because the tibet landlocked country materially is backward. every tibetan wants more for tibet. that reason, remain with the peoples republic of china. it's our own interest as far as materials delivery is concerned. meaningful autonomy in the field of culture, education, religion. in these fields, the tibetans can handle a better way. in these fields tibetans should have full sort of authority. that's midway. firstly, we're not seeking independence. therefore some people are tibetans and are supporters and our friends are a little critical. we are not fighting for independence. this is no contradiction. keeping good relations with china and in the meantime to support, you see, what we are carrying stock of. so actually the tibetan -- our approach is to bring unity and stability. so if you use common sense, then our approach is the best interest for the people of china. >> larry: didn't you recently say that the middle way was failing? >> yes. after the 10th of march crisis in 2008, i publicly expressed now our effort, one aspect of our sort of effort. that is to bring improveme

. >> we are from different ethnicities in tibet. i am uzbek, he is pashtun.sing in english to show that afghanistan is not just a war- torn country. >> the lyrics say so. they are written deliberately in english. the band say it is important to counter the claims of nationalism in their country. kabul dreams have been together for just one year, but they are making an impact in the region with a concert in india. >> identity is important for us. identity has always been misused, and this is a good message for afghan years. we want to be known as afghan. -- this is a good message for afghan youth. >> the message of the band could come from the 1960's. peace and love. >> in our songs, we use words of love and peace which does not necessarily refer to girls. it is our country. we want to live in peace. >> ♪ come on >> couple dreams was to bring a cosmopolitan flavor to afghan music, to keep -- kabul dreams wants to bring a cosmopolitan flavor to afghan music. bbc news, afghanistan. >> you can find the story and much more at bbc.com/news. >> funding was made poss

colin powell speaking on blumberg said you usually oh smooth things over on taiwan and tibet.e have the public say and behind the scenes the diplomacy works, but this time we have google and now these two very famous economists going at it. i wanted to bring this up. so paul krugman said chinese currency policy is adding materially to the world's economic problems at a time when those problems are already very severe. it is time to take a stand. steven roach from morgan stanley when asked, well, isn't that taking a baseball bat at china's policy, he said, we should take out the baseball bat on paul krugman. i have never heard eminent economists insulting each other over china policy. i feel it's a metaphor more what's happening in economic relations. >> they have been listening to the politicians too much. that's the language of politics and late night food fights on television. look, my expectation is that we will work this out. i will bet that a the chinese over time do appreciate their currency some. they will not completely capitulate, but they are going back to more of a

beijing insisted the censorship, including references to the tiananmen massacre and tibet protests had accused google as politicizing the issue. but even the government has been surprised at the backlash from its own citizens. "i am a chinese" said blogger michael jao, "but i'm also a google man." he says he spends 16 hours a day working online as a journalist discovered the power of internet freedom during a year's study in harvard. "without google, i cannot live a modern life" he says. the chinese government has been increasing attacks on internet freedom since last year. sites like twitter, facebook, and youtube are blocked while other american online firms struggle to turn a profit. google may not be making a lot of money here, but with such enormous growth potential, the company really didn't want to leave china. but with chinese cyber attacks against u.s. networks increasing so rapidly, google decided it didn't have a choice. >> one thing to learn out of the google experience is that no company, no matter how advanced it is-- and google is one of the most advanced in the world--

other accidents such as the out of tibet i-95 on the east side. bridgett outer loop -- out for looer loop on the i95. >> temperatures will be up to 65 degrees with lots of sunshine. the clouds will thicken up tomorrow. a good chance of rain thursday and friday before we clear out for the weekend. when >> thanks for joining us. >> we are back with a live update in 25 minutes. . .

and we've been in tibet, for example, lately in september. and they make big efforts to keep the language to support the language, to support the tibet and culture. what they need and the people and the government is fighting for is to have a balance between modernity and between history and the valleys of history. and that's not easy, and every single person, we all have to balance our life between what we want to achieve economically and what we want to achieve and our personal values. >> as to education, first of all, china has a literacy rate of 97%. because of the chinese have always put a premium on education. but their education system is almost totally rote learning. particular those who are forced to go to university. everything is taught to the exam. it is all wrote, all born. but is true of most education with this one except it. but most education systems in the world. all over the world we are teaching, we are doing the education. yesterday, as we're trying to get through today, and we should be really at least teaching education

. >>> in new delhi, the dalai lama looked at a book called tibet, 50 years

also from afghanistan, the mountains of tibet, getting her afghani varieties. but the we that was available in vietnam and thailand, laos, far exceeded the quality and potency what was available to americans in america at the time he. i know that from personal experience. the other question i've got is both in frank lucas' movie, american gangster, and in the movie about charlie wilson, concerning the afghani adventure. and in the documentary about charlie wilson, all three places, none of the drugs are mentioned at all. and yet, we know that the majority of the money that funded afghanistan was from hair when. not from the u.s. congress provided by charlie wilson. could you speak to that? >> thanks. i think that gets to the point, earlier about public knowledge is not very good. because these kind of popular depictions just totally whitewash you. and jack, i should've mentioned that as a major precursor. and there was an editorial in 1979, david work for the state department as an expert at you. >> university in drug policy. he wrote an editorial like warning

but already today china has started blocking sensitive topics like tibet protests.e which many found more useful than the chinese search sites. >> the bigger question is how does this change the internet in china. if the internet is more closely regulated and less choice, then maybe growth in the internet slows. we don't know. >> reporter: u.s. internet companies came to china hoping to open up the country. but in fact they're discovering the great firewall of china is getting harder and harder to penetrate. terry mccarthy, cbs news, beijing. >>> and a texas police officer is recovering from a big crash last week. the officer's dash cam video shows him starting to chase a speeding driver in dallas, but another car pulls out in front of the police car. look at this. causing a collision which september t september tsent the officer's car into the woods. >>> let's go back outside to dave price where, yes, it is spring and the showers, they just keep coming. >> absolutely. you know what, we -- every time someone comes to the plaza, we learn something. did you know 70% o

there were many people that tibet is a bad and now they are in a course but. -- there were many people that took advantage of that and now they are in may spot. a spot. people who took that should not be awarded with -- rewarded for bad behavior. the government just does not have the money. our debt ratio -- within five years, we will be paying at present levels, forget about this program, $800 billion. host: flint, michigan is up next, what is the nature of the economy there? caller: terrible, sir, terrible, terrible. i am a disabled veteran. that lady who just called -- i did not hear anybody talk about the war. if we did not have to pay for one year of the war, we could help out all these people. i am suffering. host: what do you think about this new effort for homeowners? caller: they want me to give $5,000 to get out from under water. they appraised my house at $200,000. now, i am coming up to $140,000. they brought this into two loans. i got a second mortgage. i am paying about $2,000 per month on both of them. i am not asking to get out of the loan. i am asking for one interest

there is continued repression in tibet areas.iran a poor human rights area, with clashes and thousands were arrested and another thousand were arrested in demonstrations in december. it's a place where we continue to see severe repression and are continuing to pay great attention^j i want to mention the situation of prisoners in cuba, savira died after a hunger strike and several others are on a hunger strike in solarity. their plight reflects the broader problem, of the range of problems of the prison conditions in cuba. and finally we continue to monitor, and this is not in 2008, but in recent weeks the violence last weekend in nigeria and calling on all parties and communities there to work together and to prison an escalation of that violence. last point, there are some positive trends, i want to end with that. we are continuing to work closely with the president of liberia, and she and her government undertook and completed in 2009 a major truth and reconciliation report and held 700 hearings and 18,000 statements. they rele