this comes to us from thailand. they've got a huge pile of fireworks explosives.'ve got these huge sticks with flames on the end. no one's wearing any safety equipment. all of the smoke starts going. it's all catching fire. it's all about to go wrong. they were blinded by all of the smoke. i'm like that's something of an anticlimax. and i was the wrongest person in history when this happened. look at that! >> wow! >>tooks to g uoue thinking, all right, what's going to happen now? is it going to come down? is it going to explode? no they thought of that, too. the thai space program has also came up with -- >> oh, my gosh it's got a parachute. >> these guys are amazing. >> all i can do is -- i mean what else can you do? this is brilliant. >> some other people do definitely get judged. the red neck. >> i love rednecks. you've always got to go with the ingenuity. they have a carport. they need to move it. you just think outside the box. >> there is nothing wrong with this. >> redneck ingenuity at its finest. they park the rv underneath. some old tires to lift it up. t

david piper joining us from thailand. is this more sabre rattling? >> they could be yes.here's a lot of tension at the moment on the korean peninsula. at the same time as north korea test fired those missiles the u.s. and south korea launched their annual military exercises in the south. now, two short range missiles were fired by north korea from the port city into the east sea towards japan. the south korean defense ministry says what they believe was scud missiles fell in the ocean 300 miles from where they were fired. no warning was given before the missile launches. the japanese government says they were a danger to fights. defense ministry described the my missile launches as provocation because they were fired without a warning. defense minister warned if it continues, south korea's military would react firmly to any further provocations from the north. missile launches are being seen as the response to the annual u.s.-south korea military exercises. north korea military earlier today described the joint exercises as an encroachment on its national sovereignty and

david tiner joins us now from ban dock thailand. >> reporter: it doesn't offer anything to explain what happened to it. mh 370 went missing about an hour into its night from kuala lumpur to beijing. no trace of the plane has yet been found. the report goes into fine detail about the flight, its crew and maintenance record. the only thing it highlights that's not right is that the battery powering the underwater locater tracker on the aircraft expired a year before the plane went missing. aviation experts say the batteries do last a long team and could have still been working during the flight, but it would likely mean they didn't last as long as expected if the plane was on the ocean floor. the head of the investigation that has produced the report has defended its findings. >> the sole objective of the investigation of an accident or incident shall be prevention of future accidents or incidents. it is not the purpose of this activity to apportion blame or liability. >> reporter: families who had loved ones on board the aircraft gathered in a park to mark the anniversary of the plane's

from beijing throughout the 11-day congress. stay with us for all of your news >>> in may 2014 thailand's military took power in a coup. it was led by army commander prayut chan-o-cha. appointed as the interim prime minister, prayut is seeking to restore a civilian government. in thailand the conflict persisted for a

at the state of these economies, the pickup from using monetary policies -- they are already quite easy. consumers will not tend towards spending in thailand it does speak to the fact that there is a bit of a currency aspect. you have loose monetary conditions. >> they were talking about how -- the first time we heard that the euro weakness has impacted their exports, more so than the yen. >> actually, when you think about it, it is a euro driven move. a lot of that is predicated on the fact that -- >> we have a long way to go down. 75 or thereabouts? >> i want to bring it back to this region. where is china's debt served? on the export front, sure, they would like to see a weakening -- but not too much weakening. >> the euro selloff puts them in a tough situation. i would say i am more constructive than the consensus -- there is less weakening ahead than what we have seen but they are in the top spot because as the euro sells off that will affect the exchange rate. it increases pretty rapidly. they are a very significant export destination. >>having said that, the economic growth they get for weakening is not going to provide them enough

us from kuala-lumpur. moves being made to end marshal law in thailand and the army commander turned prime minister asked forroval which is considered a formality and critics say it poses so called dictator law granting him absolute power ten months after thailand's government was over thrown. as tuesday's deadline is about to expire 40 countries signed up for the asia infrastructure bank and being set up by china and seen as a challenge to the world bank and the international monetary fund which are heavily influenced by the united states. close ally the uk and rising ashun powers and india and indonesia are among members, brazil russia and germany applied for membership. the bank is designed to target infrastructure projects that are not being funded by imf and world bank and hoping to fill a funding gap of $800 billion a year that the u.s. says the initiative will fall short of international banking standards. in a moment we will hear the view from beijing and dakarta but first tom ackerman in washington. >> reporter: the chinese initiative is not being seen officially as a competitive threat, the america

david piper live from bangkok, thailand. what can you tell us david?, aid agencies and rescue teams on the ground utter destruction across the vnauatu archipelago. cyclone pam was unexpect led off course and smashed into the island chain, leaving a wave of destruction right across the 60 odd islands there. trees everywhere have been uprooted. we estimate from what people are saying, 90% of the buildings there have been damaged. also some bridges are down. aid is finally getting through we understand. some australian and new zealand planes have arrived at the main island to distribute aid. there are 267,000 people on these islands. many of them in desperate straits at this time but the real concern at the moment is some of these outlying islands to the south which were in the eye of the storm. there is no communication to these islands at the time. some helicopters have gone out and seen some really bad destruction. we don't know if there have been more fatalities there or moving towards a much wide every program because of the state of those smaller co

the record was a catfish from 2005 also caught in thailand. >> with us now, the chief white house correspondentiticallitolitico playbook this morning you have a piece about the problematic property once owned by marco rubio. we heard about this during his senate campaign. is it re-emerging again? >> yes, new miami reporter is doing a florida playbook calls this marco's house of horrors. we think marco is going to announce in mid april and people dig back through all their problems. this is the house that marco rubio bought with david rivera who you know him, former congressman, bad news. bought the house together when they were both legislators. they also were roommates up here. bought this house for $135,000. now trying to sell it for $125. and david rivera who has since come under investigation for campaign finance ethics state, federal, and marco would love to be rid of this house but it's a tough housing market. he probably will still be co-owners of this house. >> he's had housing problems before. wasn't one of his homes foreclosed on? >> this is the house. so this is the selling this hous

thailand, and tour groups flock to see emma in her beautiful feeding grounds. >> all the dive guides used to take food down for her, sausage, bacon, leftovers from breakfast. we've fed the moray many, many times, maybe become a little bit complacent. she was more like a friendly dog more than a dangerous animal to us. >> matt plays with emma, teasing her with his bag of sausages and breakfast food. the moray eel seems to enjoy the games. here she nuzzles against matt's hands and passes back and forth like a playful pet. matt's friend captures the whole thing on camera. >> when we approach the he'll, she would swim out every time. she would swim out and you could have a little play and she would nestle under your arm and you could stroke her. and of course when she started losing interest, that's when the food would come out, just to tempt her back so we could have a little longer time playing with the moray eel. >> 20 minutes into the dive, the playful emma becomes agitated, swimming more quickly and becoming more aggressive about getting fed. >> this is when the moray eel swam around the back of me. she could smell the food, saw my thumb and thought it wa

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