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what you have is there with me. so hell, robert. reminder of all the top stories i, let's be more russian shelling in northern ukraine despite russia's promise to scale back overnight. strikes destroyed, markets lie, breeze, and holmes and genevieve, the northwest of keith has also seen explosions and fighting ukraine's president says, russian forces have only withdrawn keith because of military setbacks. duck year put a reward and in process he keep up, there is an ongoing negotiation process, but for now it's only words without specifics. you're also other words about the alleged withdrawal of russian forces from keep churning, heave and about the alleged decrease of the occupiers activity in these directions . we know that it's not to withdraw, but consequences of expulsion consequences of our defenders work. analysis get alert a course, bertram was sure or sees, but we also see at the same time, russia is amassing forces for new attacks in the dumbass and we are getting ready for this home. we don't believe any one in there. flurry words, so you the red cross says one of its facilities has been hit by shelling in mario

polt. the agency says its been unable to bring in more supplies earlier in the month because of the intensity of the fighting to disease president has dissolved parliament after what he says wasn't attempted. cube ty site made the announcement after politicians held a virtual session for the 1st time since parliament was suspended. the un special and vote for yemen, says the saudi coalitions offer of a cease fire is a step in the right direction. the unilateral pause and fighting is now underway, alongside talks in the sandy capital re add, but these are boycotting the negotiations. a paris court has heard evidence from the main suspect of the 2015 attacks seller of the salaam says he chose not to detonate his suicide belt, but detectives found the explosive device was faulty. those were the had lunch for their stories on our website out there at dot com on using half an up counting. the cost is next. the biggest, the sports events on the planet is coming to the middle east for the 1st signed is

the time to find out who your scene will be find will be live from doe hall and across the globe. the special coverage called the fif world cup dro. join us on april the 1st on al jazeera katie. ah, i admit, clark, this is count you the coast 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

the car industry. cave halted, half of the world's neil and output needed her vehicle microchips how carmakers going to cope subsaharan africa as a well to least connected region bobs, 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. 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 increase 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 more to major policy shift. now the nation is approached the u. s. the by f 30. i fight a jet capable of carry you clear weapons. poland also wants to purchase

sophisticated reef a drone systems from the u. s. and many other european governments are turning to washington to buy drones. missiles and other weapons, russia invasion of ukraine is believed to have increased demand for us arms the stall comb, international peace research institute says even before russia went to war with the crane, european arms imports were increasing at the continent accounted for 13 percent of the global arms transfers between 20172021 that is up 10 percent in the previous 5 year period. the u. k. norway and the netherlands where the largest european bars bots is asia, an o. c ana, who remain the world's biggest importers receiving of 43 percent of global transfers since 2017. india tops a wealth list while astray. layer, china and south korea, pakistan and japan were also among the top 10 buys of arms. the united states leads the sale of arms and its exports has rose to 39 percent over the last 5 years.

russia and china have decreased to 19 percent and 4.6 percent respectively. but beyond the topic sports is also many other potential benefits. reese in the ukraine war, turkey has supplied, keep with weapons including bay rock t t b 2 high tech drones, which have boasted ukraine's defenses out 0 defense analyst alleys ca, 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 drone in the world, and it's not the most heavily armed. what he does do is it gives miller trees 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

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 raytheon 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, only boeing has seen a drop. well, to discuss all of that, i am joined from stock home by ph visa mon, who's a senior research or the stock home international at peace research institute. mr.

batesman, 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 alms, exactly how many we have to see something which we can expect, which really so in the previous 5 years is that there is an increase for example in imposed by european states, but also. ready the rest of the world, there are plenty of other regions where the tensions i high and where countries have and also will continue to invest in, you know, the mit deleted is an option reach region where that happened. but we can also put on a point at the major attention that exists between japan, south korea, taiwan us. on the one hand, on the other hand, china animals. so it goes,

will drive, continuing large seals and arms goods by no state. 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 states to revisit their defense policies and to look at their military capabilities. and the call that came at the same time as europe was climbing out of the comic crisis related to, to the 2008 financial crisis and all that to get where he led to significant increase in arms in court. several european states and significant large orders that have been played by a number of other european states in about 5 years. you mention on going complex intentions around the world to what degree does the invasion of ukraine effects be demand for arm sales around the world?

not, not just within europe, i think it affects the demand for alms in several ways. and. ready place in europe and 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 this? will china consider this an opportunity to step up to pressure? how will states in asia react to back again and build a that role? so seed is as yet an additional reason to also both of their military k k. 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,

including from russia has an opposite plot flyer. and finally. ready also, how states will deal with difficulties of paying russia right now, including 4 opposite. they may buy. alright. and outside of the conflict in the 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 just 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 one side often leads to an increase in arms in inputs by your posting side leading to the reactive mix.

and even potentially 2 arms raises, which will not contribute to peaceful solution. and the tension 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. i found chips thus something which european

states 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 i was in the industry will benefit from the ukraine. that used 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 to trade between countries, land that makes a song thing like about $120000000000.00 per year. that sounds like a lot is

a lot of course. but if you compare it with the total manufacturing and the total revenue 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 piazza visa 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 war in ukraine as it was, fewer people were buying cars because of the pandemic. but after russia's 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,

cranes to 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 as 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. it's 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, caused by parts shortages are the 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,

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 big components, electrical harnesses coming from ukraine. and then also we see the impact of

sanctions and by phone, russia. and actually some of the sanctions that russia, 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, the neal markets actually 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,

all of these particular, semi conductive tech are all to be the little computers that you have in it more closely. and i'm going to be there and you think of 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, trinity is what a short term problem. typically when you are setting up the supply chain, you will have more than one provider. so you go to your providers to try and make sure that obviously have an impact in terms of can they increase that production or in this fake? not because they were already being asked to. so you either have to reduce your, your output, at least in the short term. and also you probably have to increase prices and we

have already seen production cost increase as being cost onto the consumer for, for baffles. and in particular for electric vehicles, 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 condom. a lot less business travel, a lot less tories. and what i'm seeing 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 the towards the market recovers and some international business travel as well. and then, you know, put in the day that they using more expensive and then obviously they need to charge them higher costs 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,

much new or less robust supply chains. so when we look at some of the materials that go into lithium batteries, particularly nickel, these 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 baseboard, what they're trying to do is come down, stick the price for those. so that they are more mass market available, those price increases ready because you know, to atlanta, electric, be a substitute. and if it is substantially more expensive, but people will stick to buying diesel and gasoline out

a briefly and they can be 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, and 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 is wound its way from portugal to tojo. will land 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, i'm the managing director of sub saharan africa at google nits and welcome to the

show. so this cable is really going to be a game changer for internet access across africa. absolutely. well, thank you for having me. we've just launched equity on, which is what we're going to keep 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 bits percept regent . and the not a fixed office 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 effects on the data and internet speeds in internet reliability across the continent. some really exciting things. right. and you say 1st landing in tow. go and take it as

a hub. i presume that means it could really read the dividends. absolutely. not just to 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 aren't, 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, the course, the 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 we see this is, this is the starting point. you need the key will you need this kind of capacity to

come into a particular country region to the continent. what needs to happen from here is the entire ecosystem of, of never clear whether that's so cause any other infrastructure. this entire sector needs to work together. now, breeding disconnected the deeper into various countries into countries and eyes 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. ringback 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 who have the last 800000000 people that have

never experienced the internet. so we're looking forward to the next several years when these, these 800 people are going to come online and you want to create capacity for these people come online and have a great experience on the internet. what demands 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, we again, google been involved in a ton of cable work all across the world and are integrated 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 the that we all know is, is again, a state of the cable with, with, instead of

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 gone for the one thing. but in discussions with the government, what became africa is like, i mean, like i mentioned earlier, a very clear invention for dr. because i have to get to 2025 which runs across the government. last year. we've seen the launch of the data center in this area, the landing i think we are and speak to, to various government officials in. ready i'm really excited about what they. ready so with the 1st step, but like i mentioned,

we are looking at the landing this year 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 al, 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 catch up. 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 ah,

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