believed. to be chance because justice is about. truth detectives starts feb fifteenth on 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. in the age of cloning it's only casts of nine lives one south korean love can make a copy of. what other dogs do all of us crossing an ethical red line. and the mongolian band that scored a global hit with their powerful mix of rock music.

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 a year what's celebrating. praying for good fortune in the new year a tradition for chinese communities around the world and. here at beijing's by your 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 i 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

pitted with young celebrities like chinese boy band boys. but the show's stop is a highly choreographed retains like this by twenty thousand shalimar performance. 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 travelled to be home for the feasts and festivities they're hoping that this year of the pig will be a lucky one. and the end of the pig of course follows their yacht of the dog for many owners of real dogs of 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 seems that 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 this 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 mouse i think is the scene in my mind i feel like it's the same. 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. a lot of people know it might not be the exact same dog some people think it's puppies that be or is a dog never had or so other people think it's. good 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 cloning dog has an eighty percent success rate which. 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 we're joined by dr satcher from the university of edinburgh she's an expert on genetics cloning ethical considerations good to see you now a lot of money is being made by these pet owners to receive a clone of the animal that has died but is this cold 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 and actually poems are probably even less like the original than tweens because of the influence of the environment so the clenched of might look a little similar it would be the same greek it might have different markings a 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 nor 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 get cloned it's clear they don't just want an animal of the same greet you hear people talking about preserving the

essence of their eggs or keeping some part of the alive or that their dogs will have the same soul as the old coots and i don't think perhaps they they genuinely understand what the procedure is going to do so that's where you 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 are humans. too 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 seen 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 i v f in vitro fertilization for more than forty years in humans but it's only actually in the last few years that satisfy the need to do it in dogs so there are scientific reasons why don't cling as it means human clones and the way the second way is that they are both ethical and regulatory reasons why we shouldn't be seen with you only one time 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 and be unsafe both to the mother and to the children we know that clones develop many egg reality or any cannot survive even birth a large number of embryos are acquired a large number of eggs would be required which would mean a whole new untreated mental health risks to be a goodness so just for these reasons a lot of practical reasons even without considering any other a weekly shoot it wouldn't be part of biographers but all of the seating humans

writing in africa are very for the time being dr started travelling across three of edinburgh thank you very much to us and. perhaps a powerful sound of mongolian rock band the hold their gods the noble dancers of a brand of the. and traditional mongolian full after posting his frack you've are you were you were on you tube last year it's racked up each point four million viewers and counting. the who is the driving force behind a new music star in mongolia what they're calling new rock it incorporates traditional instruments like mongolian fiddles and guitars and also mongolian throat singing an ancient take that produces two notes at the same time.

and a very happy to welcome the who's manager to god knob sure he's got three based in chicago and he's also the lead singer has a brother who said i'm going to so good to see you i just said the outside we all love this band and we're completely taken in by the sound that the band is producing can't tell us a bit about that what else makes this rock music so mongolian. oh thank you so much and were so. easy you know. based on. punk sure additional music brought seniors and money. and i'm sure

so. i think what makes our very unique. plane our traditional music with instruments. in the rock manner so that makes that very unique but how did you are did you come across this how did you come across this form or know what is it that you're trying to can bring is it just the music or is there something more. as well. it's all tied with our producer that. he started. started. and likely nine years ago he started and you start researching old. boat. old. and we. after seven years we come up with this army and it's not it's

not meet its own. culture and the message you know. it's it's just it's not just on the music. if i could just ask you towards the end now your first redirect up eight million views on you tube mongolia as opposed to mission of team india where are your fans. our fans are all around the world and that i can you know it's like got hounded in sixty countries own around the world. out there all around the world and you've made a few. billion thank you so much to going on board the band manager for the whole thank you very much. on line at the end of a dot com. don't forget to check out the debate news on facebook as well. relieve

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