the world today. what are your future plans? translator: you ll see them and hear about them in the media. god willing. on the 8th anniversary of the u.s. deployment in saudi arabia, osama bin laden s forces bombed two american embassies in africa. it was midmorning in nairobi when a powerful bomb exploded outside the u.s. embassy. the building behind the embassy crumbled into a tangle of concrete and steel, turning the sidewalk red with blood. a passing bus, its windows blown out. people on board incinerated. almost simultaneously, 415 miles away, another deadly blast. the target, the u.s. embassy in dar es salaam, tanzania. simultaneous attacks become the hallmark of al qaeda
international backlash. but on the fourth day of fighting, the heavy fighting continues, and the u.n. says 100,000 people have now fled, the turk irk defense forces, now saying 415 so-called militants are being killed, we can t independently confirm that figure, but it s quite clear, the heavy fighting continues. dara? bill neely, thank you, bill. now to new developments from central hong kong and hundreds of mass protesters assembling to support students arrested in anti-government tdemonstrations and to protest recent police brutality. let s go to nbc s kelly cobiella and these protests are spilling into politics and pop culture. what s going on? reporter: that s right, and the most high profile example i guess is the nba, we ve been talking about it all week long, the fact that the nba has been
killing people who tried to escape shooting them dead at the berlin wall and elsewhere it is famous for the stasi secret police as well but it was also a place where many people lead normal day to day lives now 2 filmmakers have curated hours of home video to offer a glimpse of that past. personal memories recorded in a country that no longer exists. these home movies capture assigned of the former germany most outsiders never knew private recordings that are now public thanks to documentary filmmakers alberto herskovitz political scientist lawrence murphy. the 415 hours of home movie reels showing what real life looks like for real people under the socialist regime. the resulting website open memory box allows visitors to click
1st maybe but not because plenty other reason because maybe people didn t know better but of course when we look at this the footage or the these 415 hours of images they ordered all about what private life is about is people going for holy days and speaking of holidays i just just briefly want to show some footage because there s a lot of there s a lot of images of nudism and can you just briefly tell us what is that about where that is all about the people for a reason that maybe nobody really knows where it came from but in east germany and going to the beach and having no clothes on was this sort of a folk sport i would say it was like what people did it would be and that was very different i was very different from in the west so that was a sort of freedom in a sense that people in the west maybe didn t have a better herskovitz from open memory box thank you so much for coming on the show
a sign of the former germany that most outsiders never knew private recordings that are now public thanks to documentary filmmakers herskovitz political scientist lawrence mouthfuls the connected 415 hours of home movie reels showing what real life looks like for real people under the socialist regime. the resulting website open memory box allows visitors to click in english german french or russian watching clips from the archives of $149.00 german families. the footage is universal most of these films seem like they could have been filmed most anywhere in europe the people in them are just people living their lives despite the dictatorship. and with me here is alberto herskovitz one of the initiators of our project open memory box welcome to the show thank you now we hear