kyi thin nwe and kyu kyu lin are back from harvesting the lotus. time is of the essence, the plants have to be processed while they are still damp. a swift slice reveals wafer-thin threads, as fine as spider webs. later, they use it to make lotus silk, the most expensive cloth in the world. buddha's thread is delicate. weaving it requires considerable skill, as well as time and patience. these women weave about 20 meters of thread a day, a -- tradition that dates back centuries. and it's a tradition that's been passed down through the generations. >> we're not allowed to wear lotus silk. only buddha was pure enough to wear this precious cloth. otherwise, it's only monks who are allowed to wear it in myanmar. >> but recently tourists have begun to arrive. and they bring money with them. now lotus silk can be worn by anyone who can afford it. after half a century of military dictatorship, a wind of change is sweeping through myanmar. at inle lake, change sounds like the whirr of motors. the arrival of tourists spells an end to peace and quiet here. t

. >> the first time i met the burmese nobel peace prize winner aung san suu kyi in 2011, we were both wearing white. >> stephen: really? wearing white after labor day? obviously, her nobel prize wasn't in fashion. again, jim. >> german chancellor angela merkel has a great sense of humor. >> stephen: you heard it, folks. hillary clinton thinks german chancellors are a laugh riot. heil hilarity. >> here, bono sits with me at the piano. >> stephen: big deal! bono sits with everybody at the piapo. call me when you're sitting with david bowie at a didgeridoo. i just don't buy any of this. there is no way on earth one woman in so many places at once. ( cheers and applause ) ( cheers and applause ) >> hillary! hillary! hillary! hillary! hillary! >> stephen: don't you dare! don't you dare! you were checkin chanting my nar minutes ago, 200-timers. ( cheers and applause ). hillary clinton. >> now who's a name dropper, stephen? >> stephen: oh, really? name dropper? that's not what my good friend tom hanks calls me. when we're hanging out at george clooney's place. >> oh, i love george. i wish he

aung san suu kyi, the nobel peace laureate and opposition leader, has refused to take sides, saying it could further exacerbate the tension. the dalai lama spoke against the violence, but to no avail. >> they basically told him to mind his own business. it was really actually quite a put down. they're not prepared to listen. >> reporter: last year, some 80,000 rohingyas crowded like livestock into small boats to escape myanmar, but often at a very high price. >> the boat that carried 58 people, 25 of them died on the way. >> reporter: these young men, now hiding in a mosque in southern thailand, were among the fortunate ones to make it here alive. they prefer to be nameless. they were tortured by their smugglers and traffickers, detained in a thai illegal immigrant camp, then wound up back with the traffickers where, among other forms of torture, they were forced in a crouch position for so many weeks they cannot walk standing up. >> they have to pass through thailand, and this is where we see these smuggling camps, these people being held, being beaten while they're holding the phone

transition is when we think that success is -- >> nobel prizewinning democracy champion, aung san suu kyi years in house arrest, was released, now taking an active part in with the doors opening, our crew is the first -- meanwhile, this southeast asian country of 80 million is collectively holding its breath, waiting to see what's next, and will this loosening of government grip last? of course, morning in yangon has always been about tea. it's black indian-style tea, usually with a thick dollop of sweetened condensed milk. you want it sweet this less sweet? very sweet? strong? less strong? everybody's got a preference, everybody's got a preferred tea shop, where they know presumably how you like yours. >> i want only last week a bit strong. >> journalist and publisher u thiha saw. we meet at the seit taing kya tea shop. >> this place means a lot of things. not just a place to grab a snack. >> for 50 years of paranoia and repression, teahouses were also the main forum for guarded and not so guarded discussions of the daily news, where you tried to piece together the real stories behind th

the first time i met aung san suu kyi in december 2011, we were both wearing white. german chancellor angela merkel has a great sense of humor. >> i just don't buy any of this. there's no way on earth one woman can be in so many places at once. hillary clinton! >> now who's a name dropper, stephen? >> oh, really? name dropper? that's not what my good friend tom hanks calls me. when we're hanging out at george clooney's place. >> oh, i love george. i wish he could have joined us when i had lunch with meryl streep and ecuadorian president rafa rafael correia. >> rafi is such a cut-off especially when we go camping with oprah. >> oh? >> oh, did that surprise you? >> no, o is just what all her real friends call oprah. >> i once did an entire show with president bill clinton. >> oh! i hate to break this to you, stephen, but i've met him, too. >> okay, come on, that was funny. but i think i would have rather had lunch with george clooney. >>> come up in "the newsroom," russian troops are massed along ukraine's eastern border and an attack could come at any moment. fighting

groundwork in indonesia that paid off in burma with democratic reforms there and your meeting with suu kyi. and people wonder, why it she having a bilateral riff at the foreign minister of some country that we don't know we it is on the map. and so i think that really does come through in the book. >> i wanted that to come through because one of the virtues i think we americans need to cultivate is patient, and that is true probably in our lives but it's particularly true in our diplomacy, because so much of what still matters in the world is based on building relationships and looking for areas where you can establish some level of trust. and one of the examples in the book, which was quite dramatic, actually, is how we were able to navigate through a very difficult crisis over a blind dissident in china, and not endanger the substance of the framework for the relationship we'd been building with china. when i came in, i knew from my time in the senate that we'd had very extensive economic discussions with china about currency, about trade. and those had been carried out primarily by the