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Why does Japan have so few children? – BBC News
Japan’s number of children has been reported to be at its lowest since 1950.
There are just 14.6 million children in the nation under the age of 14, according to figures from Japan’s internal affairs ministry.
Japan’s falling birth rate and high life expectancy is putting pressure on public spending and resulting in labour shortages.
The BBC’s population correspondent Stephanie Hegarty reports.
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As the world watches the aftermath of devastating floods in Nepal, journalist Anup Kaphle has been asking a difficult question: When does coverage of a natural disaster cross from rightful global concern into spectacle?
Kaphle is the group editorial director of Kantipur Media Group, Nepal’s largest media organisation. He’s also a native of Nepal. After more than two decades working for American newsrooms, he returned to his home country with a mission to help tell Nepal’s story for the people who live there. Now, he finds himself confronting one of the greatest challenges of his career: helping Nepalis understand the full scale of the flooding and its impact on their lives, at a moment when international attention is focused on the most dramatic accounts.
Asma Khalid, co-host of The Global Story, speaks with Kaphle about the ongoing humanitarian efforts, the potential long-term impact of the disaster on Nepalis, and why he worries that the international community will soon turn its attention away from Nepal.
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0:00 How is Nepal covering its devastating floods?
4:24 Why is international coverage so different?
7:07 Are foreign victims getting too much attention?
9:40 When does disaster coverage become a spectacle?
10:26 Is climate change making Nepal more vulnerable?
13:25 Why Nepal’s geography makes recovery difficult
16:57 What does the disaster mean for Nepal’s tourism industry?
19:54 Can international attention actually help Nepal?
22:33 Can Nepal’s new government rebuild after the disaster?
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Nepal flood survivors are rescued from a tunnel and other top news stories | Global News Podcast
Rescue crews in Nepal have saved two workers from a blocked hydropower tunnel, nine days after they were trapped by debris from flash floods. An advisor to the rescue operation has describes it has “layer upon layer of layer of miracles”.
About 40 people are believed to still be trapped in the tunnel. Flooding along the Nepal-Tibet border last week has left almost 1,300 people dead, and more than 5,000 missing.
Also in the Global News Podcast:
05:15 Britain’s right-wing Reform party says it’s investigating, after two officials – including a senior aide to leader Nigel Farage – were filmed appearing to suggest ways of getting round electoral laws which ban foreign funding
09:15 Two Palestinian teenagers are killed in an incursion by Jewish settlers and Israeli soldiers in the West Bank
12:29 False claims of “genital theft” have led to dozens of killings across Africa
16:29 Volkswagen says it will cut another 50,000 jobs by 2030
18:26 Psychiatrists in New Zealand are authorised to prescribe MDMA – the active ingredient in Ecstasy – to some patients
The Global News Podcast brings you the best of the BBC’s news coverage and analysis from around the world.
You can watch us on YouTube every weekday – and find the audio version wherever you get your podcasts.
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Accusations of foreign interference have been making headlines this week.
Elon Musk’s X alleges that China has been stirring up a backlash against American data centres.
Israel and Russia have denied allegations from Spain’s prime minister that they’re partly to blame for the migrant crisis in Ceuta.
And Germany has accused Russia of being behind a spate of drone attacks at a German airport. Vladimir Putin has dismissed those claims and accused Germany of a‘ false flag’ operation.
We speak to the BBC’s social media investigations correspondent, Marianna Spring to examine the evidence and ask whether foreign interference is really to blame in every case, or if it is just a convenient scapegoat.
0:00 Introduction to the episode
1:48 Why is Elon Musk/X accusing China of misinformation surrounding data centres
5:33 How do bot farms work?
8:00 Why does Elon Musk even care?
8:53 The Ceuta migrant crisis and Spain’s critique of Isreal and Russia
12:23 Mirage content and how that encouraged people to go to Ceuta
13:36 So why is Spain involving Isreal and Russia?
17:09 Why is it beneficial for a leader to accuse another country of foreign interference?
18:27 Germany’s blames Russia for airport drone attack
21:11 What do we know about Russia’s alleged campaigns of foreign intervention?
24:33 Which operation is more beneficial to Russia in the long run?
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Gangs who illegally smuggle people to UK running low on small boats, investigation finds | BBC News
A BBC investigation has found criminal groups who illegally smuggle people to the UK across the English Channel are running low on small boats.
Gang members have told BBC sources that rival factions are now having to work together to load migrants on fewer, larger vessels. They’re also charging them more.
The number of crossings is currently at a six-year-low and UK ministers have credited the French police for intercepting more attempts.
The BBC’s Paris Correspondent James Waterhouse has looked at how the people smugglers are being forced to adapt.
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@user-go2ux5td4i
December 18, 2023 at 6:10 am
Capitalism
@lemonade8370
December 18, 2023 at 6:10 am
as a japanese hs student, i’m scared of my future. i don’t want kids because i’m going to b expected to take care of them + do household chores yet still have to work. my mom did so much of domestic work and my dad did literally nothing. so yeah, i’d understand why japan is suffering from ageing population lmao
@vangu2918
December 18, 2023 at 6:10 am
Women are getting smarter about bearing to load in their society just lije everywhere else in the world.
@rumaisakhan3492
December 18, 2023 at 6:10 am
Ya-Rehman ya-Raheem Ya-Rehman ya-Raheem Ya-Rehman ya-Raheem Ya-Rehman
@merlion6613
December 18, 2023 at 6:10 am
Why would anyone want to have children if the mother has almost zero chance of getting back into their field of specialities after giving birth? Vast majority of women in Japan have university degrees and establish their professional success despite still a very much male-dominant society. Then it gets snatched away in an instance just because you get pregnant. Unless the mentality and social support change and true vision for women to succeed flourishes, less and less women will want to have children. No brainer.
@zacharydeco2007
December 18, 2023 at 6:10 am
I volunteer myself as tribute. Send me to Japan.
@eigelgregossweisse9563
December 18, 2023 at 6:10 am
No, not work stress, etc- it's because of the social problems themselves. People keep saying its financial instability- 50%, but the other 50% is to do with how consumeristic and brutal the young generation is. Their sociability is a hive minded culture. So when you can't achieve these standards, Japan is brutal in that regards about dropping you like a hot pot… Japanese people also don't show kindness too.
@JuuliusSeizure
December 18, 2023 at 6:10 am
I mean shii i wouldn't wanna bring a child into this shitty world either🤷♂️
@KuddlesbergTheFirst
December 18, 2023 at 6:10 am
Even if the economy was doing well there is NTR and framing people. Folks don't want relationship or marriage unless they are certain nowadays?
@nette9836
December 18, 2023 at 6:10 am
Gang, it isn't some wild phenomenon. It is very simple, older generations have created a culture of expensiveness, greed, and lack of opportunity. People do not reproduce on unfavorable conditions. Simple. Maybe, actually listen to younger people?
@bobbysands6923
December 18, 2023 at 6:10 am
Yalda is the most gorgeous woman on the planet…
@ivangoryachev1741
December 18, 2023 at 6:10 am
On this day, the United States of America dropped nuclear bombs on Japanese cities. This is the most terrible war crime in the entire history of mankind. And this crime was carried out by the USA. This is the most important enemy of humanity today!!!
@matthewnggametime2537
December 18, 2023 at 6:10 am
Because they keep eating sashimi
@mohdnazrien2288
December 18, 2023 at 6:10 am
I need to go there to make child
@theultimatereductionist7592
December 18, 2023 at 6:10 am
Because they are not worth it and don't deserve to reproduce. That's why. Fuck nationalism.
@soton5teve
December 18, 2023 at 6:10 am
BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T ALLOWED GAY ADOPTION, AND SURROGACY YET
@SuperTonyony
December 18, 2023 at 6:10 am
Japan deserves to go extinct. They were allied with the Nazis, for crying out loud.
@sahpem4425
December 18, 2023 at 6:10 am
My Japanese friend has had infertility struggles.😥
@georger6624
December 18, 2023 at 6:10 am
Japan gives a lot of money for a child
@teanchaiploytumthailandsin7116
December 18, 2023 at 6:10 am
thailand
@mif.2156
December 18, 2023 at 6:10 am
japan must ban condom to increase people
@dohminkonoha3200
December 18, 2023 at 6:10 am
Young people are very wise, growing children is just reproducing future slaves for greedy capitalists!
We must unite and destroy capitalism before it kills us all!
@KHEMARIN2233
December 18, 2023 at 6:10 am
I want to have more children to be human resources
@KHEMARIN2233
December 18, 2023 at 6:10 am
I want to have more children to be human resources
@KHEMARIN2233
December 18, 2023 at 6:10 am
I want to have more children to be human resources
@vgchronicle
December 18, 2023 at 6:10 am
I heard there is a problem (not the right work – maybe situation instead) with to many elders and too less births. I don't really know why this happens and if one of the reasons is actually that women want to work instead of taking care of children. But if this is the biggest problem why not make a win win situation out of it. Create a system where old people (that are still fit and able to take care) take care of babies and children. I heard that Japan has special work opportunities for old people. They could build upon that and could give some adavantages for old people that take care of children and create some special jobs for them related to children which are also affordable for families. Maybe more people would want to have children if they knew they could still go to work because someone will take care of them. Mabye that's not the resolution to all of the problems, but it would be a beginning. In the end it's more of a personal thing. Do I want old people to take care of my children? Can I teach my children to be respectful to elders and not be to demanding? If this happened it would shape a whole generation. It's just an outsiders perspective, so I don't know if this would work and if this is even the problem to begin with, just a thought I had…
@prankinjp
December 18, 2023 at 6:10 am
Because living in Japan sucks, that’s all
@marvin6936
December 18, 2023 at 6:10 am
trying to make this a gender issue when men are literally collapsing ob the streets