in southeast asia which is why the french called it indochina.u know, that's really the proper term. and so what i'm saying to the reader is the past was very different which means the future could be very different too. the future could see a weakened china, a china in tremendous economic disarray with a strengthening japan, a strengthening india, a much more complex power relationship. so that i'm reminding the reader that i'm very cautious about everything i'm going to write henceforth to keep in mind this history of southeast asia. >> please join me in thanking robert kaplan. [applause] >> thank you. >> congratulations on the book. [applause] mr. kaplan's going to be here for a while signing books. you can throw another question at him, denounce him in any way that you want, just buy the book. >> and i'd also like to thank steve for being a wonderful, wonderful moderator. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you all for coming tonight, and as steve said, bob has agreed to stay here for about 30 minutes in the back, so if anybody would

so in all we evacuated laos cambodia and south vietnam all for southeast asia. i got my book published and out of the blue i got a letter from the secretary. i didn't know him and he said i want to congratulate you for setting the record straight. in his opinion and mine this sets the record straight on what happened in southeast asia. thank you very much. [applause] c. thank you very much general hunt for that enlightening discussion. to conclude today's program will be frank leith jones vietnam and the american cold war strategy. >> thank you offer coming this afternoon. if i mention the name robert coe heard today many people would not recognize it. 20 years ago that wasn't the case. over the last 10 or 20 years robert calmer's role in the vietnam war and the book really transcends that because he was a principle figure in the cold war era right from 1947 in that 30 year period it is best known for vietnam. he is forgotten except among perhaps vietnam vets and also scholars. but history and current events have a way of sometimes coming back together again. pe

it launched its southeast asia hub. it's serious about this.f go on the site you can find any language you want. it's all there. that is a lot of expensive language that they're doing, and they're making it accessible to the growing middle class in southeast asia. >> they're also trying to list the stock in hong kong, and the rules there, the hong kong regulators did not want to let them do that because they wanted to do this that did not meet their standards. do we read into that that our standards are lower for a company that is investing? do we need to worry about that? >> yes, we do have lower standards. hong kong has higher standards. that we can take away from this. >> you mentioned taubao. one of the challenges that this company deals with, with the trade that was done on its website, a lot of counter get in china. is that a threat to its business? >> that depends on how much it spooks investors. on the ebay, they have a whole section on fraud. i think its larger in china, but that's something that they've at least shown that they're act

and our congress again aban doughed them so we aban doped laos, cambodia, south vietnam, all of southeast asia. i got my become published and out of the blue i got a letter from secretary kissinger. didn't know him from adam. he said i want to congratulate you for setting the record straight inch his opinion and in my mine, this book sets the record straight on what happened in southeast asia. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you very much, general hunt, for that enlightening discussion. to conclude today's program, we'll be frank jones, blow torch, rob comber, vietnam, an american cold warring extra. >> thank you, art. and thank you all for coming this afternoon. if i mention the name robert comber today, many people will not recognize it. 20 years ago that is the case. and so what over the last 10, 20 years, robert comber's roll in the vietnam war and the book really transscents that because he -- transcends that because he was central figure in the cold war during the 30-year period and best known for vietnam but is forgotten. but history and current events have a way of sometimes c

that we enjoy if we didn't have low cost goods and low cost labor in china and increasingly in southeast asia. and yet in china, the standard of living remains about one-sixth what it is in the united states in terms of per capita income, and that's a source of frustration because people realize we work hard, we are participating in the global economy, we play by the rules in some cases, and yet we're not yet enjoying the quality of life that they have in the west. what i think so interesting is that for most of chinese history, after all, people had no idea what life was like outside. this gets back to this tour of europe. chinese people now can sit on a computer in a village in the middle of nowhere and have a pretty accurate understanding of what it rooks like to live -- looks like to live in washington d.c. >> evan osnos on the rising conflict between the individual and the chinese government tonight at eight on c-span's "q&a." >> here's a look at some upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. the south carolina book festival takes place on the 16th-18th at the colum

and if you down 44% look at it compared to the southeast asia carriers, singapore air and garuda, malaysia airlines is a clear underperformer. i guess it is worth looking at garuda's experience in terms of how it turned its business around in a tough time. it may yield some lessons. >> bookings for china so far since the disappearance of the lane are down 50%. >> that is the obvious elephant in the room. i could bring you back here -- what about the future for malaysian airlines. could a cover its brand reputation or is it damaged irreparably? .> garuda it did it i it had a similar profile. malaysia airlines hoping to do the same. one of the priorities will the cost and that can come in the form of new fuel-efficient jets. some analysts say that malaysia airlines should consider spinning off its units which will be tough. the carrier is optimistic and it has to be. take a listen. >> i am very confident we can do that. malaysia airlines has been around for over 40 years. we have a world-class reputation. we are one of the only seven airlines in the world that has a five-star rating and our

japanese imperialists and extended its power to korea china and southeast asia. two for supplies and lever for construction wire. their supply is included women wear. girls only thirteen or fourteen years old. kudos to comfort stations installed in each year yet. to be more precise day which i care tears are still flowing three when sting grandmothers of korea duality into the streets i'm done with it. i was seeing. i have. most of the opposite. the un. we missed. the day did i. it's why i'm here to hold on the team it really care who pleaded. they have not apologized. you had the acknowledged the atrocious acts. history the concerns us all has not yet been settled. i'd be the only ones that do not know. ay ay ay ay ay ay. or hello my name is victoria i'm french. today's a special day for me. he knew full well. i love cooking and i heard that my friend who enjoyed the meals. we're going. there is much more enjoyable with a great time yes yes yes. sure beats. it is. is. steve. here's something new on going series of seventeen ninety when your watching them. i knew

let's talk now to forsyth who is a specialist on southeast asia at the school of economics and joinsfrom london and thank you very much from talking to us and we heard from scott, our correspondent in bangkok that the general is already preparing to brief the diplomatic core in bangkok, an indication of how foreign relations really matter for thailand. >> yes, indeed, i think the military is holding back a long time and could have acted in my month before today and they have and they are in a damage limitation exercise making sure they do not lose credibility doing this. >> in the absence it would appear a roadmap or a plan or a schedule for a return to democratic life in thailand. it seems as though their credibility is going to seriously be in need of an up lift because nobody is prepared to listen to them once they are in charge. >> well, i think it depends on whether they can do what the foreign ministers have been asking them to do which is to come up with an immediate short-term plan to hold general elections. i think there is one big justification behind this coup which is tha

development because thailand could be and has been a source of both economic and political stability in southeast asia. >> and if you look at thailand and the mainland, is the second-largest economy and is the largest on the mainland, four times larger than vietnam and comes at a time when the association of southeast asian nations is trying to economically integrate. in terms of the caretaker government, it can carry out routine spending but can't implement major infrastructure projects. spend $65 billion over the next five or six years. no government is going to be able to do that and it will have an impact not just on thailand but the region, and the ability to economically integrate. low. very capacity and hotels are about 20%. other newslook at from around the world. officials say more than a quarter of the population has been left without clean water after severe flooding across many parts of the former yugoslavia. heavy rain has stopped but dead livestock could hold a new health hazard. or than half a million people being forced out of their homes across the region. president vladimir putin mee

defense secretary chuck hagel accused china of destabilizing southeast asia today.he comments sparked a war of words. one chinese individual said if you take china as an enemy, china will become the enemy of the enlist. hagles remarks were made at an asian security summit in singapore. >> that's where we find al jazeera's scott hideler. >> u.s. secretary of defense chuck hagle using blunt language in dealing with china and what he sees as possible destabilization of the region when china is dealing with that i see territory y'all disputes. he thinks that what we are doing is something that could impact the international community. >> china has called the south china sea a sea of peace, friendship, and cooperation. and that's what it should be. but in recent months, china has undertaken destabilizing unilateral actions asserting its claims in the south china sea. >> in his speech, the defense secretary broad ended out from these territorial disputes in southeast asia as well as the east china sea. he talked about thailand and the united states's concern over the mili

drama in southeast asia. thailand's prime minister ordered to resign.vietnam and china collide in the south china sea and, how money has corrupted india's elections. the biggest stories in asia, the latest buzz on social media. all here on linkasia.

. >> the broad bed disputes in southeast asia and the china sea. he talks about thailand and the military coup and what that could mean to the population in tie. >> and we also respond when nations retreat from democracy, as in thailand. we urge the royal thai army to release those who have been detained in restrictions of free expression and move immediately to restore power back to thailand through free and fair elections. >> secretary hagel went on to underline the pivot or rebalancing to asia as it draws down forces in afghanistan and earlier in iraq. they're looking at the united states to have a bigger footprint in the region includes diplomatically and militarily and underlined the shifting the forces. 60% of air force and navy will operate in just six years. >> a truck loaded with explosi explosives blew up a restaurant frequented by government officials. it was blown up by an american. his photo appears in an online video purport to go show the bombing. it's believed the first time an american has carried out this kind of attack in syria.

adrian brown, al jazeera, southeast asia. >> abdullah al shami has been on hunger strike and taken to a different location. his lawyer asked to have him transferred to hospital in the flex 48 hours. word is his health is failing. 135 days to peter greste, are mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed. group has been declared a trort terrorist organization and al jazeera is demanding their immediate release. >>> a british firm that helped recreereveal the possible wheres of the malaysia plane 370. >> take a look at exactly what kind of difference this would make. well, as a reminder, flight mh 370 vanished on the 8th of march with 239 people on board during a flight from can kuala a lumpur to beijing. it was the pings of the plane that led investigators to the fine flight path and the search for the wreckage in the southern indian ocean. will offer the same tracking service with 11,000 commercial planes. other data such as speed and altitude. inmarsat said it will be of no further expense because it is administrator on most jets. >>> the case of the missing malaysia airlines plane has played the

. >>> in southeast asia this evening, a volatile situation we've been keeping our eye on, the military in thailand staged a full on coup today with turmoil. involving supporters and opponents of the government. this comes two days after the declaration of martial law. the military took all the tv stations off the air. tonight a curfew is in effect, we have a team there on the ground, including ian williams. they will report from bangkok and updated reports on our website starting tonight. >> we have more this evening on a lawsuit filed against the nfl this week by retired players over painkillers they took and medical problems they say they are living with as a result. the nfl commissioner still hasn't reacted to this suit but some players including a hall of famer are speaking out about what they call the drug culture in the game and how it affected their lives. we get more on this tonight from nbc's ron mott. >> reporter: football and pain are inseparable, producing images of agony that helped sell the nearly $10 billion sport as a game for tough guys. former nfl player jeremy newber

. >> i spoke to a man who formally handle security issues in southeast asia for the u.s. department of defense. thank you for joining us. two days ago this was not a coup. now it is. what actually has changed? >> i think the main thing that changed, in between declaring marshal law and -- martial law and forming a coup, they tried to have some last political accommodation. when they realize that was not possible, they decided to move forward with actually taking power. >> howl temporary is this? do you think the military is -- how temporary is this? do you think the military is genuine question mark >> i think the military is genuine when they say this is only to be a part-time solution. the question is, how do you get to a lasting solution? you have had political chaos in thailand. -- therehe military were plenty of reasons for the military to step diane, and they have resisted doing that. now the question is, how do they drive toward the political solution and restoring democracy, but in a way that will work for thailand instead of constantly grinding to a halt question

. >> reporter: brunei is an oil-rich country in southeast asia slightly smaller than delaware ranked the fifth richest country in the world. the beverly hills hotel has been a playground for celebrities like elizabeth taylor and frank sinatra. now some are calling for a boycott, but the hotel which generates millions for beverly hills, says it's being unfairly targeted. >> this hurts our people. and most importantly it's not our fight. we have done nothing wrong. >> reporter: protesters say the only way to end this is for the brunei government to end its policies or sell its hotels. joe fryer, nbc news, los angeles. >>> and the big business news late today. a chinese company called alibaba filed paperwork for a billion-dollar initial public offering. the tech industry's largest ipo since twitter. while you may not have heard of alibaba yet, it's a powerhouse in e-commerce making more money than amazon and ebay combined. >>> after a break, still ahead monica lewinsky breaks her silence about the white house scandal, both of the clintons, and her life after all these years. >>> it has

major power relationship between china and the united states and china the us interactions in southeast asia. no search operations on the capsize south korean parents who will enter the twentieth day with the latest death toll rising to two hundred sixty two and forty people are still unaccounted for. one of the twenty seven divers were part of the surge operation on monday which was mainly focused on the symphony hall home of the race third level the search team estimates among the one hundred and eleven. the reason the ship there were sixty four wheels possible for passengers to take refuge. so far the team has competed surging sixty one ever hears and planned to search areas such as quarter's status and restrooms. ms may deadline has been set to expand the search korea to the cargo compartment. chew the remaining forty missing not be stopped. while south korean media reported that in the past thirteen months there is this so will need more than two hundred forty trips. all were loaded with cargo. the ferry made its final journey with the whole losing weight of two thousand six hundred ton

. ♪ has long-running and rest in thailand which is created uncertainty for southeast asia.aking to bloomberg, foreign minister k. shanmugam says only the tides can fix the problems. >> we hope to see the situation resolved peacefully without bloodshed, without violence. thailand has the second largest economy in southeast asia and the stability in thailand, when thailand it's back to growth in a way that is acceptable to all of its people is something that everyone wants. it has always been a consultant of one. they have not generally taken the path of sanctions or, you know, commenting on internal processes. >> looking at what happened in 2006 and the events that unfolded over the last decade or so, how concerned are you that thailand is on the verge of a civil war? >> all of us want internal stability. has had aince 2006 number of issues. the political stability has not always been there. it is had stability. is good for the tight economy or the people of thailand. the sooner the situation gets resolved in a way that is acceptable to everyone within thailand and in a way

the usual thing we do is test it to make sure it is ok and we will start in southeast asia and then take other markets we are flooring. >> i think? will you kind of see how it does in the china market? class the timeframe is determined i manufacturing capacity. we have to determine how easily we can ramp. classe why this year area in the event today, it was dead tablet market is dominated by one third two layers. samsung and apple. fax ite your ambitions? is a high bar in the market and we know that certain. working upree years to the point where we thought we had the right hardware design and also software capability to build a world last tablet. -- world-class tablet. we will change the market without a doubt. >> how important is it for your product or folio to go to a tablet? the new television, the new router, the whole portfolio of different products and not just phones. >> we have taken a different path than people would have expected. we did a phone, tv, and then it tablet. we got a lot of things -- a lot of amazing plans. hardware and forward together. let's what you have to do t

it is southeast asia's second-biggest economy. >> the fear is that thailand may be headed for recession. this is the first time in four quarters and we have seen the economy shrinking. it is largely due to the fact that these protests, the lyrical gridlock, continues to impact the country. first-quarter gdp contracting .6%. was for 2.2%timate contraction. we saw a 0.6% contraction. lookurth quarter of 2012, at that, 19% year on year growth. >> that's right. china is a -- thailand is a major exporter. you can see the major drop-off in terms of economic activity. revising its growth figures, i have those headlines right now. the government revising its 2014 gdp growth forecast to 1.5% to 2.5%. that is a very anemic rate of growth for thailand. the export forecast has also been fallashed. so it is hitting all areas of the economy. let's move from thailand to indonesia. widodo has picked kalla. it is expected that he should get about 44% of voter support. >> there has been no let up in china's property slowdown. after the government -- d property lenders to 44 out of the 70 cities, put that

. >> we're going to start probably in southeast asia, and then take it to the other markets we are exploring like india, latin america, and so on. >> will you see how it does in the china market? >> timeframe is determined by our manufacturing capacity. we have to see how quickly we can ramp. hopefully we can do that this year. >> the tablet market is pretty much dominated by one if not two players, apple and samsung. can you get to be global number three? what are your ambitions? >> definitely take the high bar in this market. we have spent four years working to the point where we thought we had the right hardware design and also software capabilities to build a world-class tablet. we think we're there finally. we will help change this market without a doubt. >> how important is it for your portfolio to go international, to have a tablet, and also this new television. the whole portfolio, not just phones, for the international market? >> we have taken a different path that most people have expected. we did a phone, a tv, and then a tablet. >> when to the united states, and what you have to

growthariations in gdp of china and southeast asia or some other emerging markets really does not haven impact. what has an impact is population growth and the relative prices between u.s. wheat and black seaweed. that is something that is likely to have an impact on our what exports -- wheat exports. bill, you are mentioning the black sea. you take a look at the usda forecast. they cut ukraine's wheat crop i 10%. -- by 10%. this is one of the first science we have seen from the u.s. day of expectations of change in ukraine. why would currency affect wheat production in ukraine? the logic is that a lot of the inputs that enhance yield, such as fertilizer, farm case ofs -- in the corn, actual seed, a lot of that is purchased or imported. down, therency goes purchasing power to purchase those inputs goes down as well. they have to either use less or turn to less effective farm inputs. >> if you are a consumer, what do today's numbers mean to you? do larger corn inventories mean there's going to be relief from the high meat prices we have seen? what are we seeing in livestock markets? >>

there are other markets in southeast asia, something that heineken has been focusing on. >> if you lookorld --, influenceve a huge for a be in-depth. the biggest for inbev. if anything on it will be the local korean brands, which inbev as, or budweiser. carlsberg entering at this moment would be late in the game. there were not be much benefit. they would have to look into other sponsorship. i don't believe it will happen -- have that much of an impact. >> drink-wise, where is the sweet spot? we have seen the beer market under pressure in western europe and now in russia. we have heard a lot about brown spirits taking off over the last years. you have a favorite in terms of a stock pick or a company that is headed in the right direction? when it comes to spirits. >> i can't really comment about that. if you were talking about the beer market, ab inbev would be the best performing company at the moment. they have been showing the best results of the top five local brewers. they have been showing consistency in their revenue volume salesir games. outperforming heineken and miller, and the

salamander energy based in southeast asia but they have a few definite offers.are thinking about selling some assets. stock up 12%. lloyds doing quite nicely. and margins drop improve. >> manus cranny with some of the three top stocks we are watching. berg'srd's -=- bloom top headlines. china's pmi came in at 50.4%. the reading underscores weakness in the world's economy from exports to construction. while numbers above 50 signal expansion. the international monetary fund has approved a $17 billion loan for ukraine that will extend over two years. that will help ukraine's short-term budget needs and open the country up for further aid. imf managing director christine lagarde says now is the time to act to keep ukraine from sinking further. >> we believe that ukraine has an opportunity to seize the moment, to break away from previous practices, both from a fiscal, from a monetary and from a governance point of view. >> now, the fed says it will continue to scale back stimulus as the u.s. economy continues to recover. the central bank is on track to end its asset

i just came back from a five-city tour of china and got a lot of great input from southeast asia. equities first, adjustable rates, fixed income instruments, anticipating the longer-term rates slowly go up will be the second choice. and we probably continue to avoid the hard comedies. -- hard metal commodities. we love the dividend growth stocks. we like companies that have broad exposure, have the ability to maintain profit margins, and are in position to be able to take and meet global mega trend demand, whether food, water, cyber security, health care, energy, many outstanding opportunities on thematic-based investing. >> emerging markets outside of the united states, something may go wrong? >> if we look at the many different countries, if we aggregate them together, leaving china outside or put china in, same story, they built their success of recent years on an export growth that was just soaring and a massive investment, which is a critical function in the creation of profit in the economy and the export sectors. what happened, they were shooting up in exports. exports got

then we are going to start probably in southeast asia and taken to the other markets we are exploringa, latin america, and so on. >> what kind of timeframe? this year as well or see how it does in the china market? >> timeframe is determined by our manufacturing capacity. we have to see how quickly we can wrap, but certainly hope we .o that this year >> the tablet market is pretty much dominated by one if not two players, apple and samsung. can you get to be global number three? bar in thisy a high market. we know that for certain. we have spent four years working up to the point where we thought we had the right hardware design and also software capabilities to build a world-class tablet. we think we are there finally, so we think we will help change this market without a doubt. >> how important is it for your product portfolio to go international, to have a tablet? also, this new television, the new router, the whole portfolio of different products, not just phones, for the international market? >> we have taken a slightly different path from what a lot of people would have expected

>> there is neil, i mean, i am on the board of a southeast asia company, with several chinese board membersok at me, and say you started it. like two 7-year-olds yells at one another. they say, you know what about national security agency? what have they been doing? what about the leaks from snowden? it looks like you are all over us, and we don't know it. it is amaze. neil: they never bring up in the conversation, like it was you guys hacking our defense system? do you remind them? if we're bad, you're bad too. let's admit wire both spying on each other. >> you would love t to have that happen. but we're not talking about adults, we're talking about people what are not acting like adults, this is a major food fight, like you see in the dorm of a college. this is crazy. thathat we can't talk them thro. neil: you know the argument, if it gets real nasty, it could lead to a trade war, growing sentiment that china buys less of your debt, we buy fewer things from them, where do you see going? especially as they get koz we cozy with russia. >> i think it will get more hectic, the core problem is

american values and culture is pervasive in vietnam and they are probably our best friends in southeast asia strangely put perhaps, but often that is the outcome of grinding conflict that somehow an enduring bond develops afterwards and so it has been with vietnam. >> host: i imagine you have an interesting perspective on this perspective on cia, torture, water boarding and all that. >> i have a view, we are americans and we do not torture and we do not treat our captives badly. i think that is very much a part of what we stand for. i will make an exception however, if there is some very reasonable expectation that a person captured has immediate knowledge of something that may cause tremendous harm to american forces or america, that then given appropriate level of sanction or review and i would say something this serious needs to get to the presidential level is that serious, that he or she would say yes, you may use extraordinary measures because it is so important. but it literally takes that level of authority in my view. otherwise, most combatants don't know very much and we are certai

that is important to distinguish because you hear these days in southeast asia people say it feels to us like europe on the eve of world war ii. you have this powerful country that is claiming a larger share of territory. i think it is very important to draw a distinction. >> china and russia. >> the chinese would say they have a lot of problems with what they've seen in crimea. this.re is also we saw the economy go from double digits to a prediction of seven plus percent. you read stories about the possibility of a realistic bust. how do you see it and how do they see it? >> they are very aware of the short-term problems and the long-term problems. these days, over the last couple of years, the story has flipped. we talked about the kinds of brewing trouble in the economy. most of the time people would say that is the shy show -- sideshow. the story is taken hold today that the chinese economic miracle -- neither caricature was completely correct. china today still does have this unusual political arrangement in which it holds the reigns over where money goes, were credit goes. they

indonesia, southeast asia, india, vietnam, places like that, those are niche places like renova has been successful at. liz: and now let's go to michael. shoveling sand against the tide? >> i agree is a transformational ceo. the transformation are going to see overtimes is this company getting out of the phone market. liz: why would he released a brand-new phone right now if he was getting out of the phone market? >> the only places they are doing well at all our markets like venezuela, indonesia. i think this is the right strategy for now. but i think it is only a matter of time until those markets end up looking like our market in the canadian market where people start to move past blackberry. the future of this company is in telemedicine, automobiles. if you look to our three years down the road, you have a hard time finding blackberry in enterprise device management or in handsets. the only handsets they will have will be in the few emerging markets like the one we mentioned. liz: michaels is an $8 price target, yours is at 17. there's a huge discrepancy in the belief here. you both

found in the forests of southeast asia. isn't that cool? but not that color. >> that's an albino? >> it's an albino. a lot of people don't realize they are born out in the wild. a bird of prey, raptor, picks them up. >> vulnerable. >> they can get bigger. >> bigger than this? >> up to 20 feet, hoda, weigh over 200 pounds. >> what do they eat? >> monkeys, pigs and deer. >> look at the monkey! corbin, you rock. that is some kind of crazy. take care of yourself. >>> tomorrow, we have a big show, don't we? >> yeah, tony and emmy-winning actress suzy kurtz is with us. >> plus, the tech gifts for mother's day. and tomorrow is thirstday thursday. >> get the snake. >> i'm here to help. you and i will get through this together. ♪

i believe that more information has come from various countries in southeast asia about what they mayr nay not have seen. and this is helping to refine the search information. but we must remember that ocean shield has detected four springs from what they call the highest probability area. so i wonder in fact if they'll find anything new in this recalculation. >> four ping -- i'm wondering now if those pings can be false positives? everything we have -- they have searched this entire area. they have found nothing. now they're trying to figure out if they should review their calculations. do they know for sure that this plane is down there? even with those so-called pingers that were heard? >> i'm beginning to wonder if they believe in the pingers. i have been looking a lot of investigating, trying to convince myself they're not pings from this aircraft. >> that's a change, all along you were pretty sure they were. >> that's why i am, there is no one, not one scientist has any alternative for what that could be. the only thing i have heard was that it could have been a distance sonar s

buying increasing amounts of gas from central asia, and it has new gas reserves coming in from southeast asia, and selling gas from the united states. and so yes, while china would like to have gas imports from russia, it's not as urgent. and i think that beijing feels that it has time on its side and can wait. and leverage. >> jeffrey mancould have is the director for strategic and international studies. >>> plenty of people took a gig to get through the recession, and still haven't landed a full-time job. why temp jobs may be the new normal in our economy. and plus, looking at philadelphia's declining middle class, and asking what has race got to do with it. >> it's such a wide gap from blacks to whites, that you never catch up. you don't have those opportunities. >> much more ahead in part two of my special series, plus, the rise of milk box. see how machines are doing the delicate work that only dairy farmers could do before. >> okay, so president obama is trying to convince companies around the world that the united states is the best place to do business. the president today showcased l

the cia got word of a mysterious yellow ring falling in southeast asia.cia said sickness and death would follow. they took them to the labs and sure enough, they tested positive for pollen and poison. oe oh, my god, they said, the soviets figured out how to poison pollen. before long, a factory in arkansas was cranking out big bombs designed to make nerve gas. they hadn't made nerve gas in 20 years. the folks at harvard thought that whole pollen theory was ludicrous. they went to asia, took a few samples and did their own testing and discovered that yellow rain was really bee poop. yes, poop of the honeybee almost turned the cold war hot. even in laos, bees hibernate and hold it all winter long. in the spring they all let it fly. it's called a cleansing flight. that lab in minnesota had been wrong. the villagers were dying but probably because of hunger and stress of war. so when vladimir putin decides to get scary again, which could happen tomorrow, frankly, let's just hope he's full of bee poop. and for the sake of all oet olivias in both countries, let

plane carrying city officials from laos including the country's defense minister is crushed in southeast asia the minister is wife and three others are confirmed to have all died in the crash and up to twenty people are thought to be on board at the time of two they were travelling to an official ceremony in the north of the country because of what went so badly wrong is not yet been established as a poor safety record. bombs exploded in a town north of the iraqi capital that blast went off this time in a busy market area it killed five and injured fourteen several shops were damaged in the attack iraq seen a spike in violence in the elections last month. fracking is in fashion in british government circles these days for the likes of problems to david cameron touting it as a major boon to the economy but one of the stars of the fashion world is less convinced about the virtues of this controversial gas extraction technique influential designer vivienne westwood no that has put a cloak behind the anti fracking campaign if we put into practice what's good for the planet is good for the economy