Look, and i understand , Nuclear Weapons in themselves, but the issue of Nuclear Weapons also remains toxic, which in principle affects decisionmaking very strongly, officially, yes according to any doctrine, you are different, you have other relations with a Nuclear State than a Nuclear State, this part of any country, well, you know, my big part of my work in general, it consists in the fact that i watch literally hours of russian tv shows, Russian Television in order to understand what they are doing to their population, and the last, and the last, well, the biggest such trend that was, literally, it started on last week , it drags on now, they are trying for their own, well, it is cyclical for them, they approached it several times, but the last very strong approach is happening right now, they are trying to normalize nuclear war for the russian population, they talk about the fact that in nuclear war is possible win. That nuclear war can be limited, that russia can, well, at least
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Libya was plunged into chaos qaddafi a few of years ago. Laura the greek government says it has reached a deal with its creditors and will receive a third bailout worth 85 billion euros. This threeyear deal is supposed to keep greece in a bailout. It must be approved by the Greek Parliament who will make a vote on that thursday. For more on that we can go now to brussels. The European Commission is calling this agreement a technical one. What does that mean . Indeed, theyre calling it a Technical Agreement in principle, laura, using cautious words there on purpose. The thing is any agreement on a greek loan, whether its short term or long term, it means both technical and political greens. But it does not have the likes of them. After about 2 1 2 weeks of talks between officials from the European Commission, the European Central banks and the International Monetary fund with greek authorities over in athens, a deal was reached earlier in the morning on a bailout that would see greece f
Vietnam. A good time now, the decades have passed. We have always felt that in any kind of historical presentation you have to have 25 or 30 years perspective, the kind of try angulation that can take place from that pass age of time. Rose burns, novick and a remarkable 18 hour series on the vietnam war, for the hour. Funding for charlie rose is provided by the following bank of america. Life better connected. Is and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Ken burns an lynn novick are here to introduce their pbs series about the vietnam war. More than 40 years after the war ended americans are still struggling to make sense of it. The war lasted more than a decade and cost its lives of 58,000 americans and 3. 4 million vietnamese. It divided the country like no conflict since the civil war. The film by ken and lynn look back at those cataclysmic y