and they reached moscow. hitler had ordered that moscow be destroyed from the air. the first wave of bombers dropped 140 tons of high explosive, 46,000 incendiary bombs, 130 people were killed and tens of thousands scrambled into the deep moscow subway stations to stay safe from the bombs. looking up at the sky at that time was a young 14-year-old teenager, adolf tolkachev. i think he and all those thousands of people crowding into the subway stations to stay safe asked themselves, how did the bombers get true? moscow -- get through? moscow was surrounded by 600 large searchlights, 800 anti-aircraft guns. but the german bombers got through, because what the soviet union really needed was radar. radar was a new invention in the 1930s, and it could give early warning of airplanes in flight. but the soviet union was way behind in re daughter. they had only -- in re daughter. they had only the most primitive time. it couldn't even tell the altitude of a plane or the speed. they desperately needed better radar. and that was evident to all of the people under the bombs on

tolkachev lived in moscow at the time. he was too young to go off to war, but i see key and all of those thousands of people crowding into the subway station to stay safe asked themselves, how did the bombers get through? moscow is surrounded by 600 large searchlights, 800 anti-aircraft guns, but the german bombers got through because with the soviet union really needed was radar. radar was a new invention in the 1930s and it could give early warning of airplanes in flight. the soviet union was way behind. they had only the most primitive kind. it couldn't even tell the altitude of a plane or the speed. they desperately needed better radar. and that was evident while the muscovites under the bombs on this war summer nights in august of 1941. much of it was built out of wood, old buildings, one bob hit the kremlin. and that through the roof and it just landed on the floor. but it is pretty frightening. so tolkachev didn't go to war. he went to school. he went to school to study radar. he went to the equivalent of a high sch

obukhov believes the revolution instilled fear in the rulers in moscow. and that is why they responded by forcing ukraine into a war. herman obukhov, dissident: moscow started to show to russian people that there is no way of going this way like maidan. >> he left russia in the summer of 2014 to take up the political fight against moscow, as he'd done once before. obukhov was a dissident even in the soviet era, when he opposed the communist regime in the 1980's. his writings got him four years in a penal colony. then he was able to emigrate to the u.s. after ukraine's revolution, he realized kiev is where he belongs. herman obukhov: here is much more freedom, first of all. we are able to criticize moscow without anything -- what should be next hour or next day -- or what will happen with our family, with our work, or with us itself. >> around 60% of kiev residents speak russian, and only 40% ukrainian. maybe that is why kiev attracts more and more russians who are opposed to the government in moscow. political activists and artists have formed an anti-kre

so moscow seems to be very much against any kind of tribunal into this crash, and certainly moscow will try to -- most likely try to veto any further attempts to establish one. laura: julia over there reporting earlier. now at least 47 people have been killed and dozens more injured after a blast at a market in northern nigeria. the blast in borno state has been blamed by hoch hoch. many have been -- by boko haram. many have been killed by them. talks between libya's rival factions are set to resume on tuesday in geneva. for the first time the powerful rebel group which holds control over the capital of tripoli, they have been torn apart by militia following the fall of muammar qaddafi in 2011. reporter: an end to the conflict that has plagued libya for four years, those are the talks that have just begun in libya. they started in the presence of representatives from both the governments of the country. >> we are proposing the parties to work on the coming three weeks and to try to have agreement on these important two points, on the annexes and the unity of government by the end of aug

but that actually happened in moscow. the fourth ministry had a big house we negotiate in the morning and then we went back to negotiations. we with each give a toast but it was such that i thought we have to listen -- lucinda's up some house so i got the sheet music from a georgia on my mind knowing that background and then i had a recording of the singer singing dash and i had three guys you spoke russian to sing it and i saying it. [laughter] a and it did break the i.c.e. and it was a big hit. men they were more relaxed so after we all left the office there was a party for the president down in los angeles said he asked me to come and tell the story. my partner that i was dinosaurs' she asked what i would do and i told her and i tell the story i am leaving and here comes dina and she says to me mr. secretary let me show you how to sing that song. [laughter] i said where were you when i needed you in moscow? [laughter] excuse me for interrupting. >> that is a great story. >> not only did they get on very well that they'

that agent communicated them to moscow. the soviets have -- they hand over to the japanese these intelligence reports that the austrians have demonstrated and the operational plan. this is a startling piece of information. david: the friend in austria sent me that article. having gone through these volumes, nothing surprises me. their intelligence was superb. they had folks everywhere telling everything. it readple say, forget with the russians, it was not. when the cold war ended and stuff, looked, they had they knew more than we ever imagined. of course, it was a relevant. -- a relevant. -- irrelevant. i would not doubt that australian intelligence was not completely penetrated. german headquarters army headquarters, were penetrated. it was incredible. me in the evening, if you would. >> it is time for lunch. thank you very much. good job. [applause] first lady helen taft made several notable changes to the white house. whitevious was replacing male ushers with african-american staff. she led an effort to create a memoria

that agent communicated them to moscow. the soviets have -- they hand over to the japanese these intelligence reports that the austrians have demonstrated and the operational plan. this is a startling piece of information. david: the friend in austria sent me that article. having gone through these volumes, nothing surprises me. their intelligence was superb. they had folks everywhere telling everything. when people say, forget it, with the russians, it was not. when the cold war ended and friends looked, they had stuff, they knew more than we ever imagined. of course, it was irrelevant. i would not doubt that australian intelligence was not completely penetrated. german headquarters, army headquarters were penetrated. it was incredible. catch me in the evening, if you would. >> it is time for lunch. thank you very much. good job. [applause] >> with live coverage of the house and senate, here on c-span three we complement that covered by showing you the most relevant congressional hearings and public affairs events. c-span3

moscow and cairo sees themselves as allies against violence. russia unlike the united states, doesn't use weapons sales to push its customers to improve their human rights records. >> it's important for russia to show the americans that russia is not isolated and has important friends, and it may show the americans that egypt can kind of stand without them. >> but money talks and these two countries finances are weak. maybe that's the reason why many of these deals only exist on paper right now. unlike in soviet times russia can no longer give energy or weapons away to its allies other than. rory challands. moscow. >> palestinian politicians are accusing each other of fraud in the election. police broke up a demonstration on tuesday. but washington, d.c. we report, tension still remains. >> i'm here in the independent square where thousands of people have gathered to protest against the government. they're saying that fraud was committed on sunday's election and the governorship of this province. they square was the center of the clashes when t

it was an even bigger scandal in moscow. c-span: looking at what the reagan administration's foreign policy was like and its defense policy, what did the reagan administration do, in your opinion, that had some impact on which way president gorbachev reacted eventually. in other words, look back from maybe even a professorial standpoint. what worked? what made a difference? what money was spent by the united states that was worth it? >> guest: the reagan administration, though it didn't sometimes articulate it too well, had two points to its policy about dealing with the soviet union. one of them was to deal from a position of strength. i think president reagan made that very clear -- his military build-up, sdi and all the rest. how much of that was necessary people are going to be debating for a long time, but certainly you do have to be strong. the other side of his policy, which was not known for quite a long time, was to engage them, to have dialogue with them, to negotiate with them, to try to work things out with them.

you're already negotiating with a planned trip to moscow to have nixon go visit moscow for the moscow summit. the north vietnamese look like they're winning, as you said. so what went around the thinking of nixon's decision to then escalate? >> you want to take that one? >> well, it was a very important weekend. he did it on the 8th of may. in the preceding days we had some meetings. i remember general hague calling me in on a friday afternoon. i was about to go to new york. he said you better stick around. the president's decided, it's a certain certainty, that he's going to mine high fong and bomb hanoi. we're going to spend the weekend here doing some staff work and we'll have an nsc meeting on monday. and he asked me to write kind of a justification for doing this. >> what was the background in mining high fong harbor? it was the largest harbor in north vietnam. >> it was the kind of escalation we had avoided previously. i think mr. nixon felt that he couldn't go to moscow on his summit with mr. brez nef while mr. perez nef's client was invading a friend of ours. >> we had an nsc

the issue you of the visit to moscow of the americans suspects russia to have violated the sanctions regime of iran, what measures moscow is taking so that to lift this concern of the american party in this respect. >> translator: i few words i will say all the comments on this room, on this were already made and i on this specific episode -- in the range of suspicions of the american i have nothing to add. the rumors are rumors. but if we talk about facts, which nobody disputes, that the sanctions of the regime was violated in the most obvious way by our american colleagues when sometime ago they -- from the base in guantanamo from the prison -- where dozens of citizens of different countries are held illegally out of the -- out of this inmates there were a few -- few -- some people from the u.n. list, people from the u.n. list where the sanctions were -- al qaeda and affiliated instruction tuesdainstruction tr people on this list were handed over in exchange for the american who were handed over to country one of the countries of the region as kind of an exchange against this ameri

you're already negotiating with a planned trip to moscow to have nixon go visit moscow for the moscow summit. the north vietnamese look like they're winning, as you said. so what went around the thinking of nixon's decision to then escalate? >> you want to take that one? >> well, it was a very important weekend. he did it on the 8th of may. in the preceding days we had some meetings. i remember general hague calling me in on a friday afternoon. i was about to go to new york. he said you better stick around. the president has decided, it's a certainty, that he's going to mine hai fong and bomb hanoi. we're going to spend the weekend here doing some staff work and then we'll have an nsc meeting on monday. and he asked me to write kind of a justification for doing this. and then we -- >> what was the background in mining hai fong harbor? it was the largest harbor in north vietnam. >> it was the kind of escalation that we had avoided previously. i think mr. nixon felt that he couldn't go to moscow on his summit with mr. brezhnev while mr. brezhnev's client was invading a friend of ours. >

manuel: marlene, one of the questions, i mean, the world cup is hosted from moscow. that is the center of it all. but what kind of effect do you think has a tournament like that on a nation? where russia represents its nationalism sort of through this big event? event likethink an this means in a country like russia? marlene: globally, it means a lot for every country receiving this kind of event. verynk we should think carefully that what is happening in russia is so specific. all these issues are happening in all these country -- all these countries. but in russia, the fact that the marginalization on russia internationally is very much visible on the way the russia nvidia is speaking to that one population. i went to russia last month and you could really feel people feel misunderstood. so you can see already the political authorities will try to lock consensus and get popular support for their own population in trying to make the cup a big event that really shows again, as sochi, the legitimacy of russia to be a great power and to be recognized. i think it will b

charter and the moscow declaration of 1943. these were terms that stalin could hardly accept because they took the initiative of entry into the war away from him and place it into the hands of tank i scheck and truman. events now moved rapidly. against the worst case of a surprise soviet landing, somewhere in northern japan, truman saw to redirect american driver -- power to land in the northern islands. on august 4, joint war plans committee issued a report. due to altered signals of having -- heavy reinforcement, the plan is one of macarthur and nimitz to make alternate plans. the report concluded "operations against extreme northern honshu and directly against tokyo are now under intensive study." it suggested that truman may have thought the russians might be able to get there before we could prevent it. over hiroshimamb changed everything, fatally compromising the first part of the plan. a decisive battle against the united states. even though some highly placed japanese military and scientific, science officials denied th

it actually happened in moscow and we had a pattern. he would give a toast and i would give a toast. i thought i have to loosen this up somehow so instead of a regular toast i got the sheet music and i put the words and russian and had a recording that i got three guys on the embassy and it didn't break the ice it was a big hit. it got us to be more relaxed. so after we all left office they asked me to come and tell that story so i go down and my partner that night asked me i was going to do and i told her so i got up and told the story. she grabs the microphone and says to me mr. secretary what they tell you how to sing that song. [laughter] she said where were you when i needed you in moscow. [laughter] >> they not only got along very well but they also learn from each other and as the secretary made a point of taking the economic charts on the record to moscow on the visit so that the soviet leaders would begin to understand quite what a mess they were heading into with their economic systems. so, what we are talking about here again

i had a big event in moscow about two years ago, i think i would have a good relationship. it is ridiculous, he hates obama, he can't stand him. i think obama probably can't stand him either. the relationships we have throughout the world is terrible. the amazing thing, china can't stand us and yet they're making a fortune with us. nobody likes us, and yet they're all taking advantage. we're like the big bully that loses all the time. >> the problem is, we're really a paper tiger. let's talk about the campaign. you're new to politics. the truth is you're so on message, making america great again. you know, where did you learn this discipline? >> i guess it's an instinct i have. but the real instinct is i know what it takes to make the country great.

supports the opposition made that very clear a few days ago when he met his russian counterpart in moscow. he said assad is part of the problem and not the solution. we don't know the details about iran's plan, but we know that iran is trying to push for this plan, but zarif was also supposed to visit turkey yesterday, but his visit was abruptly canceled with some suggestions that turkey and iran do not see eye-to-eye. the bottom line is this, there are diplomatic efforts to try to find on agreement. the international community agreements that there is a need for an agreement. but forming the basis of negotiations is proving to be difficult. >> absolutely. and his arrival comes just after damascus has been hit by the rebels. what is the significance of that fighting reaching the center of the capitol? >> reporter: well, many would interpret that as a message to the iranian foreign minister just hours after he arrived the shelling landing in the center of damascus. it showses that the government cannot even keep the capitol safe. the government carried out heavy bombardment where the rocke

rory challands is live in moscow. i wonder how high syria will be on the agenda. >> it certainly will be the main topic. they'll be talking about the whole catalogue. russia said that it considered egypt to be one of its most reliable partners in the middle east, and would like to have some kind of egyptian help in furthering its agenda in the middle east. there's limitations to how much money egypt can provide on the subject of syria. what russia wants is to strengthen bashar al-assad's hands in syria by getting bashar al-assad and his syrian forces involved in the international coalition against i.s.i.l. egypt has a complicated relationship with damascus. it has a more complicated relationship at the moment with the opposition forces in syria. it seems that egypt's finances are too dependent at the moment on the saudi arabians and they are very opposed to anything that will strengthen bashar al-assad's stands. egypt will sit on the sidelines and not give russia the assistance there that it - that russia might like.

supported has no place in the future of the country so let's get the latest from rory challenge in moscow and you have been watching this and tell us the key points of what they had to say. >> well, the language being used in this press conference was heavy on words like possibility and talked about continuing discussions but we didn't really hear much about when it comes to combatting i.s.i.l., i.s.i.s., islamic state or da'esh, whatever you call them is hard policy and talking about some kind of possible collaboration between the russian and the saudi security forces on combatting i.s.i.s. but not really anything definite about what form that might take. they were also talking about developing a kind of coalition to combat i.s.i.s. again, we didn't hear much about what form that might take. that is something that has been discussed between these two countries previously and it was discussed earlier in the year when there was another visit from a saudi dignatory. the only thing we really heard for sure out of this press briefing was that the saudi king has been invitaled to russia at his

it was later learned to be funded by moscow. two men tried to lay gasoline bombs and throw into their home where nancy and their son was sleeping. they slipped away in the darkness. to his everlasting congress when he testified on unamerican activities he didn't say aoe convicting communists in the united states. he said the united states is strong enough to tolerate all points of view as long as they were peaceful. that stood him out from robert taylor and other actors who were cooperating with huac. but there is an irrefutable fact. in 1980, we were losing the cold war. by 1989, we were winning the cold war. as jeane kirkpatrick said about the san francisco democrats "from the fall of sigh gone in 1975 to january 1981, soviet influence expanded dramatically in laos, libyan, syria, madagascar, seychelles, nicaragua, grenada." not all were pro soviet and anti-american to be sure. there are many good anti-american democrats. but for whatever reason a number of democrats in the 1980s, call them fellow travelers or fifth columnist

and calling on the kremlin thousands of crimea sign a petition asking moscow to help fight corruption. ♪ hello, stock markets around the world are sliding following a big sell off across asia and european markets are all now trading in the red, london has fallen below the 6,000 mark wiping more than $46 billion off the value and began in china, the world's second largest economy and stocks plunging to an eight-year low and adrian brown has more from beijing. >> reporter: sell off began in minutes of the stock exchange opening and at one point it fell 9% and recovering only slightly. some of china's biggest companies and the world's biggest are listed here. on monday the government announced a new and risky intervention to try and prop up the market by using billions of dollars from the state pension fund but it failed to stop the slide. >> translator: how can the markets drop everyday like this? one, two, three, four, five. the market dropped for five days and it never rose back. >> reporter: many borrowed to buy shares and are now being forced to sell those shares to pay back the l

onlin came back from moscow august 5. he resumed the frantic activities to always they prepare for war against japan, and i got a hold of stalin's appointment notebook. appointments up until august 5, but it is blank on august 6. it does not show anybody. what does that mean? i interpret that to be that stalin thought the game is over. the following day, on august 7, the japanese ambassador approached the soviet said, please, make an appointment so that we would know, let them know your response to our pending request for mediation. this is actually the first gesture that the japanese government showed to the reaction of hiroshima. stalin perked up. the game is not over yet. he immediately ordered a meeting so that he could have a declaration of war and he his military to move up the date of attack by two days and then on august 8, they were expecting an answer for the on 5:00 onquest, and zerot 8, it was on the hour of august 9, the soviet union put itself in a state of war against japan. the zero hour, right? this is of

stalin came back from moscow on august 5. he resumed the frantic activities to prepare for war against japan, and i got a hold of stalin's appointment notebook. he has a lot of appointments up until august 5, but it is blank on august 6. he did not see anybody. what does that mean? i interpret that to be stalin's very profund shock. he thought the game is over. but on the following day, on august 7, the japanese ambassador approached the soviet ministry and said, please, make an appointment so that we would know, let them know your response to our pending request for mediation. and this is actually the first gesture that the japanese government showed to the reaction of hiroshima. stalin perked up. hey, the game is not over yet! he immediately ordered molotov to meet sato so that he could have a declaration of war and he ordered his military to move up the date of the attack for two days and then on august 8, they molotov met sato. they were expecting an answer for the japanese request, and on 5:00 on august 8, it was on the

moscow insists on full debt repayment. ukraine's prime minister remains firm. >> under no circumstances will russia receive that are conditions than other creditors. it is their decision. accept our conditions or you will never receive better conditions. but if ukraine doesn't lead -- repay russia, a could lead to more trouble. they can't support other countries with more sovereign states. confidence seems to be returning after the volatility of shares swinging upward. china's leading industries -- indices saw a five-day losing streak. about four years yesterday, u.s. stock markets are up more than 2% again and we have our markets man in new york. we seeing a solid turnaround here? >> you could say that it was a pretty wild ride on thursday. all of a sudden, the market tanked and we had about 40 and the last hour of trading, we were up again quite a bit. we are up by about 1000 points. some investors say that it is not necessarily the same of what we're seeing right now. >> let's take a look at the massive rebound at chine

>> guest: it was based in moscow than. in 1920 the first emissaries were sent to make contact with chinese and the chinese communist party itself was founded in july 1921 in the ball places a girl's boarding school in the french sector of shanghai c-span: auto bond, who was he? guess who he was a communist military adviser advisor, german. his ability -- his identity was not known. he met otto brown booted only knew him by his chinese name. much much later on in the 1960s brown in east germany started to write his memoirs. he was the military adviser sent to work with the communists in the early 1930s and he tried to impose strict adherence to russian military principles which didn't work in china. he often made a little bit of a scapegoat for the chinese communist mistakes but on the other hand he was a very rigid orthodox man who was not prepared to do things the chinese way. brye till i'm jumping all over the place and there's so much to cover here and i'm not sure we are doing it the right way but here's a photograph o

theater in in moscow. a sold-out performance of russia's first broadway style musical "northeast." svetlana is celebrating with her american fiance and with her 13-year-old daughter sasha. the first act ends, nothing out of the ordinary. >> translator: then the second half started, and right around this time i saw -- no, heard, the gunshot and saw a man dressed in camouflage getting on the stage. >> the theater's house camera captures the first startling moments of what will turn out to be a four-day siege. a masked man shooting wildly into the air, the 850 theater goers don't know whether it's part of the show or something else. >> translator: i looked around and saw groups of armed men walks along the aisles on both sides. >> the terrorists are filming amateur video, which shows women strapped with what they claim to be bombs, lining the theater aisles, waiting for the command to detonate. their leader, a notorious chechen terrorist commander, takes the stage. >> translator: boria behaves like a conquerer and announced from the stage that this was a siege and demand the war in ch

moscow is confirming reports that a russian citizen has been taken hostage. earlier, we spoke to a specialist on mali, and he told us how much of a setback this is for the peacekeeping operation. >> this is definitely a major blow for the peacekeeping state and for the united nations presence in mali. we had never seen a terrorist incident like this. i think striking this particular location, the group responsible once to demonstrate that it has the capacity to attack areas that have been under the control of the government and strategic points for military operations. host: all members of the un security council have demanded an official probe to identify those responsible for chemical weapons attacks in syria. the u.s. and russia, who don't usually see i tie over the syrian conflict, -- i to i over the syrian conflict, have both said they would back a resolution. how significant is it to see that the vote was actually unanimous? clicks it is a major accomplishment that has taken months of -- >> it is a major copy and that has taken months of negotiations be

this week confirmation the paris and moscow have agreed, allowing both sides to walk away. at what cost? the government had paid 784 million euros. add to that the cost of installing equipment and training, the final bill reached just over 1.1 billion euros. there will be no penalties incurred by france or legal action and the government of francois hollande owns the ship once more. >> the initial price was 1.2 billion euros. the cost of the deal will be less. russia will be reimbursed for their financial commitment, the exact amount announced in parliament. claire: it is costing one million euros a month to keep the ships. the government is looking for new buyers. >> there is a market for this type of vessel. countries like india, canada brazil. the primary targets for selling this ship. claire: whoever ends up with it will need to repaint them to cover up the russian names and markings. delano: the russian ruble has slipped. the currency fell below 64 against the dollar, plunging crude oil prices. second-quarter gdp data will be released next week. analysts are expecting

manuel: marlene, one of the questions, i mean, the world cup is hosted from moscow. that is the center of it all. but what kind of effect do you think has a tournament like that on a nation? where russia represents its nationalism sort of through this big event? why do you think an event like this means in a country like russia? marlene: globally, it means a lot for every country receiving this kind of event. i think we should think very carefully that what is happening in russia is so specific. all these issues are happening in all these country -- all these countries. but in russia, the fact that the marginalization on russia internationally is very much visible on the way the russia nvidia is speaking to that one population. i went to russia last month and you could really feel people feel misunderstood. so you can see already the political authorities will try to lock consensus and get popular support for their own population in trying to make the cup a big event that really shows again, as sochi, the legitimacy of russia to be a great power and to be recognized.

the final recording in moscow. he worked until his last day. the social democrats are mourning the death of one of their greatest statesman. sarah: you are watching dw news. more to come on our broadcast. thai authorities no longer believe a foreign-based group was behind monday's bombing in bangkok. they're looking for 10 suspects in the attack in which 20 people were killed. german chancellor angela merkel is on a trip to brazil to talk business. we will look at some of the deals that could help boost that country's lagging economy. that and more in just one minute's time. stay here on dw. sarah: welcome back to dw news. our top stories. tsipras has announced his resignation and called early elections. in a televised speech, he said his mandate to govern had to be written. he is looking to silence rebellion within his far left party against the country's bailout. macedonia has declared a state of emergency in europe's growing refugee crisis. the country says it will deploy the army to turn back migrants coming in from greece. as an's have bee

where there have been repeated efforts, the gulf mistrust between moscow and kiev grows even wider. sonia gallego, al jazeera. >> eight months ago, sri lankans voted emphatically to elect a new president but there's voter fatigue. liddy dutt has more. >> it was hard to open but the unlocking of the first ballot box signaled the start of a long night. election observers huddled over hand marked pieces of paper which will determine who wins a seat in the 225 seat parliament. >> most, there are two boxes, then do separately the box we are getting and we are separating for the parties. >> reporter: sri lanka's election commission recorded a voter turnout of between 65 and 70%. well below the record number of people who voted in january's presidential election. 15 million sri lankans were eligible. to make sure every ballot is counted sand representative to the right candidates, observers are watching. >> sri lanka's former president mahinda rajapaksa is hoping to come back from this constituency, he lost in january. >> it is my duty to cast my vote in favor of a person who can guide the

it is his third visit to moscow since he took office in 2014. thai authorities have destroyed two tons of illegal ivory worth $2.8 million. it included tusks of more than 200 african elephants. thailand is a major destination of smuggled ivory but it's under increasing pressure. >>> concrete blast walls are proving to be the perfect blank canvas. jennifer glass explains why. >> on the barriers that is built to create security, across the street they're painting hearts as a symbol of healing the nation. it's all the work of artists, with a few hundred dollars of their own money for paint and supplies, they're working to change the kilometers of blast walls that make some feel under siege in their own city. >> when you put a picture on the wall, the wall disappears, and you're in a new space. >> he wants that new space to be about a new afghanistan. he and his fellow painters can help create. >> it's time for a, for the world to contribute something else other than what weapons and war. we've been through nearly six years. that is time to give art

strained relationship with the kremlin, moscow may use complaints to flex its muscles. >> occupiers they call the men who come in the night, to block off public paths, pull down electricity cables, demolish garden walls and shut off water supply to houses. this they're convinced is all part of an illegal land grab by corrupt local officials for the development of luxury homes along this dramatic coastline. >> translator: all the people here have property and influence in crimea during ukrainian times, rich people. they very quickly became part of the russian system and can successfully protect their interests. they don't want to change anything like their plans to seize land here. >> reporter: locals are fighting back all over crimea using video and social media to raise the profile of their campaign. and intense throughout the region signatures are being gathered for an anticorruption petition to be sent to president vladimir putin. 15,000 or so people have signed it so far. but it seems like the kremlin is already paying attention. putin's visit last week included an instruction to the

moscow is accusing ukraine of planning a major military offensive. first, though, bloodshed in the heart of thailand's capital, bangkok, where a bomb exploded as item a popular -- a bomb exploded outside of a popular hindu shrine. the government says the attack at the erawan shrine was intended to kill foreigners. is my wolf -- ismail wolff has the latest. : 123 people have been injured. an extremely devastating incident here in the capital, bangkok. the country is reeling from this last. -- blast. we will try to get more information on the numbers. clearly, a large number of people affected by this blast. it happened around 7:00 p.m., in the commercial district. a number of chinese, taiwanese tourists believed to have borne the brunt of this. the shrine is popular among east asians. it's also next to a busy intersection. many passersby also affected by this. the city is still reeling from it. laura: thailand is traditionally a very peaceful country. a lot of people will be asking is this linked to the recent political instability that has rocked the

the final recording in moscow. he worked until his last day. the social democrats are mourning the death of one of their greatest statesman. sarah: you are watching dw news. more to come on our broadcast. thai authorities no longer believe a foreign-based group was behind monday's bombing in bangkok. they're looking for 10 suspects in the attack in which 20 people were killed. german chancellor angela merkel is on a trip to brazil to talk business. we will look at some of the deals that could help boost that country's lagging economy. that and more in just one minute's time. stay here on dw. sarah: welcome back to dw news. our top stories. tsipras has announced his resignation and called early elections. in a televised speech, he said his mandate to govern had to be written. he is looking to silence rebellion within his far left party against the country's bailout. macedonia has declared a state of emergency in europe's growing refugee crisis. the country says it will deploy the army to turn back migrants coming in from greece. as an's have bee

according to two separate western intelligence sources he arrived in moscow on friday, july 24th on iran air flight 5130 and departy just three days before secretary of state john kerry testified about the iran nuclear deal before the senate armed services committee assuring congress pressure would remain on iran's shadowy general. >> under the united states' initialtive, he will never be relieved of any sanctions. >> in moscow, the general melt with president vladimir putin and russia's defense minister. the news comes as a u.n. averages embargo against iran is slated to be lifted in five years, a colorful addon to the nuclear agreement, gregg. >> any reaction from the white house? >> reporter: well, they're doing their best not to have to blame the russians for hosting him. >> i can't confirm these specific reports. but it is an indication of our ongoing concerns with iran and their behavior. >> he is blamed for the deaths of 500 americans in iraq. he orchestrated the failed assassination attempt on the saudi ambassador's life at a restaurant in washington. his visit came up in the deb

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and they refuse a settlement that may be arrived at in moscow, geneva. >> a strike by several groups brought the ecuadoran ketoto a stand stall, calling for the resignation of the president. >> reporter: for hours people tried to break the police barriers around the perimeter of the palace. protest jorls have been protesting throughout the -- protesters have been protesting throughout the day. many walked and travelled for more than 10 days to reach the capital for a day of strikes. many of the protesters had different grievances. some of them asking for reductions, others wanting better improvements in education or health. others manage the land or water resources, but the one issue that most said they agree on is the fact that they want the government to shelve a plan to amend the constitution that will allow the president to run for a fourth term. there's violent protests in other parts of the countries and cities. violent protests, police men wounded, civilians wounded, people detained and staying safe until the president listens and responds to their demands. >> in a few hours t

moscow has been busy promoting ais as a patriotic choice for holiday. onceeaches here were filled by ukrainians. gradually, russians have begun to replace them. in as been a tough year territory and recognized by most of the world. locals are adjusting to this new reality, she says. the tourists, and where are they from? >> from moscow -- only from russia. dmitry calls the annexation a catastrophe. houston is so most of his produce to the eu. that is a block and he now makes -- he used to sell most of his produce to the eu. that is block now and he barely makes any money. >> i do not want to imagine how things here will end. i do not want to be a part of it. we do not know how long it will be before the situation explodes. >> however much president putin wants to move on, the crimea question is far from resolved. his actions have stored up a storm that is not a basing. katty: military histories being made in the u.s. by two soldiers have become the first woman to complete the famous army rangers scores, widely considered one of the toughest programs in

. >> reporter: well, fox news has learned that the shadows iranian force commander, visited moscow to meet with russia defense minister, and president putin, despite a travel ban and u.n. security council resolutions barring him from leaving iran. intelligent courses report friday july 24, 2015, one week before secretary of say the john kerry testified about the iran nuclear deal to the armed service committee general sulemany arrived in moscow for three days of leader, it is not clear what they discussed this is as u.n. and e.u. arms embargo against iran is to be lifted in 5 years as part of this nuclear agreement. >> all right jennifer griffin at pentagon thank you. >> and joining us now is judy miller, jessica -- tarlf . and katherine. and judy, we start with you, this business about russia, this is not first time, this -- i mean there is all kinds of you know there are things going on. >> this is not first time, this is not first player, we're uncertain at the moment whether or not this is russia, or whether or not it is russian government, or whether or not is is russian hackers.

as the attacks increase, moscow is accusing the ukranian military of planning a renewed offensive. we worry about the latest developments. it was like that last august when the ukranian soldiers received the order to attack. when it failed, they agreed to start the talks. it was like that this past january, when there was an attempt to resolve the situation. that filed and an ukranian side agreed to more talks. we believe one shouldn't experiment and try one's luck. one should first of allful what was agreed in minsk. >> 6,800 have been killed since the conflict. it's driven half a million civilians from their home, where there has been efforts to stop the fighting. several units refused to obey. the gulf of mistrust between moscow and sheldon keefe is wider -- kiev is higher >>> people in catania cancelled a fire works show to honour migrants that died at sea. they released balloons into the sky, one for each victim. the migrant bodies were taken to the port city on monday, and will be buried in a cemetery. it's thought they suffocated in the hull of a fishing boat trying to cross

. >>> egypt's president is in moscow where he has been meeting president putin. this is president el-sisi's third trip to russia since he took office in 2013. and another sign of courting russian favor to compensate for strained relations with the united states. we have more from moscow. >> russia and vicinity j agreed in principle what they call a broad anti-terrorism front involving key international players in the region, including syria to fight the islamic state in iraq and the levant, to fight isil. that's an interesting development. the saudis have it specifically that there can be no future for president assad in syria. and the saudis hold the purse strings in are a large extent for egypt at the moment. they're giving egypt a lot of financial aid, and so if the saudis don't like the sound of this, then there is a specific pressure point that they have to change egypt's mind. we'll have to see what happens on that. aside from the talk of international security there was talk of wheat supplies. russia having to boost wheat supplies to egypt. egypt currently

the leaders have met in moscow. the group wants president assad to step down before any peace talks can begin. but russia says fighting isil should be the priority. >>.even if a peace deal is agre, it's unlikely to work. >> i think the different sides view this as a zero sum gain. the syrian opposition, most of the syrian people want him removed from power. it seems that russia and iran are still trying to put forward a peace settlement that allows assad himself or the remnants of the assad regime to remain in power. that's a position that will not be accepted by any credible syrian negotiating partners. i think that is one of the bigger, it's the biggest sticking point that is hindering a negotiated settlement. the other big sticking point is even if we could arrive at a settlement tomorrow, all the major countries and parties at the negotiating table, how are you going to implement that peace settlement when the two biggest political entities and forces, isis, are not at the negotiating table. they will refuse to

i did look at materials in moscow. we do have some very good gorbachev administration materials in oxford. there are some marvelous materials in simi valley and the reagan presidential library but above all it was the materials inside the institution over there, the hoover institution archives that i used more than anything else and they are so rich in showing us, to look at the end of the cold war, this very very dangerous period and world history not just through memoirs because as we know politicians write memoirs so as to look good to posterity and anyway there are bound to be somewhat one-sided. interviews are very very helpful i did have a disastrous interview with mikail gorbachev in the mid-90s before even thought of this book and i remember him saying at a point in the conversation, what are you interested in and i said well i'm writing a lacquer feel lenin at the moment and he said, very interesting and then he quickly cut the conversation short because to him soviet ideology and particularly the figure of le

it was there that trotsky was murdered on orders of moscow. >> translator: trotsky wasn't the kind of person to get sad. we, however, should be upset at the state of this beautiful mansion. trotsy it consider coming back. i'm sure if he did come back and saw it in this state, he would be saddened. >> reporter: the area has changed little since trotsky was here. cars are banned. but elsewhere in the world, life has moved on. like the political philosophy he championed, trotsky's house could soon just disappear. bernard smith, al jazeera, istanbul. >>> you can always get the very latest on the al jazeera website. there's a lot of analysis, and background, and controversial opinion as well. aljazeera.com is where you'll find it all. ♪ >>> new evacuations in the northwest as fires spread faster than crews can contain them, now international help is on its way. >>> another steep drop for the dow as international woes continue to worry investors. >>> and president obama reassures fellow democrats in hopes of securing a nuclear deal with iran. and his supporters say they have the votes in

and he knows if you don't squash it there, what happens in kiev can happen in moscow. at the same time, i as an american look at where are we today? i think we're in a 1980 moment all over again. how many of you are millennials? fewer, but still. the millennials are not here in the auditorium. they're watching this online. but for the millennials, we old folks called warriors. we were not happy warriors in the reagan area. we changed the world. we had a leader who showed us how to do it and we all did it. and for the young millennials watch online, this is your 1980 momentment the world is hungry for leadership. we have lost our way. we think of moral equivalent seu of this system, that system. we're not. take a page out of reagan. when you listen to the reagan westminster speech, understand our system indeed is the greatest system in the world. why? because it unleashes human nature to do what human nature does best. to succeed, to strive, to thrive. so i am so excited to be here to talk to you about my era, my cold war era as particularly exciting to do it. we're at

last year, many in britain and the us started talking as if there was a natural divide between a pro-moscow russian-speaking east, and a pro-european ukrainian-speaking west. in fact traditionally the two communities are closely intertwined. that's one reason why the conflict which is tearing the country apart is so painful. but the fighting rages on and more soldiers are needed. so compulsory conscription has been introduced -- but many young men on both sides don't want to fight their fellow ukrainians. and so they are ripping up their draft papers and fleeing the country -- particularly to neighboring poland. and they're often supported by their families who don't want to lose their sons in an increasingly unpopular war. reporter vova from eastern : ukraine cuts out flowers and decorates polish bicycles with them. it's a peaceful gesture, in stark contrast with the war he left behind. when separatists began to pressure him to build bombs for them, he fled to poland. vova just doesn't want to fight -- for either side -- in this war. >> i don't care whether it's for the ukrainians or the r