i have been in the former yugoslavia last fall. i cannot sleep since from what i have seen. we must do something to stop the bloodshed in that country. [applause] people fight each other and children died. why? something, anything must be done. among othersson lessons, that we shall learn together. and in closing to the president and distinguished guests, just one more remark. the mountains of whom i spoke to disappeared.man she was my mother. >> c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up saturday morning, cnn news editor in chief and american prospect senior writer will discuss their picks for the top news stories of 2016 and make predictions for the year ahead. be sure to stay tuned for c-span's washington journal, live 7:00 a.m. eastern saturday morning. former u.s. senator and astronaut john glenn died earlier this month at the age of 95. the funeral was held at ohio state university in columbus with remarks by vice president joe biden, ohio senator sharon brown, and others. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. ♪

of austria, poland and czechoslovakia and yugoslavia. they worked to reorganize railways, create efficient transportation networks, reform currencies and modernize agriculture. hoover also helped to reopen the vital river basin to commerce. he dispatched american agents to silesia and other mining regions. they helped to settle strikes and increase urgently needed production of coal. with the signing of the treaty of versailles in the summer of 1919, hoover's relief and reconstruction efforts entered a new phase. the american relief administration was reconstituted as a nongovernmental organization. with hoover himself at the helm. it became part of a growing empire of philanthropy that he and his associates developed to cope with the great war's aftermath at home and abroad. the ara's european children's fund for example concentrated on providing daily meals to an estimated 3 million children in eastern and central europe in the early 1920's. undoubtedly, the most extraordinary postwar undertaking occurred in soviet russia. more than tw

the economic department is here strictly because kirk paid for him and his family to get out of yugoslavia under the communists. thecommunists. they had a place to live. and this is my colleague now because of that. there were times he had upwards of the team cambodians or ethiopians at the same time, anybody that needed to shelter they could live with the kirk's as long as they need it until they could get on their feet. if you ask me what is the greatest legacy, that to me is incredible.

eating that she is the last person to be tried at the international criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavialaura: at least 45 have been killed in a plane crash in pakistan. the flight came down in a 70 kilometers north of the capital, islam a bot. there were no survivors. islamic singer turned preacher was aboard. nearly 100 have died after a earthquake on wednesday. the president has ordered all government agencies to take part in search and rescue effort. >> to ambulances keep arriving, but this hospital has long run out of space. survivors of wednesday's earthquake in indonesia are being treated wherever staff can find room. wife.s is my i don't know where my children are. some of them work at home. they were away at school. >> the 6.5 magnitude quake struck just off the northeast coast of sumatra island at around 5:00 a.m. local time. dozens of buildings collapsed and rescue efforts are continuing to try and free those feared still stuck under the rubble. their attempts are being hampered by rain and power blackouts. >> we're still trying to search for survivors trapped underneath the d

broke up and small nations asserted their independence, the worst conflicts were in the former yugoslaviane long, brutal war crime. gunfire i've covered wars and insurrections and massacres throughout my career and have witnessed some terrible sights. until recently, the world seemed to be getting a lot better. there's been a dramatic decline in wars over a0 years, with the deaths down by three—quarters. generally speaking, deaths from terrorism dropped too. they're on the rise again now 'but not yet back to the levels of the 1970s. 1989 could have been the year china, too, became democratic. it certainly wasn't immune from the changes sweeping the rest of the communist world. campaigners for democracy gathered in tiananmen square and paralysed the chinese government for a month. it took a massacre to defeat them. everybody knows that the army has the power to do something about this, to clear this entire place, if it chooses to. the only question is, does it choose to? i watched as it happened. the front line in the battle for political change in china has shifted to hong kong, where the

such as in the tribunals that held serbs accountable for their treatment of bosnians in the former yugoslavia more recently, crimes of mass rape were prosecuted by tribunals following atrocities in sierra leone and in the democratic republic of congo. but prosper believes even today, the global community could be more responsive in conflicts like south sudan. >> i think we've lost a bit of our footing, and i actually think that what happened is once the permanent international criminal court was created, people looked at that as, ¡oh, we've arrived.' and the politicians around the world said, ¡we've done our job, there's this court, we need now focus on these issues.' it creates this gap, a gap of inaction. so i think the international community needs to wake up, governments need to wake up, and realize that their responsibility continues. >> reporter: a responsibility that international reporting keeps in the spotlight. >> because the men and women of the press corps who covered what happened in bosnia and also rwanda and covered the sexual violence and wrote about it and put it on televisio

yugoslavia was different. one other thing stalin did, particularly in the run-up to pottsdam, was to push these government's german minority out as quickly and brutally as possible. people had just a few hours to pack up and go and the reason this is important was because all of these people were added to the destitute masses of germany and other countries and europe. for example on his way to pottsdam, truman was supposed to meet with solomon stalin was late so truman decided to visit elsewhere and he said it was dirty, smelly, old man, old women, young women pulling carts. he called it a world tragedy. stalin did not care about these people but truman and marshall and other people started to care very much. conrad: there were signs as soon as the war ended that the soviets would be a problem. at the dilemma for harry truman was how to get the american public to recognize that. as soon as the war ended, soviets put a lot of pressure on iran and turkey. in iran they wanted oil, and turkey day wanted access to

islamic population rising to around 5%, part of that increase due to immigration from the former yugoslaviaes on, officers say they will reveal more details on tuesday. tim allman, bbc news. in other news: tensions are running high in the democratic republic of congo, where presidentjoseph kabila has refused to step down. monday should have been his last day in office, but no elections have been held to choose a successor. in some parts of the capital, kinshasa, clashes have taken place between police and protesters demanding he leaves office. the head of the international monetary fund, christine lagarde, has been found guilty of negligence over a compensation payment made eight years ago when she was the french finance minister. a special court in paris decided not to punish her or give her a criminal record. the executive has reaffirmed confidence in her. the case relates to the payment of more than four—hundred—million dollars to the tycoon bernard tapie. president 0bama has pardoned 78 people and shortened the sentence of 153 others convicted of federal crimes, the greatest number of i

islamic population rising to around 5%, part of that increase due to immigration from the former yugoslaviaveal more details on tuesday. tim allman, bbc news. there have been clashes in the democratic republic of the com go after demands that the president step down. monday should have been his last day in office. his term ended at midnight but there have been no elections to choose a successor. 0pposition says they will reject any move by the president to extend his rule. the red card is one of the symbols that his detractors say should be brandished to remind him that it is time for him to go. donald trump has been formally elected as the next president of the united states. as expected, members of the electoral college, themselves chosen by the election in november, have voted in favour of mrtrump. most ignored last—minute calls urging them to defy tradition and choose mrs clinton, who received nearly three million more votes than the president—elect. bill hayton reports. this is where the president of the united states is actually elected. after months of primaries, campaigning and voti

now it's the hero of yugoslavia who has bolted from the fold.now they have all the soviet satellite and who better than the chief witness against all these people because he's an american so we are now posted by stalin roosevelt brief alliance. he noticed him from his refugee rescue work. the book starts off with his hotel kidnapping and then flashes back from that. but erica has friends in the communist german party so she goes to berlin and is believed that there is a trap set for her and she is tortured into confessing that she was working for the cia. she has an entirely different experience, so she humanizes prison if that's possible. key difference when he's in solitary confinement which i think is one of the most brutal forms of punishment. for five years virtually no contact except for the hungarian guards. erica is sent to the northernmost outpost of the gulags and is laying out railroad tracks in the freezing weather that has companions and has about as full a life as you can have in confinement. when the entire family is suddenly free

islamic population comprises around 5%, part of that increase due to immigration from the former yugoslaviaore details on tuesday. tim allman, bbc news. tensions are running high in the democratic republic of congo, where presidentjoseph kabila has refused to step down. monday should have been his last day in office, but no elections have been held to choose a successor. in some parts of the capital kinshasa, clashes have taken place between police and protesters demanding he leaves office. the head of the international monetary fund, christine lagarde, has been found guilty of negligence over a compensation payment made eight years ago when she was the french finance minister. a special court in paris decided not to punish her or give her a criminal record. the case relates to the payment of more than $400 million to the tycoon bernard tapie. president obama has shortened the prison sentences for 153 convicts and pardoned 78 others. the outgoing president has also commuted the sentences of more than 1,000 federal prisoners, said the white house said, as part of a push to reduce the number

yugoslavia, 50/50. hungary 50/50. russian 25%. and hands stalin this piece of paper. stalin is generally going to go by that piece of paper when the civil war goes on. stalin does not support the greek civil war. he stays away. he does violate it in the -- most of central europe and part of that is because as was mentioned yesterday because the americans and british arrange a separate surrender of italy. if you are going to do that to italy because you conquered italy, i'm going to do the same thing in central europe. so he did his own surrenders and arrangements in central europe just like we did in italy. some of the things the conferences provide. the conference in february '45, that's where the germany is going to be split in four separate zones. the nazi warm crim gnarls goiin going to be hunted down. reparations. germany may be divided in six nations. that would be figured out later. roosevelt got the big thing he wanted. stalin committed to join the united nations and agreed to enter the fight against japan within 90 days after the surrender of germany. at the

belgians, yugoslavia's, britain's, czechoslovakia's, filipinos.zealanders, south africans, canadians. we were not fighting alone. in this award of the people seeking a world without war for their children. britain, growing steadily stronger in its third year of four sweeping the skies of europe, piercing the enemy with , commending huge armadas and bombers over german promise would's never be attacked. russia fighting with an unparalleled tenacity, drawing upon inexhaustible reserves, asking no mercy and offering them. china, knowing the patience of the nation civilization surmounting handicaps the would've destroyed other nations, fighting on. the people of the united states and angry people whose resources were the envy of the world, offering these without fear. fighting in the factories in the foxholes. fighting in the jungles for weeks. fighting on all of the oceans. fighting for survival. fighting a war which would be hard and might be long, but which they would win. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is respons

have to say, in my own personal point of view, since the safe zone at sarajevo in the breakup of yugoslavia turned into a killing zone. >> don't have a lot of faith in these. even the refugee camps is supervising are simply r&r camps for various combatants. this is not solved until there is a political solution and i've been worried that the political solution might be that assad finishing ramping up the syrian opposition and the iranians and the russians come to an agreement with isis to control the territory they have and not attack each other. sound farfetched. remember the pact before world war ii in eastern europe when the communist and the nazis divided up poland. strange bedfellows could get together when it is in their interest to do so. >> so bottom line, assad stays in power and maybe the country is carved up a bit. >> i think syria and iraq have both ceased to exist as functioning states and i don't know who is big enough to push assad out of power at this point. >> well he is there and staying there and with moscow and tehran backing, they've become the victor. ambassador john b

really stood for peace and stability, then yugoslavia wouldn't have happened, rwanda wouldn't have happened. the crisis in the middle east and syria wouldn't have happened. look at one thing today, kimberly, we now have 65 million refugees in the world. that's more than we had after world war ii ended in 1945. the world is in chaos. the u.n. should be doing something about it. because, it isn't being led by the values of the founding of this republic, by the white house, we have the disaster that we have today. the united nations no longer serves the purpose for which it was created. >> right after the u.n. was created, of course, the united states expressed to truman a democrat through and through was the first national -- international leader to recognize israel as being an independent nation and now they're wanting to give those places back. >> on that note, dr. gorka, what can president-elect donald trump do, if you can give me a quick thing on this to turn it around. >> i think the statements he's already made are very, very clear. the u.n., as an institution, will not be favored by th

bosnia and the old yugoslavia was disputed. people tried to help out there. is it disqualify indication? i don't think it matters. >> still to come, lucky to be alive. a mother makes an epic trek. she marched 26 miles for 30 hours in the snow and cold to save her family. plus, not feeling the spirit? holiday cheer melts away as fights break out in malls across the country. it didn't happen on black friday but it happened yesterday. more on that on msnbc. [suspensful music] i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare, you may know it only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. call now and find out about an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like all standardized medicare supplement insurance plans, it could save you in out-of-pocket medical costs. call now to request your free decision guide. i've been with my docto

and they were local communist governments had taken over and yugoslavia, albania, north vietnam.nist parties in france and italy. china had already gone communist before 1989 with 20% of the human race. and lest we doubted their sincerity about what they were trying to do, the soviets crushed revolts in east germany in 1956.d in hungary now with that background we had , always considered ourselves to be a leader in the world in science and technology and we were. we were recognized forthose areas. but now the soviets claim to that was their technical superiority in the world should follow their. their lead. and they were making hay with this. and they were taking students by -- by thends thousands and taking them to russia and moscow and training them and bringing them back to their countries. their international trade fairs kroos jeff was saying we will bury you. and it wasn't long after all this before the bay of pigs disaster. so the soviets had gained tremendous credibility. no longer looked at as those crazy bolsheviks over there at each other. this was something a very very

i have been in the former yugoslavia last fall. i cannot sleep since from what i have seen. as a jew i'm saying that. we must do something to stop the bloodshed in that country. [applause] mr. wiesel: people fight each other and children die. why? something, anything must be done. this is a lesson that among other lessons, that we shall learn together. and in closing to the president and distinguished guests, just one more remark. the women in the mountains of whom i spoke to you -- that woman disappeared. she was my mother. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] onthis holiday weekend c-span's book tv, tonight at 10:00 eastern on "afterwords," wall street journalist joann lublin looks at corporate america. and 11:00, cnn country is talk about thomas lake's book "unprecedented: the election that changed everything." sunday afternoon a little after cook professor blanche talks -- of high schools football, in his book "playi

. >> we divided the balkans up and yuk sal yugoslavia up. thank you for coming on tonight. i hope we can stop bolton. this morning, reince priebus defended tillerson against charges he was too close to putin. let's watch reince. >> can somebody who has that friendship plaque in his office be tough on vladimir putin? >> well, rex tillerson's a really tough guy. and you know what, athletes, astronauts, musicians, other americans, canadians, a lot of folks have got than award. but the truth is that having relationships with people is not a bad thing. i don't know how we got to the place where having an actual functional relationship with someone who might not be a person that we'd first think of to have that relationship with is suddenly a bad thing. >> well, senator chris murphy is a united states senator from connecticut, of course. he's also, most importantly, on the foreign relations committee. i can't think of a better committee to be on right now, senator. >> it's the center of a lot of action right now. >> what's the ratio of republicans to democrats? >> it's a two-vote

islamic population rising to around 5%, part of that increase due to immigration from the former yugoslaviaay. now the crisis in syria and in the city of aleppo and last remaining rebel held zone. the un security council has called for the immediate deployment of international observers in eastern aleppo, in a rare show of unanimity. they'll monitor the mass evacuations and the plight of any civilians who remain trapped. thousands more people left the enclave overnight. the red cross says 25,000 in total but it's not clear how many are left. meanwhile, rebels have continued to allow people to be moved out of the besieged shiite towns of kefraya and al—foua, which largely support the regime as part of the shaky deal to evacuate eastern aleppo. foreign ministers from russia, turkey and iran are meeting today to discuss the crisis in syria, despite yesterday's assassination of moscow's ambassador in ankara. turkey's foreign minister was on a plane to the russian capital when news of the attack broke yesterday, but the three countries say the summit will go ahead anyway. the russian foreign min

people refugees with no passport and -- ethnic germans from czechoslovakia, hung aerks yugoslavia, poland, german, east prussia and so on, could obtain travel documents from the red cross. they were acquired in italy for the most part from the delegations of the international red cross in rome or genua. based under principle of neutral humanitarianism -- this is very important -- neutral humanitarianism, these papers were intended to help all refugees and war victims. given that there were no background checks and no real screening of applicants, abuse, not surprisingly, was very widespread. not just refugees but also war criminals and nazis used a simple method to get away. in some cases, with false names. one example is this one here. so this is an application form for travel document of the international red cross. and this one is for a certain claimant. in his application form of a travel document of the red cross, he claims to be an eths nick german from northern germany. it's where i come from. and he wants to travel to argentina or emigrate to argentina. the name clement probably d

did it have any influence on the conduit you discuss in yugoslavia? >> when we talk about infrastructure in poland, we have to keep in mind that when the united nations assembled in san francisco in 1945, poland was unofficially represented because the allies could not agree on which polish government was the official government. we have an issue of legitimacy that is still permeating the entire allied camp well through the beginning of the summer of 1945. as far as infrastructure on the ground, what strikes me when i read the archival files for reading through remembrances is how much people seem to be working, how passionate people are about their job but we have to keep in mind, especially in the case of poland, dealing with a country that is the most ripped apart in europe -- so that we are also dealing with the task of cleaning the rubble in the biggest cities, warsaw -- so, it is inresting to keep this in mind. my experience working in czechoslovakia has led me to a lot of laughter in so far as it is a wonderful example of how individuals in bur

and they were local communist governments had taken over in yugoslavia, albania, north vietnam.hey were very strong communist parties in france and italy. china had already gone communist before 1989 with 20% of the human race. and lest we doubted their sincerity about what they were trying to do, the soviets crushed revolts in east germany and 53 and in hungary in 1956. now with that background, we had always considered ourselves to be a leader in the world in science and technology and we were. we were recognized forthose areas. but now the soviets claim to that was their technical superiority in the world should follow their. their lead. and they were making hay with this. and they were taking students by the thousands and taking them to russia and moscow and training them and bringing them back to their countries. their international trade fairs kruschev was saying, we will bury you. and it wasn't long after all this before the bay of pigs disaster. so the soviets had gained tremendous credibility. no longer looked at as those crazy bolsheviks over there at each other. this

flafrs climb high to get the shot, the yugoslavia on their parents shoulders. even if not castro supporters, pure curiosity brings them here. it passes. early sunday the final stop of the procession, the m fidel castro's remains next to this mausoleum which hold the remains of famous revolutionary. it's personal for this man. he launched the revolution from the city and announced the victory from this balcony in the town square. [ speaking spanish ] >> reporter: every time there was a problem in santiago de cuba, he was present, he tells me. he always wanted the best for the people. whether he actually delivered, at times while he was speaking to the crowd that was gathered here, raul castro's voice became noticeably shaky. he was uneasy at times as he addressed the crowd but also vowed to continue the ideals of the revolution. in santiago de cuba, david culver, news 4. >>> green party changing its strategy for a recount. jill stein now seeking a court the lead attorney says barriers to a recount in pennsylvania are pervasive and the state court is not equipped

domestic pressure valves, kind of like people accuse clinton of the monica lewinsky strikes in yugoslavia. could this lead to a further precedent for this for other politicians? >> let's take a couple and then come back. i see a hand right there. >> i want to know what will u.s. can play in terms of conflict resolution because there is the clearest answer the indian side that the dispute is a bilateral issue and india will not allow any third party. i also want to know what is the domestic india-pakistan or the international issues which are at his and we can see that the issue is not as active as we can see the other issues. >> you want to take the first one? >> you're absolutely right. this is a precedent and it's been politically very successful precedent. i don't know what you meant by other leaders. during future prime ministers? [inaudible] >> i don't know about that. maybe someone else can answer the pakistan side of it. on the indian side, it is to play some aid that the domestic political calculus is part of this. this is going to be height and over the next and a half years as y

domestic pressure valves, kind of like people accused clinton of the monica lewinsky strikes in yugoslavia, is there a potential for this to lead to a further, you know, precedent for this, for other politicians? >> let's take a couple and then come back to this. i see a hand back there. right there, yes. >> good morning, everybody. this is fazana from pakistan. i want to know what role the u.s. can play in terms of conflict resolution, because when there is a clear stance from the indian side that india/pakistan dispute is a bilateral issue and they will not allow any third party intervention and i also want to know about what is restraining the u.s. to go further? is it the domestic politics of india/pakistan or the international some kind of international issues which are active and we can see that kashmir issue or dispute is not as active as we can see the other issues. what is restraining the u.s. from going further. >> all right, you want to take the first one? >> i think you're absolutely right. this is a precedent, and it's been politically a very successful precedent. i don't thin

i have been in the former yugoslavia last fall. i cannot sleep since from what i have seen. we must do something to stop the bloodshed in that country. [applause] mr. wiesel: people fight each other and children died. why? something, anything must be done. this is a lesson among other lessons, that we shall learn together. and in closing to the president and distinguished guests, just one more remark. the mountains of whom i spoke to you -- the woman disappeared. she was my mother. announcer: c-span's "washington journal" live every day with ews and policy issues that impact you. oming up saturday morning, editor-in-chief terry jeff cry and american prospect senior paul waldman whether discuss their pick for the top ews stories of 2016 and make predictions for the year ahead. watch c-span's "washington live at 7:00 a.m. eastern saturday morning. former u.s. senator and john glenn died earlier this month at the age of 95. funeral was held at ohio columbus.versity in this is about an hour and 15 minutes. ♪ ♪ >> when i came back from korea, had to go through test pilot training

that's exactly why more countries, including those created by the breakup of yugoslavia, are eager to join. montenegro has worked hard to prove its commitment to nato, including by strengthening its democracy, making significant progress in fighting corruption, and improving its defense capabilities. montenegro's membership in nato would have significant impact, including completing the alliance's unbroken control of the adreyatic coast. it will serve to further anchor the baltic region and the security framework of nato. and it speaks volumes that vladimir putin has fiercely opposed montenegro's accession. during montenegro's general election in october, authorities arrested 20 people suspected of plotting with support from russia to overthrow the cabinet and s.a.s. nate montenegro -- and aassassinate montenegro's prime minister. while neigh know is purely a defensive alliance, russia has warned montenegro of retaliation if the country continues to pursue nato membership. by quickly approving the resolution on -- accession, the united states senate candom straight that it stands fi

the economic department is here strictly because kirk paid for him and his family to get out of yugoslavia under the communists. thecommunists. they had a place to live. and this is my colleague now because of that. there were times he had upwards of the team cambodians or ethiopians at the same time, anybody that needed to shelter they could live with the kirk's as long as they need it until they could get on their feet. if you ask me what is the greatest legacy, that to me is incredible. >> host: the chair of american studies at hillsdale college, who has endowed that? >> guest: it was a family that passed away out of colorado and a number of others as well. kirk used to teach classic at the university of boulder in the 70s and 80s. >> host: the book russell kirk american conservative. thanks for your time. >> [inaudible conversations] [applause] >> good evening and welcome my name is bill miller and i could direct the festival. i am so glad that you all are here. a couple of housekeeping things. c-span is here taping this evening. so, that will be broadcast lat later. we will include th