has been laid to rest. the service took place in the small town of maxville where hughes grew up. he was eulogized by his brother and sister and team australia captain michael clark. he died last week just days shy of his 26th birthday after a freak accident on the pitch in sydney. the ball hit him in the back of the neck just below his helmet. rosemary. all right. to another story we re covering now, a u.s. deadline came and went and japan s takata corporation made no move to expand its air bag recall. some of takata s air bags have been found to explode, potentially shooting shrapnel into people. at least four deaths are linked to the faulty air bags. the current recall is limited to about 4 million cars in warm, humid states. most of them are hondas, takata s biggest customer, but u.s. officials want the recall to go nationwide. and to give you some perspective takata makes about a fifth of all air bags around the world.
meet that sort of demand immediately, rosemary. and, andrew, that s an interesting point. i mean, how likely is it that some of these car manufacturers might, indeed, force takata s hand on that and push for a recall and on another point too, what are car owners supposed to do at this point because the outcome here is no comfort to them, is it? absolutely not. i mean that s the key question. what does the motorists do, not just in the u.s. but around the world if they think or they have a takata air bag and if it s faulty. takata says the humid climates are where it is most likely to trigger this explosion which shoots shrapnel into the body of the driver. that s potentially lethal, of course. what does someone with an air bag actually do and these are the sort of questions that takata is going to be facing when u.s. congress actually a subcommittee meets and actually
talks to the quality control officer at takata. that happens in a few hours from now. suspect that s going to be a pretty robust exchange certainly from the u.s. side as to exactly what they do. what do you do if you have a car and you actually drive it into those warmer, more humid climates, there for a few weeks. dogs that make you more vulnerable and should you be included? all those questions, big, big questions. now, the only thing we hear from takata is what they are planning to do and the boss, ceo said they have a four-point plan but a lot of that is sort of in hindsight looking at what went wrong and as they say they are going to appoint some very senior u.s. actually former u.s. transportation secretaries to help deal with the issues, but as to what takata is going to do, what it s going to tell its people who have its air bag, what it s going to tell the u.s. congress and, indeed, what it s going to do about a national recall, they re still very silent on those issues, ros
the request is that two things here, one, takata is telling us that it s not up to them to call a national recall anyway. it s actually up to the individual automakers. remember, there are now ten automakers involved who use takata air bags so it s up to the automakers themselves to call for a recall and takata says it would support its customers as it calls them in any sort of recall. the other thing too which takata is not saying but which many other analysts are saying is they just can t make enough air bags to satisfy a full national recall. you talk about 4 million in those affected areas. think of the overall numbers, since this has been going on it s been going on now for about ten years, some 14 million cars have been recalled worldwide. so it is an enormous issue. we don t know exactly how many cars a full recall would entail but certainly it does look like it s within takata s ability to
passed to expand its u.s. air bag recall. the recall is currently limited to warm, humid states, but u.s. officials want it nationwide. some takata air bags have been found to explode sending shrapnel into people. at least four deaths have been linked to the air bags. heroin addiction has become an epidemic in myanmar. the country s long been part of asia s golden triangle, one of the continent s major regions of opium production and now church groups are using unconventional methods to try to tackle this massive problem. our senior international correspondent ivan watson joins us now live from hong kong with details on this. ivan, i know access to cheap heroin is part of the problem. what did you find? reporter: well, first of all, the united nations office on drugs and crimes has warned that opium and heroin production has spiked. has grown dramatically in the last two years in myanmar. we traveled to the north of the