antibodies off the press as ninety eight hindu festival of the packing begins. on tonight's edition of the season to end tomorrow night. you will . france's president will speak at the top of the next hour days after prime minister john ah kit was tendered his resignation. if as expected resignation is accepted first to scoot to make such a switch after local elections in this country less than two years after let's return to power the seismic swings to the right in the first major polls and vote on selection the first round was about abstention any inroads in the far right. the numbers of the runoff are all about our own socialist until last

the opposition bkp candidate, a self-proclaimed hindu nationalist. enjoying support among conservatives. >> a strong resurgence in india, strong against terrorism in national security. they are proud of our cultural heritage. the ruling congress party has been plagued by scandals and policy inergea. the candidate failed to inspire public confidence. >> india's economy is struggling under the congress party. it was growing at around 10%. today growth dropped to less than 5%. vetters were concerned -- voters were concerned by high inflation, and they are looking for reform. >> but some observers are worried that the religious nationalism will marginalise millions of non-hindus. >> the attitude that hipped use are a -- hindus are a majority is wrong. they are a fractured society, if you have the vision that we are one, will be one, i will make you one, i will give you an identity. then you are making a big mistake, which is why he's dangerous. >> many indians are likely to vote because of hindu nationalism, not despite it. >> and an indian court sentenc

the idea of a hindu nation, very much like the hindu version of pakistan -- >> nursing the muslims shoulde eradicated -- where they were saying the muslims should be eradicated. >> second-class citizens. >> or moved to pakistan. >> that they should just be killed. did is a very old -- modi not invent it, but he and even minister --jp from prime minister, all of these are members of the rss. the rss is an organization which has 40,000 or 50,000 units across india. at one point they were banned because a former member killed now there of course are not a banned organization --. >> killed mahatma gandhi. >> yes. assassinated him. modi started out as a worker for the rss. prominenceto great in 2002 when he was already the chief minister of gujarat but have been losing local municipal elections. this was at the time when the -- had run this big campaign they had demolished the old 14th-century mosque in 1992. but they are now saying, we want to build a big hindu temple in that place. a group of pilgrims who were returning from the site or this temple was supposed to be built, the train in whic

a self-proclaimed hind u nationalist enjoying support amongst conservative hindus. he's a front runner. he's strong against terrorism on national security. we are proud of the cultural heritage. >> the ruling congress party have been plagued by corruption scandal and policy inertia, its candidate rahul gandhi failed to provide confidence. india's economy was growing at 10%. today it dropped to less than 5%. voters were concerned by high inflation, looking for reform, and that is what they were promised. >> but some servers are worried that the ellageous nationalism will marginalise hindus. >> hind use are a fractured society. if you have that vision that we are one, will be one, i will make you one, i will give you an identity, then you are making a big mistake, which is why mohamed morsi is dangerous. many indians are likely to vote for mohamed morsi, because of hindu nationalism. >> an indian court sentenced three men to death for the gang rape of a photo journalist. it's the first time an execution has been ordered in a case that didn't involve the death of the v

she had started worshipping the hindu goddess of death and was practicing martial arts.alize she would actually injure ian. but followers worried the wounds were real. >> there was a doctor who sewed him up. >> the consequences were grave for ian and christi. michael roach called a meeting of the board he appointed to help run his organization and decided that christi mcnally and ian were to be expelled for one year. and christi mcnally, once a guru's consort, a law ma, was cast adrift. >> so those two went off and didn't know what to do. they have somebody who lives in a call for ten years, 15 years. that's the life. >> a statement on roach's website said that the board had received multiple reports of abuse and assault on staff and ian and it was necessary. and to send a strong message that violence of any kind would not be tolerated here. the professor of buddhism, thurman says it appeared roach maid it person-- made it person. >> older man, younger woman, yes. we can find those underlying motiv motives. >> whatever it was, ian and christi made a momentous decision to

and so he published in 1936 that though he was born a hindu hindu -- he could have voted much later. and the hot but condi basically replied to this with a debate between the two. he challenged gandhi in every way that only intellectually, so it's text-to-speech that has speech that has existed since then and is available everywhere. it took a long time to do it because while i was looking at this debate, i was called by what i learned. >> i'm not as harsh as they should be. so it took me right back to gandhi's views which took me back to 1893 and the right south africa. we of course knew that he had been back from south africa. you know, what did there. anyway, whenever the introduction it's just cannot a few days ago. so there is reaction from students whose dad i think the u.s. are familiar with these debate to. it's not a position i would agree with. then again, ever go back to the ways in which we are now hermetically sealing our identity in which the future can't take this anymore by with others without being accused and clichÉd ways. the book has just come out. for the first 6

he published this speech 1936 soon after declaring he was born eight hindu he would not die a hindu. but he converted much later. isn't going to replied to the provocation it was a debate between him into gandhi. he challenged gandhi in every way politically but intellectually but morally. it is the text of the speech that has been read and reread in is available everywhere. publisher asked if i would write the introduction. i took a long time to do it because while i was looking at this debate between the two, i was just appalled by what i learned about gandhi. >> host: you are harsh on him. >> i think i was says i should have been. [laughter] so it took me right back to his views on the cast and when he first arrived in south africa. of course, we knew after he came back from south africa for what he'd done their but what he did there was extremely disturbing. but when i wrote the introduction it was pretty long. it is just out just like a few days ago. so there was a reaction from certain scholars who said that people are familiar with the debates. is not a position that i would a

the in the hindu temple doesn't matter. when people are actually facing the worst problems in and it is also on the two hundred million strong. many in india. i mean the problem with the oft pets and people of ceasing to be and reach and engage in on has teamed up to the forefront of this election is also going to be sold as a movie just that the division the fact that other than the fact that i missed him when he's trying to. you know. i don't give a toss of the hundreds and the fact is becoming active in india has and hasn't been into acting. the review list of problems and return them is that when faced with a made for the challenge was to ride i'd turn up lots of new voters and perhaps a lot of surprises. come the middle of may we count those ballots have been thinking newport oregon officials and shops as well. the images into and said deepak rush when venus thank you for joining us here with constant updates. often labels seventeenth algeria to the polls president aziz was to pick up point for forced to. yet the alien

. >> earlier i talked to someone from the hindu language service. i began by asking her if these elections could break the hold of the other parties, -- the two indian political dynasties that have been governing the country for so long. >> we can't really say anything as of now for sure. the candidates have been vocal about being the next prime minister. rajmohan gandhi does not seem to know exactly what he wants. he is considered a candidate simply because he belongs to the gandhi family. you see posters all over. there are ad campaigns. when you look at the trend on social media, you find people making fun of him and his party. many people think he lacks vision and the will to lead. >> it looks like the small party that roast to cook -- rose to prominence could emerge as kingmakers this time. what can you tell us about this party? >> it is the aam admi party, the people's party. corruption is the main issue for this party. we've been seeing a lot of anticorruption protests in india. there has been a rise in the populist anticorruption movement. w

he is lauded as an uncorrect miracle worker among hindu nationalis nationalists. critics say major media outlets have been treading lightly around him when he was chief minister of and some high profile names say they have lost their jobs for not climbing aboard the pro-modi band wagon. this is a huge media story in a pistol country, and it will run until the votes are counted on may 16th. our starting point this week is

hindus are a very fractured society. if you have that vision that we are one, we will be one, and i will make you one, i will give you an identity, then you are making a big mistake. >> reporter: many indians are likely to vote for modi because of his hindu nationalism, not despite it. >> pro government protest organize necessary thailand said half a million people are expected to join a rally in western bangkok to come held ton the next several days. we have reports from bangkok. >> reporter: it's been a tough week for prime minister shinawatra. if they find her in dereliction of duty, thailand's constitutional court is proceeding with a case against her. >> if you look at the dangerous of both cases, if she's impeached in the senate she's also out. if she's ruled by the constitutional ruled that she is no longer thi in position, she's also out. both could be harmful, one will come faster than the other. >> reporter: the ruling could come in a matter of weeks. it's a shift of the government for the first time. showing s

i mean and is absolutely, the hindu nationalist and congress. the secularism. actually, in fact, like dow was saying since 1947, if you look these wars that the indian army has fought, the wars are always fought against the owners will with a muslim, trouble, sheikhs, christians. >> this is the windows by day with the of the does by night. >> something very marked about this moment with the prime minister can it is the most aggressive. they're all aggressive, but he's the most aggressive. he has a record of being the chief minister, these incidents took place committee was banned from entering the and states. he was denied a visa to enter the united states partially because of that. now he's very much being projected as this man is a good manager. some vision of a corporate india . there is of brandy. and now even the united states on the u.k. this interview on the verge of excepting in. so is this a kind of, even though there is no difference, there seems something particularly marked about this moment, what is -- what you think about that? >> i think that, yo

of that on tonight a comment in any war crimes by tom anything made in one house and christian and hindu been an awful still conducting not in the three men. on npr. by the movement but the gutsy and peace in the sun has set according to report released on monday. the christian community is that the district in full force manages to live up to seven hundred im in which he hundred hindu women but also included in the stack and the gays. good thing the huge group of twenty twenty five uninterrupted forcefully converted to islam and maddie to the doctor who bought tea and apple said. what many oddities of the victims were approached the courts would deny it just is. others want us to accept that it could of been pretty conflicted and that ain't that it would add it. the victims would be to subjected to say to biden's deep forests prostitution human trafficking and other domestic abuse. a committee of two million christians in bob's son accounts for forty two percent of the country's minority population and most of the sites in eastern punjab koreans. the community has healed me how despite

many blamed for a train fire that killed dozens of hindu pilgrims. many people includinghot state government did too little to stop the violence. and i have no doubt who's to blame the den and current chief minister narendra modi may only need a pretty good money as a dictator a religious fanatic who sows discord between groups. what a lovely lake. this is molly. others consider him a political star he was never proven that he was responsible for the violence. now he wants to govern all of india. a car salesman kawasaki will assist children from bali. he's very pleased that our businesses going. he's also muslim and says want us to be able to leave the past behind sometimes ruthless during pbl facing up before the last frontier of the wine or even what johns is play golf the drag drop which is lost we did almost all great deals many indians considered kosher ah ma state. it's closing above average growth people say the roads are better than the number of power blackouts is declining there are no more water shortages that's enough to hold politicians

the bjp party led by hindu nationalists narendra modi is tipped as the favourite to replace the governing congress party there's also a new contender in the race the atp is hoping to make an impact on voters who are disillusioned with the established parties and or inability to deal with rampant corruption the trousers old traditional indian saris. wednesday was a seamstress monday color of their employees. the thirty three year old dreamed of joining india's growing little crossed into gaza led to staunton business. she says it's getting harder and harder to make the payments when the bible. whichever party wins control. you could do something to improve things for the core of people in our country people like us can hardly afford the basics but first something has to be done against corruption there was nothing will change. what was it again i fighting corruption is the central claim to be on the phone to his name means copy of the colon. estimated twelve million members. many of them to get involved as volunteers. his message using one of a member of the country's most famous political

hindus and muslims see it as a sacred pace. it's the birthplace, a spiritual place for muslims as well. the destruction of the mosque in "92 enflamed tensions. a statement by the b.j.p. in the manifesto, that they want to establish the rahm temple could be a problem in the future, should they win the general election and gain power. it will be interesting how they deal with that seeing they might be handing out the olive branch, saying they are a secular party and will represent them in the parliament. we'll have to see what happens on may the 16th when the results come out. >> that's our correspondent joining us from the indian capital. >> rebels in eastern libya agreed to reopen two out of four oil ports they've been blockading. it's cost the country billions in loft revenue. we have this report from tripoli. >> the deal means the reopening of two out of four ports after an 8-month blockade by armed groups. it had cost billions in lost revenue, devastating libya's economy. after talks between the protest leaders and governmen

it was my lifelong dream to have muslims and hindus, come and listen together. i didn't change history from the end of that concert but they sat together and heard beethoven and tc hykofsky. >> india is very important to you. i wonder if you could describe your path from india to israel, i know it's a very long story. >> no, i'm still an indian with my pas passport. i studied in berlin. i got a call that a very venerable conductor eugene ormandy was ill. they had nobody, i had just conducted in philadelphia was in '61. i went there and it's very important to note that every conductor gets a first chance because of these older conductors falling sick. but then they conducted, then they invited me the second time. that's important. because if i went there to help them out and nothing nuskly -- musically happened between us, they would say thank you very much and i would never see them again. but they invited me th second te the third time, and et cetera, et cetera. and that started the friendship with me and israel philharmonic and israel. >> in 1971 they made you

. >> gandhi was orthodox hindu patriarch and made more sensitive to gender rights by a secretary he hadjewish woman. he was an upper cast hindu but in south africa because he was lucky to live in south india he understood the cultural diversity of his country. >> had gandhi as a young man goes to london, qualified as a barrister and comes back with his suit to bombay and not just, fairls the bar not once but twice and as he succeeded as a lawyer in bombay you and i would not be having this conversation. he failed and received professional oblivion where he made his name as an activist and where he befriended an extraordinary diverse group of people that expanded his horizons and finally with racially discriminatory law in south africa he launched the first violent protest movement, followed successfully by dr. king and others but if this man succeeded as a lawyer he wouldn't have gone from india or the world. so there is a lesson in this. >> jon: there is a lesson. and let this lesson go out to jewish mothers everywhere. if your son does not become a lawyer or a doctor, it is not traged

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the votes will not wrap up for another month yet emma with the main hindu nationalist opposition party had to get the strongest back in. it's concerned, it would bring an end to their willing congress party's 10 years in power. the first stage of india's mammoth elections, voters line up to cast their ballots. the process began in two states restiveountry's northeast. >> i feel great. i'm voting for the first time. >> we hope to have a good leader who forms a stable government and can find solutions to the problems the country is facing. >> dozens of parties are in the running, but polls put opposition bjp out front. been touring the entire nation for the last six months and talking about changing the future of india. >> faced with rising food prices and worsening poverty, many indians want change. they are said to punish prime minister's congress party at the ballot, for high inflation and endemic corruption. the congress party is being led influentialnd most than this. -- dynasty. we three-year-old rahul gandhi promises a growth rate of eight percent in three years and programs to he

president's visit president kagame he arrived at the site and search and rescue operation on the coast hindu on thursday afternoon the visit comes a day after the stool to erase a twenty km off the island. upon arrival at the nearby port grace had a state inspected the area and was briefed on the ongoing rescue efforts carried out by the military and coast guard. she said she was very concerned that the rescue efforts were slow even though so many personnel and equipment were being mobilized. told officials at every minute was critical and the safety of the rescue workers was also a priority. bach leader visited the indoor gymnasium for the families of those missing are gathered. taking questions and offering words of support two of them i didn't go. my goal wasn't enough to the local he is up eighteen great family member shouted and screamed as costco demanding answers and pinching there's frustration or lack of progress to save their loved ones. some even attended to rush the front of the informal debriefing others expressed doubt that the government was doing its best to handle a situatio

. >> the hindu nationalist party in india appears to be the leader.ntians will -- ippedians will -- indians will vote for 543 members of the parliament. voting has to be spread for weeks. >> the number of people voting in the general election is staggering. 814 million people are registered. 23 million are 18 and 19. many people have to vote for so many. there are a million polling stations. bribery has been common. flying squads and surveillance teams are monitoring sites. >> with more on the vote, there's never been an election this large. i'm wondering how they are able to pull this off? >> how do the election commission manage to do this, but they do manage to bull it off. it's a synchronized movement. the last election in 2009, the task of the election commission got harder. 100 million extra registered voters an added to the lists. they had to be taken into account. >> you physically can't send 1814 people to the ballot box es on one day. of course, what you said, yes, over a million polling stations are in place. the five weeks is there, so tha

here are the frontrunners, narenda modi from the hindu national lift b.j.p. party, the governor of a wealthy estate. politics are viewed as conservative. there's rahul gandhi, of the congress party. coming from one of india's famous political families. father, grandmother and great-grandmother served as prime ministers. another is arvind kejriwal. with the independent common man party, foumeding it back -- founding it back in 2012 and serving as the chief minister. >> voting is in the as easy as expected. nidhi dutt reports. >> mehboob ali may not have much, but he has the right to vote. and that's exactly what he and his wife are setting out to do. they were forced to leave their home after communal violence ravaged their village last year. since then mehboob ali has struggled to recover his family's official documenties. he did manage to get them temporary ids to be able to vote. >> translation: there should be peace in our county and all indians somehow prosper equally. we should all have work and a play to live. >> from roov tops to the grans of polling s

fighting between muslims and hindus remains a real and unsettled threat to many here, and because of this the need for visible protection was paramount. the government has also tried to boost the confident of some by issuing these, this white card encouraging people to vote without fear, and this has been issued as a warning to some peel believes will cause trouble. >> some say is the events of august last year, have -. >> through my vote i can pressure the government to help me more, and provide me with the basics. >> more than 100 years old, but he still wants his vote to be counted. >> but there are also people who despite trying didn't make the voters list. al jazeera. we have much more coverage on the website, just go to aljazeera.com. aid is being delivered to those in need. the near now is that illness and disease could spread among those crammed into camps. andrew thomas reports. >> now an evacuation center for those who have lost their homes they have just had their first delivery of aid, the absolutely basics, toilet paper, blankets and soap. >> we need toilet paper, everyt

. >> that is the front page of the hindu times.oximately five hundred 43 -- the number of seats in the lower house of parliament that candidates are battling for, and you can see this epic chase begins. a lot of the international papers are focusing on this as well. it is on the front page of the independent, talking about the biggest election in the history, over 800 million people registered to vote in this election over the next five weeks. "the guardian" focuses on another -- on one group that can play a key role, and that is young people in india. more than half the population is under 24 years old, and there first-time0 million voters. they are really key in this election. the headline here says the young generation holds the future in their hands. >> that election comes on the heels of another closely watched vote in afghanistan. >> a lot of papers are focusing on this, seven million afghans risking their life. it points out that despite the threat of the taliban and, 58% of afghans went to the ballot box on saturday. that i

a hindu, a muslim, a genie, or head trauma victim of any race. (laughter) and folks, internet equality is more important than ever, as i learned this weekend when the interwebs tried to swallow me whole. but i am proud to say that i got lodged in its throat and it hacked me back up like a hastily chewed chicken wing. (laughter) this is who's attacking me now. (cheers and applause) to find out what happened to me on the internet, we turn to the tv. >> people are calling for the stephen colbert show to be canceled after a tweet about asians appeared on the comedy central twitter account. >> the @colbertreport is trending this morning. >> @colbertreport is trending this morning. >> @colbertreport went viral. >> stephen: but folks, i'm still here! (audience chanting "stephen") >> stephen: it's all because of you people! the dark forces trying to silence my message of core conservative principles mixed with youth-friendly product placement have been thwarted. (laughter) went through a few of these this weekend. but folks, i'm not going to lie-- it was

. >> reporter: they made a speech on the same subject supporting migration to the state of hindus from bangladesh. it's the same state that nearly two years ago saw muslims who had lived here for years driven from their homes. left over 70 dead and hundreds seeking shelter in refugee camps. there were two weeks in the general election left. the comments will resonate in some areas like this in large urban cities and in the states that surround bangladesh. will it make any difference? we won't know until may 16th. >> 22 people have been killed at a gunman open fired in a hospital. anti-seleka rebels demanded money. three local staff of the charity doctors without borders were the victims. >>> iin a flaw of micro microsot explorer has been attacked by hackers. the bug allows the hack for take complete control of an effective machine manying they can view, change, delete data. microsoft is working on a fix, but it's unclear if it will be available to everyone. remember the company stopped supporting it's xp operating system this month and older pcs could remain vulnerable. if computer use

they don't want to vote for a hindu nationalist. >> the next -- am a next, protesters took to the streets of sÃo paulo in protest against the upcoming world cup. the protests ended in clashes with police and over 50 people arrested. the world cup is set to open in less than two months but the sÃo paulo stadium is still unfinished. >> it is not a street party, nor late carnaval celebrations. resilience were protesting the upcoming world cup -- brazilians were protesting the upcoming world cup. >> listed in that will host the first match isn't ready yet -- the stadium that will host the first match isn't ready yet. we are going through a water crisis. there is the danger that the water supply won't be good to ring the world cup -- won't be good during the world cup. >> from 1000 -- some 1000 residents marched down the main bullard. the protests started off peacefully, but different -- the main boulevard. the protests started off peacefully but beerupted in -- they called on the government to defend the massive state spending for this event while public services in the country are often subs

do we think that they hinge out in hindu or catholic community centers? no. they hang out in mosques. the shoe bomber frequented the mosque before he was classified as an operative al-qaeda. rewe really saying that thenal should be going into jewish temples to find terroris muslim terrorist? this is a bad joke, this is a bad "snl" skit. let's let them do their jobs finding where there are hidden terrorist cells or hidden al-qaeda cells. >> linda, how do you respond to that? >> he has not looked at this. yes, they were spying across new york city and even into places like new jersey. they have labels imams in our community radical and dangerous. they have mapped entire neighborhoods, businesses, you know, cafes, grocery store. this is not about following that one person. when we talk about the foiled plot that the new york police department supposedly foiled there were questions about those plots. where the fbi was quoted in the newspaper saying we did not engage on that case because the nypd informant was, quote, too involved. thank you for clarifying my earl

he is lauded as an uncorrect miracle worker among hindu nationalis nationalists. critics say major media outlets have been treading lightly around him when he was chief minister of and some high profile names say they have lost their jobs for not climbing aboard the pro-modi band wagon. this is a huge media story in a pistol country, and it will run until the votes are counted on may 16th. our starting point this week is new delhi. the greatest show in the democratic world. questions about personalities. >> once upon a time, in 2014 is widely expected to be a clash. >> it is becoming about one personality, one person. >> mr. modi said he would never do anything about it. >> they have created a personality cult around this man. >> everything modi does gets blanket coverage on television. >> mainstream media in india has misrepresented, demonized him on false charges. >> the role of the media in this election is huge. it's having a determining impact. >> starting with the numbers, which are tough to get your head around, by our count, india has 87 television news ch

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to the east they have a good reputation and relationship with bangladesh, there's the issue of hindu migrants who have left bangladesh wanting to come to india and nationality. it's always a bone of contention. who can deal with it is interesting. possibly they are a firmer hand. certainly the pakistani - whether they want to have outside influences such as russia, a long-standing america who they have been warming up to a past decade, coming in on the event. it's a debate that is happening within the political circles of indian politics. i don't think the indian public at large worry too much about international relations at the moment. they think that the issues that matter for them are inflation, unemployment, health care, utilities, and international relations and relationships where the neighbours come well down the wishlist. >> thank you. it was mentioned the issues that would appeal to the average voter. we have been speaking to voters in one of india's modern towns. >> people here are checking their names against a registered list of voters. they have been coming to the polli

the hindu caste system has been in place for thousands of years and divided into four groupings, there are several sub casts as well. the brahmans are sitting at the top. they have been priests. they are next in the hierarchy and include warriors and rulers. they have been traders and merchants, and the chetrahs unskilled workers. then the daleks, outside the system. we have this report in nepal. >> people in the village know what discrimination feels like. most of them, the so-called untouchedables. >> this is one of them. last december he decided to stand for elections, he and others claimed that he was responsible for conducting the elections. >> they said both candidates got the same number of votes. the 58th vote, which was on my side was invalidated. they tossed the coin which i won and decided that we would not have to draw from a hat. both the papers had defeat written on it, and i was made to draw first. >> the entire village feels betrayed. they say it's a typical behaviour, and claims the state's allocation doesn't reach them. because we are poor and illiterate they don't li

narenda modi is from the hindu national lift b.j.p. party, the chief minister, the american equivalent to a governor. he's seep as sectarian. many believe me played a role in the rite ot between hindus and muslims killing thousands in 2002. then there's rahul gandhi, from the congress party. he comes from one of the india's maim us families, his father, grandmother and great-grandmother served as prime ministers. there's a new contender and that's arvind kejriwal. his common party was founded two years ago with the aim of rooting out corruption. less than a week into the elections there has been reports of violence this some state and 12 were killed this central india. security is very, very tight. >> there was concern about security across the general election, and when certain states went to vote. what we have seen in the first week of elections a violence in what is described as the red corridor of india. they have been fighting a left-wing maoist insurgency. individuals feel that the natural resources of coal, minor always and lumb

some advice and consent over how the hindu nationalist party which deal with muslims. the counting of ballots will be keen on methinks beamed across india i knew. japanese and american negotiators as sitting down again and tokyo to try to reach an agreement on the trans pacific partnership but they're far apart on terror is for beef and pork japanese prime minister shimon so on they will help us president barack obama at a summit later this month and that negotiators want to come up with some kind of agreement before the meeting some senior officials are trying to land their way to the discussions. japan's economic revitalize they should minister acted out mighty will meet on wednesday with the us trade representative michael from that. the japanese are working at the same time on an economic partnership agreement with their counterparts in australia japanese officials say and here is we've been reached they look to use the prospect of an agreement with the australians in their negotiations with the americans. still us negotiators are insisting that the japanese and br

hindus you're missing out. i'm not sure what that elephant gets you. and this week, we christians got some very special news. >> the search for the holy grail could be over. >> two spanish historians say they have found the holy grail, a cup said to have been used by jesus during the last supper. they say it was hidden since the 11th century inside another ancient cup housed in a basilica in spain. >> stephen: they found the holy grail. and they know it dates back to jesus because the bottom reads, "not dishwasher safe because it hasn't been invented yet." ( laughter ) , of course, every time someone finds the holy grail skeptics come out of the woodwork just because there are 200 supposed grails in europe alone. that's not even counting the one lil' jon found. well, folks, as a man of faith, i believe these people are charletans because i've got the real holy grail. behold! ( cheers and applause ) i discovered it this morning at our neighborhood deli. mere miles from the sacred ground of st. patrick's' cathedral. it was entrusted to me by a mysterious

push to hold on to pile up alongside his italian born not that funny at the big challenge comes from hindu nationalists narendra modi the main opposition bjp candidate but trying to step into any of the unbearable than twelve million potential but said the key thing here is the anti corruption conti doubt causing sketch every battle is hoping success of the national state will follow with local election triumph in delhi announced yet. nationwide more than eight hundred and fifty million people are registered to vote for the next coming weeks. tens of thousands of security testing them and opened the scoring. that being deployed in the capital for today's comments. all votes will be counted on date the sixteenth. anyone else can risk a magellan has been made if at dusk as chairman of the ruling national defense commission. his reaction came as no surprise as timothy and be counted dead with no one else about that. his appointment was backed by the country's hero of the stamp parliament the supreme people's assembly kidman has recently tightened his grip on power busty i get to the cpu going

in an attempt to stop what the colonials saw as a war between the hindus and sikh, they had a lawyer border. >> he was given two months, basically. looked at the map. you know, people died because of the displacement. unofficially this says two million people, when they fight, they get trampled upon. >> in one of the largest exchanges of populations in history, many millions of people fled their homes. almost immediately religious violence broke out on a mass scale. this is exactly what the partition had been intended to avoid. do people here still have families over there? >> yes, they do, when the lines were drawn, there were religious areas split into half. there are some houses where you enter from india and leave in pakistan. this part of punjab was one street, so the culture, very similar. >> well, it is a popular metaphor for india, pakistan is twins separated at birth. >> they were not twins, it was just one country, dismembered. if you cut a body in two, they're not going to become twins. it is sad, you can see them, they're doing the same work as you're doing. they dress th

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