the entire bathroom into a mess. this is the water birds 1st swelled one of the most beautiful moments i've ever experienced with a donkey series about our complex relationship with animals. well, i think i will live long enough to witness the in a factory farming. the great debate this week on d, w or this is did under years asia coming up to date, how inflation across the region is impacted people's lives. beginning in pakistan where soaring food prices have left some parents with no other option than to pull out their kids from school. we look at how bad the situation is and what the government is doing about it. and in the philippines, the humble onion has become so precious that one, riding a couple decided to make

a statement. ah, i british manager, welcome to d, w. news a shirt 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 se, mission is reeling from a 40 year high in prices, particularly, or for sentient commodities. as the country negotiates with the international monetary fund for a bailout poor parents in particular a having to choose between feeding their children and educating them. nadia amine 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 again 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 with your mind. they will always be my own fulfilled. 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 schoolbooks. pakistan has faced years of

economic mismanagement and political instability, coupled with last year's 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 fund, 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 jones. now for more context vinnish, how bad is the situation? the dish, 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 their expenses. and that means many families have been forced to point out that 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's pocket funds or country up to 20000000 people and almost the top of the

population is poor. now education is kicked out of why would be for many of the families and what's happening now because of the konami crisis, this ready gene of marcus. i need to get out of poverty if being crushed, finish pulling children out of school in 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 winter 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 go over it. because of course it's related through years, 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 do not have access to internet a. so did education was completely destructive for more than a year. and then last year, pakistan was hit by flint. and these floods infected most of the families that infected 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 complete kid 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 of $20000000.00 are goods and 49 percent of pocket money goes drop out to $20.00 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 the responsibility of the family and, and buckets. and that is also leading to a lot of jive manages and bucket time is also home to 19000000 try try rights for all of these girls have never been to a school. we don't know what a normal child is like, and it's, it's not only money and not only going to get values that are disadvantage because

many times it's the, it's simple the, it's simply the issue of 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 the largest the down of by defense education activists. malala usa state and one of the village, i met a farmer and i went to his home and i saw his doctors. and i just ask him, which school to do they go to? and i remember you guys told me that he has never been to 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 they 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 would think you said one page when it comes to education? and what is the party on government doing to address these problems?

i guess only government spend do less than 2 percent of the last year on education . now you went, agency recommended governments expense, at least 4 percent of the national income and education. the government raise it is facing on media to problems. it is trying to fight economic immense down for it does not have the capacity and resources to invest in education. now, after plots the government, it international community for help. the government says it has the pledges. have not been fulfilled un unit. so for instance, has a huge education program and focused on other organizations. but they also see that they are struggling when it comes to funding for education and then back as an estimate that it least 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. thank you. 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 walk down the aisle with a bouquet of onions. her 5 kilogram bouquet has become a symbol of inflation in the country. if you love it more days before, no abbey, i don't like jane, shall we not plan. 4 days before the wedding, we changed our plans rental cars. why not use onions instead of flaws? enough they don't, wendy, so that after the wedding we can still use them dollars. now,

saudi will be the only torn out. so why not be more practical when i'm in a via m o. the grew to sported a buttonhole made of baby onions and all the bridesmaids. catty drinks of the bulbous reggie onions are a staple ingredient and filipino kerosene. but soaring prices have turned them into a luxury. lately, onions cost twice as much as beef. window say in january the price had spiked as high as $11.00 per kilogram. yo, i know him to me. it was hot for us because the price reached $600.00 basis. it's a while one minute we feel saudi for some of the customers going to be love. i mean, 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 forwarding and creating

an onion shortage. many locals, especially farmers, a furious about that. maybe the believe in bobby. we go here, but we do not believe in this shortage because we have a large supply of underneath. the shortage is a creation of the traders, and the traders are monopolizing the prices they, they're, they're saying that there's a scarcity. that is why the prices are up mom. that's how the government will justify importing will get there will say the supply is inadequate. my lawmakers prob, what's going on? the coupled wedding photographs have become a sensation on social media overrun, w b o 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, what you and memorable it has become. even for many of us who are not invited.

and that's it 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 a but people in trucks injured when trying to flee the city center. more and more refugees are being turned away. families played on the taxi syria for these correct only with people being screened. ross getting 200 people in june around the world.

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the in berlin. welcome to our show. when he was once considered one of the country's most influential deal makers, and then he suddenly disappeared. now nearly 2 weeks after he was reported missing bow font has been located. on the founder of investment bank, china renaissance is reportedly cooperating with chinese authorities on an investigation that's according to the company. the 52 year old billionaire is certainly not the 1st high profile name to disappear from public view in the country. of there was forcing group founder guar, guam chung who disappeared for several days and 2015. then you might remember jack ma, the founder of ant group. he wasn't seen in public for 3 months beginning in late 2020, after he criticized the chinese financial system. well mart reemerge later after it, beijing had squashed his company's plan. i p. o, about funds disappearance dealt quite a blow to his company, stock it loss a 3rd of its value overnight showing once again that no public satcher is too high for beijing's reach. without.