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>> reporter: akmal sikh a 53 year oldather from north ndon was convicted of drug smuggling after 4kg heroin was founin his suitcase when he arrived in urumshe in nohwestern china. supporters say it d been pland there by professional crimins taking advantage of shaikh's bipolar disder, but todathe chinese foreign ministry said they'd seeno evidence that shaikh was mentally i adding they hoped this would not damage relatis between both countries. certainlbeen strong, the inese warning today that no one has a right to comme on its judicialffairs. >> but emails written bshaikh and witnesstatements do prove mental illness according tone psychologistontacted by campgners most probably manic phase in whi his ability to think rationly, control his impulsesthink through the consequences of actions was severely comomised. >> many yes ago, he was simply a suessful businessman. now he'she first european to
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be executein china for half a century, and is mily is left saddened and snned. >>reenivasan: china executes more people each yeathan any other cotry. north korea nfirmed today it s detained an arizona man fo illegally tering the country. family members identifd the man as 28-ar-old christian missionary robt park. supporters said he cssed from china into north korea o christmas day, uing the release of pitical prisoners. the state news agency sa today he is beininvestigated for illegal entry. on wall street today stos broke a day winning streak. the dow jones industrialverage lost more an a point to close at0,545. the nasdaqell more than 2 points to closat 2288. those are so of the day's main stories. ll be back at the end of the program with a preew of what you'll find tonit on the newshour website. but for now ck to gwen. >> ill: and still to come on the newsur: the nigerian man who tried to blow up a us pne and his links to yemen; raising healthier, bter educat children in mexico; and helpor the mentally ill in india.
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but fit: striking the right balance tween security and sacrifice: the costs of preventing the next atck. for that, we turn toary schiavo, forr inspector genel of the department of transporation. she's now anviation attorney in private practice, a represents many of the filies whose relatis were killed in the 9/11 attacks. and david schanzer. he's the director of the triangleenter on terrorism and holand security at duke university and the univeity of north calina. i want to start by asking yo what the preside had to say toda he saithere was a systemic failure, a mix of human and systemic failure. what does that meato yo >> well, that means that there's more than one il. obviously first an foremost that peoplfollowed the screeninthat failed, but obviously the various tch list. the watch listwere targeted and revealed to be a probl in the summ of this year. there waa special report done by the office ofnspector
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general, coness has addressed these issues, ey knew that the screening wasn't good as well, so many things failed. thus his calling it a systemic failure. >> david schanzer is the a technology in place that cld have aided this kind of failure? >> well, the full body sca machines can do a betterob and they c improve the likelihood of finding something like at, but there's no 100screening device that'going to be able to pick up everythin and i think you have to ask yourselves before you deploy multibillion dlar technology, whether or not you get me bang for the buck out of thin li intelligence, enhancemenwatch sting, more international cooperation. >> let's back up a minute. you said there's no 100% guarantee, and theresident in fa said that himself today. but wouldn't people beatisfied knowing that sce 9/11 we were at %, 80%? >>
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ll, it's all probablistic. thquestion, though, is that we have an adapve adversary that whateverechnology we deploy, they'rgoing to take steps to try to circumvent it. the problem is if yoinvest huge amounts of monein these technogies, they might become obsolete when thnext type of threat comes up six monthsr a year from no >> what do you thinkbout that, mary schiavo? >> well, that's rely not the way i would approach it all. viously we have to invest in the technology, because it a technology thacan spot so many of these threats. not 100% well, it cou be very close to 100%, because therare four diffent machines with four fferent technologies that ca spot expsives and explosives materials and componentsf bombs. here we can't say we rely on profiling and inlligence, because that's what we were relying on september 11th, 2001. we don't always fit the prile. there have beeyoung, beautiful,orth korean women to
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someone from indiana in 1933 blowing up planes. we cannot rely on profiling d intelligence bause we've proven that er the last 70 years 's failed. hardware is our last linof defense, and can be etty close to 100 >> what abouthat visa issue? if perhaps seone had taken seriously the father complaint, isn that something that could have caht before he even got to a chine? >> absolutely. it could have been caut. it should ha been caught. ce again, that points out th possibility of han failure. d that was pointed out, the government knew these watc listwere a problem as early as this summer. there was a reporto congress. it has been classified. it's on the internet, r heaven sakes, that there was a real problem. this was the se thing we saw 8 1/2 ars ago on september 11th, 20. weren't even sure who these people were. some had visas, some d not. whenever you rely on nad-based system, which is what the wat list is, that can also be circumstance crumb 7d
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by pho documents and trading off documentonce you're in a erile area. >> did schanzer, seems like a lot of costs we'realking about here the cost of the actu physical equipment, of getting thmoney. the cost of whatou give up once y agree to this sort of -- at some people consider to be an iasive technology. what wld you say the costs are? >> well, you've named some o them. the fact of the matter is live in a world limited resource so we have to make tradeoffs a choices out which set of polies and which sets of technologies we want tdeploy. your other guest mentioned fr differt types of machines. well, i don't think we're ing to be able to deoy four differt new types of machines, not only in the ited states, t we would need to depy these thingslobally to truly protect us. i'm not saying we shouldn'have screening devices. absolutely we ould. all i'm saying is that y have to csider the full packagend figure out what set of polies
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is goi to do the best at reduci the risks that we all face. >> mary schio, we saw saying, yes,e are, that they can be deployed, bulet me ask you th, at what cost in terms of civil liberties? >> well, the cost civil liberties, the great tng about machines is they treat eryone the same. thmachines don't violate our civil liberties. what violates vil liberties, when you s we're going to pick out this person and lookt them, pick out this personnd look at her, etc., the mhines treat us all the sam the ly civil liberties issue so far that kes any sense when it reveals the shapef the human being, b even that the machines have gotten better,nd the private partcan be shaded or not sho, and those machines have improveas well. and as far as putting maches in pla for the atlanta olympics in 1996 whad four ctx machines to screen bags fo explosives w we have thousands of them, so wcan do it as a country. by the way, thcost at ground ro in 9/11 alone was about $100 billion.
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i think people would say exactly, we oughto spend at least that, d 10 times that to make aation secu, because it's been the target ochoice for teorists since 1919. >> david schanze we're talking about cost versus benefit equaon here to some degree. is this $100 billion cost, whatever price tag youut on it, worth what we might ve up in ord to implement it >>ust to make one point, the privacy protections that your guest mentioned mighhave made it more difficult to detec this paicular device. i just think that when youave limited resource you have no choice but to make these ris tradeoffs. maybe some typ of devices woulbe useful, but, again, th device, the body scanner is used in secondary screeng. it isn't used for everody. so at some poi you are picking who going to go through that device and who isn't.
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unlessou're, again, willing to deploy it d have everybody in the world who's treling at th point be screened. so that is a very expensive endeavor. again, the adversary is st going to simply adapt and trto find aifferent way to attack us. >> mary scavo, assume that you're not going to ree for this moment onhis question of the machines. what, otr than that, do you thk can be done in order to address thisind of problem before it rives again? >> wellthe thing that we had first and remost, we also had air marshals when we didn't learn th ssenger's name immediately, was hoping it s an air marsha because on september 11th, 2001, had 32 air marsls. now we're omised of thousands. i don't want to say the exac number. we need to deploy the air marshal chnology, pilots have been trained to carry weaps, and we need to gback on some
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of the bas technolo. some airlis have marshals on every airplane, they don't jt rely on machines. they'vtaken out terrorists on ights with air marshals on t planes in flht. at's successful too. >> earlier reportsaid there was no air marshal othis particular fght. david schanz, what should be done short of putting thisind of high-tech machi in every single airport cckpoint? >> well, wit$100 billion you could buy a t of international cooperation. thbritish took this individual off of theist of the visa people that could get to their couny. so you'd need a t more international cooperation. anthat requires staffing, more people to review visa applations abroad, better watch liing procedures, more cooperation, intelligence. those in the long run will b
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more cost effective than screing devices. >> david schanzer and mary hiavo, thank you both for joining us. >> thank you. thank you. >> brown: now, more on t country that's bome the latest focus of terrism fears: yemen. we begin wh washington post reporter sudarsan raghavan i yemes capital, sanaah. i talked with him a shortime o by phone. >> sudarsaraghavan, welcome. so it's noknown that mr. abdul abdulmutallab inemen reasonable, but aprently not considered a threa can you add to what heas doing there? >> sure. he arred in august to ke an arabic lanage course at a language instute in soig's old old -- i sanaa's old city. th is the second time in yemen, he had taken a silar course in 20. what we knows that he attended a course in august a
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september, b then abruptly disappeared. the peop i spoke to at the scho today said that in tober -- from october on he didn't show up this courses. and that's basically whe the investigatiois heading. the yemeni authoritiesre trying to piece togetherhere he wasetween october and december. >> now, what about theroup that has taken responsibilit here called al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula? what is knowabout it? how stro, how much -- what its leadership is like? >> sure. al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula has its roots a 2006 jail breain which 23 al-qaeda operativehad caped from a maximum secury prison in the capital one of them was -- is now the ader of al-qaeda in the arabian peninsul
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in january of this year the yemeni branches an the sai arabian anch merged to create th entity. it's a vy organized united. they he a monthly online magazine. put out mccain kays and deos on -- commune kays and video they have roughly 40hard-core followers, and include peoe from france, germany, ausalia, i've been told, as well foreign fighte from egypt and kistan. >> can you how much popular support it has tre? i me, you're on the ground. what do you sein terms of any support for it or feeling foit on the streets? >> well, you don't seeny grfiti or outright, you know, support r al-qaeda, but you're also talking aut a country th has sent owe over the years
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has sent thousds of fighters to fightn afghanistan and iraq, basilly fighting to libete muslims from nmuslims. in ts sense there's this great syathy for al-qaeda, because of their core messa of protecti muslims and fighting for muslims, but at the sam time most yemenis d't want to see suicide bombs in the streets ery day. >> wt about yemen as a failed stat whether it's the kind of place whe terror groups can fill a power vacuum? what do you se again, just around the country, or lking at how govnment works or doesn't work? what do yosee? >> yeah. i wouldn't calleit a failed stat i would say it is failing state. e government is facing numero challenges.
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it's got a civilar in the north. it seals with a successionst movent in the south. the economis crumbling. huge amounts of unemployme and poverty. the oil resources are dwindlg ass the water. they're facing numerou challenges. thers vast stretches of the country in which basically ungoverned, and which provid a perfect haven and recrting ground for al-qaeda mitants. >> and what out any possible u.s. involvemt? there's still quesons about to what degree the u.s. ihelping in any of the recent airrikes. is tt something you see or is that behd the scenes? wh can you tell us? >> it's very much bend the scenes. it very much of a covert war, u might say. the americans are -- have acknowledged thelping the yemenis with intligence and other assistance. the yemenis on the ground aim th've seen american
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jets and missiles hitti yemeni rritories, but both the ericans and yemen government has nied this, but certainly what is clear is that the american sport is escalating, and in the wake ofhis -- the attack idetroit the attempted bombing in detit, most -- many here expect this -- the amican involvement to incree. >> all rightsudarsan raghavan of the "washgton post," taing to us from yemen, thank you very much. >> my pleasure. >>rown: and now we broaden out the view of yemen d al qaeda. barba bodine was u.s. ambassador to yemen from 199to 20, a period that included the attackn the "u.s.s. cole". she's now iplomat-in- residence' at princeton' woodrow wilson sool. fawaz rges is professor of middle eastern politics at t london sool of economics and author of o books on 'jihadism'. barbara, a failing state is just how we ard yemen descrid. what would you call it?
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>> i would call it a fgile state. yemen is descred as the almost always faili state. its economy has alys been in a shames. it's alws been resourcef. it's always d ungovernable hinderlands. it's always had a we central government. one of the mirles of yemen is that it's never failed, t also never ite succeeds, and the sue before us now is not to write off as a failed or even failg state, but try to see what we can do to keept from going to the wrong se of the failure rve. >> fawazerges, what do you see? what does that say abouthe potential vacuumf power there? >> i tnk the situation is extremely volatile and frale in yemen. i mean, every time i vis yemen i see a deteriating security situation, a decning social and onomic situation. whatas happened is that really
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thisarticular storm has been brewing for the last few yrs, and it seems is finally reached a climax the conversion of social and political and economicrisis, and also multiple tral ideogical and political divisions that areushing the untry to the brink of all-ou war. when you talk about the econy re, we need to remind our viewers that more than 40% of yemenis now are unemployed the majority live inbsolute povey. the ability to deliver social goods has been diminished considerably. they don't have the ability to ovt adversities, and you you have a mini civiwar in the north by a powerful tribe. u have the south that
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basicallis trying to break away from the union. so youave this conversion between a epening social and economic crisis and also political divisions. and what al-qaeda has been trying to do, in partilar in in the the last two or tee yearis basically embed itself within those localonflicts to basically integre itself, and bacally lead the fight against the regime. the ngeance does not lie in the fa that you have dozens or 200 or 300 jihasts basically in yemen. yemen has always h a large continge of jihadists. my fear itself is that the jihadists in yemen nowre trying to lead the suggle, the internal struggle, tt's taken placagainst the yemeni state. >> ambassador bone, do we know yet --hen we refer to this as a regional wing of al-qaa,
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which is how it's beeneferred to -- >> right, right. >> -- do y know what that ans? how ch independence does it have? does it rsue its own agenda or somehocentralized with -qaeda in afghanistan and pakistan? >> right. i don't think th we know exacy what its relationship is to al-qaeda central. there are two wings al-qaeda in the arabian pinsula. it sous nice to say that they had a dearation in january where they combineforces, but yostill have a saudi wing and yemeni win the yemeniing is primarily a domestic issue. it's got itswn agenda, its own look and set of grvances. then you have the saudi ng. the saudi wi includes the leership. they're pursuing completely diffent agenda. and wh their connection may be to pakista afghanistan, we i don't thinwe know, but their agenda is different. the qution is how far they can
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takehis thing as a joint effort. i'm not sure fully agree with the professor that al-qaa is trying to t ahead and take the leership on the various elementsf tension and strife in the country. i think they have a mit to how far they can go in terms o popular -- >> does it surprise you a case like this, here we have suspect who's an afric coming -- >> yeah, rht. >> -- and so it looks though al-qaeda is branchinout away from loc concerns. >> well, think this is the most troubling aspect ofhe nigerian attempt, they've be an al-qaeda presence in yemen for at least5 years, but it's always been the warehousing of fairly low-level -qaeda operatives. if these stories a true, the stories thate went to yemen, that he got the techlogy ere, and then was sent to th
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stat, this would be the first ti that there's been a nonal-qaa central attack on the u.s. and that is a qualitive ange, even if it was successful. >>nd professor gerg, do you see thisce bumpup of al-qaeda in the araan peninsula? anwhat should be done? >> i don't think we ve really eviden. i an the weight of evidence, the jury is still ou the big point to highlight - and here i wanto say a few words about the internal i mean, the uths is that al-qaeda is a byoduct of the epening social and economic crisis in yemeitself. i meanlet's take what the south habeen trying to do in thlast one year or so. e of the top leaders of the separate movemenin the south itlf is a jihadi. and you have in the eastern princes, also the jihadist footprint has beco greater in e last two or three years.
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what i trying to suggest is thathe conversions of social and economic difficultieand political divisions and th inability of the yemeni statto basically respond to the chlenges could easi plunge yen into all-out war, unless -- unle -- the internatnal community, the united states and ar and muslim states constrt a political visi in order to deal with the deeping structural economic and soal cris in yemen. what i meaby that, the worst thing that the united statesan do ito basically view this particular challenge iterms of counterterrorism this is not ju a counterterrorism queion. it's about clusive governance, abt pervasive corruption, it's abt pervasive poverty. it's about theact that the state itself is trng to us military mite to suppreslocal identities and local challges to i central authority.
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>> briefly a last rd ambassador bodine, wt do you see the role f the u.s. to stepn here? >> think there's two roles. one is to address th the immediate secuty issue, but if that's all we did that would not lve the problem. we need to work with yemen, d i would agree wi the professor, with e ternational community to try to work on thoselements of letimacy as opposed to just e authority of the state. work on the livery and the soci services, work on the inclusion of the population, work on the corrtion problem. that's what i meant byetting ahead of the failure cur. we learned a lot in afghantan d iraqbout that security was not enough, that youad to work on the protectioof the people, and their livelihood, d we need to sort of take those lessons and applthem pre-cris, prefailure in yemen. all right, barbara bodine a fawaz gerges, thk you both very mh. >> tha you.
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>> ifill: w the mexican governme's program to lift people out of poverty that's being copied arod the world. ray suarez has the story. >> suare in the state or relos in central mexico, the small town of santdomingo otitlan is rich in tradition in elabora costumes, villagers parade through the town'square during fesvals of dance. bufor all its history, santo domingo is vy poor. most residents are subsistce farms. homes are modest, women rub their wash or rocks at communalasins. for genetions policy makers have debated, what makes pr people pr? is it the sile fact of not having enougmoney, or is it e choices they make, the way they liv a pionring program here in mexico is tryi to fight
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povertboth approaches by giving the poore mexicans cash anby trying to change the way they live. orcasitas and hureds of women geing cash started 12 years ago by the mexican governmt- the program lled oportunidades opportunities gives a small subsidy everother month to po mothers, like santo domingo resident, sixta orsitas. but theris a catch: one that separates oportudades from traditional weare plans, orcasitas and millionsf mothers like h across mexico must first sign a coract to rae healthier, better-educated children. orcasitas has sichildren both e and her husband, eraio bello, ner made it past grade school. get their cash, they must
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keep their youngest chilen, 15 year old kina, and 13 year old alex, in school. they must so bring them in for regular check ups at the hlth clinic. ansixta orcasita must participate in monthly nuttion classes so s can cook healthier meals for thfamily. attendance is monired and the monthly allotment of ch about $60 for each childlus a monthly food stipend wl be quickly pulledf mothers fail to get their childreto school or clini the goal is break the cycle of perty. santiago ly, now with the inter-americanevelopment bank, came up with the so called "condition cash" plan. >> these famils were trapped in some kindf an inter generation mechasm by which parents were poor,hildren were poor and the next geration were alspoor. the kids were sooor they had to be picking coffee in e fields and thecouldn't go to school. and they didn'go to school and
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en when they were adults the couldn't get a good job. and they couldn't get a job they would be po and then their children would have to work to help suppo the family and from generation to generation. >> suarez: it's a cycle rina and alex's fathewants to end. bello's fit four children dropped out of schoo now he wants the cash from oportunidades to keep his youngest children ouof the fields. >> ( translated ): hope they want to continue stuing and to get ahead i'prepared to help them anyway i can and i pe they make a beer life for themselves that i have for myself. and that they are better prepared for life than wwere. suarez: to sweeten the pot, opornidades pays the family more money each year kar and alexis move into a hher grade and creases allowances for school supplies. the amount of money that th kid brings into e household matters for the housold. so in a way u are not really
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providing additional iome you are channg the source of the income. at you are saying is that yo kiwill be equally valuable to you he's in the school as opposed if he is in the reet gging for money. >> suarez: othe 185 children in santo domingo108 of them arenrolled in opportunidades. nationally, more than million people, one quarter of the population of mexicoare enrolled. not surprisily, most families are from rural aas like santo domingo, where livinis often hand to mouth, and whe ofcials say the conditional cash program h been most effective. hool enrollment jumped 85% i someural areas just two years after the cash progr was introded. tes of malnutrition and anem have dropped, asave childhood and ult illnesses. at sto domingo's middle
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scho, asuncion ortiz, a teacher here for sixteen yrs, says changesrom the cash program e easy to see. >> ( translated ): little by lile the children started coming witmore uniforms, better shoes before their tth were very bad because of their bad eing bits, but now, in part becau of required alth clinic appointments tir eating habits e better, and so their teeth are a lot tter. >> suarez: the cditional cash transferrogram centers on women, who, officialsay, are e key to the long term healt a family betteeducated women raise healthiechildren. so the program tur tradition on its head, you girls, who foyears were considered a nancial drain on the family, are now wortmore financial assistance than boys. for exple, sixta ocasitas gets slightly more money for karis school attendae then for als. mexico's deputy seetary of social delopment, dr gustavo
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rino, explains why. >> if you get girlwho have now been able to school th are going toe not just able to get a better a job and so but theyre going to be better at probably raisingheir kids, th are going to have less kids, th are going to take more care of them in terms o nutrition and heth and preventi. >> suare the program gives cash oy to mothers because, supporters say, they're re likely to spenthe cash on theichildren while fathers, it was fred, might not bring back to the family, even us it the money forlcohol. as aesult, officials say women have been empored. >> resources areiven to the ther. noto the father, so there has been a change of per within the household. >> suare but opportunadades has detractors too. mario lu fuentes, an economist social welfare at the universi of mexico, says the governnt should be more focused on job creatio- because even f the poor kids
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who finish tir education, mexico sll has few jobs. >> so the whole question is the end of t secondary and high school thesyoung people wont have the portunities of a job, of decent work. >> suarez:he world bank is heavily promotinthe program last springiving mexico a $1.5 billion loan. helenaibe manages the latin american region for the rld bank. >> the edence is very compelling, and in ally many yes of experience working in development in many regions the world, i have never en a program that receives souch terested and is being replicated in as mancountries as thimodel of conditional cash transfer. >> suarez: in fact, at lst 30 countries ve now adopted optunidades, most of them in latin americ cambodia and thaand have programs, and ofcials from south africa a china have contacted meco to investigate.
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for her rt sixta orcasitas says the short terbenefits, like putting food onhe table are as important as her hos for the future. >> ( translated ): the moneye get from thehelps a lot, right when we ruout of money, money comes in and we can buy th thgs we need to get by. >> suarez: even with the programs successes, alth advocates point out that conditional cash programs ar just one piece ithe complex uation needed to end poverty >> bwn: finally tonight, a report on mental health re in india, a populatn of more than a llion people and a handful of professional care gers. it comes fm our partners at globalpost, an international news website. the reporter is markcheffler.
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♪ >> this man haa problem. he's convinced an il spirit is tryingo strangle him. so he's come to a town aboutn hour and a half tside deli. here othe grounds of a temple he fnd someone he hopes can help him, a wi-eyed faith heal that claims to be channeling deities that will expel the demons from thman's life. >> my mi is not working. someone isrying to strangle me, to suffocate me. >> for many indians, placelike these are l that's available when it comes toolving what mit otherwise be called a mental healtproblem. india, the chronic shortage of psychiatrists h become a glaring issue, even as t country kes great economic stride by se counts, there are only 4,000 psychirists countrywide to treat indians w suffer from pression or other mental
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illnesses. this docr, the chief psychiatri at max super specialty hospal in dehl i sees00 patients a day. >> most of these psychtrists are all overndia. so when you start going fr the urban to theural areas, accessibily is not there. thenll these voodoo things, faith healers, start cing in. >> beyond the issue of stigm thpoor often don't have access to doctors. then more we-healed enclarifs, psychiatric trtment isn't covered by insurance. then the's a civil matter of blaming not science, b the spirit worldor one's mental ate. >> it is thoughthat if you're not doing ll, that you're
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being in this currt life, it mabe the past life of your in, or something you've done in a -- you knowin your early yout you're paying -- you're geing a punishment for that. >> to address the shortage o psycatric care among the poor in dehli, there's street clinic in a bustling, thou deeply impoverished rt of the city. last year they got the authoty to inject psychotic medicis on the sidewalk io those without families or those not able enough tgive consent with themselves. this is one such person. he's sho signs of improvement in the four months he's en receiving medication. doing>> we thought it's a good a to g treatment here where people are rather than gting people to the hoital. that
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meaningful smile. >> psyiatry is gaining more credibility among india's other medicaprofessionals who thought for years antidepressants di't work. that acceptanccould boost the nks of practitioners here. meanwhile a traditional meods endure. back at the temple, thfaith healer seems thave helped this couple w claims they're no longer suffering from depression. >> when we camto this place, we were helped by this man we were treated. >> while science y balk at calling this a cure, thidoctor believes it can be a form legitimate therapy among a populaon that desperately
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>> but in so places throughout ina the goal of integrating local surstitions with big city medicalractices seems every bit elive as the spits that still haunt the unhealed >>fill: again, the major develoents of the day. authorities inemen reported the suspect the airliner boing plot spent long stretches in yemen in rece years. an al-qaeda fshoot there has aimed responsibility for the christmas day tack. and the deh toll from a deadly suicide boing in pakistan. e newshour is always online. hari sreenivas, in our neroom, previews what's there. hari >> senivasan: on our web site tonight, rgaret warner told us more about her daof reporting on rline security, find that
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convsation on the rundown. there are addional stories and photographs from our rent trip to mico with ray suarez, on our glob health page. anon art beat, jeff talked to poet and mus legend patti smith. a new documenty about her life rs tomorrow night on the pbs ogram, pov. all th and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.o. jeff. brown: and that's the newshour for tonight. i'jeffrey brown. >> ifilland i'm gwen ifill. we'll see you on-line,nd again here tomrow evening. ank you, and good night. major fundinfor the pbs newshour is ovided by: >> wt the world needs now is energy. the energy to t the economy humming again. the energy to tackle cllenges ke climate change. what is that energy ca from an energy company everyd, chevron invests $62 million in people, in ideas--
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