because in the final vote for the second world war there are thirty rowing clubs in warsaw everyone was rowing now there are basically no opportunities for amateurs to take part and we want to change that in the young so it's simply impressive so many sights on the vistula that's the first time in my life i've seen that and i'm really happy. to put it to. thirty teams are competing but not directly against each other they're fighting the clock and conditions are ideal the water is relatively calm and no transport ship traffic is allowed on this stretch of the river for some it's almost hard to imagine that we can row right in the middle of warsaw. sylvia competed for poland in the london summer olympics she wants to boost the sport's popularity. numerous bit of noise and i'm really proud and happy that rowing is catching people's attention in warsaw as the capital of poland and that's helping rowing to get noticed just like in the good old days rowing has indeed been making waves on the vistula but it's not just about competitions like this one rowing is supposed to become a sport for t

at a demonstration in warsaw. person for the first time he is the country's de facto leader and as such he is pushing through his political program. political power derives from the fact that he is chairman of the governing law and justice party last year he organized monthly rallies to honor his twin brother who was killed in a plane crash in twenty ten. kaczynski used these events to promote his political agenda an agenda that has become increasingly radical. that big giving any outsiders will not be able to impose their will on us ever again. and if that means that we become isolated within europe so be it but. richard i repeat victory is near. we must keep moving forward with patience and determination. just grammar they accuse the government of lying some demonstrators carrying white roses symbols of peaceful resistance kaczynski supporters respond by singing poland's national anthem. the police are here to protect them. officers also arrested a number of the opposition protesters even though their demonstrat

now growing used to be a popular pastime in the polish capital warsaw but people stopped taking part in the activity after the second world war now however the sport of seeing an unexpected revival but it's a long haul in the morning to the vistula river in warsaw for an international rowing event it might not sound terribly special but it is to a lot of poles they treat this sport as something almost exotic. because of the you know a little bit more the second world war there are thirty growing clubs and more so everyone was rowing now there are basically no opportunities for amateurs to take part and we want to change that in the young so it's simply impressive so many sights on the vistula that's the first time in my life i've seen that and i'm really happy that there are few but to put into. thirty teams are competing but not directly against each other they're fighting the clock and conditions are ideal the water is relatively calm and no transport ship traffic is allowed on this stretch of the river for some it's almost hard to imagine that you can row right in the middle of wa

august twenty first one nine hundred sixty eight within a few hours some two hundred fifty thousand warsaw pact troops invade communist rule czechoslovakia in the capital prague cameramen secretly shoot this footage of soviet tanks arriving to put an end to what is known as the prague spring at dawn the czech government announces the invasion and appeals to the population to remain calm and offer no resistance but in some neighborhoods like this one near wenceslas square predominantly young residents try to stop the tanks tension rises following the arrest of alexander dubcek the czech leader who led the reforms constituting the prague spring a large spontaneous demonstration takes place in the late afternoon at the head of the procession as the czechoslovak in flag stained with blood more than twenty people lose their lives the secret footage quickly reaches the west and is broadcast on television in several countries what sparked this violent military intervention what were the consequences who shot the footage and how to get to the other side of the iron curtain. on the night of august

the polish capital warsaw last november more than fifty thousand people took part in a march organized by right wing nationalist groups their battle cry get poland out of the e.u. . their opponent liberal western europe it's part of the effort to mobilize white catholics to fight for their country against the european union. jaroslav kaczynski the leader of the ruling law and justice party was a featured speaker. we will have the poll and we want no one will impose their will on us ever again our victory is mere written by a british god. what is going on in poland right now i'm returning to a country that i thought i knew well but now it seems that i no longer do i worked as a reporter in warsaw for four years when i left in two thousand and four poland was celebrating its accession to the e.u. the popular vote in favor was overwhelming. russia to help to organize polish support for the e.u. . at that time there was a real sense of optimism throughout the country. last winter i returned to poland for the first time since then and found that things have changed i've received death threa

but one must is over why did they do that to us what did they show of all those weapons of warsaw and. they turned it into a public festival. what about the security threats to the public this i knew this would be flogging a fleet of what about the technological issues are going to face me when he thought of what sort of horrific military adventures with those weapons be used for the trip to sin out here in. the public was still welcome at the base even as peace activists made their presence felt those who tried to hand out leaflets were turned back. and the visitors were no longer allowed to get too close to the aircraft. and. sometimes there were clashes between demonstrators and security police that was. peace activists trying to find out more about supplies of u.s. nerve gas stockpiled in the nearby town of clausen and nuclear warheads stored in fish caught. in the inverse sheaf keeps things the images we have thrown gives us isis from food if something had gone wrong with those weapons what consequences with that have had for the local residents in on him often so i would go to t

eastern parts there as we head through sunday it's got a real dramatic change to the weather on it warsaw instead of thirty degrees which

to your house first of optimism has opened in warsaw. and the big trip to switzerland to home. i don't borrow is the festival fever at the moment among all of us the french festival is in full swing it would have started a nine hundred forty seven as an event for fringe groups of that time eight independent theater groups organized based on officially banned which took place alongside the established edinburgh festival but thanks changed today it's the largest cultural festival in the what artists from more than fifty countries take part but with such a varied program thousands of events it's not that easy for perform us to get people to come to their show. every august musicians and theater groups converge scotland for the fringe festival and for more than three weeks the venerable. old town becomes a speech for performers from all over the world. god it's time we. well it would be excellent thing is unique. as far as i'm aware this police sales in the world where art just lives and breathes is overwhelming but i think that's the best part of fringe where you go you get pulled

and its warsaw pact allies invaded czechoslovakia and crushed the short lived movement few can forget the dramatic pictures of tanks on the streets of prague crushing a largely nonviolent resistance in getting students right as an intellectuals one hundred fifty people were kids. chorus line from coastline reports how events of the time still cost the long shadow on the politics of today. better hour is looking for traces of the past near the radio station building in prague fifty years ago dramatic scenes unfolded on this street. mall when i was standing in front of this tree. the shells were exploding shrapnel was flying everywhere. explosions and shrapnel everywhere barricades were crushed by soviet tanks soldiers shot demonstrators there our took photographs on that long day along with many other progress that ends in the early hours of august twenty first one nine hundred sixty eight warsaw pact troops ended the prague spring dream of an open and humane communist system at the start of the year the communist party had begun allowing greater freedom of expression journalists worki

president, we can stop this madness right here in warsaw. that was yeb saÑo when he was the lead climate negegotiatr for the philippines in 2013 speaking in warsaw. democracy now! was there covering the cop. the next year in lima, peru, suddenly, yeb saÑo was no longer a climate negotiator for the philippines. and the word was that his .utspokenness led to his ouster but it has not stopped them from being a climate environmentalist as he continues to march around the environment and for climamae action, rob nixon. think -- what we're seeing, and there was a noticeable shift around 2011 at the durban climate summit, what froromeeing is alliances the global south -- and some of them, as you say, subsequently get ousted. but the creation of alliances people from small island nations, from mid-level innomies, from countries africa -- some of these countries that are exceedingly vulnerable getting together and trying to create some kind of coral effect in an effort to be heard were the most decisive players like the u.s. and china are draggining

to have a good time ramstein also played a key role in nato is front line of defense against the warsaw pact the base was fully stocked with the latest missiles nuclear and chemical weapons were stored nearby. just a few kilometers south of ramstein near the municipality of can spot is the site of nato's former air defense operations center if the warsaw pact had attacked the air base command and control operations would have been transferred here. this facility which was closed in one thousand nine hundred four covered thirty five hundred square meters its primary mission was to monitor european airspace for potential threats. the nearly seventy rooms contain an early version of a computer that plotted bombing strategy plus equipment for analyzing enemy code traffic and. facility for processing reconnaissance photos. and the center was completely self-sufficient it had its own water supply electricity generators climate control system and accommodations for the staff. the military weapons have always held a certain fascination for some people. in the early years after ramstein was open

stretch of the river for some it's almost hard to imagine the you can row right in the middle of warsaw. sylvia competed for poland in the london summer olympics she wants to boost the sport's popularity. numerous betting a bit of noise and i'm really proud and happy that rowing is catching people's attention in warsaw as the capital of poland and that's helping growing to get noticed just like in the good old days rowing has indeed been making waves on the vistula but it's not just about competitions like this one rowing is supposed to become a sport for the people and where else can you find so much nature right in the middle of a major city. now to tennis and a former world number one andy murray has been ousted from the first round of the cincinnati open as he continues says come back from hip surgery and the break is working to get back into top shape ahead of the u.s. open later this month on murray did put up a good fight after losing the first set to look at france you see murray in the white shirt there he found his composure and battled hard. to take the second step but it was

the germans and americans grew tense peace groups demonstrated against nato's policies toward the warsaw pact and called into question the open house events at brimstone airbase. but one must is over why did they do that to what did they. show of all those weapons of war story and. they turned it into a public festival. what about the security threats to the public this i mean sort of the frog in a feature what about the technological issues that are going to face me when you thought of what sort of horrific military adventures with those weapons be used for the trick the sin of. the public was still welcome at the base even as peace activists made their presence felt those who tried to hand out leaflets were turned back. and the visitors were no longer allowed to get too close to the aircraft. sometimes there were clashes between demonstrators and security police that was up . was. peace activists tried to find out more about supplies of u.s. nerve gas stockpiled in the nearby town of clausen and nuclear warheads stored in fishponds. and the inverse sheaf keeps when thought it was reall

the presidents warsaw speech. it will go down, mark it now, as one of the most important presidential speeches of the modern age. video, andtch the understand what it means when we have a president who uses ideas and talks about good confronting evil. we haven't done that for many years. think about the fact that he talks about what our polish -- with our polish conrad's bleeding and -- comrades leading and dined together. it wasn't easy for us, but we insisted with the warsaw government that the president use some beautiful central location for the speech, but he do it right next to the warsaw uprising. it took several weeks for that to happen. it was important that he did it right there next to the monument and statue of those freedom fighters coming out of the sewers to reassert the sovereignty of their nation. think about the fact that in that speech, the president mentioned the event on june 2, 1979, which the then polish administration refused to televise, where one million human beings living in a captive s

the nazis would avoid the raf and smash the city of london into the rubble they had made of warsaw andterdam. >> even the people themselves did not know the answer. defenses they trusted inward london's hastily assembled antiaircraft, a balloon barrage which cap the raiders at high altitude. the royal, now down to its last reserves, and the plane downright got of the people -- of the plain downright guts the people. they sent more children out of the city. tightened air raid precautions, stationed more airplane spotters, rehearsed firefighters , moved into bomb shelters. they blacked out there city and carried on. the first blow aimed to crush the british spirit came on september 7. that day when 375 german planes came rolling up the thames river, the battle of britain became the battle of london. the germans broke through the charge of hurricanes and spitfires that went out to meet them. gone was any pretense of aiming at military objectives. this was just savage destruction. bombs fell alike on the homes of the poor and rich, on shops, churches. for 28 days, the not see his is droppe

coventry was smashed to the status of warsaw and what -- rotterdam.d ones out of the ruins and saw them to their last resting place in a common grave. [mournful music continues] hitler could kill them, but damned if he could kill their spirit. they knew the bench was as a rifle and aas new enemy had to be destroyed. the day was coming when they would strike back. and how they would strike back. ♪ christmas, 1940. [chorus singing o come let us adore him] christmas, this season of peace on earth and goodwill toward men. hitler's first burst of rage against the people who cannot be licked. [bomb sirens] [yell] he cannot bomb them into submission, so he would burn then to ashes. -- them to ashes. millions of firebombs rained down on the great city of london. morematter of minutes, than 1500 different sections of thatity worst into flames merged into the greatest fire in recorded history. in the midst of the fire and destruction, vital water mains were shattered and water pressure was almost entirely cut off. heroes of the night were men of the london fire

at nearly forty percent alcohol by volume it's not the healthiest drop put warsaw's new vodka museum does mention that too. and what vodka is for the poets jesus to the swiss many tells of regions are known for something particular we share some of them in our serious regional success stories for example cheese from switzerland as far. as would white it was named after the region from which it comes the valley in the canton of byrne this is the original even if for more than one hundred years the cheese has also been produced outside switzerland but for the alpine republic it is clear that can only be one real m. and. anyhow it's a holiday cheese made from cows milk and it comes complete with homes even though many. also use the name the most and intel is the epitome of swiss cheese. markets editor says it is even more. get picked this cheese has had an impact on our valley and it's still the king of cheeses. what makes em and toast a typical and unique is that it tastes almost sweet. and so is the valley in the canton of down in west central switzerland some one hundred thousand peo

warsaw's new vodka museum can make qantas words of its visitors the vodka tasting is part of the tour and it promises to be a high proof experience it is the amount of course you don't drink it warm but it should be room temperature that makes a difference high proof alcohol tastes better that way and so this is a. must drive you to your health. your face now i wouldn't say it tastes good but that would be worrying if i had to ever tasted good to be ok i think of it peaches i know from my own experience the more you drink the better it tastes in smoke the. vodka is part of polish history during world war two for instance poles used the spirit to bribe the german occupiers it's been distilled here for some five hundred years so it first only for medicinal purposes enjoyment came later as the interactive museum shows that i have testable them we can read some very interesting things in this book from the sixteenth century the oldest one here to mention vodka. such as recipes for medicines come into. holes distilled what nature provided wheat rye and most of all polish potatoes vodka bec

the dream of a free and open communist society died that day for bear howa other warsaw pact countries also played a role in the events that led up to it moscow received a lot of support from east germany its leadership had been fighting the reform movement in neighboring czechoslovakia for months evidence of those activities can be found at the old east german stasi archives. here archivist all averse to being has worked his way through a mountain of documents that include over a thousand photographs among them some of the country's own agents. the minute by that. they were told to get photographic evidence of all enemy actions to take pictures at all of the protests and document who was there so those people could later be prosecuted or operatives of. the information was supposed to be shared with state security services in other eastern bloc nations. this is the first time these images have ever been shown on television most of them have only been checked and sorted in the last few years. back in prague at the czech archive first state security during the communist era andre my take

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it's only one minute a long long road to follow along fine playing it's on a minus a leg in warsaw and that's in the offing outlined in the top notes almost enough if i saw a movie follow my own talk for a long. while. to do. that. so these games are really important because that it's an option for these girls either on trial and we're selecting we're looking for twelve girls to travel to dublin into trying qualify for the olympics is probably more satisfaction and you know i guess her trial proceeds and earning the right to wear the jersey in that cell should be a should never be given to anybody pleasure so much the profile of mccomas like your head i think and i just counterfeits a love seat for the up. what was the war. that was. good. though. the remember. them. all. because i'm not going to beat around the bush it was actually really embarrassing i'm not expecting us to be perfect but i am expecting that you can still make a tackle ok you can still use your voice you can still catch a high ball from kickoff because if we don't talk that's what happens if you're a really trying to

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in fault that our weapons and up in warsaw and in countries which are on that embargo we should stop immediately exports. since their discovery the documents have been verified by international experts. so what is bulgaria's position on these exports. the government declined to come and so we turn to the only bulgarian official prepared to speak to us it is possible to say that is the best lippert mice in the world stefan bought a new chair of the co president of the association of bulgaria and defense industries. of this one is possible to destroy tank on the later my vehicles most of its members export arms to the middle east and he shows us some of the nice defense products they have developed for private and government clients. we want to know if bulgaria is at fault when the u.s. special operations command or so-called passes the weapons on. as a member of the e.u. bulgaria is required to stick to the arms control treaties many of the contracts are fulfilled with the americans putting so as end user but it is known that the weapons are going to syria if you receive and use it fo

by think to commissioner warsaw, he is harboring around, you know, so if you are parked there, who tells you to remove -- who tells you to -- >> let's just say your neighbor complains that this has happened. at that point, that district inspector would go to verify the complaint and would write a notice of violation. as opposed to the way it used to work, if a district inspector noticed it, he would refer it to the planning code enforcement and planning code enforcement would have the responsibility of responding. in the supervisor's view, planning code enforcement doesn't have enough code enforcement officers or whatever. they're not able to spend the time doing that. we already have people who are in the neighborhood anyways. so, logically he thinks we could take on this code enforcement. >> you come out and move the car. how do you stop them from parking there again? >> well, good question. i'm short of 24/7 surveillance, i don't think that's easily done. >> are we -- are we supposed to have a drive-by squad and go around and make sure -- >> it could result, of course, if you didn't g

is odd because warsaw is 200 miles away from any shore.ike, "we don't care." >> seth: "yeah, we're just --" >> "we're just getting drunk. we can't -- [ laughter ] maybe there is a river bank nearby." well, there's still all this -- i mean, there's still, you know, "the bachelor" so thank god. >> seth: yeah. [ laughter ] >> because when you see attractive insane people trying to hook up, it's really -- it really shows that it's great to be alive. >> seth: yeah. [ laughter ] amd we're very lucky to have you -- >> yeah. >> seth: there to sort of usher us through it all. it's always such a pleasure to have you here. >> oh, i'm not done. i'd like to talk about more things. >> seth: okay, great. [ laughter ] thank you so much for being here, joel. always a pleasure. >> thank you for having me. thank you, guys. >> seth: give it up for joel mchale, everybody! [ cheers and applause ] "joel mchale show with joel mchale" is currently streaming on netflix. we'll be right back with beth ditto. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ main menu. oh! ok, robot. press o