ellen barry, the south asia bureau chief of the "new york times," has been following the story from her post in neighboring india and joins us now via skype. ellen, can you give us some of the details, fill us in on some of the details, for example what area was hardest hit? >> reporter: sure. i mean the part of katmandu that was most seriously devastated was the old historic part of town where there is sort of densely located heritage landmark buildings, temples and palaces. a number of those were simply pancaked in some cases with a the lot of people inside them. >> stewart: ellen, for those that did survive this quake and are trapped in the rubble and are being rescued, what kind of medical attention is available to them? >> what i heard towards the end of the day is the hospitals were completely overflowing or being treated in the street and there were shortages of basic medical goods like gauze, as well as medications. there are a lot of people who had to have amputations because they were stuck in collapsed buildings during the course of day. water is going to be a big problem in

recovered after a 7.9 quake devastated the capitol kathmandu and nearby areas and tremors felt across the south asialet's bring you up to date the latest numbers we have from the massive earthquake and people absolutely digging through the rubble to do anything they can to find survivors. police saying that at least 100 people have been killed. this 7.9 magnitude quake has devastated parts of kathmandu and other parts of the country, two of the heritage sites have been destroyed and at least 50 people were trapped in a 19th century tower when it collapsed in the quake. update on the death toll and i hear police sources saying 449 that has gone up very sharply and you suspect will continue to do so. on the line jamie who is a u.n. resident coordinator in kathmandu. first of all tell us what you and your group have been doing this morning, i guess we are talking about reaction and aid efforts now. >> yeah thanks and i was actually meeting with the government and army and prime minister and the information is coming from the effected areas and one was hit by a 7.9 as you mentioned and another one 6.2 a

. >> certainly, vietnam is the largest trading partner in south-east asia and the two countries are facing a coincidence of interest. china is showing expansionist attitudes by claiming the south-east asian maritime area and the united states of course and vietnam share not only economic interests but a pure stable east asia in which no one country dominates by the virtue of its size. it's ironic given the united states history. >> not only that the fact that china has a similar communist capitalist hybrid system. you'd think relations would be less tense. they are not. what are the biggest commence for vietnam going forward. >> the biggest challenge that vietnam faces is institutional reform. the countries has enormous economic potential. it is growing, it should be growing faster and achieving economic upgrade thatting is not occurring at the pace that it could. it made progress across social and economic fields. it's good. for this country, for it to emerge as a new power in the region it will need to tackle institutional reforms, and more transparent accountable

i doubt that at this time they can expand or have the infrastructure or resources or human resources in afghanistan and south asia there's much to remember while making the analysis that they had the potential to do so. their narrative, unfortunately is attractive to some of the young. i heard the rumour from friends in south asia that i.s.i.l. gave an ultimatum to show up because they are trying to gain support, and they will not show up. they gave two ultimatums and that is why i firstly believe that the taliban, for the first time. came up with the biography. a 6,000 word biography, released by the taliban. it happened because they want to show it is alive. it is a power struggle. i.s.i.l. is trying to gain strength by hijacking taliban. >> a saudi-led military coalition conditions air strikes against houthi rebels. iran says it placed forces in the region to protect the oppressed. in a bid to allow more aid in. saudi arabia has been asked to take control of air space and maritime territory. >> reporter: another day of provision decisive storm in yemen, air and ground battles have been serious. in the capital

is of sensitivity and a big issue for both countries and all countries who have it in the region across south asianto china. it will be interesting to see just what the regional response will be going forward. >> thank you, live in new delhi. from her, we will go to bangladesh to talk to marta zdar. what it was like what after effects and can bangladesh join in the aid effort? >> reporter: immediately after, as the earthquake was happening, it was quite anique thing for a lot of bangladeshis because while there have been tremors felt as far south as the capital, capital, it's never been anything this strong and this long. it was a very sustained earthquake. people felt it 20 seconds, 30 seconds, nothing like that has been here before at least in recent times. and so there was a certain amount of panic. people had rushed down try to get out of buildings. everyone started calling each other, relatives, friends, checking with each other to make sure everyone is fine. we do have one person confirmed dead in the west of the country. it was an elderly woman who was walking on the street when the earthqu

south asia. and having originally started my profes professional career with time in centralsi america very small countries, i never thought i would end up 10 years later in the massive landmass of south asia. if you look at the map particularly in national geographic map it's quite huge. india itself as a continent is incredible but when i landed it was the end of the cold war and i think one thing that's very important for this evening and for you to understand a rather competent subject of afghanistan is the context of that period of time but it was the end of the cold war. attorney and russia were stilltank to ta. take to take in your.ad we had taken counts back then if you remember. apart central asia started to break apart from the soviet union. the russians were willing to withdraw, which is something very difficult for a nation toto encounter and dealenco with. so moving their india was asleep at the time as a story for journalists and i quickly wasjonalist dumped into pakistan to follow the trail of two afghanistan. and prior to my coming most of my my legs had already worked withr him being by going overland through through pakistan with backpacks a

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the north-south divide. >> xi touched on what's been called the new silk robe. he said china will cooperate with countries in asia and africa. >> translator: china will develop land and sea routes connecting asia and europe with relevant countries and work with them to establish the asian infrastructure investment bank. >> in other news across party group of japanese lawmakers has visited yasukuni shrine in tokyo which is holding its spring festival. it honors japan's war dead. those remembered inclued leaders convicted of war crimes after world war ii. in the past chinese and south korean leaders criticized their japanese counterparts for visiting yasukuni. 106 lawmakers from the ruling and opposition camps paid their respects at the main hall of the shrine. they belong to a group that promote visits to yasukuni. they visit in the spring and fall and august 15th. among them on this visit was former upper house vice president, a senior member of the liberal democratic party. reporters questioned him about the prospect that prime minister abe is not like try to visit the shrine during the current festival. >> tran

the thing about south asia and the thing about pashtun tribal culture is when they invite you and you meet them they will protect you with their life. so we knew that if dexter was able to line is seven invite us in we would be relatively safe. the one thing which we but is that or to reach the command he was negotiating with we had to cross through to the commanders territories. so we got the permission, and the night before we were to leave a got a phone call from the commanders guys and they said you were welcome to come tomorrow but the one thing you cannot do is bring a woman. and the decks and a look at each other and we said we're not separating, there's no way. so our translator who had close ties to the taliban he said, you know, what are we going to do? they said don't bring a woman. we said you had figured out because i'm going. and so an explanation of the very early and he said i know we will say you are mr. dexter's wife and he can't leave his wife alone in a strange city and you must come, and we said okay, fine. so we dressed all up and i was completely covered. you co

the time. >>> well, more than 4,000 people are now confirmed dead following saturday's earthquake in south asia. the the vast majority of those deaths occurred in nepal where search and rescue efforts continued tonight. four students from allentown's muhlenburg college are studding a broad in nepal right now but the school says that they are safe and accounted for. yesterday, junior heil posted on facebook he is in a small village in northwest katmandu. in his post heil wrote right now phone lines are clogged and he is unable to make any calls. >>> eight suspects are facing charges tonight in the drug smuggling scheme at a chester county prison. police say former correctional officer douglass keck got drugs to inmate. and he brought his four year-old son along to one of those drug deals. the other suspects in this case include current and former inmates and solve their friend. >>> let's bring you up to date with the latest on pennsylvania attorney general kathleen kane, a grand jury's report made public today found that kane directed release of secret information to embarras a rival and accord

marty gonzales:hundreds of people killed in a magnitude 7- point-8 earthquake in the small country of nepal in south central asia. >>marty gonzales:officials say the death toll right now stands at 718. but that number has been changing all morning and is expected to rise. >>marty gonzales:and this is a live feed from nepal showing their media coverage of the earthquake. which has killed hundreds and injured countless others. >>marty gonzales: they're stressing the efforts are on the way the number of dead will continue to climb especially as they began to outline and roy carriers a number of people survive as one man according to his facebook is from fremont he spoke with our partner at cnn about the moment is struck. >>: a lot of people ran out we had under a table >>marty gonzales: the meantime the usgs recording that more than 15 aftershocks of the magnitude of 4.5 hit the country it will continue to update the story this morning as the war continued also find the latest information on our web site at kron 4.com >>marty gonzales:the other big story we are following this morning is the weather. >>marty gonzale

friction with its neighboring countries over territorial rights in the south china sea and other issues. some participants in the asia-africa conference eluded to such matters. >> translator: in asian there are nations that are dealing with territorial rights issues on land and sea as well as serious armed conflicts. >> reporter: in order for china to truly lead asia and africa it must answer to the concerns of the international community, naoki maita, nhk world. >>> officials have been discussing the tpp for years but they want to wrap up a basic agreement as soon as possible. ai uchida joins us from the business desk to give us an update on how the talks are going. a busy week for those negotiating the tpp. >> officials from japan and the u.s. met in tokyo this week. as we covered here they were up all night on the second day as they poured over the details. and working level officials are now meeting in the u.s. to continue the conversation. they're expected to discuss outstanding issues including the term to protect patents for pharmaceutical products. the top working level officials kicked off their four day tal

to the south and central asia there is not much economic activity. o for daz ak stan kazakhstan attracting the chevron investment, it is the first to eliminate nuclear weapons, and working with the united states on a wide range of economic activities since then. >> large borders with china and russia and like ukraine it has a large russian minority, almost a quarter of the population. is part of its longevity because he's merchandising to keep vladimir putin at bay? >> from the very beginning there's wide support for that in kazakhstan. the ethnic kazaks recognize if they offend russia, many of whom live close to the russian border that this could result in pressure on kazakhstan and perhaps something even more serious. so are from the very beginning kazakhstan has gone carefully on language, for example turkish based language, different from russian, but russian is still used in kazakhstan. it has 140 ethnicities in kazakhstan. >> he has managed to really walk that tight rope with being friendly with the u.s. and friendly with russia at the same time

saying was also that the cooperation between pakistan and china should be a benefit for the regional countries and south asia saying that it would be a win hart win situation and that this country should normalize their relation relations and use the wisdom of the east according to the chinese president. the move is seen as a significant development at the time when pakistan was standing isolated in the region and there was a lack of interest with the american help to pakistan. american analysts are saying that the strategic impact of the american help has not been felt and what the chinese are trying to do is to win over pakistan and, of course, this is being dubbed as a major game changer in this region. >>> at least one person is dead after an explosion in afghanistan's second largest city. a car bomb went off outside a police checkpoints in kandahar, as least 14 others were wounded including seven police officers and seven civilians. >>> china's biggest city shanghai is preparing to introduce a new law to force polluting vehicles off the road. exhaust fumes have been blamed for the country's worsening ai

leon: the authorities believe that soumnbadze fled to the country of georgia in south-central asia. andre encourages anyone who had contact with soumbadze to come forward to the police. a new safety recall from ford. plus -- >> i could literally see the rocks falling down. alison: surviving the devastating earthquake in nepal. steve: grab the umbrella for tomorrow. the forecast coming up. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] alison: new images of devastation after the earthquake in nepal killed over 5000. helicopters dropping food and other aid to those in need. an incredible stories of survival. six young men from dubai move to an open field and slept outside for three days with very little food and no way to call home. >> we thought our families would have a funeral. >> the night was cold. it started raining. alison: the men say they are now committed to raising money for those in nepal. leon: 7 on your side with a consumer alert for ford owners. federal safety experts want you to be

speaking of carter the defense secretary is about to arrive in south korea and his next stop on the first tour of asiantagon chief. he began his trip in japan earlier this week and talked with leaders there about possible revisions, the defense cooperation agreement between the u.s. and japan. in south korea kia carter plans to meet with officials to discuss key security issues including north korea's missile threats. governedan chang is a contributor to "forbes," north korea takes on the world. jord gordon thank you for being with us. my pleasure to have this. how big is the defense secretary's trip to asia? >> important for our allies. they have been worried about the u.s. commitment to the region. so that's why he is there. and he's gone talk to people who are very skeptical about the united states right now. and so therefore, this is a crucial trip. >> speaking of crucial, how crucial is it that the u.s. is now backing japan and playing a bigger security role in asia? >> five years ago, this would have been inconceivable that the united states would be pushing japan to actually act beyond its bord

crossing over to harry comar the regional coordinator for south asia at gio has arz international ands live now from new demi. what you do is study earthquake through risk assessment. what have your risk assessment for nepal before this devastating earthquake. >> we had worked in kathmandu for several years in 1997 when we sort of had a prediction, not we are saying that we predict third degree earth way. but worked out what would happen in an earthquake struck kathmandu. this was done in 1997. things have changed. things have only gotten worse because the risks have been added. lots of new buildings came up. nepal brought out a revision to its national building code in 2003. and since then, the buildings which have followed the codes have remained standing. they have not collapses. but nepal had such a lot of buildings which were vulnerable, built before. and this earthquake seems to have brought most of them down. >> what should nepal have done differently? and are you surprised by the scale of the devastation from this earthquake? >> no. not at all. because the existing building st

asia. and the caspian. just don't look south. just a look at asia. look right nearby to the north.ran is on the caspian sea. we have major oil and gas producers in the caspian. those pipeline systems connecting iran, but at the prophet is right, you can build -- if the profit is right, you can build a pipeline, and could change the entire network of pipeline politics going into russia, central asia europe and , beyond. this is a huge deal. we shouldn't just be looking at paper dollars and paper oil. the hedge funds will have a great time on this one. they are all guessing what will happen to the price of oil tomorrow. how many in this room get that question? it is like a parlor game. what is the price going to be tomorrow? will the price go down three dollars? will it go up three dollars? we talking about trillions of dollars trading regularly. people trading regularly. trying to figure out what is going to be going on. another thing that is not talked about too much is the pipeline going to pakistan and india, which has been discussed with iran for some time. the sanctions have ta

asia. and the caspian. just don't look south. just a look at asia. look right nearby to the north. iran is on the caspian sea. you have major oil and gas producers in the caspian. those pipeline systems connecting iran, but if the prophet is right, you can build a pipeline, and could change the entire network of pipeline politics going into europe and beyond. this is a huge deal. we shouldn't just be looking at paper dollars and paper oil. the hedge funds will have a great time on this one. they are all guessing what will happen to the price of oil tomorrow. it is like a parlor game. what is the price going to be tomorrow? will it go up three dollars? will go down three dollars? we talking about trillions of dollars trading regularly. people trading regularly. another thing that is not talked about too much is the pipeline going to pakistan and india, which has been discussed with iran for some time. the sanctions have taken off. although there is a bit of a problem in one place, which iran and pakistan share. some border guards got killed there recently. there is a great deal of i

the south african president jacob zuma, has spoken out against a wave of attacks against foreigners that has swept the country. anchor: he said the violence against immigrants from africa and south asia was shocking and unacceptable. police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse anti-immigrant protesters in johannesburg. this came after they pelted passing vehicles and police with rocks. in durban, people took to the streets to do bounce the violence that has killed at least six people since it began in the city two weeks ago. anchor: almost half a million people in the mexican state of tabasco are without running water. anchor: local rivers are contaminated after oil thieves punctured an oil pipeline a week ago. anchor: authorities are scrabbling to distribute donald water and reopened water vocation plants, but it has proven to be no easy task. -- distribute bottled water. reporter: the tap is on, but nothing comes out. this town is totally dry as are dozens around it. people needing water here can only get the bottle sort. that means waiting in line in the same way you would for petrol. >> they told us to be prepared for water shortages but we did not think it would turn in

this will be for flights between the u.s., europe asia, and some south american countries. steve: wild times. leon: whatever it takes to bring people back. steve: we had nice weather today, a nice weekend tomorrow but some changes for the weekend. we will talk about that. i think you will like saturday. sunday, not so much. absurd right now -- outside right now, mostly cloudy, the clouds thinning out in the morning. 60 degrees at reagan national. it is quite comfortable if you're heading outdoors in the next hour or so. the high today, 68 degrees, one degree above average, 92 is the record high, not so long ago back in 2002. we continue to gain about a minute and a half of daylight each day. the tree pollen not quite as bad as two days ago, but the mold has increased because of the rain yesterday. that will go down tomorrow and the pollen will increase as we look for more sunshine of the forecast. 49 degrees at dulles, cooler off to the west, 50 gaithersburg quantico 53. satellite radar, the moisture suppressed to the south. the d.c. metro, the clouds thinning out along the

the use of an export facility to all you need is a pipeline. another part of this whole issue is pipelines and other exporters in use going into central asia in the caspian. don't just look south. don't just look at asia. look at right nearby to the north. iran is on the caspian sea. you have major oil and gas producers in the caspian. those pipeline systems connecting iran, fields are mostly in the south west but if the profit is why you can build a pipeline, could change the entire network of pipeline politics going into europe russia, central asia and beyond. this is a huge deal. we shouldn't just be looking at paper dollars and paper oil. but the hedge funds will have a great time on this one. they are all guessing what's going to happen to the price of oil tomorrow. how many in this room get that question? it's like a parlor game. what's the price going to be tomorrow? will go down or up $3? we are talking trillions of dollars of paper oil trading regulate, people winning and losing regularly trying to figure what is going to go on. another thing that really is not talked about too much in this whole situation is a pipeline going to pakistan and india which has been discu

be sure to follow us on twitter at abc 7 news bay area for updates on the situation in south asia. >> million people watched abc last night to hear former olympic champion bruce jenner reveal that he's transgender. jenner told abc's diane sawyer his struggle with gender identity began at an early age. not everyone is waiting until they grow up though. this morning we introduce you to a family with the struggle with a younger child. here's ama daetz. >> scarlet is like most 7-year-old girls. less than thrilled to be doing homework before dinner. but scarlet is also different from most little girls. that's because scarlet was born ezra biologically male. she's one of a growing number of transgender children in the bay area. >> when did you first realize that maybe scarlet was having some gender issues. >> when she was 18 months. we would send her off to preschool dressed as a boy and she came home dressed up as a girl. this happened for three months. we're like, maybe she was getting muddy or painting with paints and that's all they had was extra girls clothes. >> so began this berkeley

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has been the bigger focus, and the forecast suggests the showers former more scattered through india and bangladesh and more focused in south-east asia. the balls are not bone dry, but getting better. >> time for a break. when we come back... >> i'm here in astana kazakhstan for a presidential election. will it be democracy or theatre. >> and videos for gamers in the middle east >>> in sport, find out if england could hold on for test victory against the windies. more than that. stay with us. us. >>> welcome back. a quick reminder of the top stories an al jazeera. a magnitude 6.76.7 aftershock in nepal, killing more than 2,000 people >>> aftershocks felt across north india. 60 people killed and 240 in jurd >>> more on the situation in nepal. 17 climbers have been killed and dozens injured after the earthquake triggered an avalanche hitting the base camp. the first rescue plane carrying survivors hit arrived in kathmandu. they described how a wall of snow and rocks swept down slamming into a section of camp. close to 100 climbers are stuck in camps one and two up the mountains. >> danish climber was on mount everest when the avalanche

the world's most celebrated and secretive artists, banksy and the caper that led his latest twork disappear. later, a spot in south-east asiaestern tourists and tribal tensions. long hidden from the world, burma re opens. we get an insiders view of the fight against the government still under way >>> and hot on "america tonight"s website now. rosa park's revealed. five things you didn't know about the mother of the civil rights movement. her lift of defines. and what changed "america tonight". that's at aljazeera.com/americatonight. ericatonight. [ ♪♪ ] >>> in our fast-forward something: is it simply graffiti or gold. banksy made his mark around the world. daring to bring his message to the streets and walls and doors. turning them into canvases of great value. that is why art collectors are banking on banksy. >> banksy is a well-known street artist. starting with small pieces in europe. he's become hot. and in eight years he went from a few hundred pounds to selling $1.8 million at sotheby. >> reporter: in this case that's pounds as in british money. >> it used to be all the works were destroyed. people are catching on - h

broader vision that could position china to displace the united states as the dominant regional power in central and south asia. the economic corridor stretches from western china to the deep water port in pakistan, just a little over an hour's drive from iran. in terms of strategic foot holds, it doesn't get much better given its proximity to a major point for 20% of the world's oil traffic. in the early 2000, beijing co developed and assumed control of the port's operations, raising concerns that it could eventually be used by the chinese navy. china's planned investment in pakistan is beijing's largest foreign development to date and one example how it is tapping its vast foreign exchange reserves to finance critical infrastructure to serve as the backbone of land and sea trade routes. known as one belt, one road, the plan's footprint is asia, african, europe and their seas. if reads the road could serve as highways to extend beijing's political influence including foreign policy thans western style interference in human rights matters. beijing also expressed a desire for new regional security structures th

the chinese government said portugal and israel applied for membership on march 31st. participants includes countries in southeast asia and the middle east as well as britain and other european nations. russia brazil south korea and australia have also applied. the bank is intended to fund infrastructure projects for developing countries in asia. chinese officials have said countries that applied for membership before the end of the march deadline will become founding members. this will enable them to participate in creating the bank's basic policies. china is calling on nations that have not yet applied to join the bank, japan and the united states are holding back saying that the bank's governance lacks transparency. >>> let's check on markets. weak business sentiment here in japan had dampened tokyo stock prices then overnight on wall street shares also suffered losses as investors sold after seeing weak factory activity and the private-sector report on u.s. jobs. the dow jones industrial average fell .4 of a percent as did the nasdaq. the dow jones ending at 17,698 and the nasdaq 4880. to see how markets here are regarding stocks here. >> we had a little bit of sentiment inn u.s. markets yesterday a

the u.s. defense secretary says washington is starting a new phase of its shift in foreign policy toward the asia pacific region. ash carter spoke ahead of his first trip to japan in south korea as defense chief. >> we will continue to invest in future capabilities that will be especially relevant to the asia pacific's complex and dynamic security environment. >> carter said the u.s. would invest in advanced weapons to cope with changes in security situations in the region. he said the u.s. is deeply concerned about some of china's activities. he said it's defense budget actions in cyberspace and behavior in the south china sea raise serious questions. he said he hoped that military exchanges between the two countries will reduce risk with china. carter also referred to the ongoing review of guidelines on u.s./japan defense cooperation. he said the new guidelines will allow more cooperation in areas such as outer space and cyberspace. >>> u.n. officials have issued a message to militants who are battling for control of a refugee camp in syria. security council members have demanded the warring sides allow people access to food, medicine and water. islamic state militant

starting june 1 all passengers can have free drinks on flights to europe, asia and south america. the airline is upgrading their food menu. >> reporter: futures are mixed. >>> there's a free cup of coffee waiting for you at your local wawa. the company is calling april 16, wawa day. that's the day back in 1964 when the first wawa opened in folsom, delaware county. the company is giving away free coffee all day long. >> be ready the lines will be a little bit long, people love their wawa coffee. >>> a mother from georgia is in trouble for allegedly have sex with her daughter's friend after a drunken game of twisters. >> the dog flu is spreading for man's best friend. >> reporter: i hope you have your taxes all paid up. and now we have a frustrating morning ride, the vine eastbound side is in the process of reopening, you can see the police officers restricting the ramble from the eastbound schuylkill to the eastbound vine. overnight construction in the process of clearing out but the crews return tonight at midnight. >>> we have a fatal accident in buckingham township, a vehicle ran in

the world as it is in asia is not a serene or peaceful place. the first reality is that north vietnam has attacked the independent nation of south vietnam. it's object is total conquest. of course, some of the people of south vietnam are participating in an attack on their own government, but trained men and supplies, orders and arms flow in a constant stream from north to south. this support is the heartbeat of the war. it is a war of unparalleled brutality. simple farmers are the targets of assassination and kidnapping. women and children are strangled in the night because their men are loyal to their government. and helpless villages are ravaged by sneak attacks, large scale raids are conducted on towns and terror strikes in the heart of cities. the confused nature of this conflict cannot mask the fact that it is the new face of an old enemy. over this war and all asia is another reality, the deepening shadow of communist china. the rulers in hanoi are ruled -- are urged on by taking. this -- by peking. it has been condemned by the united asians for aggression in korea. it's a nation which is helping the forces of violence on almost e

what little we know of the group that was targeted by this -- these particular drone strikes is this was an emerging franchise of al qaeda that was focusing on south asia, the indian subcontinent. and this was the group that was being targeted, only formed some months ago and already senior leadership were targeted but also tragically wine stein and the italian as well. >> jonathan, thank you. >> so is bad intelligence to blame for the death of the american and italian hostage or was it a risk president obama needed to take? >> i want to express our grief and condolences to the families of two hostages. >> members of al qaeda reportedly killed in u.s. drone strikes. president obama today admits the operations accidently killed two innocent hostages. >> this strike was conducted by an armed drone under the operation of the cia. >> i profoundly regret what happened. >> the other near certainty assessment that no civilians would be harmed if this operation were carried out. unfortunately, that was not correct. >> i take fullability for all our counter terrorism operations,including the one that inadvertently took the lives of warren and giovanni. >> congr

the use of an export facility. all you need is a pipeline. another part of this whole you shall u is pipelines and other export venues going into sencentral asia and the caspian. don't just look southust look at asia. look at right nearby to the north. iran is on the caspian sea. you have major oil and gas producers in the caspian. those pipeline systems connecting iran's fields are mostly in the southwest, but if the profit's right you can build the pipeline. could change the entire network of pipeline politics going into europe, russia central asia and beyond. this is a huge deal. we shouldn't just be looking at paper dollars and paper oil -- the henl fundsdge funds are going to have a great time on this one all guessing what's going to happen to the price of oil tomorrow. how many in this room get that question? it's like a parlor game. what's the price going to be tomorrow? will the price go down $3? will it go up $3? we're talking about trillions of dollars of paper oil trading regularly. people winning and losing regularly trying to figure out what's going to be going on. now another thing that really is not talk about too much in this whole situation is the pipeline going to

asia. saint easterbrook's in the philippines for east asia. bill farnsworth in bangkok where i come from who is in charge of south asia and we in new york were supposed to be the coordinators and make things work together. and it did work pretty well. george was an interesting guy and it was a concept that got the decision-making down much closer to where the action was. just make life a little more complicated for some people. one of the things that the things the division heads were working on, clearly the evacuation and a lot of work on how to deal with the placement of this staff, how the settlements would be made thanks to the personnel record so many of the skills of people and there is a group put together good personnel officers to deal with that. we also were worried about the side effects have it because clearly if we left vietnam there were a lot of countries in asia that would raise questions. the division has put together a common approach to go around to all the central bank and explain what we're doing,, why we did it and assure them we were not abandoning asia. this is our commitment to asia was strong and we wanted to be there to tak

the global struggle of colonialism. >> there's those that shaw that vietnam was a small country with bare foot soldiers defeating a maritime south-east asia the vietnam victory was a worry and led to regional cooperation to stop the spread of communism. >> how about the failure of what is referred to as some of these anticolonial and national liberation movements gaining factry and they face failure in how the countries develop. is that a theme that vietnamese and others reflect on? >> i think so. particularly the younger vietnamese that don't have the feeling of the war and colonisation. and the movement in the case of china hoping up was a recognition by the communist party that they needed to seek popular legitimacy between economic reform and growth. >> thank you for your analysis of that. while the u.s. army waged a war in vietnam, americans grew fed up with politicians and a mounding death toll. public opinion turned against them. we spoke to a historian, and the effect it had on america's foreign policy. >> i'm rick i'm an historian. in a certain sense, america's haunting by the vietnam war shaped our history, almost more than any

the deep american involvement began as a trickle. if vietnam went communist southeast asia would fall like dominos. the south't do the job. so american ground and air power took it on in ever larger numbers with ever larger casualties. and still the north kept on coming. at home another kind of war against and for. the campuses hell no we won't go. but others did go and paid a terrible price. >> i will not accept the nomination of -- >> reporter: by 1968 a president was driven from office. >> gestapo tactics. >> reporter: the democratic convention was a brawl in the hall and in the streets. richard nixon rose to turmoil to the white house and with his architect, promised a way out. instead, escalation. mcgovern took onyxen and pleaded -- >> come home, nixon. >> reporter: but he had his own demon. watergate. the scandal that drove him from office and took his finger off the trigger. then 15 years into this war, it came to a crashing dismaying end. one of the lessons of vietnam, here's one, don't use conventional means to fight an un unconventional enemy so far from home. here's another, there are people on th

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the associated press. and has ran euros in africa, south asia, and europe. e author of several books on reporting and over his career has filed stories out of 200 different countries, and -- a number of which he likes to point out, no longer exist. as mort knows, the essential qualities of a good correspondent has not changed over time. now as then, it is about curiosity, intelligence, importantly it is about empathy but more than ever, these days it is about courage. dr. rosenblum: the numbers are shocking, but tell only part of the story. behind the statistics are victims that do not know what will happen next, and families that can only hope and pray for something better than the worst. in some regions, the death toll for journalist rises with an outbreak of war. as happened in south east asia in the 1960's and 1970's. in other places, such as a nearby border, the danger is ever present. since 1992, 32 journalists have been killed in mexico. until the 1980's, most victims were casualties of war. journalists were seen as observers of the news, not part of t

export terminals continue with long-range plans for expansion focused on the potential for continued demand in europe, asia and south america america. so these are data that we'll look at. >> i'm glad to see the east coast, just turn your attention to the west. senator barrasso here from wyoming, we have tremendous opportunities right now between wyoming and montana here, looking at west coast opportunities. and getting back to where is the expansion occurring? over in asia. west coast terminals become very, very important. >> understood. and i recognize the low sulfur content. >> thank you. >> yeah. >> thank you, madam chair. secretary, one of the areas i'm pretty excited about right now just because we're seeing such rapid change is the area of power storage where capability is increasing at a pretty good clip. costs are coming down quite quickly as well. and i'm wondering if you could take a few minutes to talk a little bit about what you see as d.o.e.'s role in accelerating this technology sector that could really change the way we think about energy, change our generation needs, really facilitate time shifting

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