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the my name is melissa chatted thanks for joining us. indian rescuers are battling to free 41 minute trapped in a row tunnel for 10 days. a portion of the under construction roadway in the northern himalayan state of the track kind collapsed on november 12th. the area is vulnerable to land slides and rescue plans have been complicated by falling debris and equipment failure. but rescuers did manage to establish communication with the workers. are you ok? show yourselves to the camera. raise your hands and smile. we will reach you all soon. don't worry, the 41 men our lives. these are the 1st images of the trip workers that the outside world has seen before. the,

it's our 1st breakthrough, which we've been trying to achieve for the past 9 days, lifeline monday. our 1st priority was to establish the pipeline as a lifeline to make it to the whole to risk he was managed to watch a narrow a pipe, already drilled through the rubble to the main and canal sending medical supplies and hot food to take. we've been making this meal since yesterday. we started once we got the order from officials a much more complicated operation laws ahead to get the men out. engineers have decided to dig a new vertical shopped about 189 meters down. but 1st, they cutting a new road up the slope to transport. heavy diggers alia risky, was tried to drive a horizontal pipe. 357 meters of debris for the men to crawl out. but that plan failed after a cracking noise caused quote,

a pending situation. priests of come to the site to pray and relatives a holding vigil to try to keep up the hopes of those who for now up there to live. i did that border again, be picked up and it said that they're ok for now. he asked what the company's doing and whether they'd be rescued or not. we gave them hope that they're trying to rescue them. because he's got a them say the terminal is part of the problem is the new range remote is massive infrastructure drive in the himalayas. it aims to cut travel times between some of india's most popular hindu shrines and improve access to strategic areas, boarding rival, china, but experts have wound about construction and mountainous to account with large parts of the state upfront to land slides. joining us as journalists shall yada in delhi, thanks for coming on the program. can you tell us more about rescue efforts to hey,

melissa, it's dave den. since these workers got trapped inside that tunnel, and now we've seen multiple rescue efforts for you so far. uh, you know, over the last 10 days, which is kind of for testament to the fact that, you know, how complex this whole or rescue effort is this. what authoration is, you know, on friday the rescue workers have to stop or they're doing look, you know, we've got this uh 16 b to take the re eval that they've got to sort of be us to, in order to get to these workers. but what happened was, in the process of feeling they were about 22 meters in and the debris started pulling all of them, you know, endangering their lives in the process. and so they have to be, uh, you know, taken away and now or the rescue workers have taken a step back and they're looking at a multi brand strategy. you know, to get to these rescue workers. one is, uh, you know, to a particular time from behind, you know, where these of the book, the book or subtract and to get it from the horizontal side of the most of the

start of. and part of the reason why, you know, it's proving to be so difficult to get into this teddy is because of the fragile geology of the himalayas. uh, you know, these are uh, regions you know, where you have a box of it is soft, so it and pots, if it is hot truck, so when you're going in, you don't know what's coming at to and that's being the biggest challenge, you know. and what adds to the gravity of, of the situation is, is that, you know, this, this area is of a much broad to opposed to land sites ad of a squeaks as well. remember that it was a lens night that caused, you know, the starting to sort of collapse between. and what they're looking at now is, is, you know, to be able to, uh, you know, dig a whole wide enough so that they could send in a $900.00 m in pipe or to which the workers can possibly sort of cool out. but the government and saying that uh, you know, it could be still another 2 or 3 days since we get to that stage. and what's your assessment of how the government is responding good back. well initially the

neesha day is the response was slow, but now we are saying that, you know, this, we're seeing that there's a huge or team of geologists, you know, off of really exports off of, you know, teams that been highways off or the national disaster response from the force even the air force and the army uses. and i'll be also, you know, concerned with the expos who took out who rescued. uh, you know, those of team of footballers who was stuck in pilot indicate back in 2018 and we've got this international target expert named on and dick's on the ground of who's working with the general authorities. so these are, these efforts have picked up in the last few days, but having said that unit is huge amount of anger, especially amongst the family members of those booklets, you know, who are, who, being sitting on to test, you know, demanding that the government, you know, picks up the pace on these rescue efforts and also once the environment lives, you know, who have been time and again, a warning the government against such

a big scale infrastructure projects in federal areas like this. you know, we'll talk on, i'm in a geologist, seeing that in this particular tunnel of building the emergency escape targeted was not built but alongside the main kind of, you know, which could have been a rescue. uh you know, way for these workers, but it was not followed. the standard procedure was not followed and this was shelly out of thank you so much for joining us. high level delegation of arab and muslim ministers is visiting badging this week as part of a push for a cease fire and gaza. the officials are from saudi arabia, jordan egypt, indonesia, the palestinian authority and others. they held talks with chinese foreign minister, one e on monday, begging has generally supported the palestinian cause and has calls for a 2 state solution. one, he said, the world must quote, act urgently to stop the fighting. i guess the hall on november 11. these let me

arab countries convened a summit to issue a clear and strong statement on the palestinian israeli situation. calling for a cease fire, protecting civilians, humanitarian relief, and the implementation of the 2 state solution. china fully supports this and we are ready to work with our brothers and sisters in the arab and islamic, well, you sound good. yeah. as soon as you take a minute into joining us as good dalia after man head of the asia program at the of the event institute at richmond university, he was a diplomat. formulate, based in aging dahlia. can china really be a piece broker in this conflict? or is that just simply not a serious possibility? first, happy to be here. i think the china would like to present itself is a serious case broken into conflict,

but the reality of the total power of seeing magic toll from china, i know of action. and i think most actors in the region wouldn't count on trying to be a serious piece broker. and why is that the case? i think the case is the, the issue is an issue of trust and of experience. i think china has shown some progress on the video front with the approach that we saw between savio river and new running much. but on the other hand, when it comes to these really boasting, i'm confident there's in country today. the situation is but different. and i think that china's options over the last 5 or 6 weeks of broken trust or the relationship between china and israel as well. so is, well, definitely wouldn't want to see china. the china is an oldest broker and i think the other countries in the region also, i'm not sure the china has the ability to actually broke or why you know, not stare solution to the conflict. and i want to learn more about that

relationship between china and israel. i understand the recent years trade had been growing between the 2 countries. can you talk about that and whether that will change, moving for, given what's happened in china statements over the last few weeks? absolutely. so i think over the decade, oh, so we definitely change the positive trend in the israel china relationship. trade . does it go and basically china become much more interested in is really technology kind of been involved in some of these, those major uh, infrastructure projects. um 2022 was a record year and is the china trade coming up to $21000000000.00 us dollars? i think it's also important to remember that prime minister, nothing. yeah. it was meant to visit china later in october, last month for his 1st visit. been 6 years that bridget was uh, was this phone because of the war. but i think that's something but important. on

the other hand, on the political front, i think the change of seeing difficulties and the relationship for 2 years now. and that's for a few reasons, mainly the pensions between the us and china, and also the changing chinese position regarding about a senior issue looking forward. i think uh it was by disappointed by the chinese response to the current war and especially to the, from us, covers that back on 7 trucks over. i think that will have an impact on the adverse during their relationship, especially on the political side as well to see china is less of a partner. but on their comic side, i assume the single uh will. the resume will continue pretty much as the as usual. now badging likes to position itself as the leader of the global south. and there seems to be some of that happening here. do you see a great powers game taking place where china is position is primarily defined by

its opposition to the us and the usaa support of israel? yes, i think that's a, that's a good way of looking at it. i think the china looks at the, the current war and these are the standard construct. ben general, it doesn't really think about it doesn't really care about is the stage into thinking about 2 issues. one, the region, the middle east, and the global south. and the 2nd one is the middle east, and when we're looking at what changes do i get statements or attraction, it's very much focused on how to best position itself within the, our world, the world to show itself as an alternative to the us. and i think that's uh, and i think we're seeing more of the issue is, i think an interesting point is whether or not the recent warming and relations between china in the us. and we saw president biden to change and been made last week for does have an impact on the product made the chinese actually paper more of

opposing it'll or for medic position to the call daily afternoon. thank you so much for joining us. and that's it for the program, you can find more asian news on dw social media channels. i melissa chance. thank you for watching. good bye. the there's too much an entrepreneur in tamil nadu shows how were sparkling and kenny was in his lungs and come to tools. electronical devices all dismantled and absolutely everything that is still usable is reuse. the rest is disposed of pro eco india. next on

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