this is a little present about a mile north of the hanoi hilton. at 13 cells, and i'm not sure why they left it empty. i think they probably forgot to include a couple of these guys in there. and they lived on these 11 guys lived for two years in nine by four-foot cells. so think about this. this is your world for 23 hours and 50 minutes a day. so nine feet is about -- that. this is about four feet. this is where those guys lived for two years. there were no windows. they would walk in this space. if they had enough energy, they didn't ge get very much foods on they couldn't even do push-ups or situps, or they were so banged up, so injured that they could neither. this was their world. all they had. they couldn't see out of it. it was cold in the winter and it was like a furnace in the summertime. they had nothing to do. so when i was writing this book i thought that the worst part about being a pow might be the torture. and when i told the guys writing this book, commander george coker said, why? it was boring. it back and he doesn't know what he'

and the hanoi hilton. they would be tried to tell you it was built in the late 1800's. the country was basically a colony. withheld vietnamese captives in the pow said you could hear the screams in of the agony of 70 years. they realize for their own experience the prisoners that could communicate to to keep in separate cells when they could. they realized this they needed a way to communicate so they cannot talk freely with one another. so they came up with the tax code. this was the lifeblood of the pow and vietnam's. fortunately they remembered this code from a coffee break conversation so bob shoemaker and others were together in the spring of 1965. they came up with us midi harris tap code who remembered from survival school. 25 letters of the alphabet we use the letter c for the letter k25 letters. if i would said ross terry of message but said would send the letter be. it is one of because it is in the first row and twice in the second column. my generation's sometimes thinks we had the abbreviated text messaging. no, no, no. they would say gn for a good night fo

it's the hanoi epitaph.t this time was living in a room that was probably six by eight, no one -- no windows, no ventilation. another guy from time to time. when days of dim hope and boredom abound and you have listened to the desperate sound of empty tap code conversation. when the heat is so hot and a cold so cold you think of your youth and how you have grown old, now live confined and lives los station. when the floor is furrowed by tired feet and legs lives away amid the pounding beat you tread on in the dark desolation. and the palm goes on for another ten or 15 verses that personal. it ends of when years have passed and many decembers and no one know this and no one remembers the sound of your forest the face or in an mosso you dream of steel chargers and scars to room mostly dreamed of just going home, but the dream without hope or conviction. well, a tap that through the walls to the guys. some time later they came back, edgy, and thanks a lot for the one. we have had a suicide pact killing on down

he is in hanoi at the moment.s echoing this russian idea that what is happening is unconstitutional. that said, he does still intend to attend the talks in geneva, which are aimed at trying to find a resolution. >> that is key. apart from the threat of eu economic sages, is there an indication of nato taking action if russia invades? >> there is, in fact. the u.s. air force general philip breedlove is nato's top military commander pretty he is likely to prevent -- present lance for nato to strengthen their position. troopsig deployment of that they want to send a message to nato members that they will be there for them and also send a message to moscow. >> thank you so much. tesco has had a tough past 12 months. the stock is down over 25%. what will it take to turn around? ♪ >> welcome back to on the move. i am francine lacqua. we are 30 minutes in be trading day so let's see how things are shaping up. this is the picture for the overall markets. we had a rally in the tech stocks yesterday in the u.s.. we also had

we'll be live in hanoi. ♪ >> japan dragging equities lower. and offerings missed the mark.he nikkei off the lows of the session. i think that index is at a two week low. >> stocks in japan are pulling things lower. shy of 14,300. look at the picture in japan. that's how it looks for the session. we are looking at yields on the 10 year. 61.9 to be exact. a few stocks we have been following, in terms of capital, structure, some changes as far as organizational structure is concerned. in april,g, starting that's the story with olympus. the story has been about share buybacks. they announced share buybacks friday and we are continuing to see gains. japan display. .t dropped to the lowest 13 and a half percent. let's switch gears and take a look at what is happening in australia. mining shares worth 1300. if you look at what is rising, it's sharp gold seeing fairly gains. fairly sharp gains because of this. >> thanks for that. stocks in vietnam have reached multi-year highs. the ipo market is in a slump. let's get the story from our bureau chief. why have they fallen so short? >

a hanoi-based company, before the ipo last month, date didn't hold a single investor meeting and they not even bother putting up a website. a month later, they still don't have a website. that is a typical experience that accounts for the very low target we are seeing. the ipo process in vietnam is rudimentary. they simply register with one of the stock exchanges and then hold an ipo through the auction process. that might be another reason why the market has not been very sophisticated with these ipos. >> putting the cart before the horse. why is there such a rush to ipo? recognizesrnment that they really need to reform the soe's. it's a really big piece of for vietnam. they have put an aggressive plan for fixing sales of 132 companies by the end of next year. so a lot of these companies feel an immense pressure to really get these initial offerings happening. but unfortunately, a lot of them don't feel very motivated or the structure is not there to make sure that these ipos are successful. the ipos do take up a lot -- the state companies do take up a lot of state resources and capi

is whether or not the plane really made a left turn after it left malaysian air space and contacted hanointrol. we have a report from an undocumented source from somewhere in malaysia from one radar. frankly, i discount this. >> you are not believing the data, the guy with the calculation of possibility of where the plane down, you don't believe that? >> well, i believe it's very difficult. it is not new math. it's a common processing technique, doppler signature. that tower is 23,000 miles up. they fly tangentially to that. to record cigsignatures of direction, very difficult. i frankly am skeptical. >> all right. rick, stick around. we want to talk more about this with our panel coming up right after a quick break along with the latest on the shooting in overland park, kansas, and the crisis in ukraine. all coming up after a very quick break. gunderman group is a go. yes! not just a start up. an upstart. gotta get going. gotta be good. good? good. growth is the goal. how do we do that? i talked to ups. they'll help us out. new technology. smart advice. we focus on the business and they

about what the civil aviation authorities in kuala lumpur did with their own defense ministry and with hanoi, with the ho chi minh air traffic control. >> peter, you're still under the strong assumption this was some criminal action by a person or a persons. not some sort of mechanical failure. >> i am. i think you can't explain the way the plane acted following the last signoff. so, if those facts are true, then it's got to be something in the cockpit and we don't know who or what. >> is that your assumption, miles? >> it's so hard to come up with mechanical scenario. even sabotage, small bomb. to have the sequence of failures, communication fail use all occur as they did and the way the flight path went, it's very hard to conjure it up. it's not impossible, but it's hard. >> that's what i'm hearing from u.s. sources. i'm wondering, rene, if you're hearing the same thing. certainly a tiny, tiny possibility of a catastrophic failure, but most likely some person was responsible for this disappearance. >> yeah, because, you know, the question just keeps on coming up, if it was mechanical, what

, and the panel following ours were -- was four p.o.w.s who spent more than five years each in the hanoiwere, in solitary confinement, often, tortured regularly, with no expectation of ever going home. and they were just fine. so this requires further examination. >> there's no doubt. general mccaffrey, colonel jacobs, you guys are going to stick with me. i want to quickly get in another break while we wait to hear the first comments from general ray odierno. so ally bank has a raise your rate cd that won't trap me in a rate. that's correct. cause i'm really nervous about getting trapped. why's that? uh, mark? go get help! i have my reasons. look, you don't have to feel trapped with our raise your rate cd. if our rate on this cd goes up, yours can too. oh that sounds nice. don't feel trapped with the ally raise your rate cd. ally bank. your money needs an ally. (music) defiance is in our bones. defiance never grows old. citracal maximum. calcium citrate plus d. highly soluble, easily absorbed. as a police officer, i've helped many people in the last 23 years, but i needed help in quittin

lavrov, the russian foreign minister is in hanoi at the moment. he is making a tour of east asia.on of the ukrainians trying to regaining the buildings in east ukraine are unconstitutional. he says he still plans to attend the geneva-ukraine peace lk

plant because he thought surely there's no way someone is going to get washed overboard and end up in hanoihilton. well, that's what happened. so doug hegnal was there. for a couple of reasons they thought he might get a chance to go home early. so dick stratton and couple of other commanders had him memorize the names of all the pows. so he did, over 200 names in his mind, but he couldn't say them soldier to basically have them to the tune of old macdonald had a farm, and would say this so fast they had to debrief them over several days so they could forget who all he was saying in his presentation. but it's an amazing story. for some families like the johnson family, the jenkins them and the rutledge family, they still didn't know if sam or how we for terri were a live. when doug got home in 1969, he brought the first word to those families that their husbands and fathers were still alive. good question. spent a question right behind you and then we will get to you. >> you talked about survival and how they survived in isolation. i'm sure you've heard about fred brinton and his way of sur

says hepeaking in hanoi plans to be in geneva tomorrow, that's the important thing.on is fluid in ukraine. reports of armored personal -- armored personnel carriers defecting to the rebel side and ,re now flying russian flags more about whether those reports are confirmed later. speaking in kiev, the ukrainian prime minister yatsenyuk site it has become clear that russia has decided to build a new berlin wall. he says russia has a new, ready for export in addition to oil and gas. he said that is terrorism. pretty inflammatory words. the important thing is that the russians turn up at the meeting tomorrow. president's acting turchynov says thousands of people have been deceived by russian propaganda. is a serious issue for the west and for ukraine. the sense of persecution some ukrainians are feeling. as a result, the united nations human rights office put out a 28 page report looking into these claims. they have concluded that actually the biggest human rights concern in ukraine is not threats to ethnic russians, but it is the exaggeration and distortion of facts and

he started bombing hanoi that day. it turns out the head of the cia was in the white house and heard that decision. but, john, the head of the cia knew that the cia had information that there was no attack that torpedoed the boats in the tonkin but he went ahead and made the decision ignoring the intelligence to bomb north vietnam. now i thought maybe we should have bombed it, i felt. but he has the power, so it is his nickel. now, policymakers depend on the intelligence in practically every case. i don't think that there's any problem with them being ignored anymore. intelligence has improved to the point that it credible now. thank goodness. >> i have to turn it over. this is a long one. this question deals with covert action and the early directors of the cia resist the taking over covert action. that is true in the office of the policy coordination responsible for covert action was initially placed outside of the cia. that was in the early days when it wasn't clear exactly how the cia would be organized and operate

he started bombing hanoi that day. well, it turns out that the head of the cia was in the white house and heard that decision. but head of the cia knew that the cia had information that there was no attack. but johnson when to have and made the decision ignoring the intelligence to bomb north vietnam. now, i thought maybe we should have bonded myself, but he has the power. this is nickel. you don't -- policymakers depend on intelligence in practically every case. i don't think that there is any problem. intelligence has improved to the point that it is credible now, thank goodness. i have to turn it over. this is a long one. this question deals with covert action. the early directors of the cia resisted taking over the covert action. that is true in the office of policy coordination responsible for covert action. placed outside the cia. that was in the early days and it was not clear exactly how the cia would be organized and operated. turns out to you agree it the cia was initially skeptical of covert action? i don't

he started bombing hanoi that day.heard that decision. but the head of the cia knew that they had information that there was no attack in the gulf but johnson went ahead and made a decision ignoring the intelligence to bomb north vietnam. i thought maybe we should have bombed it, myself, that he has the power, so it's his nickel. policymakers depend on the intelligence in practically every case. i don't think there is any problem with him being ignored anymore. they've proven to the point that it's credible now, think that ms. -- thank goodness. i have to turn it over. this is a long one. this question deals with covert action in that the early directors of the cia resisted taking over the covert action, and that is true in the office of policy coordination responsible for the covert action was outside of the cia. that was in the early days when it wasn't clear exactly how they would be organized and operated. it turns out to do you agree that the cia was initially skeptical of covert action. the cia was manned by cove

you don't think hanoi cares about me. needless to say we made a donation. they felt affiliation because we had fought even though we were on the other side from those who won. >> host: good afternoon and welcome, this is our monthly in depth program. this month we are talking with military author and historian bing west. mr. west began writing by writing a field manual, training manuals in 1966, small unit action in vietnam. "the village" came out in 1972, reissue in 2002. "the march up: taking baghdad with the united states marines" came out in "no true glory: a frontline account of the battle for fallujah," and "the wrong war: grit, strategy and the way out of afghanistan," came out in 2011 and finally his book "into the fire: a first-hand account of the most extraordinary battle of the afghan war," a firsthand account of the most extraordinary battle of the afghan war. one of the themes and if you would like to participate in our conversation with bing west we will put the phone numbers up on the screen. we did a little differently this month, divided th

he said you don't think hanoi cares about me? so needless to say, we made a donation, etc. but they felt an affiliation was we had -- because we had fought, even though we're on the other side from those who, ultimately, won. >> host: good afternoon and welcome to the booktv on c-span2. this is our monthly "in depth" program with one author, his or her body of work, and this month we are talking with military author and historian bing west. and mr. west began writing, by writing a field manual, a training manual in 1966, "small unit action in vietnam." the "the village," that we just talked about, came out in 1972, reissued in 2002. "the march up: taking baghdad with united states marines," came out in '04. "no true glory" came out the next year, and then "the strongest tribe," a new york times bestseller, "war, politics and the end game in iraq," came out in 2008. "the wrong war," another bestseller, came out in 2011. and finally his book with dakota meyer, "into the fire: a firsthand account of the most extraordinary battle of the afghan war." one of themes -- and, by the