the problem is bangalore's extremely fast-paced development. in 25 years, the population has quadrupled. companies are growing rapidly and what is called india's silicon valley. everything is not contaminated. not just the water. 2025, 98% of the area -- >> the pollution has caused a drinking water scarcity. authorities are having to dig deep to find drinking water and are using trucks to distribute it. the lakes and rivers around the city are simply dying out. >> you are watching france 24. let's take a look at today's top stories. french trains shut down across the country as rail workers kick off the first day of a rolling strike planned for the next three months. the furious over government reforms to modernize the company. benjamin netanyahu says he is canceling the african m migrant relocation deal he suspended earlier in the day. that is coming up after he agreed to the same deal from the u.n. the syrian government gets evenn closer to taking back for control of eastern ghouta. state media saying the last rebel held pocket is being evacu

commons lands we'd work here in the rainy season but when it didout rain or in t we had to go to bangalore we went to theity for at least six mohs of the year. >> reporter: rao's group, supported by corporate,om foundation andgovernment grants, began organizing farm communities. groups of ighboring villages negotiated with government authorities to replant public forestlands felled for timbe and commons areas-- land not titled to anyone but technically in government control. acss rural india, rao says millions of acres of these commons lands have been classified as wasteland and neglected. rao's organization foundation for ecological security arranged to use a government employment program intended to relieve rural suffering to restore infrastructure, mostly to clear canals and ponds that had long dried up as silt from deforested land flowed down. w we would have come here five, 10 years ago, whld this landscape look like? >> there wouldn't have been any water here. those trees that you see there uld have been stunted saplings because there's no effective governance. there's fodder, whic o

. >> all of us have seen in the last 50 years in bangalore large amount of agricultural land becomingrtments. yeah, that is a serious concern >> reporter: indian cities continue to spread into the countryside, with high-risehe apartments forrowing new middle class. but the majority of urban migration is into urban slums, by subsistence farmers uble to make a living on land degraded by years of neglect and misuse-- the overuse of chemical fertilizers and pesticides and deforestation that causes erosion. >> about 50 years, no public investment went into restoring these landscapes. that is a serious, serious harm or neglect. >> reporter: jagdeesh rao started a group called foundation for ecological security, which has worked to fix that neglect. he brought me to an area about two hours outside bangalore that had languished for years, says farmer t.v. srinivasa. >> ( translated ): there was no water in the tanks, there was no water for livestock, ninfodder he commons lands. we'd work here in the rainy season but when it didn't rain or in drought we had to go to bangalor we went to the cit

this argument continues to rumble on in india for the moment thanks so much for joining us from bangalore every show. britain's queen elizabeth has opened the commonwealth heads of government meeting at buckingham palace they are doing a twenty one gun salute right now all part of the pomp and ceremony leaders from fifty three the former british colonies representing one third of the world's population of there it's the first time in more than two decades the united kingdom is hosting the summit in london is looking for new trade deals with commonwealth nations as it prepares to leave the european union well jonah hill is following events for us from the british capital i mean how important is this meeting in twenty eighteen. i think that's a very debatable issue as you rightly say they are many is underway the guns of roaring away the first time in twenty years that the united kingdom is hosted. commonwealth heads of government meeting but after nearly seventy years since the commonwealth was founded many people do wonder whether it hasn't lost its purpose and direction in the modern wor

as bangalore has a reputation for being a city which is very short of water at this time chennai the city's fifteen reservoirs are to parity fourteen percent now is said to be the worst straight one hundred forty years of very difficult to pin that down to the lack of rainfall as such i know that the rains a failed of last a couple of years but again we have that old problem of growing urban populations three point six million but the fifth largest city in india the demand for water continues to grow so obviously the rains them selves is a long way away nothing board and some patchy cloud temperatures still in the mid thirty's in chennai and across the region further north we've got some really high temperatures continuing forty plus in many parts of northern india let me take you now across to north africa where we've got this area of low pressure which has been causing some real issues of the last twenty four hours we've certainly seen some severe storms here as a whole rushes thunderstorms occurring across northern parts of algeria at the moment with one rainfall total coming in o

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of attacks on voter registration centers an explosion near another center north of the capital in bangalore province killed six people from the same family on april twenty gunman hit a voter registration center in back just province killing a police officer well that same week armed men killed two police officers in jalalabad city as they guarded a voting office and the attackers earlier kidnapped three employees and two policemen from a voter sent in for province where jennifer glass joins us live now from the afghan capital kabul jennifer so what more details are emerging about these latest explosions. well the islamic state has claimed responsibility for these two attacks as you said during the morning rush hour in shushed iraq a very busy part of kabul it is home to the intelligence headquarters whom the islamic state says was the target of this attack but as so often happens here it is civilians who bore the brunt of these twin suicide bombings the first one i am it was an attacker on a motorbike setting himself off in the streets and then about twenty minutes later as first responders

only two isrst of now up and running in bangalore and the past couple of months, have been trying to young people in india on the kids as 9 through:00 -- 7, high school, how to better tailor their software development careers for the app store. a kid carded -- started coding on his seventh birthday and already has a fairly successful tonslation cap -- app convert measurements. carol: these kids get to learn to code and create apps. what is apples take? they want to get new apps or e into their system? how does this work for apple? jeff: one part of the pitch for apple is to look like an inviting place for developers to code, but a big piece of that is catch up. the 125 million smartphones sold , making in a given year it the fastest growing smartphone market in the world and the second in absolute terms only to china. out of those phones, apple is selling about 3 million? anything, they are losing ground to android in this market. losing talented developers not only to google's ecosystem, but to facebook. there have been pushes from mark zuckerberg's team to get people to code for fa