i was educated in brazil.t to the united states because the united states was the only place where i could fulfill my scientific dreams. and then i got to ten years ago, i look in the mirror and said, it's about time to give something back to the place that allow me this journey. this is our main institute for brain research in the natal project. the north is to brazil in 2002 when we first landed here had the worst human development index of brazil. as a whole. and you had pockets of poverty in this region that you couldn't believe it. go for me it's a sense of equity, of you know, there are too many lives in sao paolo, already. if you put it here, you are making something really unique. >> we thought that it would be fundamental to demonstrate that we could bring to natal, to the northeast of brazil, infrastructure of this caliber and start producing science that can compete with any neuroscientific institute in the world. >> we want it establish a different type of model of science. science as an agent of s

brazil has its own stuff with soy and ethanol. poverty level, this is fascinating and this is the signature of economic accomplishment which is the poverty level in venezuela goes from 62% to 32%, which is 30 percentage point drop. >> that's gdp, not including the massive social spending. doesn't include health care. that's just gd. p it's amazing. >> please. >> no. >> i want to turn to the role chavez played in the world. part of the reason americans know chavez is because he was one of the most valuable and invisible critics of the bush presidency. and also just played this on the world stage. kate and i have been married for 15 years. that's 3 moves, 5 jobs, 2 newborns. it's no wonder i'm getting gray. but kate -- still looks like...kate. with nice'n easy, all they see is you -- in one simple step, nice'n easy with colorblend technology, gives expert highlights and lowlights. for color that's perfectly true to you. i don't know all her secrets, but i do know kate's more beautiful now, than the day i married her. with the expert

in the world cup, qualifiers for brazil 2014. germany wrapped up another win over kazakhstan. the two sides only met days ago. germany came how 3-0 winners. >> yesterday on their home turf, germany went bigger, bagging four goals and three more points. >> it was a comfortable victory despite a nervous start. germany struggled to penetrate as extend's defense, but after. >> completed an onslaught to make it 3-04 germany. they were firmly in command. >> it was totally out of order that the spectators started whistling. >> germany was spurred back into action but could not convert their chances, hitting the post and crossbar no fewer than six times. >> lap it up in the first half so it was o.k. even the the second half was not as good as the first. >> germany take another step on the road to brazil. >> that victory since germany's spot at the top of group c. they are eight points ahead, and qualification is looking very safe, but there is a tight battle for the second spot between austria, sweden, and the republic of ireland. >> let's look at some of the other results. belgium's

brazil has the largest alcohol importer.have a great partner that will do a great job for us down there. liz: crown imports. we have the department of justice out-of-the-way. how is that deal progressing. >> we are still in litigation. i cannot say too much about it. we did do a revised deal. we continue to work on getting that approved. liz: when you think that will happen? >> hard to say right now. the jobs numbers really surprised in a meaningful way to the upside. what matters to you when it comes to deciding whether you a higher? do you look at that labor group are very closely or do you look at what is happening in the markets? >> we make the decision based on what is going on in our business. if we are expanding and we need people, then we hire. if we do not, we don't. >> our influence is pretty stable at the current time. we do have openings. we are hiring. we definitely are not in the office that mode. it is pretty much business as usual for us. by the way, we are rolling through all the consolation brands that you

these black tropical birds call to counseling even brazil. watching them fly is a sheer delight. they have very beautiful beaks to the trouble those dead they play dirty tricks much stealing people's fruit. but some traces of their previous life in latin america can be found in the households of the old believers this colombian machete is made of very good steel you can see a dove pictured on it others bear pictures of monkeys such for saudis are no good at all. machete is the weapon of south american tribes they have no gums a native picks up a machete. that here and goes. on you know what i call the machete especially came in handy when they were being deprived of their land they used in a very effective way. of rolling as they locked them all for their machetes and takes the chickens head off and one girl. clothing sends a readily identifiable social signal to community members. they instantly know who's who is the person is from their midst or an outsider. the length of their dresses trousers and shirt sleeves is strictly regimented they should cover most of the body facial h

in the world cup, qualifiers for brazil 2014. germany wrapped up another win over kazakhstan. the two sides only met days ago. germany came how 3-0 winners. >> yesterday on their home turf, germany went bigger, bagging four goals and three more points. >> it was a comfortable victory despite a nervous start. germany struggled to penetrate as extend's defense, but after. >> completed an onslaught to make it 3-04 germany. they were firmly in command. >> it was totally out of order that the spectators started whistling. >> germany was spurred back into action but could not convert their chances, hitting the post and crossbar no fewer than six times. >> lap it up in the first half so it was o.k. even the the second half was not as good as the first. >> germany take another step on the road to brazil. >> that victory since germany's spot at the top of group c. they are eight points ahead, and qualification is looking very safe, but there is a tight battle for the second spot between austria, sweden, and the republic of ireland. >> let's look at some of the other results. belgium's

until once he went to brazil where he shaved off his beard. he said he had lost it because of stress. truly he was going crazy with the approach of old age but he had feeling towards the community he found everything about it and real grind. he's liked it into from gaza for. getting. old believer couples have difficulty getting divorced as a rule their wedlock is not officially registered. don't think that official papers apply to them they can be divorced but only in the country where they got married. it takes forty minutes for dirt to bake and a russian stove that's the way we did it in brazil and uruguay this tradition is held up by recipe handed down from generation to generation i just i can't even remember how i learned the scale but that's how bread was made all over russia in the old days. the girls are doing embroidery not all of the patterns are traditional given that they spend most of their young lives in latin america some of the patterns that reflect on why in the motifs however most of them are based on russian folklore i have.

brazil russia india china and south africa also greenlighted a new mammoth crisis fund and into they would ditch the dollar let's hear more on the commitments now from pissing off he's at the summit in durban so you've got some very ambitious plans laid out today tell us more about them. some major long term plans are being drawn up here in south africa at the brics summit and well one of the plans is that the five member states of the organization have agreed to establish a joint anti crisis fund possibly reaching one hundred billion dollars although the details are still being worked out currently it's planned so that the how much each country will have to chip in to this fund will directly. directly be connected to each of g.d.p. but talks on this project will continue to the next g twenty summit in washington when an ambitious project for an ambitious organisation for the past twenty years the five member states of this organization have been the most rapidly developing economies in the world currently it's thought that they're growing faster around seven times faster than those

that create a month to the brics countries so if you talk about let's say for example between say brazil and india this is this is small compared to where the relationship between china and brazil for example so you know while we can talk about equal partners but i think we have to accept the fact that it is their m.b. that is playing a dominant feature now there are some critics who look at this whole thing in the say that the west and the established authority isn't taking kindly to the brics they're seeing them as kind of like the new kids on the block and they could work to undermine that influence what's your take on that. i mean obviously i think it's the report mentioned just now we are talking about a group of countries that represent huge portion of mankind so in that sense you know they should be taken seriously and i think a given the growth that they have although they have slowed down you know over the last year or so but be still the most important sources of economic growth so i think the developed countries that do not take the bricks seriously maybe might be worth the pr

and brazil boasts the largest catholic community in the world. what are they looking for in a new pope? ego to rio de janeiro to find out --we go -- we go to rio de janeiro to find out. welcome to our viewers on public television in america and also around the globe. late today in caracas, venezuela's acting president said that hugo chavez's body will lie in state for at least another seven days. then his body is to be embalmed and permanently displayed in a glass casket. foreign leaders are arriving in venezuela ahead of the state funeral which is due to take place tomorrow. the bbc's katty kay -- katty kay is in the capital. what's the latest? >> it is a little bit chaotic. you have all of these foreign dignitaries flying into the country. two u.s. congressmen are here as well as 33 heads of state, all expecting a massive state funeral tomorrow. the government has decided that so many venezuelans want to pay their last respects to hugo chavez, to see his body lying in state, that they are going to extend this period that his body is lying in st

welcome across town where all things considered i'm going to relive though can the brics countries brazil russia india china and south africa reinvent the international system can they collectively challenge the hegemony of western dominated trade and finance or do they merely want to greater say in how the world is run and for whom. to cross out the bricks i'm joined by yet a slightly so bola here in moscow he's the chief economist at deutsche bank russia in washington we have brian becker he is the national coordinator for the answer coalition and in new york we cross to and we she is an adjunct professor at new york university and the author of the book what the u.s. can learn from china crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it yourself when i go to you first do the brics want to take on the west is that kind of relationship they have. well i think not necessarily but in some respects it seems as this is the trend in terms of the recent policy measures that we're seeing from the brics one of the measures is to combine the foreig

a long time dominance of the greenback and the euro in global trade so-called brics countries brazil russia india china and south africa working to reinforce the cloud of the world's fastest growing economies. is at the summit in the south african city of durban joining us live with more so you're going to tell us more about this agreement agreement between china brazil. china and brazil have decided there and reached a deal basically to conduct nearly half of the payments between each other in their national currencies the total to return over between the two nations currently stands at around seventy five billion euros dollars now another project currently being worked on here at the bric summit in south africa and has already been agreed in principle is the future establishment of a joint development bank possibly with a starter capital of around fifty billion u.s. dollars and why is all of this happening well the five members of the brics organisation for the past two decades have been the most rapidly developing economies in the world and they do want to trade freely and how we

thank you for joining us here on arts for you today emerging market giants china and brazil have agreed to trade the equivalent of up to thirty billion dollars per year but in their current sees that the move is a bit challenging the long time dominance of the greenback and the euro in global trade and the so-called brics nations brazil russia india china and south africa but all been working to reinforce the clout of the world's fastest growing economies now let's have a look at some of the figures that truly illustrate their rapid rise here together these countries account for more than a quarter of the world's land masses that is no small plot and they represent around three billion people that's about forty percent of the world's population and almost a fifth of the global trade as well now economically speaking at the brics spoke me looking to have been doing better i should say should do a lot better than the g.d.p. compared to other members of the g seven countries that's including the us germany and japan its economic growth in two thousand and twelve almost five times higher th

brazil, and russia, south africa supported the world economy during the global financial crisis. all five are experiencing slower growth. leaders are striking deals on the sidelines. they doa diverse group, not always see eye to wide. that is something the russian president wants to change. syria and afghanistan are expected to be discussed. there are calls for them to look at development broadly. >> industrialization in africa does not have to follow the recipe followed by other parts of the world. directly, androg did not address the needs for thatyment -- and through address the needs for employment. >> the expectations of the summits are high. it could be the first tangible evidence that these countries can work together for a common purpose. >> italy's foreign minister has resigned following a dispute with india. the marines are accused of shooting dead to local fishermen off the coast. they say they mistook them for pirates. we have the latest from around. >> the prime minister offered his resignation in front of parliament. he was not willing to take the brunt of the anger

and tonight, we are in brazil on the search for the jaguar. an invisible cat with skull-cracking jaws. and we'll meet the men who devote their lives to finding these elusive beasts. >> keep it right here, >>> happy friday, all. if you try to lose those 10, 20, 30 pounds, what provides stronger motivation? modelled bodys as a line of your finish line? or does a look of like-bodied strivers help you focus on the goal. tonight we focus on the new kind of gym where all the members have a the latter in common and they know what it's like. alec perez. >> reporter: in a culture that values thin, the debate is on fire. from plus-sized models posing for the cameras to sur voracious superstars like adele, belting it out and winning an oscar for "skyfall." plus size is going mainstream with clothing stores that market cute clothes to big girls. >> i think in today's world, when there's so many positive role models out there, octavia spencer, adele, melissa mccarthy from "graibridesmaids." kate upton is a swimsuit model famous for her curves. is there sti

terry gilliam's brazil where a due to a typo there was a you know the state went after an individual and then the robert de niro character who's kind of operating in the elevator shaft of this dystopian nightmare is out there pulling a stunt where he would go into oh and any would reverse the sewage pipe with the air pipe so that the apartment was flooded with sewage now i suggest that down there in omaha nebraska headquarters of warren buffett's berkshire hathaway charlie munger the biggest shareholder of wells fargo somebody reverse the pipes with the oxygen in the sewage because al is the major shareholder of wells fargo and they come out and made any statement or destroy monger going to make one of his commentary goes well too bad you killed yourself in your family because of a typo suck it up so kudos all right stay sober thanks much bigger because a report thank you don't go away much more coming why so stay right there. toward the shoe faces of freedom fighter. ready to clean up and. free. not. to be free to sway. and if you. couldn't take three school children three major and

and brazil and switzerland and others but finally the b.r.g. just b.o.j. just said we're going to trash the end so it became a little bit obvious but people still don't like to talk about it in exactly those words so you have that on the guard head of the i am not saying well we don't have the kind of sewer we have kind of see where he's you have barry eichengreen leading scholar of the exchange rate say well it's not a county war it's a stimulus war on i question for barry will be will barry how do you get the stimulus you got to buy cheap in your county so it's still a congress who are. coming out saying the less said about this the better it's an exact quote so you get everyone sort of they're using euphemisms but it's economists who are plain and simple isn't this a classic prisoner's dilemma situation the the national equilibrium as it's called they're all in the interrogation room and they're all claiming they don't have responsibility but all it takes is for one to center and you have a ripple effect and then you have i mean you have to almost go ba

or more a way of living and to brazil of their own culture it's only a matter of time before the village gets demolished for the forty eighth time and the people living here hope for more than just the guinness book of world records will take note policy r t r keep village in the negev desert. where turn vanguard waves up next with our latest sports news stay with us here on r.t. . they've been living this way since the seventeenth century. their rituals are strict. their communities on the syllabus. they clearly missed english between their own and the alien. and guard their family and things in the trash. go. hello and welcome to the anti sports show with me richard bump or bleeds over the next thirty minutes we'll bring you all the news from russia and abroad but it starts with the headlines. in our piece seven point lead at the top of the russian a premier league second place angie drop points in their first man should be a new stadium. california dreaming maria sharapova rushes caroline wozniacki to claim her first title of the year the indian wells open and returns to number two in

brazil, about 200 million in population there. russia, about 143 million, then south africa, the most recent country to join the bric's, 52 million. altogether the world's population and when you think about the size of those economies, that is $13 trillion those combined countries are all worth. the growth rates are interesting. it you look at these sorts of even, india, 5.4%, and south africa, of any country in europe would be thrilled to have a growth rate like that. said,rd from one analyst despite the growth figures that you cannot write off the bric nations. , so some of these guys have slowed down, but they're still growing rapidly compared to developed countries. and the have large populations, something like 40% of the global population. populations large with developing consumer pockets. >> the former president of then described it running state as "dancing on the heads of snakes." he is no longer in power, but many showed up to celebrate his 75th birthday. the former president of yemen turning 71 years old today. is the

in brazil come 90% of the country declared to be catholic. in 2010, only 65%. they are losing half a million catholics every year that is also happening in africa and in latin america. there are new powers that are competing and displacing the mega players. >> no more dc this then in the middle east. -- do you see this than in the middle east. it is time for the latest in our series looking at the impact of art. the u.s. education system has been focused on sciences, but the research shows that being exposed to the arts can help children do better in all subjects. even the likelihood that they will stay in school for logger . we have been to the orchard gardens pilot school to see the results firsthand. >> it sounds like a script from a hollywood movie. take a failing school, introduce the performing arts, and you will see that transformation take place. of course, it is not quite that easy. 8 years ago, this was a very different school. violence was normal and children carried weapons. no teachers stayed for long. this was 1 of the troublemakers. he said, art

and not only in brazil but also in the united states, it's a moment in which the church has finally identified you know what? you're there. and for latin americans, it's not only a moment of vindication, it's a moment of acceptance and understanding that they are important to the church's future. you have to understand that 420 million latin americans make up the catholic church. and in the united states, there's about 40 million catholics that are hispanics. it's more than a symbolic gesture. it says something that a pope can now speak in their native tongue, can speak spanish, can really relate to a church that in the united states has been struggling to fill the pews. if you look at the catholics in the united states, 40% -- 47% of catholics in the united states are young, and they're hispanic. and not only are they the future of the church they're the now of the church. and so now having a leader that is known as being the people's pastor, being a universal pastor, someone that can really even bring people back to the pews is something that if you speak to a lot of the leaders o