77 percent this weekend on d w. this is. a special edition of our show today we look at some of the fun and fascinating stories. right into the thing. with. attack of the. fighting is a filipino. and . our job one man one no

one is chinese. welcome to a special edition of. where we're looking at some of the quirkier stories we encountered in the region in the past year one of them was. which isn't really what one associates with but the sport is popularity. to the point that there's an entire league we caught up with one team from bangkok who served on a big old competing in the next world cup. it's fast frantic and full contact. welcome to roll a dub be. good that they gave it all about balance and recall what it might have pushed because it's cool i'm going to try and stop the uptake of like

a lot of the what's next clearly this is no place for beginners. these guys are on a mission to set up thailand's 1st evan national team and skate their way into the biggest competition in the game devoted to the world cup almost every roller derby player you know has 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 expected to take place in a few years time the race is on to qualify they already have the skills. and training from a shrew role of legends and experience international should stop that's become team thailand's they need to recruit more type places and they're counting on role of dobbies growing through fallen asia to help them do it i think people are hungry

for it they want it they want to know what it was that will be able to get out of their bodies in that space and i think that's. all well. yeah. it has. been a. team bangkok are already planning into asian eak tonight's the 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 the next time around the world many asian taints in the last world cup but everyone really enjoyed watching change a pattern in team korea team philippines. so i think on the team thailand will be very exciting to watch the match up how. is tonight's anything to go by these guys are a decent hand that in some asian success international. game

on didn't screw it up. although china has relaxed its one side of us in recent as everybody must still be approved by the authorities some young chinese are demanding more freedom for their private lives our correspondent is but 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 alon is single and she doesn't want to be a wife but what she does want is to be a mother. so how is it is interesting to show what time you home the peterson home if i wanted to have a baby my whole adult life pachter sort of. ting 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 and that sort of blue in china where family planning authority is can still find unmarried mothers for unsanctioned babies she's realistic about her chances of immediate success if you were new seeing you getting access to artificial reproduction technology as 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 the 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 online currently she holds down 3 different jobs in the creative industry she belongs to china's me generation those born after 9090 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 enthusiast 40 this bit of filipino culture is in decline some point the finger at a runaway spider trade fueled by internet sales while others say humans i'm drawing on spider habitats in the wired and. that's a winner. 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 trim 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 cannot save this kind of creatures. be here 10 years for also show you a spider fighting is best known as a schoolyard game for children they cost roughly a year 0 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. happening 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 a web. 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 wilds. of 33 most we can. find a more aficionados like him 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 china next on

a german 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 tros through the streets of shanghai he rarely goes unnoticed. here on the. thomas is a celebrity on the chinese internet 7000000 people follow him on social media where he posts clips about his life as a foreigner in china. in his videos and talks and soon chinese about a broad range of topics. traffic. yes we are 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 done with she recorded a sketch about coming hung for chinese new year that's when people are asked the same questions over and over again when you getting married how much do you know 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 know what is your. job. you are going to. want to know how do you feel. more powerful i was when i told my parents i'm dating a foreigner my father put his glass down we were having lunch and he said what did you say he was 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 their 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 continued 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 we need you now with images from the foreign missions of hiking along kong back called back. thanks for watching tonight.

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