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trade, the new cash crop is creating jobs and helping the economy recover from the pandemic, st. ravages. ah, irish bennett, you're welcome to the dublin news asia. glad you could join us. families who lost loved ones in a deadly crowd crush in south korea over 3 months back remained dismayed at the base of investigations, a 159 mostly young people died in cyril's if they want district last year. on october, the 29th, after hundreds, backed into a narrow alley during halloween celebrations, a police investigation has since sort of criminal charges against mainly law enforcement officials, for failing to plan and respond to anticipated crowd number. a former police chief

and form a mere are among 6 officials arrested. but families who lost loved ones on that day told dw accountability should stretch to the very top. early in the morning of last october 30th show me ern got to call. every mother dreads. her son jihan had been killed and she needed to come to identify his body that day. i'm oliver, should i? i asked if it was a mistake and he told me to come, so i hurried. they're gonna sit at the lanika. when i went into the emergency room, dahlia jihan was lying down like that he looked so clean and pretty that i didn't think this was a dead boy, my son to pick up. and then e. g hern was a promising actor. and one of a 159, mostly young people who died in the halloween crush, over 3 months later ease father is still infuriated at the negligence that led to so many deaths. yes,

i should hum. tuttleton emergency calls were made one by one starting at 634 p. m. and even though there were 11 reports before 1015, the accident still happens and police were dispatched only 4 times. if the police had handled the situation properly, miss disaster would never have happened to not a single person would have died. that's not the who you don't. i did. i left it on . the tragedy has shaken confidence in public officials. this is the alley where the crowd crush took place last halloween, just 50 meters from exit one of 81 station. as more information emerges from various investigations, the same questions remain. why weren't better safety measures in place and emergency services quicker to respond. initially, some top officials suggested the disaster could not have been prevented, leading to protest by the victims, families and their supporters seeking the truth. and while several police and local

officials have been indicted for negligence, high level officials have so far been spared. oh, anger at the authorities perceived a foot dragging is strong tindles letter to me. we have not the police and parliamentary investigations would uncover the causes since we could return to a daily lives and focus solely on remembering the victims of that expectation turned into despair at all. we didn't get answers to the questions we expected, but ended up with a superficial shallow investigation little. but you know, madison middle, public pressure has had at least some effect. this week the government unveiled reforms of its national safety system. just my number of people using the supply and bus and traffic data will be closely monitored. if the number of people at any site looks dangerously excessive. that information will be shatt with local

officials, as well as police and fire departments. this plan will ensure that such dangerous situations do not occur again until you know how long ago such reassurances can do little to console g. hans parents and sister no longer was ha, we're just asking for a sincere apology for the bereaved families understanding and sympathy for our hearts and for our children to have a proper in moral built in one place if it's in a common pin in their mornings. this week begin with a 159 bows as family members mark a 100 days since the day one crowd crushed tragedy. but those families are still waiting for answers to their questions. and for those ultimately responsible to finally be held accountable for their failures. correspondent frank smith, you'll find that report joins been out from sol with more. frank police arrested 6

officials and recommended criminal charges against others. why do family members think this is inadequate? well, the family members that i spoke to, they expressed to me the gravity of this tragedy. 159 people died here and they believe the accountability needs to reach the very talk that includes the minister of interior and safety, sang men who initially within 48 hours of this disaster suggested that it could not have been prevented as well. busy as the national police chief and even the prime minister, those individuals again not being held accountable or you know, calls from, from the presidential office use of fuel to, to ask for their resignations. i think many of the family members feel that this

is kind of a, as an insult to injury when it's not taken to to the same gravity of, of again this tragedy. speaking of top officials from the government to head south . good in president eunice okey all who apologized for the tragedy last year. but as we saw in your report, frank, those who lost family members in the tragedy don't think that sincere enough. why do they believe that? well, i think it has to do with the apology, not really being the same as they feel taking responsibility and also the nature of, of some of the other remarks that officials have made. for example, the, the prime minister also suggested that one of the victims who committed suicide took his own life after his friend had died. i should have been more, had a stronger will in seeking treatment. also on the 49th day following this tragedy

router, to attend to a special buddhist memorial that was organized that was attended by hundreds president. you attended a christmas lighting ceremony in behave, jovan you jovially there and i think that really rubbed the family members the wrong way as well. and family members are also demanding a memorial to the loved ones who perished in this tragedy. any progress on that? well, the city sewell city hall received this this request. they've denied the request to be placed at of this memorial be placed a long move square is still unclear where they might place it. it might be placed at marks upon station, which is near to one station where the temporary memorial is now, but the city also denied access to the square for their march. and i think we also

need to talk about politics a bit here. if you're a liberal a left, when you're, you're more likely to be supportive of of the family members in a, in a right wing or you're not. and there was a conservative that interrupted actually the bowing ceremony, even in the package that, that i played and conservative sort of radical christians, suggesting that that those that had died were devil worshippers. celebrating halloween. so this political divide also needs to be recognized as, as a, as an influence here. frank smith, we leave it. but thanks so much for watching on this tragedy. and so much the thailand has become a new mecca for cannabis smokers after moving the drug from it's not cortex list in june last year since then, a thousands of license candidates dispenser is have popped up in bangkok and around the country. and what was meant as

a boost for the tourism sector ravaged by the pandemic, may now have become permanent w. gale modest reports. take a deep breath for what's to come. it's potentially mind blowing. in this bar in bangkok you can buy as much calipers as you can smoke. there is reached to party and wheat to come you down the label promises. and it's not just this bar all across the kingdom. thousands of cannabis dispensary have sprouted up following it's the criminalization last year. no one really believed it. it was even hard the 1st day that suddenly you could buy cannabis in thailand. instead of being afraid of the police coming. instead of being having your ear p tested by random hops, pulling you out of a car now suddenly you could buy it, you could smoke it in all this was allowed in a southeast asian 1st time and removed the marianna plant from its narcotics list

possession, cultivation distribution, consumption and sales of the plant are now legal at 1st with almost 0 restrictions after the legalization. the government has come up with a regulation that, okay, you cannot sell in the area where it's like school hospital. you cannot sell to pregnant people about person who are breastfeeding. anyone who's under age minimum age for cannabis consumption is now 20. but some tire still concerned that young people are not educated enough about the drugs potential harmful effects. i mean, i don't like it at all because it's a narcotic, so it's bad far kits. if our kids get addicted to it's they will have no future. i get demand is high, especially from tourists, but with limited supplies. cannabis, it's still comparatively expensive at around 20 euros program. in this shop, one of the co owners has been growing the plans at home long before it's

legalization. could cons. father suffered from cancer and needed marianna during his illness. although his father has since died. com is now farming cannabis in 2 rooms of his parents house and had him and we couldn't land legal to novice products and we couldn't find any of good quality blue a. so we decided to growed ourselves for my dad. part has been a family project since the beginning time, whether for medicinal or recreational use, the ty, parliament is already debating further restrictions. some political parties have even called for the drug to be criminalized again. but those in the business remained relax. it's past the point of no return. you have everyone from the political base farmers in rural wagon approach areas you've given up tobacco, and then you have the wealthiest families where the power really lies. you've invested a lot of money in an expensive grow facility. so from top to bottom, this is already transforming the economy and everyone is getting

a piece of it. everyone provided they stay in thailand, that is, travellers are prohibited from entering or leaving the country with any amount of this modern cash crop. certainly a high growth sector for thailand. that's it for this week. there is more from the region on our website did over dot com, forward slash asia. i'm as ever you could follow us on facebook and twitter back again at the same time. next week we'll see event ah ah ah, with

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