poland topped off a long weekend with a spectacular light show in the capital of warsaw.ocals and tourists gathered to watch fireworks in a laser light display. laser beams conjured up images from myths and legends about warsaw, including a dragon turning people into stone. ♪ brent: here is a reminder of the top stories we are following. the leaders of germany and russia held talks in sochi. merkel and putin agreed more must be done to end the syrian conflict, where russia supports the government of bashar al-assad. she wants him to ensure the rights of the prosecuted -- persecuted gay community in chechnya. a scandal threatening to envelop the german armed forces. ursula von der leyen involved in a row with top officers after the arrest of a soldier accused of plotting a far right terror attack. after short break i will be back to take you through the day. reyes: chile is one of the most seismic countries in the world, and it's now better equipped to handle future quakes. i'm elaine reyes in washington, dc, and this is "americas now." [siren] first up, an earthquake-pron

they have them in a warsaw zoo. in the zookeepers wife. it recalls the british explorers search. after that is hd tv the magnolia story.

it could turn cooler in warsaw and stockholm. here at home, warmerfor warsaw and stockholm.oing to see any more rain for the week ahead? stay tuned. you watching bbc news, our main headlines. britain's governing conservatives are on course to make significant gains in local elections. with a month until the general election, they've won hundreds of extra seats, many from the opposition labour party. the french presidential candidates are winding up their campaigns, opinion polls suggest the far right contender marine le pen needs at least 20% points to overtake mark emmanuel macron. north korea has accused the us of plotting with south korea to assassinate kim jong—un. the state media when the cia and south korea's italian, intelligent in dr involve a plot. and

they have them in a warsaw zoo. in the zookeepers wife. it recalls the british explorers search. after that is hd tv the magnolia story. some of these authors have or will be appearing on book tv. you can also watch them on a website book tv.org. here is his book. it's called another day in the death of america. mister young, november 23, 2013 why is that date significant. mister young, november 23, 2013 why is that date significant. it's not. that's the whole point. it's a day after the 50th anniversary of the assassination. for me it was a random day that i chose in order to make the statistic real. seven children and teens inis america i want to find out who these kids were. what they wanted to be. you basically just picked it out of a hat.a syst in order for the book to work there had to be seven in the past that day. me on that. if i wanted a higher numbers i would've gone through the summer. more children die because they're out in the summer. in your book you write that firearms are the leading source of death among black children under the age of 19. the second leading ca

report on the arrival of the first china europe train which is carrying chinese made products to warsawill need to buy a personal act of —— accident policies of at least $60,000. that is returned to the french are elections and talk about what will happen in the coming weeks and months. sometime between tuesday and months. sometime between tuesday and no later than next saturday the 13th, the government of the sitting resident francois hollande will resign to stop by monday the 15th, emmanuel macron will be sworn in as president. at the moment, there is no set —— precise date. in early june, the first round of elections to the lower house takes place and a week later, it is the second and final round based on those results. a government reshuffle is likely. joining the now in the studio is a professor douglas webber, at a business school that is based in france but we have a campus here in singapore which shows that the internationalisation of the french institutions. first, we have had a lot of analysis about the domestic issues of what president emmanuel macron will have to do. let's

disappointing temperatures in warsaw and parts of germany.is week warm and sunny further west. and forget you can see a full uk weather forecast here in about five —— half an hour. hello, i'm karin giannone, this is outside source. our top story is the french presidential election. at a rally in paris, frontrunner emmanuel macron urged his supporters to choose hope over despair and resist the far—right. translation: the question being posed on may 7th is that of the future of france, of europe, and a certain concept of the world. at her own event, marine le pen launched a stinging attack on her rival saying he is the "candidate of continuity". translation: emmanuel macron isjust francois hollande who wants to stick around and is clinging onto power like a barnacle. brexit talks are looming, but what was really said at last week's meeting between theresa may and jean claude juncker? we'll speak to a journalist who claims to know. and don't forget you can get in touch about any

thousands of polish opposition supporters have taken taking part what they called a freedom march through warsaws on democracy imposed by the governing party. the opposition has accused the governing party of trying to stack the constitutional tribunal with sympathetic judges and of manipulating radio and television coverage. other news now. pupils from two girls‘ schools in the indian capital, delhi, have been taken to hospital for treatment after a chemical leaked from a fuel tanker. the substance, which is thought to have been used in pesticides, caused eye and throat irritations — as well as breathing difficulties. police say they'll be taking legal action against the chemical handlers. our south asia regional editor, charles haviland is following the story. details emerged rather slowly throughout saturday. first we had reports of a few dozen schoolgirls being admitted to hospital for treatment, but later in the day, the official indian news agency said more than 300 had been admitted, from two schools, and several teachers needing treatment. the symptoms were problems with their eyes, thro

tens of thousands of people have marched through the polish capital, warsaw, to protest against the country'se ruling law and justice party is endangering democracy. the rally, which was organised by the main opposition group, civic platform, was also a show of support for the european union. pope francis has criticised the naming of america's largest non—nuclear explosive ever used in combat, as "the mother of all bombs". last month the us military dropped the device on islamic state militants in afghanistan. the pope's comments come ahead of his meeting with president trump later this month. the italian coastguard says about 6,000 migrants trying to reach europe have been rescued in the mediterranean over the past 48 hours. officials said they coordinated around a0 separate emergency missions on friday and saturday. many of the migrants were trying to make the crossing from libya in makeshift vessels stay with us here on bbc news, still to come: the teenage racing driver who lost both legs in a horrific crash vows to get back behind the wheel. the main political parties have been out canvas

video link between delegates tens of thousands of people have marched through the polish capital, warsawst against the country's government. they claim the ruling law and justice party is endangering democracy. the rally, which was organised by the main opposition group, civic platform, was also a show of support for the european union. pope francis has criticised the naming of america's largest non—nuclear explosive ever used in combat, as "the mother of all bombs". last month the us military dropped the device on islamic state militants in afghanistan. the pope's comments come ahead of his meeting with president trump later this month. the main political parties here in the uk have been out canvassing support on the first full weekend of the general election campaign. the british prime minister theresa may says she's grateful for the support her conservative party received in the local elections. the leader of the labour party, jeremy corbyn — has admitted he has a mountain to climb. fighting has eased in parts of syria where a russian—led ceasefire has taken effect. the russian defenc

it reports on the arrival of the first china—europe block train, carrying chinese—made products to warsawmployers in singapore will have to provide better insurance coverage for theirforeign maids. from this october, they will need to buy personal accident policies with coverage of at least $60,000. well, let's return to the french elections. let's talk now about will happen in the coming weeks and months. some time between tuesday, and no later than next saturday the 13th, the government of the sitting president, francois hollande, will resign. by monday the 15th, emmanuel macron will be sworn in as president of france at the elysee palace — at the moment there's no precise date for this. but it won't be clear until next month how easy or hard it will be for mr macron to push through his agenda. that's because in earlyjune, the first first round of elections to the lower house of the french parliament takes place. and a week later, it's the second and final round. based on those results, a government reshuffle is likely. douglas webber told me the result would be viewed in a positive lig

christopher hill, in warsaw, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much.tart with the general point about president trump and his foreign policy making style. admittedly, we only have 100 and a few more days tojudge him on. to what extent do you think it is breaking off the norms of foreign policy leadership? he is certainly breaking with the norms in terms of a virtual lack of staff. he has a secretary of state, a secretary of defence and there is not much in between. you get the impression that when he says things, it is really from his heart or i guess some other place, but it's definitely not considered opinion. that's one thing that is very different. another thing that's very different is, and this was a kind of criticism of president obama, that he didn't really take the time to get to know these foreign leaders, whereas donald trump has them to dinner and takes them to florida, et cetera. it also seems very friendly but you just really don't have a sense of where it's quite going. i think largely because he doesn't really know where it's quite goin

tens of thousands of people have marched through the polish capital, warsaw, to protest against the country'se ruling law and justice party is endangering democracy. the rally, which was organised by the main opposition group, civic platform, was also a show of support for the european union. pope francis has criticised the naming of america's largest non—nuclear explosive ever used in combat as "the mother of all bombs". last month, the us military dropped the device on islamic state militants in afghanistan. the pope's comments come ahead of his meeting with president trump later this month. thousands of venezuelan women have taken part in anti—government protests in the capital, caracas. they are calling for fresh presidential elections and an end to police repression. meanwhile, president trump's national security adviser has met the president of venezuela's opposition—led national assembly, in washington. wyre davies reports. the daily wave of protests against the government of nicolas maduro continues across venezuela. in the capital, caracas, thousands of women marched on the defence m

have taken pa rt opposition supporters have taken part in what they call a freedom march through warsawwhat they see as curbs on democracy imposed by the governing party. the opposition has accused the party of trying to stack the constitutional tribunal with sympathetic judge the constitutional tribunal with sympatheticjudge alljudges the constitutional tribunal with sympathetic judge all judges and the constitutional tribunal with sympatheticjudge alljudges and of manipulating media coverage. hundreds of homes in canada have been evacuated after heavy rain caused flooding. two suburbs of montreal are among the areas most affected with residents on the tiny islands of ile de mercier urged to leave their home. quebec has requested help from the military. let's go to the indian capital where pupils from two girls school have been taken to hospital for treatment after a chemical leak from a fuel tanker. the substance is thought to have been used in pesticides, which has caused eye and throat irritation as well as breathing difficulty. our regional editor for south asia is following the st

we had the warsaw pact, which was formed a little bit later on one side and nato on the other. 1990,ll came down. the end of the soviet union. should it be wound up? i thought at this point, when we were into a process of rapprochement across europe, gorbachev and a common european home, maybe that was the time for the organisation of security and corporation in europe to take over, sadly, that didn't happen. i think the role of nato now has to be to build good relations with the neighbours and insist on democracy and human rights being part of that agenda of good relations. but it was only three years ago that you called it a very dangerous frankenstein and a danger to world peace. do you still believe that or not? i want to work within nato to achieve stability. i want to work within nato to promote human rights and democracy, and under a labour government, that's exactly what we'd be doing. but do you think it's a frankenstein? i think all organisations need to be accountable. so have you changed your views on nato? no. so you still think... can i finish my sentence, please? you c

christopher hill, in warsaw, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much.general point about the president and his foreign policy making style. admittedly, we only have 100 more days to judge policy making style. admittedly, we only have 100 more days tojudge him on. “— only have 100 more days tojudge him on. —— have only had 100 days to judge him on. what you think it is breaking off the norms in pot —— foreign policy leadership? he is certainly breaking with the norms in a virtual lack of staff. he has the secretary of state, as secretary of defence and there is not much in between. you get the impression that when he says things, it is really from his heart or i guess some other place but it's definitely not considered opinion. that's one thing thatis considered opinion. that's one thing that is very different. another thing that's very different is, and this was a kind of criticism of president 0bama, he didn't really at the time to get to know these foreign leaders where is donald trump has them to dinner and takes them to florida, et cetera. it also h

for example, warsaw. back office. have a lot of skill. it's a lot cheaper.ate to theame very party. they started talking a couple months ago. sauce?hat's the secret this is a company whose trading revenue has actually -- absolutely trounced its european rivals. equity and structure finance has done well for them. and clearly they have been happy to stay at risk on. i saw them talking being more confident. they were saying definitely 50% pay out. we are funding growth. they haven't had to go through the pain of restructuring. that's the difference. the impact the restructuring has had we have actually seen. there can be a day without a deutsche bank story. is an ankara investor a good thing for deutsche bank? the billion they have just raised is all they need. it's not like we haven't seen the chinese out there. capital outflows. what does it mean, i'm not sure it means a lot. they obviously took the issue. andgot foreign investors they probably want to keep the capital out of the country. this isn't a short-term trade for them. mark: thanks for joining us, j

so let us remember, for their lesserd ours, member the heroes of warsaw, the martyrs of treblinka, then of auschwitz. they fought alone. they suffered alone. they lived alone. but they did not die alone. for something in all of us died with them. elie we pledge to wiesel, to the survivors and the victims, we shall always remember, for your sake and for hr ours. >> [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. pres. trump: thank you very much. thank you. friends, members of congress, ambassadors, veterans, and, most especially, to the survivors here with us today, it's an honor to join you on this very, very solemn occasion. i am deeply moved to stand before those who survived history's darkest hour. your cherished presence transforms this place into a sacred gathering. thank you, tom bernstein, alan holt, sara bloomfield, and everyone at the holocaust memorial council and museum for your vital work and tireless contributions. we are privileged to be joined by israel's ambassador to the united states, friend of mine -- he's done a great job and said some wonder

in the warsaw pact, you could make the wrong joke and your life will be destroyed.favor of that happening here. i happened to be in a court case in british columbia that involved an expert witness flown in from philadelphia to discuss my jokes for a day on the witness stand. those idiot jurists followed by prosecuting a guy after putting down a lesbian heckler. i'm not in favor of wrecking people's lives for jokes. i will say on the point of comedy and i don't think actually the rogaine line is a joke. when he said trump attracts more skinheads than free rogaine, skinheads shave their heads. >> eboni: that's what i thought. >> kat: they are bald on purpose. they don't want rogaine. >> he's got dozens of writers, this guy. why'd this joke get through? that's what we need an investigation on. >> eric: i know why it got through. here's what this was for this with a shot back at trump after trump cut off the cbs john dickerson interview. we were there on monday at the white house filming something for this. cbs was back on monday morning. the white house put them in the

he was using the warsaw test which was a time to help understand psychotherapist. so far at least in this happy with the vietcong fighter that ink blocks veiled to release any insights into the fighter. he asked the viacom fighter to go through the parts and identify something sexual. nothing. than he has the fighter to find anything that reminded him of a person. nothing again. slope seemed puzzled that an imprisoned vietcong fighter being interviewed by a man interviewed-- interviewing him about his life-- the man was elected to even touch the card. speaking of archives i found out verbatim interview of this back-and-forth in the archives at mit which goes to the question of how do you write its history and there's actually a lot declassified and also have a collection run a country, so this is what the fighter replied acquainted the interview: i don't understand these pictures, so i don't know which ones i like or dislike. slope spent seven weeks in vietnam in which time he collected data on for vietnamese, a french educated writer, a student activist, a senior

the warsaw pact they are constantly deceased by this. they are bad guys. they have the russian issues separately. the russians have acted badly. they've done things undermine the organizations all across the federal government. they've gone into other wants to try to penetrate. the russian officials doing business with the trump properties that are now held in a trust. that they feel is grounds enough for impeachment. if they find something there. honestly we have to go down the legal path to figure that out. as much as i would see the idea going after nixon based on what he did it's eminently important. there's no evidence so far that there's been any sort of that collusion. i would like to believe since everything leaks in this town any sort of hint of it would've been leaked a long time ago. let's have over to france. people took to the streets in reaction to the victory. nearly a hundred 50 people were arrested in paris during the anti- capitalist riot last night. they damaged property also. he treats out congratulations to emmanuel macron on his big w

because this was an international flight, it's governed by the warsaw conventi convention.eans, the airline's negligence and their intent is irrelevant here. what matters is whether the event in question is considered and accident. the supreme court has held in part what constitutes this precedence of what makes an accident. they ruled that for example, a passenger on an airline flying close to the smoking section requested to be removed and was denied and eventually suffered and asthma attack. that was an accident and the airline is on the hook. that plaintiff died. here it doesn't matter if the pre-existing condition rose to the level of a disability or not. it doesn't matter. it's settled in tort law that we take the plaintiffs as they come. if we encounter a plaintiff with a skull of an eggshell and he has injured that nobody else would, we have to compensate him. >> neil: so to that point, a good one here, i guess we would have to prove that he did multiple times throughout the flight a 14-hour flight, that he raised the concerns. maybe it was a jam-packed flight. mayb

. >> one thing i noticed in the old cold war days, all the communist warsaw cameras were there.hey love showing our capitalist system as a terrible system and they love making us look bad in the world. are they trying to do that about our elections? are they going after us now on democracy? >> when my colleagues and i were watch thing over the last three years when they were trying to do their influence operations, we would see them attack the left and the right. if it was occupy movement or anti-government protests, they would be there trying to push propaganda, making sure that they were expanding their influence. they did that through their state sponsored outlets, but also through these gray ouetoutlets and covert personas. they would go anyone that wants to see the breakup of the union, if they want to push corruption of the dnc on one side or that republicans don't support trump, they'll appear in each of those circles. they find all cracks and they double down in that direction and they'll keep doing that from now until we come up with a countermeasure. >> thank you so mu

he said president andrew jackson who died before the civil warsaw it coming and was angry. never let it happen. you say the president's comments -- i'm going to be more specific here, are profoundly ignora ignorant. and there are dangerous consequences. what are the consequences? >> well, he didn't improve things with that late-night response. first of all, the idea that one strong man, president or otherwise, could have somehow staved off the civil war, is historically absurd. all that really seems to represent is a belief in or an attraction to by president trump, to strong men, political leer e leaders, in history or today. if jackson had been there in the 1850s, good lord, andrew jackson was a democrat. andrew jackson was a slave holder. he would have had the republican party, which elected lincoln, was the biggest danger to the american union. there's no logic how an drew jackson could have staved off the civil war, had he been alive. we are talking about nonsense. we have a president without historical knowledge. >> here's what really worries me. we need him to negoti

from warsaw, new york. independent line. caller: thanks so much for c-span. have been listening to it since it started back with brian lamb in 1979. steve: absolutely. caller: i think it is pretty basic what we are talking about today about church and state. , believe, when the pharisees who are kind of like the crumb bumbs who are trying to pull the wool over our eyes, jesus christ summed it up basically and the lady before me said the same thing. he said it is very simple. "render to caesar the things that are caesar's and to god the things that are god's." i wish that all the people representing god today -- they would be more concerned about their souls as opposed to money and all the politicians tough. leave that to the politicians. steve: the woman of the hour is a story from the sunday style of the new york times. judy woodruff was at the passing last year going through when eiffel, continuing to be a role model for female journalists. she is 70 years old and at the helm of news hour on pbs. from tulsa, oklahoma, republican line. caller: religious free

and they agreed back in warsaw three years ago for 2%. they recommitted in wales, as mr. blinken mentioned. that's what we're talking about, not payments of dues. >> a really extraordinary day here as the president is in belgium. one of the areas of contention with one of these member nations is we have heard that theresa may of britain was going to be confronting the president about leaks, information that had been shared from the uk with the u.s. when it came to this bombing in manchester, and now, sara murray joining us, she's on this trip with the president, a statement coming out from the administration, from the president, about their reaction to this information being published in the u.s., confirmed by u.s. officials before british officials ever wanted it out there. what can you tell us? >> reporter: that's right. well, we're still waiting to see when president trump and theresa may might meet privately to discuss this, but as you pointed out, there has been a lot of concern from the uk government that information surrounding this investigation into the mancheste

. >> she was born in warsaw, poland, in 1928 with a family legacy deeply immersed in diplomacy and somecentury's most momentous challenges. his father was a polish diplomat where he witnessed the rise of adolf hitler. from 1936 to '38, tad brzezinski was posted to the soviet union during stalin's purges. in 1938 the family moved to canada where a young brzezinski would see his homeland crushed, first by hitler's germany and then stalin's russia. a communist takeover that set a decades-long crusade against ussr. >> world war ii under the appearance of poland and the extraordinary violence in poland did affect my perception of the word. >> he earned a doctorate at harvard where he met and married his wife of almost 60 years, a young wellesley grad, painter and sculptor, amelia anna bennish. brzezinski would benied tenure and take his i'm measurable talents to -- >> offered a permanent chair as full professor. i said thank you very much, i prefer to be where i am. >> he would teach at columbia for decades and recently received the school's prestigious global leadership award. in 1958 he be

we had thousands of nuclear warheads on either second massive forces in nato and the warsaw pact.not one ak, not one in 60 was fired across checkpoint charlie that cold november night. how did we went? because we spoke truthfully about the enemy. the president said tear down this wall, mr. gorbachev. we undermined the ideologies of the enemy of the period we made communism look like a hollowed out, dead, total failure. and then the people on the other side took the wall done. it wasn't g.i. pickett was east germans with little pick axes that took it down. that's how we won. that's what we have to do today. we have to destroy the credibility of the jihadi ideology. by supporting our sunni allies. they are the greatest victims of this war. just look at the figures. the disease have been crushed, appreciative and persecuted of course but by far the greater number of victims in this war are our sunni partners. killed by the tens of thousands. america needs to understand is a connective tissue between the fascists of world war ii, the communists of the cold war and the enemy we face to

during the fall of the berlin wall and the collapse of the warsaw pact. heather has always been on an upward trajectory. she left government and started her own company, advising defense and scientific corporations. but you know what? public service has always called heather back. in 1995, she was asked to be the cabinet secretary of the new mexico children youth and families department where she oversaw foster care, adoption, early childhood education, children's mental health and the juvenile justice system. and from there, again, public service kept calling her and she was elected to the house of representatives in 1998, becoming the first woman to represent new mexico since the 1940's, and the first female veteran elected to a full term in the united states congress. this is where i met heather wilson, was in the house of representatives. her time on the hill included service on the united states house committee on armed services and the permanent select committee on intelligence. i was lucky enough to serve with heather wilson to learn from her , fro