like mangeet singh who has the longest hair, not to be confused with sarwan singh who has the longesteard. where else would you find the record for running through the longest consecutive planes of glass, or the longest duration full body burn. don't try this at home. just this week on regis and kelly they set another guinness record-- longest human mattress domino chain. >> congratulations! >> reporter: then there's this man. >> i love jumping, hopping, rolling. >> reporter: he holds the world record for holding the most world records. 122 currently, including ten different pogo stick records, above and below water. >> when you break a guinness record you know you've done the best in the world that anyone has ever done and, you know, even though it seems silly, it takes a lot of endurance, concentration, and a lot of times talent. >> reporter: which explains exactly why people do it says best selling author and culture observer seth godin-- to matter. >> what guinness offerd is the slight chance that maybe if you try hard enough you get noticed, you get picked. just notice me, tell m

one thing they can all agree on is that you definitely get more bang for your buck here in india in singh's gated community residents can enjoy the olympic sized pool state of the art tennis courts and a playground where there are just as many maids as children to supervise the kids while their parents exercise it's a far cry from the lives these immigrants were leading in america. is a lot of the things taken care of that. the sweepings will be called into place at the. lords and while most cite india's growing economy as a reason for moving back they won't discount the quality of life as a perk to just ask bhattacharya she worked as an i.t. professional in the u.s. in a double income house but now says her life is better than avar as an indian homemaker i see definitely and you know up to the standard of living in the sense that you have a household. affordability is much better. it's good the boeing is good here it's comfortable it's your own country that tops it all and while the crew at the sober jasmine are living it up they can't help but wonder if their presence in the united states

it's hindu property charan singh reporting for us live there thanks very much well still ahead for you in our program a grave decision how being buried alive can make you mentally stronger than usual to say the least but one group of therapists will explain why. major media outlets at the un general assembly gathered to cover speeches from world leaders this week but when the biggest countries left the show so did the media leaving other nations to talk to an empty room. found out just who was left to listen. an international circus of political power. public stress for new yorkers. reporters secret service and barricades three signs of world leaders are crammed inside one building for the annual united nations general assembly debate. this diplomatic gathering provides more than one hundred ninety countries an opportunity to promote their foreign policy agenda but generally it's always the same voices now is the time to build the trust dominating the states in identifying those responsible in the september eleventh attacks journalists flew in from all over the world to cover this seve

in the private sector and so i followed the plan this trend led singh to a ph d. a job at a prestigious research institute and ultimately the skills to start his own company but living the american dream wasn't enough the attraction for the it is only when you're sort of doing news and you're sort of pushing to be on the lope in terms of whatever you're doing and that really is synonymous with gort if you're looking to sort of grow to sort of learn new things this is the right place to be and this place is bangalore india. the city of six million exports more than thirty billion dollars of i.t. products every year amidst the hustle and bustle of congested roads and street markets is the soba jazz mean a tranquil gated community tucked in the corner of india's silicon valley many immigrants who have left the united states and come back to india have settled in gated communities like this one the residents here say that almost seventy percent of the people who live here came from abroad but one thing they can all agree on is that you definitely get more bang for your buck here in india in

." >> singh ending the family dynasty. the son of north korea's reclusive leader is promoted to general. give peace talks and a chance. the palestinian response to israeli resumption of building on the occupied west bank. and it hugo chavez makes parliamentary gains that could make the president next five years difficult indeed. welcome to "bbc world news," broadcast to our viewers on pbs in america, also around the globe. my name is mike embley. coming up later for you -- ♪ the world's biggest energy producer meets the world's fastest growing energy market. russia and china signed an oil and gas field. and the hills could soon be alive with the sound of skiing. this picturesque spot in georgia is on people's minds. hello. on the face of it, it is just an official announcement of a military appointment, but in north korea, very little is routine, and the latest news from state media looks significant. kim jong il -- kim jong-un has been given the rank of military general. this is one of the a few photographs of him. he is

former middle east director for the national security council, michael singh joins me from d.c.un back into the studio. i'm a little out of breath but welcome to you. was this just a desperate cry for taejs? >> it was a bizarre speech. it was even by his standards and he's given some very bizarre speeches, it was certainly hateful and certainly offensive. not only to americans but to any country whose citizens lost their lives on 9/11. which, you know, and frankly it also will increase strains between the united states and iran at a time when ahmadinejad had been talking about the possibility of negotiations. so why does he do it? it's not just, i think, desperation. i think you have to look at the fact that first of all, unfortunately, many people in the middle east do believe these conspiracy theorys about 9/11. and so he's in a sense, playing to that opinion. and then second, he's locked in really a pitched battle inside iran with other conservatives. and in a sense he's out flanking them to the right by doing this sort of thing. >> so he's trying to play politics, i guess, f

one thing they can all agree on is that you definitely get more bang for your buck here in india in singh's gated community residents can enjoy the olympic sized pool state of the art tennis courts and a playground where there are just as many maids as children to supervise the kids while their parents exercise with the perks of india's affordability and the style and cleanliness they remember from the united states residents have designed their own dreamworld everybody's a more friendly in that sense it's more of. a close knit community i can pick up the phone in the middle of the night and call people for help so boards are you know positive as it's a far cry from the lives these immigrants were leading in america other data databases a lot of the things get taken care of the comes into the sweepings well being called into place. but it comes into the clothes so between four or five people who help us out it certainly makes a lot of those. certainly gives us a lot more time to spend. and while most cite india's growing economy as a reason for moving back they won't discount the quality of

their livelihood others argue the real consequence may be a full blown food crisis artie's charan singh reports. indian farmers took to the capital recently in protest against a government takeover of their land to build a new two billion dollar highway this followed the death of three farmers who were killed after police opened fire on protesters in the state of the top of the. will not give learned for development to turn in price at any price at any price we are ready to die and will not allow anyone to step in our learned. these protests have stalled the government efforts to acquire farm land for industrial in india which means developers have been forced to put the roads refineries and power plants on hold the major tenant is the land acquisition if the land acquisition is going to production or even pick over the order given and in hand and that is what government is trying to do in case there is you know projects an orchid they after big and the land available to you live with only twenty thirty percent then they believe that in the bill is going to happen the land is any more d

to muslims or hindus it's a historic dispute that has already taken thousands of lives as current singh reports. an uneasy rests on the streets of new york here the battleground for an interfaith legal showdown in those considered a two week a plot of land the sacred birthplace of a hindu god but previously it was an islamic mosque that stood here until in one thousand nine hundred two a hindu mob destroyed it that and the anti muslim riots that followed remain a blot on india's image as a secular country since then the government has resisted attempts to build a temple or a mosque on the disputed site and now there are fears that riots will follow but that the court supports the claims of hindus or muslims and that anger has residents of all faiths because they feel trouble is usually for vented by outsiders and i think that at night in the entire muslim community here wants peace whatever the verdict is whoever the man goes to we are ready to make sceptics for so many years political parties have used the religious sentiments of people to create trouble and gain votes we will not let

honor but a group of so-called love commandos aims to shelter such newlyweds from harm artie's charan singh miss a team of volunteers behind the venture. your life's in danger your girlfriend's been kept captive welcome to the love commandos a newly formed helpline taking calls from distraught couples who have dared to marry against their family's wishes because. whenever we get a call that a couple is being threatened we contact our commandos and tell them to go there immediately to help them if they face any problem we inform the police our team of lawyers also reach there so that the couple is not attacked threatened or mistreated. the love commandos include lawyer and social activists and claims to have attracted one hundred forty thousand volunteers across india they have helped rescue many couples from debt by forcing police to intervene sanjay not the other young couple in love who ran away from with their families against a marriage they had nowhere else. we need five complaints to the police but no one to count when i heard of the helpline i felt some who helped us right away and w

livelihood others argue that the real consequence will be a full blown food crisis artie's charan singh reports. indian farmers took to the capital recently in protest against a government takeover of the land to build a new two billion dollars highway this followed the deaths of three farmers who were killed after police opened fire on protesters in the state police. will not keep learn to develop and to turn a price at any price at any price we are ready to die and will not allow anyone to stiffen our learned. these protests have stalled the government efforts to acquire farmland forty industrial need india which means developers have been forced to put the roods refineries and plants on hold the media is the land acquisition if the land acquisition is i mean the production or even the order department and. and that is what government is trying to do in case there is you know projects and they are big and the land available to you live is only going to thirty percent then they believe that in the. land is an emotive issue in a country with two thirds of the population is still depende

with leon harris, leggmason singh, the chief meteorologist doug hill weather and sports. >> with a 9.9%loyment rate, their coats -- there are calls for the city government to be more vigilant. >> dc law makers have implemented so-called first service agreement. at least 51% of their new hires must be d.c. residents. one activist says it must not be working. >> show me how many residents are on this project and we are gone. >> they showed up on a construction site today questioning if they were complying with the 51% rule. yet d.c. workers like williams say it got them hired. >> there's a lot of construction going on. >> at this project, the construction company told us they hired seven new people, all new -- all d.c. residents like this man. but a report filed found that only four of 16 projects met or exceeded the goal of having 51% d.c. residents. adding that on those projects, residents lost potential revenue of nearly $14 million. this facility, a home for the elderly, hired zero d.c. workers. a council member blamed mayor fenty for a lack of enforcement. but henderson, who is runni

including secretary geithner who said to the "wall street journal" "china took an important step singhing they're going to let the exchange rate reflect market forces but they've done very, very little in the interim. it's very important and i think it's important to china, i think they recognize this that you need to let it move up over a sustained period of time." so there's concern that finally you agreed to let it move a little but you're very, very stubborn about it. >> (laughs) charlie, i think the myth is that raising the exchange rate will solve the trade issue. the reality is that it doesn't solve the trade imbalance issue. the japanese in the '80s, throughout the '80s early into the '90s rose the yen exchange rate 300%. you know, the deficit's still there, the u.s. deficit's still there. china since 2005 has increased the exchange rate by 25% or 22%. but the surplus... the deficit entry got bigger. so... one other real issue that china has a huge surplus with america which is true. but china has deficit with every other country on earth right now because currently in a globalize

me now the former senior director of middle east affairs at the national security council, michael singhgoing on right now. what will happen in the next couple of hours we don't know. president obama did speak at the u.n. and suggest that the freeze should be extended. where does that leave prime minister netanyahu? >> i understand that prime minister netanyahu issued a statement and urged settlers to exercise restraint with expiration of the moratorium in a few hours. that suggests strongly he is not going to extend the moratorium. at the same time, president abbas has said that he will not necessarily walk away from the talks. so it looks like what is going to happen at 6:00 p.m. when this expires is nothing, that there will be no compromise on the table and efforts to get the parties back to talks will have to just continue. >> jamie: when you say "nothing" we don't know what will happen actually in the region. so much is at stake. show us both sides if you in your analysis. if it were extended, what would it look like. if it's partially extended or not extented at all. >> the issue,