and i did save here in india we saw a massive anti corruption movement here in india recently that was fronted by our now husband are a worth thousands of young people showed up to support his past against the government so many of those people are said to come out to this movement as well and many people compare that corruption movement here in india to the arab spring and now people are saying it's very it has very close ties to what's going on on occupy wall street so as i said very very close similarities there it's also important to note that this by india is growing the economy we talk about the growing middle class here it has one of the youngest workforce is in the world people here are a little bit suspicious of these multinational companies these corporations that they're talking about over in the united states specifically american companies you see that happen a lot here just recently i went to hi there bob and met with some of the malice which is actually a growing movement here in india there against globalization and their main point is that while it gets economy might b

basically object to india getting involved they say that this is a threat by india that it basically causes a regional instability but it is just infrastructure why the concern. you are bits because this is a carry forward of the india pakistan be spilled into another neighboring country now that afghanistan is part of sark which is a south asian regional organization. believes that indian encroachment in influence will deny what its military planners are always considered to be strategic depth in afghanistan and therefore the object to be infrastructural interventions that india is making but now i think that karzai is visit the game is going to change some war and india is forced by the region circumstances to actually think about playing a more proactive security in afghanistan and the talk is that the partnership agreement that president will sign while he's on this two day trip will eventually . india playing a more proactive role in training the afghan security forces and i think the indians realize that over time what has happened is that if he keeps pressing the pedal off sof

young workforce and not india and that. that's a point that i think has really struck a chord with them and many people here in india and it's not just the maoists average indians have come out protesting against coca-cola for example for supposedly overusing water when there's been a lot of scarcity that i've reported on in much of this country we've seen monsanto the american multinational company who many in this country believe has a huge monopoly on the seeds of the farmers need to grow their crops and then in addition you think about bhopal as an example call the union carbide corporation company or an american company was actually accused of killing thousands of indians in that gas tragedy back in one thousand nine hundred four so there are many many examples you look at all these huge not multinational companies including pasco that's trying to build a twelve billion dollars steel plant here in india and many villagers have been protesting that as saying that that steel plant is trying to take away their land so the

we have super heroes in india. krishna. lifts mountains and throws them to the ocean to create bridges. i will tell you the story about a super hero. krishna as a little boy in the village where the trees blow and the water flows and the birds fly and the grass grows, in this village there are cows. and people and they go to the river and they go to get their water. and they go to the river and what do they see? an evil demon is polluting the river. callia. and they can't get water because it's killing the cows and the people. so, they go to krishna and say, please, do something about this this is not good. he says, he thinks about it and says, okay. he takes his friends to the river to play. they play ball. they play with the ball and then by accident or may be not, the ball goes in the -- river. and callia is in the river. krishna is swimming through the dark waters and sees the ball is in the tail of the serpant demon. he sees the ball and the demon is sleeping. so guess what he does? he picks up the tail and slowly pull

india. thousands of years ago and hundreds of years ago in india there were no movie theatres, no television, no radio, no comic books or no books for people like you and me to read. was this the same here? >> yes. all offer the world it was like that. ask your parents. they can tell you what it was like before the internet. so, people told stores. i bet you tell stories. did you tell a story today? >> yeah, i bet you did you went up to our friend and said, did you see that? your friend said, no, no he didn't. right? that's a story. so, i will tell you a story. in india, here we have super heroes like, tell me a hero. >> super man. we have super heroes in india. krishna. lifts mountains and throws them to the ocean to create bridges. i will tell you the story about a super hero. krishna as a little boy in the village where the trees blow and the water flows and the birds fly and the grass grows, in this village there are cows. and people and they go to the river and they go to get their wate

followed closely by india who has over 1.2 billion. but it's set to overtake china the world's most populace country. asia's growth rate is about 1% a year. as the population grows country's like india are taking new challenges as they face a shrinking amount of thailand. we met one farmer in punjab who is struggling to make ends meet. >> this farmer lives here. his nine-member family squeezed into two rooms sharing sbace their cattle. his father once owned 18 acres of land. enough for a life of plenty. but that changed as the life was carved up with every succeeding generation. what's left is not enough to support them. >> we live well but now each of us own three acres. and it's going to get divided further for the next generation. >> punjab once india's breadbasket growing much of the country's food. but in the past five decades, the number of farms have doubled. small pockets of land that are no longer productive, a rich fertile region is becoming like this. >> there's almost no land to go around. this used to be a rich state. now,

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in india's religious ancient mosaic, judaism isn't a newcomer. its roots go back only two millennia. >> bene israel are the oldest jewish community. landed, they were shipwrecked, and they came to india about 2,000 years ago. >> reporter: there were at least two subsequent mini waves that brought jews to india, people fleeing the inquisition and people who came during british colonial days, as traders. there were perhaps 30,000 jews across the country but many moved to israel after its formation in 1948. >> and now we have only 5,000 jews all over india and in delhi we have only 5,6 indian jewish families. we are like a drop in the ocean. >> reporter: ezekiel malekar is the keeper of delhi's tiny synagogue, built in 1956 on land donated by the indian government. >> a lawyer and retired civil servant, he's not an ordained rabbi but for three decades, malekar has volunteered to lead this congregation, reconciling its ancient rituals and traditions with the practical modern realities. >> in order to read this portion of the torah you require a quoru

into the mogel time in india this come from hindu and western cultures brought together. when the mogels came from persia to north india they saw the story telling and thought it was a beautiful art form. they were not engaged with the story but saw the beauty in the footwork and hand movement. they brought the dancers into their courts. they were a form of entertainment. so, i want you to put your imagination caps on. we will go from the forest into a beautiful mogel palace. there are velvet carpets and peacocks walking around. there are beautiful paintings and everyone all of you, the audience have come to enjoy the court and the king sits on his thrown in the corner twirling his mustache and he called for his dancers and they come to the room. you are here to be entertained by them. this is called taught. taught is a highly stylized tuning of the mind and body together. you will see very fast turns ending in sharp stances and things with our eyes and eye brows and our neck, our hands. and you will also hear a language, which you might have heard. this is the language o

he said he wishes formula one had never come to india. the preparations for the multimillion dollar race are now in top gear, with the owner of india's grand prix team saying the country is now in the big league. >> i don't know why international media keeps focusing on the poor part of india. sure we have poverty. why not focus on what india actually has, large middle class, perhaps the size of europe. ok? a growing, disposable income, per capita income, aspirational population, very successful and the market is large enough. the country is roaring ahead in many ways, danger that's becoming more and more two indian yas, with one being left ever further behind. andrew north, bbc news, delhi. >> baseball fans around the world will be glued to their tvs for the climatic finish of the world series tonight. three venezuelans take the field, a sight sure to inspire national pride in the south american country. how much longer can venezuela stay in the game? the academy is looking for the next major league stars are struggling under the venezue

india to the original position. very close, the very warm. >> with closer relationships between india and afghanistan, could this puts a wedge between relations of india and pakistan? >> not at all, it should not. there could be a lobby, a group of people in pakistan, there is a group that has been talking about strategic -- this has been their anxiety they have expressed to the americans. this has been their eggs idea that they want if an end game takes place. it is not happening quite yet. if it takes place, they should have a say in how kabul is being drawn. -- run. >> we will have to leave it there. thank you for joining us. it has been 10 years this big since british forces first became involved in afghanistan and more than five years since they assumed responsibility. what has been achieved and that time? will the plan to withdraw combat troops by the end of 2014 proceed? we have more. >> stabilizing afghanistan has cost to britain 382 lives. and billions of pounds. [gunfire] the campaign is finally making pro

>> i'm particularly optimistic of india's future. and i attribute that to the entrepreneurship of india, to an extremely wide-- democracy which is across all levels of education. i think that's fundamental to a successful society in the long run. so whatever aberrations you see now, whatever issues on governance which you are seeing now which are hitting the press and hitting the media, i think something is in a way good because it means a major wake-up call for the people. been a major wake-up call for the government. and any government which has to get re-elected every five yes, this particular government has to get elected in ail little over two years. because it is just not corruption at the top. it's not just corruption between the giver and the taker and the taker and the give. it's also corruption in the grass root level when a person wants his death certificate, his land certificate, when a person wants his subsidized food. >> you have to pay somebody. >> you have to pay somebody. there's no question on that. and government w

since 1991 india has been withdrawing. on the face of it farmers want to drill wells and have to borrow money on the private market from moneylenders. the environmental crisis is such that the money lenders don't want the land as collateral but only crops. the only crop that they will advance money for is a crop that can't be eaten or stolen by the farmers in the case of a crisis so the only crop is cotton. the farmers borrow money to plant cotton. the more they are in debt and the war, is planted and the lower the price and the harder to get out of debt and the more they borrow money. the drought is one of the key factors that makes the cotton fail not come sufficiently to pay off the debt and people eventually leave the land. thousands have committed suicide in a grimly poetic way of drinking the actual pesticides used for the cotton. there are 2,000 people documented committing suicide across india and possibly 200,000 have done this but other farmers commit themselves to committing political homicide and join the next

india is also very young. i think around 25 give or take so that means that the vast majority of the population has not lived through the conflicts that have defined the relationship between those two countries. i noticed when i have visited pakistan, siddhartha will tell me if this is also true on the indian side of the border. when i visited pakistan it seems to me one of the places that pakistanis most want to visit and grab every chance to visit his india. there is enormous curiosity about what is going on on the other side of the border. there is eagerness to do something. their efforts at the government level. there have been recent days been an announcement of the trade deal that is set to be worth $6 billion. when i heard that my first thought was, only 6 billion? these are two of the largest countries in the world. this is a small step but it makes me think about the fact that a solution to many of pakistan's problems in fact is india. you have one of the great stories of the past century, one of the

and also a policy toward war tilted towards india, a relationship developing with india.his was policy shift, unfortunately. and also may i say with this policy shift, follow this policy shift, abandonment. mujahideen, 25,000, 30,000 mujahideen. more or less became al qaeda. osama bin laden, shaikh mohammad are all project these of the mujahideen. they become al qaeda now. and out of the, in 1996, taliban emerged. now, why from 89 to 96 in afghanistan, about 10 ethnic groups all were fighting among themselves, the country, and destroyed the country. total anarchy. but in 1996, it became taliban. this country -- [inaudible] a total ravaging of the country, destruction of the country. as far as pakistan is concerned, another element started. freedom struggle in kashmir. its impact on pakistan was that there were dozens of mujahideen groups which sprang up from society inside pakistan, volunteers preparing, wanting pashtun to fight indian army. so, therefore, in effect, these elements, really it was introduced by us from 79-89, then having abandoned the place by united state

those grim statistics contrast sharply with the glowing ones on india economy. >> india finds itself acutely embarrassed. its ambitions of being a global power are very poorly reflected in the social sector indicators. there is an acute embarrassment that the second fastest growing economy in the world has almost half of its children malnourished. >> reporter: in 2005 india's supreme court ruled activists and ordered the government to ensure that every child gets a cooked meal in school. this person who works for a commission that monitors compliance with the court order says officials resisted at first. >> on the grounds there was no infrastructure, that teachers would get all the burden, that indian didn't have the financial resources to start a program of this nature. but the supreme court reaffirmed that fiscal constraints can never be allowed to come in the way of children's right to food. and if the government had to tighten their belt, it had to happe elsewhere. >> reporter: with the stroke of a pen the court ordered the largest school meal program in the world. that left the

sur gassy was her last hope and india her first choice. the cost is $10 to $15,000 and a fraction of what it is in the united states. in america she added sur gassy contracts are not always air-tight. >> you can sign a hundred documents. it doesn't matter. if that surrogate changes her mind, she can sue you for that child. often times she will win. coming here to india, these women don't want my child. it's very cut and dry. they do not want my child. they want my money. that is just fine with me. >> it's not fine with everyone. >> the contracts usually written to be blunt protect the wealthy people who are commissioning the baby. if the woman suffers an injury, if the woman has a health problem due to childbirth or if there is a long-term chronic condition, then what? >> university of pennsylvania ethicist kaplan worries the relationship is lopsided between the women and couples who commission them to have their children. for example, surrogates in india are routinely implanted with up to five embryos to improve the chances of a pregnancy

the foreign corporations that are really benefiting from india's young workforce. british media reporting there are more countries are joining the protest against fat cats and we are closely following all the latest developments on our website r.t. dot com and our you tube channel of course so go online to get more coverage. news today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations to rule the day. and credit crisis europe spain has become the latest victim of a credit downgrade standard and poor's agency ascot madrid's double rating a rating i should say by one notch due to we growth high unemployment and massive private sector debt the fitch agency has also downgraded spain's rating as well as the credit worthiness of several u.k. and spain and portugal is warning its deficit cutting efforts are well off trap the country's prime minister warns of deepening hardship next year with more pay cuts and tax increases at parties or has been asking people in portugal how they are dealing with what's being called a national emergenc

explains why people in india are preparing to join the occupy together club. that energy that's happening in new york city and across the united states is definitely spread here it's. actually the youth movement here has mobilized on facebook and on twitter and they're planning an actual occupy type a soul hong kong by jakarta even if lama vod so the movement in asia is growing there is a lot of support for a spear in india. and there are a lot of similarities between the goals and the mass ijaz of the people in the united states and here in india we saw a massive anti-corruption movement here in india recently that was fronted by i now worth thousands of young people showed up to support his fast against the government so many of those people are said to come out to this movement as well and many people compare that corruption movement here in india to the arab spring and now people are saying it's a very it has very close ties to what's going on on occupy wall street people here are a little bit suspicious of these multinational companies these corporations

it is said to be the most expensive film in india's history.t is a big leap forward for the film industry. >> india has never seen anything quite like it. state of the art super hero movie. it is not the industry's first superhero fell. -- film. >> this comes right from the heart. i have been working around the clock. i wanted to look nice. >> there is nothing in agent about the film's production. it is said to have more special a facts than "avatar." the project has taken the entire concept of the indian super hero genre to a totally new level. it is a quantum leap. if it works, it could establish the genre. ♪ >> it has been promoted relentlessly. no one is quite sure how it will perform at the box office. even if it does not become a it should like -- it should rise to a level where it could compete with state of the art hollywood productions. >> the youngsters are exposed to international cinema. they want storytelling. if you do not cater to that -- >> what ever happened at the box office, the film has brought commercial strategy to india.

even india has a first-rate. population growth is not going to be about having more children, it will be about the fact that people are living longer. >> that was a huge strain. how will the government prepare for getting medical assistance, health care? >> this is a different problem from the problem that most people think about population growth. we're interested in keeping people working in to their 70's. in fact, there are many things we need to become thinking about. >> of course, as you say, we will have to prepare for a world with much older people. people have relied on their kids to look after them. what can the government to do? >> this is not is for traditional society, even advanced society. we need to think that most people will be continued to be healthy. i think that it's fair that many of these people will continue to work. >> you can see much more on our website. fill in your date of birth, where you were born, and you will find out your number in the 7 billion and where you can fit in. south afr

india. today we are sharing an form. we are members of the dance company based here in san francisco and we are taught by somebody who has been doing this art form for over 50 years much the ladies including myself we have been studying with him for a long time. you will see different things. lots of sounds with our feet. a little bit of story telling through mime and expression and you will learn about math in dance. who would have thought. today we will start, our next piece means the coloring of the stage. dancers show the hindu aspect of the dance by using the positions of our hands we will show you we are decorating the stage and make a water picture and cleaning the stage with the water. plucking flowers and decorating the stage with the petals of the flowers. we will awaken the 5 senses through the blowing of a conch shell. we will demonstrate the 3 duty, creator, producer and the destroyer in order to make way for new creation. [music] [applause] good morning. afternoon, actually. so

in india he's been belittled. his nickname is the frontier gandhi, and the idea is that he took his inspiration from the move hat ma. not so. -- mo hat ma. he himself says from the prophet muhammad. there's nothing surprising to follow the creed of nonviolence. the prophet all the time when he was in mecca, and a member of his group, the servant of god, told an interviewer we do not follow nonviolence because gandhi told us. we followed it because in islam our prophet said that violation does not solve >> of nonviolence, pluralism, religious harmony payment became end -- became india's first education minister and today he's revered in india as a major figure in the indian independence movement. zakir hussein. religious pluralism, religious tolerance. not just an educationist, became a president of india. now, i must clarify here that the presidency in india is, has much less powers than the presidency in the united states. but still he did become the third president of india, ataped that post which shows the resp

in india, wholesale prices went up nearly 10% in september. food prices were more than 9% higher compared to the same period last year. our correspondents have been getting a feel of how the prices are affecting ordinary people in beijing and in mumbai in india. here is our correspondent in china. >> a supermarket on the outskirts of beijing. inflation in china over the past few months has been more than 6%. but it is here in the aisles of supermarkets across the country that people are really feeling the pinch. that is because food prices in the last year have gone up by almost 10%. if there is one item that is responsible for inflation here, it is pork. china consumes more than half the world's poor. it is a staple meet. in the last 12 months the price has been up by more than one have. >> prices for things like rice and oil have all gone up, but what are you going to do? i don't think the price hikes will change what i buy. i will just have to make more money. >> we are at the time of year when vegetables should be cheaper but they are all