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chinese tourists are back and making up for lost time. how much will they help get the global tourism industry back on and speak. ah, i melissa chan. thanks for joining us. the power went out in pakistan at the started this week nationwide impacting schools, hospitals and businesses in the middle of a very cold week of winter. it's yet another sign of countries. problems as economy falls apart and survives off one. international monetary fund bail out to the next frustrating citizens nationwide. night somebody by the light will give you my paradise during the like a couple days because i couldn't, i'll call them because i just felt like it, we were cut off over the world. we couldn't do anything, he ordered, it felt like living in the stone age storage. now get me, gave odon,

near ju ahmad itself. the 1st time i look at the power outage has been a cause of distress to people. jeremy. yeah. and then here in this city, in this country and has always one crisis or another to strike people with people's personal lives. some businesses have been severely elected by his out and usually could been with us for a year. i'll be somebody ever thought out a lot because of, of the, of the a cigarette. somebody, they could, the power outage if something goes wrong, somebody's intervention. and then, and because of, you know, look at, look at the wires on the streets of garage key locker tow walker is supplier lucas po and cities, suppliers look at the leakage, is there, they haven't been able to modernize the system. there is no proper investment. that is, i mean it's, it's, it's sharon guy and of william. joining us in the studio is dw spanish javert finish. thanks so much for joining us. i understand this is the 2nd time in several

months that the power has gone down nationally. what is going on? may the 3rd, the authority fear that the temporary li tried to switch off the power in addition units over night to conserve fuel. but when technicians us wanted to start the system, it couldn't boot up, there were some problems in the fluctuations of war pitch for they had to shut down the power. okay. stations that lead to an outage. so countries across pakistan, commercial capital could are cheese slammed by then many of the cities were without power for people suffered, businesses lost a lot of money. factories were closed homes and schools work without bubble. so the prime minister of the country has apologized to the nation for this and also has asked for an inquiry into why it is happening on many fear that is happen because of poor and weak our infrastructure of the country. so this is all happening in the context of in economic meltdown. can you talk a little bit about that situation?

so pakistan is facing an economic crisis since month. inflation at almost 25 percent. if hitting people heart, i'll give you an example of onion for instance. so it's something that if most is used in almost all kittens and pakistan and the borders of the port of the country would also buy a piece of bread or at your body and eat an onion with it. but the price of onion has gone up to $1.00 euro or kilo, which is really difficult for somebody who of like a daily rich or not, who aren't less than 5 years a day to afford that pakistan does not have enough money in its foreign exchange reserves. may be only one month, a payment of only enough money that it can pay for the imports of fuels for one month. so economy is in a poor condition. it is in negotiation, but i m f. but the payment of i am if has been stored because i am at once barcus and to dick doth measures such as increasing the ducks to g d p. there. sure good.

do you think the subsidies on power sector, but the government is hesitant in taking this position because it, it doesn't. it expects that if it did this, if it implemented these measures, then the prices of commodities bill for that increase and it would lose a public support before an upcoming election. but without getting a go ahead from i m f. it's also not getting money from other other multilateral organizations, such as world bank and also friendly countries that have by hip backers and in the past that is china, saudis, b a u e. because of what happened in sri lanka, everybody is a hesitant in giving money to pakistan. so puck and as that makes the situation much worse. it's like a domino effect. one thing after another, and of course on top of that is the layer of political instability. talk about to what extent the politics explain what's happening and also how that's preventing

the government from being able to resolve these issues with economy, with the power grid and so on. so the current political crisis started when former prime minister of bach is on m. ron hahn in a populous leader, he was ousted through unknown confidence sport since then he came out on the streets and relentlessly criticized the government of being incompetent and got up and asked for a snap election. but the government also failed to stabilize economy and also failed to implement the reforms that i am wanted pakistan to do and bought this part. this a didn't fit on a negotiating. people didn't talk to their problems and short more flexibility. so both of these parties are trying to gain or to work for their political interests rather than the interest of public and interest of economy. so the political crisis has definitely further worse,

and they can amik situation in the country. and so as we look to the rest of this year and imagine how the country is going to get out of this, let's start with the power issue like, specifically, what can they do? what do you expect to hope to see? and is there just no way out of this? do people in pakistan must they just sort of take it in stride that this is going to be part of life that they'll just lose power intermittently. so pakistan definitely needs to modernize its power system. the whole system needs an overhauling, but it's not only power. i'm a packers and also needs to invest an alternate sources of energy. for instance, i, buck isn't only generates less than 10 percent of energy through solar. and it's a great potential for pakistan, so it needs to diversify its energy resources. most of the energy that focus on gets it imports. a lot of money goes into that. um, because i'm also fear,

says huge challenges for instance, that it is. some is a problem that is ok, that back is and is again facing there is a wave of terrorism. militants are killing caucus, on the security officials. so it, it needs to also invest its resources and countering got militancy on top of that bucket. and also, still there are 5000000 flight effect. these that are displaced ah, and, and large spirits of agriculture. land is still under water. so focus on face is huge challenges and it needs to get its house in order. ah, otherwise, the situation is going to remain complicated and extremely difficult in its java. thank you so much for joining us here, melissa. ah, imagine buying medicine to treat your sick child only to have that medicine. do the opposite and kill your child. that's the tragedy that happened to some $200.00 kids

in indonesia and angry and grieving. parents are demanding how tainted cough syrup, made its way into the supply chain. they have filed a class action lawsuit against the government and pharmaceutical companies in hopes of securing some justice city. so how do yacht he looks at pictures of her family in happy times when her son, tomor barker, who is still alive. in september last year, the 2 year old got ill with a fever and a cold. c t gave her some, some cough medicine than everything happened really fast. that. yep. i was shocked that. yeah, i couldn't believe it. it was like a dream. i mean, it all happened so quickly. i love it from the 1st day when he fell sick back until the day he died. it, but it was so fast, only 2 weeks. there was no information about this illness. it. we kept asking what caused this? and what did i do wrong? amazingly who mom died of kidney failure up being rushed from

a local clinic to the emergency ward of a hospital in jakarta, police took samples of the medicine city, had given him, and found it contained to toxic substances commonly used an anti freeze products around $200.00 indonesian children have died from tainted cough medicine since august last year. almost all of them under the age of 5 city and more than 20 other families of now sued the health and finance ministries, indonesia drug regulator, and a number of pharmaceutical companies for their children's deaths. former data, i hope those who have done bad things and that will get punished, might then have to pay for what they did. and i also hope the system improves. so something like this happens again. they can handle it more quickly, but also and won't be so clueless over c. c has to stay strong. she still has a daughter to look after. together they go and visit was grave.

his sister singing him a song on what would have been his 3rd birthday after 3 years trapped in china due to tough pandemic travel restrictions, people can finally go out into the rest of the world. and chinese tourists are doing exactly that with a vengeance pouring money into travel destinations around the world. in the tie tourist hotspots of chang my, the st hawkers are relieved. if a little cautious after 3 years of close borders and strict code 19 restrictions, beijing has reopened its frontiers clearing the way for millions of chinese to travel the world over the lunar new year holidays. the tourists are back, though not yet in the numbers that people are hoping for. file and as our yolanda coming but not i'm any yes. not like the for a kid before. they were here and they spent a lot of money on my yeah, a lot of them can return, it will be great. they aligned our drop off and chinese tours during the pandemic

was enormous. 201911 1000000 chinese tourist visited thailand in 2021. there were just 13000 visitors from china. tourists in china is meant as staggering, $255000000000.00 a year globally, before the pandemic revenues that have been sorely missed in asia resorts such as bali and indonesia. gosh over each other. how are you, sam mailing contacting since i hadn't gone abroad for 3 years now? yeah, and haven't come to southeast asia to spend my holidays for the past 3 years under the value for your beautiful. so i'm very hard to be able to inquire, love a good thing. so far, the tours are individual travelers. next up are the big spending tour groups. beijing says will allow overseas group tours to resume to 20 countries from february the 6th. not everyone is pleased at the return of chinese tours, especially as coven 19 is ramping in china. some authorities are worried, the tourist could be carrying new strains at the corona,

virus. japan and south korea require a negative cobra test for entry from china, prompting an agreed reaction from beijing. what health concerns are taking a back seat for now? the need to kick start tourism in southeast asia means countries will crank up their efforts to woo the chinese tourists. that's it for today. my name is melissa chan in berlin. thanks for watching the tomorrow with every day for us and for our planet. a global ideas is on its way to bring you more conservation. how do we make cities greener? and how can we protect animals and their habitats?

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what's going on the same problem at different places in south africa. black i was, i was part of daily life. this is the w business. i'm ferguson, thanks for joining me. german business leader is our beginning of the year on an optimistic nose, according to the lation survey from the eco research institute. ceos in the manufacturing sector are expecting to see an increase in i've put in the months to come. this to fight continued concerns over the war and ukraine on further interest rate hike. the figures follow other indicators of a more upbeat mood among german businesses. come a week after german chancellor left, but he was absolutely convinced that germany would not fall into a recession this year. and for more than this we can talk to clement served. he's the president of the eco institute. clemens lovely.