. five years ago we came to cambodia to investigate the sale of children for sex. what we found was absolutely horrifying. children as young as 5 years old being trafficked to europeans and americans for as little as $30. this is one of the girls we met back in 2003. her name is lam. >> how old are you? >> 10. >> how old? >> 10. >> she should be in elementary school. tonight, she's being offered for sale for sex. we will tell you the story about lam and others like her. tao, who says she is also 10 and some who are even younger. yau. and this little girl ting. when we first meet these girls in 2003 we are in cambodia under cover. we hear this country is a magnet for people who prey on the young and innocent, who travel from thousands of miles away, so-called sex tourists. we decided to follow their trail and infiltrate their perverted world. it's the only way to expose their crimes, crimes the whole world abhors. >> this is a special evil in the abuse and exploitation of the most innocent and vulnerable. >> combatting sex trafficking was a special priority for preside president bush

the financial crisis has changed portugal and alternative fuel -- cambodia is cracking coconuts to save its forests much of europe's well-educated work force is struggling with the effects of the financial crisis. in the face of high unemployment and public spending cuts, young people in portugal are losing faith in a better future. since the crisis began to bite, some 100 000 portuguese have already set up a new life in angola -- a nation still recovering from its civil war past. the country is run by president jose eduardo dos santos, africa's longest serving leader. only libya's muammar gaddafi ruled longer. under dos santos firm grip, angola has seen an economic boom fuelled by its mineral wealth. unusual stream of economic migrants from europe -- jacques has traded his car for a motor scooter, and now he can drive to work in half the time. and he rarely has to worry about the weather. in the angolan capital luanda, traffic is getting heavier as more and more vehicles clog the narrow streets. this seventh-floor apartment in the city center has a market value of a million u.s. d

, the north vietnamese can infiltrate more of their regular units into the south or cambodia or laos. when you think about american options next week, think about american options for dealing with this war, keep in mind the chinese presence here and the factor that that brings to the table. now, in 1964, the north decided that they would consolidate their control over the central highlands and they would extend into other parts of lowland areas of vietnam. and they're thinking that now they're getting prepared for what they think is going to be a final offensive against the south. and after the gulf of tonkin incident and the fact that they couldn't negotiated a settlement, the north decided at this point they really had to start committing regular north vietnamese army units to the south because they're fearful the americans are going to come in. they fear they have to match any escalation that's going to happen in the south. they also try to think, well, if we act quickly enough is what they're thinking, maybe we can push the south vietnamese regime over the top before the american

unprepared for another catastrophe. >>> next, to cambodia where the trading on the country's stock exchange began for the very first time on wednesday. it reflects cambodia's recent economic boom and recovery from decades of civil conflict. we have a report from phnom penh. >> reporter: ringing in the first trading on the stock exchange, it was a symbolic moment for cambodia. the country has transformed itself from one that relies on foreign aid into an attractive destination for investors. so far, only one company is available for trade. a state-owned water company was the first to issue shares. it rose by 50%, almost the upper limit. many foreign investors attended the first trading day. cambodia's economy is one of the most promising in asean. >> translator: the securities market is the gate for foreign visitors who can take part in cambodia's economic activities. the came body yan security exchan exchanging rose last year. opening the exchange is the key part of the government's strategy to privatize state-run businesses, and attract investment from abroad. cambodia's economy is growing

between north vietnam and the united states. and this, of course, spills over and allows cambodia and so on and south vietnam, the fighting in north vietnam as well particularly on the air side of it. a lot of this is conventional. again, it's not all. that's not the whole thing. it's only part of the picture. and you also have to keep in mind that the cold war context of what is going on here, because we don't -- when we think about vietnam, we don't automatically think about this being a coalitional war. we sometimes even overlook the south vietnamese role in it. some of the literature, for example. you almost think there's no south vietnamese army he'ding the book that there's pretty substantial south vietnamese forces. you've got on the communist side in particular, the coalitional aspect is very important for their success. you know, ho chi minh says that himself. so you've got support from communist china and from the soviet union as well. so keep that in mind here when we look at this war because you have these various different aspects of it. and you've got to deal with th

through laos and later to be expanded into cambodia as well. and this is something that's very, very significant to the communist war effort in south vietnam, pivotal, pivotal for much -- for all of their war effort here once they really lunch the military struggle. now, the importance is critical here for supplies, logistics, for manpower and so on. the north devotes a lot of effort to this. at one time they had 50,000 transport workers running it. they have 50,000 north vietnamese engineers that maintain it, another 12,000 infantry that guard it with anti-aircraft weapons and so on. and it became what was a trail eventually became 12,500 miles of highways with 5,000 kilometers of pipelines for fuel. so it's a very significant investment. 2 million people used the trail during the course of the war. and peak traffic was 20,000 tons a month. they moved every possible thing can you imagine. but the primary means of actually moving the supplies, the bulk of them come 100-pound packs on somebody's back down the trail. most of it's moved that way. and by 1975, you have 25 trails from the

manner. we have already had cambodia in its role as the current share, calling for the lifting of economic sanctions. a very respected figure saying it is an important step toward further reform. people here are very much ready to embrace in burma and move forward in an orderly fashion. >> apart from the german elections on april 1, other high-profile issues being discussed include competing plans of the south china sea and north korea's launched this month. >> it will be extremely entertaining to see how they deal with the self china sea issue. a number of asean members have an overlapping claims with china. president hu jintao is a very close friend of cambodia. it would not have been surprising if he would have been urging cambodia to keep the south china sea issue either off the agenda or low profile. but best of luck in doing that, really. >> thank you so much for joining us from cambodia and for this update. you have been watching newsday from the bbc. reminder ofng you a our breaking news this hour. within the last 20 minutes or so, authorities in oakland, california have b

drink. rarely have i talked about vietnam, cambodia by design. besides that, carmela has asked that i tell a funny story. sure, there were plenty of funny stories, but they were always mixed with heart ache like when i went into cambodia in march or april of 1970 with a great combat cameraman named carl sorenson and a great stills photographer named dana stone who didn't come out with us. . we had to lie about our professions. dana acted like a hippy. i told the truth. i said i was a fertilizer distributor. there was a lot of fertilizer flying around those parts and a lot happened that i've tried not to think about over the years, but there were good moments, too. you all know those moments, too. as dickens said of another period of blood-letting, it was the best of times and the worst of times. some of us at cbs tried to make good on the post, you make the concrete broadcaster in the day and anything you can at night. the best of times for me usually, oddly enough, were in the field. i think we all can recall those exhilarating moments in the midst of feeling scared and miserable w

in cambodia. it has been a month since vladimir putin was reelected as to russian president. but russia's interest in politics does not disappear. >> it may seem an odd place for a municipal council meeting. then again, this one was about to become a bit of a battleground. first, they argue over who gets -- the man with the microphone represents the old-guard. he says he is in charge. but his opponents do not agree. their part of a new wave who were getting elected at the municipal level and trying to change the way politics is done. they are about to fight back. this is vladimir godnuchuk's first council meeting. >> just a few months ago, council meetings in russia attracted little attention. now the interest in politics is much greater. there is a believer in people power at the grass-roots level. away from the council chamber, vladimir campaigns on local issues. vladimir is trying to stop this project, but he never planned into going into politics. >> i never had even heard of the municipal council. but when the street protests began after the parliamentary election, i believe

. >> land mines present a serious danger around the globe, and in particular, in cambodia where there are believed to be millions of these devices. one filmmaker has documented the story of a cambodian man blown up by my in his village entitled landmine e.r. we caught up with richard who told us about the remarkable story. >> as soon as we see him come out of the ambulance, we see a team of professionals, surgical staff from around the world that work at the emergency id:, and they are moving parts. we see the triage system unfold . he'd walked this path several times before. he was thirsty in the half to take a small deviation. he is going to get some water. he stepped on a land mine. cambodia has become a poster child for the land by the epidemic. it is not the only region of the world contaminated. i would call myself a land mine survivor as well because in afghanistan, april of 2006, i was traveling with the canadian convoy. the vehicle not 15 feet in front of my own vehicle that needed to end at a plant vines. all four of the soldiers were killed. it had an important effect on me. i

called me in there. he said, we're going into cambodia with ground troops. and he said, henry sent me a draft, and he didn't like it. he said, i've got -- >> henry? >> henry kissinger, i'm sorry. he said, i have some notes here. i started taking notes from what he said. he said, take this paragraph and put it in there. you're taking all this, about 12 pages of this. he said, now go back and in about two or three hours give me a draft. during the course of this, he said, we're not going to go into the fishhook and parrots beak we're going into all eight sanctuaries. so i said, all eight? he said, yeah. he said, we're already bombing them. i said, you're bombing them? sir, they are going to know we're coming. he said, don't worry about that, pat. we've been bombing them for a long time. that's when i found out about the cambodian bombing. >> for almost a year. >> i went back to the office. i got working on it. my secretary was working real fast. we didn't have computers and things. she was writing fast and then so i got the draft and i took it down to him. of course i had copies of it.

contact malaria are treated with a drug but a few years ago, scientists in cambodia noticed a worrying change. malaria victims were taking longer to recover. the medicine was not working. that drug run it strain of the disease has now been discovered on the border between thigh land and burma. experts say they can't tell whether it's a new outbreak or if it's it originated in cambodia but the u.n. special envoy from malaria told the bbc there's no reason to panic. >> just because there is resistance emerging doesn't mean the drugs are not completely useless. what researchers feel or understand is that the parasite clearance, meaning how long the parasite stays in your bloodstream takes longer to clear not that the drugs are completely useless, that's not true. so we don't want people to panic. we don't want people to feel as though there's no other option. what we do want the world to understand is that we need to start and scale up some fairly aggressive plans to monitor and to the resistance where it is. >> in 2010, 655,000 people died from malaria. unless something is done to contai

support myanmar in this moment of change. at a summit meeting that ended in cambodia on wednesday, the leaders welcomed the outcome of sunday's bielections. they also called on western nations to lift economic sanctions. nhk world's pinh chanda reports. >> reporter: asean leaders seemed cheerful at the closing ceremony. prime minister hun sen of cambodia chaired the summit. he issued a statement saying the bielections in myanmar on sunday were just and fair. he called it a big step forward in the country's democratization. hun sen called on european countries and the united states to reward myanmar for its progress. myanmar has recently chaired the regional bloc in 2014. they agreed to come together and support the bid. asean summits regularly take place at the same time as the east asian summit, it's likely that the u.s. president may find himself invited to myanmar. that would be a meaningful opportunity for myanmar to show its return to the international community. for years, myanmar's lack of democratization was a lingering problem for asean. the success of the bielection is an opp

in unison to support myanmar in this moment of change. at a summit meeting that ended in cambodia on wednesday, the leaders welcomed the outcome of sunday's by-elections. they also called on western nations to lift economic sanctions. nhk world's pinh chanda reports. >> reporter: asean leaders seemed cheerful at the closing ceremony. prime minister hun sen of cambodia chaired the summit. he issued a statement saying the by-elections in myanmar were just and fair. he called it a big step forward in the country's democratization. hun sen called on european countries and the united states to reward myanmar for its progress. myanmar is set to chair the bloc in 2014. asean summits regularly take place at the same time as the east asia summit, it's likely that the u.s. president may find himself invited to myanmar. that would be a meaningful opportunity for myanmar to show its return to the international community. for years, myanmar's lack of democraticization will further the goal of an economic community by 2015. phin chanda, nhk world, phnom penh. >>> that wraps up our bulletin for tod

support me yab march. at a summit meeting that ended in cambodia on wednesday, the leaders welcomed the outcome of the bielections. they also called on western nations to lift economic sanctions. nhk world's pinh chanda reports. >> reporter: asean leaders seemed cheerful at the closing ceremony. prime minister hun sen of cambodia chaired the summit. he issued a statement saying the bielections in myanmar on sunday were just and fair. he called it a big step forward in the country's democratization. hun sen called on european countries and the united states to reward myanmar for its progress. myanmar has recently chaired the regional bloc in 2014. they agreed to come together and support the bid. asean summits regularly take place at the same time as the east asian summit, it's likely that the u.s. president may find himself invited to myanmar. that would be a meaningful opportunity for myanmar to show its return to the international community. for years, myanmar's lack of democratization was a lingering problem for asean. the success of the bielection is an opportunity for asean to

jersey. i lived there for a year or two. a tie now. this is the tie breaker. cambodia was a location of one of the most horrifying genocides since the holocaust. ordered the torture and execution of millions of people. which 1984 film showed the horror of cambodia? cards up please. the answer is roll the tape. the fighting still spread to neutral cambodia. [explosion] >> in a country shattered by war. [explosion] >> and torn by revolution. [explosion] >> two men would learn the price of survival. >> bill: all right. who -- there is a tie. who was the movie based on? what reporter? this is the tie breaker? >> the guy from the "new york times." >> bill: okay. that's great. what was his name? >> sam waterson. >> sydney shamford. overthrew which cam bodyian leader propped up by the u.s.a.? oh, man, we will be here all night. lon newell. prince who was the monarch in cambodia? >> prince william in the can. >> prince william. okay. you know what i'm dealing with here? >> this is ugly. >> bill: i'm the teacher. >> it's homicide. >> bill: gary clark and diane holmes you both win the prizes. the

pages, 14 chapters. i'm going to quickly read some of the chapters. six, cambodia, helpless giant. eight, iraq, human rights and chemical weapons use aside. nine, bosnia, no more than witnesses at a funeral. 10, rwanda, mostly in a listing mode. 11 getting creamed. 12, kosovo, a dog and a fight. why are these the named chapters? what's the purpose? >> they're a little different in terms of where the quotations come from. they tend to be from u.s. government documents. one of the things i had the great privilege of doing was working with the national security archive, a non- governmental group based in washington to use the freedom of information act to get the documents declassified. i took advantage of the collection they amassed, worked with them. when i conducted an interview and learned about a document would tell them about it. they did the heavy lifting. these documents you would see in very sterile, cold, bureaucratic language, phrases like human rights and chemical weapons use aside, saddam hussein really looks like he can be a reliable partner in the middle east. you know

from the summit in cambodia. >> on the 30th anniversary of the falklands conflict, argent -- the president supports her country's claim to the island. the front page of "the daily terror -- telegraph" has a harrowing account of the attacks by the gunman at a christian university in california. at least seven people were killed in that shooting spree. gulf news goes to the developments in syria appeared president does sot has agreed to begin implementing -- in syria, president a sossad as agreed to begin implementing the peace plan. the front page of the spanish newpaper, plenty of drinking and partying. the paper reports on new unemployment figures. >> this is "newsday." >> i am babita sharma in london. let's bring you up-to-date. seven people have been killed in a shooting at a christian university in california. police say 43-ruled caribbean and has been arrested. -- a 43-year-old korean man has been arrested. >> aang san suu kyi a says this is a triumph for the people. she won a parliamentary feet and her party gained almost all the seats they contested. howard these developme

for a year or two. a tie now. this is the tie breaker. cambodia was a location of one of the most horrifying genocides since the holocaust. ordered the torture and execution of millions of people. which 1984 film showed the horror of cambodia? cards up please. the answer is roll the tape. the fighting still spread to neutral cambodia. [explosion] >> in a country shattered by war. [explosion] >> and torn by revolution. [explosion] >> two men would learn the price of survival. >> bill: all right. who -- there is a tie. who was the movie based on? what reporter? this is the tie breaker? >> the guy from the "new york times." >> bill: okay. that's great. what was his name? >> sam waterson. >> sydney shamford. overthrew which cam bodyian leader propped up by the u.s.a.? oh, man, we will be here all night. lon newell. prince who was the monarch in cambodia? >> prince william in the can. >> prince william. okay. you know what i'm dealing with here? >> this is ugly. >> bill: i'm the teacher. >> it's homicide. >> bill: gary clark and diane holmes you both win the prizes. these people we hav

cambodia. her mission is to save south -- save child sex trafficking victims from the life she once was forced to live. it is an honor to meet you. >> thank you. john: and these are all your kids. >> yes. hello, john. to hear their stories, it is like -- john: 8. your heart. >> it breaks my heart. she arrived in cambodia. john: nice to meet you. >> she had been sold in the brothel, a knife in her eyes. john: did they catch who did that to her? will the police get that man? >> no. john: now you have found a home and a mom. >> sister, sister. john: as somaly and her beautiful kids probably gave me a tour of the center, i could see she has created something very special, a place that gives these young survivors a chance for a brighter future. this is the library. >> yes. john: look at him. >> they make their own clothing. john: and their survivors and teach the girls how to sew, take care of themselves. they give other girls hope. there is a way to get out of this life. >> yes. john: what a good place for these kids to land. i loved meeting you. i know you have been through a lot, but

from cambodia. 1976. he came here. he worked in a restaurant and then worked as a cab driver in new york city. he saved his money and was able to get a business school degree. he began working in government and got to know some of the political leaders. lo and behold, about 14 years after he became a resident of the united states, having come from cambodia, he is named the united states ambassador to the u.n. can you imagine that? he said, you cannot imagine the kinds of feelings that would go through my mind as i would stand before the nations of the world, and say, here speaking on behalf of the united states of america. he said, what a nation. we live in. what a country that would offer opportunity to someone who did not speak the language, from a foreign lands, restaurant worker, cabdriver and then becomes ambassador. what an amazing land we live in. i love america. i love the people of america. [applause] this president made a number of promises when he was running three years ago, four years ago. he said he would cut the deficit in half. he has doubled it. he said he was going

, texas, he came from this country from cambodia in 1976. he went to work in a restaurant, then as a taxi driver in new york city, decided to save money and apply to business school, got an mba and started working in government-related positions, ultimately became part of the white house team for george w. bush and was appointed ambassador to the united nations. 14 years after coming to this country. he said you could not imagine the motion i have as i stood before the foundations, said that i come representing the people of the united states of america. [applause] >> there is no other nation on earth like america. i used to travel around and see different countries, and i was always proud of the fact that i have a special gift no one else had. i was american. there was no question in my heart said it was special to be american. i wonder why it is as i tell you these stories and meet people across the country that we are an extraordinary land with extraordinary people who live done more to lift people around the world of poverty than any other nation. free enterprise, as we promoted

through nations, embed itself. the killings in cambodia, the killings in rwanda, the killings in bosnia, the killings in darfur -- they shock our conscience, but they are the awful extreme of a spectrum of ignorance and intolerance that we see every day; the bigotry that says another person is less than my equal, less than human. these are the seeds of hate that we cannot let take root in our heart. "never again" is a challenge to reject hatred in all of its forms -- including anti- semitism, which has no place in a civilized world. and today, just steps from where he gave his life protecting this place, we honor the memory of officer stephen tyrone johns, whose family joins us today. "never again" is a challenge to defend the fundamental right of free people and free nations to exist in peace and security -- and that includes the state of israel. and on my visit to the old warsaw ghetto, a woman looked me in the eye, and she wanted to make sure america stood with israel. she said, "it's the only jewish state we have." and i made her a promise in that solemn place. i said i will