world in size and combat power just behind romania when there was 146 german divisions conquered western europe nine months later the department reported that it could field just five divisions. the coastal defense hadn't been fired in 20 years and the army had them protect even a single american city. the building of the armed forces was likened to the reconstruction of the dinosaur a round three vertebrae. then from the second in the trilogy of the battle from beginning to end, allied war making in the mediterranean tended to be in improvisational, and finally, from the guns at last flight which just came out you wrote the cohesion and the total coherence of the allied coalition had a shared victory the better alliance one, certainly it was possible to look at the war making on any given day and feel heartsick of the missed opportunities and the

europe. particularly from a perspective of americans and other western allies. the first volume begins where europe begins in november of 1942. the invasion of morocco and algeria and the campaign across north africa. the second volume moves north across the mediterranean to the invasion of sicily in july of 1942. southern epperly and september 1943. the third volume begins on the evening of the invasion of normandy. june 4, 1944. the final volume tells the final chapter of this story between europe in may of 1945 onward. >> host: white we began in north africa? >> guest: that is where the story begins. the store you was at the urging of winston churchill to not try to cross the english channel in 1942 and 1943. partly because the american army included the green commanders, partly because we did not have the land and the other materials necessary to undertake that enormous the. so roosevelt, contrary to all of the senior military commanders, i believe to invade north africa in 1942, that took place on november 8. american and british forces fighting not the germ

not only in america but the almost all of western europe, canada and australia? the answer is the extraordinary religious boom was accompanied by another boom even more familiar, the baby boom. which was itself accompanied by a marriage bloom. again either of these were anticipated by demographers but they spread across the west during those same years. that is the thesis of "how the west really lost god" in a nutshell, living in families, meaning families that are married with children is an important part of what drives many people to church. i will say a few words in closing about a couple reasons this might be so. there are many reasons and they are delivered another couple chapters in the book but if you look at the time line of the west and ask what happened to christianity what you find is it is only as strong as the family on which it depends. family and faith are the invisible double helix of society dependent on one another for support and reproduction. the combined boom of babies, marriages and christian practice from the 1940s into the 1960s are all a

reinforce the normandy front. >> host: december of 1944 from "the guns at last light: the war in western europe, 1944-1945" particularly alarming to g is was a cigarette shortage. u.s. army soldiers alone smoked more than a million packs a day in europe. million packs of cigarettes a day. >> and dwight eisenhower did more than his share. he is smoking four packs of cigarettes a day himself. the had to have it. cigarettes were included, he got several cigarettes in every ration pack it. you can take away their ammunition but don't take away your cigarettes. there was a shortage, serious shortage, had more to do with shipping issues than actual physical shortage of cigarettes and the troops were riotous. this was a big problem for eisenhower. eisenhower one point switch brands to a lesser, a cheaper brand to show solidarity with soldiers instead of the camels he was usually smoking. hadden was a cigar smoker. he would smokes as many cigars as churchill, 20 cigars a day sometimes and and and give up the cigar's for a while to show solidarity with a long-suffering troops who had a tobacco shortage.

the region grows a little closer together and closer to western europe. >> croatia is joining the eu.it has been through many a crisis and it has always been ready to make a fresh start. for us, it's time to leave the adriatic coast. until next time, from brussels, goodbye. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--

even without going to europe , religion holds over the western civilization remains the object of armchair fascination. after all was noted our laws custom literature no more to the gao christianity than any other single tradition. that is one reason why all of us believers or agnostics or atheist have a board interest to figure out of this puzzle all of western secularization because we carry remnants of the judeo-christian tradition inside is if we want to or not it is part of what you call the individual cultural dna. once upon a time of what was called kristin dumb their judeo-christian cody tilled the details of daily life in tel don to dusk not to mention birth marriage and death and other milestones obviously this is true no more for many modern western people a growing number of us agreed the milestones was no religious free market of many are born without baptize to have children without being married. some have a civil marriages -- civil instead of religious. mini it died via -- our bodies are incinerated rather than prayed over the ground as was commanded this is a few examples

rights activists usually they are radical orthodox christians now if we compare the situation to western europe for instance the obviously very societies much less conservative but issues like allowing gay couples to adopt children still raise a lot of debate there as well for instance we do remember the recent mass protest in france when tens of thousands or perhaps even hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets against allowing gay couples to adopt children. after the u.s. decision to arm the syrian rebels against government troops powerful anti tank and anti aircraft missiles are making their way to the war zone and those same shipments have already sparked feuds among parents rebel factions dominated by radical islamist fighters some reports claim fighters from heightening this one front assassinate and large number of officers from the free syrian army to contribute tashan or tensing thinks it only highlights the dangers of sending more arms to the region. the rebel ranks were in a stanwell recently could make no. type of agreement between themselves and now they're actually kill

from 1850 all of western europe experienced an ice age. he painted 25 winter landscapes during the most severe period of relative cool summers and cold winters. most of europe is experience is a cold winter so she's dragging her suit case behind her to make sure she got here for the open exhibition. there are actually 2 famous dutch painters ruisdael whose paintings we just looked at. he's also represented in our exhibition of this gallery. health and safety here is his view of his painting from 1648 which is in our own collection. if we compare the two paintings, we see similarity in the cloud t low horizon line and the small scale in the figure of the boat and the small scale of the natural world and the beautiful reflection on the water. these two paintings demonstrate the very best paintings. another pioneer of this genre is january van joeg an from 1653 and this is thunderstorm from 1541 at the collection of the fine arts museum. this painting and van rios painting i showed you are in our other building in linkin park. here we see the

serbian socialists two centuries ago yes we are a slavic orthodox country but we have bordered by western europe and while that might not feel like our natural environment we have to deal with it of course we have longstanding friends with whom we share a common past a common language and religion but it won't do any good for serbia to look in one direction only sadly enough serbia russian relations have never been truly sincere because there were always people who thought they might be harmful to serbia i think that those who want us to look in only one direction don't have the interests of serbia at heart. so that those are just part of the let's go back to the course of the talks in brussels what i do know poison is said to have talked to you during this talks what did he tell you did he back the agreement. that. we spent a lot of time discussing the current situation possible scenarios and steps that serbia might take president putin has never interfered in our internal affairs both he and the russian government are ready to help serbia but serbia is alone in this battle unfortunately when t

after the success of the marshall plan which delivered tons of food to western europe. in one thousand fifty four president eisenhower signed the famous public law for eighty whatever. the new laws purpose was to distribute the u.s. agricultural surpluses serving at the same time as a tool for economic and foreign policy which would help promote the country's interests. according to the president's own words the new law lays the basis for expanding our exports of agricultural products with lasting benefits to ourselves and peoples of other lands. oh and the pope and the deleterious our football. team are going to break that bond of their pedigree we bet there to help them help them. or whatever period is required not because i mean it may be doing it not because we think they're both but we are getting it right in one thousand nine hundred eighty one president kennedy acknowledged public love for eighty as being a fundamental importance to the united states and renamed it food for peace. so the primary objective of food aid policy was surplus disposal but it had a secon

after the success of the marshall plan which delivered tons of food to western europe. in one thousand nine hundred eighty four president eisenhower signed the famous public law for eighty whatever. the new laws purpose was to distribute the u.s. agricultural surpluses serving at the same time as a tool for economic and foreign policy which would help promote the country's interests. according to the president's own words the new law lays the basis for expanding our exports of agricultural products with lasting benefits to ourselves and peoples of other lands. oh and the pope and not the ballot here on our football. team going to break the bonds of their very we play our best effort to help them help them. all and her period is required not because of the economy with the baby growing it's not because we think they're both but we are getting it right in one thousand nine hundred eighty one president kennedy acknowledged public love for eighty as being a fundamental importance to the united states and renamed it food for peace. so the primary objective of a policy was su

much of western europe, high pressure settling in here. paris at 20, madrid getting up to 26. let's talk about eastern asia where flooding is possible here in southeastern china. that time of year, that front sets up, starting to come in from the south, and you get that trough and it's going to be linkering. fair weather for most throughout the remainder of the week. thunderstorms are continuing to flair up here. that's a look at your world weather, here is your extended forecast. >>> that's "newsline" for this hour, i'm gene otani in tokyo. >>> tokyo. this is one of the largest entertainment districts in asia. a photographer has been taking photos for the last 16 years. kwon choul is a korean photo journalist. >> translator: it seems to me that this whole district is ruled by desire. kwon choul has captured

policy, which has been the focus for the last 10 years, for the united states, anyway, and for western europe as well, and even some of the arab states, and foreign-policy in general, national security issues. that said, it's funny because when the last reformist that was in office was in office, everybody discounted him as not having any power, so did not matter. he was a nice guy, but it did not matter. then come along comes mr. ahmadinejad, firebrand with all his rhetoric, and suddenly, he's the man who wants to build a nuclear weapon and drop it on tel aviv. it does not make any sense. you are already hearing naysayers saying that he does not really have power. the truth is somewhere in between. he does not have complete power. it's not as black and white as we sometimes imagine it to be. he does not have a lot of power, but he can bring about quite a bit of change. in terms of the campaign and how he has managed to bring these voters to the polls to vote for him, over someone like the current mayor of tehran, who was also very comfortable yesterday saying that perhaps he could win becaus

in much of western europe you're going to be improving the weather conditions going into saturday and sunday. lisbon even getting up to 37 here. madrid at 31. london 21 here. little bit cooler, but some partly cloudy skies coming in your forecast. take a look over towards the americas though where really much of the eastern seaboard especially east of the appalachians, that is where you're going to be seeing rough weather, upwards about 100 to 150 millimeters expected in to new england. also this cold front atotached o it, you can see the storms firing up off the coastline, that front is going to linger near the coast and some of these storms could produce 100-kilometer-per hour winds. and even hail. and there's a threat of flooding. farther towards the west this is what i really want to talk about. over here we have this high pressure ridge in place. we talk about these ridge in the troughs. you have to think about it in this context. ridge means high pressure. think of this as water flowing downhill into the trough. this is where you're going to be seeing much wet, cooler, storm off

regard to its strategic sectors and strategic companies they have analogs the western economies whether it's the u.s. or europe but if we're talking about russia's economy certainly the quality of the . reserve the reserve that has been built up in terms of the. it's far better states. what you have been western countries in terms of and that of this obviously russia is ten percent of g.d.p. public debt in the west we know that the ten approach one hundred percent of g.d.p. and then in terms of growth. very frustrating but for a lot of the western economies it would be great to see those growth rates of even the one to two percent that russia has now first a question of what is the growth based on i mean really where's it coming from. another point i had was just about again on the investment in bringing money in there's always been discussion about you need the state to kind of back out to privatized more so that you can have more competition here and really help to innovate the economy and the figures i had maybe your figures are different but i was i was told that in two thousand and six about thirty four f

in europe, western europe, showers out here. some flood warnings in effect for you in southern france. this low pressure will continue to linger overhead drawing cooler air. temperatures cooling down. temperatures are not cooling down on the flip side of this. high pressure, you can see the big blue h that is dominating eastern and central europe and really warming things up. all of germany is under a heat advisory due to temperatures approaching the 40 degree mark. 35 here on thursday. vienna up to 34 and warsaw at 31. that's a look at the world weather. here's your extended forecast. >>> that's "newsline" for this hour. i'm gene otani in tokyo. >>> from the four winds and the . >>> from the four winds and the center of the earth come the color of the seasons. exploring the four seasons of japan. northern japan, a vast expanse northern japan, a vast expanse of wilderness, untamed and untouched to this day.

regard to its strategic sectors and strategic companies they have analogs in the western economies whether it's the u.s. or europe but if we're talking about russia's economy certainly the quality of the . reserve the reserve that has been built up in terms of the. it's far better states. what you have been western countries in terms of indebtedness obviously russia is ten percent of g.d.p. . in the west we know that that can approach one hundred or even more percent of g.d.p. and then in terms of growth russia is very frustrating but for a lot of the western economies it would be great to see those growth rates of even one to two percent. first a question of what is the growth based i mean really where's it coming from. another point i had was just about again on the investment in bringing money in there's always been discussion about you need the state to kind of back out to privatized more so that you can have more competition here and really help to innovate the economy and the figures i had maybe your figures are different but i was i was told that in two thousand and six about thirty four forty three percen

president putin said long ago that russia would not the social welfare state that's founded in western europe what do you think he means by that. timmy's is not going to push welfare spending pension spending and so on unemployment benefits to create a situation where the government spending fifty percent of g.d.p. on france's case i think fifty seven percent of g.d.p. spent by the federal govt by the main government in france in russia or it's it's more like twenty to thirty percent the only problem with that is that he has already pushed out pension spending and he's done that quite dramatically in the last five or six years and with the demographics russia's got this is not a sustainable. situation that the good news is that you've got some very good performers who just you know we speak of the four who are talking about the need to sort out the pensions issue to try and make it sustainable in the long run it's important he's thinking about it and so it's basically. a variation on a theme i mean it's going to be a russian social welfare state it's not going to be a certain model or rushing

so-called syrian rebels are in fact jihadist terrorists from north africa central asia and even western europe there's an estimated six hundred western european born jihadi is fighting against the syrian government right now syria's conflict looms large over the israeli occupied golan heights where the border is already troubled by fighting the prospect of having war on its doorstep is it weary israel though not perhaps for the country's elite who have been revealed to have an expensive and impenetrable hijacked poor display looks at what the rest of the country thinks about it. when the missiles come israel's leaders will be here deep underground somewhere on the road between jerusalem and tel aviv about a decade ago the news broke that the government was building a bunker here in the hills of jerusalem to the tune of some two hundred million dollars criticism at the time was that the country had survived for fifty years without one and could for another fifty but back then the threat of a nuclear iran was nowhere near where israel's prime minister netanyahu claims it is today the ship wolf i

so-called syrian rebels are in fact jihadist terrorists from north africa central asia and even western europe there's an estimated six hundred western european born jihadi is fighting against the syrian government right now. on the some of the sidelines eurocrats and u.s. officials lay the foundation for medical supplies of free trade zone a little a deliberate form how the plan has your privileges against each other and why watchdog agencies are ringing the alarm bell. the g eight summit is taking place just as the n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden drops another information bombshell in documents that prove the u.s. and the u.k. was spying on the delegates of the g twenty summit in london back in two thousand and nine story and has a promise to even more revelations and predicted more whistleblowers will follow his example this was during an internet q. and a session marty's worrying about mail follow the online chat. snowden referred to washington's war on whistleblowers as a drop clooney and campaign he believes will ultimately escalate the scale scope and skill involved in future govern

so-called syrian rebels are in fact jihadist terrorists from north africa central asia and even western europe there's an estimated six hundred western european born jihadi is fighting against the syrian government right now now the g eight in the u.k. was overshadowed by revelations of british and american intelligence spied on world leaders under fish bowls at a broad a meeting in london that was four years ago some g twenty heads of state including vivendi president dmitri medvedev apparently had their computers monitored and their phone calls intercepted the evidence which came from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden suggests fake internet cafe's were also set up to gather the data richard norton taylor writes on defense and security for the guardian and the u.k. newspaper which published the leaked documents he says london and washington were aiming to get a competent competitive edge over their foreign partners. there are two kinds of information there the british and america that we need setting a goal and the latest leaks which are the first is under the guise of anti terrorism if you

>> i think -- i think western europe might be possible. they have to figure out the traveling and the logistics. so that the players -- there's not a huge time difference making road games. i don't know, when you have those strat os fear supersonic jets made -- >> all over the world in 50 years. >> i have to leave it here. your prediction the heat will win thursday night and this will run sunday and we'll find out if you're right. >> thanks for having me. >> "press here" will be back in just a second. >>> my thanks to my guests. thank you for making us part of your sunday morning. >>> welcome to "comunidad del valle ", the director of the mexican museum. this is your comunidad del valle." >> it's the 21st century solution, thousands of dollars to bay area non-profits. my colleague with brendy brown with the opportunity fund, a recipient of one of these grants. welcome to the show. >> thank you. >>

so-called syrian rebels are in fact jihadist terrorists from north africa central asia and even western europe there's an estimated six hundred western european born jihadi is fighting against the syrian government right now. on the summer's sidelines zero grabs a new u.s. officials lay the foundations for mega flies free trade zone a little later we are at war and how the plan has hit european jews against each other and why what stock agencies are ringing the alarm bell. the g. eight summit is taking place just as the n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden drops another information bombshell you can documents that prove that the u.s. and the u.k. were spying on the delegates of the g. twenty summit in london back in twenty or so tim has promised even more revelations unpredicted more whistleblowers will follow his example during an internet q. and a session archies marina part of the online chat. snowden referred to washington's war on whistleblowers as a draft pony in a campaign he believes will ultimately escalate the scale scope and skill involved in future government leaks in short snowden

we have different starting positions with the west because the issue of migration for western europe in for the united states. they are more difficult they are more extreme they are no more explicit in they are more dangerous in the west compared to russia because. in the united states have to deal with people who come from other countries from different countries who find it difficult to assimilate in the new say. in four years. to learn the local language the fields. to find their way in the local labor market one of my counterparts once told me that people. come to see. the. fourteen year. in spain without learning spanish just suggested an example in russia it is very different. those who came to russia back in the nineteen seventies or ninety's russians who came to the west back in the eighty's or ninety's. there is a russian granny who lived in the west. for fifteen years and he doesn't speak a word of english she she lives in. the city she actually lives in so it is a general problem of course it all goes back to. what you need a tractor cheap labor force in russia it is the s

president putin said long ago that russia would not the social welfare state it's founded in western europe what do you think he means by that. the maze is no going to push welfare spending pension spending and so on unemployment benefits to create a situation where the government spending fifty percent of g.d.p. on france's case i think fifty seven percent of g.d.p. spent by the federal govt by the main government in france in russia or it's it's more like twenty to thirty percent the only problem with that is that he has already pushed up and spending and he's done that quite dramatically in the last five or six years and with the demographics russia's got this is not a sustainable. situation that the good news is that you've got some very good performers who just you know we speak of the four who are talking about the need to sort out the pensions issue to try and make it sustainable in the long run it's important he's thinking about it so it's basically. a variation on a theme i mean it's going to be a russian social welfare state it's not going to be a certain model or russia may just

the size of all western europe combined. it should be africa's wealthiest nation. people forget, or never even knew, that the 20th century's first holocaust happened here when belgium's king leopold managed to bamboozle giving him personal title to the congo. leopold's agents of whom the mythical kurtz was one, raided, slaughtered, mutilated and pressed into forced labor much of the population, in a bloodthirsty quest for first ivory and then rubber. when independence finally came, the belgians trashed what they could, and left behind a completely unprepared tribally divided and largely ungovernable land mass, filled with stuff that everybody in the world wanted. and things pretty much went downhill from there. ♪ >>> but this story begins with the truck stop. in rwanda. stocking up in rwanda. my expectations for food in the congo are more measured. if you're looking to get to the eastern congo action and many would ask why you would even want to do that, the best way is to drive across from neighboring rwanda. this country, of course, not too long ago, suffered its

rights activists usually they are radical orthodox christians now if we compare the situation to western europe for instance that obviously they're societies much less conservative but issues like allowing gay couples to adopt children still raise a lot of debate there as well for instance we do remember the recent mass protest in france when tens of thousands or perhaps even hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets against allowing gay couples to adopt children. thank you for that starts eagle piece. now the cream of the oil business is in some petersburg at the moment looking for ways to boost economic growth reform the global financial system and strengthen trade and. is that the foreman for us are looking for the most burning issues dominating the day's agenda good afternoon chico you see yesterday we were talking about the devaluation of the ruble what shall we be talking about today. about the russian economy what about improving market volatility making the country more friendly for investors to come and want to spend that money improving infrastructure all of these topics are

and get into a rowing boat which is why our country of five million with the only population in western europe that's actually falling which has four thousand miles of coastline oil and gas fast running out and huge tracts of the country empty. that would be a very perilous choice for the scottish people to make i mean understand a pragmatic approach but how do you does your heart kind of match richard had a saying or is there any kind of oh my heart really does i'm against breaking up countries i've been against the breakup of virtually every country i think the partition of india and then it's report fission was a mistake i think the breakup of the former u.s.s.r. the breakup of the former yugoslavia have all been the arctic. slovakia know into two states has all been a big mistake in this world that we have were huge powerful economic forces at work that democratic states have to come together no splinter asunder and of course it all goes wrong what happens is a rise in ethnic sectarian tensions national tensions because if it didn't work out the way the scots hoped that it would would be t

rights activists usually they are radical orthodox christians now if we compare the situation to western europe for instance that obviously they're societies much less conservative but issues like allowing gay couples to adopt children still raise a lot of debate there as well for instance we do remember the recent mass protest in france when tens of thousands or perhaps even hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets against allowing gay couples to adopt children. after the u.s. decision to on the syrian rebels against the government troops powerful anti tank and anti aircraft missiles are making their way to the rules are they saying shipments have already spot feuds among various rebel factions by radical islamist fighters some reports claim fighters from the kind of thing on the front assassinated in the large number of offices in the free syrian army. thinks it only highlights the dangers of sending more arms to the region. the rebel ranks were in a stanwell recently could make no. type of agreement between themselves and now they're actually killing each other so there is that po

rights activist we are radical orthodox christians but actually if we compare the situation to western europe where society is clearly much alas conservative issues like allowing gay couples to adopt children are still causing lots of debate for instance just recently we saw mass produced in france when tens of thousands or perhaps even hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets against the idea. cover of the top will stories in brief suspected suicide attack on the part of shia mosque in pakistan city for showers killed at least fourteen explosion also injured dozens of worshippers many of whom are in critical condition no group claimed responsibility but shiites have often been the target of sectarian attacks by sunni muslims. in chile right police have suppressed a rally by students dividing educational reform clashes reportedly broke out in the capital when some of the protesters tried to march beyond an authorized route stones were thrown at police who responded with water cannon and battens chiles experienced a recent wave of education protests over sewing costs and afforda