then they really are, this reactor design has had numerous problems. components still have to be replaced in the next year or 2 because of cracking. and so nuclear engineers within the rest of the world, our residents, rather than to trust what comes out of out of china for information. ah, no, again, i'm fully bad. people with the headlines on al jazeera present, joe biden has reaffirmed the united states commitment to nato during a some age members of the alliance. the keys, china of being a security challenge be james mission to the uses. the claims are exaggerated. a chief prosecutor of in charge or criminal court has requested permission to open any investigation into the death of a lead. strong deed is in the philippines. she says, crimes against humanity may have been committed during the government drunk

crackdown. jamila island again has more from manila, isis. the prosecutor had been suda has officially requested the pre trial chamber for her to be given authority to start an investigation actually means that a full blown investigation might happen anytime soon. that also means that over the last few years, the i c. c has been looking at a large amount of public information in addition to the reports, complaints and petitions submitted by the families of the victims of the drug war, human rights lawyers, human rights organizations, and even members of the opposition. the u ends, a refugee agencies being accused of improperly collecting and sharing personal data from bank of refugees in bangladesh. a human rights watch report says the information was given to me and more for use impossible. we patry ation. you and hcr denies wrongdoing and says it has clear data protection policies. we had mars depos leader on trans and cheese expected to face more charges. on the 2nd day of

her trial, on monday she was charged with reaching over $900.00 regulations, illegally possessing walkie talkies and breaking import export roles or supporters see the trial is bogus and politically motivated. members of congress in the us have had a moment of silence as the number of covered 1900 desk fair approaches. 600000. the u. s. accounts for 15 percent of the global death toe. more than 3033000000 people in the us have contracted the virus, but with more than 40 percent of a population fully vaccinated, the death rate has dramatically sold since january. and israel's new government is approve de controversial march by jewish nationalists said, day after enough, tiny bennett became prime minister. it feared the gathering on tuesday could inflame tensions with palestinians. those are the headlines. i'll be back with more news after counting the cost on al jazeera to stay with me.

we understand the differences of cultures across the world that you taking out here will bring you the news and current affairs entity ah counted there. ah, hello, i'm kim. i'll santa maria, this is counting the cost on al jazeera, your weekly look at the well to please nathan economics. this week, gender inequality. the pandemic has had a rest of effect, especially on women in employment. more of them work on the front and more likely to lose their jobs and more of given up their job to care for others with government need to do to keep women in work or lose trillion in last outputs. also this 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 and 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 mckenzie 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 overall 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 j 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 belong to 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've 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 soon because the panoramic 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 if you don't have a choice. but it's something that makes you feel as a money to make the feel and was she says men paid about $10.00 for sex at 1st. that's now dropped to about $2.00. the economies contract it over the last year. the market so 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 wasted 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 coven tests, masks 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 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. but experts say more public spending is still the only way to help people they got between they have notes and they're they have to have ne, widening up their late that which poverty levels are going to increase. we are one

block, so many youths in this country was going to be engaged in crime. are very sad of lack of the government measures to be put in place to ensure that they 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 to domestic work, which they say has also dried up. as wealthy employers fear, getting coven, people 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 hired again and stop having sex for money. all right, let's get some analysis on this now with neil and john that more clear 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 a 1st sort of broad thought. do you think that corporations and indeed governments are finally waking up to the fact that women are 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 wiggly or knew that women are treated differently. and face a lot of bad news, 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 government 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 we look at the big care that women do, if you just look at the figure, it's a 16400000000 on a day that are spent on big 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 communication. and if, if we want to value the services that women are delivering, then that we're just on the basis all a minimum wage, they would be back would be amount that would amount about 9 percent of the global g, d, p, or 11 trillion dollar us dollars and so this is, and this was big for the big and un women's report shows that the big can

and domestic what, what that women are doing has increased massively during the panoramic because the closure because the service is not being delivered. and they know that women are carrying is not only on just a sustainable hate 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 or 30? how does it work? well, i, what we have done in action in our research. we have asked for action on 3 things. the one is that, the 2nd it us derek, and the 3rd is back. so on debt, we found that just again, this is pico in 2019. can y'all gonna and gabby out we're spending more than 3 times as much on external, dec prepayments as on health and congo, rather, it's up to 5 times as much gone. i had one of the highest deck with the

cost in the country in the was at about 59 percent of its gdp. so expense about $4100000000.00 on us dollars on foreign debt payments. and just about one when she on deck suspension would enable, gone on for a sense of double one was public and one was 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 we may have to carry that. we 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 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 facts of 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 all the g d p that goes to public health spending, which means that there are 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's no public support. there's no support from the state and there's no

insurance. and that, that kind of privatization has moved in and as you are right, case of the mentioned we're looking at now in india about 70 percent of heads provision in india 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 areas. 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 on conditionality, isn't it? not report to be found that the i'm, i don't conditionality require got runs to free bare wage. the public sector wage

bill and there's aust what we found and i reported 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 reach, but fewer dr. you're not the front walk cetera. 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 say in 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 bellies regional government imposed a 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 run our house 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 from 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 and many states have been allowed to remain open this year with limited staff. this clothing export business has been operating with 65 percent of its workforce. we have the label and i mean the 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 are getting would orders. economists say india government should focus on helping those who need it the most to have been doing a lot to help the business find the 1st. and the most important thing is to ensure

that the people are the more or the most badly affected need to be given away out by delivering food or any kind. and also been doing some gas to ship and b to whole ship will be rehired when the car shot reopened. but for now they are 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 prices 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 investment. now just in the last 12 months, china signed $40000000000.00 worth of deals. some have been job, i 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 that a fly, we will add something not and force of the shortage in cash. that is m in concern that the shortage in 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 or we are, we terminate, we will go to torment and turn to just tell you with the position that they waiting . iraq, if that go ahead or or not, we will, we'll, we'll keep it as a please. let's talk about iran. we've had allegations from m and t companies about

iraqi 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? iranian gods was iraqi certificate. it is not managed by iraqi sites and then we have our obligation. we try to protect our self about that and all our, all our process is actually there are some think from another area we have not responsible to about that we are, we are clear and we are transparent with all international institute about that we keep our production we keep our 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. and that i'm going to love iraqi site for god's important and you know, that iraq establish more than 20020 gigawatts of allocate to city of our generation to bending on gas specially g answers directly production. now of guys not more than $1500000000.00 this time to come foot. the need now is not less vain. $3500000000.00 standard quote, the more cheapest and easiest gas to export to iraq as the iranian gas. now iran and a snapshot, we respect that we trust that we try to do something. we try to find another solution for the guys that is a challenge with the inside about payment to them. we try to do something without any conflict with anti national entities in 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 in fact, 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 would oil undercoat and we support municipal finance also by support them to provide some chemicals to keep that, to keep the performance of their bodies in relation as maximum as possible. and the

other hand, we, we any support of the cars in the city and we have jobs in north, the gas company and, and bus i gas companies are gas company to provide more and more guards 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 in that that is around to get go up adding to the production capacity. that is that many network inside iraq and construction on some of them constructed there is. so i had, the bar generation would be 600060600 megawatt would be available that is allowed 400 megawatt from his aware also. and there is $700.00 megawatts from not from it. and that would invest. so that is around as a total to go up adding for that. and for the bar generation,

the only concern i have if that is cut from the line, you guys would try to keep a discussion with, with iranian side about committed 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 there's no action, sanction, sorry, dissolved. oh, there is any way to do that. finally, you, you talked about a vide bouquet of international investment, all the way 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. actual mob been in the

2nd biggest field and i was don't know when i look in the 3rd biggest field it was going to be and i and so bad. and as i was i got a job wrong. look all look at edo. so we have good number, good, good number, good stuff. i'm good. expect you. good. i oh, she 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 and abc they provide good value, good quality with good of rise. so in the competition that i'm compet with western union company that and competition with american company, but they one. so we cannot prevent them. if they want a b, c, contact up front investment site. they didn't take any investment

opportunities in 5 years. the last bar to to you, they get enlightened round for it was before 5 years. so we do this 5 years. there is no new investment for chinese carbon, but there is a b, c contractor. yes. it's true. there is a huge, huge number of turkish and chinese company which take the share market in iraq because that the risk, let's call them yeah, i knew their risk and they said that is going alive except to walk a multi area with multi difficulty. so this is idea, iraq's oil minister speaking to a sum up in a job. 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 on a on twitter, do please use the hash tag h t t c. when you do, if email is more, you think a problem come from the cost down to 0 dot net is our address. and of course more online it out to 0 dot com slash c t thing, which takes you straight to our page with all our previous episodes there for you

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