:00:00. > :00:00.11.30pm for another look at the stories making the news tomorrow.
:00:00. > :00:41.stories from across the globe. This correspondence to bring you the
:00:41. > :00:43.stories from across the globe. This reports from South Africa on the
:00:43. > :00:50.drug that is wrecking lives and What is staggering is the speed
:00:50. > :00:50.drug that is wrecking lives and which this drug is tearing through
:00:50. > :00:57.society. While we have been filming, people have been coming up to us
:00:57. > :01:18.Karen Allen reports on women being saying they are desperate to get off
:01:18. > :01:19.Karen Allen reports on women being Lisa Williamson finds that in South
:01:20. > :01:30.Korea, weddings and austerity are It is a life wrecking cocktail of
:01:30. > :01:37.heroin, rat poison and all sorts, a new addictive drug on the streets of
:01:37. > :01:43.communities. Add little more than $2 per hit, hundreds of young people
:01:43. > :01:48.are hooked. It is all —— also being blamed for drug—related crime. Last
:01:48. > :01:52.year there were 175,000 reported cases. As will Ross reports, people
:01:52. > :02:06.are calling on the government to do more to tackle this latest drugs
:02:06. > :02:11.drug is called nyaope and contains low grade heroin mixed with all
:02:11. > :02:16.sorts, including rat poison and sometimes crushed up medicine for
:02:16. > :02:22.HIV patients. The white powder is added to marijuana, and addictive
:02:22. > :02:31.life wrecking cocktail. If I don't I hope that one day I will be able
:02:31. > :02:40.to stop taking it and live my life like a normal person. I do not want
:02:40. > :03:14.to feed their habit, he made enemies to go to jail. A better option would
:03:14. > :03:16.to feed their habit, he made enemies who wanted him dead. I was caught by
:03:16. > :03:22.the community and they assaulted me and wanted to burn me with petrol.
:03:22. > :03:35.has her son back and is rebuilding a Not people from far away, but from
:03:35. > :03:36.has her son back and is rebuilding a They don't understand that this
:03:36. > :03:40.has her son back and is rebuilding a destroying the parents more than the
:03:40. > :03:47.child. Every day, do you wonder The South African government says it
:03:47. > :03:54.is doing its best to fight the drug overwhelmed. What is staggering
:03:54. > :03:59.is doing its best to fight the drug the speed at which this drug is
:03:59. > :04:02.filming, people have told us they are desperate to get off the drug
:04:02. > :04:06.nyaope. One teenage girl looked are desperate to get off the drug
:04:06. > :04:15.me and said she had to give up school because she was walked, she
:04:15. > :04:29.was just 14. Here, good Samaritan is lending a hand counselling sessions
:04:29. > :04:37.high—profile people, to children in are losing a generation of young
:04:37. > :04:45.people who would be lost because of Consumed by the urge to fund the
:04:45. > :04:55.next hits, they sell scrap for cash. It is an addiction that is
:04:55. > :04:59.seizing more victims every day. Under the Taliban, women were banned
:04:59. > :05:02.Afghanistan. More than ten years from joining the police force in
:05:02. > :05:07.Afghanistan. More than ten years since they were removed from power,
:05:07. > :05:15.women make up just 1% of the force. police women by the end of next
:05:15. > :05:43.officers were banned under the this unrealistic and set to fail. It
:05:43. > :05:54.they are still a rare sight as they they are still a rare sight as they
:05:54. > :05:57.This lady is among the few who has made it to the front line. Once
:05:57. > :06:04.This lady is among the few who has ran a beauty salon, now she saves
:06:04. > :06:11.I don't think of myself as a woman, I think I am just like my male
:06:11. > :06:15.colleagues, doing the same job. This is the public face of policing
:06:16. > :06:21.in Afghanistan, but the real reality is that just 1% of the officers
:06:21. > :06:24.in Afghanistan, but the real reality women. The governments own targets
:06:24. > :06:34.to get a force of 5000 females by the end of next year is increasingly
:06:34. > :06:39.Afghanistan is growing its police force in the face of insurgent
:06:39. > :06:43.attacks. It is many men that sign up. Illiteracy and cultural taboos
:06:43. > :06:47.explain why few women are putting themselves forward, but so too are
:06:47. > :06:57.fears of sexual abuse in police ranks. 15—year—old told us she would
:06:57. > :07:01.talk if I concealed her identity. When she fled violence at home,
:07:01. > :07:02.talk if I concealed her identity. policeman offered to help. Instead,
:07:02. > :07:11.car and raped her, taking turns policeman offered to help. Instead,
:07:11. > :07:12.his friends. The policeman is now in jail, but other women inside the
:07:12. > :07:24.In terms of sexual abuse of women in jail, but other women inside the
:07:24. > :07:24.In terms of sexual abuse of women in the police, I totally reject that.
:07:25. > :07:31.problems. We have plans to provide However, I accept that we have
:07:31. > :07:43.encourage them to join the police, women with facilities that will
:07:43. > :07:43.encourage them to join the police, policewomen have been killed in
:07:43. > :07:47.targeted attacks, but she has a policewomen have been killed in
:07:47. > :07:51.far more candid about the stigma family to support. At home she
:07:51. > :07:51.far more candid about the stigma that comes with a female doing the
:07:51. > :07:59.I feel very bad and I hate when that comes with a female doing the
:07:59. > :08:08.think negatively of me because I am policewoman or a prostitute is one
:08:08. > :08:16.and the same. Little wonder then that recruitment is proving to be so
:08:16. > :08:20.Weddings and austerity don't go together, especially in South Korea.
:08:20. > :08:25.Even as the country 's impressive pressure to spend on lifestyle and
:08:25. > :08:31.spiralling, especially for that pressure to spend on lifestyle and
:08:31. > :08:35.day. It is estimated that a wedding in South Korea will cost more than
:08:35. > :08:42.$52,000 for each partner, and that is not including the parents, ——
:08:42. > :08:50.contribution. South Korea's new president is keeping an eye on
:08:50. > :08:56.The Korean dream has barely changed in 50 years, a spouse, a family
:08:56. > :09:02.The Korean dream has barely changed a good financial future. It is just
:09:02. > :09:07.a price tag that is different. This man's parents married with the help
:09:07. > :09:14.of their neighbours. His wedding has cost $300,000. No wonder guests
:09:14. > :09:18.of their neighbours. His wedding has Korean weddings give cash, not
:09:18. > :09:26.presence, to the bride and groom. Despite the economic slowdown, the
:09:26. > :09:32.us as well because there are several The marriage is very stressful for
:09:32. > :09:33.us as well because there are several standards to be met. In terms of
:09:33. > :09:36.traditional Korean wedding and modern wedding. Modern wedding is
:09:36. > :09:51.more like all about spending because a modern wedding has become very
:09:51. > :09:53.After decades of strong economic growth, South Koreans have morphed
:09:53. > :10:05.Household debt is 164% of disposable growth, South Koreans have morphed
:10:05. > :10:06.Household debt is 164% of disposable income, more than in America. The
:10:06. > :10:12.survive. The new National happiness minimal welfare system means that
:10:12. > :10:16.survive. The new National happiness fund aims to write off half the
:10:16. > :10:19.debts of the nation 's poorest. The stigma of coming here means
:10:19. > :10:26.debts of the nation 's poorest. people don't want to show their
:10:26. > :10:31.application with the fund. One man I spoke to said he used to have ten
:10:31. > :10:35.credit cards and that is why critics are saying this scheme won't stop
:10:35. > :10:41.South Koreans overspending, it will just encourage them to default.
:10:41. > :10:44.Parents savings have traditionally been the way South Koreans have
:10:44. > :10:48.Parents savings have traditionally for weddings, homes and education.
:10:48. > :10:52.The happy couple are even given pocket money to spend on their
:10:52. > :10:57.honeymoon. But with the nation saving shrinking and its credit
:10:57. > :11:03.spiralling, who will pay when it is That is all from Reporters this