dropped at least 2 million tons of bombs on laos. the equivalent of one planeload every eight minutes for 24 hours a day, for nine years -- more than was dropped on germany and japan during world war ii. unexploded bombs continue to kill to this day. all of that and more, coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. iraq you prime minister maliki has rejected us-led calls for more inclusive government as a coup. he spoke today following the departure of secretary of state john kerry, who had visited baghdad and the northern kurdish region to press for a reconciliation agreement between iraqi leaders. the obama administration has apparently conditioned u.s. strikes against sunni militants on a more inclusive, central iraqi government. but maliki issued what appeared to be a strong rebuke. >> it is no secret to all iraqis the dangers goals behind the calls for the formation of a national salvation government, as they call it. it is something attempt by those rebel against the constitut

something to sop up the roiling tide of lao khao sloshing around in my stomach.d she'd call. i feel so used. >> in the north they love to eat pork here. look at all the damn chilies. there's a lot of chilies here. we got these fresh red ones. we've got these green ones that are sliced and stir-fried in there. and we've got small green peppers. [ speaking foreign language ]. >> whoa! that's hot. whew! >> i breathed in, got hit with the chili. >> yeah. >> down the side of the throat. >> you know when you have been really hit by super hot and you feel like having a brain hemorrhage? it's like an ice cream headache but like a pepper headache. >> yeah. and your vision starts to tunnel out. >> you're halfway through and you're aware that your hair has just burst into flames. that perfect balance of pain and pleasure and more pain, brain flooding with endorphins and all is well with the world. until tomorrow morning. so i've had a couple cocktails. maybe we should like totally get a tattoo tomorrow, man. >> magic tattoos. ♪ >> time for bed. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> so i woke up i

she's the unit leader and supervisor and our lao compliance officer and in addition to serving as our analyst and my right hand and everything else. then the community ambassador program assistant who is a full-time program assistant is the as-needed russian interpreter so we have the capability of specialists who do both interpretation and translation work and this is really rare because these are entirely different skill sets. the unit is overwhelmed i have to be honest and including commissioners and community members and often requests for very complex translations that normally take months and cost thousands of dollars we're able to do this work at probably a fraction or not even a quarter of the cost to contract out and we could do more if we were adequately staffed and resourced we have the competency in the group and finally since 2010 we've conducted regular surveys of city departments we want to hear directly from departments particularly frontline users and this is what departments have been telling us for the past 4 years that the leo language requirements are not always c

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. >> south korea, 53% as anti-semitic views laos, only one %. difference? >> 55%, the data, not the whys. i don't know about south korea. it is just wow. there is an explanation. it's one explanation. it's probably this is my explanation. a lot of the anti-semitism was brought by missionaries. it depends upon what missionaries, how they taught the christian mission? was it antijewish, pro-christian? it may be that's where it came from. some was brought, you know, in other countries by american troops who brought their western anti-semitism when they came to either safe or conquer the country. there is reason to go back and it. >> the survey found that greece, one of the most anti-semitic countries in europe. what do you attribute that to? >> it's difficult to find the specifics. one of the reasons is the economic instability, political instability. there has been a lot of news coverage about jews. there is a political party called golden dawn which recently was made illegal but was out there actively, not only antiimmigrant, not only antimuslim but antijewi

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and the camden county prosecutors and osha are being laoing into -- looking into what caused the accident. >>> and someone in custody for a hit and run. be vincent was struck by a car and found lying on the shoulder in the southbound lanes. and he later died at the hospital. the vehicle left the scene before police arrived. and investigators are interviewing a woman in connection with this case. no charges have yet been announced. >>> penndot shutdown the greaterford bridge in perkiomen township. an inspection turned up the fact the bridge's beams deteriorated to the point penndot can no longer allow vehicles to pass. and john rawlins live at the bridge tonight and it does not sound like a short-term problem. >> the bridge built in 1957, it probably reached its live expect antsy. the thinking is that it will probably be rela laplaced and n repaired. and it could take months for design work, bids and approvals and to demolish the existing structure. overall it can run into a year or more we are told. >> that bridge is out. it cannot -- >> folks trying to turn on graterford road and it is c

does not like to flay on one it in thet they kept air for 45 minutes until it finally crashed inside laos wreckage remained unrecovered until 2002. finally a team was allowed to go in there and recover the remains. he was buried at arlington. pieces of thefew aircraft, you could imagine after that many years there wasn't much left. two combat casualties were the first american deaths in the vietnam we call the war. two young men.f youngix is just 23, a special forces staff sergeant on his way to vietnam in 1967 when his assignment changed and instead he's sent to work under of the lone c.i.a. paramilitary officer. is 27. jim is in charge of c.i. pacification perhaps and one of these is provincial reconnaisance unit. they are forces that the agency to help us take down the viet cong infrastructure, and drew is con to take command of that unit. 30-31the night of january, 1968, drew and jim have been picking up anomalies in activity, but most of their troops have again home to drewrate a holiday. so takes a handful of the p.r.u.'s and a couple of navy seals and border toong the itsnoiter. sa

thailand depends on migrant workers from cambodia, myanmar and laos, to keep its construction, manufacturing, and fish rice industry going. >> thank you very much for that. that's veronica pedrosa reporting for us from cambodia. >> the trial of three al jazeera journalists is due to resnum cairo. peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy, and baher mohamed have been held for 170 days. they face charges of supporting the outlawed muslim brotherhood. al jazeera rejects the charges and demands their release. we have this report. [ inaudible ] . >> reporter:. >> reporter: almost 6 months behind bars waiting for others to decide their fate. journalists peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed are on trial falsely accused of supporting the outlawed muslim brotherhood. the egyptian prosecution is asking for the maximum gaol term. seven years gaol for peter greste, and 15 years for baher mohamed and mohamed fadel fahmy. al jazeera arabic is also in prison, but without charge. he's been on a hunger strike for five months. his health is declining. families are frustrated. >> the prosecution did con

. >> police identified the man as 25-year-old kosoul chanthakoummane, his parents were from laos, bute was born in the u.s. a background check indicated he drove a white mustang, worked as a delivery truck driver, and had a history of violence. >> from age 15 forward, he was in jail. he assaulted a classmate, severe enough to be sent to juvenile detention. when he was 15, he was out on that offense for several months, and then stole a car. >> after that, he robbed and kidnapped two elderly women in north carolina. he was released on parole just six months before sarah walker's murder. >> he was paroled to texas because his sister lived here. and his sister was willing to help him try to get his life back on course. >> when he was interrogated by police, kosoul denied any involvement in sarah walker's murder. >> i don't know what you're doing, man. i don't know i didn't do anything. >> we're trying to find out the truth. >> i think you know. >> what truth, man? >> that you were in this house and you washed your hands and you went over there and got a drink of water. >> his left hand wa

taxi blocked major roads in the center of the capital of the uber anna laos passengers to get a taxiouch of a butt inning. it calculates the distance of the ride and pays drivers direct. black cap drivers say the service breaks the law because it classes cost calculates costa meeter. >>> yemen's president is replacing government ministers responsible for oil and electricity accord to this country's state kne news agency. they are angry about severe petrol shor shortages and powers entering the their days, the tax on fuel have left people across yemen without electricity and fuel over the past few days. >>> in the u.s., the second most powerful man in the house of representatives has lost his republican primary to a tea party challenger. u.s. house majority leader eric cantor was beaten by college economics professor david brat. it sent shock waves through congress and given the conservative movement a landmark victory. >> i know there is a lot of long faces here tonight, and it's disappointing, sure. but i believe in this country, i believe there is opportunity around the next corner

the excavation site in laos has been on the list for over two years. and the trip to excavate the crash site has been postponed twice due to budget pressures and sequestration. major smith's family has reached out to me to help with their efforts and to bring lewis home. while i understand the budget constraint and times, this will bring closure to the families after such a loss. mr. chairman, i ask for your support, urge the joint p.o.w.-m.i.a. accounting command to schedule the recovery trip to laos and to bring home major lewis smith's remains to his family, his country, and i thank you and i yield back. mr. frelinghuysen: i thank the gentleman for yielding to me. i understand the defense prisoner of war missing personnel office mission is to provide families with service members lost in battle or taken as prisoners of war information and applicablecations, recovery of personnel from world war ii, the korean war, the cold war and vietnam war. and the iraqi theater of operations. i fully support the office and the work they do, in searching and reuni

everything in ruins but those who were forced to flee and no slowly returning for the first time in laos is relatively safe here and people want to be in the place they still class as their final letter i just came back from the market where good thing god does become possible after high ranking military and civil figures accepted the advances from the very people who have been targeting them. is the best word to describe the situation in which the rebels initiated talks the syrian police major was among the negotiators of the war but just a year ago he was hit by a bullet fired from the rebel side it left him disabled and doctors say he may never fully recover but he still calls for forgiveness. most of them are young people who get influenced by fanatic shakes and islamic clerics who have the extremist ideology that is alien to syrian society they motivate them by money that came from the gulf countries mostly and all this was supported by western and israeli intelligence we need to help our guys who became victims of all this we speak with a major in what's become a kind of rehab cent

welcome to chaian mai province tucked up near the border of burma, laos, india not far away.f them left their mark on the food. and if you are eating here chances are you're also drinking. >> compared to the stuff we had this morning, this is substantially more harsh i would say and less fragrant. >> the village, how do you find this place? we're in the middle of nowhere. >> a very popular place. >> a restaurant show casing one of the distinguishing elements of northern thai cuisine. the heavy use of animal protein. >> you see the local people. they're lining up here in northern thailand pig reigns supreme. most of this stuff is made out of pig. >> what did you order? >> grilled pig tail. >> then we ordered northern thai herbal pork sausage. >> oh, yeah. i'm on that. >> brain. some pigs brain. >> yeah. i'm not a big brain fan. a custardy sort of texture coupled with this sort of nutty taste. frankly i'd rather have a big handful of nuts so to speak. >> it's mixed with curry paste and herbs and stuff thrown into a banana leaf and then grilled. they do not cook the blood. >> th

thailand's economy relies on are casual workers, millions from myanmar and fewer from laos. against that background, mao didn't want take any changes. even though he's worked in thailand for seven years and his employer asked him to stay. the thai military and foreign affairs ministry, friends and family. remember, speaking against the military rurals is expressly -- rulers is expressly forebidden. >> translator: i will get back to ca cambodia, i'm scared i wot be able to get back home. >> reporter: coping with the unprecedented numbers returning home here. >> many, many people coming here and we don't have the protect, we don't have the people for organize for issue of them. >> reporter: the next leg of mao's journey home is being provided by an international sal agency. it is a free ride, and mao is ambitious for his son. >> i want that he won't have a difficult life like i do. >> reporter: for migrants it's their hope for a better deal for next generation. veronica pedrosa, on the thai-cambodian border. >> still to come on the program. why coal is on the center of the chi

if south vietnam falls, then all the rest of southeast asia laos, cambodia, the philippines, they mightd return visits, i'm encouraged by the progress the south vietnam has been making and services our forces rendered to them. >> when vietnam started up, they believed that they so expertly micro managed the cuban missile crisis that they can do the same in the southeast asian nation 10,000 miles away. the north vietnamese were very different from the soviets and the attempt to resolve the vietnamese crisis through control desolation, simile didn't work. >> south vietnam has been overthrown by a military group. >> i hope we don't have another bay of pigs on our hands. >> are we beginning the war in south vietnam? >> winning? no, we're losing it. >> kennedy says to one of his principal aides that after he is re-elected then he can worry about the war. it is difficult to believe that the same course would not have been followed if john kennedy had not gone to dallas in 1963. do we know what kennedy would have done if he had lived? >> there is evidence to suggest that he never would have do

if south vietnam falls, then all the rest of southeast asia, laos, cambodia, the philippines, they might return from previous visits i've been very much encouraged by the progress which the south vietnamese forces have been making and by the assistance which our forces have rendered to them. >> when vietnam started up, they believed that they had so expertly micro managed the cuban missile crisis that they could do the same in the southeast asian nation 10,000 miles away. >> the north vietnamese were very different from the soviets and kerusch chapter 11 bankruptcy, and the attempt to resolve the vietnamese crisis through controlled escalation simply didn't work. >> the government of south vietnam has been overthrown by a military coup. >> if we are at all involved i hope we don't have another bay of pigs on our hands. are we winning the war in south vietnam? >> winning? no. we're losing it. >> kennedy says to one of his principal aides that after he's re-elected in '64, then he can talk about getting out of vietnam. it's difficult to believe that the story of the united states in vietna

hundreds of american prisoners of war alive, held against their will, in captivity in vietnam and laosieve hundreds are still there held against their will. on bergdahl, we're all happy we got him back. politically, i'm a little cynical about the timing of it. he could have done this exact deal two years ago. it was discussed. the same five taliban guys. why now, why the day after shinseki is gone do we suddenly -- rng why do you think? >> i think it would be a change of narrative by the white house. take friday, which is always the day for the bad news, dump shinseki -- >> this could back fire on the white house though. let's watch mccain. >> there was discussions that i heard way back as far as two years ago to release these people. there was a bipartisan opposition to that, and but obviously what's done is done. >> all right. and when i say back fire, i don't mean in any type of way, we want to make sure -- make it clear anything with him coming home is a blessing for him and his family, last pow out of afghanistan, of course, of course, of course. but the price? who are these guys?

some of the va can be really specialized in war injuries, the people who have laos limbs and things likethat. i think can probably be better handled with specialty care for war and for soldiers, but to also -- i see no reason why the overflow or the inefficiencies of government medicine couldn't be helped by having or allowing people to go to private doctors. >> senator rand paul, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> swap? until you drop? what the president just said that has more than a few general recalls more than just worried. we're moving our company to new york state. the numbers are impressive. over 400,000 new private sector jobs... making new york state number two in the nation in new private sector job creation... with 10 regional development strategies to fit your business needs. and now it's even better because they've introduced startup new york... with the state creating dozens of tax-free zones where businesses pay no taxes for ten years. become the next business to discover the new new york. [ male announcer ] see if your business qualifies. ♪ ♪ ♪ it's progressive pain.

kevin lao was stabbed and almost killed. china put the pressure on big banks not to advertise with apple daily which is a problem tear type of publication, which goes out very hard hitting. apple daily keeps on coming back because people want this type of coverage. so the communityist -- communist party is on the losing end of this. you look at the tools, they should win but it's society pushing back. >> apple daily have allowed for more freedom in hong kong. they went against apple daily and allegations that apple daily was hacked, to stop banks from advertising with them so there are many ways that the chinese government can press, can pressure the press to not be able -- to do what they want them to do. >> yes but at the end of the day though you have journalists are responding to people in society. so it really means that they will one way or another find one way to get these stories into front of people's eyes if not in publications that are formally authorized by the communist party. through social media or websites, t

change and say, we need to do something, or else our grandchildren might have a planet to live on or at laosth the seas seas where thy are. >> what watch pictures your posting online because there's word now the government is collecting pictures by the millions. how, government, what are you doing with those pictures? the details on that coming right up. the day we rescued riley, was a truly amazing day. without angie's list, i don't know if we could have found all the services we needed for our riley. for over 18 years we've helped people take care of the things that matter most. join today at angieslist.com >>> the government could be getting a better look at your face. that's according to the reporting of the "new york times" which cites top secret documents from ed snowden that reportedly show the agency is getting its hands on millions and millions of images each day and sending them to facial recognition programs. talking about images from e-mails and texts, from social media, from a bit of everywhere. it's all apparently part of the nsa's global surveillance program. agency officials