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
Are preparing to go to the polls to vote in a referendum on whether to replace the countrys pinochet era constitution the present constitution is considered by many to prevent social progress and justice the vote comes after a year of mass and rest against social inequality. A suicide bombing in afghanistans capital kabul has killed at least 18 people and wounded many more the interior Ministry Says the blast struck an Educational Center in a Western District of the city the socalled Islamic State militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack. This is d. W. News from bolen follow us on twitter and instagram at news or this is our website w dot com. Org. For. This week on the world stories. British sheep farmers fear for their livelihoods. Dangerous apportions in kenya but we begin in the south caucasus where han conflict between armenia and azerbaijan continued this week despite a cease fire the 2 nations from the former soviet union are involved in a dispute over the not go
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Of low pressure working its way gcioss of low pressure working its way across the uk today. Thats going to bring some very strong winds, with just potentially up to 80 mph for parts of southern england. Some heavy rain and the forecast as well. Ill have all the details in the next half an hour. It is saturday 2 november. Our top story the wait is almost over. In just a few hours time, england will take on south africa in a historic Rugby World Cup final injapan. Thousands of england fans have made the journey to the stadium in yokohama, with millions more expected to watch and listen to the game here. It is the first time england have reached the final since 2007. Adam wild reports. It is the games guest prize. Both england and south africa knowjust what victory feels like. Both desperate to go there again. The teams of 2019 now carry that weight of hope and of expectation. England, on the other side of the world, with a chance to showjust how far they have come. Weve had four years to
The stuff on visas and on that must have been stefan han caught in chriss mother was informed that chris had been shot we were stunned it was inconceivable to us we were all so young 192021 we didnt think that this kind of thing was still possible in 1989 and 7 r. T. Hostile to snitch maneuvers. In. Places prisoners can and me chris really like going to the scene i can imagine that when youre young and youre standing so close to the water that youre able to give your dreams a lot more room to wander on. And that the sun has enough of it out when he saw pictures of america or heard any kind of coverage about america then he always said he wanted to go there and see this incredibly vast country he started saying that when he was only 12 he felt that there was so much diversity over there which just wasnt the case in small confined east germany. Felt so i think he was 14 or 15 when he repeated this feeling and i told him that i didnt think he would be able to do that because he wouldnt be