man: ...delhi and the delhi metropolitan area are down...rator: the national capital region plan board is attempting to solve some of these problems. it has formulated a comprehensive plan for the entire capital region. in order to provide a congenial living environment, delhi cannot be planned in isolation, individually. it has to be planned in the context of a much larger area, which is the national capital region. narrator: the plan will work to extend the capital region to 20 times the current size of metropolitan delhi. within the new capital region, it is hoped that newly created satellite cities might help delhi's overburdened infrastructure. new arrivals could settle in these cities rather than add to the squatter camps on delhi's outskirts. these satellite cities are supposed to be connected by an expanded rail and highway system, but so far there's been little progress. daniere: most places in the world have been extremely unsuccessful at diverting growth from the main urban centers because they don't accompany or are not able to a

international banking system and that's not all they're doing we'll take you to the break summit and you delhi. cyber threat will equal or should counterterrorism in the foreseeable future. be afraid be very afraid from hacktivist of foreign threats it appears the u.s. had is out god and when it comes to cyber war coming up next a former f.b.i. agent shows us just how tangled the web of security really is making like ten thousand dollars bonus they were last year big deal when they're making still like ten or twenty times more than nine hundred sixty eight groups and if that anger that's making many americans question the u.s. economic model so is it time to go back to the drawing board and rethink our fiscal future. it's thursday march twenty ninth five pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our team. well it's a meeting of the world's five fastest growing economies they have come to be known as the brics that is brazil russia india china and south africa and they just wrapped up their annual summit in new delhi now the alliance is proving to be a force to be reckoned wit

the man in new delhi shouted for freedom for tibet, as he set himself on fire.resident hu will attend a two-day summit of the countries known as brics, brazil, russia, india, china, and south africa. the summit will open on wednesday, with the world's media focused on new delhi, protests by tibetans in india may escalate. fumio sugaya, nhk world, new delhi. >>> bangladesh achieves a lot with very little. the south asian nation has been notching up economic growth of around 6% annually all while about 60% of the rural population lives without electricity, and to improve their lot, some bangladeshis are making their own electricity by reinventing the wheel. nhk world's parvun chowdbury reports. >> reporter: in no electricity village they choose to generate electricity which bicycle. public transportation is virtually non-existent in the village in central bangladesh. with a population around 9,000, bicycles are everywhere. a team of japanese engineering researchers recently wondered whether these bikes could be used to make power. bicycles are cheap and easily obt

international banking system and that's not all they're doing well take you to the great summit in new delhi another making like ten thousand dollars. they were munched your big deal when they're making you still like twenty times more than i am makes me angry and it's that anger that's making many americans question the u.s. economic model and a country where the gap between rich and for has never been more wide is it time to go back to the drawing board to rethink our fiscal future. for age understand. look forward to the way we're going. and he's the only woman on. solution. which we plan to try to change a baby's seventy six but this presidential candidate sure knows how to get the youth all fired up and they're not the only ones marching in lockstep with ron paul military veterans armed with support so so what's appealing about him and what will happen to his voters if he doesn't win the nomination. it's thursday march twenty ninth four pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our team. well it's a meeting of the world's five fastest growing economies they've come to

the five member blocks of the brics countries are meeting in delhi today to discuss an alternative to the almighty euro and dollars in dare to reform to global economy . noon in moscow i'm not treasurer good to have you with us here on r t our top story this hour tens of thousands across spain are gathering for a general strike to protest against new labor of forms and seen as the first real test for the new prime minister mariano rajoy who was government has only been in office three months the strike comes a day before he's expected to announce more painful austerity cuts or he's jacob greaves is live for us in madrid we'll have him a little later in the program with an update but stay with us though i was we bring you up to the minute coverage of the spanish strike throughout the day and for more videos and analysis you can always head over to our team dot com here's what's online for you right now. for petrol drivers in the u.k. hit the pumps after being warned of a possible fuel tanker strike and. facebook faceoff some u.s. employers asked people to hand over social network passw

leaders of those countries for the next two days russian president dmitry medvedev landed here in delhi early this morning by lateral meeting on the sidelines of the brics summit the russian president and president hu were discussing syria both leaders have said that they backed kofi annan plan for a cease fire in syria but leaders have said that they don't want president assad to step down which is something that western powers have been saying another country that the two of them have been talking about is iran both countries have repeatedly said russia and china that they are again think sions on iran be able leave that iran is developing a peaceful nuclear program obviously there are a lot of things to talk about between china and russia one of the key things being trade in recent years china has asserted itself as russia's biggest foreign trading partner actually laughter trade between china and russia increased by forty percent reaching eighty three point five billion dollars one major proposal here that's said to be at the top of the agenda for all of these countries is an altern

world's top the merchants part of these personal russia india china and south africa are here in new delhi to discuss their strategic partnership together these five countries account for purity percent of the world's population right now they are expected to make up almost impossible to global treaty in the next eight years by twenty twenty many analysts are predicting that because of these countries rolling economies they're actually going to have more clout in the political realm is bluff now we're seeing many of these countries russia and china for example getting up to last year in front street on major issues that are going on in the world like syria russia and china recently with both sides that they value the u.n. secretary general a whole fiance plans for a cease fire in syria we're also seeing the issue of iran many works countries are standing up on that issue as well we have india china and russia that are saying that the western sanctions on iran are not going to work earlier this year the brics countries were also talking about bailing out europe up from their financial crisi

new delhi india. all the tragic case of trayvon martin a seventeen year old boy fatally shot in florida has highlighted the debate over america's gun laws but it seems that the momentum and america is on the side of gun rights not gun restrictions and for much of the country the right to bear arms is anonymous with liberty and if guns mean freedom virginia just got a whole lot more free last month a say repeal the law restricting handgun purchases to one every thirty days as our artie's lucy captain of reports. just across the river from the nation's capital virginia a slice of traditional american green spaces and trying to form lands on offer refuge from urban life a place where red white and blue is displaying with pride but here the symbol of liberty isn't just a flag it's this. it definitely is a sign of freedom you know to be able to own one and until now one was all you could buy in virginia every thirty days the law was supposed to curb gun trafficking but many here failed to curb freedom inst

nhk world, delhi. >>> now in pakistan, severe shortages of fuel are causing misery for consumers. as one solution, pakistan decided in early february to press ahead with a controversial gas pipeline from iran, despite u.s. criticism. as the obama administration tries to isolate iran because of its nuclear program. as nhk world reports, the energy situation in pakistan is becoming increasingly desperate. >> reporter: a long line of vehicles in islamabad. the line stretches more than 4 kilometers. they are desperate to buy not gasoline, but natural gas. >> i've been waiting since this morning. i'm worried the situation may get even worse. >> reporter: about six out of ten vehicles in pakistan rely on natural gas. so governments have built the nation's energy policy around the fuel. but supplies have become increasingly unreliable. militants have blown up pipelines and government finances are in disarray. [ chanting ] >> reporter: the situation has sparked public protests. gas prices have been rising about 10% a month. anger was fueled even more by an offshore policy of favoring gove

on the other side of delhi the sidewalks outside his private hospital are clear of wine when they. arise recovering from his operation and pay thirty dollars a day for a bed in this private hospital he says the extra cost is worth it it's easier to get treated here and also i get the medicine on time many say the indian government is actually widening the gap between rich and poor in there at philippi to access health care by offering tax incentives and subsidized plan to private hospitals in the hope of attracting medical tourists from abroad many indians believe however the government should focus on getting health care to its own people first particular state or government has succeeded in putting in they had a good number of doctors there is no won't go that far more resources are required to significantly leg incapacities in translating those resources and direction. as a nation are rising well on his way to a full recovery go paul saying is losing hope experts say it's down to the government to take care of the poor in india society but as long as the country's public health

how delhi mother could be opposed to a boy for egypt's revolution young educated a t.v. talk show host and politically active he was among those whose protests on the two square toppled the regime of president mubarak last year but like many others who were on the streets with him he doesn't feel things in egypt have changed for the best result. we were in against mubarak as a person we were against the whole system against oppression and justice a lot of scare so they were program illusion their actions sure they are applying the same techniques used by him or. the ruling military council or scouts replaced hosni mubarak who rejections accused of corruption and nepotism economic mismanagement and human rights abuse but a thorough look at scarfs policies until the situation eerily similar if not worse now you get proper sort of suspended with live ammunition in a sort of rubber bullets as was the case in the courts you get legal strikers who get very fertile militantly buglers of the courts in the last year you have more than thirteen thousand egyptian citizens who got p

dollar as a reserve currency are two of their main objectives it's pretty sure it is i live in new delhi to give us details on this here on the program so what have we been hearing so far from the leaders. that's right as you mentioned the leaders from the five of leading emerging economies in the world brazil russia india china south africa are all here in new delhi for the fourth annual brics summit russian president dmitri medvedev actually just held a bilateral meeting with the indian prime minister manmohan singh just wrapped up and there have been a lot of things on the agenda one of the main themes of this year's summit is how these growing economic powers are also starting to have more political clout on major international issues like syria just yesterday actually russian president dmitry medvedev also had a bilateral meeting with the chinese chairman. and again we saw russia and china saying that they back a cease fire in syria they want peace in syria but they don't expect president assad to step down they don't want him to step down like many of the western leaders have said

spending remains among the lowest in the world it is doomed to lag behind preassure either r t new delhi india. about it back with a quick recap of today's headlines and just a couple of men stick with us. the . question is that so much money which of course is right on a busy day is the republican party going along just march to november is very likely former massachusetts governor mitt romney will eventually capture the. emission free accreditation free. for charges free amazement three. three. free. old free lunch can plug in video for your media projects and free media don carty dot com. this respectable british gentleman's choice was. please jackets and old whiskey. a much younger wife. and more than twenty years of intelligence service. of the soviet union. killed his choice on party. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else.

lender and stepping away from the dollar as a reserve currency all among the main objectives in new delhi is artie's preassure . leaders from the five of leading a merging economies in the world brazil russia india china south africa are all here in new delhi for the fourth annual bric summit of russian president dmitry medvedev held a bilateral meeting with the indian prime minister manmohan singh there have been a lot of things on the agenda one of the main themes of this year is it is how these growing economic powers are also starting to have more political clout on major international issues like syria and again we saw russia and china saying that they've backed a cease fire in syria they want peace in syria but they don't expect president assad to step down they don't want him to step down like many of the western leaders have said let's take a little listen to what the russian president had to say. one of the priorities for brics for the years to come should be the strengthening of the u.n. security council. peace and security and also ensuring that the u.n. is not used as a cover

this village on the banks of the yemena river in delhi got power just a year and a half ago. before that, we used to live in darkness, says rukhsana, who has lived here 33 years. it used to be so dark, it used to feel we were living in a well. now we have light, a tv, a dish, a mobile phone charger. it feels like we've reached the moon. almost a decade ago, india set itself an ambitious target, power for all by 2012. that hasn't happened. india needs a huge jump in the supply of electricity, and it's now pursuing every option -- wind power, solar power, and nuclear energy too. currently, india gets only 3% of its power from nuclear sources. the goal is to increase that and lower its dependence on coal and gas. india's nuclear plans are facing some opposition, especially after the fukushima accident in japan, but the indian government insists it will continue with its nuclear program. it will just make sure it has a much higher safety standard. it insists it's the only way to light up every village, every home in india. mallika kapur, cnn, delhi, india. >>> let's hone in on an

from the dollar and moving away from the euro another huge thing on the agenda here in delhi was the idea of a joint rich bank that could serve as an alternative to the western large traditional pay anshul institutions like the international monetary fund and the world bank is pretty sure to reporting right mind you can catch up with more analysis on developments from the brics summit by just going to also you've got com here's a few of the other items are lined up for you on our web site right now. to the kremlin or our voices from the past republican presidential hopeful mitt romney or rock obama's foreign policy putting america's national security in danger. to ride news in the storm the first ever post so called snowmobile race in siberia spectators a chance to. life in the far north spectacular footage that to be seen as he told. the west african leaders are in mali trying to find a way to restore order after last week's military coup several thousand people protested in the capital bamako against what they see as foreign interference in that country the takeover was led by sold

they gave indians a chance to sample it in new delhi. japanese brewery staff serve sake to indian restaurant operators and government officials. one brewery offered a kind of sake that's considered the peak of the grower's craft. it also served a liquor made by plumbs in sake. >> sake is easy to drink, it doesn't hurt your throat, your tongue. >> translator: the indian market has great potential. i have high expectations here. >> and that's all for now. i'm sheri ahn. join us again at the top of the next hour. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ >>> i'm taro the parakeet. i'm a girl. my owner did not know if i was a boy or girl when i was little. today we have been invited to a halloween party. my real voice sounds like this. [ tweets ] >> it's talking. >> as young as i may look, i'm actually already 43, quite old, huh? we large-sized parakeets and parrots live very long. it's normal for us to live 30 to 70 years and some of us can live to be 100. but because of our longevity, we suffer separation from our owners. and many of us have

all day today all right thanks very much art to his prius free to live for us in new delhi.well in the next hour he speaks with the chairman of the world's biggest commodities trading company thinks the chinese industrial boom will eventually be phased out take a listen. to romans china on a comparison basis is certainly doing better than everyone else so but whether that's going to lead the world forever or have i don't think so i don't think that we have history going into it like china said free china is a manufacturing company at the day and benefiting from manufacturing the manufacturing is what really leads to prosperity in the western world has swung away from manufacturing into service industries and that is i was also having huge dogs of inflation over the years i'm talking about europe and america china is going through its industrial revolution equivalent doing fantastically well but also feeling the beginnings of inflation growing cost base and over the next twenty years we may well see the chinese manufacturing moves offshore to places like cambodia vietnam and

here is part of the delhi declaration. one is a pact on credit facility in local currency and the other is a multilateral letter of credit confirmation pact. these two agreements have been signed and our understanding is that this will reduce transaction costs and facilitate trade developments. so this is something that's already been done. the bric development bank that everybody's been talking about, all countries are said to be committed to that bank. it will be on the line of the abb, for instance. and they've talked about how they will put together a working group to examine the feez 57b89 feez and of the development bank and the finance companies will meet next year. so crucial movement as far as the development bank is concerned and two key agreements being signed to enhance development. even, even though these are the fastest growing economies, trade has been a big disappoint. so the effort really has been how to get countries like russia and china to engage who are bilaterally and as a multilateral groups, as well

the residents of this slum in south delhi have no idea that the routes they live on air are contaminated with a toxic mineral called i think that's joe's once widely used in building projects for insulation against heat and fires today but since it's banned in fifty two countries around the world because of its proven dangers. posed by blue and white this business by booth was. like asbestos the missile to yuma one can fit in fact ready to go but it isn't as this these it be to me. but it's still being used in india and studies show that it could kill as many as one million people in developing countries in the next eight years the indian government has banned the mining of a spot but the importing in manufacturing of it is still legal and is growing economy has led to a construction boom and alternatives to a spot souce cost almost double that's why many indians believe it's worth it despite the health risks because of us so save for caution three guy is one of the three million people involved in the eight hundred fifty million dollar a year business in india he's been selling its best

idea cards allowing an easier access to basic services but authorities priya sridhar reports from new delhi there are fears a project could turn the country into a police state. it's been entirely theban teen years but he still can't get access to benefits because it's ration card is registered back home for those like him india has come up with a twenty first century solution. cross that has begun to get every indian fingerprints and iris scans in one massive d.d.p. this code can be used for various purposes like answering the question codes and receiving russian is will solve the consulate carrying many documents that should make sure everyone can receive the help they need wherever they are one thirty am is all it will take if the new idea project goes as planned it will be the largest collection of. io metric data in the world the indian government is hoping that the twelve digit numbers will allow indians to be more mobile and personal work where ever they want by tying them to a centralized database so that they can open a bank account get a cellphone or get rations anywhere in the co

west to make their livelihoods even though it might cost them their lives preassure either r t new delhi india. and it's our sure joining us now with all the leaders from the world with business how are the markets looking right now well not too many positive news this hour it's pretty much all the doom and gloom everything is calling or oil gold the equities but of course this hour we're especially watching or oil as it has slipped and to read essential mainly on concerns that global economic recovery is not going to be a surprise but also saudi arabia the biggest oil exporter is boosting its production essentially easing concerns related to overdraw as its basis tough tough sanctions over its nuclear program and the european equity markets are also a sea of red pretty much across the board the footsie is losing value as you can see there the only stock that's managing to buck the downward trend is vodafone and that's is also down as you can see now into the currencies the dollar is gaining against of the euro and the ruble is gaining against both the euro and the dollar now which natur

there are a key new delhi india. and at times you are check the money markets with dan you also want to tell us how is wall street started the day they're looking for direction at the moment in the first hour of trade this quarterly earnings time and traders are waiting for results from the likes of fed ex and night before making moves through the figures in early trade united parcel service or u.b.s. is up two percent off to agreeing to buy european rival t. and t. in a six billion dollars deal paul has confirmed it will pay a quarterly dividend in the first in the fourth quarter this year boosting its shares one percent you markets leave almost to raise losses from the day they're still slightly down from eight montoya's b.m.w. lost almost two percent of the goldman sachs to join performer list of the german economy because all suffering in turn has also gone into the red after a good start this morning but trading is pretty light on the first day of the week let's check on some main movers nails burbank is shippin

saying they are worried that india may sidestep payment restrictions archies prius trader is in new delhi for us now priya tell me is are these threats of penalties by the u.s. something that india should be worried about. well it's something that's definitely on the minds of many people here in india this is making major headlines obviously this all has to do with president obama's december thirty first announcement that he wants to penalize iran over its nuclear program which the united states has continued to insist is a violent nuclear program but iran maintains that it's enriching uranium for peaceful purposes now the united states has said that it's not going to buy any more oil from iran and it's actually trying to pressure other countries to do that as well including india indian officials have continued to say that they will buy oil from iran and this is actually a major deal because india is actually the third biggest customer of iranian oil obviously iran is the second biggest producer of oil in the world and many analysts here in asia are actually saying but if china and india

west to make their livelihoods even though it might cost them their lives preassure either r t new delhi india time to dive now in the world of finance with natasha. oh so what's under the spotlight today. well the spotlight over the weekend has been mainly on china as global business leaders gathered in beijing for china development forum and essentially china's been the pillar of stability in these uncertain times but last week it lowered its growth target to seven point five percent this year from its longstanding target of eight percent and while experts say it might be a bit more the metal certainly be lower the night point two percent reported last year and experts gathered their performance sensually greed that to continue growing china needs to reform and let's check out the markets now to see what's going on on the asian bourses there as you can see there are mostly higher in tokyo the nikkei is posting some gains namely thanks to energy producers that is gaining on rising oil prices a bit more on oil in just about a minute but in hong kong to hang saying it's putting on about a

health spending remains among the lowest in the world it is due to lag behind preassure either new delhi india brings us up to date here on our teams stay with us on about what i have on shortly. question was that so much of it was of course he's right on the view is the republican party along best march to november is very likely former massachusetts governor mitt romney will eventually capture that. to a substantial degree and one pound or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of the earth and the shadow is encroaching upon all of. the early twenty first century military bases the network of military bases all around the world for misleading empire that the united states is trying to build it's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million more than two hundred fifty thousand us troops stationed on these bases all around us. we don't have foreign bases in america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in cross

it's lunchtime at this government hospital in delhi and hundreds of indians are camped outside the medical facility waiting hoping and praying that they might get let inside. go posting hasn't been working for three months and claims that he was supposed to have an operation birth hernia today but now doctors are telling him that his operation will cost almost three times more than he initially thought they were going to look for. coming to very much hospital supposed three months early in the morning with an empty stomach for different kinds of tests are used to come in the morning to get an appointment or mute for even the evening now i can't go to don't know it's impossible. things story is that you need every year millions of indians wait outside of government hospitals hoping to get the treatment they need according to the supreme court indians below the poverty line are supposed to get access to free health care and government hospitals but that leaves many indians who are technically above the poverty line but still extremely poor with no affordable health care. there is a severe sh

london delhi before the end of the really difficult place to walk and i love delhi it's very interesting it's a fantastic beautiful city not easy to walk around on the whole because the pavements until they were married and walking and i mean you can you can but i found it problematic in its own huge traffic problem because we were high heels. are you planning to do something something like. i would love to do the same thing in london. i would that put me that would be that would be it was my dream job actually writing books for the moscow news i did crazy considering how little i was paid but it was actually the best job probably that i ever will have so. you had a problem with high heels in berlin you had a language program was asleep but you won so i did not. you once in a moscow must be my favorite city to walk oh i love moscow why not arts for your boy and learned what wonders of london is a great place and actually of course forty nine hour loving it it's great it's really great but the reason tomatoes exactly describe that it's that it's a collective and that you don't know what y

west to make their livelihoods even though it might cost them their lives preassure either r t new delhi india. and over to daniel we go at the business desk of the hourly update here at our house was. today it's pretty mixed at the moment some traders are waiting for quarterly earnings results from the likes of fed ex and that's really holding off on making a decision is how to look at this here's a struggling for direction at the moment stocks in united parcel service or u.k.'s are on the rise though often it's agreed to by european royalty ante for over six billion dollars meanwhile apple has confirmed it will pay a quarterly dividend in the fourth quarter of this year its shares are up over one percent over in the e.u. markets are still slightly down from the eight months highs we saw last week b.m.w. has lost almost two percent of goldman sachs to the auto giant of its help perform list of the german car makers all suffering in turn russian indices they finished in the rid of for a good start this morning but trading was pretty light on the first day of the week . movers in the last

health spending remains among the lowest in the world it is due to lag behind preassure either new delhi india. also you know if you must go up next the students are in the folds of the republican lineup and this is american presidential election that's also a recap of our top stories here on r.t. with me stay with us here live. culture is that so much excitement which of course you might find it comes in the early days because the republican party going along just march to november is very likely former massachusetts governor mitt romney will eventually capture the. to a substantial degree and one farm or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation program most of the nations of europe and the shadow is an approaching a little. early early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the world forms the empire that the united states is trying to build it's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million or more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around us. we don't h

her is a new delhi. it's the fourth annual great summit that's going on here and via the emerging economies brazil russia india china and the newest member south africa will be meeting here the leaders of those countries for the next two days russian president dmitri medvedev landed here and early this morning in bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the brics summit the russian president and president hu were discussing syria both leaders have said that they back kofi annan plan for a cease fire in syria but both leaders have said that they don't want president assad to step down which is something that western powers have been saying another country that the two of them have been talking about is iran both countries have repeatedly said russia and china that they are saying sions on iran they believe that iran is developing a peaceful nuclear program obviously there are a lot of things to talk about between china and russia one of the key things being trade in recent years china has asserted itself as

it with a new institution so this is where the breaks development bank comes in this summit here in delhi they have really shown that they have the capability to forge ahead with new plans new ideas a new institutions in order to govern the planet we play new ideology and a completely new functional basis for organizing economic life on the planet. this is r.t. you can catch up with more analysis and developments from the summit of thought something of a story we have lined up for you right now including a giant oak solar tornado five times the size of earth just being caught on tape by nasa for the very first time so want to get incredible speeds i get those startling pictures on the story on our website. right is in the storm the first ever polar so-called snowmobile race in siberia for spectators a chance to glimpse life in the for. find out all those details again on our web site. west african leaders are in mali trying to find a way to restore order after last week's military coup several thousand people protested in the capital by moscow against what they see as foreign interference

stops and asia's way despite the risks he's pretty shrewd reports the residents of this slum in south delhi have no idea that the routes they live under are contaminated with a toxic mineral called as bastos once widely used in building projects for insulation against heat and fire today the substance is banned in fifty two countries around the world because if it's proven dangerous as both tools by good writers most will. cause. lung diseases like asbestos the. lung cancer in fact wonder what it isn't as this disease if you don't make. but it's still being used in india and studies show that it could kill as many as one million people in developing countries in the next eight years the indian government has been the mining of especially those of the importing and manufacturing of it is still legal and he is growing economy has led to a construction boom and alternatives to a spot cost almost double that's why many indians believe it's worth it despite the health risks for those of us in the car caution reka is one of the three million people involved in the eight hundred fifty million doll

has this force in new delhi. one of the main aims of bits here is it is how do you think growing economic powers are also starting to have more political clout on major international issues like syria and again we saw russia and china saying that they've backed a cease fire in syria but they don't expect president assad to step down let's take a listen to what the russian president had to say. one of the priorities for brics for the years to come should be the strengthening of the u.n. security council in maintaining international peace and security and also ensuring that the u.n. is not used as a cover for regime change and unilateral actions to resolve conflicts situations today all signed an agreement to actually give out loans in their local currencies which is another move if they're thinking about moving away from the dollar and moving away from the euro another huge thing was the idea of a joint bank could serve as an alternative to the western led traditional financial institutions like the international

new delhi india. but i'm going to take a look at the latest from the world of business with the target what's going on in the markets right now. well of course china was in the spotlight over the weekend as global economic leaders gathered in beijing for china development forum of course china's been the pillar of stability in this uncertain economic times but last week and lowered its growth target to seven and a half percent from its longstanding target of eight percent and though some analysts say that might be a bit higher than that it's certainly not going to be nine point two percent that we saw last year and the prevailing opinion of those gathered in beijing this weekend was that china must reform to continue its robust growth let's check out the equity markets to see what's going on first on the asian bourses of course where the trading is pretty active this hour and in tokyo the japanese stocks are higher but in hong kong they are losing that value they slipped into red over the past hour an

it's been in delhi seventeen years but he still can't get access to benefits because his ration card is registered back home for those like him india has come up with a twenty first century solution the herculean process has begun to get every indian's fingerprints and i are thinking in one massive database this code can be used for various purposes like. and receiving russian is it will solve the hassle of carrying many documents that should make sure everyone can receive the help they need wherever they are once again and all it will take if the new idea project goes as planned it will be the largest collection of biometric data in the world the indian government is hoping that the twelve digit number as well allow indians to be more mobile and personal work were ever they want i try not to a centralized database so that they can open a fake account get a fellow or get rations anywhere in the country but the plan also has its critics apart from the amount of time it will take ten years by thumb that's a myth there is also the inevitable human rights worries about the big brother st

health spending remains among the lowest in the world it is due to lag behind preassure either new delhi india or. some other international news stories for you now army forces in south korea are setting security drills ahead of a two day summit on the use of nuclear power around the world leaders from fifty countries are expected to attend with last year's fukushima disaster likely to dominate the talks discussions will focus on how to strengthen tonics safety and prevent acts of nuclear terrorism. in italy's competent thousands have gathered to protest against government cuts a general strike opposed by metal workers union failed against plans to scale back giving staff more job security becomes as part of a raft of measures to overhaul the italian economy with changes to. labor market conditions expected to be passed later this month. and internet food is a part of don't think stranded on a brazilian beach has become a head around thirty dolphins caught in strong currents one stop on the shore locals and tourists came to the aid of the moment turning them around and sending them back