the tibetan government has condemned china for carrying out a crackdown on the religious freedom of tibetan people. >>> the leaders of south korea and china have agreed to monitor north korea's moves as the new leadership establishes itself. the south korea president lee myung-bak andinin held a summit. visiting china to mark the 20th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries. officials from the south korean presidential office say the leaders agree to work together towards a peaceful, stable and nuclear-free korean peninsula. but they agreed it would be difficult to restart negotiations on the north's nuclear program or bilateral talks between the two koreas. they believe the new north korean leadership is unlikely to want dialogue with other countries at this stage. the leaders also talked about efforts to forge a free trade agreement. the president said his country hopes to begin talks with china by march. and the president also discussed last month's deadly incident in the yellow sea. a chinese fishing boat captain fatally stabbed a south korean maritime police offic

engage in constructive dialogue with the dalai lama or his representatives as a means to address tibetan concerns. >> newland said china is threatening the religious, cultural, and linguistic identity of the tibetan people. she said u.s. officials will likely raise the issue during a visit to the u.s. next month by chinese vice president. chinese officials have hung portraits of leading figures on government buildings in the region's central city. the pictures include those of former leader and current president. the officials have handed out thousands of photographs and flags at homes and buddhist temples. analysts believe the chinese government is trying to promote patriotism while expressing discontent about the handling of tibetan issues. >>> ben bernanke has extended policy, good morning. >> good morning, catherine. the super low lending rates were set to expire in the middle of 2013. that's been extended by more than one year. the u.s. central bank says it will keep key interest rates at very low levels until at least late 2014. in a statement released after an open market committe

the london-based advocacy group says security forces shot two ethnic tibetans. those forces killed two other protesters earlier in the week. >>> members of the tibetan government in exile say the protesters rallied against the chinese government crackdown on religious activities. government officials confirmed the unrest in the county but say the police acted to restore order. >>> a u.s. state department spokesperson criticized china's policies. victoria newland called on chinese officials to speak with the exiled tibetan spiritual leader. >> and we urge the chinese government to engage in constructive dialogue with the dalai lama or his representatives as a means to address at this timet et -- tin concerns. >> she said u.s. officials will likely raise the issue during a visit to the u.s. next month pie chinese president, the chinese vice president. chinese officials have hung portraits of leading figures on government buildings in the tibet autonomous region's central city. the pictures include those of former leader mao zedong and hu jintao. officials have han

and, you know, that really riled up some of the tibetan kids, so things like that do happen. >> host: pearl in new york city, you're on with author brooke hauser. this is booktv on c-span2. >> caller: hello. fabulous book. i would like to know if you have any tips for teachers and professors about how these teachers handle the perspectives and points of view of students especially where students had very different perspectives? when i was the head of an english department at a college, i had teachers who were, became very concerned about students who wrote papers ranting and raving about the government. and i would interview the students and find they're not talking about washington, they're talking about the eastern bloc country that thai just come from -- that they've just come from. so how did these teachers handled that, where students literally did not have what we would call an american perspective on certain cultural or historical experiencial issues as yet? thank you. >> host: thank you, pearl. >> guest: well, that's a good question and, again, the thing that immediately comes

media reports say two tibetan protesters were shot dead.in. in this buddhist neighborhood, authorities are tightening their grip. there are literally neighborhoods crawling with police. you can see one over my shoulder. a lot of tibetans here, a lot of buddhist monks walking around. you really get the sense here that this place is in lockdown. it's hard to get people to talk here. these young monks say they are verbally abused and harassed by police, pushed to breaking point. >> i cannot bear it any longer, he says. i can't bear it any more. they live here in this tiny one-room apartment. they are far from their home in the mountains, cut off, they say. they can't even make contact by phone. we want to go, but we cannot. you can see all the security out there, he says. wherever you go, they see you. you cannot go anywhere. are you afraid, we asked. he just looked at a picture of the buddha. i can't explain, he said, but i'm not afraid. in their pouch, they hold a keepsake of their spiritual leader, the dalai lama. this pouch, they said, car

cnn traveled to the sichuan province to report on people setting themselves on fire to oppose the tibetan into the mountains to the tibetan community, and of course there is a checkpoint and police are now outside. >> later, government officers detained stan and cnn's crew at the airport, even taking some of their footage. now chinese authorities are blacking out cnn international television in the country. whenever his story airs, thousands of chinese security forces have now entered the sichuan province. the government says it's because of attacks on the chinese. >>> we have the ultimate pop for you today. we're talking about the obama campaign taking a dig at mitt romney for how republicans treated his dog. >>> plus, mitt romney singing a song, speaking of music. >>. ♪ above the fruited plains >> romney loosening up a bit on the campaign. we'll be back in 60 seconds with your retirement account and your income. stay right there. people with a machine. what ? customers didn't like it. so why do banks do it ? hello ? hello ?! if your bank doesn't let you talk to a real person 24/7, you n

might begin to understand what happens during the day when people of chinese, korean, vietnamese, tibetan, and mongolian heritages around the world celebrate the lunar new year. it is also celebrated with parties and parades where skilled teams of dancers to let the crowds with their portrayals of dragons. to those who celebrate lunar new year, dragons are not scary monsters to be feared. they are regarded as magical or the wind, welcome symbols of the new hope in the new year. if you look at the colorful creatures depicted on the new stamps, you will see the magical and divine adjectives are excellent ways to describe this beast. by combining original artwork with elements from the previous series, clarence lee's intricate paper cutter and calligraphy, the art director has created a culturally rich stamp that celebrates the diversity of the american experience. you did such a great job on the stamp. please stand. [applause] we hope the year will bring the best to all of us, no matter what sign we were born under a. the year of the dragon begins today and ends on february 9, 2013. if you

one of the tibetans churches. to be sure. and certain wider group who will serve the doctor who. wouldn't bark and students can sue hire and. fire and say no current resigning was marie priest. marinara her serene track record combined expected here or are. we going to hatch. and. so about the poor sound quality on the show but of interview there earlier on more thought radio host and author stephen leatherman said he believes that the trials merely a diversion from the continuing unrest in the country this is a distraction this is to divert the public aid iran has three it's legitimate a year but i believe being the interstate mubarak for several days in their own trade will result of cells in the process taking things a worse know one of the military and in no also the people running the country the same ones closely allied with novara what you say is sane people because all the grievances of the people are objecting to but i think the protests over the war and the people will be full the violence will continue is this struggle has a long way to go. meanwhile in syria over five

i don't think the tibetan people have the weaponry or mindset to overthrow that. these are teenagers. they want someone to mess with them. theythey're like young, dumb and full of something. and they want to get into it with somebody, and you see the people endure these men and you cannot walk around more than five minutes without these guys bumming out your fun. and that's what it looks like there. and it doesn't even look real. that looks like out of someone's dream. the dream of a perfect day put on a photograph. and that's me leaning out of a truck taking that photo on the way into lhasa. i don't know what the chinese are going to do to that. i hope i don't see a hotel and a ski lodge up there the next time i go. this is bhutan, and bhutans is interesting. used to have a traffic light but they didn't like so it they removed it. and bhutan -- they don't do traffic lights anymore. you just have to be real cool. marijuana grows everywhere. i i was walking around with a guy, and i said, is this marijuana? i don't recognize it that well. looked like it. he say, tha

congress began appropriating funds for assistance to tibetan communities as early as fiscal year 2000. in fiscal year 2006, that program expanded to address governance, environment and rule of law programs through u.s. educational and nongovernmental institutions as directed by congress. for fiscal year 2010, mr. chairman, aid's assistance in china was $23.4 million including four million for health and hiv/aids, 7.4 million for tibetan communities, 12 million to support environment and rule of law activities. in 2011 our total country allocation for china for usaid is projected to be $12 million, a 48% decrease from the prior fiscal year. with that backdrop, let me spend just a couple of minutes on the specific areas that you have highlighted, um, which is the environment programs. mr. chairman, 16 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world are in china, and the pollution from chinese factories and plants has a substantial negative impact directly on the united states. almost one-third of the particulate pollution in california and 30% of the mercury found in north american lakes co

. >>> two tibetan monks set themselves on fire on friday.activist group says this is the latest in a series of self- emulation protests against chinese rule. at least 14 nuns, monks and former monks are believed to have set themselves on fire in the past year. >>> a u.s. coast guard is helping a russian fuel ship get to alaska. it is carrying more than 1.3- gallons of petroleum products to nome alaska. the coast guard's only ice breaking ship is now cutting a path. >>> new complaints of prisoner abuse at the hands of the american military have launched an investigation in afghanistan. prisoners were held at bagram prison. karzai is demanding they take custody of those prisoners. they are negotiating a time table to transfer that prison. >> some prisoners complained about abuse, others complained about torture some complained about the use of gas against them others complained about lack of lawyers. >>> american officials just got the commissions report and will certainly take it seriously the plan is for american troops to leave afghanistan

and topics that people try to enga in person to person, let's say talking about taiwan or tibetans and dalai lama and various religions will be censored. they have... must have armies of sensors watching over the internet. but people in china are very creative. they come up with cod words and the sensors are maybe one or two steps behind the people as they try to engage in this discussion. >> rose: the people know how to move around the censorship that exists? >> they are constantly trying to do that. they're trying to engage in that conversation but it's a constant battle. >> rose: and human rights today? >> human rights, the situation has gotten worse sin the leadup to the 2008 olympics. you know, the human rights climate has always ebbed and flowed in china up and down but we seem to be in a down period and it's getting worse. and with the developmes in middle east, arabpring, what happened in egypt and libya the chinese leaders are very fearful of something similar happening within china. so tre's been a significant crackdown on dissension, political discussion, even the rights and

filliole gist, 56 yeared old o too old for everest literally died and was buried in the fortress on the tibetan platteau. the day of his burial wheeler's journal entry reads simply this well, they buried the old boy in the morning. thought it would be the afternoon, terribly sorry to have missed it but i do hate funerals. wait a minute, how do you miss the internment of o of the six guys you are walking-- had to be an explanation an i knew was with the western front. he was a soldier with the indian army in the canadians in the north and indians in the south. really manned the allied line after the elimination of the british exhi businessary force by november 1914. and by that point the topography of armageddon had come into place. the trenches reached the coastline and both sides were beginning to sap each other. and the germans had put two trenches, they discovered, from 30 feets of their front line and wheeler was given the command as the royal engineer to go over the top, bury those saps and do so in a way that would disswaid-- dissuade the germans fr ever doing again. he goes over the top