strike syria. >> the president made his case. >> my intentions throughout this process has been to ensure that the blatant use of chemical weapons that we sought doesn't happen again. if, in fact, there's aay

and while obama's top officials banging the drums of war at a senate hearing in washington acts of its inside warsaw syria becomes human shields to god possible american targets. and also this hour a media watchdog condemns the u.k. government's sustained use of strong tactics against the press saying security measures are pushing hard earned freedoms at risk.

the plane was flying from toronto to warsaw when a failure in the automatic arid fi case system forced it to land. it is one day after norwegian air shuttle grounded another 787 over an apparent technical problem. >>> here at home, investigators are looking in to the cause of a jet in to a storage hangar at santa monday cap municipal airport. it had taken off and run off the runway and hit the hangar. it exploded in to a ball of fire. the ntsb is on the scene. no confirmation of who was on the plane. fire officials say no one could have survived. today they will bring in a crane to lift he hangar off the plane. >>> an investigation in to the wildfire in arizona that killed 19 elite firefighters in june has uncovered a crucial clue in to what went wrong. we have the latest. >> reporter: a new look at the granite mountain hot shots last moments. >> knew this was coming when i asked your comfort level. i could feel it, you know. >> reporter: firefighter christopher mckenzie recorded team members talking on the radio one hour before the flames in the distance would claim all of their lives

and while obama's top officials banging the drums of war at a senate hearing in washington activists inside warsaw syria become human shields to god possible american targets. and also this hour a media will stop condemns the u.k. government's sustained use of strong arm tactics against the press saying security measures are pushing hard earned freedoms at risk. new song russia and around the world this is our she was me you know thanks for joining us president vladimir putin says russia will wait for rock hard evidence about who carried out an alleged chemical weapons attack in syria last month before deciding how to act he says all options remain on the table but facts and international authorization should come before intervention. as has the details for . well let me add putin was speaking to the associated press when he warned against western intervention in syria saying that it is just generally a bad idea for unilateral action he also said if the united states has proof that the assad regime used chemical weapons that they need to have it over to the u.n. security council so that a proper a

sexual impropriety were used on a regular basis by communist secret intelligence services throughout the warsawact countries as a way to attack the church. and it may be that john paul ii's familiarity with that act tick was one factor -- tactic was one factor in what some regard as slow response from the vatican in 2002 to the scandals here in the united states. i think the real problem was a bad information flow from the vatican embassy here in washington to rome. when john paul ii understood the magnitude of these problems, he addressed it vigorously, and he called the bishops who in cases had not been as aggressive as they ought to have been in resolving these cases to do precisely that. the catholic church today is probably the safest environment for young people in the united states. it was a horrible cleansing experience, but that cleansing operation has been done, and the church is better for it. >> host: george weigel, the next call for him comes from barbara in henderson, kentucky. hi, barbara, this is booktv on c-span2. >> caller: hi. >> host: we're listening. please go ahead. >> cal

. >> it was about the film mogul who began life as a teenage runaway from warsaw and came to america believing in the american dream and within a few years had moved to a place called hollywood and manufacturing the american dream. >> 1998 was the lindbergh book. why lindbergh? >> it was something i thought about when i was writing max perkins. that was i thought it would be interesting to write a shelf full of biographies of 20th century american cultural figures. i felt as long as i could go, i would like to write about people each one would be from a different part of the country and each would be from a different sliver of the apple pie. so max perkins was a harvard educated white anglo-saxon protestant in publishing. samuel poe lan, a polish illiterate who went into films. charles lindbergh, the heartland. what are the great metaphors of 20th century america, the airplane, who was the most romantic embodiment of the airport? charles lindbergh. >> here you are, 15 years ago when you were here. >> uh-oh. >> the other thing i have found always when i walk into a room is the polarity

the plane, operated by poland's lot airlines, was flying from toronto to warsaw when its automatic air identification system failed. it comes a day after norwegian air shuttle asa grounded another 787 over an apparent technical problem. >>> millions of people in the northwest are being slammed by back-to-back storms. triggering record downpours. more than a month's worth of rain came down in less than 24 hours. shattering records across the area. seattle and several other cities are wrapping up one of the wettest septembers ever. >>> well, aside from the storms in the pacific northwest, it will be really nice across most of the country. some thunderstorm activity along the gulf coast from florida into south texas. >> temperatures above normal in the eastern u.s. summer-like in the rockies, with temperatures the the 80s. higher elevations will see inches of snow. the cascades will see feet of snow. >>> still ahead, your money. a closer look at what the shutdown threat is doing to the stock market. and what happened to your 401(k) the last time this happened. >>> and abandon ship? a tour

the minimum wage. my father is headed to warsaw but watching the program on his sling box. heard our discussion.e quoted him no serious person could be for any minimum wage which reduces hiring. you got to say minimum wage should be zero or a living wage one or the other. and herman kahn said it doesn't make any sense. get rid of it. >> that's an option too. >> you want no change. >> you got to balance it, you got to calibrate. you got figure out what the demand is for jobs. if the demand is not there to have people hire once you do the minimum wage bad idea. to say all or nothing i think doesn't get what we try to do in this country which is just get the calibration and balance right and you should be able to sense whether there's enough demand for new jobs in the economy starting up again that when you raise the minimum wage you won't depress. >> it's not a living wage, would you agree with that? >> absolutely. i wish it were. >> wish it were. >> i wish it were. but you cannot -- wishing it does not make it so. you need an economy that's growing and that's what will eventually increase our wag

the hindu vote to return his party to power. al jazeera, new delhi. >> in poland, tens of thousands of people are in warsaw's main square to protestinst policies. they are holding banners calling for prime minister donald tuft to go, his government wants to raise the retirement ainge, overhaul the pension system, and make it easier for peoples to layoff people. opinion polls suggest that german chancellor party will get the most votes in the election to be held in a week, but there is a loyal following for a number of smaller parties. in a special series filed this report on the country's fringe political groups. >> on this stage of our tour of germany, the capitol overmeek len burg. part of the former baseballer east germany, and a place where many voters are tempted by political extremes. >> they call themselves delenke, the left. and more than two decades the anticapitalist, anti-nato party is reaching out to the next generation of voters. >> it's at home here, while it now accepts democracy, it grew out of the communist party that ran the east german dictatorship. this party voter is out of a job, like around 13% of the popula

warsaw. that's not necessarily the ride side of the tracks. >> no, no. >> i'm not wishing i'm from mt. lookout or high park. i'm comfortable being from western hills. i'm fine. all right. >> hey, what are you calling the reds weekend, joe? big series. >> i didn't like losing 1-0 to the mets and they're four games back. i didn't see what happened yesterday. >> they weren't playing yesterday. they've got best of three with pittsburgh this weekend. and if they win the wild card is here in cincinnati. >> oh, good. i'm going to hear from fratto on that, you know. you know where he lives. >> no. >> titletown. >> that kills me, titletown, especially with the bengals, you know? >> because that's -- no titletown is where we're from. thanks, chris. >> see you later, guys. >>> when we come back, we're going to talk about why you could soon be using electronic devices during your flights. >> but first, rivera officially saying good-bye to yankees stadium last night. he made an emotional exit. >> derek jeter and andy pettit coming from the dugout toes remove him from the ninth inning where they had

the world, helps our balance of trade. it has provided health relief and provided saving lives to millions of people. some of these innovations that come out of warsaw or bloomington or other parts of indiana from the companies that are in medical device business are truly extraordinary. and yet they got socked as a pay-for for the obamacare act by a 2.3% tax on their gross sales. not on their profits. so a company, perhaps they're developing a new product and they come to a point where they know they're not going to make a profit for two or three years but they know they've got something here that's really going to work, really going to provide lifesaving or life enhancing benefits. and so they lose money. but they're selling the product. the sales haven't yet caught up with all the research costs and so they report a loss at the end of the year or maybe a break even. now, if that happened to any american individual or any other company, that loss, they would not be taxed. but these companies are being taxed 2.3% on the total amount of money that they take in, even though that money doesn't reach a profit. that's just an egregious, offensive, unbel