from set of its own private army will look into claims the russian states. so companies work as a fighting in ukraine data. we have business on robots in berlin. welcome to the program. india will overtake china as the world's most populous country. by the end of this week, according to the united nations, new data, just india is population will top 1425000000 this month. un says it will have nearly 3000000 people more than china by the middle of this year. to asian countries have been home to over a 3rd of the world's population more than 7 decades, but their demographic demography is even developing in opposite directions, china's population is contracting. india's continues to grow well as close to our correspondence in delhi, char carter, k, cherry. what exactly does overtaking china is the world's most populous nation mean for india's economy?

well, rob, it means many things to many people, but, you know, essentially, the focus is getting more on questions like our large sections of, in the us population. better off that were as compared to the situation you know, decades ago in yes, certainly know the was 5th largest economy, but questions are being raised that are the benefits of that growth, trickling down to everyone in the country. the un says the country lifted over 400000000 people out of poverty in the last 15 years. but over 200 more 1000000 people are still below the poverty line. i mean, so essentially the bottom line is that the growth is definitely there, but in spite of that growth, many challenges remain rob. no one of those challenges is presumably for infrastructure because the more people you've got the most drain that puts on it. so how is and is infrastructure infrastructure coping with the growing size of the population that well,

what is visible is that it is struggling. there's regular migration from our rural areas to the cities and cities, especially the bigger ones like delhi. and one way there seem to be bursting at the seams. there's massive pressure on resources on, on roads, on the power network, on sewage on, on all kinds of facets of urban planning. but the good thing is that the need for expansion of infrastructure was possibly felt a decades ago or in the country. and so several plans have been rolled out since then, gradually, over the last several decades. and these include plans for more highways as well as rural roads. these include plans for re network plans for our airports plans for expansion of the power network internet. so all of these things are they, are, they have been there on the minds of policymakers or several decades. and that's the process is still on rob. most of the work has been on the roads system has net

. so what about the railways and a power as well? are these things being neglected? well yeah, i mean, that does seem to be the picture out there in the world, or at least a, with the disfigured publication of germany as, as the cartridge that there, what out recently, the cartoon got a lot traction in india. i had received a lot of criticism as well, even from some of the governments ministers here and her. i mean the question, there were questions that belle would raise lake of, i mean, is that really a true picture of india to present? i mean, of course our trains are still crowded and not much expansion of the really when it work has taken place, but then people don't travel on rooftops anymore. and that kind of a picture ignores the fact that a lot of work is going on to expand the reasoning work or to, to take the treasury with technology to the next level. and also evolved from are

all those facts also that the a one more aspect is that more people now go for air travel now than they used was a lot of people who used to travel by trains have moved to air travelers. although those kinds of advancements are being overlooked by these kind of simplistic are representations that have been visible in, in this cartoon. also some people have also raised questions like this guy was probably it racist. so i mean, yob does the sort of give out that picture, but it, which is not entirely true. a lot of focus has been given on other sectors as well . cherry thought k in delhi for us that now reports from russia, just the gas from has set up its own private army and is sending recruits to fight in ukraine. state oil firm has long employed people with military backgrounds to god. it's assets around the world, but industry observe is claim and armed units employed by gas from is now active on the front line that appears to be confirmed by the head of russia's paramilitary,

wagner group. yet any precaution in an interview as well. well, let's discuss this further with energy analyst mikhail critique in from ross energy . thanks a lot for joining us on d to we've if business, because it really conceivable that gas problem is sending people to the front line in ukraine to fight. yes, this is the situation in february of the wrestle, prime minister, mr. mitchell, stim, order $22.00 companies over the guest room group and guest room itself. and it's oil arm gus from nist to form something which is called the volunteer, but deleon's out of the people who are sort of in, in the foreign military forces of gus perram and gus prom lift. and those forces are safe guardians, the infrastructure of gas forum, critical infrastructure, which is by blind compressor stations for you. so sites and so on and go. so

there are people who can handle arms and in view, over the deficit over our soldiers on the ukranian front, the government decided to use those people as volunteers. and already we see that some of the prisoners of war in ukraine are members of those units. so we already, it seems, have some evidence that they say something that, that is happening, that they're gas from employees as such, are fighting on behalf of russia. yes. and even some members of other so called private armies such as a mr. bree, gordon's army. they are complaining that they are well trained in war, military quality of those are part of military for so no are not up to the mark.

and the sometimes they just, the retreat from the front lines are led to the ukraine is at deck. and oh, well, it seems that there is not a corporation between the different forces on the front. one of the questions that springs to mind here is the gas from is state owned. the army is state run. so why is there need to be an additional effectively state iron to military force fighting alongside the army? well, it is becoming more and more difficult for the regular army to get more conscripts, 0 mobilization, or the regular conscription. and the, well, the government decided to employ that people who can handle arms and who are officially members of a part of military units, all state controlled companies. this is of the all the reasons for such urgent action use of the shortage author song along the,

from the reports of these personnel that are working for gas from suggesting that there they were told that they would be going to ukraine to guard as they used to when working for gas prompted to guard oil and gas assets and they've ended up on the front line. is they like to be any truth in that? yes, i believe it is possible because gus broome is handling some of the compressor stations and pipelines which are located within the occupied territories in your grain and will formally or cecily. they also need some people to guard that in the critical infrastructure, even though it has not been used for quite quite a long while. but it could be just a pretext. the people are assume to fight a well,

we are the regular army and some private armies such as people from a church, no or pre gordon's a private army are always fighting. and it analysts mccarty can, and you can actually watch a full version of that interview with putting it up on the daily news, youtube channel, and at the dot com slash business. now we're often told that we can't do anything about the weather, but it turns out that that's not actually true. the last 50 years, scientists in the western part of colorado have used a form of geo engineering to re direct the reins to parts laps low water levels near the colorado rockies. it's been this way for nearly 2 decades. so scientists here have long relied on an innovative way to re hydrate the land. the solution is cloud seating. using air craft and ground equipment to send silver

iodide into clouds where moisture binds to the particles, forms ice and then falls as snow. a safe and effective way to increase the amount of water that's available to build resiliency in the system and shore up our local water supplies. the method is relatively inexpensive and has been successful in the western part of the state. for the 1st time, the technique is being used in the denver area in the eastern part of the state. but the benefits extend far beyond colorado. the colorado river in its tributaries supply water to millions of people from wyoming to los angeles, with the new computer modeling that we're doing. we can now simulate these clouds and simulate as seated cloud and an unseated cloud and look at the differences and, and that new capability really allows us to quantify the impacts of cloud seating and enhance our confidence in what those effects are. but cloud seating still requires certain natural conditions. it's not the us overboard. you can't

cloud seed if our winter storms that are coming through. so if it's really, really dry, you're not going to get more water from the non existent storms. essentially, despite its advantages, there are some opponents to cloud seating. who say it helps the public avoid discussing more aggressive conservation practices a politically sensitive topic in this region. yet for now, scientists and public officials in this drought stricken area are committed to making it rain. and a reminder of our top story, this, our india will overtake china as the world's most populous country by the end of this week, according to the united nations to asian countries. demography are developing in opposite directions, china's population is contracting. india's continues to grow as well for me in the business name handbell. in promot you had i was a d to wei dot com slash business on the data being use youtube channel also on

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