and that was elizabeth bakker now let's get a quick check of some other stories making news around the world c.n.n. reporter jim acosta has had his press credentials restored after a federal judge ordered the trumpet ministration to reinstate them acosta was banned last week after clashing with the president during a press conference c.n.n. sued the government claiming press freedom had been violated. at least forty two people have been killed in a bus accident in zimbabwe twenty others were injured some with severe burns police have not given details but local media are reporting that a gas cylinder explosion may be the cause of the bus was reportedly traveling to neighboring south africa the incident follows another deadly bus accident in zimbabwe last week when fifty people were killed in a collision. and i comic swimming pool painting by british legend david hockney has sold for ninety point three million dollars in new york the winning bid at christie's auction house set a new record for a living artist's hocking painted the work called portrait of an artist pool with two figures

award winning journalist elizabeth bakker experienced cambodia under pol pot she told us why she felt compelled to testify in this trial. i saw a country that was emptied of society i lived there during the war and was shocked that the streets were empty the people were gone there were no markets there was no life there was no pick go to go to us were empty shops were closed schools were closed there is no music there is nothing and then you go into the country to the labor camps and i was under serious government guard so they didn't let me poke around any more than allowed but it was what was missing that was so horrible the people were living in work camps they did not look good and i was shown what was supposed to be a model camps still once they were all the c'mere which were overthrown i was shocked and horrified by all that was hidden from me the torture centers the killing fields now the record is straight there was witnesses corroborating every aspect of the starvation then forced labor the rapes the forced marriages the the the murder it's all on the record now and that's it

and you spoke earlier with award winning journalist elizabeth bakker who was a reporter in cambodia during the camera this reign of terror her book when the war was over is one of the leading accounts of what was one of the last century's worst crimes against humanity. she was also caught called on as an expert witness for the prosecution at the cameras trial we asked her how important the trial was. oh it's critical i can imagine cambodian history or this is siding without this trial and without the final verdict that said yes this was genocide as you noted it would spend forty years it took decades to finally get this trial because it could have impinged on so many world powers so that cambodians no longer have to worry that that what they went through was their imagination there were many deniers will this is a joint you when cambodian trial this is the cambodian government is led by who and sent who's a former mid-level c'mere was contrary he did not want the trial and it took a lot of political will on the part of the u.n. to come up with a compromise then you it was in the country th