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is by now we don't have him with when we interviewed the head of one of the states municipal forces, what he sang a very different to independent the meant the either we have a lot of coordination in these moments apart from the attacks on us. you can check the statistics murderous. have gone down a lot. what we have to do is lift up the values. we have this human values from the moment that we go out on the street for when a small child is still trusted, says hello, an old lady says, you know what, god bless you. beautiful sentiments from the top. well, dozens of b cups from around the state, like a national barnwell's, a being murdered. john holman, now does either mexico. ah, it is good to have you with us. her adrian sort of can hear it though. how the headlights and al jazeera ukraine's western city levine has been hit by russian missiles. officials say the strikes of significantly damaged city infrastructure. the vive is just 70 kilometers for the polish border at
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a major hub for fleeing the ukrainians. u. s. president joe biden says, russia's war and ukraine has been a strategic failure. speaking in poland by it, and also said that russian president vladimir putin cannot remain in power. that was played down by the white house, but true criticism from moscow. in his nightly address, ukraine's president once again pleaded with western powers for military support or assist, give his god to remove the russian army, received orders to destroy everything that define to aptly pull our nation. our culture. that 80 years ago the nazis did exactly the same when they tried to capture europe. same russian occupy as a doing this summer that no one will forgive them that hopefully they will be held responsible. you emmonds who the rebel say that their suspending miss island drone strikes on saudi arabia for 3 days. at least 8 people were killed after airstrikes had a power plant and fuel supply station and the state run social insurance office and
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somehow it all be heckling no, heidi, we unilaterally announce the suspension of missile and jones tracks and all military actions towards the kingdom of saudi arabia, by land let us see and hear you for a period of 3 days. we affirm our readiness to turn this declaration into a final ha firm and permanent commitment. if the king of saudi arabia announces and commits itself to ending the siege and stopping its errors on the territory of the republic of yemen once and for all your man last military has commemorated its founding with a parade in youngel. the armed forces day parade comes as the u. s. and allies imposed new sanctions on companies and alleged on dealers who supplied weapons to me on march. last week the u. s. announced it determined the killing of some 10 to 24000 ringo muslims. a genocide, what is coming up of to counting the cost and talk to al jazeera? we also do you believe that the threat of an invasion of ukraine is currently the
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biggest threat international peace and security? we listen, we are focusing so much on the humanitarian crisis. that we forget the long term development we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on al jazeera. i admit clark, this is counting the cost on al jazeera. you'll, when you look at the world of business and economics this week, spending more money to buy guns. many european nations tend to american made weapons of the rushes invasion of ukraine. so what's behind the increase in defense spending and who's reaping the profit? also this week the ukraine crisis is disrupting global trade and it's coming for
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the car industry. cave halted half of the world's neil and output needed for vehicle microchips. how a comic is going to cope subsaharan, africa as a well to least connected region bumped google's underwater cable ames to improve internet access to the region. can the project really help millions of africans connect to the rest of the world. ah, or a piece has existed for decades across much of europe since well will to, but russia's invasion of ukraine has alerted the continent that it is not guaranteed. i've been calls for an e, u army, and many european countries. and now reassessing their defense policies. several governments have already increased their monetary budgets. some of them significantly, germany alone is announced. it will allocate more than a $110000000000.00 us dollars to military funding. and that mom to major policy shift. now the nation is a, is the u. s. the by f 35 fighter jets capable of carrying nuclear weapons. poland
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also wants to purchase sophisticated reaper drone systems from the u. s. and many other european governments are turning to washington to buy drones, missiles and other weapons. russia's invasion of ukraine is believed to have increased demand for us arms. the stock home international peace research institute says, even before russia went to war with ukraine, european arms imports were increasing. the continent accounted for 13 percent of global arms transfers between 20172021. and that is up 10 percent in the previous 5 year period, the u. k. norway and the netherlands, where the largest european buyers bought it is asia and oceana who remain the world's biggest importers. receiving of 43 percent of global transfers since 2017. india tops a world list while australia, china, and south korea, pakistan and japan were also among the top 10 bars of arms. the united states leads the sale of arms and its export. chairs rose to 39 percent over the last 5 years.
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russia and china have decreased to 19 percent and 4.6 percent respectively. but beyond the top exporters, there are also many other potential beneficiaries in the ukraine war. turkey has supplied cave with weapons including bay raptor, t b 2 high tech drones, which have bolstered ukraine's defenses out there as defense. unless alice could topless reports now from the annual maritime defense expo indo turkeys, defense exports around the world have increased dramatically in the last few years . and the standard bearer for these locally made weapon systems is the barrack t r t b to combat drone. now it's not the fastest role in the world, and it's not the most heavily armed. but what he does do is he gives military's a cost effective means of being able to spot your enemy, being able to destroy them if need be. and also filming those successes in glorious
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h d video. we've seen these videos in as a by john northern syria, libya and now over the skies of ukraine. now for turkey, this is just the beginning. they're building equipment like multi roll helicopter scene here. helicopter landing ships and turning their sites to 5th generation aircraft. this is only the beginning they say, for turkeys, defense exports, alex, topless, accounting, the cost and the defense industry is quietly making billions of dollars of profit from the war. the potential for surgeon sales of all types of weaponry has lifted lockheed stock 8.3 percent, and raphael shares 3.9 percent be a systems. the largest contractor in the u. k. in europe is up 26 percent of the world's top 5 firms by revenue li boeing has seen a drop. well to discuss sol about time joined from stock home by ph visa mon, who's a senior research or the stock home international piece research institute. mr.
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vitamin, welcome to the program. so 1st of all, do you think this harold a global rushed to by arms as nations defense budgets? or is it just driven principally by european concerns about the russian invasion? the russian invasion, a new ukraine definitely is going to push european states to acquire more exactly how many we have to see something which we can expect, which we already. so in the previous 5 years is that there is an increase, for example, in an imposed by european states, but also the rest of the world. there are plenty of other regions with attention. cy, hi and where countries have and also will continue to invest in new ounce. the mit deleted is an option reach region where that happened, but we can also put on a point at the major attention that exist between japan, south korea, taiwan us. on the one hand, on the other hand, china animals. so it goes,
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will drive, continuing large, seals and arms goods by those states. and in fact, as you say, the purchases in europe were on the petty way ahead of this conflict in ukraine, following russia's annexation of crimea. correct? that was a very important reason for your opinion, states to revisit their defense policies and to look at their military capabilities. and that came at the same time as europe was climbing out of the community crisis related to, to the 2008 financial crisis. and all that together already led to significant increase in arms in caused by several european states and significant large orders that have been played by a number of other european states in the past 5 years. you mention on going complex intentions around the world to what degree does the invasion of ukraine affects the demand for arm sales around the world?
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not, not just within europe. i think it affects the demand for alms in several ways. and . ready place europe and the us will look at. ready the same time is also aware of what's happening elsewhere in the world, and that will continue to contribute to that demand for europe or elsewhere. we can also question, for example, how will china react to this? will china consider this an opportunity to step up to pressure? how will states in asia react to back again and obey that rule? so seed is as yet an additional reason to also both of their military k k capabilities. so these things hang closely together at the same time and then also major questions about the role that russia can play as maybe the supplier from now on. as states may feel that they don't want to cite with russia, they may feel pressured by especially the us to take a step from russia,
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including from russia as an obs plus flyer. and finally, also how states will deal with difficulties of paying russia right now, including for opposite they may buy. alright, and outside of the conflict and ukraine, how concerned should we be about this arms build up? i think that's not necessarily always leading to war, but here it's the pre, i don't think many to get away with we does use that. they provide an insight in the kind of trends that are being perceived and the strength of this being all. ready military capacity as a tool to do with those security trends. and that in itself is a concern. and of course, it is also a concern that the increase in arms inputs by long side often leads to an increase in inputs by your posting site leading to reactive m x and
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even potentially to arms raises, which will not contribute to peaceful solution. tensions that we see in data we've been seeing how european countries have been buying from the united states. but what about the defense industries on the continent itself? how does it affect them? the demand for arms in europe that we already have seen that we expect to increase is, is found by oysters, kind of catered for by industries in both us and in europe. the us have certain technology to offer with europe cannot really match. exactly. and secondly, also european states feel that they need to maintain that strong security relations with us and buying is one aspect of that same time. there are other items which the us cannot supply book sample at phones, chips, thus something which european states
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a much better at. right. i guess it is. in fact, tom's manufacturers who are the only ones who relish a situation like this, the profits just sore at a time. yeah, i'm afraid that it is true that the industry will benefit from the ukraine. that is to be expected, just like the pharmaceutical industry had benefited from man the panoramic over the past 2 years. can you put a figure on the world's trend turnover? if you look at the turnover the industry as a whole. ready look at the 100 largest producing companies in the world, what they sell to their own countries and what they export together. it's something in the order of magnitude, $550.00 to $600000000000.00 in the most recent year. if you look at our house trade, trade between countries, land that makes a song thing like about $120000000000.00 per year. that sounds like a lot is
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a lot of calls. but if you compare it with the total manufacturing and the total revenue of to complete industry in the world, it's only a fraction of that. it's maybe one percent or when 5 of all experts in the world right? still an extraordinary amount of money has to say that kind of cash to go a long way for peaceful purposes at that such as a well, we live in that theater is a man, appreciate your analysis. thank you very much. thank you. ah. while arms produces military and security industries are expanding, profits, car manufacturers are being hit hard by the warrant crate. as it was, fewer people were buying cars because of the pandemic. but after rushes invasion of its neighbor vehicles could become even more expensive and difficult to source. ukraine is a major hub for many components used in semiconductor manufacturing. and car dealers say sales will be affected by shortages. he cranes,
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2 leading supplies of neon, which produce about half of the wealth supply of the key ingredient for making chips have halted their operations. as moscow has intensified his attack on the country, the global supply chains already face a chip crunch because of the current of ours pandemic. and that impacts almost everything we buy from electronics to cause. the country is also a key source of nickel or which is used to make batteries for electric vehicles. and russia is one of the largest produces of rarer metals, especially palladium, which is also an essential metal for semiconductors. as estimated vehicle production could be down as much as 15 percent in europe in the 1st half of this year. b, m w has said that production at its factories will return to normal after shut downs cause by parts shortages. other car makers were forced to slow production, including audi, mercedes benz and porsche i, let's take this own joint is now from london. is andy leyland? he's the managing director at supply chain insights. and he, leyland,
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welcome to the show at the supply chain was already in deep trouble, then the invasion of ukraine happened. it's made a lot worse. it hasn't age. and you know, what a lot of people don't realize is just telling to that to the supply chains, particularly, or mostly market is and you know, disruptions that we're seeing in both russia and ukraine and to a lesser extent, transport networks which go through those countries as really see in the all to vice, to industry taking a not ahead to supply chains and tra any recovering any, just recovering from the pandemic. so when we talk about the supply chain being trouble, is that what it is? it is the, the logistical issue of getting products from a to b, and you just can't do it through amazon. exactly. and always the production stops in that was, i said, we've seen shortages in things like that and components electrical harnesses coming from ukraine. and then also we see the top sanctions i buy from russia and actually
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some of the sanctions that roger based on the west in restricting it's i school so particular room tears. so you know, you are seeing impacts. there are markets where you have a restriction in a relatively small amount of supply. but because of the way that these commodities of christ that has a huge impact on crisis and costs of production. ukraine is holding the production of neon at which is a critical component. how is that going to impact consumers and manufacturers? yes, so that's the neil markets. actually a really good example of the interconnectedness of international supply chains is primarily used in the manufacturer of semiconductors, which as you may be aware already in short lived, particularly in the automotive industry. so really sort of compounds those problems . but also a lot of neil supplies actually comes from russia as well, which presumably is going to be impacted. and what that means is,
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all of these particular semi conductor take role to the computers that you have in it more closely. and i'm going to be there and you think of you know, potentially 15000 different components. if you don't have one of them there, the other $15000.00 are not particularly useful. right. so how are industries and businesses and car manufacturers going to cope? well, it's really a sort of short term problem. typically when you are setting out the supply chain, you will have more than one provider. so you go see or up of providers to try and make sure that obviously have an impact in terms of can they increase that production or in this case, not because they were already being asked to. so you either have to reduce your, your outputs, at least in the short term. and also you probably have to increase prices and we
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have already seen production cost increase in being cost on to the consumer for baffles and in particular for electric vickers. i've noticed this even had an effect on hiring causes the costs of rental cars is rocketed. yeah. that's an industry that's really been decimated over the course of the kind of damage business travel, a lot less tories. and what i've seen is that that industry is actually had to reduce it, sort of the economy of scale. so effectively you get a rental car price, the likely to significantly higher the quite a bit longer. and so the towards the market recovers and some international business travel as well. and then, you know, put in the course that they're using more expensive and that'll speed i need to charge them higher cost the cost of the consumer with a need to reduce emissions as being a big push towards electric vehicles. what's going to be the impact on that? for electric vehicles, have, you know,
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much new or less robust supply chains. so when we look at some of the materials that go into your mind, batteries, particularly nickel, the same, really big increases in price because of the supply chain disruption coming chrome . and indeed that what you actually saw the nipple, but it was a short squeeze happening over the past couple of weeks. crisis withdrew forward in very short order. they are now settling back down. and his prices stay at that level. you know that, you know, almost a $1000.00 to the cost of a reasonable size electric vehicle. and eventually that would need to be possible to the consumer. and particularly for electric vehicles, what they're trying to do is come down, stick the price so that they are more mass market available. those price increases rating them because you know, to atlanta electric, be a substitute. and if it is substantially more expensive, but people will buying diesel and gasoline out a briefly, andy cadden,
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car industry. so this up, are we looking at job losses? certainly the, the car industry will save it up because demand is still there. or you may have sort of short sale production outages, certain while us but you know, the, the industry is quite resilient. they do this. and ultimately any, any sort of job losses are likely to be in the, the short term. add you to just a short answer on constraints or at any appreciate that. and elaine in there, thank you. countries are moving ahead with the latest generation of 5 g mobile networks, but on the african continents, many people hardly have access to the internet at all. in sub saharan africa alone, nearly a quarter, the population all acts at mobile broadband coverage compared to 7 percent globally . but that is about to change a new underwater internet cable as wound its way from portugal to toto. will land
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in nigeria, namibia, and south africa later this year, linking africa to europe, the equity. i know subsea internet cable is part of google's $1000000000.00 program to build a digital capacity on the continent. and it's expected to deliver 20 times more internet capacity to the region. and reduce price is by around 14 percent. and that is particularly important for togo, which is among the highest mobile data costs on the continent at around $9.00 per gigabyte. the project is the company's 3rd private international underwater cable, and it's the 1st in africa google along with matter, microsoft and amazon, now dominate the world's cable infrastructure matter announced plans to build at least 2 trans atlantic under c cables by 2027 last month. and as he cables do have a serious downside cables can tear and break, leaving entire regions without connectivity for days will join us from singapore. now as nathan gadri, the managing director of sub saharan africa at google and it's
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a welcome to the show. so this cable is really going to be a game changer for internet access across africa. now. absolutely. thank you for having me. we just launched on which is what we're going. i thought the cable that extends from europe all the way long west africa down to south africa. we've just had our 1st landing last week in may in this cable is, is remarkable. and i'm really excited about what the speed of the content because it brings in 20 times more network capacity than the last cable, the best to serve the region and not on fixed off. this are going to be plenty whether you look at g, d, p growth and job creation. really look at the growth of economies. whether you look at the knock on effects on cost of data and internet speeds and internet reliability across the continent. some really exciting things. right. and you say 1st landing in tow. go and take it as
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a hub. i presume that means it could really read the dividends. absolutely not just go but we're going to have for the landings as we get to my area and then down to the media is going to south africa and also seen. so we are, we do have landings land across each of these countries and ask them 1st one and absolutely, you know, in interacting with the government of google over the course. last week. i'm really excited about the digital agenda. we have a very good and well to plan for going to 2025 and government initiatives across different parts of government are already adopting the digital agenda. very, very aggressive in progressive the so i'm really excited about having the cable is one thing, but the infrastructure that needs to follow is another, isn't it? absolutely. so the way i see this is, this is the starting point. you need the key will you need this kind of capacity to
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come into a particular country region to the confident. what needs to happen from here is the entire ecosystem of, of network. whether that's so cause any other infrastructure. this entire sector needs to work together. now reading disconnected the deeper into various countries into countries and so on. so a lot of work to be done, but this is an important, essential plus. it's a competitive market important, this no doubt for google to get a good foothold in africa. what's the bottom line that google will profit enormously to, i guess? well, the way, the way we think about this is our core mission is to organize the world's information to make the accessible and useful. and if you think about the context of africa, there's still about 800000000 people, which is going to be large, them 800000000 people that have never experienced the internet. so we're looking
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forward to the next several years when these, these people are going to come online and you want to create capacity for these people come on line and have a great experience on the internet. what commands to be seen is how many people use the internet, what they're going to do with the internet? what kind of problems with this, or what kind of valuable they create? new phone access. so i'm really, really bummed about what that looks like. one thing, these kind of cables do have a habit of breaking down a nation's economies, rely on a, on a bundle of was lie on the sea. but yeah, again, google has been involved in a ton of cable work all across the world and are integrate with adaptive job reliability, ensuring ensuring that our model is built into, into a different book that we do the cable that you just leave with. we all know is, is again, a state of the cable with, with, instead of
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a backup systems built into the cable functions. so i'm not, i'm not concerned about reliability at this point. why did you choose to go as the 1st landing point? because the initial plan suggested it would 1st branch out in lagos, nigeria, well geographically when you sort of go from europe to, to africa. now you sort of lee the geography down, but we're just sort of cost for nigeria that's, that's $1.00 thing. but in discussions with the government, what became africa is like, i mean, like i mentioned earlier, a very clear invention for dr. digitalization digital agenda care plan to get to $25.00 which runs across the government. last year we've seen the launch of the 1st 3 data center in this year we seen the landing and in speaking to various government officials in. ready i'm really excited about. ready so what would be the 1st step, but like i mentioned,
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we are looking at landing this in the coming weeks followed by the media and south africa. and they are exciting times. nathan deadra appreciate that. thank you. thank you very much. and that is all show for this week. if you'd like to comment on anything you've seen, you can tweet me yet, nick clark, i'll just please use a hash tag, a j. see to see what just drops an e mail kind of the cost at al dessert dot net is our address. with as more viewed online at al serra dot com slash cdc. that will take you straight to our page, which has individual reports, links, and in time for you to capture. and that's it for this edition of kind of because i'm to clock the whole team. thanks for joining us. the news on al jazeera is coming out, ah, it's rush hour at the local community center in lieu batch of 15 kilometers from the border with ukraine. that note that cuts jack is
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a retired russian language teacher and is collecting goods donated by people from all over europe. thought i agree are helping people on the other side of the border . the ones who stayed behind who can plead since russia invaded ukraine, that new to has been driving across the border every day. crossing the border is always tricky, but the women say that today they have a lucky day because the border guard is someone they know and it's going to be hopefully much easier to bring down the goods in the notes. if we leave to find a less chaotic situation, that in the past few days, people seem less exhausted. this time, i'm not crying. as you can see. the new dos mission has been accomplished for now, but you will return with more goods as long as rush us missiles and rockets, force people out of ukraine. the 20th centuries 1st, genocide thought to have that the blueprint for the holocaust is too often overlooked. the sand will come in very everything. but for some reason the sand
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refused to bury these people. they want this story to be taught over a century on the injustice still echoes down the generation and the path to reparation is nothin easy. one, namibia, the price of genocide, people and power on al jazeera. ah, ah no safe haven washing warplanes bomb levine, the west of ukrainian city to where thousands have been displaced by the wall. ah, i. busy made room for the good. this is al jazeera alive from dough, also coming up. for god's sake. this man cannot remain found strong words from joe bible, but the white house says the u. s. president isn't.

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