is a deep sake image of donald trump, with flag folders to try to win over black voters. these aren't real, but the harm is incredibly realized on hud voices. it's our responsibility to make sure that future generations are not lied to connect with our community and tap into conversations you weren't find elsewhere. young americans, in particular, have been extremely critical of the united states as role in the us. the stream on al jazeera of the color i made, or instead of getting them, this is counting the cost on al jazeera. you'll, we can look at the world business and economics this week. india is booming, but millions of its people are benefiting from the economic growth, the income. and of course the gap is off topic dominates international elections.

the u. s. as the world's biggest, don't of foreign aid, but to american people know where the tax money is. go, it does have funding help to boost global stability and faced with an unprecedented climate crisis, zambia hopes, charcoal production permits the many assembly and save the move will apply for them if the only source of energy india is the fastest growing major economy in the world. but the benefits of india is growth, all trickling down to poor people. the richest one percent of the population owns 40 percent of the countries wealth. the inequality gap is wipe and sharply on deployment and stuff and remote these decades in power. that's according to the world in a policy lab, and it's now flash points in the countries national elections. hot topics include inheritance, tax and wealth redistribution. but the ruling brought to the out john auto policy. it will be j. p and the opposition congress policy are presenting themselves as

champions of the common man. just a reminder that the indian government hasn't gone to the visas to out to 0 as john list. so we're covering the election from outside the country. over consumption rates, reports in e, as in asia is which is man location. bonnie sped no expense that his youngest son's pre wedding bash. in march, i just reported the cost of a $150000000.00. it made international news to the industrialist, but the network of nearly a $112000000000.00 is not the countries. so we've been in a india seen a rise in billing as in recent years with 94 added this year. it's become an electronic issue in the own gluten free elections. the appointment has been rained to moody is seeking a search to. the opposition has accused the governing bgp of say, bring the rich to come recess if elected it will conduct a national cost census to address growing in the quantities between income and

valves on there. the b g. b has waved off the debts of $22.00 businessmen, but we will be transforming the lives of millions of people and their families. from this, the movie says the congress plans to redistribute the countries belts are better than what it is that a god of they said muslims have the 1st right of in the nations. well, this means they will collect people's wells and distributes it to whom to those who have more children, to the info try to is. india is both in equality has wide and on the move these 10 you the which is one percent of the population on 40 percent of the countries. well, according to data from folds, industrial is go to madonna's network routes from nearly $7000000000.00 in 2014, to nearly 82000000000 this year. nearly a 1000000000 people are eligible to vote in india as general elections. that concludes on june 1st. for many rising unemployment and inflation is

a major concern. we're not always a good idea. they keep saying they'll eradicate poverty, but it seems stable eradicate the paul j. well, they may, i bid the issues are rising prices and unemployment. there is no work. children are roaming around aimless and jobless in india is among the fastest growing economies in the world, but many tuned up to vote say destruction to find a stable income of consumption grief on to see the for counting the cost. another factor i believe, to be holding equality in india package, the cost system of hierarchy based on one's bus. the concept divides hindus by this time all these place in society, discrimination against people from certain cost is officially illegal in india. but active is say that it's still because there are laws in place to ensure spots and jobs and universities for so called shed your cost citizens. but rights group say

they don't go far enough. one of the things holding fact, these efforts is i'm pre a data on how many people belong to which cost opposition politicians are pushing for a more complete census. but the faced resistance from the beach i. p government, joining us not from new delhi in india is out in coma and economist, an author of the book, the monitors monetize ation of the black economy. good to have you with a set so. so why have the benefits of india as rapid economic growth been so unevenly distributed? to change to be not it was the more any closer than most other economy. so it depends on the system. what country part of what system via phone or the system in which i would lodge an organized sector which employed in 94 percent of the watch was, is daunting. amazing. and then you have the income, you have to be saving. so the more income you have, the more savings you have, and therefore what's happening is the incomes are concentrated in the hands of

cheap percent of the population. just saving a lot. so the growth that developed is increasing, but down to the 94 percent of the 200000000 people who you stood on a 14 set up by the government for these people. and 90 percent reported earnings just been $120.00 per month. so you can imagine begun to save anything, but it's a bit all steve and not so desinik or des, a structural problem, and they can do the economy, ran the unorganized sector ons. they do the all nice sector and especially the ones as businesses beyond much more. so what do you make of the pay that's raging at the moment about wealth re distribution? is that a good idea or a bad idea to put it even be achieved? you know, bank, if you need quarterly depends on the incoming warranty. if you reduce the incoming warranty by creating more employment as your report. so just log the for people under employed or unemployed. therefore they have no income. if you're generate more employment,

people have more income and then that the quantity of the decline. so you're going to actually take money from somebody and then view dispute. what, what you're doing is you levy maybe on both drugs or using the kind of new quality . and then you have an inheritance tax or across generation so that the buildings don't pass on their wells to dogs, simply and therefore, you know that he won't be a crunch. anderson's decline. so in other words, you know, these are being so history to the international level. there's something called the hicks, i'm as differential of decoration receive. if you have road, then you are on equal as compared to somebody else. and i just had just an income to read, the tax issue comes from that. i'm from the, the ability to pay argument off income taxation. but i can imagine particularly of the issue of, of the harrison's tax being quite a politically contentious issue. that's the way we present it, but actually only the top cheapest and have a balance which could be taxed or inheritance which could be taxed is not the give

it to 97 percent. but the way it's presented is just getting the last name actually be taxed. so it's suggested that the government would be like a rubbing for. but that's paul from the reality globally. if you look at border in beaufort and various other rich people in america, they've been seeing that capitalism cannot survive unless they've reached pay more taxes. and she said that his secretary ones maybe don't section or what do you ours, be the hard to actually judge biden also present bite and also said the same thing . so in other words, the rich have to pay more taxes if capitalism is just the light. because it can't be used to shorted a few months, the keys to political and social problems and the economy. and therefore you required to reduce any car deep. and therefore both dark, sushi 1900 and stats are something that can be used to reduce the need warranty. across generations also. so from what you'll say, despite the arguments by many who say that the wealth redistribution would hinder india's economic growth, it would,

it would actually do the opposite. the right side, actually, you know this, the party in road is not as if it started. recall is being great. what it means is that the systems are really against the poor. people that more employment, it behind a more robust here. these 2 are the, comes their best with also brought into a unique warranty. would not be so much. that's why the country has been at any point in much less cbs 137, frank and book i didn't go because of the chart. largest number of billing is so even germany and japan, which have a bunch, i think i'm 20 times out. they have truck building isn't us. what it means is that almost systems have a new quote with the technology dismissal people, the we, the investment factors, or 6 percent of the population in the organize sector, not 50 percent of the investment. for the 94 percent, you have one to 20 percent of the investment and put those in agriculture. 46 percent of the work for you only 5 percent investment. so the motor investment you have on top of the more of the income, the less the investment,

but i've done this thing come. so we have the kind of these being balances in the economy. read the government's policy, the favor, the organized sector against the an organized sector. so that how to change just briefly. so what do you make of the private associations that the, the congress is arguing when it talks about redistribution wells for taking money from hindus and giving it to muslims? well, that's the election argument of been actually prime minister more. you started off with the norm comment on the page and then he was saying that he said, different you, you've got and these are various things. if you have more than $400.00 seats and bottom man cetera, now he's finding that that's not what so that what is going on. a comment on the card varies. you know, saying that it was streams of being saved by the congress, which is not the case. actually the most grims i, one of the most deprived segments in the, in the system there was that important 2006 receptive

d r the most deprived is not in good context. and do you need something? so what sort of parameters go doing based on that diagnostics? 7 feet seem to prime minister said the student that would be supported. but when you support the plot, it doesn't mean you support the community that are and then also what, like from, for instance, the dollars, the other untouchables and people like that. so what the communist manifesto saying is that we have support board of them is not just most names are the one called me to deal with the other. so this is an election strategy that the prime is adopted. even though just to dig back. you said i would not give you the comment card, but you had been using the common card from time to time. really good to talk to so many thanks in date for being with us on tomorrow. thanksgiving. thank you. american military hardware continues to kill palestinians. the u. s. as the israel and they have violated humanitarian law using american weapons. and it's war on concept. pressure is growing on president joe binding to end up ministry support is

one of the biggest recipients of americans for an age funded mainly by tax payers dollars. many americans without questioning whether washington spends too much money to support its allies. opponents say that funding could be better spent at home developing us infrastructure and defending borders in 2022 total us for an a top $70000000000.00 for the 1st time in 70 years. fuel plants, military support, as well as you crane. it's on track to smash through that record in 2024. in april congress approved the $95000000000.00 spending bill. that includes $61000000000.00 for ukraine and $26000000000.00 for is rarely weapons as well as a few minutes in a, in a to palestinians. tools are increasing for the us to use it's leverage with israel to force it to hold its war on concept. for us. president joe bivens been pushing for more assistance to you, praying for months of hail the passage of the bill as

a winning for american allies. it's going to make a man could save vern. it's going to make the world safer, and it continues america's leadership in the world. and everyone knows, gives vital support to america's partners. like so. they can defend themselves against the rest of their sovereignty and the lives and freedom of their citizens. and as an investment, our own security, because when our allies are stronger and i want to make this for and again and again, when our allies are stronger, we are stronger. but just weak slice of life and made his strongest condemnation. yes, of his rails was saying that the us would not supply offensive weapons to israel. if it invited rough up, we're moving a 1000000 palestinians have been sheltering civilians having children cause the consequences of those bombs and other ways in which they go after populations made it clear that if they go into rough or they haven't gone on or off and yet they go on or off, or i'm not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with.

however, the us to set to send is where the new weapons package with more than a $1000000000.00, if it's approved by congress. republicans have criticized by them for conditioning aid israel, and they've also expressed opposition to continued support for ukraine. republican house pickup mike johnson, overcame pushed back from his own policy and held the vote, released billions in ministry and tremendous area and support. now remember that 80 percent of the ukraine funding will go to the replenishment of american weapons and stocks and our facilities in our operations. it also includes stuff, measures, and sanctions on iran, in russia and china, which most of the american people understand is a necessity in a very important thing. i've said it very simply, i'll say once again, it's an old military adage, but we would rather send bullets to the conflict overseas then our own voice, our troops. the yearly expenditure only amounts to one percent of the total federal

budget. although some survey showed that american voters think that a close of the tax dollars go overseas, we spoke to some americans to get the views on foreign aid. i know, like i think most americans are aware that like, like 70 to 80 percent of our tax paying is going towards a military funding. i mean, specifically like spending it on like china sides. i think it's important. you know me, us is powerful country. we have a lot of resources that think no, we should help other countries when they need it. you know, i think it's something like we spend less than one percent of our annual budget and for an age suddenly roughly like that. i'm not sure and for dates effectiveness, or if we should be spending more, we should be doing it in another way. i think it creates a lot of dependencies that aren't healthy for other countries in terms of a the subsidies that we give. but i think overall we should be giving more to a crisis situations like gaza. i mean, i would probably estimate we,

i know we sub contractor for an a lot. so it's not as se, the united states coming directly supplying it. but i know that a lot of it came, went to afghanistan and iraq during those years. now i don't think we are not the leading contributor for an aide to african countries anymore. now that's china, but they're doing more. oh, well lady with the war is going on. yeah, this is i've been hearing reports of bill is a chosen dollars going to or that's the, you know, hopefully this work and so on. and we get back to normal and provide back to our country. now, over the last 10 years, the us has provided nearly a trillion dollars in foreign assistance, including humanitarian ministry, at economic aid. figures of course changed from here to here with disasters or conflicts. boosting funds to different places, but since the end of world war 2, the majority of aid has shifted from rebuilding europe to maintaining influence, managing conflicts, and responding to humanitarian crises in the middle east and africa. in 2023. the

top 5 are sippy and sub usaid where ukraine, israel, ethiopia, jordan, and egypt that followed by afghanistan, somalia, human, congo, and parts of syria that are not under the control of damascus. the us increased support that off the february 2023 of quakes hit the country's northwest. joining us not from sidney is brendan o'connor. he's a professor of us politics and us foreign relations at the university of sydney. go to have you with this brendan. so how much of the us budget actually goes to farm aid and how does that compare to how much other countries spend? well, the us is the largest economy in the world, gives about 9 and a half $1000000000.00 and foreign id. yeah, this is well, but. ready the wrong promise target. ready about one percent of g d p to foreign i united states because about a 0.23 percent of its gd pay,

the strongest performers in that regard. the. ready scan. ready in countries. ready white sweden giving closer to the one percent of to the pay target of japan to slip down considerably in recent years and it's far night as well. so there's, you know, there's a many needs out there in terms of famine, in terms of economic deprivation around the world. but we don't usually count military 8 entirely in fine. 8 and recent times united states has given $41000000000.00 since february 2022 and. ready then you crying to the started in the slight. ready surprise with the russian invasion, so counting military. ready in foreign height is, is complicated or controversial and this is i suppose. ready ready is in your lead in package talking about israel. this is obviously a very culture. ready issue with this route being a pretty wealthy country via per capita g d p. then spying

by the japan these days 5 and country are come from new zealand. so. ready it is a fairly strong economy on a global sense, but still receiving around $3.00 to $5.00. ready $1000000000.00 and i blatchley miller, tr. ready died from the united states every year. how much of that but ministry 8 actually come straight back into the u. s. benefits that, that the military industrial complex. yeah. great questionnaire. nearly all of it in most cases of military i, united sites get means other nations of buying american technology. american produce weapon rate. but israel has a few exceptions to this is rose. i would spend some of that night on its own in its own military. ready industries within israel did not have partnerships with united states, so it has some degree of freedom a bit. ready more often than other countries in this regard, you probably heard all very unscientific straw poll where we spoke to americans,

how to add onto the street. do you think that us taxpayers really know how much of of the tax dollars goes towards providing military assistance rather than humanitarian aid is not really. i think it's one of those of skewered issues of this very effective lobby. great. so certain countries and those lovely curts get a lot of support from the congress and then the congress creates a threshold. and then the button to demonstrations or any president reaches up to that threshold. i think that the americans in general and sort of, i. ready believe i can move far night the night there are many americans, like people in a lot of countries, probably with the country. i was looking at the strategy. it doesn't have a to break. so the detailed grass of a lot of details with far to fees in general, americans are in favor of giving money to poor people, but they don't want to pay for themselves. and that's similar to find that most people are 5 or the idea of humanitarian assistance. particularly,

but they don't want to see text prize money used, but for our night sites, that obviously is one of those contradictions. we kind of have one without the other. but we say that pretty consistently of a time and surveys and testing us set conditions when it gives the foreign aid. for instance, does it only give 2 countries political objectives and levels of democracy a similar or aspire to be like its own? does any of this money end up being misused by autocratic leaders? for example? well, we'll leave all of the above and then you can find pretty a plenty of examples before. an ice has been. ready used where it's used for very politic wise, which is to die in economic axis and to cite the congo at the moment, which is the base of the largest. ready formation is very valuable, minerals the so the concern and interest about that part of the world, which is at some level genuine. this being caribou. ready it was terrible,

did 1000 in the congo, but it was so. ready there are you know, valuable very valuable to the special. ready resources switch the united states and other countries are very concerned about the site. yeah, there's often a specific reason to give the i, one of the interesting things that the trumpet ministration is that to, to kind of neglect of some of these issues. it continues on during the trump administration because they don't get down to that level of detail. probably a pointing investment is to a lot of countries will take me a long time to. and one of the concerns will be the real sort of levels. ready humanitarian that. ready will. ready elect donald trump, the more active on that front and i people. ready ready or concerned with this of games, giving fire and i, and some of these cuts which we sort of immigration, for instance refugee and then takes them to the united states, will that it will start to with foreign aid. and we'll say 2nd trumpet, ministration professor. it's been great to talk to you, brenda,

and thanks very much and thanks for being with us on counting the cost. my pleasure . the president drove by and has ramped up tower of some $18000000000.00 worth of chinese imports. that includes electric vehicles, advanced batteries. so a sales steel, i'll leave it in a medical equipment, the white house set, the dimensions were in response to unfair policies. and they have to protect american workers, china, oppose the hikes, and said that it would take retaliatory action. and we'll be discussing all of this in a future addition of counting the cost apple as apologize for making a new i ipad commercial that showed at industrial compressor, crushing tools of music and create to the, to the company said it's marketing decision from miss the mock of trip faced a backlash from designers, actors, artists, they have been seen as a metaphor of how big tank has cashed, and on that work is to worry that artificial intelligence,

which can write poetry and create movies, may even take the jobs away prices of culpa. getting red hot on international markets rising recently to a 2 year high on the metals exchange. the metal is important to the green energy transition and the manufacturing of electric vehicles, power grids and wind turbines. the price riley is fueled by lack of investment in new mines supply risk and the prospect's of, of growing demand for such metals f. i'm want to cancel the oil flights and rounded the planes out to the line went bankrupt. thousands of passengers were stranded into small pacific island nation of and want to the island, the ally, and while that has been struggling with labor shortages, wising operating costs and weather related issues and recent years. tourism accounts for 48 percent of the nation's g. d. p. a business owners feel effective about the front of the airlines grounding of zambia as customer. this stopping charcoal from being produced in several districts and is to say the move is needed

to fight climate change, but many people rely on it to cook food and for their livelihoods. and so they have no alternative source of energy. i'll just say it was kind of a task that reports a drought in zambia means the cuba, hydro power station can generate enough electricity. a lot more families are using chocolate for fuel because of routing blackouts. it's cheaper to buy than gas or petrol for getting right is but the government has banned the production of taco in some areas saying the practice is kidding, environment and needs to stop. samuel 20 they can sell a bag of chocolate for $6.00 at the market number to $96.00 to $7.00. i was born in 1967 and i have been making and selling chuck or since i was a small boy, it's all my 5 that is the statement. it's how i have been providing for my wife and children. chuckled his way, by shoveling swell onto a kiln, the wooden sidebands with little oxygen leaving the black, copper residues for other people again, find a chuckle is

a lifeline. full hit that money. she's one of thousands in the capital. the 2nd who can afford to always buy electricity. how much would you make of it? can i give it to you too much? i used the chuckle to cook beans and food for my children. i also boil with us all my children can, but this button will be bid for us, but the government stays the destruction of trees is contributing to climate change and government leaders say a bad non charcoal is necessary to protect what's left of the country as far as an account drought brought on by the el nino, with this phenomenon is being made, was by deforestation. and the degradation of land efficient that would be the true one to make it is worth it to make a statement there that much to lose that allowed check will be in that area. there will be no trouble benny a chuckle. production is an age old cultural practice in zambia, passed on from one generation to another. is to just translate policy induction.

that means we have seen won't be that it means that anything additional capacity technology under surface to get and not only just to make people aware, but ties in with us to transition to get to change is not so easy. but families sometimes make additional cashed by setting crops that grow in the fields, but it lack of rain the season has wiped out the harvest. and the say the government spend on chuckled production is adding to the hutcher when the over the struggling to cope with that. so the a drought and the rising cost of living hot and with us out of the, for counting the cost. and that's our show for this week. if you'd like to comment on anything that you've seen, i'm at a finnegan on x trying to remember to use the hash tag a j, c t c. or you can drop us a line counting the cost of our 0 don't met is our email address, as always as principal, if you online, but i'll just 0 dot com slash c t c. that takes you straight to a page, and then you'll find individual reports links,

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nino with a phenomenon. this is how close the houses are from the narrow that down. it doesn't look like margins covered by what the highest says when a toolbox flows. the water comes to that. how is this? the problem in that robi has been watson by pull drainage and he's taken the bill set, told him that people's beeping in near the narrow be down say they know they're not supposed to be there, but it's the only place they can afford in japan. divorce often leads to one parent losing only contact with the children. judges usually grunt sole custody to whoever was last, physically with the child, with a new law set to allow the joint custody one. 0, one east investigates japan's parental abductions on i will just the era in, in the gaza strip as is the last continues. there's a deliberate mission of posting and humanity in western media, and it needs to be question, sustain coverage that actively humanizes is ratings and actively humanizes

palestinians. this is not the time for doing this kind of weight. tracking those stories examining the journalism and the effect that news coverage can have on democracies everywhere. here at the listing past, the spain islands a new way so they will recognize a palestinian state is right and we're close at 10 pass. it is in protest. on the ground is riley strikes target, central guns, a once again killing at least 10. tell us to the top mccrae, this is i will just say one line from the will. so coming up over the next few weeks, i will find the revised 2 weeks of speculation, the british prime minister,

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