no one where i witnessed anything like it not in calcutta. the voiceless children silenced by hunger the bodies burned at night leaving i don't trace. descending the drum hills i turned off the main road following signs and i language lost before i was born. this was land observe the land was renamed and hushed. what was left for me, generations gone. a purfume of smoke freshened my nostrils. pastures reached to the head of the bay. thick roads where locals greeted with slowly raised hands or a nod of a cap to my car the postcard my eye framed in it's longing. moony's pub where i stopped for a pint and slipped my quest. so, you are a to bein accomodating my english. they're all about here. she showed the photograph with dark hair and features unlike my own but a resemblance of an uncle. what was the ring happened on my chance or grace. why not trace through lost norman crests or track dna to tribes 6,000 years gone from the banks. or further back through each human cell to african eve her grunts are tuning savannahs. i felt the gift shared fr

the accident occurred when one train headed to calcutta collided with a stationary train. the carriage as most affected were the ones at the back, filled to capacity with low fare-paying customers, many of them headed to the city after a weekend at home. local residents were first at the scene, helping to carry out the injured. many have stayed on to help rescue workers and security forces that have been sent in. it is still not clear what caused the crash. an investigation is due to be launched to try to determine why both trains were on the same track and whether it is human error or failure of the system. >> for many of the poor in india, home ownership is a dream that is like -- has long been beyond their reach, but for the lucky few, that is about to change. the government wants the private sector to build more cheap housing, and favor coming forward with innovative ways. >> he sells chinese food at his store. the street food brings in a decent living. he does not know exactly how much he earns, but he has still been able to get the loans, and that has allowed him to

the accident occurred when the express which was headed to calcutta collided with the stationary express. the carriages worst affected were the ones at the back, filled to capacity with low-fare paying passengers. many of them headed into the city after a weekend at home. local rezz departments were first at the scene helping to carry out the injured. many have stayed on to help the rescue workers and security forces that have been sent in. it's still not clear what caused the crash. an investigation is due to be launched to try and determine why both trains were on the same track and whether it was human error or a failure of equipment. bbc news, delhi . >> staying in india, so many of the to indians homeownership has long been about their reach but for a lucky few it's about to change. the government wants the private sector to bill more cheap housing. companies are coming away to with ways to make the sums add up. >> chinese food at his stall, a good patch and it brings in a decent living. he doesn't know exactly how much he earns, but he's still been able to get a loan and that's all

people died after a speeding express train collided with a passenger train at a station north of calcutta. the force of the crash was so intense. you can see the roof of one car flew into the air and landed on the overpass above the tracks. at least 125 others were injured and workers are using heavy equipment to cut through the metal officials believe the crash could be a case of sabotage. two months ago the rebels were blamed for a derailment that killed 14 5 people. >>> tonight engineers are detecting small levels of methane gas from the cap that stopped the oil leak in the gulf of mexico. they are monitoring it closely, but now washington is considering piping it to the surface. it would ease pressure on the fragile well, but it would require up to three more days of oil spilling into the gulf. abc's john handron reports from the louisiana coast. >> the associated press is reporting all clean up officials are concerned the capped well may be leaking methane gas. de despite that -- despite that, they see encouraging signs to the on going -- so the on going well integrity test will cont

an express train slammed into a passenger train at a station 125 miles north of calcutta. at least 56 people were killed, 125 others injured. two passenger cars were destroyed. railway officials say sabotage may have been involved. >>> now to the mexican drug wars. a brutal and deadly weekend attack even by drug cartel standards. drug hitmen stormed a birthday party in northern mexico on sunday and in the words of a local prosecutor, shot everything that moved. bill whitaker has details. >> reporter: even in a country grown almost numb to drug violence, this was shocking. a massacre at a party in the northern mexico city of torreon. witnesses say gunmen broke down the door and open fire, killing 17 partygoers, including young children and women, and wounding at least 18 others. this on the heels of a massive car bomb explosion thursday that killed three people, including a police officer and a medical technician, on the streets of juarez, just across the border from el pass sew, texas. investigators believe it was remotely detonated with a cell phone. the first time in mex

about 2:00 in the morning when an express train slammed into a stationary train about 125 miles from calcutta. railway police said 35 people were taken to the hospital and more appeared to be trapped in the train. the times of india has reported at least 50 people were killed. paper said three coaches were managed and the express train was crashed. >>> mexico, they are investigating a shooting rampage that killed 17 people and westbound wounded at least 18 more. official say a group armed with automatic rifles arrived in several cars and opened fire without saying say word. they found more than 120 bullet kayings and suspect that the gunmen were drug hitmen, though it's unclear who is behind the attack. the area a key transit location for smuggling routes into the united states. >>> in china, heavy rain and flooding in central china have killed hundreds and left another 30 missing. the flooding has left porshes of the region surrounded by water and causing buildings to collapse. almost 6 million people across 62 countries have been evacuated as a result of the floods. this follows flooding on