it was not a buddhist nation. it was not a hindu nation. it was primarily a christian nation when founded in its documents were all drafted without specifically in mind. .. overtime thanks to napoleon and large part, civil rights certainly throughout the middle east, parts of asia even and today i can't think of another common law country that's out there aside from the united states and britain, if you still want to include england in that. it's a free market economy i think we all agreed the united states pretty much has had a capitalistic free-market economy. but the fourth factor is not exactly the same thing and that's why we want to include it as different. private property rights with titles and deeds. the reason we think those are so important is there are lots of countries in africa that people have stuff. they have houses, the of cars, that they cannot prove, they can't register it in many cases. hernandez desoto from did a study on the poor nation and what he found is in egypt, just as one example, it took 14 years and 150 bureau

it was not a buddhist nation. it was not a hindu nation. it was primarily a christian nation when founded in its documents were all drafted without specifically in mind. ..

the united nations says at least 48 muslims were killed by a group of buddhists in a village in the statear and calling for a full investigation and the government denies the report of a massacre. north korea extended a branch to south korea saying it wants reconciliation and unity and they called to cancel upcoming military drills for the united states and they said what is important for paving a wide avenue for mending north, south relayings is to make a bold decision to stop all military acts and the biggest is distrust and confrontation. south korea dismissed the letter with a hidden motives and said it's the result of the north korea provocations and he made threats against the south and u.s. following the joint drills. the central african republic's new program helped to intervene and end the violence and face enormous challenges with security and violence and looting continue to be in the capitol and we reports. >> smiles in bongi and there have not been many recently but everyone is looking for a sign that the country might have turned the corner. it's all about this woman, cather

of the new york times this morning, you will see the gilded head of a buddhist statue being displayed inside a case at the national museum of afghanistan. they are saving the relics now destroyed by the taliban, 300. the taliban have been painstakingly reassembled. waiting for their turn for restoration. interesting piece in the new york times. james is calling from arkansas. independent. good morning. caller: this is a bit off-topic. there is something the american people are not aware of. c-span is never talked about it and i would love for them to have a program about this. it is about blue water sailors and soldiers ann-marie and stationed offshore. denied any disability benefit because they did not have a boot on the graph -- ground. this was passed by congress. i spoke with my senator. i spoke with my congressman. they are both republicans. the senator told me something interesting. he said, we are aware of this problem but we cannot afford it. we cannot afford to reimburse these people. i was sickened. my congressman telling me that. my brother was on the uss intrepid, 800 feet offshore. he died of prostate

unites nations says the myanmar government needs to do more to protect an ethnic minority. more than 50 plus limbs were killed when a group of buddhiststheir individual, the myanmar government is denying it ever happened. calling the reports false. florence, where is exactly are they in terms of investigating all of this? >> reporter: well, the government led a delegation to the affected village which is up north in western myanmar the delegation included several u.n. representatives and two members of parliament of the ethnic minority. the government said it will release -- hold a press conference, it hasn't done so yet but it denies reports of mass killings, what it says is that a group of villagers attacked a policeman who is still missing. now, the human rights groups account of that is different it says there were retaliatory attacks after the policeman was abducted and up to 40 people were killed. now, the government says these reports have been fabricated by people because they are afraid of getting in to trouble for abducting and possibly killing the policeman. this is not the first time violence has flared up between buddhist

america, to the leaders of our own nation: the great initiative in this war is ours; the initiative to stop it must be ours. this is the message of the great buddhist leaders of vietnam. recently one of them wrote these words, and i quote: "each day the war goes on, the hatred increases in the heart of the vietnamese and in the hearts of those of humanitarian instinct. the americans are forcing even their friends into becoming their enemies. it is curious that the americans, who calculate so carefully on the possibilities of military victory, do not realize that in the process they are incurring deep psychological and political defeat. the image of america will never again be the image of revolution, freedom and democracy, but the image of violence and militarism," unquote. if we continue, there will be no doubt in my mind and in the mind of the world that we have no honorable intentions in vietnam. if we do not stop our war against the people of vietnam immediately, the world will be left with no other alternative than to see this as some horrible, clumsy and deadly game we have decided to play. the world now demands a maturity of america that we

of the new york times this morning, you will see the gilded head of a buddhist statue being displayed inside a case at the national museum of afghanistan. they are saving the relics now 300.oyed by the taliban, the taliban have been painstakingly reassembled. waiting for their turn for restoration. piece in the new york times. james is calling from arkansas. independent. good morning. >> this is a bit off-topic. there is something the american people are not aware of. c-span is never talked about it and i would love for them to have a program about this. it is about blue water sailors and soldiers ann-marie and .tationed offshore denied any disability benefit because they did not have a boot on the graph -- ground. this was passed by congress. i spoke with my senator. i spoke with my congressman. they are both republicans. senator told me something interesting. he said, we are aware of this problem but we cannot afford it. we cannot afford to reimburse these people. i was sickened. congressman telling me that. my brother was on the uss intrepid, 800 feet offshore. he died of prostate cancer. the doctor recognized

nations is calling on the government of myanmar to investigate reports of violence against the rohinga minority. it happened in the village state where there has been repeated violence against the muslims and buddhist. >>> coming up flash point in vienna. the big night out organized by a far right political party infuriates protesters. and they will h we'll have moree english cup we'll have more on that story and more. aljazeera america presents extraodinary films from the world's top documetary directors. >> it's the world's most powerful financial institution. >> i think we're mysterious to people. >> what really goes on behind closed doors? >> the fed is kind of this black box. >> it's your money... >> somebody screwed up. >> ... or is it? >> i worked to save that money and now i get nothing. >> inside the fed. on al jazeera america. attacked. the mourners have been refu >> following breaking news out of columbia, maryland, where police have confirmed three people dead after a shooting in a mall. authorities say they received a call an hour after the shooting at the mall. no shots have been heard since that body was found. and the dead yet have not yet been identified. police tweeted that the lo

of "the new york times" this morning, you will see the gilded head of a buddhist statue being displayed inside a case at the national museum of afghanistan. they are saving the relics now that were destroyed by the taliban, 300. the taliban have been painstakingly reassembled. awaiting for their turn for restoration. interesting piece in "the new york times." james is calling from arkansas. independent. good morning. caller: this is a bit off topic. i am a disabled vietnam veteran with agent orange. there is something the american people are not aware of. c-span has never talked about it and i would love for them to have a program about this. it is about blue water sailors and soldiers and marines and stationed offshore, denied any disability benefit because they did not have a boot on the ground. this was passed by congress. i spoke with my senator. i spoke with my congressman. they are both republicans. senator cotton told me something interesting. he said, we are aware of this problem, but we cannot afford it. we cannot afford to reimburse these people. i was sickened. i was absolutely sickened, my congressman te

. >> the united nations says the mooun mar government needs to do more to protect the ethnic minority. 40 rohingya muslims were killed when a group of buddhiststtacked their village of the the mooun mar government denied that it happened, calling the killings false. our correspondent is where the alleged violence occurred. >> they spend long days finding firewood. this woman and her family survive on rations. >> we barely have enough to eat. now that the weather is colder, we don't have blankets for the night. >> she is one of tens of thousands of rohingya affected by the violence between the muslim minority and buddhists in reclining state. some rohingya families have been in the country for generations. mooun mar considers all of them illegal immigrants. they are subject to distrim ni rules, including those that restrict travel and employment. the u.n. calls them one the most persecuted minorities. in the past year and a half there has been more fighting between rohingya. human rights group say more than a dozen were killed. it's impossible to verify the numbers. we have spoken to several people, who say the village has been off to other pe