>> they came in in 1903 from southern china. the came here and started a laundry in buffalo, new york. i cannot tell you how they chose buffalo, new york, of all places, but they were some of the few chinese people in that whole town. they had all of their kids work in that laundry. day in, day out, sometimes they slept above the laundry in the building. five kids in one bed, and that made it work. they believed in being here. they believe that by making the sacrifices, their children would have a better life. to think that just after that, one generation later, that i can be on tv talking about the u.s. stock market, talking about how you can trade stocks and invest, it is amazing to me. >> your parents grew up where? >> my father grew up in buffalo and my mother was born in southern china as well. she was the daughter of a wealthy landlord back then before the communists took over. as was the custom back then, he had three wives at one time. that was the custom back then. my mom was the youngest wife. when the communists came,

i went to southern china and i investigated the conditions under which they are made. >> where did you get the idea at? >> i talk about this in the show. it is true. all of my monologues come out of my obsessions. they spring out of my obsessions. one day i was searching the web. i read this article on a macintosh news site because i am a big geek. this guy got an iphone, but it was not blank when he got it. it had these pictures from inside the factory. i became obsessed with these pictures. you do not think about how they are made. i know how to take them apart and put them together, but i did not know how they were actually made. >> let's see a clip. it is a one-man show. is it always one man? >> it is. >> you have been sitting on stage is for 15 years by yourself talking. >> i never feel lonely. it is told in the space with the audience. it is very much live composed. it is very much communal. i am the only one on the stage. >> is there any difference performing in washington than any other city? >> not in the fundamentals. they are a very political audience. some things resonate d

at the shenzhen people's hospital in southern china, government subsidies have quadrupled in four yearsthere were 18 dialysis machines before the reforms. now there are 38 and more on the way. 81-year old zhang guan sheng, who suffers from renal disease, says his treatments are more efficient. >> ( translated ): before, they only had a few machines here and now they've brought in a lot of new equipment. and they've improved the environment here. >> reporter: one big problem that china's health officials have to tackle is how to finance big public hospitals. under the current system, hospitals earn most of their money not only by charging for costly equipment, but by prescribing medications. the more drugs they dispense, the more they make, as roberta lipson explains. >> there was under-investment in hospitals that meant the hospitals had to earn their keep themselves. so while they were called public facilities and their price was kept artificially low, the hospitals needed to find ways to pay their doctors. >> reporter: lipson is president and c.e.o. of chindex, a private health care c

they're going to bring in a conspiracy and take over the provinces in southern china, carve them out of the empire and start their own republic. that's pretty audacious. well, homer lea became an author as i said and one of his books and going to talk about is the valor of ignorance which got him worldwide acclaim. it talked about american defenses and boulder goes to the japanese in particular. doctor sun yat-sen who was a renowned revolution in his own right who wanted to topple them, not just reform from within, he was a friend or an associate i should say of yung wing and he said in 1910, decide to hire homer lea to be his military advisor if you will. he was bring in the red dragon conspiracy into his revolutionary movement. so homer lea into becoming doctor sun yat-sen is closest adviser. homer lea with him to china expecting to be the chief of staff of the chinese army. somebody with no training, no formal military training, he had a great reputation. so now let's just advance here and homer lea, though some sensational newspaper headlines, if you will, that just gives you an

protect workers and the environment that he was eager to show us around the company plant in china's southern province guangdong. this company takes in a billion dollars a year and is china's largest exporter of shirts. customers include a.m.er crock bee and fitch. j. c. penney, nike and polo. with 54,000 employees this massive plant functions almost as a mini-city. executives count their environmental commitment to recycling water and lowering energy use. the factory has an on-site power plant that generates electricity and produces steam for heating. other power plants release steam into the air. >> it can balance the power generation and the steam generation based on our need. when we need more power, then we can generate more power. >> you also contribute to the grid when you generate. >> yes, we can contribute also to the grid if we have extra power. >> reporter: using lime in its cold-fired power plant cuts down kplutants but does not eliminate them. the growing comp company serves as an illustration not only of environmental consciousness but of the country's challenges. the size of ch

china. r.t. and now on to some other stories making headlines around the. at least forty people have been killed as a fierce storm system has swept through several southern u.s. states a state of emergency is in place in north carolina where sixty two tornadoes left a trail of destruction in the most severe weather conditions for more than two decades officials say the death toll is likely to increase as rescue teams search the affected areas the storm touched down in oklahoma first causing flooding as it swept eastward towards the atlantic. results from finland general elections show rising popularity for the countries that nationalist party the true things gained almost twenty percent of the vote only beaten by the conservative national coalition party and the social democrats a euro sceptic true finns strongly object to finland pledging of billions of euros to the euro zone's main bailout fund it only requires one country to refuse to take part in the program to block the financial aid plan exactly fifty years ago this week yuri gagarin made history when he became the first man to go into space it was a monumental achievement marking the beginning of a ne

>> they came in in 1903 from southern china. the came here and started a laundry in buffalo, new york. i cannot tell you how they chose buffalo, new york, of all places, but they were some of the few chinese people in that whole town. that is what they did. they started that laundry. they had all of their kids work in that laundry. day in, day out, sometimes they slept above the laundry in the building. five kids in one bed, and they made it work. they believed in being here. they believe that by making the sacrifices, their children would have a better life. to think that just after that, one generation later, that i can be on tv talking about the u.s. stock market, talking about how you can trade stocks and invest, it is amazing to me. >> your parents grew up where? >> my father grew up in buffalo and my mother was born in southern china as well. she was the daughter of a wealthy landlord back then before the communists took over. as was the custom back then, he had three wives at one time. that was the custom back then. my mo

i went to southern china and i investigated the conditions under which they are made. >> where did you get the idea at? >> i talk about this in the show. it is true. all of my monologues come out of my obsessions. they spring out of my obsessions. one day i was searching the web. i read this article on a macintosh news site because i am a big geek. this guy got an iphone, but it was not blank when he got it. it had these pictures from inside the factory. i became obsessed with these pictures. you do not think about how they are made. i know how to take them apart and put them together, but i did not know how they were actually made. >> let's see a clip. it is a one-man show. is it always one man? >> it is. >> you have been sitting on stage is for 15 years by yourself talking. >> i never feel lonely. it is told in the space with the audience. it is very much live composed. it is very much communal. i am the only one on the stage. >> is there any difference performing in washington than any other city? >> not in the fundamentals. they are a very political audience. some things resonate d