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I don't know if it got as high as vladimir putin, where they seriously entertained the prospect of keeping the american astronaut up there. it had people wondering, didn't it? >> it did. thanks for having me on, neil. it's good to hear anton's voice. i was -- you said you couldn't hear the bombs from space, but you could see them. i saw bombs going off in eastern ukraine. it was a very terrible moment, actually, to be in space on this great mission and looking town at people being killed -- down at people being killed. but i didn't ever think, they were not going to leave mark and i up there. ...

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To overthrow president lukashenko. from minsk, sarah rainsford reports. krystina timanovskaya left japan with her olympic dreams shattered, but her route to safety secured. the belarusian athlete says she just wants to run. her life was sports, not politics until a row with her coaches left her too scared to go home. but here inside belarus, state television has slammed her claims as cheap hype. "the only thing timanovskaya won in tokyo," this presenter says, "is a polish visa." on the streets of minsk, though, we did find sympathy for the sprinter who's fled because there is zero tolerance of...

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But here inside belarus, state television has slammed her claims as cheap hype. "the only thing timanovskaya won in tokyo," this presenter says, "is a polish visa." on the streets of minsk, though, we did find sympathy for the sprinter who's fled because there's zero tolerance of dissent here now. "we're all afraid," dmitri says. "me, too, sometimes, because the situation is unstable." the danger is real. we passed the prison where opposition activists have been locked up since mass protests last year. but somehow maria kolesnikova is still smiling. the protest leader appeared in court today c...