india, this lose. tell us about that. it really has. look in any normal year, the indian budget is a big deal. families huddle together and watch it. tv channels in india have scores of 24-hour newschannels, not just in english but inin had dee, tamil, you name it. every language has a 24-hour newschannel. this of greater in part because of soaring expectations over the mody government. so one fact to that is that i heard that a lot of indian newschannels were doubling the ad rates around budget coverage. that gives you a sense of the excitement and the number of eyeballs on this event. india is playing a cricket match at the cricket world cup. it s saying something that for once cricket is taking a backstage. it s all about economics today. that s something. that flip-flop. like the super bowl of budgets.
as you know much better than i, mody is a man who is a hindu nationalist looking very likely to do extremely well and favored because he s deemed to have a more business friendly approach to the economy. quite what that means will be interesting to watch. brazil interesting. i think interesting to see how that plays in with the world cup. is brazil a catastrophe or do better than expected and one place. scotland. scotland will be interesting. scotland will vote on whether to leave the united kingdom. i predict it won t that in my little world that will be interesting in 2014. we will hold you all to this. up next, what in the world. here s a big question for 2014. have we reached the end of globalization? i ll tell you the answer when we come back. also, one-on-one with a rock star.
even an empire state building and a world trade center. every ten years, the city of 4.5 million adds 2 million new people. and that is continuing today because of almost zero unemployment rate, the ability of waters and everything. but not everyone has been a part of the growth. imam lives in the muslim slum in surat. translator: if you go out, you ll see number-one facilities for everything. but if you visit our slums, all you find is waist and drains. he is working, but he s getting rid of the poor, he s building pala palaces. he s talking about the controversially elected and chief minister mody. the industrialists seem as
complicity in the riots, and he is the leading opposition candidate for prime minister in the 2014 national elections. has bujhrat got it right? indians head to the polls in 2014. they re angry with the ruling congress party for its mismanagement of the ruling party, and mody has been dynamic on the campaign trail. if he and his majority gain the votes, he will be the next prime minister. up next, how in the world do you keep track of 1.2 billion people? india has a high-tech solution. avo: the volkswagen sign then drive sales event is back. which means it s never been easier to get a new passat, awarded j.d. power s most appealing midsize car, two years in a row.
superb administrator who s delivered for nine or ten years very high levels of growth. why can t you say that you regret the on the other hand, journalist tapper, who has interviewed mody, says the chief minister is revialed for failing to stop the 2002 riots, a massacre in which upwards of 1,000 people mostly muslims were killed. mody is perceived as a villain, as the man who presided over the killings of thousand protesters, by either deliberately failing to stop the rioters, and some accounts he gave instructions to the police to permit the rioting so the sanger could be quelled after a certain amount of blood had been shed. mody straddles the two realities. the united states has denied him a visa to visit citing his