linking east asia, south asia, east africa, and actually west africa as well. africa has lots of natural resources, it's got great agricultural potential, it's got a lot of poverty; it needs to start speeding up which it's doing, but there's a lot of fragility. one should understand also africa will definitely play a larger role in the world simply by the fact of demography; the share of africa in the world's total population and in the world's economy will grow and asia's first to recognise that in a serious way because there's lots of asian investment going into africa right now. that's what's giving africa a lift; i think africa could make a takeoff out ofpoverty. but when you talk about fragility of the natural environment you've got to rank africa wayup there; heat stress, drought vulnerability, loss of vital habitat. africa faces all of those challenges. >>and lastly, since we're in indonesia. you've written a paper; 'the curse of natural resources'. here we are in indonesia; a country full of natural resources. i think you're fairly bullish on indonesia,

asia especially east asia is quite worried about for sure asians in currencies and therefore they are also worried about. their currencies being forced to appreciate because of the crisis since most of these countries have very substantial foreign seems reserves especially china japan and to a lesser extent india and these big scene three services are very much concentrated on the u.s. dollar denominated assets so day they have to think their strategy of investing their foreign exchange reserves but at the moment they can't do much because obviously they are under political and economic pressure not to withdraw from the american capital assets markers to create the temptation of course is to use their heart currencies their research to even invest saw that the in terms of acquisitions of enterprises in terms of acquisitions of our natural resources like oil natural gas. and so on well with all that pressure and from your perspective what's more beneficial for asia and with or without the euro. these countries in the long term certainly would like to have their currencies being accepte

then in east asia eight or nine dozen years ago, domesticated, entirely independently. some time earlier than 10,000 years ago we had the domestication in beginning. that is a very surprising domestication i haven't looked, but if you're interested, an experiment in super organism development. just see how very different the outcomes are across these different regions. you might think that that p&g super organism is insignificant, but no super organism is insignificant in terms of human endeavor. this particular one here give us the most valuable crop on earth today which happens to be sugarcane. domesticated in the mountains of new guinea. 10,000 years ago on an island to . the americans had to separate independent developments of agriculture, both much later than the others. 5,000 years ago in these cases. but with the very large number of economic species being developed today. and when i looked at these organisms, it is almost as if we have links within us, the capacity to do this. almost a blueprint. it is like the ens. almost like a blueprint for super orgasms, or

species in east asia with declining.o these things for a day in and no one know initially what caused the end there is very little interest in it. it turned out that the studies were done but who is this chemical that causes kidney failure and dishes 1% and you will lose all those deductions. it's as simple as that. i had a big impact on one particular group in india, the party people exposed the towers of silence. and it's a very environmentally friendly way of disposing of the dead. you just exposed the body in the top of the shower and train in the dead person is recycled into a living being within just a few days. but the demise of the cultures, the bodies weren't being recycled and they were very influential people in the state to educate and banned the use for petroleos, but almost no impact because if it is a cow do i get the definite unimpeded to the cow. it took a much deeper engagement to get these out of cattle. and what happened is a number of ngos now offer alternative trouts and subsidies for alternative dr

we're looking at the weather in east asia and we are still talking about that seasonal rain front that continues to produce a lot of moisture below it. it did bring quite a bit of heavy rain to japan yesterday and is continuing to be active today and across the country. still unstable conditions. so while the widespread persistent rain has eased, there's still the chance of stronger storms especially in the morning hours. you do want to watch out for periodic heavy downpours. as we head into the later part of the day, it will start getting wet again in southern portions of the country. then the same rain front will bring more rain towards the central side of china as well and remain heavy in towards inland areas of the country. looks like it may intensify again today. northeast china, more showers are going to be spreading and moving on in today. for the southeast, showers and thunderstorms will prevail across much of the philippines. tuesday's highs up to 31 in tokyo. 35 in beijing. and 38 degrees. high heat that you do want to take care if you are going to be out and about. now over

[laughter] >> but i've been astonished by the reaction in east asia generally new york china and japan and korea. i think it's because there is a great hunger for engagement with big ethical questions, questions of political philosophy. >> stephen: let's talk about these ethical questions. you pose very hard ethical questions to your students, questions like cannibalism. how do you pose that question? >> well, if you were stuck in a lifeboat, and this is a true story, stuck in a lifeboat, four sailors, they're starving, days and days pass and the cabin boy is at the bottom of the lifeboat ill. the only way they feel they can survive, the three others, is to kill and eat the cabin boy. would that be the right thing to do? >> stephen: is he well marbled? >> that's terrible. >> stephen: you need to know if he's delicious. [laughter] >> that's awful. >> stephen: yes, absolutely. [laughter and applause] it's your question. it never occurred to me to eat the cabin boy. you're the one who said, that guy over there is easy prey. who is the sick one here. so i would say no, it's not right. >> w

. >> a look at your weather for east asia. we are looking at the tropical storm that is heading away from asia. it is a nice conditions least hopefully now. the storm is still with us, severe tropical storm storm level and continues to bull over south. in the islands on the outer edges of japan but it looks like it could be towards the north again. continuing to maintain slow speed. still parts here will be feeling some of the affects throughout the day today. so high waves, stronger wind are possible. looks like a little bit of rain hanging around as well. also looking at showers, looking to impact the north east corner of china, quite a bit of upper level cold air in places making things settled. out west another low front developing. near that heavy rain is going to be possible at times. nothing lasting too long but you do want to watch out for torrential downpours. this tropical storm about taiwan and into the philippines as well as the indio china peninsula. in beshing it is looking hot. tokyo coming in at 24 degrees with

we are keeping an eye on east asia. really showing that bunch of clouds here from our typhoon ma-on heading towards japan. meanwhile looking on scattered showers also for eastern china today. some areas looking at the chance of a 52 to 100 millimeters accumulation. especially in towards the south looking at the pink showing up here and there. you may see heavier showers develop today. plus looking more intense in parts of mirimar and bangladesh. as for highs on monday, 33 in manila. chongqing will hit 36 degrees. quite hot. tokyo in at 29. and looking at temperatures in the 20s, that's been about to weeks of upper 30s. so it's been hot the past couple weeks. over towards europe meanwhile, lots of clouds here rotating in and over the north sea. we've had a develop low impacting the british isles. it's been moving in towards norw norway. southern norway will feel winds as well as showers. but the unsettled weather will last here the next couple days. in towards eastern europe, a long rain band forming today. then a new ro

which half of it goes to their families back in either pakistan, india, or somewhere in south or east asia. >> jack, were you taking pictures? >> yeah, we weren't allowed to go into the camps, so companies that -- the companies that the workers work for, they have tight regulations. they will not allow outsiders to come in, this is especially true for media. so we were only allowed to take photos from the outside, but the impressions i got were that they were just run down, or they were in various states of disrepair, and they were definitely -- they looked cramped. you had like this air conditioner that's going 24 hours a day, they would hang their laundry out to dry, and they barely have any free time. >> sounds like very difficult conditions. let me ask you, how does this relate to what farm workers here in california and around the nation deal with? >> well, that's what was most striking to me about the video, just watching the situation in due pay, it's almost exactly like how they are in california. just like in dubai, a lot of farm workers are forced to sleep in very cramped environ

we're looking at the weather in east asia. we're talk act the seasonal front that produces moisture right below it. heavy rain to japan yesterday, and it's still continuing to be pretty active again today, and really across the country, still very unstable conditions. so while the widespread persistent rain has eased, there's still going to be the chance of some stronger thunderstorms, especially in the morning hours. they could pop-up anywhere, so you do want to watch out for periodic heavy downpours that could develop very quickly. as we head into the later part of the day, it will start getting wet again in southern portions of the country, and then that same rain front will bring you more rain towards the central slice of china as well. and remaining heavy in towards inland areas of the country. looks like it may really intensify again today. northeast china, more showers are going to be spreading and moving on in today from the southeast, showers and thunderstorms will prevail across much of the philippines. now for tempe

east asia be more t-tango, more secure, more safe, leaving it up to the chinese, russians and japaneseclicks will europe be more for your safe living in a to the germans and russians once again? is the middle east reads that really reaching a tranquility of four massive nation and imperialism of the united states? we are not a perfect nation. we have made mistakes, but my eloquent debate partner has committed the fallacy of moral equivalent. for all the problems of the united states, for all the mistakes we made, american power is central to any decent game of provisional just to. and the 20th century and in the foreseeable future. [applause] >> now we have time for questions from the audience. if anyone is a question, there's a microphone right here directly in front of me. just why not.

now, we're still talking about all of the rain that has been impacting east asia, and we still have thatsonal rain front very active, and right now towards the western end of it we do have this low pressure area that has formed, and it's still bringing very heavy rains and near its center that's where some of the heaviest rains have been found these past few days. it's gradually now moving toward the southeast, moving away from some of those well-saturated areas in and around the sichuan province. so that at least is good news. but still, now more toward southeast corner of china, that is, that's where you're going to start seeing those heavy rains develop. so here you do want to keep an eye out on all of that rain. northeast china as well stays very wet. unsettled weather will continue. showers popping up here and there. the korean peninsula is also looking pretty wet today, and as will japan. japan has been seeing some very heavy rains this whole week. it's once again today across the country showers are developing, and he wiwe may see heavier rai the north. quake affected areas you mi

the agreements came on friday when the ministers from the east asia summit mitt met in bali, indonesia. they discussed issues including territorial disputes. this year's gathering included united states and russia as official members for the first time. japan's foreign minister stressed that the eas should confirm common reasonable principles and rules and cooperate with each other in the area of maritime security. each country should comply with the laws. referring to the guidelines adopted by china and ace ya, matsumoto says he welcomes the move and hopes the legally binding code of conduct will begin at an early date. >>> a series of asean meetings continued in the indonesian area on friday. patchari raksawong is there with the latest. >> reporter: we saw a significant development regarding the stalemate of the career peninsula. the first between north and south korea between two years and seven months took place at the sidelines of the asean meeting. both countries agreed to work toward restarting the stalled six-party talks. south korean chief negotiator wi sung lac and ri yong ho

let's look at the weather in east asia first off. plenty of rain to talk about.ortheast china looking at the low pressure area that's been spreading showers. right below that we have the seasonal rain front today bringing rain towards the korean peninsula and into southeast china looking at the band forming here. looking wetter in parts of the korean peninsula and towards japan, heavier rain it is heading into northern sections of the country over the course of today. and down to the south, too, more rain coming up as well. that is pretty unsettled across the board here. as for temperatures on friday, 34 in beijing. 33 in hong kong. looking quite warm still. seoul, 27 for you. getting up to 33 in tokyo. it is going to be getting hot again today. over towards the americas, meanwhile, looking at the bright white cluster of clouds starting to develop, getting organized in the pacific, it is a tropical depression and a tropical storm in the making as well. within the next 24 hours or so, we could see this strengthen further into a tropical storm. luckily or hopefully

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. >> and welcome back to your weather update now for east asia. still dealing with the seasonal rain front. it's long. it stretches right across the area. up towards the central china inland areas here. we have a low developing too. it's getting very, very intense here. rainfall has been really heavy for the past couple of days. and it continues again today. you can see the pinks showing up. so a wide area will be picking up on that intense amount of rainfall. flooding has been reported. look like the situation will remain pretty serious for another day at least. showers will still also continue along, really, this frontal boundary. it's going to be bringing some wet weather towards the southern end of korean peninsula as well as in towards japan. southern japan first off today will see heavy rain possible, an then this heavy rain moves up more towards the central sections of the course of the day. it has been unsettled the past couple of days in japan. heavy downpours have been popping up across the country. there have been some strong gust. look

they think that korea would be in the extreme leap powerful player if it soonish fired the north east asia they prefer sayings as they stand at the moment as long as u.s. doesn't have full spectrum dominance ideas of trying to control the yellow sea so you know what you can see that you know there's problems going to look like missiles between everywhere. that's asia times correspondent speaking right there where you are with r.t. and on the way why have one when you can have many but a growing number of russian women desperate to tie the knot some are willing to accept being wife number two or even a wife number three. norway's prime minister says his country will remain an open society in time more processions for the victims of friday's twin terrorist attack have been hell throughout the nation over a hundred thousand gathered in the capital to mark the deaths of seventy six people flowers and candles were used to commemorate those massacred in the shooting at an island youth camp and the bombing of a government building in oslo the man who admitted the atrocities has been charged with

military needs justification to maintain its troops in the north east asia region so that it can pursue its real interest which is to contain china's expansion of power in the region and also to continue to sell its weapons systems and demonizing north korea as an axis of evil country conveniently provides that kind of justification the u.s. has been trying to strengthen its alliances with south korea and japan increasing military exercises in the region building missiles at defense systems and inextricably inextricably linked gains south korean japan and weapon systems with its own. but the reality is north korea does not provide a threat to south korea or the u.s. and the reality also is that the u.s. and south korea are facing an economic crisis where their tax dollars can be better spent on rebuilding their domestic economies than on provocative war games that have already cost us lives on the korean peninsula last year there is one thing that distinguishes north korea from other nuclear weapons states in the world and that is that it is the only country that has said that it's will

country's credit rating could be done grading lawmakers fail to raise america's debt ceiling as more east asia plunged deeper into an economic crisis with italy becoming the latest country to possible stores in russia. and one hundred thirteen bodies have now been recovered from the water off to sunday's pleasure cruise a disaster on the volga river while god was continuing efforts to find around twenty still missing. i'll be back with an update on those stories in fifteen minutes from now meantime as hacking attacks go global and you're looking for new ways to make computer systems safe and also you know talks to security software mogul guinea aspirin ski shares his views on the issue and that interview is up next here on our team. thank you very much for being with us today so i was just wondering did you or do you personally know of someone who is directly personally involved in cyber crime. in the hole because we are great far from these people would keep her away a good distance. because they're working with the side of police departments and different countries so renauld these are the b

north east asia they prefer sayings as they stand at the moment and as long as u.s. business full spectrum dominance ideas of trying to control the yellow sea so. you can see that you know there's problems going away like that. and gave it our let's not talk more a little more about the u.s. and south korean cooperation which you mentioned a little earlier and as we know the whole joint military men a risk on a regular basis so in your opinion a lot of thing did. more harm or get. more harm and that's going to be a huge military exercise next month's in fact made almost involving the ends of thousands of south korean troops and computer games and welter of high tech u.s. military technology so what are north koreans doing to preempt what is going to happen in august dear are holding their own military exercises this week in fact and yesterday by the way there was a very significant visit by came showreel and his son probably heir. he's the youngest son the went to the marine corps met in pyongyang yesterday this is something very unusual. will be following this throu

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now is to use western technologies to regain our positions in her country markets such as south east asia africa and south america or the soviet union and russia traditionally had strong positions after all let's face it we are not welcome in europe or in north america whatever new technologies we might have unfortunately the social demand has changed a lot we are planning a number of steps aimed at popularizing space exploration and revive a great public interest awarded priorities in life i'll use and russia have changed i remembered a baikonur launch site in soviet times everybody working there enjoyed first rate supplies and high salaries at least everyone who serve there how to carve and you nothing about the deficit of basic commodities that the entire country was suffering from. those employed in the space industry where the cost of the chosen ones today this cost is different with a different part of the area therefore it's hard to work out of populism and patriotism alone today's society is more pragmatic i can see it even on my own kids are third task is to compute. the glow on

reunification they see that that korea would be in the stream lead later if it soonish find the north east asia they prefer sayings as they stand at the moment as long as u.s. doesn't have full spectrum dominance ideas of trying to control the yellow sea so you know what you can see that you know there's problems going like that below missiles. are let's not talk more a little more about the u.s. and south korean cooperation which dimensional area and as we know they hold joint military menorahs quite off on a regular basis so in your opinion why do they do. more harm or get. more harm when there's going to be a huge military exercise next months in fact made august involving dance of thousands of south korean troops and computer games and ultra high tech u.s. military technology so watered in north koreans doing. to preempt what is going to happen in august day are holding their own military exercises this week in fact and yesterday by the way there was a very significant by came joel and his son and probably a fair. he's the youngest son they went to the marine commanding pyongyang yesterday

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if we talk about east asia at all, we generally are discussing our economic situation as it portends to the future, especially with china. but i would like to make a strong point here today and that is if we don't get it right with our relations in east asia, we are in very, very serious trouble as a nation. and it is vitally important for the united states to continue to invigorate our relations with all the countries in east and southeast asia on a economic, security, and cultural levels. and today i'd like to just talk about a few of these issues that are affecting our relations in that part of the world. this weekend, mr. president, there will be a regional forum for the asean countries in bali. our secretary of state will be there. this for forum is coming at a pivotal moment with respect to our relations in southeast asia and the rest of east asia. the recent provocations by china, military provocations in the philippines and in vietnam and the south china sea, which this body passed a resolution deploring, affect the mood of the entire region at this mome moment. there also ha

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