one delivery at a time. al-jazeera state nigeria. now india is home to the 3rd highest number of billionaires in the world including asia's richest person but while its economy expands many people are asking if it is only the wealthy who are benefiting 1st jamir reports now from new delhi. this sprawling upmarket estate tucked away in new delhi is home for rubble and this family a startup investor who's also runs his own digital consulting and marketing firm he says the government's policies in the past few years have been good for business just in terms of how we deal with the government with the governance it brings just simplicity information's lot easier for us to. understand our clients and other businesses have grown they have they've needed more services from us so with all the services are growing our business is growing and that's been a. positive effect. and not the only one who seen his business

thrive official figures show exports are up 11 percent hitting a new high and you construction projects are underway in all the major cities this is one of new delhi's poshest neighborhoods with houses here as expensive as in new york or paris many here are benefiting from growing g.d.p. that world bank figures estimate will grow at 7.2 percent this 2829000 year but the benefits of that growth may not be reaching everyone even amongst the wealthy. many construction company owners say while they are still operating orders are actually down for recent years and while the stock market is up it's not stable market is innovating. and there are a lot of fun with getting into the market because it has rapidly gone up and very short media people had made enough money in this market.

the gap between rich and poor is easy to see. india's home to some of the world's wealthiest people one buys mukesh ambani a billionaire many times over is each is richest person economists say it's people like him in india that are benefiting most from the country's current economic climate one percent used to own 56 percent of the wind in the country did 2 and a half years ago now they own 76 percent of japan so it's a huge concentration off of all the benefits of growth in one they be tiny section of people. roll call slow knows he's also prospering from india's economic growth but says not enough people are he wants to see the situation of group or others so a better standard of living is enjoyed by more people in india. joining me now from new delhi is really cheer sharma he is the author of the book democracy on the road a 25 year journey through india richard thanks very much for being with us now this

is a fascinating book and you you've been on the road for the last month following all of the campaigning there and you make mention of how outsiders can call this election wrongly so what are your thoughts on this are we on for a modi win when i think that's the conventional wisdom but after having triumphing over the past a week in some critical states in india such as well to put the which is the most populous state and also west wing all of the critical back critical battleground state either this is a very competitive election it's very hard to call as to which way this election is going to swing and that's the problem with calling elections in india that the polity here is so fragmented the country is so diverse that all it takes is a one percent swing for the me gippi or against of egypt before the election results to look very different so that's why it is so difficult to call what is one

of the most competitive elections that i have seen in india's recent history. and you. spoken to modi himself and then many other leaders in writing this book is he the right man for the job then because he's failed to deliver on a pledge to create 10000000 jobs a year his make in india campaign has been a flop his health reforms have been window dressing well what are your thoughts but it's very difficult to govern this country to be honest with you of at a central level and i think that the we have more the government when he was the chief minister of good drought a state leader done feed to now when he's been able to govern in the center is the about the challenges of governing does country such as india as diverse as india so when he was the chief minister of the state of gujarat he also saw one of the fastest growing streets any state in india has ever experienced with a good seat of nearly 12 percent during his 1st term every year but in delhi it's much more difficult because the states don't like to listen to the center of the

states sort of do their own thing and his model of trying to govern india and a very centralized we the we governed a state of gujarat obviously hasn't worked so i don't know as to what the solution is but i think that giving more power to the states of india is the way to go and governing this very heterogeneous country in a chinese styled mindset that you dig decisions at the center and hope that the rest of the country will botch in the same direction just doesn't work for a country as diversity as india if modi gets reelected it will be by a few northern states but there is a huge stretch of the country that they will vote for regional leaders and parties is this the right way to govern a country of more than a 1000000000 people is there a better way no i think this is the only way because if you look at countries around the world countries that tend to have such a diverse population they typically have coalition governments this entire notion

that you can have one strong leader govern such. our nation as a true genius as india just doesn't work with india has tried that model like it did under indira gandhi who was the prime minister of the congress party she was basically a door or no or nearly tore the social fabric of this country apart so well in a country like this you have coalition governments are the product of its diversity and doing anything different is obviously not going to work and be a seed that historically there's been some debate about the economic not numbers can we can we trust them what are your thoughts. no i think that the economic numbers lack credibility i don't think that we can trust what the numbers are i've been raising questions about the g.d.p. numbers ever since they've revised. the data back in 2015

so yeah it's a very hard fix to do at this point as to what exactly does this country is growing at but here the fact is that the country's per capita income is still very low only $2000.00 for a head and from that very low b. is you can grow relatively rapidly but the exact growth street is just not something that we can sort of have any confidence in and i think that everyone has given up trusting the office numbers one of the biggest challenges for the government will be sorting out the debt laden banks what are your thoughts on that yeah you know this is one of the sort of. constant recommendations that i keep making but it's sort of like is obviously of no obvious which is the fact that the share of the public sector banks in the indian banking system is amongst the highest for any country in the world of a to a 3rd of all the laws in india's banking system are provided by the state or in banks it is the average across the developing nations is closer to one 3rd so yeah

. this imbalance where the public sector such a large draw all in does a financial sphere in india is one of the major constraints to india's long term growth potential. good to speak. across the world fish stocks are under threat from overfishing and a changing climate and now rising ocean temperatures could threaten one of the most intact and important fisheries on the globe nick clark reports now from the low for 10 islands in arctic norway. this is what made norway rich long before oil take told all scray in then millions filled drawing rocks across the lafave denial and winter off the winter fishermen here have cashed in on the annual migration south from the barents sea it is a tradition that goes back thousands of year is called his colt it's got it and then it's hold out to dry for several months and what you end up with is

a dried fish that retains nearly 100 percent of its nutrition apprise delicacy from its me to nigeria this is what supplied the vikings on a long voyages to far off lands and still now is a big part of the norwegian economy with millions of dollars to fish comes from the barents sea and its goal is to look for them to spawn. and that's because of the atlantic stream to the left extreme it stops by locals and brings food it brings that higher temperature even though it's not warm but they are high enough to spawn and it's a very delicate ecosystem in lawful that fragility is spelled out by a remove scientific research as a changing climate and warmer ocean temperatures upset the balance of the marine ecosystem meaning the scray may be forced out and then it's a question of where they go obviously it keeps things keep warming some of those true polar species might end up not having a whole lot of places to go if the ringer computed by sort of these more southern

species moving north and where you see might see some considerable changes there this year give nielsen cold 13000 kilos of cold it's been a pretty good season but he's worried about the future climate change could change everything. they're called suddenly stopped because they'd be warmer and going a longer and longer north so then being we have a big program every year is spring comes the called league their return has always been a certainty and in the says city not just for the fishermen but if the seals see birds and whales that feed on them now this extraordinary feat of nature is under threat the outcome as ever depends on the political will to act in a time of global crisis oh man china is pakistan's largest freshwater lake it covers more than $250.00 square kilometers during the peak monsoon season but it's

become a dumping ground for industrial waste and that's putting the lives of people who depend on the lake at risk commodity has more. did or did left of the once proud mohannad tribe on monetary leg at one time hundreds of votes harder to get that indeed shallow waters now there are just a few dozen left. votes have been their home for as long as they can remember. i know that nobody and i got in the previous new had about 50 varieties of fish in much a lake but in polluted water came through many fish took a wiped out what we used to have a good catch now we on the brink of ruin we don't even have drinking water here we have to buy it from the city for 50 rupees for a small drum. it's lunchtime and bread is begun as most all stocked away in one corner of the board even the firewood stacked above the waterline costs money but

it's the same chill for. living off the lake it is a struggle and redoubt. he does not know what really happened to his family let him out of dharma we don't even have houses here how can we give education to our children if someone among us gets sick we need 1000 rupees tolerance to take them to the nearest hospital from well these poor people arrange the government to provide a service and houses we could live a normal life by doing other jobs like farming and such are. the elders here remember the happier. when there was plenty of fishing and the rich plant life including locate. food for the people of montreal lake fishing i mean their main livelihood but because of industrial pull your parents now being warda body awarded nor drink. the 1st dogs are down the flora and fauna

is gone and it may destroy a whole way of life for the fbi put. lakemont jordan its their own used to be a popular resting ground for the migratory birds the lake itself more than 40 different fish but the only ones now are going to be small and used for animal feed for some fishermen this is their only source of income they say they've been dorie by the provincial leaders that they would get help but haven't received any bugs on new prime minister jim rohn connors promised a clean and green country but the people hey say time is running out for them. and that is our show for this week remember you can get in touch with us by tweeting me at has him seek out and use the hash tag a j c d c when you do or drop us an e-mail counting the cost that easy to dot net is our address there's more for you online at al-jazeera dot com slash c.t.c.

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inaccurate and misleading. trade talks between china and the u.s. come to an abrupt end to the. talks of piling on even more tyrants. alleging intimidation why several opposition politicians in venezuela are seeking sanctuary in the embassy neighboring countries and a global plastic waste but the 186 countries involved don't conclude the bigots. the united states. the rebels in yemen have agreed to withdraw their forces from 3 key ports over the next 4 days that's according to the u.n. you had negotiators say the withdrawal is needed to pave the way for political negotiations to end the 4 you saw the rebels are due to start withdrawing on saturday from one day the sun leaves and. for the north the whole thing

is insall the u.a.e. backed government forces had initially agreed to withdraw a there by january the 7th but that never happened the u.n. says the move would be the 1st practical step on the ground since the stockholm agreement last december it stressed however that. rebels must now follow through with the redeployment now the yemeni information minister. eddie jani has reacted on twitter saying that the hopi offer to redeploy from the ports of hyundai this leaf and to begin on saturday is inaccurate misleading and will be a repeat of the handing over of the port of holiday that to members of their own militias any unilateral deployment that doesn't allow for the principle of joint monitoring and verification of the implementation of the of the sweden agreement is elusive and acceptable our diplomatic editor james bays has this update from the united nations. it's too early to say whether this is actually

a breakthrough the stockholm deal in december that's almost 6 months ago said the who things should do this and 6 months on they haven't done it yet they now say they're going to do it in the coming hours from the 11th just a few hours from now to start redeploying going on until the 14th it's no coincidence that the next meeting of the u.n. security council is jew on the 15th the security council putting a great deal of pressure on the who thies i think losing some patience with the who thiis of course i think this is a time when the process is at some risk because having made this big announcement the un there is a big problem of course of the who these don't do it this time it could collapse the whole process there are also some problems of what happens next in who data who is going to govern the territory that who these withdraw for from according to the stockholm deal it's going to be local security forces that is somewhat problematic

i can tell you there are members of the security council discussing the idea of some of those u.n. monitors perhaps going in as advisors to some of those local security forces to take command of the situation that at this stage is not just an idea it's not in any way agreed by anyone at this stage remember to do that of course we're talking only about the deal for who day the other ports and they are it's not a wider political solution for yemen. now a saudi ship has sailed from france whether out of its planned cargo of weapons human rights protesters have a shipment of breached an international arms treaty linked to military intelligence reports show that french weapons psaltery out of being used by the saudi amorality coalition against civilians in yemen paul brennan reports. the ship at the center of the latest saudi arms control the sea had spent thursday at anchor

on the edge of french territorial waters the 225 meter bar a young boy who waited to enter port and load up its cargo french weapons destined for the saudi military. in paris though 2 separate human rights groups had lodged legal challenges to try to have the shipment declared illegal and on the quay side around 100 demonstrators assembled determined to take direct action to prevent the ship docking again. says its a junior to perceive the war in yemen is a difficult war we are turned into supporters of saudi arabia and if we the french citizens do not act we don't try to stop ourselves we will end accessories to this business we don't want this we don't want to be in this situation on. the 4 year long war in yemen has displaced more than 3000000 people and their strikes by the saudi led coalition forces have killed tens of thousands of civilians several european countries now refuse to sell arms to saudi because of that but france the

world's 3rd biggest arms exporter says it's received guarantees from the saudis it's awful isn't it on your computer the majority of the arms that have been sold a used within the territory or at the border nevertheless i would like to say here the what we reiterated was the guarantee for them not to be used against civilian populations it's a position that human rights groups say is untenable or. secure. we can't trust those words why. why because the story keeps changing we were told the arms were only used for defensive purposes and all of a sudden we're being told we never said there weren't any french weapons being used in yemen we said we didn't have proof that french weapons were used to kill civilians so france's word is jibberish we cannot trust what they say then without warning the body young departed without its controversial cargo ship tracking websites sure the vessel got under way just before 10 g.m.t.

on friday heading not for but for the spanish port of suntan death the question now has the shipment been counseled or is the french government simply going to send it via another route paul brennan al-jazeera. well let's get more on this we're joined by giorgio coffey a tone he's the c.e.o. of the consultancy firm gulf state and essex and he's joining us live from washington d.c. very good to have you with us as always on al-jazeera are you hopeful about what we're hearing from the u.n. the whole fees won't pull out of 3 key ports especially given that they haven't done this as they said they would and start calling at the end of last year. i think some cautious optimism is justified but i really stress that this optimism must be cautious of course this year is in theory welcome from the standpoint of humanitarian interests but again you know we have a huge problem in terms of the lack of trust between the saudi led coalition on one

side who the rebels on the other one it's very good but to develops a little bit of trust that could potentially pave the way to eventually solving this conflict is going to really require some actions we need to see how that unfolds and vba already same that lack of trust that the u.n. announcement with head from the yemeni and summation minister saying that this whole thing announcement of a with a troll and misleading at this and that there are lots of questions around what happens especially around the most crucial pullet and yemen of the whole day that when the whole thing is do point out yes you're absolutely right also some of polices from saudi arabia have expressed some pessimism that they think that possibly the who these are taking this action to try to influence international

opinion but of course we need to know what other moves are that he's going to make this is just one small part of the yemeni conflict of course that when these are still fighting the coalition in other parts of the country do very possible for events on the ground in other parts of yemen drearily reverse some of the progress that we've possibly seen today and i definitely stress possibly seen today and there is so much progress at stake here as and that if the hoa fees don't pull alice does that risk the collapse of the current diplomatic process. i think it certainly could there are earth some people saying that if the if these don't act this time the trust is going to be severely under what little trust it does exist will be severely undermined moving forward you know as you correctly point out the stakes are so high when we're talking about this specific city in yemen from the

standpoint of the saudi led coalition the iran backed security fighters have been using this were smuggle in weapons however from the perspective if they give up control of this or in a later saul's into the hands of the saudi led coalition or its allies they think that that with the rebellion could be crushed much more easily so i think it's a really big deal that there you have announced the unilateral withdraw but given that house sensitive these issues are in our progress can really get reversed so easily i think we need to be really cautious here mr coffey thank you as always fan time and and sites on this giorgio coffee at our life and washington they say thank you thank you we're going to move on to our other big story of the day u.s. president donald trump has escalated america's trade war with china with the failure of talks and the imposition of new tatts he's tweeted that while talks have

been candid and constructive the tabs may or may not be removed depending on what happens in future negotiations or business groups in the u.s. have expressed consent while china has warned off retaliatory measures and washington now says it is prepared to raise tariffs on a for the $300000000000.00 worth of chinese imports alan fischer reports from washington d.c. . says a deal was close until the chinese broke it so in commute times he believes will lead to a better deal i happen to think that tariffs for a country. a very powerful you know with a piggy bank that everybody steals from including china the white house issued a statement from the president saying hiking tide of some 10 to 25 percent on 250000000000 dollars worth of goods means china piece a lot more money directly into the u.s. treasury but that's not how tired of swak they will drive up prices on our own 6000

i tunes america imports from china from washing machines to steal from food to fish importers pay the tab of the costs almost always passed on to the customer and gets parts for a south carolina bike shop from china he's already added $20.00 to the cost of a new machine we don't know how he perceived that china is paying for this we're paying for it and it's been passed on to our customers one tree group says for a family of 4 they'll be paying $767.00 more a year because the increased costs kind of spring it's just frustrating because you just know that most politicians aren't familiar with what it's like to live every day you know in the middle class you had to juggle what you can afford and which you can't afford and a lot of people can't even do that donald trump says a tough negotiation brings a better deal in american manufacturing might benefit as companies turn away from high.