how will burmese react to all the good and evils that come with tourism? >> what about you?ct. >> excuse me. >> it's going to mean mobility, prosperity for some. it will mean a lot of bad things, too. it will mean prostitution. it will mean hustling. >> okay. >> buy one for the children. >> everybody is selling to you. but you don't buy. that's not fair. >> i don't need the postcard. >> we're told kids are dropping out of school to do this. the double-edged sword of the service economy. >> you want to buy postcard for only $5, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. >> what i'm amazed is how friendly and open people are with us, and it's very easy for me to sit here and say whatever i want about the government, right? me can go home, you know. our lives will go on. we don't pay the price for that show. everybody who helped us could very well pay that price. it should be pointed out that a lot of people did not. a lot of people were very nice to us but said, look, i just -- i've already been in jail, you know. i really don't want to go back. it's a very rea

how will burmese react to all the good and evils that come with tourism? >> what about you?fect. >> excuse me. >> it's going to mean mobility, prosperity for some. it will mean a lot of bad things, too. it will mean prostitution. it will mean hustling. >> okay. >> buy one for the children. >> everybody is selling to you. but you don't buy. that's not fair. >> i don't need the postcard. >> we're told kids are dropping out of school to do this. the double-edged sword of the service economy. >> you want to buy postcard for only $5, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. >> what i'm amazed is how friendly and open people are with us, and it's very easy for me to sit here and say whatever i want about the government, right? me can go home, you know. our lives will go on. we don't pay the price for that show. everybody who helped us could very well pay that price. it should be pointed out that a lot of people did not. a lot of people were very nice to us but said, look, i just -- i've already been in jail, you know. i really don't want to go back. it's a very r

mishaps on both burmese planes and trains are not, shall we say, unheard of.e. that may be the signal to depart at some point. >> yeah. all aboard. whoa. we're moving. here we go. >> here we go. >> that's it. we have reached cruising speed. >> really? this is cruising speed. you could literally outrun this train. >> we could jog ahead and have a nice meal in some recommended restaurant. >> we could catch up with it. >> with a digestive walk. here we go. this is stop number 1 of 75. ♪ >> heading north, the scenery opens up. the space between things gets wider, more pastoral and more beautiful. looking around at my fellow passengers, it could be hard to distinguish between the 135-plus ethnic groups that make up the burmese population. the very name, burma, refers actually to only one of these groups. what they all seem to have in common, however, is a thanaka, a paint that's on the face, 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

>> nine years, like a must-go place when you are in yangon. >> meet burmese punk rockers side effect,o. >> you can come here any time, there will be lots of people like here. >> so if you sit here long enough, you'll see every musician? >> yeah, you can say that. >> the citywide curfews used to mean close your doors at 11:00. most restaurants close early but not here on 19th street where you can eat barbecue into the middle of the night. >> what is this, tofu? >> pork tail. >> the barbecue is awesome. >> these young men show exactly how determined you've got to be to rock, especially in burma. >> i like to say my -- was nirvana, and then toes -- >> what american bands do you hate? >> um, creed. >> yes! they are like the worst band in the history of, like, the world. so what's it like having an indie band in myanmar? difficult? >> for sure, yeah. before you record a song, like when you have the lyrics, you have to submit the lyrics, so they're going to censor it, they're going to check it. even sometimes they will, you know, suggest you some words you change. >> that must be funny. >>

being half burmese i'm very interested in everything that's going on over there.t's relative to people involved in news-gathering in a broader sense. in terms of how do we jockey this changing line of what journalism means and the question of revenue and support and reporting and fairness. but let's look at sort of newspaper trends worldwide involved in the global post. >> that was my world for 25, 30 years of my life. >> we talk about sort of the death of newspapers here and certainly newspapership circulation and titles are declining in north america, western europe and central and eastern europe but they're rising, considerably in asia, latin america and the middle east and africa. what do you attribute that to? >> i think there's not enough people online. they're still looking to the traditional delivery of news which is through the printed presses. it's also, candidly easier for the government to control. you have a situation in myanmar or burma where the government is opening up and they're going to take these weekly newspapers and make them daily. that's a

>> how will burmese react to all of the good and evils that come with tourism? >> what about you?ng to mean prosperity for some. there will be a lot of bad things the, too. it will mean prostitution, it will mean hustling. >> you don't buy there, you guy here. >> kids are dropping out of school to do this. the double edge sword of the service economy. >> only $5. one, two, three, four, five, six, several, eight, nine, ten. >> i'm amazed how friendly and open people are with us. it's very easy for me to say whatever i want about the government. we can go home, you know. our lives will go on. we don't pay the price. everybody who helped us could very well pay that price. it should be pointed out that a lot of people did not, a lot of people were very nice, but they said, look, i've already been in jail. i really don't want to go back. it's a very real concern. what happens to the people we leave behind? one would think you can't win freedom. you know, you can put the toothpaste back in the tube, no doubt about that. but

the burmese government on doing anything to help from the room yes far so i can see and i think as far as they're concerned that every year for them are a problem they don't recognize them as citizens before the violence started situ was fifty percent. fifty percent. fifty percent muslim and fifty percent muslim and after the point is that it's totally changed a lot of n.g.o.s try to escape the lot of the drought ended up in bangladesh some of them don't the reason i think that the government doesn't want to get through is because you know if aid is going through it shows that there's a problem the pressing is a minority in the country minority that's quite significant in fact and i think that maybe there's a wider political agenda here because this instability this oppression serves somebody somebody is making a profit out of this and obviously are investigating and researching and over the code and greeks will be. revealing. exposing some of the things behind this kind of ideology of hatred against a real india and even muslims well let's talk about that i mean is there anything that

law basically didn't recognize them and the other is the muslims who are not recognized as burmese so they're recognized as citizens are recognized as you saw on the id cards and ethnicity of. the. tunnel so you have this kind of religious. discrimination if you want i think a lot of people are surprised to learn that much of the violence been initiated by buddhists why is there such hostility from the buddhists toward the muslims in myanmar. well it started mainly because of an extremist monk called live through who venture out of the country conducting hate speech is inciting people and the problem recently is central man mine. was apparently because of a disputed poll show but the new information that we have and from what we've learned we've been talking to people it seems entirely orchestrated for an excuse to start this conflict and i don't want to call it a conflict because one side is on the back of the state and it's completely oppressing the other so it's not done with like the ethnic conflict it's this this violence is benefiting someone and for many unspent affecting the m

it becomes somewhat of a competition among the cooks. >> burmese food smell very strong.country when you have a meal, if your dog -- no, you don't have a good meal. >> william suggests that in myanmar this meal would require a little more work and is not for the squeamish. >> the whole chicken, the whole process we do ourselves. but here it was so easy to do those things. we cook noodles separately and the soup separately. >> reporter: the burmese typically do not go out to eat. they prefer meals at home. >> i stay with my grandma. so my grandma teach me since i was 12 or 13 years old, so i know how to cook. we eat a lot of spicy food. when we prepare the food, our shirt, our clothes are stained with those smell. so american people would say, oh, those people smelly. we use the hands. that's culture. inside the family we use the round table and eat together. >> yeah. by the way, did you ever -- we've got some here by the way, anthony, i'll bet you're jealous. i don't know if you tried this when you were there. did you? >> that is maybe the most popular everyday food of my

in 2008, the top five countries where the burmese or the iraqis -- sorry, the burmese from the border in thailand and malaysia. -mosaic is about fusing democracy -- demography and help. that we areeciate not a melting pot but we are a music -- a mosaic and every -- an atlanta, we have a large ethiopian population. , oneng county in seattle of the largest kenyan populations. in houston, a nigerian center. in rural maine, after a migration from minnesota and clarkston, there is an enormous somali population around bates college. there is a story that goes behind each piece of this mosaic that is rich and telling and each has its own challenges. error some pictures of how we can do that. you can see me and and understand your community in a better way by looking at these characteristics. we can look at the vulnerability issues are income distributions or those with low english language skills or do not have a diploma. i would like to share that the paradigm is changing. this is not about immigration screening to exclude people. in 1980gee medical act is based on a humanitarian program de

rangoon i'm sorry in rangoon burma recently wrote about the woman who are being taken hostage by the burmese government and there's growing evidence suggesting that the military is keeping these women as sex slaves it's important that more visibility is given to this crisis before countless other innocent people die. and finally i want to talk about guantanamo bay prison currently ninety three of the prisoners were just more than half of the inmates at the prison camp have now joined the hunger strike is reaching the end of its third month the source of the frustration among detainees is the realization that congress and the obama administration have fully turned their backs on the idea that get motion be closed the detainees at the camp path of whom have been declared innocent and cleared for release are losing hope that they will ever be set free and they're literally killing themselves right now as a plea for help. to add insult to injury us corporate media has also conveniently taken the same position as obama choosing to look forward not backward on the crimes of the bush administration

rangoon i'm sorry in rangoon burma recently wrote about the woman who are being taken hostage by the burmese government and there's growing evidence suggesting that the military is keeping these women as sex slaves it's important that more visibility is given to this crisis before countless other innocent people die. and finally i want to talk about guantanamo bay prison currently ninety three of the prisoners were just more than half of the inmates at the prison camp have now joined the hunger strike is reaching the end of its third month the source of the frustration among the detainees is a realization that congress and the obama administration have fully turned their backs on the idea that get motion be closed the detainees at the camp path of whom have been declared innocent and cleared for release are losing hope that they will ever be set free and they're literally killing themselves right now as a plea for help. to add insult to injury us corporate media has also conveniently taken the same position as obama choosing to look forward not backward on the crimes of the bush administrati

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two guys wrangled a burmese python.ater and let it coil around him. he says the python was about three times the size of his arms. the other guy cut off the python's head with a knife he only used before to cut oranges. and just a short time ago, i spoke with tour guide tommy owen and he told me about the snake jujitsu, the move he did on the python. >> it was just pure instinct. i had him, you know, i had him and he had me, but unfortunately he's stronger than i am. he started to cut the circulation off in my right arm. and so that's why you see me lifting up out of the air and i'm -- i'm literally tlahrashin him in the water, causing him to release me and that's where the jui jujitsu came in. it was back and forth. he coiled around my left, i was able to bash him in the water, thrash him and he uncoiled and i uncoiled him with my right and he coiled around my right. so just back and forth. being a very fourfpowerful snak you're strong but not for very long. >> he's okay. has some flesh wounds from his python wrestling

reporting assignment i snuck into burma with the rebels, hooked up with some students fighting the burmese991. but i haven't been there since. what's it like? >> there's the sense that i'm sure you felt even more intensely, wow, i'm sighing some incredibly beautiful things and nobody else has seen them. the temple complex is as impressive and yet very few people have seen it. it is an incredibly beautiful country. what i found remarkable about myanmar, aside from its beauty, which is just spectacular -- i've been to a lot of places 20 years after the soviets left, 30 years and people still shy away from the camera. they still don't want to talk to you. they see a camera, it's bad things. they close up at the approach of an outsider here. myanmar, place where just about a year ago you were tossed in jail for consorting with foreigners, everybody was incredibly open. oh, yeah. this is the good stuff. >> what is it? >> yakatori. they're just delightful little bits of chicken. i don't know whether that's skin or not. that might be knuckly. if it's a little hard. oh, wow, they really hate you,

the forefront, but the internet -- i was in myanmar about a month ago, less that 1 percent of the burmeseation has access to the internet, yes, sir every single person you talk to has heard of it. what you realize is they're experiencing the internet as a set of values and ideas years before they'll ever experience it as a tool or resource. the people who built the internet believed in the free flow. they're not talking about the chinese interpretation. this is actually having an impact. >> howard, you know, as the -- i want to focus on the politics of it a bit. the president is obviously very engaged on the issue of moving the economy forward and innovation is a key part of that, whether that's around clean and renewable energy, whether around pioneering new digital projects. a lot of that gets lost when we talk about job creation, or it is given a backseat as the liberal idea of how to save the economy. how do you sort of take this space, this innovation space, make it nonpartisan, not ideological, and go ahead americans to buy into the idea that this in fact may be the future. the jobs

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and by starting to embrace universal rights, the burmese government has opened the doors to a stronger partnership with their neighborhood and with countries around the world. many challenges remain. corruption has to be rooted out. remaining political prisoners need to be freed. and the horrible mob violence of recent days a is another distressing reminder of how long it takes to build what to talk bill called the habits of the heart -- de tocqueville. but if burma's latest stay focused on promoting and protecting the rights of all people in the country, burma is likely to continue along a promising path of renewal. for other countries in regions in transition, the way forward is much less clear. and again human rights is going to be a key factor in shaping their destiny's, like the countries of the arab awakening. this is a movement that started with the demand for greater rights, dignity, and opportunity. the tunisian a fruit vendor who lit himself on fire didn't do so because -- based on an ideology are a religion. he did so because he wanted dignity and respect. he wanted the abil

in burma, we have resumed limited military to military relations and are working to ensure the burmese military supports burma's ongoing and dynamic reforms. with the vietnamese, we are expanding our cooperation as set forth in a new memorandum of understanding, maritime security, searching and rescue, peacekeeping, and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. in malaysia and indonesia, we are similarly working to build partner capacity and conduct maritime security and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. with china we have invited the chinese to participate in the recommend pack exercise which we host, and we are delighted that they have accepted. we seek to strengthen and grow our military to military relationship with china. commensurate with our growing political and economic relationship. building and sustaining a positive and constructive relationship with china is essential to the success of our rebalancing strategy. finally, india, a key part of our rebalance, and more broadly an emerging power that we believe will help determine the broader security and prosperity

at one point he pointed to the burmese transition as an example the north korea might follow.talk about there having been a recent u.s.-russia relations. in theas also a reset way the united states has been see this choice. now the bind is, what does one do when they say no to the kind of offer that has been made to them? it is not a problem with united states. it is their international obligations such as mbt. host: robert litwak is with the woodrow wilson center. he served in the clinton administration. he earned his doctorate from the london school of economics. robert is joining us from ridgewood, new jersey. caller: good morning. as far as india and their military capabilities, do they have any say in what is going on with north korea? -- with thesider americans consider forging some coalition like we did with the gulf war, a coalition against north korea? think the phrase is, coalition of the willing. guest: military options vis-À- vis north korea are terrible. north korea does have a small nuclear weapons arsenal. thatparated the plutonium was at its young site and has

in burma we have resumed limited military to military relations and working to ensure that the burmese military support the ongoing and dynamic reforms. with the vietnamese, we are expanding your cooperation to set forth in a new memorandum of understanding maritime security, search and rescue, peacekeeping, and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. in malaysia and indonesia we are slowly working to build parking capacity and to conduct maritime security and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. with china we have invited the chinese to participate in the grim pact exercise, which we host, and we are delighted that they never accepted. we seek to strengthen and grow our military to military relationship, commensurate with our growing political and economic relationships, building in sustaining a positive and constructive relationship with china is essential to the success of our rebalancing strategy. finally, india, a key part of our rebalance and more broadly in the emerging power that we believe will help determine the broader security and prosperity of the 21st century

the burmese government has released more than 700 political prisoners since 2011, many of whom had been in prison for more than a decade. members of the national league for democracy were elected to and largely transparent elections. however, many elements of the country authoritarian structure remain intact. we are also very concerned by the conflict and communal violence in states in central burma. georgia held parliamentary elections that resulted in the first peaceful democratic transfer of power in the country since 1992. courageous men and women took risks to stand out -- stand up for universal human right. this is truly a massive undertaking and every year we strive to do better. this year, we've included more comprehensive information on prison conditions, corruption within government, workers rights and the rights of women and girls. we hope the reports will shed light on human rights conditions around the world and we are committed to working with and civil society to stop abuses. i'm happy to take your questions. >> you mentioned you bring up human rights issues during all yo

what steps will the administration be taking in its discussions with burmese officials to stress the continued progress in civil society and democracy building is preferable to a policy that could in fact lead to further ethnic strife and a potential civil war? and finally, as one of the co-founders of the congressional taiwan caucus, i'd like to talk about taiwan just for a minute. back in 2001, there was the announcement by president bush at the time of washington's willingness to cooperate with taiwan in acquiring eight diesel-electric submarines at a cost of $12 billion. the official position of taiwan's ministry of national defense remains committed to procuring those submarines from the u.s. however, as the u.s. stopped making these diesel submarines many years ago, the sale has been stalled. i know we worked with france and some of our allies on this. could you advise what the current status of this submarines being acquired by taiwan is? and finally, you don't necessarily have to comment on this. if you'd like to you can, but former -- but the former president languishes toda

this is our home, and the fact is, the burmese python is eating our native species, our birds and mammalslogy is a big part of our economy so it's all of those, it wasn't me trying to kill a snake, that's not how i-- how i operate, the fact it was disrupting the environment i'm a part of it. >> clayton: i've got to ask you, the tour group got their money's worth. >> absolutely. >> and like going whale watching not seeing a whale. >> tucker: or harpooning a whale. >> you don't jump on them. >> what was the response in the boat? >> on the video they're like, wow they just, at first they thought it was part of the show, you know, part of the tour and like that happens all the time and it's got. it was a one in a million chance. and it was just, like i said we let hem know what was going on. we wouldn't have done it if they felt uncomfortable if i were alone or he were alone we wouldn't have done it. we would have called up the proper authorities and let them know hey we saw a big snake, but you don't take on something unless you have backup or a way-- >> how do you call or how did you cull t

what steps the administration be withg in his discussions burmese officials distressed the continuedrogress and still -- in civil society and democracy building, preferable to a policy that could lead to further strife.ethnic i would like to talk about taiwan for a minute. in 2001, there was an announcement by president bush at the time the washington's willingness to cooperate with taiwan in acquiring eight diesel $12tric submarines for billion. the official position of taiwan 's history of national defense remains committed to procuring those summaries from the u.s.. however, as the u.s. stopped making these submarines many years ago, the sale has been stalled. i know the work was some of our allies on this. could you advise what the current status of the submarine being acquired by taiwan is? do not necessarily have to comment on this but former president -- the former president languishes to this .ay in a jail cell in taiwan to me, it smacks of the criminalization of politics. to the extent that this administration communicates with president -- with the president, i would urge y