this is how you summon a waiter in myanmar. i know. i know.u would be rightly ejected. it takes some getting used to, for sure. this is a big noisy fish house. named for you this khine people. >> now we're talking. -- one of over 135 distinct ethnic groups round here. it's one of the things we're told you have to eat here. frogs from the river, then tomato curry. try this. good sauce. that's good. that's some good stuff, my friends. we shall know them by the number of their dead. early morning in yangon. among the crush of commuters, shoppers, people trying to make a living, rise up the last remnants of empire. faded, often crumbling, but still there after all these years. these are the offices, businesses, and public buildings of the british colonials. this building was once one of the swankest department stores in rangoon. a century ago in the poem by kipling, young englishmen, you could buy fine egyptian cigarettes, french liqueurs. the floor tiles were shipped over from manchester. now people live here. a half century of a pariah state has

myanmar today. but over time we see potential for exportinglj myanmar today.exporting. i guess myanmar continues to make news headlines with human rights abuse, political stability, so what are the challenges of doing business there? it isa challenges of doing business there? it is a nascent economy. it is developing fast. we the business is growing in double digits. infrastructure has to develop, obviously. —— we see. there are some electricity shortages, obviously. but we are invested in the long—term and are committed to myanmar. what about the stability of the currency? it has fallen some 10% against the dollar in the second half of last year. that is surely going to have an impact on your business. markets are always volatile. we are investing for the long—term. it is a commitment we have for the country in the next decade. we have been backing them since 2010. i am absolutely convinced this investment will have great returns for the long—term. will have great returns for the long-term. in the coming days, the us will take china to the world trade organis

we in myanmar have to look for talent at the grassroots level. numerous currently 166 in world rankings, that they are trying -- myanmar currently ranks 166 in the world, but they are trying to take the steps to a new era of glory. host: we will have an in-depth look at france a week before the presidential election. íhh?dÑ'óóóóóóóy ♪ [theme music] ♪ [theme music] >>>ernabel demillo: hi. i'm ernabel demillo. welcome to asian american life. we're at the asia society museum where they exhibit some of the world's finest collection of contemporary and traditional asian and asian american art. >>>one of their exhibits, the golden visions of densatil: a tibetan buddhist monastery, brings together for the first time art from the

one is emerging asia, pakistan, bangladesh and myanmar. we see this quarter we had double digit growth in all these markets. that is based on consumption. more and more customers are having smartphones, and we expect that to continue. i foresee that that growth is going to remain in the coming quarter quarters. >> so what -- go ahead, sorry. >> we also see data in the markets, however we see aggressive competition in the last quarter. so what you're seeing is competition but also in some markets like myanmar you're seeing a tax being levied on mobile. how bullish does it make you about countries like myanmar if governments increasingly want to tax you? >> well, that's an issue that we have in all markets. but we still see that we have very healthy margins, even after we have included the taxes. so all the emerging markets, asia, iluding myanmar, are quite bullish on the market. >> sigve, thank you very much for your time. >>> in our an other news, time k said iphone 8 caused weakness in china. speaking to cnbc, cook touted the iphone as th

we asked our correspondents in russia, myanmar and thailand that very question.m john sudworth in the chinese capital beijing. china has long been the world's leading media sector, with no clearer illustration than its insistence on using the great firewall to control access to the internet for its 1.4 million people. as foreignjournalists, internet for its 1.4 million people. as foreign journalists, we can and do experience our own share of harassment. stopped from conducting sensitive interviews, denied access to political trials and prevented from even accessing large parts of the country. thailand is not the most repressive country in this region, but media freedom has retreated most dramatically here, especially under military rule. for the most part, media companies have put up with these ever tighter restrictions, but a new proposal for parliament is to set up a 30 member committee that would rate and punish journalists. it has met strong opposition in the media community, in particular, the idea that they would make journalists carry a government issued l

women who comeme from indonesis, myanmar or the philippines in search of a better life for their families back home. as a domestic worker, they can earn more in singapore than doctors or academics in their home countries. and the recruiting agencies make handsome profits with their human merchandise. demand is high. a housemaid is a must, even for singapore's lower middle class. suzane tan has arrived to pick up the new domestic worker she ordered by phone. apriana is from indonesia. she's 35 and has a six-year-old daughter, but that doesn't interest suzane tan. all she wants to know is if apriana can clean and cook well. >> one of the maids have been with me, this year will have been the eighth year. that is a philippina maid. if you have a maid from the same country, usually they will have a lot to talk, and then somemetimes they are too nice to each other. >> the agency boss tells apriana the rules. no gossiping, no visitors. >> ma'am won't tolerate if you tell lies. you make mistake, you learn from that mistake. and apologize and say sorry, but don't pepeat that t same mistak. and laz

native tongue] mekong basin is a vital river in this region which starts in china and runs through myanmar, laos, cambodia and vietnam. in recent years, the mekong river is undergoing major changes and challenges as a number of countries are building major power plants and on the river on the mainstream of the river. having significant impact on the settlements and fisheries on this river and in the basin. vietnam has been working very closely with in the framework of the mekong river commission in order to forge a common voice and to consult with all nations concerned in order to ensure that we can limit and minimize the impact that these dams and power plants have on the likelihood of the millions of people. [speaking in native tongue] i take this opportunity to express our thanks to the united states for its interest and for also raising his voice in order to ensure that minimal environmental and likelihood impact of these developments on the mekong river. >> we may have time for more one more question. this question is how does vietnam see the us-chinese relationship and what impact do

that includes 300 million people in india, 70% of the populations of cambodia, myanmar, north korea, and haiti, and much of sub-saharan africa. one country that has made great strides toward universal access to electricity is the east african nation of kenya. in tonight's signature segment, newshour weekend special correspondent christopher livesay reports on kenya's plan to bring electricity to its people. >> reporter: seline akinyi mumbe is 49 years old, and lived without electricity for her first 48 years, until she finally got power ten months ago. so three buildings here, all connected to electricity? >> yeah. >> reporter: mumbe lives in unami, a village 170 miles northwest of nairobi. >> ( translated ): i felt like i was in a different world, because my house was well lit. i knew i was no longer going to spend money on oil. i was also not going to spend a lot of time walking to the market to charge my cell phone. >> reporter: her home was recently hooked up as part of the "last mile connectivity project," a government program to connect 70% of kenyans to the grid by this year.

i just returned from spending a month in myanmar where you have monks or ethnic cleansers. how does one explain that? is there buddhist monks out there with violence against the infidels? maybe there is. some obscure take somewhere in some tibetan monastery. i'm sure you can find it. but what will that prove? the reason why even buddhists have resorted to ethnic cleansing and extreme forms of violence, not just in myanmar or thailand, sri lanka, other parts of the world has very little to do with religion or religious text. it has to do with certain very specific social economic factors. and we have to investigate. went to analyze and understand those. this is something i've been saying over and over again. based upon my experience of these particular realities. in many ways we have been dealing, we have been exchanging intellectual produced for a long time. people constantly try to argue with me saying why is it most terrorists seem to come from muslim countries? i say, just think about this question. why is it that so much violence in the first half of the 20th century wa

with the onset of the south—westerly monsoon we have seen some enhanced rainfall across myanmar and partiest rainfall in the next few days. we still have the extreme heat in the north and west of india and pakistan although a few showers have eased things a little will stop just to point out this bright area in the bay of bengal with the potential of a storm system developing and also this one in the western half of the arabian sea which might develop into a storm affecting yemen and obama. staying with heat —— yemen and oman. plenty of heat with temperatures in seville up to 35 degrees and similar in lisbon and that will extend right across spain and portugal, over the pyrenees into france. we will see the temperatures in the mid—20s across france and the low countries and the uk as well. it stayed gloriously hot and sunny if that is what you like for the next few days. finally a brief outlook for the uk. if you are heading towards the shores you will be greeted by lots of sunshine, particularly in the south—east, a bit more cloud further in the south—west but warm with it as well and t

it was christians in some patients, it was muslims in myanmar. -- nations, it was muslims in myanmar. >> executive order number two states that number one did not provide a basis for discriminating against or for any particular religion. if we find that's incorrect, does that not undermine or does it undermine the facial legitimacy of executive order number two? >> i don't think so. >> based on something that is incorrect? mr. wall: i don't think so. however far the taint the reruns, i think even if you thought it affected the first order, the president went back, and in response to concerns raised, concerns he disagreed with, but nevertheless revised the order, took out a number of categories of aliens alleged to have due process rights, took out the provision of religious minorities, took out the indefinite suspension of syrian refugees. i mean, responded, seriously to , all the concerns that courts had raised, and now we are right back here. the question is, well can we , just infer that whatever we thought of the first order was true of the second, and i think the answer is no. al

myanmar, after 50 years of nightmare, something unexpected it happening here, and it's pretty incredible

and to the communist of the northern vietnamese, then potentially, this could lead to the fall of myanmarnd thailand and eventually, india. seer this, we do start to that eisenhower signed the 1954 southeast asian treaty organization, an attempt to halt the communist expansion in the area of southeast asia. this is followed with john f. in 1962 thissigns foreign assistance act. launch theway to deployment of u.s. troops to vietnam and to train allied forces. prior to this, with the french and vietnam laos and laos becoming an independent country in 1954, this gives an ofortunity for the expanding the economist forces to come in and expand even into laos. and we do start to see a large communist group that starts to emerge in laos. so an important thing to remember is that, what were the mong doing at this time? weretioned that the mong supporting the royal laos government against the japanese. as the communists were encroaching into laos and it started to expand, the mong were anti-communist. fightingwere actually against the communists in laos to protect their freedoms and their land. to

we have seen problems around the infrastructure projects like in myanmar where there were projects, becausef the environment. and then we did not hear from the national security council. he said transparent, fair playing was needed, fair playing field for the u.s. to want to get involved and u.s. companies to get involved. there is optimism among countries but also caution from european nations and the u.s. haidi: are you hearing much in terms of the response from southeast asian nations about this initiative from beijing? nations arest asian clearly crucial to this. there is an element of caution for some of them around this idea china is expanding its sphere of influence. malaysia has done a big intake were taken a lot of the investments to china allocated to the belt and road initiative. one country that needs infrastructure is indonesia, and we spoke to the head of their correlation board. pointd indonesia made the of pointing this out, seeing the mistakes of other countries around the belton road initiative, and they are going to get involved. there is a key infrastructure project, he

in myanmar, even in europe with to budapest railway, some controversy around that.ere are some issues that china will have to iron out. will be at pains to express that this is about globalization that will benefit all parties involved. these conversations will take place over sunday and monday. thank you so much. rishaad: our next guest doubts the initiative will offer china reliable alliances. he is with us now. why the skepticism here? basically, there has been a lot of media coverage and hype, but the one bell, one road initiative is still in its very early stages. the state onis banks and state owned funding is and the that early stages. there has been pushed back from banks worried about their own balance sheets and capital controls. >> the banks are worried, but in china, you can push back only so far. sophie: tom did highlight that china is trying to bring on more private investors. how could that scenario play out? >> the keyword you used is trying. you are trying, but if in the private sector, you look at risks, viability. are they going to pay me my money

between the countries and they are also afraid of being encircled by the project, making roads into myanmar on. they are approaching it readily, but they have no choice for the companies -- countries that want to maintain good economic relationships with china. david: what should we make of who was there? vladimir putin was there at the state guesthouse, tickling the ivories. when you look at the roster of who is their into isn't, what should we make of that? the u.s. sentven a mid-level delegation, but that was largely because mr. trump one -- argued that he had one some small concessions from china on trade. -- many major countries from europe and asia sent and-level representatives had national leaders there. everybody who wants a part in it , they don't want to be sidelined, but they don't want to buy into the chinese reason because essentially accepting the information on what multilateral engagement should look like, that's something that many countries in europe and asia are uncomfortable with. , always goodprasad to speak with you. the author of "gaining currency," joining us from w

buddhist nationals and myanmar, you don't think about this has been persecutors but that is what is happening course, state persecution in secular states like north korea and others around the world. this is serious global issue. kelly: one could argue that it goes both ways. christians have also been guilty of committing acts of persecution and that some people today might say that the justification for what goes on today. >> well, there is no justification for persecuting anyone because of their religious police whether they are religious or an atheist. people have every human right to believe what they believe and not be persecuted for it. especially, if they are not permitting acts of violence against other people. there's always going to be human infallibility among believers of any religion but that doesn't justify being killed and having their houses of worship burned and destroyed. about 200 christians of worship houses were destroyed every month. there is no way to justify that. there are those who would seem to believe that christians deserve to be persecuted. kelly: next week, pres

burma, as you now know, is called myanmar.an share in the culture, the food, the fun, just minutes away from the new b.a.r.t. station. monday, picnics and cookouts but make sure to take a minute to remember those who fell for our freedom. >>> when you face criminal charges in court, you get an attorney even if you can't afford one, but that doesn't apply to immigration court. that can make a huge difference. senior investigative reporter steven stock has the numbers and the story of one u.s. veteran set to be deported until a lawyer got involved. >> reporter: we obtained immigration court data that shows someone who has a lawyer in court is five times more likely to have the case ruled in their favor than someone who does not have an attorney. earlier this year we first told that you the government can deport any noncitizen even honorably discharged u.s. veterans for committing some crimes. that policy came here to play in the case of a navy veteran separated from his family for four years. joaquin served on a navy battleship

they had fled persecution in myanmar and were living in flimsy shelters when the storm struck tuesdaylling seven people. authorities evacuated 350,000 permanent coastal residents, but refugees, most stayed behind. now, many have lost what little they had. >> ( translated ): yesterday, the storm destroyed my house. my son and daughter were injured, they are in a hospital. i was also injured. the roof has fallen on my chest. now i don't have any food, and no money to repair my house. >> woodruff: the refugees spent last night exposed to the rain, waiting for outside aid to arrive. there's word that president trump has invited other leaders to call him on his private cell phone. the associated press and others report that it is raising concerns about holding sensitive conversations on unsecured lines. the reports say that mr. trump has given his cell number to the leaders of mexico, canada and france. ivanka trump's fashion line is facing calls to cut ties with a shoe supplier in china. that's after the arrests of three activists who had investigated labor abuses. the democratic national

date, because it was launched in 2013, where some of these projects have gone awry, for example in myanmarprotests against the dam, and sri lanka, protests along environmental lines. in asia alone, $1.7 trillion needed every year according to the asian development bank, between now and 2030, so the need is there. it is how china implements it. the other question is the financing. they have their state lenders involved. there is a big need for them to get private investors involved because of the gap between the public investment and the private investment. mckenzie saying that is crucial. expecting to get more details on that over the next few days in beijing. about thistalk to us u.s.-china trade deal. i am in party, -- in bari, italy. how significant is the china-u.s. trade deal that you are talking about, hearing about, looking at there? so the commerce secretary in the u.s., wilbur ross, heralded this as a herculean efforts after this hundred days since the presidency, president trump meeting in mar-a-lago, florida. i would say there are caveats to this. we have movement on things like

there are concerns in countries like myanmar, where bans imposed have been scrapped after there was opposition environmental concerns. they are also looking at the port recently built in china and some of the military installations there. this initiative goes into politically volatile areas and navigating that and china's role and influence will be a key challenge for both beijing and its partners on this project. people here will be looking to get some transparency in answers from the chinese as to how they expect to play that role out. i am expressed -- impressed you can talk with lad blasting noise behind you. analysts.g in on yvonne: let's talk about the strategic it locations, but also the economic and locations. i have this chart and want our viewers to see here the total trade that we see from china with some of the what belt one road countries. has that come down since it really started about three years ago? is it too early to gauge the success of this or have these projects not been enough to move the dial? >> this is quite a long-term thing, so it takes time to see the real results

parts of india and myanmar are also expected to be affected. taken. there are just nine more days until the general election, so breakfast is back on the road finding out what matters to voters. it is half term in parts of the uk, which normally means it is raining. dan, is it? it was reining at six o'clock this morning, but the weather has cleared up morning, but the weather has cleared up somewhat. this is llandudno. welcome to north wales. we will be in northern ireland tomorrow, scotla nd in northern ireland tomorrow, scotland on friday. but today we are concentrating on wales. this is simon and eden hope in our bbc brea kfast simon and eden hope in our bbc breakfast deckchairs. you have ruined my sand castle. i spent at least ten seconds making that. you are already on the ice cream, what a way to start half term. let me introduce you to our politicians. representing the conservatives, alec cairns. david hanson from labour, christine humphreys from the liberal democrats, plaid cymru and ukip as well. a ripple of applause for our politician