Could China and Russia re-shape global energy?

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  Hello and welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.

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  I'm Hannah Mellane.

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  Coming up on the programme today, Russia and China agree to build a new gas pipeline.

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  We take a look at its potential economic impact as the two countries build closer ties.

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  And we're in Nigeria,

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  where farmers are starting to replace diesel power generators with pumps powered by solar energy.

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  Solar is not just cheaper, it is smarter.

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  I can scale up farming without scaling my stress.

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  And we'll be talking bread, one of my favourite topics,

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  as supermarkets in France are upsetting local bakeries because of the way they bake their baguettes,

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  and more importantly, how much they charge for them.

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  But first, let's head to China,

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  where Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin have signed an agreement to build a new gas pipeline,

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  the power of Siberia 2.

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  The gas project has been years in the making and could reshape global energy flows.

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  It comes as both countries seek to outline an alternative to Donald Trump's US-led,

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  tariff-led global order.

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  It's something I've been talking to Kirill Barbev about.

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  He's the director of China and Contemporary Asia at the Russia Academy of Sciences, based in Moscow.

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