channing wrote on instagram, i really hate how i can't trust anyone because those i did were so fake.ye. within hours, he took his own life >> these messages were released on social media, and he felt just absolutely humiliated, and he couldn't face that humiliation at school that was awaiting him the next day. >> reporter: channing's family wants consequences for the teens who outed him. >> the officer that was the investigator on this case told me that he mentioned at the d.a. that he thinks the kids should'o pursue it. >> reporter: coffey county's district attorney said no charging decisions have been made, and called any report that his office failed to act inaccurate lgbtq groups criticized that d.a. for refusing to support gay marriage the school district says it's not at liberty to make statements but counseling wa >> the ultimate message here is that the bullying, cyber bullying, has to stop. i mean, it's an epidemic now. >> reporter: being gay shouldn't be a death sentence joshmi >> we'll do everything possible to save the next kid and the next one and the next one. >> report

from billy ray cyrus, channing smith's mother remembering her 16-year-old. >> he could walk into a roomnd smile and light the whole room up. >> reporter: just over a week ago, channing, who had not publicly identified as lgbtq, sent sexually explicit text messages to a boy in his school. friends tell nbc news the boy sent screen shots to a female student and those spread across social media channing wrote on instagram, i really hate how i can't trust anyone because those i did were so fake. bye. within hours, he took his own life >> these messages were released on social media, and he felt just absolutely humiliated, and he couldn't face that humiliation at school that was awaiting him the next day. >> reporter: channing's family wants consequences for the teens who outed him. >> the officer that was the investigator on this case told me that he mentioned to the d.a. that he thinks the kids should be brought on criminal charges the d.a.'s office didn't want to pursue it. >> reporter: coffey county's district attorney said no charging decisions have been made, and called any report that

people loved him. >> reporter: last week 16-year-old channing smith sent sexually explicit messagesy members say a screen grab of that message was taken, passed around his high school and eventually posted on social media. within hours channing would die by suicide in his bedroom. >> he had all these dreams and desires, and those will never be fulfilled. >> reporter: channing's family is now urging district attorney craig northcott to file charges against the teens involved. northcott has been under fire since a video surfaced saying he doesn't recognize same-sex marriage nour would he prosecute domestic violence cases involving same-sex couples. the family is charging him with not properly investigating. he said any report that my office has failed or refused to act is inaccurate. meanwhile, the teen's mother hopes the pain and grief will spark the conversation that it matters. >> posting one little picture can destroy somebody's life. i can't describe the pain. you can't understand it, how somebody could that be mean just for the fun of it. it doesn't make any sense. >> just heart

holmes chan thank you thank you. there's a major problem piling up in indonesia plastic waste at the moment the country is 2nd only to china when it comes to dumping plastic trash into the world's oceans and it ends up in rivers as well 4 of indonesia's rivers are among the 20 most polluted in the world many indonesians don't understand how damaging plastic waste can be for the environment now a group of performers is trying to change that. that's a traditional indonesian puppet show but not quite the puppets used in this performance but made entirely out of trash and the property is a school children 11 year old yuan is one of them to show he and his friends are putting on this full of heroes and villains the baddie in this play plastic pollution burn lights. it is very helpful because it teaches us how we can reduce plastic waste at home and in the environment. of the world the public cheers of travel to the capital jakarta from their home on the island of lombok their performance is meant to encourage the young au

three chan, chan, paul chan, and bernard chan.he is the convene or of the expo. closere perhaps far too to the current administration. >> steve engle and hong kong, thank you so much for that. let's get you a quick check of the latest business flash headlines. softbank is said to be taking control of we work in a rescue plan that will see the cofounder, adam neumann, cut most of his remaining ties with the company. the parent company is running out of cash after september's failed public offering. he will give up his board seat and walk away with as much as $1.2 billion as well as half $1 billion credit line from softbank. shery: ubs was given a much-needed boost from rich asian clients and what was otherwise a tough quarter. wealth west met -- management unit added $16 billion. profit beat estimates. this or spain says it will book $100 million charge in the fourth quarter to restructure its securities unit. ofdi: hard on the heels projects on the rise, new zealand says it will fly nonstop from auckland to new york for next octob

. >> bernard chan: i have been involved. >> williams: bernard chan is a hong kong delegate to china'sp legislature. you wrote that beijing sees this as a national security threat. why is what happens in hong kong a national security threat for china? >> chan: well, if you look at some of the slogans that are used by the protesters, they say, "liberate hong kong, revolution of our time." and then, we have protesters, you know, carrying flags of the united states, of u.k. and so on. >> williams: how is that a threat to a superpower like china? >> chan: i don't think, you know, it will be helpful when, in any country, when you see, you know, sign of another country involving in your local politics. >> williams: for 30 years, the west has condemned china for the way that it handled the tiananmen massacre in 1989. how do you think the world will view beijing's response to these protests in 30 years' time? >> chan: i certainly believe that they do not want to see another repeat of what happened back in 1989. so i think that's why they still very much want hong kong police to handle our own

i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us it's a topic that's still taboo in pakistan's conservative muslim society sex education once married women faced pressure to procreate fear of a backlash from islamic clerics discourages public discussion about family planning and access to contraceptives is pretty limited just 34 percent of pakistanis can get them this means the population continues to boom there are more than 200000000 people in pakistan and often individual families feel they can barely manage with so many mouths to feed here's the shots of july any with more than a home and standing up to make a difference shard arsinoe is a community. health worker in the town of picher in sindh province in a conservative muslim society she reaches out to women pakistan's public health system fails to reach today she's speaking about family planning and reproductive health but it's not an easy sell. yet the american people are more aware of family planning these days but they're often reluctant because they're myths and misconceptions about using contraceptives some women ar

ok that was pro-democracy lawmaker tanya chan speaking to us earlier so charlotte how long can carry lamb hang on as leader of course tony chan isn't the only pro-democracy lawmaker calling for kerry lannes resignation not something that we've been hearing for several weeks now polls have also been plummeting popularity here in hong kong but in fact in many ways it can be argued that power has only increased that's because of these emergency laws that we introduced last month it was through those rules that she was able to introduce the ban on face march which is now in effect a number of lawmakers including tanya chan you just heard there have been warning that she could have the power to fact introduce far more measures going forward perhaps because even perhaps curbs on on the internet as well so those are a fact is that these lawmakers are dealing with as they are making statements calling for her resignation meanwhile internationally you know u.s. lawmakers have just passed a bill ended up holding human rights in hong kong what to activists there think does not help them in thei

last week, classmates outed channing on social media, and within hours, he was gone. >> channing waser: family and friends, gathering last night to remember 16-year-old channing smith, discussing how to make sure nothing like this ever happens again. >> he didn't deserve what he got, and no one does no one deserves to be bullied. enough is enough >> reporter: family members say channing took his own life last week after screen shots of sexually explicit text messages he sent to a boy in his high school were shared on social media. channing had not publicly identified as lgbtq. >> they outed him on social media, and he didn't get to tell his story his way. >> reporter: his big brother josh thinks he was humiliated and couldn't face going back to school. >> i want people to remember channing in the way he lived it's going to be hard because it's mostly probably going to be the story of how he died. >> reporter: the teenager had gotten a new job, a new motorcycle, and loved working on cars he was also a gifted musician, playing multiple instruments channing's family hopes the teens who

>> i call him channing. and it was just, it looked like channing tatum doing all of my work.channing tatum type doing all of the, so it was just good, it felt like a group neg that i had to overcome. >> jimmy: also very strange you brought something, you did an a little bit of artwork as well. >> i did. >> jimmy: now before i show this, because i'm interested in it, explain what we're going to see here. >> well, i, on the very first day of filming, i was on set, this big outdoor set scene supposed to be like mexico city in madrid. i was looking through the crowd and saw this enormous man in this sort of tan oversized suit. and then next to him, this very small round man in this oversized tan suit. and i thought that, for me, or for everybody, the costume designers and the sort of background performer organizers had this "twins" easter egg in the movie, which if you're not familiar is an arnold schwarzenegger and danny devito reference. >> jimmy: people are puzzled now at this. so there are these two people. >> there are these two people, again i did not have a lot to do that

now taiwan police want to send officers to interview mr chan.it's recently re—elected president, joko widodo, says he wants the country to become a $7 trillion economy. now, the president will announce the revamped cabinet he hopes can help. and he's asked his once bitter, the leader of the opposition, tojoin his government. aaron connelly is an expert on southeast asian politics at the international institute for strategic studies. he told me what message he thinks the president wants to send with his new cabinet. whatjokowi appears to be going for us what indonesians call a fat cabinet. he seems to want to include every party across the political spectrum except the islamist pks in his cabinet in the hope that will reduce legislative objections to his agenda, legislative investigations into misconduct in the administration whether spurious or serious. i'm not sure that it will actually work because many of these individuals were being invited into cabinet, if they're not getting what they want in terms of patronage or if their fellow party mem

why we have to access in the digital world to access of forums he was very active in forums like 4 chan like h.n. we have to be more present there and observe people who are going step by step in a radical way patrick cents per member of the bundestag oversight committee on the intelligence services thank you so much for joining us this afternoon to talk a little bit more about what you are indeed discussing like me. it's in sports news for you now and qualifying for football's euro 2020 germany overcame pre-match controversy and an early shock to beat it is still only a thrill 3 nil excuse me it was just after 14 minutes when chan was sent off but 2 goals from van sent up a 3 nil victory those 2 germany players with turkish roots had caused a controversy before the match even kicked off also had an instagram post of picked in turkish national team players who were celebrating a goal with a tribute to turkey's military operation against kurds in syria john and going to one leader unlike the post i have denied any political support for so forth but i suppose it was 2 or 3 days ago now an

as he left prison, mr chan apologised to the people of hong kong.says it may have developed the first drug to slow alzheimer's disease. biogen says it will soon ask us regulators for approval. current drugs only help with the symptoms of alzheimer's, so if given the go ahead it will be a major breakthrough in the treatment of the disease. here's our medical correspondent fergus walsh. this is an extraordinary turnaround for this drug which is called aducanumab. back in march, biogen suddenly without warning, halted clinical trials involving more than 3,000 patients worldwide, some of them in the uk, saying this drug does not work. well, now it's analysed more data and it's said for patients with early alzheimer's, on the higher doses, it does bring significant clinical benefits, slowing their cognitive decline and allowing them to preserve more of their memory, language skills and ability to do things like wash and dress themselves. we've got to be cautious because scientists haven't seen all of the data yet. but if it does work, it would be the fir

this channing train takes visitors on a tour of go away city in the west environment it was the brainchild of terry munyon an entrepreneur who relies on tourism he's worried about had the wrangling over brags it will affect his bottom line thank goodness tourism conference 30 percent over 30 percent of our shores and trade in art so i think that's one thing we don't want. experts fear that a disorderly brags that could lead to the loss of some 10000 jobs in the irish tourism sector ireland's west coast has traditionally been a popular holiday destination for the british many holiday homes here but now that sector is beginning to feel the effects of bragg's it. probably this. is loosing students depression too so this is good go but it's all you do. those people who were. dismissed because of bruises. how do you. know what we do. many people in the west of ireland earn a living from agriculture and fishing and it's these sectors that could be especially affected one group that's been sounding the alarm is oyster farmers up to now their path to mainland europe has been through britain but th

chan and gay make his google meanwhile target female players age 45 years and june's journey and post peril are some of the biggest titles they're all about finding hidden objects they have cool graphics and a story line the progress is week by week. in the gaming industry still has a lot of white men. we try to hire a range of our workforce is a 3rd female and from 40 different countries with a bucket. of nazi one hamburg based startup wrench your brain is also tapping into new target audiences they create video games that can be played without a joystick or controller instead players use gestures to control the game which is thought to stimulate the brain. to be asked to calmly not so long combining majority neural physiological and cognitive challenges and memories that's what we're trying to achieve that is optimal for therapy and prevention. and so on. and so it seems that keeping physically and mentally fit through gaming has proven not only to be great fun but also to be a successful business. so what is it that makes the game a success it definitely helps if developers create

tenure chan is among a number of pro-democracy lawmakers challenging the emergency during cool she says it gives chief executive kerry lam unlimited power to impose what she calls tarion measures this is a very very dangerous situation it's really taking away our freedoms our human rights and it's a pure violation of one country 2 systems and our basic laws so no more separation of powers even legislature is under the control of. the room a male is now in eva tried many paranoid about what could come next possibilities range from extending how long the rest of protesters can be detained for to restricting access to communication networks and a curfew measures whose reach would extend far beyond the protests on the streets with much of the was violence taking place late into the evening police the pushing for khaki in particular that many of the entertainment industry wanted that to take and even grates a toll on the business. and restaurants already suffering. with locals and tourists alike often prefer to keep away. one industry insider tells me a curfew would put even more jobs at ris

i think it's everything channing fairs and i make a muslim. school much different culture between here and there challenging for if. it is from the same i think it was worth it for me to come to germany. and got my license to work as a swimming instructor. for an hour and 2 children $100.00 just random stuff just to see. what's your story take part charity on info migrants dot. com. welcome to news from world of oz and culture here's what's coming up in the next quarter of an eye the abstract expressionist office leigh krasnow is celebrated in a special exhibition that opens this weekend in frankfurt. and in our series baking bread it's a finnish speciality that's almost as flat as a pancake and yet rather reminiscent of it done. but we begin with an animated film which deals with events surrounding the full of the burden wall which of course started to crumble with the monday demonstrations in light sea exactly 30 years ago fritzy a revolutionary tale is based on a book by hannah shops who felt compelled to write it when she discovered that c

i'm melissa chan and this is news asia thank you for joining us pakistan plans to tighten its control of internet activity through a nationwide web control system news outlet code a story says it's gained exclusive access to documents showing that islamic jihad contracted a canadian company called san divine to help build the system the surveillance infrastructure would monitor all of the country's incoming and outgoing internet traffic. very own marley was one of the reporters who worked with coda story on the investigation over tell us a little bit more about what you found. you know so i would start with thing that this is unprecedented move in pakistan in this current environment. and the system in general aims that curbing their traffic which some experts say might also include encrypted messaging services like what. and also the. equipment provided by saying one is capable of directing and blocking the internet traffic in real time meaning the government can essentially intercept the internet address figure at any point and can do anything with it. previously in egypt and. in fa

i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us we start with china where often we've looked at how beijing polices its own citizens online activities but the country has growing digital power beyond its borders we saw that recently when pro china bots and users campaigned against american basketball executive who tweeted his support to hong kong protesters we know china is actively trying to influence the upcoming elections in taiwan and a few weeks ago facebook and twitter announced they took down thousands of state coordinated china backed pages accounts meant to influence public opinion facebook's mark zuckerberg pledged to be vigilant this week he said we face increasingly sophisticated attacks from nation states like russia iran and china but i'm confident we're more prepared. beijing was asked about these accusations including whether china might be influencing the u. s. elections the foreign ministry denied doing anything wrong but what you this young national i think this is absurd and lovable china has never interfered in the internal affairs of other countri

i'm melissa chan you're watching news asia thank you for joining us india officially changes the status of kashmir today thursday it is now no longer in autonomous state and instead has been split into 2 federally controlled territories one is called jadwin kashmir and the other is le duc. indian prime minister narendra modi made the decision back in august since that announcement the region's been under lockdown with no internet local politicians arrested and limited information filtering out some of what we know is coming unexpectedly from european visitors. indian administered kashmir news of the european lawmakers imminent arrival sparked angry protests across the region 3 months into delhi security lockdown tensions remain at boiling point. more than 80 days of protests but no one's paying attention people are getting killed slaughtered everything is closed there's a communications lockdown. in delhi the any peace will welcome personally by prime minister narendra modi sponsored by an obscure think tank the group was dominated by far right deputies the e.u.'s stressed this is not a

i'm melissa chan here watching d.w. news asia thank you for joining us the investigation continues into the deaths of 39 people found in a truck in the u.k. prosecutors say they were victims of a global ring of human traffickers by now we know they came from asia we don't know much more you may remember that early reports said they might be chinese next they might be vietnamese asia is where much of modern slavery in the world takes place almost $25000000.00 people in asia are victims of slavery that's 6 for every 1066 percent of them go into forced labor. burger and india china and pakistan have the highest absolute numbers of slaves but southeast asia sees a lot of activity poor job prospects natural disasters and military conflicts there are all factors behind waves of displaced people and migrants for more we have rachel smith with the human trafficking foundation with us rachel tell us what you know about human trafficking to the u.k. from asia let's start with china that's where investigators were looking at from

i'm melissa chan you're watching d.w. news asia thank you for joining us well it might be fridays for a future but it's wednesdays for women on the program today our stories all feature women as a theme in some way we start with climate change in china how the country decides to tackle its environmental problems will determine the direction of the global climate crisis correspondent mathias bolinger tags along with one student there who understands the urgency. whenever she can we know this it's the flower market in the city of we need with her pocket money she buys 3 seedlings to plant in the surrounding area. its head contribution to the wood whites writings. if you to protest how we joined the movement 4 months ago china's 1st climate strife. was on the trail of planting trees is something that's easy to do and something that's possible to promote in china will tell you also inspired by young people around the world how you started demonstrating in front of the nope the government offices she was soon as quoted away by

so let's get more of this from the doctors the sherry chan who's been covering the protests well sherry process is as we saw in the report they're clearly not happy about these new emergency measures right so there is a really huge anger in the society after the end non-student of this law because this emergency law that the government is using is actually a color new iraq emergency law it was established in 1922 and hasn't been used for more than 50 years and so this law can actually let the chief executive to bypass and the legislative process to pass that she says necessary and so there are many sectors in the society who are actually criticizing the use of this law human rights organizations law makers and even. lawyers course they also can. so. if we do what she likes and doesn't have to refer to anyone if she uses this law to act other laws she basically can bypass the legislature write this talk about the mosque in particular because this is this house caused a particular. amongst people because in hong kong many protests using a face mask to protect themselves to stop themselves

i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us the european parliament has awarded its prestigious human rights award the soccer prize to iran toady he is the professor and member of the ethnic muslim minority called weekers who mostly live in china beijing has gone after this group putting an estimated 1000000 of them according to the u.n. in detention camps yes you heard that right detention camps it's the largest internment of people since world war 2 toady is serving a life sentence he probably doesn't even know he's won this award china says he's a separatist but what he said and what he tried to do was simply to convey the feelings weekers had about how china was running the territory where most of them live. maybe they will in the time when we have no representative no newspaper of our own eyes as i thought what can ordinary people do when they encounter in justice o'shanter from some of them will fight resist. even though why a person violence i believe there will be more and more violent resistance by ordinary people if government policies don't change. peter e

pre-match controversy and an early shock in the game to beat estonia 3 nil after just 14 minutes and chan was sent off the fastest red card in germany's history but 2 goals from. the one set up a 3 male victory to those 2 germany players with turkish roots had caused a minor controversy before the match and even kicked off like an instagram post depicting turkish national team players who were celebrating a goal with a tribute to turkey's military operation against kurds in syria jan i'm going to one later unlike the post and issued statements denying any political support. formula one now and valtteri bottas has eased to victory at the japanese grand prix in susan the fins victory secures a 6th straight constructors title for his mercedes team. the race weekend had been disrupted by typhoon hug abyss with qualifying also taking place on sunday. ferrari's the best in federal start and pull position but it was mercedes driver valtteri bottas who made a blistering start the finn went from 31st by the 1st corner trouble quickly ensued of the sukkah circuit there always charlie clare collided

i'm melissa chan and welcome to news asia thanks for joining us we started japan and the in throne and of emperor not a veto back in may his father had abdicated the 1st abdication for the country in 2 centuries and the son had succeeded to the throne it turns out that was just the 1st step and a multi-step process a very ceremonial and traditional affair on tuesday a bigger event attended by royalty from around the world took place. and he is revealed. sitting on the throne quite literally. followed by his wife and christmas also in that is a separate ghalia those invited to attend mostly watched from a distance only a few people were actually permitted in the state room to see hear his proclamation . sucking. i inherited imperial status based on jeff uneasy constitution. as well as on japanese imperial household law. i hereby proclaim in and outside of the country so that all i have in throwing like i say made. japan's prime minister shinzo ave is and it welcomed not a veto to the throne. she. turned going to come under. god. 2 so what do we know about and her and the truth is not to

no make a tanya chan is one of her mom's most vocal critics she later told t w that the chief executives time is up well absolutely absolutely i don't think she can still get her all call and and after all this models we can clearly see her incapability and so i think that very 1st step for all to go forward to go forward it's her it's for her to resign as soon as possible. as night fell yet more cause for anger jimmy sham a prominent protest organizer was left bleeding in the streets after at least 4 men reportedly attacked him with hammers. is supposed to say the assault was politically motivated they have vowed to carry on their protest. police in bulgaria have arrested 6 football fans following monday's euro 2020 qualification much in severe joining the match and when players were subject to racist abuse with incidents of monkey chants a nazi salutes police have so far identified 15 supposed to still to been involved the incident course ahead of the country's football association to announce his resignation european football's governing body you wife has got to issue a punishment as

no make it tanya chan is one of her mom's most vocal critics she later told t w that the chief executives time is up well absolutely absolutely i don't think she can still get her whole call and and after all this models we can clearly see her incapability and so i think that that's very 1st step all to go forward to go forward it's her it's for her to resign as soon as possible. as night fell yet more cause for anger jimmy sham a prominent protest organizer was left bleeding in the streets after at least 4 men reportedly attacked him with hammers. he supposed to say the assault was politically motivated they have vowed to carry on their protest. and will take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world the european union's new commission headed by germany's former defense minister as for the from the alliance will not stop work a shadow on the 1st of november european parliament vetoed 3 of the nominated commissioners france romania and hug he will now each have to propose a new canvas. thousands of pro independence activists from across spain's catalonia region of m

i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us 5 months of protests in hong kong have turned increasingly violent but if you wonder whether that's not declining support for those demanding more civil liberties take a look tens of thousands of young and old alike turned out on sunday and in what has become a familiar sight police responded with water cannon trucks this one loaded with blue dye in what officials say was an accident as one hit the city's main mosque forcing an apology from hong kong leader kerry lamb. that's the latest out of hong kong and through it all the message from protesters have stayed the same they do not have seps the growing influence of beijing and they want to keep the freedoms they currently have. chosen tilt followed one man who's become a bit of a fixture at protests. at a.t.t. few could match his status but uncle wally is driven by own sense of responsibility . for this we moved to canada in tear gas on one side. and petrol bombs on the other. he doesn't shy away. instead he deschutes towards the front lines for morning until night weeken