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. 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 getting tragedy. hundreds of migrants, joan and the gap safe boat. i believe to be from blackest on. the new was passed and shock fee of students here in buckets on administer gush me according to local media is the $100.00 of the microphone on board. were from this area. the disaster

has left families here in limbo. some still cling to the belief that the young men from the village we'd be found a life on 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. i'm in the to all, most a 100. let me just a we in the down to funder district died. government officer is losing hope that his 25 year old son may be a nice local travel agent. took $7600.00 from him to transport his done to your, to with the promise of finding way being work. instead, his son was stuck in libya for months before boarding the over crowded fishing boat over and on and it'd be under providence. and they took him to some place, some aaa in libya, and they were, according to my son, many young men to being kept for 2 to 3 years for the way it of those to say, hey,

it was like a grain. and in some cases, full of lifeline and able to around there was no one there to look after them. we'll give them food into the number of robert and they didn't have money to get them back to pakistan or deposit. and when i 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 and it's already my, i'd very welcome to where do i see that on there? john, my name is audi. they cannot make political. and diamond crises is pushing thousands of junk bucket funnies 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, but a very long time. there's this huge projected political drive. they've got a key receipt that i'm going to to stop listening along. but they do like bodies and the government have completely sidelined one of the most popular funder edition

in buckets on enron home, for there's this particular tri, 5th, ongoing political crisis been focused on is also going to wonder if it's worth climate stresses last your floods has affected 32000000 people and thousands of it goes off. if it go to a land was completely destroyed, so causing food insecurity. and then there's this young economic maid stone, that buckets on his 55 ping 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 this richard 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 the journey. is andrew sent already that they know that the spot dangerous, but they're willing to pick this up, selling the property that to read the belongings to pay thousands of futile is to

do human jocylett 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 part of the faith that they have addressed it down to. doesn't suspects who the police are involved in human trafficking, but many sites are 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 we see is that uh these look it up, but it does pick money from my grants and then fell or boss on this group of magazines to other up. but it does, um, so if it, if 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 around were from practiced on because the point of origin of the boat was from africa. yeah. and the spark is on is i'm not feeling a 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. david, thank you so much for your time. i or 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 to expect this time around heres dw washington course adults correspondent janelle de la on for more with the warmest of welcomes expected for modi. it's hard to imagine that once upon a time, moody was denied entry to the west. 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, defends feels technology transfer agreements and economic investment appear to be the way into a new dell. these heart. and there are benefits for both sides. india and the us

both agree. it is good to help when 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, you 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, side as well. there's a political motive. mr. movie will be going into general elections next to go for his possible outcome and 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 gloss, which is a neighboring country which it has a quarrel with there. you cannot make a point of engagement with the united states. india once technology is once investment, it wants to boost trade. i 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 the cultivated 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 rivals. 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 a part of 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 hutch india and in the us foreign minister suggestion,

go as let the charge as it were rhetorically against these kinds of comments. i just made 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 antony blinking and all this books, one 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 only will the support that there are liberal sectors there who afford it is in america who don't like movie. they all the people in united states were very

critical. all of the, 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 it's a top calling for the bite and administration county. bosh, hi, thank you so much for joining us. so that does it for the program. there's always more on our website and on social media. thanks for watching se tomorrow, goodbye the they cherish them ponds take care of them. and of course they also drive them. vintage cars in india as part of the community the obsession? or is it only a key shape?

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