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K-pop band BTS will serve mandatory military duties
"A leading East Asia pop group will do military service The management agency of KPop group BTS says the singers will serve their mandatory military duties as required under South Korean law effectively ending a public debate or whether they should be given exemptions because of their artistic accomplishments big hit music says oldest member Jin will revoke his request to delay his conscription at the end of the month and undertake conscription steps required by the country's military manpower administration big hit also says the band's 6 other members will as well serve in the military
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"Following for you this evening, a Russian barrage has pounded apartment buildings and other targets in the Ukrainian city of zapper Asia, killing more than a dozen people. Firefighters walk over an expanse of rubble and twisted metal as a crushed car sits in the foreground and large plume of smoke is still rising from the middle of an apartment block, which has been totally flattened by Russian strikes, 73 year old tec channel la zunko, who lives in the building, described the moment of the attack. We didn't know what was happening if we weren't in this place. I don't know what would have happened to us between the walls, here's the chair and everything was flying, and I was screaming. The rockets that pounded overnight damaged at these 20 private homes and 50 apartment buildings, at least 40 people were hospitalized. The city of zapata is under Ukrainian control, but is in a region that Moscow has claimed as its own. The multiple strikes came after an explosion which caused the partial collapse of a bridge linking Crimea with Russia. I'm Karen Chammas. Last week, president Joe Biden said the risk of nuclear Armageddon is the highest since the Cuban missile crisis. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says the president's comments about the danger of a Russian nuclear attack were of a reflection of the very high stakes involved, not as something believed to be imminent. His comments were not based on new or fresh intelligence or new indications that mister Putin has made a decision to use nuclear weapons and quite frankly we don't have any indication that he has made that kind of decision. Kirby was interviewed on ABC News this week with George Stephanopoulos. The latest projection has Austria's liberal president on course to win a second, 6 year term without the need for a runoff vote. The projection from today's election has president Alexander van der bellen winning with 50 4.6% of the vote and his closest rival the far right freedom party candidate expected to get just under 19% support. This is according to the poll by public television. Recent campaign posters for the Vanderbilt who hails from the environmentalist green party but is running as an independent, featured the slogan, the safe choice in stormy times. Austria has faced political disruption in recent years going through 5 chancellors during Vanderbilt's first term. Former U.S. president Donald Trump is weighing in on elections in Spain. Is endorsing the country's far right party in a video shown at a rally in Madrid. Rally also featured messages by the leading stars of Europe's populist right. Like Italy's Georgia maloney and Hungary's Victor Orban in a recording former president Trump thanked Spain's far right vox party and its leader for what he called the great job they do. 6 34, the FBI is out with its crime report for 2021. It shows overall violent crime down by 1% last year, though homicides rose. A lot of law enforcement agencies, though, did not submit data. That includes police departments in the nation's two largest cities. New York City and LA, but actually almost the entire state of California and the entire state of Florida. Also didn't submit crime figures this year. So it leaves big gaps in the data, which gives us a lot less understanding of what's happening. Meredith Wilson with emergent risk international says the FBI switched to a different reporting system to get more detail about the crimes and who they affect. Anytime you switch systems like this, you're going to have to teach an entire country how to do this differently. This one requires that you can only report through the specific database. Miss Anderson WTO news. Harvey Weinstein goes on trial this week in Los Angeles, 5 years after women began calling him out for alleged sexual assault, causing the me too movement to explode. Weinstein is already serving 23 years for rape and sexual assault in New York. Jury selection begins tomorrow for this second trial on charges of rape and sexual assault involving 5 women, Weinstein, was an innovator in aggressive campaigns that turned into Oscar gold for many of his films. Prosecutors will try to convince jurors that he took advantage of that power to commit major sexual crimes. It appears South Korea's military wants to draft BTK hang on this story keeps jumping on me. Here we go. The head of the military manpower administration tells South Korean lawmakers that it's desirable for BTS members to fulfill their duties
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"What if they're the world's hottest KPop stars, the head of South Korea's military manpower administration just sold lawmakers there? It is desirable to have members of BTS fulfill mandatory military service earlier this week, South Korea's defense minister said the same thing. Whether or not they'll have to serve is one of the country's hottest topics, a recent survey found 61% of South Koreans want exemptions for entertainers like BTS, 54% say they should serve gin faces mandatory enrollment when he turns 30 next month. Deborah Rodriguez, CBS News. Even in Washington, the site of a lone bugler in full uniform on a street corner is a bit unusual, but you can take it in every day. Every day, year round at 5 p.m., the serene sound of the waterfall at the World War I memorial fades a bit as taps was its way across the marble Plaza. All to honor World War I vets, and all those who have served. A lot of them paid the absolute price air force colonel John R Thomas retired is one of the buglers. Tops is very near and dear to me. It goes right to my heart and soul. I play tasks for the first time about 25 years ago when one of our unit members died unexpectedly. Colonel Thomas says he hopes when people hear the bugle call, they stop and reflect. At the World War I memorial, Kyle Cooper, WTO news. 9 55 money news at 25 and 55, here's Larry kofsky. This is a Bloomberg money minute. Interest rate fears flared on Wall Street after the government's September jobs report came in stronger than expected. Stocks sold off with the NASDAQ
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K-pop group BTS members face possible military conscription
"South Korea's military wants to call up pop stars The military may conscript members of the key pop Subaru BTS for mandatory duties as the public remains sharply divided over whether they should be given exemptions The commissioner of the military manpower administration Lee key sick has told lawmakers its desirable for BTS members to fulfill their military duties to ensure fairness in the country's military service whether the band's 7 members must serve in the army is one of the hottest issues in career at the moment because it's oldest member faces possible enlistment early next year after