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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 ah, 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, as economy falls apart and survives off one. international monetary fund bail out to the next frustrating citizens nationwide night somebody paralyze will give you my paradise during the like a couple days because i couldn't, i'll come by the couch. i will just sell some good eggs. we will cut off the world . we can do anything he owed, it felt like living in the stone age storage value. maybe you gave odon made you

ahmad itself the 1st time and i looked at the power outage has been a cause of distress to people. gentlemen. yeah. any in this city in this country, it is always one crisis or another to strike people with people's personal lives, some business and severely affected by his family. and you can think that's what you've all be somebody ever thought out a lot because of us, of the, of the a cigarette. suddenly they could, the power outage is something goes wrong, somebody's intervention. and then and because of, you know, look at, look at the wires on this piece of garage, he looked her toe walkers supplied lucre po and cities, suppliers look at the leakages there. they haven't been able to modernize the system. that is no broadway in richmond. that is, i mean it's, it's, it's truck driven guy and william joining us in the studio is d w. spanish, java. venus, 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 temp really try to switch off the powers in addition units over night to conserve fuel. but technicians as wanted to start the system, it couldn't put up, there were some problems in the fluctuations of warranted for they had to shut down the public at stations that led to an outage. so countries across buckets on commercial capital could actually 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 were 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 this happening are many things 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 is hitting people heart. i'll give you an example of onion for instance. so, so it's something that if most is used in almost all kittens in 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, a 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 be afford the imports of fuels for one month. so economy is an upward condition. it is in negotiation, but i m f. but the payment of i am, if has been stored because i am at once by cassandra dick duff measures such as increasing the ducks to g d p. they're sure reducing the subsidies on power sector

. but the government is hesitant in thinking dispositions because it, it doesn't. it expects that if it does dick this, if it implements these mares than the prices of commodities bill for that increase and it would lose public support before the 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 such as china, saudis, b a, u e. because of what happened in sri lanka, everybody is hesitant in giving money to pakistan, saw 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 been 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 been 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 one to pakistan to do. and both these parties didn't sit on a negotiating table, 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 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 a, 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. it, 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, um boxes and only generates less than 10 percent of energy through solar. and it's a great potential for bucket. and so it needs to diversify its energy, a resources, most of the energy that focus on gets it imports. a lot of money goes into that. come back as an also fear says huge challenges for instance, that it is, them is

a problem that is a, that back is and is, again facing there is a wave of terrorism. militants are killing arcus, on the security officials. so it, it needs to also invest its resources, encountering that militancy on top of that back. and also still there are 5000000 flight effect. these that are displaced, i, and, and large spirits of agriculture. land is still under water. so boxes and faces, huge challenges and it needs to get its house an order or otherwise the situation is going to remain complicated and extremely difficult. it's janet. thank you so much for joining us here. melissa. ah, imagined by 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 hardy id looks at pictures of her family in happier times when her son, tomor barker, who 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 came and it all happened so quickly. i'm leaving from the 1st day when he fell sick until the day he died. it was, 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. so much harder. i hope. those who have done bad things. yes, but it will get punished and 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 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. file, another 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 tours 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 ages. resorts such as bali and indonesia got over each other. how are you saying i'm able to contact it since i hadn't gone abroad for 3 years and haven't come to take the seizure to spend my holiday for the past 3 years under the valley is very uh, beautiful. so i'm very happy 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 as rapids and 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 kickstart 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 mild. there are ever more humans on the planet and how can we feed every one? 0 oh, because one sees climate change, our suit supply. we needs smart, sustainable and fair farming. time to update airable land. 40 to

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