Governments next legislative program amid it the traditional pomp and ceremony. Hello. Thanks for joining us on bbc world news. President obama has met is the president elect of ukraine Petro Poroshenko on the second day of his trip to poland. He said they discussed a plan for reducing ukraines Energy Dependence on russia and how the u. S. Can help train the Ukrainian Security forces. This all comes ahead of a major speech that mr. Obama is due to make in the next few minutes, in fact, as part of a ceremony to mark 25 years since the end of communism in poland. This is the stage setting. Come rove ski, polands president speaking now, cataloging polands move, transition from the communist ear rat which ended precisely 25 years ago to today when it can count itself among the market democracies showing huge signs of stability over the course of the last 25 years. It is a timely moment for president obama to be in Eastern Europe, given the travails that have faced ukraine in the last few m
How Popular Culture prevented the wire. How was aware presented from the 1940s . How was it presented and comic books from the 1940s . How was it presented in athletic events from the 1930s and the 1940s . How was it presented in tin pan alley in music from the 1940s . And now on booktv, encore booknotes. Richard ben cramer appeared on booknotes in 1992 to discuss his book, what it takes. In the book mr. Cramer profiled the president ial election, george h. W. Bush, robert dole, gary hart, richard gephardt, joseph biden and Michael Dukakis. Mr. Cramer died this past monday at the age of 62. This is about an hour. Cspan Richard Ben Cramer, in your book what it takes the way to the white house. Is there any one thing that was a thread through the six candidates that you followed that would tell you what it takes . Guest i think there was, although i didnt set out to write a paradigm of a president ial candidate. There were some similarities, and, alas, similarities in the stories of thei
Anc, in order to deliver not just a transfer of power that offered the prospect of peace for all the people of south africa. Mandela once notably said, this is not about moving from white domination to black domination. There must be no domination of either community. He was an extraordinary man in not only believing that but practising it with every fibre of his being. As we look today at the lessons of mandelas extraordinary life and incredible achievements, at his contribution not just to south africa, which goes without saying, but to the wider world and at why he has become such an iconic figure, two factors stand out. First, he is perhaps the best example we have had in the past 100 years of how political leaders, by force of personality, transform themselves from politicians into statesman can by their sheer personal effort change the world and make what was impossible possible and then deliver it. He is not the only one who has done so. We should not think of him as unique. Gor
We are tiptoeing to a fundamental western. These people went through the of indoctrination and so on. They still had the old view of the vanguard rt. People, but lot of you could say they worsened your murderers. They were sincere murderers. After the tendon and mass occur iananmon massacre to a , theytion of communist told me, this means all my life destroyed. There is another story. After the massacre they went to see him. Two old friends sat down and they said, ok, you did this. I supported you. Now what . It means we thought we were wehting for liberation. Thought we were bringing freedom to people. Now what . I cannot answer you. It is not our case. How true the story is. Of communisme part that remains is leninism. That is the organizational part of the party, and that is very alive. It the utopia is gone. Right here. Thank you. Hello again. There was ak Success Story for the movement. Could you comment on what they could have done differently with perhaps a different outcome . G
Deserve our support, our respect, and our prayers. They e they demand the fullest response, diplomat exand economic. I think its wholly appropriate that these brave martyrs be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize and everything that can be done along these lines should be done. I yold back. I tweeled two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from california, mr. Lavon. The gentleman is recognized. I thank the gentleman for yielding and congratulate him and the other leads of the for expeditiously bringing this resolution to the floor. Mr. Speaker, the exhilarating express expressions of support for democracy in china have inspired the world. The horrors we have witnessed in china in the last few days have shocked the world. Beijings brutal crackdown on peaceful demonstrators deserves our harshest condemnation and i believe will prove the undoing of this regime. I urge my colleagues, mr. Speaker, not to forget that this latest atrocity comes on the heels of a similar military suppression of dem