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and since its creation in 1961 great funds in supporting people on a daily basis, in more than a 100 countries, financing projects in various sectors. ranging from infrastructure to health and education. these institutions name to contribute eradication of poverty and the promotion of sustainable develop the you're watching dw news asia coming up today. a special visit from europe to china, to georgia and 5 ministers meeting with shooting pain came with some major announcements. we take a closer look at the deal and what both sides stand to gain or lose. and in afghanistan, a look at one of the most precious resources that the world is running out of
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drinking water. how are people coping with shortages and what is the government doing about it? the i'm melissa chance, thanks for joining us. the european country of georgia has announced an upgrade in bi lateral ties with china to what both are calling a strategic partnership. it is part of a foreign policy shift that has seen it to the listing friendlier to authoritarian states, including russia. and it puts georgia which hopes to be part of the european union, and has been promised eventual nato membership on a collision course with the very european democracies. it is also attempting to join in the deal with china. georgia commits to china's belt and road initiative. the very one italy just signal that plans to draw from badging promises to release
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the preferential lending from chinese banks for possible projects including a new international airport, a deep sea port and several hydro electric power stations. george and prime minister, rocky g r. a bunch of elite sealed the deal on a visit to china, where he met with leader shooting pain. goes here. i'm very pleased to meet you, mister prime minister issue from what your china has always regarded georgia as a good friend and partner. no matter how the international situation changes, china is firmly determined to develop its relations with georgia tech. we would, you are considering the various friendship and partnership with china. and i'm grateful to your decision to elevate your relationship to the strategic partners, which i believe will bring complete results, which will be beneficial for both of us. joining us as former defense minister of
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georgia, tina kinda shelly, she is chair of the organization at civic idea. thank you for coming on the program . you have called these developments quote, alarming. what do you mean by that? kimberly suffer handing me. it's a pleasure. the biggest problem that we face with the strategic agreement or strategic treaty between china and georgia, is so is the confusion is the confusion on different police for every now on the funding for him. political priorities of georgia. 2023 marx, the irving, the. busy trying to get the european union and candidate status when we are trying to end of the 8th, our partnership with bull street opinion and the united states in the civil tenuously suddenly, unexpectedly, uh, georgia analysis procedure. should we,
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the country that is defined by both european union and nato as a challenge together with the rush because of dial told us we uh, there's lots of concerning to be the same amount of the x. there's community political circles, civil society, that it is kind of a continuation of the most recent tools by the georgia and government, more towards russia rather than uh, it's usually normal troll. this term police is having the china is a strategic partner, obviously blows that picture of judges, georgia and government. so i would say, and that will just distinguish definitely the government and the public, georgia and governments, actual g r, honest aspirations towards, to atlantic integration of the country. i wonder though, if georgia needs infrastructure, investment in china is willing to offer the money and the companies to help make it
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happen, then, isn't it in georgia's interest to do so, especially if the country is not getting enough investment from elsewhere, including europe. uh well 1st of all, um, this is not about it, especially infrastructure projects or corporation in trade or business. we already have free trade agreement. we changed that to some of the times when i was uh, in the cabinets as well. uh and the trade was developing for to what we have um no, quite a progressive calculation in terms of uh, business exchange in terms ofa wanting to trade. as i said, i'm going to do for us october development. all major contracts are run by chinese companies in georgia, but oh, absolutely, every single beach is one byte and chinese companies that is over 100000000 here. so on that level, we did not have any shot to jo corporation or no joint action together retain. that's what has changed up to uh, you know,
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signing with this on the agreement. these deals with china is that now we moved into a wider def issues into white domains of corporation deals. and it was before just related to the trade in business and economy. now this is about national security. now this is about all the soft power instruments and tools. trying to use this in different countries being, getting out of the media and media or your name. it's uh, the culture and exchanges that is a close about the confusion institute standards are closed. establishment of the confusion assistant is to do a study on the they have and we have 4 futures institutes in that country. but it's of use levels student the for all those activities. but most importantly, with the document says the to the end or prime minister. most of the statements about each couple of times, well being in beijing both or the governmental level as well as the chinese
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children. business for the georgia is joining all major documents used by either as a to jim p a. d. i is coming to for these last couple of years being, for example, one of them and probably most alarming for us is joining gsr data that is understood by the entire award is in kind of unpaid list a alternative agenda, searching documents in terms of international relations international 26 riving the public electronic security policies in these globalized work very quickly. and why is china building this relationship with this a relatively small country, like georgia at this time? yeah, well that are some of the reasons for that. obviously the fact that of that the chinese government has these a policy decision that there are no smaller be countries and the countries are
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staying in portland for time. and now on the street up to 10 says want us to use it for that, but more important to, you know, read all the new, your 1st top 10 projects. we don't new tons of projects that runs through georgia particularly have to do more renew strain in georgia, gaining given more stress. and it's translated power for the energy being, get to energy resources, trade roads, or did you name it? and obviously it is an interest of china to have a country even as small as your days under its arm and under it's influence. then uh, the parts of the good western world. but it does have a chosen power, the trucks, lots of countries and lots of businesses, so on their own to work. tina kind of shelley, thank you so much for joining us. in afghanistan, years of drought have led to
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a severe water crisis. more than 70 percent of household in the country, face shortages, and experts say the climate emergency has exacerbated the crisis. it's yet another challenge for the taliban government and has complicated relations with its neighbor. ron goblet is running out of water going up and down his to philip buckets of water has become a reality for hundreds of households. it has force people to stand in line for hours at the distribution centers. there are fewer people in wheelbarrows today than the other days of today. there were long queues of wheelbarrows in the previous days. sometimes the road gets blocked and people have no water about of what the shortage means. that's what i would click on for that then goes out in high demand. but the, so we've come at the have the cost was you know, about how much can you take advantage of?
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i spend half my salary and rent, and the rest on buying water, g b, i work at the minister of education and i still have to borrow money at the end of every month by mouth. i'm asked to get both kicked out a lot of last dollar bond administration blame started getting jobs for the crisis . what's got it on the ground water level has gone down all the way based on the water availability of our supplies are periodical twice a day in some places where every 2nd day or one day per week, the budget, the embassy. the problem extends across. i've gotten this done soonest at face more than 50 worked a sofas and it please cheap robin fist drawing up in the landlocked country, pushing dusk on dollar bonds to any ship projects that could increase the water supply and better. it'd be good to go through land here in the province of fido dollar bond offices, constructing the bucks you're about done. the project is talking construct with
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neighboring eat on. done already blooms. i've gotten this done for blocking what this applies to this site from existing dams. do you see the new project might force an access to what do i need on eastern provinces? that's the rulers of afghanistan to take my word seriously. i'm warning them that they should quickly honor the water rates of around system and baluchistan regions . but i've gone need to ship an item in that a new down would help you get thousands of pictures. i think he goes to the not inside our province, which has he what's, what's of dry lat, jobs and what the shortages are expected to continue due to time. a change bidding neighbor again stable over the fight for water from not enough water to too much water. the climate emergency is contributing to a summer of extreme weather in asia following type food, duck series,
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destruction now comes typhoon cannon. in japan, it has already damaged homes and knocked out power on okinawa, leaving more than $160000.00 homes without electricity. and 2 people dead. meteor ologist say the storm is moving strangely and what they are describing as a new term. that means it may spare china, which is still coping with the impact of this week's deadly floods. never the less officials are preparing for the possibility of this coming storm in places such as judge young province. they have called ships back into port and stopped various services. in taiwan, the government has shuts businesses and schools in the north, including in the capital type pay where airlines have canceled dozens of flights. this you turn, experts are describing the path. a storm would take would roughly happen here,
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changing directions and likely heading the mountain is central part of the island. and that's it for the program. as always, you can head to our website, dw, dot com, forward slash agent for more, or check us out on social media, including on x, formerly known as twitter. i'm always a chance, thanks for watching. and the, by the, i have to say there's to us, the, that's why listen to their stories. the reporter,
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howard changing climate is putting a stop to co covose's important as a state of your business. i'm of what's in the then welcome to the program. so it's and galactic is planning. it's next commercial space flight and your about to hear from a lovely competition. what now is set to be on board? the trips going to last around 90 minutes with tickets, usually costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. the passengers getting to expose weightlessness high above the well this time include a mother and daughter and an 18 year old, full on a limb. p and vision. galactic says it's plans to offer a monthly commercial space slice from august this year on which most someone who has secured a spot on village and galactic next flight and is not to be sent to be part of the 1st mother door to a g o. f. a to go into space is keisha shaw hoff who will be going up along with her daughter and a may us thank you so much for being with us on the to we your business and how you .
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