additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. >> narrator: these women have been torn from their lives, taken from their families and sold into slavery. they are victims of a multibillion-dollar international business that traffics hundreds of thousands of women a year. tonight, frontline takes a hidden-camera look deep inside the global sex trade. >> ( translated ): our girls are in high demand, since they're quite pretty and easily accessible. it's a very profitable business. >> narrator: frontline also follows one man who's determined to get his wife back before she's lost for good to the world of the traffickers. it's an extraordinary journey that raises tough questions about governments around the world largely indifferent to the traffickers' abuses. >> ( translated ): i hadn't encountered much evil in my life. i thought i'd find at least one kind person or that one of those pimps would set me free. ( accordion playing ) >> narrator: odessa, ukraine: a port town o

additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by tfrontline journalism fund, supporting investigative reporting and enterprise journalism. additional funding for frontlineexpanded broadcast season is provided by the bill and melinda gates foundation. >> smith: for six months, frontline investigated a secret war against insurgents operating from inside pakistan. a year ago, i traveled across afghanistan and up to the border of pakistan, together with frontline correspondent stephen grey. beyond this checkpoint, the campaign against the taliban and al qaeda is led by u.s. intelligence. here, the cia is funding, arming, and running secret afghan militia, who guard the border, gather intelligence, and launch kill raids against the militants. >> they're called "counter-terrorism pursuit teams," and they are groups of afghans very well paid, apparently pretty well trained, with guns, and they operate at the direction of the cia. these are direct-action, you know, go-to-th

additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by tfrontline journalism fund, supporting investigative reporting and enterprise journalism. >> that should be good. >> "every year i bury a couple hundred of my townspeople. another two or three dozen i take to the crematory to be burned. i sell caskets, burial vaults, and urns for the ashes. i have a sideline in headstones and monuments. i do flowers on commission. apart from the tangibles, i sell the use of my building-- 11,000 square feet furnished and fixtured with an abundance of pastel and chair rail and crown moldings. the whole lash-up is mortgaged and re-mortgaged well into the next century. my rolling stock includes a hearse, two fleetwoods and a minivan with darkened windows our price list calls a service vehicle and everyone in town calls the dead wagon. i am the only undertaker in this town. i have a corner on the market." i think we have in some ways become estranged about death and the dead. we're among the first couple generations for whom the presence of

additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund with a grant from millicent bell and the millicent and euge bel foundation. additional funding for frontline's expanded broadcast season is provided by the bill and melinda gates foundation. >> navai: i began my investigation in the capital, damascus, in september. traveling with my producer, who speaks arabic, we entered the country posing as tourists. careful, the cops. before my trip, i'd spent weeks arranging access to opposition leaders inside syria. i'd been given a local cell number to call. after using a code word, i was told to go to a location where my underground contact would be waiting. the plan was to travel ten miles from damascus to the town of douma, into the midst of the uprising. my contact was a young businessman. like other opposition activists, he uses an alias. his is abu khaled. abu khaled is meeting with another activist now to see if the roads are safe and they c

additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by tfrontline journalism fund, with a grant from millicent bell through the millicent and eugene bell foundation. major funding for this program is provided by the alfred p. sloan foundation, supporting public understanding of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. >> o'brien: passed. there's something that's both scary and awesome about nuclear energy. >> it will you give the rate at which you're receiving radiation as well as how much you've accumulated. >> o'brien: oh, i see. thanks to the magic of nuclear fission, this plant, indian point, generates about a quarter of new york city's electricity, with no greenhouse gases or air pollution. but the reality is indian point's nuclear technology is not cutting edge; it's old. >> so this is one of three emergency diesel generators. >> o'brien: the two working reactors here came on line some 40 years ago. it looks like an locomotive engine. westinghouse makes those, so i guess that makes sense. how many of these do

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additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund, supporting investigative reporting and enterprise journalism. >> rotella: the evening of november 26, 2008, was calm in the city of lahore in eastern pakistan. in one neighborhood, a man was at home with his wife when he received a text on his phone. he had been waiting for the message. he was told, "turn on your television." >> hours ago, terrorists launched a brazen attack. >> the indian city of mumbai is in chaos following a series of terrorist attacks. >> mumbai's been hit and hit hard. >> rotella: 900 miles away in india, the most spectacular terror attack since 9/11 was under way. >> you heard a big blast, right now, inside the taj hotel. >> rotella: the world watched as an icon of india was set ablaze and civilians-- indians and westerners-- were methodically gunned down. >> they wanted anyone with british or american passports. >> i could see someone lifting up a gun, like that,

the college park foundation plans to build a university house next to the original site using its own funds. ray rice is celebrating a big award today. afc offensive player of the week. there is no denying he deserves a. he led the nfl in yards this season and helped to push the ravens into the playoffs with a 191-rushing yards against cincinnati. this is the second time this season he has won the award. he finishes the regular-season with more than 2000 rushing yards and joins marshall faulk is the only back to gain 500 receiving yards in the same season twice in their career. that is awesome. still to come, gas prices could soon be on the rise and it is not because of the cost of oil. why get all of your finances in the new year? the best and fastest ways to save. >> out of iraq for good. >> he said definitely stories that never get old to watch. st >> a soldier just home from iraq gave his daughter's the surprise of a lifetime. they had no idea who would come walking through the door. >> the only thing they thought they would be leaving the library with would be a new book. outside

additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of criticalues. and by the frontline journalism fund. hr/ >> yep, that's meth. and your hypodermic needle that about punctured my arm fell out from your hat. he's dealing. >> how many bags do we have? >> four baggies. you have the right to remain silent. anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. >> narrator: this is the story of an epidemic that has swept across america-- an epidemic of methamphetamine abuse. it begins in oregon, one of the places hit hardest by the epidemic. >> 104, 104. stop right here. >> narrator: when we filmed here in 2005, this trailer park in portland was a favorite place for addicts to crash after days of speeding on meth. >> can i step in and talk to you? >> it gives you a euphoric rush. it's like your whole body tingles all over the place, and it's a good feeling-- a happy, giddy... but then when you come down off of it, then they start pulling... people start wanting more, and they go crazy.z and that's when they do... they lose themselves.

addition fundings prided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund, supporting investigative reporting and enterprise journalism. ( phones ringing ) >> smith: the news broke on december 11, 2008, and within seconds, phones were ringing around the world. ( phones ringing ) michael bienes was in london when he got a phone call from his business partner, frank avellino. >> "and i said, frank, what's wrong?" because i could hear it in his voice. "michael, bernie madoff..." i said, "he died." in a nanosecond, "he died." "...was arrested..." i said, "oh, no," and then another nanosecond-- "...sex crime or some [no audio], you know?" "...for stock fraud." >> smith: phones were ringing in palm beach, too. >> i received a call from an investor in aspen who said that he had heard that bernie was arrested. and i called bernie's office, and i called his secretary. and i said, "gee, we just got this really strange call." and she said, "no, no, everything's fine." >>

and tom, as part of its anniversary celebration, bean is teaming with the national park foundation to encourage americans to get outside and visit the nation's parks. that's "nightly business report" for wednesday, january 18. i'm susie gharib. good night everyone and good night to you too, tom. >> tom: good night susie. i'm tom hudson. good night everyone. we hope to see all of you again tomorrow night. "nightly business report" is made possible by: captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. >> dretzin: so, it really hit me one night not that long ago. i was in the kitchen and i was cooking dinner, chopping vegetables. and my husband was in the next room on his laptop, and across the table from my husband was my oldest son, who was also on a laptop, doing his homework. wash your hands. did you wash your hands? and my younger kids had picked up my iphone and were playing a game on it or something. and i don't know, it just hit me-- we're all in the same house, but we're also in other worlds. and i don't know, it just kind of snuck up on us. i didn't see it coming. >> these young teenagers on the phones and on the computers, it's amazing. like, when i was growing up, it wasn't like that. >> i just remember, when i went on my honeymoon 25 years ago, we were away for two weeks, and we didn't know anything that happened in the two weeks that we were gone, because we were on vacation. and that simply doesn't happen a

additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund, supporting investigative reporting and enterprise journalism. >> ( choir singing ) >> "the angel gabriel was sent from god to a city of galilee named..." >> narrator: every sunday, in every corner of the world... >> "...the virgin, betrothed to a man whose name..." >> narrator: ...people gather to hear a story. >> "...and the virgin's name was mary." >> narrator: for more than 2,000 years, that story has been told and retold. >> "...and to bear a son." >> narrator: along the way, each generation has found in its telling its own meaning and interpretation. >> "'...you shall call his name jesus...'" >> narrator: that story, of a man called jesus of nazareth, a man who became jesus christ, was originally told by his first followers... >> "'...and be called the son of the most high.'" >> narrator: ...and then retold in accounts by later believers in the gospels. >> "the gospel according to