[000:00:00;00] a great time in london, very much a line dw channels, your guy to the special with recognizes where exactly it was fun. i learned a lot. our culture history. all their d. w. travel extremely worth a visit with, oh, this is did other news asia coming up today? online gambling souls in popularity across asia, with casino, you can hold in your hand. smartphones offer easy access to gambling sites that promised big wins within minutes. but campaign does warm. it's designed to make

your news and communicate with people in poverty it's, it's sort of hold down the promise of being able to make some money back. in fact, of course, the hassle ways we ingest a chair, why i get money, but it's very addictive and addiction of a different kind, football. and by the residents of gold out there in houston, india of crazy for the football woke up ah, i'm british bennett, you're welcome to do the news asia that you could join us all across asia. people are reaching for their smartphones to enter a forbidden world. online gambling thousands of sites enticed players with promises of easy money just to tap away. but campaign has one. it's never been easier to lose big. while online gambling is banned and most of asia authority struggle to

stamp out these blue met up with one intonation man, taking a big gamble by playing poker for a living. the moment that carter dells is wendy adrenalin starts to flow. and that is when let's call him roger cluck's in for work. although it is strictly illegal in indonesia for him playing poker is not just a game. it's a job. roger therefore wants to stay anonymous. he's one of many indonesians trying to earn a living from online gambling heavy wooden. i really looked golden on my long as you finally lay, willing to land line, which makes things much easier than i buy here. you don't even have to leave the house in like around line. ok, and it will be, can we deal with simple internet gambling is a growing problem. the nation government says online gambling transactions totaled almost 10630000000 euros in 2022,

a low. but while all forms of gambling are banned in the country, cracking down on online gamblers has turned out particularly difficult. yeah, that is a journey gallery. wooded up on block from 20, by a do up roadway. august 2022 or a wood open garage or find la care hours like our towns leave my router so strong and re being related. so and i just blame quality guy said though, so more we been trying to get ahead of yeah, rome, new york. what? okay. the non brazilian online. but just closing sites or freezing bank accounts doesn't really change much as long as the providers are situated abroad. new sites continually appear. and in indonesia, almost everyone has a mobile phone. and then he wallet. so tracing, individual gamblers like roger is very hot. on good days he can earn as much as

345 euros the day from online gambling. more than the average monthly income of jakarta residence. but they are not always good days. villa yeah. as well. my m, i once played in the nursing he lost around 14000. you are missing the one night. crazy right now was a moment when who mormon gwinnett and i pay but then only like a week. americans playing a game. what mean like the locked ounce during the pandemic have caused roger to spend even more time gambling, but no one can predict who will develop an addiction. this clinical psychologist tells me for gambling comes a problem when it can no longer be controls. copper primarily miss. when someone 1st tries, it creates a feeling of pleasure. and that feeling of pleasure releases delta mean is normally in a hormone that creates feelings of comfort, telling me that happiness and pleasure camera. that's what finally makes people think. if i want to be happy, then i have to keep playing the it turns it to officially cycle can when daddy seek luciana,

video. roger even got his wife into gambling. the fact that they can potentially make money from anywhere, such as on the beach in bali, is particularly appealing to them. but like tens of thousands of other addicts in indonesia, one bed roll the dice, could see their money swept away in the blink of an eye. and gentlemen are for more as charles livingston from monet's university. he's an expert in the relationship between gambling problems and physical health and joint me now from melbourne. miss livingston. what is the impact of gambling on physical health in place of gambling related to mental health issues that there are a number of emerging issues that are we can now observe people to gamble, and one of them is a general clinical health is not particularly good. it tends to be much worse and people who don't, once you adjust or other factors and that includes issues around

a current use is generally obviously their problem just chatted with people. not having enough money to ask themselves or 8 themselves properly. and it's one of the a what we call the k d turn to help it's one of those is a nomic factors which has a long term impact on people's health wellbeing. just like, as we know, being cool, not having enough money as a very big impact on one's physical health and exactly the same phenomena occurs with family. you know, i'd like to talk to you about online, online gambling in particular because even though it is still illegal in most of asia, that are experts and they are seeing a trend towards legalization given what you have just said to me and your own research. how concerning would that be? look, i mean it's, it's, it's beaming online. gambling is booming, a much of a lower middle income world quickly in africa, as you just started in se,

asia i understand because april has my client, they started. so it's very easy for them to download an app and to begin to develop these habit. and so many people quickly, people in poverty it's, it's sort of hold the promise of being able to make some money. but in fact, the cost a hassle, ways we can generate a charitable why of thinking about money, but it's very addictive. and it can be very problematic. what we're saying now is just a cigarette companies expanded into like, middle income countries. when, you know the 1st world started prohibiting tobacco products where we're saying the same phenomenon now with gambling critically on, you know, we have a report from indonesia where gambling is illegal and yet online gambling remains a scourge. why is it so hard for governments to crack down on online gambling? well, and even because it's online, it's very hard for governments to see it happening. i mean, it's easy to crack down on terrestrial gambling,

but that has always been possible with the best world. so in some countries, in scandinavia and increasingly, australia we have been banning online science. we've, we've said a blocked english rp, internet service provider blocking in finland. and in denmark they had blocking transactions to offshore accounts. so it sorts of actions can be undertaken and. ready had some effect, but, you know, at the end of the day, it's a game of what we call back tomorrow issued extinguish one. so another one pops up . i think what we really know is a global trade. she to ensure that online gambling where countries want to have it, i can have it. but when i don't want to have countries, moscow cried in order to stop it from penetrating. not that way, people do so. i don't want to have one last question. if you think you are addicted to online gambling, what can you do? well, fortunately, there's

a number of things you can do. the 1st one is to reach out to someone for health. nice countryside have gambling, health services, or counseling services which you can contact and which will help you with advice about how to come back or how you might be able to get rid of the gambling account or whatever. even if you can't find a country, i'm sorry, even if you count on a service in your own country, you can often go online and find a service which will give you advice, advice about how to come back. but the most important thing to do is don't keep it a secret, make sure that you let. ready you know that you've got a problem. i know you're doing something about it, that's a really good shape. we'll leave it there for the time being. but thank you so much for your insights today. charles livingston from mon, i should've asked a thank you ah no, india loves its cricket. but in some parts football rules,

particularly when the world cup is on. i'm talking of called cather. take it from someone who partly grew up in this eastern indian city. football is serious business. yeah. and during woke up time, things get even more serious. oh, in calcutta city. walter fever is i did speak with flags, billboards and got out of your favorite beans. fans are trying desperately to outdo each other in their displeases and to season. this street named fi far afterward, balls international gardening body is one site where fans regularly gather to take a look at woke up team gravity of their favorite players. when we did a segue up, they are gay up as a football fan when i see all this beautiful graffiti around me, it awakes, my passion and love for football adobe is well and i take inspiration from it would

be at it open, juggled that india is racked $154.00 in the world by fever, and is not the 1st choice for international footballs. but you wouldn't know that here in calcutta. india may be cricket crazy, but in calcutta, football is followed up with the religious fervor. and ty, neighborhood conversations are dominated by the 2 favorites in tournament brazilian, argentina messy rinaldo, ny more, a larger than life pier a window. india is not playing. they feel woke up at home on this freezing night, fans are leaving their houses for a spatial screening of one of the bees matches. so no r chucker but he has come to watch his fit. clear. argentina, striker, luna massey, believe his 1000 madge. any worship, almost worshipping we do offer our favorite pains we read for this world up for 4

years, and then this world go comes and we are so much excited for this world, especially the match what is happening today. that is our dividend. and when mrs. scores the 1st call of the match, the crowd goes crazy. but we'll get those fans do not just shoot the love for the b team by cheering in front of large speeds. hot every morning, thousands of football players assemble playground. at least 4 hours. browsing supporter in font, she dreams that one day india with leading up was dull. the football coach also trains young players ha, yet that they have, i encourage young kids to join for pool and play this game so that they can make a bright career and future out of it. so this game also keeps them healthy. i'm also surprised how the thief i will campus positively impacting children these days, like up away. good. all most video will you look in the city. someone is doing

something football related here. for the many unable to crowd to cut the to watch the matches lie. go cut off what is a pretty good alternative to it soccer and to the us instead of what it that's it for this week is small stories from the region on our website, the devil dot com, forward slash asia, and as ever you can follow us on facebook and twitter your back again at the same time. on monday we will see you then by slash or i'm just kinda, i think that's hard and in the end is a meeting. you are not allowed to see you anymore. we will send you back. are you

familiar with this with the smugglers with lyons the what's your story with. ready ready women, especially and victims of vine and seen a lot of them take part and send us your story. we are trying always to understand this new culture. so you are not the visitor, not the guests. you want to become a citizen. in phil migrants, your platform for reliable information ah, and you 1st for india as a topic, the conglomerate which makes everything from salt to steel, wants to start producing semiconductors and india within the next 5 years. our daily correspondent has more on the multi $1000000000.00 plants. also coming up.

we'll show you how india massive institute infrastructure investor plants are likely to impact the countries marine ecosystems. and germany is lagging behind when it comes to a digitalization. we'll get an exports view on the government's most recent plans to change the. i'm chris kolber. welcome to the program. india starts to flex its muscles in the global semiconductor markets in the us, tata group will begin producing semiconductors in the country within a few years. a move that the chairman of the group's main company said will make the south asian country a key part of global chips supply chains, top of funds, chairman rajan, chandra, a car, and revealed that the conglomerate plants to launch new businesses and emerging fields such as electric vehicles let's get more of this from the w corresponding charo car to k and delhi charo taught the producing semiconductors in