the mighty river winds through the indochina peninsula.he friendship bridge is great increased trade between laos and neighboring countries. the amount of imported goods from thailand is growing yearly and the community is set to be launched in 2015. it will eliminate customs tariffs within the community and allowffdabl hig quality produce from neighboring countries to hit local markets. it's expected to have a huge impact onning agriculture in la. organic agriculture is seen as the key to boosting the doe domestic market. laos is suited to sustain organic agriculture. it has a long standing tradition of natural cultivation. many farmers were too poor to buy fertilizers. much of the land remained uncontaminated by agrochemicals. the government turned that situation into an advantage. it began produce as organic to build a viable export industry. it lacked the know-how to establish standards. the government sought financial and technical assistance from an ngo in swits land. this land to the law firm of the profil project in 2004. one year

i think that is what you are getting at with whether the french held or controlled areas of indochina while they were still a colonial power. i think that is a key problem for the americans. despite the experiences of the to findit is difficult and assess how well you are controlling a portion of that political community, especially when there is a shadow government that is parallel to the supposedly legitimate government and competing for not just resources but the loyalty of the population. i don't think that piece of the definition of control was ever fully determined by the americans. >> and early 1968, i was at fort jackson. obviously, you heard every day the cadre in the mass talking about the restraints. lbj.cursed one of the morse -- the most important restraints he was under was that of incremental buildup that johnson put him through in the administration. own an observation of my having fought in vietnam in 1969 was that the only thing i saw later on was that the war really worked, it scared the north vietnamese. >> that's an important point that clearly westmoreland is doi

southern china and the northern indochina peninsula are dealing with serious flooding and powerful winds. our meteorologist jonathan oh has the details. jona? >> hello, we are continuing to monitor as it crosses into land and continues to dump a lot of rain fall. it made landfall during the overnight period in the northern portions of vietnam. you can see the clouds that are really covering the southwestern corner of china, all of vietnam, and a good portion of the indochina peninsula. and i want to show you some video of the area. what happened on tuesday. havoc in south china's hainan province. extremely rough seas left boats stranded several fishermen had to be rescued. the storm also brought strong winds, and heavy rains triggered serious flooding. more than 200 flights were canceled. in gaung shi province, two women were killed by a falling tree. more than 25,000 people were evacuated. with the saturation of the ground, that's when the trees are not able to stay stable and that's why you have those types of problems. it looks like this system is losing its tropical characteristics v

the indochina peninsula seeing heavy rainfall, and same thing goes here for northeastern india. you remember a few weeks ago, we were talking about the severe flooding back to the west, in cashmere, and also through pakistan. this is a separate event. still associated with the monsoon. but you can see some areas here, 500 to 600 millimeters of precipitation in the last several days. let's show the video coming out of here. it's pretty rough images. people having a rough time driving through here. about 40 people have actually died in the flooding and landslides triggered by the heavy rains in northeastern india. district administrations called for a holiday on tuesday in this region, calling for all schools and colleges actually to have been closed due to the flooded roads. also landslides taking place in the same areas. meanwhile, about 50 villages have been hit by flash floods. authorities, plenty of rescues out there. unfortunately, people are still low on food and water. this is definitely an ongoing situation. still expecting more rainfall in the next several days. at least

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because this is the flow over the western coast of indochina peninsula. the amounts could top as much as 400 millimeters in localized areas of additional rainfall on top of what we already see, about 400 in hong kong which already closed trading in the morning and many businesses ac 400 is certainly enough to cause flooding and landslides. we'll keep a close eye on this. it's not just one system we're tracking, this is another system we have to track. this is a tropical depression for now, but it looks like it's going to keep its tropical depression status as it heads to japan. we'll keep an eye on this into the weekend. as we speak, though, we have numerous thunderstorms supported in hokkaido. this is due to a low-pressure system sitting north of hokkaido. the upper cold level air in the warm and humid moist sea of japan is creating numerous thunderstorms here. upper-level low will then move in, and we'll likely see showers across even metropolitan tokyo. but meanwhile, in western japan, the korean peninsula and northern china, the high pressure system d

it more of the low pressure system here that's feeding the moisture towards the philippines and indochina peninsula. 134 millimeters of rainfall has fallen across thailand. bangkok at 34, chance of thunderstorms. beijing hitting 30 degrees, ulan bator still above the norm, but your morning low on sunday could drop as much as just 3 degrees. now here across the american continent, we'll be looking at another system. which is a hurricane still. it's a category 1, it still has tropical storm warnings in place for southern tip of baja, california. as hurricane moving parallel to the peninsula. and it's already packing maximum winds of 150 kilometers per hour. so of course the storm surge, life-threatening rip currents will be bringing rough sea conditions. try to be not venturing out in these waters and 100 millimeters to 150 millimeters of rainfall will be falling across any of these locations and that surge of moisture will continue to move its way up to the four corners and the texas panhandle. so even out towards further north, flash flooding will be possible. flash floods could be possib

winds will be coming into the area and affecting portions of vietnam and the eastern side of the indochina peninsula going through the next few days. now, elsewhere in asia, we are talking about high pressure that's bringing in some colder air aloft into japan while low pressure is feeding in some moisture, so, because of that, unstable weather is possible. we are looking at the possibility of some scattered showers for tokyo on tuesday with a high of 29. 27 in seoul. again, maybe some scattered showers. looking out for some rain again, hong kong and manila, and then the southwest monsoon brings scattered showers into bangkok and heavier rainfalls into chongqing. now, there's also a hurricane to talk about in baja, california. this system has already moved onshore and it's going to be a big problemmaker. i want to show you this particular imagery because you can see the clearly defined eye. it was a category four storm on sunday, transitioning into monday, making landfall that resist tense is weakening the system, but winds at 185 kilometers per hour and this storm will slowly move toward

because we can talk about the loss of lives in indochina. i mentioned cambodia. over 20% of the population was slaughtered by paul pot and his crew. in vietnam there were executions, hundreds of thousands died trying to flee the country on unsea worthy boats. thousands of others were killed in re-education camps or in the new economic zones. tens of millions were consigned to communist tyranny. i brought with me an old issue of freedom in the world, which is put out every year by what i think is the best human rights group out there, freedom house. it's a group set up by eleanor roosevelt in the 1940s. and this is their annual survey for '98 and '99. and here on page six they have a little chart. the 13 worst rated countries. these are the very worst of the worst human rights violators. the last country on the list is vietnam. and they've got a write-up on vietnam that comes back in the back. vietnam remains -- in 1998 vietnam remained one of the world's most closed and tightly controlled societies. at one point they described vietnam as being less free than chin

i was doing a section on indochina, and it was about 30 pages, this first draft.i did not even read it because i knew he would reject it. on page 15 i put in a sentence that was grammatically correct, but consisted of titles of all of kissinger's books. he caught it. i wanted to chime in there. >> this far -- thus far, we have talked about the planning and the thoroughness of american policy for every part of the world. that planning was really part of an important part of the nixon administration. there are things that happened it don't anticipate. wars, crises overseas that involve american interest, so what you do when you have a crisis? that was equally as impressive as the long-term planning, and the way the president nixon organize his team. probably the most salient example was during the presidency, and the yom kippur war of october of 1973. kissinger for distance -- had been confirmed as secretary of state. i mention this primarily, however, because it didn't end well. you can read about that. you can see a forum like this one the focuses entirely on the

indochina.president president nixon obeyed that law and not many others but he did allay that one. there is still a problem with that approach however relying exclusively on the power of the person that is we know what happened. the president sent his troops into war. they are in some kind of danger and then it's viewed if you vote to cut off the funds you are creating danger for our troops. that script is played out repeatedly in contemporary politics. i don't see why there's anything wrong with understanding its is more than one check on presidential licentiousness and eagerness to go to war. and i don't think also with regard to that the congress is not not authorized the president to use the predator drones to kill american citizens on his say-so alone. indeed when that issue arose in conjunction with john brennan's nomination to be director of the cia approved very controversial. we sort of got wobbly answer from eric holder on what the president could do or could not but congress surely is

advise or assist or get out of the way of indochina relations? >> you said something critical.y out of the way. if you look at -- recently in the last 10 days, at the same time, chinese forces were facing each other. the amount is investments that he wanted to make into india was just about a fifth of the amount he came in with. i think there is an economic military-wise, there's more discord between the two countries. the best thing american do is let the two powers settle it and stay out of it. >> you can understand why he is meeting with john kerry today. there is pakistan. it is more complex than wanting to port u.s. business. >> you are right. if you look at the times today. they have had a serious objection to what he is doing. it is clear it is not going well in terms of dealing with pakistan at the moment. >> a lot of ambivalence. >> i want to break some news. this headline just crossed. this is the publishing unit of news corp. that rupert murdoch owns. they are buying move. it is a leading online real estate business. this is for $21 a share. that is a premium over ye

were brought to the close when the congress simply said there is no more money to fight the war in indochinaand president nixon okayed that come in off many others that he did okay that one. there is a problem with that approach however relying exclusively on the power of the purse and that is we know what happens when the president sends troops into the war and they are in some kind of danger and then if you go to to cut off the funds you are creating danger for our troops, that has played out repeatedly in the contemporary politics. and i don't see why that there's anything wrong with understanding that there's more than one check on the presidential eagerness to go to war and i don't think also with regards to what you said, john, that the congress does not has not authorized the president to use predator drones to kill american citizens on his say-so alone. indeed when that issue arose in conjunction with the nomination with the director of the cia it proved a very controversial and we got a wobbly answer from eric holder with the president could do or could not do the congress hasn't au

congress said there's no more money to fight the war in indochina and president nixon obey that law,not many others but he did obey that one. there still is a problem with that approach for relying exclusively on the power of the purse and that is we know what happened when the president sends troops into worse. and they are in some kind of danger and then if you cut off the funds you are creating danger for our troops. that script is played out repeatedly in contemporary politics. i don't see why there's anything wrong with understanding there's more than one check on presidential licentiousness and eagerness to go to war. and i don't think also with regard to what you said john that the congress is not authorize the president to use predator drones to kill american citizens on his say-so alone. when that issue arose in conjunction with john brennan' brennan's -- to the cia prove controversial and he got a waffling answer from eric holder as to what the president could do or could not but congress does not authorize we are operated prison to kill american citizen because he thinks t