bbc news, bangkok. >> an important day for burma. now in other news, lawyers for the man accused of the colorado shooting, james holmes, says he'll offer a guilty plea in court and faces charges of murder and attempted murder over the attack in a cinema that left 1 people dead and others injured. living the rest of his life in jail would allow him to avoid the death penalty if convicted. prosecutors have not yet responded. turkish police used water cannons and tear gas on refugees of a violence broke out in demonstrations at a camp in southeast turkey. throw testors through tones at police and nearby buildings and were demonstrationing against the conditions of the camp. north korea is closing its second military hotline with the south. they say there's no need in a situation where war may break out in moments and don't need communication. tensions have been rising on the peninsula since february when north korea carried out a nuclear test. living up to his modesty, he's turned his back from the grandiose apartment. breaking with the

i'm in burma. burma? you most likely know it as myanmar but it'll always be burma to me. bonne chance elaine. you there on the motorbike sell me one of your melons! mr. peterman? where? burma. isn't it myanmar now? jerry, he wants me to run the catalog. it's crazy. i can't be in charge. no, certainly not. i mean, i can't give people orders. no one's gonna listen to you. i am not qualified to run the catalog. you're not qualified to work at the catalog. ohh. ohh. hey. what's wrong? oh, peterman ran off to burma and now he wants me to run the catalog. where? myanmar. what's that, the discount pharmacy? well, i'm just gonna tell him no. i can't run the catalog. whoa, whoa. can't? when did that word enter your vocabulary? what, is the job too difficult? what, you don't have enough experience? oh, you're not smart enough? where's your confidence? look, elaine let me tell you a story. when i first studied karate-- karate? yeah karate. i had no support. not from him not from newman. no one. the first time i sparred with an opponent, i was terrified. my legs, they were like noodl

but in burma, communications was very limited. internet was very limited in the country. it's not north korea, but it's quite close, or it has been for the last few decades. so was a great opportunity for us to just sit back and actually look at the beautiful scenery and taking what was unfolding in front of us host let's take on the broad element of the book that you discuss a little bit, but let's tackle it head on. i think as we said, this book is really the expiration -- exploration of many powers and will, questions of american decline, is it happening, is it not? is it a good thing if it was happening? is it not? what is your conclusion to those really big questions? >> guest: in some ways i'm hoping my readers will draw their own conclusions when they read all those different chapters, all those different angles, all those nuances. the book is like cliff notes for international diplomacy, international affairs course if you will. done in a fun, engaging, very colorful way with a lot of tasty at the people remark on the fact they were exhausted just reading the book

. >> host: i think my favorite chapter in the book is the trip to burma. perhaps might be most historical. >> guest: i love that chapter. >> host: just talk about what made that trip so unique. obviously not very men people are traveling to burma at that time. >> guest: it was very novel. it was a very special moment, and it goes back to when you look at the big picture of what my book will do for readers, this is a book that is several things. it is my personal story, my perspective on american powers. it is the story of hillary clinton as secretary of state and her approach to the american leadership and the concept of smart passion which we can talk about later. how do d-smart power, how do you do business as a global leader in a challenging world. it's also a portrait of the woman. this historic figure in the united states, politician, like her or -- whether you like or her don't like her, she is -- she has a global stature. she is a celebrity. a big personality. and she has been in the public eye for several decades. but i think that readers will disc

. >> in burma, the national league for democracy is holding a historic meeting to elect a party leadership. it is the first and the particles to 25-year history that such a meeting has been held. the delegates are also due to set up their manifesto for the 2013 election. >> the czech republic has a new president. he took his oath of office today appear the popular social democrat is the first czech president elected by voters. his predecessor was on it last night. >> an international meeting of conservation's has rejected a u.s. proposal to ban cross- border trade in polar bears. washington argue that climate change was shrinking the polar bears habitat and that the species needed protection. but a majority of nations found the polar bear population was not shrinking. events are being held across the world to mark international

. >> host: i think my favorite chapter in the book is the trip to burma perhaps because it might be the most historical and just talk about what made that trip so unique. obviously not many people are traveling to burma from united states at that time. >> guest: at the time it was very novel. you know, it was a very special moment and it goes back to when you look at the big picture of what my book will do for readers this is a book that is several things. it is my personal story about american power. it is the story concept of smart power which do you in a challenging world? but states politician, whether you like her whether you don't like her she has global stature and she is a celebrity. she has a strong personality and she has been in the public eye for several decades but they think the readers will discover things about her that they didn't know and see her in a different light. that chapter in burma achieves part of that as well where you see her as a woman who is meeting another historic figure, the nobel peace laureate, two amazing women both are very different reasons, who co

but in burma, you know, communications was very limited, internet was very limited. this is a country that is, it's not north korea, but it's quite closed, or it has been for the last few decades. so it was a great opportunity for us to just, you know, sit back and actually look at the beautiful scenery and take in, you know, what was unfolding in front of us. >> host: all right. let's take on the broad thematic element of the book that we've discussed a little bit, but let's tackle it head on. and i think as we said, this book is really the exploration in many ways of american power in the world, questions of american decline, is it happening, is it not, is it a good thing if it was happening, is it not? um, what is your conclusion in those really big questions? >> guest: you know, in some ways i'm hoping that my readers will draw their own conclusions when they've read, um, all those different chapters, all those different angles, all those nuances. you know, the book is a little bit like cliff notes, you know, for an international diplomacy, an international affai

but burma tells us how important it is to free society. when the country's daily newspapers were shuttered nearly half a century ago, the father of the woman godmother, edward leon was thrown in jail. it was a very long, very dark night for the people of burma. next monday is a day break. a glimpse of sorts at the breathtaking hoo ohrizon of prf. it is a reminder of the importance a of the task at hand and how lucky we have to have it. if there was a pill to help protect your eye health as you age... would you take it? well, there is. [ male announcer ] it's called ocuvite. a vitamin totally dedicated to your eyes, from the eye care experts at bausch + lomb. as you age, eyes can lose vital nutrients. ocuvite helps replenish key eye nutrients. ocuvite has a unique formula not found in your multivitamin to help protect your eye health. now that's a pill worth taking. [ male announcer ] ocuvite. help protect your eye health. try e-mail marketing from constantcontact. it's the fastest, easiest way to create great-looking custom e-mails that br

yemen, bob naim probably 15 years now and the pet for burma up dramatically as we speak. whenever you look at the globe even in my own neighborhood under the pressure of the popular movement, the government resigns and as a new collections are named the system is changing. so one big thing is if there is so much around us how much do we know about it which brings us to one other question. if you look at this building you probably have a lot on the history books. so, if you take a random but from history, what percentage of this book is about the war and a violent power. how many have you seen about one single vietnamese? ten, 15, 20, how many good news about the nonviolent struggle? how many good moves about martin luther king, one, maybe to. one good movie about malcolm and that is to teach the struggle with a you look at the books or the movies. how can this relate to the history i have the pleasure of dealing with this and we start with the question people give you very nice answers. people say the idea accounts and religion counts, change counts. we want to look at th

burma and bangladesh have also become important customers. they defended their rules on overseas weapons sales. >> china has always taken a responsible and prudent attitude. apart to adhering to u.n. security council resolutions, china also follows strict regulations. >> over the past five years, china has more than doubled its sales of military hardware. united states continues to be the no. 1 arms exporter chalking up nearly one-third of all global sales. russia comes in third. followed by germany with 7% in france with 6%. now china has pushed britain to sixth place with 5% of the market. annual sales are now worth some 1.3 trillion euro. >> more them 500 representatives of various political groups have gathered in yemen for the first meeting of a national dialogue conference. >> the reconciliation talks will be drafting a new constitution and preparing for a full democratic election next year. >> we will be talking with an analyst about the hopes for progress in just a moment, but let's look at the challenges facing them. >> after months

we've seen the amazing transformation in burma. it's still an ongoing process towards opening up, but it seems to be moving forward. it's always difficult to figure out exactly how another country is going to respond to your overtures, but certainly north korea was not one of clinton's successes. >> michael: yes, it's sort of a microcosm of what president obama has been dealing with the congress. if the congress doesn't want to deal with him there is only so much you can do. and there is diplomacy but you have to have someone on the other side of the table. had let's listen to this and talk about that. >> time and time again you hear one thing in speeches and then you see a campaign that has the worst kind of tactics. reminiscent of the same sort of republican attacks on democrats. since when do democrats attack one another on universal healthcare? >> michael: so coming from that, how did their relationship evolve to such a point where barack obama put her in such an important role? >> well, you have to remember that being rivals o

next week schmidt will travel to myanmar, formally known as burma. but while his trip in january to north korea was described as a personal visit, he acknowledges that the burma trip is all business. since the military government was replaced by civilians, myanmar is right for business and connectivity. less than 5% of the population has cell phones and that could soon be changing. >>> well, still ahead at 6:00, the u.s. beefs up its defenses. the white house adding more fire power to ward off the emerging nuclear threat. janelle wynn has the latest tonight. >>> and the vatican goes on the offensive. the accusations against pope francis that are stirring up the debate about his past. >>> and a key player in the republican party has a change of heart on theish shu of gay marriage. i'm live with the impact his announcement may have on the upcoming supreme court review of prop 8. >>> he's the first republican senator to do it. ohio's rob portman has publicly changed his mind saying he now supports gay marriage. after learning a member of his own family

and you worked in the family burma busy and waiting tables and you worked in software for a while? >> mom had a sewing shop and the business went belly up. then i went into the software business, selling software for a company. >> wow! well, we will go from all of that to opening a fabulous restaurant what, guess what, is a big hit! all of that and more when we return! . >>> welcome back. let's go back to opening your first restaurant. you have a lot of things going on. you tried a few things. now you are back. where is the idea to open a restaurant come from. >> well, dad was a entrepreneur. we all are entrepreneurs. we are working for software, a short stint. i knew i wasn't going to be there forever. it was finding a way to start a business up. i just had an idea that like really modern interiors, basic foods. i didn't know how to cook. i had an idea. i had in my head and i talked my family into it. the food is traditional classic, well prepared, as a craft. but at the same time i am much interested in buying nice pottery and design. i was a potter, interested in also design as

. >> in burma, violence by buddhists against muslims have spread to more towns. they torched a mosque in the center of the country. at least 32 people have died in recent days of the violence. the government has deployed soldiers to the region and has declared a state of emergency. >> china's new president, xi jinping wants to intensify his ties to africa. it is one of hope and promise. on sunday, he signed -- with his counterpart. china, the world's most second -- the second-largest economy gets many of its materials from africa. >> time now for that soccer, as promised. the team has returned to training on sunday following their win over kaz expand. >> that world cup qualifying game left the head coach with some selection problems. >> germany's of footballers were at a pr of men today trying their luck with their hands in such of their feet. after the team manager played down the chances of a european team winning the world cup in brazil, the coach was keen to reassure fans that germany was going to give the campaign they're all. >> it will be very difficult. h

. >> in burma, violence by buddhists against muslims have spread to more towns. they torched a mosque in the center of the country. at least 32 people have died in recent days of the violence. the government has deployed soldiers to the region and has declared a state of emergency. >> china's new president, xi jinping wants to intensify his ties to africa. it is one of hope and promise. on sunday, he signed -- with his counterpart. china, the world's most second -- the second-largest economy gets many of its materials from africa. >> time now for that soccer, as promised. the team has returned to training on sunday following their win over kaz expand. >> that world cup qualifying game left the head coach with some selection problems. >> germany's of footballers were at a pr of men today trying their luck with their hands in such of their feet. after the team manager played down the chances of a european team winning the world cup in brazil, the coach was keen to reassure fans that germany was going to give the campaign they're all. >> it will be very difficult. h

. >> one of burma's dissidents arrived to try and calm the mood. he spent 17 years in prison for opposing the old military regime. now he struggles to convince people to be patient. the new government has proved to be unable to deal with the anger that erupted last year in doesens of land dispute. now this is joining a new list of communities for whom the new everya was brought more pain than promise. >> the long-running legal battle between the u.s. government and tobacco companies may be ending. late last year a federal judge ordered tobacco firms to pay for an add campaign. not to promote their products -- oduct but instead to prevent it. >> once you start getting that taste you'll want to keet getting it. >> cheery, upbeat, sexy smoking commercials, a tool tobacco companies used to hook millions of americans into a habit that could kill them. decades harriet the same companies admitted they lied bout the damage they do to smokers. >> i can't overstate how important it is for the tobacco companies admit they deliberately deceived the american pu

in 2012 we are responsible for covering $192 million of the burma budgetary resources. last year with an example where in our criminal investigation side, i regret to say, we have had to take a pass on information that was provided to us to see whether we believe we need to dedicate an investigatory resource, a staff person to participate with other agencies investigating that offense. we did not have the personnel and we decided that the expenses in participating in that investigation would be too great to justify it. we have also taken steps internally to increase the degree of scrutiny that we will need to apply to every single request, whether from the department or from congress, for audit support. >> i want to jump in there and give ms. tighe a chance. your staff expressed concern a reductions in your office. what impact does this have on your ability to conduct audits and investigations? >> is certainly will have an impact. as i mentioned earlier, 70% of our budget is salaries and benefits. the next highest increment of finding of the common sobor we pay to the d

at least 40 people have been killed in burma in clashes that began last wednesday. the violence was sparked by an argument between a buddhist couple and the muslim owners of a gold shot. this suggests that of the writing is going closer to iran during. is considering banning skype. the regulator would like my train of the services. if the companies do not comply, they will be shut down. the free services are hugely popular in saudi arabia. banks are still shocked in cyprus. companies are finding it hard to carry out their day-to-day business. the day after the government had accepted a bailout, the chairman of the country's largest bank has resigned. it is not just investors feeling the pain, young cypriots are trying to come to terms with this as well. >> the dreams of the future have soured. they believed that opportunity jobs andre them, of prosperity, but now hardship beckons. the economy is in crisis. feel angry. there will not be places to work here. that is why i am here. >> our future is on the line. >> we are poor. we don't even have money. we don't even kn

president has arrived in australia, the first visit by a leader from the country formerly known as burma since the 19 -- since 1974. he is expected to meet prime minister julia gillard in the next few days. they have announced increased aid for myanmar. for some in south africa, the names of streets, suburbs, and cities are an important reminder of history. many places are now known by two names, one in africans, the other in indigenous language. there is one group fighting the trend. >> pretoria was the seat of the former apartheid government. it's street names reflect that. been renamed.ave it follows the renaming of many towns and airports since the fall of apartheid. it is taking the municipal government to court. >> it is clearly a political move by the ruling party and the city government to rewrite south africa's history. these street names that are being changed obviously cost millions of rand while we have a huge crisis in terms of education. >> by leaving the old names up alongside the new, the municipality is hoping to avoid confusion. >> we don't know the lady or the man that

i'm a first generation american on my mother's side, she came over from burma and the notion of cultural identity is powerful intoxicating question as we think of our road forward, we're talking about immigration reform and what it means to become an american. what was the sort of overarching message you wanted to deliver or the thesis for this book, if you will as far as cultural assimilation and identity in modern america. >> it's a wonderful question, i should say i dropped out of my ph.d. program to get out of the thesis business. that there is a single thesis, nor in this novel or any other. but certainly there is something to be said, i think or there was something to be said about an immigrant family that bears no resemblance to the one that ann coulter just described. in so far as this is, these are people who want nothing more than to succeed. they have given their very selves, their very identities, their blood, sweat and their tears to the project of simply being successful. they lose a lot in the process, but i think if there's anything that i think this family represents, in

the united nations' top envoy to burma toured the city on sunday. they are feeling very insecure because their houses have been destroyed, they say all of the mosques have been destroyed in this locality, but they are been provided with food and health care and they don't have any complaints about the basic necessities. they are worried and i have tried to stress to them that this should be seen as criminal action and it should not be converted into a major communal problem and the communities must learn to live together. >> the new york times is reporting about 300 immigrants are being held in solitary confinement at u.s. detention centers on any given day even though they are being held on civil, not criminal, charges. the times reports daily half are isolated for 15 days or more, the point to which psychiatric experts say they are at risk for severe mental harm. one mexican immigrant says he was held in solitary for four months. he told the times he sank into a deep depression as he overheard three other immigrant detainees attempt suicide. north

in burma today, the opposition party opened an historic conference. the national league for democracy has been in existence for nearly 25 years. they've been much on that time excluded from the political province. the meeting was held in a staurant and the sitting leader is expected to be re-elected. the committee will then elect an executive. if you haven't heard already, there's a rather important vacancy at the catholic church. pope benedict left his post last week and today we heard from the church's cardinals that they'll begin selecting his replacement on tuesday. i spoke to our correspondent in rome alan johnston. there must be a sense of great excitement there. what's the process? >> well, you can imagine huge all-consuming interest. an army of journalists from all around the world gathering in rome now. since the preliminaries are over, we've seen a period of a week of preliminary meetings the cardinals have had and produced this date. we know now it's on tuesday afternoon. this college of cardinals, 115 from all around the catholic world wil

courage that i saw years ago and when i met her in her home when she was confined in burma or the courage i saw again in four burmese women who were the first people i met right after i had been sworn in as secretary of state. i met in this building on my third day as secretary. two of them had been political prisoners, and today, all of them are giving back to the very country that had once confined them. it is courage, and it is not just the courage that you see in women in the way that michelle obama just described. courage of people raising kids, certainly women raising them, but also the courage of every man who defends his daughter's right to an equal education, or every brother who challenges the law that keeps his sister from owning property, or opening a business, or every husband, who not only promises that the cycle of domestic violence can stop with him, but who proves it. i see that courage. i see that hope in every woman on this stage, and you will learn that in a moment. in a testimony of the four honorees who cannot be here today because of the repression and the intimidat

in burma today, the opposition party opened an historic conference. the national league for democracy has been in existence for nearly 25 years. they've been much on that time excluded from the political province. the meeting was held in a staurant and the sitting leader is expected to be re-elected. the committee will then elect an executive. if you haven't heard already, there's a rather important vacancy at the catholic church. pope benedict left his post last week and today we heard from the church's cardinals that they'll begin selecting his replacement on tuesday. i spoke to our correspondent in rome alan johnston. there must be a sense of great excitement there. what's the process? >> well, you can imagine huge all-consuming interest. an army of journalists from all around the world gathering in rome now. since the preliminaries are over, we've seen a period of a week of preliminary meetings the cardinals have had and produced this date. we know now it's on tuesday afternoon. this college of cardinals, 115 from all around the catholic world wil

authorities in central burma had declared a state of emergency. over 20 people have been killed in three days of sectarian violence in the township. several mosques were set on fire by angry buddhist protesters, muslims have fled the region. italy's center-left leader says he has accepted a mandate from the president to try to form a government. his democratic party narrowly won control of the lower house of italy's parliament back in february, but it fell short of a majority in the upper house. stay with us. we are going to take a break. >> we are taking a break. plenty more to come. do stay with us. >> welcome back, everyone. today is world water day. the united nations uses the day to draw attention to one of the most important natural resources on the planet. >> the data is worrying. one in six people on the planet lack access to enough water per day for drinking, cooking, and cleaning. >> to see how scarce clean water is, we traveled to india. >> getting hold of clean drinking water is a daily struggle in the slums of mum by, india's biggest

going on and we have not had the united states government which was so concerned about human rights in burma my own bar suddenly why don't we have a concern about the people that are being pushed off their lands it's called an ethnic conflict but it's never an ethnic conflict is but there's been the ethnic conflict forever it's a resource conflict and i'm very. concern that once again we are displacing people affectively turning a blind eye to genocide it's not ethnic it is resource issues it is about grab it it's usually about grabbing the oil and the pipeline routes unbelievable and great we have about a minute left but to those who are watching this and saying it's hopeless what can we do to take our country back and the world at large from these corporate overlords what would you say well tell the truth i mean most people don't even understand the connection between the x.l. pipeline and the koch brothers and the and the war against hugo chavez it's all one battle and by the way that's why. i've agreed with b.b.c. to allow people to take the film the assassination of hugo child is like a

there in burma and thank you very much indeed for joining us live here in r.t. good to talk to you thank you thank you but. it's not just over an hour before the soyuz spacecraft follows up its thrusters and blasts off on a record breaking mission to russians and american will be on board what's planned to be the fastest ever flight to the international space station is under former looks at what the cosmonauts have been doing to prepare for the big trip and just how they're going to get to the i assess so quickly rolling out what will be and historic mission the iconic soyuz rocket will set another record from baikonur this week taking three crew to the international space station and left fastest time ever it was slash the journey from two days to just six hours and we'll achieve it by all within just sport times instead of thirty before docking that after cosmonauts decided they needed less time to adjust to weightlessness. one of the advantages will be to reduce weightlessness you can operate quite normally if you're aware that within the first few hours ano

the behavior and the brutality of the american government when we compare it to the dictatorship of burma or the monarchy of bahrain we have central power it's way way out of control the american people old have no influence on what happens it washington anymore is controlled by bankers and the military industrial complex and the outcome is that what we have is a fraud it's a fraudulent system. still ahead in the program the holy see in the stormy weather . with a newly elected head of the catholic church from argentina the vatican is hoping to recover from the nightmares and heritage from the previous leader with sex abuse and graft scandals rocking the institution plus. is there life on the red planet russia agrees help supply a european space agency expedition to try and shed light on the mystery on mars. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. our d.c. faces o

think you are seeing and some regions here in asia perhaps the competition for influence places like burma other places around the world and part of that is that i wouldn't say it's a competition yet military. but certainly i can honestly and to some extent in terms of ideology and ideas in terms of of how political system should be and liberalization there are a lot of competing ideas right now between the west and between asia and china specifically what does it appear that china's foreign policy goals will be we understand that mr she is first official visit will be to moscow. that's right i you know we will have to wait and see they've appointed some very seasoned diplomats right now some experts signed relations with the united states as well as people who are very familiar with japan and so that should help in terms of some of these territorial disputes as well as in terms of managing this often very delicate relationship with the united states and i think china right now their focus is very much a domestic and they have a lot of challenges domestically to deal with going forward mak

to the syrians of burma last respects to a problem so the cleric killed by a suicide bomber damascus mosque on thursday shaikh mohammed saeed ramadan obuchi was also a high profile supporter of the embattled president bashar al assad syrian journalist of dollar was really says any muslim scholar who goes against the rebels is no target. clergyman or let's say most of the schoolers who are not with the opposition were targeted or were killed we can remember a few names for example like mr ahmed saadat and others were killed because of having an opinion different done position but everybody believes that what happened is unjustified and cannot be explained we have extremist groups systemic seem to group jihad these who are fighting against the government and the mr would be before he was killed last friday in his last speech he said that we should fight with the syrian army and you should not fight with with this opposition groups so this raises a lot of controversy and controversy and discussion in the syrian society and this lead into this killing and we have mr kind of. the permanen

the information across the rest of asia from burma to china to vietnam. it is changing people's attitudes. the recently from those countries to have access. i think it is a combination. >> how are you going to respond? about chinese human rights issues. china had 30 million forced abortions every year. i hope you're talking about human rights issue. i think of both issues are important. i think the evolution in terms of human rights is partly dependence on what we put information into china about what is happening on the ground in order to expose these type of abuses. that is best done through radio free asia. i am a member of the hearings that we hold on this issue which elevate human rights and which gets that information out into the international press. partly through the internet giving the information to the press inside china. it it is also partly radio free asia posting this dialogue. we have seen how much china has changed in pretty short order. i remember discussions that i had with richard nixon on his last trip to the house. he suggested i com

debates going on behind the scenes and the british government at the end of 1946, early in 1947 on burma, greece, palestine wall collapsing by oakley is all about dollars. we have to make the pound convertible in july of 1947 the only way we can possibly make the commitment is if we start holding on to our dollars. we have to let the empire go when that very much part of harry dexter white's agenda. let me say a few words about the characters in the book is they are indeed fascinating, john major keynes and harry dexter white. they're as different as chalk and cheese or bourbon in afternoon tea. that when i look in particular. these were two men who had a grudging that ration for each other. white certainly considered genius, which he undoubtedly was. keynes admired way for his enormous influence in the u.s. treasury. i'm a market that depended on for policy, not just economic policy, but foreign policy. it is a remarkably influential figure. here is what keynes said early in his interactions with them. he said he is not the faintest conception how to behave or observe the rules of the c

costs top envoy to burma said the government must punish those behind the attacks. ofsifting through the ashes violence that had been concentrated on the west coast, now spread to the heartland of myanmar. perpetrated this violence, it is important that they be caught and punished. >> this is the first outbreak of fighting between majority buddhists and a minority muslims since two similar episodes in the state last year. mostly communities lived apart. the fighting reportedly broke out on wednesday after an argument between a muslim shop owner and his customer. it left the buddhist monk data. as news spread, buddhists rampaged through muslim neighborhoods, protests got out of control. most of those displaced are minority muslims. they said police did little to intervene in the violence, and it was only after the army stepped in to enforce a state of emergency, was restored. -- that calm was restored. >> i think i'm safe now because soldiers are guarding the town. soon after they arrived, it became peaceful. the situation has been very dangerous. >> there are people

of the employees here in this own country, so, i don't think the gay rights is an issue in china or burma, but they are looking at human rights issues in which they operate. >> we don't think of captions -- we don't think of the rights, do we? >> yes. it is the first time we see a larger country like africa getting involved in the issue of human rights, getting involved in the aspects of the country and the way they operate, so i think we are looking at what is happening in our own country. we are quick in saying we are silicon valley, we are a bass chin of forward thinking and we are not on this issue. >> i think corporations are trying to be image conscious. they don't want a lot of controversy. >> i think the prime audience is inspiring others. >> a lot of the corporations are not tech or financial. in other words, a lot are not necessarily dealing with -- i don't see supermarket america. >> safeway could be a great company to come forward. i have been waiting for wal- mart to come forward. it would be nice to see some perceived rights of the companies. wells fargo, bank of america, it

courage that i saw years ago and when i met her in her home when she was confined in burma or the courage i saw again in four burmese women who were the first people i met right after i had been sworn in as secretary of state. i met in this building on my third day as secretary. two of them had been political prisoners, and today, all of them are giving back to the very country that had once confined them. it is courage, and it is not just the courage that you see in women in the way that michelle obama just described. courage of people raising kids, certainly women raising them, but also the courage of every man who defends his daughter's right to an equal education, or every brother who challenges the law that keeps his sister from owning property, or opening a business, or every husband, who not only promises that the cycle of domestic violence can stop with him, but who proves it. i see that courage. i see that hope in every woman on this stage, and you will learn that in a moment. in a testimony of the four honorees who cannot be here today because of the repression and the intimidat

in that event, the current world in burma, the judge will have supplanted the senior legal official of the national security agency from a large part of his or her job. to do that conscientiously and effectively, one judge or another on the court should consider getting an office in the pentagon and plan on spending a lot of time there. the continually available, ever vigilant, and have continued, around-the-clock access to secure communications, counter- terrorism personnel and executive branch lawyers. to hear presentations, receive intelligence, probe intelligence officers for weaknesses in the intelligence come and ask questions. this is not something to be done on the papers, as they say in court. next, if the court's jurisdiction is limited to u.s. citizens, there is the question of exactly what the court is to decide. if one accepts the criteria for targeting u.s. citizen set forth in the attorney general speed your go, it has several parts. first, the target as a senior operational leader of al qaeda or associated forces and is actively engaged in planning to kill americans. se

myammar, formally known as burma is coming from decades of military rule and international sanctions and undergoing dramatic political and economic reform. internet access is still rare only a small part of the 50 million residents have access to cell phones, but the visit comes after trips to india, libya, afghanistan, and north korea. >> drivers in the north bay and the south bay have been fighting signature alerts. >> we have you covered. >> southbound 101 coming from the waldo tunnel we have a look at the golden gate bridge now, a few cars coming by and you can access the golden gate bridge from alexander avenue through sausalito but that is not great. richmond san rafael bridge is a lovely way do go to avoid the commute, southbound 101, sky 7 live coming from the waldo tunnel, c.h.p. is on the scene, and the two left lanes are getting by but traffic on the waldo is bumper to bumper from sausalito up and over to the boulders. abc7 news reporter cornell bernard is on the scene and said this is a boulder the size of a big truck driver that crunched into a mercedes on the side of th