the world, but his departure is a tragedy for - the catholic church. this man, israel s right winger ariel sharon, visited the religious compound and that started the trouble. he wants israel alone to have sovereignty over the holy sites an idea that s unthinkable to palestinians. after 45 years of division, germany is one. in berlin, a million germans celebrate the rebirth of europe s biggest and richest nation. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: new research suggests chinese lending forforeign projects is now twice as much of that of the us and other major powers combined.
building the roads and bridges and rail and also the use of chinese industrial goods, rather than locally sourcing. and of course has been a huge level of secrecy about these projects and lending and again that tells us something, doesn t it, about the reasoning behind them? i doesn t it, about the reasoning behind them? behind them? i think so. we have really behind them? i think so. we have really flipped behind them? i think so. we have really flipped the - have really flipped the traditional secrecy calls on its head and rather than restricting the country or the borrower or the project from, i m sorry, rather than restricting the lender, which is typically the case, they are asking the borrower or ordering the borrower not to disclose the borrower not to disclose the terms and i think that says a lot about the motivations behind the projects. fiifi a lot about the motivations behind the projects. behind the pro ects. ok, so we have the behind the projects. ok, so we have th
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in the atmosphere, it has wings, it can use aerodynamic forces to manoeuvre, it can glide, it can dive, and that makes it harder to predict where it is going to go, harder to detect and harder to stop. how powerful is it? how much damage can it do, depending on what you load it with? it depends. it is a whole class of things, it can be very large, relatively small, it depends on the warhead. that fast, you can produce effects from the energy of the weapon itself, you can use the kinetic energy of the vehicle to supplement the impact effects. how do hypersonic capabilities differ from country to country? we are hearing about north korea and the us both having the capability, but i find it hard to believe they have the same level of capability, surely not? we don t know much about the north koreans, but i would guess it is not very sophisticated. the leaders in hypersonics right now are the united states, china and russia. other countries have also worked in the field. england has a long
of public debt exposure to china in excess of 10% of gdp. as the report mentioned, a lot is hidden from public view. the belt and road initiative has created major debt sustainability challenges for poorer countries. what do you think china is trying to do here? well, they have a mandate to find revenue generating, profitable projects. they want to be repaid on time and with interest, they are looking to turn a profit. that is why a typical overseas loan from china has a 4% interest rate, and one from germany, france, japan has a 1% interest rate. in terms of country by country, the breakdown of the chinese level of lending, do we know what exactly they are lending for? we do now. we didn t before this report was released. and i should say that we also now know that there are substantial problems in the project portfolio that is being financed with these loans. 35% of the projects have run into