this one actually is in the conflict between iran on the one hand and israel in the united states on the other more than 40 years, the adversaries have been irreconcilable. there is never been any real dialogue. how did this confrontation begin? how great is the danger that it will spread the long war? he's will iran usa starts june 15th on d, w. this is the dublin years asia coming up to date. china has ambitious plans for space, but what is driving them? the country recently launched astronauts to complete its 1st space station. it should come online by the end of the year, and export tells us what all this is building up to. plus more trouble brewing in

sri lanka, the country's economic crisis, has reached its crucial t industry. we report on how exports and the lives of the workers are being impacted. ah. i british manager, welcome to the dublin news. asia ledger could join us. john, as additions in space received a boost over the weekend. as 3 astronauts dr. china semi finished space station, 10 gong is expected to be fully ready by the end of the year. but china's ambitions adorned and there are plans to collect samples from asteroids by 2025. launch amanda mission to the moon by 2029 and explore jupiter among other missions. the country space program has accelerated under president, huge and bing. and the message is clear,

the sky is not the limit. 3 of the biggest celebrities of the moment in china. 2 veteran taken knots and one rookie were greeted by waving flags and military honors before their sunday morning launch time. the scene similar to those for the soviet union's sputnik cosmo knots and american mercury astronauts in the 19 fifties and sixties, all deemed heroes by their governments share y'all. ah, the chinese are playing ketchup. but there blasting through decades of progress and gaining ground in a hurry. the dramatic launch of the rocket long march to f from the edge of the gobi desert was seen by millions. within 7 hours the crew aboard the rockets, shen ju 14 capsule, was ducking with the center part of the space station which, which taken knots are due to complete. by the end of the year. i think we've

entered the cool modul and next month we'll see the arrival of when jan and les to the main gym laboratory modules will then complete the construction of our and space station. how home in space china's future home in space underpins it's ambitions to become a space superpower alongside the united states and russia. it's already become the 1st country to land rover vehicle on the far side of the moon, and a rover on mars. one by one, i hope the communist party of china and the people can rest assured about our 6 month commission. china is building its own space station because it's excluded from the international space station that mostly due to us pressure on us partners . the american lead. i s s as likely to operate until 2030, and after that, china's space station could well be the preeminent laboratory in low earth orbit.

and joining me enough more is dr. mark hill, born from kings college, london. he's a lecturer in the defense study department, and as written about china space program, dr. him on. what is the ambition you think that's driving china space planned? i mean, is it strategic competition or pursuit of science? i think we could argue it's probably a mixture of both and, and as probably not unusual for any nation, really. there's guy in conducting purity, scientific endeavors. these can be general of general value in themselves, but they also help build quote, cooperation, understanding between states. there's a commercial value, there's a lot of money to be made in space. we're seeing a commercial sector now is worth $400000000.00 globally and growing, but also military. that's another goal. quite odyssey, one of the troubles with space dual use technology makes distinguishing military and non terry functions very hard. so we can probably argue that it's

a combination of all of these things and through closer cooperation with other states that can then increase its diplomatic sort of influence in establishing and shaping our global governance. for instance, something we've seen happening. there's a lot of discussion at the un recently tabled a, a, a recent resolution. this is the result of diplomatic good standing and it generates for the good standing. so china will be looking to do probably all of these things, but how much the china space program actually help china, at least in the civilian sphere of things with the number of functions. now that, you know, we see the utility from in terms of both civilian and commercial aspects of space. conversely, there is money to be made quite clearly from all kinds of things like ground that being and communications that can add to the quality of life. generally, in terms of the average chinese citizen, this,

the diplomatic domestic diplomatic agenda to it, it helps, i think, increase the position of the ccp within in china, city citizenry generating that position and justification for the communist party as well. so the number a number of domestic reasons, international political reasons, but also military reasons as well. think about benefits and in terms of operating in space, right? you spoke about a dual use technology in terms of both civilian and military uses for of space. is that what particularly the concerns countries when it comes to china potentially also because of the lack of transparency when it comes to china, space plans there is that so inherently faces dual use? so everything from launch vehicles, the satellites to the, the data and services they create can be used for both audiences. and as you say, it's very difficult to understand. ready what china's objectives actually ours

rather opaque in terms of its decision making. so that dual use element is quite problematic when we're looking at space, jerry and identifying what say military and what is not military and very particularly problematic when we're looking at china. so that is, that does raise concerns space, very sensitive area for a number of military, non military reasons. and so if any actor is operating in space without any sort of form of transparency, that creates a lot of concerns. and generally you spoke about our cooperation with other countries. is that really happening? my china space program? i mean, for instance, it has been excluded from cooperation and the international space station go straight to disney. china, in terms of military and non terry aspects hasn't benefited from alliances such as nato or the 5 eyes alliances. so it has been somewhat isolated in many respects in that way, in terms of space. so we're seeing increasing cooperation with russia. that cooperation goes back to the soviet era, the beginning of china's miss,

our space program has a lot of soviet dna. but increasingly we're seeing cooperation in 2 specific areas with russia, and that's in the global navigation satellite systems. so colonus and beta and also ballistic missile, or the warning. and if there's a, there's a certain synergy to be created there. if we think about the go and the system has slightly better coverage in the northern hemisphere. ready china slightly better in the south by creating ground stations in each other's countries, they can increase the resilience and accuracy of some of their signals. similarly to that dep, reciprocal case ground stations can benefit ballistic missile early warning and rushes committed to helping china build a space based missile warning system, putting sensors in space. so i think, you know, we often see china is having the greater technological know how in space and maybe more generally. but we can't forget that that russia has

a great deal of operational experience in space. and so there's very fruitful areas of cooperation or, but it is, as you say, quite limited in terms of china and that doesn't have that outreach. that said, the u. s. or western states have right, we'll leave that for today. but thanks so much for joining us. on this dr. mark hillburn from kings college long. thank you so much. ah, to shoot anchor now where the country's prime minister vanilla vicar messenger says of the country, we'll have problems getting enough food and fuel for the population over the next 3 weeks. in a speech to parliament, he urged people to use their supplies as carefully as possible and to avoid all non essential travel. now victrum misinger is also in talks with the un and other organizations about providing relief for the country as it suffers its worst economic crisis in living memory. data blues, menudo, chaudhry reports on how the t industry is also being devastated by this downturn.

mary albion has spent more than half of her life plucking leaves on this deity. after her husband died, she became the sole bread winner for her family. but she's barely making ends meet . anglican undergo, a kiddo of the income we get is not enough to cover our expenses. this is the only work we do. we have no other work there. mary is one of houses who work on privately own plantations, spread across the healey country side of fencher felucca. dee is one of the areas most exported commodities, making the industry vital for the she, lunk, on economy accounting for $1300000000.00 annually with the country deep in financial crunch. the, the industry 2 has hit a rough batch. the severe shortage of fuel and long power cuts had affected the industrial daily operations including processing production and transportation.

dylan party ronnie, the regional general manager of this sd, it fears that the effects will soon be felt by the workers, van slipper, gilbert grub barbara doctor to get defected. the book, da, da, da, da, da, da. the workers are going to get different public. i do not get that regard number of work in dis, no, no at present be alpha in them. 60 is about adames's over and is about we will be compelled to harden deborah about to about 40 is to be causal. so there you, generally, the gumbo will below the problems for the t industry and for agriculture as a whole started before the current economic look last year in a highly controversial move the she lankin government bank, the use an import of chemical fertilizers overnight in a bit to become the 4th country in the world to fully adopt organic farming. while the band was later reversed after protest, the crop yield was already effected. this faulty policy decision by the government let do

a significant dropping production and export of the. the current crisis further does not bode well for the, for mary is concerned about what might happen if the situation was since lieutenant go on liberty and began debra if we lose our jobs because of the issues in the country and we're unable to find any other employment, we will have to stay home if so we won't have anything to eat. and we won't be able to look into any of our ne italian glucose, but the good laddie. o livelihood. and that of thousands depends on the d of states . many of which are looking at the of dimes and as ever there is more on our website did ever dot com. forward slash is shoved . you'd also remember yesterday reported on the us in south korea jointly fighting me science in response to not korean launches. to day both allies jointly flu fighter jets over waters around the korean peninsula. in another demonstration of

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a german scientists find ways to extract the rare metals from dead batteries, giving them a new lease on life. this is the w business. i'm janelle de malott unwelcome. we start in ukraine where railway infrastructure has been heavily hit by russian shelling a plant repairing freight cars that carry grain to ukrainian ports has been struck, highlighting the challenges of transporting all important food exports in the middle of this war. this railway occur repair plankton, danita and eastern q was hit by russian cruise missiles on sunday morning sir. he las shank or inspected the extent of the damage they're trying to do it. oh, really construction rules. this is going to follow with longitude for coffee, rainbows. i know this with.