so it's not just for the cards government, but also for the incoming ones that they're not going away until they know what happened to their loved ones with detailed coverage. millions of farmers, not how rare thing that we'd cross by day, whether they may not get that good. right because the management of weight and the phone from around the world surprises rose sharply. yeah. inside when neighboring nigeria, restricted expos, the color i made her instead of getting them. this is counting the cost on al jazeera. you'll, we can look at the world business and economics this week. india is booming, but millions of its people are benefiting from the economic growth. the income inequality gap is off topic dominates international election. the u. s. as the

world's biggest, don't of foreign aid, but to american people know where the tax money is go. it's also funding helped to boost global stability and faced with an unprecedented climate crisis, zambia hopes charcoal production permits the many assembly and say the move will apply for them if the only source of energy india is the fastest growing major economy in the world. but the benefits of india is growth, all trickling down to poor people. the richest one percent of the population owns 40 percent of the countries wealth. the inequality gap is wiping sharply on deployment to stop by and remote these decades in power. that's according to the world in a policy lab, and it's now flash points in the countries national elections. hot topics include inheritance, tax and wealth redistribution. but the ruling brought to the out john auto policy will be j. p and the opposition congress policy are presenting themselves as champions of the common man. just

a reminder that the indian government hasn't gone to the visas to out to 0 as john list. so we're covering the election from outside the country over consumption rates, reports in e as in asia use, which is man location. bonnie sped no expense that his youngest son's pre wedding bash. in march, i just reported cost of a $150000000.00. it made international news to the industrialist, but the network of nearly a $112000000000.00 is not the countries. so we've been in a india seen a rise in billing as in recent years with 94 added this year. it's become an electronic issue in the own gluten free elections. the prime minister in range of moody is seeking a search to. the opposition has accused the governing bgp of say, bring the bridge to come. recess is selected. it will conduct a national cost census to address growing in the quantities between income and

valves on there. the b g p has waved off the debts of $22.00 businessmen, but we will be transforming the lives of millions of people and their families. from mr. moody says the congress plans to redistribute the country's wealth are better than what it is that a god of. they said muslims have the 1st right over the nation's wealth. this means they will collect people's wells and distributes it to whom to those who have more children, to the info try to is india as both and the quality has widened on the move. these 10 you the, which is one percent of the population on 40 percent of the countries. well, according to data from folds, industrial is go to madonna's network, rose from nearly $7000000000.00 in 2014, to nearly 82000000000 this year. nearly a 1000000000 people are eligible to vote in india as general elections that conclude on june. first, for many, rising unemployment and inflation is

a major concern. without the good news. they keep saying they'll eradicate poverty, but it seems stable, eradicate the paul j. well, they may, i bid, the issues are rising prices and unemployment. there is no work. children are roaming around aimless and jobless in india is among the fastest growing economies in the world. but many tuned up to vote. see this from being to find a stable income of consumption grief on to see the for counting the cost. another factor believe to be holding equality in india back is the cost system of hierarchy based on one's bus. the concept divides hindus by the family's place in society, discrimination against people from southern cost is officially illegal in india. but active is say that it's still because there are laws in place to ensure spots in jobs and universities for so called shed your cost citizens. but rights groups say they don't go far enough. one of the things holding fact these efforts is i'm

gonna create a data on how many people belong to which cost opposition politicians are pushing for a more complete census. but a faced resistance from the beach. i. p government of joining us not from new delhi in india is out on coma and economist, an author of the book d monitors monetize ation. and the black economy good to have you with a set so. so why have the benefits of india as rapid economic growth been so unevenly distributed? to choose to be noted for us to go to the more any closer than most other economy. so it depends on the system. what country part of your system via phone or the system in which i would lodge on all night sick job, which employed and 94 percent of the workforce is don't immediately. and then you have the income, you have to be saving. so the more income you have, the more savings you have, and therefore what's happening is the incomes are concentrated in the hands of cheap percent of the population. just saving

a lot. so the road then developed is increasing. but down to the 94 percent of the $200000000.00 people who used to it on a 14 set up by the government for these people and 90 percent reported earnings less than $120.00 per month. so you can imagine begun to save anything, but it's a bit off, steve, and not so desinik or des, a structural problem, and they can do the economy, read the unorganized sector ons. they do the all nice sector and especially those businesses beyond much more. so what do you make of the pay that's raging at the moment about wealth re distribution? is that a good idea or a bad idea could put it even be achieved? you know, back if you need quarterly depends on the incoming quantity. if you reduce the incoming inc, warranty by creating more employment as your, as a bar. so just lots of wonderful people under employed or unemployed. definitely they have no income. if you're generate more employment, people have more income and then that the quantity of the decline. so you're going

to actually take money from somebody and then view dispute what, what you're doing is you levy maybe on both drugs or reducing the kind and you called you. and then you have an inheritance tax or across generations. so that a beavens don't boss on the road to dogs simply and therefore you know that he won't be a crunch. anderson declines. so in other words, you know, these have been so history to the international level. there's something called the hicks i'm is definition of declaration receive if you have road then you are on equal as compared to somebody else. and i just had just an income to a registrar position comes from that. i'm from the able to do to be argument of income taxation. but i can imagine particularly the issue of inheritance tax being quite a, a politically contentious issue. that's the way we present it, but actually only the top cheapest and have a balance which could be taxed or inheritance, which could be taxed is not to give it to 97 percent. but the way it's presented is

just getting the last minute actually be taxed. so it's suggested that the government just be like a rubbing. but that's paul from the reality globally. if you look at border and will say, and biggest other rich people in america, they've been seeing that capitalism can also buy under the reach, pay more taxes. and she said that who secretary ones maybe don't section or what do you ours be the hard to actually judge of binding? also prison bite and also said the same thing. so in other words, the rich have to pay more taxes if kept it, and it was just the like because the court did use or salted a few months, the keys to political and social problems and the economy. and therefore, you required to reduce any car deep and therefore both drug solution that united and stats are something that can be used to reduce the warranty across generations also. so from what you'll say, despite the arguments by many who say that the wealth redistribution would hinder india's economic growth, it would, it would actually do the opposite. the right side, actually, you know, this,

the party in road is not as if it started. recall is being green. what it means is that the systems already against the poor people is that more employment is behind more robust here. these 2 are the, comes their best with also brought into a unique warranty, would not be so much. that's why the country has been at any point in much less seniors. 137 frank and book outstanding go because of the chart. largest number of billing is so even germany and japan, which have a but kept income 20 times out. they have to be in the us. what it means is that almost systems have a new quote, the way the technology dismissal people, the we, the investment factors or 6 percent of the population of nice that they're not 50 percent of the investment. for the 92 percent, you have one to 20 percent of the investment and put those in agriculture. 46 percent of the work for you only 5 percent investment. so the more investment you have on top of the, the more of the income, the less the investment but kept the income. so we have the kind of these being

balance as in the economy. read the government's policy to be able to organize sector against the an organized sector so that i'd have to change just briefly. so what do you make of the private associations that the, the congress is arguing when it talks about redistribution wells for taking money from hindus and giving it to muslims? well, that's the election argument of been actually prime minister and one who started off the the non comment on the page. and then he was saying that you, the different you, you've got, and these are various things you'll have more than 400 feats and barnum, man, et cetera. now he's finding that that's not what so that what he's going on, a comment on the card read. he's, you know, saying that it was dreams of being saved by the congress, which is not the case. actually the most grims i, one of the most deprived segments. and they use a system that was out and bought in 2006 receptive d r. the most deprived is not in good context and do you need something?

so what sort of parameters was quoting based on that diagnostics? 7 beat seem to prime minister said the student that would be supported. but when you support the plot, it doesn't mean you're supposed to call it the data and then also what, what like from, for instance, the dollars, the other untouchables and people like that. so wonder colors manifesto saying is that we have support for them is not just muslims, are no one called me to deal with the other traditional election strategy. the de brian list is adopted even though just to dig back. you said i would not use the common card, but you had been using the common card from time to time. really good to talk to somebody. thank some date for being with us on tomorrow. thank you and thank you. american military hardware continues to kill palestinians, the us as the israel, and they have violated humanitarian law using american weapons. and it's war on concept. pressure is growing on president joe binding to end up ministry support is rather some of the biggest recipients of americans for an age funded mainly by tax

payers dollars. many americans without questioning whether washington spends too much money to support its allies. opponents say that funding could be better spent at home developing us infrastructure and defending borders in 2022 total us for an a top $70000000000.00 for the 1st time in 70 years. fuel plants, military support, as well as you crane. it's on track to smash through that record in 2024. in april congress approved the $95000000000.00 spending bill. that includes $61000000000.00 for ukraine and $26000000000.00 for it is rarely weapons as well as a few minutes in a, in a to palestinians. pools are increasing for the us to use it's leverage with israel to force it to hold its war on concept for us. president joe biden has been pushing for more assistance to you, praying for months and hailed the passage of the bill as a wind for america's allies. it's going to make

a man could say for this kind of make the world safer and it continues america's leadership in the world. and everyone knows, gives vital support to america's partners. and so they can defend themselves against the rest of their sovereignty and the lives and freedom of their citizens. and as an investment, our own security. because when our allies are stronger and i want to make this for and again and again, when our allies are stronger, we are stronger. but just weak slice of life and made his strongest condemnation to yes of his rails was saying that the us would not supply offensive weapons to israel. if it invited rough up when moving a 1000000 palestinians have been sheltering. civilians have been killed in gaza as a consequence on those farms and other ways in which they go after populations. i made it clear that if i go into rough or i haven't gone on roughly yet, they go into rough or i'm not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with profits. however,

the us to set to send is where the new weapons package with more than a $1000000000.00, if it's approved by congress. republicans have criticized by them for conditioning aid israel. and they've also expressed all positions the continued support for ukraine republican house pickup mike johnson, overcame pushed back from his own policy and held the vote, released billions in ministry and tremendous area and support. now remember that 80 percent of the ukraine funding will go to the replenishment of american weapons in stocks and our facilities in our operations. it also includes stuff, measures, and sanctions on iran, and russia and china, which most of the american people understand is a necessity in a very important thing. i've said it very simply, i'll say it once again. it's an old military adage, but we would rather send bullets to the conflict overseas then our own voice, our troops. the yearly expenditure only amounts to one percent of the total federal

budget. although some survey showed that american voters think that a close of the tax dollars go overseas, we spoke to some americans to get the views on foreign aid. i know, like i think most americans are aware that like, like 70 to 80 percent of our taxpaying is going towards military funding. i mean, specifically like spending it on like john sides. i think it's important. you know me, us is powerful country. we have a lot of resources, i think now we should help other countries and they need it. you know, i think it's something like we spend less than one percent of our annual budget and for it age, something roughly like that. i'm not sure of 4 days of effective this or if we should be spending more, we should be doing it in another way. i think it creates a lot of dependencies that aren't healthy for other countries in terms of a, the subsidies that we give. but i think overall we should be giving more to a crisis situations like gaza. i mean, i would probably estimate we use,

i know we subcontract our for an a lot. so it's not just say the united states coming directly supplying it. but i know that a lot of it came, went to afghanistan and iraq during those years. now, i don't think we are not the leading contributor for an a to african countries anymore. now that's china, but they're doing more. oh, well lady, what the war is going on. yeah, this is, i've been hearing reports of billions of chosen dollars going to or that's the, you know, hopefully this work and so on. and we get back to normal and provide back to our country. now, over the last 10 years, the u. s. has provided nearly a trillion dollars in foreign assistance, including humanitarian ministry at economic aid figure is of course change from year to year with disasters or conflicts. boosting funds to different places. but since the end of world war 2, the majority of aid has shifted from rebuilding europe to maintaining influence, managing conflicts, and responding to humanitarian crises in the middle east and africa. in 2023,

the top 5 recipients of usaid for ukraine, israel, ethiopia, jordan, and egypt that followed by afghanistan, somalia, human, congo, and pots of syria that are not under the control of damascus. the us increased support that of the february 2023 of quakes hit the country's northwest. joining us not from sidney is brendan o'connor. he's a professor of us politics and us foreign relations at the university of sydney go to have you. but it's brendan. so how much of the us budget actually goes to farm aid and how does that compare to how much of the country spend? well, the us is the largest economy in the world, gives about 9 and a half $1000000000.00 and foreign id. yeah, this is well below the wrong promise target of. ready about one percent of g d p to foreign i united states because about a 0.23 percent of its gd pay,

the strongest performers. ready that regard the. ready scan. ready in countries. ready white sweden's givings closer to the one percent of to the pay target of japan does slip down considerably in recent years and it's far night as well. so there's, you know, there's a many needs out there in terms of famine, in terms of economic deprivation. ready around the world, but we don't usually count military 8 entirely in fine. 8. in recent times, united states has given $41000000000.00 since february 2022 and. ready then you crying to the started in the slightest price with the russian invasion. so counting no tree i in the foreign height is, is complicated or controversial. and this is, i suppose. ready as in your lead in package talking about israel, this is obviously a very culture. ready issue issue with this route being a pretty wealthy country fire per capita g d p, the spine by the japan,

the size 5 and country i come from new zealand site. it is a fairly strong economy and a global sense, but still receiving around $3.00 to $5.00. ready $1000000000.00 and i. ready actually miller tr. ready died from the united states every year. how much of that but ministry 8 actually come straight back into the u. s. benefits that, that the military industrial complex. a yeah, great questionnaire. nearly all of it, in most cases of military either the united states gets made to other nations of buying american technology. american choose way from great, but israel has a few exceptions to this is where i was able to spend some of that. i on its own uh, in its own military. ready industries within israel did not have partnerships with united states, so it has some degree of freedom a bit. ready more often than other countries in this regard, you probably heard all very unscientific straw poll we spoke to americans. how to

add onto the street. do you think the us taxpayers really know how much of of the tax dollars goes towards providing military assistance rather than humanitarian aid? a not really. i think it's one of those of skewered issues of this very effective lobby. great. so certain countries and those lovely curts get a lot of support from the congress and then the congress creates a threshold. and then the button that demonstration or any president reaches up to that threshold. i think that americans in general and sort of i. ready believe they could move far night, then like there are many americans, like people in a lot of countries, probably with the country. i was looking at the strategy. it doesn't have a to break. so the detailed grass of a lot of details as far as the fees in general, americans are in favor of giving money to poor people, but they don't want to pay for it themselves. and that's similar to find that most people are 5. or if the idea of humanitarian assistance, particularly,

but they don't want to see text prize money used to book for night sites. that obviously is one of those contradictions. we can have one without the other. but then we say that pretty consistently of a time and surveys and testing the usaa conditions when it gives foreign aid. for instance, does it only give 2 countries political objectives and levels of democracy, a similar or a spy to be like its own? does any of this money end up being misused by autocratic leaders? for example? well, we'll leave all of the above and then you can find pretty a plenty of examples before an ice has been. ready used where it's used for very politic wise, which is to die in economic axis and to cite the congo at the moment. ready which is the vice of the largest. ready peroration is very valuable, minerals the so the concern and interest about that part of the world, which is at some level genuine that's being caribou. some was terrible,

did 1000 in the congo, but it was so. ready there are you know, valuable. ready very valuable sort of special mineral resources which the united states and other countries are very concerned about the site. yeah, there's often a specific reason to give the i, one of the interesting things that the trump administration is that to, to kind of neglect of some of these issues. it continues on during the trump administration because they don't get down to that level of detail. probably a pointing investment is to. ready a lot of countries will take me a long time to and one of the consent to be the real sort of levels of humanitarian that. ready will. ready elect donald trump, the more active on that front and i people. ready ready are concerned with this of games giving fire and i, and some of these cuts which we sort of immigration, for instance refugee and then takes them to the united states, will that it will start to with foreign aid. and we'll say 2nd, trump administration professor. it's been great to talk to you brandon,

and thanks very much and thanks for being with us on counting the cost. my pleasure . the president drove by and has wrapped up tariffs on the $18000000000.00 worth of chinese imports that include electric vehicles, have bounced batteries, so a sales steel. i'll leave it in a medical equipment. the white house set the dimensions were in response to unfair policies, and they have to protect american work cuz china oppose the hikes and said that it would take retaliatory action. and we'll be discussing all of this in a future edition of counting the cost apple as apologize for making a new i ipad commercial that showed at industrial compress a crushing tools of music and created the to the company said it's marketing decision from miss the mock of trip faced a backlash from designers, actors, artists, the scene is a metaphor of how big tank has cashed in on. that work is to worry that artificial intelligence, which can write poetry and create movies,

may even take the jobs away. prices of culpa getting red hot on international markets rising recently to a 2 year high on the metals exchange. the metal is important to the green energy transition and the manufacturing of electric vehicles, power grids and wind turbines. the price riley is fueled by lack of investment in new mines supply risk and the prospect to the growing demand for such metals. as i'm want to cancel the oil flights and rounded the planes off to the line went bankrupt. thousands of passengers were stranded into small pacific island nation of and want to the island, the ally, and while that has been struggling with labor shortages, rising operating costs and weather related issues and recent years. tourism accounts for 48 percent of the nation's g. d. p. a business owners feel effective about the front of the airlines grounding of zambia as customer. this stopping charcoal from being produced in several districts and is to say the move is needed to fight climate change,

but many people rely on it to cook food and for their livelihoods. and so they have no alternative source of energy. i'll just say it was kind of a task that reports a drought in zambia means the cuba, hydro power station con, generate enough electricity. a lot more families are using talk or for fuel because of routing blackouts. it's cheaper to buy than gas or petrol for getting right is but the government has banned the production of talk whole in some areas saying the practice is kidding environment and needs to stop. samuel 20 they can sell it back of charcoal for $6.00 at the market number to $9670.00. i was born in 1967 and i have been making and selling chuck or since i was a small boy, it's all my 5 that is these families. it's how i have been providing for my wife and children. chuckle is made by shoveling swell onto a kiln, the wooden sidebands with little oxygen leaving the black copper residues for other

people. again, find a taco is a lifeline full. have that many. she's one of thousands in the capital. the seca who can afford to always buy electricity. oh my gosh, i do. most of my i use chuckle to cook beans and food for my children. i also boil water, so my children can, but this button will be bid for us. but the government stays, the destruction of trees is contributing to climate change. and government leaders say a bad non chuckle is necessary to protect what's left of the country sparse. and the current drought brought on by the el nino with this a dominant is being made, was by deforestation, and the degradation of land investigations and believe it to one committees wanted to make a statement there that yeah, pretty much the rules that allowed and check will be going back every year. they'll be not shuffled many a chuckle. production is an age old cultural practice in zambia, passed on from one generation to another is to just translate policy induction.

that means we got to mobilize, it means of implementation capacity technology under surface to go. and not only just a make people aware, but ties in with us to transition to get to change is nothing. these different families sometimes make additional cashed by southern crops to grow in the fields, but it lack of rain the season has wiped out the harvest. and to say the government's ban on charco production is adding to they hutcher when they are already struggling to cope with that. so the a drought and the rising cost of living. how do we tests out of the, for counting the cost? and that's our show for this week. if you'd like to comment on anything that you've seen, i'm at a finnegan on x trying to remember to use the hash tag a j, c t c. or you can drop us a line counting the cost of out a 0. don't net is our email address, as always, has plenty more few online, but how does 0 dot com slash c t c? that takes you straight to a page, and then you'll find individual reports, links,

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function, we don't exist exploding solutions to save life as we know it we work with and within the cycles of the we're not using our past resources, we using them again. and again, if we learn from nature, we have a chance to move forward. i'll just see you as you've seen joining us. nothing grows forever. over $27000.00 photographs of dead and tortured civilians. have you seen the photo so and in the prosecutor ulton did traditional investigation for disappearance, torture and crimes against humanity in the final part of the series, which is 0 follows the fight for justice through the courts. it's fairly straightforward in terms of establishing command responsibility as families and a lawyer space, a terrible deal in the search for the truth, the lost souls of syria. well now just sierra the

challenges with the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court seats, the restaurants for israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, and his defense minister on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in gaza. intentionally causing death to starvation, injury and suffering to the civilian population, including so very many women and children of criminal means to achieve military and political goals. v i. c. c prosecutor is also requesting borrowings for 3 senior. i'm actually just for the.