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You have seen in the past few weeks the increasing tension between india and pakistan 2 Nuclear Powered neighbors this was of course after indias Prime MinisterNarendra Modi ended 7 decades of autonomy in kashmir were actually not looking at that this week but rather indias defense spending because benny unrest over kashmir does give us pause lets go through this bit by bit the last time the 2 nations clashed a pakistani war plane blew up an aging indian mig 21 out of the sky one which had been updated with western Technology Modi has been criticized for delaying the delivery of new planes a deal to acquire 126 rafal jets was about to be signed off back in 2015 but he cancelled the order instead he struck his own. Over 36. 00 profiles with 8700000000. 00 a deal which led to allegations of corruption the shooting down of the make there raise other questions about indias aging arsenal most notably because of the way india is seen particularly by the u. S. As a bulwark to rising china but the problem is india isnt spending as much as china or on defense and probably with good reason its got other priorities things like Poverty Reduction education and health care so lets pause there and think about india and china side by side on this defense spend now beijings Defense Budget is huge 175400000000 dollars and 2019 and some analysts actually reckon it could be higher if you take into account the acquisition of your equipment in contrast indias Defense Budget just a 3rd of beijings coming in at 62000000000 however india has been rapidly spending money in the past few years to update its walky or at least in 2018 it was the worlds 4th biggest spender exactly what is india spending on well here are some of the big ticket upgrades currently underway india wants to order 140. 00 new aircraft worth 15000000000. 00 and its ask the likes of boeing and lockheed and saab to make a pitch i think 5 percent of the aircraft are to be made in india as it steps up security in the indian ocean the governments in the market for 6 missile warships and other vessels worth 2200000000. 00 and washington one like this one but india spending 5000000000. 00 on buying russias s 400. 00 Missile Defense system plus another 5000000000. 00 on helicopters warships and other gear. But here are the thoughts of some defense analysts is it really in indias interest to buy equipment from the likes of the United States and russia to maintain an independent military style should it not ramp up its own industry as part of make in India Campaign which really has pretty much been a failure so far remember india does have an independent Space Program for example and its a successful one its about to make a controlled landing on the moon so the money and the will to spend are both there so lets get some answers to some of these questions weve raised joining us on skype from chennai is arjun srikumar he is a Senior Aerospace and defense consultant at frost and sullivan and its nice to have you with us out of june you know i think about say indias Space Program which has been massively successful and it put a lot of money into it for it to be successful i wonder if defense needs to be sort thoughtful of in the same way going to throw some more money into it. But toiling a lot of money to do it is absolutely necessary. You know bargain documents are an art all the various indicate their votes spending effectiveness so you need to go beyond the quantum of money you dont need to weigh into defense and look at how much money is looked at whats Capital Acquisition and also look at the m. On the underspend thats there in the us by objects so if you look at the Capital Expenditure component of india the Defense Budget is usually haulers at around 3436 bust and judge and if you look at the understand it has been steadily increasing or the year us up so this sore points to the fact that there are deeper problems especially that stress big to procurement processes that needs to be corrected or gets to become more effective. Also if you look at indian Defense Budgets and after all the revenue expenditure component the pensions and that go on for inflation you find that the crew all of a while the past few years has not been all that much to be honest i just want to look at some specifics with you very near the deal for the with the original deal for the rafal jets i think it was 126 of them and the majority of them would actually be built in india. Thats not happening and you knew think about Narendra Modis famous made in india played which he wants the the 2 things dont dont go together. Our thats true to an extent but. You need to look at this in a couple of spit of the of the 1st question here is that are just reducing the procurement numbers to just 6 from 100 grimness 6 isnt going to affect the operation of the thick to this off the Indian Air Force that yes op but. I think thats just one part of the story here theres a lot of book here and thats going to be no end up especially for Eric Claptons in the future due to cater to all these deficiencies in terms of number of platforms addressing the 2nd part of your question jericho mug on whether its in line with me in india. If you analyze the. Up there is a clause that says that there is 0 theres an offset process but since the 50. 00 cent of the Contract Value has to be invested in procuring defense. Items that so this is from an Indian Company you are going to want to bring a bit of geopolitics into this now and im going to leave kashmir out of it for now because i think thats a whole a huge issue on its own but just more widely you know i think the United States for example would like to see india as some sort of counterweight in the region to the likes of china that would involve again a lot of spending from india wouldnt it. Bell exactly youre spot on gama if you look at chinese and spending in the us military its more than 3 days of work. And yes pants up but. And the u. S. Is planning to use india as a go and of aid in its ship this extract she bought for it to be capable of going to event india has to foster back its arguments and reduce our in obsolescence that its forces india can not gone to china by a number of us but what it can do is it can modernize its forces that technology and one stick knology that act as force multiplier is a trend that we that we see in Global Defense is that there is a lot of commercial off the Shelf Technology thats being migrated from commercial defense to improve operational efficiencies to improve into Intelligence Surveillance reconnaissance tactic in the books etc and india has a very proficient destry and a large number of Technology Driven small and Medium Enterprises that can be leveraged deadlock spoke bitch taste Defense Systems that can multiply operational capabilities and at the same keep up costs and offer dependencies no and just pushing things out a little further india has this long held relationship with with russia going back to cold war times and now you have the purchase of the famous case 400 Defense Systems how does that sort of play into things further again i have to bring the United States back into it because of all the geopolitical tensions between all these players it doesnt border but for any nation especially india to create a dependency trap and it comes to your defense of your arguments. So no it is a vice meanwhile yes bar to keep it supplied nice open and all busy. So unself maximizing what it can get however its so up india is going to be here shoosh defense market over the next 56 years it already its 5 a lot more defense programs will be signed in the future and theres going to be a lot of competition between the u. S. And russia in the market and i think what the Indian Forces loyal is to get the best of all was. Not being locked into dependency traps or join its been a pleasure talking to you thank you so much for your time. Moving on now and they trumpet ministration unusually has taken a step back from imposing more tariffs on china they were due on september 1st but washington doesnt want to see price increases in the run up to christmas and i know its meant finally that u. S. Consumers are bearing the brunt of the trade war but the Collateral Damage from the trade war is also being felt globally chile for example regarded as latin americas most stable economy has actually seen a shop rise in unemployment latin america editor to see a new man has been looking at the impact from santiago. For nearly 3 months 55 year old assad you at a news has been going out every day looking for a job the she joins the queue at this Employment Agency hoping like the rest to secure work as a housemaid a job that used to be easy to find but no longer nothing call about on me if i dont work i cant pay for my rent my bills my food without a salary how can i survive for me its essential that the director of the agency says the number of chileans looking for work is skyrocketing you know in. Last week i was that employment fair before 85 percent of candidates were immigrants now its 5050 that means that a lot more people are looking for this kind of work for the 1st time so we are trying to train in places with. The sharp rise in unemployment is just one of the direct consequences of the escalating trade dispute between the u. S. And china. The price of copper chillies main export has fallen 17 percent this year the value of the chilean piss off regarded as one of the most stable in latin america has dropped to its lowest level in more than 3 years making imports more expensive. Chiles export based economy is particularly vulnerable to what it clown a missed call external shock so what affects its main trading partner china has a direct impact on our exporters. This is. The. Price. You pay. But to have this be. Grown. Up perhaps know when it is being well impacted by this crisis and the people that to see here tens of thousands of migrants have come here to chile just this year alone the majority of them from that this way and theyre here at the. The problem with hoping to get their papers in order so that they do their jobs that it becomes harder and harder to come into the World Economy minister tells aljazeera that he remains cautiously optimistic looking at you know how did the Macro Economic and from into fortitude of our economies will allow us to confront theres a verse which wages. But for how long is the question especially for people like recital at any of that who cannot afford to wait for the trade war to end. Well for the sports fans now in the English Premier League is kicked off a 2019 its fair to say it is the richest Football League in the world it got there through a multibillion dollar deal struck with pay t. V. Channels globally not just in the u. K. And seeing the money roll in many other sports of sorts similar deals with the Rich Networks but at what cost many a losing younger viewers to east sports you might remember the 30000000. 03 day fortnight world cup championship held in new york recently the winner 16 year old who beat 99. 00 other players and walked off with 3000000. 00 and every other player took home 50000. 00 which is on par with what some golfers pick up just for turning up to a tournament and the average age of these players 16 melissa sensually for a video game competition which could be watched on you tube contrast that with an established sport like cricket that showpiece tournament was held in england and wales recently the i. C. C. World cup but the average viewership on sky sports a paycheck was only about 600000 per game now when england made the final and it was broadcast on free to air t. V. 7300000 people watched what was admittedly an incredible final match against new zealand. And heres another example the recent fee for womens world cup which saw record audiences in france and england because the matches were on free to air networks it was seen as a huge success with the womens game finally getting the recognition if not the same level of pay for its stars but as competition hearts up and the likes of amazon and facebook and twitter sign more sports deals the landscape is definitely changing. But although you are able to keep hold of the younger viewers who are frankly the lifeblood of the sport were going to talk more with someone who has done some research on audience malmo those with us Consumer Research lead it analysis joining us from london nice to have you with us look we know viewing habits are changing streaming is where its aleppo when it comes to sports should these sorts of big legacy sports the cricket the formula one should they now be worried that these viewing habits are really going to affect them. I think you know viewing habits are changing we are seeing that its been a decline in people watching regular t. V. Channels across not only younger demographics but old along as well and there has been an increase in people watching through smart t. V. s through that through their mobiles so i think these sports are going to have to be reactive to these changes one is doing it with the likes of a full on t. V. Per our and im sure cricket will already be looking at doing it but i think hes got to be really careful not to that undermine your current audiences as well you know a lot of the sports fans tend to be of the old see if you take everything off t. V. Youll actually end up damaging your sport as well is there a way to have the best of both worlds than mean i know for example in the United States some of the big sports basketball baseball in the light you know theyre streaming on on twitter and facebook which is great for the Younger Generation can you do that and be on television and still make it all a success and keep everyone happy yeah i think you can you know i think this is a good mix of the American Sports rights holders are really good example for the likes of the n. F. L. The likes of the n. B. A. What they do is they have these massive t. V. Broadcast deals where the ending a lot of money but then they also have their and streaming platforms which consumers can access a much cheaper rate but what they basically do is they make sure that things are televised on t. V. Are not shared on those platforms live so theyre also protecting the major money that theyre making through the. Forecast ales but theyre also ensuring that their content is still accessible to younger audiences who may become pay 56070. 00 a month to access this through pay t. V. Well good youve mentioned pay t. V. Lets look at the pay versus free to air t. V. Cricket world cup was in england not long ago it was all on pay t. V. And there was a lot of criticism that you know kids couldnt necessarily get to see the cricket they didnt even miss they really know the cricket world cup was on and then you got the final played on free to air television but only because in many define no. Can free to air competitors that you know can you strike deals with the pay the pay groups i think. If youre putting a level Playing Field because really compete they just dont have the budgets to do so but i think whats important is for right holders themselves to understand the power of free to you know the womens world cup was on free to air in the loss of markets and they got record audiences in so many of us and when youre trying to get new fans in to see whether its the younger audiences or whether your news or in your own right making sure that people can actually see your full able to watch it is such a huge part of it so putting it all behind pay t. V. And behind pay walls is not the best thing for the long term safeguarding of the future of the school womens sport is really interesting you mention that the football world cup did broadcasters maybe need to take a punt there you go yes were going to actually. Go right in with womens sport and televise more and more of it and actually give because im the proof that will come through people will watch it if its there theyre going to watch it yeah 100 percent i have a massive im in school and im like womens football in general and so i really do think that brokaw says should take a punt with it you know its still quite new its still developing in a lot of the countries its only become professional in the last few years so it means that the quality of the football is Getting Better you know there is a real opportunity to showcase the sport which is not as tainted as you know there isnt that theres not a sponsorship deals there isnt you know all the issues that come with mens football you know the fact that it isnt accessible you have to pay so much to watch it all of that isnt that with womens football you can go to a match for relatively cheap you know in the u. K. In particular and you can go and inspire that next generation the u. K. Is a really good example because the government has actually put it on the crown jewels list which means that it is going to have to be on free to as heavey for the facade of a future and i wouldnt be surprised if fisa tries or even with the Champions League over the year as they try to make sure that it stays on free to ask for as long as possible you know there is other competition in the form of sports much was made recently of and i dont know that much about a fortnight ago which all the kids were playing in there with millions of dollars in prize money and people were watching it people were going to see it live and it was huge i mean is then again another threat for the for the major sports. I did a study think its a threat to legacy sports i think they can walk in harmony with each other i think its about making sure that sports are engaging fans much younger age theres a lot of research out there which shows that people become sports fans between the ages of 8 to 12 whereas what were seeing at the moment is that age group is becoming fanciful and theyre watching on free platforms like you to twitch myself mixa so you know school right coaches like the premier league like the crickets i. C. C. They have to make sure that theyre making their content accessible enough that these young kids are able to go see football which is life that able to play football or theyre able to watch it on t. V. Because you know it is so expressable people are able to what chair around the world for free what you might end up doing is you might end up with a generation of people who you lose because thats what they end up watching instead of getting into all these big a full Champions League seeing as you mention it and this takes me on to the issue of illegal streaming and piracy 5000000. 00 people apparently its them its watching Champions League football on illegal streams is there anything that can be done about that really. I think youve got to look at it in context. After a Champions League final gets between 352400 1000000 viewers according to us so that 5 percent if youre spreading them out across the season is actually representing 1. 4 percent of the entire universe so whilst im not trying to say it isnt a big problem it is but the likes of us have done so much in the last c. S. To try and combat it and it does seem to be whacking our research is showing that in a lot of the markets that we see of a number of people who are watching pari sitcom content is reducing so that does seem to be a bit of a shift away from people trying to access the arses content its been great talking to you about this thank you so much for joining us thank you. Finally this week bangladesh with its low lying terrain its unpredictable whether it is more vulnerable than most countries to the effects of Climate Change but as ever with crisis comes change pushing some farmers to revive a century old system for growing crops reports from people to poor on bangladeshs floating farms low lying bangladesh is on the frontline of Climate Change its farmlands facing constant floods erosion and salinity to combat these farmers are using rafts which remains afloat for a period long enough to grow vegetables theres a lot of the problem is during high tide this area get flooded with little water remains during low tide this is why were using floating beds to grow vegetables floating platforms offer up to an additional 40 percent of arable land creating opportunities for poor lentulus farmers aquatic farming a century old practice in bangladesh that almost disappeared is making a comeback with limited resources and threats of Climate Change people here are now starting to appreciate the importance of environmentalists friendly traditional cultivation systems some of you know john can earn around 2. 50 for days more. Of us are gunning for 2 lasers on the seeds then keep them in a shaded area to mature later we plant them in the floating beds with natural for us and sell them and ready in the markets farmers generally do not use chemical fertilizers or pesticides using this method so theres a greater demand for them. The bus on these plants and vegetables are from the floating beds farmers bring them to us by boat we think carry them again and boats and sell them at serious bizarre. This year floating seed beds have been used on 290 hectors appears to pose marshall an area there are now around 50000 people involved directly or indirectly in this type of farming in the district. With. This method of farming its getting really popular and its now practiced in at least 15 to 20 other districts farmers are making a good profitable one many poor bangladeshi farmers have now been given a financial lifeline by turning back the clock and relying once again on a traditional farming technique to protect their livelihoods and that is our show for this week but wed love to hear from you can tweet or message me directly on. The hashtag a. J. C. Or the email address counting the cost down to 0 dot net. And you can visit us online as well on syria com slash c. T. C. That takes straight to our page with individual reports links and entire episodes for you to catch up but that is it for this edition of counting the cost im kemal santamaria from the whole team thanks for joining us news on aljazeera. Building a new life on a beach living off the sea and then. A dream shared by so many but so few make it again its. 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