one day she really did become a world famous conductor brimming over with city. starts feb eighteenth t.w. . this is the news coming up in the program the year of the pig begins lunar new year is celebrated across asia and parts of the world with prayers feasting and gifts plus. in the morning it's only cats nine lives one south korean love can make a copy of. one of the dog do all of us crossing an ethical red line.

and the mongolian band that's called of global hit with their powerful mix of rock music. five british prodigy welcome to news asia it's good to have you with us on this the first day of the lunar new year across of all people offering prayers like this in temples and sitting down with family members for that all important meal it's the yard of the pig this time around and people are hoping it brings with it or you know what celebrating. praying for good fortune in the new year a tradition for chinese communities around the world. here at beijing's baju temple thousands flock to welcome the year of the pig in chinese culture the zodiac

sign is a symbol of luck and wealth hopes that were reflected in the new year's wishes. i wish for good health for my family and success in my career and of course i hope for perspective pretty conventional. so for this year i'll be taking my college entrance exam hope to get. another custom to bring good luck temple go is trying to strike a bell hanging under a bridge it's a lucrative time for the monastery stuff needed shovels to clear the coins and a motorbike helmet for protection. but for the chinese and a growing international audience this has become a major part of the celebrations the spring festival gala.

it's now the country's most watched t.v. show with an estimated billion viewers. to keep the millennia old hope that's peppered with young celebrities like chinese boy ben t. have boys. but the showstopper is a highly choreographed retains like this by twenty thousand shalimar performance. and for most people celebrating the lunar new year is about spending time with friends and family who grew up. and it's about food lots of it. hundreds of millions of people have traveled to be home for the feasts and festivities. hoping that this year of the pig will be a lucky one. and the end of the pig of course follows the yard of the dog for many owners of real dogs the attachment to their pet is still strong to let go off even off their death in south korea though one clinic is fulfilling the dreams of pet owners who want to keep their best around forever with money it seems like you

can just buy anything. you can order three a six pack or even ten of your departed pet. in south korea at least death is no longer the end. for bereaved owners like kevin kenji the copied canines are almost as good as the original his picking his puppy is just a few weeks old. he says it's his old dog reborn he's fifteen years old you see the marks i think is the scene in my mind i feel like a sissy. one more success for soul so i am biotech research foundation by engineers here have cloned more than a thousand dogs for customers all over the world. so a lot of people know that it might not be the exact same dog some people think it's the puppies that the orders of them never had or so other people think it's. better to cook when south korean scientists created the world's first cloned dog in two

thousand and five today the procedure has become routine and very lucrative the clinic charges eighty eight thousand years per puppy implanted in born by surrogate mother it's not just private pet owners showing interest the security industry sees a way to replicate their best sniffer dogs with the help of cloning they can fast track their breeding and training process. i'm doing this at this young age dogs have an average thirty percent success rate but this cloned dog has an eighty percent success rate and critics questioned at the cloning which they say turns living beings into reproductive machines for wealthy owners it's a small price to bring their beloved cats back to life. for more a dharma dr satcher had from the university of edinburgh she's an expert on genetics cloning and ethical considerations but it's not good to see you know a lot of money has been made by these pet owners to receive

a norm of the animal that has died but is this normal and similar in every way to the animal that's died. there are a lot of popular misconceptions around cloning so people who speak of this is making a copy which gives the impression that clone will be identical to a lot the same as the original but in fact cloning just creates a being that shares the same genes as another but that doesn't mean they're the same being just us that intertwines for example they're not the same person but actually potence are probably even less like the original between because of the environment so the clone to it might look a little similar it would be the same greek it might have different markings but it certainly wouldn't have the same memories of the same personality so it wouldn't be the same animal so in a sense do dog owners nolde this before they're going in for cloning or is it just the physical look that they think they're going in for. well if you read the

comments that owners have made about why they are excluded it's clear they don't just want an animal of the same street here equal talking about preserving the essence of their hips or keeping some part of the law i will that same soul as the old gets and i don't think perhaps they understand what the procedure is going to do so that's where we are supposed to turn the question does arise if animals can be cloned and other animals have been cloned in the past the question would be humans. are far behind. just because we can do it in dogs doesn't mean we could or should do it in humans and steps for a number of reasons the first is purely scientific so although the theory of cloning dogs and cloned humans might be the same the practice is very different consider that dolly the sheep the first memory clone was produced more than twenty years ago because the processes of reproduction and development is so different

between sheep and dogs and humans just because we can do it in one doesn't mean we can do it in the other and other example actually of the controversy i've yet so we've been doing idea in the tree first more than forty years in humans but it's only actually in the last few years that scientists have been able to do it in dogs so there are scientific reasons why don't cling as it means human cloning is on the way but the second way is that there are ethical and regulatory reasons why we shouldn't be seeing human cloning anytime soon so it's an experimental procedure even in dogs where the flag is starting to refine it it's still not perfect it's one hundred times more so in humans it would be unsafe both to the mother and to the children we know that clones develop many egg no malice teen or any do not survive even to birth a large number of embryos are acquired a large number of eggs would be required which would mean hormone treatment and health risks to the aig bonus so just for these reasons

a lot of practical reasons even without considering any other a weekly shoot it will be passed by it was before the seating humans right here in africa are very for the time being dr started traveling in a roster of edinburgh are devoted much speaking to us. perhaps a probable sound of mongolian rock bad the whole their god the nobles uncertain of a brand of the. rock and traditional mongolian folk after posting history you've are you were you were on you tube last year it's racked up eight point four million views and counting. the who is the driving force behind a new music started mongolia what they're calling new rock it incorporates

traditional instruments like mongolian fiddles and guitars and also mongolian throat singing an ancient technique that produces two notes at the same time. and they're very happy to welcome the who's manager to god knob or he's got into based in chicago and he's also the lead singer has a brother mason i'm going to so good to see you i just said the outset we all love this band and we're completely taken in by the sound that the band is producing can you tell us a bit about that what else makes this rock music so mongolian. oh thank you so much and. to be here today and. you know. based. punk.

music. and money. and i'm sure so. i think what makes our very unique is we're playing our traditional music with instruments. in a rock manner so god makes that very unique but how did you are did you come across this how did you come across this form in the waters of the trying to can really is it just the music or just something more. well. it's all started with cover producer. and he started my guy. who started thank you no i didn't quite likely nine years ago he started and you start researching old age and we go you vote. too. old to steve's end.

and we. after seven years we come up with this army and it's not it's not all about music it's all the. culture and the message you know. it's it's just it's not just on the music. if i can just ask you towards the end now you know first redirect up each media interviews on you tube mongolia as opposed permission of three media where are your fans. our friends are all around the world and that's what i check you know it's like got hounded in sixty countries own around the world. and. our friends are all wonderful and you've made a few with us here in berlin thank you so much to going on board the band a manager for the whole thank you very much big dross.

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