50. 53 personal tips very. clearly g.w. . this is. coming up on the program india prepares for its next. mission to land or oval office. but is it just for the bragging rights we discussed plans. also on the program. the doctors that could have several japanese medical schools and they fudged exam results to keep women out of their programs. and the fungus that's what it's weight in gold but increasingly difficult to find look at how climate change

is making the fungus harder and harder 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. 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 run spin notes and then a lander we could learn on the moon less at 0 which one would know and already did easy to study. in 2008 india's 1st moon mission chandrayaan one which hit the moon and helped them firm the presence of water but it didn't make a landing. under 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 in the moon. and it has even more ambitious plans the 1st manned mission into space is shield 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 bob love barbara good to have you on the program now in their plans to. land the rover on the salt form of the moon how significant is that. well and because of song paula good morning it's very significant no other 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 you can go to the region and 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 going to be equatorial region the indian spacecraft are closest to the south pole but why are they going there. that's a very valid question. because better than unexplored area and india hopes to do some good signs and hopefully some good discovery which could include finding. copious amounts of water on the south or on the moon because what scientists are predicting. through isn't fully the landing site very close to the all of the moon but still not on the well now 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. plan 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 out and used for blue sky work along which make humans display program is one part going to the moon or mars of finally trying to set up a space station which would have been. a strange it could be these are all parts of india after betty knowledge is still there in cash are to be left behind in times to come right back never left an even there for the time being but thanks very much for explaining that to us. and stay tuned to dig up the news for coverage

of sunday on to over the weekend and into monday to japan next when last year it demolished at the prestigious talked to medical university had victims also 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 an option that women were more likely than men to leave medicine to raise children needing to a shortage of doctors now a government investigation into found that at least 9 japanese medical schools have doctored that admissions some to keep female students out of this to favor the children or relatives of graduates but this is what japan's biggest 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 of focusing on gender politics. queen university. josie it's good to have you with us and it's been almost a year since these apologies i 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 also to 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 all bear has vowed to court create a society where women can shine how does that statement square with what we're seeing here. well. one of the problems with

current efforts to promote gender diversity in japan is that there's 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 japanese 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 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 the rhetoric about gender diversity and equality but i think that people were very surprised that this actually was happening and this may 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 a dead twigs but they're in fact caterpillars which died after the fungus in fact of them and some a caterpillar fungus or cordyceps there been the as the world's most expensive

fungus and every who demand in traditional chinese medicine but climate change is severely affecting supplies. inching high spring is the time when these quarter 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 it can there's a good. are becoming harder to find this year his incomes been cut by more than half. 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 of. cordyceps 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. to didn't snow so the mountain slope is drawing what i'm looking for is when the needle down here my trousers get word that means a record is that all the road. after a 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 courthouse steps they found. on your 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. transitional. 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. we've not done with precious because the medicinal companies are very effective so right now people really like to buy it and they were mad that's what was. back on the mountain forgers keep searching for the fungus customers crave but it may be a losing battle the temperatures continue to rise. that's it from our. other story is on our web page dot com for us lash. out on facebook

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