they want to keep the continent's future pretty. dark and going through the numbers as they share their stories their dreams and their challengers. just seven percent of the job use platform for joining. this is d w news asia coming up on the program toxic home brew after a deadly incident in india we take a closer look at the dangers of bootleg alcohol and addiction plus the. north koreans building a so-called socialist utopia with their bare hands a pride of kim jong un's defectors say it's anything but heavenly. and okinawans have had their say on the future of this u.s. military base but it looks like their decision won't change the government's

relocation plan. i'm melissa chana thank you for joining the program great to have you with us bootleg alcohol across asia millions drink it every year it's much cheaper than commercially produced equivalents so home brewed alcohol is especially popular among poor communities but it can kill people in india this weekend one of the deadliest mass poisoning has happened with more than one hundred fifty workers in azzam state dead after drinking toxic liquor with scores of people still being treated in the hospital some in critical condition did that death toll could still rise government data shows that each year around one thousand indians die from illegally produced alcohol suggesting the weekend's tragedy is far from an isolated incident but a public health problem. overwhelmed medical staff at this hospital and

a some state forced to administer help on the floor hallways hardened into makeshift wards. the latest victims of india's illegal alcohol trade complaining of migraines severe vomiting and extreme chest pain. t. plant workers who drank a batch of toxic alcohol late last week now fighting for their lives for their country i've never seen anything like it i'm a regular drinker but i've never seen such a horrible incident. in every corner casualties of india's bootleg alcohol industry anti alcohol campaign or see it on the map for all the wrong reasons. one one of the six they talk about do cover their it's very sad in no other districts have so many people died as a result of drinking illegal liquor. and more than one hundred people are still in hospital or one party look like it's the washed mass poisoning since one hundred

seventy died in west bengal in two thousand and eleven and weeks ago more than one hundred people lost their lives in the top of their tainted booze. after last weekend's incident some are demanding change as locals grieve police say they've made ten arrests samples of the toxic white have been sent for forensic testing but justice here won't be enough to solve the crisis and history groups estimate forty percent of india's annual alcohol consumption is illegally produced and it keeps claiming lives. joining me now is jacqueline allonby david she's an addiction counselor and researcher in shinai jacqueline more than one hundred fifty people have died what is the national response so far.

god be upgradable. people who are fine and have been hospitalized is the news of the state this speaks to. the public that it is responding yes most of them i don't read this is a problem which is. this. issue that we just. thought it was for why did i think it only because it was not all that common for like the . levels that things are so although it is also part of the damages that can damage is also very. complicated now is this a problem connected to alcoholism or are people just having one drink and getting poisoned to has to do with the production of the bootleg liquor. i don't see it as

a problem to do i miss him and i would say that is the alcoholic i meet god so it could be any problem at all but as long as it gets me i saw this is an issue related to any action can it be that some of them before i have no one actually i am honest because most of them but i have to. have a nice solution that works. you know. marty like you and so does mall a problem and related to do and it should what is the government doing about this problem with bootleg alcohol and what more needs to be done. the government yes very very clear steps in the sense that even we not actually at the government at the center level on the seats the government also gives the states on

these issues which we used but imagine programs have not conducive to prevention but we do prevention we go from schools just everyone gets to prevention and one has knowledge of what does that it should and now this issue is brought on within the community there so even the community is this issue addressed but my acting is not the problem coming up this. should be a community based on. these significant people of the community should be involved they should be in line and they should be used as the source they should be the people who are going to convey the message so many of these significant people in the community and go the the message it would be a schoolteacher it would be a religious thing and just the one so in lobbies the but in the prevention and look and look at the cost jacqueline allonby david thank you and thank

you. this week the second summit between u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un will take place in vietnam the focus and concern for the world of course is pyongyang's nuclear program but it's also a great p.r. opportunity for both leaders to craft their image of strength internationally and at home kim jong un is keen to show his people that he has a handle on both diplomacy and the domestic economy since taking over the country from his father the young leader has rolled out a series of reforms and he's making sure that it's advertised his latest project is the so-called socialist utopia of some gian a city near the chinese border where workers are constructing a ski resort the apartments and shopping areas he seems to believe that if you build it they will come but there's more to this utopia the needs the i and some detective defectors have troubling stories about the toll it has taken to turn kim's dream into reality. the sun looks kindly on some gian

in the opening scenes of this state produced documentary. and this army of workers is building it was. toiling away in snow and ice. hauling stones up tall buildings without a thought for safety more leaders look on. perhaps in some threw some for kim jong un's socialist utopia that helps them endure such extreme conditions. but a defector who worked on the build site says passion for the project is fake that the regime has been struggling to retain recruits as the country's economy gained support. north koreans are not interested in political incentives anymore such as being a party member or getting medals now they know that they can make money in business or live on what. people with money don't want to be

a brigade members. not a big show for the cameras though of support these boxes filled with donated coats and blankets and then express loaded with cement heads just. yet so it's now a destination location for those with no other choice rights groups say an estimated four hundred thousand people are forced to work here putting in twelve hour days for up to ten years of. slave labor disguised as loyalty. don't pick on the poor girl they've had to in the north korea's brigade this is doing it's modern slavery. they recently. which they don't even have neutral. reports of such human rights abuses are cited by the u.s. in sanctions levied on north korea. but the work appears to please the supreme

leader determined to finish his showcase city no matter the cost. analysts say some gian is both a vanity project for kim jong un and an example of a genuine desire for economic change and growth sanctions have hurt north korea's economy and kim will likely want to negotiate with trump over them this week. on to japan now residents in the southern island of okinawa have overwhelmingly rejected a plan to relocate a controversial u.s. military base more than seventy percent of voters opposed to the proposal to move ten my air base to a less populated part of the island as reported last week opponents want the base moved all together but the government has said that the vote was non-binding has vowed to press ahead with construction plans. need to be. to much. it has been more than twenty years since japan and the us agreed to completely

relocate for ten months and it hasn't yet been realised but you can sort of. we cannot postpone this any further we have held talks with the citizens of all canara for many years and i would like to continue to promote dialogue and i hope that the people will understand part of your. tokyo may have the final say but it doesn't mean the referendum won't matter in the court of public opinion nationally japanese support the people of okinawa there's more online on our website e.w. dot com for slash asia and don't forget to check out v w news on facebook as well. sticking to japan we'll leave you now with pictures from the annual plum blossom festival in kyoto about one thousand five hundred plum trees are now in full bloom at the kitano ten mongan shrine and shinto priests may offerings of the flowers at

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