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thanks for joining us. i've been fizzle, and russian president vladimir putin in china is changing being, have met in beijing. china's marketing, the 10 set of those for you if it's lost, built, and road infrastructure project put in the cold. she, his, the a friend, the russian leader is guest of honor at the summit of a $130.00 heads of stage and representatives of the lovely from the global south, strongly. and she said the trust between china and russia, it keeps growing. let's go to badging correspondent, probably encouragement. this is post and his 1st trip to a major global palace and sponsor invited ukraine. there's an international warrant out against him, but china was never going to head him over to oh, sorry, of the no, it was obvious. he would not get the rest of the to you, but rather that the officials would roll out the red carpet. first of all, china does not recognize the international criminal court the so from a legal point of view, they can just ignore the warrant. but also the chinese government has so far not

criticized russia for the one who crane. not even with one slippy. um, they didn't even named rest of the aggressive in this conflict, and they don't even call it the war. they call it ukraine cries. so that gives you an idea to what degree x the china has cited with russia. just how buddy, buddy, i see and potent coming down. yeah, quite. i mean, you can even argue that besides the political of friendship is also a personal friendship. am the meeting for the for the 2nd time in the last decade, that is really a record breaking. and when putting arrived here, they were a seating ping into putting the shaking hands during the good photo of the belt and wrote for him. he and paging with all the head of states that were placed next to each eye, but also when they were giving speeches, they were sitting directly next to each other. so they are really very close. and i think you can argue that there's some personal chemistry between those 2 head of

states. putting really needs a custom is when it comes to settling a toilet broad off the sanctions, but put on it. um. but what about the relationship from the other side way you what, how much does she need to economically and politically of the, what russia is, um, china is biggest neva, they share bought of more than 4000 kilometers. so they have to get along already buy that perspective, but of course, right, so that's also very important when it comes to a, china is energy secure to you when it comes to supply of oil and the yeah. so also i would say the biggest aspect is that they are political allies. they're both um, one to tenants, the western world order. they have the same a very similar political views when it comes to um yeah, the, the, they are against the west, so to speak. and so they share a lot of values, but when you ask how much this is teaching ping the protein. i would also argue how

much this puts you need to see. i think a y square. so it's even more into the rush is clearly the junior partner, because china now has become economically much bigger in size. and you can also see it in terms of trait numbers. um, china has a lot of, you know, diversified traits globally. but for us, i really, um china is by far the biggest trade partner. so i would say the dependency is smart. the other way around and ross is more if it of course, is costing a lot of lives and money. and this is all on the sidelines of this built in road initiative, which some countries have been pulling out. and she opened the floor and warning against the coupling. he does sound worried about chinese economic future of the well, i mean i'm, it's not to teaching things strength to, you know, publicly meant weaknesses or a self reflect. so i would say is rhetoric is still very confident, but you're right. i mean, uh, especially since a pandemic,

the boat enrolled initiative or the new silicon road as it is often called has encountered a lot of problems. um, i mean the many states couldn't pay big their loans and um, they were deep and trip to what's the chinese that brought some problems and also domestic the actually i'm the reading this and also the popularity among the people to spend billions and billions of tax payers money in the global global south while actually the budget here um is uh, also empty and you know, china face has its own economic problems. so that has really decreased the popularity of the both and wrote initiative. so what china is doing right now is the, basically it's transforming this both and wrote emission to if they want to make it less financially risky, they want to open it more also to, for investors also invest as of from the west. and i would say if you view this initiative holistically, then it would still call it to some degree of success. and you can see that also by the fact that um, for example, of the european union and also the g 7 nations, they're coming up with a ton to, to, to compete with china. they start their own infrastructure projects in the global

south. so you can see that, um it definitely um the notion that, you know, china is gaining the influence and the west. once to counter that with the own model of the investment l g, b, t, q, activist in india, a valid to find on the supreme court has declined to legalize same sex marriage. the judges left the issue to parliament to the side of the government, as opposed to any sort of gazing hits. the court also ruled, same sex couples, do not have the right to adopt children. still it except that the states offer to set up a panel to consider rights like joint bank accounts and pensions. some say the offer is hollow, who will sit on the panel and weighs the timeline. here were some voices i had hoped before the judgment. i still have hope, after the judgment, that we will go in a direction where ultimately that i do come. of course,

it wasn't in the judgement directly, but i do have hope in the country. the people, the laws that one day the day will come with seems as matters is also allowed. obviously the government is not going to do anything for the 12 movement or the, you know, 12 folks is because the largest will the bang that votes for that in government is the very, you know, extreme is tend to like doing the boys in the government score and we have seen for decades, most government commit these big foot, and we joined by a petition in the case mario de pena. what went wrong? you were in court yesterday as you bends or uh, having the on the uh, i was in called yesterday and i am one of the many petitioners in this case. it was

disappointing judgement for the entire clear community here in india. essentially what seems to have happened is that the 5 judges completely abdicated, responsible, the for ensuring their lives off clear be both for ensuring manage the quality to the queer community. and they seemed to have said that it is the parent. i'll get this off the bottom and uh, to give buzz these rides if a dog. however, that was both majority judgement of 3, learned judges and minority judgement of 2 judges. the minority judgement suggested that perhaps not the marriage, but civil unions, but to be to go. the majority of judgment suggested that while it was to put it all get to the bottom and to adjudicate on map does regarding the relationships between

queer be bull. it was certainly not mandatory for bottom in to dig this up without mandate development without any pressure from the supreme court up on the bottom and uh, to uh, to bring in some kind of legislation that would deal with the aggregated realities of queer people in india. i don't see the prospect off of any legislation, any magic quality or even civil unions has very bright just because there is no pressure. i wouldn't to remind us all of the transgender law that came about in india in 2019. and that came 5 years

off to a supreme court directive to the government that a law of this kind must be an act. the government such indeed took its time with impacting the law. i'm not, everybody was happy with that in the end. uh, but if those are the timelines that the government takes when it comes to the queer community, i have a to talk about a fee and that meant of any kind of civil union law or a letter load manage equality. okay, mario, so i can jump in that i, you're saying that society is also not quite ready for this yet in india, as i'm not sure if society isn't ready for it. uh, throughout the gaze that with many boys done. and there was

a very, has always been a widespread support. uh folks, we have the bowl game in there. but i do think that the in the we, that the queer community really came together and made a case with the indian people to deep criminalize, over 20 long years. in the early, 2, thousands had the end of which we reached the true lives ations. finally, in 2018 to a supreme court judgement, the kind of work that we did, the hubs has not happened in the same way with marriage equality. i do think we have some way to go, but it is, uh, it is a battle of hearts and minds at the end of the day. and i do think m b and b will be able to convince the indian people often need uh for our rights to be recognized

. but i did have the same time. i would like to say that civil drives should really never be left to do a referendum off of how the majority of the community in any country feels as i talking about in minority the research in d. r. and you know, if we were to leave civil rights constantly to majority of in willis, then we would really for shot of the kind of democratic ideals that we pride ourselves on in india. but having said that, i do think it is important to have those conversations with the indian, the bully, and i believe we got, i'm going to do that at this conversation and this discussion is being held

publicly. that's a great step forward monitored opinion. thanks for talking to us today. as a bid for the will is nice to have you along against by the . every jenny is far less surprising. we've gone all out to give you some time one day in the course of the right people in your northern most count the police, the free time, but still very much alive. your guy to the special thoughts in germany

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