i mentioned the original spillover of hiv occurred in southeastern cameroon. i went there to retrace it was probably the reader to coming out of south eastern down a river system that took it along this on the river to the main strand congo and into the cities of brazzaville and leopoldville. it's a city where it really started to have a higher rate of transmission. population is more concentrated. other factors that are described in my long chapter on hiv and it began to crackle in what became kinshasa to haiti and the world. so i went to southeastern cameroon to see what i can learn about the state of human relations that chimpanzees there now, whether people were still killing and eating chimpanzees and therefore exposing themselves to other spillovers of viruses that became hiv. it's true they are. i heard from sort of a confidential source about a practice, a book while a tribal initiation prank is, which involves some ritual and include the eating of chimpanzee arms, so people are still exposing themselves to the viruses should pansies carry. and in one

by cameroon right. thank you you're welcome pal sometimes it demanding change on a large scale has to start with small groups of individuals saying enough is enough like this group of individuals and western massachusetts who gather in an attempt to stop the bank of america from executing yet another foreclosure. thanks it's. a lack of government regulations gave banks enough rope to operate like cowboys in the wild west and they responded by lassoing homeowners with these predatory lending practices when the housing bubble burst bank of america got bailed out and those with underwater mortgages were sold out so that c.e.o.'s like brian moynihan could collect the year end bonus of over nine million dollars a week lou with that they have enough money to pay for a reasonable war gauge at today's values so this is something that all of can stand behind we believe that when folks have you know a hall and that they should be able to stay in that home and it's not like they're not willing to pay this is the w

. >> cameroon. >> egypt. >> get your spot.ood, swing it. >> reporter: that is mark hughes, director of scouting for the new york knicks. this is his fourth year volunteering as a coach here. what do you think the kids get out of it? >> they have heart, passion, they play hard. what they don't have is a spot of great construction. guys, when we say attack, we want you to drive the ball to the basket. >> reporter: are you here as a coach or a scout? >> both. >> reporter: so, will you go back and say, hey, there are a couple of guys here we have to -- >> absolutely. >> good shot, boy. >> reporter: just ask luc mbah a moute. he was at the first of these nba camps in africa. >> good shot, good shot. >> nice cut and a deep catch by mbah a moute. >> reporter: today, he makes almost $5 million as a player with the milwaukee bucks. he's one of six basketball without borders graduates now playing with the nba. >> for kids, they have the right to stay kids, you know? and basketball brings them back to that stage, you know, going through

the ground so i mean we don't know exactly what's going to happen but we we do have indications cameroon the prime minister of england right after the election the reelection of obama was talking about a new plan for syria does that mean that they're going to do something in syria you know more probably more military aid again we don't know again this is something that's dividing them they just cannot see a clear policy from obama towards the middle east assad just said he's not going to stop that i mean he's going to die there just like gadhafi and we heard them talk about the no fly zones there's a lot of talk a lot of rhetoric being thrown around so it'll be very interesting to see how that plays out. let's talk about palestinian statehood palestine a seeking of statehood israel building settlements you know twelve hundred. completely just has unabashed lawlessness just moving forward with these settlements do you think anything is going to change now that obama is reelected i mean a lot of people are hopeful thinkin o. maybe now that he doesn't have one eye on the elections. election

prior to joining the foreign service, ambassador hill served as peace corps volunteer in cameroon. he graduated with a ba in economics, received a masters degree from the naval war college in 1994. ladies and gentle and i would just like to take a moment to recognize these gentlemen for all the work they have done for the united states in asia and around the world. so if we could just give them a round of applause. [applause] >> we are going to have a little bit of the conversation about different issues in asia, and i will start with a few questions. will then go to the audience later on in the hour to entertain your questions as well. so gentlemen, the first question i'd like to start with is a question about asia as a strategic priority. and the question i would ask is, as assistant secretary of state for east asian and pacific affairs, each of you were among our country's highest-ranking policymakers on issue. and so in retrospect, i would ask him what was your biggest challenge? aside from the brutal travel schedule. what was your biggest challenge making policy, in particular

ambassador will serve as a peace corps volunteer in cameroon. he graduated from bowdoin college.nt gentleman, i would like to take a moment to recognize these gentlemen for all the work they have done for the united states in asia and around the world, so if you could just give them a round of applause. [applause] we will have a conversation about different issues in asia, and i will start with a few questions. we will then go to the audience later on to entertain your questions as well. gentlemen, the first question i would like to start with is a question about asia as a strategic priority. the question i would ask is, as assistant secretary of state for east asian and pacific affairs, each of you or among our country must highest-ranking policy makers on asia. in retrospect, i would ask, what was your biggest challenge aside from the prado travel schedule? what was the biggest challenge in making policy and how did your president view asia as a strategic priority? >> thank you to georgetown. i see so many friends around the audience, and it is great to be with such distinguish

when he said country c, he meant either chad or cameroon. wasn't -- [laughter] it's not where you're thick. [laughter] thinking. >> i'll start at least and then let others pile in here. the question here is, and you could argue this in the abstract forever, and we have, and justice has struggled with what is an act of war well beyond nonkinetic activities like cyber into kinetic activities, there is no heart. it's in the eyes of the beholder. so the question is for the country, what are those things that you believe put us at risk as a nation, as an institution and and a government, and when do we cross that line, what are the scenarios that lead up to that such that a group of people -- your cabinet and your people and your congress -- come to some understanding that, in fact, this is something we have to act on? you're in an area where there's not a lot of precedent here. but, quite frankly, even if there was like there is on the kinetic side, it's not an even playing field. we've had airplanes knocked out of the sky, we've had ships taken