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attentions escalates in the middle east, west to nations impose a new round of sanctions against the wrong will that impacts the nation dependency to wage war? the tresses by i'm excess of terrorists. italy's ancient city event is no charging entry fees, but when it helps protect units can well, perkins so russia's invasion of ukraine escalate and geo political tensions in the middle east on china's ministry build up in the south china sea. the world is now facing a period of increasing stability nations right across the globe of boosting. pet defenses ministry spending reached an old time high of $92.00 trillion dollars last year. and the still kind of international piece research institute that slippery says for the 1st time in 15 years, the increase is spread right across all 5 geographical regions. so let's take a look at, at the top 5 spend as respectively with the you as china, russia, india,

and saudi arabia. now china, based in spending on its ministry for the 29th straight. yeah, res. yet to an estimate of $296000000000.00 ratings, military build up and worsening tensions in the region. also have prompted his neighbors to dedicate more funds to the military's. and then at least sold a highest great traits in a decade with saudi arabia. its top spend the kingdom is followed by israel, which is increasing expenditure to $27.00 and a half $1000000000.00 for spending surge, mainly driven by israel's world. gone by the war. and ukraine was the main driver of your pin defense spending and rushes military expenditure. it search to around a $109000000000.00. by comparison, ukraine has the largest military budget at $65000000000.00 and receives military aid for more than 30 countries among the united states, which is committed to $95000000.00 in for an aid. for ukraine, israel and for other us allies, is,

are not normal times. they're not. the world is, is the stabilize. and it's a tinderbox. it's a, it's a dangerous type. 3 of our primary adversaries, russia and iran in china, are working together and they're being aggressors around the globe and their global threat to our prosperity and our security. their advance threatens their free world and it demands american leadership. we turn our backs right now, the consequences to be devastating. well, joining us now from london and some pilot freeman. he's a research coordinator at the campaign against alms traded previously. what for 9 years at cit, pre assigned, welcome to counting the costs. so this report might not have come as a surprise, but what's, what's different about it and what are the main drivers? would you say of ministry spending and 2023 as well. it's one of the largest increases in global military spending in video tons in quite a long time. a 6.8 percent increase

a lot bigger increase than most previously as the last time the military spending increased that much was 2009. and if you remember, that was he had just off to the global financial crisis that struck. and at that time, most major economies, us china, and most of europe and economies, were in putting in place stimulus packages. massive spending packages, including very often increased military spending to come to the effects of the recession. so that was a very unusual. yeah, this is the largest increase since then. and the previous largest increase was 2003 the, the rock more started. so it's very much a war time. yeah, really level of spending and the ukraine war continues to be the big driver of the

increase in, in load military spending, what you said they will, all of them. it's just as spirally out of control other enough. um, all these agreements in place to try and stop it happening. i would say is so yes, the it is spirally out of control. and as for arms control agreements, there's very little less of the consent vention of forces in your treaty rushes, pulled out. nato's pulled out that that's basically done. the, the new stop says lapse old. i'm countries are looking at increasing that nuclear arsenals. mobilizing the of us is talking about bringing intermediates, right? cruz, my silos nuclear weapons back to your up, which could be a very dangerous development in the asia pacific by the us and china are engaged in a long running on space that all no arms control agreements. a convention loves

control agreements and there's not even been any attempts to make such agreements. so now it's relas is a q as a carry out a genocide, and garza, how can humanitarian goals be protected? well, nations raised to on themselves. yeah, well uh, unfortunately, uh when countries go to war. uh, they the few international humanitarian law, all very often goes out the window, especially when the countries listen supporting the un arming them. as is the case of the us, germany, you guys mean is vile vitals to hold them to account the evidence that israel is committing war crimes, even genocide and garza is overwhelming. the u. s. and european countries, all kind of laws that should start um,

sales to countries that are doing such things, yet they are pretending not to see for their own strategical political reasons. but they are pretending to not to see this and saying no, everything is fine. it's all self defense and it was the same when sound you arrive via was bombing. yep. and um the, now the um, the, the civilian desk told from the bombing, it was very bad. it pales in comparison to what's happening now in garza. but the us and the u. k, and others continued to make excuses for saudi arabia despite the fact that it was repeatedly bombing civilians. of course, russia and ukraine pose badly made any pretence to the following international law. so unfortunately, humanitarian considerations seemed to take not even 2nd place

for full 5th place widened. uh, what country is go to the war and the us pushing to end the war on gauze a while still supplying weapons, which is just double standards. it doesn't think that really pushing to end the war in god's them. they are making a show. they are using rhetoric, but they want to see. and then to the war, they have deliberately for rage, if by with, to stop supplying the arms, the munitions, the spat fox, the ball could not go on. they are not putting even any conditions on this, i age and on these items. and i think that the by the administration wants to appear to the world to above the electra mate, trying to end the war. in reality, there is no serious meaningful effort to bring it to an end. if the us really

wanted the war to end the will with end, right. and as we look forward into the coming months in years, do you think this up with trend anomaly which will continue of the fortunately yes, your to pm, countries are still rapidly increasing. the military spending, a lot of them are still well below the nights i talk it's a 2 percent. and that pledge to get that what were even higher the u. k has just pledged to reach 2 and a half percent of g. d. p by 20. so see which would be another lodging praise, but they probably outgoing turing government, but the government is likely to follow exactly the same policy. and oh, the part of the increase in, well, military spending last year was in europe. so the trend is,

is likely to continue. of course, at some point, the immediate russia ukraine will. it will presumably come to an end of how long that is with no idea. um, i'm not my review some of the pressure, but it will still be an extremely time some hostile situation in your up as a site. the other end of the road, the us trying the ohms vice in the i sure pacific shows no signs of left to go up. and fortunately, that doesn't seem to be any near tub threat to, it's not turning into a hot wall, god willing, but the competition for military pension money in the region. and that for the increases in spending are likely to continue. all right, we'll leave with that some public friedman. thanks very much. thank you very much

for having me. the know tit for tat, a time between iran and israel had raised periods of a wide, a war in the middle east. the us and his allies of impose more sanctions on to or on hoping to the limit its ability to attack israel again, measures put the private run of billions of dollars in revenues, but are on says that the economy is resilient. recent data, in fact, shows its exported more oil in the 1st 3 months of the then at any time in the past 6 years, but many of radians say that's struggling, veronica patricia as this report now on april the so the teams iran launched, hundreds of miss alt and drones towards israel. it was the single largest drug and strike carried out by any country. and the 1st time iran directly attacked israel. iranian officials say it was retaliation. israel's assault on the country looked into muskets on april. the 1st of our forces punish design is presume,

and put it in its place. and this was an announcement to the whole world to global powers, to design this regina that the nation of iran is ready. israel then hit by striking iranian targets and its closest allies, the u. s. e u and the u. k was quick to impose fresh economic sanctions on iran and it's weapons manufacturers. washington says wrong must be held accountable and prevented from acting again. the country has been on the west and sanctions so yes, but the government says they've had little impact on oil exports. we've moved to 90 percent of its crude, shipped to china, still runs the economy, is suffering from we growth in february, inflation hit 40 percent. prices, it's tom food items such as meet almost tripled compared with the same month. last year there's been a rise in prices, especially dairy products,

sections have impacts when a country is isolated, pressure and people get smooth on a specific cloth. if the society feels it more than others, 100 percent, if pensions, the escalated prices will rise, move and move the price of beans. she can meet all the fluids. it's increased by dumble for the sections. and escalations one has a talk to people to livelihoods, people who are worried about it as tensions. linda kind of runs the economy with style and the consequences of a full scale war with israel, veronica pedroza, i'll just era for counting the cost. well, joining us now from violating is muhammad overlays, if i'm a good, he is a professor of economics of the middle east that the phillips university taught my bag mohammed, welcome 1st stop. what do you make of this new round of sanctions against the wrong? on the new or on the sanction, which is the simply decided in the us government after eat on the knees. dry

company is aiming to basic you restrict even further. you're in order to exports, especially to the chinese customers. however, as you also showed in your report and china and very much it benefiting from the receiving boys from milan and the other sanction county such as i see i'm a save the mediums of dollars discounts and the much of the, the oil explore to, to, to china or not to, to the all peace your china is the so called dark fleet. those dark shipping lines basically all engage the part of the shadow economy of 3 don't for or a. and it is quite difficult for the us government to trace the, these, it basically in former and trading the boy between your, in china and a from technical perspective. one can say the significance of his stature causing dad. i need to pick the benefits of these new round of the sanctions. also on to

the uh, depending on the goals of the centers of the sanction, to do it, to change a bureau, you don't need a government to pay this under the sanctions shows that they're basically contra productive and that makes it easy and call them and, and the more leading maybe to also engage him to call for the, the more sanctioning pose of this country. so given that around caesar, bill is the 2nd bent, the sanctions and increases all exports. i do think that by the ministration will go to further sanctioning a low well, i mean, and we are in their election us and one should basically also i'm sure that the us administration, that would be a cost benefit analysis. this unexpected cost of, of increasing additional size and then you wrong, especially old and dusty, which is also affecting the chinese economy. girls would also know

a result to more political change change in between china, us on one side on the other side. it could also as a positive, increasing shot to the old markets we'd share, i'd be and the, because it would be transferred to the us consumers and the in these, the election year reach a us the basically phase competition. we can buy them to tom. this is a very central issue, the inflation rate, digitally production rate. it will gasoline prices in the us would give a commercial side too. so i would leave that given the car and conditioning for single these new around of the sanction is a quite less likely a view. like i said, when iran says it's managed to shield itself in the sections and is resilient, it's economy, it's resilient. do you think that's totally true across the board? i was even as a shown that basically as to why the painful sanctions that we looked at the obama

sanction 2012 and up to the g. c, p. o a and a half day deadline for the state of sanction to trump a new on reducing immediate and they give you a fix on you got a quote from your school. as the g d p, girls, girls domestic production has declined significantly. reading the 1st 3 years of this sanction, but then we call it slowly. and so and the running a situation is like here at pearson, we did significant back pain, which is basically to bother you twice. i just said to add to use the signal, right? so at, at the end, develop a situation as reviews, a bought the equipment because we, as i, as the, as has shown some significant resistance. okay. so, so the economy is missing and what about from the point of view of the man and woman in the streets? how they affected by the sanctions? i guess to, i mean let me talk about, they quoted me,

costs of the sanction long shoot this afraid to show it to me, it takes me to a temporary fix on long term effects. and we have seen the that the short term effects is obviously busy. both the negative girls rate recovery has this started in the years after the sanctions imposed a new wrong because the new ways of doing business as identity by the union government highway is still a the union economies in a, in a bad the equally beyond compared to the peace i can pay you. so inflation also as being reported to as increased substantially when we look at the 10 percent inflation rate before obama sanction now, it is more than 40 percent evaluation of done in car se has also made much of the info is much more expensive, transferred to the consumer price is the higher price it would be paid by the rodney as in the market. so all these factors increase the economy also increase in

the media and then in the long term, of course, the cost would be much more substantial because we need to take into account the fix of sanction or education that has only one man on the loss of human capital, the wrong to these all mediation, that'd be our ups, every scene, dad, since the need to fix the sanction is something negative, right? and this is something that the people also realizing the daily life. but the question with that that has resulted to subsidize your changing your on demand behavior. and we cannot trace that in a substantial way. so the political behavior has not change much on the design scans and the, the government has find a way to bypass the saying, what impact do the sanctions in any potential sanctions in the future have on their rounds ability to wage war? do you think i the uh well the initiating, again, if the financing,

the war of course there is an issue that we don't see that in the union agenda. so i'm to initiate the war. but if your question is about, you know, the funding, get all kinds of military adventures into regions, the, that's a much depends on the domestic and makes it no fact on domestic situation. the beyond this sanction is steve and the find on what's available to basically follow the emulated operation is quite limited. is it in each outpatient on the government to increase the taxes in order to cover some parts of these budget? if he does the sanctions? so economic indicators are not showing that the countries of 84 or as a but for long term military eh, all kind of conflict with the specific neighbors the, the region on the other side, the, the one that basically needs a kind of match mobilization. any lawn or for these type of activities as the

years under this sanction has these all to a nice management. this is also something that long should acknowledge that the sanctions of on factor. but because you're going is a nice management you need on these and other fact or, and that most of the worrying for them. and so these mass mobilization of utilizing as to a support, these type of activities has also the good agent or the rest and years. you're talking about the trust. we think this, the, the society and for my institution is that has been re, can, especially after the protest of 2022 under the weather like freedom. and they all decide to basically indicate that the situation to initiate such adventures that is not that is not available. okay. appreciates your analysis of having those if i'm a good thank you. thank you very much. i. i know that it is a unesco welled heritage sites and more than $30000000.00 tourists come each year and most visits is to the floating city of venice. and it's me that just for the

day, many residents and not complaining about pollution and rise the rent fueled by the excess of tourist. well, now that this has become the world's 1st city to charge a day trip is around $5.00 entry. so trying to have a tourism payment system is now being built in a time limited pilot program. visitors will need to download a q all code that may be checked by control transgresses risk fines start to get 10 times the entrance fee. the city of time. it was also considering introducing a similar fat and many cities right across the world and pays taxes to limit the number of tourists that increase possible in the end the island of bali. so to take this on joining us from vienna, or it's called you don't, it's out. she is a professor in tourism, it's a stain dependency at the university at the institute, i should say, of terrorism at crims university. claudia, welcome. what do you make of this new charge in venice?

hello, thank you very much. we. 2 of course, what we're seeing ben is not really surprising here. ben is has been battling over tourism too much tourism for quite a few years now. last year venice was close to being put on the and escrow world heritage. a list of danger, which means that the, the city of venice would be endangered. and of course would, we're also seeing is increasingly more tourists and on busy days nearly doubled the amount of tourist in venice as we have residence. so um the, the, the entrance fee that is uh, introduced now, is of course not surprising after other measures like banning cruise ships. this is, this is not the new. okay. the dentist is trying to do one more thing, can see why they do it yet, but how is it likely to go down with tourist you think? i yeah,

i think that actually it will not deter torres to visit venice in the future because i don't think that 5 years will actually put you off to visit advantage that people always want it to be the advantage. but of course, what might happen is that the tours might be more leveled out throughout the year because of course venice is asking for discharge only on 20 mist 9 days a year, which are the busiest days. and so maybe taurus find that too much of a hassle and go on another day. but in the end, i don't think that this will reduce the number of taurus what it writer does is it actually creates another symbol for a for showing that venice is turning a little bit into a feat park, or we're really going down to root all these notifications here of charging entrance to city. that is actually someone else's home. yeah. event is the goal. some residents say that more attention needs to be paid to boosting the resident population in improving services for residences,

as opposed to focusing on tourism. as a fair point, is that yeah, of course, and we see this all around to well, of course in venice it's extreme and of course what the government is saying with an entrance fee or with tourism text is that we're using this for the residents. but i can also understand that residents cannot see the actual changes in their lives when they're trying to take the boat in the morning or when they're trying to to have a coffee somewhere. we're really, we really needs to drastically reduce the amount of torres, and i think we can only do that by actually reducing over consumption, reducing excess of reducing flights and there needs to be more drastic measures than does open terrorism is increasing around the world. isn't it? was it becoming such a thing? which um, well, we seen various sectors that have given rise to this phenomenon,

particularly before the corporate pandemic factors such as on the supply side, we have all the cheap flights. we have the sharing economy with air b and b that has exploded. we have a new markets traveling that we haven't seen traveling before. but also on the demand side we see new developments. so with the, with obviously with the influence of social media on tourism, we've seen increasingly more people wanting to go to these honeypot sites and actually trying to consume a destination from a perspective that they're take, taking pictures of it. and this has, this combination has left to really dangerous mix and over tourism has increased the immensely over the years also because governments have not put the residents 1st, but they've put the towards 1st and they've put economic income 1st. that tourism

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