recently said that the sport in sri lanka is corrupt. he talked about the excessive political influence. the sports minister can veto the national team lineup. huge new stadiums were built to host the world cup putting them in massive debt. the players have not been paid since march. the armed forces have the job of maintaining the stadiums. another former national capt. is now an opposition politician. he says the government is too involved with many aspects of life in sri lanka. >> when it comes to the political interference whether it is court cases, cricket, or anything, some political interference. that is the biggest problem that we face today. >> this speaks of its growing influence. on the university system, the media, the world of business, the constitution itself. they say it is part of a government tightening its grip on this country. the government denies there is political interference in national life, including cricket. they say the armed forces involvement in the stadiums is limited. >> they are only doing the maintenance

recently said that the sport in sri lanka is correct. he talked about excess of political influence and the fact that the sports minister can veto the team lineup. a huge new stadiums were built to host the world cup, leaving them with massive debt. the players have not been paid since august. another former national capt. is now an opposition politician. he says the government is too involved with many aspects of life in sri lanka. >> when it comes to an issue in this country, the political interference, whether it is sports, cricket, or anything at all -- some political influence is happening. that's the biggest problem we face today. >> creecritics of the government speak of the growing influence. of they it's all part government said in two years ago suddenly tightening its grip on the country. >> the government denies the interest in national life, including cricket, and says the armed forces involvement in the stadiums is limited. >> cricket is the cricket board. >> until recently, sri lankans have especially valued cricket. among

this year, a less wealthy island nation has made it to the list of top 10 donors -- sri lanka. here, people mainly invest their time to help others. 52% of sri lanka's 20 million inhabitants do volunteer work and nearly that many again take time to help strangers. one of the poorest showings in the world giving index is china. here only about 11% of the people give money to charity. even though the communist land has more billionaires than any country in the world besides the u.s. in proportion to the huge population, there are few charities. many people just do not trust state-run or non-governmental organizations. >> run was a woman has set out to develop this trust in a charity she herself founded. according to julia titova, there's a lack of compassion among russia's nouveau riche toward those who've been less successful in the country's relatively new market economy. so she took the idea of charity shops from london to her native st. petersburg. back in the days of czarist russia, st. petersburg was also the home to a group of patrons who shared some of their wealth with t

relatives pause to remember the lives lost in the countries hit including thailand and sri lanka. the prime minister has described an attack on the general staff headquarters in the capital as an attempted coup. he said many arrests have been made in relation to the attack. among the most detained was the navy's chief of staff. irreverence -- rebel general was also arrested. a ring attains are once thought to have lived through -- oragutans are was thought to have lived throughout asia. but they are increasingly under threat. more than 750 of them were killed by indonesian villagers. >> this baby would never have survived without her keeper. she lost her mom when workers chase them away. she was brought to the sanctuary and for the first few months was ill. it is not clear whether her mom is still alive. for now the baby depends on her for care. >> she usually cries when i leave so i need to be close to her. >> most of them that were brought to the sanctuary were saved from people's homes. this one was present -- rescued from a circus. but there has been a disturbing trend. more a

sri lanka and over the southern tip of india looking wet again today. today talking about isolated showers and down pours. things are going to be looking wet again. and that does follow several days of steady rainfall. so trying to accumulate. ground's getting well saturated. you do want to watch out for flooding as well as landslides. looking for dry skies around much of china. may have lighter flurries forming in the northeast corner here. but they shouldn't be too heavy. for japan also looking at largely sunny skies across the country even northern areas have been seen all that snow the past few days. it is starting to ease and the winds should die down as well. but then into wednesday, we'll start seeing showers form. this time along the pacific side of southern japan. highs on tuesday looking like this in chongqing. tokyo high of 12 degrees with partly cloudy skies. little bit cooler than yesterday. and over towards the americas. it's the southwest corner that's going to be looking at quite a bit of activity. we've got the slow-moving low that's sl

sri lanka and qatar have agreed to boost economic and cultural cooperation as well as to improve air connections. a deal was signed after sri lankan president raj ja paxon met with the prime minister in columbo on tuesday. he said that private firms from his country are interested in opening superluxury hotels in the capital and other well known tourist sites. >>> an international horticultural exposition has kicked off in the northern thai province on wednesday. 30 countries are participating in the three-month-long event. highlights include agricultural conferences and plant contests. the organizers expect at least 2 million visitors including about 200,000 from overseas. the expo could also give a boost to the local tourism industry. >>> many people in japan believe a long soak in a hot bath is an essential part of japanese life. people in other nations have embraced the joys of the hot tub. but now more and more americans are discovering the pleasure of bathing the japanese way. nhk world has more on that. >> reporter: for bill finley, no day goes by without a soak in his japanese

the great literature i think that you're working in here. >> i'm someone who, as i said, born in sri lanka and moved to england and then to canada. i've been pretty nomadic in my life. this book gets these boys from asia who really don't even know what england is who are about to arrive and their lives are going to change completely. i just love that kind of transferring of people from one location to another one. >> brown: when you finished, i guess, and i'm going back to where we started, you're looking back at a life that is sort of yours but not yours. were you surprised by what you had written? >> you know it's very odd because i think when you write fiction, you are obviously kind of discovering elements of yourself even if you're writing fiction because the kind of characters you invent are aspects of yourself or glimmers of aspects of yourself. you have to paint them in great detail. so the boy michael who i see as a fictional character i'm sure contains elements of my fears and wishes. i think all those things. i listened to all these store hes from uncles and aunts. i wrote this

most in indonesia, sri lanka, and thailand. people gathered at memorial sites to remember the victims, including in southern thailand. >> on the island of fui ket, residents and tourists come together to remember the tsunami. people released candle-lit balloons into the sky to honor the dead. on december 26, 2004, a huge earthquake off the coast of sumatra triggered a tsunami which rolled across the indian ocean. the massive waves swept away more than 5,400 people in thailand alone. half of the dead were foreign visitors. on phuket, the bodies that could be recovered were brought here for identification. this wall shielded the makeshift morgue from the public gaze. now it is a memorial, a place to leave flowers in remembrance. >> in orderic countries have been hit by a major storm with winds over 120 kilometers per hour in some places. the storm whipped up high waves off the coast. some ferry services had to be canceled. there was considerable damage to coastal areas. on land, streets and roads were blocked by debris and fallen

. >>> sri lanka and qatar have agreed to boost economic and cultural cooperation, as well as to improveir connections. a deal was signed after sri lankan president met the visiting qatari prime minister in colombo on tuesday. the qatari prime minister said that private firms from his country are interested in opening super luxury hotels in the capital and other well-known tourist sites. >>> an international hort kult ral exposition kicked off in the northern thai province of cheng mai. highlights of the expo include agricultural conferences and plant contests. the organizers expect at least 2 million visitors including about 2 hunl 00,000 from overseas. the expo could also give a boost to the local tournament industry. >>> japan is starting to feel the winter chills. let's go to sayaka mori for the bigger weather picture here and elsewhere. >>> hello, welcome to your weather update. let's take a look at what's happening across east asia. we are monitoring a tropical depression over the pacific. it's moving in a westerly direction, headed toward the southern philippines. and it could bec

the cotton is grown and picked, stretches to textile factories in india, garment manufacturers in sri lanka and finally to store shelves in the united states and beyond. victoria's secret says it relies on international fair trade groups to conduct random inspections that guarantee children aren't working the fields. but now, those fair trade groups say they are investigating the claims, and so is victoria's secret. the lingerie maker issued this statement to abs news. "our standards specifically prohibit child labor. we are vigorously engaging with stakeholders to fully investigate this matter." the cotton from burkina faso is just a tiny fraction of all the cotton victoria's secret buys to make its underwear. but it could turn out that what is advertised as fair trade may just be the exact opposite. child labor is endemic to the production of cotton in west africa, but by all accounts, it likely would have been impossible for victoria's secret to know whether children were behind any of the cotton sold in its stores. david. >> cecilia vega in washington tonight, thank you. there's much mo

get worse it's very difficult to fight suicide bombers we've seen and palestine as we've seen in sri lanka the way the system of war and the methods of war have changed the insurgents during the soviet invasion were doing very different things than they are doing now and we need to look at that we're not winning the war in the united states that needs to be recognised that sad leaving afghanistan as we did in the ninety's is morally reprehensible i think we need to stay and i think the best way to do that is peacekeeping troops but we also need to stay in terms of reconstruction much has changed for the better i think. i mean i was brought up earlier in the program chris brought it up to i mean why should the united states and europe pay for reconstruction of afghanistan when they have their own austerity issues to take care of at home afghanistan is no threat to europe and no threat to the united states right now. why do we help countries only if there is a perceived threat it was never a threat to europe or the united states that was just the reason used by politicians to go. there on fr

a lot of the technology that's here is in some ways behind the technology that i encountered in sri lanka. >> that's where school house used to manufacture all its clothing, at a living wage zbarment factory. in the end, the distance proved to be too much. and that's why weeks and her chief operations officer, susan williams, decided to find and partner with local factories. >> i was part of the generation that took it away from this country. and didn't know what that would do, really, to our economy. and here i am now, 20 years later, having an opportunity to bring it back. >> weeks, who counts schools like duke, yale, the university of nebraska, and the university of cincinnati among her 100 clients, says she's done plenty of legwork. finding a factory partner is extraordinarily difficult. it was a lot of getting in the car, and getting on the phone. we've been traveling across the state of north carolina, uncovering these cut and sew facilities, and meeting with fabric vendors, and finding cardboard box manufacturers who are still here. >> since so many north carolina textile factories

affecting northern parts of sri lanka.ypically you only see a tropical cyclone in the month of december, about a 35% chance. winds at 148. it has been picking up, the gusts up to 185, making landfall in about the next 16 hours. you can see 24 hours out it will be over stords the west. it doesn't matter the landfall time. so many people worry about that. right now you need to be worried about possibly finding some type of evacuation because the system is going to be moving in. it looks like it's going to be moving in and making landfall to the south of chennai. we'll be dealing with the strongest winds and highest storm surge in this region. you'll notice on this region, very populated. this means this whole area is going to be likely dealing with extreme flooding. certainly this is not a time to ignore the weather forecast. paying attention to your local weather authorities is very important. heavier rainfall, talking 15 to 25 centimeters. certainly that is going to lead to flooding problems there. the other big story has

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, portugal, greece italy and spain but also economies of countries like south vietnam, tanzania, sri lanka, canada and chile, taking the ford had a conversation as my starting point and moved my investigation back in time, hoping to locate the moment when it looked to me as though things decided to go wrong. the stargate if you will of the road that led to president for his confrontation with the shah on oil prices in his final weeks in office. that meant i had to move back in time past the recession, past watergate, nixon's resignation, beyond oil embargo or, the yom kippur war, past vietnam war, the 1972 presidential election and indeed back as far as the shah of iran's visit to washington to attend the funeral of former president eisenhower in 1999. that is the board in which my book begins. in the fall of 2008, three years ago now, during the financial collapse, i remember watching news footage of the lehman brothers, the failure of lehman brothers and thinking, this sounds familiar. as each month passed and as each phase of the financial crisis gave way to a newer more ominous one tha