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as the economy continues to unravel, a desperate government makes a desperate decision in a bid to increase jobs. ah, i melissa chan, thanks for joining us. a powerful earth quick hit a mountainous part of eastern afghanistan, early wednesday, flattening homes and killing at least 1000 people is the deadliest quake the countries experienced in 2 decades and is a new test for taliban leaders. online and i have connie, a senior taliban official tweeted that quote, the government is working within its capabilities. we hope that the international community and agencies will also help our people in this dire situation. ah, they survived the deadly earthquake and were taken to safety. hospitals and

practical province near the pakistani border are filling up with the injured many of them, recount stories of horror and terrible loss. mad mobile the press. when the roof came down on me, i thought i had been shot with my body was in pain. it took me awhile to get up, but i lost feeling in my body when i saw the rest of my family under the debris uncle took with people digging with their bare hands through the rubble of just up in the hopes of finding someone still alive or to recover their dead with houses and other buildings have been flattened by the powerful quake. it struck in the middle of the night when most people were at home sound the sleep. the number of dead an injured is expected to rise as news slowly trickles in from these remote parts of afghanistan. rescue efforts have been directed towards the area, but the need for support is huge. at least $50000000.00 will be required immediately

. to do is fall central beach concerned about not just non food items and getting people to shelters and hawaii medical law. but it also preventing baltimore diseases, the taliban, that government has called for international support. but it might prove hard to get since the taliban seized power last year, some international agencies have left afghanistan and billions of euros in development. aid were held back. more than 60 percent of the population relies on aid to survive the earthquake and only worse in their dire, tremendous, terry and situation. we have neil turner, afghanistan, country director at the norwegian refugee council. joining us, welcome to the program. neil humanitarian aid had already been fairly limited the past year. where does this disaster put the country?

while this is a catastrophe on top of a crisis, it has misery on top of misery for the outcome. people that have been shantarian crisis caused by an economic collapse. i'm the fact that i can stand is prone to a number of natural disasters. we're coming out of a drought. we have floods. we have earthquakes already this year. there were 50000 people affected by natural disaster. this is one more. i think the important thing to look at here is how we make sure that we respond to this emergency in an effective way and the coordination is good. but then we have to also look at the, the longer term because if people are displaced, once again, this is an area where the odd displace populations $70000.00. was there

a stand refugees from pakistan living in this area? if these people are affected, that last likelihoods, they've lost their lives obviously. and we need to make sure that there is long term development assistance in that kind of stuff as well as just a response to this particular material. crisis. got it. i wonder how well positioned are the taliban in terms of having the right officials an expert in place to deal with disaster and emergency relief. the way a government should, i mean they're fairly new. well, i just come from a missing which was held by the ministry of economy. i'm. they are responding in terms of trying to coordinate the they have in the search and rescue operation which is ongoing. whilst the shantarian agencies are doing

assessments and working out what needs to be done, they have some capacity. i think the important thing is that that capacity is put in conjunction with what the humanitarian coordination system can do. remember of can stand, ha, has had high levels of humanitarian assistance. so there is a coordination mechanism, but it's important that the taliban government and the u. n. and the international n g a is working in concert to deal with this. and as i said to then build on that in terms of what is necessary in terms of long term recovery. neil kenner, thank you so much for joining us. we're very grateful. let's take a look at other stories out of asia official say the pearl river delta in southern china's long don't province might see its highest water levels in a century. after heavy rains hit the region,

hundreds of thousands of people have already been evacuated. the place is a major manufacturing hub, producing goods for the world in bay, jing shaking pink kicked off the annual bricks summit by urging the international community to work together. given the global economic pain. russia is a member of the bricks and moscow has been sanctioned by major economies for its invasion of ukraine. and talk about an extreme version of remote work. a japanese woman living in belgium campaigned in tokyo, may your elections and want to talk of titian. moto is now mayor of nami, a district of tokyo, more than 9000 kilometers away to surprise when means she'll have to move back to asia. her constituents probably wouldn't want her working from home in europe. ah, in sri lanka,

the prime minister warns of more tough times ahead saying the economy has not yet hit rock bottom. people have been dealing with shortages of food and feel for months and they've taken to the streets for the ouster of the prime minister. and president. economic conditions have become so bad that people are deciding it's time to leave the country for jobs. with officials at columbus immigration center have been working around the clock to get these passports ready . 3 lanka is in desperate need of money. so to these families, some of them have been queuing for 3 days already. after the fact that we're in a really bad economic situation them, but when you, when you see the cost going up, our children also suffer. well, that's why i decided to go abroad that they do this way. i can bring some dollars

into the country and help my families finances. so not everybody in the lines are only going to be longer as the government lowered the h restrictions on women working overseas from 23 to 21. this week such restrictions were imposed in 2013. after a teenage sri lankan many was beheaded in saudi arabia, over the death of a child in her care, with the country in its worst economic crisis since 7 decades. it needs more workers abroad, a key source of foreign exchange, carrot naught, it is no easy task to revive a country with a completely collapsed economy. yet, especially one that is dangerously low and foreign reserve out at the mark of steps it at least been taken to slow down the collapse of the economy at the beginning. but we would not be facing this difficult situation today though. i mean, are we lost out on this opportunity and we are now seeing signs of a possible fall back into the very bottom. you know,

the island nation of 22000000 people has already seen mumps of shortages of food, few and electricity. so for the sri lankan, the only way left is to leave the country as soon as possible. 4 more were joined by ganache wagner raja with the overseas development institute. welcome to the program. thank you melissa. it's a great pleasure to be on. i want to start by asking how important are remittances from workers abroad? so she longer is in the midst of the worst economic crisis that he has had since independence in 1948. and it defaulted on its foreign debt in mid april. and that means there's a shortage of dollars to pay for in debt, but also more importantly to be able to import a central food fuel and medicines. and this needs to be dealt with

by getting foreign exchange from different sources. and remittances are very important to look. i like the philippines where quite a significant proportion of the population as much as 5 percent overseas migrants. and the government is now trying to encourage outward migration. for instance, it's recently allowed a civil servants to take 5 years of no p leave to go abroad and work. it's also attempting to push young people to try to migrate as a way of dealing with the economic crisis and trying to earn dollars of which are essential to pay for imports as well as eventually service the debt and pay for items and shows that he needs well, i mean, the situation seems really dire and urgent, so i wonder whether this move will be enough to save the economy. i'm, can you give us some context for that? because i imagine people moving overseas, that the long term solution to a,

dealing with economic urgency yes, the country at the moment is under a new prime minister and a new interim cabinet. and they have a series of measures that they are trying. the 1st is they have started talking with the international money to fund in the hope that she'll anchor can get 4000000000 dollars from the i, m f, and other sources to keep the economy afloat. second, they will undoubtedly cut public expenditure increase taxes and privatized state on into prices. so they're trying to attract tourism, as well as foreign investors to come to free lanka. and there is an attempt also to provide a social safety net for the poorest of who are suffering because of disguises. we have something like an additional half a 1000000 poor who are pushed into poverty thanks to the hit by corporate. and this

number is bound to increase an economy contracted in 2020 by minus 3.6 percent as it was begin to recover the russia ukraine crisis came in to be and so the economy has had quite a difficult time. we have large cues for food fuel on the streets of the moment. there's a lot of public protest at the moment and there's a general discontent amongst a population with what has happened and can nash we can a raja thank you so much for joining us. my pleasure. that's it for thursday. thanks for watching and see you tomorrow with love on banning thing that way. but i'm not even know how to work my own car and everyone with later holes in every single day getting are you ready to meet the

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a delicate discussion on expansion. talk to our correspondent on how india aims to position itself, but the virtual gathering of bricks, nations. and we'll go to rhonda where germany is by on tech begins construction of a factory for coven 19 jobs, but many are asking themselves wildly now. i'm chris kolber. welcome to the program . germany is an a gas crisis vice chancellor and economy minister robert hobbit. so today, as russia is dwindling supplies, many declared phase 2 of its 3 stage emergency gas plan. now this alarm stage plan for when the government sees a high risk of long term supply shortages of gas economy. mr. hubig speaking on the topic earlier today, he put phase 2 into effect which does allow utility companies to pass on high gas prices to customers with the goal of force.