someone who had defected to the soviet union in 1959 before returning. it seemed plain that kennedy, given the evidence, was a victim or casualty of the cold war. that would seem to be the that would seem to be the interpretation that would be placed on the event. this was not the case. very quickly, this event was interpreted by liberals, by political leaders, even political leaders across the spectrum, as an event in the civil rights crusade. kennedy is a victim of the nation's culture of the radical right. this is a copy, you can't see it. i will hold it up. the front page of "the new york times," november 23 the day after kennedy was killed by snipers is the headline. there is a long story on oswald. "leftist accused." the article details oswald's communist background. this article, you can see it below the photo, is titled "why america weeps." kennedy is a victim of a violent streak he sought to curb in the nation. he interprets kennedy's death as an event arising from the violent streak in america. "america wept for itself. the worst in the nation

she returned to hero of the soviet union and remains to this day the only woman to fly a solo mission into space. several years earlier the soviets kicked started this with pioneering first, the first satellite sputnik one and then the first man in space garin and in 1965 they carried out the first space walk together with the first space summersault and many artifacts never left russia and some needed to be declassified before they could travel and the early achievements were seen as a challenge by the u.s. who eventually beat moscow in putting a man on the moon. it may be a legacy of cold war tensions but here in the west these major achieve -- achievements are talking about moon landings and when it comes to space there is one winner soviet union. >> the first probe and venus and the first to land on another planet and thinking about it those are incredible scientific achievements and just as important as the lu nar landing and it's sexy and the pr and all the other things are just as important scientifically. >> reporter: with the space race long over tensions replaced by cooperat

the soviet union collapsed. he has tried to reclaim soviet greatness, expanding the superpower, expanding borders, he wrote his graduate dissertation and he has followed that plan. this is a big moment you. >> say this is his moment. because nobody is in his way? the u.s. is saying okay, great, our president sitting down with him while he's here in the states, is that what we should be doing? >> i think putin understands this is his moment because time's running out because economically five years from now they're in big trouble. he also didn't anticipate he'd be so lucky as to get a weak president obama who's letting putin do whatever putin wants in the middle east, and europe and ukraine, et cetera. putin continues to be aggressive and move. why do we care ultimately? i'm not comfortable with vladimir putin calling the shots in europe. i'm definitely not comfortable with vladimir calling the shots in the middle east. he's got a whole new alliance structured to make himself, he putin, he, russia top dog in the

this capsul is a close friend and she returned a hero of the soviet union and the only woman to fly an solo mission in space and they kick started it with the first, the first satellite sputnik one and the first man in space garin and 1965 they carried out the first space walk together with the first space summer salt and many artifacts never left russia and some needed to be declassified before they can travel and early achievements were a challenge by the u.s. who eventually beat moscow in putting a man on the moon. it may be a legacy of cold war tensions that often here in the west these major achievements are sometimes eclipsed by nasa moon landings but when it comes to the space race there is one winner, soviet union. >> they landed on venus and the first probe to land on another planet and if you think about it calmly they are important as the lunar landing which is sexy and pr but all these other things are just as important scientifically. >> reporter: with the space race long over, tensions have been replaced by cooperation and joint missions. after the u.s. grounded its shutt

the first salt treaty with the soviet union lasted five years. the first start treaty lasted 15 years. and in our current situation, if 15 or 20 years from now, iran tries to build a bomb, this deal ensures that the united states will have better tools to detect it, a stronger basis under international law to respond, and the same options available to stop a weapons program as we have today, including, if necessary, military options. on the other hand, without this deal, the scenarios that critics warn about happening in 15 years could happen six months from now. by killing this deal, congress would not merely pave iran's pathway to a bomb, it would accelerate it. third, a number of critics say the deal isn't worth it because iran will get billions of dollars in sanctions relief. now, let's be clear, the international sanctions were put in place precisely to get iran to agree to constraints on its program. that's the point of sanctions. any negotiated agreement with iran would involve sanctions relief. so, an argument against sanctions relief is

she returned a hero of the soviet union and the only woman to fly a solo mission in space and several years earlier they kick started the space age with firsts, the first satellites sputnik one and then the first man in space garen and in 1965 they carried out the first space walk together with the first space summersault and many artifacts never left russia and had to be declassified before they could travel and earlier achievements were seen as a challenge by the u.s. who eventually beat moscow in putting a man on the moon. and could be a legacy of cold war tensions and here in the west the major achievements are by nasa moon landings and with the space race there is one clear winner the soviet union. >> they landed the first probe on the moon and landed on venus and the first to land on another planet, if you think about it calmly it is better than the lunar landing and it's sexy but the other things are just as important scientifically. >> reporter: with the space over tensions replaced by cooperation and joint missions. after the u.s. grounded its shuttle fleet in 2011 it now pay

and the soviet union. there's a map that they used with the dividing line north of the islands and so on. but the details are in here. and the problem was that that affected or was checked or was trumped by subsequent negotiations. this is a general list of items. i'm going to quote a cup of things verbatim because they're interesting, if i can find them in here. 15th august, the soviets -- actually they sent it the day before. they sent an operational group where the general staff is any sort of group of senior officers who have a specific mission to perform. this is -- this group of officers is headed by lieutenant general kn derivienko. a very shadowy figure in history, but now we've got a lot of his correspondence and reports back to the u.s. subsequent to his arrival on the 15th of august. he is sent over with instructions on what he should do. the instructions on the 15th of august are fairley clear. on the 16th of august -- and there's a coordinated effort with this. he's told to get there as fast a

, to the collapse of the soviet union and emergence of russia. the anti-american and abandonedrn town was until 20 years later, as we witnessed today. empire, theup its soviet union gave up its empire places like vietnam. today we are witnessing the expansion of the traditional persian imperialism in the middle east with involvement in yemen, where iran is backing the who aziz --- hossis. and the shock of the assad regime, and our sunni arab allies are really insecure and frightened. we are thinking in the united two years, four years. they are thinking the glory of the pre-islamic iranian empire. 15 years from now the iranians will be only weeks with the capacity to enrich uranium on an unprecedented levels. they will be weeks from the bomb. so, what are the results of this agreement? a nuclear race in the middle east. buying reactors. the saudi's are buying the french reactors. the turks are buying reactors from france, korea, and russia. all these are building the skill set of the multipolar nuclear environment. a gentleman told me 10 years ag

the soviet union's early achievements were seen as a challenge by the u.s. who eventually beat moscow in putting a man on the moon. there may be a legacy of cold war tension that here in the west these later achievements are eclipsed, but when it comes to the space race there is one clear winner, the soviet union. >> they had the first probe to land on another planet. those are incredible scientific achievements. they are just as important as the lunar landing. all of these other things are just as important scientifically. >> reporter: with the space race long over, tensions have been replaced by cooperation and joint missions. after the u.s. grounded its shutter fleet in 2011, it now pays russia $63 million per astronaut per trip. this collection charts man's early cosmic achievements from the spacecraft to the space toilet, meaningful moments in humanity's journey into the unknown. neave barker, al jazeera, at london's science museum. >> man kind's incredible achievements in space. that's it for me, but join mareum in a couple minute's time. wild wild wes

when president reagan engaged with the soviet unionings he also was negotiating with our -- union, he also was negotiating with our most feared and distrusted enemy. in negotiations with iran, it has been the same for president obama as it was for president kennedy in negotiating with the soviet union. and both president kennedy and president obama had the same goals as america's had for over a half a century, and that is to prevent nuclear war. and to do so it has been necessary to deal with an untrusted foe. i have listened to my constituents, i've been privy to many classified briefings, i've spoken personally to president obama and secretary kerry, met with officials in vienna, at the headquarters of the iaea, and with diplomats and officials from europe and asia. over those past several weeks and months, i've often thought about president kennedy's eloquent words at american university in august of 1963 when he said that in the final analysis we all inhabit the same small planet. we all breathe the same air. we all cherish our children's future and we're all mortal. the same hold

nice bases in the soviet union but inaccessible. the central action would have been we can bring many against a few land bases with just a few planes on them. if you're going to invade japan, you bring your sea power against lots of land-based air p

now, if you know anything about thecei soviet union. they broke up because they spent so much money in afghanistan. they spent so much money that they were going bust and that's the primary reason or certainly one of the primary reasons that the soviet union broke up. the afghan people, great fighters. i have a friend of mine, a big war historian, among the best fighters afghanistan. so now we have the soviet union wants to go to syria. and they want to knock the hell out of people. and we are fighting assad because assad is our enemy and we are fighting syria. syria wants to fight assad. think of this. i get a little -- that's not really nice. give me a break. so you have isis that wants to take on assad. so we are fighting isis but we want to fight assad. why don't you let those two fight for a little while and take over the remnants? i guarantee you that assad is sitting back saying that president is one of the dumbest human beings on earth. it's true. so you have isis that wants to fight assad. and isis can't because we're bombing t

why do they have this expansion force, and saying the soviet union had collapsed. is that a difficult thing for him to say publicly, the soviet union has collapsed? >> it is a difficult thing for him to say. i think the real question is why did he bring up nato? nato was not on the agenda. the ukrainian people went out because they wanted to join a trade agreement with the europe union, that is it. he sees membership in a trade association basically as a hostile act in a bipolar world. i think he still has the old images are still haunting him inside his mind. >> ambassador, who got the better of that argument on that stage in front of that audience in that room? >> you know, president obama and president putin were actually speaking to two different audiences. putin doesn't care what you or i or adrian thinks of his speech. he's speaking to the rest of the world. he's trying to create this narrative about how the united states expanded nato and caused all of this turmoil when, of course, there was no discussion of expansion of nato towards ukraine at the time. i w

i think that reason was to bring down the soviet union, the evil empire, and its satellites in eastern europe, because the pope, pope john paul ii was from poland and president reagan had focused much of his attention on defeating the soviet union, and they succeeded. that's the incredible thing about it. >> you know, i'm thinking, we're told the car of choice that will take him to his, greg is with me again, is going to be a fiat 500. that's the i tal yn ougtalian a that bought chrysler. does the pontiff select his mode of transportation? or do you? >> no, no, no. i don't. and he doesn't. he will sign off on it. he will sign off on it. looks like a souped-up 500. >> it does. >> the extra large 500. he wouldn't be going in a regular 500. >> almost looks like a mini. >> it is like the 500's imitation of a mini. the real 500 looks like an old beetle shrunk and -- >> very funny. >> he will sign off on it. >> when our president travels abroad it's all his regular vehicles. >> he just wants to make sure it's not too elaborate, too special. >> i don't think anyone would fault him for being e

decision was made in the soviet union. russia and the soviet union. russia's the legal successor of the ussr. i will have to say a few words about how the current situation and how international relations are shaping up to date. united nation remains the only universal international organization charged with maintaining international peace and security. there is no alternative to it. it has to adapt to a changing world and we have all been constantly debating how it should change, at what pace, what should be changed exactly. i will have to not just have to -- i will avail myself to speak from this international rostrum to give the russian vision of the future of this organization. charlie: there is much anticipation you will speak about the threat of isis, and that your presence in syria is related to that. what is the purpose of the presence in syria, and how does that relate to the challenge of isis? president putin: i believe i'm certain that everyone speaking from the united nations platform is going to talk about the fight, about the need to fig

there are photographs i took 1 hours 99 the former soviet union. these are blown up to a gigantic images. they lose resolution. i do not mind that, because my images are about the images, but they're also about the idea, which is why there is text all over the entire surface. >> marie in moved into the mansion on powell street just five years ago. its galleries are housed in one of the very rare single family residences around union square. for the 100th anniversary of the mansion, meridian hosted a series of special events, including a world premiere reading by lawrence ferlinghetti. >> the birth of an american corporate fascism, the next to last free states radio, the next-to-last independent newspaper raising hell, the next-to-last independent bookstore with a mind of its own, the next to last leftie looking for obama nirvana. [laughter] the first day of the wall street occupation set forth upon this continent a new revolutionary nation. [applause] >> in addition to its own programming as -- of artist talks, meridian has been a downtown host for

and so far this as i understand it occurred without the soviet union pointing a finger so i wonder if i know something i also know around 1964 that large numbers were feeling that civil rights have to come largely clergy including rabbis as well but large numbers lobbying congress say this is wrong not the soviet union is going to point a finger at us but this is wrong. then with the confederate flag is thinking it's a way to test this situation. but maybe the public opinion in the united states can shift to shift enough of an opening. >> it's worse when the 50s and 60s generally speaking more critique of the cold war politics. >> i think that is part of the point. it's the politics of the cold war that cannot be assumed today. it's much different. it cannot be meeting here this is a communist nation. he's signaling a liberal stance. he wants to separate himself from the more radical tradition. the mainstream civil rights organizations which is to say that one but ultimately lbj would have listened to beyond. it cannot be analogous to the cold war at least i hope not because ultimatel

we show that pretty vividly that too great successes were defeating the communist, a soviet union and providing an economy that jimmy carter had destroyed. those are superlative accomplishments that we walk you through what it was. reagan didn't do the economy just for him he was interested in the folds and he did not like theirs struggling to get jobs with gas lines he cleaned it up. >> host: i think he would say he did not but he believed in the people he inspired them to greatness. >> canty was inspirational but his policies allow the people to prosper. >> host: absolutely. we will get off your back you have to do the work. >> guest: there you go. >> host: that is where he was a good and decent man deeply religious with great courage of his convictions and strong to accomplish great things i know of the case has been made that the attempt on his life as a jaded history for a president to fail. >> guest: i disagree entirely. when you read "killing reagan" you can have your view and i will have mine but i will submit this if reagan was not shot there would not have been in the oval o

soviet union has gotten into space before the united states. april 20th, becomes clear the bay of pigs has failed. the soviet union now has a base essentially 90 miles off of florida. when it becomes clear the bay of pigs has failed, president kennedy calls vice president of johnson, who is chairman of the space council and asks him to come up with something fast in space because space is going to be the big hail mary pass that will change the subject and divert everybody's attention from the loss in cuba. so may 5th, alan shepard becomes the first american in space. may 14th, nine days later, the freedom rides start. the freedom rides, as many of you know, seven blacks, six white young people get into bus started to washington, d.c., headed from new orleans with whites in the back seat and, blacks in the front. on may 24th their bus is firebombed in aniston, alabama. may 25th, president kennedy says they will put a man on the moon a week later. a week later, mobs riot in montgomery, alabama. governor of alabama declares mash saleh. now preside

policy towards the soviet union will consist of three elements: external resistance to soviet imperialism, internal pressure on the ussr to weaken sources of imperialism and engaging the soviet union which protect and enhance u.s. interests. i do not, even with the j.p.o., suspect that the iranian support for their proxies will ought -- automatically abate under this agreement and i do not think this agreement is a forcing mechanism. i think it takes the scenario of a nuclear armed iran off the table. and i believe it is for the time being sensible for the united states and our parties to take stock of iran's willingness to comply with this agreement, monitor its activities closely to see if they increase, decrease or remain the same, and parallel work with our regional partners to build their capacity to counter iran's a symmetric threats. on the matters of our partners in the middle east i see two critical matters that must be addressed. our partners in israel see iran as a significant ongoing threats to their national security. it is incumbent upon the united states to better understan

lou: military action is one 3rd of what it was after the collapse of the soviet union. and we are talking about pre-world war ii levels. i'm going back to 1.4 million troops at the end of 1940 which was a great achievement by the part of franklin delano roosevelt. >> we had at least three or four times a military of all the others in the world. >> we talk about the numbers , guess what, we pay our military more. we may have what is called allah military. we have the force structure, but you then go and look at the shape of the equipment and a readiness. it is not there. lou: i want to bring mark into this. you are a supporter of donald trump, enthusiastic for him. were you disappointed by the brevity? >> well, it was quick, but he said a lot. teesix 14 minutes along. >> but let me ask two questions, can you name anyone else in the world right now to drop everything,everything, televise live my cancel all commercials for anybody? night after night without a single note and talk and show that kind of energy and passion. lou:'s energy is certainly indisputable. going from

syria is the oldest client state in the middle east for the soviet union and now russia. the relationship goes back decades. assad's father cemented that relationship, so the prime military supplier of nuclear technology, supplier of training and equipping of the military in syria was the soviet union and now russia. it was no coincidence, for putinle, that prudent -- and russia negotiated an them to remove chemical weapons which were the former this -- soviet union and russia. relationshipd, old . they are not going to give up easily on that. problem we have got is even in military,he syrian they are kind of crumbling. assad'ss -- a solid -- position in syria continues to erode. think qiagen -- putin has some motivation in trying to rescue the situation before death collapse or host: so the united states is training rebels were trying to fight a sod -- assad. what is this doing to long-term relationship between the united states and russia? there is really nothing new with the united states and russia being on opposite sides of conflict, and in fact even using them as su

american intelligence reported repeatedly that the entry of the soviet union into the war will convince all japanese that complete defeat is inevitable. it will lead to the end of the war. the question is, the confusing thing is why truman, who is not blood thirsty, not a hitler. did he not take pleasure in killing people. why would truman use the atomic bombs knowing that the japanese were defeated and trying to surrender, knowing they were not militarily necessary? what we assume as historians was that a big part of his motivation was that he was sending a message to the soviets that if the soviets interfered with american plans in europe or in asia -- this was the fate they were going to get. the soviets interpreted it that way. suddenly, the day of judgement was tomorrow and has been ever since. that's the reality we have been confronted with. that's what makes the atomic bombing so important, not just that hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children were killed unnecessarily. but the fact that the human species has lived with this over our heads ever since. that possibilit

no trust between the united states and the soviet union. signatoriesween the of the agreements and iran. , i difference is that today say signatories. this is an international agreement and this is the final in the way of four years of negotiations, but more accurately some 12 years of engagements. in 2003 and the date is interesting because that war andyear of the iraq deep worries that saddam hussein could have weapons of mass destruction. that was the year when north korea withdrew from the npt. there was a sense that the whole nonproliferation regime could unravel and that the only possible response was war. hence, the initiative at the time of the u.k., france, and germany to engage iran diplomatically. an initiative that then became leading thetive and engagement with the iranians. that came to nothing. leader becoming the president in 2005 and in 2006, you had the second stage in the internationalization of the issue with the security council being brought in. and the security council had means of legal course and that did not exist

union or china, it was the united states. so therefore, take a step back america, and i'm going to make it happen. lou: your thoughts, john? >> for a year and a half or two years we've seen a number of incidents at sea and the air where russian assets have challenged our airspace, come close to ships at sea or nato areas, i think they've been practicing. they're ready to go. we don't have a clue, we were flat-footed by, this even after a 90 minute meeting by putin and obama monday. secretary of state kerry said we would welcome russian participation about isis, and even as they're striking non-isis targets forces that we supposedly support and then to appear again with him this evening to say we've got a few details to work out. the theater of the two of them standing there together and who went first? sergey lavrov. who has the upper hand? he knows even if john kerry doesn't. lou: and k.t., quickly, the withdrawal of our so-called spies, intelligence operatives, intelligence analysts in china. the public has known about it f

>> bruce, there was a thing called the soviet union. it didn't work. if you want single payer, how about procurement at the pentagon. do you like that? do you like what the v.a. hospital has done to our veterans? you want competition, free markets, innovation. bernie will turn this into greece with a sick economy and a sick health system. >> this was the figure put together by reporters at the wall street journal. they went over his plans and came up with his number. he complains the figures are too high. he said after he nationalizes health care a lot of saving wills come in. >> i will go halfway with bernie. i would like to see medicare advantage for all. finish this thought here. you wouldle get your age and health status and then in picking a policy you would make the difficult choices and trade offs. do i want free hip replacement or heroic cancer care at age 89? >> mike it seems so clever. all of the suggestions. >> we have tried these plans. they always end up more expensive and saving less money than before. >> that's because you, steve, john a

he just knew the soviet union was evil and that's all he said. >> that's all he had to say. trump is being called on being a politician. when a politician is asked something they don't know they answer with another answer. he is being honest. that's what is refreshing, is it not? people say, look, he is a straight shooter. he is an executive. do ceo's know every detail of their company? i don't think they do. >> i think that's a good point. a lot of his supporters consider him to be sort of like them. expressing his opinion maybe not in the most eloquent way and the smartest way, but he is relatable to the american voter. my problem is when this election season gets a little closer to voting time and we are talking about more sophisticated ideology and plans and policies, then he will really have trouble if he is still in the race and this is not just marketing for him. when someone comes to hire me as a lawyer, if all i said to them was don't worry, i got it. i got it. i don't know all of the facts and i don't need to know them now, but i got it. do you think that is enough

we're joined by an author and historian on russia and the former soviet union. she joins us to break down some of the dynamic between these two leaders. how would you characterize the tone of putin's speecher early in the day? >> i was first of all surprised it was so short in comparison to obama's speech. >> which was about 45, 50 minutes. >> yeah, and one of the russian comment taters that i was listening to, said he thought putin seemed sort of prickely and very negative. i think the speech said exactly what we expected it to say. because he already laid it out in an interview with 60 minutes and said it would be an enormous mistake not to include assad in a coalition against isil, and he talked a little bit about the economic sanctions and -- against russia, and mentioned how difficult it was for the russians after the collapse of the soviet union to have nato expand. he made a reference to that. >> we also accused the west and u.s. of meddling in affairs in ukraine as well. >> yes. >> and president obama actually in his speech today said that the russian po

in fact at the yalta conference, the decision was made in the soviet union, russia the soviet union and russia as the successor of the ussr is a founding nation and a security councilmember. sure i'll have to say a few words about the current situation and how about international relations are shaping up today. the united nations remains the only universal international organization which is charged with maintaining international peace and security. in that sense there's absolutely no alternative tight. clearly it has to adapt to a changing word at what pace and what should be changed exactly. and of course i'll have to not just that i'll have to, i'll definitely avail myself of the opportunity to speak from this international rostrum to give the russian vision of the future of this organization and the international community. >> rose: let's much anticipation that you will speak about the threat of isis. and that your presence in syria is related to that. what is the purpose of the presence in syria and how does that relate to the challenge of isis? >> i believe, i'm pretty certain tha

doubts in people for even suggesting to make an agreement with the soviet union. but the consequences of not having the agreement would be worse and that is certain war. if you ask the american people which do you prefer? it is better to have an agreement that buys time to push the iranians to change their mind than what would have been conflict. >> do you think that is true, mike? certain war or keep the restrictions on and that will them from building a bomb? >> liberals mistake a weak piece agreement for lead to peace but more likely it leads to war. the future president is going to be faced with a situation where iran violates the agreement and what do they do? the american people are against this. the president is scraping together 34 votes. he got the last vote from a senator who is retiring because the american people don't want this. and they don't want it for very important reasons. there is self-verification by the iranians. he brought up reagan and his mantra was trust and verify. this is trust and let them verify. >> they wanted the inspectors in and t

carter got bogged down in details, all reagan knew was that the soviet union is evil, and that is all he said. >> when a politician is asked something they don't know the answer to they go onto the weird tangents and don't address the question. he is being more honest than i have seen politicians be. and is that refreshing, remy, saying look, he is a straight shooter, an executive, do ceos know every detail of their company? i don't think they do. >> i think it is a good question, a lot of supporters think of him like them. maybe he expresses the questions not in the smartest way, but he is relatable for that way to the american voter. my problem is when this election season gets closer to voting time and we're talking about more sophisticated ideologies and plans and policies, then he is really going to have trouble if he is still in the race and this is not just grand marketing for him. to give you perspective, when someone comes to hire me as a lawyer for their case, if all i said to them, don't worry, i got it. don't worry about it. i don't need to know all the facts. and they hav

. >> that kid growing up in the former soviet union, destined to be a superduper model. >> supernova, i think they call her. >> well, natalia has achieved international superstardom over the past, what has it been, decade and a half or so? >> yeah. not only is she a supermodel, but she's also one of the most philanthropic models out there. >> by the way, she has four children and still looks -- >> impossible. [laughter] >> welcome, natalia. >> you, too, so nice to see you. >> should we call you natalia or supernova? [laughter] >> natalia. >> seriously, you really do have four kids? >> in a couple of years' time, you can call me supernova. >> what are the age ranges of the kids? >> 13 is my eldest boy who's taller than me now, still los his -- can loves his bear hugs from mama. >> that's good. >> 9-year-old daughter, 8-year-old boy and now 16 months old. >> wow. any of them want to follow in your footsteps? >> well, yes. my eldest son is very, very supportive, and victor, who's my, the baby of the first lot, he is the one who is the biggest fan of elbe. >> this is an app that kind of e

and then with a collapse of the soviet union it became a uni polar world. it was supposed to be a time when ideologies came to an end, the 1990s when there was only one way of thinking, there was only one model, namely new liberalism. this brought about extreme poverty and deprivation for peoples when it brought about unemployment, sickness to peoples all across the world, the bipolar world of confrontation gave way to a uni polar world of new liberalism and this century very early on thanks to the efforts of the peoples has now given way to a time when revolutionary movements are underway when certainly the peoples of the world, the revolutionary people of venezuela and the peoples of southern america and the caribbean in this 21st century are now seeking to build a multi polar world, a world with no geminism and a world where there is respect for the other. the new centers and the new emerging centers of political economic and cultural and human resources are being recognized. there are many different parts of the world and we can have a world that will b

she returned a hero of the soviet union and remains to this day the only woman to fly a solo mission into space. several years earlier, the satisfactory yet kick started the space age with a series of pie mering first, the first satellite, dispute nick one and then the first man in space. the first space walk and first somersault. >> the soviet union's early achievements were seen as a challenge by the u.s. who beat moscow in putting a man on the moon. >> it may be a legacy of cold war tensions, but often here in the west, these major achievements are sometimes eclipsed by nasa says later moon landings. when it comes to the space race, there is one clear winner, the soviet union. >> they landed the first probe on the moon, also landed on venus. those are incredible scientific achievements. they're just as important as the lunar landing. the lain marylanding is sexy and has a lot of p.r., but these other things are just as important. >> with the space race long over, tensions have been replaced by cooperation and joint missions. after the u.s. grounded its shuttle fleet in 2011, it no

union, he is trying to build back the soviet empire. trying to pop up assad is not the answer to syria. john: first of all, it is obvious that they will not be in a great mood. they are -- putin is basically establishing a rival alliance to deal with the problem of isis. on the other hand, it is a big problem. you wonder -- president obama is in a difficult place, having to juice into to which priority matters more -- getting rid of isis.sad or fixing al: i don't think it is going to at th is the conundrumat -- th is the conundrum. john: there are some in the u.s. intelligence community that think the worst thing would be for assad to go right now because isis would flourish in syria. there might be a sequence here where you could back off. you can say say officially we are for assad, deal with isis, focus on syria later. this morning, an aspiring wall called theald trump press to his eponymous tower with the big idea -- how americans should pay taxes. his plan would mean no income tax earning under $25,000 per year. they would limit in

we all should remember the history of the soviet union and attempts based on ideaological ideas led to consequences. it seems that instead of learning from mistakes everyone keeps repeating them. so the export of revolution continues. it is good to look at the middle east and north africa's situation as mentioned by the previous speakers certainly politically and social issues in this region has been piling up for long time and people wish for changes naturally. but how did it actually go out? rather than bringing about reforms and aggressive interference, this resulted in a brazen destruction of national institutions. instead of the trials of democracy and progress, we got violence, poverty, and structural disasters. and no one cares about human rights including the right to life. i cannot help asking those who have forced visitation, do you realize what you have done? i am afraid no one is going to answer that. policies based on the self and the impunity have never been abandoned. it is now obvious that the power veto created in some countries of the middle east and north africa crea

lou: preventing the soviet union. >> it was symbolic and people knew. that this is the third try at. this the bush people tried it with wolves. this is now scorpions and, you know, the clarity, imitation is nice, but at the end of the day it has to be effective. i don't think that's a very effective ad. i don't think anybody sees the scorpion in this thing. lou: last word? >> ted cruz is among the desperate ones, there's a noble effort to talk about foreign policy, islamic state, iran, et cetera, the timing looks like a gimmick, i don't think that's going to work you. >> say he's desperate. he's in what, fourth, fifth place in most of the polls, the national polls. >> right, but not really moving in relation to trump and carson. they both sort of -- no, he may be survivor so that if they do fail, he'll be ready, but i think so far he's underperformed. lou: we're going to see them all perform tonight and on and on and on. [ laughter ] >> the nodoz debate. >> three hours for a football game is okay. three hours for a presidential debate is outrageous. lou

those men, although they were not responsible for the fall of the soviet union, they were instrumental in causing that. , a, we have a leftist pope marxist, coming out of south america. that is normal for them down there. that is their ideology. i don't think there will be much change in public policy by the pope. .n the united states the left will embrace what they find attractive -- climate change, higher taxes on the wealthy, bashing them. it is funny to watch his comments in line with president obama. the right will embrace the antiabortion. it will be the same old, same old. i'm not a big fan of his because i think he is a leftist. thanks. host: thank you. review," "family lives matter." atlantic" a look at the number of incarcerated black males and the impact on their families. kathy from new hampshire, to mclaughlin, good morning. caller: good morning. i am excited that the pope will be speaking to congress. i do not think he will -- i think his comments will be received well by everybody, universally. i hear all these callers saying they are pro-life and the pope is calling for

., france, china, the soviet union. it is absolutely natural for so diverse and representative an organization -- its founders did not think there had always been unanimity. the purpose is to reach taking different views and opinions and consideration. decisions debated are either taken as resolutions are not. actions states might and defiedlegitimate international law. the end of the cold war, everybody was aware of a single center of domination. those who found themselves at the top of the pyramid were that if theyink were so exceptional, they knew better and they did not have to reckon with the united nations itsead of legitimizing necessity often creating obstacles or in other words terms in the way. it has become commonplace to see that in its original form, has become obsolete and completed his historical mission. the world is changing. the u.n. must be consistent with this transformation. russia is ready to work together with partners on consensus. we consider the attempts to undermine the legitimacy of the organ

to negotiate, ray a surrender if mediated and broken by the soviet union, and we have already heard, are yonei, andsuzuki, kito. hirohito essentially straddles the fence. eaningnd more, he is l towards the moderates. the army has had the prime minister resign because of losing so much face before and i think they all had their suicide packages put together because things were so bad. they probably felt that, you know, i'm probably going to fail the emperor like all the others did and commit suicide. he certainly had everything ready to go in the time came. is he going to stand beside? his toyota going to say, all right, the navy does not agree with the decision but we will agree to go along? none of this is occurring the way i am talking about. talking, hidden messages, and somebody will talk to somebody in the hallway, someone will write something in their diary and said the emperor looked this way and probably should have this way. and these are the moderates. from two of his chief military advisers that the army and navy don't think they can defend japan. the army and the navy com

assad and his father got the training from the soviet union and from russia. so putin is asserting himself in areas not where he is sort of breaking new ground, but think of crimea, which of course does in fact have a long russian history, and asserting himself in areas to make the case that there is a tradition of russian participation there. the other thing about putin and rus russia, and as much as i respect senator mccain, they are a geo problem for us, make no mistake. but the economy is imploding, and the currency has been tanked, and the president is playing dangerous games all over the the world, and so we do have some things in common with russia making sure that iran does not arrive at a knew nuclear weapon, and so we have to remember that part, too. >> thank you, congressman jim h himes, a member of the intelligence committee. >>> and coming up we will have a briefing from the pentagon about whether or not russia was striking isil or somebody else. our experts are standing by. >>> earlier this hour we heard from the white house press secretary with

union were a dominant force and now they're not. the kremlin argues that air strikes alone will never win the fight and only the syrian army can face up to the isil fighters over the past year and meanwhile suss russia is stepping up its arms supplies against damascus. russian troops and engineers are now expected to extend an air base to cope with the increased flow. the kremlin insists its regular sipments are used exclusively in the batsal against isil but there are real fears that the weapons could be used in syria's civil war which cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians and in the west, that's not acceptable. >>> meanwhile in syria itself, rockets fired by rebel fighters have killed at least 38 people in the northern city of aleppo. three government held neighborhoods were bombarded. that's according to the u.k. based syrian observatory for human rights. 14 children were among the dead. 150 people wounded. >> an opposition rally in the democratic republic of congo has turned violent. more than a thousand people ha