station in hanoi. he emphasized the significance of the national assembly. >> translator: the national assembly will realize the wishes of the people namely to exercise its right to make law and its right to make important decisions about the fate of the country. >> reporter: the assembly has been criticized as little more than a carbon copy of the ruling communist party. it was in authority in 2001 when it was given the power to dismiss the president and prime minister. in this election, 827 candidates contested 500 seats. about 100 challengers came from the world of business. more than in any previous election. vietnam's economy has been growing almost 7% a year, but problems have emerged including a budget deficit and rapid inflation. at issue is the number of seats run by entrepreneurs giving them the opportunity to shape overseas and open up the economy. 15 candidates were self-nominated, with no support from the government or communist party. in the parliament, more than 90% controlled by the par

finance ministers from japan, china, and south korea joined the discussions in hanoi, vietnam, on wednesday. japan's finance minister noda briefed the participants on the passage of the first supplementary budget on monday aimeda the rebuilding the regions hit hard. he also noted that some countries imposed restrictions on food from japan in the aftermath of the accident at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant. he called on the countries to respond calmly and base their actions on scientific evidence. a joint statement released at the end of the meeting highlighted the risks the march 11 disaster may have on the asian economy. but indonesia's finance minister who chaired the talks told reporters that the participants unanimously agreed that the japanese economy will soon return to a full-fledged recovery path, despite the disaster. >>> a sendoff ceremony for thai doctors and nurses headed for disaster hit fukushima prefecture was held in bangkok on wednesday. japan's ambassador to thailand told those attending the ceremony at the japanese ambassador's residence that he believes the med

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. >> rose: what did you think of secretary clinton's speech in hanoi? >> i thought it was good. she put on-- she drew the red line. -- it must go by the law of the sea not just brute force. >> rose: the chinese are so up set that we have -- >> they produced an old map. >> rose: that said these are ours, navigational rights within and sheame in and said -- >> you go b the law of the sea. whh means where is neares to-- . >> rose: exactly. but here's an interesting question. some people looked at that and especially some chinese and said by going to hanoi and making that speech, it was an insult to us. >> no. i mean they would rather not have that speec made at all. >> rose: yeah, of urse. but it wasn't rubbing it into them, intoheir eyewitnesses supposing she made it in beijing. would that have made it less of a disappointment? >> rose: but was this also the united states saying to china, you are not going to cooperate with you at every turn. was it a message to china? >> well yes, of course. i think the chinese are aware that it is in the interest of the united stays and this con

she was in hanoi recently where she went down very well. she was the star of the show in many respects. it's possible if people decide they don't want to fight for this job, they'll congratulate her on her appointment. if it becomes a dogfight and the europeans and americans assert past privileges, that will poison the institution. >> thank you so much for coming in. >> thank you. >> nina? >>> a source tells cnn that dominique strauss-kahn sought the company of two female staff members at new york's hotel, one day before he allegedly forced himself on a chamber made there. the former imf chief is being indicted on seven charges of sexual misconduct. if he's convicted, strauss-kahn could face up to 25 years in prison. he was released on bail on friday and is bound by strict rules that amount to house arrest for him. >>> dominique strauss-kahn remains hid an way under tight security on new york's broadway, the world's media has been treated to nothing more than a resignation statement. however, cnn has gained exclusive access to a letter stra

. >>> here in hanoi, kids come to the streets hopen it would be better than poverty in the countrysidethings are worse here. ucan identify kids who are living and working on the streets. they may get detained by the authorities. they may get beaten up. there are gangs selling heroin. we're finding kids being tricked and sold into prostitution. and it was just a case of i can help so i should help. my nak is michael, i work in vietnam with street kids, trying to get them off the streets and back into school and into safe homes. when we started out, our goal was to get them back to school. to do that, we realized we would have to take that place of providing an income, food, providing the shelter. our center is where the kids know to come. this is where they feel safe. they can join in our activities. they can talk to the staff, and we have to make sure they're working toward education or getting a job or improving their health. we also have to be careful if the child has a family the family is as involved as possible. it's an amazing feeling getting to watch these kids go from being mal

john mccain, of course, who was a prisoner all those years in vietnam at the hanoi hilton, of course, was tortured many of those years, doesn't like torture. dianne feinstein is chair of the intelligence committee on the senate side and she doesn't like it. the bush people, as a group, say it works. i'm not for it. it looks like it is murky. your view? >> i'm somebody who is against torture but i don't think all coercive, harsh, stressful interrogation procedures are necessarily torture. i think what we know in this instance, or at least the evident is pretty strong is that harsh interrogation methods, particularly of khalid sheikh mohammed, and abu farah al libbi, gave the first information that led to the trail that led to bin laden. >> explain that, please. the nom de guerre. how did that help? they didn't know who he was. >> they had a nom de guerre and started with that, and then they had this is critical, a warrantless wiretapping of a phone call and they made a connection and eventually figured out who this courier was who was going to see osama bin laden in pakistan. once they

. >> here in hanoi, kids come to the streets hoping it will be better than living in the countryside,orse for them here. you can actually identify kids who are living and working on the streets. they may get detained by the authorities. there are gangs selling drugs. we'll finding kids being tricked and sold into prostitution. it was just a case of, i can help, so i should help. my name is michael. i work in vietnam with street kids, trying to get them off the streets and back into school and into safe homes. when we started out, our goal was just to get them back to school. to do that, we realized we would have to take that place of providing an income, food, providing the shelter. this is where the kids come, where they feel safe. they can join in our activities, talk to the staff and then we've got to make sure they're working towards education or getting a job. we've also get to be careful if the child has a family, that family is as involved as possible. it's an amazing feeling, getting to watch these kids go from being malnourished and lacking confidence to wanting to make a cha

but, ironically, i was sent to the philippines to welcome the pows home from hanoi. and so--so i just have--i'm unabashedly embarrassed by this--i have no feel for how watergate really tied the nation in such knots. c-span: how about vietnam? >> guest: i did two very early dilettante visits in 1965 and '66--very, very short, dilettante visits. and it didn't take more than that to realize that the country didn't have a particular sense of what it ultimately wanted to accomplish in vietnam. and when we--when we look at world--at america at the end of world war ii, with the sense that america would be the nation to save democracy, and you then look again--switch pan, as we say in television, to look at america in vietnam, not sure how to save democracy, if that's what it was all about. i think you get a really good sense of the dilemma that happens at the end of the century, too, as a result of vietnam. c-span: you dedicate your book to your father, charles jennings, who died... >> guest: and todd to his father. c-span: todd--i mean, your father died in--what?--1973? >>

at what level and were there any concerns from the issuance of last year outside of the policies in hanoi> it's an excellent question. thank you. i think it has been long hour intent to develop a dialogue with china on the emerging and frankly traditional security issues that involved not just traditional players in the foreign ministry but also other players in the government including the military and others, and it's our belief that the most effective way to deal with some of these the emerging problems and challenges is to ensure that we have crosscutting representation in some of these dialogues. earlier this year as you know secretary gates had a good visit in beijing and i think established our mill to will partnership relationship. the senior chinese official visiting washington in the coming weeks. i think our desire in this dialogue is given its importance to ensure key players in our military establishment hawaii, the commander of the forces, key players in the pentagon, and also senior players from the chinese general staff have the opportunity to interact with civilian counte

the current context is the domestic situation in vietnam, we've been very clear with our friends in hanoi this relationship, that we will have to see some further progress on the domestic environment as a whole. i find that the strategic interactions with our friends in vietnam are extraordinarily impressive and i think one of the things that we want to do is to make clear to vietnam of our desire and intention to improve this relationship going forward, based on their acknowledgment of some of the situations that they're facing domestically. in malaysia we've seen unprecedented process -- progress on a variety of issues beginning with nonproliferation but not ending there. we've worked closely on a whole host of bilateral initiatives, the president had an excellent meeting with the prime minister during a nuclear summit last year and i think this is a relationship that has traditionally underperformed and there is a recognition that working together the united states and malaysia can do more going forward as a whole. i'll turn to the last couple of countries as we conclude here. but with