the very name, burma, refers actually to only one of these groups.ave in common, however, is a thanaka, a sunscreen from tree bark that masks many of their faces. at first jarring to see, it quickly becomes something you get used to and take for granted. ♪ yangon's gravitational pull broken, and with darkness falling, the train picks up speed. at times terrifyingly so. >> this thing is going to derail at some point. they have lost how many wheels yesterday? on this one train? so truly it's about being in the right car, the one that keeps its wheels. >> derailments or rail splits as they are referred to here a somewhat more benign sounding occurrence than rolling off into the rice paddies are not uncommon. one can't help wondering what the engineer and conductor are thinking as the train speeds heedlessly on faster and faster. >> all right. it must be like 40, 50 miles per hour at this point. >> i wonder if anyone has ever flown out of their seat out the window. >> sure. >> you don't want to be like holding a lap dog. >> or baby or anything. >> yeah,

wild elephants is illegal in thailand, but experts claim the practice is widespread in neighboring burma, and it threatens the last healthy populations of asian elephants that reside there. baby elephants are particularly sought after. >> it's very attractive to tourists or thai people, so everybody wants baby elephants, and they are worth a lot of money. you don't need any documents, no microchip, so it's super easy. you go into the jungle, you catch an elephant, you train them, and a month later you can get like 600,000 baht, and if you can imagine how much money this is in thailand and how easy it is to do... >> teams of hunters surround herds of elephants, killing the parents and other adults who try to defend their young. investigations have revealed that as many as 5 adults may be slain for every calf captured. the defenseless calves are then smuggled across the border. these rarely seen images show elephants being forced to endure a cruel spirit-breaking ritual known as the fashong. these activities take place in remote camps on the burmese border, far from the public eye. >> in t

>>> joining us is "new york times" columnist nicholas christoph who spent a week in burma. documenting the plight of the rohingya people. people living in a modern day concentration camp. it is shocking to look at what you show in your pieces and the video. you start with a woman with a breach baby, there's no doctors there, you try to help her, taking her to a clinic, and there's a nurse that can't do anything. there has been sporadic violence. issues of malnutrition, other abuse, but the most urgent issue is for the last few months there has been no medical care for the population of more than a million people. you have - that was in a camp of 150,000 people. and women are having babies, children are getting sick and they are... >> babies with 107 fever and nothing to help the child. it survived. there were doctors there, doctors without borders were there and kicked out. >> they were kicked outlet. >> it was said that this is the worse human suffering. why is it happening. there has been violence in the past. is anyone blameless? >> well, in a sense this is an echo of ap

things or can you at least admit certainly in asia she's helped strengthen america, opening up to burma, checking chinese territorial expansionism, standing for human rights. >> i think she worked with mitch mcconnell on efforts in burma. i think obviously she tried to at least give lip service and make some progress in the pivot to asia. here's the thing, paul. what are the tangible results she's going to talk about? i mean, you have this list of ten things you've talked about. first thing on your list is something she opposed. >> not true. i'm not going to let you get away with that. she is the reason we have sanctions on iran. >> now we're talking rhetorical. >> she freed that dissident. should we give him back? should we give him back? >> no, i don't think so. >> can you say that was a good thing? >> sure, but this is -- >> yes! >> two do you think voters are going to go to the polls -- >> they will go to the polls about the pivot to asia represents her understanding of workers and what the asian economy specifically in china means for the american economy. if that is something she'

with his neo conservative ideology to demonize and attack muslims this report into the schools in burma has not produced any evidence whatsoever that there was an extremist plot or there was extremist muslims taking over schools in burma this is being a witch hunt which is damage the standing of the muslims but more importantly it's damaged the confidence children have in the education system this week here in the u.k. g.c.s.e. students are having their exams i mean now some of those schools those peoples have to come through the media scrum to go and take their exams and this is very damaging for the education standards of our schools and that responsibility rests with michael gove the education secretary and his cronies and supporters who are engaged in this witch hunt against muslims. moving the conspiracy theories to warm side in essence british values and british merely does not sound fair enough. well neil there they are not conspiracy theories they are reality michael gove sits on a near conservative charity along with douglas murray and other people from the end rejects in socie

and meanwhile, look at a country like burma which only a few years ago was an intractable dictatorship and hostile to the united states. 40 million people. thanks to the enormous courage of the people in that country and because we took the diplomatic initiative, american leadership, we have seen political reforms opening a once closed society. a movement by burmese leadership away from partnership with north korea in favor of engagement with american and our allies. we're now supporting reform in in badly needed reconciliation through investment, through coaxing and at times public criticism and progress there could be reversed but about burma succeeds, we will have gained a new friend without having fired a shot. american leadership. in each of these cases, we should not expect change to happen overnight. that's why we form aalliances not just with governments but with ordinary people. america is not afraid of individual empowerment. we are strengthened by it. we're strengthened by civil society. we're strengthened by educational exchange and opportunity for all people and women and

take it from me, the guy with the rocket propelled grenade in burma. chill out, smoke a doobie, i'm an assassin. that is pretty much the competition for mike enzi -- who otherwise in this kind of a year, he might be expected to be facing some kind of robust well funded challenge in his home state from his right flank in the republican primary, right? how different is he from thad cochran or any of these old time guys who have been facing the tea party challengers this year, it's wyoming after all, it's a conservative state. mike enzi did have a very big named challenger who was going at him from his right, trying to take his senate seat from him in a republican primary in wyoming. in january, mike enzi was going to have to run to hold on to his senate seat in the republican primary against dick cheney's daughter. this is one of the weirder things that has happened in this election cycle for these midterms this year, it was weird when the story started, it was weird when it ended badly, it's now even weird in retrospect. liz has been living in the washi

they are jock for power going on, ethnic tensions in old burma with myanmar, bangt and trying to deal with the r-oh rvetion nirvetiondra population. i know of investor cohorts that are going in from india, southeast asia, europe. multinationals are starting to invest, consumer goods. when i look at it. i see the telltale signs, little signposts along that journey to begin institutional maturity. that's far from saying my grandmother should invest in it. but it's interesting to watch. back. >> thank you, ali, any time. >> i'm going to take you to one city where they're experiencing pedal to the metal growth. that's up next. >> al jazeera's investigative unit has tonight's exclusive report. >> stories that have impact... that make a difference... that open your world... >> this is what we do... >> america tonight next only on al jazeera america >> this, is what we do. >> al jazeera america. >> al jazeera america presents the system with joe berlinger >> new york city has stop and frisk >> some say these laws help serve and protect... >> we created the atmosphere that the policeman's the

they are jock for power going on, ethnic tensions in old burma with myanmar, bangt and trying to deal with the r-oh rvetion nirvetiondra population. i know of investor cohorts that are going in from india, southeast asia, europe. multinationals are starting to invest, consumer goods. when i look at it. i see the telltale signs, little signposts along that journey to begin institutional maturity. that's far from saying my grandmother should invest in it. but it's interesting to watch. >> tarin, we hope you'll come back. >> thank you, ali, any time. >> i'm going to take you to one city where they're experiencing pedal to the metal growth. that's up next. >> now inroducing, the new al jazeea america mobile news app. get our exclusive in depth, reporting when you want it. a global perspective wherever you are. the major headlines in context. mashable says... you'll never miss the latest news >> they will continue looking for suvivors... >> the potential for energy production is huge... >> no noise, no clutter, just real reporting. the new al jazeera america mobile app, available for your

which is near conservative ideology to demonize and attack was slim's this report into the schools in burma has not produced any evidence whatsoever that there was an extremist plot or there was extremist was. taking over schools. this is being a witch hunt which is damage the standing of muslims in the can but more importantly it's damaged the confidence children have in the education system do you think this new system of british values will actually help muslims to assimilate better into british society no government minister has been able to tell is the values that they've set out to talk about democracy you talk about tolerance and respect and the rule of law gender equality while these are values that we sign up to these are values that people across the world would look to they're not just british values they're human values we as muslims are integrated in this country and the idea that somehow that we're not is deeply patronized it just once again divines communities in a time when we should be looking to bring people together are we back with more stories after the sub break to sta

welcome to chaian mai province tucked up near the border of burma, laos, india not far away.f them left their mark on the food. and if you are eating here chances are you're also drinking. >> compared to the stuff we had this morning, this is substantially more harsh i would say and less fragrant. >> the village, how do you find this place? we're in the middle of nowhere. >> a very popular place. >> a restaurant show casing one of the distinguishing elements of northern thai cuisine. the heavy use of animal protein. >> you see the local people. they're lining up here in northern thailand pig reigns supreme. most of this stuff is made out of pig. >> what did you order? >> grilled pig tail. >> then we ordered northern thai herbal pork sausage. >> oh, yeah. i'm on that. >> brain. some pigs brain. >> yeah. i'm not a big brain fan. a custardy sort of texture coupled with this sort of nutty taste. frankly i'd rather have a big handful of nuts so to speak. >> it's mixed with curry paste and herbs and stuff thrown into a banana leaf and then grilled. they do not cook the blood. >> th

welcome to chiang mai province, tucked up near the borders of burma, china, laos, india not too far away them have left their mark on the food. >> here's the local hootch. lao khao. >> and if you're eating here, chances are, you're also drinking. >> compared to the stuff we had this morning, this is substantially more harsh, i would say. and less fragrant. >> the village of mae wang. in this place it's called hin tang. how did you find this place? we're in the middle of nowhere. >> it's a very popular place. >> a restaurant showsing one of the distinguishing elements of northern thai cuisine, the heavy use of animal protein. >> you see the local people, they're lining up. here in northern thailand, pig reigns supreme. most of the stuff we're eating here is made out of pig. >> what did you order? >> grilled pig tail. >> that sounds superb. >> yep. then we ordered some sai oua, northern thai herbal pork sausage. >> oh, yeah, i'm on that. >> brain. some pig's brain. >> yeah. i'm not a big brain fan. a custardy sort of texture, coupled with this sort of nutty taste. frankly, i would sooner g

nick is a columnist just back from burma. christa is just back from ukraine. and dan ceno is the co-founder of the foreign policy initiative and was a key adviser to the romney campaign. so dan, let me give you first dibs, the case for the opposition. tell me why obama's speech was terrible. >> well, first, i think he set up the straw man, the notion that anyone who is a critic of his policy just wants to go to war. my response is, point me to that person. most critics who have advocated a more muscular approach, more fore-leaning approach to the president's policy have advocated for some form of air power. it worked in the balkans when clinton did it, it worked in afghanistan when president george w. bush did it. >> and on afghanistan, the day before, what do you think of the two-day extension? >> i would personally leave 10,000 troops there beyond 2016, let the president's successor decide whether or not he or she wants to bring down those troop levels. i think going back to basically zero, with just enough forces to protect the embassy leaves his successor

there is jockeying for power going on, ethnic tensions in burma with northern myanmar now, bangladesh and china and so on trying to deal with the indian population, but it is a country wherein investment has start today come n i know investor cohorts going in from india, southeast asia, china, europe, multinationals are starting to invest. consumer goods, when i look at it, i see the tell tale signs, little, little sign posts along the journey. that's very far from saying that my grandmother should invest in it. that's still a ways a way but it's an interesting story to watch. >> thank you for the conversation. we hope you will come back. >> thank you, any time. >> a professor at the huh are srard business school. only two days left until the word cup gets underway, but the host nation brazil has a thorn in its side that could take some of beauty out of the beautiful game. much of brazil's largest city has been trapped in traffic gridlock as subway workers in sao paulo have been on strike since thursday, now the strike has been suspended for the discussions. the union workers who were

. >>> now, 60 years ago today, a dramatic episode unfolded in newly independent burma. story only now being told. on june 25th, 1954, three ethnic rebels seized control of a plane. they wanted to use it to smuggle weapons. but the hijack didn't go to plan. for years, strict sens censorsh meant the events of that day couldn't be be told or shown on film. but that is changing. he's talking to jonah fisher. >> reporter: his commander refused to approve the plan, one of them called him a fool. 60 years ago, he defied them all and marched in the cockpit of a passenger plane. >> translator: i said to the pilot, this is your ralast warning. if you don't obey my instructions, this grenade will explode in seven seconds. i removed the pin and showed it to him. i started counting. and had i got to three, he asked me to stop. >> reporter: his plan was to steal the plane and use it to transport weapons for the rebel group who were fighting to break away from the burmese state. these were the rubbles who were supposed to be waiting for the hijacked plane on the ground. >> reporter: i

. >>> a dramatic episode unfolded in the newly independent burma, but a story only now being told.thnic rebels seized control of a passenger plane as it left rangoon. they wanted to use it to smuggle weapons, but the hijack didn't go to plan. strict censureship of the story made it so it couldn't be be revealed until now. >> reporter: his commanders refused to reveal the plan, one called h eed him a fool but he them all and marched in the cockpit of a passenger plane. >> translator: i said to the pilot, this is your last warning. if you don't obey my instructions, this grenade will explode in seven seconds. he removed the pin from the grey nade a grenade and showed it to him. i started counting and he asked me to stop. >> reporter: his plan was to steal the plane and use it to transport weapons for the group fighting to break away from the burmese state. these were the rebels who were supposed to be waiting for the hijacked plane on the ground. >> translator: i asked pilot to fly to the rendezvous in our territory, but we couldn't find the spot. the other fighters were supposed to

he lived an important groundwork in indonesia that later paid off in burma with democratic reforms there and all those little things that aren't in the newspaper that nobody knows about bettering your schedule. i should have been a bilateral with the foreign minister some country that we got where it is on the map but must we are extremely well-educated. so i think there really does come through in the book. >> i'm glad you said that because i wanted that to come through. one of the virtues that i think we americans need to cultivate his patients. and that is true probably in our lives, but it is particularly true in our diplomacy because so much of what the matters in the world is based on building relationships and looking for areas where you can bush some level of trust. and one of the examples in the book, which was quite dramatic actually is how we were able to navigate through the very difficult crisis over wind dissident in china and not endanger the substance of the framework for the relationship we had been building with china. when i came in, i knew from my time in the senate t

burma as well. there are a lot of other national people that live there.y're not just in the tribal areas in waziristan, but in other parts of the pakistani heartland and punjab as well. these people are guests of the to for an taliban groups. i think what is important to recognize is after 9/11, this war was starting to be fought, the war on terror, the initial group between the american government and the pakistani government, and when i say agreement, i mean in informal arrangement, was that all al dutch all the arabs the will be handed over, they will be surrendered. the arabs largely were but the taliban, the americans kept their hands off them until it was realized much later the taliban were also part of the problem. and so this war has been fought. of the bordering areas, the tribal territories are adjacent were next to the afghan border, which then is connected with central asia, so you have all these different movements, insurgent movements, uzbekistan and chinese, etc., who have been coming, and you talked about bombing in the mornings. the air

look at burma, the account of turning the defeated british , his points are laid out in great detail and it is one of the most difficult tasks you can imagine. this is where the u.s. can play a key role. it would not take that many embedded at the divisional level and above to insert some wisdom into the way that the iraqi security has picked themselves up and dusted themselves off to get back into the fight. one of the key levels here is taking baby steps in ways that can be small successes and easy battles that rebuild the confidence for the larger battles the common. the final thing i will say as , the provision of u.s. military assistance on the ground is something that we need to think seriously about, as i'm sure the president is. i hope that what i am detecting in his remarks is that we play hardball with the iraqi government about coming out with a political deal. about putting an end to all of ethnicctarian nonsense, bullying of the kurds. some of these disruptive policies can end, i hope we are willing to help out this long-standing ally. u.s. air power into a rack right no

he lived an important groundwork in indonesia that later paid off in burma with democratic reforms there and all those little things that aren't in the newspaper that nobody knows about bettering your schedule. i should have been a bilateral with the foreign minister some country that we got where it is on the map but must we are extremely well-educated. so i think there really does come through in the book. >> i'm glad you said that because i wanted that to come through. one of the virtues that i think we americans need to cultivate his patients. and that is true probably in our lives, but it is particularly true in our diplomacy because so much of what the matters in the world is based on building relationships and looking for areas where you can bush some level of trust. and one of the examples in the book, which was quite dramatic actually is how we were able to navigate through the very difficult crisis over wind dissident in china and not endanger the substance of the framework for the relationship we had been building with china. when i came in, i knew from my time in the senate t

complete the flight over self to set back >> : the original air flight plan second venezuela pakistan burmaifferences 2014 flood is the single engine on a double engine plant a million to will fly alone will not have never year and will be equipped with gps >> : this afternoon from a tent camp still see cloud cover over the hills here. mostly sunny skies from the bay area and this afternoon temperatures still on the cool side to uncover storm crossing over the cooler air. 67 these are now bay area wide with the exception of half moon bay jumping into the 50s 59 degrees right now >> : 57 nasdaq 71 and santa rosa 73 in san mateo 74 in san jose now as we head into tonight we will return from the coastline and as low as well. clause will be stored clear up their fraud and it is a will be warmer and to weekend we'd have former dry air building in >> : saddle river pictures showing clear skies over the bay area right now as we look just a little up. saying, bay area but the rain will join clubs moving and moving and what in the livermore valley seem far follow-through bay stores as well >> : five

is that burma? >> you leave the middle east to pivot to asia. the i have to the asia was just a line. it had no substance whatsoever. all our allies in east asia are look happened in the middle east and saying can we trust these guys anymore and the answer is no. bill: choice to retreat. charles talked about ukraine and the middle east. if you have two years and five months left of your administration are you forced now because of the events on the ground in places like iraq and syria to be reengaged whether you want to or not? >> that's one of the theories is the way jimmy carter at end of his administration says wait a minute, all my assumptions are wrong, i have to change course. you saw this with george w. bush. the war is iraq is going extremely poorly. he says i have to change course and change my assumptions. there should be a similar reset to coin a phrase with this administration but it's not clear whether it's going to be coming. thank you, rich, rich lowry. martha: world cup fever. everyone said no one cared about soccer but record vi

currently the state department designates eight countries of those of concern, the worst abusers, burmaitrea, north korea, saudi arabia, sudan and uzbekistan. we currently are recommending eight additional countries, some of them have been on recommendations for years but as you noted they haven't always been taken. the countries that we are recommending but have not been designated as countries of particular concern are egypt, iraq, nigeria, pakistan, syria, tajik ten, turkmenistan and vietnam. we list pakistan at the very top of our list of offending nations which have not yet been designated as countries of particular concern. if there's one country at the top of the list that should be so designated as i've recently testified that is pakistan because the horrific abuses that take place there including abuses again against the baha'i community. the last designations by the state department were in 2011. i believe. we strongly advocate annual designations, if annual designations aren't meat they become in the words of my colleague, the vice chairman of our commission, katrina, sweat t

china water from siberia to china and i suspect in the fullness of time the may even be water from burma to china so these infrastructure projects are going to happen all the time and i would have thought that this gas deal is probably the first of several in the pipeline so there's other countries in the region this bigger region now want to join this group and there's the potential to be bigger than the trade area right completely what's bought i found an analogy which amused me a bit and that is going to come back in twelve fifty basically went from bering straits to the gates of jerusalem and that roughly i think is going to be the shanghai cooperation organization trade area it is enormous and there's a company it includes about four billion people particularly if you include the nonaligned or maybe the american aligned countries in southeast asia such as thailand. and indonesia in the philippines because there is a very big chinese element in those countries and i think quite naturally they will gravitate towards the c.e.o. and here is a. the thought we know that the problems with

he volunteered for the 442nd regiment team in 1943, shipped off to fierce om battlefields of the burma, india, china theater and parachuted into what is now beijing to rescue 600 prisoners of war. throughout his military career, he stayed through to the aloha spirit, his love of our country and determination to do whatever it took to accomplish the mission are an inspiration for those who raised the hand to wear the uniform and serve. he passed away on may 27 at the age of 92, leaving behind a legacy of courage and servant leadership. he'll be interred later today at the national memorial pacific theater and we send to him our deepest condolences and say aloha to hawaii's hero. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back the balance of her time. for what purpose does the gentlelady from tennessee seek recognition? mrs. brooks: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. mrs. black: mr. speaker, on may 22, president obama gave a speech in