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plus fisherman in bangladesh, struggle for a good catch. we take a closer look at why fish stocks have plummeted. ah, i'm melissa chant, thanks for joining us. president sheeting king will host a virtual meeting of the annual bricks summit this week. he hopes to deepen ties with members states though this is coming at a tough time globally, both economically and politically. so what is b r i c s. it's an acronym coined by a british, goldman sachs economists 20 years ago. it stands for brazil, russia, india, china, and south africa. the economist forecast that these emerging economies would end up dominating globally by the middle of the 21st century. so let's do a quick rundown b is or brazil, a democracy struggling under

a leader who prefer to be an autocrat under shareable. so now the country's economy has failed to fulfill the promise are for russian. he's little introduction. let him, your putin's invasion of ukraine has triggered it. sanctions knocking the country out of the international banking system and prompting to pull out of multinationals from its market. despite that, russia and china, among the bricks, have a particularly close relationship. in fact, on the eve of the war in ukraine, the 2 countries issued this joint statement saying, quote, friendship between the 2 states has no limits. there are no forbidden areas of cooperation. and the 2 actually doubled down after the war started reconfirming their alliance. now i is for india, the countries fought a bloody border conflict with china, delhi and beijing are hardly friends. they're suspicious of each other. listen to what mode he said when he visited wounded troops during the himalayan border. clashes with china 2 years ago in our country has never bowed down and will

never bow down to any world power. so on to see for china and its intense 0 covert strategy championed by president for life sheeting ping causing economic uncertainty at home and disrupting the global supply chain abroad. though it remains an economic powerhouse. finally, south africa, lead right now by sil rema, poster faces the same challenges of many other countries, low growth inflation and high unemployment. so if these country seem like an odd bunch today in 2022, well you wouldn't be the 1st to question the continued relevance of this construct . to break the bricks down further, we have dw, clifford coon in, in the studio. so clifford sheeting ping is hosting this year's summit. what are his goals? well, his goals are to present

a united front him among this sort of loose alliance am kind of difficult to work out alliance of countries. i think, as you mentioned, am and also to try unsure of some support for his ally, russia. i think this is russia's 1st appearance since the on a major international stage since the invasion of ukraine. and as we know, there's a very strong friendship between russia and china. so i think that's going to be a major factor in these talks. i think there's going to be a lot of reference to that. and then the next goal is also to try and expand this. this organization. further, they're talking about the bricks plus, which was going to include, which they hope will include countries like they've been speaking to thailand. they've been speaking to senegal, u e, kazakhstan. that this doesn't mean that is going to happen, but they've been exploring many countries to try and expand this alliance. now those are shaking pings goals, but what are the other countries? goals are any of the goals that she didn't p wants. realistic and aligns with what the others one. well looking at them trying to find out what, what the,

the countries have in common is a little bit difficult. i mean they do share and they are quite authoritarian, a nationalistic approach in how they are. they're all governed, but at the same time, am, india is a democracy. i'll be as an imperfect one as a south africa, as so there's lots of, you know, that they don't really have so much in common beyond this sort of, nationalistic am the element. and so i guess they're going to be trying to shore up in some ways, opposition to america and to the west and generally, and i think that's going to be something that's going to be on the agenda. but again, that's going to be difficult with some of the, of the bricks involved. now the q big country here in terms of population are china and india, both with over a 1000000000 people each. a lot of people don't know this, but they do trade with each other pretty significantly, but politically, they don't trust each other. that's right. i mean there's, there is deep mistress there, which occasionally, flares up into violence that in the border regions. and, and there are

a lot of issues there as well as div duct china and india have to do with also and trade terms. and although, as you say, they do trade strongly with each other, others reports that india are going to try and actually make sure that any message coming out of the bricks won't be too anti us. because india tends to play different sides. and in this case, it wants to stay in at china's good graces, and it's also an wants to stay in on the side of the u. s. and then india and china are also profiting from the oil embargo against russia. so he got an, another issue there to add in that india's got india's doing quite well at that. it's want going to want to keep the russian oil flowing oil and gas flowing. i mean, india, it tries to stay non aligned is what they call it, right? the world has changed so much over the last 2 years. i just wonder whether the bricks framework even make sense. yeah, it's interesting. i mean, even go right back to the start. when jim o'neil,

the goldman sachs economists came up with the term there were sort of these countries are models of instability and the rest of the world soon. the read, the western particular seemed pretty stable and then suddenly fast forward in the last 2 years has been a lot of global instability. and we've had a crisis in democracy in the us. we've got all these new issues that are there, that china has really emerge in those in the, in the years since the bricks were invented. and so i think can it's going to be interesting to see how things develop. because with that, you know, whether these alliances will actually mean anything is always a big question because as much divides them as, as unified them and china is also very interested in international alliances these days be they trade alliances or anemia in political alliances. it's trying to shore up a front against the west basically. i mean, it just keeps throwing them out there so, so on, of course we can talk a little bit about china's attempt at dye in europe 16 plus $117.00 plus one of countries. how is that working as an indicator of its ability to bring countries

together? well, i think in some ways that's a great way of seeing how it doesn't work, because a lot of those countries am, have found themselves on the wrong side of a russian aggression. and in this case, now they're sort of am, they're finding themselves allying more with the west. and now that could change things can change so quickly as we've seen the last 2 years. but it just shows that there's note, there's little stability about these kinds of frameworks. they're not really built and i shared values or common values beyond a sort of a nationalism or an authoritarian approach. so i think i'm under course the financial aspect as well. i mean, is a very strong economic read, they're good economic reasons for being on the right side of china. so i think that basically am, i think it, i don't really hold out much hope for the names really sticking. well, we'll see. i mean, let's just see what happens in next 24 to 48 hours. maybe there will be some top lines out of it if it couldn't. thank you so much. thank you.

ah. the coast line in bangladesh is changing due in part to climate change, and that's having an impact on fishermen there. of course, over fishing is also a problem, but the environmental factors, scientists say, cannot be dismissed. the bingley caused is a major hub for bunger dishes fish production. but fishermen in the history of making a river and a b of bengal are now complaining about depleting fish dogs. mama dogwood is one of them. the 50 year old makes his living catching bung, la dishes, national fish hilcher. he sees islands like this that emerged in the past few years have significantly lowered his harvest. a carried warmer thought will of order these islands are working like dams, in the as to where it is on the map. that is why fish camp migrate from the season toward our areas of development. so we get less of them. but in the last few years,

these islands have corruptly appeared left them of our finance. bob will he is to catch fish word up to $10000.00 euros a year. now he can only earn one 5th of that. fishing is the stable livelihood of millions, living in the 580 kilometer long coastline or bangladesh. this activity, not only insures foot security, but also has the economy to a great extent, but the local fishermen say recent climate induce factors have hampered their total fish is one of the factors is this kind of chars or small islands which has risen be immersed in the story of bail bengal like many other chars these 20 square kilometer island is essentially a pile of sediment washed from rivers into the sea. more frequent disasters like cycles and coastal flooding. broad by climate change have sped up coastal erosion and the full mission. while the islands sort of subtle,

i then put in his silken little deep sea small islands have emerged. i got these were supposed to be temporary at all, but we see more appearing and less being eroded to go. a big advocate, knowledge shuttle hague. is it a routes that fish used to migrate into the rivers are shrinking? what it was just river beds are coming up. and during the period of fish migration, the river water temperatures have been higher than in previous years. it wouldn't. and maybe that is another reason that fish are not coming up from the sea on time off or silica shallow. he sais, that illegal fishing has also contributed to that declining number of natural catch . especially fish like hilcher. wish hello bought tickets since 2019. we have observed a gradual decline of the stock of ill show fish in 2019, 2020 and 2021. the target was to produce 600000 tons, but it was never more than 550000 tunnels. cynical scientists are looking closer

into how climate change is affecting fish, harvest back at sea level sees the science is beyond him. what he does understand is that he will once again return home with less fish. that's it for wednesday, as always check us out online on our website and twitter and facebook. we leave you with the skylines of the 5 bricks countries. thanks for watching and see you tomorrow. with

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