bangalore india silicon valley. high flying i.t. hub for multinational corporations located on the city's outer edges but bangalore is also home to severe water issues. polluted lakes that froth over with toxic foam made up of chemicals and raw sewage and unchecked take driven urban growth that has left many of the city's water grid. among those affected is ramakrishna he's a successful i.t. professional with his own company. but his apartment complex gets no piped water it's a problem faced by many in bangalore's tech community in. the fight and says their patience with civic authority is wearing thin we need more but the expectation was definitely. connection this said destruction has grown and if it continues yes definitely i could see that people are getting on the edge. many in bangalore are now reliant on private tankers. which get their supply from war wells as deep as fifteen hundred feet the practice is depleting the local water reserves . leaving many worried the city could soon run out of the resource altogether. but cons

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problem in indian elections and correspondent sonia found the car and she went to karnataka is capital bangalore to find out more. brady is campaigning hard for votes in southern bangle. very much money. the independent candidate is running in state elections on just one issue cleaning up politics. it's a message his supporters have been relentlessly pushing out in the streets for months and. completely connecting with voters during a campaign stop ready is a software engineer turned social activist about modern he's known for fighting against corruption in government offices element among the centerpiece of his bid is the one vote one knows. which urges average people to fund his campaign ready says it can raise accountability in elections often tainted by allegations of bribery and vote to manipulation india is in misery right now because of bad

beeping it is horrible, it the busy streets of bangalore. you're watching newsday on the bbc. to come on the programme... anwar ibrahim — a key player in malaysian politics jailed on sodomy charges — will be set free. per what role he played in the future of the country? the pope was shot, the pope will live — that's the essence of the appalling news from rome this afternoon that, as an italian television commentator put it, terrorism had come to the vatican. the man they call the butcher of lyon, klaus barbie, went on trial today in the french town where he was the gestapo chief in the second world war. winnie mandela never looked like a woman just sentenced to six years injail. the judge told mrs mandela there was no indication she felt even the slightest remorse. the chinese government has called for an all—out effort to help the victims of a powerful earthquake, the worst to hit the country for 30 years. the computer deep blue has tonight triumphed over the world chess champion, garry kasparov. it's the first time a machine has defeated a reigning world champion in a class

sameer hashmi, bbc news, bangalore. now let's brief you some other business stories.telligence software that books appointments over the phone using its voice assistant. at its annual developers conference, the tech giant showed demonstrations of the software booking a haircut and then making a restaurant reservation by speaking to two human employees. disney's blockbuster film black panther has provided a boost to the company's sales. strong performance in its movie and theme park divisions helped to offset weakness in its tv operation. profits were up 23% compared to the same time last year. london has been rated as the best city in the world for university students. the os university rankings are based on multiple factors such as the number of top universities in a city, the local job market and the diversity of culture. despite topping the league table, london performed poorly when it came to affordability. whoever you are in london, it costs you an arm and a lake, even if you area you an arm and a lake, even if you are a student. if you are russian oligarch, perh

now the company that was started in a small flat in bangalore just over a small flat in bangalore justican owned. in doing so it still made history as one part of the largest e—commerce still in the world. that's yogita limaye. let's go to asia now, where the price of crude oil has continued to rise after wednesday's surge — this of course following president trump's decision to pull out of the iran nuclear deal. 0ur singapore bureau editor maura fogarty is following the story. nice to see you. the black stuff is going up and up. this could have an inflationary effect. it certainly is. what is interesting about the numbers today is the fact that it just shows you how skittish the market is. but notjust on political concern, but on supply concerns in the market as well. in the asian trading session we are seeing us crude numbers, the brent futures as well, both very solidly above the $71 level. we have not seen prices trade above that level in three yea rs trade above that level in three years time. they think it was 2014 when we last saw crude prices above $71 per barrel. you mentioned

but we're not just restricting ourselves to singapore and bangalore, as well.apping into a global pool of talent of engineering, products, and data scientists. haslinda: so it is fair to say that we can expect more acquisitions then? nadiem: or hires. those acquisitions were basically more of an acquihire, a cultural fit that we felt towards a certain company that had great engineers, and we acquired the company so they could come in as a family, right? haslinda: you've made clear that indonesia is the key market. 250 million, you know, large enough for multiple players. that's not to say you are not interested in other markets. could india be the next market that you target? nadiem: well, i think first of all, whether we will eventually expand regionally i think probably, probably. whether we go into india anytime soon or ever is still a question mark. it's very interesting. if you just take our second largest vertical, go-food, and go-food alone does more transactions per day than the top four or five indian food delivery startups combined. so, what we're not

we went to bangalore to find out more. the new battleground for indian elections.s in india have relied on big meetings like this to reach to voters. that is changing as leaders are now using online metrics to target voters. we've achieved that are hundreds of start—ups that have come up in hundreds of years like smart metre. there is awareness that it doesn't work any more and that is where we are seen work any more and that is where we are seen as a work any more and that is where we are seen as a possibility for experimenting with new things. india is the largest democracy in the world with more than 800 million eligible voters. traditionally, political parties have grouped voters on parameters like religion, gender, age, and class. but now some parties go further by looking for more specific characteristics and then targeting people to lobby for their votes. data analytics firms are secretive about these parameters, but we got access to some of these insights. political parties identify small groups based on factors like professions, age, and educational levels

an r&d center in singapore and we have one in bangalore and indonesia.have to tap into a global pool of talent. in india were mission-critical for us to get talent that were exposed to doing things at a much bigger scale. because the indian startups were doing things at a larger scale than saw the southeast asian startups. we are not restricting ourselves to singapore and angle are. we are now tapping into a whole global pool of talent of engineering, product, and data scientists. has linda: we can expect more acquisitions. guest: the acquisitions were more of an -- a higher of cultural fit. we acquired the company so they could come in as a family. has linda: you have made clear that indonesia is the key market, 250 million, multiple players. that is not to say that you are not interested in other markets. could india be the next market? all, whether we will eventually expand regionally, probably. india anytimeinto questionver is still a mark. if you take our second largest aloneal go-food, go-food does more traction spur day than the top four or five i

it is illegal it sounds incredible but you know i spoke to a number of people when i was there in bangalore and they told me the political parties find really inventive ways to dodge the laws and get relief to the voters you know for example sometimes the cash is hidden between these two this morning you think. one man told me that over the years he's been anything like models in which he acted surprised even television. arrived in ambulances milk than water for sometimes even as water tankers sagna thanks so very much for that this morning and for your report of course on your home the car or india correspondence course on that this morning. let's get your money now the top stories we're following for you at this hour there have been calls for restraint from world leaders after the most serious military confrontation between israel and iran in the years around the president told the german chancellor he does not want quote new tensions in the middle east but israel has accused iran of crossing a red line. the german and russian foreign ministers say efforts must be taken to preserve the nu

brady is campaigning hard in southern bangalore. they were part of. the independent candidate is running in state elections on just one issue keeping up politics. it's a message his supporters have been relentlessly pushing out in the streets for months. completely connecting with voters during the campaign stop ready is a software engineer turned social activist. he's known for fighting against corruption in government offices. the centerpiece of his bid is the one vote one no scheme which urges average people to fund his campaign ready says it can raise accountability in elections often tainted by allegations of bribery and voter manipulation. is in missouri right now because of bad politics bad electoral bad practices spend money. make more money that is the motto as of now so what we're telling people citizens now the people are powers and rights you are. don't give up don't give these talks and that's when the present but this campaign is in stark contrast to the widespread practice of malta by indian elections reports say authorities and could n

all i think world war two has been distorted credibly by the bangalore american media and that's because they wanted to minish the role of russia. and stalin who actually defeated hitler. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. the vulnerability of microsoft office programs is many times greater than that of the open source program liberal office this was looked into by the italian army and it's also easy to demonstrate. each text program stores the document in the form of lines of code that the user normally never sees. the same single sentence creates ten lines of code in liberal office form in the file saved in the background in microsoft word there are more than one hundred lines of coke so microsoft provides a lot more dangerous space for viruses to infiltrate computers. the be aside the german federal office for information security confirms this the microsoft formit office the cyber attack a far more opportunity for attack. the security get for the want to cry virus dem

the bbc has been speaking to people in its capital bangalore, who have spend about 250 hours a yearjustng indonesia is reeling, from a second suicide attack, in which parents blew themselves up, and their own children. a police station in surubaya was targeted by a family of five on monday. ten people were hurt and the family all died except for an 8—year—old girl. on sunday, another family split into three groups to target churches in the same city. 13 churchgoers died. hugo brennan is an indonesia analyst at global risk consultancy verisk maplecroft. should we be worried? what is your assessment of what has been unfolding? the attacks on sunday morning were obviously terrible. it should be noted that are not in the indonesian context in the sense it is family units that carried out the attacks in the churches on sunday and then in the same city at a police station on monday. there was a previous plot that was disrupted in 2016. this was the first time there was a use of children in a suicide bombing attack. the islamic state group has claimed responsibility for this attack. how much i

narendran speaking from bangalore india his wife was on board the missing plane and he's written a book called life after i made sure three hundred seventy joining through a void to help him come to terms with the uncertainty and his grief sir we're very happy to have you here with us and thank you for sharing your experiences with us. your wife rico is one of those missing how do you feel about the search being and it. first of all don't you for having me. at this moment. it's basically a disappointing end to this search everybody will pull these signs of wear and. tear the book of these sets from abortion and the private firm that was the mission to sell it at this point in time and it was a failure of why there weren't any of the parks the parks which many experts had there suggested were going to be the are just spots where the men down so it in a sense have go away many of the years which was suggested by at the age of expose and so the fact that nothing is new found at the end of a three month search by which an infinity is deeply disappointing but i'd like to believe that this is

well i'll be back with more details from this meeting of bangalore merkel and vladimir putin and saatchi and also whatever else they said at that press conference about forty five minutes ok thanks. well on a lighter note it was also in sochi where a meeting between eleven year generate a lot of headlines and that was because the russian president brought along his pet bill many western journalists. playing psychological games considering this is has a much publicized. in the later interview. he's never known that and had apologized for the incident as soon as he found out well as our correspondent mentioned both leaders do have a long history of coming face face to . but. there was this event the russian president likes to drink german beer and sometimes there is a possibility that we can exchange i've also gotten very good smoked fish. here on the engine and from time to time sends me a couple friends of friends if i could be. with us instead i had previous adelaide with a sleaze five star movement is officially unveiled the proposed coalition government and government deal will have a

in many areas but we are starting to get showers now beginning to push up into parts of the south bangalore has had some much needed rain there fifty millimeters in the space of twenty four hours and more showers are likely for parts of carol in the forecast we can see forty four degrees in one port forty three expected in delhi to head on through into sunday as temperatures still remain largely in the forty's across in theory be implementers also looking pretty warm during the course of saturday but certainly across southern parts of saudi arabia and up as far north as qatar we're going to get quite a strong southerly wind developing so every chance of some dust storms as a result forty degrees a pretty hot one here as we get through into sunday we should find the wind direction changing and temperatures then down to thirty eight. they are watching elders there mind of our top stories protests have resumed along gaza's border with israel we are looking at live pictures coming from the demonstrations there it is the seventh consecutive friday of these demonstrations the protesters are deman

the story credibly bangalore american media and that's because they wanted to minish the role of russia and stalin who actually defeated hitler. see the people who swept through moscow taking part in the immortal regiment march remembering relatives who died fighting in the great war. big. event perhaps on the calendar in this country is making moscow cheer and cry at the same time. earlier it was tanks and troops that rolled over red square in the annual military parade marking the defeat of nazi germany in one thousand nine hundred forty five. with. a cia veteran is thrown out of the confirmation hearing for trump's pick for the new head of the agency that's him in protest over her alleged involvement in torture.

suggesting that this was all to in karnataka which is home to india's vibrant silicon valley capital of bangalorebut also in bold and bold and more the two for the push his reforms agenda and i think today is victory in karnataka would also broaden the appeal to india southern states when it really hasn't had much of a presence of far and we have to remember that karnataka is a state with its own distinct identity its own culture and language and it's often viewed the beach would be as a party from the north the hindu speaking party because that's where the party has had had its core support and today's election might just change that kenya we mentioned modi was a star campaigner here ahead of the selection how much of that was a factor here well so me i think he was the sole factor in this election for the b. should be you know he flew in from delhi he was the face of this campaign he addressed campaign rallies across the state i think you would be hard pressed to find many people who could name regional leaders in karnataka this was all about the more the magic some people. and i think today's

delete premature and then with us cricket columnist for the independent joining us via skype from bangalore nice to have you with us so late. look the whole issue of match fixing spot fixing in the first place should we be really that surprised in the first place that it is still going on. no tolly you've seen twenty twentieth's mushroom around the world in the past decade the i started out even before that those indian cricket league in india which was notorious elop dundee at the time there were pubs you could go to where betting on these matches was rampant and a lot of people called it a mate and fixing league and it it was ultimately that misfortune. so i mean you can't except as i say you we as people who watch and enjoy cricket and pay money to go and see it it can't accept it but by the same token it seems pretty difficult to stamp out as well where is the where is the happy medium here there's no way you can stamp it out when there's such a disparity in their incomes that players make in india australian england where they have century context and where they have the i.p.l. and the