also bui diem, saigon's man in washington. and then there is richard nixon.y 1968, the perennial republican presidential wanna-be had lost his last two elections, and he knew this was his last shot. >> in 1968, he wanted that presidency so bad that he was willing to do whatever was necessary. >> this is twice as big a crowd as we had in 1960, and there the result is going to be twice as good as in 1960. >> so back on fifth avenue, july 12th. we have three men in a hotel room, a veteran politician plotting his comeback, the man running are his political operation, and south vietnam's man in washington. plus one lone woman, anna chennau chennault. >> have i the opportunity not only talking to the leaders, but the people. >> nixon knew that anna chennault could establish a relationship between him and the south vietnamese, and just in case it became public, nixon could pretend that she was not his real envoy. >> after just ten years in washington, d.c., anna had fast-tracked her way to wealth and influence and a penthouse on top of the brand-new watergate comple

i mean saigon, that's the top of the table.r you can't have the peace. >> lbj knew there was collusion with the south vietnamese government. to keep them from negotiate the peace. what lbj couldn't prove definitively was that nixon was involved. >> some of the old china lobby are going around and implying -- >> anyone with half a brain knows that richard nixon is behind this effort to sabotage the peace talks, because the south vietnamese would not listen to a fundraiser. anna chennault unless they knew for sure that she was speakinging for nixon. >> you see that your people don't tell the south vietnamese that they're going to get any better deal out of the united states government? >> one fact remained unspoken but well understood. if this story hit the news, richard nixon's white house dreams would explode in scandal. >> in saigon, a veteran foreign correspondent was poised to light the fuse. >> as in november election approached. i heard this outlandish rumor that i cabled the monitor overseas editor. >> beverly deepe had c

also, bui diem, saigon's man in washington.th vietnam's ambassador to the united states and richard nixon. the perennial presidential wannabe had lost his last two elections and he knew that this was his last shot. >> in 1968 he wanted the presidency so bad he was willing to do whatever was necessary. >> this is twice as big a crowd as we had in 1960 and the result is going to be twice as good as in 1960. >> so back on fifth avenue, july 12, we have three men in a hotel room, a veteran politician plotting his comeback. the man running his political operation. and south vietnam's man in washington. plus, one lone woman. anna chennault. >> of course i had the opportunity to not only talk to the leaders, but the people. >> nixon knew that anna chennault could establish a relationship between him and the south vietnamese and that just in case it became public. nixon could pretend she was not his real envoy. >> after just ten years in washington, d.c., anna had fast-tracked her way to wealth and influence. and a penthouse on top of

the last ambassador in saigon wasn't going to be the man who gave up saigon so i'm curious about anotherenerational thing which is you can take a military history of learning from mccarthy or bradley and assisting with the leadership of. do you get this stubbornness is built into the generations leaving the military on both sides and it is an issue that you mentioned is johnson learning from roosevelt's strength that they are so locked into their egos or they are so programmed or focused that they can't show any weakness at all and it drives them into this map madness. >> one has to remember that in the 1960s in the wake of the extraordinary economic achievement most americans felt nothing was impossible in the united states. you couldn't defeat this raggedy guerrilla army. it would have been an almost impossible message. you may say rather harshly in my book kissinger would come out pretty appalling for the tapes that have been released about the cynicism. he never believed the war was winnable. he was desperate to conceal. they were going to stop on an absolute defeat. we already have

i mean saigon, not to come to the table. them to paris or you can't have the peace. >> lbj knew there was collusion with the south vietnamese government to keep them from negotiating the peace. what lbj couldn't prove definitively was that nixon was involved. >> some of the old china lobby are going around and implying -- >> anyone with half a brain knows that richard nixon is behind this effort to sabotage the peace talks, because the south vietnamese would not listen to a fundraiser. anna chennault, unless they knew for sure that she was speaking for nixon. >> you see that your people don't tell the south vietnamese that they're going to get any better deal out of the united states government? >> one fact remained unspoken but well understood. if this story hit the news, richard nixon's white house dreams would explode in scandal. in saigon, a veteran foreign correspondent was poised to light the fuse. >> as the november election approached, i heard this outlandish rumor that i cabled the monitor overseas editor. >> beverl

so last ambassador in saigon that delayed getting people out.i am curious about the generational thing to take macarthur or bradley going back to the first world war taking lessons from the other generations and then you get the stubbornness built into the generations of men meeting military on both sides and it is a tar baby but they cannot show a weakness is there a legitimacy? . >> one has to remember in the wake of the extraordinary economic achievement, most americans i saw that nothing was impossible for the united states and to tell americans you cannot defeat this little raggedy ass it was an impossible message. that while nixon and kissinger come out about their cynicism he never thought that was winnable that presided over the vietnamese because he was desperate but this was not a winnable war. so where he had a problem as it was a message that they had lost it is a very tough so they were accustomed to success. >> with everything written about vietnam so what motivated you to wade through the chasms and pages and much of those were us

he had as a major tenant the saigon government had to be intact. he would have learned that there is a majority of the population that was probably if they were not already, the majority were not already in the camp they were probably anti-communist so there was a sizable population that could have been mobilized in any other situation if would have mobilized the force. the agreement was built on the back of mobilizing that society whether it was a nonpartisan relationship so that is what the good negotiators do but that is not at all what happened here. they were not consulted about it, they were not taken into consideration and at the end of the day the united states withdrew and threw saigon under the bus. there were 58,000 americans, 3.82 million for the preservation of south vietnam and it wasn't taken seriously at the end and that to me is trag tragic. >> let me turn to a greek earning theme you argue with the way that they manifested itself in the conduct. the question of ambition on the one hand if you don't have great ambition you have a g

>> at the american embassy in saigon. in the new embassy in saigon. any problem here? >> it was supposed to be safety and security. >> what do we say and embassy is? what do these vietcong snipers do? >> they didn't get into the building but you are getting them in the american embassy. any problem with that? >> yes. >> you telling people that you are winning and there is not a problem and now the embassy is attack. how about that picture to the right? >> we say they were aware of their to help them. helping people in south. but the context of the pitcher -- we don't know what is happening. we had a person that was armed being shot execution style in the street and at that point there is no threat. >> who is the chief of saigon? not correct. >> and peoria -- see these images on the television what are you thinking >> what the is going on? >> they were losing. where is the credibility >> what is the problem with the credibility gap >> if your population starts -- stops trusting you they will stop supporting it if they stop supporting it the politicians have to write a n

the saigon government at that time was corrupt. and as far as westmoreland, i am not defending him, but when i was in that area, when we got reports, which was basic third marine division and they are taking casualties at a great number when we sent the information down to saigon, the letters got intercepted. westmoreland was being told that casualties were light: a lot of times this was not the case. it was political on both fronts, from the vietnamese, and from us. >> okay. greg, would you like to take that on? it really sounds like, sir, your question is about accuracy of reporting so that the senior commander can make good strategic judgments. >> i think it is an important point. i want to be careful, though, just simply suggesting that the saigon government failed just because it was corrupt. i think there is far more complexity to that statement that we need to embrace, that this is an important struggle for the south vietnamese and the saigon leadership about again what i mentioned in my comments about what it means to be vi

the american embassy in saigon. in the spanking new american embassy in saigon. any problem here? >> it's supposed to be a bastion of safety and security. >> what do we say an embassy is? >> u.s. sovereign. >> what have these viet cong snipers been able to do? >> breach it. >> they didn't get into the building, though there's debate back and forth, but you are schwacking these guys in the middle of the american embassy in saigon. any problem with that? >> you told people you are winning and now you're winning and there's no problem. >> how about that picture in the far right? >> we say it's there to help liberate or help these people in the south, but the context of this picture, we don't necessarily know what's happening, so we just have a person who's armed or whose arms are bound being shot execution-style on the street when at that point he's really no threat. >> he's the chief of saigon. if you're in peoria, we're going to keep going back to peoria, and you're seeing these images on your television, what are you thinking? >> what the hell is going on. >> we're absolutely losi

visitors impressed with saigon and the natural beauty of the countryside.they were denied a freedom of speech and the rulers in 21st century conceived to the people some latitude to make money but none to express their political opinions to debate the past and about the so-called credibility gap during the war years but remains institutionalized. the name ho chi minh city is falling and eventually vanished when they came from petersburg again. it may be argued that while the united states lost the war almost half a century ago to reverse this outcome. america's armed forces failed and a broad irresistible. a 13-year-old boy wrestling with a friend on a hillside in north vietnam after 1975 when they announced saigon had been liberated. he wrote long afterwards in a book entitled the winning side and according to what we've been taught in school this would be the end of two decades of misery and i thought we must quickly set about educating its misguided children yet in 2012 the same boy he observed. many people who reviewed our stunned when they realize and

i was fed up with the optimism that seemed to flow without stopping from saigon. johnson had always had skepticism, but this is mcfearson who is 27 or 28 at the time. again he would tear into the president. he was one of the few people that could get away with it. he'd just rip into the president. and again as some described him, he was the president's conscience. but the president, this is the question, what do we do now? yeah, we're kicking the crud out of especially the vietcong. everywhere the fighting is much better than what was anticipated. the south vietnamese people are not rising up in revolt like the north vietnamese had hoped that they would. so this is a problem. so here becomes the debate. the military, as you saw this play out, in the behind the scenes, try to utilize tet to justify asking for another 206,000 troops. and from february to march of 1968, this is going to be a bureaucratic battle of epic proportions. where inside the pentagon and inside the white house, the debates are going to rage. what do we do? will 206,000 make a difference? if so

and the government should arrange to send these refugees back to saigon. and valparaiso, a town close to niceville, anxiety about refugees, reflected anxiety about economic issue, the stagnating economy, and weakening social safety network. we got enough of our own problems to take care of, said grady palm berland, a local barber. an one of the customers agreed, they don't each have enough money to take care of social security now and they want to bring in more people. these economic concerns were in keeping with national sentiment. many americans believed that southeast asian refugees posed an economic burden on the u.s. a survey in june 1975 found that 62% of americans believed that im grants take jobs away from americans. only 28% believed otherwise. and then there were issues other than economic issues. for one, there is concern about security, about communists slipping in the refugees, and this sounds a little bit familiar, doesn't it? robert carr, a realtor in nearby valparaiso feared that vietnamese refugees would bring communist infiltrators. how d

, 60 miles from saigon. he said, why did the army keep getting defeated there? and was a question that dan ellsberg took, like a piece of string, and started pulling at the string and he would find one at your after another. everything he pulled down came down to vietnamese politics. that was the end. that was the end of the piece of string. >> it was a soviet journalist, talk about the soviet war in afghanistan, wrote a wonderful book called the hidden war. he says experience travelers will tell you to get lost in the country. that's the way you come to know it. but in afghanistan we couldn't even do that. we would stare out at these villages to eight inches of bulletproof glass. after coming back from a conflict which i had stared out at iraqis through several inches of bulletproof glass, and it's always, i mean, this is the moral force, the things you can't quantify, the opinions and feelings of the people amongst whom you're fighting which is one of the reasons why it annoys me to see this view of wars w

after that fell, then goal of getting to saigon became much easier. but being an adviser in a war where the people that you're advising feel like they're being -- they're being worked at very hard by both sides, was very difficult. very difficult. phil, you face many challenges in both of your combat tours. what is the one or two biggest challenges you faced as a commander in battle. >> i'll preface the answer to that by saying, i was told by lieutenant colonel at one point, he was not my battalion commander. one was a west pointer and the other was an rotc grad. this officer told me it's not good to be too concerned about soldiers. i didn't understand what he was talking about. he had not ever commanded in combat, he was from a class -- i think it was 55 or 56. and had not commanded soldiers in combat, and i thought, i'll take that under advisement. but the biggest challenge i had, i think, was -- i'll tell you what the operational environment we had was first. we were in the north, operating in triple canopy rainforest or rubber plant plantations. m

after that fell, the goal of getting to saigon became much easier. but being an advisor in a war where the people that you're advising feel like they were being -- they are being worked at very hard by both sides was very difficult. very difficult. >> phil, you faced many challenges in both of your combat tours. what is the one or two biggest challenges you faced as a commander in battle? >> i'll preface the answer to that by saying i actually was told by a lieutenant colonel at one point, and he was not my battalion commander. both my commanders were superb commanders. this officer, who was from staff at brigade level told me it's not good to be too concerned about your soldiers. i didn't understand what the hell he was talking about. he had not ever commanded in combat. he was from a class, i think it was '55 or '56 and had not commanded soldiers in combat. i thought, well, i'll take that under advisement. but the biggest challenge i had, i think, was -- i'll tell you what the operational environment we had was first. we were in war zone c, which i

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gallery our exhibit remembering vietnam examines the war from its world war ii origins to the fall of saigon. in the section that covers the events of 1968 you will find a page from lyndon johnson's marce nation. including his speech he made a surprising announcement that he would not run for president in the coming election. lbj reflected back on 1968. i sometimes felt i was living in a continuous nightmare. it was a your challenges and return to kyle longley now to hear how lbj meant to a very happy to introduce kyle who happens to be one of the news staff nurse to join the administration come in late july kyle became the fifth director of the lyndon baines johnson library in austin, texas. he came to us from arizona state university where he was a professor of history and political site and held a number of administrative positions including associate director of the school of historical philosophical and religious studies, and faculty of history department. he acted the national academic organizations including the american historical association of organization of american historians an

illustrated by a rather horrifying tale and weeks after i was in vietnam for a brief time and had only seen saigon i was at somebody's birthday party with roses and champagne and rooms in the background and somebody murdering somebody else but you never worried about it or people didn't. so i went with these friends there was a big battle it was the operation to clear the north vietnamese out of the province. one of my friends and i decide to go to the civilian and i was sent there by the american doctor called operation hope and the doctors who gave their time over six weeks or two months and i would say he was hysterical. i have never seen a man but in particular a doctor as he was. and to understand why there were virtually no beds people in the hallways entirely burned by napalm and swollen bodies he pointed to a dog in the courtyard and said you realize he is carrying a human leg. he was agitated like that but i put my head into a door somehow it just turned out to be an operating theater. and they were doing an operation and they said come in. come in they had no surgical gloves or anything

the civic center neighborhood welcomes people from all communities: from little saigon, hard working local merchants, visitors, museum and library goers, to the children who visit our family playground does. if victory has many parents, victory also loves soft ice cream. and if that's true, we have our children to thank. will celeste step forward? celeste drew plans for this playground, and at the end, when we asked her if it needed anything else, she said... >> soft ice cream. >> soft ice cream. so we owe a huge thanks to the kids of the tenderloin for their mission. all right. we have many people to thank, and a few different speakers, and we're going to get through the program as quickly as we can, but to celebrate with us today is our mayor, london breed. i confess, i don't know her favorite brand of ice cream, but we'll find out. she is here at civic center every day, and it is my great honor to introduce our mayor, london breed. >> the hon. london breed: wow. what an amazing community. thank you all for being here today. we know we face many challenges in our city that i am try

we've been to saigon. >>> he was my original minder for vietnam's ministry of foreign affairs.. welcome back. welcome back. cheers. >> thank you. lin has brought me to a uniquely proud and hanoi tradition. it refers to the road side joints where locals drink keg difficult penced draft beer. >> it's between 3 to 4%. >> so we need to drink a lot. >> yes. >> cheers for hanoi beer. it was something luxurious. >> right. >> now it's for everyone. it's not expensive. 10,000 -- that's 40, 45 cents a beer. >> i'll have another. i can afford that. the country has changed so much. when i first came, bicycles and motorbikes. now a lot of cars. >> more cars. >> look, money. people are making -- business is good. i mean, much, much, much more tourism every year. >> yes, yes. people also enjoy life more. ♪ the dare to give big semi-annual event. lowest prices of the season november 14th to the 18th. only at jared. opportunity is everywhere. like here. where you can explore the world knowing you can always find your way home. ♪ ♪ the whole world's coming together now ♪ amazon's black friday sa

so if you take global poverty for example you know it might seem like a reasonable thing to go to saigon or under us and set up an orphanage you know really well and so on i mean celebrate that that's fantastic but ultimately it's not solving the structural problem which at stake which is the fact that we have a global economic system that is fundamentally designed in a manner that siphons wealth and value from the periphery you know into the core the global north you seem to be attributing that only to structural reasons but if you look for example at afghanistan the country that's been reliant on for many decades already if you see the structure of that aid a lot of that money goes into consultancy fees and private contracts so do you think there's any private interest involved in helping the world's poor oh absolutely i mean there's no question the industry is a booming business. and most of the well a good deal of the yields from it in this are not going back to private companies in the west or even local private companies. without really addressing the key needs that they seem to ad

i was told that i was in so this did it to the whole of saigon that could push impossible. get have signed it at least ten times as big it all just. so i got a little broke executive and i said a little too much she wanted me to find some of the government thought that i've been to china is it but is it or you know i was asked this question billion next china if you catch it this is new plan intention is too good to say no is to ensure we don't get in a lot. this is not from this book isn't the first she's just. believing this but the day of the middle east war has shown convincing proof of israel's military getting out of the israeli armored columns continue their sweep to the south left the on the gaza strip and to the south in sinai how did it happen and more importantly what happens now going to this one thing that they think the lever again no one is a. little better than that they think that people must make. you think you are making real progress today where would you like to stop i'm going to occupy the whole of jerusalem. the one that you wish to increase the land

we've been to saigon, can tho, nha trang -- he was my original minder for vietnam's ministry of foreignst friends. >> hai: one, two, three -- ba, yo! welcome back. welcome back. cheers. >> anthony: lin has brought me to a great and proud and uniquely hanoi tradition -- bia hoi. bia hoi refers to the roadside joints where locals gather to consume keg-dispensed, freshly brewed draft beer. ah, that's good. >> lin: it's not strong at all, my friend. just like between 3 to 4%. >> anthony: ah, so we need to drink a lot. >> lin: yeah. >> hai: yeah. >> lin: cheers for hanoi beer. [ horns honking ] it was something luxurious 30 years -- >> hai: yeah. >> lin: -- ago. >> anthony: right. >> lin: and now it's for everyone. >> hai: yeah. >> lin: it's not expensive. ten thousand dong. >> anthony: so, that's -- >> hai: 40 cents. >> lin: 40, 45 cents. >> anthony: 45 cents a beer. >> both: yeah. >> anthony: i'll have another. i can afford that. ♪ the country's changed so much. when i first came, bicycles and motorbikes. now lot of cars. >> lin: more cars. >> anthony: you know, look, money. >> lin: yeah.

i was told that i was in this state the whole of saigon could push impossible. you have to have signage at least ten times as big it all just. for example he broke executive and i said a little too much and it. meant too fast some of the government thought that they were going to sign it but it didn't and i was asked this question lilian next china if you catch it i shouldn't plan intention is to go to say no is to ensure freedom given you know. this is nuts and guess what this is useless if she does. believing this but that day of the middle east war has shown convincing proof of this wales militia get out of the israeli armored columns continue their sweep to the south west be on the gaza strip and to the south in sinai how did it happen and more importantly what happens now when going to do something to protect all over again no one is a language. better than to think that people must make. you think you are making real progress today where would you like to stop going to occupy the whole of jerusalem no. wonder you wish to increase the land area. as. you wou

i mean, you go to saigon or hanoi?n ownership of everything. is -- that's not happening here? >> french guy: yes, i can see there is an acceleration now. when you go to the market and you say, where is it from? they say, thailand. vietnam, china, and to find local fruit, it's difficult. but if you talk to old people, they will say -- we are like the bamboo. we are not trees, so when there is too, too much wind, voila, we bend in the wind, we get up. >> french guy: i was a monk for little bit more than one month. in fact, i signed for three weeks. after three weeks i wanted to stay a little bit. they push a lot the way to not suffer. to learn how to disconnect the important things in life. that's why the people, they drink a lot. they like to enjoy, to share. if you don't share, you are poor. more you give, more you're rich. you have money a lot, you lose your money tomorrow, some people will be upset. when you go up and going down, it's never a good feeling. as they say, look at the river. it's go up, it's go down, but

challenges in creating this cultural district when we compare ourselves to chinatown, japantown or little saigonnities there that act as place makers. when you enter into little philippines, you're like where are the businesses, and that's one of the challenges we're trying to solve. >> undercover love wouldn't be possible without the help of the mayor and all of our community partnerships out there. it costs approximately $60,000 for every event. undiscovered is a great tool for the cultural district to bring awareness by bringing the best parts of our culture which is food, music, the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san franciscans to see is the dynamics of the filipino-american culture. i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. we've become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when people come to discover, i want them t

the end result of that, the office in saigon, more than declarations and everything stands up and puzzledby that. people who read the vietnam history, the chinese and north koreas. >> a great question on kennedy and eisenhower's views on vietnam and how they changed. kennedy's views on vietnam changed considerably. as you check out he went to vietnam when he was still a member of the house and in his early years in the senate gave these are markable speeches in which he said western power is not going to win in vietnam. it is for danes. it is not going to happen. he is very critical of the eisenhower administration for embracing france. but when the french left and the us entered both kennedy and eisenhower had reservations, but they inched the country in and in small ways, eisenhower first with advisors and kennedy more robustly. i don't think either of them would be particularly -- i don't think history looks on their vietnam policies as particularly inspired during the late 50s and early 60s, kennedy and eisenhower were more skeptical when the french were there but the american guy, th

for the first time since the fall of saigon in 1975, more than half of our veterans are under the age of 65, and they are computer savvy, they expect quick service, and they expect that service to begin to them closer to home. they expect service that is available, accessible, and cost-effective. so it is an integrated v.a., and integrated veterans benefit and health-care system that is agile and adaptive, that will do what they needed to do, and that is my goal, to provide them with that service. , have said on many of my trips that i have seen wonderful examples of the a confidence -- accomplishments. accomplishments that deserve more attention than they normally get. not enough veterans or the american people know that the v.a. care system continues to outperform the private sector in the quality of care and patient care that we give to america's warriors. we are at the cutting-edge of medical technology. rehabilitative services, prosthetics, traumatic rain treatment,nal cord opioid management, mental health care, telehealth and community care. community care is where one third of

in the south, meaning the area around -- saigon and out, they were 90% with us. when i got back to vietnam in 1991, i came in with senator bob curay, he asked me to come with him as a friend. i was not in government at the time. because i worked with the vietnamese. and i stayed when he left, and i just got two sicalo guys just to drive me around and it was like the victory parade we never had. these people were coming out of the woodwork. you know, they hadn't seen americans for 15 years. they were coming out crying. some grabbed me on the street, we always knew you'd come back. very, you know, very powerful support for what we were doing. in themiddle l where i fought, central vietnam, kind of like kentucky and tennessee in the civil war. you know, they were divided and hard people on both sides and they really took it out on each other during the war and once the communists won on the people who were on the other side. there were -- just directly to your, you know, we can't go back and replay this, but you know who david hackworth was? david hackworth, you kno

we made our way to westminster, home to little saigon and a lot of people say having grown up in southernreal community gathering places around here. but i will tell you where people gather, and it it is at the car wash. wow. let me see if any of these guys will chat. i'm here because there's a big election coming up in november for congress. are you guys thinking about voting? >> no. >> what's life like in westminster, huntington beach? >> terrific. we live in california. >> nice out here, huh? >> yeah. >> a lot of people say this is a conservative area, and the democrats are going to try to flip it. >> well, good luck. >> what are the issues that are going to be most important to you that you're going to vote on? >> i think just a lot of the racial issues that's going on. so that's a big thing, especially now with trump. >> are you a voter? do you vote here? >> not yet. >> so you're not a citizen yet? >> i'm working on it. >> working on it? >> yeah. >> are you planning on voting? >> no. >> you're not? >> no. >> not at all? >> not at all. >> you're laughing. >> i've actually never voted.

navy ship to travel up the saigon river in the vietnam war. so he is a vietnam vet. after he got out of the military, he used the g.i. bill to go to college at what was then eastern washington college in 1967, bit of a kind of a -- a lot of turmoil during that time in our country, particularly on college campuses, so this is during the height of the vietnam war, a lot of the protests. and when he was in college, like so many vietnam veterans, he was certainly upset to see a lot of the protests. he was particularly infuriated to see his professors canceling class so they could join the protesters. quote, a lot of our professors we had didn't even know where vietnam was, but they went out and protested. however, there was a rule on campus that even if one student showed up for class, that the professor couldn't cancel the class to join the protesters. so ron and other veterans joined a club. they organized a club at their university to make sure there was a veteran in every classroom pretty good idea. keep the professors doing what they're supposed to be doing, teachin

clothes at of the shanghai criterion the tolls white on green jersey winners pierre la tour and pizza saigon also joining in they'll have a field racing twenty laps around the china museum too and the twenty eight hundred season. nick in london. is it for the news i'll be back in a moment with more the day's news today but. until now the coverage of latin america and most of the world was about covering khuda taz tragedies of quakes and that was it but not how people feel how they look how they think and that's what we do we go. five and a half months of demanding a good education system that was introduced in. latin america as year as have to fill a void that needed to be filled. a tamil journalist in search of a missing colleague stops at nothing to bring his story to the public. and sri lanka press freedoms are under threat. and some stories can only be told by those who will not compromise on the truth. news from just one part of the viewfinder asia series on al-jazeera. getting to the heart of the matter how can you be a refugee after you while eight borders between five safe countries