. >>> and students of the president's former school in jakarta and indonesia erupted in tears when he declared the winner. president obama went to school there for two years after moving to jakarta with his mother and stepfather in the third grade. students were allowed to take a break from their studies to watch the election results come in. >>> the second to last state, nevada, went to president obama. this is a look at the nbc ice workers laying down the blue cover for the state. florida is the only state that has not been called at this point. >> the race there in florida extremely close at this hour. 97%, almost 100% of the precincts have reported in florida, but the difference is so small compared to what we have seen through the night in other states. they're still waiting to get something more definitive from the secretary of state of florida before nbc news is ready to make a call on that race. >> and virginia a very important battleground state, also called early this morning with very differing counties, as we saw. northern virginia played a big role in parts of the area ar

students at an elementary school in the indonesian capital jakarta cheered loudly. obama attended the school when he was in the third grade. japanese prime minister yoshihiko noda contacted the president and pledged his cooperation. u.s. and japan have the opportunity to improve ties, especially since relations between japan and china have soured over the senkaku islands conflict in the east china sea. south korean president lee myung-bak said he's sure the u.s. and south korea will continue to develop their alliance. australia is another key ally in the region. prime minister julia gillard pledged cooperations during president obama's second term. >> i'd like to welcome president obama my warmest congratulations on his reelection. we've got so much to do together in these years. >> chinese leaders also sent congratulatory messages. yet china's one asian country that might become frustrated with an expanded u.s. presence in the region. chinese have vowed to strengthen their maritime strength. not everyone in the region shared excitement over obama's victory. ahmadin

they gathered in jakarta to share their research into the state of local seas. the indonesian government organized the seminar with the japan society for the promotion of science. about 150 people attended. japanese researchers say they found plastic garbage last year in the stomach of a seal of indones indonesia's island. they say the garbage can easily accumulate on the deep sea floor as currents are weak. some researchers say they found metals in the seabed in the manila bay and others reported finding chemicals in the java sea much indonesia. >>> emerging economic powers still struggling with poverty. emboldened citizens demanding democracy, the threat of violence, the push for peace, the shadow of conflict. get news and insight on south and southeast asia every weekday live from bangkok, only on nhk world "newsline". >>> the mayor of an island in the east china sea is trying to diffuse a dispute over fishing rights. he is visiting taiwan to talk about access to waters off the senkaku islands. he administers the territory. taiwan and china claim the islands.

. >> reporter: thousands of workers took to the streets of jakarta on thursday to demonstrate. they oppose low wages and a plan for them to cover welfare cost. [ chanting ] >> protesters gathered near the presidential palace and marched to the parliament building calling for an increase in the minimum wage. the indonesian economy grew by 6.5% last year, but with that growth comes a higher cost of living. demonstrators carried signs lambasting a 2011 law that will require salary reductions to cover social security and health benefits. the law is expected to go into effect in 2014, but workers say those costs should remain the government's responsibility. similar prothave been recently held in other cities around the country as workers urge the government to protect them. >>> phuket is an idyllic location in southern thailand has plans to lure a segment of the muslims who make up nearly 25% of the world's population. we have more. >> reporter: eight million travellers a year head to phu t phuket. ♪ >> reporter: one of phuket's annual tourism events shows what the island has to of

. >> reporter: thousands of workers took to the streets of jakarta on thursday to demonstrate they oppose low wages and a plan to cover welfare costs. protesters gathered near the presidential palace and marched to the parliament building calling for an increase in the minimum wage. the indonesian economy grew by 6.5% last year, but with that growth comes a higher cost of living. demonstrators carried signs on the 2011 l requiring salary reductions to cover social security and health benefits. the law is expected to go into effect in 2014. but workers say those costs should remain the government's responsibility. similar protests have been recently held in other cities around the country as workers urge the government to protect them. one of the world's most famous traveled denations. now the idyllic island on southern thailand has plans to lure a growing segment of the mark. the predominantly buddhist country makes up nearly 25% of the world's population. here's the report. >> seeking sand and thailand's famous hospitality. they include rising numbers of muslim too. from the middle east,

they're going to figure it out in jakarta or berlin or hanoi and build their business there first. >> i hope this doesn't come up the wrong way. >> i've read reports ceos are so crazy, do you have to have an element of being a little insane? >> there's crazy and then there's too crazy. so we actually measure craziness, and it turns out since we have such a large volume we've done about 651 businesses so far and we're on pace to do 1,000 a year. and there's a certain level of craziness which acts as a glass ceiling to your success. so if all of the sudden the world gets hairy and you blow a fuse, right? quote unquote. it's a self-destructive move. so we've found there are thresholds of craziness whereby you're blowing a fuse too often, our creating too many problems for yourself and your team too often. so we call it almost like a glass ceiling for success that you might rocket up and build a good company but then your own problems prevent you from getting to the next level. a little crazy is good. >> adeo ressi, i promise you when we put this on the internet we're going to title it "t

jakarta is the fifth-largest city in the world.you had a change of the bird flu influenza so that it became easily transmissible among human beings, well, they would be no way to stop it because in 24 hours, people have been exposed to this would've flown to every corner of the world before anyone knew it had in fact become highly communicable. so i went out and bought was a long list of things. you go someplace and they say fix this. are we going to do this. when i give you any tools. just fix it. the thing in the back of my mind for than anything else, even if you can't fix it come you can't be asleep when there's a risk, even if it's a small risk and you can't quantify it, the place where you're serving is going to be the place that explodes the spanish influenza epidemic and you are sleeping you didn't do anything to identify it earlier on, put anything in place. so i didn't know what is going to do. i went out and we had some really highly, highly capable people and the country, also other people, usaid people in the team and

. >> narrator: they lived in jakarta. he was now called barry soetoro. his stepfather lolo was troubled. >> he's drinking quite a lot. there's evidence of at least one act of domestic violence against her. >> narrator: stanley ann taught english. while she worked, barry had to learn how to cope. >> imagine what it would be like at age six to be thrown into the chaotic, swirling environment of a dense neighborhood in jakarta, indonesia, not knowing the language, not knowing anything, looking a little different. he had to fend for himself. every step along the way, there was some aspect, deep aspect of him where he was alone. >> narrator: then, when he was ten, his mother sent him to hawaii to live with his grandparents. >> i think it's natural to assume that your father be absent, then form a relationship with your stepfather, and then be separated from him and be separated from your mother and go live with your grandparents who at that point you don't really know that well... it must have been profoundly unsettling. >> his early life is a constant stream

jakarta is the fifth-largest city in the world.o if you had a change of the bird flu influenza so that it became easily transmissible among human beings, there'd be no way to stop it because within 24 hours people would have been exposed this would've flown to every corner of the world before anyone you it had in fact become highly communicable. so i went out and while there was long list of thing to fix all of this, there's a long list vistas are not getting many tools, just fix it. this thing that was in the back of my mind was more than anything else, even if you can't fix it come you can't you sleep, even if a small risk and you can't quantify it, the place where you are serving is going to be the place that explodes with the spanish influenza epidemic of 1980 and you were asleep and you didn't do anything to identify it earlier on. i went out with that, but i didn't know what i was going to do. i went out and found we had some really highly, highly capable people, both people at niagara, the navy, but also other people coming

these pictures come to us from indonesia, more than 5,000 people march through the streets of jakartaday, protesting israeli air strikes. the crowd marched to the u.s. embassy carrying flag and posters condemning israel. let's turn to egypt and a narrow strip of land that borders gaza. the rafa border, that's the crossing, this is gaza's only gateway to an arab ally. let's turn from this map to what is happening on the ground. the rafah crossing has become a dangerous place to be. it is a major crossing point for protesters and for those who are trying to smuggle weapons and supplies into gaza. israel says it is bombing smuggling tunnels that run under rafah. the border crossing is clogged with anti-israel protesters, trying to gain access to gaza. reza sayah reports. >> reporter: this is where egypt's border meets gaza. gaza is a small piece of land, about twice the size of washington, d.c. it has four gateways, three of them are inside israel. they're pretty much blocked off in an effort by israel to choke off gaza. this is the only one that leads from gaza into an arab ally. that's

working to build a modern prosperous society in all respects of the 16th and 17th national congress of jakartau. i follows, the economy should secede development to measure progress should be made in changing the growth and the bases in making china's development more balanced coordinated and sustainable, it's a 10 gdp and per capita income for urban and rural residents. people have democracy should expand the country's power, leaping standards and major progress should be made in an anchorman to a. the respects must be met with greater political courage. [inaudible] and this part on notions and systems to pursue development in a scientific way. we should set up a widely developed, scientific and affect a free-market system to ensure the operating institutions in the sack areas of actions. [applause] [speaking chinese] >> translator: completing a modern society in all respects in the party must work to reach this goal. the stay should give more supporters to rural areas to accelerate the reform but their capacity for development and standards. we should encourage good conditions to keep taking

>> since you have opened the box, ambassador your last post and jakarta, a country that has had its share of natural disasters, lots of volcanoes and a very huge area spread thousands of miles across the sea, how did you approach this from your country perspective by way of reparation, thinking about what might happen and have your folks look at that and what you might do or how to try to help to get assistance in these situations? >> i went out in mid-2007 during the epidemic -- ver ploeg, it really wasn't epidemic, almost an epidemic, as it was unfolding. half of the deaths in bird flu are in indonesia and two-thirds of those deaths were from the township where the airports from jakarta are located. jacquard is the fifth-largest city in the world so if you had a change of the bird flu influenza so that it became easily transmissible among human beings, well there would be no way to stop it because within 24 hours people who had been exposed to this would have flown to every corner of the world before anyone knew that it had in fact come highly communicable. so, i went out and while ther

. >> jakarta, huge move. >> this is very positive, and i come back and say that this was written offor dead, i look at the green mountain coffee trade, i have been thinking about this. people stayed -- the shorts maybe have had too long a stay in some of these stocks. green mountain was not that bad a quarter. >> and that was the case also? gold man noted that it was at a record high, 23 shares outstanding. >> they're making -- >> is there a difference in this call from goldman-sachs versus other calls. we h >> the stock was up 14% last friday, that was a very short, not being a volume day. >> is this different because it's coming from goldman or is this just a another stock glomming on. >> this one is filled with data saying that the quarter is going to be good. let's get the charts. >> i love charts. i love estimates that there's a 30% chance that they will profit. >> that's a 70% that it fails. >> the canadian -- was in the 27% to 28%. >> where is mr. johnson on that turn around. >> the stock is higher, maybe the reason why macy's didn't do so well is jcpenney's coming back. i cal

period of being a diplomatic practitioner particularly in my part of the world in the china, asia, jakarta, they have some good news which i would like to throw in. there are sufficiently growing to the press at the end of foreign aid and similarly indonesia which has to entered 40 million peaceful people. india is no longer in need of development assistance in burma has come out of its own jurassic park quite recently - this is the product of people coming out of poverty. people from those countries talked to the rickety boats to get away but they don't need any more. this really does save an awful lot above us to the rest of the world. let me talk about the reduced footprint they have the same vivid as well and in our part of the world it's quite irrational reaction. the effect of the 20 or 40 years solid development work, diplomacy, nation building, governments, working with police forces so whether there are some terrible things happening while standing here at the same time you have to half a dozen enormous country is no longer recipients of foreign aid and which i would also like to

efforts by the minister of interior, a member of jakarta and a prisoner to the management has been stymied. and when public casey tried to fire the commander of the equivalent of the software says and forces deployed throughout tunisia were forced to reassign him within the ministry. overall, the mo i is black box, organizational charts classified. but all on forces, salaries, organizational structure array of the ministry itself or security forces. despite an apparent commitment by two nations for the democratically elected government, very little if anything has been accomplished in this past year. this is particularly troubling given that one of the central issues that prompted the demonstrations that brought down the regime was the impunity of the internal security forces. so why has the government, particularly its key leaders, many of whom suffered at the regime firsthand has not made reform of the mo i am policing priority. i think there's two broad ways we can answer the question. the first is related to the absence of the legal framework. performing the security sector is an enorm

particularly in my part of the world, indochina, asia, jakarta, our part of the world has different views. we know what has happened in china. thailand has sufficiently grown to no longer be a recipient of foreign aid. similarly, indonesia, which will shortly be the home of the world's largest middle class. indian a longer needs as much assistance. burma has recently come from jurassic park. this is the product of people coming out of poverty. once upon a time, not very long ago, people from all of those countries took to the sea in rickety boats to get away. they do not need to anymore. they can attend school, go to movies, have different activities on the weekend. this pays a lot to the rest of the world. when we talk about a reduced footprint, that is very relevant to our part of the world. i think the light touch in our part of the world is a rational reaction to what has happened there. it is the result of solid years of development work, diplomacy, nation building, governance, judiciary working with police forces. while there are terrible things happening while i am standing here, a