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my name is melissa chant, and 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 con, collapsed on november 12th. the area is vulnerable to landslide and rescue. plants has been complicated by falling debris and equipment failure. but rescuers did manage to establish communication with the workers in the middle. 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, a lifeline. monday. our 1st priority was to establish the pipeline as a lifeline to make it we cannot the whole to risk you is 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 89 meters down. but 1st, they cutting a new road up the slope to transport heavy diggers. earlier risk use tried to drive a horizontal pipe. 357 meters of debris for the men to crawl out. but that plan failed after a cracked noise caused quote, a pending situation. pre so i've come to the site to pray

and relatives a holding vigil of trying to keep up the hopes of those who for now up there to live. i didn't born right? yeah, we 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 prime minister in the range remote. he's 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. yeah. dogs in delhi, thanks for coming on the program. can you tell us more about rescue efforts? i melissa it's date. and since these workers got trapped inside that tunnel and

you've seen multiple rescue efforts for you so far. uh, you know, over the last 10 days, which is kind of a 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 debris. well, that they've got to sort of be us to, in order to get to these uh workers. but what happened was, in the process of billing, they were about 22 meters in and the debris started pulling on 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 workers are trapped and to, uh, you know, from the horizontal side of the mazda, of the start of, and part of the reason why,

you know, it's proving to be so difficult to get into this tearing is, is because of the fragile geology of the himalayas. uh, you know, these are uh, regions you know where you have a box, if it is soft, so it and pots, if it is hot truck. so when you going in, you don't know what's coming at you, 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 can send in a $900.00 m in pipe or to which the workers can possibly sort of cool out. but the government is saying that, uh, you know, it could be still another 2 or 3 days. uh, since we get to that stage. and what's your assessment of how the government is responding good back. well, initially it gave me some days, the response was slow,

but now we are saying that, you know, this, we're seeing that there's a huge, our team of geologists, you know, off of really exports off of, you know, teams that been highways off or the natural disaster response from the force even the air force and the army use this and i'll be also, you know, considered the expos who took out who rescued. uh, you know, those of team of football this was stuck in pilot, indicate back in 2018 and we've got this international target expert named on an 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, you know, these huge amount of anger, especially amongst the family members of those workers, 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 environmental 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 and you know, 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 it be no risk, you know, way for these workers, but it was not followed the standard procedure was not followed in this way. shelly at us, 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. badging 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 the ac hall on november 11th these lemme arab

countries convened a summit to issue a clear and strong statement on the palestinian israeli situation in calling for a cease fire teacher that protecting civilians, humanitarian relief and the implementation of the 2 state solution. china fully supports this and we are ready to work with that brothers and sisters in the arab and islamic, well, you sound good. yeah, i soon get you a minute into joining us as dalia, after man head of the asia program at the of a e by the institute at rights when 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 that the china would like to present itself is a serious case, broken into conflict, but the reality of the total power i'm 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 over fear. interesting child has shown some progress on the mediator front with the approach for that we saw between saudi arabia and new running much. but on the other hand, when it comes to these really boasting and conflict doesn't continue today to situations 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 is read as well. so is, well, definitely wouldn't want to see china now doesn't seem china as an honest 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 scale 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 of so we definitely see the positive trend and the israel china relationship trade. does it go big lee, china become much more interested in news early technology. china has been involved in some of these, those major infrastructure projects. um 2022. it was a record year and is the china trade coming up to $21000000000.00 us. busy was i think it's also important to remember that prime minister, nathan, yeah, was meant to visit china later in october, last month for his 1st visit in 6 years. the it was the, was the spelling because of the war, but i think that's something but important. on the other hand, on the political front, i think the change struggled 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 it was by disappointed but by the chinese response to the current war and especially to the, from us towards the back on 7 talk. tobar, i think that will have an impact on the adverse during the relationship, especially on the political side as well. who will say china is less of a partner, but under comic side i assume the single 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 looked at the, the current warranties, really, the standard conflict in general. it doesn't really think about it doesn't really care about is the standard thinking about 2 issues. one, the region, the middle east of the global south. and the 2nd one is the middle east, and when we're looking at what changes do i get statements, it's actually, it's very much focused on how to best position itself within the, our world, the world and to show itself as an alternative to the us. and i think that's uh, and i think we're seeing more of the big 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, put him back and conduct made the chinese actually paper more of a proposal or for medic position to the conference daily afternoon. thank you so

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