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president of the m.d.c. well those are the headlines one a one east is next ahead of the september twenty fourth national election survey showed germany is satisfied with the state of their economy this is easily estonia's biggest tech success story the company was bought by microsoft in two thousand and eleven we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera. five million indian children have genius level i.q.
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but their talents too often go undiscovered. in one of the world's most populous nation the lack of education and opportunities holds them back. now hope has come to india slow. a team of academics is taking on the challenge of finding diamonds in the uk. i'm steve cho on this edition of one of one east we meet india's young geniuses dreaming of their chance to shine. no no no. it's amazing in kids in an urban slum up with caring for a new day. it looks and sounds like a construction site. but it's a school. and. these are the kids
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a brick show drivers made in michael. in today one or two of them could get a big step up in life. they're about to sit an exam designed by mensa the world's oldest high i.q. society. and they're here to see if they can discover a genius kid from the slum just. give me your take i think you get the name would be more on hand if that would be good should be getting all of your top two percent name peer group or doing a lot. he sure is stana minutes a scholar person is hoping this test will uncover a brilliant mind that may on the. last. year five to six million children underprivileged who have an i.q.
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over one third. so we're trying to locate uncut diamonds in this whole mine no people over here and if we can get some we'll try to polish them up for those who get elected their lives with you. passing the test is just the beginning. if a genius is found a win a scholarship at a school usually only the privileged can ask him. what that means to get her to a nice school. for children every day. what would you like to be one day i learn. when you. are put in minute will a go at best question. the giftedness of being logical basically it is about identifying a pattern. he's looking for kids with the same i.q.
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is hillary clinton thomas edison even follow us turn on. you don't waste time on difficult questions ok because you have very little time. and there are pencils down pencil down that here some just close your booklet because your answer sheet. there are some mixed feelings as the kids pack up. but the girl who wants to be a police officer is confident. i don't live on our. block. so put your hand up if you're going to tell me i'm a genius and that. i'm now it's
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a waiting game. we've got more now more dangerous if there are. in a week i'll find out if any of these kids will get the chance to leave this roadside school. the start of that search for kids with high i.q. is just one year ago. it's part of a much bigger quest as india tries to lift it so fuck to become a leader. and this is where the transition from slum kid to school it takes place. this is the special school they get access to if they stay mensa test.
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but it's tough keeping good grades is only the start of the challenges though face . them and guide them. when they become leaders anything we want i mean there are raw material waiting to be morbid and that is why it's really very important. that and this is one of my pm. more is up bro that. route to pass one is one of menses geniuses only twelve years old she tested with an i.q. of one forty five a score that means she's exceptionally gifted michael ballack of the as an a level there how many you can say that about gave her time apart but like in mound the harvest. it was ok.
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it was last year she made a big leap moving from a school in a tent to proper lessons taught entirely in english. when is the boss at a. new school to give us to get. the word out of school good matches where you feel good english made them a lot and can be in good numbers so they are growing for them but i. was going to let my dog in does being a mentor as he called. it. was that he was. meant to be my doctor but were you a. hundred pounds in bonds. he . was. going to six the.
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next door in an eighth grade class the newly discovered geniuses showing up the rest of the students. there was a sign they. get by with a bottle of beer don't fall i'm bored goes out there on the board the taliban. can't beat that. that's not my fault i'm sorry to sound like you. found to have an i.q. of one thirty five bhatia kemarre is just four points short of neil armstrong in whose footsteps she hopes to follow her career as there are nuts out. there. but these genius kids are under a constant threat. they can potentially lose their scholarship if they don't
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perform well know. you've been aborted but more the benefit of. but you can be born a genius critic and end up as a dog if you're not nice you're probably. genius going to become blind to. the pressure is relentless at school and also at home. free to visit a migrant neighborhood. the most spies to be a doctor. all the women around to work as domestic servants. none have finished high school let alone a medical degree. and all the general tenor. of the custom and it's funny.
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yes. but but just like you just got in the saddle to see a look at the. floor look some of the medical could you see in your ticky that one said to me. there's a lot of love here there's also a lot riding lead to his cleverness the mother and sister were both married off young and both very long and been shaped by a traditional jew two years which they don't want for three to. four years in the near the near term over time it is a good. marriage but they have medical. board. so it's a myth caseloads you need to miss about that. but to me. you're looking at it but then they are trivially.
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mother you know it is this. early in the of those when you're near the fire to give good burning and. so for these are the good with the first feel. the hopes and dreams of two generations are riding on ricci's show luth. it's four in the afternoon after a long day at school read to you should be doing assignments but she's needed across town with her mom. and. dad heads. is going.
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to go because. ok. but now you know it's mr this is the guy on the. bridge to worry they should be staying. home would have been a good nazir martin my mom could be. but i. told him i give. us the. good is that we need one and. that's when i was going to need yet to have a son didn't do anything and everything he wanted to see is what got us the mess you see a school she doesn't know that they can see here see here to the letter thank you but you. know. she may have high hopes for rita but her mom
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is already thinking of a plan b. . the reality is the mensa scholarship can stop after high school. and she knows a medical degree is very expensive and it is said that this. was. some other main relay or could make. it a war. but i mean see here different got there but i missed something up record by. that name really other filmmakers. every parent worries what will become of the child. for girls in india security comes from marriage which means many genius goals battles their parents just to stay in school. the most challenges are coming from the society from the family
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they come from because what them when they are educated they need to find a good match for marriage the principle admits it can take more work educating parents than it can the school up. you know one better than don't understand himself than i did to get him up during the time when he. was gifted i mean they look at how they market. in the constant struggle to make ends meet it can be difficult for families to see a child's role beyond their duty to the family or. to fourteen year old bhatia the budding astronauts farm is a place she tries to avoid. it means returning to a world where life is approved by poverty not possibilities. don't
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. his family not only struggles financially the father has a serious problem. i want. a list of them that i. was good. for the child and funny and. because of his drinking father can't hold down a job. rush is constantly worried she will have to drop out of school to work for lack of a make up over. and with little time to study a scholarship inspired thread something her family doesn't seem to grasp.
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they support you in your dreams. and thought they might be one with him but among the money boy their dad think it all is fair for granted that the one on one deal with the bones and i was the one with a minor. she says she wants to be an astronaut or. you know she has an i.q. . of apollo astronauts and her family don't realize that.
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but india's genius kids don't face this journey alone. varsha has a mentor a woman who has climbed to the top of the professional world and is guiding the way . i see that she's one of those little girls from childhood to have a care what they want to do in life. the real look at me i made up her. argument that because it's really about their own power this is subs lady brought together by mensa she's a role model to confide in and today she's arranged a surprise do you overshadowed. by and russia do you know or do you with. mr edgerton right as an astronomer was. like astronomy. seeing as usual few things.
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so yeah. the comedian astronomy is a chance most kids in history will never get. the feeling it's humongous it's such a baseline and. that's what this have to say. this is like a light bucket if you like it just collects the light and then. all the light collects over here tonight there's a super moon and bhatia the astronaut hopefully is getting her very first glimpse up close i want to support her completely no matter what because she has some challenges back corm so from hope i spect of it's important that if there is one person in their life who can at least tell overshot dig this step it will lead you to your destination or do not take this step because he or you missed going to get a. copy of the you can walk through here.
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my mom. could have barely get a. boss to the cake. force of the thinking that as a kid does take it a challenge. for varsha it's the first time in a dream feels really. john dick naked but the real some of the master the art but not to you want to do when there's the morning and i want to get caught up in this basement outer space based on the time he told me they decided they needed to dig through. them with the me i knew something people in the same dream a reality i mean all the things on a day. to behold. i don't know what's in store for vosh.
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in four used to be among the first mensa scholars to graduate in the pantheon that is a plea but she's already tasted a very different future. even if her family don't realize it's possible. before leaving india there's one last thing i need to do. it's been seven days since menses last round of testing and i want to know if a new genius could be about to start a journey of their own. to him they are but. he. could now. be
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a man thought bob best misaka but to a nearby. seven high scores out of fifty who were tested. but is anyone scored high enough to be deemed a genius. a charge a snake here here here in north marty i go on every log thank you no they are. scoring in the ninety ninth percentile thirteen year old even old has an i.q. of one forty five and has announced a new mensa skull. a bright boy. and i thought they were all right in your mouth after. your to help your parents very good care but not if you'd been like. engineer when i said you can in a surprise follow up. just to contradict ten year old dreams of the coming
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home for me to mention to. your she's just missed out on becoming a genius but her high school is incentive to try again. here are just big points. to get her out but best policy. it gives them the realization that they're bright that they have that their unity within them they can utilize that day here just knowing that when they said that. there's a long road ahead. he's about to face challenges that may be more difficult than the lines he has known. the opportunities that come with them. moving worth it.
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