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call a wing the tradewinds of the 8 she'd still pro the belt and road initiative is china's ambitious plan to link the country to the rest of the world sure looks a lot because it's the height. of the telly yet again the police officer the. chinese leaders say all countries along the route will benefit but some locals tell a different story depending. that in. one on one east investigates how china's new silk growth is changing lives from asia to africa.

on the banks of 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 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 terms here were the phone

poor the phone to core of the new prius 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. or. he has 2 children 11 and 9 years old. i was young my dream is to. i'm. right. there yes.

just like. there is a talent here. so far so long time those people think that their stance here especially where you can reach is not from when you're. in the 1940 s. most of chiang 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 september 23rd during a speech at the university in kazakhstan. to acknowledge ties we should. and nick nomic about along the. yen 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

feel natural resources. haasan manage just straight arrivals at a chinese port as it's known in djibouti scapel i saw some of these are the best. 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. let me put this up just like some sort of. means for asking. you if you. want to sing songs so you cannot buy your own all these all. the targets are strict but haasan is grateful to the chinese to. his own name change that is if you sell to the. city 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 the japanese at the french. china has also built this railway connecting djibouti to addis ababa 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. 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 asshole but i mean this is what i was going to do and going to live up and say. i'm going to get on the plane here in. the gulf coast to the us economy and everything they did they did it in a selfish interest it was also tell you to do it you should see that that's only. become an amazing question. 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 you 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 i think. for a while she was hostile to the commission has happened. you know for something. you want to get right in. with you some of us. i think by this. time. you know 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 in this what are you going to keep all your lies i'm going to see see you what do more to see soon it will do to the next was the result of a new cycle and i don't know if anyone and i said to bloom we're going to. issue our ship a ship or should we see looters shavers you know people have a just so you go see them but i will tell you on a piece will be also together we can use as was. possible because the with. this railway line is a crucial. 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 ethiopia chinese economic zone. this small business makes jeans and exports them to europe. as in djibouti everything is imported from china sewing machines methods and supervised the cable of the danger you look on the little and then they would usually look at the machine was the band look you look at the machine and leave

them. to get a little bit in. 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. in the wood at all then. just how can you d.m. you've been. struggling for conjugal p.r. 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. factory or. the lawn is 35 years old every evening she has dinner with her called. they all live on the premises.

and in the visiting. moment. is an illusion that. leon earns $2800.00 a month she sleeps in the dormitory with 2 other calls for you and you know this. woman and. a. woman that had a whole bunch in. the home and. 2 2 2 left her husband and 3 children behind in china.

and then came. home and that it's one occasion. maybe. he misses stephanie and 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 m. salem banish. my. for the young woman and her friends it doesn't seem like a song. 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 factories you pull that little book here. and. a corner

to draw one in an embroidery engine jet on a. vatican. chip and learn about what a bitch got it in. my room was given $0.20 per square meter in compensation a total of $6700.00 for histamine helped him which was quickly depleted as he lost his life and put at 58 years old this is all he has left a small house in a few animals that have nowhere to go and grands. nearly a minimum going to lie lemme know to him which is my look. at my fish yeah i knew to get into character which on a good man i'm not going to be any. movie. so. the farmer and his wife have 7 children and in their own hand if i didn't know and

if i want to you know it's jamie and i do not. want anything. but despite her degree the youngest has only been able to find a poorly paid factory job. not about a lake i know lives on my own on lemon this in the muck near collision 7 did i have a look and i got comment on one thing and. zoom in. to my grid what it should. 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 in the block just at province 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 or agrees to take us his car. from the school for 3 of. the entrance to the port is guarded by 15 soldiers poncy in march camera based on the car. he had been going to or going out for that i'm going to. do that. every other corporate or general well of course. 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. in a video broadcast online the separatists directly threatened china china. all content supported these. talks started going to true inviting go to villages. when it started really are going to be hard for that expansionist motives president xi jinping you used to have time to court. 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 is even a chinese company launching a long meet this is a meeting and chinese meet painter and so you see a market could jamie in meeting focus 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. were so

i care you already are enough oh. well. the right 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. well so. all for chinese company come here to help. if the for the different than awful weather to fredericton approached on different. we're interested in what locals. 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 as pakistan's. most people here live on less than $2.00 a day. in the majority of families to fish for a living like ronnie what would rather than look. inside. he lives with his 5 brothers and sisters and their families. in total 36 people live in this house. and they're going to come in. 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 going to just say again family guy and think you're going to. vote. i won 100000000 john i was going to have more of 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. 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 no one is cooler than them can kind of. 2 deal if the via

is not of the. brain 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 eroded the coastline and. even though the. names are dying 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 exploit 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 also comes at

a human cost. in the philippines the black market for gold is worth hundreds of millions but not everyone is reaping the rewards to solve paying the ultimate prize one i want to use to investigate why people like dying for gold on al-jazeera. and. talk to old trees there oh we'll talk about 2 of the biggest problems facing them they all the endemic corruption. we listen so if you're really pretty close to one as an enemy of the world with another really beggars we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories the back to 00.

the chinese government steps up efforts to contain the corona virus but the death toll and infection rights are still rising. i'm stan grant this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. iraqi security forces fire tear gas and bullets at hundreds of protesters in central baghdad. soldiers are deployed in the gambians capital to disperse protesters demanding the president.