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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 assam 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 that 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 bottle 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 and a whole campaign oh see it area on the map for all the wrong reasons. one one six you know what book of out there 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. at 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 these three groups estimate forty percent of india's annual alcohol consumption is illegally produced and it keeps playing lives. joining me now is jacqueline allen the 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.

under. god being available. people who are fine and have been hospitalized is the news of the statistics that there is no the public that is responding yes most of them i don't grant this is a problem which is. this. issue that we just. plantations. estates and. thoughts is a deviant is a. god that was for why did i think you know me because it was not the common for white. levels that are not there so that's also part. of it is of also very tricky anybody 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 would say it is

a problem do i listen and i would say that is the alcoholic who feels that i meet god so it can be any problem at all as long as it's me i know this is an issue related to any action that some of them think i stand before. you know what actually i don't want to cause most of them to have stayed. with me nice solution that works. you know. like. so does mall a problem related to education 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 you've been we not it should be the government at the center level on the seats the government also gives the states on

these issues which we used to mention programs have been conducive to prevention but we do prevention we go from schools just everyone gets to prevention and when it is not legitimate what does that it should and now this issue is a problem within the community there so even the communities this issue addressed but my acting is not the problem coming up make this. should be a community based on. these significant people of the community should be can but 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 the message it can be a schoolteacher will be unreligious and the like so in light of the speedball in the prevention look at the. 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 new 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 detect 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. falling stones up tall buildings without a thought for safety. sure leaders look on you know. perhaps in some doozies 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. with the 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 the. people with money don't want to be a brigade members. a big show for the cameras though of support these boxes filled with donated coats and blankets and then express loaded with cement heads to sunday on. 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 or. slave labor disguised as loyalty. or you know. it all kind of they've turned their north korea's brigade is doing it is modern slavery. and then they receive. which they don't even have basic nutrients. so that she and the reports of such human rights abuses

are cited by the u.s. and 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 and 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 the proposal to move food 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

north american county 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 realized but you. there tonight when we cannot postpone this any further we have held talks that the citizens of all cannot walk for many years and i would like to continue to promote dialogue among most of them and i hope that the people will understand what i would try to do 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 u.w. dot com ford slash asia and don't forget to check out g.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 monkey shrine and shinto priests made

offerings of the flowers at the main shrine to see you next time.

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