>>smart solutions for a better future in bangladesh. >>and why superbike racing is still growing despite the recession. >>super fast and super dangerous... and the rest in just a moment on world business... >>reporter: bangladesh is home to some of the most innovative development techniques, most notably the grameen bank created by muhammad yunus. this year he was dismissed in an apparently politically motivated dispute, but his work helped lift millions out of poverty and is just one of many imaginative projects in the country, helping people establish and grow small businesses. >>reporter: working conditions are harsh at these brick plants outside dhaka. but in some ways they are sign ofprogress, as well as the challenges that progress brings. >>it's the demand for new homes and shops, and the building of new roads and bridges that has fuelled the creation of around 5000 of these factories. the problem is that most of them have been built illegally right on top of fertile rice fields. >>hariri: you have to meet the demand of the popul

as thousands are said to be in the streets of the bangladesh capital. these man-powered taxis are a cheap convenient form of transport. but in dhaka, function takes a back seat to style. the canopy, seats, and bodies are a riot of color. the signature piece is the painting. it is usually found on a tin plate fixed to the back. the result is a moving art gallery. the themes of these works are as wide as the colors are bright. this vibrant street art is the work of rikshah painters. d.c. is a specialist with a specialty in fantasy worlds. >> translator: pleasing passengers, drivers with beautiful carts as a rikshah artist is my calling. >> reporter: but these are hard times for rikshah painters. work has been drying up. and the number of painters in dhaka is on the decline. one reason is the shrinking fleet of rikshahs. the pedal powered vehicles have been banned from the main roads. as a result, side streets are now clogged with the three wheelers all going nowhere fast. >> translator: in addition to traffic jams, they started licensing rickshaw business

as thousands are said to be in the streets of the bangladesh capital. these man-powered taxis are a cheap convenient form of transport. but in dhaka, function takes a back seat to style. the canopy, seats, and bodies are a riot of color. the signature piece is the painting. it is usually found on a tin plate fixed to the back. the result is a moving art gallery. the themes of these works are as wide as the colors are bright. this vibrant street art is the work of rikshah painters. d.c. is a specialist with a specialty in fantasy worlds. >> translator: pleasing passengers, drivers with beautiful carts as a rikshah artist is my calling. >> reporter: but these are hard times for rikshah painters. work has been drying up. and the number of painters in dhaka is on the decline. one reason is the shrinking fleet of rikshahs. the pedal powered vehicles have been banned from the main roads. as a result, side streets are now clogged with the three wheelers all going nowhere fast. >> translator: in addition to traffic jams, they started licensing rickshaw business

he painted portraits of people against a background of bangladesh scenery. business is picking up thanks to word of mouth. ahmad is making a comfortable living. but he can't forget his old calling. >> translator: these are rough sketches from my previous work. i made copies and have kept them. if i receive an order again, i'll be able to trace them. they're like photographic negatives. this one was very popular. a rickshaw shop in a town of animals. >> reporter: ahmad has a special passion for animal themes. it has attracted international attention. >> translator: these rough sketches remind me of how eager i was about my work. at that time i took great pleasure in work. now i don't. looking at these pictures i feel somewhat sad. >> reporter: artists like ahmad are having to adjust to the times. as they do so, dhaka's fleet of rickshaws, the canvas for their unique trade, is steadily fading from view. >>> and welcome back to your weather update. for east asia we're talking about a lot of rain moving in towards japan. we've got the front line that's been with

das, the most respected rickshaw painter in bangladesh.is favorite subject is rural scene scenery. however, das says he can no longer paint the types of pictures he likes. tastes have changed in fast modernizing dhaka. pastoral scenes are out. movie stars are in. >> translator: rickshaw owners prefer movie scenes. i have no choice but to paint such pictures to make a living. >> reporter: with orders vanishing and no creative incentive, some painters have given up. ahmed hossain is one artist who hung up his rickshaw brush. he now does suf nair plates for tourists. copying photos, he paints tourists against a background of scenery. business is picking up thanks to word of mouth. ahmed is making a comfortable living but he can't forget his old calling. >> translator: these are rough sketches from my previous work. i made copies and have kept them. if i receive an order again, i'll be able to trace them. they're like photographic negatives. this one was very popular, a rickshaw shop in a town of animals. >> reporter: ahmed was a special passi

is in bangladesh. is in bangladesh. is in bangladesh. the religion has a concentration impact and. pakistani punjab. of course they talk about studying islam there. stay to the southwestern indiana is the highest numbers of muslims in india proper. you find remarkable the ahead of any other part of india. let's go to indonesia. africa has merchants. the arabs did have a large portion of the middle east in a remarkable span of time. however, scholars point out that there was the ability of the main ones per matcher fee and this may sound totally real, but in egypt, for example, many of the bishops had in theaters. there is that going on. most importantly and i think the first is something that should really be pointed out. it took a couple of centuries. in fact, a lot of these arab invaders have snobbishness and did not actually care for them. so for example, egypt says -- and this is why it did this on and sacrifice institutionalized charities, there is a festival like many other who establishes and essentially from the eighth, ninth, 10th, it is not what is happening, but a lot of

we begin tonight with this item sent by rtm malaysia and btv bangladesh.n malaysia millions of people left cities on the weekend to return to their home towns in the countryside to celebrate the festival in which families and friends gather to enjoy a feast. it marks the end of ram a dam, the muslim month of fasting. it will be celebrated on tuesday or wednesday. traffic police have made the arrangements to regulate the movement of large numbers of people. >>> the bangladesh she capital also witnessed and exodus as citizens in a largely muslim country traveled to rural areas. the government has arranged special trains, buses, and ferries for the convenience of celebrants. >>> thai authorities have destroyed 120 tons of counterfeit goods in the capital bangkok. the products destroyed on monday had been seized on the resort i land of phuket. last year they seized over 3.1 million items. a senior government official said the seizures are aimed at protecting property rights and the government will enact strict laws to deal with it. the united states has had th

the largest concentration of muslims in the south asia is in bangladesh, current bangladesh and indian bengal. sufi states went about spreading the religion as the forests were being cleared. another concentration is in current-day pakistan, pakistan punjab. again, let's come to a state in the southwest of india which is about 25% muslims, the highest number of muslims in the india proper. again, it was arab traders who came there and spread islam. quite remarkable this level of human development it has. way ahead of any other part of india. let's go to indonesia. sufi saints. africa, it was mainly merchants. now let's get to the arab world. over there it was trickier, i must admit. so the arabs did conquer a large portion of the middle east in a remarkable span of time. there is no denying that. however, scholars point out that the empires they defeated were already completely decaying. it was the byzantine empire and the persian empire. these were the main ones they defeated. they were already from decaying from within, atrophying, it was very easy for the arabs to defeat them. and t

rises, and already people from bangladesh are going into india. india has militarized the border with bangladesh, and that's going to be a site of crucial conflict around migration caused by climate change because you have a muslim population on one side, a hindu-dominated multicultural society in india, and particularly a hindu right that really does not like muslim migrants. so that's a site of potential conflict. in terms of why climate scientists aren't making more of tipping points, i think they are arguing that tipping points are crucial, and that's why they're arguing for radical mitigation -- >> but they did, they're talking about doing things now, but they're not really looking at when they will occur. in other words, planning now -- >> for how to adapt, you mean? >> >> no, planning now for a world after one of these tipping points are reached. except, in fact, nothing's going to be done until something big happens, and they'll look back 20 years from now and say, gee, we should have been planning for this. >> well, take james hanson, for

as well as northeastern india and bangladesh. now for the americas. starting to see the tropical storm move away from bermuda. also the low pressure up in the northeastern u.s. additional rain will come throughout the night. thunderstorms as well. that could certainly bring some additional flooding problems out here. the central areas looking at severe areas to break out. also for montana in the u.s. looking windy. watch out for the stormy conditions. in the eastern u.s., temperatures pretty comfortable. 29 in washington, d.c. fairly cool but does stay hot in the south. houston coming in at 35 degrees. finally taking a look at europe, we're looking at more wet and windy weather to effect much of the british isles today. heavy rain will impact scotland. the rain brisk as well. we're looking for much to effect scandinavia and russia as well. plenty of rain and showers found here. across central areas too we've got an active low pressure system. especially for the southern end of poland as well as hungary. good spells of sunshine to be found across spain

the places most at risk are vietnam, indonesia, bangladesh, india, and china as well as egypt. >>> in cambodia a trial of genocide has run into problems. the age of the four defendants is raising questions about whether a judgment can ever be reached. >> reporter: the brutal regime was established in the mid-1970s in the war-torn indochina peninsula. it is accused of slaughtering more than 1.7 million people through forced labor and mass killings. the tribunal set up by the united nations and the cambodian government is trying four people who once held senior posts. they include nonchi, second in command to its leader. he was the lead behind the regime's philosophy of forcing millions of people out of the cities to work on communal farms. but the average age of defendants are over 80. they are concerned they are not well enough to stand trial. two of the defendants including nonchi attended a hearing on monday to examine the state of their health. >> translator: even when i'm forced to continue to sit or sleep or watch tv, i can't understand. it means that with these problems, i can't

as well as northeastern india and bangladesh. now for the americas. starting to see the tropical storm move away from bermuda. also the low pressure up in the northeastern u.s. additional rain will come throughout the night. thunderstorms as well. that could certainly bring some additional flooding problems out here. the central areas looking at severe areas to break out. also for montana in the u.s. looking windy. watch out for the stormy conditions. in the eastern u.s., temperatures pretty comfortable. 29 in washington, d.c. fairly cool but does stay hot in the south. houston coming in at 35 degrees. finally taking a look at europe, we're looking at more wet and windy weather to effect much of the british isles today. heavy rain will impact scotland. the rain brisk as well. we're looking for much to effect scandinavia and russia as well. plenty of rain and showers found here. across central areas too we've got an active low pressure system. especially for the southern end of poland as well as hungary. good spells of sunshine to be found across spain

. >> charlie: tanzania, got ma got, and bangladesh. we saw janet from tanzania. why did you choose these stories. what were you trying to tell by the selection of these women and these stories. >> i wanted to show this is a global problem. mortality is in some sun trees they say sixegrees. the highest of course was in south africa and i chose tanzania because it was the countries with the highest rate of mortality inhe world. the president there have been very vocal as a leader amongst the african union on this issue. and so i thought let me choose a country with high burden but also with the political piece in order. i looked to address barriers in each of those territories, in each of these regions and obviously in tanzania thlack of human resources is a big probm but also just the fact that so many women live in rural areas like janet. >> charlie: five miles to a clinic. and the clinic was inadequate that she first went to. >> yes. in those scenarios where you have compilations if you dot have access to emgency obstetric care they really can't do anything for

host: it sits next to india with 1.1 billion people and next to bangladesh with about the same population as pakistan? guest: smaller because they've been better at social planning and controlling the population growth rate. host: when was the first time you set foot in pakistan and what were you doing? guest: that's a great question. i was -- it was 1998. i had just been sent over to india to actually, as a temporary assignment, and was not expecting to stay very long, maybe six months or so. and then this was in the fall of 1998. and i'd never been to the region before although i'd traveled many other parts of the world. and i had only been there something like three weeks, i think when i got a call from my editors who said, you know, the american military has bombed all these militant camps in afghanistan, you've got to rush over and try to cover that story. the only way to afghanistan was through pakistan so i ended up traveling to pakistan and trying to get into afghanistan, which did not work. it was a very tumultuous, confused time, but it was the beginning of what turned out to be

ongoing heavy rain is causing problems in bangladesh as well. traffic has been disrupted in the capital of daka and other parts of the country. t >>> china's ministry of health says that the black vinegar produced in the northern province is safe and meets quality standards. the ministry's response came tuesday after media reports said that excessive food additives and preservatives are used to prepare the product. the black vinegar is a famous condiment in china. the health ministry says all of the ingredients used to prepare the vinegar meet chinese food safety standards. >>> consumption of sake or japanese rice wine has dropped nearly 40% in japan over the past decade. but sake exports have nearly doubled as more japanese restaurants open up abroad. we look at one long established sake brewery's strategy to up exports. >> reporter: this sake marketer gets lessons from a veteran sake brewer. dana works at this brewery, where she is learning the secret behind what makes good sake. the brewery was founded 170 years ago in aki city. last year, th

ongoing heavy rain is causing problems in bangladesh as well. traffic has been disrupted in the capital of daka and other parts of the country. t >>> china's ministry of health says that the black vinegar produced in the northern province is safe and meets quality standards. the ministry's response came tuesday after media reports said that excessive food additives and preservatives are used to prepare the product. the black vinegar is a famous condiment in china. the health ministry says all of the ingredients used to prepare the vinegar meet chinese food safety standards. >>> consumption of sake or japanese rice wine has dropped nearly 40% in japan over the past decade. but sake exports have nearly doubled as more japanese restaurants open up abroad. we look at one long established sake brewery's strategy to up exports. >> reporter: this sake marketer gets lessons from a veteran sake brewer. dana works at this brewery, where she is learning the secret behind what makes good sake. the brewery was founded 170 years ago in aki city. last year, th

one photograph i think it's in bangladesh of at x.x. so a photograph from the cinema and it's a far then he sun walking through the water and i like that at all certain what was very interesting for me more then then appreciating the photography so much was it was interesting to see the chilean the chilean miners photographed and the ground. there were corroded so it speaks a lot about citizen journalism and. we're speaking about citizen jews speaking about awarding prizes well it's not the first time when i ask this question to myself when i see the winners a work in the works winning world press photo is the prize awarded to the picture to the photographic work word to journalism through the story behind the picture. i have been a jury member a few years back and really firstly it's a it's a photographic competition is the quality of the picture the composition but the dates the initial thing it's totally around the photograph and then of course the journalistic value after the fact is as important but really it's a photographic compe

widely quoted saying that one indian for example since it's increased chilled here or bengal from bangladesh i'm sorry one for national was killed here a few days ago when nato was intensely bombing civilian infrastructure and it didn't mention the city we need to structure i want to well they quoted that this for national was a security guard this was misinformation this was not correct it was changed later they have been doing and feeding this psychological war against this country they want tripoli to be in panic that's the whole aim their snipers here that are better attacking people you know i am here no organized snipers attacking people and there's terrorist attacks here this is just meant to cause trauma here and make people and not just the troops ok now the rebels faced annihilation back in march before nato stepped in right now they're approaching it off his strongholds arguably only thanks to coalition air strikes when nato ends its intervention won't that leave a massive military power vacuum in the country or could the alliance be planning to stay just like it's doing in iraq a

without charge or trial by the us we have highlighted over thirty cases that include syria egypt bangladesh morocco pakistan in which british intelligence services have been involved in puce or have been complicit where people have been abused in these countries and we have offered this information to the police. time now to update you on some other international headlines now an update in libya's government describe reports that the youngest son of moammar gadhafi was killed in a nato air strike as a dirty trick rebels claim the twenty eight year old was among the thirty two who died in the raid which the alliance says targeted and ammunition a military police facility and. they may want to get off he was killed along with three grandchildren when a nato bomb hit the house they were. in thailand has its first ever female head of government. has been elected prime minister after her party secured a parliamentary majority she's the sister of former pm he was overthrown in a military coup five years ago he was charged with corruption and fled the country to speculation he might try to come ba

i've learned many more reasons for worrying about climate change some of the better i've been to bangladesh and people are having to flee their farms or road and i've watched people die and gave you were as mosquitoes spread and i've seen the effects in severe weather and drought and flooding and things put some right for me at the beginning it was that sense of loss as much as anything else that drove me started me down this path at the beginning of it was it with a couple of russ's five stages perhaps and if so and of course you know. talk about naive i mean my theory of political change then you'll recall i was twenty seven or twenty eight when i was writing this my theory of political change basically boiled down to i will write a book. everyone will read it and then they'll change right you know i mean i did write the book and you know in comparison to terms everybody read it it came out in twenty four languages it was a bestseller all over the place but it turns out that as i've sort of learned slowly painfully that's not quite how political change exactly happens. you you have also w

without charge or trial by the us we have highlighted over thirty cases that include syria egypt bangladesh morocco pakistan in which british intelligence services have been involved in abuse or have been complicit where people have been abused in these countries and we have offered this information to the police i think the reality would be that once these revelations are made it's true people will be upset it's what the government does about those things anybody would get radicalized if you hear about the types of torture took place however when the government said that they will hold to account those people who were involved in torture and we take them for their word and if the government then goes against that and says that we'll have this session but it's going to be in secret and you won't get to see it and you will get to see those people involved in your torture and then people will lose any support any any idea that the government is actually go to try to him carry out justice. this is. still ahead this hour. a group of muslims trying to enforce sharia law in london opening a new f

take that charge of trial by the us we have highlighted over thirty cases that include syria egypt bangladesh morocco pakistan in which british intelligence services have been involved in or have been complicit where people have been abused in these countries and we have offered this information to the critics can taranaki you can the policy advisor for amnesty international in london says the inquiry announced into the torture allegations is fundamentally flawed and there are a few key reasons why the inquiry is unable to do its job properly and the thrust of these is the rather shocking level of secrecy that surrounded the inquiry much of the inquiry is going to take place behind closed doors and no information will be released to the public without the say so of the government which is very worrying for an inquiry they're supposed to be getting information to the public about about what's been going on very much hope that they will see that there will still be an inquiry which is open and fair and transparent and i think if that there is a full open inquiry and lessons are learned from tha

the other end of the list, the least is papua new guinea, bangladesh and the capital of zimbabwe. >> australia and canada pretty much take care of the top ten spots between them. what i'm interested to know is which country is the top in each region? i'm assuming the united kingdom doesn't come the top of the list because our weather is, frankly speaking, usually atrocious. >> i'm not going to argue with that. you're absolute lit right. we know vienna is the topic in europe. hell sin key in finland takes seventh. in asia, japan's osaka comes in at number 12 ranking. in the middle east is abu dhabi at 78. joe lance berg is africa's most livable city, but that's way down the list at 92. finally, the report found that buenos aries is south america's best place to live overall. it ranked 62nd. so now you know where you need to live. let's turn our attention to what's been going on in the weather picture. a tropical storm swept into southern china on wednesday bringing heavy rains and causing damage. let's get to jen delgado at the cnn weather center. certainly this storm does seem to hav

shipping the money out the same way they shipped out 20,000 customer tech jobs to the philippines and bangladeshis is the time of patriotism in this country, supporting jobs in america, supporting a middle class standard of living from a company among the ten wealthiest companies in this country. we'll never turn this recession around if every company comes and says cut, cut, cut, while they reward those on top. that's what this is about. >> i want, to be fair to read a statement verizon sent out and in part in response to these suggestions that they've been driving at the picket lines, they said "with the strike now in the sixth day our executives are focused on running the company and dealing with issues like network performance and the continual sabotage of our equipment and facilities." you want to respond to that? >> yeah, there's no continual sabotage. they delight in making that the only story line they have. we challenge them to bargain. they strip the workers of the rights, that's what you've done so far, you know you've never bargained like this and never given the dividend five days b

. >> that is right, they can be pulled over for a violation and deported back to bangladesh or mexicoare young people who have no connection to the countries anyway, because they were brought over by their parents. so these are the kids whose home is here and what the administration is doing which is a terrific step is to give those the best of the best the chance to move forward and align themselves with our society and get right by the u llaw. >> and u.s. homeland secretary janet napolitano says if there are people who are serial killers or violent criminals, it is a way to focus on them and get them out of the country. >> we have plenty of those people, and i'm an immigration rights advocate and we have gang members and traffickers and all sorts of low-lives running amok in the country who are illegal and that is what the government needs to focus on and where the pry tirs should be. >> and the critics are coming out from all sides and governor brewer saying it is backdoor amnesty, and others saying that the president obama administration is making this after a group of hola tino c

wealth was made by -- [inaudible] it's not my own doing because you drop in the middle of bang bangladeshor senegal, i'd be a poor farmer. because i just cannot create all the infrastructure that i needed to make my money, yeah? so the smart ones know, and that's why, you know, that he has studies this -- studied this movement of keeping -- [inaudible] so you can debate whether that is necessarily the best use of his money, but still, i mean, he knows that individual productivity is fundamentally collected. it's not just your own doing, yeah? the same person with same skills, same brains can become be very differently productive according to the society that he or she belongs. anyway, i can go on like this, but i haven't got the time to go through all 23 of them. but let me just give you really one or two more. i mean, i could talk about thing four which says the washington has changed the world more than the internet has. this has raised quite a lot of eyebrows. but this one will take a bit of time, so i can get back to it if you're interested. i could also talk about thing 23 where i sa

i want to carry it -- compare them to a woman in bangladesh. she had nothing. there was no government to give her water. there was no disaster medical assistance team to help her but for the americans that showed up. our expectations are way overblown in this country. we have no understanding of risk or probabilities. we don't get that. we go out and buy a lottery ticket when it is $50 million--fifty million to one that you're going to win it is more realistic that you will not be able to get there tomorrow. until we do that by being willing to stand up and tell the truth about what occurred in a major disaster like this, what happened, i am not bound by political correctness or being in the administration. i understand you are miserable in the superdome. you are alive and there is water and health care coming and there is the military coming to get you out. it may not be as fast as you like. may not be as fast as you like but it is coming. a tough thing to say. >> part of what happened was not just a crisis in actuality but no one got ahead of it. >> no one go

institutionally the pakistani army has been this internally troubled since 1971 when they lost bangladeshld. >> and it's going to become more. the demographic time bomb in pakistan is extraordinary. i mean, the rate at which the population is growing. the fact that they can't educate and find jobs for so many of their people. the fact that they're running out of water. i mean, there's a whole lot. >> it's brewing. >> it's brewing, yeah. >> the book is "playing with fire, pakistan at war with itself." pamela constable, fascinating. thanks very much for coming in. >> thanks a lot. >> we'll be right back. f! >>> live pictures right now of nassau, bahamas. that's hurricane irene whipped across that region, barreling down now on the eastern seaboard as well. here with the latest, bill karins. what is it looking like? >> it looks like we're going to get a direct hit. there's really no avoiding it now. the hopes that the storm would go peacefully out to sea and hook away is looking slim now. the storm is a large storm. you know how big the state of florida is and you can sitting right next to fl

it was said writing minutes ago on bangladesh and the families. he said the problem was not so you set up food or such. that it's called entitlements. in other words, people like others have died or some others issues for food development. the longest questions on the african continent. 20s. so that is a big failure. and if it's a failure of african leaders of ourselves. all those included. and how do we resolve the issue of somalia. how do we have a long planning developing system which is harmed and this is not rocket science and we have to prepare now the head and we're trying to talk with other international institutions to submit the whole long term planning for the area but the somali question is about it. there was an issue about land grabs. land grabs, ie, countries for their own people as opposed to growing for their country and domestic markets which is a big difference. i think investing in african agribusiness is something that's workable. because that is being done already in terms of flowers, coffee, tea and the rest of it so why not

they said it a minute ago writing about bangladesh and india on the famine. he said the problem was not your food or such it's entitlement. in other words, a group of people because others have died or some other issues to food development. the failure of policy in the horn of africa is about 8. managing the somali crisis, it's the longest crisis on the african continent. that is a failure. and the failure of african leaders ourselves. and this the beginning point. how do we resolve the issue of somalia. number 2, how to have a long-term planning for the delicate system which is not harmed and that is not rocket science and we are prepared now to work with the head while trying to work with other national institutions to look at the whole long term planning for that area but it supported it. land grabs coming to companies for their own and investing in africa for democracy including the domestic market. i think investing in the business is must be welcomed. in terms of flowers, coffee, tea and the rest of it so why not write? but actually coming to the africa

born in nairobi kenya to english and american parents, goddard lived in somalia, bangladesh, indonesia usa and completed high school in cairo, egypt. after graduating with a b.a. from virginia tech he worked in virginia state government and spent a year teaching english in a high school and friends. while liberal is a fourth-year student virginia tech pursuing an international study degree, goddard was shot four times and was one of seven out of the class of 17 to survive the shooting. goddard had three bullets still in his body as well as a titanium rod implanted in his left femur. working at the brady campaign to prevent gun violence, goddard now uses his experience to educate others about gun violence and the weaknesses in u.s. gun laws. gothard sheered an interview with me -- numerous media outlets radio stations and talk shows and writes a "huffington post" blog. it is documented in the sum -- goddard lives and works in washington d.c. for the brady campaign to prevent gun violence. we will have a debate here and each side will speak for 18 minutes followed with a four minute rebu