it's been on the streets in mexico for more than a decade, helping the police. and during that time, homicides have gone up raw, going down. it's been accused and regularly of human rights abuses. and also just lacking the intelligence investigative leasing to really tackle crime in this country who's, who fear the arm is growing. role grits, impact to law and order in the country. you'll be watching what happens closely. john holman, out visitor metzger city. either after a rather unusual home decoration than had over to an auction in paris later this month. the skeleton is an iguana dom discovered in 2019 by contractors building a road in the us state of colorado. i just 3.2 meters long. it's much smaller than most specimens, and french auctioneers are calling it a dinosaur for a living room. it's expected to go for between $4500000.00. ah.

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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 try 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 have been 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 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. g d. p. rivers have bus their banks and dams have overflowed, damaging more than 3400 kilometers of road railway tracks and bridges. as well as home schools and clinics. they invest, dropping as this report from the village and sin province. one of the hardest hit

regions, the. 6 this is the faith of hunger. to describe what is happening here as desperation. trivializes the extent of the suffering the we spoke the 1st on as she was headed into the fray. she says she had no choice. and who do go to the houses have fallen down? don't have changed. we can't shade our children from the sun. now houses have been submerged. i swear to god, there is nothing. li will our belongings have been washed away? we poor children sick. they are just sitting there. senior army officers leading this relief operation, tell us their orders are use a light touch, help everyone. but making sure the weakest in the crowd, women, children, the sick and elderly don't get pushed to the back of the long. often requires for

the the armies arrived at this village, this 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 if any but my gentlemen that there is no reason to worry, god willing it will and we'll get something. okay. calmly wait, your turn and every one will get help. reassurances bring peace, but only briefly about as the trucks begin to empty, panic returns and people jump the queue once again. that survivors say not to

do, sir, is to choose death if they don't good food will just a duck and die. what else can we 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 pakistani economy on join now from some a bond by i'm a b khan who is the group chief risk officer at conduct puck don, financial services, thank you for your time sir. pocket stones planning minister 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 $25000000000.00

to be the total economic cost. once the water receipts once that does settled and we can really see what really happened right now, what's happening is because the rules and the infrastructure is on broken lock track saw send them baluchistan, which are the hardest ones that are underwater. it's not even possible to take relief, 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 share of the countries g, d p. more than 80000000 hectic has already been destroyed, of onions, tomatoes, right, 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 for security. now what's

happening here is the rain struck sand, which basically wasn't growing at this point in time, right? and gotten no rise. we had a major export of up, right? so what's going to happen is we won't be able to export, right? they will actually be a shortage of rise in the country, so that would lead to increase in 5 years. right. similarly, a lot of condiments and budget tables fail also been just trying to, including announce tomatoes, which are essentially staple goods. means higher prices for them, prizes for to meet or the onions have increased 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 which tables from one point of the country to another. that's why 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 pakistan's 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 deficits 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. right. but we will have to import additional food as well. so the balance of payments is going to be lately only a few hours, but we have the finance minister coming live one tv that be may go to the i am if i game for another. and we didn't the facility so that we can bring the different search required for in boarding food. the i m f has agreed to give pockets, don, as you say, the lifeline of about just over a $1000000000.00. if they hadn't received this tron ship money, was there

a real concern that the country might even default? no, it wouldn't have resulted in a different because for a default to happen, you need to, let's not be able to pay money or pay back the bond or excel and debt or bias on a has sufficient fund order card places to ensure that it is able to pay extra credit, but that would have meant massive was dirty and boxed on which would have made 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 $3.00 to $4000000000.00 for just revamping the road network and building all the bridges been destroyed. so that

$4000000000.00 of public capital, public money that needs to be re invested to go back to a base. similarly, about a 1000000 houses have been destroyed for me are partially of that. those roughly 700000 houses aren't sending. 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 belie, have seen the crop for the year, completely going to really. so there is a severe capital crisis as well as the private capital does not exist. really rebuttal and that's where the government is also going to step in android. some kind of facility to enable or support rebuild involve houses. infrastructure focused on suffered from similar, devastating floods back in 2010. were any lessons learned from that disaster?

sadly, know that since we're not from that disaster, we are still building houses, they're still building somewhere. so stablish minutes on riverbank we're still building been doing construction in our growing running. so there is a survey, i would say, lack of compliance with building board with infrastructure guidelines, which are actually leads to such a law says when really, really interesting to talk to her being con, group chief risk officer carn does pockets on financial services. thank you. thank 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, but with 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 it's 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 with 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 on the icy water. the rich in plankton and fish stocks, the art to coastal states, china. i'm 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 scientists 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 prom, sir in no way is mad christopher dixon. math is 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. mads not 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, you know, a place for tourist shipping for many years and, and fishing, but, but it's also, it's changing. it's changing a lot this year. we have bird school farming. satellite companies are looking north bio 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 are definitely looking knowles for many reasons, but also for energy reasons. traditionally, we had the, i mean, this region 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, no way. and of course, also russia, russia is heavily dependent on, on, on the oil and gas being the dues, and l n g being produced in the arctic region. but let me say is it's also else i thought the energy sources else have renewable in nets like your thermal in iceland, women, finland hydro,

in 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 are 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 regions, so we are massive region when it comes to land mass, but we're just for 1000000 people. so the reason has for many a 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, like energy and fish and is also a home for many people. so people will like investments, people who are like investments and infrastructure. and this 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 lo, supposed 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 that global warming happens of 3 times the speed and arctic. and now most recent news is even full times and someplace it's even 7 times the global average. it has 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. so 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 form of the people are not emitting all the seo tool that it causes this climate change. but we definitely feel the impact. looking at the positives, i think we should look at like developmental hydrogen. so through dr. region companies, i 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 climate mitigation for those communities affect the, the climate change. 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 of the fish. so countries like iceland, countries like norway, a very, very far with bio innovation, like using fisk and for farmer surgical 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 call with after the panoramic, 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 dark sledge and so on. we just have to be careful in the 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 the thing is 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, as i said, 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 tracking 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 is also a very easy place to move to apart from the climate can be difficult for some people. really interesting to talk here. my chris, the physics, an executive director of the arctic economic council. thank you for your time,

sir. thank you for having me. good thing. here in 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 center establishes capital as home to one of the largest cloud infrastructures in the world, serving more than 20000000 businesses. just there is some i've been to aid at the launch where he met lana class country manager at microsoft castle and her son just seem outside 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 fosters the i c t development in country and accelerates a digital transformation that we are. we in the city as well as a country and general heading to so we, we think that the data center will bring a lot of benefits for the, for the public sector in terms of accelerating. they do have a 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 as a starting point, allow either companies or look at companies to innovate as well as to i tried for an investment and country very quickly. so how does it work and how secure is that data going to be? because if companies have not been going to work 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 it reduce in me this year, a framework, a cloud security framework. so that protects the kind of data

and we are today and up process. so we also did using a digital ages of policies to ensure all of this the private information is kept secure. and that po, whenever we think about data, we think about security. how secure is microsoft network and why should people trusted? 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 runs on trusted. we invest more than $20000000.00. 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 assurance 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 country in the world. so definitely i would a data centers that 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 central a 2 hour sustainability standards are going to open an ac. and

we're also taking some more measures on something that you will hear about fully utilizing many of them that's got that has a question in the environment. so definitely every country has sometimes when some have phone or some has done some others. but everybody and every country can contribute to sustainable. at the end, we'll be able to design them and dr. sunset in any country. and that is so that we get in touch with our buy twisty meet at multi site and do use the hash tag a j c t c. when you do all of that email, counting the costs at out there at dot net is address movie online on al jazeera dot com flash. ccc, that's our website. take you straight to our page,

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