she asked him to pray for burma. they started anne annual global day of prayer and a relief group called free burma rangers. >> it is to give health, hope, and love. i depend on god. most of our people are believers. our job is to give them medical help, tarps for places like this, clothes, mosquito nets, pots, pans, food. >>helping the displaced koran. some of the team members have been killed in fire fights. through it all ubank remay understand dependent upon god. he and his team members seek guidance through prayer. >> prayer is the air we breathe. and the spirit we have as we talk to god as we do everything we can with prayer. god's answer are very specific and doable. maybe scary, humiliating, but have doable and very specific. >> as for those the free burma rangers serve, many spend their days struggling to survive. many became christians, nearly 200 years ago, ma hah la is confident the relationship will save them. >> god loves the people and not allow the burma army to destroy us. >> they pray when they are

unless the other commissioners have concerns, i feel that we have addressed the burma to issues adequately. >> i would like to commend the staff. if the project has to take into consideration what the projections are, the sheer number alone would have an unavoidable impact. we know the population growth is happening. we have seen that. we did grow. we cannot stop you from coming here. that is really important that you clarify that. we don't build anything at the planning department. this document doesn't change the process by which they would get to make the decisions. any project that comes before the department still has to go through the environmental review process. from the standpoint of what the environmental document needed to analyze what they have, the issues with the language is more of the policy question but not necessary with the environmental aspect of the document. >> this document will it prevent us capture a mitigation. the obvious kinds of things, they are proceeding but there is not certain to or in control of the planning department where the the resources what happened

earthquake shook parts of southeast asia today peevey 6.8 quake was centered in the northeastern parts of burma. police in thailand say a woman died when a brick wall collapsed on her. the earthquake was felt hundreds of miles away in bangkok and vietnam. the earthquake was too far inland to trigger a tsunami. >>> according to the government reports, medical reports related to ecstasy use increases 75% between 2004 and 2008. er visits number 10,220 and in 2008, almost 18,000 people were treated for medical problems caused by ecstasy. most of the patients were between 18-29 years old. >>> a new science layoffs may be slowing. the government reports that fewer jobless applications where filed last week. it is the lowest level since july 2008. that news combined with a series of strong earnings reports sent the markets higher. the nasdaq rose by 38, surging nearly 1.5%. >>> a silicon valley company is offering a reward to help crack a case that took place in its parking lots. it was 17 years ago today an engineer was shot and killed outside of clyde materials in santa clara. >> reporter: this is n

but this strategy on the northern water park and the wilds, that little future red burma -- berm is further to the right of the screen, which would allow and eventually -- and eventual title landscape. we have a lot of flexibility. lastly, i wanted to illustrate in this diagram that all of the green areas are the areas that are being implemented with the capital cost of this project and being funded by this project. all of the open space plan is covered by the development funds that are part of this project. with that, i will end by saying that i sincerely believe that this is going to be a legacy of open space destination in this region, and i am really privileged to be able to work on this. >> if it is ok, we will just go through this and take questions at the end. next is infrastructure, and i have to convince -- confess i am not normally excited by infrastructure. this project made in a fan of infrastructure. there are interesting things happening on the island. just the fact that it is a man- made and the development is going to stabilize the island -- we have stressed to is for c leve

. >>> at least 25 people have been killed and to earthquakes in northeastern burma. the earth? shook buildings as far away as the thai capital -- that earthquakes shook buildings as far away as the thai capital of bangkok. >>> they're asking for a u.n. soldiers to be able to use all necessary means to be sure that power is transferred to the man widely recognized as the winner of last november's presidential election. the main story on "bbc world news," after many days of disagreement and confusion, nato has agreed to take over the responsibility of enforcing the no-fly zone over libya. they said the mandate of the alliance would not extend beyond that and there would still be what he called a separate coalition operation. the united nations human rights committee says hundreds of people have disappeared in libya in what may amount to crimes against humanity. there is lots more on our website at bbc.com. >> hello and welcome. >> see the news unfold. get the top stories from around the globe and click to play video reports. go to bbc.com/news to experience the in-depth, expert r

next we discussed the rise of islamophobia in the us with award winning journalist in burma who says this reaction to fear. archie sitting down with award winning writer and journalist ian buruma named one of the top one hundred global thinkers by foreign policy magazine mr bruma is a professor of democracy human rights and journalism at bard college in new york sir thank you so much for joining us today thank you know your latest book is taming the gods of religion and democracy on three continents so i want to start our discussion by asking you about the role of islam in the modern world how significant is it and do you see a certain level of. some phobia in the united states nowadays do you think it's just there is certainly a level of islamophobia or just the all over the western world it's difficult to talk about the role of islam because it's not one thing to millions and millions of people it's a faith but inside the world of islam there's also a violent revolutionary movement which is a minority of muslims who take part in it we can sympathize with it but it's there and that

in burma in tripoli through pushing midway through the first half people having a go at the equaliser just before half time and now out of the bottom three but only on goal difference well i've written about tonight. let's go to the ice hockey now in a shop in the playoffs regular season champion seven guards suffering a surprise scorching defeat by metal goals in their last eight clash guard other top seeds and hosted the opening game of a quarter final series they put themselves in the lead just four minutes in courtesy of antiquarian off method led by three goals to one midway through the second half the nice planting of netting to move. the nice korea deeper one back i haven't got still in the second thank you completed three full time school the late net. elsewhere sounded like a lie the defending champions that does three two in overtime bloody me and said ball hitting the all important go for the visitors. so today's action was a lachrymose it anscar both of those are looking to extend their lead in their respective ties against an armory and. other news now india have become t

. >>> and people ran from a building as a magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook burma. aftershocks are still being felt and power is out. >>> public utilities commission giving pg&e a chance to avoid millions in fine as a result of the deadly pipeline explosion in san bruno. they are fining pg&e $6 million because they failed to provide documents about gas pressure in its transmission lines but pg&e can pay half the amount if it provides all the information by the end of august. >>> barry bonds' perjury trial will resume on monday. his ex-mistress is expected to take the stand then. a chemist for the anti-u.s. doping agency told jurors yesterday that bonds had exhibited head and foot swelling consistent with using human growth hormone and said the drugs that baseball's home run king is accused of take were designed to avoid detection. barry bonds accused of lying to the feds about knowingly taking steroids. he said he thought they were flaxseed oil and arthritis cream when he took them. >>> it is 4:40. governor brown swings the budget axe and struggling students are get

influence and state companies increasing their transparency and pushing privatization david doubting from burma's asset management is looking for the proof in the pudding. this is the step in the right direction it's you know it's probably a very small piece of a bigger puzzle but giving independent directors room for companies that may be able to help them be more efficient is something that i would support but it's definitely not you know the tipping point it's not something that investors are going to say ok well you know this seems that you know this is going to be a great place to invest and then moving in the right direction and therefore a certain look at russia it's going to take a lot more than that obviously. that's hello good how the markets are faring this hour you guys start started trading slightly lower author of the government report of a small conspectus truck with new jobless claims the labor department said new applications for unemployment benefits fell to three hundred eighty eight thousand for those we'll be watching friday's job proposed clues to when the federal reserve wi

bring in to the conversation dr paul dorfman from university of warrick in britain good news from burma. very good evening to you thanks being with us the japanese government insisted the leak of radiation into the atmosphere is very insignificant or not harmful because that sounds like the full picture though do you or do you think it's more to it. it's actually difficult to get a full picture of what's going on. so far a lot of commentators. are discussing the releases are not great the truth is that nobody really knows what's happening yet unfortunately you guys seem like that there have been significant releases from the spent fuel ponds so unfortunately it might it might mean unfortunately that there have been significant releases when do you think the public will find out about that. it's always a difficult problem it was a difficult problem in windscale it was a difficult problem in three mile island it was a difficult problem in terms of perhaps the most important issue here is what it means for nuclear newbuild across the world and of course in my country in the u.k. and it's i

ground troops is likely is because over and burma libya there's a strong al qaeda cell the libyan islamic fighting front and we know from documents found in iraq that a large part of the insurgency in iraq came to libya there's a strong al qaeda cell we've already seeing the united states being involved in pakistan yemen other areas where cells are growing i mean this is this is exactly where counterterrorist and counterinsurgency guys will want to go but they're allies of course the contradiction in our approach here is that we're calling this a humanitarian intervention but really we do have interests of our own and you know those interests might be for now helping the rebels and then later going against the rebels because there are going to be factions within them who we feel are dangerous to ourselves john and we're taking a short break and we're going to watch a report here as we talk about the current war in libya let's take a little trip down memory lane twelve years ago today nato started bombing former yugoslavia and both conflicts were billed as humanitarian missions against a c

after they were drafted during the second world war and they fought and died in burma and in india. and when they came back, they've been told they were fighting for freedom and democracy and felt bad about having kidnap him and nothing. after the roots of the frustration after the second world war, in the mao mao revolt which ended up as a bloody, very nasty revolt, not only against the white kenyans, but what a lot of people who maybe haven't looked at it was a civil war within the africans themselves. many, many more people died during mao mao when i grew up in the 1950s in britain and i can still hear the echoes with newsreels of the mao mao is and how black savages were massacred in the white. in this state happen. >> host: you're talking about a few score -- a few score white people, whereas there was literally tens of thousands of blacks kenyans killed a kenyans. for this uprising was very shocking, even more so for the black community than the white community, but the british response to this was to suppressive by the way and they had literally tens of thousands of so-called

kenyan soldiers were drafted into the east africa and the second world war and they fought and died in burmand india. when they came back they had been told they were fighting for freedom of democracy. they got back and actually kenya, there is no freedom, no democracy for them. and after the roots of that frustration after the second world war grew the, which ended up as a very bloody, very nasty revolt. not only against the white kenyans but what i think a lot of people who maybe haven't looked at a mountain out of it, it was a civil war within the africans themselves. many, many, many more people, black kenya side during mau mau revolt. i can still hear the aye, then newsreels of mau mau and how black savages were massacring the lights. and this did happen. but you're talking about a few small -- i don't want to diminish the seriousness of the budget talking about a few small people were as there were literally tens of thousands of black kenyans killed by kenyans. and so this uprising was very shocking, even more so through the black community here the british response to this was to supp

the business in burma is part of the story and improving that overall, for all companies but also we find that true competitive success requires you go further and really understand the composition of your economy, what kind of business is the state in? by the business is developing these clusters? we look a state economy, there are two types of industries. one of is what recall local industries. these are industries that every state will have a retail come utilities, health care. these are industries that serve almost totally the local market. there are based on serving the population that lives in your state. there are the majority of all jobs, local jobs. there are also what we call the traded clusters. these are industries that have to compete across state and across countries. it is this traded a part of your economy that really drive you to prosperity. they have much our wages. they have much higher productivity. they have much higher rates of innovation. we have given you the data on your state in terms of the mix of your state economy in terms of the treated and local cluster

they are tied with burma. >> not in terms of dollars. >> no, but those are our dollars >> the honest answer to your question is it's a mixed picture. some of the ministries, the ministries that i deal with, that we deal with, the ministry of defense, the ministry of interior we think is pretty good. they are competently led. they are feeding people, they are recruiting people, putting them into the pipeline. they are ahead of their schedule in terms of recruitment, in terms of training, in terms of literacy training and everything else, partnering with us. but they are delivering the young men to us ahead of the schedules that we laid out. which is terribly important to the end of our strategy. but i would say that, you know, let me just say a word about president karzai. i think we have done a lousy job of listening to president karzai. because every issue that has become a public explosion from president karzai has been an issue that he has talked to american officials out repeatedly in private. he like the iraqis before him, complained a long time about the private security compan

the in burma the pollution has been reduced by 60 and 70% and now they are into the social justice agenda. we were warned two years ago by some when europe the university of tennessee that obama was going to use the epa to get his cap and trade or controlling tax, which what is coming and it would be the largest tax increase. well, look at how much it has cost is already in gasoline. right here in this little town where i live, the have already laid off 155 coal miners. now, you can say whatever you want, but until obama on starts going around with his solar panels or whatever it is that he wants, we need energy. you cannot cut out nuclear, coal, gas, and everything and expect people to live any kind of a normal life. host: going back to your earlier point. what was gas prices in january 2009? caller: $1.55. host: that seems relatively low. i don not recall it dropping that much. guest: we have the highest will then gas prices ever before in the president george of the bush. in july 2008, oil was $147 per barrel and that was a record high. after the great economic financial collapse in se

my understanding is that that's happened in burma, pakistan, possibly in syria, there's a lot of other countries it's happened in where we haven't gone against the administration in that country, so that was a little puzzling. and the president said, so nine days ago, after consulting the bipartisan leadership in congress, i authorized military action to stop the killing and enforce u.n. security council resolution 1973. but the fact is we've been told repeatedly that this administration had the support of the u.n. to whom the president did not take an oath to defend and did not have the consent of the governed in this country. not the governed and not the governed's legally elected representatives. now, president said in his speech, we had gaddafi's troops. well, i would think with the president's broad education he would understand, if an infidel, an infidel country like we're considered, kills muslims then we're worthy of death under what they consider the law. so if the president's right and we haven't just shot rockets and taken out certain type of military hardware, we've actuall

they are tied with burma. >> not in terms of dollars. >> no, but those are our dollars >> the honest answer to your question is it's a mixed picture. some of the ministries, the ministries that i deal with, that we deal with, the ministry of defense, the ministry of interior we think is pretty good. they are competently led. they are feeding people, they are recruiting people, putting them into the pipeline. they are ahead of their schedule in terms of recruitment, in terms of training, in terms of literacy training and everything else, partnering with us. but they are delivering the young men to us ahead of the schedules that we laid out. which is terribly important to the end of our strategy. but i would say that, you know, let me just say a word about president karzai. i think we have done a lousy job of listening to president karzai. because every issue that has become a public explosion from president karzai has been an issue that he has talked to american officials out repeatedly in private. he like the iraqis before him, complained a long time about the private security compan

emergencies such as libya and cote d'ivoire, and in slow motion tragedies of chronic abuse, such as burma and north korea. we saw this council at its best on friday, when it took decisive action on libya. we saw it in december's special session on cote d'ivoire, where the situation is increasingly dire and there's been a large spike in violence. we must continue sending a strong message to laurent gbagbo that his actions are unacceptable, and the international community must keep up the pressure. last fall, this council also took the important decision to create a special rapporteur for freedom of assembly and association, and we have likewise seen a strengthening in the council's approach to freedom of expression. but too often, still, we are not seeing a serious enough response, to use this institution to advance human rights. sometimes, the council does not act, and its integrity is undermined because it defers to regional relations, diplomatic niceties, and cynical politics. membership on this council should be earned through respect for human rights. that is the standard laid out by

in fast-breaking emergencies, such as libya, and in slow-motion tragedies of chronic abuse such as burma and north korea. we saw this council at its best on friday when it took decisive action on libya. we saw in december's special session where the situation is increasingly dire and there has been a large spike in violence. we must continue sending a strong message that actions are unacceptable and the international community must keep up the pressure. last fall, this council also took the important decision to create a council for freedom of assembly and association and we have likewise seen a strengthening in the council's approach to freedom of expression. but too often still, we are not seeing a serious enough response to use this institution to advance human rights. sometimes the council does not act and its integrity is undermined because it deefers to regional relations, diplomatic niceities and cynical politics. membership on this council should be earned for respect of human rights. that is the standard laid out for the general assembly. this council predecessor, the human righ

they are tied with burma. >> not in terms of dollars. >> no, but those are our dollars >> the honest answer to your question is it's a mixed picture. some of the ministries, the ministries that i deal with, that we deal with, the ministry of defense, theministry of interior we think is pretty good. they are competently led. they are feeding people, they are recruiting people, putting them into the pipeline. they are ahead of their schedule in terms of recruitment, in terms of training, in terms of literacy training and everything else, partnering with us. but they are delivering the young men to us ahead of the schedules that we laid out. which is terribly important to the end of our strategy. but i would say that, you know, let me just say a word about president karzai. i think we have done a lousy job of listening to president karzai. because every issue that has become a public explosion from president karzai has been an issue that he has talked to american officials out repeatedly in private. he lik the iraqis before him, complained a long time about the private security companie