at is using blades, wind blades, turbine blades developed in bangalore. they were developed this bangalore for the indian market but they're in markets across the globe on every single continent right now. so technology innovation, collaboration, coming out of bangalore is not only serving the indian market, it's helping g.e. in its global reach. in addition, in bangalore alone, we've had 3,200 contributions for patent applications here in the united states. so g.e. writ large benefits from the human resources, the energy, he ideas, the intellectual capacity, the die namism of bangalore and india, not only as we expand our reach around the world and we're in about 180 countries right now with customer, but we also are active, engaged, resulting issues -- resolving issue, coming up with solutions for the indian market and customers. >> quick question before we move on. 3,200 patent aply cages for things developed in bangalore. what percentage is it of g.e.'s overall patent development application in the same period? mr. o'brien: that's a good question, i d

part of a ge digital and our innovation pushed hinges centered on a facility we have bangalore. i was going to update one number you mentioned earlier, 21,000 employees so that trajectory since you last checked has even improved and gotten better. in bangalore we have a few thousand engineers, researchers, scientists working hand-in-hand with their research and development programs than we have here in the u.s. our facilities to john welsh technology center is probably one of her most modern and certainly our most integrated operations where we bring all the different six, seven, eight g businesses together to develop applications that will serve across the board or something we sometimes call the ge garage. in other words, way to access technology and apply it to another. in india, some of our results that tell the story that the ambassador just mentioned are simply we recently last year opened a new wind farm in india that is using wooden plates, turbine blade developed in bangalore. they were developed for the indian market, but there is markets all across the globe on every

amos r roberts: it's early momorning in a smamall village t far from the city of bangalore. kuma is cleaning the rickshaw that provides his family's velihood.. his wife nakama is washing the family's few dishes. and their children are getting ready for school. abilash, however, can't find his school shirt. amos: kuma but doesn't earn enough to buy spare shirts for the children. after paying for the hire of his rickshaw, he's lucky to make $4.00 or $5.00 a day, so clothes getet held togetherer with safety pins for as long as possible. while abilash helps his dad fix a puncture, his brother and sister have leftover rice fofor breakfast.t. their parents go without. amos: these kids are lucky. millions of indian children go to school on empty stomachs, their families too poor to give them breakfast or even lunch. but thanks to a quiet culinary revolution, they don't have to go hungry any longer. in a tiny kitchen on the school grounds, these two cooks are preparing luncnch for 120 childrenen. they've been doing it six days a week for the past four years. they clearly remember th

we travelled to bangalore does for this report.s man never thought he would find himself in. at the age of a9, he is frantically looking for a newjob. for ten years he was working as a senior project manager at one of india's largest it firms. last month he and his entire tea m firms. last month he and his entire team were let go. you think yourjob is safe and suddenly you have to go out. it is difficult to pay my loa ns, out. it is difficult to pay my loans, around $5,000 that i need to pay for my children's education. my father, my wife, we don't know what will happen. this area in bangalore is home to the sum of the largest it companies in india over the past two decade, jobs were cosseted. they offered prosperity and prestige. but now the industry is in the grips of a slowdown in the future is uncertain for thousands of people. it is estimated that in the last six months alone, indian firms have laid off over 50,000 people fool ‘s and this man is being blamed for the cuts. the us president donald trump and his crackdown on visa

in bangalore, in particular, they have applied that too specialised care.gratulations on this award and thank you forjoining us in the studio. it's extremely rare for members of the british royal family to comment on politics — so our next item is something of a scoop. i've been talking to the duke of york or prince andrew as he's also known right here in the newsday studio. he's been visiting singapore for a commonwealth science conference. he was also here to promote the programme he runs for entrepreneurs, which is called pitch@palace. i was able to get his thoughts on a number of things, including, just three days before negotiations are due to start — brexit. i think that the changes that are going to happened to the uk because of article 50 instigation, the negotiations over the next couple of yea rs, negotiations over the next couple of years, there is going to be uncertainty. we live in an uncertain world, as we have seen recently, and it is getting more uncertain, but a suspect over time most people will begin to understand exactly what is happenin

these are the indians in bangalore, the brazilian middle class, the south koreans, the chinese who've from the countryside to the cities. >> there was a large chunk of people, two and a half billion, who have done extremely well . >> reporter: and those are the people up at the top of the back of the elephant. >> top of the back of the elephant, so basically what is called resurgent asia. >> reporter: resurgent asia. resurgent asia, indeed. now, you may have seen one of the most popular ted talks of all time... >> income per person on this axis, poor down here, rich up there. >> reporter: ...the late great hans rosling, depicting this phenomenon in his own inimitably graphic way. >> you see china under foreign domination actually lowered their income and came down to the indian level here, whereas u.k. and united states is getting richer and richer and after second world war united states is richer than u.k., but independence is coming here! growth is starting! economic reform! growth is faster. >> reporter: so the good news is that income inequality has, from a global perspective, go