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welcome to bbc news. we begin in the us — where gun crime continues to affect thousands of american lives — including in dadeville in alabama where two teenage boys have been charged with four counts of murder after a deadly shooting at a birthday party on saturday. this scene shows the aftermath of the shooting where more than 30 people were wounded — some critically, after shots were fired at the mahogany masterpiece dance studio. the district attorney spoke about the victims and theirfamilies and you can see he struggled to maintain his composure. the message that i want to ...

“India must seize the moment to move towards an industrial revolution”

Well, i think any kind of population milestone, demographic milestone, whether it's reaching eight billion as we did last november or whether it's india taking over china, it does kind of, it makes people nervous. it leads to this kind of demographic anxiety, as we call it in the report. but what we're trying to point out is that often it's not the population numbers that are the issue. the issues are many other structural factors that we need to look at. so, in fact, it's not the fertility rates. there is no ideal population number, but population numbers do matter in the sense that we need t...