so the model of poverty-stricken bangladesh has been replaced by another image of bangladesh. >> but he fell out with the bangladeshi prime minister when he tried to form his own political party. many international personalities, including at the former irish president mary robinson, have come together to express their fondness and have been campaigning for him. in the coming days, this will not only be keenly watched. it will be watched outside bangladesh. for now, he is staying in office. the issue is likely to be solved by the courts. bbc news. >> it is one of those truisms of real-estate that when a group of artists live in a rundown area, it soon becomes gentrified and property prices go up. in new york city, artist of overt the downtime. -- the downtown area. it is now known as the well. london is now looking to recreate that scene. -- is now known as soho. soho the early 1970's became a performance space for artists who sought to break down barriers in art. >> these artists were able to create vibrant work with minimal means. it's up to about picking up material from the stree

and bangladesh today, this bank has more than 8000 borrowers. the majority of our workers are women. but authorities say three years ago, and he fell out with the prime minister when he tried to set up his own political party, something he maintains was at the root of his dismissal. the government denies there's any political motive to his sacking. he says he will appeal against the verdict and the supreme court. the bank serves millions of people, many of them women. bbc news. >> just briefly, police have clashed at the world cup. india fans were desperately trying to get tickets for saturday's match with south africa. police used sticks to control the crowds when barriers broke down the latest headlines for you on "bbc world news." colonel gaddafi's forces are hitting back. reported -- one town is reported almost destroyed. violent protests in ivory coast. there are clashes that left four dead. a former iranian president, rafsanjani, one of the architects of the islamic republic has lost his position as the head of one of the most influential

many are foreign workers from bangladesh. the government hasade no efforts to arrange transport for them. the foreign minister urged them to hold out in libya. >> we bangladeshis' just want to go home, but wdo not have any money. there is nothing we can do. there is nothing for us. >> the u.n. refugee agency is working on a solution that does not rely on the cooperation of the government. >> in the next day or so, they will start the chartering flights in order to assist the bangladeshis to go back to their country. >> it could take up to five days. >> meanwhile in afghanistan, u.s. secretary of defense robert gates has apologized to president hamid karzai for the accidental deaths of children last week, six days after u.s. helicopter crews killed nine boys mistaken for taliban fighters. it's also discussed the future of the u.s. military in afghanistan, expected to be withdrawn by the end of 2014. a small contingent will remain to help train afghan security forces. the unrest going on in africa and the middle east is causing

. >> brown: special correspondent steve sapienza reports from bangladesh on the struggle to meet the basic needs of an exploding population. >> dahka is one of the world's fastest growing cities and one of the poorest. with 2,000 newcomers daily the struggle to find clean water in the slums often has life threatening consequences. >> ifill: and ray suarez examines what a merger between at&t and t-mobile would mean for consumers and the wireless industry. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> oil companies have changed my country. >> oil companies can make a difference. >> we have the chance to build the economy. >> create jobs, keep people healthy and improve schools. >> and our communities. >> in angola chevron helps train engineers, teachers and farmers, launch child's programs. it's not just good business. >> i'm hopeful about my country's future. >> it's my country's future. >> you can't manufacture pride, but pride builds great cars. and you'll find it in the people at toyota, all across america. pacific life. and by

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'

we're attempting to focus that not only in india but also in bangladesh and nepal to assure that we work on facilitation networks. and more importantly, how we address building the capacity of our partners to, in fact, address those internal issues so that they can secure their borders, so that they have developed networks for intelligence. they can develop intelligence on things that might be occurring inside of their country. and then also how they might, you know, law enforcement actual counterterrorism operations. so that's another line of our operation there. we facilitate that mainly through our theater security cooperation plan which addresses the specific countries in the aor and the ones that are specific concerns for terrorist activities, clearly a big part of that tcp is addressing that building partner capacity to address either endemic or military issues that are causing those situations to occur. >> it's probably kind of in the same rel him to diffuse the depositions also, you know, with south china sea, the taiwan strait, is that kind of the same angle that you're taking w

people from bangladesh and nigeria. some are libyans like this man who does not want to be identified. >> we broke the wall of silence. what ever you want to think, you would be captured. [unintelligible] >> with the unrest continuing, the help of those fleeing as well as those still inside the country. there are concerns about sanitation and the possibility of disease. the appeal covers a range of humanitarian means including shelter, food security, and health care. it is based on projections of 400,000 people could leave libya. it is also estimated that a further 600,000 people inside libya might need help. >> it requires 160 million u.s. dollars to achieve its objectives. it will be revised in about two weeks to reflect the evolving situation. >> the french warship has arrived in geneva. -- tunisia. a number of refugees has reportedly gone down. they fear people could be stranded on the other side. >> the newly appointed interim government indonesia has dissolved the secret police -- in tunisia has dissolved teh secr

in of court in bangladesh, the bangladeshi central bank has dismissed him, saying he was past retirementage and had not been properly appointed. now, it had been discussed for years by the u.n., the cia, and the house of lords. uso's have been debated for years. have been debated for years. but as our science correspondent david shukman reports, not everything is there. >> ghostly lights, a secret military investigations, fuel for endless curiosity about whether we are alone. the latest documents, some heavily censored, carry dozens of apparent sightings, like this strange cloud. but they also offer reasonable explanations, including sometimes it is just a hoax. >> it might have been the mountains. >> in 1967, the discovery of six of these in southern england triggered a massive alert, although it turned out to be a student prank. >> it is not just because they believe we are being visited by aliens, but we are worried there might be other terrestrial explanations such as a spy plane. >> is one of the longest running conspiracy theories that glimpses of alien spaceships have been covered

people from bangladesh, nigeria and vietnam. many are migrant workers. from here are libyans.ant to be identified. >> we broke the wall of silence. weç cannot do anything in liby. >> others stranded talk of running out of money. >> we have three months of money. >> with the unrest continuing in libya, un has launched anç aid appeal to help those fleeing. there are concerns about sanitation and the possibility of disease. the appeal covers a range of humanitarian needs, including shelter and health care. this is based on projections for hundred thousand people could leave libya. half of which have already gone. çover 600,000 people inside libya may need help. >> this appeal requires $160 million to achieve its objective over a three month budgeting horizon. it will be revised inç two wees to reflect the evolving situation. >> a french warship has arrived in tunisia to deliver aid for those stuck at the libyan border. there are 40 tons of supplies here. the number of refugees crossing the border has gone down over recent days. organizations fear people could be stranded on t

bangladesh is north. all sorts of natural products that never would have seen manageable are right around the corner. it works for us. >> talk about what we may see in intoointeriors. directionally, what will we see within the next five years or this decade? >> what you see today. you are not saturated at the a level, b level c level type of things. where leather is on e today, it will be on a tomorrow. weight's a big issue for it. it's one thing to say you can do this. anybody can throw the kitchen sink at things, but how are you going to do it? from the statistics i know, the second largest contributor to wait in a vehicle is resin based components. >> is that right? >> it is. interiors, resin based versus trying to be everything in the grocery store. >> if that's where it's going and we manage that, we have to take weight out. statistics, for the fuel consumption in a car, 75% of it comes back to wait. if we can find a way to help 6 to 8% improvement in weight, you are going to make a massive improveme

they are mostly from the subcontinent, bangladesh, pakistan, and also sudan, nigeria, and donna. -- ghana. who is here, -- w.h.o. is here, the world health organization. the problem underestimated the number of people still coming to the board -- order. one of the officials from the international organization for migration admitted that russians -- that brushes were given out to people a few days ago, but there were not enough. they are expecting people to come to the eastern border because they thought everyone had gotten out, or the completely underestimated it. at the same time, you get the feeling that international organizations are concentrating on the western side, the tunisian and libyan border, rather than this particular border. all the aid convoys are going straight into libya, bypassing migrants who are stranded, hungry, cold, and exhausted. >> do not forget there is plenty more libya coverage online at the bbc news website. you will find the latest background from our correspondents in the region. do have a look. two u.s. airmen have been killed and another two injured by a g

the central bank of bangladesh issued the order on wednesday. they say he has been there longer than allowed in the retirement law. grameen bank said he was elected legally and he would remain in office. he was awarded the nobel peace prize for establishing the microlending loans to the poor. they would use the funds as a mean to escape poverty. he has been critical of corrupt officials. he tried to form a political party in the runup to 2008. this put him at odds with politicians in existing parties. reports had surfaced last year about irregularities in the bank's operations. grameen bank denied the allegations but the government has been putting pressure on yumus to resign. >>> they have identified a person in connection with the on-line posting of exam questions while the tests were underway. the police say the 19-year-old man is an examee for kyoto university. police had been trying to find out who sent the questions to an on-line question and answer site while exams at four universities were in progress. the university s kyoto , doshisha,

muhammad yunus, who won a nobel prize for his work with bangladesh's grameen bank, lashed out in a recentw york times" op-ed. "commercialization," he wrote, "has been a terrible wrong turn for microfinance. poverty should be eradicated, not seen as a money-making opportunity." >> yeah, this is a difference of opinion i have with professor yunus. >> reporter: the debate over commercialization isn't an academic one. it's had real consequences in the countryside when people can't pay back their loans. pula polepaka, a mother of two small children stayed current for three years, with four loans. but she missed three weekly installments after her husband prakash, who had adequate income as a house painter-got sick. the collection boys, as she calls them, began to hound them. >> ( translated ): we left for another village, where we have relatives but the collection boys tracked us down in that village and we were humiliated. he didn't say anything about committing suicide. he went far away and took his life. >> reporter: her husband's suicide and those of dozens of other borrowers got the atten

many of their stories are similar to halaw from bangladesh. he didn't get paid for three months in libya, and when he reached the border, the libyan military took everything he had. >> they took everything. >> reporter: the refugees, mostly men, wait in long, dusty lines, for food. up to an hour and a half to use a satellite phone. the shower is a hose and large buckets in a dirt hole. still, this man from ghana says he's in a better place than his colleagues left in libya. >> i don't know what happen to them next. every day there is different problem, every day. >> reporter: we're about three miles from the libyan border, this is the oldest and the biggest of the camps. today there are about 25,000 people here, and increasingly there are signs that their stays are going to last longer than just a few days. bulldozers today cleared more land for tents that sleep ten people each. busloads of bangladeshis arrived this morning. their passports carried by this tunisian military officials. how long will it be before -- >> there's no news. no news.

nearly 50 workers from bangladesh jumped off a ship to escape from being sent back. >>> mr. carzite refused to accept an apology. the boys were gathering wood last tuesday when gunners had a helicopter apparently mistook them for insurgents who had fired on an american base just hours earlier. >>> soldiers fired into the air and used stun guns to try to disperse protesters. the protests were triggered by reports that were holding documents under president mubarack. >>> and in rio de janeiro the streets are truly carnaval. the vast majority of these outfits are made in china. >>> and groups rallied today in new york city on both sides of the question, of weather hearings should be held into the so called radicalization of -- >> i don't want them to be able to stand up and claim, see we told you, america is at war with islam. that's one of the main recruiting arguments. i think that's why we need to be careful about how we use the instrumentality of the government in investigative hearings. h e a rings. >> he objects to its singling out a particular community. >>> a wide earth

in bangladesh sun pakistan skipper alfre decently doing his part with ball in hand racking up four west indian wiki's with just person pulls out of the inside not surprisingly in a days when they took to bowl pakistan's opening partnership of can act now and mohammed have taking full advantage knocking at that time from just one hundred sixteen balls so one hundred thirteen total chile coming in the stone machine one hundred seventy five runs to spare not losing one wicket along the way after his pakistan said i don't care who will face next look we have what we have done well so part of this tournament. i'm not really. going to play i mean as long as. we play well and we do things right but not being you know that that's more important to me at the moment where we'll come we'll watch the game more agree closely and you know what's happening in them then we'll try to get about six or seven days off that will probably. make a new strategy and see who with it we go on from there now with goals first major of the year just a couple of weeks away form of world number one tiger woods is stil

injured after clashes between police and students in the capital of bangladesh officers armed with tear gas and charge the angry crowd after they began to smash vehicles again over the death of a twenty five year old student in a road accident. japan's foreign minister resigned after opposition uproar over a political donation he got from a foreign national. admitted accepting about six hundred dollars from a south korean citizen a resident in japan a son is small but japanese law bans politicians from accepting money from outside is to protect the country from foreign influence his resignation strikes a blow to the current prime minister. mr as his successor. russian or enforcement was given a much needed make over this week with public trust in the force sinking to an all time low it's hoped that new reforms in a name change will return it to credibility or result is a cover in a survey report there's a lot riding on the overhaul beyond paperwork and cosmetics. a change of title and hopefully a change in attitudes these law enforcement officers are abandoning their soviet era name of

. >> bangladesh. >> table made in thailand. >> reporter: where was your couch made in? china.hing that wasn't made in america. the usrys came home to an empty house. >> all of our appliances are gone. no microwave, no oven, no stove. no refrigerator. jon, what are you making for dinner? >> pb and j. american classic. >> reporter: living with the consequences at bedtime. even the dog. but then, the real challenge. replacing everything we took out with products made right here in america. >> reporter: hi, i'm trying to find out -- >> reporter: remember how long it took sharyn and mrs. usry to find an american coffee maker? that's what i wanted to know. >> reporter: one hour. but we're learning. tricks and lessons along the way. eventually, we linked up with more than 100 companies across the country. and then, the moment that made even us sweat. the trucks, all six of them, coming down snow white drive. would it be enough to fill this home? replacing all those foreign flags this week with new ones, mississippi to georgia, utah to new york. >> reporter: got it? >> reporter: yeah.

washes between police and students in the capital of bangladesh law enforcement arm with tear gas and the tongs charged angry crowds that they began smashing the vehicles the unrest started over the death of a twenty five year old student at a road accident. after years of claiming presidential immunity former french president jacques chirac is finally facing court action he stands accused of masterminding a scheme in which the city of paris footed the bill for the work benefiting his party conviction could carry a ten year jail term experts say any prison time is highly unlikely. depends foreign minister has resigned after opposition an uproar over a political donation he got from a foreign national stage admitted accepting about six hundred dollars from a south korean citizen resident in japan this summer as the sun is small but japanese law bans politicians make setting any money from outsiders to protect the country from foreign influence his resignation strikes a blow to current prime minister naoto caught up with as a potential successor. russian law enforcement is has been give

several people have been injured after clashes between police and students in the capital of bangladesh officers armed with tear gas and baton charge the angry crowds after they began to smash the vehicles and young arrest began over the death of a twenty five year old student in a road accident. russian law enforcement was given a much needed make over this week with public trust in the force sinking to an all time low it's hoped new reforms and a name change will be turned into credibility and as you know as are the reports there's a lot riding on the overhaul beyond paperwork and cosmetics. a change of title and hopefully a change in attitudes these lines force and officers are abandoning their soviet era name of meats are in favor of the modern world the recognizable police for the government it's a first step down a long road towards modernizing the service and arresting a sharp decline in public perception with people stressed of the boys in blue has been dealt a huge blow in recent years it's led to anxiety amongst officers and outrage from knows they're supposed to protect incid

several people have been injured after clashes between police and students in the capital of bangladesh officers armed with tear gas in but times charged the angry crowds after they began to smash vehicles the rest began over the death of a twenty five year old student in a road accident. japan's foreign minister has resigned after opposition uproar over a political donation he got from a foreign national. admitted accepting almost twenty five hundred dollars from a south korean citizen resident in japan the sun is small but japanese law bans politicians from except in money from outsiders to protect the country from foreign influence his resignation strikes a blow to the current prime minister no to the con who sought mr me as his successor. fairway farewells to space crews and for discovery the hatches of the shuttle discovery and the international space station have been closed marking the beginning of the last trip for the oldest and most traveled american spacecraft discovery will undock later on monday and is scheduled to touch down in florida on wednesday the mission saw astronau

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police and students in the capital of bangladesh law enforcement armed with tear gas and the tons charge the angry crowds after they began smashing vehicles the unrest started over the death of a twenty five year old student in a road accident. after years of claiming presidential immunity former french president jacques chirac is finally facing a court trial he stands accused of masterminding a scheme in which the city of paris paid the bill for a work benefiting his party rather conviction could carry a ten year jail term experts say it's unlikely he's unlikely to serve any prison time. japan's foreign minister has resigned after opposition out for over a political donation he got from a foreign national stage admitted accepting about six hundred dollars from a south korean citizen residing in japan the some a small japanese law bans politicians from accepting money from outsiders to protect the country from foreign influence his resignation strikes a blow to the current prime minister naoto who as a potential successor. russian law enforcement is given a much needed make over this wee

bangladesh. >> reporter: so this is your room, huh, and little ellis and her prized american girl dollsere, what does it say made in -- >> china. >> reporter: ellis is checking her living room. what about barbies. where is your couch made from? >> right here, see. >> reporter: china. you might laugh, but in the 1960s, 9 out of every 10 products americans bought were made in america. today more than half of what we buy is foreign made. so we wondered, could the useries manage without any foreign made products at all? so we're going you if you would leave your own house in our hands, and they did. >> bye, david. >> reporter: you're really going to leave me with your house. >> it's all yours. >> reporter: take one last look. just me and the dog left. but as the useries drove away, they had no idea what they already learned was just the tip of the iceberg because back inside we kept going. it was every room of the house. the bedroom, their bedspread, pakistan, nightstand, indonesia, the lamp, china. we actually have movers waiting across the street here to take out everything that isn't mad

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i've broken out between refugees a new tunisian border camp thousands of foreign nationals from bangladesh and vietnam are trying to leave the refugee camps having fled from the violence in libya some hope to fly out of the country today but witnesses say there are still about sixteen thousand people still there. and in ten minutes time the kaiser report is in north africa to wonder whether a full scale economic growth old could be the solution to toppling corrupt bigwigs in big banks. max geyser this is the kaiser report coming to you from cairo egypt behind me the october sixth the bridge this is where millions of revolutionaries stormed in and took over a country and throughout the dictator i'm only hoping we see something similar in the us millions storming the brooklyn bridge to take out the dictatorship of the new york federal reserve bank or how about the dictatorship of the federal reserve bank in washington this is ground zero for the twenty first century revolutionary movement a global insurrection against banker occupation. russia's republic of chechnya once an arena for militar

with the woman for wearing the headscarf they don't mean that they want to be like of pakistan or bangladesh so people come from particular perspective the arabs they're muslims they want for example polls show in two thousand and ten end of last year that they want to greater role for islam they don't want freedom of speech in the sense that you can insult the prophets of god whether that's jesus or the prophet muhammad peace be upon them so i think really when people say democracy on the ground in the in the middle east right now they mean two things one the right to elect their rulers to the right to a culture the rulers without being thrown in jail and to look to their values their history for a form of governance that allows that democracy. the rule is and having a say and selecting the rule is not the sole preserve of western democracy but what it all means is that they want secularism they want societies where religion doesn't have a role to play and i think western audiences or western christian commentators maybe more more precisely need to be very careful of trying to portray that

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in the capital of bangladesh angry crowds mass the gold witnesses reported several people injured protester was called after a twenty five year old student died in a road accident in the early hours of sunday. at least twenty six people have been killed and twenty injured one of passenger bus collided with a lawnmower truck in the southern brazilian state of santa catarina police reported the truck driver lost control of his vehicle and crashed into the bus which had forty seven passengers aboard it two thousand and seven two accidents on the same road claimed twenty seven lives. by error which tore through our bar in central to one has left nine dead and injured preliminary investigation suggests the blaze was caused by sparks from an alley the torch being used in a performance several of the victims were found on the staircase between the first and second floors. of the soviet union's last leader has been celebrating his eightieth birthday this week on the day itself he was awarded one of russia's highest honors the order of st andrew medal recognizing his achievements as president for ma

demonstration in the capital of bangladesh angry crowds smashed vehicles while witnesses reported several people injured as it was called after a twenty five year old student died in a road accident in the early hours of sunday. twenty six people have been killed twenty injured when a passenger bus collided with a lumber a truck in the southern brazilian state of santa catarina police report a truck driver lost control of the vehicle and crashed into the bus forty seven people aboard in two thousand and seven two similar accidents on the same road claimed twenty seven lives. in the soviet union the last leader mikhail gorbachev has been celebrating his eightieth birthday this week on the day itself he was awarded russia's highest honor the order of say andrew medal recognizing his achievements as president for many people his name is synonymous with the end of the cold war period occasion of germany and liberalism with his economic and political reforms he paved the way for democracy in russia is best known policy perestroika aim to revamp the country without destroying the basis of socia

on tuesday, we'll look at the struggle to find enough clean water in the mega-city of dhaka in bangladesh. i'm gwen ifill. >> lehrer: and i'm jim lehrer. we'll see you online, and again here tomorrow evening. thank you, and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> oil companies make huge profits. >> last year, chevron made a lot of money. >> where does it go? >> every penny and more went into bringing energy to the world. >> the economy is tough right now, everywhere. >> we pumped $21 million into local economies, into small businesses, communities, equipment, materials. >> that money could make a big difference to a lot of people. vingur economy for 160 years. bnsf railway. pacific life-- the power to help you succeed. and by toyota. and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for blic broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs