to the south cambodia to the north china to the northwest myanmar laos is the only country on the indochina peninsula that has no access to the sea, although the south china sea is only 50 km away but it's already territory. vietnam, the length of laos is 236.800 m², the population is 7 million 200.000 people, the capital is in yantia, the state language is lao. laos is beautiful a very beautiful country in southeast asia but unfortunately unfamiliar to russians, although if you find yourself in laos, you will be amazed, how many laotians speak russian, how friendly, how warm, they treat russians. in general, there is, uh, a historical explanation for this and, uh, tradition. this is what the formula of power discussed about the past and present of laos with the chairman of the national assembly of the lao people of the democratic republic, comrade and father khon. born december 12 , 1956 in the mail commune of weyang-sai district provinces. huahan, laos 1977-1983 studied at lomonosov moscow state university 1983-84 lecturer in political economy of the higher party school in vietnam 1984-87

since 1893, laos has been part of the colonial territory of the french, indochina during the second world war was stopped by the japanese, and in 1949 it gained independence as a kingdom, but a year later the civil war broke out in the country, which was closely connected with the war in the north south in neighboring vietnam, the south, as you know, was supported by the united states the territory of laos was partially passed by the so-called ho chi minh trail along this trapezoid is true. vietnam transferred its troops to the south during the war , about 260 million were dropped into the territory of laos. beans were affected the city from the village is peaceful, the population of the country. the damage was done not only to the economy, but also to the nature of the fighting in los. completed in february. in 1973, the entyan agreement was signed, but the civil war continued to power the pack. lao national front of laos in december 1975 took over the mouth of the country into their own hands. the king abdicated the government led by the general secretary of the people's revolutionary p

to southeast asia, and enhanced rain stretching across northern areas of the philippines toward indochina is smoothing its way further south. it falls to borneo on tuesday. that is your weather update. ♪ >> witness inspiring films from around the world. >> they will not stop violence until power is theirs. >> intimate portraits and epic struggles. >> witness the human spirit and bitter reality. >> there are still men who believe women are property. >> witness award-winning voices telling groundbreaking stories. witness, on "al jazeera." anchor: welcome back. the u.n. has joined nato and the u.s. condemning a wave of russian missile attacks on ukrainian cities including the capital kyiv, calling them another unacceptable escalation. at least 11 people are said to have been killed in explosions reported as far as lviv to khar kiv. putin said the strikes arm in response to the explosion of a crucial courage to crimea and it said it was obvious ukraine damaged the bridge. the u.n. general on the claimed and accession, and have been addressing monday's attacks. ukraine's ambassador to the u.n.

southeast asia, the rain has shifted further south away from indochina but we have a typhoon sittingsouth china sea strengthening. it is expected to weaken either time it works its way towards vietnam on wednesday. it will still bring strong winds and rough seas. ♪ witness inspiring films from around the world. >> they will not stop the violence until the power is theirs. >> witness intimate portraits and epic struggles. >> it is not just the people. >> witness the human spirit and bitter reality. >> there are still men that believe women are their property. >> witness award-winning voices telling groundbreaking stories. witness on "al jazeera." ♪ ♪ anchor: a reminder of the top stories. britain's prime minister has been accused of a running scared after failing to address parliament days after replacing her finance minister. her new chancellor announced a raft of u-turns. liz truss has since apologized for economic mistakes made but says she is determined to lead the conservatives to the next election. four people have been killed and 16 injured in drone strikes on ukraine's capital

in the south cambodia in the north china in the northwest myanmar laos is the only country in the indochina that has no access to the sea, although the south 50 km, but this is the territory. vietnam the length of laos is 236.800 m², the population is 7 million 200.000 people the capital is in yantia, the official language is lao. laos is a beautiful, very beautiful country in southeast asia, but unfortunately it is unfamiliar to a russian. although if you find yourself, you will be amazed. how many laotians speak russian, how friendly, how warmly they treat russians. in general, there is, uh, a historical explanation for this and , uh, tradition. this is what the formula of power discussed about the past and present of laos with the chairman of the national assembly of the lao people of the democratic republic, comrade and father khon. born december 12, 1956 in a commune at the mail winx district site of the province. huahan, laos 1977-1983 studied at lomonosov moscow state university 1983-84 lecturer in political economy at the higher party school, 198.

cambodia to the north china to the northwest myanmar lowes is the only country of the peninsula, indochinathough the south china sea is only 50 km, but this is already a territory. vietnam, the length of laos is 236.800 m², the population is 7 million 200.000 people, the capital is in yantia, the state language is lao. be amazed how many laotians speak russian, how friendly, how warm they are. to the russians. in general, there is, uh, a historical explanation, and uh, tradition, about this, about the past and present of laos, the form of power talked with the chairman of the national assembly of the lao people of the democratic republic, comrade with his father, phon fan-khan. he was born on december 12, 19506 in a gamun to the major of her navinx. the site of the province of huahabhan laos 1977.000-1983 studied at the lomonosov moscow state university 1983-84 teacher of political economy of the higher party school political specialties. economics candidate of social sciences 1993-95. provincial governor, savannah kent 1995-98. minister of finance, lpr, since january 2016, a member of the

did have an effect after years and yea -- that is when the united states was working up much of indochinae iraq war is important. first time in history there was a major protest against a war before it was officially launched. i say officially because it was already underway. but then it declined. there was not much protest later that the united states was carrying on horrendous atrocities in iraq and the lucia and other places -- fallujah, and other places. very ltle protest. in this case, the united states is not directly involved. it is not bombing. it is more indirect. it is very surprising in comparison with others, you don't see much of a peace movement development. you should. it is here. but it is vilified, course. anyone who opens their mouths and says, "look, let's try to war this horror the way the most of the world once," gets denounced, nullified, putin supporter and so on and so forth. it is even true for highly respected major war criminals like henry kissinger. he tries to say it, immediately demonized. the essence is there, but it is more trivialize. the issue i don't thi

this law is carbon copied after something called the indochina resettlement -- the resettlement act ofallowed us to keep our promise to those who stood with us and to make that folks who stand with us know there will be a similar promise for them. >> clearly these 300,000 people who are left behind are going through hell on earth since last august. >> yeah. >> but their future is completely uncertain and they're out of luck. >> yes. they are desperate for us to get this law passed. simply put, there's a -- an there's an ongoing famine in afghanistan. the taliban are hunting down people -- >> right. people and their families. >> they have a very north korean way of killing people. they kill the entire family. often in front of them. it's horrific. you know, jose, we polled the american people and we learned that 76% of our fellow citizens support this law. >> so what are you doing going forward and what can the united states people do? >> well, afghans invited us to come and start a fire watch at the capitol. they said, this is clearly how we can get law passed in this country. they sta

in indochina, vietnam, between 1965 and 1971, the united states dropped over 14 million tons of munitions they ramped the scale parties ignorantly. this was one of the effects of that. let's get on to operation ranch hand. this is a video that i will show you here, of u.s. serviceman using agent orange. i have to get it at the right point. otherwise, the first part might get you feeling motion sick. i also have to press play. sorry. [noise] >> there, you can see the effects of the -- the median effects of agent orange. yes. michael? >> quickly, did agent orange take effect? when they shot it out there, it didn't look like it was instantly killing stuff. >> no. how agent orange works is, essentially, it gets into the leaves, it goes on to the leaves of the mangroves, the trees, and the grasses around there. and then it goes into the root system and kills it from within. it's not an instant sort of effect. but it is a long-lasting kind of effect. it kills the plant from within. yes, scott. >> i noticed that, you showed the killing of the foliage. yet, i remember they were having problems wi

the fight for indochina continues american and french pilots continue bombing from the place where thee is an undermining of communist divisions in the vietnamese capital hanoi year 2001 on september 11, two boeings crashed into two skyscrapers of a shopping center in new york, both buildings collapsed to the ground. more than died under their rubble 3,000 people were blamed for the attack, the afghan al-qaeda and its leader bin laden, who had previously collaborated with america for many years, served as the trigger for the us military invasion of afghanistan, ostensibly to punish the terrorists. tonight. i can inform the american people and the world that the united states carried out an operation that resulted in the death of osama bin laden al-qaeda leader and terrorist responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men and children year 2003 during his speech in the council hall united nations security secretary us state colin powell. shake about the check and stated that it was obtained by american intelligence evidence of the presence of weapons of mass destruction in the r