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00:00Floods, tech and tension, the kind of news that forces you to lean in.

00:05Pakistan is running one of the most expansive surveillance systems outside China, using

00:13systems called LIMS and WMS 2.0.

00:17The state can monitor at least 4 million mobile phones and block 2 million internet sessions

00:23at once.

00:24A mix of Chinese built infrastructure plus western hardware and software targets include

00:32political dissent, minorities, especially in areas like Balochistan and critics.

00:39Freedom of speech experts warn this poses serious threats to civil liberties.

00:45But nature's not waiting.

00:47Monsoon floods and upstream damma releases are causing historic flooding in Punjab with

00:53millions displaced and villages submerged.

00:57Sind officials are relocating people, prepping relief camps, bracing for waters pushed downstream.

01:04Rescue operations are using drones to find stranded people, boats and helicopters trying

01:10to reach remote submerged villages.

01:13Here's where these threats collide.

01:15State surveillance intensifies at a time when people are at their most vulnerable.

01:21government has emergency legitimacy to protect and rescue, but those same infrastructures

01:28can also be used to suppress.

01:30If you care about democracy, climate justice, human rights, you've got to ask how do we

01:36hold governments accountable when emergencies become excuses.