s but after the breakup of yugoslavia and the demise of communism the hotel fell into disrepair. swiss director year traces the ups and downs of the hotel's history and revisits his own childhood in the process his mother is serbian and they spent holidays in what was then you can slavia i think one of the. deepest feeling was some kind of sadness of seeing this. place that without having any judgment about politics or but to see this place. that was touching me in terms of architecture in terms of its the some kind of values that i could feel in this. values such as solidarity social equality and justice. really does is the sum up on earth of you know that's what i. need. a part of history that many are still coming to terms with. the film an elephant sitting still takes viewers to china it's for disaffected protagonists and leading lives of desperation and struggle emerging. from our. urban misery and suffering mountains of trash piled up on street corners. neglected old people. but still this is a film that manages to find beauty in the most dismal of situations. director who

the turbulent history of cult greats legendary hotel yugoslavia. and from cairo an exploration of rockdale for iraq one of the poorest neighborhoods in the egyptian capital and the story of several of its inhabitants. and. i know you have you very much. for that oh oh. that. the traditions can be oppressive but they have advantages to locals use a co-operative credit union system to me us to raise money for the needy. yet it has the i know what. if i have made myself or my skill or have a good mother whom i thought i should have this is what matters. still lebanese director ream sally did shoot her film over the course of six years in a district it's basically a slum but the experience transformed the way she sees the place that people should be really proud of showing the solidarity of these places and to show as well that they resemble everybody else they have their own problems they are genuine they try to support each other and now we reached a point in a world where no one supports it other. than the luxury hotel yugoslavia even served as a fi

"afterwards,"t on former yugoslavia negotiator and senior senate staffer ira shapiro" with his brokebroken -- with his book "broken." >> politics was supposed to be about finding a way to overcome differences through extended to the screen -- discussions and a real legislative process, through principal compromise. it wasn't supposed to be about one party winning on their own. as you know, the times in history when one party has been able to do this on your own are fdr few, maybe 1933-34, dealing with the depression, lbj reached outven lbj to republicans. >> watch afterwards, sunday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span twos book tv. >> joining us now -- degood

used to be one of the former yugoslavia is biggest companies mining plentiful minerals with good profits and thousands of jobs because of those war changed that you don't have to look far to see damaged buildings and the conflict two decades ago decimated this business now the few miners who remain a part of a dysfunctional company that's cut into these a kosovar albanian miles and we've recently been celebrating their country's tenth anniversary of independence not far away is the other half of trips run by the minority cause of all serbs they're more likely to listen to serbia's government than their senior management at the firm's headquarters on the south side of mitchell pizza leave. that to your new troops according to the law should be governed by one single executive management and they should be unified as we stand now neither us nor they can be developed it shouldn't be divided more than twenty two thousand people work for this company two decades ago before the war now fewer than two and a half files and are on the payroll the management say that if the political problems with

was one of the major events in the civil war says yugoslavia speights apart andhra simmons went to the town to see how it's fared in recent years it's a war he's grown used to over the years. still can't comprehend why he lived and his brother died no other men had been fighters they were kosovar albanian and that was a death sentence for those buried here young and old. this happened within the reach of unarmed european observers but the serbs blocked their access romesha boni and others had been rounded up in this yard. to stop or to in the hall as you can see first of all they threw grenades and opened fire on the house people were screaming especially the kids who i was laid out and beaten just here then we were ordered to leave in that direction with our hands behind our heads. like the others run a follow directions coming up here stopping to light a cigarette and then hearing shooting he ran in that direction and the rest had come along here and they'd fallen into a trap they call this the red trail paint marks the spots where blood stains belongings and foreign bodies had been

al-jazeera we traveled to the site of one of the worst massacres that accompany the breakup of yugoslavia ten years after kosovo fissioning declared independence and a soft warning on the future of global security as power brokers gather for a major summit in germany. from dusky sunsets if you disproving savannah. to sunrise atop an asian metropolis. another spell of what you could probably call unpleasant weather is working its way through the van rather tight little circulation of tide you just see coming in on this satellite picture is the active one it's not this big streaky which is basically just a streak of cloud in the sky quite pretty but not doing anything no the rain develops all not system and it looks like saturday's a pretty awful day for virtually anywhere north of egypt to be honest up to sun and this rain beyond that through. through iraq as well baghdad maintains twenty one for the rain comes in it probably will start to feel colder down to eighteen is a high on sunday as a rain really focuses on the western side of iran and up to the southern caucasus sun should be abou

they've been at odds over the say over the name since the republic of macedonia broke away from yugoslavia in one thousand nine hundred one greece was allowed macedonia to become a member of nato or to join the european union with out an agreement on the matter so what's behind greek opposition to the use of that word macedonia well the main argument is that it could imply territorial claims over its own northern region of the same name both governments have signaled that they are willing to compromise but convincing the voters may be difficult will be going live to athens to our correspondent who's after those demonstrations little later in this program the greek cypriots are voting in a presidential runoff election today both candidates say that they can reunify cypress and boost the economy president nicolas and i see days is hoping for a repeat of his twenty thirteen victory of a leftist rival stuff. the un to administer the demilitarized zone has divided greek and turkish areas on the island of cyprus since one nine hundred seventy four of us recent deficit to reunify the island broke

and the breakup of yugoslavia now serbia and initially retained control of the majority ethnic albanian territory of cost of zero but kossovo began pushing for independence serbia responded with a military crackdown and that in turn triggered nato military intervention serbian forces subsequently pulled out of kossovo after more than two months of nato bombing now on february seventeenth two thousand and eight cost of those two million people declared independence most western countries recognize the new state but serbia and russia condemned the move and still do not recognize kossovo as an independent country. more than half of the population in kosovo is under thirty that includes. the cost of dany and is about to finish a bachelor's degree now this young country is celebrating its first ten years of independence from serbia and i did belong to the first generation of university students. the twenty one year old is disappointed in the country sleet a ship fighting corruption and bringing justice and so on i think they feel to met all the requirements i'm supposed to build it is that t

name of greece's opposed its neighbors use the name macedonia since it became independent from yugoslavia in one thousand nine hundred one athens has said it suggest a territorial claim on its own northern province of macedonia but now the chairside have been working to find a solution the greek government signaled a willingness to compromise on the matter a move that many in greece don't like. that yes. they came in their hundreds of thousands from the cities from the countryside united to say that macedonia is and always will be greek there are other world leaders i will support this until the end of macedonia is greek myself they've sold us out and now the people have risen up all out in the streets for this. these greeks object to the x. yugoslav republic of macedonia calling itself the same name as greece is northern macedonian region a region once home to ancient ruler alexander the great they say it implies a territorial claim the greek government has been trying to broker a compromise with the country of macedonia over the name which has brought protesters onto the streets among t

now greece has opposed its neighbors use of the name macedonia since it became independent from yugoslavia or nine hundred ninety one athens says it suggests a territorial claim on its own northern province of macedonia and the two sides had pledged to find a solution this year. well for more on this we can bring in our correspondent in athens and carol salva and say what is it that the demonstrators are looking to achieve what are they calling for. well for starters the turnout has been absolutely phenomenal authorities are also trying to pay down and they put out an initial statement saying that a hundred forty thousand just showed up organizers are putting that number up to one point five million. difference between the two but we've clearly seen hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people out there in the demand this is just why the greeks do not want to relinquish the name macedonia greek name to it is their northern name. in light of these disputes that eased negotiate between athens the government in athens and so here they believe the name is three they do not want to hand it over

the two countries have been at odds over that name since the small balkan state broke away from yugoslavia in ninety nine to one here is john psaropoulos following developments from athens looked like the crowds are sort of dispersed a bit there but this was one big protests. that's right the organizers here estimate that as many as one and a half million people may have shown up today we know that hundreds of buses have been chartered from across greece but also this is happening in athens where half of the greek population lives the police have given out an official estimate of one hundred forty thousand the truth probably lies somewhere in between certainly the numbers we've seen with the naked eye from where we're standing in front of parliament have been in the hundreds of thousands because crowds have extended up to the main avenues leading off of the main square and the one message that we've heard consistently have the most powerful single word that is spoken it's in the fliers dropped on the street is in the speeches being made here by politicians and clerics and even greece's mos

name greece has opposed its neighbors use of the name macedonia since it became independent from yugoslavia in one thousand nine hundred one at that athens had signaled a willingness to compromise on the matter angry many greeks south african president jacob zuma has come under a new pressure to resign top officials from the ruling a.n.c. party met with him sunday to persuade him to step down his term expires next year but the party's popularity has fallen amid claims of corruption linked to the president and a polish opposition group has demonstrated outside the president's residence in warsaw urging him not to sign into law a controversial bill on the holocaust the bill would impose jail terms for suggesting that poland was complicit in nazi crimes israel the u.s. and international organizations have strongly condemned the proposed law. germany's two biggest political parties say they need more time for coalition talks they had set a deadline for sunday but there was still no breakthrough they'll pick up negotiations again today an agreement would move germany a step closer to a continuat

now greece has opposed its neighbors use of the name macedonia since it became independent from yugoslavia or nine hundred ninety one athens says it suggests a territorial claim on its own northern province of macedonian other two sides have pledged they had pledged to find a solution this year. for more on this we can bring in our correspondent in athens and pete carroll salva good to see they now what is it the demonstrators are looking to achieve what's their aim here. well the turnout is john norris absolutely and even the authorities here have been taken by surprise the demand that these people have the hundreds of thousands that you see on the streets as that happens here today is simple and why they simply do not want to relinquish the greek name macedonia to its northern neighbor country and they don't want this country to use its name and they don't want the government here to include the name macedonian for that matter even any other derivative of the name of macedonia in any prospect of name solution and that will be extremely difficult for the guy mick because the government it

the maritime and land border in the peer run bay area ever since the dissolution of the former yugoslavia in the one nine hundred ninety s. after they joined the e.u. an international court of arbitration was supposed to settle the route but its decision that the bulk of the baby longs to slovenia is unacceptable for creation arbitration should be based on on trust fullness and this was completely ruined in that process and creation parliament decided that. unilateral that creation. works out of the separate ration agreements the slovenes on the other hand feel that this violates european rights and insists the ruling be enforced because both sides had agreed to tricks up the result of the arbitration. may i. will go to the border in the see is clearly drawn with. the arbitration court defined it precisely. is living living at all because of the special circumstances in the last six months. he has already warned that the waters are slovenian territory. what they do when the police since the end of the last year is you could jump ship which has lost access to a large part of the fishing ar

could give evidence before the prosecutor and the international can rule tribunals for the former yugoslavia and color don't want it said that witnesses from possible were so afraid and intimidated that they even feared to talk about the k.l.a. presence in some areas not to mention actual crimes those willing to testify had to be transferred to other countries with their entire families. played so much intimidation possible in fact through a trial i myself twice first and retry all the vet narcisse have been listed from the prosecutor. president in court. prosecutor says ramish declared in both day that no intimidation not interference and none of business is in hire the nice case was the stop to present in call it the appeal court spoke of serious with this intimidation for the context of no search brummer stated this in belgrade front of everybody me that in the notes case there was no record of any intimidation or interference or any. blockage that somebody shows a board and presence already according to the new york times eighteen people have eighteen witnesses had to be subpoenaed becau

asians this here they put it all over the name since the republic of macedonia broke away from yugoslavia in one thousand. one thousand one will greece won't allow macedonia to become a member of the of nato all the european union without an agreement on the matter so what's behind greek opposition to the use of the name macedonia well the main argument is that it could imply territorial claims over its own northern region which has the same name both governments of signal that they're willing to compromise but convincing voters may be more difficult let's go live to athens and a series johnson is there john it's obvious that feelings are running pretty high there in athens this isn't the first time we've seen protests like these though why are they flaring up now. no you're right it's not the first time this happened again in one thousand nine hundred two shortly after communism collapsed in eastern europe and you get the former yugoslavia broke up into its constituent states what you're seeing here now in assamese is a replay of those same emotions that we were seeing then and if you if

we travel to the sites of one of the worst massacres that accompanied the breakup of the former yugoslavia ten years ago after kosovo declared independence. but. also politics of late son superheroes why marvel's latest comic book living is being hailed as a cultural milestone. and the usa is going to skim mccalla shriven learns that you can't win them all the time since for which. from the waves of the sounds. to the contours of the east. how it was very quiet start to the years the dog in fact temperatures throughout central and southern china maybe a little bit higher than you might expect twenty one kong ten in shanghai we all feeding moisture a piece i think it will eventually turn into cloud and bitter rain will fall but there's nothing really significant go in even further north is not especially cold in beijing for example one of our freeze yes it should be used on the year things are warming up fairly quickly the wet season still a policy in indonesia and that is java bali soloway sea and beyond but most of the laser is find that certain indication of cloud here and in the middle

the first was the united nations, the second was the united nations, the second was former yugoslavianame ofjustice on behalf of my nation. that was run by the international criminal court at the hague. the third is the european rule of law... you are not answering my question... on the fourth one, it was judged answering my question... on the fourth one, it wasjudged only albanians, only for selected crimes, and it was out of the country. albanians, only for selected crimes, and it was out of the countrylj would and it was out of the country.” would prefer that. but it was ratified by the kosovan parliament? fair enough. now you are denying... no, not deniable. the court exists. but it is good to realise when this quarter rights, and the criticism of this court, there is criticism of this court, there is criticism of this court. more to the point there is criticism of this court from your own brother. like you he was a kla fighter and recently he has said that kla fighters will prevent action by anyone who intends to profit politically from making arrests in this special court. it so

e country of macedonia gined independence from yugoslavia in 1991 and continues to seek membership in nato and the e.u. read more about the protests in greece on our website, pbs.org/newshour. >> thompson: there are less than eight weeks left in the current scheiole of negotiat between the united states, canada, and mexico over nafta, the north american free trade agreement.d esident trump may soon have to decide whether to extend, suspend, or pullut of the talks altogether, and begin the process of withdrawing from the trade agreement. newshour weekend special correspondent patricia sga has our second story on the impact of nafta. she reports on a littl clause that has the trump administration and progressives on the same page. >> the era of economic surrender is over. from now on, we expect trading b relationships fair and to be reciprocal. >> reporter: on the campaign trail, upon taking office, right up to his recent state of the union speech, president trumpbe ha consistent about what he calls america's "bad trade deals." and that includes the northad american free e agreement, na

name macedonia macedonian government took on the name when the country declared independence from yugoslavia in one thousand nine hundred one but greece argues that it implies territorial claims to its own northern province of macedonia where alexander the great was born knife crime rose by more than a fifth in the united kingdom last year with the biggest increase being in london the majority of those killed in the capital were black teenagers on a beef it. no father should have to visit the site of their son's murder but this is michael's fate he doesn't know who stabbed to death his boy michael jr in a south london park the attack seems to have been random for months on the police appealed for information people is being tight lipped we are facing a barrier wishes. people think into their so that if they're open their mouths and says something they're going to be labeled as being named pharma iris mich. just another london knife crime this robbery earlier this month on camera but no one will tell the police who this is the epidemic hundreds of knife crimes every week these some of the wea

name greece has opposed its neighbors use of the name macedonia since it became independent from yugoslavia in one thousand nine hundred one athens had signaled a willingness to compromise on the matter angering many greeks. the leaders of south africa's ruling a.n.c. party are due to hold an emergency meeting today to decide the future of president jacob zuma zuma has come under renewed pressure to stand down from office top officials from the a.n.c. met with you must sunday to persuade him to resign he is not due to leave office until next year but the party's popularity has fallen during his second term amid a weakening economy and claims of corruption. israel has begun serving deportation notices to tens of thousands of eritrean subsidies who have been seeking asylum there hundred student line outside the immigration authority offices on sunday seeking to renew their visas but the israeli government wants them to leave and is offering them money and plane tickets to an unnamed african destination if they stay they face imprisonment tanya kramer sent us this report. to keep because if le

this is what happened when yugoslavia broke apart a quarter century ago and its southernmost state claimed independence as the republic of macedonia a million people gathered into selling the capital of the greek region of macedonia outraged that a non greek nation should lay claim to ancient greek heritage that is still the dominant view here today. they're trying to inherit all of macedonia and alexander the great this is a farce it's all happening because the americans want them in near so early attempts at compromise came to nothing the government in the former yugoslav macedonian capital scorpio refused to relinquish the term macedonia and greece rejected the use of even a composite name that included it such as northern or slow of macedonia one hundred countries recognized the new state including many nato and e.u. countries concerned for its stability and survival but greece has cited its own security concerns as a vital part of any agreement but government in scope would be called. pond to remove articles in its constitution but greasers implied claims on its territory article fort

i was an aid worker, i spent the ‘90s in yugoslavia and rwanda, the 2000s in pakistan and afghanistan the industry well. the problem is you have a lot of white men in positions of power, with a lot of wealth, going to underprivileged countries where the rule of law has broken down, and abuse takes place. we've got to understand, for the mums and dads, your viewers who want their taxpayer dollars or charitable donations to go to good, we have a duty to make sure that good is done. the majority of aid workers are good people, but like the catholic church, there is a small number of people who are doing the most heinous acts, and we only know that the charity is taking it seriously not if they report to the charity commission but to the police. these people are breaking sex tourism laws and need to go to jail. and we'll find out how this story — and many others — are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:30 and 11:30pm this our guests joining me tonight are parliamentaryjournalist, tony grew and the entertainment journalist, caroline frost. a russian airliner has crashed near moscow, k

real changes for its people and we travel to the site of one of the worst mass of the breakup of yugoslavia ten years after officially declared independence. the f.b.i. has indicted thirteen russian nationals and three russian companies over alleged tampering in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election where the office of the special counsel robert muller described it as a criminal and espionage conspiracy to support donald trump and disparage the candidate he defeated hillary clinton one of the accused as you have got a probe goes in a close contact of russian president vladimir putin he said to have funded the internet research agency that's a russian based social media manipulation firm that's accused of working to undermine u.s. political candidates it is a major escalation in the ongoing investigations as mike hanna reports from washington d.c. . and onto trump protest march in new york shortly after his election this one of the pro and anti trump rallies a special council alleges were organized by the group of russians sometimes at the same time on the same day. part of

during the clinton administration, extreme violence broke out in sarajevo, with the breakup of yugoslaviakind of the last gasp of the cold war. so the americans were very much involved in the peace process in dayton, ohio, the dayton accord ended that war. but the region was very much still on the focus of the administration. secretaryot spot, and of state madeleine albright was very much aware of what was going on in the region. >> she was. she managed the response and coordination with some of her foreign minister counterparts, and she held an almost daily conference call with these foreign ministers, and later "conference call diplomacy" to help manage this conflict. they coordinated and works quite well together, and at the end of secretary's albright's tenure in and her2001, she conference call diplomacy counterparts gathered for dinner in paris to celebrate the end of secretary albright's tenure. she was presented with gifts, as it were. this spectacular russian porcelain set, coffee set, was a gift by the russian foreign minister igor even off. i think you can see on each of the cu

i was an aid worker, i spent the 90s in yugoslavia and rwanda, the 2000 in pakistan and afghanistan, men in positions of power, with a lot of wealth, going to underprivileged countries where the rule of law has broken down, and abuse takes place. we've got to understand, for the mums and dads, your viewers who want their taxpayer dollars or charitable donations to good food, we have a duty to make sure that good is done for the new majority of aid workers are good people, but like the catholic church, there is a small number of people who are doing the most venous access, and we only know that the charity is taking it seriously not if they report to the charity commission but to the police. —— a small knot of people are doing the most heinous acts of these people are breaking sex tourism laws and need to go to jail we spoke earlier to elaine storkey, a former president of a charity, what a lot on sexual exploitation in countries like haiti, and she said that she understands all of the angen that she understands all of the anger. she said you've got to keep it in perspective, and i'm

macedonia the macedonian government took on the name when the country declared independence from yugoslavia in one thousand nine hundred one but greece argues that using the king's name implies territorial claims to its own northern province of macedonia where alexander the great was born the violin celebrities and politicians in india have been paying tribute to these celebrated bollywood actors who died suddenly at the age of fifty four. began to grow as a child eventual appearing in more than one hundred films but it was a role in the romantic adventure mr india that made her a superstar sridevi later took on a fifteen year break making a successful comeback playing a housewife on her first trip to the us in the hit movie english vinglish family says she suffered a heart attack on saturday while attending a wedding in dubai. georgiades there are times a whole realm of these are all top news stories the un security council has unanimously adopted a resolution demanding a month long truce in syria and it follows a week of government led strikes on the rebel held on clay the eastern ghouta

macedonia that the macedonian government took on the name when the country declared independence from yugoslavia in one thousand nine hundred one but greece argues that using the king's name implies territorial claims to its northern province of macedonia alexander the great was for. they are celebrities and politicians in india have been paying tribute to the celebrated bollywood actress sridevi who died suddenly at the age of fifty fall. she began her career as a child eventually appearing in more than one hundred films but it was her role in the romantic adventure mr india that made her what many consider the country's first female superstar sridevi later took on a fifteen year break making a successful comeback playing a housewife in her first trip to the us in the hit movie english english her family say she suffered a heart attack on saturday while attending a wedding in dubai and finally a romanian film about the fear of intimacy is the prize winner of this year's top prize at the berlin international film festival touch we not always pick the head of eighteen other films including u.s. d