the studio brought up a very interesting point about how russia look at the west and the west looked at russia during yeltsin's tenure how do you assess that i mean was there a pendulum there were there misperceptions on one side or both sides. i think the misperceptions on both sides russia expected the west to applaud to the end of communism the introduction of a post common is purportedly a democratic regime and it. expected the west to get lots of money to support a regime in to stabilize the transition to market democracy but the west responded to russia's softly ration by hearing to be fairly mean it wasn't for the us to be economic conditions the big marshall plea marshall plan number two as it were didn't come about and russia became more and more disillusioned about real partnership with the west but the trouble with russian foreign policy we were back to before the discussion is the rhetorical there was a lot of protest about nato expansion nato military zone and european like a friend in the us but in actual fact the actions were pro western until the late one thousand nin

and russia but what did you see i mean were the russians expecting too much from the west or the west just thought well that you know the cold war is over we won i mean you know they'll find their way on the i.m.f. you know there's you know have a liberal economic system and everything will just be destroyed and dandy but we know it wasn't i mean what were the perceptions and misperceptions during your tenure here. well there were a lot of misperceptions i want to say first that i agree with alex that that yeltsin change the west changed but i would also say that that russia changed i think the west expected a kind of a breakthrough to a larger version of maybe what polar the czech republic is today and that simply was never in retrospect going to be the case second the west i think it's important to recall the rest championed the one nine hundred ninety three constitutional reforms that gave a much stronger presidency to yeltsin then have existed before and as a consequence to some extent we better that what we now criticize as a super thought super presidential regime but i want to

a partner of the west and that we just wasn't simply in braced i think he wanted to be able the west and i think it's very unfortunate what happened there was a lot of me stuff but you need this you know my moment and sort of moving in russia . and america and some of the europeans just didn't think of night that moment and some only they didn't believe it and when they finally believe that russia started to set in you know the moment i'm still moving you know but i don't think he's going to be interesting i mean you know all of germany we look at the one thousand nine hundred six presidential election i mean it was amazingly fraudulent but everybody in the west wanted to ignore all of the fraud he won he won reelection ok we don't know exactly i mean i haven't gone back on the empirical evidence myself but i mean just supporting him and not what he was trying to do the democratization of this country its economic reforms they just wanted to base everything on yeltsin hoping that he would do the right thing what do you think about that alex not a systemic change but it on a person. y

have asked you know the west and our friends in the west. to be given a chance to sort of sort of the situation saw shots are being called for you from saudi arabia rather than from the west itself unlike syria. libya where the saudis are happy with what the west is doing there also if i could stay with if i can stay with you mr ambassador i mean looking at an article from the new york times yesterday u.s. is intensifying a secret campaign of yemen air strikes how does that play into it all i mean is the u.s. really critically care who comes out on top in yemen as long as they can continue their air strikes against what they believe are terrorist are groups in operations in yemen where this yemen in the yemeni yemeni people feel into all of this well it's obviously very much what did you know or what happened in that very important . area. for sure they would like to see somebody who is in charge there could continue their cooperation which which. has given to the west and i think the opposition and in your region you would give the they hav

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of lincoln, just west from ninth avenue. it was built to help service people who were working on the big winter fair. they are still hoping the neighborhood. >> it is an offshoot of the 1892-8093 columbian exposition in chicago. when they were done, san francisco said bring it here. >> that is the chicken ranch. the building to the east of that is the chicken ranch, and you can see beyond to the west all sand dunes and hollows and gullies. that is one of the row houses we were talking about. as late as 1910, there were crackdowns and vice raids on road houses all the way to the prohibition. people would to the west side of town to get a drink and to kind of escape public scrutiny. [laughter] >> that is a good way to say it. >> that is the racetrack grandstand. >> that is huge. >> opening day in 1895 through 14,000 people. they put a train line to it. they had a street car line. it was a big deal in those days, horse racing was. >> reason really interesting progress about car bill. tell us about what cargo was. >> in 1895, ad

if you go to west virginia, democracy essentially doesn't exist. if you are a property owner, you have no right to stop corporations from raining boulders, poisoning your children and wells, drying up your streams. you don't have the right to participate in local democracy, which is the fundamental zoning laws and planning laws. in west virginia, you can't zone out these kinds of corporate activities. the transparency has disappeared in government, which is the hallmark of democracy. the agencies that are supposed to protect the west virginia public have become the instrumentialities for the companies they are supposed to regulate and the judiciary and virtually every elected public official has been corrupted by big coal. 2/3 of the people in west virginia want to see mountaintop removal banned and this is what happens when corporations take over government. you see the tea party out here saying big government is a big threat to democracy and i agree with that. i agree. when we have a government that tortures bill, suspends our bill of rights and

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in the mountains of west virginia a battle is raging. for the fate of a mountain it's called its job. and the soul of resistance in appalachians the same. let's see. more than three hundred miners activists environmentalists marched up blair mountain to demand an end to mountaintop removal. technique that blasts right to get a call seems within which environmentalist say said debris raining down causing flooding in contaminating rivers water going through water they retrace the steps of more than ten thousand coal miners who in one thousand twenty one took up arms for the right to unionize and survive to fifteen thousand coal miners forming an army and marching up the mountain that's right behind me you know and fighting you know against an army paid for by a coal operators chuck ynys great grandfather led the charge is the president of the west virginia miners union but it's a history he didn't learn from textbooks this is a history that has been concealed from west virginians the only time you see the word union in the book is when the

that's not an interest in the welfare of african people and i don't want to make it seem like the westis great and china is you know doing bad things in africa that's not true it's more complex you know the west united states and western european countries have a terrible history in africa in terms of some of the cold war policies and certainly the period of colonialism before that but there is this sense of which the west at least is more aligned it seems with civil society in african countries today then china has been you can see that of course in sudan you can also see that when the chinese were trying to export weapons into zimbabwe and civil society and workers in angola in south africa refused to offload those weapons going into zimbabwe and so it is there is a sense to which the west is more aligned with. the democratic forces in africa ok robert if i could go to you you know i'm not sure that that's that's really that's really you could allow her to get away with that i mean just look at the downfall of mubarak and ben ali in egypt in tunis in respectively i mean those people

is it easier for their africans to borrow money and get investment from the chinese than from the west because of the baggage. well i do think that the chinese have made a focused effort to invest in africa to increase their trade with africa mainly because they need to natural resources a fuel growth back home that is given african countries more options because they don't simply have to rely on the west and the conditionality that often comes with western assistance and with western loans and so i do think that there is in that sense it's a better environment for africa in terms of the choices that they have but i would also say that there i do agree that there is a bit of a values gap in that somewhat as whether china you know there's a policy of not interference in the affairs of african countries some would say that that's not an interest in the welfare of african people and i don't want to make it seem like the west is great and china as you know doing bad things in africa that's not true it's more complex you know the west the united states and western european countries have a

blair west virginia. move over tea party here comes the tequila party that's right there is yet another new political movement named after a drink. in this country and this one if you haven't figured out is reaching out to the hispanic community and it's not about supporting one party or the other it's about getting the growing hispanic population to actually go out and vote and let me give you a few numbers so you understand just how many people we're talking about the latino population grew from thirty five point three million in two thousand to fifty point five million in two thousand and ten the number of latinos eligible to vote went from thirteen million in two thousand to twenty one million in two thousand and ten and yet in last november's midterm elections only thirty one percent of latinos actually cast a ballot so it seems like the only way to get politicians to move on immigration reform is for the hispanic population to move to the polls forced but do they actually want to do it joining me to

bank pan stin yan state, how do the west jews of samaria respond to that? >> they say -- they stand up very well to things like this, they say, you know what, they're looking at the world of god, they're saying the world of god says this is our land, god gave us toize sam, aib mam and david, and they're standing on those things. >> how many jews are on the west bank? >> about 250 thousand. >> this is a division your father had, you grew up in an amish community where you learned farmer, where god you didn't know was preparing you to take it to the west bank. how many years have you been there? >> about 7 years. >> that's a pretty large group with 11 children. now it's grown? >> about 150 there. >> now, when you first showed up 7 years ago and said to the jewish farmers, we don't want money, we're here to help, they must have been skeptical. >> they looked at christianity, they have a good reason to be suspicious, they think of the holocaust, we went in there to say, we're sorry what our forefathers have done, we want to bless you guys. >> so, caleb and josh

well, you know, that's how democracy works in west virginia. it's really not a democracy anymore. you have a few large coal companies who have subverted democracy at every level. they've corrupted the judges. they've corrupted the public officials. and as we showed, two-thirds of the people in west virginia oppose mountaintop mining, but there is not a single politician that opposes it because they've been purchased by the coal industry. that's not a good thing for american democracy and a democracy is supposed to be about people, not about how much money you have. >> but the recent decision of citizens united says the corporations are people, too, and the aim of money they have determines how much speech they have, and so corporations just happen to be better at talking than people are. >> well, that's a good point actually. >> thank you, thank you. so few people say that. thank you, mr. kennedy. robert f. kennedy, jr. the movie is "the last mountain" opening in select cities this friday. we'll be right back. [cheers and] >> stephcaptioning sponsored by comedy central captioned b

this case he refused to leave the west coast, and he got caught. he had a nonjapanese girlfriend that he wanted to stay with. but once arrested, he decided that it was matter of principle and he was going to not give up otherwise citizenship rights. so with the help of one of the branch office the american civil liberties union, he brought suit, challenging on the basis of his constitutional rights, the government's policy of removing and confining him. in the lower courts, he was convicted of violating public law 502 and 503, congress' backing up of executive order 9066. the supreme court agreed to hear his appeal, and the federal government, which didn't want to lose the case because they were scared if any of the japanese americans succeeded in challenging thecourt -- challenging the army, the army would look back, and japanese americans would then -- once the camps were open, all run back to the west coast and there would be rioting and all sorts of problems. so, both to buttress the army's case and prevent problems, the army's leaders, most no

tv roles include the west wing and there is jackie. but it's on stage anna deveer smith has worked most boldly by creating concept and script and performing to a critical acclaim one woman plays with a point of view. her third latest show, let me down easy at the berkeley repertory theater takes on health care. take a look. >> now i was not the first woman governor of texas. well, in the 20s there was pa ferguson who was governor. and pa was married to ma. and pa died. and ma became governor. now she was the one when asked about bilingual education who said, if the length rsh language -- english language is good enough for jesus christ, it's good enough for everybody. >> anna deveer smith, welcome, good to have you here. i looked forward to meeting you for a long time. i'm a fan of your work. thank you. it's interesting. as a woman who creates one woman shows, you don't just start with an audition. you start with a blank page. don't you? >> yeah, not even a page because i make my work by interviewing people. the piece of paper and penc

i mean the west baggs democracies but it's not always the top priority and certainly if you're talking in the middle east where you have the issues of oil and you have the issues of israel it tends not to be the top priority quite often stability is preferred china is the . democracy anywhere and you wouldn't really expect them to i think the important point though is that when you have both western companies and chinese companies both western governments and the chinese government competing for influence in africa that puts power with the african government because they can play the two off against each other and they can say to western firms if you don't offer better deals maybe the chinese will and they can do the same to the chinese and that's what they're doing you see them doing it in a number of countries in angola and sometimes you see you know the chinese think that they've got something sewn up like they will back a dictator like basheer in sudan and i think that will give them permanent access to the oil wealth there and then suddenly some violence and arms splits in half an

says it's making to help egypt get back on the feet the united states and the west are try to reduce the damage caused by the revolutions very are. considerable financial contributions gyptian economy and the perfect way is through the i.m.f. which is heavily influenced by the united states for. many many years the i.m.f. has been considered as an war of american foreign economic policies this. is unstable. would could be considered is a waste of money on something that is very shaky what's more it comes with particular strings attached. an epidural could in fact skull trouble over. a tree. anybody except in worse trouble. syria a country loses its sovereignty so big. story corp seriously no way. mostly gyptian sphere is ever money will get used up long before it reaches the pockets believing it's likely to be only a small elite as well as international banks who benefit from the loans the last time the i.m.f. injected a large amount of money into egypt was twenty years ago but since then the number of rejections of living below just two dollars a day doubled in february this year th

also happening at west bank. our chief jerusalem bureau chief kevin flower is in the west bank right now. have you been watching this scene as we have play out for the past several hours. what is happening right now? >> reporter: well, what's going on here at checkpoint is there have been basically pro-palestinian protesters that have been trying to make their way from this west bank area to the checkpoint. they've been coming in groups of several hundreds. what happens basically is they are being pushed back by israeli security personnel firing tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets. just a short while ago we saw quite a scene where a handful of activists basically standing in front of a water cannon truck trying to stop it. three of them standing in front of it. they are being sprayed with a very foul smelling sort of crowd control repellant agent. and it was quite a dramatic picture. but these sorts of things are playing out in places around the west bank and obviously on the g golan-syrian border where se

these national criminal courts is the place where the west judges the rest to believe or jackson arrest warrant for colonel gadhafi saying the hague tribe you know is just a political tool and housing no authority. be used economic crises in nations like greece forces culture such as turkey who have long been seeking membership to shift their focus eastwards. and boosting the birth rate or breaching women's rights russia lawmakers discussed restrictions on abortion that have split public opinion . coming up in business greece plans to sell off state and instead assets and introduce austerity measures in a desperate bid to stave off the phone joining me for the full story in around twenty minutes time. that's three pm in moscow this is archie coming to you live on the somali with our top story and libya's justice minister says tripoli is refusing to recognize the arrest warrant for colonel gadhafi issued by the international criminal court at the hague it's obvious his closest allies are accused of ordering war crimes to be carried out against their own people but tripoli says the action

it will be on 70 west to west virginia this afternoon. so, this is just quite a sight to see as it is on its way to a museum in north carolina. sully was the pilot there. >>> let's take a look back in our neck of the woods. 95 north of van dorn street, we have some construction going on. on the loop at telegraph road and the traffic pattern is changing. only the center lane has access to the local toll road. so, be aware of that. also, 495 at 50, we have some interloop activity there on the right shoulder. stay to the left, if you can. back to you guys. >> okay. thank you. >>> a traffic alert, if you take the 14th street bridge, you'll soon see more construction changes. the final phase of the two-year construction project is about to begin. crews will begin setting up for the new configuration tonight. you'll city the changes when you travel on the bridge tomorrow morning. the construction zone will shift to the right center lane of the d.c. side of the bridge. three lanes will be routed to the left and one lane to the right. this final

start west, the biggest chance you have. by tomorrow, up to 98 degrees. if it happens, it will break the record. the record is 98 degrees. we'll be in the record territory once again. >> toasty, thank you, bern. >>> still to come, another reason to never pick up a cigarette. women smokers have more to worry about. >>> here are the top stories on wjz-13 at this hour. for instant updates for all of the day's news, go to wjz.com. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> in today's health watch, if you're a woman and you smoke, you're 10 times more likely to suffer narrowing of the arteries. it affects the lower extremities and leads to significant leg pain. it increases the risk of having a heart attack. women who quit smoking can reduce the risk. >>> high costs of cancer treatments is too expensive for most americans. doctors are meeting and they say that even patients with insurance are abandoning care because of the substantial payments. >>> you'll want to check back in tonight for an angry bus driver. it's not what you'll see, but what you'll hear on the videotape. >>> an