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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 it's feet? 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 an economy falls apart and survives off one. international monetary fund bail out to the next frustrating citizens nationwide. night from mighty ballets will give you all my paradise during this are not complete because i could do that. i'll call them because i will just sell it. we will cut off the world. we can 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 and i love the power outage has been a cause of distress to people. jeremy. yeah, any in this city in this country, it is always one crisis or another to strike people with people's personal lives. some businesses have been severely affected 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. suddenly 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 scale of garage. he looked at ho 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 broker in richmond. that is, i mean it's, it's a structural guy. and william, joining us in the studio is d w. 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, melissa? the authority fear that the temporarily tried to switch off the power in addition units over night to convert fuel. but when technicians us wanted to start the system, it couldn't boot up. there were some problems in the fluctuations of warfare for they had to shut down the fabricated stations that led to an outage. so countries across buckets on commercial capital could are cheese slammed by them. many of the cities were without power for people suffered, businesses lost a lot of money. factories were closed homes and schools work without babel. 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 hart. i'll give you an example of onion for instance. so it's something that if most is used in almost all kittens in pakistan and the board us 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 year old or the 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 than a poor condition, it is in negotiation, but i m f. but the payment of i m f 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 decisions 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 hesitant in giving money to pakistan. so puck and 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 han and populous leader, he was ousted through unknown confidence sport fence. 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 both these parties didn't fit on 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 source of energy, for instance. but as an only jeanette, it's less than 10 percent of energy through solar. and it's a great potential for bucket. and 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. i

is an also fear says huge challenges for instance, that it is. some is a problem that is, that back isn't, is again facing, there's a wave of terrorism militants are killing arcus on the security officials. so it, it needs to also invest its resources and countering that militancy on top of that back. and also still did our 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. 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 yard 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. see, she 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 and it all happened so quickly. i'm leaving 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 mont died of kidney failure of 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, florida, i hope those who have done bad things and that will get punished mike and have to pay for what they did. i also hope the system improves. so something like this happens again. they can handle it more quickly than others and won't be so clueless over. see, she 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 by law they're 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 years. 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 got over each other. how are you saying i'm able to contact it since i haven't gone aboard for 3 years and haven't got to southeast asia to spend my holiday 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 or 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 ramp. and 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 sometimes to be sure i had asked you out t v highlights for she knew in book every week, not the mob m leonardo da vinci's mysterious masterpiece. this perhaps the greatest leonardo masterpiece in the

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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 new business i'm k. ferguson, thanks for joining me. german business leader is our beginning of the year on an optimistic knows, according to the lation survey from the eco research institute. ceos in the manufacturing sector are expecting to see an increase in i put in the months to come. this to fight continued concerns over the war and ukraine on further interest rate hikes. figures follow other indicators of a more upbeat mood among the german businesses come a week after german chancellor. all i felt he was cold. absolutely convinced that germany would not fall into a recession this year and for more than this week and talked to clement served. he's the president of the eco institute. clemens lovely.