tibetans shouting for the religious leader to come back to tibet. the secretary that they are focused on the concrete action. so what would be the action you could see? >> we had a number of tibetan buddhists testify and speak here and people that have experienced the persecution that has taken place for years in tibet. what we are working on doing and pulling together is an international consortium to press china about religious freedom and this is one of the position papers that have been put forward. it's tibetan buddhists, we are -- weaker muslims, christian house leaders but there's a whole series and this has been going on for some period of time . we are trying to get the international coalition together to push on the government to let people practice their faith freely as they see fit. we are not asking for anything beyond a basic human right. a basic human right that was in the 1948 treaty. this is your right to pick and worship as you see fit. video presentation by the dalai lama at the seminar. it's getting older and more difficult to tr

a number of tibetan buddhists testify and speak here, and people that have experienced the persecution. it's taken place for years in tibet. what we are working together and pulling together an international consortium to press china about religious freedom. this is a position pain they are's been forward. it's uigher muslims, christian house church leaders, there's a whole series, and this has been going on for some period of time. we're trying to get that international coalition to push on the chinese government to let people practice their faith freely. we're not asking for anything beyond a basic human right. basic human right in the 1948 u.n. treaty. that is your right to worship as you see fit. we had a video presentation by the dalai lama at the seminar, as well. he's getting older and more difficult for him to travel. a number of us have met with him, and he's one of the best spokesman in the world for religious freedom. and he spoke via video at this. but we're going to continue to fr press that issue and build a series of allies like out of the group here today, to press the

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alliance over a series of allies like out of the group that here today, for this basic human right for tibetans and the rest of the people of china . >> will be our last question. and don't please. >> i was wondering how you work on upholding the us principle of church and state if you have government officials around the world work on reducing religious persecution and if you could say the religious persecution fund, if you've received any donations yet and how many other organizations have said they're interested or have already said we will give smr . >> on that second piece, i heard during the delegation and presentation from one country. i have been there during a several arewondering that's what they're going to do . they're asking also to raise sector funds to help out as well. your first question, i didn't quite understand the character of the. >> in our country we are known for the principle of separation of church and state and now you have people from all sorts of states globally and religions that you are trying to have worked together and i wonder how you relate those two things? >

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other instances of alleged zoo fraudery — such as when in 2013, a chinese zoo tried to pass off a tibetann laos, the torrent of water unleashed on monday has drained into cambodia, the dam is located in the province in the south—east of the country near the borders with vietnam and cambodia. 27 people have been confirmed dead and 131 still missing. here‘s nick beake. bruised, bewildered and with no idea if their parents are still alive. the stories from the hospital nearest the collapsed dam tell you all you need to know about the ferocity of the flood it unleashed. this man and his wife quietly explain how their one—year—old daughter was swept away. translation: i put my daughter and my wife on a boat. i tried to hold it but the water was very strong and the boat flipped over and my daughter fell into the water. it all happened right before my eyes. it‘s feared as many as 3000 people are still stranded in this part of southern laos. their rooftops now islands in a murky sea of despair. the authorities are reluctant for the world to see this, and so they‘ve banned foreign journalists, but

she says typically inside the statues are scrolls of tibetan prayers items collectors would pay a fortune for. so was this chimney. this big and say do. we go deeper into the monastery. oh. so this is the going home which means the room of the protector diety and the protector and artist room ensures that don't want to strew say that it is six thirty in the monastery and the villages around so is the most powerful room in the monastery absolutely. the irony here is that these stadiums were created to protect the monastery but now they themselves need protecting. them all the overall bone wall was younger more during the. cold war. the. later outside and as monks carry out what they came to do. holding special ceremony asking for higher powers to keep the monastery and its guards. but. when you think say about those who steal these things do you think he's angry. with. the goat is somebody who is standing on things is their own karma what impact would you say all these thefts is having on but it's. all for. their own it's very sad news for out of school because in the not in tandem honestl

it's sort of it's the worst case scenario from the mature monsoon which is now right up beyond the tibetan plateau to be ours is all the cloud heaviest rain has been in northern india but it's in a fair amount in bangladesh and in myanmar all of which of course have suffered flooding which is to be expected is just quite bad in places this year come west of that in size and the rain is rather more spartan than a lot of clouds to accumulates twenty nine degrees in mumbai but it's not especially wet in the rain be to say north and that of the dries and with the exception of twenty seven degrees cloudy interestedly we're talking about a breezy dusty if it is quite hot and then to go to up to forty four again in dire hard as well but there's not really a cloud in the sky that is what you can see it's skies awful a fairly dusty picture at the moment. twelve boys in their football coach go missing deep in a cave in northern timer with rising floodwaters rescuers are running out of time and want to be inside story of time it's extraordinary scene on al-jazeera. where every. welcome back a quick l

but to open up the market to the west there is just one possible route between the foothills of the tibetan plateau and the gobi desert. that's exactly where the new silk road runs. it's a unique transport link and indispensable when it comes to connecting the province of shinji ung which means new border to the rest of the country in the arid semi desert expanses of western china beijing and the central government were always very far away. but today the new silk road is creating change it's altering the concept of time and ultimately it will change the lives of the people here. go that route they come from all over the country from sheen john chait john shanghai. beijing and even from the northeast we're in a favorable transport location which is good for business in every regard. was just ten years ago we were still in our home village but we moved to the city to make money when the economic reforms came. from the streets in living in a sign it is undergoing a radical shift particularly in the west of the country and inching jang all these cities being built in the desert are cities with

a chinese zoo tried to pass off a tibetan mastiff dog as i lie in. >> you know, you can say he self identifies the clubs will let him in. he's a zebra. [laughter] >> it's a donkey. >> i don't know what you would do though, because it's fraud against children. >> while it was the children that caught it. >> we will be right back. >> so yesterday, jesse said that we should stop telling you to set your dvr. why was that? >> do they have that anymore? >> i think they still have a machine that will allow you to tape the the show. >> the television do it themselves. >> never miss an episode of "the five." mike emanuel is in for bret baier. >> president trump takes a victory lap on his european trade deal in the heartland where he talks economy, jobs and tariffs. and republicans go after twitter for what they say is discriminatory and illegal censorship. and optimism in the search for a treatment for alzheimer's disease. this is a "special report. >> mike: a good evening and welcome to washington. i mike emanuel in for bret baier. president trump is on his way back to washington after two midwestern