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and could robots eventually replace people. we speak to some swedish companies that prefer machines to human. i'm joining with america isn't down off the audience. tina i removed this host plus defending friendship and champion film tech celebrates had 21st safe. i reach you 2nd round rather than go on to the news. thank you very much for joining us. china is relaxing, family planning, restrictions to allow couples to have up to 3 children. if a major policy shifts from the existing limit of to recent data shows a dramatic decline in birth in the world's most populous country. changes to its retirement age are also being considered. katrina, you has more from beaching. they've announced this change in family planning policy in an effort to stave off what many experts we've spoken to have called

a looming demographic crisis. now we had china's infamous one child policy imposed in 1918 because of fears that there wasn't enough food to go around. and that was changed in 2016 to a true child policy because there were already 5th back then of not enough babies being born. and now we see this 3 child policy. and it comes just weeks after china released the results of its once in a decade. census, and from that census there were some very worrying pieces of data released. firstly, china's population is aging very rapidly. already we have about 20 percent of the population over the age of 60, that over retirement age. and as that number growers, we're going to see a shrinking workforce, as well as immense pressure put on china's pension and health system. secondly, if we look at the, the workforce here in china, china's rapid growth that we've seen, rapid economic growth these past few decades has been largely attributed to its massive workforce. and that massive workforce is gradually shrinking. and experts

have told us over the next 5 years, china is expected to lose about 35000000 workers from its labor force. now the 2nd reason, the 2nd part of this is the other piece of work data. and that is that not enough chinese babies are being born even after trying to impose its true child policy. in 2016, we saw a bump, maybe in birth, in birds, in china. but that really decline very quickly. and we've seen a decline in the birth rate for the past 4 years. let's take a closer look at how china's population has evolved through the decades by 9969. china had a population of more than 800000000. 10 years later it introduces one child policy to balance. population goes with economic development. that policy is thought to have prevented up to 400000000 bess. in 2016, it was replaced, allowing couples to have children. but relaxing family planning didn't bring the baby boom. that was expected. in 2020,

china's population reached 1400000000 at birth fell to 12000000. historic low, almost 20 percent of china's population is above the age of 60. if birth rates continue to fall while life expectancy increases, china's labor force is in danger of shrinking. let's peter andy mark about this. he's a senior research fellow with the center for china and globalization. i think time based in beijing, and he's joining us. thank you for being with us. so the chinese government answered to it's demographic crisis is this new policy? but as i correspond and said, there are a little want to go. it doesn't look like people are convinced just yet. judging from the early reaction, what else do you think the government would need to do to encourage people to have more children worth while thank you for having me on this indeed is a looming crisis, and we need to measure the cycles fine in years. if not decades,

i think the government's response to this now is a timely response, but it is, and it is a necessary response, but it is not a complete response in that not only is the government now saying you can have 3 children, not sure, but can but there are also other forces that work in, in the way china's become the victim of its own success. we know that rising education levels of women, better health care contraception that for rates go down in china. china has really performed economic miracle over the last 40 years. and i think this is one of the big drivers for the decrease in place to address this demographic challenge, which is not which not just train is facing, but many countries around the world. japan being perhaps one of the most extreme examples. i think it really needs a full set of policies,

not just encouraging families have more children, but making sure that they can afford them and that they can offer their children the lives that they desire for. right? so they have to be support measures you say, and also talk already of increasing the retirement age. i want to ask you about who's been the most impacted by the one child policy in china. of course, that change a few years ago to, to children, the changes in demographics that we've heard about in china haven't been evenly spread, have they? well, certainly, the one child policy i think, affects the children themselves. so many children grow up without siblings. and if you have siblings, you know, that can be a very, very valuable, lifelong experience. i think that's one factor for parents, sometimes desire multiple children, grandchildren, grandparents, especially in a place like china that has

a very deep tradition of multigenerational families living together. i think all. busy levels of families have been affected by the policy. and so what impact has the declining birth rate had on you know, the chinese society and what do you think the long term impact could be on the economy, the chinese economy, and china's cloud economic clout? sure. on the one hand trainers success economic success certainly was built on enormous and inexpensive workforce. and i think that is still important though we moving forward. but we also need to recognize that as china's economy has developed, average wages have risen as well. and this lower and assembly manufacturing, which really benefits from a large workforce is no longer as important to trends of funding. so i'm

a little bit skeptical that this will be purely a negative results for the plaintiff. also, as the economy moves more towards information base, the con, the digital economy, fewer but more highly trained workers are important. that being said, i think from a societal perspective, certainly traditional chinese culture values, children and values families. so i think that's important. i think china as a large, diverse economy, certainly there will always be of goals for manufacturing less information, knowledge added products and services, and we need people for that. well, we also look automation, which poses a threat by eliminating the number of jobs. so it's very complex situation, but that being said, i think this indeed is a demographic prices that trade is taking steps to. thank you so much for talking

to us about this and sharing your views with us and the mark joining us there from beaching. thanks very tough. thank you for the world news now and 2 days before a deadline to form a government expires. israel's opposition leader has many obstacles remained before coalition is formed. yeah, le pete is in talks with entre nationalist snuff, tiny bennett to replace benjamin netanyahu. israel as long as 75 minutes. this is an alliance between ideologically different bibles will be what he called the fraud of the century. israel has faced a 2 year political fail made after 4 inconclusive elections. hurry foster is correspondent in west jerusalem joins if not live on the news hour. so details for the coalition that wouldn't fitness. now harry is still being worked out. let pete phase. there are obstacles. what obstacles precisely and where do we go from here? will? yes, i mean to have to be various deals sorted out between the constituent parts of this

coalition. and there has been already a pretty public argument between 2 of the parties involved over which one is going to get the agriculture ministry. so as with these sorts of negotiations in any situation, they are pretty fraught each side. one thing to get what it can ahead of the signing and sealing of the entire deal. he talked about it as the money time, as in this is when people are negotiating. he said that there was still the prospect of getting this done that he wanted to do so as soon as possible before. certainly the wednesday midnight deadline. and he talked again about the prospects of a government that would be quiet that would come to work and do what was necessary for the people of israel. contrasting that with what he called, nathan ya. whose behavior saying that he was increasingly unhinged. and with the breaks off, as he tries to prevent this from taking place. we've also heard from get ansari's

another right winger who has a smaller party but which was also very much devoted to the object of getting rid of benjamin netanyahu. he also talked about there being no certainty that this government would come about, but that he was all he and his other colleagues were working as hard as they could to ensure that it did right when we heard from last night, harry, after pete spoke, he condemned the correlation of course. well, what is the likely to do next? now, what's his next move likely to be? well, he's got some time to do it. if and when this government is, is announced, and the president is informed, there's been almost certainly a full week before it will be brought to the class. it is really parliament for a vote which would inaugurate it. so there is time for me to act as to what he could do. well, he's already tried a lot. he's tried to peel off 2 of the main parties meters by offering them

a 3 way rotation not didn't work. he may try to get some of the members to defect from the parties and join him in what he would call a stable right wing coalition. that is something that he's been trying for some time and has failed to do so far. there is also been a pretty public campaign of intimidation by supporters of netanyahu online and in person. again, some of the party leaders who, whom he accuses of abandoning the right and rushing to the left and endangering the state of israel. so there are various things he could do, both behind the scenes and out in the open, but time is running out. and this is the biggest threat that he's faced in his entire career is in the 2nd period office which began in 2009 harry, thank you. harry fossa does not correspondent in west jerusalem. and he gibson delegation. lead by its intelligence chief is in gaza for talks with the armed will

come off. if been discussing reconstruction after 11 day conflict, israel the bombing campaign killed more than 200 pounds simians and destroyed many buildings. egypt count mediate the si, fi between israel and my friend is looking to consolidate the tools that speak to you outside in guys for us. so you know what's come out of the meeting and the discussions between egyptian and fish. hi holly. so according to her mass officials, they have stated that the meeting with the bus cabin and why the head of hammocks movement and god has discussed 4 main issues, the 1st of which is the obligation. all these really occupation to the top. it's aggression towards jerusalem. and because the strip and to abide to the resolutions in international resolution towards the death,

the policy and cause has been subjected to the rights of refugees to return to their homeland. and this, if this is done, then this is going to be the major step for a very long call to build achieves between israel and gaza. the 2nd was the reconstruction process and the need to expedited and just charge with with, with this process as soon as possible because of the amount of devastation that the people of the god, this trip living through in these times after the destruction that has affected their homes and mos promise to contribute and support the process as much as possible. also the discuss bilateral relations between egypt and gaza and prove that does the, the find out the exchange will not be part of the reconstruction file. and it will

not be mixed together because this, this is a file of prisoners who, where hostages of war and not civilians. and it will not be mixed with the reconstruction process. because the stress, you know, thank you for that. you know, if i add with the latest there from gaza or the recent israel palestine conflict may be over for now, thanks to a truce agreed more than a week ago. but palestinians who live in guys are now facing a difficult task of rebuilding their homes and their lives, including hashem, josha a baba. this is his story and it's national. my name is hush from jerusalem. i'm 33 years old. i live in kansas city. i'm married and i have 2 kids a lot. i've been a barbara for 11 years. i stablished my own salon in this place 6 years ago and hadn't had kennel at. and then it was

a very important part of my life. i spent all, i owned him, his barbershop by invested everything. i had to make it one of the best salons in gaza. and you can have that. ok today displaces, become rubble and is good for nothing. it does not have any features. so i decided to do something to keep me going to be able to feed my family and to be able to pay rent after my home was destroyed in the same building. what does that let us in? mechanically assess it, fee assess if so i returned to the same place and put a chair over the rubble to work and cut hair again for this is the only profession that i know and have been doing for 17 years now. how do you fall in and i got a team slap alarm from a special ed book and it cost me not less than $15000.00 to establish my salon and lots of effort. i went through a lot of challenges and difficulties with 3 wars. the blockade now and then the corona virus, and it's not easy to find a job in garza mac,

and nothing is easy at all. but we survived it all about them and i have a mechanical mechanic even if it's targeted, more than once. i will not give on to the head on this news our the side effects of corona virus. why south africa the economy has suffered the most and faces a long recovery. a long journey to justice, 60 years on the young, white and black american civil rights activists will push will change despite the threat to their lives and withdrew 13 days to kick off off american biggest competition. because america is in doubt still have the details in, ah, turkey and greece or flight should take steps to improve their economic ties. the country's foreign ministers have been meeting and often to try to mend strained relations. a long running maritime dispute have been at art over energy exploration

and maritime border in the eastern mediterranean. that's led to escalating tensions between the nato allies. we have correspondence in both countries. resource say that is in a sample will be speaking to very shortly, but 1st to john strapless enough in for as a significant meeting taking place in office today. john yes. well, as you know, the language flying between athens and anchor over the past 18 months has been acrimonious. but what we've seen here today is a sincere efforts, i think, to turn over a new leaf and to demonstrate political will that greece and turkey will seek a diplomatic solution to that differences and not necessarily in the distant future, but within a realistic timeframe. of course, the economic measures that you mentioned are a good starting point always for cooperation. it's been tried before today,

the greek and turkish foreign ministers and there will be mutual recognition of cobra. the vaccination certificates that will enable terrorists to travel between the 2 countries across the a g and also a limited economic agreement. but most importantly, there will be a meeting of the 2 heads of government, greek prime minister. yeah, because i me to attack and turkish president in the nato, the sidelines of the nato summit on 14th of june. the language on the greek side is cautious. and that is clearly because there have been provocations as recently, seize them on the turkish side. in other words, the unauthorized hydrocarbon exploration increases. exclusive economic zone as greece sees it. and earlier this year, the hydrographic ship jasmine in the conducting surveys in the north,

a g. and so the greek foreign minister was careful to point out that this was a meeting to found out whether there was an initial mutual understanding for a eventual normalization of relations. the greeks are demonstrating that they are willing to go forward, but only if turkey shows consistent goodwill. all right, thank you for that, john to wrap up and well, let's get you from the turkish side. 9 speak to restore, said ok, who's in the sample for us? as john said that the country's leaders are expected to meet during next month, nato summit. what do we expect to come out of that meeting, and what does turkey want out of this? well, fully, the meeting between one i mitchell talk is are quite important. the ones are going to happen at the nato summit on june 14, and they will focus on 3 major issues. the 1st one is the disagreements over the green territorial waters and also the ownership of some of the islands in the

agency. the 2nd one is the question of 2 countries exclusive economy zone in east mediterranean, and the 3rd one is on resort nature of the cyprus crisis. so in addition to that, one also is going to ask mitch we'll talk is to demilitarize some of certain islands in the age in agency. but well, i think there is no ground for an exaggerated optimism regarding the outcome of the meeting between the two's. because the issues are quite from the mantel. for example, so far, the 2 companies even could not agree on a certain framework, how to address the dispute. why, for example, turn grease favor the international arbitration and wants to take it to the european union context. but turkey insist that the solution shall be found to bilateral negotiations when it comes to cyprus. turkey insist on tuesday solutions

. why have greek 6441 federal state issues in there says justice to need to allies last year came to the brink of the war in the us and to get kelly that it's quite important. but i think we will witness. the credit is going to cycle through a escalation de escalation and then re escalation again. but the 2 need to allies for our meticulously careful to avoid any direct, military confrontation in that sense. these meetings are quite important. so for the has the 62 rounds of why the top 4 runs of the confidence building talks just would direct military confrontation in the agency. but as you say, there's still some way to go until they find common ground. thank you for that resource head are any stumble at least 60 people have been killed in a democratic republic of congo. 2 villages in the eastern e to a province were attacked by fighters. local officials say the allied democratic

forces, or adf, is to blame. the armed group has conducted frequent attacks in the region in recent years. mark m y b as in go mind the east of d r. c says many local, don't believe the adf is responsible. 70 important to understand in this part of the country anytime that there's any violence at all the government, the local administration, and the un do always blame the adf, even though there are actually other groups and conflicts going on in this area. the adf is sort of an internationally recognized scape goat did not respect who they are. they are indeed responsible for many brutal massacres that have happened there, especially over the last 5 years. but we've spoken to several people from the effected communities on this occasion, and they believe that not the case. a lot of people on the ground believe that this is part of an ongoing, an escalating conflict between 2 groups over access to farmland. one group from that area, they've been displaced by local militia,

and so they've been settled in a camp farming in the area. the other group has been on the move for decades, moving all around the eastern congo, having in the 1900. 90 fled, ethnically targeted violence in neighboring rwanda. their ethnic hutus from orlando, you haven't been accepted in numerous places where they've tried to settle here in eastern congo one and a half years ago. they will arrived in trucks in this part of the country. they tried to find farmland, but that resulted in this conflict with the local community. initially it was low level burning of occasional huts, the odd killing. and it certainly hasn't been anything like this before. search is on for a group of students, abducted by armed men in central nigeria. it happened in to get in the state of niger, one person was scaled and another critically injured. it's unclear how many pupils were taken, but some of the younger ones have been released to people traveling in

a connie a by were also kidnapped fidelis. and by has more from voyager. we only know that 11 of the children who were too young to walk were set free by the doctors and right now the government agencies still meeting and they promised to issue a statement much later today. and no group has actually come out to claim responsibility . the government keeps saying that the on top of the situation that they are trying to continue to k t r. but again, the, the, the security agencies that overstretched at the moment. given that we have the cases of increasing violence across the country. not just in the north east, because before now it was just the fight against vocal harassment and not east of the country. but in recent months we've had land gangs we're creating in, in north west where they're at killing people, abducting people for ransom. and then in the southeast of the major area,

we have the military also trying to engage young people who are been more like armed young people who have been out warning down government offices also sitting at the police station and killing security personnel. and in the south west, we have had constantly flashing with family even though that has been so mixed and brought to under control. but we still have also isolated cases of kidnappings in different parts of the country. the federal government of nigeria has not come up with this statement about the nitrous abduction and maybe in the coming out here from the present into it. know what exactly government is doing to free the children who were kidnapped on sunday time. not for a check on the world whether his dress. we're starting this one in the philippines where we have dante it has intensified into a tropical storm. okay, there's 2 things going on here. we have 2 tracks. i think this track rate here is

a more probable one. that is to say, dante should always remain about 250 kilometers away from the land. but still look at the lashing that the philippines is getting some very heavy rain. and we know the ocean is being picked up is while wave heights about 5 meters with the storm were across southeast asia. the rain is falling where it should sumatra, malaysia, and through borneo. but indo china is catching a bit of a break over the next few days. so bangkok look at your temperatures, plenty of sun, high humidity, those so it's going to feel in the low to mid forties over the next several days. and are plum brains really dropping a lot of rain in particular on taiwan, which, you know, we were warning about, look at this over 2 days, 173 millimeters. this is a 2 hour drive south of type pay. and i think on tuesday, type pay could get swiped with anywhere from $15.00 to $30.00 millimeters of rain. air quality will deteriorate in beijing over the days ahead as well. and you know, for india or southwest minds who really intensify and so on tuesday,

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