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coast of she lanka, fighting for their livelihoods at a time. they can barely afford to power their boats. ah, i'm british minded. you welcome to deduct your news asia. glad you could join us. a series of meetings involving russia and china begin to day at a regional summit that both countries hope will challenge a u. s. lead international order being held in that was big city of summer gunned, the leaders meeting of the so called shanghai cooperation organization takes place today and tomorrow. the group comprises 8 members, including china, russia, india, and the central asian republics of kazakhstan. gig is done tajikistan and others. iran just applied to be a member. the su was formed some 20 years back and is

a political, economic and strategic grouping of nations. but russia and china are hoping it could be more, namely, a counter wait to a western lead world order. take, for instance, what kremlin foreign policy advisor eulley shock of said earlier this week i caught, the su offers a real alternative to western centric organizations. and the chinese secretary general of the organization agrees, boise there tacoma, i think, given the profound global changes that we are witnessing, members of the international community who are expecting a new type of international relations and goal based on mutual respect based on equity based on justice and also based on mutual benefit america,

they recognize that the essence of the s c o, charter and the shanghai spirit reflect this new type of international relations. county council meeting between the chinese and russian president is part of this attempt to define a new type of international emissions. both leaders are meeting of the s c or summit today. they met last time in february this year ahead of the beijing winter olympics. that's where they announced or no limits partnership between the 2 countries. the meeting today is expected to build on that partnership, especially in light of the recent reverses in ukraine, faced by russia unit or a shuttle heads deductibles moscow bureau. and he offered this assessment from the laughing capital in riga. what are moscow bureau operates? china hasn't only been important for russia since february 24th. but already since 2014, when russia and next gray mia all ready back then there was suddenly

a big rift in relations between moscow and to the west. and that was at the moment when the russia recognized the importance of china for itself. now, china is supposed to compensate economically for everything that the russians are suddenly missing because of the impact of western sanctions. let's get some context on this from read standers. she's a journalist for radio free europe and covers china and its influence in the eraser region. read, there's lots to unpack here. let's start with the ties between china and russia. first, are we looking at both countries reaffirming their nor limits partnership agreed to back in february? absolutely, i think the, a big part of this is about reaffirming a tie between basic and moscow. that's certainly the message that she and guten, are hoping to send to the world and especially to the west. but it mustn't, there, there, there is a discussion about it, no limit partnership. i think we've all learned in the last 7 months of war that

there is actually some limits. so as much as china has stood by russia throughout the war and providing some diplomatic support and bought out things like, you know, cheap brush in energy that's been put onto the market and supporting the russian calling you back way. china has also been very cautious not to explicitly endorsed the invasion of ukraine, and also had just generally tried to walk away from some of the finer points to avoid secondary sanction on its own economy. so i think we're going to see you strategy in a line bill. but the other methods that they want to ended that basic mock out, their ties have not been broken, even if on closer scrutiny they may be strained. and i wonder if you see a demonstration of this se meeting itself. i'm the reason i ask is because we heard said to general john ming saying that the if the represents a new type of international relations, the kremlin, has talked of an alternative to western centric organizations. i'll be there

foreseeing the beginnings of a new counter to the western global order. well, certainly the, the main force and kind of the glue that stick beijing and mock together is idea of trying to create an alternative to the last order that, that most people would be familiar with whether that can succeed. i think it's really the question that that hand here is clearly the fact that she had chosen the the 1st part of his 1st trip abroad since january 2020 obviously shows what a big deal it is debating and especially him as an individual and the leader and so i think the wine that's going to be difficult for she and for food and is you know how they can deal with the shadow that's been tasked by the ukraine boy over the broader goal of trying to show the alternative world order. because the follow from the war has occurred at your age quite significant,

especially if we look at the central asian country. you know, there are connie's which have been quite tied to russia generally. and they've also watched the russian revenge of them and naturalism with rise in the treatment of ukraine. and that's also sparking diet, even fears, but perhaps they to be in particular the case for causes been actually being done. prod some diplomatic up between the russians of the cows that so it's going to be difficult for days to unite everyone under one banner, which is generally i think, a difficulty of the budget. maybe there might be some kind of unity around the idea of pushing back against the western, my order of rivalry and divisions between themselves. let's talk about the central asian countries when you brought it up with traditionally, they were closer to russia than they were to china. but then the fall out of the ukraine war, are they looking at perhaps something coming from china? they really do, they want to be closer to china as a buffer against russia. is that what they're looking for?

i think definitely. i mean, if you're, if you're looking at your date right now, and russia has, where you adoptions in ukraine, both the invasion and then also just looking long term as stated at the economy. they're obviously looking for alternatives. you know, the european union, the united states have been being felt from that part of the world for quite some time. we have seen some diplomatic outreach to the middle east and especially to turkey from central asia and in the last 6 months. but i think china is really the big ticket, 2nd largest economy and already been building out the economic and political ties and enjoy asia for decade and china. it's big knowing that it wants to continue to deep and grow that relationship. and that's a big part about what is it all about actually, but it's still, it's going to be tougher beijing to do the straddle bit line again between how do we show that we are in that, you know, quote unquote, know, limited partnership with the russian and at the same time,

show the central asian that we can look after their interest and protect their sovereignty, which perhaps in some ways and capitol point of view might be kind of contradictory points at the stage. briefly read is this an opportunity for china to increase its influence in central asia without a doubt, i would say before this summit, china had been doing so. and this is been back. you know that just gasoline on a fire that burns quite strongly for, for a long time. we see that a lot of interest across the region to, to you to bring in chinese investment and to try and deepen those ties. and i think, you know, china is going to have more than a share of oppertunity. we leave it there for the time being all as a person talking to read standers from radio free europe. thanks so much. thank you . ah, in sri lanka, a huge communications tower, financed by a chinese investment,

has opened to tourists for the 1st time. the 350 meter, tall, green, and purple colombo daughters tower was built at a cost of a $130000000.00. it has been blake by corruption fame since construction began in 2012 under former president. my hinder raj box up. the state on management company said they had decided to open its observation deck to visitors from 1st day to on ticket revenue to minimize losses. it opens at a time the tree lanka is in the depths of an economic crisis. the costs of fuel in the country has multiplied by a factor of 18 hitting local industries like fishing. our next report highlights a prime example. fishermen who can't afford to power their boats. it's sunrise on the island of mana and local fishermen assaulting their nets for the day ahead. what?

where did they some of the lucky ones. many fishing boats here a stuck on dry land. unable to go to see because they don't have enough fuel a, everything is difficult at the moment is no kerosene. busy there's no food at home . we only get work if we come to the sea. otherwise we don't get any. i was starving. i with the kerosene to run these engines used to be cheap. less than $100.00 rupees elisa from the co operative now it's costing up to 18 times that on the black market share link as economic crisis is hitting this community hard all underneath the regular level before we had kerosene. so there was no issue alone. we went out to sea level now because of

difficulties and getting kerosene. we have to struggle and ro instead one that's the only problem, yellow is no other issue. oh, i let the lag you, regina it's backbreaking work for a daily wage that simply not enough to live on. today's catch won't be enough to support the many in this village. a depend on fishing. the lack of boats on the water means there's not enough work to go around . i'll area la la m. anybody in the meanwhile, for the past 3 months there's been no fishing. and so people are really struggling there. well, so many poverty stricken families have been forced to leave and go to india. and we've told this all to the government. so many times we still have been given anything of rosalie, i'm gonna do that is going to give, the government says

a key refineries. now, back online, and my now should be getting more kerosene sued for now though, these fishing village is still waiting for the tide to turn. for sure, lank is troubled economy and that does it for today. there's of course, some more stories from the region and particularly about the economic crisis in sri lanka on our website, d deborah dot com, forward slash e share. and as ever you can follow us on facebook and twitter back tomorrow. at the same time, we'll see you then goodbye. ah shoot. what do you, what do you get for $0.50 or $0.50 a lot? with thinking coffee?

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we'll take a closer look at e u. plants to provide relief to households by tapping into utility revenues. and we'll visit norway, where a summer drought is having an outside effect on one of europe's biggest energy suppliers. hello and welcome to the show. i'm seeing busy in berlin. russian president vladimir putin and china's she, jim ping, our meeting and his back as dan today had of a regional summit touted as a challenge to western global influence. on the meeting of the shanghai cooperation organization comes at a crucial time. she who hasn't left china since the beginning of the pandemic wants to shore up his credentials as a global statesman, the head of the communist party congress next month. the russian president, meanwhile, wants to show that his country won't be isolated internationally. spotlighting, it's lyrical and economic ties with china, which have lately been close at china accounts for nearly a 5th of russia's foreign trade trade. an energy in particular has grown.