interestingly enough created these solid and these sovereignties then but within the soviet union the republics and that created in itself a new form of local nationalism so the success of the soviet union again was one of its failures. peter because we've known each other so long and because i like you i tried to be very brief in my first answer let me add a word to the syria this. everybody's an awfully good really good day ok. the serious historian begins with cause and effect yes nationalism played a role yes the economy played a role yes all sorts of things played a role but those factors would not have come into play at play if gorbachev had not opened the door by democratizing the soviet political system that's why i gave that answer to your question that that was the precipitating factor let me make one other quick point it's very hard especially in the united states to discuss the end of the soviet union because it's laden with myth first the soviet union did not collapse everybody using that word but it didn't collapse it was dismantled very that's a very different process s

because it's laden with myth first the soviet union did not collapse everybody using that word but it didn't collapse it was dismantled very that's a very different process secondly there is the view there is a view in the united states and maybe elsewhere that there was no alternative to what happened twenty years ago on december eighth when yeltsin in the others went secretly clandestinely to a hidden hunting lodge in belo roofs and signed the documents there were many alternatives many alternatives and thirdly the myth it's already been mentioned that the end of the soviet union was peaceful and avoided yugoslavia like scenario it wasn't peaceful hundreds of thousands if not millions of people have been killed or displaced or brutalized as a direct result of the end of the soviet union and that process is not over so if we can have a little reality we can have a little analysis richard if i go to you real quick here i mean fair enough i agree with what we just heard dismantling the soviet union i agree with that but again i want to go back to an issue this is not what good of a chi

and now his new idea for you are always in the union in itself part of this is political but i think the economic logic behind reintegrate integration is an excuse in this capable particularly of globalization actually means and right if i what do you think about that because one of the one of the criticisms of the c.i.s. is that it tries to be too many things at one time it focuses on trade economic security there's some elements of the military but obviously in a sense of self defense nothing like nato whatsoever and really they and they in the criticism is that it wants to be a european union want to be but probably the current commonwealth of nations you know would look again at the u.k. experience is probably more to the mark but still the criticism is that it wants to be all things to all people all the time and that makes it very muddled. no doubt but that is the nature of these sorts of transnational integrative processes. if you look and put in address this in his remarks after his. article he pointed out that this is a multi-tiered multilayered process and it has been movin

and together with the central government they are trying to get the site cleaned up but union carbide is now a wholly owned subsidiary. two thousand and one third the boards of both carbide approve the burger agreement create the world's second largest chemical. does complicate things and doesn't because the law on contamination is very clear in india and in the us and which is the principal polluter pays principle is the idea under international law that the liability for pollution should always be traced back to the polluter the polluter should not be able to externalize the costs of pollution onto society at large or a third party it shouldn't be the government's responsibility to clean up at public expense after private polluters. so. i know that is one of the. people. drinking contaminated water you see. in the neighborhood and then we've got a lot of this bomb test. every founded highly contaminated but they do not have any other choice and they are drinking this water. it would like sometime two thousand and four it was sometime in the evening. when i eased back to my home ther

but the management of the union. of course. but he just jumped. and has request for extradition of. the u.s. government has denied the request says they want. to face trial. and it was warren anderson who was informed. of safety in the plant all this. wealthy british style. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cancer for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on our. all.

union leaders say the plan leaves their offers out of the process. >> i have done the records, we need structure reform within the pension system. >> reporter: one spokesperson said they submitted a plan to the council on friday. >> it means less money out of the officer's paycheck from our side of the table. but from the other side. their side, a lot less money. >> reporter: but the mayor and council are looking at other reforms. >> not necessarily, just about the numbers, reinventing the city. >> reporter: the city says they offered compromises. >> the city has told us now. we're asking them to negotiate with us, we understand how severe it is. >> reporter: the union says without their involvement, the city faces lawsuits that could delay pension reforms for years. >> we know that no matter what we do, there will be a legal challenge. but we do believe that it is time to stand up and do what is right for the residents of san jose. >> reporter: the council goes to work on tuesday to fashion a measure on pension reform. reporting live, san jose, don knapp, cbs 5. >>> and oakland police

switzerland is not a member of the european union, but the european union is its biggest trading partner. now the swiss franc has increased in value over the last few months and it is putting pressure on a country which so far has escaped the worst of the economic downturn. >> is there any lights in the european economic gloom? yes, there's one place where the money keeps flowing. this is zurich, the millionaires while. switzerland may be in the center of europe, but not in the euro zone or the european union. there is little sign of financial crisis here. but look closely and the economic success loses some of its sparkle. 60% of exports go to your opinion. the swiss are famous for high tech position projects -- products like these. but the crisis in the euro zone means the market for them is shrinking. >> since the middle of this year we have seen a slowdown in the european economy and an aunt in orders. -- and in orders. we do expect a slowdown ind europe. what will happen, not qualified to answer. we do try to be prepared for anything that could happen. >> the swiss franc rose 20% ag

but union leadership has been keeping its distance. rank and file is on board. i asked one long shoreman. he said i'm an african-american, how can i not support this? this is a long time coming. doesn't matter how much money i lose today. you have the trucks lined up outside unable to get in. a couple are really ticked off with what's going on out here. they stand to lose $250 to $300 in wages. >> go find a way to stop this in a different way, you know. they're hurting innocent truckers at christmastime, which is a bad time when we have families and kids. >> strikes hurt people. i've been on strike and we have to keep people out of going to work. that's what you do. the boss hurts people and sometimes it's a sacrifice. >> the majority of truckers that we passed today were honking their horns and giving us the clinched fist. that's the reality that's not being portrayed. >> reporter: back out here live at 55 and 56 where deputies with the alameda county sheriff's office have been out here, are still out here and we assume will be out here throughout the rest of t

but first let's see what russians think about him the last leader of the soviet union gorbachev is now eighty years old his name was forever linked with attempts to reform the soviet system and his policies have received different assessments through the years the russian public opinion research center ask russians to define his historical role fifty one percent of the respondents said his opposed to show who was thinking about the betterment of his country but made a number of mistakes sixteen percent called him this honest man who most of my did the collapse of the country and another twelve percent see him as a brave man who took responsibility to oversee vital reforms in the country gorbachev attempted to create a more open and prosperous country through the paula says of glasnost and perestroika back to peter that's what russians think about the legacy of mr gorbachev well our sophie shevardnadze interviewed mr gorbachev and this is what he said to her about what he thinks his legacy is. i think it is united world. to be more precise a world were split over. the world free of ideo

but unions here with sunday school spirit. joining us for this edition of sports today there's plenty head this sunday morning including these stories including. can't win them all after five games in charge russia's new ice hockey coach zillah to love bill or dean off his first defeat china won. best of the past football giants barcelona and santos meet later on sunday in the final of the world club cup. and zero caliber the north american nation dominates the slopes of the opening ski cross world cup stage and winning gold in both the men's and women's advance. russian national team ice hockey. suffered his first defeat since taking over the reins in june the red machine going down to sweden in game two of their home euro hockey tournament the channel one cup constantine but top off watch this one force. russia and sweden started the clash cautiously however. isn't a lot of smen didn't seem to be as solid in defense as they were in the opening match of the tournament the swedes went by laying on the pressure and finally brok

when the leakage of m i c gas from this union carbide factory made people sleep forever but. those who are no more today the people they use. those mothers and sisters who were sleeping that night in their homes. the gas leakage from the union carbide made them sleep forever. anderson go to hell union carbide go to hell. i mean for so many years who's been drinking poisonous water even today the water is still poisonous and all of our children are sick. the entire community split up with a problem that is why we will keep fighting until you are granted all demands to find to continue. inoculated for a gas leak from a union carbide corporation factory in bhopal killed up to twenty five thousand people it was one of the world's worst industrial accidents more than thirty thousand people are believed to have died from the effects of toxic chemicals released into the air from this factory the union carbide plant in the central indian city of book. on up on the contaminated water is making our lives how they're going to get even that. all of this of tons of stuff that we just live

union leaders say they have been shut out of discussions and are warning about potential lawsuits. >>> governor jerry brown is expected to pitch his tax hike plan to voters this afternoon. it includes a half cent sales tax increase. and income tax hikes for people who make more than $250,000 a year. if voters approve that plan, it could raise about $7 billion before expiring in 2016. >>> but the governor will need a lot of support to get it done. a new poll shows just 47% of california voters approve of the job he is doing. 36% disapprove. that is among the lowest first- year approval ratings for any california governor in decades. but analysts say the huge budget mess brown inherited could be behind some of that negative sentiment. >>> after turning a strong profit, just five years ago, the u.s. postal service is on track now to lose $7 billion this year. so now, it is preparing for another round of deep cuts to avoid bankruptcy. gil diaz on the big changes you will notice. >> reporter: good news for the san jose mail processing center. it is not one of the 250 centers at risk of be

union leaders say they've been shut out of discussions and are warning about potential lawsuits. >>> 4:33 now. this morning, governor brown will release details of a plan to raise taxes ahead of next year's budget deficit. voters could weigh in on a tax increase. also a hike on high-income earners, people making $250,000 a year or more. in addition helping balance the budget, much of the money would be dedicated to schools. >>> snail mail is getting even slower. later this morning, the postal service will announce cuts to first-class service that will eliminate the chance for stamped letters to arrive the next day. a roughly 250 mailing processing centers all going to be closed as soon as march. they estimated $3 billion in reductions are all part of an effort by the postal department to cut costs rapidly to try to avoid bankruptcy. we're going to have a live report coming up at 5:00. >>> iowa got plenty of visits this week from the presidential hopefulfuls. their next debate on saturday. we are a month away from the first voting in the iowa caucuses. newt gingrich putting his ads on

title occupy wall street versus the unions i don't think we're you know we're fighting like that but i think if you know there's there is definitely tensions there's a lot of people the labor movement did support this yesterday a lot of people like myself did not and felt that the occupy movement in the west coast was like i said before did not respecting the concept of union democracy and calling the union president their labor boss and big labor which are terms usually used by the right wing let's admit right i mean if you think about the unions where they stand in our political system they are the biggest donors to the democratic party and occupy wall street movement doesn't want to be associated with either party right now right they want to distance themselves from both of them so maybe maybe occupy wall street needs to distance itself from the unions because they're representing part of what they're trying to fight well right now as far as i know only to unions as you know you and i after we have actually endorsed a candidate namely president obama a lot of unions are going to

switzerland is not a member of the european union, but the european union is nonetheless its biggest trading partner. >> is there any light in the gloom of europe's economic problems? one places where -- there is one place where the money seems to keep flowing. often called the millionaires mile, switzerland might be right in the center of europe, but it is not in the eurozone. so far there is little sign of a financial crisis. but look closer and the success loses some of its sparkle. this was our famous or high-tech precision proverb. the crisis in the eurozone reflects something that is shrinking. >> we have already seen a slowdown in the european economy. we do not think that it will fall apart altogether. we are expecting a slowdown in europe. what will happen with the euro? we cannot give an answer to that. we are trying to be prepared for anything that could happen. the franc rose 20% against the euro in just a year and a half. swiss products that are never cheap in the first place are becoming even more expensive. companies are cutting costs and unemployment is rising. >> peo

on the part of the management of the union but then of course he got bit by could be. very clearly warren anderson had jumped the promise to appear in court when they were called but he just jumped to. the indian government has request for extradition of warren anderson but the u.s. government has denied the request government says they won't send. him to face trial. the proposal for the method saying that black people who are now anderson and it was warren anderson who was informed about being a condition of safety in the plant all this was his personal knowledge. exploding koreas. and touched by. your old. paintings on display for. the. wealthy british. markets. happening to the global economy. we stop stories on our team tens of thousands rallied in the russian capital demanding a revolt of the parliamentary elections president dmitry medvedev vows political reforms. and international pressure mounts on the syrian regime to end its crackdown on protesters as violence intensifies across the country with people struggling under at. the end of an era well north korea m

but the union stuff-- >> there's one difference, they don't get the heat in the media. >> and that's why we're bringing it up. >> the president goes on a 17-day vacation and $3500 a night and he's not one of the 1%, 0.1% out there. >> and charles, that's where you're completely off the deep end. the president of the united states needs security, he needs certain things. you know that. >> adam-- >> and you know as well as anybody. >> this has nothing to do with security. what he's paying for the room him and his family is staying, $3500 a night. >> i understand that, do you want him to stay in the motel 6? >> yeah, i think that would be very interesting. >> and there's a wide gap between $3500 a night and $86 at the average american spends a night on vacation. >> he's the leader of the freeway world. >> you notice ben starts writing notes, how did he get something as low as $3500 a night. and thinking i don't want to give my wife any ideas where she could stay. >> and no, to charles' point though, the president opens the door and has, since he's been president of the united states, to

on the part of the management of the union but then of course he got bit by could be. the warren anderson and he promised to appear in court when they were called but he just jumped to. the indian government has request for extradition of. the us government has denied his request and says they won't. warren anderson to face trial. the proposal for the method that society black good one anderson will not need was warren anderson who was informed about the condition of safety in the plant all this was his but it's no knowledge. wealthy british scientists. time to. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report. one of the most extraordinary chapters in the history of the american military. to want to. well that's one way to put it but i have a feeling iraqi civilians would disagree especially after today's deadly car bomb in baghdad find out why a majority of iraqis say their country is a worse off than before and why some american polit

of political union but isn't it the case now that the political union and the fiscal union is kind of breaking up and people like merkel and sarkozy are trying to force it back together this is true to some extent. but at the same time we need to remember germany. and then there will be they are playing. if you look at the situation if you look at it and. then france has a real at least score for losing three. people a rating and therefore putting a. fair facility which effectively was created to solve its financial problem it's definitely different game for germany and for france and timing wise as different as well because for germany medical see that there's a model for really of this sort of problems which will come related booting thirty forty years of that expansion and uncontrollable spending if you like to start them for the months or so of course you. have a bit of a look from so it's happening in next two months and very publicly and politically because a real problem in his own country how much economic logic is that in throwing everything at preserving the there is economi