[inaudible] >> the visit of the prime minister of bangladesh to the united kingdom and to parliament. apparently a few years ago when she came to a session pmg's she was so impressed she decided to institute it in bangladesh. i'm not sure whether she changed her mind. [laughter] >> key give the house an assurance that he will continue to build on the strong bilateral links between britain and bangladesh? >> i thank the honorable gentlemen for his question and the prime minister is very coupled to britain and welcomed to be watching our deliberations today as he says whether she will go away feeling proud and excited by what the mother of parliament does wednesday at 12:00 is another question. she's already had a very good meeting with my right honorable friend the deputy prime minister. relations between britain and bangladesh are good and i think we need to expand them further. >> thank you, mr. speaker. my constituents are autistic asperger's syndrome and they want to speak with pupils and staff and give them their experience of living with autism and the challenges that they face w

. >> will the prime minister join me in welcoming the visit of the prime minister of bangladesh to theunited kingdom and to parliament? apparently, a few years ago, when she came to prime minister's questions, she was so impressed that she decided to institute it in bangladesh. i am not sure whether she has changed her mind since. can he give the house an assurance that he will continue to build on the strong bilateral links between britain and bangladesh? >> i thank the right honorable gentleman for his question. the prime minister is very welcome to britain and also welcome to be watching our deliberations today. as the right honorable gentleman says, whether she will go away feeling proud and excited by what the mother of parliaments does on wednesday at 12 o'clock is another question. she has already had a very good meeting with my right honorable friend the deputy prime minister. relations between britain and bangladesh are good, and we need to expand them still further. >> my constituents, ben oldroyd and matthew carr, are autistic and have asperger's syndrome. they have asked fo

there is a lotsh aboute bangladesh. one ofsa the first naturalf disasters they investigated. there were quite a few and the subsequent years and what i concluded is it is very rare after a hurricane or a flood to have the infectious disease epidemic of love that is what people are worried about that quite often, you need watershelter, clean and out summers went on to a pioneer divvying five m&a and went on to become theoin dean of school of public health of johns hopkins. it is a relatively small program, a little over 3,000 with the enormous impact of where these people had gone on with said who, the ase foundation, the state health departments all over the place and now other programs around the world that the alumni have because of their spreading the epidemiology. this is the first where george harrison have the concert and people were galvanized by what had happened. they sent electric blankets and vitamins a and tranquilizers and field hospitals and he said either people had drowned or were blown away or this was

there was a big smallpox outbreak in what later became bangladesh. the eis never had money. money. they have a pathetic budget. one of my points of my book. i hope they get funded better. but the state department had to pay their way over in this case. they went to the state department and they weren't the least bit interested until they found out that the russians were sending a team of epidemiologists and, of course, we had to beat the russians. langmuir took all these guys over. and smallpox is the major theme in the book which we'll talk about in a minute. i actually found letters that malcolm page had written to his girlfriend at the time, now his wife and i quoted them in the book. and it gives a real immediacy to this even though this was 1958. and he's talking about people running away and how he could barely get -- this is very unusual that he's actually next to a woman at all. they could stick their arms out the door because muslim women weren't supposed to be seen. and he had to give himself the vaccine over and over again to make them understand it wasn't going t

trading has been halted at the main stock exchange in bangladesh.re are protests over a record one-day fall. the demonstrators attacked government buildings. share prices nearly doubled in 2010. they have been falling in recent weeks sparking anger among investors. here is the report. >> tension was gradually building up outside of the stock exchange. tempers ran high as figures fell. >> in three days, the rate has fallen. all of the rich people are buying shares. we cannot do any business. >> bangladesh has a stock-market the soared in recent years. millions of small investors came in, but there were concerns that shares were overvalued. big investors withdrew from the market. it affected individual investors. it provided higher returns than bank deposits and savings. many are afraid that if this continues, they will lose their lifetime savings. bbc news. >> a whistleblowing website founder we chelates will return to court -- of wikileaks will return to court where he denies charges of sexually assaulting women. these are the headlines at this hour

there's a lot in the book about bangladesh.ght before the revolution that created it. it was a terrible typhoon. of this is one of the first natural disasters that they investigated, and there were quite a few of them in subsequent years. and what i concluded from these was that it's very rare after a hurricane or a flood that you have an infectious disease epidemic, although that's what people are usually worried about. but quite often what you really need is food, shelter and clean water. and that was true i in this case -- in this case. and al sommer, the guy who investigated this as an eis officer, he later went on to pioneer giving vitamin a to children to save their eyesight and their lives. and then he went on to become the dean of the school of public health at johns hopkins. that's one point i wanted to make. it's a relatively small program, only 3,000 or so, a little over 3,000 have gone through it, but it's had an enormous impact because of where these people have gone on to. they've gone on to work at the world heal

it included today's pakistan, irma and bangladesh as well. and required shadow zones of influence in the middle east, particularly in iran, in arabia, and central asia and in southeast asia up to the goal for the cyan, all among the indian ocean. and what happened is the indian fear of influence in the chinese fear of influence are overlapping. india and china do not have a difficult history. there is no long-standing hatred or warfare. it was over they fight in in 1962 in the foothills of the himalayas. but beyond that, the two countries have had a relatively peaceful path, separated as they were by the high wall of the himalayas. buddhism spread from andrea into china in the early modern centuries. but what has created this indian chinese rivalry? and i use the word rivalry, not conflict is the shrinkage of distance caused by the advance of military technology. you have now chinese airfield and tibet with chinese fighter jet whose arc of operations include india. you have indian warships in the south china sea. you have chinese warships in

he wrote a book called the poverty curve and jeffery sacks wrote the end of poverty in bangladesh a great example, they introduced 35 years ago to do a campaign to get all women and men or boys literate. it was 22% and today it's more than 75 percent if you look at a demographic curve with the population, you can see it's just starting to reach an apex in bangladesh. they're way ahead of india, and pakistan. it's an impact to stabilize the population there. also, um... excuse me. you know having hard cover thing fighting terrorism with education i've learned from islamic scholars. in the koran it's implicitly stated in the holy koran when a young mangos on jiha d and this is a spiritual endeavor to seek knowledge. it could also mean he's going into a group. but he has to get blessings from his mother first and if he doesn't do that it's shameful and disgraceful. after 911 the taliban had a high desertion rate and they were trying to get recruit groups to fight against intervention and coalition and they went in literally impoverished societies because educated women refused to allow they'

he wrote a book called the poverty curve and jeffery sacks wrote the end of poverty in bangladesh a great example, they introduced 35 years ago to do a campaign to get all women and men or boys literate. it was 22% and today it's more than 75 percent if you look at a demographic curve with the population, you can see it's just starting to reach an apex in bangladesh. they're way ahead of india, and pakistan. it's an impact to stabilize the population there. also, um... excuse me. you know having hard cover thing fighting terrorism with education i've learned from islamic scholars. in the koran

included pakistan, burma and bangladesh as well and in his india required shadows zones of influence. in the middle east particularly in iran and arabia, in central asia and in southeast asia to the golf, all along the indian ocean. what has happened is the indian sphere of influence and the chinese sphere of influence are overlapping. india and china do not have a difficult history. there is no longer standing hatred or warfare. there was a war they fought in 1962 in the foothills of the himalayas. beyond that the two countries have had a relatively peaceful paths separated as they were by the high wall of the himalayas. buddhism spread from india from india into china in the early modern century but what has created this indian chinese rivalry? i use the word rivalry, not conflict. the shrinkage of distance caused by the advance of military technology. chinese air fields in tibet, a chinese fighter jet whose operations include india. you have indian warships in the chair of -- south china sea. because of military technology and they're turning the economy these became a find their s

this included today's pakistan, burma, and bangladesh. this india required shadow zones of influence. in the middle east, particularly in iran, arare ya, in central asia, and in southeast asia up to the gulf of ziam. what's happened is that the indians' fear of influence and chinese fear of influence are overlapping. india and china don't have a difficult history. there's no long standing hatred or warfare. there was a war they fought in 1962 in the foothills of the mountains, but beyond that, the two countries have had a relatively peaceful past separated by the high walls of the himalayas. buddhism spread, but what has created this indian-chinese riferl ri? i use rival ri and not conflict. it's the shrinkage of distance caused by the advance of military technology. you have now chinese airfields in tebit with ark of operations that include india. you have i indian warships in the south china sea. you have chinese warships in the indian ocean. because of military technology and their churning economies, these two demographics find there'

skype. >> good evening, bangladesh. >> reporter: the students here in bangladesh have a lot of questions for boys and girls. with three sinks and soap to wash our hands. >> reporter: how many toilets do you have for 500 students? >> only two. >> reporter: two. can someone tell me what your bathroom is like here? >> it's very dirty. >> reporter: very dirty. if you noticed, they were holding their noses. is there water in the bathroom? >> no. >> reporter: the students in america were saying they would like to raise some money to help. what would you like them to help you with? >> the bathroom. and a towel also. >> reporter: a towel, soap, running water. virginia, do you think that's something you can take on as a challenge? >> yes. >> definitely. >> reporter: last year, these students learned firsthand about global water problems. while raising $2,000 for students in cameroon. these kids in pennsylvania held a bucket walk to help raise money for a school in the sudan. others had a trinketthon, throwing pies at their features. >> every penny they raised goes to a water sanitation and hygien

in bangladesh, dangerous levels of arsenic in drinking water has led to berth defects.s to a physicist and engineer, many of these problems now have simple solutions. he made a name for himself in science discovering a way to clean water with ultraviolet light. but it is his humanitarian projects that have made a huge difference in some of the poorest parts of the world. he led a team on a journey to find simple engineering solutions to global problems. the stoves invented by the team use just a fraction of wood as a traditional cooking fire and limit the dangerous treks to look for that wood. the stoves are shipped flat, assembled on-site, and most importantly inexpensive. one stove costs just $20. >> the stove gives them almost $330 a year in fuel costs. so what used to be 33% of their daily budget is now only about 15%. >> in guatemala, the team is testing an inexpensive way to deliver hot water using solar energy. >> the goal is try to have solar water heating at a coast people can afford. >> he just returned from the india border of bangladesh. several people drink

russia, bangladesh. do you? >> radical web sites supporting puppets. >> let's address diversity. a thank-you. he mentioned, i guess, paraphrasing, there's not much diversity in the local media. sandy, what would you like to say about -- maybe i should ask one of the professors. our people caller coming into journalism as frequently as you would like to see? >> we do a census every year, the association of news editors , and pretty much what they have found is that the numbers of minorities is still flat. even with a large exodus of people out of the business, there has not been much growth, about 12%. by no means is that there and i think even in my own experiences in this room, it can be very difficult to change the culture of thinking about stories that involve minorities. >> jeanne? did you want to add anything? >> there is a study put out every year by ball state university from the news directors association. the 2009 numbers for minorities in the news were much more encouraging for television than they were in radio. so, we are seeing more people of color in television, for

share values nearly doubled in 2010, encouraging a new stream of investors into the market in bangladesh. prices have crumbled since early last month. >> about 3000 german farms have been given in the all clear to reopen following the dioxin contamination scandal. almost 150,000 tons of animal feed where tainted with the cancer causing chemical. an investigation into the source of the dioxin continues. >> this companies sold tons of dayaks and, contaminated oils -- dioxin-contaminated oils that were mixed in to) feed which was sold to farmers. now the farmers are calling for consequences. >> we want our suppliers to carry out better controls and investigations. we want to know whether the deliveries we receive have toxins or not. >> that is what the german consumer production minister is plotting, tighter regulation and stricter observation of all animal feed. but a general ban on german food imports by some countries is excessive. >> at no point was there a danger presented by german products. >> the financial damage has not yet been estimated, but it is already clear that many consumer

it works everywhere, bangladesh, bolivia, name it. give women some control over their reproductive cycle. get them off the animal routine of breeding machine and the level of poverty will decline, sharply. it's never, never known to fail. it's a consistent finding. just for an example, this is my central point about, mother theresa spent her entire life opposing the only thing that works. opposing all forms of birth control, comparing them to abortion, which she called murder. i mean directly, in here nobel prize speech. said that was the main threat to peace in the world, which is a fanatical stupid thing to say. that's basically it. that plus the reputation for sanctity that she got for preaching this nonsense. but one could add, her friendship was the worst of the richest of the rich. people like charles keating of the savings and loan who was a great friend of hers. she took sterling money from him, refused when the court asked to return it. took money from the devaluated dictatorship in haiti which treated the poor like pigs, wor

he wrote a book called the poverty curve and jeffery sacks wrote the end of poverty in bangladesh a great example,

we begin with this item sent by btv bangladesh.gladeshi prime minister is calling for the eradication of polio in the country. she inaugurated saturday's 19th national immunization day early by giving drops of a polio vaccine to children at her official residence in dhaka on thursday. the prime minister has directed health authorities to vaccinate all children below the age of 5. in a special drive on saturday, children will receive anti-polio doses at about 160,000 temporary clinics set up across the nation. >>> police in bangkok are claiming success after more than 4,000 drug traffickers were arrested and a huge amount of drugs and weapons were confiscated as part of a nationwide crackdown. beginning on december 21st, police raids in the capital seized methamphetamine tablets and marijuana. an official says the nationwide campaign aimed to shut down drug trafficking during the new year season. he says the country's poorest northern border remains the main route for drugs entering the country. >>> a two-day event has gotten under

we begin with this item sent by btv bangladesh.adeshprime minister is calling for the eradication of polio in the country. she inaugurated saturday's 19th national immunization day early by giving drops of a polio vaccine to children at her official residence in dhaka on thursday. the prime minister has directed health authorities to vaccinate all children below the age of 5. in a special drive on saturday, children will receive anti-polio doses at about 160,000 temporary clinics set up across the nation. >>> police in bangkok are claiming success after more than 4,000 drug traffickers were arrested and a huge amount of drugs and weapons were confiscated as part of a nationwide crackdown. beginning on december 21st, police raids in the capital seized methamphetamine tablets and marijuana. an official says the nationwide campaign aimed to shut down drug trafficking during the new year season. he says the country's poorest northern border remains the main route for drugs entering the country. >>> a two-day event has gotten under way

of pakistan's exports, and india too is facing tough competition from countries like china and bangladesh. >>jawad: they definitely can work together. supposing i get a very huge order, for which i would need to increase my capacity, but tomorrow what if i don't have any buyers? so instead of my increasing my production capacity and tomorrow run after the markets, i can look at india and if i find somebody with extra capacity available, we can make use of it. and by the same token, indian exporters can explore the possibility of doing it in pakistan. >>reporter: all this depends on whether peace talks take off between both sides. these were put on hold in 2008 after pakistani-based gunmen attacked mumbai, india's financial centre, killing more than 160 people. india says it wants pakistan to take action against the islamist militants linked to the mumbai killings before it discusses cross-border trade. but while the governments prevaricate - the business community is keen for action. >>bashir: the business people can put the pressure, there has to be economic benefit for both sides. and i

. >>> in bangladesh, tens of thousands of muslims prayed for peace and a renewal of islam at the annual world congregation of muslims, one of the world's largest islamic gatherings. >>> and in china and taiwan, prayers for good fortune in the coming year. the chinese new year is on february 3rd. this will be the year of the rabbit, traditionally thought to be a year of calm. >>> that's our program for now. i'm bob abernethy. we have much more on our website, including lots of religious analysis of the president's state of the union address. you can comment on all of our stories and share them. audio and video podcasts are also available. you can follow us on febook and twier, find us on youtube and wat us ytim anyere on smartphones and iphones with our mobile web app. join us at pbs.org. as we leave you, scenes from a memorial service held at auschwitz in poland for the united nation's international holocaust remembrance day on thursday. >>> community development, and education. additional funding by mutual of america, dining customized individual and group retirement products. that's w

trading has been suspended at the main stock exchange in bangladesh after thousands of investors rioted over a market plunge police were deployed to contain the situation but were unable to disperse the crowds the country's stock market's been volatile over the past few weeks with many people losing their life savings many of the demonstrators voiced concerns that the market failures were engineered by the government. for people being killed as flash floods ripped through northeast astray or a sudden torrent deluge the town in queensland washing away cars and trapping people on roofs there are more weather warnings for the stricken state which has taken a pounding from heavy rain and overflowing rivers and an estimated four thousand people have been evacuated from their homes. gerri videos and pictures online is all the rage these days but it's never been quite like this next story russian scientists have developed a microscope system that lets their colleagues from around the world zoom in and view the tiniest bacteria over the internet in real time. take a very close look. but imagine

and trading has been suspended at the main stock exchange in bangladesh after thousands of investors rioted over a market plunge police were deployed to contain the situation to disperse the crowds. stock market has been volatile over the past few weeks with many people losing their life savings many of the demonstrators voiced concerns that the market failures were engineered by the government. well there's a growing tendency in western countries to consider the muslims in the context of terror but to what extent is that a misinterpretation and what could muslims. to change global public opinion about their religion later cross talk guests get fired up over the perceptions of islam in the modern world is a teaser of what's ahead for you in about fifteen minutes time. the underlying foundation of islam is to take all sides the world. muslims you know has to believe in islam as an illusion and as a state what stands out i'm not i love to live and that's the american constitution they are here to eventually go to plays that i made it down constitution with islamic sharia because no one

. >> reporter: but within days of arriving as a volunteer in bangladesh, idealism met reality when she says a group of young local men repeatedly tried to fondle her and the peace corps ignored her pleas for relocation. >> we wanted to be pulled out of there. they wouldn't pull us out. >> reporter: three months later, she says, the same group of young men dragged her down a side alley and repeatedly raped her. but that the peace corps told her not to let anyone know why she had to go home. >> i was told to tell volunteers that i was having my wisdom teeth taken out. >> reporter: keep this quiet? >> yeah. >> reporter: current peace corps officials maintain such incidents are rare and not covered up. >> 98% of all volunteers say they feel safe or extremely safe with the peace corps. >> reporter: but jess smochek and a number of other former peace corps volunteers who were raped or sexually assaulted told abc news the agency is in denial, often blaming the victims, with little counseling to overcome the trauma. you were given three sessions? >> three sessions. >> reporter: and good-bye? >

trading has been suspended at the main stock exchange in bangladesh after thousands of investors buy it over a market plunge police were deployed to contain the situation but were unable to disperse the crowds the country's stock market's been volatile over the past few weeks as many people losing their life savings many of the demonstrators voiced concerns that the market failures were engineered by the government. for people being killed as flash floods rip through northeast astray or a sudden torrent deluge to turn in queensland washing away cars and trapping people on grooves rather more weather warnings for the stricken state which is taking a real pounding from heavy rain and overflowing rivers an estimated four thousand people have been evacuated from. is a growing tendency western country to consider islam and muslims in the context of terror but to what extent is that a misinterpretation or indeed what can was limbs do to change global public opinion about the religion next people of cross-talk gas get fired up about perceptions of islam in the modern world. and that lying f

. >> but idealism quickly met reality when she was assigned to bangladesh where the peace corps ignoredconcerns. she became a victim of gang rape. >> they raped me with their bodies, they raped me with foreign objects. >> peace corps headquarters at washington at the time, 2004, tried to keep it quiet, she said. >> i was told to tell volunteers i was having my wisdom teeth taken out. >> current peace corps officials told us they never heard of jess' brutal rape. >> but the newly appointed official said such assaults are not a widespread problem. >> 98% of the volunteers say they feel safe or extremely safe. >> but jess and a number of other volunteers have come forward to say the peace corps is in denial. maggie was raped in south africa in 2008. >> he held a glass to my neck and raped me. >> and one woman after another described how the peace corps provided only limited counseling. >> three sessions? >> three sessions. >> and good-bye. >> and a good-bye. >> some said they were made to feel responsible for being raped. even jess said she felt blamed. >> has the peace corps acknowledged

in bangladesh, dangerous levels of arsenic in drinking water has led to birth defects.l guatemala hot water is an unattainable luxury. thanks to a national laboratory physicist and engineer many of these problems have simple pollutions. he made a name for himself in science discoveringry way to clean water with ultraviolet light. but it's his humanitarian project that made a huge difference. he led graduate students from u.c. berkeley on a journey to find simple engineering solutions to global problems. the stoves invented by the team use just a fraction of wood as a traditional cooking fire and limit the dangerous treks to look for that wood. the stoves are shipped flat assembled onsite and most importantly inexpensive. one stove costs just $20. >> each stove saves them almost $330 a year in fuel cost. so what used to be 33% of their daily budget is now only about 15%. >> in guatemala, the team is testing an inexpensive way to deliver hot water using solar energy. >> the goal is try to have solar water heating at a cost people can afford. >> he just returned from the i

itself you know it be you know the monetary policy in order to make sure that the people in bangladesh you know are fed but still you know this policy is bigger than ever is going to have is having tremendous effects in the world economy and since it's never been done before we don't really know how it's going to end but we can predict that it's going to end badly well i want one last question when. you know folks on wall street who are speculating in the paper market for commodities and for the most part driving the price higher on the paper side of course their budgets for food as a percentage of income is probably one percent now so they don't feel the effect of a rising food price on their monthly budget whereas people in countries developing countries like india probably sixty seventy eighty percent of their income goes to food and so it just smacks them right in the face now can anyone explain to these people on wall street that they're speculating that paper market is directly resulting in starvation and death in countries like india well you could argue that but you could argue