a discovery of the world around you. subscribe to d w documentary on youtube. or you're watching d. w. news asia coming up today. what next? for pakistan. enron khan is out as prime minister. and parliament has been in pandemonium as it votes for a new leader. this situation is politically volatile, plus ukraine's president zalinski asked south korea for military hardware to stop the russian assault. ah,

i'm melissa chan. thanks for joining us. pakistan has had a tumultuous weekend after its legislature ousted iran con from office following a vote of no confidence. given the country's political polarization and the power of the military there were concerns any impasse would lead to further instability. oh good. the high drama continued on monday in the national assembly, as it was set to elect a new prime minister ahead of that vote. cons party staged a walkout boycotting the election with pakistan deep in political crisis. the country's new leader, shabazz shareef, faces the same challenge is con, did including a dysfunctional economy. joining us is journalist had gera,

mariam in islamabad. i'm, can you tell us more about what happened in parliament today and pakistan's new prime minister? yes, so basically today, you know, the for the session was carried out in order to ward for the new prime minister of focus on and the fall like the mon, hans bach. hassan very gained out self already the members, they resign and mass and then what was carried out. and now boss charity, he is elected as the prime minister of pakistan, the 23rd prime minister of pakistan. now, mr. shabba sherry, you know, he is also part of the will the 30 grand he is brother of the former prime minister, pakistan's generosity from the boxes on listening noon fuzzy and even though he is not well known internationally in the domestic sphere, he is a very famous while edition and an administrator, he was the former chief minister of from job and you know, because of his administrative capabilities like he was able to carry out mega 100

mega projects, you know, in order for the development of the province. and unlike his of brother and a washer you, mr. shabazz sharif is known to have a very amicable relationship with the countries military. and that's really important. now, before we talk more about the future, i want to back up a bit. you were covering protests this weekend. how are people feeling and what were they telling you? i mean, i was why myself? yes, just yesterday, you know, i was in at 0 point in islamabad and i and myself, i was pretty overwhelmed by looking at the numbers. the people out there on the streets are probably in thousands or probably half a 1000000 of people like who i who i was able to interview when talked to them. and it was pretty interesting because the 1st time is it's probably one of the 1st few times when such a big, massive mass mobilization is taking place across major cities across pakistan and

at the fuse slogans that they have been chanting. little people are chanting, we're again, it was based on our, the sentiment of anti americanism. but an interesting turn of events is also there . were you known, standing against the army, or they were, you know, not, they were completely in support of iran, hon. so what's your assessment on this political outcome? i did the rule of law on air and ah, democracy prevail. you talked about the importance of the military in all of this. you, i mean, since pakistan's in sub shoes in since 1947. no pakistani prime minister has ever survey fulton duty. and iran also, unfortunately joined the fate of the speed it had produced s's. you know it, sir, since 2018 and it is my own personal observation. since thank eating lessons, i think the degree is not understanding that, you know, they can not really govern like right at the forefront. instead,

what they do with the mundane like these, you know, they get these pocket regimes in order to, you know, and kind of hold on to their power. and even though in the, at this period of time, you know, pakistan has been embroiled when they are in weeks of article instability in a weeks time. you know, the country had a prime minister than the country did not have a prime minister. the country had a prime minister again, and then he was ousted in a new confidence. ford had jerry, i'm thank you so much for your time. and you can follow all developments in pakistan and get in depth analysis on our website. that's d w dot com. ah, president valid with vladimir zalinski of ukraine address, south korea's parliament on monday, as a lensky asked the 10th largest economy in the world, and one of the united states is closest allies for weapons. south korea has one of the most sophisticated militaries in asia. it too has joined international

sanctions against moscow. the landscape thanked soul for its support, but said more help is needed. some movie movie. what would be essential for us? are you hunters or anyone armored vehicles on anti aircraft, anti tank onto ship weapons. and when it's a question of survival in a war aimed a total subjugation of the nation and reporting principal, the answers must be given. the usual rules of armed supply need to be reviewed and act quickly. you need to help the whole more. joining us as journalist frank smith in sole frank, east asia is a long way from events in europe. but how do south koreans view zalesky and well, what he said be viewed favorably. well, south koreans really, i think, view the ukranian president as something over hero,

the way that he's rallied ukraine to defend itself from this russian aggression as well as rally the, the international community behind his country's cause that was felt here in south korea with the remarks that he made to the national assembly where he were requested. so career really step up in another way and provide ukraine with the military hardware to help it battle against russian forces in his country. so korea does produce a couple of weapons that might be useful in ukraine. one is k, 2 tanks, very advanced, technologically advanced tanks produced by so korea as. busy busy was anti tank guided missiles called rebels. both of these weapons again would be quite useful in ukraine, should the south korean government answer that call. so for so 3 has provided about $1000000.00. i believe so far of non lethal and humanitarian aid in this pledge to

provide an additional about $40000000.00 of such aid to the ukraine in editorials. here they've expressed the desire for the south korean government to enact further sanctions against russia and called prudent slaughter in, in some of those editorials and in south korean newspapers. so certainly, there is a lot of support for ukraine in its presidents lensky here. now south korea, we'll have a new president next month. you and secure. he's a conservative who dishes, tougher security talk against young. yeah. do you think his national security approach will mean south korea taking additional measures against russia? yes, i do. so the green president, incoming president, you so you'll wants to have

a closer relationship. and a deeper alliance with the united states delegation just returned of president hughes just returned from the u. s. and they're seeking to make it a comprehensive and strategic alliance between south korea and the united states. and certainly that will involve participating in u. s. security measures around the world. also. so the grease foreign minister met with nato and also suggested that so cri would participate more and develop a, a stronger relationship with the north atlantic treaty organization. and also you and so, kills spokesperson. just recently, following the recent news of atrocities committed by russian troops called those in book acts against humanity. and unions spell himself spoke with zelinski last

week. so we're likely to see you took your administration here. take a stronger efforts to support ukraine, be it with humanitarian aid, or perhaps military 8 as well very quickly. how are global sanctions against russia and particularly the cost of energy impacting south korea? that's a really good question. melissa, south korea import almost a 100 percent of its petroleum products. it's seen those costs rise 30 percent since march. it's released some oil reserves here, about 10000000 barrels. it's lowered fuel taxes and is providing commercial subsidies in terms of fuel costs. and you know, now because of cove it as well, it's running a deficit state financing here. so it is doing what it can in terms of fiscal policy to support to ukraine. frank smith,

thank you so much for joining us. south korea has also curbed russian coal in ports, in addition to joining international sanctions against moscow. but limited trade with russia continues, especially in food imports. now this is something we're seeing everywhere. countries must decide what kind of trade to ban or limit with russia. in south korea's case, it's letting in the crabs served in us, ju steamed or grilled south koreans loved to eat snow. crab and king crab. increase supply of sea food from russia has made the cross station even more affordable than ever at souls nor young jin seafood market prices of nearly half since late february as the u. s. the e. u and others found russian, seafood imports over the ukraine invasion and today again in our hands were very expensive a couple of months ago because we didn't have enough supplies from russia. but recently the supplies increased and the price is become much cheaper. i can say

that usually 100 people visit the market, but now the weather is getting warmer and about 200 people are coming in a day. while plunging prices for russian crop of south koreans flocking to seafood markets and restaurants. some consumers are question whether to boycott the import . some concerns the purchase indirectly support rushes, invasion of ukraine. people on board, russian crab is not even a necessity. i don't think it's right to import from russia and eat them because they're cheap. so i oppose importing them, and i think we should impose sanctions against russia and join the others for a quick end to the war. and all the tests will be whether south koreans will set aside their appetite for crop. and our food exports to the list of sanctions aimed at stopping the war in ukraine. that's it for today will leave you with pakistan's tumultuous past few days that saw the ousting of enron khan as prime minister to be

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worn. ukraine has been visible for weeks. now and new reports from the world bank is attempting to put numbers to the economic costs of the conflict. i would start with ukraine. the world bank forecast. it's economy shrink by a whopping 45 percent this year. it says, half of all businesses in the country have closed and that trading goods has come to a grinding halt. as a result of russia's attack, of the wars, of course, taken a toll on russia as well. considering those economic sanctions and the world bank expects the rushes economy will contract by 11 percent this year. and the economic cost of the spill over from the war are also emerging. the report warning that an influx of refugees, higher commodity prices, as was lower external demand in the euro area. all of that could contribute to slower economic growth. that's why it's now forecast or changed it's forecast for the year to 3.5 percent growth in central europe. and that's more than one percentage point lower than it's january forecast of $4.00.