Hello, im ray suarez. Even before india started its long march to economic reform, moving citizens into a new global class indias democracy showed something important to the world. It showed the developing country could hold free and fair elections, could have robust discussions and hand over power peacefully between one faction and another again and again. There is all that, gathering and counting 550 million votes. But now that india is modernizing, deeply anchoring in an economy, what it makes and what it takes matters. In a big, big way. How long does it take to have 1. 2 billion people to have an election . About two weeks as it turns out. There are 800 million registered voters, and hundreds of parties and candidates, 272 seats are needed to make a government. Exit polls are unreliable in a country this large, but all the signs point to a Sweeping Change for india and its economy, the Third Largest in asia. If the exit polls hold the new Prime Minister will be Narendra Modi or ar
Stop say witnesses. And indias elections what is at stake for the Worlds Largest democracy. The conflict in ukraine is entering a dangerous new phase. Gunshots are being fired in the east, and take overs of government buildings are getting aggressive. Here 20 armed men tomorrowed a Police Headquarters firing shots one of several buildings taken over today. The uniforms on the protesters are ukraines riot police, raising questions about whether the demonstrate juniors are russian or you demonstrators are russian or ukrainian. Ukraine said it is sending more soldiers to the region to stop further occupations. Kim vinnell is on the ground in donetsk with the latest. This is slovyansks base for local officers, now in the hands of prorussian activists. More than a dozen gunmen, many with professional grade weapons go in and out of the building. Its unclear who they are, or were they come from, and how many may be waiting inside. Outside the building supporters gathered, saying the interim g
How volunteers helping where the government is not. Traditional healers from nigeria. We are in lagos and more and more people are finding better results. We go to ukraine where an exercise has been said to be launched. Gunmen seized hundreds of weapons when they took over a Police Station in slough. Our correspondent Hoda Abdelhamid sees no visible sign of the authorities getting tough at all when you arrived. Absolutely, and theres no visible sign. The building to my right there are people standing there, they have the barricade of rubber tyres manned by me who are not carries weapons. Presumably the ones that stormed the building are in the building. You dont see them. We are in the city center, there was a warning from the government for the resident to evacuate. I think few have heeded that call. Families are Walking Around, shops are open. This there is an antiterror operation carried on. I think we are at the early stages of it, or it has not started. What we did see is a 45 che
The white house is urming russia to urgeing russia to stop trying to destagize ukraine. Prorussian gunmen seized more buildings in the east. We look at video of a dramatic takeover [ gunshots ] 20 armed men storming a police headquarters. There was a similar scene in another town as well. More than one dozen masked gunmen took a station. Protesters occupied a government building in donetsk for a week. Negotiations are happening in lieu. Ukraine is sending more soldiers to donetsk to fight the threat of further occupations. Kim vinnell has the latest on the take offers. This is the police station, usually a base for officers, now in the hands of prorussian activists, more than a dozen gunmen, many with professional grade weapons go in and out of the building. Its unclear who they are, where they come from or how many are waiting inside. Outside the building supporters gather. They say the interim government is illegitimate and want a referendum on awedon my from kiev. Our people want to
Hello, im ray suarez. Even before india started its long march to economic reform, moving citizens into a new global class indias democracy showed something important to the world. It showed the developing country could hold free and fair elections, could have robust discussions and hand over power peacefully between one faction and another again and again. There is all that, gathering and counting 550 million votes. But now that india is modernizing, deeply anchoring in an economy, what it makes and what it takes matters. In a big, big way. How long does it take to have 1. 2 billion people to have an election . About two weeks as it turns out. There are 800 million registered voters, and hundreds of parties and candidates , 272 seats are needed to make a government. Exit polls are unreliable in a country this large, but all the signs point to a Sweeping Change for india and its economy, the Third Largest in asia. If the exit polls hold the new Prime Minister will be Narendra Modi or a