south vietnamese units will attack the headquarters for the entire communist military operation in south vietnamthis is not an invasion of cambodia. >> nixon's conviction is that what you've got to do is cut off the supplies that the north vietnamese are funneling into the south to the viet cong, and the way to do it is to take out the ho chi minh trail, the route they're using through cambodia. >> you don't quite realize that cambodia is its own country, in fact, a country that always had tenuous relationships with vietnam. and once they destabilize cambodia, you really just have all hell breaking out. >> the cambodian operation will continue during the coming days. american units searching for north vietnamese troops and installations, but what they will find or how long they will be here no one can say for sure. >> the active, large-scale american and south vietnamese participation in the fighting in cambodia has brought a cry of anger from many college campuses. at kent state university in ohio, the protest turned into a riot with thousands of demonstrators facing national guardsmen and poli

one hand, johnson recognized that there had to be a partnership between the united states and south vietnam in order for the war to succeed and the war at the end of the day was in pursuit of a political objective. so naturally the south vietnamese government was a central component of any successful strategy and that relationship had to be cultivated. lbj like presidents before him was frustrated with what he saw, what americans typically saw as the foot dragging, as the inefficiency and unwillingness to do the kinds of things that in the american view would have established greater popularity for the government. >> let's hear from robert. orlando, florida. welcome. go ahead. >> caller: yes. since we have a couple history experts there i'm curious, you know, what did we learn from the vietnam war? what does the history show? what have we learned not to get ourselves entwined in these future conflicts? >> lien-hang nguyen, go ahead. >> i think one of the main take-aways from the vietnam war and american experience with the vietnam war is that what was happening in vietnam predated american

there is no doubt a spectrum of opinion when it comes to buddhist leaders of south vietnam. it seems the south vietnamese government had a persistent problem. it is beyond that part of the south vietnamese population that was most strongly behind it. >> what was the u.s. government's relationship with johnson's relationship with the south vietnamese government? >> well, i think it was complicated and a source of frustration alongside so many other sources of frustration for lbj. on the one hand, johnson recognized there had to be a partnership for the war to succeed. the war at the end of the day was in pursuit of a political objective. naturally the south vietnamese government was a central component of any successful strategy. at the same time, lbj, like presidents before him, was consistently frustrated with foot dragging and the unwillingness to do the kind of things that in the american view would have established greater political popularity for that government. >>> let's hear from robert. orlando, florida. go ahead, you're on american history tv. >> caller: yes. since

despite the changes in leadership, there would be no change in the commitment of australia to south vietnamute briefing on the war, president johnson plunged into an 18 hour day of protocol and courtesy ofits, and a full round bilateral discussions with australian and asian leaders. >> on the periphery of the orient, a new issue is building. i saw it, i went there last year, i visited their country and the people. as the new asia becomes a reality, there is a hope the will turnthe mainland deadlines to the challenge of economic and social development. the people turn to the task of living in dignity, and mutual respect with their neighbors. ♪ [airplane engines] ♪ tolling] >> on friday, december 22, the scene shifted to melbourne. could be heards from the spires of it st. paul's cathedral. his days were truly short. his vision was long. he thought that we had to begin asiaild a new community in and in all of the pacific. a community of nations dedicated together to the works of progress of all their peoples. the sense of that community is already coming into being. other men and leaders will

not centuries one can argue, various in fighting between the political groups in north and south and central vietnam. and the united states clearly did not know the situation. and this gets to sort of the other previous question about the sort of south vietnamese government, its policy towards the buddhist majority, i think it's a lot more complicated. and the buddhist movement itself is very heterogenous. so it was a very difficult position for both governments north and south vietnam during the war, as well as various political actors in both countries. now, one side was able, above the 17th parallel, the democrat of vietnam and north vietnam to squash dissent. and the second question gets to the question about the relationships between saigon and hanoi and their big power patrons. i think what i find striking through the course of my research is you actually see some of the same lines from chinese source, soviet sources and american sources with how difficult if it was for these big power patrons to deal with their junior clients or allies in saigon or hanoi. and gets to the difficulty of state o

already in south vietnam because that was the the place of choice and if you look at the massive cloud over them using what it probably has made landfall it hasn't actually been defined as having made landfall and actually just ahead of it these are the conditions in southern vietnam it's not bad at all it's a bit breezy this bitch. wet but nothing significant now unfortunately what mindanao that like before it did so we need to be a bit cautious here current into the winds really ninety five kilometers per hour the way you fight which might be more critical here about five meters i say that because it's heading in and throwing the sea the ocean at the mekong delta or in the science here or in lola's evacuations obviously has taken place now moving still fairly quick it's twenty kilometers per hour moving west which means the thing will stay south of south vietnam but the clouds you see it's a long way north anyway and it's been going to be a rain and a wave risk the storm itself will have it across the gulf

christmas for four years he would fly are it way up to the dmz, the dividing line between north and south vietnam and have christmas dinner with the marines and then of course -- and remember that these marines and soldiers, they were draftees. they weren't there because they volunteered. mainly 18/19-year-old kids. i've seen those pictures. they're just beautiful. and he would come back very happy and restored from that experience. and so it was very -- he was very cognizant of the fact that it north vietnamese were -- valued my presence and as you know, there's so many stories we could tell but they offered me a chance to be released. but our code of conduct says sick and injured and by order of capture. i knew why they were offering me release. if my name had been smith but saying no wasn't the easiest thing to say. and i don't nene bounce around but three years after i had refused on christmas eve, cold christmas eve in hanoi i was in solitary confinement. every cell had a loud speaker and they were playing christmas music. i still remember that one of the songs was i'll be home for christmas

soledad: chi lang, south vietnam, september 17, 1969. sergeant morris was leading one of three groups of south vietnamese fighters into little-known hamlet near chi lang. they were supposed t then clear the area. >> we moved on out of the village into the tree line. and by the time we got out of the tree line, the whole world opened up. >> hundreds of people firing thousands of rounds. so and team sergeant ronald hagen were ambushed by vietcong who had been hiding in bunkers. >> i got a call telling me tha asked morris, do you know where hagen is? he said, yes, i do. i'll lead us in there. soledad: morris took two volunteers and crossed enemy lines to get sergeant hagen's body, pushed back by a barrage he was shot. >> i had to get to the body, so i said i was going in. soledad: what morris did next not just a heroic war story. it was a moment of valor defined. morris single-handedly destroye the enemy force that had his battalion pinned down. in the fog of gunfire, he'd shot two more times. he didn't stop. >> you take every effort you c

. >> president johnson was determined to prevent a communist victory in south vietnam. he twisted the facts of the tonkin golf incident to persuade congress to give him unlimited authority to use military force. he then launched a war that would last another 11 years. >> senator full bright, you moved the tonkin resolution through the senate. did you know anything -- >> i accepted the story given to us by the president and mcnamara and gentleman wheeler. i had no reason to doubt the validity, the truthfulness of this whole operation. >> we still see no wider war. >> no wider war? as i found out day by day in the pentagon, tha was our highest priority, preparing a wider war, which he expected to take place immediately after the election. >> it's a war that ought to be fought by the boys of asia to help protect their own land. and for that reason, i haven't chosen to enlarge the war. >> that was a conscious lie, we all knew that inside the government. not one of us told the press or the public or the electorate during that election. it was a well kept secret by thousands

>> south vietnam was not a signatory. it was an associated member. it was used loosely in the beginning, but it was primarily the united states, australia, thailand, new zealand, and i think the philippines. >> thank you. i won't ask them if they got nursing care and how good or bad it was. i will leave that alone. i'm curious if any of you have been back, if you have a desire to go back, or if you don't want anything more to do with it? >> i have been back six times. the last time was in may. i don't think any of the others have. >> i have not been back but i teach in the history department. we are on our sixth vietnamese officer. i worked very closely with five of them and they have been delightful people. i would love to go back. at some point in time, i think i will if she whom must be obeyed, will let me. >> upwards of 70% of the population was born after the war so there is not a corporate memory of the war there. if it is socialism, it is not the socialism ho chi minh had in mind. it is very capitalistic in the south but also be north. -- but

sam donaldson, peter jennings, and this rookie -- >> ted koppel, abc, south vietnam -- >> he look likeee decades hiroshiki captured a first draft of american history. but his accent remains stubbornly japanese. he covered presidential politics to international summits. >> i remember being in moscow with sam donaldson, and sam insisted on working with tony, so did every other anchor there. >> what made tony a good cameraman? >> tony had life experience. he had the beautiful eye to see like a story. >> reporter: his humanity helping guide young talent on both sides of the camera. >> every producer had a story about why they had to work with tony. they'd change shoot days to match tony's schedule. there's a whole generation of journalists who are as good as they are in part because of tony. >> reporter: hiroshiki retired a few years back. but this generation of anchors like bob woodruff and david muir will always remember him fondly. >> but investigators say -- >> do you remember any of those early standups? >> one of them i remember. just ten minutes before, no, already the show started.

vietnam. the storm is now moving towards the west and on the satellite you can see the storm sitting here in the southuthern tip of vietnam. it is likely to weaken a little bit just making landfall around the south vietnam, a wide area is likely to see heavy rain, damaging winds and also big waves around the coast, so and also big waves around the coast, so coastal flooding will be a problem, further inland as rainfall totals mount up we succeed landslides occurring too. the storm will then weaken a little bit, moving into the gulf of thailand toward southern parts of thailand. heady bursts of rain and strong winds likely here. although the storm will be weakening a touch, as it is quite slow moving it will have further impacts, making landfall in southern vietnam during monday, bringing more than 300 millimetres of rain, flooding and landslides light clique, as well as winds of over 130 kilometres an hour. —— likely. and you‘ll find much more about storm tembin and other top stories on our website. just head to bbc.com/news. you can also download the bbc news app. let‘s take a look at some of the oth

it is likely to weaken a little bit, just making landfall around south vietnam.ing wind but also big waves around the coast. coastal flooding will certainly be a problem. then it will head out into the gulf of thailand, possibly a little weaker, it still were strong wind and heavy rain, but then heading towards thailand. it is going to have further impact, making landfill during monday, could be more than 300 millimetres of rain. flooding and landslides likely as well as gusts of i30 rain. flooding and landslides likely as well as gusts of 130 kilometres an hour. and you'll find much more about storm tembin and the other top stories on our website. just head to bbc.com/news. you can also download the bbc news app. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. the president of guatemala, jimmy morales, has said he plans to move his country's embassy in israel tojerusalem. guatemala was one of only seven countries that voted with the united states and israel against a united nations resolution calling on the us to reverse its recognition ofjerusal

719 and i don't know if you know the history of vietnam war but lam som 719 was primarily the south vietnam army operation. but that time the vet muization of the war was starting. the -- lot of the military u.s. military were standing down. so they did have some military support but they weren't the primary units in this operation. and it was the largest combat assault operation in the history of the entire vietnam war. and there was an incursion into laos to cut off the supply line and they used 276 hewies. and then i don't know how many cobras but i'm sure there were several hundred and of that group, 168 helicopters were shot down. i think going in wasn't so bad. it's always it picking up and the pz. the lz sometimes not so bad. but the pzs, the pick up zone, oh, boy, that's when you sweated it. so anyway, i'm going to let ed tell us hiz story about nam som 719. >> i showed up in c, had hulai. . >> thank you. >>> senator mccain, when you look back 50 years ago when your plane went down in hanoi and the last 50 years, what today, in your opinion, are the legacies of vietnam, good and bad

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the first line of defense was south vietnam. we didn't want to lose the war, headlways hanging over the was -- do you want to make this a much wider war and bring the chinese and russians into the war, which is not a situation we had in world war ii. we basically had two enemies and we knew who they were and they were fighting. in this case, you had enemies but they weren't fighting yet. they had not been drawn into the war. our feeling was, you widen the war and there is no end to it. similar to what we did in korea, we were trying to hold the line. to keep the spread of communism from happening. you were not trying to hold anybody back. you are not trying to widen that war to a major confrontation. leonard: so it was a war of containment, not as much as a war of victory? jim: containment was victory throughout the cold war. >> that was the theme of the pentagon papers. this was all about containing china. >> for context i was at the , recruiting station today, looking to join up. there's some mention where you used to know eve

defense wasne of south vietnam. .e did not want to lose the war it was always hanging over the head, the want to make this a much wider war with the chinese and russians and bring them into the war? that is not a situation we had enrolled war two, we knew who they were. case, youarticular enemies but they weren't fighting yet because they had not been drawn in. wideneling was, if you the war that there is no end to it. there is no end to it very similar to what we did in korea, we try to hold the line -- and to it. similar to what we did in korea, we try to hold the line. you're not trying to hold anybody back, you are just trying to not widen that war to a major confrontation. >> to it was a war of containment, not a war of victory? >> containment is victory. that was the theme of the pentagon papers. this is all about containing china. >> yes, please. context, i was at the army recruiting station because i'm looking to join up. that is what my question comes from. there was some mention that it has gone from everybody was in the military to it is harder and harder to come across so

. >> this is ted koppel, abc, near south vietnam. >> reporter: for three decades, through his viewfindervised american history. he retired a few years back, but this generation of anchors like bob woodruff and david muir will always remember him fondly. >> do you remember any of those early stand-ups? >> one time i remember just ten minutes before -- no. all right, the show started, and you came -- make sure i don't make a mistake. >> i came to you in the show and was already on the air. >> yeah. >> nothing's changed. well, thank you for having patience for all of us, all these years. >> you are one of my correspondents too. >> and i'm proud of that. i'm proud of that, tony. >> thank you. >> great man. thank you for watching tonight. i'll see you tomorrow morning on "gma." tom is back here tomorrow. again, thanks for watching. good night. >>> tonight on abc 7 news at 6, we're following breaking news. a man shot and killed on the peninsula. plus new year's eve expected to be a blast with final touches on the bay area's biggest celebration. and drew tuma tracking the new year's eve forecas

south vietnam and so forth. america was introduced for the first time very seriously to the atomic bomb. because there were missiles so close to the u.s. this is a picture i made in los angeles of school kids being taught about the affects of the bomb. and how they had to run into the hall and protect thepss. to me it kind of shows you this duck and recovery situation that we were all being educated to the effect of nuclear weapons. not in japan or in some other place in the world. but right here at home. in 62, kennedy made this speech concerning the soviet missile in cuba to the nation. this is a picture taken by crane of life magazine. and it wasn't long after that about six months later that kennedy and the world is faced with the effects of the berlin wall. kennedy went to germany and of course in june of 1963 made his very famous speech there. that he supported germany and supported the unified germany. and that america was not going to stand around and allow this to happen. he did start to negotiate a pac

vietnam. it is likely to weaken a little bit just making landfall around the far south of vietnam, a wide areaheavy rain, damaging winds and also big waves around the coast, so coastal flooding will be a problem, further inland as rainfall totals mount up we succeed as rainfall totals mount up we could see landslides occurring too. the storm will then weaken a little bit, moving into the gulf of thailand toward southern parts of thailand. heavy bursts of rain and strong winds likely here. although the storm will be weakening a touch, as it is quite slow moving it will have further impacts, making landfall in southern vietnam during monday, bringing more than 300 millimetres of rain, so flooding and landslides likely, as well as winds of over 130 kilometres an hour. and you'll find much more about storm tembin and other top stories on our website. just head to bbc.com/news. you can also download the bbc news app. the king of spain has called for unity and mutual respect following the catalonia parliamentary election in which separatist parties won a small majority. in a conciliatory televised c

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i think he believed that as he said in speeches, if we don't fight them in south vietnam we'll be fighting them in the streets of san francisco even though we knowon s johnson had own doubts. so they are both complex in this regard. it seems to me on the foreign policy side i would say it applies more to j.f.k. >> i think it is a question of measure effectiveness. if you measure effectiveness by legislation lyndon johnson, you know, a long list of very impressive things. nixon got a lot of great legislation through. people don't remember that as much. it is the inspiration. one of the other areas i would ask both of you, dnd awant to cover this because of where we are. he and his known for r for what they did in the white house and how it was part of society. if you look at many of his speeches you talked about that from similar poll you can things like having robert frost to the inauguration and other things. are there other presidents you think have had the same level of commitment in recent times? >> i'll let ted ponder that one. it is by suggesting you're onto something very important.

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this is, that is the story for us, for tony, for me, for don and all the journalists working in south vietnamwere up against trying to tell the truth in a very difficult and complex situation in which the american military, the american embassy was saying one thing, and we were seeing and saying other things. and so the new york office tends to be suspicious of us. and certainly, washington people are suspicious of us because they think we're just negative because we're young and impetuous. but i realized after having spent a month in this province that if it couldn't succeed in this particular place, it couldn't succeed anywhere. so that was -- abc in new york couldn't, they just could not accept that. but this particular province was, didn't have any enemy troops there because it was a religious place that had become quite anti-communist. so john scally just said look, drew the, this is ridiculous, i'm not going to do this program for you. but identify always been grateful -- i've always been grateful for bill sheehan who was the vice president of abc news then saying, drew, narrate this pr

vietnam today is our 16th largest trading partner. ho, we talk to tae young the hopes that kim jong-un had, that south korea and north korea would reunify like vietnam, but the way they want to do that was to break our allied with north korea. south korea is our sixth-largest trading partner. we have a packed that we signed in the 1960's that we would be a military protector of them. we need to honor our agreement. that is why it's in so important to bring these world powers together so we can have a diplomatic solution to this. thank you for your call and service in korea. the: a lot of focus on upcoming winter olympics in south korea especially that news. this is the sports section of usa today talking about russia being banned from the olympics. what are your concerns about security of u.s. athletes in south korea, in just about two months from now? guest: i'm concerned about americans everywhere in the world today. there are so many hot zones around there. anyountry wants to have kind of a terrorist attack on their country. especially one that involves multinationals. you will see it very well protected, win the game start. congress

the viet cong had been eliminated and now you were were starting to infiltrate into south vietnam. units.ere still vc but i know the day we killed someone wearing a certain belt buckle, we were in a different role. it was jungle fighting, stumbling into bunker areas. you simply could not see before you got there. going out on platoon-sized patrols. the drawdown had begun. we were talking maybe 21, 22 troop in a platoon. those of you who have been in the military, always love it when your company commander is supposed to come down and sit with you for a while and go on operations with you and just be there to boost you up. i always loved that. alwayssure my platoon had that joy. i would go which -- with each one of them. each operation i would change out with them and give them the benefit of my 24-year-old wisdom. [laughter] kiper: it was a difficult time for the army. platoon, my my company first sergeant -- i had a couple of sergeants. one was a staff sergeant, who was a shake and bake. meaning he was an honors graduate from his training course. he and i are still in close contac

japan, south korea and vietnam, we're at wars with all these korea just outh because of the korean war and countries are our largest trading partners. what that tells me, if we trade companies afterwards, why don't we trade and put the war to the side and work on trade, i think everybody >> tonight, president trump announces a formal recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel. congressman greenup introduces articles of impeachment. and senate intelligence committee chair richard burr gives an update on the investigation of russian investigation -- russian interference in the 2016 election. at the white house, president trump announced the u.s. would recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital. palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas said the decision means the u.s. can no longer act as a mediator in peace talks. trump: thank you. when i came into office, i promised to look at the world's challenges with open eyes and very fresh thinking. we cannot solve our problems by making the same failed assumptions and repeating the same failed strategies of the past. all challenges de

non i don't know if you know the history of the vietnam war, but lam song was primarily the south vietnam army operation. by that time, the end of the war was starting. a lot of u.s. military were standing down so they didn't have military support, but they weren't the primary units in this operation. and it was the largest combat assault operation in the history of the entire vietnam war. and it was an incursion into laos to cut off supply lines. and they used 276 hueys. and then i don't know how many cobras but i'm sure there were ser several hundred. of that group, 168 helicopters were shot down. i think the going in wasn't so bad. it's always the picking up in the pz. the lz, not so bad, but you the pick up zone, the pz, oh, that's when you sweated it. i'm going let ed tell us his story. >> i showed up in vietnam in july 1970. was ie signed to the 116th, the yellow jacket platoon. as a new guy they call you expletive, new guy. for the first two months you fly with the aircraft commanders that have been there and earned the right to be an aircraft commander. after three months or so wh

but this was primarily the south vietnam army operation. but that time, the station of the war was starting. a lot of the military, u.s. military were kind of standing down, so they didn't have the military support, but they weren't the primary units in this operation. and it was the largest combat assault operation in the history of the entire vietnam war. and it was an incursion into laos to cut off the supply line. and they used 276 qes. and then i don't know how many culprits, but i'm sure there were several hundred. of that group, 168 helicopters were shot down. it was, i think going in, it wasn't too bad. it is always thickening up. lz, sometimes not so bad, but the pz, the pickup zone, oh, boy. that's when you sweated it. so anyway, i'm going to let ed tell us his story about 719. >> i showed up in vietnam in july of 1970. was assigned to the 116th assault helicopter company through the yellowjacket platoon. as a new guy, they call you new guy. and for the first two or three months, you fly with the aircraft commanders that have been

i do not know if you know the history of the vietnam war, but but lam son 719 was primarily a south vietnam operation. at that time, the war was starting. a lot of the u.s. military were kind of standing down so they did not have military support. they were not the primary units in this operation. and it was the largest combat assault operation in the history of the entire vietnam war. and it was an incursion to cut off the supply line into loas, and they used 276 hueys. i do not know how many cobras, but i am sure several hundred. of that, 168 helicopters were shot down. i think the going in was not so bad. it is always the picking up. the lz's sometimes not so bad. the pz's, the pickup zones, that is when you sweated it. anyway, i will let ed tell us his story about lam son 719. ed: i showed up in vietnam in july 1970, was assigned to the helicopter company to the yellowjackets team. as a new guy, they call you the new guy. for the first two or three months, you fly with the aircraft commanders that had been there and have earned the right to be an aircraft commander. after three months o

vice president candidate agnew to her, then she relayed the message to saigon to the president of south vietnam saying, hold out. this is when we were getting started on the peace negotiations in paris. nixonid, hold out and will give you a better deal. i think we would have had peace in vietnam but the settlement took us six more years to get and we never got it in that respect. leonard: following up on that, politically, are we still fighting the battles of the non-? -- of vietnam? jim: i don't think we are. >> i want to agree with some of r's congressman bar statements about, when you've seen the horrors of war, i don't care how patriotic or how committed you are, it really makes you think twice, three times, four times about getting into war. you understand on a very human level the costs of the war, the tragedy and the horrors of war. think some of the members of the caucus who have been in the military are the most hesitant to make that commitment. when you talk about that transition, it happened with some of the healthy skepticism. a lot of guys who got hit over there are healthy skeptic

barry covered the fall of selfie at nam in 1979 where he -- the fall of south vietnam in 1979 yasutsaneetirashiki. after retirement -- it's hard to believe you retire -- and he was awarded recognition of distinguished reporting on foreign policy and diplomacy. of "commentaryr by a former foreign correspondent. -- former foreign correspondent." next, a man who probably needs no introduction, but i'm going to do it bac anyway, ted topol, who was my boss back in the 1980's, 1990's. youngestl became the correspondent ever hired by abc radio news working on the daily flair reports program, including the kennedy assassination in 1963 were he was scheduled to do a short report, but the crisis forced him to ad-lib for an hour and a half. and if you know ted, that was easy. ted: i have been talking ever since. terry: [laughter] in the following years he covered presidential campaigns, civil rights protests. and beginning in 1966, the vietnam war. you will see him coming up here, questionsare 15-year-olds were allowed to write to the tokyo bureau. he was the abc state news correspondent. , her taki

some level in the domino theory, he believed as he said in speeches, if we don't fight them in south vietnam, we'll be fighting them in the streets of san francisco. >> they're both complex in this regard, it seems to me on the foreign policy side, since you use the word transformational i would say it applies to jfk. >> it's a fascinating question of measure effectiveness as both of you said. you measure effectiveness by legislation. lyndon johnson head and shoulders, long list of very impressive things. if you go a little further, richard nixon got a lot of great legislation through it. people don't remember that as much. it's a combination of the inspiration and spirit. one of the other areas i would ask both of you, and they'll get to the next question in the audience, one of the things -- and i particularly want to cover this because of where we are, john kennedy was known for his commitment to the arts. he and his wife, both what they did in the white house, and his belief, how it wasn't nice to have -- symbolic things, having robert frost at the inauguration. other presidents that you

hello the cloud is building again over china but maybe more particularly for the south of vietnam it will bring showers increasingly to the coast of vietnam and then by the time we get to wednesday as proper rainy and landing mean more to season rain that means that much of china isn't quite as cold as you might think for this time in winter in fact big pool of clouds covering a good part may reach shanghai the active weather to the south is one of the reasons why we've got this rain developing inland that is former typhoon tembin tropical storm soon to be depression is over the science of vietnam by the look of a satellite picture because it's hard to find the center now it's a mass of rain and it's a couple of hundred millimeters but also high seas in the mekong delta hence the risk as it spreads across and you can't anymore define it it will eventually reach some thailand peninsula malaysia as a big mass of rain not a problem with wind. now there is rain further south in this part of the world but once again you come down to indonesia western java to focus in with more showers unf

asia as we go on through the next couple days northern areas of borneo pushing across into the south of vietnam and cambodia and i saw making its way westwards once again there's a lot of heavy showers malaysia and indonesia something of a break in the heaviest downpours for sunday's loss you go on into monday and those showers become more widespread yet again they have showers they continue further north there up towards southern parts of thailand you can see this circulation has been making its way into the heavy rain here too plenty of heavy rain recently across parts of victoria northern areas of toria in australia could see this area of low pressure seeing huge record breaking amounts of rainfall well over two hundred millimeters of rain in places and that's all making its way east was clear skies do come back in full test in adelaide eighteen celsius here in the southerly braces set is something of a chill and sixteen celsius for melbourne but rising as we go on into monday but the showers will cling on to the eastern side of the country well so much of the making its way into a struggle

. >>> the presidents what the guest of honor at state visits to china, south korea and vietnam. and queen elizabeth has invited him to the uk. the white house says the president is hoping to host a state visit early next year, but there's no word on which government might be getting the invitation. >>> the united nations is bracing four the possibility of another financial blow. the u.s. is slashing nearly $300 million from the u.n.'s annual budget and hinted that m may follow. president trump recently threatened to pull aid from member nations for failing to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. >>> overseas, russian opposition leaders are calling for a boycott of next year's presidential election after it was determined alexei navalny is d disqualified. the election is march 18th. >>> and in cuba, dozens are injured after a fireworks explosion during christmas eve festival. at least six children are among those hurt. the annual event draws thousands of tourists and cubans each town. it features a fireworks conte the cause of the explosion is under investigation. >>> ba