. >> translator: the people of myanmar are not the only oneses in need of prahita.nk it's important for all those to have a with benevolent heart. >> reporter: 15 years after its founding, it remains committed to helping myanmar's poor and through the principal of prahita, they continue to sew the seeds of a new society. >> this week, global 3000 heads to china. a new app is creating a stir at lunchtime, bringing old favorites to the table. we find out more. in peru we look for one of the amazon's largest fish. how many are left and why do they need protecting? but first we go to russia, a country battling a huge drugs problem. nowhere on earth is more heroin consumed than here. the u.n. estimates that 4,700 tons of raw opium were produced worldwide last year. illegally. morphine is extracted from it. and that in turn is used to create 327 tons of pure heroin. a smokeable variety is also from the raw opium.

. >> translator: the people of myanmar are not the only oneses in need of prahita.nk it's important for all those to have a with benevolent heart. >> reporter: 15 years after its founding, it remains committed to helping myanmar's poor and through the principal of prahita, they continue to sew the seeds of a new society. >>> hello there, welcome to nhk "newsline." it is thursday september 15th, 9:00 a.m., i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. people in southern china are hunkering down as the most powerful storm of the year pushes forward. officials have raised their alert over typhoon meranti to the highest level. the storm made landfall in fujian province of leaving a dozen people injured in taiwan. it continue s thrash the island. strong winds pummeled a shipyard and on the streets, a person riding a scooter