earthquake. >> initially we gave a total of $1,200 to four students in mexico city. we average between $40,000 and $50,000 here in santa clara county. it has grown considerably from that first event in mexico. we now have given away more than $500,000 mostly in this county. most of our recipients are in this county. we name our scholarships after people that have made a tremendous difference in our lives. she will be at the dinner there. she's a 16 year old thanking her mom for having her take the path that led her to winning a scholarship. this is obviously when i had black hair. >> lydia, you were a recipient. you are back here on the show. what was that like? what does that mean to you that the committee honored you on that night? >> it meant that there with a hope. for me it was very difficult to find help and knowing that there was an organization that was helping out and not just the organization itself but it gave me a whole new look about what was out there and there were nice people out there that were willing to help out the community and it just gave me mo

trotsky is buried outside the center of mexico city. his casket is under the space where he was assassinated. >> what about stalin? >> stalin is someone who died in 1953, probably peacefully. it was probably the nine and medical neglect that killed him off. >> where is the very? >> he was incinerated and his ashes remained below the grimaldi. he went into disgrace in the late 1950's after his death. the soviet leaders did not know what to do with his remains, so they hit on this device of moving him out of the lenin, stalin mausoleum, incinerating him and just putting his ashes below the kremlin wall. >> i want to put on the screen a chart that we made up based on your book. that we can get some idea of the time frame. you can see at the top, the years of tenure all the way up to 1950. you have lenin who was going in 1870. right below that, trotsky, going in 1879 and right below that stalin going in 1878. in the 1917 era, lenin was 47, trotsky 38, and stalin 39. lenin died at age 53, trotsky died at age 60. lastly, stalin was 1953 at ag

trotsky is buried in coyoacan, outside the center of mexico city. his casket is under a plinth in the villa where he was assassinated 70 years ago next month. >> what about stalin? >> stalin is someone who died in 1953 probably peacefully. it was probably benign medical neglect that killed him off. >> where is he buried? >> he was incinerated, and his ashes remain below the kremlin wall. so he went into disgrace in the late 1950s after his death. the soviet leaders didn't quite know what to do with his remains. so they hit on this demise of moving him out of the lenin/stalin mausoleum, incinerating him, and just putting his ashes below the kremlin wall. >> i am going to put on the screen the chart that we made up based on your books, so. >> go ahead. >> we could get some idea of the time period. you can see on the screen at the top are the years, 1870 in 10- year increments all the way up to 1950. and then you have lenin, who was born in 1870, right below that trotsky born in 1879, and below that stalin in 1878. across you go to the 1917 period ther

my family lives in mexico city. i have very good friends all over the united states. my daughter is in paris. another daughter is in los angeles. i do not have a home. maybe my home, my only home, was where i was born in mexico city, and it is the house that i lived in for almost 20 years, and i can remember the address and phone number, and that is the only time in my life when i have felt at home, and now, in the united states, this country has given me opportunities that my country could not give me, but, still, i have the sense of i am an immigrant, and i feel like an immigrant 27 years after getting to the united states. i still feel like i am an immigrant. there is no home for me anymore. >> why did you become a citizen? >> it was important for me to participate fully in this country. it is a wonderful country. this country would treat other immigrants like me, and the millions of immigrants who came up to me, it is truly amazing, and i was born the year "a nation of immigrants" was written, and with the wonderful ideas -- of course, he was killed in 1963, but i

they live in mexico city. i have very good friends all over the united states, my doubter is right now in paris. my girlfriend in los angeles. i don't have a home. maybe - maybe my only home was where i was born in mexico city, and it's the house where i lived for almost 20 years and i still remember the address and the phone number. and that's the only time in my life where i've felt at home. and now in the united states, this country has given me opportunity my country couldn't give me but still, i have the sense of i'm an immigrant and i feel like one. 27 years after getting to the united states i still feel like an immigrant. >> there's no home for me anymore. >> why did you become an american citizen and what year did you do it? >> 202008 for. me it was important to participate fully in this country. it's truly wonderful country and my fight is this country would treat other immigrants the way they would treat me. the millions of immigrants that came after me. it's truly amazing. who could have thought th

the situation at the moment is that same-sex marriages only allowed in mexico city, the capital of mexico, but not in the rest of the country. civil unions are allowed in argentina and uruguay, but this would be the first country in the region to approve same-sex weddings in the whole country. they are waiting for what is going to happen today. >> you are watching "bbc world news." bid to have you with us. stay with us, if you can. still to come -- a water shortage in parts of pakistan and the expanding the desert of the seventh job. -- expanding deserts' of the southern and job. first though, a former member of a mi6 has pled guilty to unlawfully disclosing files. he was arrested after dutch intelligence tip of british authorities. >> he arrived at the high court this morning. the 25-year-old former member oldmi6 lead guilty to -- the 25-year-old former member of mi6 pled guilty. he joined mi6 as an i.t. specialist in 2007. he made copies of top-secret files before leaving in 2009. he used his mobile phone to contact dutch intelligence, offering files for 2 million pounds. he met dutch a

. >> customs officer at the mexico city office and -- airports say they have arrested a man who had 18 baby monkeys hidden under his clothing. they noticed a strange bolts in his t-shirt. the south american monkeys are protected. they were tied it to socks and were tied to his body. two had died. authorities have launched an animal cruelty investigation after a donkey was strapped to a parasail before -- for a publicity stunt. the animal was hanging in the air for half an hour and then returned. schools across the u.k. breakup for the summer holidays, there are new warnings about the dangers of tombstoning. it involves jumping off those a steep cliff into water. the number of incidents has doubled within the past four years. >> excitement, adrenaline, adventure, this means different things to different people. for this man, it means life in a wheelchair. >> i thought i was going to be fine. i jumped off and i had never done this before. the title was different. -- tide level was different. i would like to have the moment back just before i jumped. >> for years, safety campaigners have

. >>> one lively bunch added plenty of color and a little amusement to the streets of mexico city. for the past 29 years, hundreds of clowns have made the pilgrimage to the basilica in honor of mexico's patron saint, the virgin of guadeloupe. music and merry-making subsided only a short while for a short while for a quick blessing and to ask the saint to watch over their families. >>> a south african yacht crew got quite a scare when an unexpected visitor dropped by. a 40-ton southern white whale shot out of the water and landed right on the 32-foot sailboat. the big guy made quite a splash, causing significant damage and even snapped the boat's steel mast in two. the collision could have badly injured the whale, but left the crew virtually unscathed. you know, bill, i've been out in the waters near cape cod, and i've seen these huge whales swimming by, and i've always asked, can they jump on to your boat? now i know. >> thank goodness for the picture. imagine trying to explain to the insurance adjuster that my boat was snapped in half by a whale? >> i swear, i swear. >> that's a ta

country grown almost numb to drug violence, this was shocking, a massacre at party in the northern mexico city of torreon. witnesses say gunmen broke down the door and opened fire, killing 17 partygoers, including young people and women, and wounding at least 18 others-- this on the heels of a massive car bomb explosion thursday that killed three people, including a police officer and a medical technician, on the streets of juarez, just across the border from el paso, texas. investigators believe it was remotely detonated with a cell phone, the first time in mexico's bloody drug war that drug cartel gangsters have used a car bomb, a device usually associated with baghdad or kabul. more than 25,000 people have experienced drug violence across mexico since president felipe calderon declared war on the rich, powerful drug cartels upon taking off in 2006. despite flooding the bloody border region with 40,000 troops, the violence has only escalated, the cartels battling each other for control of lucrative smuggling routes to customers in the u.s., and now battling federal police and soldiers. and t

it veered widely but even mexico city has had some decapitations, horrible murders nearby and beheads some of those mutilations with the narco messages as become very commonplace in mexico. the tourist areas have been large leigh left a enand are not seeing this. but the states where they are located have seen some of this vice len. >> woodruff: -- violence. >> woodruff: but this does come after the campaign by president calderon to go after these drug cartels. are people sensing that the government is helpful in some way or is not able to do anything about what's going on ? >> well, early on in this campaign many mexicans fully supported president calderon's effort to go after drug cartels because they had reached such a level pov we are in a lot of these regions. but there really is some battle fat agency. people don't see that the strategy has worked. at least the law enforcement strategy as far as putting soldiers here or putting federal police on the streets. i mean the killing has continued unabated. but also as president calderon has pointed out what is the alternative if you b

it's a place in the southern part of mexico city called arroyo.nd when you go there you walk right into the kitchen, everybody has to walk through the kitchen and then you go into the dining room after having taken in the smells and the sounds of all this beautiful cooking. it's super rustic. huge caldrons, frying car nitas, big pits that they put whole lambs in to cook for six to eight hours and you sit down at a table and the entire place feels like it's just about to burst apart at the seams because there's roving bands, there's huge multigenerational families that are sitting at big tables. just whiling away the hours celebrating. if i wanted to have a last meal, that's where i celebrate it. >> turning to politics and public health, have you signed on to michelle oob's anti-obesity... childhood obesity cam pain? >> of course. of course. and actually i've been sort of that whole movement for many years long before it became an initiative of the white house. i believe that what we have to focus on is helping kids to understand what real food is

. >> customs officials of mexico city airport say they have arrested a man who arrived on a commercial flight from peru with 18 baby monkeys hidden under his clothing. authorities at the airport became suspicious when they noticed a mysterious bulge under his t-shirt and conducted a body search. the south american monkeys, an internationally protected species, are 15 centimeters long and were tied in socks and strapped to his body. two had died during the journey. authorities in russia have launched an animal cruelty investigation after a terrified young he was harnessed to a paris jail in a stunt to promote a beach resort. an amateur video posted on youtube shows a man attaching parasail harnesses to the trampling animal. the animal was pulled skywards by a vote -- a bow. glided above the bay for half an hour. the donkey survived but was reportedly shocked at stores. -- after words. time for a recap of our top story so far today here on bbc. an afghan army recruit has again turned on foreigners. this time two american civilians shot dead at a training base in northern afghanistan. an

a massacre at a party in the northern mexico city of torreon. witnesses say gunmen broke down the door and open fire, killing 17 partygoers, including young children and women, and wounding at least 18 others. this on the heels of a massive car bomb explosion thursday that killed three people, including a police officer and a medical technician, on the streets of juarez, just across the border from el pass sew, texas. investigators believe it was remotely detonated with a cell phone. the first time in mexico's bloody drug war that drug cartel gangsters have used a car bomb, usually associated with baghdad. more than 25,000 people have been slain in drug violence across mexico since president felipe calderon declared war on the rich, powerful, ruthless drug cartels upon taking office in 2006. if juarez earlier this year, 15 people were killed, many of them high school students, when gunmen open fire on a party. police think it was a case of mistaken identity. in march, three people with ties to the u.s. consulate in juarez were murdered by drug g

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we will have a total of 40 ice police in mexico city, the largest we have ever had in mexico city and that will make it our largest office in the world. these enhancements build on recent advances we had earlier this year and late last year. in april, we conducted operation" in plain sight." 47 people engaged in smuggling through in nogales. this was the largest smuggling investigation of its kind. we took out a network of five different transportation companies directly involved in illegal immigration. in march, we opened our state- of-the-art flight operations center in phoenix for the removal of individuals in the company illegally by air. this center has already supported the removal of 12,000 aliens found to be living unlawfully in the united states. in october, ice and cbp jointly started a program with mexican authorities to prosecute mexican drug smugglers apprehended on the u.s. side of the border and prosecute them back in mexico. thank you very much. >> commissioner berson, secretary morton, it is a pleasure to be here. we are 40,000 men and women making up your national gu

employees in mexico city, the largest we have had in mexico city and making it our largest office in the world. we have quite a number of officers in the world, 63 officers in 44 different countries. we're also adding enforcement of officers to focus on an hending border along side c.b.p. these build on advances we made lat last year. we conducted operations arresting 47 people engaged in alien smuggling through nogales, tucson, and phoenix. this is the largest anti-smuggling investigation of its kind. we took out a network of five different france tation companies directly involved in illegal immigration. in march we opened our operation in phoenix for the removal of i will lells -- illegals in the country by air. this has removed 4,000 aliens found to be living unlawfully in the united states. in addition, they started a program to stop mexican drug smugglers to prosecute them back in mexico in those instances when prosecution wasn't possible in the united states. so when we began this -- since we began this program 30 not smugglers have been presented in mexico by federal prosecut

for more on the worsening violence, we turn to tracy wilkinson, the mexico city bureau chief for "the los angeles times." >> tracy, the headlines are shocking. 21 dead in a gun battle, 19 in a drug rehab center, 13 killed at a party. three and a half years in the mill tarization of the war against the drug gangs is the state of the violence rising, the tide of violence rising still? >> yes, in fact, as you mentioned, more than 23,000 people killed since december of 2006. we're still tallying up june but it's going to be one of the deadliest months yet so indeed the violence continues, the number of dead continues to rise. right now part of that is related to the elections but really quite apart from that, we have just enormous numbers of people being killed in part because the government forces are going after the cartel. but also because they're fighting among themselves for control of routes, territory, power. and so increasingly, i mean there doesn't seem to be an end in sight to this kind of violence and it continues to increase. >> along with the rising numbers, has there also be

even repeal the mexico city law that provides abortions overseas. he took it upon himself to create better incentives to destroy human embryos taking this action anytime when assigns was demonstrating that the true potential of stem cell research lies in the type of stem cell research that does not require the destruction of living human embryos. [applause] in weaken the protections for those doctors and nurses that decline to provide abortions. most of these were renounce the late on friday afternoon. now, in washington a friday afternoon announcement is code you are trying to hide something. this is a pattern we have seen repeated throughout the administration. the latest instance, the obama administration is moving to allow abortions on military bases. it is fairly ironic and profoundly disturbing that our government would endorse the destruction of american lives on the same soil are men and women walk each and every day in the defense of freedom and liberty. [applause] it undermines everything the men and women of our military are fighting for.

the look thousands were going for in mexico city. >> it was the annual march of the clowns.all ages walked to the basilica de guadalupe to give thanks to pray for prosperity. they sang, chanted and juggled all the way there. >> millions of mexicans and tourists visit the basilica every year with pilgrimages peaking in december. >> i'm sure there are lots of kids running a way from this pilgrimage. >> we'll be back. woman (laughing): i want to make sure my grandkids get to see these old home movies. they're so much fun. oh, look at bill! he was so funny! he was. i remember how hard it was for aunt patty when he died. there was no life insurance. no life insurance? that's terrible. funerals are so expensive. i know. that's why i bought a policy through the colonial penn program. it costs less than 35 cents a day which fit right into my budget. i didn't have to answer any health questions or take a physical and i couldn't be turned down because of my health. you know, there are several options for people my age, too. so i went to cpdirect.com and i applied online. it was easy.

in the silicon valley or taking that new knowledge back to the santa fe neighborhood of mexican city. mexico has the second largest gross domestic product in the spanish speaking world behind spain and a nonprofit organization funded by the mexican government wants to grow that gdp sending mexican businessmen and women to silicon valley, austin, detroit, phoenix, seattle and montreal and vancouver. jorge is the man behind the effort and ceo of the technology business accelerator joined by "usa today's" jon swartz and bbc's maggie shiels. we're really represented in the countries of the world. mexico is not what i think of what i think high tech and you do more than high tech. we'll talk about the other stuff in just a moment. how much of mexico's economy is high tech and is it growing? >> it is growing. we are seeking how to bring technology and mindset of the people. you can not imagine there is more students in computer science in mexico than in the u.s. >> say that again. that surprised me. more students -- >> in numbers we have about the same number of people getting degrees in computer

warres mexico it's a city that's plagued with crime which is becoming a tory is the number of women who have been murdered and raped where drug cartels rule the city taking advantage of the poor female factory workers who work long hours just to barely scrape by but apparently one company has been really inspired by this violence and they're actually marketing the concept mac cosmetics is teaming up with ro dart to create a new line of makeup inspired by the corrupt mexican town according to the designers who created the make up they were just driving through texas down into mexico and they felt really inspired by what they saw there and i'm guessing since the area is incredibly depressing but it makes sense for them to come up with a dark and morbid make up line but with names like factory ghost town and seems like those artists got more of a negative influence than anything else and here's another strange point about this the make up is designed with pale colors very very pale colors even white for the most part and the pictures they have representing the line well i wouldn't really s

wife says go to sleep but i can't because you see a village and then it turned into this big city in mexico and then you do more and it turns into china and you wonder where we're all headed. i don't know the answer but when you know thing i do know fiduciaries you listen to what the people want most of all, it's education for all they're children and i ask many women now when i'm over sees, i ask the women i'm here is a your servant and would like to help you what do you want? most women would say i want a good husband or to become wealthy or prosperity. what most women say is, we don't want our babys to diet. how do you answer that question? it comes through educating girls and through female literacy. >> thanks, doug. this is different schools. my daughter occasionally, she looks at these photos and said, dad you don't have any playgrounds in your school so now we have playgrounds and skipping ropes and it's been a really great blessing to see. play is an important part of the learning process and socializing so thank you, amira. this is in la lander school, the story is in karen chronic

he repealed the mexico city policy and began sending millions of our tax dollars overseas to organizationsthat fund abortions. what do americans think of that? only 35% of americans approved of one of his first actions in office, funding organizations overseas that promote abortions. only 33% of independencts approved that. following the lines that americans do not want their+ government funds used to support abortion, a poll in november 2009 asked a question, if government funds are used to and do you think it should cover abortions? 61% of the population said no. what did the democratic administration and congress to do? they passed a health care plan, passed by 219 democrats in the house and 56 in the senate without a single republican vote. they pass a health care plan that not only will fund insurance plans to perform abortion on demand, it wiil also rationed the health care. it is no wonder that today 58% of americans believe the plan should be repealed. [applause] it is also no wonder that this poll shows that 69% of americans are dissatisfied or angry about is working. [applause] w

el paso, texas, one of the safest cities in the u.s., violent crime down 36%. and it sits right across from juarez, mexicoof the deadliest cities on earth. west along the border in nogales, arizona -- >> this is a very safe environment. >> reporter: chris, a third generation produce distributor says it's as safe as 20 years ago. one reason? >> we're definitely seeing more border patrol over the last few years. >> reporter: border patrol chief is in charge of the 262-mile tucson sector that covers nogales. 338 agents patrol today, up from a decade ago. when it comes to crime -- does the rhetoric match the reality? >> no, it doesn't. >> reporter: no one is downplaying the magnitude of the problem here. these officers say thousands of immigrants and drug smugglers still cross the border illegally into arizona every day. and they commit a disproportionate amount of crimes. just 7% of arizona's population illegal immigrants are 15% of state inmates, they are 14% of all inmates jailed for manslaughter and murder. 24% of inmates on drug charges. trouble to many arizonaens, even if the overall crime rate is down.

el paso, texas is one of the safest cities in the u.s., violent crime down 36%. and it sits right across from juarez, mexico, one of the deadliest cities on earth. west along the boarder in nogales, arizona... >> this is a very safe environment. >> reporter: chris ciruli, a third generation produce distributor says it's as safe as 20 years ago. >> we're definitely seeing more border patrol over the last few years. >> reporter: border patrol chief victor manjarrez is in charge of the 262 mile stew on the sector that covers nogales, 3300 agents patrol today, up from 1500 a decade ago. when it comes to crime does the rhetoric match the reality? >> no. >> reporter: no one is down playing the magnitude of the problem here. these officers say thousands of immigrants and drug smugglers cross the border illegally into arizona everyday and they commit a disproportionate amount of crime. just 7% of arizona's population illegal immigrants are 15% of state inmates. they are 14% of all inmates jailed for manslaughter and murder. 24% of inmates jailed on drug charges. troubling to many arizonans, even if the overall crim

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first american nuclear explosive device nicknamed the gadget went off in new mexico just weeks before devastating the japanese city of hiroshima many including the godfather of the atomic bomb j. robert oppenheimer were terrified by the power of the deadly mushroom cloud people . cried both people were spared the echo of that blast carried far beyond the atlantic and the soviet union experiments with nuclear energy were on the way too but just like the us in this research institute on the black sea coast the main rules were played by german scientists this used to be a top secret nuclear facility but aside from these lines the entrance was guarded by soviet soldiers the lab will see it in deep inside up cause a subtropical paradise. three hundred germans top nuclear physicists their assistants family members and even personal chefs were brought to this clue's compound in a pause by the order of joseph stalin in one nine hundred forty five the nazis were famous for their highly developed nuclear research programs so after world war two moved german physics and chemistry professors at almost no other option but to w

one of the first executive order signed by barack obama reversed the mexico city policy, which had bannedng for organizations that even mention abortion and family planning around the world. we saw absolutes, only educations, funding disappearing only to see it inserted again at the last minute. and of course, there was the stupak amendment, which had -- which would have effectively banned coverage of abortions, although a slightly lesser version of the amendment was still attached to health care legislation. many activists still on not happy with the results. much of the attention has been focused on the national level, but states have been testing all kinds of legislation that limits or discourages women from taking full advantage of their reproductive rights. i have invited four amazing and expert panelists here to discuss this today. so let me just go ahead and start by introducing our panelists. so the knox, sitting to my right, is nationally known as the subject of financial award winning film, a 2005 documentary chronicling her teenage activism in comprehensive sex education and ga