breaking point, how many degrees? i would you see that lagos, nigeria, now china is the 2nd country are to the united states, operate a rover on mas and it's beaming back. some pretty impressive images like this, one of the ju wrong rove. and it's lambda, which touched down on the marsh and fist last month solar power vehicle will spend 3 months taking photos and analyzing rock samples. ah, a quick look at the main stories now and applied by g 7 leaders to donate a 1000000000 doses of the current of ours vaccine to poor countries has been dismissed as inadequate by activists. british prime minister bars. johnson says, the group of 7 plan will inoculate the world's nearly a 1000000000 people by the end of next year. but campaign is say, the move is far too slow and it shows west and lead is enough up to the job of

tackling the was public health crisis in a century. risk is that there will be still large areas the developing world where the virus is spread like wildfire and the risks of new patient and the risks of new brilliance coming and become if you will, to get undermine the efforts as it comes up today to make sure that the full population is actually all in all the headlines. deforestation, and brazil's amazon rain forest has risen for the 3rd consecutive month with the present gyre. both scenarios yet to follow through on a pledge to boost funding for environmental enforcement that would prevent these incidents from taking place more than 2 and a half 1000 square kilometers of land was destroyed in the 1st 5 months of this year. this is more than 3 times the size of new york city and a 25 percent rise compared with last year. march of the land is used for capital ranches, farms, and logging. well now to political developments in molly, the transitional government is named a new cabinet was kind of sad, you know, come,

are appointed defense minister is appointment, comes days after the minutes, really, the colonel, i seen a voice, it was sworn in as president military seized power last month and army officials have now been appointed to several key cabinet positions. a 15 year old palestinian boys died after being shot by israeli forces during a protest in the occupied west bank. the teenager was one of several policy and wounded in by the south of nablus, while demonstrating against the expansion of a jewish settlements and locked down has been imposed on the july and capital. even though more than half the population has been fully vaccinated. daily caseload such 25 percent in the santiago region over the past 2 weeks and intensive care beds. and now 98 percent capacity counting the cost is the program coming up next. se, without his era children born into it?

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rate china invest binion in iran, but it's a cash strapped country ready to turn away investments. we will hear from iraq's oil minister and with millions pushed into poverty before the devastating 2nd wave . just how will india is economy fair is the eases it's locked down state by state . ah, well, if you've kept your job during this pandemic, we're talking 15 months of disruption here. and let's face it, you've done pretty well. the pandemic has not been kind especially to low income workers in the industrialized or developing world, and the recovery has not been inclusive. so this week we are focusing on the extraordinary and disproportionate effect on women and all income levels. career and child care work in family life. it's fair to say women take on a greater share of the burden. now we've got a lot of numbers for you here,

but they tell the story starkly and effectively. according to the management consulting firm, mackenzie, women's jobs, a $1.00 times more vulnerable to this crisis than those of men. women actually make up 39 percent of global employment, but account for 54 percent of over all job losses. and nothing's done about this, the prediction is that global economic growth could be a trillion dollars lower by 2030 than it would be if male and female unemployment were even conversely taking action now to advance gender equality could add 30 trillion to global g d p. by 2030, so the choice really seems pretty obvious. now that is all over all numbers, but just think for a moments about the health care sector alone, because it has been the heart of this crisis. and what you may not have known, but also may have suspected is that women actually make up 70 percent of all health care workers belongs that journal estimates. female contributions to health care

are equivalent to nearly 5 percent of global g d, p, or 3 trillion alone to global health. but nearly half is unpaid and unrecognised. or it's just unfair, you know, needed a european court ruling. this was in the case of the british supermarket chain tesco for female shop staff to be able to compare their roles with male colleagues at the distribution centers. and that's great for women in the 1st world who have access to legal representation, but migrant domestic workers who number 11500000 and mostly women have been left unpaid and stranded from the middle east to asia. so the picture can be pretty grim and sadly, the choices are to, you know, around $2000000.00 canyons of lost their jobs. since the beginning of the pandemic in many have been forced to make some difficult decisions to survive in nairobi, malcolm web spoke to women who had to turn to sex work just to put food on the table. sarah and mary, not their real names,

are among around 2000000 kenyans. he lost that job since because he began sarah worked in an electronic shop here in the capital, nairobi it went bus during the 1st locked down. she said she'd have to do sex work ever since to be able to feed her 2 children. because my life has turned into something that i never thought i would, i would be in my life. if i look at my children in my house, they go hungry. so this is what i was left to it. you don't have a choice, but it's something that makes you feel as money makes the feel and was she says men paid about $10.00 for sex at 1st. that's now dropped to about $2.00. is the economies contract it over the last year? the market, the much quieter than they were before the pandemic. a lot of people lost their jobs here in the city of move back to the countryside. the people selling food here,

they demand is really down and they say that means more wastage of perishables, like these bananas, economists say that the government taxing people more to try and cover the costs of repaying its large and growing debt plus a spike in fuel prices has pushed up the price of food and other commodities, the cost of living going up, making life for most people even harder. the few people have made a lot of money from supplying covey tests, mosques and medical equipment. some made even more money by being paid to supply them to the government and not delivering anything until the latest in decades of corruption, the scandals. kenyans are tired of it. so when the international monetary fund agreed to lend the government to point $3000000000.00 to help through the crisis, thousands of kenyans took the social media to object to the borrowing of yet more money that they believe will be stolen. that expert, say more public spending is still the only way to help people pick up between they

have not found their they have to have ne, widening up the late, but which poverty levels are going to increase. we are one block, so many youths in this country was going to be engaged in the crime. very sad of lack of the government measures to be put in place to ensure that the huge can have something to do. tourism is one of the country's largest n as a foreign currency. the sector employed about 2000000 people. many of them have been laid off as hotels and lodges, now lie empty. here women wait by the roadside waiting and hoping for domestic work, which they say has also dried up. as wealthy employers fear, getting cobit people are running out of options. as did sarah and mary, they both say the economic impact of the pandemic has been far more damaging than the virus itself. and they say they want it to be over, so they can get high it again and stop having sex or money. all right,

let's get some analysis on this now with neil and john that nuclear, who's the head of global engagement from action a great to have you with us from the deli today, we're going to focus really i think on the developing world, more than anything else here, but just the 1st sort of broad thought. do you think that corporations and indeed governments are finally waking up to the fact that women aren't treated the same, that the inequality is there and that it's not just anecdotal anymore. i mean, the, the, the, the evidence, the numbers are there for everyone to see. yeah, absolutely. i agree. i think that there is not a momentum. there is evidence that has, you know, that's clear, especially on the co, would we or knew that women are treated differently and face a lot of barriers. but now we have evidence to back up our back up our claims and governments, or indeed and should indeed listen to that evidence. let's split it

a little bit into governments and company. how much burden should go on the governments and the states in the ideas of, you know, child care actually recognizing that women do a different job in the split between home and work more. how much of that burden should go into the state? whether the burden has to go on to the state, because if you look at the big care that women do, if you just look at the figure, it's a 16400000000 on a day that has been done on big guy work and 2 sides of this work is done by women and this amounts to 2000000000 people walking all the 8th on a day with no new communication. and if, if we want to value the services that women are delivering, then that's what just on the basis all a minimum wage, they would be back would be amount backward amount about 9 percent of the global

u. d, p r. 11 trillion dollar us dollars. and so this is and this was before, but the big and un women's report shows that unpaid can and domestic what, what that women are doing has increased massively during the panoramic because the closure because of that, they're not being part of the bullet and of care that women are carrying is not only on just a sustainable to be capitalist about this, but how do we pay for all of us? where does the money come from? is, is it tax station? is it a 30? how does it work? when i, what we have done in action in our research be, have asked for action on 3 things. the one in the 2nd it us, derek, and the 3rd is back on debt. we found that just this again. this is pico, bad in 2019. can y'all gonna and gabby out we're spending more than 3 times

as much on external, dec, 3 payments as on health and browser. it's up to 5 times as much. gonna have one of the highest deck. so with the cost in the country, in the world, at about 59 percent of its gdp, so expense about $4100000000.00 on us dollars on foreign debt payments. and just about one point sheet on have so decked suspension would enable, gone on for a sense of double lug force public has one 4th and didn't have a 1000000000 left over. busy in the budget, so at the moment, you know, debt means that the thing means the public spending lot, but public spending means broke on public service, which means women have to carry that. they have to carry that blood can. i'm sorry, i just sent her up today. i want to ask you a couple of other questions and couple of other areas. one,

i just want to focus in on, on the health care sector, which you've mentioned for one reason is that a lot more women work in the health care sector. they've been exposed to the virus to, to conditions, poor conditions for a long time. i mean, india, the perfect example of going to the 2nd wave that it has been, but also the fact that you know, access to health care, people not having enough access to it. it's been privatized the last in a place like india and people, you know, a fundamental that they don't have access to. in terms of india itself, that the government spending on public is incredibly low. it's one of the lowest in the world. so we are looking at under to prevent off the g d p that goes to public health spending, which means that they're about 0.6 percent of bed available for a 1000 people. and we also have one of the highest out of

pocket expenditure on which means that people are driven into biology because of their, because of this being there is no public support. there's no support from the state and there's no insurance. and that, that kind of privatization has loomed in as you right case of the mentioned we're looking at now in india about 70 percent of heads provision. and india is through the private sector which means access questions. which means especially for women, but also or areas. there's a massive crisis of the public can infrastructure. we don't have enough family and community has 10 in the rural area. this is also one time with a station, but the 2nd is also known conditionality that developing countries have to implement and be the i'm f conditionality than in our report. we found that the i'm,

i don't conditionality require government to free their wage. the public sector, which bill and there's aust, what we found in our board is that they were asked about 80 percent of the incoming countries to plan for, you know, increase in their public sector ridge bills. and that just means that, you know, when countries are stored to contain their, which means your doctor, you're not the front walk that drop. it's just about getting the basics right. isn't everything you've said today, such fundamental simple sort stuff. and it's what needs to be improved on, doesn't it, and under no pre thank you so much for your time. we do appreciate it. thank you so much. i said india now which has we? well now we've been battling it's 2nd devastating wave corona virus. the response was for most of india's industrialized states to implement localized lockdown,

which makes sense of course. but the thing is, even before that, the crisis that pushed millions of people into poverty, elizabeth per on reports from new delhi for the past month, ship pele, and his wife v to have been selling coconut water to earn a living. it is a new endeavour for the couple who are expecting their 1st child in september. she had been working in the car show room near by when delhi regional government imposed lockdown, which forced all shop southern non essential items to close. the way it doesn't compared to what i own earlier, but the company will give the salary. and we have to donna hall and, and take care of our daily expenses. if you can imagine how cash strapped that my wife comes here to help me, you know, condition she have used to earn $275.00 a month. now his earnings depend on how many coconuts he sells. this is the kids

take a honey, a n g o which has been helping ship and votes with food rations and many others have lost their jobs. research by one of the leading universities as in frame g found that locked down in the past, you have pushed more than $230000000.00 indians into poverty, which is defined as earning less than $5.00 a day. but this is restrictions are unlike the nationwide locked down last year, which saw a complete shut down of all industries. factories in many states have been allowed to remain open this year with limited staff, dis, clothing export business has been operating with 65 percent of its workforce. we have the label, and i mean they're secure that they have the job because of the partial long don't . it has been really helpful that we are still maintaining everything. the orders, the are executing, the getting would orders. economists say india's government should focus on helping

those who need it the most to the government have been doing not to help the business find the person. the most important thing is to ensure that the people are the more or the most badly affected. need to be given away out my delivering or any kind and doing some gas to the ship and be to hope she will be rehired. when the car shot reopened, but for now they had millions of others like them, a doing whatever they can to survive. and finally, to iraq, opec's 2nd largest oil producer, reliant on oil exports, finelli, all it's state revenue and hit hard by the collapse and the price is when the pandemic struck. and right now pick is sticking rigidly to its plans to ease supply back into the market. which has helped oil prices rise to $72.00

a barrel for the 1st time since $29.00 team. that is very much welcomed in cash strapped iraq, which had signed and then pulled out of a $2000000000.00. we'll deal with china. baghdad had been under pressure to ditch the deal over concerns. the country was simply a wash with chinese investments. now, just in the last 12 months, china signed $40000000000.00 worth of deals. some. bon jovi had sat down with iraq's oil minutes. there is some of the java, a smell, and started by asking if the country was under pressure to cancel that chinese contract. no, that is no pressure will leave me that idea that when we make this, this is a 1st time. and so more to make this deal when we, when we designed is the, it was some concern about shortage and cash for, for january and february 2021. and how did we start of this year with increasing and of the closing of the price?

so when we received a flag, we wear something not, and as far as of the shortage and cash that is i'm concerned that the shortage and cash of him de la now is managed. so no, no need to hold part of iraq on for another you that idea that this the should be approved by the parliament and the national budgets and type in the national budget. so i to some challenge this is in terms of challenge. so no need to be cash in cash and there is some challenge about sending this to the bottom. i need some, some time. so it was better to freeze it for now. does it mean it's dead or it's short notice for us, but if the contact, if the chinese contract saying we go all week, are we terminate, we will go to tournament. if the changes just tell you with the position that they waiting, iraq, if that go ahead or or not,

we will. we'll keep it other please. let's talk about iran. we've had allegations from m a r t companies about iraq, the tank iranian tankers using iraq, the oil. there's also been talk about the deals between iraq importing iranian gas and sort of international pressure about and especially us sanctions. what is, what is the situation that you find yourself in as the oil minister and how are you going to deal with the iranian question about exporting, yolanda and gods was iraqi certificate. it is not managed by iraqi sites and then we have a lot obligation. we try to protect our self about that and all our, all our process is clean and there are some think from another area. we have not responsibly about that. we are, we out of clear and we are transparent with all international institute of

our that we keep our production. we keep our, your comment as soon as possible this, that's one and may be the other. there is other company tried to do like that, but it's not under amber lafayette. i could say for god's important and you know, that iraq establish more than 20020 gigawatts of electricity. a power generation to bending on gas specially g answers directly production. now of guys is not more than $1500000000.00, it's time to come foot. the need now is not less vain. $3500000000.00 standard come a quote, the more cheapest and easiest gas to export to iraq as the iranian gas. now, and i'm under a snapshot with respect to that, we trust that we try to do something. we try to find another solution for the gas. that is a challenge with the inside about payment to them. we try to do something without

any conflict with anti national entities and which is a situation, and we try to be committed to iran about their, their, their, their live in your, because it is contractual issue. i cannot say no. so, so we try to do something and, but i'll only try also to, to find another solution for that by acceleration, the investment of gods by young, ahead with alon g important, we're heading like every year towards the summer. it's going to be energy crisis like every year. it happened like clockwork. what is the oil ministry doing? are you going to preempt the challenge? is there anything that you are going to bring in, which will try and mitigate the crisis that we see every year while we try to, to provide all the network for providing to kind of fuel for the energy sector. i mean there have, if you will, under cordite and we support municipal finance also by support them to provide some

chemicals to keep the, to keep the performance of their bar generation as maximum as possible. and the other hand, we, we any support all the cars in the city and we have jobs in north, the gas company on the bus. i gas companies have gas company to provide more more guides during the summer. i think there is no crisis. the only crisis wouldn't happen if there is any cut from the gas. this is our challenge impact there is around to get go up adding to the production capacity. there is many network inside iraq and the concentration on some of them collected. there is some i had, the bar generation would be 600060600 megawatt would be available. that is around $400.00 megawatt, from his aware also. and there is $700.00 megawatt from not from it. and that would

invest. so that is allowed as a total to go up adding for that. and for the bar generation, the only concern i have of that is cut from the line. you guys would try to keep a discussion with, with iranian side about, commented to that come with meant to provide that god during the summer for iraqi bought a generation and we're committed to way to them when destruction. sanction, sorry, dissolved. oh, there is any way to do that. finally you, you talked about a ride bouquet off international investment, all the from some, birger to honeywell, and others. talk to us about chinese investment is the concern which has been raised by some people that more than 60 percent of the investment coming into iraq is from china. yes and very quickly, iraq is becoming a main chinese market rather than it's best and partners. so are those concerns

true and how is that going to manage them? i mean we have to now be in the biggest field of romania. actually mob been in the 2nd biggest field and i was gonna know when i look in the 3rd biggest field it was going to be and i and where and as i was, i got abroad. look all the block ido. so have good number. good. good number, good stuff. i'm good expect you. good ios. he is from western western side chinese . yes, they are more flexible than they are. they have any, i can say more than 30 percent of the market in abc. they provide good value, good quality with good of what i saw in the competition that i'm compet with western union company that and competition with american company. but they, when,

so we cannot prevent them. if they want a b, c, contact up front investment side. they didn't take any investment opportunities since 5 years. the last bar to to you, they get and license round for. it was before 5 years. so within this 5 years, there is no new investment for chinese government, but that is a b c contact or yes, it's true. there is a huge number, huge number of turkish and chinese company which take the share market in iraq because that the risk was called me, i knew their risk and they said that it's good alive, except to walk a multi area with multi difficulty. so this is idea, iraq's oil minister speaking to a sum up in java. well, that is our show for this week, but i want to know what you think and what you want to see on the show. you can tweet or d m the outcome of a j a on twitter. do please use the hash tag h t t c. when you do, if email is more, you think

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