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climate change informed opinions economy i think is actually what's keeping donald trump afloat right now critical debate sequel on those 2 school board lawyers all of this argument is astonishingly partridge time saying in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of a new iraq of the new conscious and aware views about struggle against an ethnic sectarian kota inside story on al-jazeera. following the trade lives of the agent so pro the belt and road initiative is china's ambitious plan to link the country to the rest of the world the issue is not so low because of high. tell yet again the police officer one. chinese leaders say all countries along the route will benefit but some locals tell a different story depending. vatican. one on one east investigates how china's new silk road is changing lives from asia to
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africa. on the banks the banks of the river part of china. the city makes a 3rd of the world's computers millions of printers and cars come out of factories here every year. it also attracts tech entrepreneurs like gin choose voices which ones even. try to holly. the 56 year old engineer is one of china's bluetooth experts before starting his own electronic chip company he worked at microsoft in california for 12 years.
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has already patented 60 inventions and the latest is a bracelet that acts as an alarm if you have friends and merchants see you just the way. the. check terms here were the phone poor the phone to corner the the people who produce reset. its products are sold to supermarket chain video game makers and online. and with the success of companies like choose. continues to grow welcoming 200000 new threats against. the company director lives with his family and luxury residence on the 25th floor of this building. for
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a. he has 2 children 11 and 9 years old. i was young my dream is to. i'm. right and out. there yes. just like. there is a talent here. so for so long time those people think that. it's here. where you can reach is not from when your good plan. was. in the 1940 s. most of chunk chains population of 1500000 lived in small wooden houses on stilts but today it's one of the largest cities in the world with
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30000000 residents it's railway forms part of one of china's biggest economic projects the belt and road initiative. chinese president xi jinping 1st introduced the plan to temper 2013 during a speech at the university in kazakhstan. to economic ties. and nick nomic belt along the soak. in this great undertaking benefiting the people of all countries along the route. over the next 30 years china will build train tracks shipping routes and roads going towards europe asia and africa they will also set up railway stations ports
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and industrial zones along the way. this maritime. djibouti the former french colony strategically located by the movement seems to. djibouti is one of the smallest african states or countries with ville natural resources. haasan manage just straight arrivals at a chinese port as it's known in djibouti scapel high up in the fat cells are these are the best. for. everything here comes from china the cranes that unload the cargo and the goods these trucks the building the cheerio and these tanks to. even some of the staff were trained in china. to do. this they don't know much i mean the only.
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way in the long service. it was china who loaned djibouti the $580000000.00 to build this deep water port which opened in $27.00 teams. to make the facility profitable the workers must move fast. enough so they work this out just like some sort of. rainfall for us asking. him. what to sing songs by you all about the self all. the targets are strict but haasan is grateful to the chinese. with his own learning challenge that is if you saw the video of. his visit to a sudden. in some field. but all this
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comes at a price. is now in debt to china to the tune of 70. percent of its g.d.p. . use on land the chinese government is beginning to build they have even installed china's 1st military base abroad. at its inauguration in 2017 china rolled out the red carpet for the president. with this space china has positioned itself alongside major world powers the americans the italians japanese at the french. china has also built this railway connecting djibouti. in ethiopia costing more than $4000000000.00. most of the money for the line came from china and must be repaid by ethiopia over 30 years. the railway carries both goods and
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passengers serving as a vital artery for landlocked ethiopia. every 2 days at dawn a crowd gathers in front of the station for the 8 am train. most of the passengers are traders loaded with goods. letters out of the government. abdul mani the station manager tries to maintain some order the help of a policeman in the told the late mrs that i was going to him going to live up and say. anything to get on the plane here in. the gulf coast to the us to tell him in a way to diffuse it in a sense here in the rest of the things i said tell you. if you should see that
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that's out in. the coming days. listen. well you know the trader has to leave his bottles behind but eventually gets through with the rest of his like. at durham ana is frustrated he will be held accountable for this unlike at the port which are in charge at the station the chinese run the show. the railway line will be under chinese control until 2024 the offices they call it working in partnership even. the. us for some of the international team and the supreme the highly. accounting. for while she was hostile to the commission has happened. you know for something. you want to get it right in there. with this my boss and
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i this. you know is that the. chinese workers tend to occupy positions of higher responsibility which are better paid. mohamed at his friend. had been railway workers for just over a year they find it hard to accept this hierarchy it is what you feel you're seeking for your allies it's all does he see you would do more to see it soon it will dilute the mix was the result of movies like evil and i don't know you know and i said to me we're going to. issue our ship a ship for c.b.c. rudisha if there's a new piece of a just so you go see that it's not a popular one appears will be also together we can use as was. possible because the
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with. this railway line is a crucial piece. china's plans for the road. at the end of the line 750 kilometers away. from the capital of ethiopia a country with a population of 110000001 of the highest growth rates in all of africa. 50 kilometers south of the capital lies a monumental industrial park with workshops as far as the eye can see streets that . chinese cities or provinces this is ethiopia chinese economic zone. this small business makes jeans and exports them to europe. as in djibouti everything is imported from china sewing machines
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methods supervised took a toll of again do you know little or less than they would usually look at the machine was to be a look you look at the machine and you want. to get over it. the average salary of an ethiopian worker is $56.00 a month 10 times less than the average chinese worker the supervisor addresses the workers in a mix of chinese english and am hard a local language to do you can use it in the wood at all then. how can you d.m. you've been. struggling for that 15000 the show you get. the workshops are open 6 days a week. but at 6 pm everybody goes home.
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well almost everyone. the chinese supervisors stayed behind at the. the lawn is 35 years old every evening she has dinner with her called. they all live on the premises. and in the visiting. is an illusion the next night. leon earns $2800.00 a month she sleeps in the dormitory with 2 other calls from you and you know this. woman in. a. minute at a home 2
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2 2. left her husband and the children behind in china. and they. can call. home and that it's one occasion. maybe. he missed his step in me being a baby. she has just 15 days of leave a year to go back to china and see her family she knows. how mr dunham salination filling my. for the young woman and her friends it doesn't seem like a sock. but not everyone is pleased with
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ethiopia is a new economic zone for farmers like maru who are forced to give up their leg to make room for it soon all of these fields will be covered factory. you know who hit. a corner. in a better engine get out of the. vatican and operate in belichick and learn about what a bitch got. my room was given $0.20 per square meter in compensation a total of $6700.00 for histamine head 10 which was quickly depleted as he lost his life and quit at 58 years old this is all he has left a small house in a few animals that have nowhere to go and brings. nearly minimal going to lie lamar odom which. yeah new
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to get into character which. and i'm not going to deal. with. the farmer and his wife have 7 children. i don't care if i'm out of the know. a lot of you know it's anything like really not. but despite her degree the youngest has only been able to find a poorly paid factory job. not about a new lives on my own on a lemon this will amok in a collision. and i got more than one thing in the. zemin under me to get. married but only learned in utah. the belton road emissions is also making inroads on riskier.
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in pakistan china plans to invest $62000000000.00 at the small fishing port of wa dart into the watch a stand off minutes of southern pakistan this rustic judie will soon be gone giving way to a new industrial port capable of receiving large freighters. the project will connect cashcard in western china to quad are on the arabian sea with a network of roads and railways the aim is to bring china closer to oil wells and offer a short cut for the transportation of goods the ultimate goal is to open new routes into africa and. we are the only western reporters with permission to film in what. we soon notice the army helicopters that circled us to be overhead. in the numerous checkpoints that protect
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access to the port. the city is hosting its annual fair expo in this large building by the harbor. but despite prior permission we are not allowed in. the director of the porch to steer fish agrees to take us his car. for 3 of them. from the entrance to the port is guarded by 15 soldiers on c.m. our camera based on the car. he had been going to or going out for that i'm going to. go. to. there are many other corporate different one of course. as you say get in but it will be a lot of other. thanks to the director we make it past the
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checkpoints. chinese projects in pakistan have been greatly controversy and are regularly the targets of terror. in 20183 men with kalashnikovs attacked the chinese consulate in karachi the country's economic capital. they blew up the guard post killing 4 people before being shot by the police. in. the province of block a stand what ouattara is located is also the scene of a separatist rebellion that kills hundreds of people each year. in video broadcast online the separatists directly threaten china china is superior to the content. so for these. talks started going to true vibing go to villages. and then it started to be are going to be hard for the
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expansionist motives president xi jinping you used to have time to point them. at the quad expo it looks as if china's time is far from in fact pakistan has created a special force of $15000.00 men to protect the chinese projects outside the building portraits of the pakistani prime minister and run khan and the chinese president xi jinping hang side by side. inside chinese companies and businessmen are everywhere it was even a chinese company launching polo meat this is all meat on and chinese meat paints and so you see a market could tame you need fungus on oh yeah. at the conference center officials say on the break the relationship between the 2 countries. the head of the chinese company operating sport she. seems optimistic about the project
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success. we were rooting for you i know you to her for so care you already are enough oh. what a. life size. has built a career in africa and the middle east he knows exactly how to deal with local dignitaries he pressures off the critics of the belton road initiative yet you match why chinese. chinese must have some interest in it that's your imagination. the. well so. all for chinese company come here to help. if the fall of
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a different opinion awful weather to frederick and approached on different. we're interested in one. but talking freely with them is no easy task we must avoid the intelligence services are not permitted to leave the hotel without a military escort we find a more discreet way to go into the city center to be. the largest and is pakistan's poorest. most people here live on less than $2.00 a day. in the majority of families to fish for a living like rani what with rather than look. inside. he lives with his 5 brothers and sisters and their families. in total 36 people live in this hopes for
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a minute. for now at least they have seen no benefits from the projects and their life is as difficult as it has ever be the need then caught on to the a good to be thing. and. today the house has no water or electricity. and ever since the port was built fishermen have been finding it more and more difficult to find fish. john i was just saying in family guy i think you're going to. vote. on a john i was going to have more number of them are going to hear more. ronnie fears that he and his family will be driven from their home. but we don't get the chance to discuss this further. i think it is
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a segment. of the pakistani intelligence services come knocking at the door face to face with the agents the fisherman claims to have no idea what we are doing there no one is cooler than them can kind of. 2 deal it of it is not over but. i mean you might be with me. we accompany him to his boat the street is filled with soldiers and intelligence officials. at the beach where ronnie's boat is anchored is itself the subject of disagreement between the fishermen and the authorities. the plan is to get rid of it to make way for a brand new motorway leading to the port. building site has already begun to slowly
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erode the coastline. even though the. names are trying to include. following a fisherman strike the authorities recently agreed to keep one end of the beach untouched. but smaller measures like this are failing to keep the peace. in april 29th teen rebels attacked a bus traveling from water to caracas killing 14. then in may the rebels stormed the hotel and killing 5 people. well diplomats businessmen and officials might enjoy good relations it seems china is yet to win over the hearts and minds of all. but that is the plan as it expands china continues to explore its capital. knowledge and its people's
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