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World Service coming to you live from London I'm Julian Marshall in a moment the trade war between Japan and South Korea is hotting up that's our top story this hour also to come it's been answered Saudi women will be allowed to travel internationally without the express says so of their male relatives spot will those who campaigned for the change be freed from incarceration We'll speak to the researcher who's concluded that frailty isn't an unavoidable symptom of age but a treatable medical syndrome and ahead of planned pro-democracy protests this weekend in Moscow we sit down with one of the opposition activists who's been barred from running for local government sparking mass protests and arrests so this is. Really really people don't understand why they can't elect their own candidate even to a local parliament the country's all this political crisis by putting people behind bars only by giving people their rights at elections but. More from the increasingly turned streets of Moscow in the 2nd half of the program. We will not be defeated again South Korea's president warned Japan today as the trade dispute intense supply between 2 countries that were once wartime foes but are now America's 2 biggest allies in Asia and in response to Japan's decision to remove Seoul from its list of trusted trade part those South Korea has taken the same decision on Japan and also says that it's reviewing whether to continue sharing military information with Tokyo the crisis in relations between the 2 countries is rooted in historical grievances Last year South Korean courts ordered Japanese firms to pay compensation for forced labor during the 2nd World War and that troubled history has led to a number of protests on the streets of Seoul as our correspondent Laura picker reports. The scene Touche here above the music is the thought and flak of a South Korean man smashing his own Japanese car. This is the level of anger and defiance some South Koreans feel after took you a slap to trade restrictions on so. He's not alone in his community side the Japanese embassy protest a slap a fiction's a Labby with kimchee the safety and delicacy made with fermented cabbage the trade spat has also prompted thousands of South Koreans to boycott Japanese goods. Hundreds of items have been taken off supermarket shelves sales of Japanese beer are dying by 60 percent in some markets it's on the sofa took a good sort on the Japan took action and as a Korean citizens we should act fast as well so we haven't been using any Japanese product we're going to talk about what if when they do you know we often used to go on vacation to Panama but now we don't we've even recently canceled a trip to Japan. This dispute has its roots in historical grievances and decades of distrust after the Japanese occupation of Korea. I mean a prison which the Japanese built in saw all the occupied this country from 101010 1000945 they use this prison to silence dissent and crush those who spoke 8 against imperial Japan in a tiny cell it was made to hold several people you can just go limbs out the window and through the bars if you stand on your tiptoes there also torture rooms in this prison it is a time that South Koreans have never forgotten and more importantly they've never forgiven. Tens of thousands of Koreans were forced to work in Japanese mines and steel mills with a page in the 2nd world war they say they were treated as sleeves by to kill. Footage taken by the Japanese for propaganda shows young underweight Korean men deep underground collecting call for to kill is war effort Japan been tains these issues were resolved by a treaty signed in 1965 the Japanese government paid $800000000.00 in aid and loans for its wartime atrocities some just don't want to hear. The why but a Supreme Court ruling in saw last year overturned part of that accord and decided workers and their families were old compensation 96 year old Legion seek is one of the few survivors from that time regular. War They told us that we study and learn technologies from Japan but when we went there was no study just doing a lot of hard manual labor. I've had to move heavy steel from one cargo to another It was arduous work I sweat it so much. The company told me to continue to stay in Japan and work for them but I couldn't stay it was so hard and hard work harder more than good. Says Korea believes Tokyo is trade restrictions are a form of targeted for television for the court orders could you know you know if you can says this is not true they say it's not about historical deference says but about protecting national security. They fit some of souls biggest industries such as Samsung who rely on Japan for essential supplies to produce many chips and other components vital for smartphones laptops and t.v. Screens the pain won't just be felt here it could repl through global tech supply chains and that me prompt America to step in. The stable relations between Japan and South Korea former pillar of u.s. Influence in Asia with no end in sight to this growing dispute Washington may be the only voice both sides are willing to listen to. Or a bigger reporting while the United States has for months been largely publicly silent about this dispute between its 2 allies who have both been lobbying Washington for its support but this week u.s. Secretary of state Mike Pompei o said he'd be urging both countries to ease tensions in meetings with his Japanese and South Korean counterparts at an Asian regional conference Christopher Hill was the u.s. Ambassador to South Korea Iran George w. Bush he's on the line now and Mr Hill as we heard from Laura because bad this dispute has its origins in history but why is it got so bad at the moment well it sure does have its origins in history but I think it's a function of the sort of fraught times that we live in and certainly much more. Sort of nationalist feeling in the United States I won't comment on what's going on in the u.k. These days but this is kind of a worldwide phenomena and I think the issue is it has gradually gotten worse I mean when I was in Korea when I served there in the eighty's as a junior officer in the American embassy you hardly heard about this but when I came back as ambassador in 2004 it was really front and center and whenever we had these 33 way meetings with the Japanese and Koreans I ended up kind of refereeing problems there so the problem does continue to grow I think obviously it needs to calm down and what is especially worrisome now is it spilled into the economic area I mean economic integration between Korea and Japan was always a very positive development but now that it's becoming on ravelled And I think to some extent that's a function of the the way the u.s. Has tried to exert leadership in the world which is to bring economic issues into everything and use economic issues as cudgels against the others so I'm not surprised that it's now into this fraught situation and I do believe the u.s. Does have to be active on this I think our interests are very much engaged in that in that relationship in Northeast Asia she would be a oversimplistic to say the president chomps America 1st policy has perhaps fueled this trade dispute between Japan and South Korea you know. I don't want to put it in that direction direct terms like that but certainly it does help create an atmosphere and many a country whether you know you pick a stamp whatever country has been saying well why not us 1st so this kind of rhythm has been picked up and I think it's fair to say it's very much infected this longstanding disagreement which does need to be handled over time and does need to be handled with reduced 1010 tempers I mean I served in Poland. For a number of years and Poland and Germany kind of manage this historical relationship and got things better and I think I have you just don't see the same kind of dynamic in Korea and Japan and yet there does need to be something because both countries need each other well the dispute between South Korea and Japan has an economic base but we've had this warning for instance from South Korean national security officials that the military intelligence sharing pact with Japan would be reviewed I mean that's called consequences has it not full for instance the trilateral grouping of Japan South Korea and the United States in their dealings with North Korea that does have consequences obviously the u.s. Is very much in the middle of that and the u.s. Needs to be able to talk to both sides and needs those 2 sides to talk to each other so there's no question this has consequences probably they can manage some of the problems that we see today but if you extract late these problems and if there's a real rupture in the relationship as the South Koreans are suggesting there might be in the intel sharing area I don't think the u.s. Can tolerate this but at the same time I just don't see the u.s. That's too excited about dealing with this prospect try to calm them down try to trying to get them to focus on issues of common concern such as North Korea because every time they have these trilateral as they end up a very fractious event so I think it's something that the u.s. Is going to have to spend there really kind of push it up to the top of the list the problems that we could see Secretary pop pale kind of reluctantly decide illegal this in Bangkok at the. Meetings but I think it's going to have to be something that the u.s. Takes off and makes very clear to both sides you've got to sort this out it will help you do so how would the previous administration have. So with this well you know it's not so much what you say in private and public it's what's you say in private I mean I spent a lot of time in this relationship I remember when we had the tsunami. Down in Indonesia I went to the Korean president to try to get him to agree to take Korean supplies put them on a Japanese ship protect Japanese supplies and put them on a Korean ship and it was very difficult but we pushed on them every time we saw them we pushed on them to try to work these things out and I think in diplomacy a lot of what you try to do is kind of a level of effort you're trying to say to the parties concerned look this is a big deal for us and our relationship with you one of the either of the parties could be affected by how you deal with this this problem so work it out and when you establish a level of effort when you show the Koreans and the Japanese the chief Washington is pretty upset about how we're handling this we better calm down and figure 'd out how to do it I think you could get some improvement but the cement astray she has just been so challenged in the ability just a field a few diplomats little solve a few problems Mr Hill many thanks snappers Christopher Hill who was the u.s. Ambassador to South Korea on the George w. Bush. Coming up we'll be reporting from Maryland in the United States where despite government assistance many still have to rely on food banks to get by you still want to be able to give them breakfast lunch and dinner. And when you can't and the child is telling you they're still hungry that hurts that hurts a lot because that's the part that makes me cry that I can't give to the will and I have a thing or pair I've done with out so that my kids would have. And that report in full later in this edition of News headlines though this saw these from the b.b.c. News from a Swedish judge's order to the u.s. Rapper Rocky to be freed from custody pending the verdict in his trial on assault charges that officials of the Democratic Republic of Congo's say any about HAARP of the cases in the current outbreak of being identified. You're listening to the b.b.c. World Service I'm Julian Marshall and this is news our governor in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo remains on a job to be confirmation on Thursday at the 4th case of a bola in what is a densely populated city the disease has so far killed more than $1800.00 people but instability a distrustful population and dozens of bombed groups mean that a year on from the start of the outbreak it is not being beaten now in a tour a province one of the regions affected there's a new threat into common of violence has created a growing displacement crisis more than 300000 people have fled their homes with many sheltering in makeshift camps one massacre took place in June and the 2nd of her series of reports the B.B.C.'s seen erratic a correspondent and sorry reports on the 2 threats now facing local people. Was I'm walking around come for displaced people in Roy just next to the Ugandan border it's about as kilometers to look Culbert and this is a company about $18000.00 people in the community that was displaced after the massacre in June and. The right historical hostilities between the 2 dominated groups here and the latest flare up pledge today my circle for more than a 100 people and the displacement of over 100000 President Moi girl was immobile a lost my husband and 2 children we ran and hid in the forest until soldiers came to listen to us a dissident 1st one what security the government should confess keep the guns the attackers have those who want to join the army should do surely they should lead us to go back to our land to build our homes and farm was that. During the day they took on discord from the national army back into the farms to have this whatever they can some a steal ambushed and killed there but those who are able to carry whatever they can harvest quickly and come back to the company before it's dark. So there was a house here. It was totally burnt. And in many of the holes there were some dead bodies militia head from the Bangladeshi u.n. Peacekeeping force is showing me round one of the scenes of the massacre we're walking now in the middle of a village the trolls razed to the ground as of big village and that's where the mosque gravies with about 9 crosses but you say that there could be mobility is buried there in that time there was a massacre here so. Initially they try to dig a small trenches and days to bury so. We can count here there are 9 gravy or so but it should be disabused to be more so more than 49 bodies I can see some people have come back Is it Ok to talk to them. Thank you. I can see the assaulting beings. That just being we knowing them though. You know. My name is Jim. We had fled from this village but living elsewhere is difficult there's no food and there. Was that was. There are many children playing around me and then 5 minutes is just a huge risk for everyone here I don't know what I'm standing outside a big kind of dismissed the whole we're just next to General Hospital here in Bunia I'm told there are more than 10000 people here it is crowded and more people are arriving in front of me you can see a crowd of easily hundreds of people waiting for the tunnel to be registered they're fleeing from conflict but the environment here is also risky about a 100 meters from where I am is the Ebola transit center that's where people suspected of being infected kept well they are tested for the decisions the plans to relocate to come but I can see more people arriving here the more immediate risk for them is fighting How do you turn away such people. That he says and Sawyer that report from it Turi province in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. How much would you be prepared to pay for a cup of tea or rather the tea leaves who boil up to make a cup or as much as $2035.00 for a kilo or rather 2 killers because that's the price that just being paid for red tea from Assam called my John Orthodox Golden a world record price at an auction in India but why did it cost so much and does the taste merit the price James Pogson is the director of Northern team merchants in the u.k. Based in Chesterfield So why does this tea cost so much. Simply because if its rarity different factors affect the value of that flavor the quality of the leaves is always the 1st thing but the problems and the exclusivity of it also affect the price significantly which is why we seeing the prime suspect at this auction that we have done and this particular t. I understand any a limited amount was harvested That's correct and thus it's a very if you think about it it's a very very good way of making sure that you can get the best possible price for it for u.t. By producing just a small quantity we see this in several other trades as well it's done in coffee or even seen it done with chocolate as well but how well what is this tea case like I mean have you have you ever had any Well I've bought it from the some company for many years now we have that we have some of that some of that very good quality Santis that go into my own plans. But these little exclusive locks the thing is in the u.k. We're a bit peculiar because we've never run out of tea we've always had lots of it and we tend to drink 95 percent of the u.k. Market is actually t. Box black tinting box which I'm tech Spencer and the prices for those it's written by the supermarkets but when you get to these lovely Orthodox teas Orthodox by the way means a largely a large wildly. Rolled by hand in this case then you know you did release a whole different set flavors