The All India Podcast

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India’s economy is booming. In this edition of The World’s Global Economy podcast, we look at what’s driving India’s remarkable success, and also explore the challenges of zooming ahead from a developing nation to economic powerhouse of the 21st century. How do you provide energy and sanitation for more than a 1.1 billion people? Where will the scores of new middle class live? Who will take care of India’s elderly as sons and daughters become more mobile and leave the family structure? Who wins in the new India? And who loses? Download MP3

Entire program – April 8, 2010

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Today on The World: The US and Russia sign a landmark nuclear arms treaty; Televised presidential-style debates add a new twist to British elections; and rock and roll from China.

US and Russia sign historic nuclear arms treaty

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US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, have signed a landmark nuclear arms treaty in the Czech capital, Prague. Anchor Marco Werman gets the details from the BBC’s James Robbins. Download MP3 (Photo: DMITRY ASTAKHOV/AFP/Getty Images)

• BBC coverage
• Q&A: New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (Start)

Kyrgyzstan chaos

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The Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan is tense today after opposition protests yesterday appear to have toppled the government. It’s not clear yet whether the unrest will endanger a US base there which is key to operations in Afghanistan. The World’s Jeb Sharp reports. Download MP3

• BBC coverage
• Q&A: Kyrgyzstan unrest

Anti-Mafia wine in Sicily

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A vineyard in Sicily is producing wine with an unusual vintage. Centopassi creates wine on land confiscated from the Mafia. The Cosa Nostra’s former stomping grounds are where Italians are now crushing – grape by grape – the hold of organized crime on their homeland. Nancy Greenleese reports from Sicily. Download MP3 (Photo: Nancy Greenleese)

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• Wine sets seal on Mafia seizure

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Russia’s nuclear aims

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Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Dmitri Trenin of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Moscow about Russia’s stake in the nuclear disarmament treaty it signed today with the United States.

British elections

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British politicians are trying something new ahead of elections next month. The leaders of the two biggest parties are going to debate, US presidential election-style. The World’s Laura Lynch reports.

Immigration law enforcement in question

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The US National Fugitive Operations Program was intended to root out dangerous outlaws among the nation’s illegal immigrants. But critics say authorities have lowered the bar for what constitutes “dangerous,” in order to meet arrest targets. Lily Jamali has the story.

New archbishop for Los Angeles

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Anchor Marco Werman speaks with correspondent John Allen of the National Catholic Reporter on the choice of Mexican-born priest, Jose Gomez, as the next archbishop of Los Angeles.

Safety in the air

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In the wake of yesterday’s incident involving a Qatari diplomat who caused a security scare on board a flight to Denver, anchor Marco Werman talks with airline pilot Patrick Smith about in-flight safety in the U.S.

Geo Quiz

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Our daily geography puzzler.

Malcolm McLaren obituary

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Anchor Marco Werman remembers Malcolm McLaren, former manager of the Sex Pistols and creator of the British punk music scene. McLaren died today at the age of 64.

Geo answer

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The city of Nanjing, China, is the answer to our geo quiz today. Right now 22 people are on trial there for swapping sex partners. The swinging lifestyle is illegal in China, but the trial of the “Nanjing 22″ is generating a national debate about the state of sexual freedom. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Stan Abrams, a lawyer and author of the blog China Hearsay.

Swapping partners in China

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A Chinese city is on our radar for today’s Geo Quiz. The city we are looking for today is a skyscraper-packed place with a population of 5 million and it’s located just west of Shanghai… Download MP3