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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'm british manager, welcome to the dublin news. asia ledger could join us, john as a bishop 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 being,

and the message is clear. the sky is not the limit. 3 of the biggest celebrities of the moment in china to veteran take a 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 are the chinese are playing catch up, but they're 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. i will see, within 7 hours the crew aboard the rockets, shen ju 14 capsule, was ducking with the central 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 own space station, our home in space. now, 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 is likely to operate until 2030 and after that, china's space station could well be the preeminent laboratory in low earth orbit.

and gentlemen, off a more is dr. mark hillburn from kings college london. he's a lecturer in the defense study department and has written about china's space program. doctor had won. what is the ambition you think that's driving china's face plans? 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 general values 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 is to use technology, makes distinguishing military and non terry functions very hard. so we could probably argue that it's a combination of,

of all of these things and through close cooperation. ready with other states, it 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 u. n. a recently tabled a, a, a recent resolution. this is the result of diplomatic good standing and it generates further good standing. so china will be looking to do probably all of these things. but how much does china space program actually help china, at least in the civilian sphere of things. what is 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 mapping and communications that can add to the quality of life. generally in terms of the average chinese citizen this,

the diplomatic domestic diplomatic agenda is 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 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 space and still use. so everything from launch vehicles, 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

scripted of area for a number of military, non military reasons. and so if any actor is operating in space without any sort of form, a transparency that creates a lot of concerns. and generally you spoke about 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 just right to dish the 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 into 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 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 victor 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 did a 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 deities. 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 central. sheila anchor d 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 potty, ronnie, the regional general manager of this estate 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 offered in them. sixty's about adames's are invisible. we will be compelled to harden delva. vote to about 40 is to be causal. so they're generally that 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 chill, ankin government banged the use and 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 policy policy decision by the government led to a significant dropping production and export of the. the current crisis further does not bode well for the 3. mary is concerned about what might happen if the situation was since lieutenant go under 30 and bigger. 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 needs regularly, and glucose, but the good laddie. o livelihood. and that of thousands depends on the di estates . many of which are looking at doff 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 and 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 force. we leave today with those images and see you tomorrow the but

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