people come from turkmenistan, uzbekistan. they buy their goods here cheap and sell them for a profit further along the silk road. i'm now wanting to head further west along the silk road myself. from osh, the border with uzbekistan is less than 10 miles away, so, i'm catching a local bus to get there. i'm looking for a 116, 137 or 138. we'll see when it comes. hello, to the border? uzbekistan, yeah? hello, hello, hello. hello, thank you. [speaking in a foreign language] this is the bus to the border, right? uzbekistan? >> [foreign language] >> yeah, perfect. >> is the bus always this crowded? >> [foreign language] >> yeah, yeah, da. is this the border? oh, okay, all right. pretty relaxed all things considered. sometimes you can get stuck for hours. how many days? three. yeah. [foreign language] from the border outside osh it's just a few miles to the city of andijan, where i catch a short domestic flight to the capital of uzbekistan, tashkent. tashkent is a large modern city of over 2 million people. uzbekistan, like many of

the next morning is my last in uzbekistan. hello, salam alaikum. >> salam alaikam. >> can you take me to the turkmenistan border? yeah, okay, great. i'm heading to the highly dictatorial country of turkmenistan, to see the ancient archaeological ruins of merv. to get to the border is just over half an hour's drive. filming in uzbekistan has been no picnic, lots of restrictions on what we can do, but turkmenistan should be even worse. it's been difficult to get permission to go in, and i've been told in no uncertain terms that we cannot film until we get to the actual ruins at merv. so, we're going, we're doing it, should be worth it, it's supposed to be an amazing place. but we can't film until we get there. from bukhara across the turkmenistan border, it's a journey of around 200 miles or so to the ancient ruins of merv. today, merv is marooned completely off-the-beaten-track in the remote and rarely visited turkmenistan desert. but historically it was a crucially strategic and very busy silk road junction. in its heyday, nea

and i won the title of miss uzbekistan 2013. >> reporter: there's one thing.orts ministry says it has no knowledge he was competing. a representative of the agency where she once modeled said, i can assure you that a much more beautiful model would have been chosen. and online, most uzbekis consider her a pariah. pageant watchers say none of this should come as a surprise. >> it is a selection process where they will not compete against other women. a promoter will choose someone to go and represent that country. >> reporter: abc news was unable to reach ganieva for comment. >> i really want to win. >> reporter: ganieva may first have to win over her own country before strutting her stuff on the world stage. for "good morning america," linsey davis, abc news, new york. >> the pageant has not lified h. each country has to have an open competition. uzbekistan didn't have one. >> nominate yourself. >> i'm her. >>> also burning up the "gma heat index," jennifer aniston spilling her beauty secrets, including the tricks to the hair that's the envy of so many women.

know obviously you know you have a russian allies that are dictatorships like turkmenistan and uzbekistan these are ruthless countries but nobody start talking about military intervention there what's prompting the talk about military intervention is the slaughter of civilians well i'm sure you are aware of the u.n. death toll figures for each are now over at one hundred thousand people killed in syria what is much less publicized is around eighty percent of the death toll i actually mammals and if they're not females there are no children they are mammals and there was also a report not so long ago a couple of months ago by the united nations that suppose that at least half of those victims were from the government side so when you're talking about the killing of civilians i think i think you're slightly misrepresenting the figures at least as they're put out by the united nations because. civilians in the women children in their degree because we've spent most of the people who are being killed in syria these days i'm males and i wonder why that is because i mean statistically that woul

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armenia, azerbaijan, belarus, georgia, kazakhstan, latvia, ukraine, uzbekistan, russia, of course russia's the biggest. the second largest is kazakhstan. and if there is one thing that's maybe even more amazing, laookig back at that time and the fact that the u.s. had no idea it was all coming, the only thing that competes with our ignorance for being as unbelievable in retrospect is the story of what happened to all the freaking nuclear weapons over there once that country spun apart. kazakhstan alone, if kazakhstan alone had just held on to the nuclear weapons that they had on their territory once they became an independent country, they would have become the fourth largest nuclear armed state in the world. but they decided when they became independent that they did not want nuclear weapons. they had tons of them, but they voluntarily gave up all of those nuclear weapons. they gave up being a nuclear weapons state, even though it had been handed to them for free. and who knows what the world would be like if they had not made that decision. but they made that decision. then kind of comme

taliban, you've got haqqani, you've got tmj, you've got al-qaeda, you've got imu, islamic movement of uzbekistan, and you've got about four or five other named groups. you've got a potpourri of groups that generally have similar-type objectives, they're sort of the similar species of fish tar swimming general -- that are swimming generally in the same pond. but they are not exactly unified by any stretch of the imagination. but taken as a whole, that's probably in the range of accuracy, and it's probably about as good a guess as anyone would be able to give you in terms of a left and right bookend of the numbers. so it's a pretty wide range, i know, but i think that's a question that is not answerable with any high degree of accuracy. over. >> that, sir, we'll turn it over to you for any closing comments. >> okay. i've got time on this end to take another question if there's one more question, and then i can kind of wrap it up. >> okay, sir. jim -- [inaudible] >> all right, sir. for years we've been hearing that the afghan police are not trained up to the same sort of standards as the afghan arm