Bali flights canceled after Indonesian volcano eruptsーNHK WORLD-JAPAN NEWS
a volcanic eruption in eastern indonesia has forced the cancellation of more than two dozen flights to and from the resort island of bali local authorities raised the alert status to the highest level and warned of the risk of volcanic mud flows in rivers indonesia’s volcano monitoring agency said mount loati lucky lucky on flores island erupted on tuesday spewing a column of ash 10 kilometers high we were on a front lawn on tuesday afternoon when the volcano erupted but then stones started raining down on us and we fled the town when it finally subsided we came back here over 30 international and domestic flights to and from bali’s airport had been cancelled as of wednesday according to a statement from the airport operator flights affected included several from singapore australia and india reuters news agency reported the eruption forced the evacuation of residents from two nearby villages while no casualties have been reported the streets were coated in large amounts of ash and gravel police in thailand have arrested 13 foreign nationals mostly australian and british suspected of operating an investment scam targeting australians police raided a luxury compound near bangkok on monday and arrested five australians six britons a canadian and a south african they believe the suspects were involved in swindling money from australians with fraudulent bond investments promising high returns australian police who collaborated in the investigation said initial indications were the scam had netted the equivalent of $1.2 million us the group amassed uh at least 1.9 million in australians from australian victims in just the short time it had been operating money that we say was stolen from hardworking australians and not invested as promised investigators say they found sales pitch scripts to lure victims as well as computers and mobile phones during their search they also found a list with details of over 14,000 australian nationals in computer files police say the ring leaders of the group had been in thailand since early 2024 after relocating from indonesia a music act from indonesia is gaining legions of fans not just at home but around the world it’s a heavy metal rock band whose all female members are heapupwearing muslims the band has drawn criticism from islamic conservatives at home but that hasn’t stopped them from making noise on the world stage the sound is deep and aggressive the band’s name is voice of bachrot or v o bachot means noise in sundines a spoken language in indonesia’s west java this song is called put the gun down the lyrics speak out against violence and oppression [Music] other tunes promote peace women’s rights and saving the environment slender and cute girls appeared on the stage it was so cool vob formed in 2014 in their hometown in west java virakuna sings and plays guitar luis city isa is the drummer wii rakumati plays bass some people in indonesia are not impressed claiming that women and heavy metals should never mix but they’ve never stopped using their music to speak out many people had the wrong idea that heavy metal was devil worship music and that we were on the wrong path but we can put more energy into heavy metal their lyrics challenge religious and gender norms and convey messages that have inspired many fans [Music] some bb music videos have been viewed millions of times on social media we love music so much if something happens it will become material for a song all emotions cannot be turned into other things only music can do that concert tours have taken the members throughout asia as well as to europe and the united states their [Music] hard work has earned them global recognition bbc selected lead singer masha for its 2024 list of 100 influential women worldwide with our music we want to convey the voices of people who have been excluded and unheard until now the rock band hopes to continue amplifying those voices in stadiums throughout the world [Music] and that wraps up our bulletin i’m rosen double valia in bangkok
June 18 NEWSROOM TOKYO Bangkok Live Lineup:
00:00 Bali flights canceled after Indonesian volcano erupts
01:14 Alleged scammers targeting Australians arrested in Thailand
02:42 Indonesian female metal band shreds stereotypes
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