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Embassy there. what type of resistance are they meeting? >> this is the kind of pressure china has been putting on, essential as its power has grown over the decades. we know this blew up just last week with this tennis star on the global stage. suddenly this became one of the biggest international sports issues. this is an issue that has been simmering for decades. we can now look at international crises around the world. right now theres one going on in the solomon islands. it has to do with c...

In the fold. >> reporter: for the first time since the eisenhower era, washington is host to the cuban em embassy embassy. how little the bilateral relationship is changing was clear. >> translator: only the lifting of the economic commercial and financial blockade which has caused so much harm and suffering to our people the return of the occupied territory guantanamo will lend some meaning to the historic event were witnessing today. >> reporter: cubas flag took its alphabetical place. then br...

Know, was signed under extreme duress. indeed, iran had sent a missive to the u.s. government saying that either you release $8 billion to us or we will summarily execute the hostages. the hostages at the time were being held in evan prison, which is where all the political prisoners in iran were held. a number of them were held across the room for the torture room where they could hear the screams of the people as they were being killed, water joses put down their throats to where they couldnt ...

Forces at work in libya, the hard work that this em embassy staff were engaged with and surely will continue to be engaged with is about civil society. libya has never been a functioning society even in the corrupt and dysfunctional ways of the middle east. and the hard worth isnt about toppling the dictator. the hard work begins post regime change, post dictatorship ending and thats what were seeing today. so it is ripe for misfits to come in and manipulate the situation, stage these fake demon...

In the fold. >> reporter: for the first time since the eisenhower era, washington is host to the cuban em embassy embassy. how little the bilateral relationship is changing was clear. >> translator: only the lifting of the economic commercial and financial blockade which has caused so much harm and suffering to our people the return of the occupied territory guantanamo will lend some meaning to the historic event were witnessing today. >> reporter: cubas flag took its alphabetical place. then br...

Vatican. thats whats bankrupting this country. >> ron paul said the u.s. embassy cost $1 billion and is bigger than the vatican. is that true or is that false? false. the price tag for building the u.s. embassy in iraq is actually hundreds of millions of dollars shy of a billion and the vatican is, in fact, bigger than said embassy. im sorry, ron paul, i still want you to come back on the show. what you said about the vatican em embassy thing false. during a debate, politicians screw up. politic...