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the humble onion has become so precious that one rider couple decided to make a statement. ah, i british manager, welcome to d, w. news, asia niger could join us. sorting. inflation in pakistan is impacting its children . more and more are being pulled out of school by their parents unable to afford the costs of their education. the south asian nation is reeling from a 40 year high in prices, particularly off ascension commodities. as the country negotiates with the international monetary fund for a bailout poor, our parents, in particular, a having to choose between feeding their children and educating them. nadia a meal helps her younger sisters with their homework. the 16 year old from the hall

was forced to drop out of school last year after the cost of food and bills sword decided i only know a little bit of english and i want to learn more and go to school. but what can i do? i want to help my parents. my sisters are studying. they will have good futures. nadia now works as a maid like her mother. each morning they walk for one hour to get to work. they can't afford transport for her parents. the decision to pull nadia out of school has been heartbreaking. would you mind it will always be my unfulfilled wish that i couldn't let nadia continue her education. the family is better off than many others in pakistan. yet they can only afford to eat twice per day and have stopped buying milk or meat. but mohammed and mirage still try to prioritize school for their 5 younger children by new uniforms books. these are very expensive and we may

not have flour, but we make sure we buy the children's school books. pakistan has faced years of economic mismanagement and political instability, coupled with last years devastating floods and the global energy crisis. the economy is collapsing, inflation has reached levels unseen since the 1970s. the government has taken steps to meet bailout conditions from the international monetary font slashing subsidies and raising taxes, pushing inflation higher. even with the i, m. f, loan economists predict it will take years for pakistan to recover, and with food prices soaring, the family is worried. their younger children will soon have to leave school to the devil reporter beneath java johnson. now for more context vinnish, how bad is the situation? british, the situation is really bad, specially for children that belong to the middle class of the country and low

income families of the country. an average expenditure of a household has increased so much that families have to make significant got in get expenses. and that means many families have been forced to get children from expensive schools and afford to go to going to cheaper schools. i'm pulling out children from schools that are far away from homes and sending them to sending children to schools that are closer to homes. because families gone for to transportation costs. now, in some data, find situations, some families who belong to some really low income families have to make tough decisions off, completely pulling out children from this is not all been some of the children. so these children can, instead of going to school on monday and support the family and conditions,

nobody pockets on this country up to 20000000 people and almost the top of the population is poor. now education is it kicked out of what would be for many of the families and what's happening now because of the common crisis. this ready dream of marcus, i need to get out of poverty if being crushed, finish pulling children out of school. is this an existing problem that is only being made worse? so pakistan has the 2nd highest out of school children. nearly 23000000 children between the age of 5 and 16 are not went to school. and most of these children belong to the villages or the country side of the country. and these children were already disadvantage when it comes to education. and their situation got worse during cove it out because of course, literally tortures

a lot of the student couldn't go to school for more than a year. and because they belong to poor families, they did not have they couldn't afford computers. they did not have access to internet a, so did education was completely destructed for more than a year. and then last year buck is on was hit by flint. and these floods infected most of the families that been impacted by these of flux. but also because their families and farming families and what happened in these black was that more than 27000 schools, what i did get destroyed or damage. and that led to destruction of education more than 3000000 children. so floods definitely affected the real communities of the country and flag that lead are going in trickling the current economic crisis. these are not also affecting children of incentives. is that impacting or goals disproportionately and focused on though out of these $23000000.00 children?

what out there $20000000.00 are goods and 49 percent of boxes and goats drop out to 20 classes. and even in the current crisis, goods added a disadvantage because when a family house can make a choice of pulling out children from school between a good child. and boy, they would prefer the boy to stay in the school because the gender assumption is that the girl would get married with the family. but it's the boy who did the responsibility of the family and, and buckets. and that is also leading to a giant manages and buckets. i'm is also home to 19000000 try try rights for all of these girls have never been to a school. we don't know what the normal child is like, and it's, it's not only money and not only guns are we get values that are disadvantage

because many times it's the, it's simple the, it's simply the issue, the excess ability. and i'll give you an example in 2010 i asked which was covering floods in northern barcas on and i was, i went to a village in an area near so was about to the down of by defense education activists. malala use of state and one of the village, i met a farmer and i went to his home and i saw his 2 daughters. and i just asked him, which school to do to go to? and i remember you guys told me that he has never been to a school because there was no school in that village. and the family simply couldn't afford to send these goods fiercely from one village to another. and if there were boys, of course they would have found out the way to go to school. so goods as you do many different reasons, goods or do you mean you wish you said one bitch when it comes to education?

and what is the part on government doing to address these problems? ah, guess only government bank do less than 2 percent of the last year on education. now you in agencies recommended governments. you spent at least 4 percent of the national income and education there. government fees, it is facing on media to problems. it is trying to fight and economic a ment down for it does not have the capacity and resources to invest in education . now, after the government did of international community for helped, the government says it has the pledges have not been will create un unit. so for instance, has a huge education program and buckets done and other organizations. but they also see that they are struggling when it comes to funding for education and just on it back as an estimate that it can use. it needs a minimum of $1000000000.00 just for the recovery of education system that was

destroyed because of a lot of problems. thanks for bringing all of that into context for us. be nice. java. thanks so much. in the philippines. meanwhile, high food prices are turning some basic staples into luxury items. the price of the humble onion has surpassed those of many kinds of meat. for example, prompting the government to order emergency imports. the problem has become so acute that one couple decided to use their wedding to highlight it. ah, bring on the tears. this bride in the philippines walked down the aisle with a bouquet of onions. her 5 kilograms, okay, has become a symbol of inflation in the country. we love it more days before the wedding, but i mean, not plan for days before the wedding that we changed our plan. that's why not use

onions instead of flaws. update on wednesday, so that after the reading we can send you some hours. so it will be the turn out. so why not be more practical? about the group to sport in a buttonhole made of baby onions. and all the bridesmaids carried wreaths of the bulbous reggie onions, other people, ingredient and filipino keel dean. but soaring prices have turned them into a luxury. lately, onions costs twice as much as beef. when they say in january, the price of spiked as high as $11.00 per kilogram. you know, ship, it was hard for us because the price, the 600 p one minute reveal saudi for some of the customers. we weren't able to sell much critic say inflation and climate change on driving up the cost. the

filipino government blames local traders for hoarding and creating an onion shortage. many locals, especially farmers, are furious about that because we do not believe in this shortage because we have a large supply of onion. the shortage is a creation of the traders, and the traders are monopolizing the prices. they are saying that there is a scarcity. that is why the prices are up. that's how the government will justify importing. they will say the supply is inadequate. my lawmakers prob, what's going on the couples, wedding photographs have become a sensation on social media. over with the old band with a sudden fan, i mean i would expect that we did not expect it to go viral. we just wanted our wedding to be unique and memorable me what i will you,

i am and memorable it has become even for many of us who are not invited. that's if the very on my website you'll find more stories from our correspondence on the impact of inflation on family budgets and plans across to region. and as ever, you can follow us on facebook and twitter back again. at the same time. tomorrow we will see you then, the back tooth pulled. we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. ah, magic corner chat, hot spot for food and some great cultural memorials to boot w travel off we go. what our sports all about

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