the united states europe and japan which is in contrast to pick from other parts of cambodia the cambodian pepper industry is growing quickly but outside this region it has a problem it's competing with and to a large extent relying on its neighbor vietnam which is the largest producer of pepper in the world because of a lack of infrastructure and investment most cambodian paper is sent across the border through middlemen for processing cutting into farmers slim profits the cambodian government is promising to invest more in facilities and marketing as an example it's looking to the success of campout which has benefited from foreign investment and is largely self-sufficient when it comes to processing it's also been immune from the price slump caused by oversupply that seen the price of black paper fall by around sixty percent to below three dollars a kilogram camp or prices have remained stable as high as twenty eight dollars a kilo still last year the regional so produced more than it could sell the industry leaders say don not concerned about low prices spreading to their products pric

on cambodians detained off position neither is denied bail again why his detention is worrying some rights groups. welcome back as we look at weather conditions around the levant and western parts of asia is this area of clay which is most significant moving in from the west now this is going to be producing some very heavy rain across parts of turkey syria and through iraq and probably iran to some stage so some stormy conditions flash flooding is certainly a risk and that continues to be head on through into weapons day run these aside the med looking fine there was beirut twenty two degrees celsius but there a cloud actually will extend into northern parts of saudi arabia during the course of chews day with temperatures still up into the forty's there for riyadh here in doha it's looking pretty warm thirty eight degrees as a high numbers change ahead through into wednesday and on the other side of the printer slightly cooler conditions there for medina thirty four degrees should be very pleasant day that is a southern portions of africa and it's looking generally fine for many areas we

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 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 part he was banned and. most people used to support my party in this area told me that if there is no national rescue party in the election they want to go to. the party headquarters which is owned by another former leader sam rainsy has been seized by the court which may sell it unless he pays a million dollar fine for defaming the prime minister when sam rainsy has. called on cambodians to boycott the election there has been international condemnation of the deteriorating situation here with forty five countries signing a letter calling for the opposition to be reinstated and for

called on cambodians to boycott the election there has been international condemnation of the deteriorating situation here with forty five countries signing a letter calling for the opposition to be reinstated and for kim to be freed while the united states and the european union have withdrawn funding for july's votes the government says it isn't concerned about the criticism and words intervene in the judicial process they can voice but it best not the flag of the spirits of all people of those countries so it would still be negative on earth today but the future they will come back to earth is no more. the grassroots party has already faced intimidation with signs and banners taken down in some places apparently by government supporters but in a way and new political force may be exactly what the government needs a strong opposition to give the election some credibility but becoming too strong may also come with risk when hey al jazeera phnom penh the unveiling of a statue of karl marx sparked both celebration on protests in the german city of tree or sculpture marks two hundred years si

that is what this is all about it's about stamping out any significant opposition to the ruling cambodian people's party in that election there's also over the past year and a half been a significant crackdown on independent media in cambodia 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 a

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 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 and -- estimation in telling the good on 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. >> human academic historians -- you mean academic experience? -- 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 historians is you would not get a balanced. -- i think you get a sense it was particularly balanced in the end. it really did represent a

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 q 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 international rescue party in the election they want to go to. the party headquarters which is owned by another former leader sam rainsy has been seized by the court which may sell it unless he pays a million dollar fine for defaming the prime minister when sam rainsy has called on cambodians to boycott the election there has been international condemnation of the deteriorating situation here with forty five countries signing a letter calling for the opposition to be reinstated. and f

people might be confused as to what the link might be, how does this have anything to do with cambodiannvolved in running a paper from the 19905 called the cambodia time5, from the 19905 called the cambodia times, and different articles make a link between the owner of the largest ca5ino link between the owner of the largest casino in cambodia and that paper. there have also been link5 between the investor and a big malaysian politician, a paper that he ran in the past who was widely seen to be in his favour, and there were, you know, concerns about blogging and forestry lo55 were, you know, concerns about blogging and forestry loss in malaysia, which is a big issue in cambodia a5 malaysia, which is a big issue in cambodia as well. another key point to bring up was, before the new owner, the investor, joined asia pr, it had represented the government in something that is listed on their track record, on their website, and so it was concerning to us. we were promised editorial independence, and then all of a sudden our new owner as all these linked to companies that have links to the cam

that is what this is all about it's about stamping out any significant opposition to the ruling cambodian people's party in that election there's also over the past year and a half been a significant crackdown on independent media in cambodia 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 i

. >> that paper was sold to a malaysian businessman with reported ties to the cambodian president. this businessman has vowed to protect the editorial independence of the paper. that is what the post is reporting. 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 so

we had an awesome candidate, maya, who is cambodian, and that really expanded my understanding of the asian american community in the u.s. it's so diverse, yeah. >> lan, when you told your mom that you were gonna run for city council, what did she say? and then what was the reaction like from your family and friends when you actually won? because you won by 12 votes. is that correct? >> i did. my mother's reaction initially was, "are you serious?" [ laughter ] and i ran in 2015. i lost by 13. i ran again in 2016. i won by 12 against the same person who beat me the first time. so it's an ordeal, but i think generally asian parents, at least vietnamese parents, don't encourage their kids to go into politics. you know, they encourage their sons and daughters to become pharmacists, doctors, engineers, lawyers even. but in the case of vietnamese americans, their political history has been to be disappointed by government, to be wary of government. and so they don't want to see their kids move into that field. and i think that's a common thread i hear among vietnamese americans, perhaps asi

north korean possessing cambodian passports and traveling around the world. no government stops the activity effectively. dialogue, thethe international community has never been good at implementing effective sanctions, so this relates to the future of the regime. it's not only about north korea but how do we take control of risk of the verging many commercial quantities of technology? no country in the world has been good. i see no good examples and this is going to be an issue. >> this is basically for frank. supposing mr. kim says he cannot era, thata post trump the united states would agree he may sayreement, that he needs something from congress which would guarantee a continuance in the post trump era. giving the human rights situation in north korea, with the congress agree? >> wow. i served for 15 years in the staff of the senate relations committee and worked with brownback to help drafting north korean human rights act. with amnesty international, i work to shine a spotlight on north korea's human rights abuses. business your care about deeply. i th

years, so we've served thousands of filipinos, thousands of asian americans, all of whom were -- cambodians, all asian americans that were targeted by this man. and so i just want to urge, i just want to stress that our neighborhood in soma has a few parks that we utilize. over the summer, our summer programs worked together, and we go to various parks because we don't have a lot of open space. so the thought of our kids going to this park and asking who is this man, and us promoting that is so psychologically terrifying to send a message to our kids about that. so stand in support for this and really urging that we move forward. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is sandy morey, and i'm here as an individual who's active in the japantown community and japanese community as a whole. i'm supporting the resolution that spree yee has put forward and supported by supervisor ronen. my understanding is the rec and park commission has the authority to remove the name from the playground, and so according to -- to according to its policy, this commission may change the name of an ex

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 fothose whe land i beinlaid wte, whose homes are being destroyed, whose cultur

north korean agents possessing cambodian passports and traveling around the world and no governments of these people can act effectively so regardless of the dialogue, the international committee as little as enforcing infection sanctions. so this relates to the future of the nonproliferation regime. it's not only north korea but how do we control the risk of divergence on many commercial commodities or technologies or governing? >> no country in the world has been good at, i see no good examples of discharge and this is going to be the issue. >> .. >> do we need something from a compass which would guarantee basically the continuance in the post trump era? >> given the human rights situation in north korea would the congress agree? >> wow, david. i mean, i served for 15 years on the step of the senate foreign relations committee and i worked closely with senator brownback on that committee to updraft north korean human rights act. and amnesty international i worked to try to shine a spotlight on north korea's grotesque human rights abuses. it's an issue i care deeply about personall

i found myself at an loc on the border up against the cambodian border with about 4,500 south vietnamese and 15 or 20 other advisers. and we found ourselves surrounded by 5,000 vietnamese. there hl therein the battle. during the course of that, i was wounded twice. i came home. and then went on to a full military career. retired at fort leavenworth after serving in panama, japan, journal germany again. before you ask me, i will go ahead and tell you, i think the history is right. if i have a problem with that, is that those, like the people you see on this panel, who went, did their job as best they could, as honorably as they could, and came home proud of their service, i don't think that story was told in the series. and i've told ken burns that and also lynn novak. and i've known 'em for about eight years now. so with that, we'd like to open the floor to questions. i would ask you to raise your hand and i would ask you to wait until they get you a microphone. you can address it to the whole panel or an individual as you see fit. in the front here please. wait, we'll get you -- i'm sor