egyptians are preparing to go to the polls in a few weeks, but the country is hardly a beacon of democracy these day. it does bring me to my question. an egyptian pop star was recently sentenced to prison for a joke about what? the nile, the pyramids, the sphinx or the suez canal. stay tuned and we ll tell you the correct answer. my book of the week is five days in london: may 1940. if you watch dunkirk or darkest hour and want more, this say short compelling case that adolf hitler almost conquered europe in 1940. britain alone with its entire army surrounded by nazi forces on the french coast but one man fought back and turned the tide. riveting reading. now for the last look. we are all aware of the rise
he s meeting here with the british, the french, the skbrge, the italian, japanese, and the question they want to hear is if he ll act against assad if he uses chemical weapons. they want to know the nuances of the u.s. position, on the iranians in syria. boris johnson, the british foreign secretary canceled his own trip to moscow today to so he could come here and try to align them behind rex tillerson. the message they all want him to take to moscow is russia needs to back away from assad, it needs to work to bring a cease-fire. but tillerson himself prioritized this morning going to a small mountain top village to commemorate a war crime from the second world war, august 1944, nazi forces enter ted thi
miles from where i m standing now in central moscow. russians believed they were fighting the war for the very survival of the people and a nation. few people believed that strongly than those who survived the siege of lennongrad. at first this looked similar to many war memorials. this wasn t built just to remember the second world war. the earth here holds a staggering number of its victims. this is a movement, almost incomprehensible. it is hard to think of the suffering. each of those mounds is a mass grave. each of those filled with some of them who did not survive. 490,000 people were buried here. that s thought to be around half the number killed while leningrad, st. petersberg, was cut off by nazi forces.
after inouye and other fellows successfully petitioned the roosevelt administration to change its policy, the military began to accept them for service on a separated basis. president roosevelt issued a statement saying americanism is not a matter of blood or color. americanism is a matter of heart and soul. he was promote to do a sergeant within his first year and eventually became a platoon leader while fighting nazi forces in tuscany. he suffered multiple injuries and later had his arm amputated. after the war, he earned a total of 16 medals and citations for his service, including the distinguished service cross, the bronze star, the purple heart, and the medal of honor. but he wasn t awarded the last recognition until 2000. none of the soldiers of the 442nd regiment ever received the medal of honor. the military s highest decoration more than 50 years
the city by force. germany and france declared two days later. it was heavily leveled after allied and soviet air raids. the soviets seized what was left from of the city from nazi forces. after world war ii gdansk became a part of poland the polls renamed the city it has today, the gdansk. shipyard workers began a protest considered beginning the start of overthrow of communism. polish independence came not much later after that. rick: romney s campaign continues to try to capitalize on you didn t build that comment that the president made on july 13th. the romney team launching we did build this bus tour across several states. obama campaign responding that the tv ads saying that the president s remarks were 10 out of context.