a lot of what life gone from cambodia.ng the owners is read the law and faces a fine but she says even if she does not supply the meet, she is pressured by her customers to " illegal game. even with the decline of trafficking in cambodia, the region's animals and plants are in serious danger. if current trends continue, scientists predict up to nearly half of south east asia's species could be wiped out by the end of the century. al jazeera, cambodia. >> the front runner and the i did arrive at dogsled race is almost at the finish line. six competitors have dropped out. it 60 are still making their final push toward the bering sea. our reporter spent time with musher to find out what it takes to succeed in the race. >> dog sledding have been around for centuries but when it comes to the i did arrive, there is a lot of training and strategizing that comes in to put into their the ultimate team. someone who knows a lot about this is christie, who has been mushing for eight years and has been in the junior idederod. what goes

and why some villages are unhappy with sugar cane in cambodia. >> hello. we've seen more massive downpours across northern parts of australia. the topics really struggling. 60 millimeters of rain coming down friday, and that what weather does stay in place over the coming days, so a real possibility. you have seen how huge the thundershowers are, and more to come over the next few days. 200 millimeters of rain coming in, and the wet weather again does stay in place. it really does look quite nasty across northern and eastern parts of australia. also seeing some of the showers here you come further south, it is not too bad. temperatures 27 degrees, plenty of sunshine. sunshine also for new zealand and across the western side of australia with a high of around 29 degrees. western australia drying out after a couple of cyclones. dry, too, across parts of south asia, but strikers will see part of south east asia. increasingly wet. turning increasingly warm, meanwhile, across the of arabian peninsula at 29 celsius. >> candidates in kenya's presidential election

cambodia reported high rates of gang rape. >> this is cambodia's capital, phnom penh, at night. be on the crowded streets and nightlife, the country hides a deep -- beyond the crowded streets and nightlife, the country hides a deep problem. men were asked about the reasons they commit violence against women, including rape. it has one of the highest rates of gang rape in the region. they hope that understanding the problem will provide new ways to prevent it. >> is mostly young people, not the poor or the high-class -- it is mostly young people, not the poor or the high-class, the middle class, between 18 and 23. >> he has been researching gang rape in cambodia for 10 years. over several weeks, he helped us find men who are reeling to talk -- who were willing to talk, but only if their identities were concealed. there is a cultural practice which means a group of men having sex with the same woman. >> we are good friends, so we want to have sex together with one girl. >> these men say they pay money to do this and do not consider it wrong. >> it is not rape. >> i don't know whet

poaching is a problem in the western cambodia. this is the most serious area where the smuggling case is still going on until now. the cambodian government and an international activist group patrol together. they say they catch a poacher two days ago. poachers often use loop traps. these ensure the animal's paws as the rope tightens. chinese buyers pay high prices to use these animals in delicacies and medicine. poachers use these vehicles to smuggle animals. officials found three animalis hidden in this wheel latch. poachers can pass inspections because many officers only look inside the car and the trunks. these workers say smuggling remains rampant because people are desperate for money. >> translator: it's too bad these animals will always be in danger of extinction as long as people keep smuggling them for money. if the situation doesn't change they will disappear. >> reporter: they still haven't discovered how they operate. 40 years ago, the convention on the international trade of endangered species were let out in washing

poaching is a problem in western cambodia. this is the most frequent area where the smuggling case is still going on until now. the cambodian government and an international activist group patrol together. they say they caught a poacher two days ago. poachers often use rope traps. these injure the animal's paws as the rope tightens. chinese buyers pay high prices to use the mammal in delicacies and medicine. poachers use these vehicles to smuggle the mammals and other animals. officers found three mammals hidden in this wheel hatch. poachers can pass road inspections because many officers only look inside the car and the trunk. this worker says smuggling remains rampant because people are desperate for money. >> translator: it's too bad. the animal will always be in danger of extinct. as long as people struggle to make money. if the situation doesn't change, they will disappear. >> reporter: authorities suspect poachers, carriers and traders. but they still haven't discovered how they operate. 40 years ago, the convention on t

story from the [inaudible] and so the indian epiics actually the indian epiics for very common in cambodia and bali and thailand and there is a different aesthetic. all southeast asia and asia there are a lot of similarities. >> he is a male entity. he is not -- are you referring to the story? >> it's interesting you should say that. a unique indian concept is one of half male, half female. and that is -- unlike some dances the solo dancer portrays all of the parts in the story. you can portray a feminine aspect and then masculine aspect with the bow and arrow. the male has to portray feminine and the female has to portray masculine. there is a very fierce dance and a soft sort of dance and every dancer has to learn all those aspects. it's very, you know, my teacher i call him a guru in this art form you have to study very, very hard. you have to learn about all the cultural aspects. he says it's liberating because he enjoys and has to learn to bring up the feminine aspect. he's a strong character it's a challenge for him and he likes it. the stories are metaphor cal. i don't look at this

around laos lie the developing economies of thailand, china, vietnam and cambodia.e north of laos is almos entirely mountains, covering 70% of the country. much of its western border is defined by the mekong river, a tural barrier to trade. the friendship bridge breached that barrier. narrator: somphavan inthavong is in the power business. he was an engineer on the first hydroelectric scheme built here in 1951. to him, these rugged mountains and flowing waters are a pot of gold. laos produces far more electricity than it can use. the surplus, approximately 80% of the power generated, is sold to thailand at a profit. the dream is on a grand scale: laos emerging to the world on an electricity-led boom. inthavong: narrator: the hydroelectric business could make enough money to power the improveme ofheconomy and e stanrdf living her narrator: the but laos can't payness coufor constructiononey of the dams and generators. traditionally, around the world, dam construction took the form of massive public projects-- grand symbols of national development, like egypt's aswan d

poaching has pushed one animal in cambodia to the brink of extinction. nhk world has more. >> reporter: the pan guilin is the only animal that lives in southeast asia. land development and other factors have shrunk their numbers in recent years. this has prompted their listing as an endangered species. the international trade of the animal the ho pribted. poaching is a problem in the western cam bod ya. this is the area where the pangalen smuggling case is going on until now. the cambodian government and an international activist group patrol together. they say they caught a poacher two days ago. poachers often use loop traps. these injured the animal's paws as the rope tightens. chinese buyers pay high prices to use pangalens. poachers use these vehicles to smuggle pangalens and other animals. they found three held in here. poachers can pass inspections because many officers only look inside a car and the trunk. these ngo workers say smuggling remains rampant because people are desperate for money. >> it's too bad, the pangalens will always be in danger

. >> a founding member of cambodia's brutal rouge has died while on trial for genocide. he died at the age of 87. he was one of only a handful of leaders to be tried for the killings of up to 2 million people. >> here in germany police arrested four radical islammists for plotting a series of murders. raids uncovered loaded firearms, bulletproof vest and ingredients for explosives. the main target is thought to be the leader of a far right political party. >> japan so close to completing the world's first lava barrier. the barrier is 20 meters high and one kilometer long. it is hoped to protect residents and the roads needed to evacuate them. the last eeruption was over 200 years ago and experts say another eruption could come at any time. >> champions league soccer right now. bayern munich, they scored three times in london. the game should serve as a wake up call. >> we talked about it before the game. the last thing that we wanted was to concede an early goal. but that's what happened. in the first half we were not ourselves. we were not aggressive enough. we did not

government funded some of their work in cambodia. foundations, individual donors like most nongovernmental organizations. >> toughest part of your effort to ban land mines? >> i always say that it was so easy compared to central america that i can't find difficult -- but that's too glossy a picture, i guess. i think when the c.c.w., convention on conventional weapons, which came about after the vietnam war and tied to control things like napalm, land mines, but did not ban them, so we used that treaty as a tool in the first couple of years of the land mine campaign, an organizing tool. getting nongovernmental organizations in different countries involved, pressing their government to amend that treaty to ban land mines and they wouldn't. so for two and a half years we were there pushing and screaming and shouting at all the meetings they had and they did not change that treaty. and if the canadian government had not come out of that experience dedicated to the belief that within one year we could negotiate a mine ban treaty, which th

more than twenty thousand american lives and maybe a million vietnamese and spreading the war into cambodia so so fast forward to iran contra right jimmy carter's president just to take with a very similar happens with the rand contra which i covered at the associated press in newsweek and and that was that we thought we thought at that time when they were in contra scandal broke that was about eighty five to eighty six there were these strange sales to iran which had been hidden and some of the money went to the contras in nicaragua what we now know based on some of the material coming out of these archives is that this also goes back to this earlier election fraud scheme where ronald reagan's campaign and some of the same people that were involved with nixon try again to use a foreign policy crisis this time the hostage crisis mind jimmy carter so we now know that in some ways iran contra was an extension of this earlier perhaps more more serious scandal so next talked to to talk to the folks in vietnam and said don't negotiate with l.b.j. because l.b.j. had basically was they were ready

corps here with us, cambodia is here this morning. the ambassador from the phillipines is here. the ambassador from indonesia is here. we have the d.c.m.'s from a number of our asia-pacific partnership countries, including australia, canada, singapore, thailand and vietnam. we have hong kong's commissioner for economic and trade affairs with us today. and always good to see him. leo lee is here. and i thank all of you for making a special effort to be with us here today to welcome the chairman of the house committee on foreign affairs. again, this is a confluence of several anniversaries. the 16th time we have convened to celebrate the life of the late chairman the founder of the samsung group with a major address on asia policy. mr. chairman, today you are succeeding a long line of distinguished speakers over the years. our first b.c. lecturer was former secretary of state henry kissinger. subsequently, we have heard from chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, senator jesse helms and heard from ben gilman and henry hyde and don rumsfeld, colin powell, condi rice an

is headed off to southeast asia next week, the "wall street journal" reports he will be headed to cambodiae first by a high level executive from a technology giant, a google spokesman says he will visit several countries in asia to connect with local pans who are working to improve the lives of millions of people across the area by helping them get online. he went to north korea not too long ago. the information technology sector is seen as a potential $1 billion industry. >> international rivals will start this weekend at at&t for bail at giants' home yesterday. semifinal action is on sunday when japan play as yet to be determined opponent and another semi is on monday. the championship is on tuesday. local hotels and restaurants expect extra business from around the globe. fans will spend over $850,000 as they join three days of baseball fun. >> oakland is inducting the first hall of fame class celebrating the local public high school legends. the heroes include henderson and joe morgan and bill russell from basketball, and the only american to win the grand slam. tomorrow night the v.i.

i was in cambodia. that is all i heard.o you want to go into a government where the company has to, pay money here and there to get what they want done? >> no, you don't. and not that even in our own country this has never happened before, as it has. but you have to be selective. there's a lot of lack of transparency in the russian market and the chinese market. there is issues in the indian market as well but there are still companies with great corporate governance that have a long operating history of providing shareholders with the kind of returns that help them achieve --. david: the problem you're company peting with investors like chinese investors who are willing to bribe and the chinese are everywhere in these emerging markets. >> well they are, and it is sad if you looked at the situation with sino forest, there wasn't timber there. you have to be extremely careful, or as we feel we're not compelled to do anything with our clients money except find something that has the characteristics we're looking for that's a

i met a guy who came here in 1976 to escape the killing fields in cambodia.is first job was picking fruit. in 1976 -- later than that he joined a campaign of george herbert walker bush as a volunteer. he was given a job to work in the white house then the state department. then he was appointed as the united states ambassador to the united nations. he said that when he stood to speak in behalf of this great country he would ask himself, in what other country in the world would a impoverished cambodian refugee become an ambassador to the united nations? [applause] this nation began with an idea, noble one.e.-- a the idea was that every person is endowed by their creator with unailable rights. freedom flows in american veins. it invigorates our enterprises and inspires us to live beyond ourselves. it calls for us to care for the suffering. it has made us a great nation. the country is in per real by mounting debt, failing institutions, by families stressed beyond the limits, by schools failing to make the grade and public servants are more focused on scoring po

and from cambodia. and they was telling me i saw this thing here and i know you are in the business. i hope it didn't happen at my place. i said yes, it did. >> baby zamir is reunited with his mother zakira david after he was checked in the hospital claiming that the boy had fallen down some stairs. david sees the video on the news but still doesn't realize it's her son. as she told ann curry with nbc news. >> i was like i knew that ain't my child. i just kept saying i know that ain't my child. i was like oh, my god. i didn't know until the next morning until the police came knocking on my door. >> when they confirmed it was your son. >> it was my child. >> the guy who saved him, the young immigrant. have you met him? >> no. i never got to meet him. >> you're smiling, though. what would you like to say to him? >> i would like to tell him thank you. >> no charges are filed against the babysitter or boyfriend after police find there was no intent to cause harm. she is taking steps to make sure nothing as

but you will also go to, quick list -- india, cambodia, egypt, mexico, china, vietnam, peru, jordan,eece, london, just to name a few. traveling business class, by the way. >> phenomenal. i don't know that i want to go on a two-year trip, same people and same company. i would get sick of everybody. >> probably but if it's on your own and you get to see the world. say what? >> if it is free. >> if it is free. >> you want to smell like a dead person. don't know why you would want. top perfumery, launched a scent, by the living dead. zombie for him and zombie for her. dudes will aapparently smell like the forest floor with dried leaves, mildew, moss, earth. and the women's version, dregs from the bottom of the wine barrel for a feminine touch. >> how do you know what a zombie smells like, a dead person, go to the morgue, and bottle it up. >> little musty. go to the coroner's office. have you been in the coroner's office? >> no. >> i have as a reporter. >> no. this is cute. want to show you quickly. sunday, samantha ford went to dunkin donuts, her car says, half my heart is in afghanistan

patrick wrote the speech while nixon's notorious speech, the one that led before the invasion of cambodia. they attended their congratulations after that and. at the end of the presidency it was clearly offended. >> there are people going our of microphones so raise your hand if you have a question and raise the the koza your first and last name. we are recording is not only for the website but also c-span is here so you will see yourself on national television probably next month. anyone with a question? all the way in the back. >> [inaudible] >> what was taken away from the tape the part that was erased, and i have heard some things that may be watergate some things about the kennedy assassination that's partly why he wanted to break into watergate wynn. >> he has heard many more of the tapes than i have. >> we don't know. the national archive first of all the courts try to figure out what was on that piece of tape and the analyst at and they determined that was delivered and there were six to eight examples of somebody started erasing it and started and stopped. the national archives i

that begin with the speech, most notorious speech, the one that led to the invasion of cambodia, the helpless giant speech. julie and david were not able to attend their own graduation after that. and ray price was the other said. he said he had this dark side in his lifetime. he said the darkside album with one out, but at the end of the presidency the darkside was clearly ascended spent without having a we will open the floor to questions. >> the are two of us going around with microphones. the race your hand if you the question. please their first and last and before you question the also we are recording this not only for our website that will be available tomorrow morning but also c-span is here so you will see yourselves on national television. probably next month. anyone with a question? first question all the way in the back. >> hi. [inaudible]. i'm zac. what was taken away from that date, the part that was erased? and other things in the ether that maybe watergate there were some things about the kennedy assassination and people, that's why i'm a part of what he wanted to br

wrote the speech, probably nixon's most notorious speech, the one that led before the invasion of cambodia, the helpless giants which led to rival campuses, the shootings at kent state. julie and david weren't able to attend their own graduations after that. it was a terrible -- and ray price was the other side. ray price says he has this dark side and the light side. ray price argued that the light side ultimately won out, but the dark side was clearly avenn cant. >> with that happy note, we're going to open the floor to questions. [laughter] >> it's now to take questions from all of you. there are two of us going around with microphones, so just raise your hand if you have a question. please say your fist and last name before your question. we are recording this not only for our web site, but also c-span is here. so you'll see yourselves on national television probably next month. um, anyone with a question? first question all the way in back. >> hi, i'm zack ritter, and i don't like to be -- [inaudible] what -- i'm zack ritter. what are, what was taken away from the tape, the part that

why not go to the killing fields of cambodia and get some pictures there? what are they thinking?op at joe stalin's grave. and that's right, what are they thinking? if they don't have the sensitivity about this by now, and if they don't apologize, a pox on their house. i think that people should not be watching them. take the show off. i don't know who this guy is who does the, you know, the narration on the thing, but you know, he's not american, obviously, but it is just so, to me, and the reason i got so upset about it and i'm still upset about it today. i'm going to use it on "the five", i cannot justify being quiet while cbs says nothing. at least at the end they could have put a disclaimer on it, but they didn't even do that. and that, to me, is just outrageous. >> megyn: we'll look and see whether there have been any public comments by cbs news, we have not found any so far by cbs. if they do comment we'll bring that to you. bob, thanks, see you tonight on the "the five" on fnc. don't miss it. coming up, if you don't live in a major metro area, might want to pack your bags.

the products come from cambodia and haiti and exclusively sold on the company's website. >>> at the topson-in-law of osama bin laden will make his first court appearance in a u.s. court. sulaiman abu ghaith was captured last month, charged with conspiring to kill americans, that's him on the right next to his father-in-law. susan candiotti, this man made some strong threats. >> reporter: good morning to you, don. he's been called the mouthpiece of osama bin laden, and over the years he's made all kinds of video messages and all kinds of threats against americans, including one in particular right after the 9/11 attacks. listen to this and watch this. these are his words, "the storms will not stop, especially the airplane storms." he warned americans "not to board any aircraft and not to live in high-rises." this photo puts sulaiman abu ghaith squarely in al qaeda's inner circle, he's sitting to the left of his father-in-law, osama bin laden, along with top lieutenants ayman al zawahiri and mohammad attaf. ghaith was appearing in video making ominous statements "we have the right to kill

we are delighted to have so many members of the diplomatic corps here with us, cambodia is here this morning. the ambassador from the phillipines is here. the ambassador from indonesia is here. we have the d.c.m.'s from a number of our asia-pacific partnership countries, including australia, canada, singapore, thailand and vietnam. we have hong kong's commissioner for economic and trade affairs with us today. and always good to see him. leo lee is here. and i thank all of you for making a special effort to be with us here today to welcome the chairman of the house ommittee on foreign affairs. again, this is a confluence of several anniversaries. the 16th time we have convened to celebrate the life of the late chairman the founder of the samsung group with a major address on asia policy. mr. chairman, today you are succeeding a long line of distinguished speakers over the years. our first b.c. lecturer was former secretary of state henry kissinger. subsequently, we have heard from chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, senator jesse helms and heard from ben ilman and henr

she visited ty land, cambodia, and many other countries in what has been a passionate effort to understand the root cause of poverty, social injustice and inequality. recently she received a masters from the harvard kennedy school. she earned an honorary doctorate from eastern kentucky in 2009. please welcome -- join me in welcome miss ashley judd. [applause] >> good afternoon. well, there's what four southerners in here? take two on that. [laughter] good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> thank you so much dean, and as far as i'm concerned, lass is over. i appreciate your expertise, i am totally daunted by the intellectual capital and life experience in this room, and students go to the student center and have coffee. [laughter] i'm very pleased and honored to be here today. this has been a date five years in the making. get that? based on my long standing froip with friendship we had the pleasure of traveling to india together in 2008 spending extraordinary emotionally grueling as well as aspiring three weeks visiting grassroots program that lift the poorest of the poor out of the worst co

ambassador from cambodia and from the philippines, the ambassador from indonesia also a number of asian and pacific partnership countries like australia australia, japan, thailand australia, japan, thailand, vietnam, we have economic and trade affairs. it is good to see him. i think all of you for making a special effort to be here with us today but to have a confluence of several anniversaries come of the 16th time we have convened to celebrate the life of the late chairman, the founder of the samsung group with a major address on asia policy. today your succeeding a long line of distinguished speakers over the years. the first lecture was former secretary of state kissinger , and subsequently we have heard from the senate foreign relations committee, senator jesse helms, from your predecessors on the house foreign affairs committee and donald trump's wealth wealth, colin powell and connolly's a rice and others our last -- last lecture was senator joe lieberman. so we made a contribution to policy makers in terms of policy to asia. this is the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the

she has visited thailand, cambodia and many other countries in what has been a passionate effort to understand the root causes of poverty, social injustice and inequality. she received her masters in public administration from the harvard kennedy school. she earned an honorary doctorate from eastern kentucky university in 2009. please join me in welcoming, ms. ashley judd. [applause] be my cadet yan. there's like what four southerners in here but takes you on that. good afternoon. thank you so much dean goldman@concern, class is over. i am totally daunted by the intellectual capital and life experience of mr. medalist at the student center and have some coffee. i am very pleased and honored to be here today. this has been a date five years in the making, get that? based on a long-standing friendship with her faster and meats, we had the pleasure of traveling to get together and she doesn't make fascinate eight, spending extraordinary, emotionally grueling as well as inspiring three weeks sustained grassroots programs that help lift the poorest of the poor out of the worst conditions that we ha

headed back to the united states but instead are going to even lower cost nations like vietnam and cambodiaguys? >> thank you. it's kind of amazing to see the changes as they take place and idea that chinese workers want to make sure they enjoy their life and that change in mentality. i guess a lot of them still even though they want to enjoy life while they are there want to save money to take home or send home. >> reporter: that's right. a lot of people do want to have a better life and what we're really seeing is mentality is changing so people are much more aware of their rights. i was talking to one worker who was talking about how people are becoming more aware of strikes and concept of a union and that's really slowly developing here because the economy is improving, people are getting wealthier, they are starting to buy more iphones and phones in general, getting on the internet, they are becoming more aware of other patterns that are happening in the country. >> how does the new leadership in china handle this or deal with it? are they prepared for it? is there a game plan? are the

ambassador hang from cambodia is here this morning, ambassador quishea from the philippines is here, ambassador jalal from indonesia is here. we also have the dcms from a number of our asia-pacific partnerships including australia, japan, singapore, thailand and vietnam. we have hong kong's commissioner for economic and trade affairs, donald tong, with us today, and it's always good to see him. leo lee from tech row is here, and i thank all of you for making a special effort to be with us here today to welcome the chairman of the house committee on foreign affairsment again, this is a confluence of several anniversaries, the 16th time we've convened to celebrate the life of the late chairman cho, the founder of the samsung group with a major address on asian policy. mr. chairman, today you are succeeding a long line of distinguished speakers over the years. our first b.c. lee lecturer was former secretary of state henry kissinger. subsequently, we have heard from chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, senator jesse helms, we've heard from your predecessors, ben gilman an

she has visited thailand, cambodia, honduras, kenya and many other countries in what's been a passionated the root causes of poverty, social injustice and inequality. just recently she received a master's in public administration from the harvard kennedy school. she also earned a moderate doctorate from eastern kentucky university in 2009. please join me in welcoming ms. ashley judd. [applause] >> good afternoon. well, there's what, four southerners and here? [laughter] good afternoon. thank you so much, dean goldman and as far as i am concerned class is over. i am totally daunted by the intellectual capital and life experience in this room and students, let's go to the student center and have some coffee. [laughter] eye injury pleased and honored to be here today. this has been a date five years in the making. again that? based on my longstanding friendship with professor, we had the pleasure of travelling to india together in 2008, spending a really extraordinary emotionally grueling as well as an aspiring free weeks visiting grassroots programs that helped lift the poorest of the poor

he came there in 1976 to escape the killing fields in cambodia. his first job was digging fruit. in new york city. 1976 i believe he, live in that he joined the campaign of george herbert walker bush as a volunteer. 13 years after coming to this country, he was given a job to work in the white house. in the state department. then he was appointed as a united states ambassador to the united nations. he said that whenever he stood to speak in behalf of this great country he would ask himself, in what other country in the world would an impoverished cambodian refugee become its ambassador to that nation? this -- [applause] this nation began with an idea, a noble one. the idea was that every person is endowed by their creator with unalienable rights. freedom flows in american veins. it integrates our enterprises. it inspires us to live beyond ourselves. it calls us to care for the suffering and downtrodden. it has made us a great nation. a day history and duty summons us again. the country is imperiled by mounting debt. by failing and seditions, my families stretched beyond the limit