(cheers and applause) the only evidence i need the sacred dockers of turin.laughter) besides, back people have their own holiday, it's martin luther king day. by the way, for any kids watching at 11:30 at night, martin luther king is black and he is real. (laughter) don't listen to your older siblings. everybody knows that if you're good once a year he comes in while you're sleeping and sprinkles you with dreams. (laughter) then he goes back to his mountain top castle on his flying table of brotherhood saying "merry m.l.k. day to all and to all good deals on mattresses!" we'll be right back. (cheers and applause) (cheers and applause). >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. my guest tonight just won the national book award for his new book "the unwinding." i wonder if i have to read "the winding" first. please welcome george packer! (cheers and applause) hey, george, good to see you again. thanks for coming back. it's been one or six years since you were last here. good to see you. >> good to see you again, too. >> stephen: you're a "new yorker" staff writer. y

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(cheers and applause) the only evidence i need the sacred dockers of turin. have their own holiday, it's martin luther king day. by the way, for any kids watching at 11:30 at night, martin luther king is black and he is real. (laughter) don't listen to your older siblings. everybody knows that if you're good once a year he comes in while you're sleeping and sprinkles you with dreams. (laughter) then he goes back to his mountain top castle on his flying table of brotherhood saying "merry m.l.k. day to all and to all good deals on mattresses!" we'll be right back. (cheers and applause) 7 rjrj,x,x 7t#w;';'a0"j"u:w [uncle]this is hopscotch,okay? uncle go one,two,one,two,one two,one. [niece]okay! [uncle]okay? [niece]one,two three,four,five,six,seven,eight! [uncle laughing] okay,we go the other way,okay? [niece]one,two,three,four,five, six,seven! [uncle laughs]there's ten spaces,you want to try again? [uncle]yeah? (cheers and applause). >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. my guest tonight just won the national book award for his new book "the unwinding." i wonder

train station in turin stones with a regional government headquarters police resorted to tear gas to disperse the demonstrators and similar protests also took place in several other italian cities including. the leader of egypt's muslim brotherhood mohamed badie remain defiant against charges of inciting violence because he appeared in court on monday that's amid fresh clashes between police and brotherhood supporters of the university about the is on trial alongside the ousted president mohamed morsi and other key brotherhood figures accused of inciting the murder of protesters during an uprising in june. the u.s. is sending transport planes to aid french and african union troops in the central african republic on monday the peacekeepers started to disarm rival militias but were engaged in firefights with some still refusing to give up their weapons. on the african union send their troops after the country's president was ousted in march the government's overthrow triggered confrontations between muslims and christians which left around four hundred people dead. now some say it's th

with tax hikes and biting cuts to a handful of sectors have clashed with police on the streets of turin rome and venice spearheaded first by farmers and truck drivers the movement was later joined by students and small business owners earlier r t spoke to european asset manager erich krauss who says that the public's discontent is driven by the management of the country. the protests are very global. they have not clearly articulated any goals and you know why a mixture of left to right. everything from small intrapreneur there's to saumur there's the laborers the unemployed students so it's polymorphous but the country is basically very tired he currently didn't speak governed and the problems with europe in the us ashes may be made outside of percent of the four county bills but you probably have more left with us a little sasha seniors for their main rowdy point just to discuss if they want all of the politicians to go home. and for there to be a new government but of course a new election would not return so that we can see fundamental reform of the system . bulgaria has also witnes

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i stand to touch on enough to one olympic gold and turin in two thousand and six the same year you've won the men's singles he then claimed silver in vancouver and is currently fighting to be fit for saatchi after thinks he's russia's only podium hope in the men's event. it's just. i think it's going to be really hard for him. i don't see anyone else really if you imagine even third place that will be a major victory for him and for us i wish him every success in trying. meanwhile the countdown to the sochi twenty fourteen paralympics reach one hundred days on wednesday people gathered at the black sea resort to celebrate the milestone as well as catch a closeup glimpse of some of the two hundred sixteen paralympic medals girls live that. it's great not only one hundred they still go into a paralympic games as well but from celebrating we also decided to interview a pocket full of sculptures made by school kids with the help of professional sculptors it's not a little something we hope will make the olympic and paralympic winter games even more memorable. and those memories will start

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he provided assistance for the 2006 winter games in turin in italy.lt lake city. thanks so much for joining us. >> good to be here, john. >> so in salt lake city in 2002, obviously it happened in the wake of september 11th here in the u.s., concerns over terrorism were very, very high. sochi is a different situation. what you have now is weeks before the game, these blasts happening a couple hundred miles away. how high do you believe the concerns are right now? how worried would you be? >> well, the concerns are obviously very high. and security always is the focus of attention prior to the games and the runup period just before the games. however, i believe that the russians will be up to the job and safety and security will be paramount in the sochi area. i believe these games will be safe and secure. >> you say there are always terrorism kerns. indeed there are. security is always a major issue. you seem to have specific threats coming from this chechen insurgent leader who calls the games s s satanic. he wants to disrupt the games in sochi. do yo