known as the king of bollywood, shah rukh khan is one of indian cinema's biggest stars and one of thers in the world. more used to receiving film awards, he's now being given an honorary doctorate for his work in philanthropy. thank you very much. genuinely, i want to live to be 100 years so that i can... now i'm 50. ..i can dedicate the next 50 years doing something worthwhile. and, you know, when i meet people around the world, i meet some youngsters, some old people, they will turn around and they say, "you know what, yourfilms make us happy." and that is very encouraging but i want to make people happy now, personally. over the years, he's championed equality for women. so, have things changed in the industry following the "me, too" movement, which saw women standing up to sexual harassment globally? the roles of women and the kind of attitude that you have at workplace for women is changing for the positive. but i think overall, when i see some of the actresses get the kind of roles, and even salaries, which i think should be even more equal than it is right now, i think it's ver

he's the bollywood star with millions of fans around the world and now shah rukh khan can also boastn london. it's to honour his work in philanthropy. in an exclusive interview with the bbc, the star says gender inequality in india is narrowing. the bbc asian network's shabnam mahmood reports. known as the king of bollywood, shah rukh khan is one of indian cinema's biggest stars and one of the highest—paid actors in the world. more used to receiving film awards, he's now being given an honorary doctorate for his work in philanthropy. thank you very much. it is so little i could have done in a lifetime. genuinely, i want to live to be 100 years so that i can... now i'm 50. ..i can dedicate the next 50 years doing something worthwhile. and, you know, when i meet people around the world, i meet some youngsters, some old people, they will turn around and they say, "you know what, yourfilms make us happy." and that is very encouraging but i want to make people happy now, personally. over the years, he's championed equality for women. so, have things changed in the industry following the m

since its construction in the seventeenth century the shah's elisei has been central to french culture from the allied liberation of paris from german forces in one thousand nine hundred forty four to france's two world cup wins people have celebrated here recently many people were shocked when some protests vandalise shops and monuments the architect behind renovation project says it's vital to maintain the shells in these a.z. unique place in french history but it's all what it was we could use this to show french excellence in gastronomy culture fashion and green technology the shah said he sees an international symbol a myth and it should reveal what the nation does best the project has yet to be given the green light by a paris a city hall but those behind it say a new look. could be revealed in time for the twenty twenty four parcel lympics and help restore some of the avenues lost glory and romance the tasha butler al-jazeera paris. both times following his failed banking the ball and trailblazers after it's the n.b.a. western conference semifinals they were trailing oklahoma ci

. >> we're going to have kind of a collision of two different >> reporter: shah's daily readings show types of pollen now that ordinarily wouldn't be a problem until summer. the cause? warmer temperatures earlier in the year. this is kind of becoming part of a trend, right? >> so we're seeing shifts in our weather, shifts in what our spring is, shifts in winter too. and that really affects this time of year. >> reporter: shah says the pollen count's highest in the south and northeast right now, but warns the midwest will rise. to stay ahead of the symptoms, doctors recommend getting allergy tests now so they know exactly what to treat. the best advice, keep your windows closed and your tissues closer. morgan chesky, nbc news, chicago. >>> next tonight, federal agents say they have cracked one of the largest medicare fraud schemes in history targeting elderly and disabled americans to the tune of billions of dollars. as tom costello explains, all of us end up paying the price. >> reporter: the raids began before dawn. agents arresting 24 people across the country, among them doctors an

and that really affects this time of year. >> reporter: shah says the pollen count's es hit in the south and northeast right w, but warns the midwest will rise. to stay ahead of the symptoms, ctors recommend getting allergy tests now so they know exactly what to treat. the best advice, keep your windows closed and your tissu closer. morgan chesky, nbc news, chicago. >>> next tonight, federal agents say they have cracked one of the largest medicare fraud schemes in history targeting elderly and disabled americans to the tune of billions of dollars. as tom costello u explains, all end up paying the price. >> reporter: the raids began before dawn. agents arresting 24 people across the country, among them ct s and executives from medical equipment and telemedicine companies charged with medicare fraud totalling $2 billion. in rochester, new york, neale sweetman received a box full of ck and knee braces from a medical supply company in florida, prescribed by a doctorno iner state. >> the order was written by a doctor in north carolina. my father lives in rocheste new york. he's never seen or

and although no one says so directly he's also the shah men. meaning this is for fortune telling. yet not if someone is old and very sick that i can know the day of their death by looking at this now to make a. find that i can make these predictions but he would not be good for me to tell someone else that bad luck is coming either way he would be off. with a. neighbor comes to fetch him a child a sick with a high fever. the family says the boy was frightened in the forest and his soul left him and now the spirits are trying to lay claim to him they want the shah meant to prevent this. instead of entering the child the spiritual be lured into a doll made of paper gold tobacco and rice will entice the evil spirits. to good. the soul of the baby chick is supposed to enter the child. the chick is also sacrificed to the evil spirits. to. get him. out of the idea of. not knowing why you have harbored why he did it i got to know you like i now do with all that to. do a. little bit to get. the evil spirits are now inside the paper dog the shaman is removing her from the village. because

now the spirits are trying to lay claim to him they want the shah meant to prevent this. instead of entering the child the spiritual be lured into a doll made of paper goal tobacco and rice will entice the evil spirits. into good food. the soul of the baby chick is supposed to enter the child. the chick is also sacrificed to the evil spirits. to get. him. down there for the idea of. god or might you have thought or why he did it got to know you like you are now doing all that to. do. it. to get. the evil spirits are now inside the paper dog the shaman is removing her from the village. because the sword will ensure that they remain banished from the village that afternoon the fever is gone and the child feels better he took a pill a fever reducing medication but as far as the villages are concerned that's an irrelevancy. more than thirty years ago power can pick this hilltop as the location for the village pelion song mine. three sacred trees marked the spot. we're not allowed to cut these trees. even the tiniest cut is forbidden no one can cut any of these trees and if yo

the country's politicians are partially responsible according to human resources consultant rajiv shah core he has twenty five years experience and says that the situation is not just bad because of a lack of jobs qualifications in india are often substandard that needs to be for education. and you know i'm not going to. i mean you go to have people there who don't find your. car on marjon has started his own business a travel agency he's only breaking even at the moment but says he's happy to be his own boss in spite of everything in the current elections he says he'll vote for the incumbent hindu nationalists. they want to be. if one is bad the other is what. we call that the problem. many young indians share this opinion despite the country's problems it appears not render modi will come through this election relatively unscathed. the united states is putting more pressure on iran in a bid to drive tehran's exports to zero the state department is expected to announce the end of wave of countries to import iranian oil today monday according to a newspaper reports of the wave us will

kevin: from the border to tariffs to taxes to the wall report, never missing a beat with raj shah. appreciate you coming into the office. raj: thanks for having me. kevin: the stock of the hour is next. from washington, this is bloomberg. ♪ kevin: this is "balance of power." from washington, i'm kevin cirilli. marty: and from new york, i am marty schenker. boeing is our stock of the hour. shares are calling. emma chandra is euros more. saga ismax jet continuing. late friday said that will cut production of the 737 max 8 to 42 planes per month. that is a cut of 20%. it was not a surprise to analyst given how long the 737 has been grounded, but they were concerned about the timing given we were expected to hear from boeing about a software fix. we have seen boeing lose one of its bullish analysts today. they got a downgrade from bank of america. saga will continue much longer than expected. morgan stanley, credit suisse, and cowen also weighing in. take a look at the bloomberg. i have the anr function for boeing. while the stock price has fallen, that is the yellow line, analyst pric

algeria the interior minister was forced to cut short an official visit to the southern state of the shah was the first such trip by representative of algeria interim government. is a research fellow at the paris based school for advanced studies in the social sciences she explains why the boycott is significant. so i moved out it's part of a larger moment actively that want to disconnect from their regions plans and imports to control the transition you know for a few cars are doing good as the past three men and dates algerians have been shifted from indifference do are they go you want we don't take we don't care about your politics we let's just leave our lives to you both cut it was actually already the situation of my country already experienced it for the past two months to a refusal to let the regime on the on its own and along control points so this is part of a movement that is trying to get back. to the sense of political life the real political life and to have and to come and to make the fault of the regime to control the transition and actually you know for it and this will

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form a transitional government many on the street say they will continue to protest well into the shah is an international law and politics analyst she says the situation remains charged on the political level. i think that every day and every announcement give us a little bit more clarity but the situation remains very volatile and there are still many different ways it could resolve itself so i don't think we're really on the clear path just yet i believe that the latest announcements are generally positive but it is still i would say concerning that. there is a general ham out to be who is known to have been very violent and brutal and are for and is in charge of the rapid support forces still considered part of the military council and some of the insistence by the military council that they will retain control of the military and the ministry of interior and so i think it remains to be seen just just how many concessions they're willing to me there are many different disaggregated militias and security forces in sudan and it's not entirely always clear what their orders are and wh

detained on saturday during what was the twenty third consecutive weekend of yellow vest protest artie's shah the dubiously has more. well the two independent journalists were among the more than two hundred individuals who were detained by police arrested in act twenty three their names are gas fired plants and also lexis and we know that the paris prosecutor has said that they were arrested for participation in a group to commit violence degradation now the interior ministry has been talking about the arrests these journalists it said that the police c.r.s. these officers are out every week they're out to try and make sure that there is safety for the demonstrators and the journalist carry out these protests and also to cover these protests that have been happening now since november every week since november here in france but that statement from the interior ministry then goes on to say that if you. lists are deemed to have committed an offense then they are likely to also be detained and arrested by the officers on the ground now the national union of journalists in france sees that as b

character assassination of the shah assigned to isolate him and demonize him in the eyes of the public. at the end of the day come on we all know the exact moment these people turned against their former hero. maybe you're kind of picking up where julian of songe was before he went bad because we used to like a bit of we used to really be doing a good service and then something happened i guess is a group really regret maybe as would turn jim basically into someone who was a russian. aide really yes yes of course as sanjay did hillary never did anything wrong she was perfect wasn't she. a prominent palestinian activist has been prevented from frying to the u.s. from israel despite having a valid visa m r t is the co-founder of a movement to boycott israel and then what it considers the jewish state's oppression of palestine we spoke to him to get his story. i was. prevented from boarding a flight. airport because under instructions from the u.s. consulate u.s. immigration have burned me from entering the u.s. despite having a valid visa and valid travel documents we see this as outsour

are looming with support for parties on the rise it comes amid fresh allegations of russian backing shah and de bensky reports. anti establishment parties already set records in the twenty fourteen election winning one hundred and sixty seats more than twenty percent of the parliament if the current polls are anything to go by and they'll smersh these figures at the expense of the traditional big block alliances with new comers from both the left and the right embracing social media they're out pacing their established mainstream rivals but that was caught some questioning whether there is a secret driving force behind it all it's russian meddling of course what else are you thinking there is no doubt that russia will be a major malign actor we have twenty seven countries participating in that election and they are not equally well prepared to avoid and prevent foreign meddling russia is very likely to try to intervene in the european parliament elections to secure as many seats as possible for the pro russian or euro skeptical political forces the media are lapping it up with just over

the revolution which deposed the shah the size of the force is thought to be around one hundred fifty thousand ground naval and air force personnel as well as enforcing political power girl commanders have major business interests and control iran's ballistic missile program the u.s. accuses them of financing and training armed groups like hezbollah which is based in lebanon. thank you it was all right let's introduce our guests now joining us from the iranian capital tehran is mohammad marandi dean of faculty of world studies at the university there trita parsi is a professor at georgetown university and he's joining us from washington d.c. and in london we have elie getter meyer deputy director of the middle east and north africa program and senior policy fellow at the european council on foreign relations trita can i start with you in the u.s. because i'm wondering if you can explain for for us exactly what the objective of the administration's policy of naming the revolutionary guards as a terrorist entity is. ostensibly the argument they're presenting of course is that this is pa

character assassination of the shah assigned to isolate him and demonize him in the eyes of. at the end of the day come on we all know the exact moment these people turned against their former hero. maybe you're kind of picking up where julian a songe was before he went bad because we used to like you know we used to really be doing a good service and then something happened i guess is he. maybe as would turn to him basically into someone who was a russian. aide really yes yes of course he did he never did anything wrong she was perfect wasn't she. let us go back to our top story now fire is still raging at the not to dawn cathedral in paris and the roof of the twelfth century gothic landmark have collapsed these are live pictures that we can show you by the way of the current state of affairs at the location the main structure though has been a stand has been preserved including the two towers it's one of the most prized architectural treasures in europe are the heart of french catholicism hundreds of firefighters are working at the scene and the paris fire commodity says th

force capabilities and the syrian that sit on air force capabilities which were trained by the shah and the set that over eighty percent of the missiles that were. hit our country you're of course a media adviser what role looking back did media in the two nations play in this war because here in britain we were told your president was killing people and it needed to be overthrown and that isis and al-qaeda linked groups were certainly not being supported by britain or the united states thank you very much for asking this question. because also you know i had a media person and i would really like to tell you and in total honesty you know nothing on the ads i mean that neither of the syrian citizen that their western media played a very destructive role against the syrian people that's it and people didn't deserve that western media he lied on propaganda and love they call him eyewitnesses and they're really did not investigate didn't check on his source of information and know they they supported terrorists helmets are terrorists and they and then he said baby one into security council

character assassination of the shah assigned to isolate him and demonize him in the eyes of. at the end of the day come on we all know you exist movement these people against their former hero. maybe you're kind of picking up where julian assange was before he went bad because we used to like you know we used to really be doing a good service and then something happened i guess his hatred for hillary clinton maybe is would turn him basically into someone who was a russian. aid really yes yes of course as he did hillary never did anything wrong she was perfect wasn't she. and speaking of hillary clinton she says a songe should answer for what he's done however newly released f.b.i. documents obtained by the conservative activist group judicial watch suggest she and her team also have things to answer for the watchdog cites over four hundred pages of f.b.i. documents revealing evidence of an operation to wipe compromising e-mails sent by clinton it also says the u.s. intelligence community had concerns or classified information in some of the messages it was done of has been ta

character assassination of the shah songe to isolate him and demonize him in the eyes of.at the end of the day come on we all know the exact moment these people and against their former hero. maybe you're kind of picking up where julian a songe was before he went bad because we used to like you know he used to really be doing a good service and then something happened i guess his hatred for hillary clinton maybe is would turn him basically into someone who was a russian. aid really yes yes of course as. hillary never did anything wrong she was perfect wasn't she. let's get back to our top story this evening the huge.

lucian which deposed the shah the size of the force is thought to be around one hundred fifty thousand ground naval and air force personnel as well as enforcing political power guard commanders have major business interests and control iran's ballistic missile program the u.s. accuses them of financing and training armed groups like hezbollah which is based in lebanon. thanks. for as introduce our guests now joining us from the iranian capital tehran is mohammad marandi dean of faculty of world studies at the university there trita parsi is a professor at georgetown university and he's joining us from washington d.c. and in london we have elie getter meyer deputy director of the middle east and north africa program and senior policy fellow at the european council on foreign relations trita can i start with you in the u.s. because i'm wondering if you can explain for for us exactly what the objective of the administration's policy of naming the revolutionary guards as a terrorist entity is. ostensibly the argument they're presenting of course is that this is part of the us as maximum pr

character assassination of a shah a songe to isolate him and demonize him in the eyes of. at the end of the day come on we all know the exact moment these people turned against their former hero. maybe you're kind of picking up where julian a songe was before he went bad because we used to like you know we used to really be doing a good service and then something happened i guess his hatred for hillary clinton maybe is would turn him basically into someone who was a russian. aid really yes yes of course as. hillary never did anything wrong she was perfect wasn't she. a prominent palestinian activist has been prevented from flying to the us from israel that's the spot having a valid visa. he's the co-founder of a movement to boycott israel and what it considers the jewish state suppression of palestine we spoke to him to hear his story. i was. prevented from boarding a flight airport because under instructions from the u.s. consulate u.s. immigration have banned me from entering the u.s. despite having a valid visa and valid travel documents we see this as outsourcing its m

rebecca shah is a senior fellow from the american—based religious freedoms institute, and is an expert for being on the briefing. can you give us your reaction to the ban in sri lanka? thank you for having me. well, it is a bit of a shock to hear about the band, and i quite understand why the government did this. this is some of the worst violence, terrorist violence, the country has seen since the end of the civil war —— ban. and what the ban will do is it will heighten fears, we feel, in the muslim community that are already feeling that they are sort of under suspicion, they are feeling that their religion is under suspicion, and perhaps even under attack. you may know that the number of women who actually wear the veil, the face veil, is actually very small, but they are part of a growing number of conservative muslims in south asia in general. i see this in my own native south asia, where niqab wearing is a practice that is increasing in the community. so what the band might do is it risks making the band might do is it risks making the entire community feel besieged —— ban. the e

shah golani joins us and susan li.here will be a lot of insults, there will be harangue, i don't think it will affect the way the banks are run or their stock price. what say you? >> i don't think it's going to have any effect on the banks in terms of the way they are run. the stock prices, possibly. i think the showcase for democrats to point to the banks as being bad guys, i think it's going to show what the democrats are going to do throughout the presidential run. all of the candidates are going to feed off of this particular hearing and all the comments that are made today, all the questions that will be made today and the answers. this is a problem for the banks in terms of the future. i think their stocks could be under a little bit of pressure from this. stuart: okay. susan? susan: banks have made a lot of money over the last ten years, $780 billion. jpmorgan making $215 billion worth. it's a different world ten years later and they are benefiting. profit margins are going up with higher interest rates as well.

kabul was the destruction of half of kabul under the watch of hekmatyar and another cia proxy ahmed shah masood and then the cia and then the u.s. proceeds to support the taliban to replace them to protect the unocal pipeline obviously the this leads straight to the nine eleven attacks the creation of al qaeda. taking the internet you know the the specter of international jihadism to another level and you even have a actual al qaeda cell operating under the watch of the f.b.i. and cia during the one nine hundred ninety s. in new york city under the watch of the blind sheikh omar abdel-rahman who arrived to new york city on a cia visa as i write citing public sources so clearly there was no real thinking about the disposal problem after the afghan covert operation no thinking about the consequences and once it led to nine eleven well of course there was no thinking about the day after that for how to exploit the public hysteria and go to iraq you know it's you know it's fascinating because in these aren't publicly known facts here james so they've learned their lesson didn't they after th

kills at least three people and injured twenty others were shot at bellus is in jalalabad foras says shah that what's happening where you are. where in jalalabad just south of where this fighting has broken up between taliban and i saw it started about two weeks ago the initial clashes and their continued sense mainly in korean are that of attentional displaced about twenty thousand people most of them fled by foot grabbed what they could and have gone throughout and then down south to where we are here just grabbing what they can so limited clothing no being limited hygienic supplies and little food and water with being with the u.n. that it is very difficult to get any type of assistance to these people because a lot of the taliban and i somehow areas it's very difficult to find a safe route to help these people i talked to the negative governor a short time ago. saying about nine hundred families come into jalalabad and there have been thinning teams out to try to identify where these people are ending up see what they need and see what they can do to help them and charlotte for what e