once upon a time, there was a wonderful royal palace in the city of warsaw. in summer, tourists flocked from far and wide to visit it, but there was a little problem -- in winter, when it gets dark early in poland, hardly anyone came to the palace. tourism experts thought long and hard about the problem, and then they saw the light. not just one light -- 150,000 lights. palace gardens were transformed into a labyrinth of like, and suddenly, in spite of the cold weather, hundreds of thousands of people came -- palace gardens were transformed into a labyrinth of light. here's a first impression of what awaited them. motifs from lewis carroll's "alice in wonderland" on display. >> the place is in chanting and very romantic. with this wintry scene full of lights reflected in the snow, it's just wonderful. >> there are so many lights and everything is lit up. even the characters and letters. >> i tell my friends to come. the light affects the colors. it's wonderful. what a great idea. >> light warms people's hearts -- that might sound kitschy, and perhaps it is, b

vienna, warsaw getting up into the single digits in warsaw. up near double digits as sunny skies basically prevail. now over towards western portions of the u.s., this is what i really want to talk about today, a low spinning here just off the coastline. this is pumping moisture onshore. it's already bringing heavy rainfall. let's take a look at this video coming out of california where we have been seeing not only the heavy rainfall, but some fairly gusty winds, waves near the coastlines up near about five meters high. these winds in the san francisco bay area knocked down a large tree. about 72 kilometer-per-hour winds were reported. snow in the higher elevations, 30 to 60 centimeters has been reported out here. a slick go out there on the roads. as far as the skiers are concerned, they are definitely very happy with that. there's more rain in the forecast. that is one thing you want to keep in mind here because this low is pushing onshore. another one is going to come on its heals. it's pumping that moisture onshore. you've been dealing wit

. >> with the end of the cold war, the warsaw pack vanished. 10 kuntz trees between 1997 and 2004.oes that decision look good now. you can imagine with the aggressiveness of putin, you can imagine what he might be trying to do to extend the russian sphere of flew into estonia and lithuania or bulgarian or policy appeared. >> since the fall of the berlin wall, nato has moved in to areas beyond the original mandate like sending troops into afghanistan and helping victims of hurricane katrina. it's helping a riffle destris putin. >> he does believe the expansion of nato has hemmed russia in, that the fight over the status of ukraine is in some way a fight to retain russian influence in its broader zone. >> the counsel on foreign relations, cup shaw says it soured russia on nato. >> it's there they felt nato took advantage to topple a regime and changed the next, moved the gold post. >> it may go beyond that. putin, himself, that declared the weinter olympics in sochi a symbol of russia's resurgence. it is that issue, russian pride, a sense of humiliation that putin is really tapping i

recently built in warsaw, the capital of poland, the house is two stories high, and...et wide. we're talking this wide. yet, it has a kitchen, shower, toilet, bedroom, and eating area. renters with claustrophobia need not apply. >> what has one wheel, one seat, and one talented rider? a unicycle. this bike may look like something out of the circus, but there's a group of people who are devoted to riding it. >> favorite part about unicycling is that it's different from other sports and it's really fun to learn new tricks. >> probably the...adrenaline, like, when you ride, and the balance techniques. >> my favorite part about unicycling is when, if you're riding around town, is people notice you and they talk about you and you feel special. >> so, i guess, what is this group that you have? >> this is the new york unicycle club. i founded it, along with a friend and my brother, back in 2001. >> now david's group has over 300 members, both young and young at heart. most historians believe the unicycle was created in the late 1800s, when a contraption called the penny-farthi

a few thunderstorms down towards the southeast, but look at that, vienna, berlin, warsaw, sunny skies here on your monday. here's the extended forecast. >>> japan's government once again plans to indistrict the operator of the stricken fukushima daiichi nuclear plant to review its measures to prevent spills and leaks of contaminated water. in the latest incident at the plant, around 100 tons of highly radioactive water spilled from a storage tank last week. tokyo electric power company officials have been interviewing plant workers to find out why the water spilled. the officials believe someone opened valves that should have been closed. >> translator: tepco needs to review its preventive measures by taking into consideration the tough working environment of the plant. the company also needs to rebuild its organizational structure to prevent similar cases. >> suga also said the government will try to ensure that tepco implements steps to prevent problems, including those resulting from human error. >>> that's "newsline." i'm gene otani in tokyo. ña7guc hour,h you for the next rollin

vienna at 6, warsaw at four and london you still have those showers, temperatures remaining in the single digits. where it's not remaining in single digits is down here towards southern australia. at least there's some relief in sight. but right now it is just hot across much of southern australia over towards victoria. i want to take you to a video out of this region, where we have been seeing this heat, and in adelaide, temperatures rose to 42 degrees centigrade here on wednesday. previously the temperature climbed to that amount a dozen times thus far this year. needless to say this has been causing problems. firefighters continuing to battle several blazes. a bush fire in bangor also has burnt 35,000 hectares. and in victoria 50 homes have been destroyed due to these recent fires. like i said there's some relief in sight. we have several tropical lows combining with a cold front, stretching that moisture across the south, and you're going to be looking at some rainfall going in to latter part of the week out here. temperatures also starting to fall down. take a look at this, 43 degree

black sea but that's going to continue to weaken on captures look like this though you know five nine warsaw to law school just that the freezing mark with some sunny skies in your forecast or midweek also sunny skies on tuesday droplets in korea were forced to pay and that that will be changing their midweek as well. the new low pressure areas developing in eastern china moon off course these bring some showers across the southern japanese island over for skis you on your wednesday and thursday and then eventually going over forced open by thursday into friday. but the thing is this is all going to be pumping in a warm air from the south so much japan actually temperatures will be on the rise and for tilly there is the risk of avalanche to go along with that number last us several weeks we've seen some significant snow fall is when the moms out here. all that will be nothing or rather quickly now behind this. if you have respiratory issues or if they pay the fee for its use of this is definitely something you want to look after other day on tuesday into wednesday snagged us will take up fro

the cold war more than twenty years ago the berlin wall since its fall and instead of both the war warsaw pact and nato being this bad then we have nato move eastward and everyone else trying to punish also sort of knowledge were received here almost you know i'm sorry sort of jump in here we have i don't know my dental issues a lot with the audio coming through your microphone now i'm going to have to cut this off just for a moment i do apologize we'll reestablish the connection here and get back to you soon as possible i do apologize for this backing him up. for the meantime here in our international to apologize for that coming up in just a moment here a shoplifting epidemic. sometimes i let people in the shop lift a special for their kids what would they do small theft from shops climb to a nine year high last year in britain as many on the poverty line decide they would rather steal what they really need instead of going without. also offer the break here on r.t. international how facebook could bring about a change of policies that's an israel but the government's taken to startle n

forgive the atrocities his movement had committed some at the my john cleary guarding him as a hero warsaw has been supportive of ukraine's protesters all along despite a chunk of the radical right there is supporting the man who brought so much pain to the polish nation unpunished minors which haven't been prosecuted well. always spawn new murders standing at his father's grave miroslav you know musharraf says he feels no hate towards ukrainians but he wants the truth to be told and things to be named as they should be. reporting from kiev ukraine it's been more than a month since al qaeda sympathizers partly captured syria's industrial town of north of damascus dozens of civilians were allegedly slaughtered there and hundreds displaced the rebels still occupying major parts of the city but our team managed to make it inside and speak to some of the survivors. is just a twenty minute drive from damascus but the highway runs through an area firmly under rebel control so instead we take a newly created pass driving through high moans of sand and piles of old tires the army uses to shoot its

forgive the atrocities his movement had committed some at the my john cleary guarding him as a hero of warsaw has been supportive of ukraine's protesters all along despite a chunk of the radical right there is supporting the man who brought so much pain to the polish nation unpunished minors which haven't been prosecuted will always spawn new matters standing at his father's grave just laughed in a machete says he feels no hate towards ukrainians but he wants the truth to be told and things to be named as they should be. see reporting from key of in ukraine. it's midnight city tonight here in moscow right about the break here kitty pilgrim say with a weekly roundup of the of business news closely followed by another bulletin from our friends a juice news or yes this is out international very good to have you with us. what is the who is writing it and where was it leaving to be seeking to bearings we seem to turn to the news for the medium is the message and this most by will mean the planet is now the method for defining collective reality each night if it's not on the news it didn't happen r

they were not just in the warsaw pack, but parts of ukraine were longstanding parts of the russian empire. it's not the case that it was an independent state, and the soviet union took over. it was a victim of world war ii, and that's where it ended up. >> the cold war and n.a.t.o. ended up around the world. they have helped humanitarian observations, and provided security at the olympics in athens. do you people like, professor, that the purpose shifted too much. >> i don't think it shifted too much. you are right when you say n.a.t.o. is trying to figure out what its rules should be, and at the september summit that will take place in the u.k., one of the things they ask about is whether it makes sense to think about n.a.t.o. preplanning and acting together as an alliance where everyone has a role in intervention, or whether it makes sense to have a lead country like france, take the lead when it has a particular interest in a country, and cobble together a coalition from like-minded countries. n.a.t.o. is trying to figure out what its role is. it has shown that because of that interope

ukraine as i also mentioned yesterday is critical for putin's strategy which is to put together the old warsaw pact and soviet union, and he is -- he has to have to the ukraine to do that for a lot of different reasons. i listened to josh bolton -- >> john. >> josh bolton and george will who said this is a failure of the american policy and talks about iran, syria and the ukraine, and he connects it to the soviet union. what would george will have them do? it's easy to be critical about these things. is he going to make fun like greg does of a community organizer, but this is not a very clear situation. you all didn't want us to go into syria. i happened to want us to go into syria. >> don't look at me and say that. >> you and i were there on that. >> bombs away. >> what can we do to ukraine? very little we can do because the one thing that goes through their country is gas and we can't cut that off, can't sanction that. who has the biggest threat, the eu does because they depend on the energy so they need to come up with a list of sanctions, if there's such a thing. i'm not sure there is. >>

i don't want to say we're returning to the warsaw pact. this is going to definitely put a fly in the ointment so to speak. it's been very clear. since 2000 we have seen this as a pattern. it's been very deliberate, almost a boiling frog pace if you will. done slow enough no one starts raising alarms. it's come to a hard stop. this was actual there a popular up rising. this went against everything they thought has happened. >> we have been told putin and our president have a bad relationship. we have seen the photograph of the two of them side by side. we have seen that picture 100 times. friday they were on the phone working on this. how can we get to de-escalation. it seems when crisis comes they can work together. >> well, i don't know if they can work together. they can talk together. they can say they spoke together because that's what people expect from them. the reset that was supposed to happen never did. long before this we were at odds overseer ya and the snowden affair. the president will be under pressure to get tough in the wor

out ofust come warsaw, and now moving to lima, and the binding discussions that are supposed to takeace in 2015 in paris, france. >> it is not a good sign when you're trying to build trust with other negotiators, other countries and it comes out that the united states was spying on those negotiations. there has already been a level of mistrust and distrust between the united states and countries around the world, particularly, those developing countries. where we are in paris, who knows? beennited states has not forthcoming with negotiating stances. they have not -- we have not been aggressive in reducing our climate change emissions and putting out and offer the rest of the world can accept. and we haven't been terribly generous with funding to help these less-developed, poor countries in adjusting to both adapting and mitigating the climate impacts that are ready happening to them. , thank youe erich pica for being with us in the earth usa. we turn now to michigan. he turned to the latest news that three environmentalists have just been convicted for their role and nonviolently pro

and warsaw pact other terms. including manufacturers that were heard by the interruption of the automobile. and there are a much larger group of people even the potential majority of people that are having a harder time making a living than they did before. and this includes the spreading out of the outcome in this includes corporations for society and we are hoping to focus the conversation on this. and especially with technology and research there. and we have described the economic parallels. both of these technologies have done things that they are not supposed to be able to do. the book started in the fall of 2010 and google has been bribing -- not google, but no one had been bribing the spirit. and thousands of american roads without mishap had experiences. so we had the chance to do that and even six years earlier in 2004 that eric and i talked about with this strong argument and you will never be able to drive this. so it's a pattern matching the process and although we are doing while is pretty easy for

i was in warsaw for the first time in my life and i was able to buy an old yellow copy of "solidaritywhich we ended funding to back in the crisis of the 80s and it was exciting to watch the way in which the funny organization came out of nowhere and had such an amazing effect and of course there was another case of having an amazing effect aneffectand that was as importae political side. these things can have an effect. people like andre and others will say that we are absolutely ignorant and blind to the good effect we are having and we don't realize the kind of thunder that is created over there in a world deprived of information but little we can provide that is greatly important. i think that we have mostly forgotten that ended his combat and we've not only broken down the united states information agency. we then try to build up some structure. so the new public diplomacy team seemed to have a pretty good budget. i think it is something like 800 million now which is about half of the total public diplomacy budget, 800 million for broadcasting in such perhaps. and we have a new te

the capital key geoff nearly equidistant from moscow to the east and warsaw to the west. ukraine is torn between russia and the european union. the protests began after the president rejected a trade deal with the european union. it was a move seen by many by vladimir putin pushing ukraine to join the customs union moscow leads. after ukraine said thanks but no thanks to the e.u. it received $15 billion in bailout money from russia. russia still treats ukraine as if it is one of these provinces. that's what these demonstrations are really about. protesters say the government is far too cozy with putin's russia and they want to link the country's future with the west. this is how kiev's independence square looked back in 2011 well before the uprising. a postcard-worthy view of one of the capital city's central landmarks before it became the epicenter of the protest movement. this is how it looks now, barricades burning, evidence of violence all over the ground. our senior international correspondent nick paton walsh is standing by in kiev. what's happening at this hour? >>

took to the opposition leaders, they didn't say what the plan was, but word finally leaked out from warsaw that yanukovych said he's open to early elections, both parliament and the presidency. the foreign ministers met with the opposition leaders who were skeptical for understandable reasons and then went back to the presidential offices and met again with yanukovych. we are waiting to hear what the word is from that. i don't think anybody is thinking that this thing is solved yet. but it's a glimmer i've hope. after what had been ukraine's darkest day since this began. >> now, we have heard about the pressure being applied by the u.s. and by the european union, especially on some major government officials. how is that being received and how effective do you think that will be? >> well, in one sense, sanctions are, you know, symbolic thing and they certainly give a thrill to the crowd who are opposed to yanukovych and his circle. on another level, refusing visas to people in the elite to go to western countries, does have some sting to it, because many, many of them have apartments in ne

they've just now arrived in warsaw to get this painting back at the charter rescue museum. >> host: matthew in tacoma, washington, you are on with robert edsel. >> caller: hi. i was wondering if you found much out about the porcelain factories, the great porcelain factories in your book, in france especially and then also the -- [inaudible] factories in germany, if much of that was destroyed? also i was wondering who your favorite tennis player is and who you prefer, fellowederer or nadal? >> guest: what was the last part? >> host: didn't catch the last part. but if you want to answer the tennis question, more importantly. >> guest: with the things that are missing today, we have to deal in the done text of what's portable and what's not and also degree of fragility. works of art that were porcelain, so many of those things destroyed, coins melted. if a painting rolled up weighed 200 pounds, you know, one person's not lugging that around. so most of the things we're going to find are going to be things which a soldier could take home as a souvenir, put under their jacket, ship home. those a

conference in warsaw, much of the conversation pitted developed nations against developing nations in asia and elsewhere. christiana figueres was executive secretary of the convention. >> industrialized countries with a larger historical responsibility must take the lead. but that doesn't mean that everybody else is off the hook. >> woodruff: now, kerry is urging the world's largest economies to reach agreement on cutting carbon emissions. and in his jakarta speech, he blasted those who question climate change. >> we should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science, and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific fact. nor should we allow any room for those who think that the costs associated with doing the right thing outweigh the benefits. >> woodruff: the secretary will have to do his own weighing of climate costs and benefits as he considers whether to endorse building the hotly debated keystone pipeline across the u.s. >> he is president and ceo of the world resources institute, an environmental research organization in washington. and scott barret a professor

people in independence square in kiev just as much as their predecessors stood with the people of the warsawt. just because it doesn't seem there is much you can do. doesn't mean there isn't a lot you can say. and in the saying, show to the world that your country, for all its woes limits, for all of its distractions still has a beating heart. senator rob portman who was on "morning joe" yesterday, said, quote, i think we need to stand with the people who are suppo supportisuppor supporting democracy and freedom. we should stick with it. not only for the world but for ourselves to remember who we are. eugene robinson, it's stunning, these pictures that we have been seeing. >> yeah. >> i was talking about hungary56 and czechoslovakia, '68. i'm sure you remember the spring in '68 what the soviets did to that revelation. isn't it surreal to see these images coming out like from prague in 1968 and what account united states do? >> that is really the question, joe. last night, secretary of state john kerry put out a very tough statement that peggy noonan could have written saying that, yes, we st

one device manufacturer located in warsaw, indiana, develops and sells orthopedic implants for children, but recently had to shell of two -- shelve two important products because they had to get the money to pay the tax and couldn't put it into the research and development of the next product. i quote an employee of this company, "the medical device excise tax has inhibited us from developing new products that can reduce a wheelchairbound child's discomfort or allow a kid to walk for the first time." real consequences here. companies that are many innovative, struggling to design that new product that can be life-enhancing and life saving have simply had to defer their product simply to pay the tax. they may not have made a penny in net profits. many of these are start-up companies hoping to develop and get f.d.a. approval for the next new innovation, the next new life-enhancing innovation yet they're taxed not on their net profits or many losing money initially, in order to go through the tortuous and time consuming process of getting f.d.a. approval, but -- which denies them getting t

meeting in warsaw, and we did a number of panels where we had businesses. and they wanted to do it. they wanted to tell their story. they wanted the world to know why they were taking on sustainability. so that, i think, is a very, very positive development. and i think as we continue to need to make progress to deal with carbon pollution and climate change, that that shift is just going to be very important. the negative side, i think, is just, you know, the breakdown of bipartisan consensus on the environment, that, you know, you could have a knockdown, drag out fight 20 years ago about how to achieve an environmental goal, but not whether it was worth doing or not. and that total breakdown of that and the failure of the congress to even seriously consider important policy issues around environmental protection is just, it's, i think it's just a very unfortunate thing that's happened. >> i, when i was, had my hearing to the epa administrator, so that would have been in december of 1992, john chaffee, rhode island -- great, great environmentalist, great republican leader, said to m

great events of our time was the end of the cold war, the dissolution of the soviet empire and of the warsaw pact. the ukrainians were really left out of that revolution because their economy was not reformed. ofy did not have the rule law that safeguarded their private business or political interest. they were run by pro-russian and .ometimes procommunist rulers have a people of ukraine chance for a very different future. it is certainly in the interest of the united states to see as president george h w bush said more than 20 years ago, europe should be whole, free, and peace. that is the strategic aim of every american president from president truman all the way to president obama, including presidents reagan president bush, and president clinton. we do have a stake in what happens there. united states is only going to operate through political means. there is no question we questiot use or threaten to use military force to get our way in europe. but we are a great if -- influence, political and economic influence on central european countries. we can help them achieve a better future. if

we already know that he's stealing art from amsterdam, from warsaw and from paris, the french are hidingow. >> and so excited right now to welcome george clooney, matt damon, hugh bonneville, jean dujardin, john goodman and bob balaban, good morning, america. did you have a terrific time making this. >> we did. >> we did. >> george didn't. >> george had to work. >> he had work to do. >> it was fun. >> i understand when the weather got bad the teamwork really kicked in. >> these guys would pick up camera boxes and help us out. everybody helped out whenever the weather got bad. it was fun. >> i didn't know it was unusual. i thought it was part of my contract. >> if you ask him this morning he'll carry something. >> he'll carry anything. >> i got the trash out this morning for you guys. >> thank you. thank you. let me ask you how did you hear about the project and get together with george? >> okay, in english, i'll speak -- >> do you have one week in -- >> when george called me i sa said -- >> oui. >> no, i'm on vacation. get out of here. no. i saw his movie before and i knew it would be in

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they've just now arrived in warsaw to get this painting back at the charter rescue museum. >> host: matthewin tacoma, washington, you are on with robert edsel. >> caller: hi. i was wondering if you found much out about the porcelain factories, the great porcelain factories in your book, in france especially and then also the -- [inaudible] factories in germany, if much of that was destroyed? also i was wondering who your favorite tennis player is and who you prefer, fellowederer or nadal? >> guest: what was the last part? >> host: didn't catch the last part. but if you want to answer the tennis question, more importantly. >> guest: with the things that are missing today, we have to deal in the done text of what's portable and what's not and also degree of fragility. works of art that were porcelain, so many of those things destroyed, coins melted. if a painting rolled up weighed 200 pounds, you know, one person's not lugging that around. so most of the things we're going to find are going to be things which a soldier could take home as a souvenir, put under their jacket, ship home. those ar

company calls his washington office or washington office and says i read in the wall street journal warsaw on fox that this was going to happen the guy who is running it will say don't worry about it. it is not going to happen and we will keep you informed. >> the president and republicans say they favor comprehensive reform that would eliminate lots of tax breaks like these to allow lower more internationally competitive corporate tax rates to boost the economy and create jobs. dagen: thank you, peter barnes in washington. connell: what peter was talking about, the budget from the president is expected to bring back a recurring theme that we talked about over the years, higher taxes on a ridge. dagen: the wall street journal's jane freeman joining us with more, higher taxes and higher spending. he really is not trying to play nice with the republicans at all. >> we remember a very brief moment early in his first term when he pretended to care about deficits and appointed by erskine bowles's commission and ignore their findings. he is really saying he wants to drive spending to $3.9 trilli

great events of our time was the end of the cold war, the dissolution of the soviet empire and of the warsawact. the ukrainians were really left out of that revolution because their economy was not reformed. ofy did not have the rule law that safeguarded their private business or political interest. they were run by pro-russian and .ometimes procommunist rulers have a people of ukraine chance for a very different future. it is certainly in the interest of the united states to see as president george h w bush said more than 20 years ago, europe should be whole, free, and peace. that is the strategic aim of every american president from president truman all the way to president obama, including presidents reagan president bush, and president clinton. we do have a stake in what happens there. united states is only going to operate through political means. there is no question we questiot use or threaten to use military force to get our way in europe. but we are a great if -- influence, political and economic influence on central european countries. we can help them achieve a better future. if w

we already know that he's stealing art from amsterdam, from warsaw and from paris, the french are hidingg it. >> this is why hitler didn't bomb paris. >> well, he bombed london. >> yes, i know. >> and so excited right now to welcome george clooney, matt damon, hugh bonneville, jean dujardin, john goodman and bob balaban, good morning, america. did you have a terrific time making this. >> we did. >> we did. >> george didn't. >> george had to work. >> he had work to do. >> it was fun. >> i understand when the weather got bad the amon. >> put a team together. >> the concept is so unbelievable that this, you know, sort of motley crue of civilians gets thrown in there to protect these incredible works of art. were you surprised that we hadn't heard this story before? >> i had no idea that there was a group of designated people over there and i had no idea that hitler was systemically raiding all of the museums in europe basically for his museum and at the end of this story he was going to destroy everything. >> hugh, i want to ask you, your cast was just on on "downton abbey." >> they have ye