the crowd at least 19 people were injured in the protests. a massive protest has been held in baghdad to demand the exit of american forces earlier this month parliament voted to expel foreign forces after the us killed a top iranian general qassam somani locusts have been swarming in the billions 'd across kenya somalia and ethiopia causing so much havoc the un has called for international help to avert a crisis kenya is facing its largest invasion and 7 decades insects have destroyed thousands of crops and the u.n. is concerned that that will impact food security in east africa at the invitation to unseasonal rains last month that caused the locust population to blow those are the headlines keep it here one on one east us up next here on al-jazeera. talk. about 2 of the biggest problems facing and they all the endemic corruption. we

listen so if you replace china as the enemy of the with and that's really vendors we meet with global news makers and tweek about the stories that. 0. following the tradewinds of the silk road the belt and road initiative is china's ambitious plan to link the country to the rest of the world sure enough so little differences that hard. to tell yet again the police officer. chinese leaders say all countries along the route will benefit but some locals tell a different story depending. one on one east investigates how china's new silk road is changing lives from asia to africa.

on the banks of the dixie 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 jin chu voices or friends even trainees by going 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. has already patented 60 inventions and the latest is a bracelet that acts as an alarm if your friends and merchants see you just the way

. the. check through terms here were to phone poor folks 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 $200000.00 events against. the company director lives with his family and luxury residence on the 25th floor of this building. or a. he has 2 children 11 and 9 years old. i was young my dream is to. i'm. right.

yes. just like. there is a talent here. so for so long time i. think the standards here. you can reach is not from when you're. in the 1940 s. most of chunk chains population of 1500000 lived in small wooden houses on stilts. today it's one of the largest cities in the world with 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 in september 23rd during a speech at university in kazakhstan. to economic ties we should. and the 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 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 vilma natural resources. haasan manage just straight arrivals at a chinese port as it's known in djibouti scapel high up in the south some have got the better. for. everything here comes from china the cranes that unload the cargo and the goods these trucks the building the cheerios and these tanks chain. even some of the staff were trained in china and to do. this they all know much i mean the only. 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 not just a. little day but this out just thankful for the. rainfall fos ask you. if you. want to sing songs by your own all these all of the targets are strict but haasan is grateful to the chinese to. his own learning change that is if you saw video of the. sudan of a sudden. in some field. but all this comes at a price. is now in debt to china to the tune of 70. percent of its g.d.p.

. tube 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 passengers serving as a vital artery for landlocked ethiopia. because

. 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 sent to the government. abdul mahdi the station manager tries to maintain some order the help of a policeman a little i told him what i did this is what i was going to do and going to live up to him and say. anything to get on the case here did you think i'll tell you don't just tell him in a way that this isn't it in a sense here in russia there's also tell you to do if you should see that that's only. becoming. less. well you know the trader has to

leave his bottles behind but eventually gets through with the rest of his like. at durham on a 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. best possible for the international team and the supreme id. for while she was hostile to the commission has happened. yes for some things that. you want to get it right and. it. was just my posts. i think by this. you is this stuff that.

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 no way for you to conduct all your exams all does he see you would do more to see soon it will dilute the mix was the result of music you've all known and unknown and i said to bloom are you going to. issue a ship a ship or should we see looters shavers you know. just so you go see them that we pull you out on a piece will be also together we can use as was. possible because the 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 bear the names of chinese cities or provinces this is. chinese economic zone. this small business makes gene exports them to europe. as in djibouti everything is imported from china sewing machines methods supervised ok tell us again do you look on the little english and be able to give. us

a machine was the band 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 i'm hardly a local language to you from using it in the wood at all then. how can you d.m. you've been. struggling for can't just give ya oh the show you get. the workshops are open 6 days a week. but at 6 pm everybody goes home. well almost every one. of. the chinese supervisors stayed behind at the. actually our connect. on is 35 years

old every evening she has dinner with her colleagues they all live on the premises . and in the beginning to the moment. when as 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. woman that had a home. the home and. 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. some time mr john i'm salination doing my bit for the young woman and her friends it doesn't seem like a sock. but not everyone is pleased with ethiopia as a new economic zone for farmers like ma roux who are forced to give up their leg to make room for it soon all of these fields will be covered factory you pull that

little book here. a corner. in an embroidery indian gentleman. vatican and after him by the chip and ornament what a picture that. 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 put it 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 a minimum to get a lie lemon otome which. yeah new to get into character which. and i'm not going. to be.

the farmer and his wife have 7 children and i want to hear if a lot of the no. a lot of you know it's in the town library not me. 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 lemon this will amok in a collision. and i got come out on one thing on the. zoom in. on a mega leg delivering what a lot of good in utah. the belton road initiative is also making inroads on riskier. in pakistan china plans to invest $62000000000.00 at the small fishing port of wa dollars into launch

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 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 the city overhead. and the numerous checkpoints that protect 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 port to see your fish agrees to take us his car. let's go with that having to go to the entrance to the port is guarded by 15 soldiers poncy in march camera they stopped the car. he had been going to or going out for that i'm going to. go to. 000000000. every other chord with a different one of course got better as you say get in but it will be a lot of other. thanks to the director we make it past the 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. 'd in a video broadcast online the separatists directly threaten china china. content supported these. talks started going to true vibing go to villages. and then it started to be are going to be hard for that expansionist motives president xi jinping the unions to have time to court one of them.

at the quad expo it looks as if china's time is far from in fact pakistan has created a special force 815000 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 a long meet this is all meeting and chinese meet painter and so you see a market could jamie mean 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 success.

we were rooting for you i know you know her for so i care for you are you hearing oh oh. oh the light side. has built a career in africa and the middle east he knows exactly how to deal with local dignitaries he brushes 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. bill so. all 4 chinese company come here to help put their fellow if the 4 different opinion awful weather. approached on different acts that. we're interested in

what. the poor. 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. the largest at is pakistan's. most people here live on less than $2.00 a day. the majority of families fish for a living like rani when rather than look. inside. he lives with his 5 brothers and sisters and their families. in total 36 people live in this house. and then again. for now at least they have seen no benefits from the projects and their life is as difficult as it has ever been

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. going think you're going to. vote. on a john i was going to know one 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 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 are no winners corner of the room can't. 2 deal if the via is not over but. i mean like you might be if. 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 eroded 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 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 to knowledge and its people's dreams of prosperity chinese president xi jinping has named the belton road initiative the project of the century. but the creation of the new silk road

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