operation is underway in the atlantic ocean for a small submarine that went missing walter. think taurus to explore the wreckage of the titanic? it's feared the vessel could be trumped at a depth of nearly 4 kilometers, with less than 3 days worth of oxygen. the sour coming up after a short break is deed up in east asia with melissa chen. i'm clear, richardson in berlin for me and the whole team are here behind the scenes. thank you so much for joining us. the people in trucks insured when trying to free the city center. more and more refugees are being turned away. the families these correct only straight pieces. extreme around

200 people. more than 300000000 people are sinking because no one should have to make up your own mind. double you made for mines in the you're watching the w news asia coming up today we take a closer look at the mediterranean like ranch boat disaster. huge numbers of those drowned were from pakistan. how's the country responding, and what is the government doing about it? plus with great fanfare, washington host indian president and brenda moody this week. but are india and the

u. s. ready for a deeper relationship? the . my name is melissa chan. thanks for joining us. at this point, the officials estimate a death toll in the hundreds from the sinking of the overcrowded boat carrying migrants across the mediterranean. and the large number of the ground are passed on nationals as prospects of successful search and rescue diminish the country is in shock. and morning it started guarding tragedy hundreds of migrants. joan and the gap safe boat. i believe, to be from blackest on. the news has been shock, fee of students here in buckets on the administer gush me. according to local media, is the $100.00 of the micro on board for from this area. the disaster has lift

families here in limbo. some still cling to the belief that the young man from the village we'd be found a life or the got the old guess when children are not found to die, you can understand what a parent goes through. what is happening to us? we have no information. was there alive or did we pray to allow? let us see them. good. yes. it'd be in a minute to almost a 100. let me just a we in the down the funder district died. government officer is losing hope that his 250 was the son may still be a nice workshop. it agent took 7600 toilets from him to transport his done to your, to with the promise of finding way being work. instead, his son was struck in libya for months before boarding the over $200.00 fishing boat and on and it'd be other problems. they took him to some place, some aaa and libya did as a neighbor, according to my son, many young men to being kept for 2 to 3 years for the way of those to say, hey,

it was like a grain. and in some cases, full of lies on it and i brought it around, well, there was no one there to look after them. we'll give them food into that number and they didn't have money to get them back to pakistan or deposit and they were not heard this. i told my son to drop everything and come about, oh, totally on me. i called the agent and told him to send my son back, so i'm gonna call you but he did nothing for full months. my, i'd very welcome to where do i see the automated audio? they cannot make political and climate crises is pushing poses of junk box on these to feed the country by legal or illegal means even if it means risking their lives . we have dw spanish java joining us in the studio, your piece mentioned political, economic and climate conditions, driving a lot of migrants to europe. can you talk a little bit about that? i guess some of the size of buckets on has been going through this multiple crisis for a very long time. there's this huge projected political drive. they've got a key receipt that the media to stop placement along, but they do live parties and the government have completely sidelined one of the

most popular funder edition in buckets on enron home for this this particular traces, ongoing political crisis been focused on is also going to wonder if it's worth climate stresses last your floods has affected $32000000.00 people and thousands of it goes off. if you go to a land was completely destroyed, so causing food insecurity. and then there's this long economic meltdown that buckets on his face thing. so i think the, this tragedy just collects the frustration and hopelessness coming out of all of these crisis. so people do not have hope in the system that did featured would be better than the country that things would improve in the country. and i think that's one of the things that's driving young people, even educated people to take these things, just journeys and roots and already that they know that this box have been just, but they're willing to pick this up, selling the property, they jewelry the belongings to pay thousands of futile has to do human traffic goes

just forgot that able to reach your up with so many problems in practice. don, this is the government able to even deal with the human trafficking problem right now. so far because only a party said that they have a respite around the doctor and suspects who the police are involved in human trafficking. but many sites a complicated problem. there are other countries in the region, for example, of people are being drastic from of gone has gone from india for bunk like this. so there is a sophisticated coordinated network of human jessica's working in that he's an offer and what the fee is that these look it up. but it does pick money from my grants and then fell or boss on the strip of migrants to other up. but it does, um, so if it is, i see this track down if it has to be a c distract down there, it has to be done with international coordination. but i also think that it's a complicated issue. as long as people are desperate and as long as people are

willing to do everything to leave the country, there will always be people who would take advantage and capitalize on people's dreams. and i think very quickly, there's been some surprise expressed that so many of these people drowned were from practiced on because the point of origin of the boat was from africa. yeah. and the spark design is i'm not a feeling of famine or they're not feeling a conflict that it's just the hopelessness and lack of fear in the future of the country that's driving and pushing them to take these difficult johnny finish of it. thank you so much for your time. i the india's prime minister and a random moody heads to the united states this week for a high level state visit, which will include addressing a joint session of congress. the indian leader is used to playing a big stage in the us. he held a massive howdy,

moody rally in texas during his last trip in 2019 where he was celebrated by india's sizable diaspora in the us. together with then president donald trump. so what's expected this time around? here's dw washington course adults correspondent, janelle de leon for more with the warmest of welcomes expected for embody, it's hard to imagine that once upon a time, moody was denied entry to the us. is he failed to stop deadly ryan of goods or rot, where he was chief minister, but times have changed. it's 2023 and growing. chinese assertiveness is bolstering india as geo political relevance. and making the us want a closer relationship with it. defense feels technology transfer agreements and economic investment appear to be the way into new daddy's heart. and there are benefits for both sides. india and the us both agree. it is good to help lean india

off of russian supplied weapons, or at least to diversify supply. but larger questions still boom, over the u. s. india relationship. there is the issue of democratic backsliding in india and how india has failed to join the us and its allies in condemning russia over its invasion of ukraine. but most of the state visit is symbolic of a longer term that, that washington is making, that pulling all the stops to pull india into the us is orbit, will improve its defensive position in the indo pacific and convince new delhi to find ways to bridge some of its differences in mindset with washington, despite its desire for strategic autonomy. joining us is con, to best buy from the lead klein new school of public policy at the national university of singapore, a professor it looks like quite the red carpet. the americans have rolled out for moody. what does that signal?

i think the united states is obviously quite keen to engage in their father geopolitically, economically and even politically culturally. and i think from the american side, you know, i think president biden has it in view that uh, some of these popular and i still impala needs to be engaged further and cultivated further. so i think on the american side, that's the case. i mean the inside as well. there's a political motive. mr. movie will be going into general elections next to go for his possible. so tell me in office, and i think he wants to be seen on the big stage. i think he's got you politics and security on his mind as the constant worry about china cost, which is a neighboring country, which it has a quarrel with their economic points of engagement with the united states. india wants technology, it wants investment, it wants to boost straight. i don't think lastly of cost as the political,

cultural. uh, there's a very big in the in dice, florida in the united states, somebody between 4 and 5000000. they're very prosperous. and i think mr. moody wants to touch base with them and they're comfortable with them as well as, as much as the american establishment. you mentioned china, how important is china as a factor for the convergence of us an indian interest? this is important, obviously. uh, china is america's uh, biggest driver i think that's pretty plain. uh, india has a long standing bought a car with china and the since the mid uh, 20 ten's, uh since 2013. in fact, this being a speed of uh, bought a confrontations with china, culminating in uh, the largest one in 2020, when there was lots of lights. and again, uh, last year. um, so that bought acquired a beans unresolved and i think in the field. secondly, the novice heat of chinese power, china is g d p,

nominal g d p. today is 5 times in the size at about 19 trillion dollars. whereas india is about 3.52.6. so, you know, the power differential also is very wiring to in. yeah. and so, yeah, china is more than just the elephant in the room. it's almost up uh, you know, a talking point to the public talking point. now, washington, both this administration and last is choosing to overlook the anti democratic tendencies of modi. how much do you think is that a problem? it's a problem on both sides. the criticism in the western countries, including the united states, primarily in the media, in some moms of government, from civil society, from the think tanks as well as civil society organizations such as human rights organizations. i mean, these are the 100. yeah. and in the us foreign minister suggestion go as let the

charge as a rhetorically against these kinds of comments. 1 it gives me some very frank and, and almost bluetooth statements about these kinds of statements. on the other hand, you know, clearly you just have to be careful of what he says about the us government. give them that. indeed it wants to cultivate washington on washington. so, i mean, i think it's clear that as anthony blinking and all the spokesman of the united states have said they all watch full of the democratic backsliding, the treatment of minorities and the human rights violations. and so on that that's occurring in india. and that is a worry, i mean they're the dice for not which is in the united states to the tune. as i said, of 4500000, then not all will be supported. there are liberal sectors there who are food. it is in america who don't like movie. they all the people in united states who are very

critical of, of the induced present condition. so, you know, the vitamin ministration has to be concerned about its own public opinion. and domestics also is a criticism of india at the same time. there's the very broad strategic logic. so i think good. so top calling for the binding and ministration. county bush pie, thank you so much for joining us. as that does it for the program. there's always more on our website and on social media. thanks for watching se tomorrow. goodbye the who in the part of the revolution, this silly metro station could be the well to be complete, the power twice, solar energy, a sustainable and prestigious projects in india. we can on the,

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