>> older sister: >> anthony: lao --lao? >> both sisters: yes. lao --lao.y the sticky rice, so -- >> anthony: yes. >> older sister: it taste good. [ laughter ] >> anthony: look, this is close! both of you born here? >> older sister: yeah, i'm the older sister, and she's the younger. >> anthony: how has the country changed since you were little kids? >> older sister: wow. the country change a lot. we open the tourism scene so it's good for the local economy and local people they can earn money direct from the visitor and tourists. >> anthony: well, president obama was just here a few months ago. >> younger sister: he was here. a few months ago. yeah, he got off a lot of, ah, helpful, the education and for the -- >> anthony: unexploded ordinance removal. i -- 90 million dollars. it's -- >> both sisters: 90 million, yeah, that's a lot. that's a lot. >> anthony: that's a lot of money? >> both sisters: help a lot. it's a lot of money. this one, the local snack. >> anthony: ah, chicken feet. good. >> older sister: and, ah, buffalo tendon. >> anthony: oh nice, goo

nobody knows how many farms like this are in laos it's actually illegal in laos to treat animals like this but it is all too often in southeast asia enforcement and punishment are totally inadequate. luke nicholson says the greatest threat to animals is human poverty. you can find products from the illegal wildlife trade in almost every local market here they're popular with chinese tourists. that's a tale there's a been sold for fifty u.s. dollars and. we have a cool here. right next to them lao whiskey with animal parts preserved in number including bits of bear. the battle to protect animals and species can't be won without environmental awareness so i often see bear sanctuary regularly invite school classes. i. a lot of the kids don't even know that horses to bed thomas is resident in their forest and also a threatened species. oh food is hidden and ball so it bears can train their natural foraging instinct oh. the conservationists are supported by foreign donors. thirty eight asian moon bears now live in the open here far too many. the reserve was only designed to take ten of the

the secret war in laos in the 1960s. with the assistance of the cia and the green berets, general venge powell a mong leader and tens of thousands of mong soldiers who he commanded were the front line defense responsible for warding off the communist evacuation until the american evacuation in 1973. the staggering costs of mong sacrifice during this period is really important to know. throughout 13 years of fierce guerrilla warfare, ethnics claimed that one in four mong soldier, approximately 17,000 people, died. and some of the mong soldiers who died were teenagers, were quite young. the secret war entered a new phase in 1973 when the united states signed a peace accord with north vietnam and evacuated all of the american military leaders from laos. but 18,000 mong soldiers were left behind. some disbursed into the countryside, some joined the general army. in 1975, then powell and some military leaders were air lifted by the cia out of laos. but most mong people were less fortunate. of the 10,000 mong who flooded the h

and why more beds in laos are going extinct. let's was to look at an issue that forty percent of india's population has to deal with every morning the government has voiced toward the case for access to clean and functional toilets in the last few years but open definition is a complex problem in india tied to extreme poverty and cultural conditioning for the last three decades one woman is revolutionizing access to safe sanitation in the district of cardboard in the north of india. it's. in their. children so it's a village people shall go to people i love with the zeal she's accompanied by many of those if you set your mind on something and there's nothing you cannot achieve. with the five you'll still see these words with pride and confidence where. she's been the driving force in. the street by going door to door to check if homes have functioning boyhood's and also. could join the big and how we want peace she describes is in the help. i needed the used to live like. there was a tiny pond that everyone used to be for the do

china is lending a lot of money to cambodia and laos.ly buying friendship from those two countries. and they provide a kind of veto. asean operates on a consensus basis. so if you are worried about south china sea, for example, you can count on laos and cambodia sticking with china and preventing asean from doing anything which china might find objectionable. >> we are witnessing a rapidly expanding presence of china in the indo ocean region, and we understand that china has a desire to emerge as a major maritime power. we don't quarrel with that, but what is happening has implications for us. >> i think that when you have a rising power like china, countries which are close neighbors, like india, or countries that were predominately economic powers, like the united states, have to think about their position. they might get a bit uneasy because of the strength of china and the way in which china wants to, quite understandably in -- and rightly, link up with the rest of the world. stephen: and the rest of the world means much more than ju

confines for a case that's in the visitors in charge of group a laos guide to malaysia on monday . england were in a commanding position at the close of the third day of the first test against sri lanka in goal thanks to a century from opening batsman katyn jennings the twenty six year old managed only his second test hundred to date its golden unbeaten hundred forty six as the english declared on three two two for six that left the hosts with a daunting victory target of four hundred sixty two they reached the close of play unscathed at fifteen without a loss. so you're going to see is great run of form since the ryder cup in september seems to have no end in sight after helping europe when he went on to win the masters at valderrama in spain now he's leading the way after the first round of the nedbank golf challenge known as africa's major at the sun city resort in south africa the spaniard carded a bogey free round of sixty four that's eight under his lowest opening round since twenty eight fifteen garcia has a handy four shot lead over his rivals he won this tournament back in

cut ho chi minh trail in laos. the congress has said, tricky dick, you said you're getting out, no american ground forces will be used. you can use helicopters but they can't touch the ground. half of the arvn forces that go into laos are killed, wounded, or captured. nixon will proclaim this a victory of vietnamization. on the ground, it doesn't look like that. for the aviators, 107 u.s. helicopters shot down. 600 more damaged. the largest thing that shot the helicopters down was .47 millimeter. i figured i'd just tell you that. okay? make your day. so, let us talk about vietnamization. what's the goal? go ahead. >> the goal is a handoff. you guys now take the lead on this war. we will back away. >> okay. what else? that's the end goal. we're going to back up, as you stand up. sound familiar, huh? what else, jared? >> it called for training, a lot of train, like the advisory teams coming back to train the south vietnamese army to be able to take over. >> okay. so if you're looking at arvn, and you're being told by

foreign clients talents roadways have many black sheep including drivers from neighboring myanmar and laos so far the companies had little to fear according to safety expert and pet you sorry authorities often lack the expertise and resources to check the transport of dangerous goods. here this is a big issue in thailand and thereby i os all fall back as well not only that just for. general harbaugh's of passing. cars. and putting them on the cycle we need. law enforcement very strong law enforcement punishment. without expertise officials don't know what they should focus on the german association for international cooperation is eager to help it's invited officials from the transport ministry and other agencies to a workshop. under the supervision of experts the participants get a chance to carry out a real inspection the drivers way to the side are quite surprised. that time and that's what's important when loading and unloading and. rounding up correct when you're loading the vehicle they can be static electricity so you definitely have to have a grounding wire when transporting danger

most pressing problems affecting the world to be this week we connect you to change makers from india laos and germany people like you and i were the system people saw their vision for the safest sustainable world i'm son of that raghu coming to you from mumbai in india.

recognized international border and would seem the troops with the help of south vietnam and that laos and cambodicambodia would be neutrad into the troops would leave there as well, and it meant that there would be some kind of political negotiation between the various parties of south vietnam but would still leave the saigon administration in power. he understood 580,000 u.s. troops could move very far so what he really thought was i need to do through the negotiations and conflict honorably with saigon having a reasonable chance to survive them as well as the overall framework to get those goals he thought he had to apply military pressure. no one else in the administration except the presidenforpresident thought it. everyone else had a different take how to execute that overall strategy. so it is in this level but they differ greatly. >> you have these various escalations whether it be cambodia or laos. in the backlash that ended up shaping the prospects to succe succeed. kissinger had no political instincts it's remarkable he is a theorist and this is something nixon got angry wit

several bachelor's from the village have gone abroad to maine mom the nom the philippines or laos despond wives then you know what kind of a live game leo had on my head just say yeah you know bill you know my grandma in the old school i'm not. going to go to a summer to say how. in china men without wives a cold. which means dead branches the white bear for. many try their luck in the city every day thousands of single men moved to the pearl river delta in china's south to the factory of the low. pia sixty thousand factories employ three to four million workers. the young people working here day in knox hospital so the king for this element. in this factory which manufactures smartphones and modems all the work is under thirty thousands of kilometers from their horns they toil on the assembly line the ice hours a day like shallow young he's twenty four years old and comes from a bachelor village side then yeah. sing in the ghetto. they will find that the only thing done to just play with them all. e.c. bombed. in august. they are going to need them all for a long time then go to the lead

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the other option that is proposed is sending troops in to cut the trail in laos. we do know now that both the north and us as well as the soviets think it could have been done with three to five american divisions. those options were not taken until temporary incursion in 1971. next big change where the communists go in and believe they are going to foment massive uprisings in the cities. turns out the population is not supportive. they largely stick to themselves. the communists are isolated. they don't have the advantage of being able to flee as they do typically. they suffer crippling losses. this also galvanizing the south's leadership which becomes increasingly aggressive. we see very sharp gains in counter insurgency and pacification. in 1968 abrams takes over as commander of u.s. forces. there is another debate about whether abrams made a huge difference whether he had a much better approach than westmoreland. i tend to think the change was not that pronounced and abrams still did a lot of the search and destroy options. he also is in a different situation

the mega station will serve as bangkok's rail hub for fast trains north to china, laos, and south tosia, although that part of the journey is now in jeopardy. it will also link the three main airports to thailand's eastern economic corridor. >> we have planned it to be a catalyst, so to speak, of connectivity, not just in thailand, but also with other countries, such as neighboring countries. china is to the north of us, so it is natural we can link up with the belt and road initiative. it is a corridor running from china south through thailand, and to asean all the way. >> each country has to look at their own interests, has to make sure that what ever loans they incur are affordable, not only to this generation, but to subsequent generations. the two loans we have negotiated, the first one is for a dam, $62.5 million, and the second one is for the development of a municipal water project. that is around $200 million. we are currently negotiating a larger loan, and this will be approximately $2.8 billion, and this will be for a railway project. again, improvement of the railway proj

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middle of the week takes us to warmer climes to laos that's where our viewer junkie wing from hong kong spent his vacation. always with his yo yo at hand and. my takes off is the forces of nature museum and the clue is in the title here you can experience firsthand how natural forces impact the island. the winds for example is pretty much moves mountains here or at least do. and storm tides there are extremely heavy on the beaches. every year winter storms and storm tides take a heavy toll on the coast the coastal protection service works hard to make sure the island stays in its current shape throughout the decades the methods they house for keeping the sand on the island have all greatly see for yourselves. first they build a growing they hope the waves would break on it before they hit land a good idea but it didn't work. the spit of land on sort southern tip is the most at risk their enormous tetrapods were installed on the beach in hopes of keeping the sand in place but the sea was stronger now adays sand is retrieved from the sea ship suck it up off the coast like that can cleaner

included secret raids on cambodia laos and north vietnam richard nixon i know is to sit in much the same way with continuing the war while presenting to the public that he was on the process of getting out and we speak of america's priorities the first priority must always be peace for america and the work. revelation of the secret pentagon documents for street protests and anger spread across the country decorated war heroes and civilians marched together protesting the unconstitutional undeclared war asked the united states has been at war under every president since nine hundred forty one. ever since the end of world war two us presidents have authorized the illegal and unconstitutional wars of aggression. according to the us constitution only congress can declare war the presidents have consistently found ways to wage war without congressional approval. between one nine hundred fifty and two thousand the us government was overthrown sixty democratically elected government dropped bombs on over thirty nations and attempted assassinations of over sixty foreign leaders. millions died in

. >> laos, you can't say we weren't warned about the sanctions coming.d of sanctions from the u.s. to iran, the first round was implemented in august and the second round today. obviously this round is a lot more onerous than the first. they are specifically targeting the financial system as well as shipping and oil industries. anyone who trades energy and oil has been watching these developments very closely. if you look at iranian oil exports they've dropped from 3 million barrels a day to 1.6 million barrels a day over the last couple months in the run up to this announcement, but one thing that has provided a little bit of relief to the energy markets this morning is it seems that seven or eight countries may get waivers to continue importing iranian oil. again, the iranian economy has been slowing down quite significantly. speaking of another economy that's been slowing down a little bit, that is china. today we heard from the president xi jinping for the third time this year, interestingly enough he was talking about china being open for business a

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books laos. these families and asked armed and shouting nationalist mottos began disturbances in the center of the city as they march to the end time i don tent encampments where they attacked. the end time mind on protesters sought shelter in the trade union house but it was a track mind on supporters started throwing molotov. cocktails into the building until it was engulfed in flames. people burned to death inside or trying to escape. fire station was less than a mile away it took almost half an hour for firefighters to arrive when they finally did the damage had been done. but here's an intriguing fact just a few days before those dreadful events a messenger from my don. made a visit to odessa it's an interesting coincidence that some of the people he met with in odessa were seen at the scene that fateful day. but not everyone was mourning on the popular political talk show schuster live the news about the people burned alive in odessa was welcomed with a long round of applause for you. to se

over in vietnam one woman with against laos nguyen kong fong with the finnish it would end three nil nguyen crying her eyes free cake but in the visitors in charge of group a louse go to malaysia on monday england were in a commanding position at the close of the third day of the first test against sri lanka in goal thanks to a century from opening batsman keaton jennings the twenty six year old managed only his second test hundred to date scored an unbeaten hundred forty six as the english declared on three two two for six that left the hosts with a daunting victory target of four hundred sixty two they reached the close of play unscathed at fifteen without a loss. so as your garcia's great run of form since the ryder cup in september seems to have no end in sight after helping europe when he went on to win the underlying theme of his masters at valderrama in spain now he's leading the way after the first round of the nedbank golf challenge known as africa's major at the sun city resort in south africa the spaniard carded a bogey three round of sixty four that's eight under salsa hi

camila cabello votÓ anticipadamente y entiende que es manera de convertir en acciÓn la lucha contra laosdarles su voto que es como oro si tiene dudas de dÓnde ir a votar tiene varias horas puede visitar nuestra pÁgina somos el futuro.com para toda la informaciÓn de su lugar de votaciÓn, no deje pasar esta oportunidad de ejercer su voz en estas elecciones. >> y tambiÉn los invito esta noche a nuestra cobertura especial, el voto. nuestro futuro latino a partir de las 9 -8 ♪el (mÚsica) ♪ >> vÁmonos a otro tema la caravana centroamericana logrÓ pero el albergue que la capital recibirlos fue insuficiente, el estadio se vio rebasado vamos con francisco cuevas para saber cÓmo se lleva a cabo la recepciÓn de servicios ahÍ en el albergue, francisco ¿quÉ tal? adelante. >> quÉ tal felicidad buenas tardes estamos en ciudad deportiva aquÍ en la ciudad de mÉxico, donde entre hoy y maÑana se espera la llegada de aproximadamente 5.000 miembros de esta caravana centroamericana y han llegado al mejor lugar porque estÁn recibiendo informaciÓn de vital importancia para que puedan continuar con este viaje ru

a night of celebrations here at the parliament because this is the official end of the day here by laos it's mips to be a milestone symbolizing a new beginning for grace but the many the by is the real symbol of what greece has become up to date he's been focused also different on. the monks of greece's long economic crisis or ext into the streets of athens. during the month you should rule. hough a million people from a population of eleven million have moved abroad in search of jobs. they've left behind a nation crippled by debt now running up one hundred eighty percent of g.d.p. . you almost a thought as was economics minister in the leftwing sirus a government that swept to power three years ago. how much has society being hood by those ideas of enforced austerity i think it will be here more than the other side. with the exception of world wars that there is. a lot of there's regard shall refer to the big twenty five but sir. that's a huge through the actual times of this we had forty percent decline in the amount of junk i was weighed the salary of bank shows so the cost was huge

a night of celebrations here in the parliament because this is the official end of the day here by laos it's mips to be a milestone symbolizing a new beginning for the race but for many the buy is the real symbol of what greece has become up to date he's been focused also different on. the monks of greece's long economic crisis that are etched into the streets of athens. during the month you should rule. hough a million people from a population of eleven million have moved to brood in search of jobs so. they've lived behind a nation crippled by debt now running up one hundred eighty percent of g.d.p. . you almost a thought as was economics minister in the left wing serious a government that swept to power three years ago. how much has society being hood by those ideas have been forced austerity i think it will be here more than the other side. with the exception of world wars that there is. a lot of there's regard shall refer to the big twenty five but sir. that's a huge through the actual times of this we had forty percent decline in the amount of jacobs wages salaries thanks so much s

over in vietnam one woman up against laos nguyen kong with the finnish. nguyen flying high is free cake but in the visitors in charge of group a louse go to malaysia on monday. england were in a commanding position at the close of the third day of the first test against sri lanka in goal thanks to a century from opening batsman keaton jennings the twenty six year old managed only his second test hundred to date scored an unbeaten hundred forty six as the english declared on three two two for six that left the hosts with a daunting victory target of four hundred sixty two they reached the close of play unscathed at fifteen without a loss. so if you're garcia's great run of form since the ryder cup in september seems to have no end in sight after helping europe when he went on to win the underlying theme of his masters at valderrama in spain now he's leading the way after the first round of the nedbank golf challenge known as africa's major at the sun city resort in south africa the spaniard carded a bogey free round of sixty four that's eight under salsa h

over in vietnam went on the up against laos nguyen phone with the finnish it would end three nil unifying holly's free kick putting the visitors in charge of group a louse go to malaysia on monday. now the world chess championship begins in london on friday between two players in their twenty's who have helped change the image of the sport no wage and magnus carlsen became world champion aged just twenty two five years ago but his american challenger fabiano caruana is a year younger and the special talent leaving chess experts undecided who will win lee wellings reports in the world of chess that could be more than one grand master the highest right in the guy but i can only be one world champion in the men's guy and that's going to be decided over the next few weights in london just two men head to head the twelve guards the defending champion norwegian magnus carlsen has helped change the image of chess world champion for five years and he's only twenty seven he has the highest rating of a player in history a human getting into magazines and films and t.v. of sometimes made approaches

members who hadn't set sail those charts which were turning to come for you to indonesia come down in lao to for the night. they left early on the morning of september twentieth the orange glow of everything that had satellite filling this guy. their route was now to the west following the coastal road along the northern shore of east timor towards laga once there they came down for another night at one of their supply bases. on the morning of september twenty first one thousand nine hundred ninety. three turn to the east timor forced to leave but nervous and scared but what we would fight. for cites from the plane confirmed all worst fears destruction on a scale we could not even have imagined you ready dos also one of the hardest stories would have to cover. at the same time as we had set off on a journey to help the soldiers of battalion seven four five ready themselves for day a departure from lag on a journey of a very different intent. what was to become a very dark day began here with a day that would affect so many families not only in east timor. having set their base alight with

difficult to find a decent bringer not every village can afford to have a star flag this is to my laos good quality ringing in any church even in a small village like. the officially atheist communist years when many churches were closed and bells silenced by the uncertainties of the post soviet era but now the kremlin has settled on reestablishing religious faith as one of the country's principal identities sorry the russian orthodox church has been on a huge expansion drive in the past ten years the number of dioceses has doubled and ten thousand churches being built. it's exacerbated by human resource problem many more churches not enough ballerinas automated systems are an obvious solution but some people say they lack the soul and spirituality of the human touch like at this church school in moscow where featuring is being trained. will never replace a human soul for me it was also discovered that each crane glory to father glory to song and one who prayed the same time. as i found out it's certainly something that requires skill ok i've just been given a brief lesson and what i'v

the other option that's proposed is sending troops into cut the ho chi minh trail in laos which i think was a significantly lower risk and we do know now that both the north vietnamese and us as well as the soviets think it could have been done with three to five american divisions which is a lot less than what we put in. but those options were not taken until temporary incursion in 1971. by which time american forces were not involved and it was wasn't as big as initially planned. next big change in the phase of the war, the tet offensive, 1968, where the communists go in and they believe they're going to foment massive uprisings in the cities. turns out the population is not supportive. they largely stick to themselves. so the communists are isolated and they don't have the advantage of being able to flee as they do typically. so they suffer crippling losses. and this will also -- this event also galvanizes the south vietnamese leadership which then becomes increasingly aggressive and the period after tet, we see very sharp gains in counterinsurgency and pacification. great degradatio

comes across vietnam but we have got some wet weather into india china over towards myanmar through laos for got some wet weather now affecting a good posture of east and in the this is the area cloud of rain this is a cycle that's going to make its way to the south of chennai right for time and not do as we go on through the next twenty four to thirty six hours so that's a position of the stalled as we go through friday wet and windy weather coming through here it will weaken of course as it comes free but some term rif ika mounds of rainfall some parts could see in excess of two hundred millimeters of right before it punches its way back out into southern areas of the arabian sea for the north you see a fair old swathe of cloud pushing right up across many central parts of india over towards bangladesh to the north of that it's generally dry but more small for new delhi. stories of life. and inspiration. a series of short documentaries from around the wound. that celebrate the human spirit. against the arts. the al-jazeera selects hunted. among the top stories here now to syria saudi a

monday the storm is going to continue to weaken but we do expect to see heavy rain showers across laos as well as into cambodia well here across much of australia we did see one major storm system make its way off the east coast that is leaving a lot of the area better but we are going to be seeing still very cool conditions across much of that area with melbourne at twenty cents a big drop few the winds are going to be dying down across much of that area for alice springs so it is going to be a hard day we do expect those temperatures to actually come up across much of the central part of australia over the next few days showers to the north but alice springs is going to be seeing about thirty seven degrees over here across much of a queensland townsville is going to be seeing a mostly cloudy day with a temperature of thirty six. on counting the cost the rules italy wants to spend its way out of an economic slump but it's up to its eyes in the big cryptocurrency. by. counting the cost on a. really slow liberates it is a journalist who loves. getting to the truth as it. does with his j

sanctions and vowed to strengthen their relationship guess kenya who also travel to china vietnam and laos i guess here is preparing for what could be the most expensive presidential election in its history or additions are spending more than ever on their bid for the top office in a country where more than three quarters of the population live in poverty i mean a minute reports from antananarivo. deep within antonymous are evil thousands of people eek out a living in the mountains of rubbish at the rally truck dump one of africa's largest dams it's a mess of a waste flies and stomach churning smells from beneath the dirt these people hunt for what others may consider to be waste but for them potential treasure potential at all i've been working here for twenty years he and his children are looking for any valuable metals all bones which are used to make a local medicine they earn four dollars for every bag of scrap collected. work does not pay very much and the most difficult part of doing it is digging deep into the dirt is so much dust by the time i'm sorry mention what i'm covered in s

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officially or laos and no attacks on the north vietnam from the dmz. why does that matter >> the where the militaries are retreating to. they can plan the next attack. >> okay. what else have you figured out about these forces? >> go ahead. >> you can't beat them toe to toe. the u.s. power has superior he. >> yes, superiority and unquestionable mobility. toe to toe i guess the american you can hurt them but they at the end of the day you will get whacked. >> let's talk about something. how important is it for you to understand how you are doing in war in any given time? >> that will assess your further actions. we talk about an operational approach, different things come from that. we need to know where we are at within success or failures of the conflict and also in terms of progression to see how we will influence the end result of the campaign. >> okay. >> to add to that, it also affects how we are meeting objectives. >> okay, so anytime should the boss -- the joint chief of staff for the president, or even your battalion commander -- should they be

lao colleagues, i'd colleagues, i'd like to first hear from the executive director of human resources micky cal ahan. >> thank you, madame president. mickey cal ahan -- callahan. i'm focus on initiatives we've adopted pursuant to adopting the executive directives. as president cohen noted we'll hear from other departments an i'll talk about the department-specific initiatives adopted and ongoing. i think you know departments are responsible for hiring and initiativing discipline at the department level there's an appellate body in investigating and attempting to resolve e.l. complaints an establishing workforce programs to ensure diversity in the city among other and other policies as well. you'll likely hear from some other individuals who spoke at the g.a.o. and i too was disturbing and upset by -- disturbed and upset by some things we heard. some of the cases i and my staff are familiar with and will not be able to share other information about those case for privacy reasons so i want to let you know that. i think it's clear there's a problem and the city can and should do more. th