i actually am also an asian supervisor from western asia, from the -- from the country of iran, so i'm going to say happy new year in farsi. [speaking native language] >> supervisor safai: thank you. [applause] >> thank you. ve we want to acknowledge d.b.i., the head, tom, and mohamed nuru from the department of public works. we have captain link from central station, and commander lozar. so the highlight of today's program is unveiling of the lunar new year stamp. as board of supervisors president yee mepgsed, inntion u.u u.s. post office issued the first series of stamps in 1993. this is the last year of the series of stamps. we are not sure if we're going to get the new ones. so there is a pgs for all of you to sign after the program because we want to make sure the united states postal service unders we in san francisco, just like many people around the country, we love our stamp that celebrate our cultural heritage. i would like to invite post master abraham cooper. >> good afternoon. or i should say good evening. you know, it's an honor to unveil the 12th and very last stamps and

unique and different is that we have folks from all over the planet earth from eastern europe to asia, from western europe to africa who dna is now on this soil and by us working together with did things that other people thought was impossible. my parent's generation knew that if we came together, blacks and whites, christmas and jews we could up end jim crow. there's no republican or democratic way to get there. you definitely don't get there by fighting each other. beating each other day and dividing people against themselves. we did those things because we found our common ground. now, this is not easy. it's the tough work of building a great community or what king called the beloved community. it's hard to do that. it's about time we get to the hard work of building this nation, to be who we want us to be, our best values, our best ideals, the best of who we are. we need leadership in this country that understands what patriotism means and patriotism is love of country and you can't love your country unless you love your fellow countrymen and women. doesn't mean will always agree or some days

and different is that we have folks from all over the planet earth, from eastern europe to asia come into westernurope into africa whose dna is now on this soil. and by us working together we did things that other people thought were was impossible. my parents generation knew that if we came together, blacks, whites, christians and, we could upend jim crow. we used to be able to point out the sky and look at it and change it from a dream to a destiny. there is no way to get there by fighting each other or beating each other down, dividing people against themselves. we did those things because we found our common ground. this is not easy. it's a tough work of building a great community, it's hard to do that. but it's about time we got to the hard work of building this nation to be who we want us to be. our best values and our best ideals, the best of who we are. we need leadership in this country to understand what patriotism means and patriotism is love of country. you can't love your country unless you love your fellow countrymen and women. doesn't mean we are always going to agree were some day

so if american xaebs, western companies, don't diversify their footprint around asia and lose out tosian competitors, they will be smaller and smaller companies. there is no question about how important it is to sell into asian markets today. they are the fastest middle class in the record. >> also, we talk the second the corollary point to that was that you pause the notion that potentially western societies, free, democratic, culturally diverse, politically religiously, all the rest, might aspire to live like asian societies and envy their stability and farsighted leader scholarship. that's the strength. >> if you look at the trump and brexit phenomena today and imagine yourself being a millennial or young asian person who has grown up since the 1990s or 2000s, it's not a stretch at all, it's the world 5 billion asians live in, in which they do feel thigh have experienced a quantum leap in economic growth and modernization and political stability all this time, they the young asians, many of you know and met and i liver among as i travel across the region, feel what i said and you

the problem is there are many bishops in asia, africa, latin america, who think this is only a westernem, american problem, english-speaking problem, and that we don't have at problem in our country, were very few. they don't realize that the reason they have heard so few o stories y a few victims have come forward. in their country, it is t culturally almpossible for a victim to come forward. it disgraces their famil it is where we were 50 years noo. the pope wants theto make the same mistake the american bishops made. jane: that was father tmas reese speaking to us from rome. let's look at th days of the news. have begun tohina outline deals to the need to their trade dispute. there is 8 days before self-imposed deadline to avoid an escalation between the world's two largest economies. a u.s. judge has warned president trump's former adviser roger stone not to make any further comments on the legal counsel against him. he faces seven counts for lying toe congress. der comes after stone posted an image of the judge next to what appeared to be crosshairs. new york city will return over

suffering because of their arrogance and not only over their region, asia, asia pacific, but over the united states, the western the chinese talk about it in terms of an economic war against the u.s. and senior chinese military officers are itching to fight the u.s. two senior officers talked publicly about unprovoked attacks on the u.s. navy. lou: that rhetoric did not flow spontaneously from those two senior officers. it was approved at the highest levels of china before it could be expressed. >> you don't have generals, colonels going off on the range like that. that's rear admiral who talked about killing 10,000 americans. we cannot allow that language to continue. if the chinese think they can do those types of things, this is so serious for us. lou: gordon chang, so good to have you with us. next week let's take up the companies carrying out espionage against the united states, among them, zte and huawei. the supreme court asked to decide if the government can ask a question of a citizen if they want to. the question, "are you a u.s. citizen?" that's what we have come to, folks. we'll take that up and mor

united states but country in the region but this is important because our western defense perimeter is off the coast of east asiahis is where we keep them bottled up an navy has been strong enough tods that and so far, you know, chinese are stealing a march on us. >> and -- and admiral davidson comment one of the thing hadses that is troubling me is -- that lack of a statement by an admiral is to what should be done. and if any specificity about the threat posed by the chinese, that we know it is large we look at the reports we looked a annual reports on the potential chinese conflict for this nation. only this president has been directing our military, our -- our defense industry towards the threats posed by both russia, and and china. as well as iran. >> you can see that in the national defense strategy that the trump administration issued last december. that is a land mark document that is going to be remembered well after this administration leaves office. you know, most of these national security strategies people forget about them. this one was important because it named china and russia as adversaries of

in asia, we have been introducing new categories in western art.said, yes, there are specializations for each place. new york is the ideal place for impressionist and modern, as well as contemporary. london is strong in impressionist and modern. hong kong for asian art. paris for decorative art. and we also tried to find the niche in each of these locations. guy: auctions are excited to go to. nevertheless, private sales, what is going on in private sales? presumably, this is a fast-growing part of the business and i'm curious in how this will develop and what it means in terms of the revenues that you generate. >> that produces 10% of our revenue to date and that is a part of our business we try to expand. it is complementary to what we do with auction. our digital sales are up. we are focusing on live auction. but also online sales and private sales. guy: in terms of what you are charging, you have picked that up a little bit. is that something you have been able to do with confidence, talk to me about your relationship with the customers as you

prince mohammed bin solomon has been on an asia trip all week it's seen as a diplomatic pivot away for the prince to prove that life goes on even after western countries started shunning him following the murder of writer jamal khashoggi last year his first stop had been to pakistan a country saudi arabia has a close relationship with and where he pledged she invest almost eighteen billion euros he visited india next where he announced his country is ready to share intelligence with new delhi in the fight. against terrorism he stopped short of making direct reference to last week's terror attack in kashmir he has had a fine line to walk between pakistan and india and now been solomons on the final stop of his trip to china where he signed a deal to build in oil refinery saudi arabia is one of china's top crude oil suppliers second only to russia now the house of saud has long presented itself as the defender of muslims around the world given that islam is to hold the sites medina and mecca are there but during this visit when someone has not said a public word so far about china's internment of as many as one million readers a turkic muslim

asia. and then there is the question of the european experience sort of say the western experience in which. sort of sort of whole sort of conflict the fundamentalism in radicalization of so i don't think that these things are meant to have an immediate impact but they're certainly. socially the ball in a sense to try to bring populations you know. good relations could look like. they're of course projecting and has the visit. possibly on the arabian peninsula i mean we're looking at these pictures here and when they go to the crowd you can just see. many people have turned out today. not only sort of in the minority but in many parts of the region it's actually not i wouldn't say exactly under siege but in a way that really i mean they're really quite marginal in public life christians in saudi arabia and. i mean having such a presence and having such a prominent role in the public sphere for. at least a couple of days obviously very bored and so clearly there are the reception has been very good how we said that the leadership in the political framework over the you know over the next cou

that have arisen have come from places like america and western europe and australia etc he wanted to say to. either of come from africa and asia it may not be reported as much in your countries but it is going on and you have to do something about it having said that the survivors of abuse that we have been speaking to here in rome are not satisfied they say that the language that the pope used previously of zero tolerance kicking outs abusive priests and those who covered up from the priesthood was absence from this meeting and the concrete action that he could have taken removing from the priesthood by bishops who they say. it is known that they covered up abuse he didn't take that opportunity so they are still waiting for action that they say this meeting could have provided and hasn't. saudi arabia has a place to its ambassador to the u.s. but that's first female envoy as a stream of bandar takes over from the king fahd prince collins who's been appointed vice defense minister the princess is the daughter of a former ambassador to the united states and previously worked for saudi arabia's general sports authority remoting

western alliance suffered lasting damage? uniworld, is served cruising through europe, asia, india and europe. to travel is to eat. bookings available through your travel adviser. for more information visit uniworld.com. >> additional support has been provided by -- roslyn p. schwartz, the sheryl and phillip middlesteen family, judy and josh westen, the jpb foundation and for contributions from your pbs station from viewers like you. >>> welcome to the program, everyone. i'm christian amanpour in london. isis is again in the news not because it's growing stronger but because its caliphate is on the brink of extinction and foreign-borne are returning home, including to europe and here in the united kingdom. president trump has tweeted over the weekend the united states wants these countries to take back 800 or so captured isis fighters and put them on trial. the president is also threatening to release them if they are not taken back. right now public sympathy is being tested by pleas from isis brides who left of their own accord to marry a fighter and the cal fight, including terrorist attacks that killed innocent

and the countries in the region, our western defense perimeter is not off california or hawaii, it is off the coast of east asia is where we keep chinese navy and air force bottled up. lou: davidson a comments, one thing that is troubling me is that lack of a to what should be done. with any specificity about threat posed by the china, we know it is large. we look at the reports, at annual reports. on the program china -- potential chanc china conflict. only this president has been directing our military, our defense industry toward the threats posed by russia and china. as well as iran. >> you can see in national defense strategy that trump administration issued in december, that is a landmark document that will be remembered after this administration leaves office. most of national security strategies people forget, this is important, it named china and russia as adversaries of united states, that is an important shift for us, you can't defend yourself until you acknowledge who threatening us. lou: president bush failed to name the enemy after september 11. it was a war on radical terror. that persisted to ea

our western defense perimeter is not off the coast of hawaii. it's off the coast of east asia, and south korea anchors the northern part of our perimeter. if south korea becomes part of north korea. that's a possibility because he wants unification. they will were if he wants that to happen that means he's playing footy with kim jong-un. >> have much so. and he's supporting kim jong-un's positions across the board. arthel: will kim jong-un give up his nukes? >> only if president trump forces him to, and so far we are not forcing him too. so the d fiercin d so far we arg him to, so the answer is no. arthel: i enjoy talking to you about this topic it's a complex situation. i like how you break it down for me and our viewers. eric shawn? eric: an historic meeting with pope francis. we are live in rome with what the pontiff wants. the showdown in venezuela between disputed dictator nicolas maduro. that has turned deadly. >> we are hopeful the days and weeks and months ahead that the maduro regime will understand the venezuelan people have made his dayshi numbered. irline purc? eve

the gobi desert from the tibetan plateau and all through asia so there's a whole range of countries with a long plume starting from the western edge of the sahara all the way through and up to china. dust has been blowing around the world for millennia dust storms are a natural phenomenon but the world is getting hotter and in many places dryer. scientists see clear evidence that human activity is making dust storms while the science behind the storms is fascinating we think that twenty to twenty five percent could be attributed to human activity so something called the dust bowl syndrome which is associated with poor land management where the topsoil becomes aerosolize like tiny tiny little aerosols which means that the slightest amount of energy or wind can lift up the soil and effectively take those tops of those many thousands of kilometers. roaming fee is a bank across america and crops that. we had a big phenomena or tragedy call the dust bowl of the united states in the nineteenth thirty's. the american dustbowl is famous as a human induced environmental disaster. in the one nine hundred twenty s. and thirty's crops we

asia's swamps and jungles. but now numbers have declined by a staggering ninety percent. and heading through the summer been mongul forest in western bangladesh is one of the last remaining havens for the bengal tiger and there's often conflict with local villages walsall depend on the forest for survival of come to meet a network of volunteers and conservationists who are coming together to try to stop the violence and save the title process. all right bangladesh's population has doubled from eighty to one hundred sixty million in just forty years forcing humans into what was once exclusively the tigers to rain alex amazin i mean you can't. defend the fires just play out over the huge margin of it right up again but. here in monologue just on the edge of the national park they really do seem to be people everywhere. which charge too much and that this area is home to tigers too but it is that's where the conflict comes in. conservationist my alarm runs tiger a network of volunteers dedicated to changing attitudes and reducing human time to violent how many targets do you have here and it's on the minds we have one hundred six with