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special correspondent fred de sam lazaro traveled there recently to take a closer look at the issue,he often unsuccessful efforts to combat the practice. tonight, we have the first of his two reports. they are part of our agents for change series. (sound of children playing) >> reporter: there was an unusualemonstration in this town on the boarder of india, nepal. that's because most women with backgrounds of prostitution are rarely seen in public. they talk about social evils in the social ladder at which they're at the very boddum. >> wherever we go, we're all low-classed. prostitution is passed from mother to daughter and father to son. >> reporter: she is a former journalist who started a group called "on our own" which organized the lal raleigh. the group rescued many women taught them crachts and put their daughters in school. they're also part of a protest movement that followed the fatal gang rape of a delhi college student two years ago, a campaign that got lawmakers to act against what many called a culture of rape and mo. rape. the law recognizes the women as victim. >> th

this is fred de sam lazaro in bihar india for the pbs "newshour." >> ifill: fred's reporting is a partnershiph the under-told stories project at st. mary's university of minnesota. >> woodruff: russia's vladimir putin has been a mainstay on the world stage for more than 15 years. tonight, our pbs partner "frontline" takes a deep dive into the controversial figure's past. in the following excerpt of "putin's way," we hear from a man who was once one of russia's richest and most powerful individuals. he severely misread the president, and paid a heavy price. >> narrator: in the early years of his presidency, there was hope that putin would live up to his billing and take russia on a path closer to the west: democratic, liberal and capitalist. in 2003, he summoned the country's oligarchs to a meeting in st. catherine's hall in the kremlin. under yeltsin, they'd become billionaires. under putin, they hoped for even more business and new legitimacy. on the left, the richest of all: mikhail khodorkovsky. >> ( translated ): i got the impression that he was a person of our generation. >> what do you

recently, special correspondent fred de sam lazaro traveled there to see how that area is faring. orting is a partnership with the under-told stories project at st. mary's university of minnesota. >> reporter: gujarat was the home of mahatma gandhi. thousands come to pay homage-- the ordinary and the famous. this video is from the youtube channel of india's new leader as he hosted china's president at gandhi's ashram. narendra modi invokes the father of modern india, who preached non-violence and simple living. but modi's vision seems in many ways more like modern china. so this is sort of shanghai- inspired? >> that's right. >> reporter: this is the scale model of an all new city being built in gujarat from scratch. it was championed by modi when he headed the state government here. so this is what we'll come back to in about a decade? >> yes. >> reporter: ramakant jha who heads a agency set up to develop it says in a decade 500,000 people will work in the new city. he says it will keep in the country some $50 billion that now goes elsewhere because india lacks such facilities. >>