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Cast : Ramana, Suman,
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Director : Vijay R Anand
Producer : GM Balaji
Lyrics : Na Muthukumar,
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Music Director : Dhina
Banner : Angel Films International
Year : 2010
Release Date: 30 Jul 2010
Genre: Action
Language: Tamil

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In today’s world of fake encounters and underhand alliance of cops with the underworld, a movie like Thambi Arjuna makes a lot of sense. For Thambi Arjuna has a socially relevant theme of how cops feed on the criminals for selfish reasons. It also raises a few questions on the integrity on encounters.
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Feroz Khan is an underworld don who thrives on illegal businesses, who has an unlikely partner in the City Commissioner Suman. Suman, although is not a bad cop as such, gets a few things done through the don and their friendship is thus cemented in a give-and-take relationship. And when Feroz’s brother Ramana and Suman’s daughter, played by Ashima, fall in love with each other all hell breaks loose.
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In the meantime, Ramana helps Suman rescue Ashima from an extortionist and in the ensuing battle Suman gets a chance to get it even with Feroz for having disgraced him. Encounter provides him the opportunity and what transpires in the end forms the crux of the movie.
The movie has a decent script but if only it hadn’t trailed away to other banalities, it would have sustained the grip and been a better one. Feroz’s histrionics work in some places and he shows he can act while the others range from just passable to above average. Dheena’s music falls short of being hummable but the background score complements the movie’s flow.
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Chelsea Clinton is to wed investment banker Marc Mezvinsky on the exclusive Astor Courts estate in upstate New York.



Chelsea Clinton to wed Marc Mezvinsky on Elite Estate
31 July 2010 Last updated at 16:39 GMT

The only child of former US President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to marry her boyfriend at a lavish wedding.

Chelsea Clinton is to wed investment banker Marc Mezvinsky on the exclusive Astor Courts estate in upstate New York.
Amid tight secrecy to protect her privacy, few details are known other than that her parents are attending.
Media have flooded the area for one of the year's biggest US society events.
Hundreds of people have crowded into the nearby town of Rhinebeck hoping to catch of a glimpse of the former First Couple or their publicity-shy daughter, and a no-fly zone is being imposed on the area as part of the security measures.
Reports say that TV star Oprah Winfrey and film director Steven Spielberg will be among the 500 guests.
The wedding is expected to cost between $2m (£1.3m) and $3m (£1.9m), experts told the Associated Press news agency.
Shopkeepers, innkeepers, retailers and caterers in Rhinebeck have been sworn to secrecy about the event and inconvenienced local residents have been offered complimentary bottles of wine.
Amid tight secrecy to protect her privacy, few details are known other than that her parents are attending.
Media have flooded the area for one of the year's biggest US society events.
Hundreds of people have crowded into the nearby town of Rhinebeck hoping to catch of a glimpse of the former First Couple or their publicity-shy daughter, and a no-fly zone is being imposed on the area as part of the security measures.
Reports say that TV star Oprah Winfrey and film director Steven Spielberg will be among the 500 guests.
The wedding is expected to cost between $2m (£1.3m) and $3m (£1.9m), experts told the Associated Press news agency.
Shopkeepers, innkeepers, retailers and caterers in Rhinebeck have been sworn to secrecy about the event and inconvenienced local residents have been offered complimentary bottles of wine.

'We love it here'
Marc Mezvinsky sitting with Chelsea Clinton in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, December 1996 The couple have known each other for years
Bill and Hillary Clinton arrived in Rhinebeck late on Friday. Mrs Clinton, wearing a long, green dress, waved to a cheering crowd waiting behind metal barricades and quickly went into a hotel.
Earlier in the day, Mr Clinton, looking fit and relaxed, had lunch in a Rhinebeck restaurant.
He took time afterwards to shake hands with kitchen staff and customers before emerging to an enthusiastic crowd of hundreds of people who shouted "Congratulations!" and "We love you!".
"We love it here," he told reporters. "Chelsea loves the area as well."
Asked about his future son-in-law, he said: "I like him very much. I really do. I admire him. Hillary feels the same way."
One of the questions being asked about the wedding is whether it will follow a particular religion's traditions.
Chelsea Clinton, 30, is a Methodist Christian while Marc Mezvinsky, 32, is Jewish.

Four rowers have smashed a 114-year-old record by crossing the Atlantic in 43 days, 21 hours and 26 minutes.



Artemis Rowing team smashes transatlantic record

Team Artemis leaving New York The crew of the Artemis is on course to smash the record by more than a week

Four rowers have smashed a 114-year-old record by crossing the Atlantic in 43 days, 21 hours and 26 minutes.
The Artemis North Atlantic Rowing Challenge crew left New York on 17 June and touched the quayside at St Mary's just before 1500 BST.
The previous record, set in 1896 by Norwegians George Harbo and Frank Samuelson, stood at 55 days and 13 hours.
Skipper Leven Brown told BBC News it was a "pell-mell, helter-skelter" trip.
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"It's been absolutely amazing and what a reception we've here in the Scillies," the 37-year-old from Edinburgh said.
"The funniest thing for me was walking up the quayside - after more than six weeks of not walking my legs felt more than a bit unsteady."
During the record attempt, the team survived 33ft-high (10m) waves, encountered whales and even rescued a man overboard.
Two years ago, an attempt by a team called The Scilly Boys nearly ended in disaster when their vessel capsized, 13 days after leaving New York.



George Harbo and Frank Samuelson Norwegian Americans George Harbo and Frank Samuelson set the previous record in 1896
It is the Artemis crew's second attempt after a broken rudder at the beginning of June forced them to retire.
Rowing with the skipper were Ray Carroll, 33, from Galway in Ireland, Don Lennox, 41, from Lanarkshire and 39-year-old Livar Nysted from the Faroe Islands.
As the team approached the final stretch, Mr Carroll said conditions were "testing" with tidal currents and squalls.
For the past two weeks the crew has been surviving on powdered supplements after running out of food, so all four said they were looking forward to "solid food".

Young children are supplying an increasing demand from foreign tourists who travel to Brazil for sex holidays, according to a BBC investigation.



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30 July 2010 Last updated at 09:19 GMT

Young children are supplying an increasing demand from foreign tourists who travel to Brazil for sex holidays, according to a BBC investigation. Chris Rogers reports on how the country is overtaking Thailand as a destination for sex tourism and on attempts to curb the problem.

Her small bikini exposes her tiny frame. She looks no older than 13 - one of dozens of girls parading the street looking for clients in the blazing mid-afternoon sun. Most come from the surrounding favelas - or slums.

As I park my car, the young girl dances provocatively to catch my attention.
"Hello my name is Clemie - you want a programme?" she asks, programme being the code word they use for an hour of sex. Clemie asks for less than $5 (£3) for her services. An older woman standing nearby steps in and introduces herself as Clemie's mother.
I usually have more than 10 clients per night - they pay 10 reais each - enough for a rock of crack”

End Quote Pia 13-year-old prostitute
"You have the choice of another two girls, they are the same age as my daughter, the same price," she explains. "I can take you to a local motel where a room can be rented by the hour."
I make my excuses and head towards the bars and brothels of the nearby red-light district.
Despite assurances of a police crackdown, there appears to be little evidence of child prostitution disappearing from the streets of Recife. In four years' time, the country will be hosting the World Cup, which will fuel its booming economy.
Brazil has defied the global economic downturn thanks, in part, to its exotic, endless beaches attracting record numbers of tourists.
The country's erotic reputation has long been attracting an unwanted type of tourist. Every week specialist holiday operators bring in thousands of European singles on charted flights looking for cheap sex. Now Brazil is overtaking Thailand as the world's most popular sex-tourist destination.

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As night falls, the sex tourist's playground in Recife, in the state of Pernambuco, comes alive. Prostitutes mingle with tourists, dancing at their sides and eyeing up potential business. The legal age for prostitution is 18, but many look much younger.
Chris Rogers with two young boys Two young transvestites say they need to work to get money for food



Taxi drivers work with the girls who are too young to get into the bars. One offers me two for the price of one and a lift to a local motel.

"They are underage, so much cheaper than the older ones," he explains as he introduces me to Sara and Maria.
Neither has made any attempt to disguise their age. One clings to a bright pink Barbie bag, and they hold each other's hands looking terrified at the possibility of potential custom.
Recife's red-light area is now crammed with cars slowly crawling past groups of girls parading their bodies.
One of them, Pia, is dressed in a cropped pink top and mini skirt. The 13-year-old agrees to speak to me about her life as a child prostitute. She explains that she works from the same street corner every night until dawn to fund her and her mother's crack cocaine habit.

"I usually have more than 10 clients per night," she boasts. "They pay 10 reais (£3.50, $5.50)) each - enough for a rock of crack."
Entire streets are now cleared of prostitution - my aim is to intensify these raids in time for the World Cup”

End Quote Eline Marques Secretary of state for child protection, Fortaleza
For safety, Pia works with a group of older girls who act as pimps, taking care of the money and watching over the younger ones.
"There's lots of girls working around here. I'm not the youngest, my sister is 12, and there's an 11-year-old." But Pia is worried about her sister: "Bianca hasn't been seen for two days since she left with a foreign guy," she says.
Pia first started working as a prostitute at the age of seven, and Unicef estimates there are 250,000 child prostitutes like her in Brazil.
"I've been doing it for so long now, I don't even think about the dangers," Pia tells me. "Foreign guys just show up here. I've been with lots of them. They just show up like you."
Crackdown
Just a couple of streets away the pavement is lined with transvestites touting for clients. Among them 14-year-old Ronison and 12-year-old Ivan.

The cousins look convincing in their stilettos, mini skirts and blouses, and heavy make up.
"We need to earn money to buy rice and staple foods for our families," Ronison explains as he flicks back his long bobbed hair. "Our parents don't worry about us too much. We tell them when we are leaving and when we're coming back. And then we give the money to them to buy food. They know how we get the money, we just don't discuss it"
Police search The city of Fortaleza has been carrying out relentless clean-up operations

Most sex tourists used to head to the city of Fortaleza some 500 miles away.
But not anymore. For the past year, the state capital of Ceara - which also a World Cup host city - has been sending a clear message to sex tourists that they are not welcome. Every week a dozen armed cars and federal police armed with AK-47s sweep through the streets of the red-light district, breaking down the doors of motels and brothels, arresting offenders and taking underage girls into care.



Eline Marques, the city's secretary of state for child protection, claims her relentless raids are having an effect.
"We have shut down many establishments in Fortaleza. Entire streets are now cleared of prostitution. My aim is to intensify these raids in time for the World Cup, targeting the very tourism that encourages child prostitution," she says.
Other states have indicated that they are monitoring Ms Marques' campaign and, if deemed successful, could follow suit.
'Terrified'
But for every sex establishment that is shut down, every sex tourist arrested, there are victims.
Many are taken to charity run homes. The Centro de Recuperacao Rosa De Saron near Recifi is full to capacity because many of the girls can't be returned home to the poverty that drove them into prostitution. They are sent there from all over Brazil.

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Twelve-year-old Maria wants to live with her mother but she can't because her pimp, who forced her to work on the streets and in brothels, threatened to kill her if she tried to escape. She told me that she is still terrified for her life.
"I had no choice but to do what he said. I felt I was losing my childhood, I was only nine years old," she says. "I was scared. Sometimes if I came back without money for him he'd hit me."
Jane Sueli Silva, who founded the centre, says most of the girls are between 12 and 14 when they arrive.
"Many of them arrive here with serious problems like cervical cancer," she says. "As the cancer is normally at only early stage, we can help them and thank God the cure is normally always successful."

Some girls also turn up pregnant, their child fathered by a sex tourist.

The British charity Happy Child International plans to build more centres to house a growing number of child prostitutes.
"The crisis for these children turning to prostitution has increased significantly in the north-east of Brazil over the last few years, fuelled by increasing numbers of foreign tourists who travel to Brazil for sex holidays," says Sarah de Carvalho of Happy Child International.
"It is so important to take the children away from the lure of the streets and break the cycle and give them a safe place to live and receive help."
But charities and police crackdowns have yet to reach children like Pia, the 13-year-old prostitute whom I met on the streets of Recife.
Her home is a small shack she shares with her mother, two brothers and 12-year-old sister, who had still failed to return home. It was nothing more than a crumbling shed with two sofas acting as a bed and a plastic bucket to wash clothes and plates.



When I asked Casa if her daughters' work in prostitution breaks her heart, she appeared more concerned that they fail to bring home money. "If they make money they don't bring it home. No - they don't bring any money home," she said.
Pia told me that one day she hopes to break out of prostitution. She said she had heard of charities that provide a home for girls like her.
"Every day I ask God to take me out of this life. Sometimes I do stop, but then I go back to the streets looking for men. The drug is bad, the drug is my weakness and the clients are always there willing to pay."
Our World: Brazil's Child Prostitutes is broadcast on BBC World and the BBC News Channel on 31 July and 1 August at various times

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Russia mobilises 240,000 to fight deadly wildfires


Dry grass burns near the town of Voronezh 500km (294 miles) south of Moscow, 31 July 2010 Firefighters are battling blazes in 14 of Russia's 83 regions

Almost 240,000 people have been mobilised across Russia to tackle wildfires that have killed at least 30 people, officials say.
The military has pooled resources with firefighters; the emergencies ministry said 25,000 engines were being used.
But with temperatures forecast to hit 40C (104F) in some areas, the ministry has warned more fires are likely.
Several villages and swathes of forest have been destroyed, but officials say they are now on top of the situation.
"The fire situation in Russia is under control," the ministry said in a statement.
Firefighters are currently battling blazes in 14 of Russia's 83 regions, and many thousands of people have been forced to evacuate their homes.
Internet users across the country had been complaining bitterly on forums that the firefighting effort had concentrated on Moscow at the expense of other regions.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday visited a Volga village where all 341 homes were destroyed by flames, leaving 500 people homeless.
He told distressed residents of Verkhnyaya Vereya that the village would be rebuilt before winter.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin tours the village of Verkhnyaya Vereya, Russia, on 30 July, 2010


PM Putin told residents of Verkhnyaya Vereya their village would be rebuilt by winter
"You are not being forgotten," he said, promising 200,000 roubles (£4,200) in compensation for each person affected.
"All the houses will be built by winter," he added. "I promise you that the village will be restored."
The government has earmarked 25bn roubles for the national emergency effort.
It is estimated that a fifth of Russia's wheat crop has now died due to the lack of rain in what is thought to be the country's worst drought for more than a century.
Temperatures reached a record 39C (102F) in the capital on Thursday, with health experts warning of pollution levels 10 times higher than normal safety limits due to the thick pall of smoke from nearby wildfires.
Hundreds of people have drowned over the past two months in an attempt to cool off in the record heat, with 170 such deaths recorded in Moscow alone, medical sources told Interfax news agency.
The high toll has been partly blamed on drunkenness and the use of poorly equipped beaches.

A report into Australia's worst bushfires has called for sweeping changes to the way the authorities respond to natural disasters.

Australia Bushfires Report Calls for Response Changes
BBC News: 31 July 2010 Last updated at 04:26 GMT



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A report into Australia's worst bushfires has called for sweeping changes to the way the authorities respond to natural disasters.
Some 173 people were killed when fires tore across Victoria in early 2009.
Over 155 days a royal commission heard complaints about a lack of official information from a string of witnesses.
The report says authorities should build shelters in vulnerable areas and devise a full evacuation plan. Victoria has vowed to act swiftly on the report.
The state government says it will make a decisive response to the sharp critique of its actions.
Poor official information about the speed and direction of the fires was a major complaint among the more than 400 witnesses who gave evidence to the commission.
They said the emergency system simply fell apart under pressure.

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The 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission was established by the federal Australian government to investigate the causes and responses to the bushfires, which swept through the state in January and February that year.
The panel, which was headed by a former Supreme Court judge, also examined the individual circumstances of each of the deaths.
One of the most significant of the 67 recommendations in the report is the call for an overhaul of the so-called "stay and defend or leave early" policy, which has been a mainstay of fire management across Australia.
Many of the people who died acted on official advice that if they could save their house they could save themselves.
The advice was only withdrawn after "Black Saturday" on 7 February 2009, when hundreds of fires started north of Melbourne as temperatures soared to 48C and strong winds blew in from the interior.
Rather than abandoning the "stay or go" policy, the commission recommends adopting a hybrid model that includes strengthening public warnings, providing designated community refuges and bushfire shelters in areas of high risk, and developing plans for emergency evacuations.
The report also says that leadership during the crisis was "wanting", and recommends appointing a fire commissioner in each state.
Victoria's former police chief commissioner, Christine Nixon, was criticised for going out to dinner on Black Saturday and being out of touch for three hours despite being charged with co-ordinating the emergency response. She resigned as head of the Bushfire Recovery Committee earlier in July.
The commission says Ms Nixon, as well as former Country Fire Authority head Russell Rees and the department of the environment's chief fire officer, Ewan Waller, "did not demonstrate effective leadership in crucial areas" by ensuring that "prompt and accurate warnings were issued to communities in the path of the fires"
The commission also wants the state government to roughly quadruple the amount of controlled burning it undertakes, and develop a voluntary scheme to acquire land in areas of unacceptably high bushfire risk. It also recommends that ageing power lines be replaced with underground cables.
Jean Howard, a resident of Kinglake, one of the communities worst-affected by the bushfires, told the BBC before the report's publication that she hoped the report would offer constructive advice rather than simply condemning those in authority.
"I know people are going to be blamed for it but... I don't think anybody can be to blame because it was a day that nobody had ever lived through or seen before, and nobody could have prepared for a day that that was."
Victoria Premier John Brumby said the state government would undertake a community consultation process on the report before responding.
"As premier I feel the full weight of responsibility to make sure that we get our response to the commission's report right to make sure we make our state as safe as possible," he told reporters.
"The people of our state want the opportunity to have some input."
The BBC's Phil Mercer, in Sydney, says many Australians who survived Black Saturday have been too afraid to return to the fire zone, while those who have come back to start again believe that more needs to be done to protect their vulnerable communities from nature's fury.

Pakistan floods 'kill 800' people and affect a million


Pakistan floods 'kill 800' people and affect a million

The UN's Manuel Bsssler in Pakistan says many areas are cut off
The worst monsoon floods in living memory have killed at least 800 people and affected one million in north-west Pakistan, a local official has said.
Rescuers are struggling to reach inundated areas where transport and communication are down.
Peshawar, the area's largest city with a 3m-strong population, is cut off.
At least 60 people have died across the border in Afghanistan where floods affected four provinces.
Mian Iftikhar Hussain, information minister for Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa (formerly North-West Frontier) province, announced the latest death toll. Earlier, he described the floods as the province's worst ever.
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Manuel Bessler, the head of the UN's Office for the Coordination for Humanitarian Assistance (UNOCHA) in Pakistan, told the BBC about 1m people's lives had been disrupted.
He could not say with certainty the full scale of the emergency in Pakistan, as he was having trouble reaching his own offices in some of the worst-affected areas.
UN aid workers were helping to co-ordinate efforts to provide shelter, health care, drinking water and ready-to-eat food rations, he said.
There was concern, he added, that swollen rivers running south would carry the floods to provinces like Sindh where heavy rain was forecast in coming days.
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The government declared a state of emergency as Pakistan's meteorological department said 312mm (12in) of rain had fallen over the last 36 hours in the north-west - the largest amount for decades.
Pakistani soldiers evacuate stranded villagers near Nowshera, Pakistan on July 30, 2010
The districts of Swat and Shangla have been inaccessible with people left homeless and helpless after several rivers burst their banks, washing away villages, roads and bridges. Some 45 bridges were washed away in Swat alone.
The BBC's Lyse Doucet, who is travelling through some of the worst-hit areas, says at least half a million people remain marooned on islands of high ground while others have taken refuge in mosques and schools.
TV footage taken from helicopters flying over the flooded landscape showed people clinging to roof-tops of buildings as raging torrents swept through the streets.
Military and rescue workers have been using helicopters to deliver essential supplies to areas that have had transport and communication links cut off.
Some 17 helicopters were in action to airlift people out of the worst affected areas on Friday and more were being deployed over the weekend.
Swathes of farmland have been inundated, and some power supplies have been cut after people were electrocuted by the water-borne current.
Many of those hit hardest by the flooding are the rural poor who live in flood-prone areas because they cannot afford safer land.
Pakistan has not made a formal request for international aid, but it is understood that it has appealed to donors to help it respond to this disaster.
In Afghanistan, the national army said it had rescued 5,000 people over the past three days, using helicopters, vehicles and bulldozers.
The provinces of Laghman, Nangarhar, Kunar and Logar have all been hit by the bad weather.
There were plans to deliver food and medicine on Monday but the mountainous terrain was hindering the effort.



In Eastern Logar province, a provincial spokesman told the BBC that 10 people had been killed overnight. Nomad communities had lost tents and livestock, he added.
In Kama, Nangarhar, local resident Haji Baqi told the BBC: ''We lost all of our food.
"I lost three wheat harvests, our bridges have been destroyed. We want the government to come and help. What will people eat for the rest of the year? Where is the government? When are they going to help us.''
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Gangaram Sakhet
Singers : Indian Ocean,
Raghuveer Yadav, Brij Mandal,
Bhadwai, Nageen Tanvir
Year of Release : 2010
Release Date: 13 Aug 2010
Genre: Drama
Language: Hindi
Certification: A

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Peepli Live Synopsis:
Natha a poor farmer from Peepli village in the heart of rural India is about to lose his plot of land due to an unpaid government loan. A quick fix to the problem is the very same government’s program that aids the families of indebted farmers who have committed suicide. As a means of survival Farmer Natha can choose to die!!! His brother is happy to push him towards this unique ‘honor’ but Natha is reluctant. Local elections are around the corner and what might’ve been another unnoticed event turns into a ’cause celebre’ with everyone wanting a piece of the action. Political bigwigs, high-ranking bureaucrats, local henchmen and the ever-zealous media descend upon sleepy Peepli to stake their claim. The question on everyone’s lips – ‘Will he or Won’t he?’ As the mania escalates what will be the fate of Farmer Natha; nobody seems to care how he really feels?
PEEPLI [LIVE] is competing in the Sundance Film Festival, the first film from Bollywood to achieve this feat. However for the Indian release the film got an ‘A’ adult certificate. The movie has been picked up by specialty German distribution company Rapid Eye Movies for a special screening at the ongoing Berlin International Film Festival.
Don’t forget to watch this Aamir’s sensational drama movie releasing on August 13, 2010…!!

Peepli Live Star Casting:
Peepli Live Cast List: Featuring Onkar Das as Natha, Raghuvir Yadav as Budhia, Shalini Vatsa as Dhaniya, Farrukh Jaffar as Amma, Malaika Shenoy as Nandita, Vishal Sharma as Deepak, Nowaz as Rakesh, Sitaram Panchal as Bhai Thakur, Naseeruddin Shah as Salim Kidwai, Aamir Bashir as Vivek, Vijay Crishna Dan Husain as Vijay Ranjan Prasad, thats the cast list for Peepli Live so far.

Peepli Live Movie story:
On the eve of national elections in the Indian village of Peepli, two poor farmers, Natha and Budhia, face losing their land over an unpaid government loan. Desperate, they seek help from an apathetic local politician
The older brother convinces his sibling into agreeing to commit suicide. This sets in motion a chain of events which finds Natha in the eye of a storm. The local big wigs, the state government, high ranking bureaucrats, federal ministers and the national media all become stakeholders in the mad circus that erupts.
Political bigwigs, high ranking bureaucrats, local henchmen and the ever zealous media descend upon sleepy Peepli to stake their claim. The question on everyone’s lips “Will he or Won’t he?” As the mania escalates what will be the fate of Farmer Natha; nobody seems to care how he really feels

Peepli Live Movie Trailer:

Friday, July 30, 2010

Wildfires in Russia, among the worst ever there, have killed 25 people, destroyed more than 1,000 homes,Video,

Russian wildfires kill 25; Putin calls for officials' resignations
By the CNN Wire Staff July 30, 2010 -- Updated 1908 GMT (0308 HKT)

Moscow, Russia (CNN) --
Wildfires in Russia, among the worst ever there, have killed 25 people, destroyed more than 1,000 homes, and prompted the prime minister to call on local officials to resign, response officials and Russian news agencies reported Friday.

The fires have been raging in five regions as Russia endures dry weather and one of the hottest months on record. Thursday saw Moscow reach 102 Fahrenheit (39 Celsius), the highest temperature since records began in 1879.

The fires are the worst ever to hit the European part of Russia, the region west of the Ural Mountains, the RIA-Novosti news agency said.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said there have been 21,690 fires so far this summer, 10 percent more than last year, the news agency reported.

President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the Defense Ministry on Friday to use the military to help tackle the fires, the president's spokeswoman, Natalya Timakova, told the Interfax news agency.
The government has already dispatched additional firefighting units, along with 16 aircraft and helicopters, to fight the fires, RIA-Novosti said.

Putin and Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu flew Friday to one of the affected regions, Nizhny Novgorod, where Putin called on local officials to step down.

"I recommend the resignation of the heads of regions (devastated by fire) who have, to a significant degree, lost the trust of citizens," Putin said, according to RIA-Novosti.

Many residents who lost their homes in Nizhny Novgorod had complained to Putin that local authorities' actions were "chaotic and uncoordinated," RIA-Novosti reported.

The fires have so far killed 25 people, including two firefighters, according to an official at the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry. Across the 14 fire-striken regions of central Russia, 1,257 homes have burned, and some 2,000 people have been left without housing. Sixty homes were burned in the region of Moscow.

"I don't know what to do," one Voronezh woman told state TV. "Haven't got any bed linen, cups, spoons, forks left. We're left with nothing. Everything was burned down. We couldn't salvage anything."

Putin said the families of those who died will receive 1 million rubles ($33,000) each in compensation, and the government will pay around 3 million rubles ($100,000) for the reconstruction of each destroyed house, RIA-Novosti said.

Putin also said the government will compensate people for the loss of property, the news agency said.

Temperatures across much of western and central Russia have topped 95 Fahrenheit (35 Celsius) during the past five weeks, RIA-Novosti said.

Thursday's temperature in Moscow broke the previous record high of 99.5 Fahrenheit (37.5 Celsius), set just three days earlier. The month of July is expected to break the record for the hottest month ever recorded in Moscow.

High temperatures in Moscow dropped to between 82 and 86 Fahrenheit (28 to 30 Celsius) Friday because of a breeze, but weekend temperatures were forecast to rise again.

The threat of more fires breaking out will remain high in the Central and Volga Federal Districts next week, given the abnormal heart wave and the lack of rain, the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia has reported on its web site.

The hot, dry weather is believed to have dried out large parts of land, making it easier for flames to spread. Central Russia also has large areas of peat bogs that often catch on fire in dry and hot weather.

Fresh Story:The first thing you notice about Jessica Ochoa is her huge brown eyes.Scarred but alive after riding On Death Train,Video,


Scarred but alive after riding the train of death
By Karl Penhaul, CNN July 30, 2010 -- Updated 2011 GMT (0411 HKT)

Watch Karl Penhaul's full report on CNN International's "World's Untold Stories" on Saturday at 1630 GMT (12:30 p.m. ET) and Sunday at 1100 /1830 GMT (7 a.m./2:30 p.m. ET).


Arriaga, Mexico (CNN) -- The first thing you notice about Jessica Ochoa is her huge brown eyes.

She's a petite Salvadoran and was coming up to her 21st birthday when I met her in the southern Mexican border town of Tapachula.

The next thing you notice is her stiff walk. Her right leg was severed in February 2009, when she fell off a cargo train. The train's steel wheels did the rest.

By the time she reached the hospital, doctors say, she'd lost almost half her blood. What was left of her lower right leg and foot lay by the side of the tracks in a sock and tennis shoe.

Like thousands of other illegal migrants every year, Ochoa had been heading to "El Norte," which in Spanish translates as "The North" but means the United States.

Her American dream was to work hard and gradually save enough to buy a brick-and-concrete home for her mother to replace the tin shack where she lives with the rest of the family in a working-class neighborhood of San Salvador.

Only the poorest of the poor dare to ride aboard the lumbering cargo train that sets out from the station at Arriaga, in southern Mexico, every couple of days or so. They have little choice. This is a free though perilous ride, and they have no money.

Most of the migrants come from Central American countries like Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. They cling to the train that some call the "Train of Death" and that others simply refer to as "La Bestia" (The Beast).

From Arriaga, it's about 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) to Los Angeles, California and about 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) to New York.

Hundreds, maybe thousands, of migrants have died falling from the Beast, some of them mutilated under its wheels. Many more have been robbed, raped or kidnapped.

Most carry no bag at all and have only a few dollars for the bare essentials en route.

When Ochoa set out in February 2009, she said, she was carrying a single change of clothing, $200 hidden in her shoe and a photo of her baby daughter, Kathi, whom she had left behind.

The day she left home, her mother, Dina, went to the hospital for surgery for uterine cancer.

It was about 1 a.m. when Ochoa and three friends boarded the Beast in Arriaga. She made it through the night and the next morning. But by midday, she was badly dehydrated.

She asked her friends for a drop of water, but no one was carrying much. And before she could drink, Ochoa recalls, she fainted and fell onto the train tracks, under the grinding steel wheels.

Nobody jumped down to help her; it was too dangerous, so she was left to her fate. According to staff at the hospital in the small town of Juchitan, a passer-by sent her to the hospital in a taxi.

Ochoa says she doesn't remember anything between the time she fainted and two days later, when she woke up in the hospital.

At first, we never intended to focus on a single character for this edition of "World's Untold Stories: La Bestia." We were aiming to concentrate on a small group of migrants as they headed to the United States.

But it became clear that Ochoa's story went far beyond the issue of illegal immigration, took us further than the mere pursuit of the American dream. What started out as a journey to overcome poverty became a journey to face her demons.

Ochoa is a young woman of contrasts. She is intelligent, and since recovering from her accident, she holds down a job at a shrimp restaurant in Tapachula.

Yet she was preparing to break the law to cross into the United States.

She's normally bright and bubbly, ready to chatter about almost anything. But when you talk too much about the accident, she's quiet and withdrawn.

Physically, Ochoa looks a little frail. It's frightening to imagine her small frame crushed by the Beast's grinding wheels.

But mentally, she is tough. She's asking nobody for sympathy, and most significant, she has not given up her dream of one day making it to America. To achieve that, she knows she will probably have to cross illegally.

Her ambition is on hold but not abandoned. She is too proud to return to live in El Salvador. She has a promise to keep to her mother and is still determined to buy her that house.

When we drove to the railhead at Arriaga, Ochoa asked to join us. She hadn't been back to look at the cargo train since her accident.

As we walked toward the tracks there, Ochoa was joking and laughing, never complaining about her somewhat ill-fitting artificial leg.

All that changed at the station platform. She bit her quivering bottom lip, fighting a feeling. Then a solitary, huge tear rolled down her face.

She never spoke much, but her big brown eyes seemed to say it all: the feeling that she had lost the best part of her life the day she lost her leg, the fear that maybe she would never accomplish her dream.

The fear that her mother, now in her 40s, would die of uterine cancer before she could buy her that new home.

For Ochoa and other illegal migrants prepared to make this journey, these are risks and sacrifices on a grand scale.

The American dream sounds grand, but for these people, it's the modest ambition to get a job washing dishes, picking lettuce or carrying bricks for $5 or $6 an hour.

The real dream is not to earn cash for their own benefit, but to save and send money home to parents, children, wives or brothers and sisters. To achieve that, they're ready to go through hell and back.

Jessica Ochoa's journey takes on a greater relevance amid the debate raging in the United States -- especially Arizona -- about illegal immigration.

It's a discussion that has split opinions between legal and illegal migration, between setting and upholding immigration laws at the expense of racially profiling the citizens of a multicultural society.

"World's Untold Stories: La Bestia" may not resolve the specifics of that debate. But it will certainly take you to the underlying core: a journey to explore the aspirations of some of Latin America's poorest.

It will introduce viewers to the "illegals" and the "wetbacks" by name: Jessica, Miguel, Greville, Antonio and Elvin.

Many are honest, hard-working people with the best intentions. But to achieve them, they're ready to break the law.

Above all, they, like Americans, have their own hopes and dreams.

News: moderate earthquake struck northeastern Iran on Friday, injuring about 200 people, according to state-run media.


Earthquake hits NorthEastern Iran, injuring dozens
By the CNN Wire Staff July 31, 2010 -- Updated 0156 GMT (0956 HKT)


Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- A moderate earthquake struck northeastern Iran on Friday, injuring about 200 people, according to state-run media.

The 5.6-magnitude quake hit 715 kilometers (445 miles) east of Tehran and was centered 26.1 kilometers (16.2 miles) deep, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The agricultural city of Torbat-e Heydarieh, at the epicenter, was rocked for about 10 seconds, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported. Most of the damage was seen in the surrounding 70 villages outside the city, some of which saw roughly half their houses affected, IRNA said.

Twelve people have been critically injured and hospitalized, IRNA reported. Police were attempting crowd control at the hospital in Torbat-e Heydarieh, which was packed with people searching for loved ones.

"There were no immediate reports of any mortalities in the earthquake," said Torbat-e Heydarieh Gov. Mojtaba Sadeqian, according to state run Press TV. "However, it is widely believed that a large number of people are trapped under the rubble, and the casualties are expected to be high."

The Red Cross and local government agencies were responding with medical supplies, tents, food and water, IRNA reported.

The news agency said the city has already reported scores of livestock deaths from Friday's quake.

Iran lies on a series of seismic fault lines and has experienced devastating earthquakes -- most notably in December 2003, when a 6.6-magnitude quake devastated the ancient city of Bam in southeast Iran, killing at least 30,000 people.

Last year, an earthquake struck Hormozgan province in southern Iran, injuring about 700 people in the port city of Bandar Abbas, state-run media reported.

In 2008, a strong earthquake measuring 6.1 in magnitude struck in Hormozgan, demolishing nearly 200 villages and killing at least six people.

share my abiding memories of a month spent following football's Showpiece around the "Rainbow Nation."


The best and worst of South Africa 2010

30/7/2010 Posted: 1014 GMT


South Africa's Soccer City provided a stunning closing ceremony for the 2010 World Cup. (AFP/Getty Images)

Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN) –
Now the sun has set on the first World Cup to be held in Africa, I'd like to share my abiding memories of a month spent following football's showpiece around the "Rainbow Nation."

From the highs of hospitable South Africans, the inconspicuous but much-hyped violent crime and the on-pitch artistry of Germany and Spain, to the lows of vuvuzela noise, lack of video technology and abysmal showings by heavyweights such as France and England, this tournament had it all...

Best player: Officially it was Diego Forlan, but I would have picked Andres Iniesta. The Spain midfielder is as skilful as Lionel Messi and pops up with crucial goals in big games. His trickery even made Arjen Robben look foolish at times during the final.

Biggest flop: Wayne Rooney. After his best-ever goalscoring season for Manchester United, England fans were hoping for more from the team’s number 10. Too tired or played out of position? Probably a bit of both.

Best entertainers: As an Englishman, it was painful to watch at times but Germany’s commitment to attacking football was thrilling. They were the highest-scoring team at the tournament, by a long way, with 16 goals.

Worst team: France were woeful. When you have players of the caliber of Evra, Henry, Anelka, Ribery and Malouda you should be able to muster more than a point from games against Uruguay, Mexico and South Africa.

Biggest controversy: TV technology. The only thing worse than the disallowed Frank Lampard goal and the wrongly-allowed Carlos Tevez goal was ruling body FIFA ignoring the controversy on its official website. Sepp Blatter says he likes debate – except when it’s about the glaring need for referees to use TV replays.

Best stadium: Durban. Stunning design and not just the eye-catching arch. Helps that it’s set in a city with a warm climate, even in winter.

Best fans: Full marks to Brazilian and England supporters for turning up to matches well after their teams were dumped out. The Dutch were as colorful as ever but the American fans had the best costumes – from astronauts to Elvis Presley outfits.

Biggest nuisance: The vuvuzela. Only enjoyable for those blowing it. Totally annoying for everyone else. When local stewards can spontaneously strike up a beautiful tribal hymn as they gather before a game, why would anyone try to argue that the vuvuzela is the sound of Africa?

Most laid-back: CNN cameraman Scott McWhinnie. A veteran of filming in several war zones, no wonder he was able to sleep anywhere, anytime.

Best steaks: The Old Greys rugby club in Bloemfontein. Run by a giant Afrikaaner called Dennis who looked as if he could pick you up and break you in two. But he was incredibly hospitable.

Most misleading: Reports of rampant gun crime and car-jacking. Either the police cracked down hard or these had been grossly exaggerated by the media before the tournament.

Biggest own-goal: FIFA’s decision to detain more than 30 women for wearing orange mini-dresses. Not the way to stop unofficial World Cup sponsors from getting publicity.

Most humbling: Visiting Nelson Mandela’s old house in Soweto. It’s tiny, but housed a large family and still has holes in the walls from bullets fired by the police. The house is still bigger than most. Most of the small “sheds” are actually people’s homes.

A traveling exhibition showcasing 300 archeological treasures found in the Gulf country,many pre-dating the birth of Islam.Video

Pre-Islam Saudi treasures on show for first time

By Laura Allsop for CNN
July 29, 2010 -- Updated 1131 GMT (1931 HKT)

London, England (CNN) -- A "groundbreaking" new exhibition of rare artifacts from Saudi Arabia's ancient past -- some which have never been shown abroad -- has opened in the Louvre, Paris.
The world-famous museum is hosting Roads of Arabia: Archaeology and History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a traveling exhibition showcasing 300 archeological treasures found in the Gulf country, many pre-dating the birth of Islam.

"It's a groundbreaking historic event," the Saudi Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Sultan Bin Salman Bin Abulaziz Al Saud told CNN.

"Saudi Arabia has never been known for its history, and I don't mean recent history but the procession of civilizations that have existed in Arabia," he said.

The exhibition is the result of 40 years of excavation across Saudi Arabia, with several artifacts only unearthed in the last decade.
Gallery: Artifacts include jewlry, statues and bowls

Works include funerary stelae -- upright commemorative stone slabs -- dating as far back as 4,000 BC; huge statues of the Kings of Liyhan, an ancient kingdom in what is now Saudi.

Also on show are major discoveries from the island of Tarut; gold and pearl jewelry, including a single gold glove, found in a tomb unearthed in the ancient town of Thaj.

Some of the artifacts were only discovered in the last five years and have recently been restored.

Dr. Ali Al-Ghabban is Vice President of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA).

He told CNN: "These objects and this exhibition tell people about the history of Saudi Arabia, about the participation of Saudi Arabia in the history of humanity and also the exchange and the peaceful relations between Saudi Arabia and the rest of the world."
The exhibition at the Louvre literally gives you another dimension to the heritage of Saudi Arabia and its colors.
--Minister of tourism and antiquities, Sultan Bin Salman Bin Abulaziz Al Saud

Saudi has been a major trade hub since the dawn of time, and was a connecting point between the Arabian Peninsula and the rest of the world.

Trade routes criss-crossed the country, the largest in the Arabian peninsula, followed later by pilgrim routes leading to Mecca and other holy sites.

Another section of the exhibition explores Saudi's role as the cradle of Islam, displaying artifacts such as a door from the Ka'ba in Mecca, a gift from an Ottoman sultan in the 17th century.

Focusing on the roads that took pilgrims to the country's holy sites, it suggests that Saudi Arabia was specially chosen to spread the message of Islam because of its geographical position linking major civilizations.

Today, Saudi, a member of the G-20, is participating increasingly in global politics, and Roads of Arabia gives Riyadh an opportunity to assert its cultural and historical significance, al-Saud said.

Roads of Arabia is the result of an agreement between the Louvre Museum and the SCTA in 2004. An exhibition of Islamic masterpieces from the Louvre at the National Museum in Riyadh kicked off the agreement in 2006.

"It's a breakthrough, and of course the Louvre has a reputation," al-Saud said.

As for the Louvre, a relationship with the largest country in the Middle East comes as part of a wider strategy to extend its cultural influence to the Gulf.

In 2007, France and Abu Dhabi signed an intergovernmental agreement to open the Louvre Abu Dhabi in the cultural district being built on Saadiyat Island. It is currently expected to open in 2013.

The Louvre's Islamic Art curator Carine Juvin told CNN: "The Louvre Abu Dhabi was a very important project for the Louvre.

It's about ... a cultural exchange ... It's an occasion for people of the Gulf to learn much more about European and Western culture."

Roads of Arabia will be on display at the Louvre Museum until September 27, after which -- in the spirit of the roads which it celebrates -- it will embark on a tour of museums across the world. Spain is slated as the next host.

Wildfires in central Russia have destroyed around 1,000 homes, left Eighteen people dead,



Medvedev wants army help to tackle Russian wildfires

By the CNN Wire Staff July 30, 2010 -- Updated 1434 GMT (2234 HKT)

Moscow, Russia (CNN) -- Wildfires in central Russia have destroyed around 1,000 homes, left 18 people dead, and prompted the prime minister to call on local officials to resign, Russian news agencies reported Friday.
The fires have been raging in five regions as Russia endures dry weather and one of the hottest months on record. Thursday saw Moscow reach 102 Fahrenheit (39 Celsius) degrees, the highest temperature since records began in 1879.
The fires are the worst ever to hit the European part of Russia, the region west of the Ural Mountains, the RIA-Novosti news agency said.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said there have been 21,690 fires so far this summer, 10 percent more than last year, the news agency reported.
President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the Defense Ministry on Friday to use the military to help tackle the fires, the president's spokeswoman, Natalya Timakova, told the Interfax news agency.
The government has already dispatched additional firefighting units, along with 16 aircraft and helicopters, to fight the fires, RIA-Novosti said.
Putin and Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu flew Friday to one of the affected regions, Nizhny Novgorod, where Putin called on local officials to step down.
"I recommend the resignation of the heads of regions (devastated by fire) who have, to a significant degree, lost the trust of citizens," Putin said, according to RIA-Novosti.
Many residents who lost their homes in Nizhny Novgorod had complained to Putin that local authorities' actions were "chaotic and uncoordinated," RIA-Novosti reported.
More than 500 homes burned down and several villages were destroyed across the region, which is about 250 miles east of Moscow. Russian state television reported a mass evacuation effort was under way there.




The five deaths happened in the Voronezh region, about 275 miles south of Moscow, news agencies reported. Twenty-one people were hospitalized there and more than 2,500 were evacuated, RIA-Novosti said.
"I don't know what to do," one Voronezh woman told state TV. "Haven't got any bed linen, cups, spoons, forks left. We're left with nothing. Everything was burned down. We couldn't salvage anything."
Forty-four houses were burned in the Moscow region, state TV said.

Putin said the families of those who died will receive 1 million rubles ($33,000) each in compensation, and the government will pay around 3 million rubles ($100,000) for the reconstruction of each destroyed house, RIA-Novosti said.
Putin said the government will also compensate people for the loss of property, the news agency said.
Temperatures across much of western and central Russia have topped 95 Fahrenheit (35 Celsius) degrees during the past five weeks, RIA-Novosti said.

Thursday's temperature in Moscow broke the previous record high of 99.5 Fahrenheit (37.5 Celsius), set just three days earlier. The month of July is expected to break the record for the hottest month ever recorded in Moscow.

Temperatures in Moscow dropped to between 82 and 86 Fahrenheit (28 to 30 Celsius) Friday because of a breeze, but weekend temperatures were forecast to rise again.





The hot, dry weather is believed to have made conditions more conducive to fires, drying out large parts of land and making it easier for flames to spread. Central Russia also has large areas of peat bogs that often catch on fire in dry and hot weather.

Flooding caused by monsoon rains has killed at least 430 people across Pakistan, according to an aid organization.TV Live .



At least 325 people dead in Pakistan flooding

From Reza Sayah, CNN
July 30, 2010 -- Updated 1025 GMT (1825 HKT)


Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Flooding caused by monsoon rains has killed at least 430 people across Pakistan, according to an aid organization.

That toll includes 25 people killed in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, said Anwar Kazmi, spokesperson for Edhi Foundation. The hardest hit region was the northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, where 228 people have died, he said.

Many of the victims died when floodwaters swept away hundreds of mud houses in parts of Swat Valley and the districts of Shangla and Tank, according to Bashir Ahmed Bilour, a provincial minister in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

The rushing waters have also washed away thousands of acres of crops and dozens of government buildings, local businesses and schools, Bilour said.

Earlier Friday the head of Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority said flooding had killed at least 150 people and injured 90 others since Wednesday. Retired Gen. Nadeem Ahmed said 90 people were still missing.

The Pakistani Air Force is helping with rescue efforts, spokesman Tariq Yazdanie said in an interview on Pakistani TV.

The recent torrential rains have broken all previous records of rainfall in the country, he said.

The U.N. Refugee Agency dispatched the first shipment of aid for flood victims in the region Thursday, the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan reported.

APP said the supplies include 585 tents, 2,700 plastic sheets, 1,760 kitchen sets and 4,000 plastic mats.

At the same time, a top official in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province pressed Pakistan's president for help, according to APP.

The news agency said Assembly Speaker Karamatullah Khan told legislators he had asked President Asif Ali Zardari for a supply of emergency boats.



Photographs from Getty Images showed flood victims struggling to cross a swolen river in the town of Nowshera. The pictures showed children being ferried across the water in overcrowded boats, and more able-bodied people helping the elderly to higher ground.

Supplies from the U.N. agency will go first to the two hard-hit villages of Talli and Sultan Kot in Sibi district, APP said.

A French woman who admitted to giving birth to and smothering eight babies over a 17-year period.Video.


Daughters: Mom accused of killing 8 babies 'secretive'
By the CNN Wire Staff July 30, 2010 -- Updated 1309 GMT (2109 HKT)

Douai, France (CNN) -- A French woman who admitted to giving birth to and smothering eight babies over a 17-year period was secretive but always supportive of her family, two of her daughters said in a local newspaper report published Friday.

"It's incomprehensible," Virginie, 21, told La Voix du Nord newspaper.

"She was secretive, but she never judged us. She accompanied us. She supported us," she said.
The woman, Dominique Cottrez, told investigators she killed the babies because she did not want to have any more children and did not want to see doctors for contraceptives, prosecutor Eric Vaillant told reporters. Cottrez is overweight and was able to conceal the pregnancies, he said. On Thursday, prosecutors said they had charged her with murder.

Cottrez said she hid the pregnancies and deaths from her husband, Vaillant said. And daughters Virginie and Emeline, who came to court to support their mother Thursday, told La Voix du Nord they were also shocked by the news.

"We never noticed anything. She had moments of fatigue, it's true, but she was working almost 24 hours a day. She would wake up early for her work as a nurse's home aid, and when she would return home, she had her housework," the newspaper reported the daughters' saying.

They described their mother as a caring person who often babysat her grandchildren.

"For us, it's something that one sees on television, but not in a little town like ours," Emeline said, according to La Voix du Nord.
The case came to light when a couple gardening in their backyard in the northern town of Villers-au-Tertre found two babies' bodies in sealed plastic bags and called police.
As word spread and reporters descended on the village, which local media have said has a population of about 700 people, residents said they were still reeling from the news.
Cottrez, 45, grew up in Villers-au-Tertre. Her parents, farmers who are now dead, owned a large part of the arable land in the village, according to La Voix du Nord.
Thursday morning, the village priest left eight candles in front of the door to the couple's home, La Voix du Nord reported.
Police spoke to Cottrez and her husband, who had previously lived in the home, and Cottrez admitted immediately that she was the mother of the two babies the couple found gardening, Vaillant said. She then told police about six others concealed in their garage, Vaillant said.

Those six bodies were also in sealed plastic bags but were covered by various objects, he said.

The babies were born between 1989 and 2006, but their exact birthdates aren't known, Vaillant said.

Cottrez, a nurse, had psychological problems from her first pregnancy, said Pierre-Jean Gribouva, the lawyer for her husband.

"My client is in a deep state of shock," Gribouva told CNN affiliate BFM. "He had no idea about this. He has totally fallen apart."

A difficult first pregnancy sparked Cottrez's actions, Vaillant said. Because of her weight, the first pregnancy was "traumatic," and she didn't want to go through it again, he said.

Vaillant did not explain why Cottrez went through a second pregnancy with her other daughter before apparently committing the crimes.

The father, Pierre-Marie Cottrez, hopes the public does not make "simplistic conclusions" about his wife, Gribouva told BFM.

Despite earlier reports that the husband had been charged, Vaillant said he was free to go but may still be investigated. Vaillant said he personally still had "doubts" about the father's story.

"The sky has fallen in on his head," Vaillant said of the father.