early in the day yesterday, which marked the second day running that the government ministers here gave the incorrect number for the americans detained and the incorrect number for the children that they were accused of trying to get across the dominican border. they finally corrected their own information, but there was a translation problem. they were supposed to meet with a judge yesterday. today, we re expecting that to happen in about an hour. we know the u.s. embassy had helped with another translator. so that caused these americans to spend another night in jail. the government is treating this really seriously. they said that these americans were moving children and they didn t have proper documentation for them, where the church group, mostly from idaho, says that they were merely trying to get these kids from destroyed orphanages in haiti to a new orphanage they had prepared across the border. that they had permissions, including from some of the kids parents and that they m
inside, president hu likely never heard them as he also claimed to missed an american reporter pointed question on the broader theme. because of the technical translation problem i did not hear the question about the human rights. pressed by a second reporter, hu defended the country s enormous progress on human rights though he acknowledged more needs to be done. china is a developing country with a huge population. and also developing country in a crucial stage of reform. that we are also willing to learn from each other on the basis of mutual respect. and the principle of non-interference in each other s internal affairs. what i believed is the same thing that the seven previous presidents believed, which is that we can engage, and discuss these issues in a frank and candid way. while acknowledging there will be areas where we disagree.