in february 2020 russian troops invaded the ukrainian city of computer. it was recaptured. 6 months later the occupation was hard. how can the legs go on after all the terror? not everyone can do or the fear we felt every day. when russia comes, start to august 25th on dw the videos coming up today, avoiding conflict in the south china sea, that's the same as china, and meet south east asian nations to discuss the rules of conduct and the dispute. and what the way the goal to avoid fashion is like these, but how sincere it is china in its efforts, and how close are we to guessing that legally binding code, the

management of you're welcome to deed up didn't use a shot. glad you could join us meetings underway in manila to discuss a set of rules in the preventing flashes and managing tensions of the dispute at the south china sea officials from china, which claims most of the south china sea are meeting diplomats from the philippines, valencia, and via them, these are among nations that challenge chinese claims in the region. in the past, those competing claims have left to confrontations between chinese trips and ships of other countries. a legally binding code of conduct in the south china sea between china and the 10 member association of southeast asia, nations or also young has been seen as a way of preventing these classes. but 21 years of discussions. however, you did very beautiful, and she has why, on the back to the full control in the south china sea disabilities capturing

mo, attends confrontations between the philippines in china just a few weeks ago these incidents leading to another diplomatic dispute. these are just one of many taking place with beijing over these hotly disputed waters. the south china sea is a resource rich globally significant shipping area, most of which beijing can sit as a part of china, as indicated by what it calls the 9 dash line. but several neighboring countries have competing claims that with different parts of the sea and the various islands in between, and they're willing to fight for them. it's basing is actions that have raised tensions, innovation to boiling points in recent years, accused of building legal structures. these ones documented by the philippine military on the friday, the i,

there's also been many incidents of intimidation at sea involving various nations, the india into, into the local, intelligible, well, there's even been an attempt to plants, a chinese flag deep beneath the waves. no. the closest to any country has got to dancing. china is suffering. t claims is the philippines, celebrating victory to territorial dispute case, and the permanent cool develop attraction in 2016 nazi and member states as still hoping to tie down china to a binding code of conduct. it's a help settle amount of time disputes. but despite decades of trying, one is still yet to materialize. is also

a big political game at play. here with the united states at the full front, it's made moves to boast that ties with key regional allies will also increasing its maritime and military presence in and around the south china sea. let's get more context on this. now. joining me for more is gwen car. yeah, and he's a visiting fellow at the i s e s. use of instruct institute in a single mister glen austin and china. i have been discussing a code of conduct in the south china sea for at least 21 years. why don't we have a legally binding cord as yet as well? i think it's very important to know the motivation and interest, different policies in just as a form. you know, a car one got a boss and he's a really ones are, have a binding correspondence in south tennessee to prevent country, you know, to escalate all to use them. they do re power to transfers out the country. but for

countries like china, you don't have the single most powerful state in the region. there is no point for them to, you know, create this by the core content. so the content of actually follow the effort to view a because i ration on v o c o, which was fine, confidential, but this one was a, you know, not body. so all the countries its own states. yeah. really wanted to view a legally binding document which needs to call content. and they have been trying to these can squeeze to themselves and were china to do just come from the overall time, but to no avail. because obviously, you know, when you have a very powerful country, which now is the one to follow the rules and doesn't really want to start using the power to every single these of each one of the right talk to a 3 and 3 or 4 years ago. when the prep family of the troll job, when he came to ask me things, i said that the cold come that you're going to,

they should would be finish reading. so yes, pushing for logging in to that actually the, the ocean still going nowhere to now because now a bleeding to say the discussions on a single phase of the call from that. so i'd say it's very hard for us to see very soon at the finish of these and obviously the peaceful environment insolvency it's, it's interesting to say that because my question to you is going to be how serious you think china is this time round. it actually wanting a code of conduct, given that they have agreed only in july of last month to accelerate this process and to have a code of conduct within 3 years. so what you're saying is that it's not going to happen in china is not see this, is that correct? yeah, so it's very interesting to see that china only wrapped up in narrows everything

just be able to come up with all this. always athearn states, opposite 1016. so after the event called duration bronzer a weight to pieces when they say china. so the international court, so opposite, i think version believe that it's probably better for them to actually kind of the legs, the process of, you know, legal process about the country by appearing to agree on their conduct, but actually use a power to me to write this out and, and see the company so islands and try putting their own exclusive items on so many people in the south. ah, so it's a, yeah. really live that the decision by going to negotiate actually, and you know, be like all through the bands. all the countries from actually joining together in an effort to count the china efforts on this out,

tennessee. but at the same time they tried to retrieve on the ground by, you know, really building me, tyler, august alternate. so when they realized that generally i actually control this out tennessee by far, that's no way for them to know because like there's no way for them to prevent that from happening. all right, so what you're saying is basically the southeast asian nations have been presented a fait accompli given that in the past decade, for instance, china has fully meet today. at least 3 audio visual islands is a bottom to building an s trip on another one nearby. if ma'am right now and continues to have skirmishes with philippine ships. you're saying that are sending the essentially out of options, correct? yeah, sure, but i think awesome. somebody's like especially comes with the mom and the thinking that actually knows the motivation of the china decision to rejoined videos action . but also, you know, as a whole doesn't really have lot of options. so 1st,

like they use man, at least half of you know, kind of like died off of china. all those kind of miles away is probably better than ever, you know? no, no, no. and secondly, so if you have these kind of negotiation someplace with the hoss, yeah, they can create a kind of like, you can find grouping of companies with the same interest lies that they beat. suddenly about joining. busy together, you know, those are the bands of the china and so easy to get mom and we bring to show that they actually try to solve the situation by preschool. real, you know, is not like trying to bring it right. the way like china has been doing, but they tried to actually use those by on it using the national you know, the get it to you solve the problem. so we've got like a good signal for smaller countries, lines like vietnam and a big 2. i appreciate that we'll, we'll, even though china, the other half is kind of i will bill to watch though,

we'll have to leave it there for the time being more. thank you so much for joining us today. mister greer and kind of thing from the i as, as use of shock institute in single. thank you so much, sir. my pleasure. the records show the july this year i was the hottest month ever recorded. many potts of asia suffered under the extreme heat known to have become more severe and more frequent due to climate change. in japan alone, thousands of people were taken to hospitals to be treated for heat stroke. seeing the problem, some firms like i think, innovative to help people beat the heat. it's not your usual balloon dress. it's got a fan, literally blowing in into you at this rate fade in tokyo floats, but keep people cool too unbearable. summer heat everywhere. breezy jackets like

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the arizona economy is any downward spiral business activity in the 2800 block decline for not far more than expected in august with its largest economy, germany leading the way the blocks services industry activity fell into decline and contraction and manufacturing oper continued as an peace globe as purchasing managers index showed on wednesday. the downturn in manufacturing sector was accompanied by a renewed contraction and due services industry and august. business activity in germany, you're as large as the economy contracted at the fastest pace. for more than 3 years, german companies remain pessimistic about the outlook as rising interest rates and high inflation continue to reach him. the man that's good, carson just gives you on. this is the chief economist at i n g. welcome back to the show carson. so san bring data there um how bad is it really

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