good night. [crowd shouting] [narrator] previously on secrets & spies. [ken adelman] in 1982, the soviet union had something like 33,000 nuclear weapons. [ronald reagan] they are the focus of evil in the modern world. [applause] [oleg gordievsky] the confrontation between west and east was very serious. there was really significant fear that this was going to lead to something extremely, extremely dangerous. [oleg] [crowd cheering] [narrator] this is the unseen story of the cold war. fought not by politicians. but by secret agents. [jack barsky] there was complete misunderstanding on either side. it s very difficult to determine whom you can trust. [narrator] as the soviet union faces off with the west in the early 1980s. two spies play a dangerous game from the shadows. they seek to win the upper hand while the world stands on the brink of nuclear war. these are their stories in their own words. testimony pieced together from interviews over the years. [oleg] after 11 years
and all of her treasured photographs. but months later, a miracle. there was a craigslist post from a stranger over 50 miles away who had found a photograph in their yard. it was a picture sucked up by the tornado. a baby photo of amber. the only one to survive. the woman mailed it back to amber along with $5, all she could afford, but wanted to give to help amber start her life over. for more information on what you can do in a tornado and what you can do to help combat the growing climate crisis, go to cnn.com/violentearth. i m liev schreiber. thanks for watching. good night. [dramatic music playing] [raymond asquith] the listeners, as they were, the kgb, who had all the surveillance equipment, lived on the floor above us in moscow. and you knew they were there. on the whole, one just endured it. i mean, i remember my wife and i had some kind of argument about where we re gonna take the children for a weekend picnic. in a rather unmanly way, i sort of addressed the ceiling
New data showing easyjet passengers and those flying from gatwick were the worst affected. And coming soon from your iphone, the first ginger icon from the emerging library. It is nothing, apparently. Now its time for sportsday. Good evening, im olly foster live st the london stadium, this is world athletics sportsday, heres whats coming up on the programme tonight. Where are the british medals . Robbie grabarz could grab one over the weekend, use into the highjump final. There wasnt too much to shout about in the 100 hurdles. Porter says shes embarrassed to go out in the first round. Ijust did not want i just did not want to ijust did not want to miss out on this opportunity, i wanted to put my best foot forward, its so embarrassing to come here and run like that. The crowd will be behind Dina Asher Smith tonight as she chases a dream medal in the 200 metres. Im Lizzie Greenwood hughes and ill have the rest of the days sports news. Including a look ahead to the start of the Premier Le
, u know, paying it forward and trying to help people understand their sacrifice. karen davis, the nurse who survived the entrapment in the mega fire in paradise, california, says she lost everything in the inferno. battling the trauma from the flames, she decided to move to las vegas to be closer to her daughter and rebuild her shattered life. once there, karen continued her career in health care. she also decided to become a member of the henderson, nevada, community emergency response team, aiming to help others in future emergencies. a testament to her inner strength and resiliency. for more information on what you can do in a wildfire and how to combat the growing climate crisis, please go to cnn.com/violentearth. i m liev schreiber. thanks for watching. good night. [crowd shouting] [narrator] previously on secrets & spies. [ken adelman] in 1982, the soviet union had something like 33,000 nuclear weapons. [ronald reagan] they are the focus of evil in the modern world. [a
so our missiles brought it down. what is this all about, gentlemen? [man] hi. my name s robert reynolds from cable news network. -yes? -wondering if you would be having any type of statement, or. -not at the moment. -.anything to say about the korean airliner? nothing? expect one soon? [ken] so that drove people in the west, especially conservatives like me, to think, boy, they are even worse than we thought they were. the incident raises the frightening thought that the finger on the soviet nuclear trigger could be as unstable as the individual who gave the order to shoot down the korean airliner. [narrator] it sparks protest and condemnation around the world. [crowd shouting] [susan] i mean, there was really significant fear that this was going to lead to something, you know, big. and extremely, extremely dangerous.