he helped coordinate the mumbai attack in november of 2008 and prior to going to mumbai he was working on the attack planned for al qaeda to attack the newspaper and its employees in copenhagen. he had traveled there. he had surveilled and gone into their lobby and drew sketches of it and the layout and found out as much information as he could. when he returned to chicago he was communicating with his handlers who said put that plan on hold. we want to do mumbai first, and then before he could, and they could execute the plan in copenhagen the fbi arrested him and that case closely worked with the danish authorities and the swedish authorities later when jihad jane from pennsylvania was putting together a crew to go to stockholm and murder vilks at his home in the middle of the night and cut his throat so they could get the bounty put out by al qaeda on him. so these plots go back a long way. the cooperation just through fbi, the authority, the police there and the intelligence service, interpol europol, and all of these agencies throughout europe and throughout the world have been wo

in mumbai alone, perhaps nine billion people still occupy unimproved slums or the sidewalk. this is fred de sam lazaro in mumbai, india, for the pbs "newshour." >> woodruff: fda commissioner margaret hamburg today called the recent measles outbreak in the u.s. "alarming" and said the vaccine should be used by "everyone who has not been vaccinated." more than 120 cases have been reported in 17 states and the district of columbia since december. hamburg's comments came after other warnings from public health officials in california where a report by kqed public media told the story from marin county where unvaccinated children were invited to a so- called "measles party" for intentional exposure. the mother did not let her children take part. but the story underscored anew some of the many questions that have surfaced. to help get some clarity i spoke earlier today with dr. anne schucat. she's the director of c.d.c.'s national center for immunization and respiratory disease. dr. schucat, welcome to the "newshour." there's at least one media report out of california, marin coun

maybe 15 in new delhi, and three in mumbai. maybe you'll get more further north. 18mm possible, but none of the figures are that big. if the rain comes off in the forecast. it's a big departure from what you might expect. it lasts through into monday and then tries up. >> we are off to peru. >> producers struggling with low prices. they are affecting peru's industry as well. let's hear from marianna sanchez with more from the cotton institute in peru. >> translation: it was a product, for century yeas peruvians wove a high quality product. now the industry is dying. it produces under a tenth that it used to. the country imports 90% of cotton used. farmers tournamented to other crops. they can't give up four heck tears of cotton. he only knows how to care for this crop. farmers are scarred. we only wait for the crops to grow and for god to guide us and win moneys. >> they produce two cotton varieties with low yields one a year. most are on small parcel of lands, the owners poor farmer with no money to invest. they don't get subs

. -- joining us for move by -- mumbai. >> arrest of employees. the arrest of marking the first time since -- that in police have launched an investigation of high-profile businesses to really leave the businesses and their owners facing potentially damaging legal investigations. the probe into the attempts to still documents also -- steal documents also raised concerns about gaining access to market sensitive data that has long been a complaint of foreign investors seeking to navigate the country's complex democracy. three businesses will be in court included at conglomerate which is owned by a wealthy family. that is london listed. india's oil ministers, facing an investigation. this involves a police sting the led to the rest of middlemen on suspicion of illegally obtaining and selling documents to the companies involved. >> how did this happen? how did this alleged espionage take place and what happened next? >> it is really interesting and to how it took place. the police say some of the accused got id cards, which is leaving a business of co

before things get started in mumbai. out the friday session with a gain of 1% looking like a flat start to the trading day there. the futures contract there in singapore. and at the moment it is crunch time for grief, with crucial talks later today in brussels, and the great debt debate when "on the move" returns. ♪ >> ok, some other headlines around the world, people in shock after a gunman shot some dead in copenhagen. they say he was born in denmark, had a criminal record, and was part of criminal activity. he killed a man in a synagogue and the islamic council has condemned the attacks. and the cease-fire in ukraine is threatening to unravel after just one day, with rebels and others accusing themselves of violating the cease-fire. fighting has subsided in most areas after a deal brokered with the help of france and germany. more than 5000 people have died in almost a year of violence there. and people rallying in athens about what is considered to be a day of reckoning. this is due show support for the finance minis

>> is an unlikely sport for a man who grew up in mumbai, the mecca of cricket.now he sees india as a big growth area for the game and is investing heavily to promote it in its homeland. >> there are already a million boys and girls that are bouncing basketballs all over india. we expect that number to get to 10 million in the next few years. sport has taken off in the next national fashion. >> be at the boardroom or the basketball court for vivek ranadive, it is all about attitude. the india of 2015 has what it takes to make it work. >> when a coach a little basketball team, are rallying cry would be 1, 2, 3, attitude. one of my goals is to modify that and change it to attitude -- ha! what i see happening under the leadership of prime minister modi is attitude -- ha! >> he treats basketball as another math problem. selling basketball to indians who consider cricket to be a religion is going to be a real test of his skill. one thing is for sure -- it is not going to be a slamdunk. >> the postcolonial sport bringing today's show to a close. thanks for watching and

. >> you are focused in mumbai. it's been rallying up 1.7% last night. prime minister modi is infusing enough hope into this indian economy it's going to be the best performing growth market in the world. expectations are they'll announce they expect to grow between 8.1% and 8.5%. they are the new china. they are the iron bric. a lot of news has been put into this. india is a market up 38% year over year. the banks to me are the best way to play what is going to be construction growth, housing growth. hdb, ibn, icic bank. it's a very good bank. ways to play india. all emerging markets are not paid the same. india has been cranking. no inflation. talking about very good for india. >> these are huge. they were talking about the pledge to build 15,000 megawatts in india by 2020 because of prime minister modi. they are not only benefiting the indian stock market but u.s. companies that could stand to benefit by winning companies there. >> stis stock has been up 20% the last couple of weeks. how much more does it have left? just looking not that these trade t

and mumbai outperformed the region's markets on hopes for the government's budget, which will be announced tomorrow. but in seoul and jakarta, investors there taking some profits from recent gains. moving on to currencies the dollar remains pretty strong against the yen after positive u.s. economic data yesterday. the euro is still pretty week against the dollar and the yen. in march the european central bank will start a quantitative easing program. >>> all right. that is going to wrap it up for biz tonight. i'll leave you with the markets. >>> researchers in australia have unveiled the world's first jet engine made entirely with a 3-d printer. they say the new technology is expected to drastically cut more manufacturing costs. the avalon international air show in australia features the latest developments in aviation technology. this one meter long engine was developed by engineers at monash university and associates. each component was made with a 3-d printer. a cylindrical component in the come boston chamber usually takes more than three months to produce however this one was made in

joining us now from mumbai, what is going on here? corporate espionage scandal, in which classified documents were allegedly leaked, that seems to be getting murkier by the day. allegations of stolen documents has deepened this weekend following the arrest of employees at conglomerates controlled by four of the country's most prominent and biggest tycoons. of the current prime minister has launched an investigation to target high profile people. these are lengthy, potentially damaging investigations. the allegation is that duplicate keys were made to the minister's rooms, and sensitive documents were removed from the rooms and passed on. the investigation is ongoing. we continue to watch what is going on. back to you. this debutit for edition of "trending business". asia edge is coming up next. today's guest is the chief asia-pacific economist. edge" is next. . >> hello, i am a john dawson. this is "asia edge." ♪ trading. japan's markets, the highest since september. hasgovernment in athens only one day to come up with convincing the

more people live in mumbai and del a but it's kolkata's book fair that's the most popular.use of the city's long held love for literature and reading and why it's considered the literary capital of india. a few kilometers away kolkata's college street is famous for its book market. the popular saying is if you can't find a book here, it probably never existed. organizers say the importance of books and being well read in kolkata is what makes this book fair popular. >> the status of a person is determined how they read. how they love books. parents from childhood always pressurize on their children to read books. that's the main reason that kolkata has got a huge foot fall for books and book lovers. >> reporter: he does make a few sales at the fair, but for him and others the real profit is being surrounded by their passion. fez jamil a

more people live in mumbai and delhi but calcutta's book fair is the most popular because of the city'sove for literature and reading and why it's considered the literary capital of india. a few kilometer as way it's famous for its book market the popular saying is if you can't find a back here, it probably never existed. organizers say the importance of books and being well red here is what makes this book fair popular. >> the status of a passion is determined how how they read. how they love books. parents, from childhood always specialize on the children, to read books that's the main reason that calcutta has got a huge foot fall for books and book lovers. >> reporter: they make a few sales at the fair, but following and others, the real profit is being surrounded by their passion. fez jamil, al jazerra. >>> and you can keep up-to-date with all of the day's news on our website. al jazerraaljazerra.com. >> on "america tonight": >> the manor of his death how does that play -- >> i think the jordannians are infuriated. so there is going to be a backlash. >> his blood is the blood of the

he joins me via skype from mumbai. this is really interesting.is a huge chunk of money for maizu a company i have never heard of. >> this is almost 45% of maizu's revenue in 2014. this particular deal is signifying a race toward becoming a complete system player. everyone in china is racing to become a system player. right now, there is smart phone companies. they have grown on a smart phone experience. then there are software service companies like alibaba, baidu. but there is no apple in china. alibaba wants to become the apple of china. they want hardware as well as software. they want to have a platform, as you said to sell all the software and services, using the hardware platform. as you have seen, the money resides in being completely consistent -- where apple is not where google is. cory: of course, there is an apple in china, at least in the fourth quarter. it is out with an apple phone, with software from the apple app store. is that the ultimate goal, that alibaba will have all that and more because they will have the commerce that hap

from these documents and osama bin laden for instance may have had a stronger hand in the attacks in mumbaibody thought. there are three different plots in the united states or on western targets that had been planned and osama bin laden had a hand in that we know about after his death. and there is a lot to uncover, not only with respect to it al-qaeda but respect the relations that al-qaeda had with pakistan and iran and the taliban. >> stop there in iran. the connection between iran and bin laden? >> no question. and the obama administration has designated senior iranian officials for what the obama administration called a secret relationship between al-qaeda and iran. it doesn't make sense on the surface. iran and shiite would never cooperate with sunni? that is wrong. the obama treasury department designated senior iranian officials for the sport of al-qaeda. >> we pause, we know the nuclear negotiation are on-going and something that the administration is working on closely. there is a lot more to the story and wish we had more time. we'll have you back to talk about it. i am sure thi

more people live in mumbai and delhi, the book fair is always popular. that is a long-held love for reading. >> reporter: a few kilometres away. it's famous for the books. the saying is if you can't find a book here it probably never existed. organizers say the importance of books and being well-read in calcutta, is what makes this book. >> determining how they really love books. it suspiciouslyize on the children. to read - that's the main reason that calcutta has got a huge foot fall of books from book lovers. >> reporter: both make a few sails. they are surrounded by passion. >>> stay tuned for more of the show including a communication breakdown that is hurting the most vulnerable. plus... >> i'm phil lavelle in berlin where the film festival is getting under way. find out what the organizers did or didn't do to upset north korea. find out later. >> find out about this tunisian tennis player - why he lost a match he was winning. >>> hello, let's look at the top stories - u.s. secretary of state john kerry arrives in ukraine in the last hour or so to

newspapers and was laying out the plans for an attack is that al qaeda diverted him to advice in the mumbai attack first. then when he was in the process of going back to copening hagen, he was arrest their intent was to go to stock holmes, break down lars home and cut his throat in the middle of the night, so they could get the bounty that was on his head and still is on hid head so the fbi and the other police authority thes interpoll, the fbi, many people have been working on these cases for years, as the plots go on and on and on. >> if it turns owl this alleged shooter really had no contact with the network, and was just according to some daneish authorities. >> well that's true and the fewer people that he was in contact with intending to do this attack he decided, as a lone wolf that he would do it all on his own, he was able to procure the weaponry that was observed in this case but the fewer people know the easier it is to keep a secret and and the harder it is to -- i think another interesting thing in this whole event also is that this individual manages to wound five police offi

we'll go live to mumbai to get the latest. >> hello and welcome back to "gmt." the islamist group, boko haram, vowed in a new video the group will defeat a regional force fighting the militants in the northeast of the country. troops from nigeria have been joined now by soldiers from chad and cameroon in recent weeks, because of increased concerns about boko haram's threats. niger's parliament is expected to vote on the deployment of troops to fight boko haram's. and nigeria's presidential elections have been postponed until march. the government says due to the security situation and fighting, boko haram. nigeria's correspondent, will ross joins us now from lagos. will what is the response of things materially changing on the ground in the northeast over the next six weeks? >> reporter: what's clear is the regional effort to fight against boko haram is being boosted. now, over the weekend, there was a pledge of almost 9,000 troops from the region. and as you mentioned in your introduction there, niger is going to be voting parliament there will vote on whether

it looks like it will tend to run in the west coast over mumbai and further develop in new delhi so wet and windy weather for quite a few. back to you. >> thank you. still ahead we look at how the financial budget may effect india's massive food aid program. >> thousands march in the philippines, demanding the resignation of the president. >> coming up in sport alex rodriguez heads back to work with the yankees but did he impress the bosses? details coming up a little later. >> the top stories on the al jazeera news hour, police in mexico have captured one of the country's most wanted drug lords, martinez also known as la tuta is the leader of the knight's templar drug cartel. he was the target of the president's drive to regain control of the state. >> at least 197 people are now confirmed dead in an avalanche in afghanistan. more than 1,000 soldiers are helping in the search and recovery operation there. >> an iraqi air strike is believed to have killed nine civilians and isil fighters near a town in anbar province. isil seized control of a bridge near an air base used by the u.s. mil

attack that newspaper, one involved an american citizen who was behind a sort of plan to carry out a mumbay style attack similar to the one at "charlie hebdo." he was caught he's in jail. until now, denmark has been quiet but always with that fear that something like this could happen shannon. >> amy kellogg live in london. thank you, amy. >>> for more on this we bring in national security analyst ryan morrow. ryan, thank you so much for joining us. as you hear about this, and we're learning more and more over the past 24 hours after this attack is this more about a cartoon or is this more about radical islam and how it plays out in the west? >> it's about radicalism. they believe they are to wage a jihad in the west, including europe, and these are juicy targets for them in their mind. this isn't really about the cartoons. this is about the idealogy, and one of the objectives is to get us to implement shria's blasphemy laws. they know they can't overtake us and abort cartoons and all that but they can bring ourselves into compliance with their world view. >> scary stuff. what i thought was

we're going to go live to mumbai coming up on "gmt" very shortly. spaech before parliament, the prime minister alexis tsipras says he will raise the minimum wage and re-hire public service to back to part of the previous government's austerity measures. outlining his economic klines mr. tsipras said his country didn't want an extension of the bailout program, but a bridging loan. that's an agreement, at least until the summer to win time to renegotiate debt that would effectively, though overrule the current terms being offered by its international lenders. last week you may remember we talked about it a lot. the european central bank piled on the pressure certainly limiting its support for the greek banking system. basically, this month, they are cutting off cheap funding for greek banks. let me just finish -- there's some worrying news out of china with the latest trade numbers showing the biggest fall in imports, everything they bring in, since 2009. china's trade performance slumped in january, with exports declining just over 3% on the previous

saturday, rain will be falling and at the same time this line that comes on to india just south of mumbaivelop further and if we run it on sunday and it's a big one and looks like a northern european storm system and massive through india and strong winds is a big change. >> rob, thanks indeed for that. diplomates from the u.s. and cuba will meet for a second time on friday as they move towards normalizing relations and in december the two sides said they would reestablish embassy in both countries but for some cuban americans there is skepticism of the renewed hope and we talked to three cuban belly dancers who defected to the u.s. ♪ this is the city ballet in central florida, a small dance company with big ambitions and autistic director martin wants to bring ballet to masses and came from cuba and talents who have been through similar experiences. dancers like ricardo only here for four months the 23-year-old came to the u.s. alone, most of his family is still on the island and like many in his situation he is nervous talking about u.s./cuba relations. he tells us he hopes any changes

planning an attack in 2010 that was thwarted by european intelligence officials that wanted to replicate mumbai-styleveral cities, and his operatives were moving through iran over and over again and actually received safe haven in iran after the plot was thwarted. jenna: al-qaeda presumably could use a lot of different countries as a safe haven that could be sympathetic to them. why iran? why is iran being used? >> well iran is safe for them in some ways because in pakistan the americans have an intelligence presence. parts of the pakistani blood pressurement cooperate with us, other apartments don't. jenna: there's those that say, wait a minute, iran is shia al-qaeda is sunni they don't get along, so there's no merit in this. to that, what do you say? >> well, you know, iran and al-qaeda have a lot of common enemies, including us, and there's definitely points of tension between them, antagonistic episodes between them, in fact they're at each other's throats in syria and yemen and elsewhere. but they still have a deal, and that allows them to cooperate against us and the against the west. jenna: it

the mumbai team sold for $100 million and now it is higher. you are seeing the same dynamic that is happening in the u.s. is happening in a foreign markets. in china, they are introducing sports in the schools. yamane, sports have become very important. i do think it is behind and there are probably opportunities. let's let's talk a little extra. are you going to get them in boston? >> we hope so. we are honored to represent the u.s. i was part of it and it has been amazing. we were down in washington yesterday talking to our leaders and they are supportive. right now, we are trying to but the best foot forward for america and boston. we think we have a shot. the games have not been in the u.s. for a long time, it will be 28 years. they have come out with a new directive call the 2020 directive. the ioc wants it to be sustainable, good for communities. they have had communities where laces like greece have had issues. they do not want that. that dovetails into boston, a place with 100 universities, we can put olympics on in a three mile radius

for more let's go to mumbai. what is the proposal?d standards, this is one of the biggest employers in the world. this might be a pretty hefty budget. >> you've got that right. he has just started presenting his budget here in india. we are not expecting any hike as far as passenger fares go. it will largely be used to cross subsidize passenger fares as well as reflect the global crude prices falling. a proposal to redevelop 100 stations across the country, extensive use of i.t. and applications to make it more user-friendly also it's a campaign that is close to the prime minister's heart and that is likely to be implemented across platforms going forward. also the root -- the use of renewable and solar energy is something the prime minister has been stressing since he took over nine months ago. that is likely to play a key role as part of the modernization of the rail. >> thank you very much. i'm sure we will pick that up on bloomberg.com. >> should we talk about our picks of the.com today? we were talking about how -- about the prop

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somebody in mumbai gets the same medical treatment as a billionaire in new york city. >> we shall see. >>> if it's way too early, it's "morning joe." we've got "the rundown" straight ahead. see you tomorrow. thanks. >>> good morning. i'm jose diaz-balart. is a very busy morning here on "the rundown." breaking developments and a pair of deadly public transportation crashes. one on the rails north of new york city one in the air in taiwan caught in a dramatic dashcam video. in valhalla new york six killed after a commuter train leaving grand central station at the height of rush hour smashed into an suv caught between the crossing gates last night. more than a dozen others injured. >>> and overnight in taiwan. jaw-dropping footage. take a look at this. transasia airways plane turning on its side in mid-air clipping a taxi and an elevated rowway before crashing in the shallow river below. a live look at taipei. at least 23 confirmed dead. america rack -- miraculously 13 found alive. heading to the scene of that hoar risk crash on one of the nation's busiest commuter railways. officials s

nobody can decide that because walmart's prices may have gone up a little bit that they can go to mumbaiwhat they need. so i think this is not just good in and of itself and a recognition that you get good people when you pay better but i think it's going to be a good sign about where we can go going forward. final, this is the way the economy is supposed to work. as unemployment shrinks, as the job market tightens pressures should be to raise wages. >> right. >> at some point that might be too much but we are a long way from even approaching that problem. >> just one quick one here. i think that bill and kelly, a lot of people misinterpret the wage situation. wages are stronger than you think. you can look at average hourly earnings on the monthly job report. you can say wages are only growing 2.2%. hours worked are 3.3%. that's a 5.5% increase in wage income. since there's no inflation, that's pretty strong. i'm looking for good consumer spending. i think walmart is trying to get ahead of that. >> larry, can i -- >> go ahead, barney. >> i want to make the distinction. that's a good mac

i think most people thought they were moving their offices to mumbai after being announced.ng happened. what happened, i have no idea. i actually got a phone call from adam aron yesterday and e-mail from frits. i wish him luck. it's like watching your kid grow up. you want them to be competitive and innovative. i think the company has to get back to that spirit of innovation. that's leading, not following. so we'll see. i mean we're launching -- we have a new hotel company in europe that we're launching in london with 70 hotels called the principal group. we're launching two new brands. just made them up. and it's not -- it hasn't opened. >> how does that happen? >> serendipity. i don't know. i mean with it's emblematic of the wave of foreign capital coming to the united states and, you know you have a jewel box. that is a trophy. that's kind of like even though they'll have a yield on their capital, it could be a good deal for them. i think our record will be passed. >> even with the foreign currency fluctuations with the strong dollar. >> it's fascinating. people are sayin