it's. a tough thing to. be told it is for everyone. but in 202-022-5000 extension 0 the 1st 3 year on d. don't you know. you're watching t w news asia coming up that climate emergency and exodus rising sea levels have started displacing the millions of people in coastal areas we look at what's already happening in the philippines plus. new research reveals the true scale of china's military might how they quietly became the world's 2nd biggest weapons manufacturers.

i'm melissa chan and welcome to news asia thank you for joining us the climate crisis is not something that will happen it is something that is happening and experts estimate up to a 1000000000 people on the planet could become climate refugees this century what does that mean well as sea levels rise people living in coastal regions will see floods most of this will take place in asia nearly 700000000 people will be affected there more than all other continents combined in the philippines climate change is not an abstract concept for those living on low lying islands d.w. visited one of those places called benign one. judge is a risky boat captain in being one gun an island district in the bay of manila. he hopes people in distress but he's powerless against the grate. danger facing his

community the orland is sinking every year up to 6 centimeters deep into the sea. residents are now rebuilding their houses on the rooftops of their old sunken homes. so. what scares me the most about the steady sea water rise is that someday we even see the roofs anymore. that is not an. entire house in its own vanish. and at the same time we'll keep trying to build up the ground through the land reclamation. the moon will know by. the rising water has made his house unlivable so he's been sleeping at his workplace. that hard tide everything here is submerged.

we had to stir things in high places to keep them safe. because the water reached the bed and we had to wait for it to subside before we could sleep. a little. george doesn't come here much anymore after the water began to destroy home his wife took his son and lift. yes but i mean. this was a happy home. had visited his friends relatives . be together inside this house chatting sharing meals sometimes drinking and now it makes me sad to think about this house abandons . many families are being torn apart the young

people move away to seek work. in 2018 alone and this to make it 3800000 people in the philippines fled from storms and natural disasters. judgers neighbor melody is also fighting a losing battle against the water. who was that our things that it is usually are. do you mean how much have you raised your house already you. know. you don't and i've used around 306 of the boys to show them. the sea levels keep rising the entire arlin district have been long gone could be submerged . how long that might take nobody knows. that's an excerpt from documentary series displaced the climate exodus going to kennels produced the segment you just saw and she joins me in the studio going to we just saw the story of one man and his ordeal how are other people on this island

being impacted so basically there are 6000 people living in a very small area and you can imagine that everybody is impacted so what we saw that george will story is very similar to everybody's story on that small island and we saw his neighbor melody whose house gets flooded every day so that's what's happening to a lot of people there and you know and you know just imagine that this year watch out evidence rising and at the same time the island a sinking that means you know it's just getting worse basically he mentions that his family has gone where do these people go if they leave the coastal areas not just in the philippines but i guess in anywhere where people are impacted along the coast you know we had on top of sorry we had a lot of talk about people migrating to other countries and i grip countries being afraid of people you know coming to their countries but what's actually happening in the philippines and also and other countries is that people are mostly just stay

in the region that they're from so we see a lot of internal migration that is people are moving from let's say from the coast to the next biggest city or in that case from an island to the mainland that's most of the migration that's happening now with this internal migration it means. is that if it is a challenge for the government in question what is the government of the philippines doing about this well obviously in the doing phase it's not like gender just standing by watching that's a lot of. programs for climate change so one thing obviously that flight management programs that are in play with have from n.g.o.s governments the wood bank but let's not forget the philippines is a developing country so this is very costly and when looking at so many communities that are affected and generally communities that are very poor soul there's only so

much they can do one thing that the government. has relocated people from the most effective so-called dangerous zones but that sometimes is counterproductive because these people you know they live there because that's where they can make a living that's where maybe they are fisherman maybe they fall off. close by points that they supply food to things like that so sometimes what happens is communities split up and sometimes people end up in places where then they don't basically have a life the hood it's very difficult to you have to tell people or train them to have a new skill or something if they do move inland for example going to cattle thank you very much. the documentary displaced the climate exodus airs on g.w. this week you can also catch going to film and others in the display series on our

you tube channel d w documentary. china makes and sells weapons but we don't know much about its arms industry because public information about these firms are not easily available but that has now changed the stockholm international peace research institute otherwise known as sifry is including chinese companies in its annual report on global weapons trade for the 1st time we'll find out more in a moment how it gleaned this extra data but for now what do we know simply confirms what many experts have long suspected that china placed as 2nd behind the united states as the world's largest arms sellers besting russia china has put a lot of effort into modernizing its arms industry most recently with research and development in artificial intelligence its goal has been to become self-reliant in

the production of advanced weapons according to the report 10 companies and one research institute for the bulk of its industry 4 of these are competitive at the international level. for more we are joined by sipri researcher and chan who coauthored that report and then 10 who are these chinese companies selling to. so the charts your weapons made by chinese companies are consumed domestically by its military off the production only 5 percent is actually exported to china exported to over $5050.00 countries around the world with some main cause to all consumers all imports being pakistan bangladesh myanmar we've also seen weapons in algeria some parts of the middle east such as the u.a.e. and even as far as sub-saharan african countries such as tanzania uganda and. i'm a little curious in terms of how you extract this data because it's very hard to get

any information about chinese companies in general and this is the 1st year i understand that sipri has included chinese companies how did you do it so this is given the states off these companies being you know owned by the government it's very difficult to get any information from them and so what we have done is looked at a variety of different sources open source from credit rating reports ponder boards letters reports of these companies to try and triangulates and cross match as best we can the information that has been collected by these companies and then of course come to a reliable estimate off the companies arms sales we were ready to rate that it's an estimate because again everything that's missed related is so lot of great national security. now there is a stigma about it in china products does this apply to chinese arms products

or. are they indeed at the same level in terms of quality as american and european arms weapons. so there is the i guess the agreement that some of the chinese weapons are still not at the same quality level as u.s. weapons stroman weapons or u.k. made weapons but china has made great strides to prove its quality and over the past 510 years we have seen that given the increased amount of their weapons by other countries that is definitely increasing the quality of its weapons. i'm a little curious of the little percentage where china does sell to other countries does china like a lot of other countries use its arms sales as an extension of its foreign policy absolutely if we look at the main recipients is very much countries that are allies

or offering people china or we can think of pakistan bangladesh myanmar as also these countries that are seen to have a list of friendly standpoint we've got regarding countries in europe or the u.s. so it's they're being used as some sort of game or station off china's reach around the region around the world 910 thank you very much. that's it for now head over to our website d.w. dot com for slash asia to view this show online and for other stories from the region we leave you with more pictures from our documentary series displaced the climate exodus thank you for watching see you next time and goodbye.

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