Melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us south korean boy band b t as has fans around the world and their stardom scenes unstoppable except it might come to a sudden halt because of south koreas mandatory military service where theyd spend 18 months out of the spotlight training for potential war on the Korean Peninsula fans say they should be exempt while others say they need to do their duty frank smith reports. So korean boy band b. T. S. Reigns supreme over billboard charts as their fans their army fallen over their good looks and slick moves but as they move through their twenties an ominous obligation approaches a minimum one and a half years mandatory military Service Required of every healthy south korean male between 18 and 28. The issue of mandatory military service for entertainers like b. T. S. Is complicated by the fact that high achieving south korean athletes have seen their army obligations reduced after winning a gold medal in the 2800 games soccer st
Question we have to leave it there unfortunately the head of the regional asserted center of Foreign Policy think tank in yeah that armenia thank you. Thank you. Another victim of the Global Pandemic has been press Freedom Journalists have been harassed arrested for reporting on the spread of the virus while some governments have introduced the laws punishing those who share information that doesnt support the official government like muzzling the press can also endanger public health. Behind the mosque of corona virus censorship spreads journalists around the world have come under attack for reporting on the pandemic it started in china where citizen journalists dared to deviate from the official narrative. Images of overstretched hospitals in which hundreds of viruses right in front of me are chinas criminal prosecutors are behind me im not afraid of death do you think im afraid of you coming this party of china or possibly going well. Chang she should wear disappeared in february an
Smog well take a closer look. Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us south korean boy band b t as has fans around the world and their stardom scenes unstoppable except it might come to a sudden halt because of south koreas mandatory military service where they spend 18 months out of the spotlight training for potential war on the Korean Peninsula fans say they should be exempt while others say they need to do their duty frank smith reports. So korean boy band b. T. S. Reigns supreme over billboard charts as their fans their army fallen over their good looks and slick moves but as they move through their twenties an ominous obligation approaches a minimum one and a half years mandatory military Service Required of every healthy south korean male between 18 and 28. The issue of mandatory military service for entertainers like b. T. S. Is complicated by the fact that high achieving south korean athletes have seen their army obligations reduced after winning a gold m
And finally this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. When the u. S. Sanctions were violated we enforced with the u. N. Sanctions are violated were going to do everything we can to enforce them if. The u. S. Formally request all u. N. Sanctions on iran to be restored accusing to iran of violating the 2015 need clear deal Major International powers are not on board. South koreas most famous boy band strikes a jarring note asked members are accused of trying to dodge Compulsory Military Service to the. U. S. President ial nominee joe biden has struck a tone of hope and unity on the final day of the Democratic National convention he has formally accepted his partys nomination for president promising to over. Come a season of darkness in the United States biden said the us is more than just a collection of red and blue states and promised to represent all americans also a keys President Trump a failing to lead and failing to protect the current president s cloaked american darkness
A blistering attack on donald trump by the new official democratic candidate for President Joe Biden. And draft dodgers or an inspiration for a nation why south korean pop stars are causing controversy of a Compulsory Military Service. Im joined again with the sports nearly a year after it began footballs Europa League is set to reach its conclusion after a coronavirus hit season with 5 time champion severe taking on into man for the trophy. The batteries in the opposition candidate is calling for more mass protests to keep up the pressure on president Alexander Lukashenko said lana to kind of sky own schooling is leading the call rather for the president s resignation theres been demonstrations for 12 Straight Days including some of the biggest antigovernment rallies in minsk since the fall of the soviet union the kind of sky fed to lithuania after the election which see she says was rigged against her. People in batteries today are being beaten just for expressing their opinion peopl