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external voice is. the 77 percent he told. you. 77 percent this weekend on d w. this is the show with a special edition of our show today we look at some of the fun and fascinating stories we've reported on in the fausto bus stop. on skates was right into the thick of thailand's job you see we meet with the commissions plus. an attack of the arachnids spider fighting is a filipino pastime on the gambling so i could put some funds there supply for all those who died and who want to go. shopping the.

how a german man won over his chinese in-laws all it took was becoming a source of. energy welcome to a special edition of did up here news asia where we're looking at some of the quirky stories we encountered in the region in the past year one of them was rule of darby which isn't really what one associates with but the sport is gaining popularity in some parts to the point that there's an entire league we caught up with one team from bangkok who said the eyes are the big gold competing in the next world cup. it's fast friends and full contact. welcomes you roll a dog the. good the gave it all about balance and free the a bit but that's push because it's cool i'm going to try and stop the uptake of

like being at it look easy but next clearly this is no place for beginners. these guys are on a mission to set up thailand's fierce evan national team and skate their way into the biggest competition in the game the road of the world cup almost every roller derby player know as a dream of competing in the world cup and it would be great to bring a team from thailand with thai skaters. trained in bangkok that would be a dream. with the world cup expect to see a case in a few years time the race is on to qualify they already have the skills. and training from a cheery roll of legends experience international should stop boats become team thailand's they need to recruit more type players and they are counting on growth dobby's growing proof fallen asian to help them do it i think people are hungry for

it they want it they want to know what. they want to be able to get out of their bodies in that space and i think that they all will. tell you that it has. been a. team bangkok already. asian league tonight said big game against rivals hong kong at last year's world cup the number of asian teams competing jumped from one to 3. and with more events like this thailand should be runs alongside them next time around the world many asian teams in the last world cup but everyone really enjoyed watching change a pattern in team career our team philippines. so i think on our team thailand will be a very exciting choice election yeah it's nice anything to go by these guys already 6 hand that intimidation success international.

game on didn't screw it up. although china has relaxed it's one child policy and recently as everybody must still be approved by the authorities some young chinese are demanding more freedom for their private lives our correspondent is belinda has met a young woman who wants nothing to do with traditional family ideas. for alon hanging up the chinese character for double happiness is not running just yet it's usually reserved for newlyweds but alone is single and she doesn't want to be a wife but what she does want is to be a mother. show has it doesn't seem to show what can you hope. someone if i wanted to have a baby my whole adult life path or for that. team i want to be a mother and as a woman i want to experience getting pregnant and giving birth in the mean

time the treatment of course. our lawn has petitioned delegates of the national people's congress china's parliament asking that single women be given access to sperm banks. that sort of do in china where family planning authority is can still find unmarried mothers for unsanctioned babies she's realistic about her chances of immediate success wealthy when you see you getting access to artificial reproduction technology has an unmarried woman is certainly going to be difficult but i think sometime in the very very distant future it will be possible. not her real name has talked about her yearning for motherhood on social media. her posts have sparked a larger debate in a society where traditional family values still rule. in a park in beijing parents gather on sundays to lay out their children to raise your

mice for prospective partners. and unmarried child can stigmatize the whole family women in particular are under huge pressure to marry by their late twenty's you then you put it in their region china isn't an arrangement between families everything that happens in that marriage becomes the business of the couple's parents and extended family but i want a relationship where 2 people decide for themselves whether they want to be together how to live and whether they want children. alone knows those aspirations won't make it easy to find a partner so she's now looking for a sperm donor an online currently she holds down 3 different jobs in the creative industry she belongs to china's me generation those born after $990.00 and often considered more individualistic and demanding. alon says she would love to find a father who would take care of the child without the expectations of a traditional family but if that doesn't work out she's willing to go it alone.

to the philippines next and the popular sport of spider fighting enthusiastic already this beautiful if you know culture is in decline some point the finger at a runaway spider trade fueled by internet sales while others say humans are drawing on spider habitats in the water and. there you go. see it for some it's a cruel blood sport for others spider fighting is a beloved childhood game and national pastime that's why. we call it. spiders. this man keeps hundreds of spiders as pets and feeding them dice tramp and making sure they get enough exercise he says spiders are an important

part of filipino culture and he's worried they're on their last legs. we can. say this kind of creatures will be here 10 years for all of us are you spider fighting is best known as a schoolyard game for children they cost roughly a euro each meaning almost anyone can afford to play more recently it's turned into a popular form of gambling. and illegal derbies can mean big money and. cheap exactly to meet the demand spiders are shipped to buyers all over the philippines a trade scientists have warned could threaten populations in the wild. it's a trend a spider collectors have seen for themselves. but they blame new housing developments for destroying natural habitats and making it harder than ever to find the arachnids. they searched by night when spiders build their webs

scientists fear taking spiders out of the wild could spell disaster since they protect crops by eating harmful pests but there's plenty researchers don't know about local populations and in the past hobbyists like these have provided crucial information about different species we're going see this one is making over. my god it's not just taking. the hunters know they need something left to catch in the future that's why they've brought back spider execs to release into the wild. a 3rd. we can. find a more aficionados like him but want more research done into spiders and their habitats here as the 1st step towards saving them it's the only way their children will enjoy the same thrill of catching spiders with their friends. but in fantomex

down a job one man who was a viral hit each time he posts a video online so how does he do it years ago he draws inspiration from married life but is bigger. when thomas docks also known as office trues to the streets of shanghai he rarely goes unnoticed. here on the. most is a celebrity on the chinese internet 7000000 people follow him on social media when he posts clips about his life as a foreigner in china. in his videos he talks influence chinese about a broad range of topics. traffic. health. thomas and his wife julie write and produce the clips together and they can

make a living from them it all started when they came across a video by a chinese internet celebrity yet science gets going back much she recorded a sketch about coming home for chinese new year that's when people are us the same questions over and over again when you're getting married how much do you when you're going to buy a car when you're going to buy a flat well julie then said to me you should film a clip about marrying into a chinese family as a foreigner. you want to go. to my mom you know who's going to. want to know how do you feel. more power in life was when i told my parents i'm dating a foreigner my father chris glass down we were having lunch and he said what did you say you were i said a foreigner he shouted are you crazy what's wrong with you all these foreigners are

playboys. that. his father in law is one of the main characters in our food thomas gets he's even written a book on him but since those easy 1st month relationship has improved. it's true i didn't like him at the start he's fat he said he was poor and a student they don't talk about it's embarrassing. they continue to joke about what has now turned into a wonderful friendship for his part thomas says he's lucky to have found a chinese family who share his sense of humor one sketch at a time. time for us to say it i didn't really know it was just from the automation of typing bob i get along calling him back called back to me thank you for watching him too next time about.

15 years of religions for peace keepers from many different faiths all working together toward a common goal a peaceful resolution of religious conflicts. now the female members are for religion school peace from the middle east are demanding a larger. 0 common ground is empowering women even.

making them agent of change to discredit. the female peacemakers stores january 5th teetotal. australia's raging bushfires are affecting livelihoods and drawing attention to the country's climate change in action in particular the country's massive coal exports couldn't turning point be it hands. also on the show the tons of could be days away from another cabin crew strike flight attendants warned they'll drop their work in the travel heavy last week of the year. it's been a rough year for car makers but a fascinating one for cars we'll take a look at what rolled into the big auto shows this year.