more broadly, beyondjust the phnom pen po5t, cambodia?sure of the cambodia daily after the government slapped them with a huge tax bill that they were not able to pat’- tax bill that they were not able to pay. we also saw other independent radio outlets shattered, which is really important for people in rural areas, a lot of them still get their information by radio, and we saw operation5 information by radio, and we saw operations by radio free asia and voice of america were curtailed a5 well. overall, the media 5cene voice of america were curtailed a5 well. overall, the media scene is not looking good, and the phnom pen po5t not looking good, and the phnom pen post is widely seen to be one of the la5t independent media outlets left. that was erin handley, 5till la5t independent media outlets left. that was erin handley, still working at the paper, but she is uncertain about her future there as an independent journalist. about her future there as an independentjournalist. worth reiterating that the new owners say that this was a simple b

and now we've had what was really seen as the last truly independent outlets in cambodia being sold this is the phnom penh post it is being sold to a an investor in malaysia who also owns a public relations firm that has among others counted among its clients the cambodian prime minister who in sin so clearly that raised a lot of concerns the phnom penh post ran a story about the sale about who the publication was being sold to and the new company owners ordered that that story be taken down now we've had the editor in chief of the phnom penh post on monday being fired and several of the editorial staff at the publication resigning from their position so clearly this is being seen as further deterioration in the media landscape in cambodia. in nicaragua a commission has been set up to investigate the killing of at least forty five protesters during anti-government demonstrations more rallies have been held to demand justice for the dead protest against the president started last month when daniel ortega proposed reforms to social security spending plans were abandoned following wide

still to come on counting the cost a color a sensation not to be sneezed at how a prized spice in cambodia is helping farmers whether a drop in global pepper prices. but first mining for gold is the only source of income for many people living in the eastern part of south sudan but the country isn't benefiting from it because most of the gold discovered is quickly smuggled out of the country i'll just here is what morgan reports now from cap west a state where gold digging is a way of life look at people and his friends come to this stream every day and spend long hours panning for gold there hoping to find even a few tiny specks of the precious metal to support their families they did no idea . i come here to make a living i sift through the sand and look for gold because it's the only way for me to feed my mother and father if i find some specks of gold i sell it and get money to feed my family. the twenty year old says he can make about thirty dollars a day if he finds a gram of gold and in thousand dan where the inflation rate is more than one hundred twenty percent that's a fortune. t

and now we've had what was really seen as the last truly independent outlets in cambodia being sold this is the phnom penh post it is being sold to a an investor in malaysia who also owns a public relations firm that has among others counted among its clients the cambodian prime minister who in sin so clearly that raised a lot of concerns the phnom penh post ran a story about the sale about who the publication was being sold to and the new company owners ordered that that story be taken down now we've had the editor in chief of the phnom penh post on monday being fired and several of the editorial staff at the publication resigning from their position so clearly this is being seen as further deterioration in the media landscape in cambodia officials in hawaii of warning more residents to evacuate immediately. after new fisher from kilo way of full cave no opened up on sunday night lava flow has already destroyed twenty six homes and toxic gases forced almost two thousand islanders to seek safety rob reynolds has been to state some hawaii's big island where residents have been trying

cambodia's supremum court has rejected a request to release former opposition leader kem soca ahead of his trial so guy was arrested in september on treason charges and has been in pretrial detention ever since he denies all allegations against him when he joins us now live from bangkok so when what hope is there now for them so call. more of this is really the end of the line for the opposition leader when it comes to taking this case through the courts trying to get his pretrial detention nullified as you say he was arrested in september the initial maximum period of detention for him was six months then the municipal court in phnom penh in mn in march decided that he could be held for a further six months so that's when his legal team took the case to the court of appeal and now to the supreme court which is up held the decision by the two lower court so that now means that he could be held until september pending a trial on these treason charges and crucially that takes us past an election which is to be held in july and supporters of critics of the government led by prime minister

here in news hour including bail denied cambodia's opposition leader remains behind bars after being accused of treason. and a year on. we take a look at how successful french president emanuel mccrone first year in office has been and why public opinion is divided. the houston rockets in the golden state warriors move closer to the n.b.a. conference finals details from the playoffs coming up with in school. france and germany are vowing to stick to the terms of the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal even if the u.s. walks away they and other european powers a lobbying president trump not to end america's involvement in the agreement as he prepares to make his decision in less than a week the latest is the u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson to go to washington he's made his case in the new york times he wrote of all the options we have for ensuring that iran never gets a nuclear weapon this part offers the fewest disadvantages it has weak this is certainly but i'm convinced they can be remitted i'm sure of one thing every available turn that if is worse the wisest goals would be to i

one of cambodia's newest political parties believes it's the only one that truly lives up to its name representatives of the grassroots democratic party are related from the ground up with supporters and members voting for who they want to stand in july general election but party leaders say there are undemocratic forces at work in cambodia we had it before there is from but in the next. one until monday if the so there's and it's getting worse so you don't think that this and it's in this what's right for the price of pain the previous largest opposition party the cambodian national rescue party was dissolved in november accused of plotting to overthrow the government its leader kim is in jail charged with treason critics say it's part of a campaign orchestrated by the ruling cambodian people's party which is afraid of losing power the opposition performed well in the last general and local elections including who won his seat in phnom penh only to lose it when his party was banned and. most people used to support my party in this area told me that if there is no camborne internation

and now we've had what was really seen as the last truly independent outlets in cambodia being sold this is the phnom penh post it is being sold to a an investor in malaysia who also owns a public relations firm that has among others counted among its clients the cambodian prime minister who in sin so clearly that raised a lot of concerns the phnom penh post ran a story about the sale about who the publication was being sold to and the new company owners ordered that that story be taken down now we've had the editor in chief of the phnom penh post on monday being fired and several of the editorial staff at the publication resigning from their position so clearly this is being seen as further deterioration in the media landscape in cambodia an erupting volcano in hawaii has destroyed at least thirty homes. sinful also missed two thousand dollars and is to seek safety but reynolds is near could know where the volcano which is sending most and lava into visit ancillary as. the road into the eruption zone is cracked and broken vents of steam and toxic gas from the lava flows beneath bel

fought in cambodia and laos, , don't know thahat 3 miln vietnamese people died i in the war. but 3 million cambodians and laotians died during the war and afterwards. and it's important to bring this up, because americans,s, when ty feelel guilty, will l say, "ok,e know that t in vietnam it's cacd the american war. so maybe we should call it that." and i'm saying even that is not sufficient, because the vivinamese who call it thehe american war don't want to think about what they did in laos and cambodia, and what they still do there today. so, thinking of war in just these binary terms of vietnam and the united states just completely simplifies the history of what happened there. amy: pulitzer prize winning writer viet thanh nguyen, professor of english at the university of southern california. just two and a a half weeks afar the my l massacre, april,, 1968, dr. mainin lutr kikingr. was assassineded in mphihis , teessee. he w just 39ears old his assaination me exact one yearfter he blicly ce out agait the wain vietn. god and aa child other tohe suffeng poor vinam speak foth

one of cambodia's strongest opposition parties is threatening to withdraw from july's election saying forces are play the grassroots democratic party only emerged as a challenger after the previous largest opposition party dissolved in november when he reports. one of cambodia's newest political parties believes it's the only one that truly lives up to its name representatives of the grassroots democratic party are related from the ground up with supporters and members voting for who they want to stand in july general election but party leaders say there are undemocratic forces at work in cambodia we had a day for their mission but in the next two months i'm on until monday so there's an inch and it's getting worse so you don't think that this and it's in this what's why i thought the price of paying the previous largest opposition party the cambodian national rescue party was dissolved in november accused of plotting to overthrow the government its leader kim is in jail charged with treason critics say it's part of a campaign orchestrated by the ruling cambodian people's party which

seen asguardian, it was the last independent outlet and -- outlet in cambodia. they say that in less than a year, the country has gone from being -- having one of the freest press is in the region to being one of the most dangerous. we are talking harassment and censorship. radio stations were shut down. a pro-opposition paper was shut down over a tax bill dispute. all of this appears to be linked to who in sin -- there is an election coming up in july. >> we are going to talk about an unusual exhibition in paris. what is this? >> it was not actually the exhibition that was unusual. it was the type of people who turned up to it. for the first time in paris, the museum opened its doors for a nudist viewing of a neck's vision. 30,000 -- of an exhibition. 30,000 people showed up. among those who were dissipated, journalists and interns who went to this exhibit two relieve some stress before an exam and a railway worker who had taken a day off from striking for a bit of cultural stimulation. >> i think that would stress me out to walk around naked in a museum. the m

one of cambodia's newest political parties believes it's the only one that truly lives up to its name representatives of the grassroots democratic party are related from the ground up with supporters and members voting for who they want to stand in july general election but party leaders say there are undemocratic forces at work in cambodia we had it before the and it's from but in the next. one until monday if the so there's and it's getting worse so you don't think that this and it's in this what's right for the price of pain the previous largest opposition party the cambodian national rescue party was dissolved in november accused of plotting to overthrow the government its leader kim is in jail charged with treason critics say it's part of a campaign orchestrated by the ruling cambodian people's party which is afraid of losing power the opposition performed well in the last general and local elections including here on q. who won his seat in phnom penh only to lose it when his party was banned. most people used to support my party in this area told me that if there is no can board

sensible and could have profound consequences for the food security of the downstream countries cambodia and vietnam that's less to do with water use for growing food and irrigation there are elements of that is more to do with the fisheries that lift naturally in the river which are a major source of protein for sixty million people living in the me you build the dams that has major impact on those fish populations which begs the question what are those sixty million people going to do for their protein sources where are they going to get protein from it's that's a different about every day and difficult balancing they are going to answer that question yes give me jumping in here to get that balance you know man obviously wants to get involved but when you've got them changing the course of rivers interfering with mother nature disturbing that delicate it could balance it can only end in problems contact. well it can if you do it badly but one of the encouraging thing is that among sort of technical water management experts around the world there's been a real sort of flowering over the

did flows for about four thousand kilometers across six countries from china down to vietnam and cambodia there's a lot of dam building going on on the be gone a lot of that is to generate hydroelectricity and it's a region which needs of the trustee for development but the way in which the dams are being built. is perhaps not particularly sensible and could have profound consequences for the food security of the downstream countries cambodia and vietnam that's less to do with water use for growing food and irrigation there are elements of that is more to do with the fisheries that lift naturally in the river which are a major source of protein for sixty million people living in the me you build the dams that has major impact on those fish populations which begs the question what are those sixty million people going to do for their protein sources where are they going to get protein from it's that's a different about every day and difficult balancing to make me to answer that question yes give me jumping in here to get that balance you know man obviously wants to get involved but when you

it has been different for other refugee communities coming from cambodia and laos. it was not just vietnam. it was happening in all three places. for the cambodian american community, it has been a much more mixed situation and how people about economically, socially since the end of the war. certainly with their communities, as well. susan: you are here did -- to participate in a panel on the ken burns series. you referenced that earlier. i'm sure many people watching us saw that as well. one of the things i read, and you reference this, the reliance on the oral histories and not involving academic historians. what are the pluses and minuses of that in your estimation in telling the good on story? -- telling the vietnam story? professor bradley: i think as much as we would like to think we can have that credit influence on the general public, i'm not sure we do. >> you mean academic historians? [laughter] present bradley: perhaps it's more compelling of a way to tell up and we could do. they are just absolutely brilliant interviews. one of the things with historian

be --re was supposed to cambodia in the last election, the ruling party got a nasty shock.p the opposition leader isn't enough. what you need to do is abolish the party. heart,e have been more this unfortunately is going to -- force the >> i have been reading comments suggesting this is a do over opportunity. are we really to believe that a 92-year-old man could change is stripes? >> i think i will be the real question. some people are trying to tell me if will be a couple of months. i think the lesser time it takes will be indicative of what is coming. >> thank you. thank you for being with us. coming up, american colleges may find themselves squeezed and students might just be the big winners. >> there has been increased demand in college enrollment. $1.5 trillion. things could reverse in upcoming years. he joins us now. this is something you have written about and talked a lot about as well. it was working, but now could be working for student -- and student favor. ,> three different trends especially over 10 or 20 years. second, you have the large generation exiting it

of languages marx's communist manifesto change the world it inspired revolutions in china russia cambodia and cuba and profoundly influenced modern day social democrats across europe and beyond his prediction the communism would inevitably overthrow capitalism has since been proved wrong but marx is analysis of the unequal relationship between workers and capitalist bosses remains relevant to this day germany has a somewhat ambivalent attitude towards marx but in three air he has embraced in a way that the man himself may not have appreciated the bicentennial of the godfather of communism is actually turning into something of a capitalist bonanza for the town of thread here in the souvenir shops as a whole variety of car marks products on sale kamarck books commerce clearings a money box a mug even a car marks rubber duck and here look a column marked wine naturally it's a red wine. perhaps this image appropriation proves that his analysis was actually correct. he would see his theories is being confirmed because he wrote that everything becomes good so merchandise and capitalism now he s

nixon's right-hand man, historyh also kno for the secret bombings of cambodia and laos. sometimes the world is too violent for any peace prize winner. >> no nobel peace prize this year. why not? it is that man again. reporter: the nobel committee decidenot to award anyone during the height of world war ii. that's right, no one was peaceful enough, anywhere on earth. then again, whshould we be surprised? this mixture of war and peace, bombast and virtue. nalfredobel made his fortune in part from inventing dynamite. and no one has had a more explosive impact on the global stage than donald j. trump. rajini: that is it from me, but remember, you can fin more on all the day's news on our website. i am rajini vaidyanathan. thanks for watchiner"world news a." >> with the bbc news app, our vertical videos are designed to work around your lifestyle, so you news of the day and stay up-to-date with the latest headlines you can trust. download now from selected app stores. >> funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation, kovler foundation, pursuing soluti

syria the president dismissed allegations of torture in prisons there as eight news we've seen that cambodia used the excuse of fake news to push out radio free asia so around the world even in democratic countries like poland and hungary which you know were at the daffy in. the democratic movement era you think the famed terminology to clamp down and and according. to europe with that what is the situation right now we've had two journalist we have a journalist in slovakia we've had a journalist the mold to both murdered because of their work how dangerous has it become in europe to be a journalist. you know i didn't it we are deeply concerned about what's happening in europe the fact that two journalists who were investigating corruption were murder and member states of that year in the union the fact that maltese authorities have not made good faith efforts as far as her and started to truly figure out who the masterminds behind them are adat me elate. corona. and. q.c.'s and his colleagues murderer murderer may not waar you know this is deeply disturbing and it should not be acceptable j

we saw cambodia uses the excuse of fake is to push out radio free asia. around the world, even countries like poland and hungary, at the best use of the democratic movement, they are using the same terminology to clamp down on reporting. brent: you bring us to europe with that. what is the situation now? we had a journalist in slovakia, a journalist murdered because of their work. how dangerous has it become in europe to be a journalist? courtney: you know, we are deeply concerned about what is happening in europe. the fact that two journalists who were investigating corruption were murdered in member states of the european union, the fact that maltese authorities have not made good-faith efforts from as far as we are concerned, to truly figure out who the masterminds behind the murder of -- behind the murder of our the fact that the journalists and his colleague's motorman may not large. this is deeply disturbing, and it should not be acceptable that journalists are murdered for investigate corruption in eu member states. brent: advocacy director for the

cambodia would soon follow. that notion inspired in part what if happened in eastern europe right after world war ii when various governments mostly in central and eastern europe fell to communism. in that case, it was direct soviet occupation. the concern in eastern asia it might come about through indigenous gorillas will take over. host: hoves funding the north korean government? guest: north koreans -- vietnamese were heavily armed. soviet union and china were at odds. they were competing with each other for a greater influence in north vietnam. that worked out well for the north vietnamese because they can get more weapons. host: who was funding north korea during this time. explain what was happen and how that's relevant to what we're seeing today? guest: in north korea, they had sort of playing both sides against the middle. they had patrons in soviet union and in china. but at the same time, they were always doing their own thing. for example they seized the uss pueblo which was a american ship ship. it

several seniorjournalists have left cambodia's phnom penh post, following the sacking of the editor andditorial interference. the paper, seen as the country's last independent daily, was sold at the weekend. the new owners claim the decision was "business restructuring". but staff remain unconvinced. at least four of our senior staff have walked out. they include our managing editor, our business editor, our web editor, and some of the senior reporters who worked on the damaging article. and so basically today we've seen our editorial — our editors gutted from our newsroom. two teenage girls have been raped and set on fire in separate incidents in india. one girl died on sunday. the other is in a critical condition. india's supreme court is trying a group of men accused of raping and murdering an eight year old girl. the court is moving the trial to a different state, fearing local bias in favour of the accused. the supreme court was hearing a petition filed by the victim's family, who feared that if the trial was conducted here, because of heightened tensions between communities, it ma

court of justice which is the principal goodish or going to the united nations with a kid brought by cambodia pilot and and the underlying principle in that it was really important for for the kids at hand here and the court said that there is an obligation to restore the removed culture of corporative to the state form was territory it originated and the court said this is the principle implicit in this order in power in this already notoriously of the state so in terms of going to legal difficulties. i don't think that is an insurmountable may call or. do you think i have another song that i actually want to pose to match a match you have been a director of a museum i'm really curious beyond this a legal framework that may well be impacting that is impacting what british museums can do in terms of restitution to the giving back. what about the idea of maybe just feeling embarrassed and also good about the situation that you're. charge of all of the stolen goods but you think lee has tristian hunt and he is the director of the victorian albert museum he wrote a blog he wrote a blog about the

the president dismissed allegations of torture in prisons there as they can use we've seen that cambodia used the excuse of fake news to push out radio free asia so around the world even in democratic countries like poland and hungary which you know there were at the baths in. the democratic movement area using a famed terminology to clamp down and and according. to europe with that what is the situation right now we've had two journalist we've had a journalist in slovakia we've had a journalist the mole to both murdered because of their work how dangerous has it become in europe to be a journalist. you know i didn't it we are deeply concerned about what's happening in europe the fact that two journalists who were investigating corruption were murder and member states of that you're in the union the fact that maltese authorities have not made good faith efforts as far as her insurge to truly figure out who the masterminds behind the murder of japanese elites. corona gillet and. q.c.'s and his colleagues murder or murder or may not why are you know this is deeply disturbing and it should

also there's a lot of stuff like cambodia and all these other places that aren't densely populated there's just extra power that they can't do anything with and now with solar coming out there's a whole other new demand dimension that you know power used to be consumed a lot during the day because of the heat now solar panels are more efficient during the middle of the day so the power curve has changed solar electric power as the cost is dropping down down that a some particular like a microchip is just becoming a very short narrowly you know cost efficient to do it to do the mining and the technology side on the chips etc the chinese company about. you know what give us a little potted history of that whole story line that's been going on sure so you know most of the six come out of china there are a few exceptions however these are the people who specifically he got in a group of very early around the same time i did and he had a really big appetite for risk he took some big risks to make help make one of the first mining chips and that's where they cut their teeth and now you've got bi

is true in our current government is far away at united states and certainly in this region and cambodia the philippines the n.r. . thailand list was not an increasingly autocratic government that have less and less tolerance for transparency if you take those that intolerance out on the press as you mention southeast asia has seen a decline in press freedom but missed the dial while the hostility that we're talking about to with the media is not restricted to these authoritarian regimes as most as a walk you mentioned the us has fallen again and next under president donald trump two places to one hundred forty fifth i mean this is a president who is openly hostile to the media and calls that. enemies of the people now is the united states are wrong forty fifth. out of one of the nato countries in the world press an index because that's a country where as you said the president uses the words that even at the births like it. used in moscow dozens of years ago and that's really worrying that's the word such insults again john the use by the president of the united states because for many

part of the world the number of civilians that were killed the number of people in countries like cambodia and laos that were killed in bombings that had nothing to do with with any real milt military reason our failure to come to reckon with that history leads directly to our failure to to realize the mistake we're making when we when we go into iraq and so we continue to perpetuate these mistakes and the inability to puncture these myths leads to electorates and to groups of politicians who continue to repeat the same political mistakes over and over again so it's always dangerous when you make myths and in modern american in the modern america american lead media landscape are always making myths that are comfortable for all audiences to digest that don't scare or upset them and that's just very hard to do and when when you're talking about the cold hard facts of history it most definitely is and that's the thing that i think i applaud you know journalists like yourself and others who are out there you know kind of challenging the contemporary myths and there's a lot of great documentar

controlled by the rebels at least six people were killed one of the last bastions of free press in cambodia has been sold to a businessperson with links to the government the phnom penh post has been bought from its history in. both sivakumar ji promise zones and has cracked down on independent media in the past year complain of horace meant by secret police and several outlets have been shut down starbucks says it has entered into a seven point one five billion dollar deal with nestlé to form what it calls a global coffee alliance agreement gives the swiss food giant the right to sell starbucks products around the world outside of the company's coffee shops some five hundred starbucks employees will also be joining us those ranks under the deal which is yet to be approved by regulators as i headlines more news here on al-jazeera after inside story. the united states navy is reviving its second feed to the children north atlantic ocean washington says it's to counter a growing threat from russia but what does this call war rhetoric mean and how will moscow respond this is inside story. hell

the concern was if south vietnam was overtaken by the communists in the north, that laos and cambodia would soon follow. notionctrine was -- that was inspired in part by what had happen in eastern europe right after world war ii where governments, especially in central and eastern europe had direct soviet occupation. the concern in east asia was it might come out through who might guerillas take over. who was arming the north vietnamese? guest: they were heavily armed by china. the soviet union and china were competing for greater influence and not vietnam, worried about the north vietnamese because they could play off -- play them off against each other. host: it's late what was happening and how that is relevant to what we are seeing today. korea, they had again, they could play both sides against the middle. they had patrons in china, but at the same time, they were always doing their own thing. they seized an american ship. host: what happened to their? guest: what happened was the pueblo was on a spy mission in what we would consider international waters. in january of 1968 was t