with them i have serious problems on a personal level and i was unable to live there with my team going to. do their story. and reliable information for margaret's. coming up on the program india's prepares for its next move. a mission to lie under oath on the. cement its status as a major power but is it just for the bragging rights we discussed plans for space also on the program. the doctors that could have been several japanese medical schools at mit they fudged example to keep women out of their programs. and the fungus that's what it's weight in gold when increasingly difficult to find

we look at how climate change is making the caterpillar fungus harder and harder to do. i'm going to welcome to. it's good to have you with us india is preparing to boldly go where no country has ever gone before that's in the words of the country's space agency as it preps india's mission to the moon chandrayaan to the mission aims to land a rover near the unexplored salt for the mission will analyze minerals search for water and map the surface of the morning and ahead of the launch on monday there's already considerable excitement across the country. delhi has been gripped by space fever and this is what everyone here is getting excited about.

what. we have ignored here. on monday india will launch chandrayaan to its 2nd lunar mission its aim is to land a rover on an as yet unexplored part of the main. this is a few steps forward in terms of having it all we do with that runs been notes and then a lander we took off line on the moon less at 0 which was where our own entity did easy to study. in 2008 india's 1st main mission chandrayaan one which hit the moon and help them firm the presence of water but it didn't make a landing. on the prime minister narendra modi the country has stepped up its ambitions in space 2013 so india's 1st interplanetary venture the launch of an

overture to mars. with this latest mission india wants to cement its status as a leader in space technology by becoming only the 4th country in the world to perform a soft landing and put a rover the moon. and it has even more ambitious plans the 1st manned mission into space this should shoot for 2022 and soon after that the creation of india's own space station. and someone with intimate knowledge of india's plans for space and the upcoming chandrayaan 2 mission is science journalist and author by love barbara good to have you on the program now india plans to. land the rover on the salt form of the moon how significant is that. well landing on the song paula good morning is very significant nor the country has gone as well to the south all as

india is going if you recall most of the landings or the apollo missions have happened to be a region of the only country which has gone anywhere close to the solve is china which is on the far side of the moon but it is closer to the equatorial region the indian spacecraft are going closer to the south pole but why are they going there. that's a very valid question. because that is an unexplored area and india hopes to do some good signs and hopefully some good discovery which could include finding. copious amounts of water on all of the moon because what scientists are predicting so you can get through isn't fully the landing site very close to the earth all of the moon but still not on the. india has also announced plans to send astronauts into space and also build a space station what exactly are the aims of india's space program what does

a top to achieve. but very straightforward india's space program is meant for benefiting the 1300000000 indian population. land the indian space agency focuses very heavily on meeting the needs of the common people from which a small part of the budget is taken on and used for blue sky will come on but they couldn't explain the program is one part going to move on mars of finally trying to set up a space station which would happen. and it's great it could be these are all parts of india out of betty knowledge is still there in cash are to be left behind in times to come. about no real often even there for the time in but thanks very much for explaining that to us. and stay tuned to beat up the news for coverage of

sunday on to over the weekend and into monday to japan next when last year it emerged that the prestigious talk to medical university had rigged it as altar of entrance exams for years to pare down the number of women studying medicine the policy which need to generated protests was justified and there is often that women were more likely than men to leave medicine to raise children meeting through a shortage of doctors now a government investigation into found that at least 9 japanese medical schools had docked of that admissions some to keep female students out of this to favor the children all relatives of graduates that this is what japan's been a state of education and the board of talk or medical school had to say about the scandal. i know you've got this matter is extremely regrettable we regard it as a serious problem that erodes trust in our universities. we are sorry from the bottom of our hearts.

i'm not doing much else he said he's an associate professor focusing on gender politics at queen university. so it's good to have you with us it's been almost a year since these apologies all have been in japan been dealing with the fallout since then. well there are ongoing lawsuits and i hope that they prefer justice to the plaintiffs and they also keep this case in the news there was a great deal of outrage at the time and there had already been indications that something like this was happening and but there's also evidence that these kinds of things have been happening in other faculties in professions as well so this may just be the tip of the iceberg the prime minister shinzo or bear has vowed to court create a society where women can shine how does that statement square with what we are seeing here. well. one of the problems with

current efforts to promote gender diversity in japan is that there is an accountability issue so at tokyo medical university it turns out that the university had been accepting of government grants to promote gender diversity promote female participation at the same time that it was actively discriminating against. female applicants so that's one challenge another challenge is. societal expectations that household work childcare work is women's work which creates a really big burden of the 2nd shift on japanese women and means that although debbie's women are working in high numbers many of them work in part time work in secure work precarious work and because they face a huge 2nd shift at home. jumping around from societal expectations do you see this

scandal having any impact on that on japanese society will this or into gender inequality. well historically japanese companies and institutions have responded to external. pressures or even public shaming and also this case really shocked people we do have here more and more of the rhetoric about gender diversity and equality but i think that people were very surprised that this actually was happening and this me lead to greater awareness of the need for accountability scrutiny and action to look she achieved real gender diversity in japan and hopefully that does happen. thank you very much for speaking to us thank you. now this picture behind me might look like dead twigs but they're in fact caterpillars which died after the fungus in fact of them and caterpillar fungus or cordyceps they are burned as the world's most expensive fungus and every

traditional chinese medicine but climate change is severely affecting supplies. inching high spring is the time when these corps to step diggers are most busy. the precious fungus is like gold in the kingdom of plants highly sought after in traditional chinese medicine. imagine cho is one of the forgers this stuff is vital to his family's income busy. so tender is a good time or. are becoming harder to find this year his income's been cut by more than half. there used to be lots of cord usurps in the past but now the climate has become warmer and warmer we do find so many called reserves and we're worried about the future. quarter steps only thrive in called soil at around

5 degrees celsius warmer temperatures have made the area less hospitable for their growth. today mom has to climb up to $4500.00 metres for the harvest which is higher than usual but the fungus is still scarce. it didn't snow so the mountain slope is drawing what i'm looking for is when i kneel down here my trousers get worse that means records all around. after long hours of digging the days still isn't over for foragers they have to clean the fun guy thoroughly before selling them at market here they check the quality at the court of steps they found. but you know one journey that almost from the top of the hill has a thicker sprout whereas this one from the bottom has a very thin sprint when the temperature gets higher and higher the cold is up to degrade and they gradually become fewer and fewer until it disappear perhaps in

a few decades. despite waning supply the fungus retail price is dropping due to declining quality. but customers still have to dig deep in their pockets for the medicine retailers charge up to $800.00 euros per ounce that's more expensive than gold. ways imagine with precious because the medicinal properties are very effective so right now people really like to buy it. maybe that's what was. back on the mountain forgers keep searching for the fungus customers crave but it may be a losing battle if temperatures continue to rise. that's it for now be sure to check out other stories on our web page dot com for slash and check us out on facebook as well of. your good buddy from the board for the untold

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