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tunnel began getting blocked on wednesday and the local governments knew about it. so i say the government was negligent because if they acted facetime, they could unblock the tunnel. and all of those deaths would not have happened as a victim who was lost relatives and seeing children swept away by water. i strongly believe, negligence. why some people trust cost us dearly the we are asking a we can in such areas to seats because the full cost is that really is going to continue. and the likelihood of flooding from people losing lights easily. and therefore, we must take pre empties action the

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i'd like to start off and jumping straight in with india as a place in the world right now. no, dividends is power into interior, political wise, that we're seeing. what do you expect from the country and the upcoming? yes. what is that going to is been a force to reckon with for some time now. the economy has push india in a very healthy place over the last generation going back to the liberalization of 1991. and since then, it has been a steady whereas seen a steady growth pass on the irrespective of who's been in part. and we've seen that continuing over 3 decades now, and as a result in this is see not just as an emerging paul, but as a paul that in many ways as a much, it's already the was 3rd largest economy in purchasing power parity terms is likely to become the was tired, largest, and actual real dollar terms within the next 2. yeah. so this is

a country that's on the right track by and large economically. and as a result, given it's have to the, well, it's the most populous country in the world, even more populous in china today it's, it's likely that countries on all sides of a jo, politically divide. we're taking this seriously. that i think is a given whoever wins these are lex. having said that, it's also important that in depths of plays a constructive and responsible role in the world community right now. and that has been careful to maintain relationships on both sides of every device and discussion and ukraine, israel and the palestinians with the americans and the chinese. and so there are some inescapable challenges in india. con, denied, as a, a very tens border with china. it continues to have on dissolved difficulties of boxes, thought these are some of the, put a new problems of indian foreign policy, and they remain still sadly unresolved. and those will have to be checked on the go

to stage. finally, the, i'd say that the fact that in the such an influential sets on everything from cyberspace to august space makes it potentially a huge leads a significant consider except for global governance. and that too makes india a false direct. and we're talking about state. and dave, thank you, and that's a lot left to us. they will view on the way in the russian relationship, relations between the 2 have been developing so far. how important do you think this partnership is for india, which is usually important about the shipping has been for a very long time in the when i busted visit mid to the, the, the soviet union. and the old days in russia they're off to, has been amongst and is a most reliable constant. instead, foster friends in recent years and has been diversifying its sources of military equipment, which were heavily reliant on russia for many decades. as recently as about 10 years ago, oh, i would say there's more of them that maybe about 15 years ago. russia accounted

for 85 percent of older than does defense inputs. today that's gone down to more like 40 percent, i would say the of course a lot of spare parts and so on for workers that are important to continue to come in as well as india, as diversified, it's sources. but despite the, as i think the friendship remains very significant, we have thought for a long time, enjoyed uh, should we say uh close a mutual understanding on a number of issues. we have called for peace and view, create and conflict time. but in the remains of voice for peace and most noble conflicts. so i would, i would probably leave it at that at this point of defense is a major preoccupation of joe goober. geo politics remains effect ups, but there are no major issues, dividing us and as you know of recent uh, increasing goods you in that has become of a major consumer of russian oil and gas products. and then this has also been

a very important occurred for russia at a time of international sanctions. so there's some, uh, chevy se, mutual a win win on both countries. but i wasn't, stuff weren't there when it comes to dealing with the west, especially when it has this relationship with russia. well, the western countries have shown some understanding. i would say that india has its own foreign policy and is not, has always been historically allergic to freezing into any particular blog, a or a line specially. india likes to have partners rather than allies. and that's again being the case. going back to the days of the non aligned movement on the funding, there are lots as prime minister. and this continued, even in the very different government, a prime minister movies in the sense that he has he has stayed friendly for rough shots, even while being somewhere closer to the west. then previous in didn't governments may have been the most important fit shuts off in this position on the russia,

ukraine conflict because he's induced, kept its lines of communication open to both sides. a pro foreign minister loved rob has been to india a couple of times in the last year. he has in some of those who are willing to listen to what he has to say. and i think that's something that's valuable to, to the russians. as far as india is concerned, india relishes being able to talk from a position of mutual respect with both with both the russians and the western countries, and indeed with you. great. so i would leave at this point, you said that you say in this future of staying friends with all countries with every body across the board. i'm just wondering where are the red lines for india because we've been covering this story recently about said canada. and also a support, so 6 that for to do think this will play a large role in new delhi dealings with the west. the way certainly playing an odd size over to the other nations was canada. and it hasn't yet affected our relations

. any other wisdom country, because things haven't gone quite as far as they have in canada, where the government is seen by many new delhi as being complicit in encouraging a movements based in canada that are openly not only secessionist, an extremist, and that dialogue, but had been directly associated with acts of murder and mayhem in india, including the bombing of an ad in the jet line in 1985 that took nearly 400 lives. so it's not just the questions of focusing inflammatory rhetoric, which is the way the canadians prefer to see it for us uh the, the, the extremist elements in canada that have cost indian lives. and therefore, we have not been particularly sympathetic to canada as indulgent. solve those elements on this or it in the future of india,

it does indeed look very bright. how of us anomalous still continues. a catholic wise india is a developing country, while others see it as a highly developed nation, though in a long state of big, flat decay. as you was said yourself. what did you mean by that? it's a depiction of india. uh, i mean that point of view goes back to the late 19 eighties. i would say that the cat has since been considerably repeated. and anyone visiting india today would be impressed by the it's the widespread use us also computers and digital technology and even your your because as t sellers with their carts on the screen, we'll have a q r code on display so you can pay them by mobile okay, it's a country rushing impatiently to the 21st century. so what do you think? honest, somebody less still continue to call into a developing country where it is, you see, because the fact is that in this has people living in condition still all the cubes, poverty, and despair efforts are being made,

of course to pull them out to which i think both the president government and the speed assesses, have claimed some success in actually pulling large numbers of indians out of poverty. but there's still a lot of people who live betty this side of the funeral pilot. and until every indian has, has the guaranteed assurance of decent lives and 3 square meals a day and roof over their heads, as well as access to decent health care and the prospect of meaningful work. it's difficult to just blindly claim we have to develop countries. even prime minister, mr. moseley, who is not particularly known for tim briggs is rhetoric, has set to go all in denver coming and developed countries 420-470-0000 of us, read about independence and that's 223 as a way. so i think even she didn't, probably minister will accept that. it's too early to call us to develop the country. we got to we determined to get someone out here, especially vocal about how portez colonial rule that affected india. would you say

that that effect is still ongoing? i'd love to know. to what extent do think the colonial rule handed, the developments of india? what it every conceivable respect. but it's a bit it's it's, i think it's a bit lame today. 75 years. nice us to blame is i wrote a work of history bought about today. i think we have to take responsibility for our own problems. the british took one of the richest economies and the well one of the most prosperous countries in the world and systematically pillage bit newton is transformed into a post a chime for the. busy poverty and dispense with one of the newest life expectancies on the planets and the highest rates of poverty of the planets when they left. so there is nothing good that one can say for 200, you as a british colonialist of the same time that was 75. yeah. 77 years ago now that they left and i think we'd have to stand up and say, we'd take responsibility for taking off future and our own hands and making it work

. obviously many of the best ones left behind by the berkeley still in deal with it . so i'm the administrator of framework or land holding patterns, all population issues. but the fact still remains that we now are responsible, and we will take responsibility is also shaping our own dest, you out of the pass code for the prisoners government to pay reparations to its former colonies. is that something that you still think it should be done and how to move like the benefit india now? is that right? even a some race enough that i've been slightly misrepresented on that. what i said in that particular speech that went viral with several multiple millions of people watching it, was that i don't agree with the notion that financial reparations. i went on. so because i said that any amount of credible reparations would not be payable. indeed, a, an economist has said,

that's the actual monetary value of business exploitation them in this can't even leave the estimated at 45 trillion boats. and since the person has a, a per capita, it has a total of g, d, p, a 5 trillion. i think $45.00 trillion is impossible to pay, so any credible, say, go would not be payable. and any payable say, go would not be credible because whatever a britain can pay in reparations would, pale by comparison with the box damage done the lives on necessarily last around the, the simple expropriation and expectation of india libraries put in your rates. that doesn't mean the cons, pay reparations to smaller calling these worthy songs wouldn't be more affordable and more realistic, and i'm not presuming to speak for barbados. so diana, i'll see it. i live in saying that they don't need reparations, that it may well do the funding the, i think the, the moral it towed in by the british is far more important. the british of never to

apologize for 200 years of colonialism. and i think it's high time they did so it's a distance, a good opportunity for them to do so. but since unity of the egregious and tragic jelly and while about massacre, but when that's empty, to retain that british prime minister was not able to go beyond an expression of redirect, which most people would consider the mild. and we also feel that i also feel and have been advocating passionately that originally would do well to teach and polish canadian history and that schools. so you don't have a lovable spectacle of polls as recently as the last couple of he is showing the majority of british people claiming to be proud of the empire. and one thing a back which are something i also think it was almost like, uh, can you imagine a situation where the germans would want the nazi regime back? and yeah, that's what some people have written other well for the notes. because the british don't teach, which was about, couldn't it as well don't teach colors and i told the string classes and schools and that should be rectified. and the other thing i suggested is,

with that capital london being a, was a capital of museums. they should think seriously of constructing a serious museum of colonialism that would show visits as from around england and around the world. what they did to foreign countries and how they gained from is as well as what damage they did to others. that would be a useful history lessons just as german students today, a bus to the concentration camps. museum of colonialism in london. what do i think there was and lots of good. those are far more important than monetary reparation. but starting off with a simple, sorry, would take us a long way and that i couldn't agree more. now, in the ninety's, instead of a special view and assistance of peacekeeping operations, could you give us an idea of what that experience was like especially, and then went up to the cost of the war of 99? well i, i worked for a long time, but not terribly long had mentioned 9 you agree or the united submissions, during which time i spent a very meaningful of 70

a student in the united nations peacekeeping department during which i was the team leader for the former yugoslavia so i was the person was up ranking the reports of the secretary general attending the security council meetings visiting uber savvy a more times than is entirely wise and safe. i marching through mine fields of and, and facing snipers and all that fun. while at the same time having to of having to do the diplomacy in new york with the countries, particularly the members of the security council, of the troops contributing countries on peacekeeping operations. by the time cost of what happened, i had left me sleeping to serve in the office of 2nd general co founder. and which is where i was when the bombing of some of the national bombing of 199. it could and also was more on us forcibly separated from sub yes, that was a different experience. i was not in the peacekeeping department, but indeed,

it's fair to say that the peacekeeping did buffington 10 bucks to do with that. it was of a nature operations that resulted in that particular situation, but i was involved in the beginning of the civil. busy and 91, once the e u monitors pulls out in the u. n. came in and in fact i was the person who led the 1st exploratory emission for the un. along with a finish cults, we travel food of all fields and the was owns between the subs in the cross and october 1991. and we would do this about the feasibility of peacekeeping at the time. but the world had already decided this was going to be the you ends talk potatoes. and so the reports that you wrote to the security council, wherever you said that there wasn't really an easy, viable peacekeeping concept to be suggested. something that the policies put agreed upon was the one that was, was chosen, and then subsequently as a whole, washington erupt in bosnia and so on and spread throughout the former yugoslavia. i

remains the person in the un peacekeeping department dealing with these problems. but they're all of a small team, but of course of the rather large operation on the ground that grew as it. busy from a handful of observers, when i 1st got involved to something like 88000. so just by the time i left to the end of $96.00, on the election of kofi on them to be sector general said was a huge period of my life of one that showed i would say many of the opportunities and the limitations of applying the peacekeeping technique to places where there was no peace to keep. and that's something we could talk about grace at length, then this particular format to match. i know that last week you saw the in the general election and through the 2nd phase of those, including in your constituency. what do you think about how the voting process is going? the, as well, we had some issues in catalogue, where my stage with the turnouts could not be properly accommodated many boots,

and a lot of voters, not only in my constituency, but swap my space. i turn the way off to racing, inordinately long. i was queues to vote and that shouldn't have happened. and we have complained to the election commission that this was mismanaged, but by law, you know, of, i think the, the election came across otherwise, as, as, as free and fair. we've had our issues with some of the technologies used. we would ideally like a larger sample of both a verified paper trail machines to be counted alongside the electronic voting machines. and that sort of thing, which is a pending ongoing issue and they did the elections. but otherwise, um we had them, you know, 70 percent, an option catalog and, and another state site to this. but i would say that the 1st couple of phases have gone without any untoward incident. certainly no violence or anything like that.

people are coming out to vote. the campaign is progressing. many of us including me personally, feel that the process is far too long. it need not have required 7 phases. the election commission has identified to conduct these polls. i think it could have been disposed of quickly, but yeah, from the voting being cost in my constituency. last friday to the declaration of results on the on the 4th of june. that's more than 40 days, i think closer to 48 days. and that's an awful long time to wait to know the results, not terribly thronged about that, but otherwise, no complaint so far it's gone. it's been reasonably well and we hope the remaining phases will go without incident as well. and the reason i introduce you identified the main goal of the car in selections as preserving quotes, the main idea of india. could you explain to is what you meant by that. please. that we have cherished for the longest time, an idea of india, that those of an intrusive nation in which all religions old costs or classes or

creeds all languages and people have all state's lives in equality and harmony in our country. that's. that's what the idea of in depth and trying to in our constitution by the way, is all about we have on fortunately, i routing policy for the last 10 years. that does not share the idea of indian. that indeed is our errors to a political move in the reject to the constitution, but it was framed because they believed india should be a sion do rough trucks. a nation of indians in which people of other states live on sufferings, either as guess or as i'm welcome into the we don't agree with that reading of in there. we don't agree with everything of history and we don't agree with the implied lack of social harmony that this work to do. so we believe that india belongs to all who are positive, its culture of civilization and demography. and we believe everyone has survived in an india where equal rights have been a cherished principle for us. and, and i,

for example, the, someone who's written extensively about this kind of in depths, i'm deeply frustrated to see in the being reduced to a land that comes across as bigoted. an intolerant. which in many ways is, is fundamentally on india and, and what is worse. so they're doing this in the name of the, in books. well, where is such as the choose the fundamentally on into, into ism is up famously or embrace in face the accepts difference unexpected and takes all sorts of differences within its belief systems and between it's and all the belief systems. so it's, it's a, it's, it's a big, complicated to basically the indian space, but essentially alive with a simplified photo for an audience. it is about into service. it includes civic death versus intolerance. india is what we see. the selection was being about just one final question. before we die, if i may as a full menu, an officer, how would you assess the will and bodies response to the car and what are we seeing

and gone? is it comparable to any of your previous mission? this would you say? unfortunately, i'm afraid the, the conflict in the middle east has always been one that of you and has found difficult to deal with. except on the rare occasions when all the principal pauses involved, are willing to agree on a piece. we well, as you know, instruments in the very 1st space, the 1948 you into supervision organizations in jerusalem. we would instrumental in the peace and the suez canal of crisis in 1956. and we brought in a un peacekeepers of the 1967 war who lingered for long this time i would regrouped off to the 1973 will also whenever wars occurred, we will help boost, but we will prepare able to restore peacekeeping operations. today. i find no immediate prospect of doing anything meaningful. i would certainly want to you and

to lead efforts for peace. but the fact is that the um is really government uh with what they consider to be just cause after the heating is attacks of the 7th of october on innocent civilians. they have a mock diploma campaign which as you know, many have considered as bordering and genocide. and in the circumstances of the un kenyon, the active a security council unanimously agrees on an intervention that to that, to stop this kind of conflict. all the security council is not agreeing because the us and some of its allies are not sympathetic to any desire to impose a piece upon these remedies. but there is a serious uh, amount of, of talking going on behind the scenes about the possible seas. why? but it does not seem to involve the united nations, it seems to be lead principally by the united states and a couple of states in the middle east, notably got the era and others who have been working with both of us and israel to

try and come across us with a viable formula that can bring about peace. so i can say frankly that the u. n. has distinguished itself with the surprises. but i'm not sure it's entirely reasonable to blame the un. yeah. i was a movie, more critical of you and for not having intervened earlier to prevents the russia ukraine problems next. because when it was being widely telegraphed, 4 weeks before the war broke out, that it will might be a minute. that would have been the right time for you and 60 generals to send the mysteries to both must go and cave, and if necessary to nature capitals, to find a formula that could have avoided this, this tragic war. and very was critical of the you and i am not similarly critical of you in here because i understand the dynamics of there's not much that the you and could have done in a situation where super paws are directly involved. and i'm not prepared to agree

on a piece for me to start with are always in an absolute pleasure. many things. so speaking to us today, thank you all the best to you. the the, [000:00:00;00]

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