the forest fires evaporating large amounts of moist tune in to get the onset and learn more about the heavy and visible over the flows through the sky. start september 20th on the dental you. the basic videos aisha coming up today. the philippines gets aggressive about its defense. if anything's in australia, i agree on a strategic partnership with an eye on counting china. but what does the process of do for manila? and what does it say about the philippines is why the plan to deal with china? and how the junk food is contributing to a considerable rate of stunting among in the new shift children, the

manager. welcome to the the news. a sure glad you can join us. the philippines wants to forward to lines and modernize it's maybe to counter the threat of china and the south china sea defense secretary, getting back to your daughter, made the case for both on monday. he said, and i quote, we would carry it out to a comprehensive, re strategize ation along with foraging alliances. it's natural alliances on normally, even china has alliances. so we have to consider this. i'm giving them time to stop re horizon inc and re thinking modernization as that last part was particularly for the philippines, navy and coast guard, which finds itself outcomes and out manned by china in the disputed waters of the south china sea in recent weeks, for instance, chinese coast guard troops have harassed and intimidated philippines boats on

a resupplied mission to an outpost and especially islands. it's these kinds of encounters that's pushing the philippines into formal alliances and partnerships, like the strategic partnership signed with australia. just last week in manila, the hope is align so such as these and naval modernization. we prevent on the cold show downs with china on the high seas. a 10 stand off in the south china sea ships from the philippines and china have increasingly faced off as beijing assessed its dominance in the region. manila has sought to boast of support for its defense, its latest move, signing, a strategic partnership with the strategy. yeah. we also have that important security issues where we have common views about the need to uphold international law and astray. is pollution on that will continue to be consistent as we

have all was vain including recently of issues relating to the south china sea and that to have friends like you and partners like you in that then that's why, especially on that subject is a very gratifying and encourages us to continue down the path. so we thank you for that. are china claims sovereignty over nearly all of the south china sea cutting into territory that spain internationally recognized as part of all the countries, including the philippines, reported. confrontations have been on the rise with the philippines accusing chinese vessels of illegal and dangerous maneuvers, including using wars, a cannon, and directing military grade lasers at phillip painter ships. since taking office president ferdinand macos junior has broken with previous government's

policies and boasted defense ties with the united states. at the recent of the on summit in jakarta, macos held talks with the us vice president cumberland harris office, said she had re affirmed the united states iron clad commitment to the philippines and the roles that their alliance plays in a free and open in the pacific. the u. s. has increased its military aid to the philippines and the 2 states held the largest of a joint military drills earlier this year. exercises that included firing live rounds at sea for the 1st time. beijing has warned manila, that strengthening ties with washington risks dragging the philippines further into g or political strife. and driving off a mo, from manila is don mclean, gil electra. they're in the department of international studies at della solid and

investigate don. what does the recent strategic partnership with australia do for manila? right, 1st of all, thank you so much for having me british. it's a true pleasure to converse with you. and you know, we have to understand that the security partnership between the philippines and australia is actually longstanding. you know, it has been composed of a series of m, o use dating back from the late 19 ninety's. and in fact, one of the most crucial ones would be in the and in 2007, particularly in line with the, the s via phase. and of course, well tell you what, well, the philippines, australia, a strategic partnership, or security partnership, often function based against the backdrop of the overall hub and spoke system in the western pacific. we can now see the willingness of both sides to work independently, bilaterally. as a major pillar of the rules based order in the,

in the pacific. and, well, definitely we can see that both are like minded. both share, several converging interest towards maintaining stability, peace and inclusivity. and i believe that the philippines will be able to gain from this based on enhancing its defense cooperation in partnerships with like minded democratic countries. and of course, australia has a lot to provide as well in terms of technology transfers and possibly cooperation based on high tech. so we are looking into a multi faceted partnership that is also compatible with the philippines, growing partnership with the us and japan. i did want to speak about that partnership because we've seen in recent months joint naval drills for the 1st time with the us, japan and australia. we've also seen a type thing of defense relationships with india and oldest in addition to the philippines being a us security, bought security outlier. all that. is that

a danger that these alliances, these boxes shipped provo paging instead of keeping money less safe as well? you know, we have to understand that since the beginning of the marcus junior administration, you know, the ball was already passed and the out to china is court. but unfortunately, there is a huge disconnect between what china says at the political level and what it does on the ground. so of course, learning from our experiences in the past administration, that accommodation is not really the answer towards preserving and protecting flipping sovereignty. and so i've been right, so while we remain open, you know, diplomatic channels remain open engagements, remain open with china, given that it is our largest neighbor. we cannot just simply cut china off a, but still there is a willingness know where to invite great and willingness in manila to of course, secure it's a sovereignty. and so i've been rights and territorial integrity as the for most interest. so what one is doing with its defense partners and military modernization

is defensive in nature and not in any way aimed up provoking. but of course, safeguarding the status cool. there's an economic dimension here as well, isn't that on? because china is one of the philippines as major trading partners and in january and present, macos was in beijing for instance, more than $20000000000.00 in investment. places were agreed to between both sides. how does money? i get tough with an important trip pop. now, as well, you're absolutely right, treat has often been a emphasize in terms of a challenge between the 2 countries. now we have to understand 2 particular things when it comes to pledges, you know, trying this ability to follow through efficiently. and transparency with this pledges are not really uh, you know, they, they don't get a good grade in terms of that because of the loopholes and the inconsistencies that we have seen, even during the time of the former president,

the philippine president who is quite a, you know friendly with b g, despite the continuous provocations. but now we could have another point if we have to take note of other than the pledges is that the philippines is largely inter defended with china in terms of imports. ok, so the import is something that we need to look into. chinese import, the rather the philippine imports from china. the goal here is to nelson is that dependency and import. and the need to do that would be done, would have to be done very strategically with our partners through equitable f t a's. because re directing our import would also be dangerous, as it can also affect the social economic fabric of the philippines with the rising of prices and inflation. so the need to taper down on the dependency on a chinese products, and our imports from china would be crucial in lessening over dependency in terms of economics and leave it there for the time being. but thanks so much for joining

us to the don mclean, gil so thank you so much. we rush the indonesia has seen a mazda in the fall and the rates of childhood stunting, but more needs to be done. now something are, 1st of the condition when children are too small for that age, the mean causes are malnutrition and a poor diet. but in indonesia there is another reason as well junk food, the that lose proof that goes with my foot print reports. this this i saw me, he's almost 3. he may look healthy enough, but he suffers from a form of malnutrition. that's cost funding. the of the assign is that awesome a small for his age. he's just one of more than 70000 children and is most up and data prevents whose future is the fact that because they are stunted. this is part of a problem. max, i'm sure great drink sold at hawk installed kids. my good parents don't seem to

understand things like this. don't have enough pretty to know. we're still growing . buddy nicholas paddy's, he has this every day and the next day he wants more. it's hard when the soul is closed because he cries and insist on having more. he's getting rid of my leaving me. no choice, but to get it for him like that would be awesome is little because he was malnourished during what health workers call the crucial 1st 1000 days pregnancy until 2 years old, a child was done that at this age may never be able to completely catch up it's rare in those regions for childlike assigned me to be seen by health professionals like this, by the way to reach people via push on to cover as well into your community health workers. there 1500000 of them across indonesia. but it is thought only about 10 percent have any training dr. redone has model works for the n g o 1000

based on their trying to help of some of them a lot be kind of got us push a new done. how do we provide comprehensive training to the pos young do countries and the hope of my presentation advising that role in indonesia? inside of the field, we envision the future with these countries received proper training, fair and seam, tubes, and job security, such as the team yet for 5 years after being trained and employed, the being on the ultimate goal is to significantly reduce the stunting, right? but here and come with the island. there is a long way to go of educating parents on how the children should develop as one thing, getting the kids to stop getting joe who may be more difficult. having those mothers often take pass and spending socialization events. many of them inside the palace to change things. perhaps the kiosks make it difficult for us on me. it's too late to live as live here and come with the island smaller and possibly sicker than his

friends are. you is no at least armed with the understanding of how she might be any future children. and that does it for today. it is most orders from the region on our website and has them. or you can follow us on facebook and twitter now known as x and see tomorrow to buy the world in progress. a soft costs to everyone who wants to know more about this topic . the 2nd son of about this story is beyond the headline world in progress. the w cuts cost the new will tell you, happy the box to the story. we have a getting

a visa is more difficult than finding gold hosted to use force and for the future feelings about what's going on in the dentistry. instead of being discussed across the continent, dw, and use africa every friday on the w, the b use set fits sites on china's cup price call make us commission president the us of the fund a line has announced an investigation into whether james is unfairly subsidizing its electric car industry, through china's economic problems make it more or less likely to is a tie. one will look at contradictory claims to us. the state of your business on robots, pen bell, and welcome to the d. u. has announced an investigation into chinese electric comedy cuz brussels suspects state health from badging is giving them an unfair

advantage in the market. speaking during a state of the union address, here is europe and commission president west of the front line below the markets. i'm know, lot, it was cheaper chinese electric cars and the price is kept artificially low by huge states subsidies. this is distorting our market and as we do not accept this distortion from the inside in our market, we do not accept this from the outside. but we can now speak to greg, what's the best in from the mccade, or institute for china? so these, thanks a lot of being with us, greco people in your might have noticed the arrival of chinese electric vehicles on the streets here. but what sort of impacts are they having on the com? ok it they're having a.