we ll have you guys back. thank you so much. next on gps ronan farrow told us about how the me too movement spread. we ll focus in on india and a story there. when we come back. don t forget if you miss a show go to cnn.com for a link to my itunes podcast.
to many, when india comes to mind, it s the tinsel, is the colorful festivals or the vibrant film industry, ownership the economy taking 1.3 people on a path to modernity. but over the past week we ve seen a different side, darker in everiens. protests have engulfed the country over a series of rapes. a girl tending her family s horses was kidnapped taken to a temple in january, there a group of men took turns drugging and raping her. after five days, they stringled her with her own scarf and left her body in the woods. she was 8 years old. if we could show you her picture you would see the image of a clear-eyed child. she was a muslim.
part of a political pattern that serves as a message to minorities, as a professor at brown university. the message says v is this, muslim rights are secondary and to be decided by the majority. that message through modi s lukewarm is it condemnation india has made progress and it will make more. modi was silent about the little girl who was raped and killed, but he has launched an enormous campaign to educate girls. this is the kind of initiative increasingly seen globally as the only way forward for developing countries. he s also been a good steward of the economy, he himself is hard-working and honest with no taint of corruption around him. this is the paradox of progress. look at places like china, turkey, even the united states. in many of these countries, the
happened. ravi we look at buildings that have been pancaked we know the income per person in that country is something like $1,000 a year. it is a poor country. infrastructure is poor. housing construction is poor. do we think that they are still finding survivors in the piles of rubble at this hour? reporter: hard to say, christine. the last person i spoke to on india s national response team they said that you know, they found a few in the last 24 hours, but really that number is really dwindling. it is hard to find anyone anymore. in the rural parts, you need to get there first. whole villages likely wiped out. thank you, ravi from new delhi. a rescue operation at the top of the world is over.
equipped to deal with this. the army is only 90,000 strong. nepal only had 12 working helicopters. india india has been a huge amount of support. it sent in food and aid and water and medical supplies and sending in helicopters and many rescue and research teams to help get back on track. nepal needs help from india and china and from the u.s. thank you, robbie in new delhi. happening now, a daring rescue operation at the top of the world. helicopter pilots risking their lives at the peak of mt. everest. trying to rescue stranded climbers from the highest point on the planet. let s go live to london and bring in eric mclaughlin. erin do we know how many people are still stranded on that mountain? reporter: christine, among the tragedy, some good news on