they killed many civilians. including my father. i was a student i wanted to build a life for myself. but suddenly life became knowledge. providing insights global news that matters d.w. made for mines. this is due to. coming up on the program the sex scandal rocking the world of k. pop stars accused prostitutes and secretly filming sex videos to find out what careers music industry into a spin also coming up a health emergency for traditional chinese medicine in taiwan they have diagnosed the problem but can they find a remedy to see the industry. and the playbook for citizens' rights to see how india is trying to make the constitution come alive with

a new role playing game. welcome to. it's good to have you with us i felt a fan of keep all that this face behind me is probably well known to the korean pop music artist known as somebody a member of the band big bang has a huge fan following especially across asia well he's now. after being implicated in a sex bribery scandal he's been charged with providing prostitutes to foreign investors in his private club. here is what the twenty eight year old have to say about the charges against him. one of the. and i made lots of people angry and let them down. on once again i want to apologize and i will fully receive the

investigation to resolve doubts as soon as possible to. get to the united states and for more on this i'm joined on the line from searle by new can cause some more she's a radio d.j. and keep up fine as south you can good to see you thank you so much for joining us now are you holst a radio show and it's all about k. pop so you definitely know your stuff what was your reaction when you heard about these charges against this artist hello thanks for helping well personally i was shocked because i had kept up with keep up for years and i had interviewed people idols once a month for debussy wanting a healthier i had heard about that they'll feel the dark side of people and so far seeing idols that i have met in their view they were also kind and it made me think that that they'll kill for might not be true so when this new so face it just confirmed that yes it really is that we did all these many layers how do you feel

when all the idols abuse people's trust in this way i mean it's not just a song when e who's been accused of these kinds of events is another tape of star jones young as also admitted that he had six with women and you fed them secretly and then distributed these images so how do you feel about this abuse of trust. well this you know for me that as a friend when we idolize someone what you are supposed to sport is their talent and we have to be able to spare their talent and who they are as a person and about ourselves as a friend and human in this case what they have done is criminal and there is no reason for us to defend them and when someone does that a criminal act that harms others they should be funny accordingly for a godless of who they are again as a friend we feel different the between us supporting their talent and when we are

at the human shield the men a lot to be inforced not commentators of all tools for going to work a pop in general and so the drone of music generally sexualizes a women and sometimes looks are given priority over talent do you think that is the case with clip art well in the game insects are not only capable we can say that looks will attract people before talents do we can't deny that a lot of people get attracted to find out about any musician or artist after they saw their looks first and came up itself there are many groups and member of the groups which people that say well quote unquote doesn't meet their fees or standard yet they have a sounding felons and if we are talking about well that's that change the way people look at people yes with us because if we look at people once and say that k. pop is all about looks we should tell our self first that we shouldn't judge the book based on its covers when it can cause for more of your deja. signals from self

and so much as it does. to know what a traditional industry is dying a slow bureaucratic death thousands of stores stalking traditional chinese medicine are facing an uncertain future because the government has so far refused to issue new licenses the last licenses were issued in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight for those still in the business that means facing up to the prospect of shattering their shops. that i inherited the knowledge of how to process traditional medicine since we didn't have machines in the past everything had to be done by hand but those skills are fading away in our days. sunday on high interest traditional medicine store forty four years ago since then he's learned to distinguish between hundreds of and gradients and their medicine all properties but he's worried this expertise

might soon be lost. you know that. if my health deteriorates this medicine store will be forced to shut down because of the lack of new licenses to. send on high winds the store license but it can't be passed on to anyone else that includes his daughter he's worked with him for years. authorities haven't issued any new licenses in two decades in that time the number of traditional medicine stalls has hoft to less than one thousand one hundred small close every year. so when i i feel helpless and sad but i'm not the only one many of us in the industry are facing the same crisis. many store owners now face an uncertain future . who and her husband have run the dispensary of her ailing father in law for more

than a decade for them it's a race against time. i what will happen ten years from now will there be any traditional medicine stores left in taiwan that more than seven hundred stores shut down last year at this pace i'm afraid traditional medicine will be for museums in less than a decade. it's a case of regulation gone wrong in the ninety's taiwan stopped issuing licenses hoping that qualified doctors would also offer traditional brandy's that didn't happen now the entire industry is in disarray. the way the authorities treat us is silent with oppression our practices being thrown in the garbage when we should be preserving the thousand year old culture. after years of negotiation the government is expected to come up with

a solution later this month the old master is hoping for good news before it's too late. for additional medicine as a national treasure but we have been left to fend for ourselves i hope reforms will come soon so that the thousand year history won't come to an end in my generation. it's the undone high is sticking with us dispensary despite the uncertainty he's determined to carry on his craft as long as he can. during the general election set to begin next month politicking is running high many political parties are choosing opponents of defying the indian constitution or acting in an unconstitutional but what really is the indian constitution all about our youth group has been bending again for young adults in india to experience the contribution of. travel to the city of luck now to be

a part of the game. it's an early start for. two university students in the north indian city of luck no they have a tough task attend. to have to spend. they have to keep the day's expenses within forty cents. she could a moment of spending the day frugally as part of the be a job record or we can citizen game. players are assigned tasks started to the basic rights and duties laid out in the indian constitution. when we ask them to be going be good ok i have studied but now i don't remember. so that is like constitutions already important part of our life i mean it's very important for them to know their constitution because only then they can fight for it if you experience something and you learn from that experience that remains of you. the

fundamental right that she couldn't i'm trying to learn more about is that of equality. income disparity runs high in india the government says those who. are considered poor. forty four million people fall in that category. this will cost the friends a quarter of their forty cents an hour winds. still it is far cheaper than buying fuel for them or to buy. one shared trade later. still have a long way to get to college. they stop off for some food. a charitable lunch provides a meal for twenty seven rupees twenty five if you wash the plate yourself but with only twenty four rupees left in their budget they can't afford it. the only way to save money is to hitch a ride and after several attempts but stranger agrees. they make it to the university and we want to try this. they must know how.

much even i want to learn because i had to. have. the players have one more task we have to take a street child into a restaurant. they treated as equal to other. completely different people were staring at me it was weird and then i don't know about. problems that these kids have to deal with. and when i'm going to try to enter their strong they are sent away or they are scored by the one out of the back of the groups meeting other players share their experiences. a lively discussion on privileged begins and the coordinator decides to play a game on that topic. the rules are every time

a privilege you haven't read aloud you take a step forward. the advantages range from spending on education to mattering who you love. when they run to the finish line the coordinator points out the difference those without advantages had to work much harder to get their. through this game i've learned much more about the constitution when i studied this before i never paid much attention to it is. just the fact that we have rights we have we don't people get the fact that we have argued these as an indian citizens as well. because it is starting to pick on all the this time they'll be learning about this right against exploitation in another dimension for the two friends i'm going on the crucial lesson on the law and. that there is more stories on our website. and you can check us out on facebook as well as.

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to shape the continent's future. of african youngsters as they share their stories their dreams and their challenges. the seventy seven percent. platform. the downside of working abroad for some africans export of labor grows into a billion dollar business for kenya. to be reported in uganda sorry. if you questions why boeing is grounding all its max eights after sunday's crash on carrier wants compensation from the american plane maker. and they can see them when turbines are within reach but they can't use the electricity the

injustice of bringing power to kenya. and let's do business there are always two sides of the coin in this case some ugandans working abroad are striking it rich in some cases though some of those people a falling into the slave trade it's an unfortunate story but one that. brings us with this exclusive report just twenty three board. owns his own house not many young ugandans but this property like these here in uganda's capital . has bought it eva if he had been sort employment outside his country he has just returned from the east where he spent four years working as a casual. was. previously i wasn't living a good life and i had to rely on my parents for literally everything i couldn't even afford a phone.