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hello, i'm molly inside. this is counting the cost and al jazeera this week. unprecedented flooding in pakistan has left more than 1100 people dead, and has displaced millions. the government estimates damages of at least $10000000000.00 a blow to the already struggling economy. the race for the arctic global warming is causing ice sheets to shrink opening up new shipping lanes and access to vast energy resources that has increased geopolitical tensions as well. power tried to tap into the regions economic potential. also this week, microsoft partners with catalog to launch a global data center, the fust in the region to develop digital capabilities and support innovation across industries. stay with us as we look at the world of business and economics.

ah, we begin in pakistan. the most devastating flooding and decades has left one 3rd of the country underwater and affected at least 33000000 people. entire villages all submerged roads, bridges and railway lines happen washed away, and farm lands, hop and destroyed, displays pakistani need food and water on the threat of water born diseases is growing. well, the government says it could take up to 10 years for pakistan to rebuild. and repair its infrastructure. the planning minister says preliminary assessments suggest losses of at least $10000000000.00 at a time when the economy is already struggling. more than 80000000 hexes of crops happen destroyed. agriculture is the biggest sector and contributes about 23

percent to pakistan's g. d. p. rivers have bus that, banks and dams have overflowed, damaging more than 3400 kilometers of road railway tracks and bridges. as well as home schools and clinics. they was robbing his this report, village and fin province. one of the hardest hit regions. oh, this is the face of hunger in sin. to describe what is happening here as desperation. trivializes the extent of the suffering we spoke to 1st on as she was headed into the fray. she says she had no choice. i read it again. then would you go now? houses have fallen down. don't have tickets. we count, shade our children from the sun. our houses have been submerged. i swear to god, there is nothing left on our belongings have been washed away,

but we poor our children are sick. they had just sitting there senior army officers leading this relief operation. tell us their orders are use a light touch, help every one. but making sure the weakest in the crowd, women, children, the sick and elderly don't get pushed to the back of the law. the other often requires force that the armies arrived at this village with much needed humanitarian supplies. food mostly. and there's been a scramble at the supply truck because people here know that there is not enough for everyone, but they are still the lucky ones here across the way where the road has been completely washed away. or people cut off from other villages. and they are just hoping that someone is able to swim some supplies over to them. who is the most deserving. who should go 1st? seems to be an impossible decision. i know we, but it can't be bought. i mean, there is no reason to worry. god willing, a room, we'll get something. okay,

but calmly wait your toe, and every one will get help. reassurances bring peace, but only briefly about as the trucks begin to empty. panic returns and people jumped the queue once again. flood survivors say not to do so is to choose death. i mean, if they don't get food, we'll get it done and die. what else can you do? i don't have any bread. i don't have any water. all the children are starving. bringing order to the chaos caused by floods is an unenviable task. and one that is only just begun to take a more in depth look at the consequences of the floods on the pockets dani economy . i'm joined now from islam abroad by i'm a hobby khan who is the group chief risk officer at conduct pox don financial

services. thank you for your time, sir. pockets on planning minutes. a said this week that early estimates put the damage from the floods at more than $10000000000.00. if that estimate is correct, how devastating a blow is that for its economy. so it is a fairly early estimate. we expect something around $20.00 to $25000000.00 to be the total economic cost. once the water receipts the dust settles and we can really see what really happened right now, what's happening is because the rules and the infrastructure is on a broken knox track, saw send them to stop, which are the hardest ones that are under water. it's not even possible to take relief, butcher, the hardest areas. so it will take time before we truly understand the gravity of the situation and the economic costs. if we have to assign a number toward, i would say needs to be at least $20000000000.00. if not more so double that estimate. we know the agriculture makes up 23 percent of the countries g. d p. more

than 80000000 hectares has already been destroyed. of onions, tomatoes, rise, other crops. what kind of impact is not likely to have that is going to a fairly massive impact on economy growth, as well as one of the inflation and more importantly, food security. now what's happening here is the range crux sand, which basically wasn't growing at this point in time. right. and gotten now, right. we are a major export of right. so what's going to happen is we won't be able to export right? there will actually be a shortage arrives in the country so that would lead to increasing probably right. similarly, a lot of condiments and budget tables fail also been just trying, including announce tomatoes, which are essentially staple goods that higher prices for them, prizes for to meet or the onions have increased by more than 100 percent or the last few days. because the infrastructure is broke in the supply chains are broken,

it's not possible to take, it was from one point of the country to another. that's where the government is really focusing on in opening create with india, so that we can import these essentially the stables. let me pick you up on that that point about importing because pocket stones economy was already struggling with a huge current account deficit, high inflation because of over reliance on imports. and now as you say with so much of the food destroy, they're going to have to import more. this couldn't have come at a worse time. could it for the countries finances? that is correct. this is possibly the worst time. the major will actually happened on the day when i'm, if program got through. so we're looking at additional deficit of around $5.00 to $6000000000.00 in addition to the deaf in the back or there earlier. because i said earlier, we won't be exporting a lot either. that's right. but we will have to import additional food as really so the balance of payments is going to be literally only

a few hours. but we have the finance minister coming live one period that be me, go to the i am, if a game for another, and we didn't the facility so that we can base the search required for importing food. the i m f has agreed to give pockets done as you say, this lifeline of about just over a $1000000000.00 if they had to receive this trauma. if money was there were a real concern that the country might even default. no, it wouldn't have a different because for a default to happen, you need to lead to not be able to pay money or pay back the bond or excel or the bias on a house sufficient fund or place itself to ensure that it is able to pay off extra credit does, but that would have meant massive was $30.00 and part time which would and significantly higher prices of food and everything else and even rationing. we talked about the short term need. things like food shelter, but they are,

of course, the long term needs. once the floods go away, the rebuilding infrastructure. i mean, what kind of costs are we talking about? we're looking at massive cost. sure. just a rough estimate. we're looking at at least $3000000000.00 for just revamping the wrong network and building all the bridges been discharged. $4000000.00 off public capital, public money that needs to be re invested to go back to a basic. similarly, about a 1000000 a house has have been destroyed fully or partially of that. those roughly 700000 houses aren't similar. so we estimated roughly $6.00 to $7000000000.00 of just reconstruction costs. that would be from private gap or not. these are people who are already fairly below the forwarding language them and they have seen the line. they have seen the crop for the year completely gone to really so there is a severe capital crisis as well as a private capital does not exist,

really rebuild. and that's where the government is also going to step in android. some kind of a facility to enable or support rebuild involve houses. infrastructure focused on suffered from similar, devastating floods back in 2010. what any lessons learned from that disaster leave . know that since we're not from that disaster, we are still building houses. they are still building somewhere, so stablish minutes on riverbank we're still building we're doing construction in our growing robin. so there is a severe i would say lack of compliance with building board but in structure guidelines. but you're actually still such a law says run flat. really, really interesting to talk to her be con group chief risk officer, condos pocket on financial services. thank you. you the, now we go to the north pole, a country border,

the arctic circle, and many that territorial was, is an exclusive economic zones overlap. it's harsh climate has been a natural barrier. what would the effects of climate change warmer temperatures have made the region more accessible, and that is opening up a new front line in the battle for natural resources and maritime trade routes. estimates varied, but about 15 percent of the wealth, untapped crude oil and fed. if its undiscovered gas is hidden below the surface, and as i sheets melts, they're presenting opportunities for energy companies to explore oil and gas reserves west trillions of dollars. the arctic is a major source of mineral deposits vital to developments in science and technology . read elements the used in smart phones and computer hard drives while platinum group metals like palladium have medical applications and i use in the manufacture

of electronics like catalytic converters. i'm the icy waters, a rich in plankton and fish stocks the ought to. coastal states china and the you signed a tracy last year to prevent unregulated fishing in 2800000 square kilometers of international waters. it aims to ensure that future fisheries in the central arctic ocean will operate sustainably. the northernmost region of the planet is warming up 4 times faster than the rest of the world. and far more quickly than scientist had predicted. reset shows nearly 60 percent of the polar ice cap has disappeared in the past 40 years. this is opening up the northwest passage as a short cut for shipping between europe and asia. joining me now from the city of rome, sir, in no way is mobs. christopher dixon,

marked as the executive director at the arctic economic council, which is an independent organization which represents industries in the arctic region. thank you for joining us, mabe's. now the arctic is quite different from other parts of the world. many people might not be familiar with it. can you tell us about economy? what does it involve? traditionally, there are 2 region has been play for tourist shipping for many years and, and fishing, but, but it's also, it's changing, it's changing a lot these years. we have birth school farming, satellite companies are looking north by innovation, but overall you can say the arctic region is the region of opportunities for many, many countries in the world are struggling with the energy needs at the moment. so how have the global demand for energy resources impacted your economy? people that definitely looking north for many reasons, but also for energy reasons. traditionally, we had the, i mean, this weekend has been and 11 way or another energy export or from any years. but in, in the past 50 years, it's mainly been oil and gas and you'll have it in alaska,

you'll have it in no way. and of course, also russia, russia is heavily dependent on, on, on the oil and gas being to do. and l n g being produced in the arctic region. but let me say it is also else i thought the energy sources else have renewable in net g like thermal in iceland, women, finland hydro and norway and even solar panels in small communities. but energy is, stephanie, is a big employer in the region, and it's, it has a big economic impact for the communities there. you mentioned russia, russia, the rich resources you're talking about have drawn rival countries like the u. s. russia and china to compete for strategic influence in the arctic. is this a good thing or a bad thing for the optics local economy? i mean more attention is always good for small region, so we are massive region when it comes to land mass, but we're just for 1000000 people. so the reason has so many of in a post a bar for climate change until political challenges and, and now we also start seeing it isn't coming up, but unities as i mentioned,

light energy and fish, and is also home to many people. so people will like and best many people will like investments and infrastructure. and the attention that we see from countries like india, china, japan, etc. that's a positive interest. 60 percent of the polar ice cap has disappeared in the past 40 years, which has opened up things like the northwest passage, which is this short cut 1st shipping between europe and asia. how beneficial is that going to be? i mean, the people, those of us living in dock, so we're really the 1st to see and experience the problem of climate change. a recent report for some years back showed the global warming happens of 3 times the speed and the arctic. and now most recent news is even full times and someplace it's even 7 times the global average. it had some opportunities in it, but also a lot of challenges that challenges are like permafrost, routing infrastructures, new with hurting drones for indigenous communities. but some of the opportunities is, as you mentioned, new shipping routes or new fishing areas. so what we have to be aware is we have to

find the balance between, you know, responsible and sustainable development. and we also have to remember that the global melting of place here in the north also affects the rest of the world. it does indeed, sir, what can be done to stop this damage and what is being done about it? a lot is being done. i think the most important thing is we don't stop punishing the people in the arctic, those foreman and people are not admitting all the seo tool that causes this climate change. but we definitely feel the impact. looking at the positives, i think we should look at like development to hydrogen. so through dr. region companies are investing in hydrogen because we have a lot of renewable energy. you can also see companies investing in battery production for electric vehicles. so we have to start looking a new technologies, we have to do some kind of energy translation. and also we also have to look at crime and mitigation for those communities affect the, the climate chink, how is the arctic going to be able to help with the man for food?

i'm very glad you bring this up because i really think this is a perfect opportunity for the arctic today. only 7 percent of the world's protein intake comes from sea food. and we in the arctic region. i mean, we are, we are a big land mass surrounded by water and we have a lot of fish to feed the world. so we, but we have to look at, it's not only about the fish, but it's also using more to fish. so countries like iceland, countries like norway, a very, very far with bio innovation, like using fiscal and for pharmaceutical industries, food security. if you want to talk to kids, you should definitely look up north and you should definitely look told opportunities. what about tourism? you talked about how tourism has always been a staple for the arctic, but surely it's now becoming even more accessible to people. i think, i think after the co, with, after the pandemic, a lot of people says, do i want to go to, to paris berlin, london. or do i want to go to the wilderness in no, no way where i live,

for example, do people want to go out the door and experience the beautiful nature? and that's really what we have to offer. like where i live. we have northern lights, we have whales outside, we have, you know, perfect for skiing, you can write a doc sledge and so on. we just have to be careful in these small, fragile communities that we don't get mass tourism has to be high in tourism and i'm sure we can get that one of the other issues with seeing as the planet gets hotter and hotter is that people have to find somewhere else to live and people are moving north. what opportunities can this part of the well provide for immigration migration? i mean we love migration and immigration because 1st of all i says that we have massive area, but with only 4000000 people. so we got plenty of space from all people. some of the biggest challenges for the arctic region is one is attract the more investments . and secondly, it's like typing people. so we have a traffic challenge like anywhere else in the world. that's urban station. people are moving to the city, people are leaving the region and we have, we have,

if you want to work with the green transmission, if you want to work with hydrogen, a battery production, you really have to move up north. and it's also a very easy place to move to apart from the climate can be difficult for some people. really interesting to talk to mud chris, the physics, an executive director of the artic economic council. thank you for your time, sir. thank you for having me. good thing, he, when katha, microsoft has partnered with the ministry of transport and communication to launch a cloud data center is expected to provide digital transformation opportunities for organizations and businesses in the region. the center aims to establish katara as a digital innovation hub in line with its national vision 2030 expected to add $18000000000.00 to the economy in the next 5 years. it will also create 24000 new jobs and we skill 15000 people every year for future positions. the data cent establishes capital as home to one of the largest cloud infrastructures in the

world. more than 20000000 businesses are just there is some a been debated at the launch where he met lana class country manager at microsoft castle and hassan justine, aside from the ministry of communications, they had tells us why kathy needs a data center and how it will be beneficial. well, very happy to have our 1st data center over here, partnering with microsoft. we believe in the ministry of the that the data center is one of the building blocks that for the i c t development in country and accelerates a digital transformation that we are we in the city as well as a country general heading to so we, we think that the data center will bring a lot of benefits for both for the public sector in terms of

accelerating. they instead of transformation, which in turn to bring a better efficiency, better services to the public. as well as the private sector and investing and ecosystem around the data center. so basically the data center on its own. and that would be a us, a starting point. allow either companies or look at companies to innovate, as well as to foreign investment. and countries very quickly. so how does it work and how secure is that data going to be? because it's companies have not been going to words the digital transformation before probably convince them now. sure, definitely the security is an important matter for us. and we understand that there

would be some worries about having especially the sensitive data, but the, and the, and our public cloud for, for that, that way. we, in the ministry, we have a use in me this year, a framework a cloud security framework. so that protects the kind of data and we are actually in the process of also introducing other digital ages of policies to ensure all of this the private information is kept secured and deco. whenever we think about data, we think about security. how secure is microsoft network and why should people trust it? thank you for is definitely the 1st thing for anyone to adopt any cloud technology out there is they need to trust them. and microsoft trends on trust, we invest more than $20000000000.00. we have an investment of more than $20000000000.00 on cyber security for the next 5 years. we have more than 100

global certification on our cloud, more than any other cloud provide that out there in the world. but also we want to have not only that that, that, as of the see we also want to comply with the look and policies and those. and this is why we also are the only cloud provider today that we have acquired the and i a national information insurance policy certification from the national cyber security agency. and when we think of data centers, we don't think of data centers in the desert. it is going to require a lot of energy to keep it cool as you know, that computers need to be pulled down. so why choose cutter and isn't that going to be detrimental for the environment and very cost heavy microsoft data centers. i've been on the highest standards of sustainability in any countries in the world. so definitely our to data centers and cut will achieve what everyone 93 percent more

energy efficiency and more 9 to 8 percent more carbon efficiency than any other traditional data center to they said, telling me that it is going to be more sustainable to have a data center, rather than having it somewhere in europe or a way to our sustainability standards are going to open an in kata. we're also taking some more measures on sustainability that you will soon need about food for thought. utilizing many of the assets that that has a, especially in the environment. so definitely every country has some has when some has sooner. so my son, some has others, but everybody and every country can contribute to sustainability and would be able for us to design a sustainable data center in any country. and that is all. so for this week, get in touch with us by twisty meet at mullin site and do use the hash tag

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